Chapter 139 – 36. Heaven’s Legacy (4)
[Now it’s your turn to do your heavenly duty.]
The story of the ghost’s long history was very good, full of life, but the conclusion was absurd.
To see me sacrifice myself for the sake of the world.
Why should I?
[This time, we are going to erase the Demon World from this world.]
We respect the lofty will of the Heavenly Emperor, who took care of primitive mankind on the brink of destruction for 300 years, and at the end chose to die to free the continent from monsters. Without his sacrifice, there would be no other world and empire today. I am grateful to him and respect him.
But that and this are different issues.
I came here to obtain transcendental power. To become stronger than anyone else in the empire without any hardships and live as you please. For the rest of his life, he would enjoy high status, power, overflowing wealth, and a dissolute life surrounded by pretty girls.
Duty? Sacrifice? Words like that don’t exist in my dictionary. Tell Minho to do that.
“Iris? What the hell does this mean?”
I asked Iris, who brought me to the Temple of the Moon.
Not only was she traumatized by the story of her birth and contract, but her expression looked very bad, perhaps because she had even heard bullshit.
“I… I’m also good at it… It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
This. This must be punished.
You put me in a difficult situation because I didn’t know the heritage acquisition process properly. When I go back, I’ll have to harass you in bed.
While me and Iris were flustered, the time on earth where the heavenly emperor disappeared was steadily flowing at a tremendous speed of tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, or more.
The human nation suffered some chaos due to the absence of the Wise God, but it was not so weak that it collapsed disastrously.
There were still very few monsters left on the continent, but that number was enough to handle with an advanced civilization’s army. The remnants of the Demon Realm, driven into a corner, continued to survive as today’s Demon Beasts while adapting to the world one by one.
‘Are the goblins of Academy Forest also their distant descendants?’
Without predators, humans constantly expanded their power and territory, eventually occupying most of the continent.
After that, mankind was gradually divided into three communities according to the environment in which they lived.
Broadly speaking, people lived in plains, forests, stony mountains and deserts, and developed different lifestyles, which even brought about not small changes to the structure and shape of the body.
‘Crazy, what?!’
I was so startled that I forgot even the ghost’s nonsense. After the sacrifice of the Heavenly Emperor, the scenery on the ground after many years was astonishing.
The people of the plains were no different from modern people,
The humans of the forest were reborn as elves with long ears,
The people of the stony mountains and deserts evolved into beasts with beast ears, claws, and tails.
‘There are only humans in the empire?!’
Beasts and elves are popular settings that often appear in fantasy worlds, but I was a little disappointed to hear that there were no such species in another world.
But why do you suddenly look like this? Could it be that it still exists somewhere on the continent today? Or was it extinct once upon a time?
Little by little, my thoughts on my way to the mountain were disturbed as the residual thoughts of the Heavenly Emperor intervened.
[Answer?]
Will you sacrifice your body to save the world?
What if the answer is no? Can we escape from the moon? I can’t predict how that ghost will react.
“Before that, I have a question for you.”
Let’s take some time first.
“While the [Heaven] Awakeners and Celestials were defeating the Demon World, did the [Earth] God do anything?”
Since the monsters covered and trampled the land, not the sky, I suddenly thought that it would be normal if the earth, rather than the sky, was obsessed with eradicating the Demon Realm.
“What is the [Earth] Attribute?”
A question that even Iris could not answer accurately.
[······Earth is the enemy of the sky.]
It wasn’t a question I was expecting an answer to, but I was surprised when the answer came out.
You are a big enemy. This might be something Hyerin could use to attack. I listened quietly.
[The sky creates destiny, the earth destroys destiny. The sky dominates all things, and the earth annihilates all things. When the sky crosses the line, the earth returns the whole world to nothingness.]
The bodies of Iris and I, who had been floating in the sky of the ghostly virtual world, began to fall vertically on their own.
[The earth is the only thing that can stop the runaway of the sky.]
It was like skydiving without a parachute. There was no shock when hitting the ground without any protection. We ‘penetrate’ the ground like an illusion, falling endlessly deep underground.
[Like objects and shadows, the sky and the earth are always born in pairs. Also, the earth is always stronger than the sky and never weakens. That is why the monster of [Earth], The opponent of the Heavenly Emperor, is still alive.]
Just when I wondered if I was going to plunge headlong into the mantle beyond the crust,
A vast cavity suddenly appeared, and only then did we stop our fall and look around.
“······!!”
In a space wider than the imperial palace area of the ecliptic, Kairapellium, a certain gigantic monster crouched down to sleep.
An existence of a completely different dimension, as if a black monster in the underworld could be slaughtered only with a snort of sleep.
[Earth Dragon Gaikiestra… It is an existence created by the earth to collapse the sky and reset the world.]
The narration, which had been calm throughout, was shaken for the first time. Apparently, the ghost seemed to feel fear even in its own virtual form. It was a good enough visual.
The appearance of the earth dragon was like that of an oriental dragon, but it exuded a far more ferocious, savage, and destructive atmosphere. If there is a god of destruction, I wondered if that would be it.
That monster is the enemy of heaven?
[If you disregard the heavenly duty and neglect the suffering of the world… Gaikiestra will wake up and destroy the world… Sacrifices after giving birth to a new sky—no?!!]
At that time, the eight eyes embedded in the earth dragon’s head flashed open. Red eyes all came out and turned to Iris. Right after that, a jet-black aura instantly began to gather around it.
Goosebumps all over my skin.
“No!!!”
Iris raised her attributes and hurriedly blocked my way. However, this was just an act of covering the sky with the palm of the hand.
