Chapter 714 – 706 Daevaston Mountains
The door to the space that Draunil opened was an egg-shaped portal that looked like a drop of blue ink on black.
Hwanin thought as he pushed his body into the portal.
What she said, ‘Tell God directly.’ Is probably referring to the future, not now.
… Will God speak to me later? The church exists, but doesn’t it send a proxy?
I don’t think God is a frivolous character who comes out of nowhere.
Even in the case of the new beasts, Ninsil and Adnevila, it is certain that communication problems, whether restrictions or aftereffects, will be eliminated only when they have a level suitable for them. Even if I put it off from the experience I went through in Cheonwon, that is certain.
Does that mean that his personality has grown to the point where he can converse with God?
… Before Draunil opened the door to space, she must have explored herself. It felt like she was examining herself, albeit faintly.
If we infer from her, her own ability is a passing point even in her standards, with a presence that transcends Adneville, and it feels like an intention to tell her god directly that it is a pity to give up due to her own rejection.
According to common sense, it would be close to impossible for humans to express and carry out their will in front of God.
‘Then the only thing I need to do is grow.’
You can refuse someone’s request only when you have a similar position and a certain level of social status.
How many employees would refuse when the president of the company directly handed over a request to a single employee?
Of course you can refuse. It has a mouth and a knife won’t come flying and slit your throat if you say no in a democratic society.
However, if you refuse the president’s request, you have no choice but to think about the future. Disadvantages during promotion or salary negotiations, if you go further, the hardships that will come as retaliation for being out of the eyes of the president, if expressed in slang terms, the president may act like a dick and force the company to leave the company on its own.
If you are the head of a household where monthly wages are important because you have a family and livelihood is tight, you have no choice but to accept it with tears of blood, even if it is a dirty request. It’s like saying that if you play for a month, your wife and children will starve for a month.
However, if you are a manager or managing director, there is no burden even if you refuse the president’s request once or twice. Even the boss can’t help but ask for a favor.
In a word, it is said that refusal is only possible with strength.
Hwanin thought of Draunil.
When she was searching for him, her Hwanin also searched for her. Although she couldn’t use her soul’s eye, which clearly shows the signs, she was able to figure out things like her level and amount of energy with the jjambab she cooked using English poetry and her soul’s eye.
First of all, the amount of phase power was not large. Compared to other energy, it is less than a handful. And what about the other energy? It is the divine power possessed by Ninsil and Adnevila.
Adnevila’s divine power and phase power ratio was about 2:8, but Draunil’s was about 8.5:1.5.
Just by looking at it, you can guess what the level of Draunil is. If you want to refuse God’s request, shouldn’t you be able to bring the story out of your mouth at least that much.
‘Even so, the atmosphere was more moderate than I thought.’
Draunil was the Pope, to put it in terms of Church status.
What kind of being is the pope? He is the one who receives God’s will and takes the forefront to spread the word of God.
He was not enraged when he declared in front of such a man that he had no faith and that he would reject the will of God. He was dumbfounded and stunned, but he respected the will of this side.
Those who follow the gods naturally follow the inclinations of the gods. If Draunil is like that, then the benevolent god must have benevolence worthy of his name.
You can hope for mercy by relying on that tendency, but such a passive attitude doesn’t suit you.
No matter how you think, it comes down to the conclusion that you need to build up more power than you do now.
‘… But the movement never ends.’
Ten seconds have passed since I entered the door of space, but I still haven’t arrived at my destination.
Looking at the strange sensation of being on a moving walkway, it is certain that it is moving, but when will it arrive?
Whoo-wook
The moment I thought that, my five senses became clearer as if my blocked ears were being opened, and I felt the smell of death pierce my senses intensely.
=Oh, the sword is here!=
=Master.=
Hwanin, who opened his eyes, looked at himself with a weapon as if he had been through a battle, his girlfriends who were relieved, and the black landscape around them, as if a forest fire had been extinguished.
=Brother, I’m glad you’re safe.=
=I arrived, but I couldn’t see my brother, so my heart sank. Where have you been?=
“You worried me.”
As I walked towards my girlfriends who often approached me, Hwanyeon slipped out of the breasts of Yu Lepa in a robe dress and asked a question with a frown on her face.
“What happened? Are there delays in arrival during dimension shifting?”
“I was forcibly taken to Orvinci.”
“… Eh?」
Hwanin answered with his gaze fixed on the dead and strewn monster.
“There, I met the manager race who manages Cheonwon and Orvinci, and received the will of the God of Mercy. It’s too late for that.”
Carcasses of monsters like the two-headed monstrous deer, the flash golem-like giant wild boar, and the one-headed, two-body anaconda.
All of them appear to have been contaminated with radiation and mutated.
The ground is charred and the trees are jagged as if they were burnt. Ah-yeong holds her mark in her hand and spreads a sacred amber shield, and when you see that the shield is smeared with something like soot…
“Is this the aftermath of the Dark Spiritism?”
= Huh? Ah yes. I think so. All living things seem to have undergone mutations and turned into monsters, and it feels like their ferocity has greatly increased.
=The monsters are almost as strong as the 4th or 5th grade heterogeneous species.=
“… The monsters keep creeping in. What are you going to do?”
In response to the story that they received God’s will, the women who stopped as if they had pressed the pause button answered and asked questions.
Hwanin, who looked around him for a while, thought for a moment and then spread his wave of calm to the front.
Then, instead of waves of gray, a soft glow of golden light spreads out beautifully.
=What?=
=Ah?=
There, where the golden ripples passed, green sprouts and grass bloom again. It is a fantastic sight in which death seems to be pushed away by the brilliance of life.
The women who witnessed it hid their expressions that they had a lot to say and kept their mouths shut.
It’s not good to waste time by asking questions about the current situation.
“Has the wave of tranquility changed like this… First, collect your luggage and go to the underground rate. Fantastic, lift up all the buried items.”
“Okay.”
The materials buried deep in the ground were intact even after 4 months. The aftermath of the dark spirit wine was eroding the ground, but in about four months, only about 30cm of the surface was stained.
I don’t know if it was 30cm for 4 months or if it was eroded in the first few days and maintained about 30cm after that, but at this level, if you open a spirit spell with a jade, everything will be purified.
While the women quickly divided the load into small pieces and put them on the backs of Que, who had returned to their original size, Hwanin looked at the white river with the eyes of the spirit.
‘There seems to be no difference between when I was on Earth and now… Should I try connecting with Adnevilla again?’
The hypothesis that the body is reassembled once during dimension movement gains a little more strength.
At that time, Auntie Morel, who had helped her girlfriends organize their belongings, approached her Hwanin with her six blue wings tightly gathered as if she was a little nervous.
= Mr. Seongje. There is a drill report.=
“What.”
=Unable to unpossess.=
“… ?”
= Huh? Can’t be possessed?=
= You pretended to be a celestial body and fused?=
Women’s eyes widen at Immorel’s story. Baek Ryeo-gang made an expression of ‘Ah?’ And then spoke to Hwan-in with a puzzled face after a while.
= Oh, brother. I can’t get out of the dragon body either.=
“It must be because of the dimension shift. Once you get out of this place Hwanyeon, is it possible to send spirits to scout the surroundings?”
“Earth spirits are fine because they are in the ground, but other than that, there is nothing. Even if I call the wind spirits flying in the sky, they say it’s scary and won’t come.”
“Once you leave this area, start scouting immediately and make sure no one is around.”
“Okay.”
「Hwanin. Get on my back.”
Thinking of the battle, Hwanin, who was about to move in the arms of Imorell instead of Anne and Isilite, was forced to ride on her back at the urging of Norn, who transformed into a divine beast.
It was only after carrying Hwanin on his back like that that Mooheung- Norn put on a satisfied expression.
From the looks of it, since she was young, she wanted to hug herself like other women, but it seemed that she was upset because the height difference between them was less than 40 cm, and it was too much for her.
‘I’ll have to hang out for a while.’
The party was able to escape the area that had turned into a land of death only after passing through the charred dead forest and entering the Daevaston Mountains, defeating the monsters that continued to attack them.
When she climbed the steep mountain without a road and looked back at the summit of 2km above sea level, Anne let out a sigh of admiration.
=The range is wider than I thought.=
= I will. That’s enough to fit a small city… If the Dark Spirit Spell falls into the city, it will just perish?=
In the middle of the vast green sea of trees stretching near the horizon, there is a black hole several kilometers in diameter, as if a solution of sulfuric acid had been dropped.
“There are traces of a garrison there, on the eastern side, but no one is there now. It seems that they withdrew about a month ago.”
“An investigation team was formed, but a detailed search could not be carried out into that contaminated area.”
=If you want to stay safe in there, you need a 7th grade sanctuary, but 7th grade priests don’t exist all over the continent. It’s difficult to fight inside the sanctuary.=
When Ayoung finished her explanation, Yurpa looked at Hwanin and hesitated for a while before asking.
= Self. That… That is the will of the god of mercy. What did you say?=
“I expressed my gratitude because they wanted me to entrust them with some important task and to be their substitute.”
= Hehe. Poetry, God’s representative…=
A-Young covers her mouth with both of her hands, and Anne holds her forehead with her dizzy face.
If it’s God’s will, you have to follow it unconditionally. Saying goodbye…
= Hey, are you okay? God, it’s God’s will!=
“Looking at you still looking fine, you look fine. More than that, I think deeply about how my abilities have changed.”
Seeing his answer as if it was not a big deal, the women were worried about what to say, but they held it in.
It wasn’t even a day or two that he was so bold. Even if they flutter and worry, it won’t help the situation.