I felt like a firefly in front of the sun.
A black wave that destroys everything flooded us, dyeing everything black.
“Heo-euk…!!”
I opened my eyes. Woke up from a deep sleep It was the terrace of the Temple of the Moon.
We were in a dream created by the residual thoughts of the Heavenly Emperor. Everything was an illusion, but I felt the threat of my life to the point of forgetting it for a moment. Is that thing really sleeping under the continent? I was suddenly alert.
The directing of ghosts to inspire our will to sacrifice was quite effective.
[What happened?… After all, Gaikiestra… An existence that cannot be controlled even in a dream… I am afraid, I am afraid…]
Isn’t that directing?
The ghost’s translucent form swayed like a stone thrown into a still pool of water. We stared blankly for a moment as he shuddered with fear.
[Hmmmm… Now you too will understand. The reason why it is necessary to erase the demon realm as quickly as possible.]
The ghost condescendingly played with his beard as if nothing had happened. My eyes toward him were cold.
“Can’t we just continue to keep the Pandemonium sealed like this? I don’t think even lizards will come out of the ground if we keep doing it until now.”
[Lizard···! Hmm. That’s impossible The net that entangles the Demon Realm is weakening little by little. 300 years ago, a few drops broke through the seal and fell to the ground.]
At the words 300 years ago, the demon king naturally came to mind. At that time, I learned that the Great War of the Holy Demon broke out on the continent, in which the demon king and the hero, the beast and the army clashed, risking the fate of mankind. Was it all because of the red moon? If a history professor hears it, it will be shocking.
Anyways, sorting it out.
The Celestial Emperor and the Celestial Dragon gave birth to Iris and sacrificed themselves to seal the Demon Realm with the power of the Celestial God, but could not completely remove it.
Because of the contract with the remaining thoughts, Iris managed the seal, and after thousands of years, I was summoned and the [Heaven] Attribute was awakened.
The seal is weakening in real time, and if I am busy playing, eating, and having sex in the empire while ignoring the Demon Realm, the Earth Dragon will destroy the world.
So, immediately have sex with Iris, give birth to a child with a new [Heaven] Attribute, and then sacrifice yourself again to completely remove the Demon Realm from this world.
‘Is it a single pass…?’
The path doesn’t come straight out. There seems to be no answer other than to do what the ghost says. Iris looked at me with quivering eyes.
What kind of waste is this when I came here to eat my strength?
1. Nobly save and oxidize the world.
2. After enjoying a short life of mastery training, wait for the scheduled destruction.
If I had to choose between the two, I would prefer the latter…
Hate.
That deformed ghost admonishing me,
The choice that he forced into,
And myself, who shuddered at the sight of the Earth Dragon,
I don’t like all of them.
Are you telling me to sacrifice for others? Or stay still and die?
My hands trembled at the visceral and physiological rejection that bubbled up from deep within.
Deny both.
In the first place, wasn’t the origin of heaven domination?
Sacrifice is the end of a life that grew up while taking possession of wealth, power, and honor, and dominating women.
The front and back don’t match.
Whether it’s the Demon World that poisons the world with monsters, or Gaikie, the earth dragon that will destroy the world if its nose hair is stepped on…Whatever it is.
If you are the owner of the [Heaven] Attribute that controls all things, shouldn’t you be devising ways to rule and pacify both?
But what a shivering body, seized by fear of the future…
Is that the residual thoughts of the heavenly emperor?
“It’s ugly…”
[······What?]
At my bleak murmur, the ghost opened its translucent eyes. A bitter aura was directed at me. Like it or not, I didn’t keep my mouth shut.
“Heaven’s ‘duty’? Who the hell is imposing duties on the lofty Heavens? Heaven only needs to rule over all things and exploit the worship of the earth.”
[Now, what the hell are you talking about?]
My lips opened on their own, and my values for the sky came out in words.
This feeling, yes. Like when I saw a man approaching Hye-rin at the academy entrance banquet or when I discovered a curse targeting wisdom, it felt like my body acted before my head.
An instinct that comes from my [Heaven] Attribute.
If there is a difference from then, this time the head and body moved simultaneously.
“Whether it’s the Demon Realm, the Earth Dragon, or my nemesis Hyerin. If you dominate them all, it’ll be solved, right?”
[Do you think that makes sense? Do you think that you, who have only awakened for half a year, can do a feat that even the Emperor of Heaven could not accomplish in 300 years?]
“Yes.”
[Arrogance!]
However, unlike the wrath of the ghost,
Coo coo cooo ·······.
As soon as I finished my words, the Temple of the Moon, no, the entire lunar surface shook violently.
Then, as if my words were the correct answer, a sky-blue jewel radiating a brilliant light floated up in the air.
I realized intuitively. The fact that that is the inheritance of the heavenly emperor, which will transcend my realm by several steps.
I stretched out my arms toward the vast sky. The jewel responded to my will and slowly approached me.
But,
[You need an education!]
The residual thoughts of the Heavenly Emperor blocked the gap between me and the jewel.
Another sky-blue light emanated from him. Once again I was sucked into a virtual world created by ghosts.
[More than you deeply wished for! A world where more than that is embodied as it is! Witness the scene where your dream collapses in front of the Demon Realm and the Earth Dragon!!]
The old man’s angry voice echoed in my head.
But I couldn’t care about it at all.
Because······
“Good night, master?”
It was because Hye-rin was unbuttoning the buttons of her lewd maid uniform in front of her eyes.
“I’ll start serving the morning♡”