=… Wasn’t the golden cloud that spread earlier a wave of tranquility?
“Yes.”
= Uh… Then the effect of the dark spirit wine may have changed.=
“Nine times out of ten it will.”
The degree of erosion and contamination was expected in the explosion method of the Dark Spirit Wine, but the effect was beyond the illusionist’s imagination.
Moreover, the duration is long enough to be maintained even after 4 months, and the fact that the organism has undergone such a mutation in only 4 months…
‘I can’t even guess what will happen if I open the Dark Spirit Wine now.’
Simply put, it is about increasing the erosion range and increasing the holding time. But erosive pollution can be added to explosives, and even contagious.
For example, what if a creature heavily contaminated with dark spirit wine goes outside and spreads the contagion?
“If you add the strengthening of the eroded creature to the enhancement of the effect of the dark spirit brew, it could be a class 6 or 7 heteromorph instead of a class 4 or 5, but if it spreads contamination and spreads contamination, we may see the destruction of Nionebreth.”
= Uh…=
=…=
“The realm of that dark spirit can be purified with a wave of tranquility, but… Shall we distinguish between the old and the new? The old Dark Spirit Wine can be purified with the new Wave of Tranquility, but there is a possibility that the new Dark Spirit Wine cannot be cleansed even with the New Wave of Tranquility.”
=If that happens, the world could really be destroyed.=
At Issilite’s quiet story, the women’s skin rose, rubbing their arms or rubbing their necks.
Ordinary shaman’s curse can be cast by an ordinary occultist or mystic, but it is less likely and less effective for a normal shaman to lift a rare shaman’s curse.
However, Hwanin is the only professional. And that’s a professional with enough skills that God had his eye on him.
If he can’t pour the new-style Dark Spirit Wine that he unfolded, it should be seen that there is practically no one in the world who can pour the Dark Spirit Wine.
The only way is to face the core of the labyrinth and make a wish and obtain an item to grant it.
“Stop leaving”
Hwanin, who cut off the thoughts of the party, gave a signal by slapping Norn on the back, and when Norn started running in the lead, the women each spurred Que on and chased after him.
Since it was a road they had been on once, the party quickly headed for Dowon-hyang of Underground Rhythm, and in just half a day, they broke through the rough terrain full of traps and were warmly welcomed by a person in an unexpected place.
“Mister, are you crazy? What did you do to someone else’s front yard! Even if you throw poop, it will be cleaner than that! Do you know how many beggar-like things were wandering around with dung flies on top of it?!”
He seemed to have been waiting for him to come, and Hwanin sincerely apologized to Yul Ji-ha, who was blushing with excitement.
“I’m sorry. I had no idea it would be like that.”
“… Ugh! What else is that figure! You can’t be angry!”
= Aren’t you angry right now… ?=
Ah-yeong whispers to Baek Ryeo-gang when he sees Ji Ha-yul fluttering his ebony-black hair, but is stung by her fierce gaze.
“Anyway, come in now.”
Floating in the air, she snapped her fingers, and the ordinary mountain road disappeared completely, revealing the incense of the Dowon rising abruptly in the form of a basin.
And a bridge of blue light leading to the dwelling.
Ji Ji-yul looked disapprovingly at the surprised women’s voice and glared at Hwan-in who was sitting on Norn’s back.
“I had to hide for four months because of you? Why, will you explain?”
“Yes. There are things like that, and I came because I have something to tell you.”
“… Don’t use that kind of tone as a kid, right? It gives me goosebumps because I feel like an old man.”
“Then shall we speak half-heartedly?”
“That is much better. So? Why did you make such a fuss?”
Crossing the translucent bridge and going to her house, Hwanin briefly explained the reason for opening the Dark Spirit Spell.
“As expected, Uncle is quite good. It’s a skill I’ve done many times before, using all available means to force the opponent into a corner.”
“I’m used to it because I’ve used it a few times to deal with enemies while on Earth.”
“I understand that you opened the spirit spell. It is also a planning stage to drive Merianol into a corner. Then you should be in Merianol by now. Why are you here?”
“Because I was on Earth a while ago.”
Ji Ji-ryul, who was walking ahead, looks back at him for a moment.
“It looks like you haven’t found a permanent return formula yet.”
“It is only a matter of time to save. That time is also the biggest problem.”
Hwanin looked at the back of her head and answered briefly.
You also knew that this side could return to Earth. She can’t return to Earth for some reason.
After crossing the bridge and looking around for a moment at the cherry tree, which changed from light pink to deep blue green, Hwanin got off Norn’s back and went up to the veranda and asked Ji Ha Yul.
“Hayul. A person who achieves his wish in the labyrinth cannot ride on the wishes of others.”
“Leave useless favors alone. Because I don’t need it.”
Ji Ha-yul, who took out wine and glasses from the open kitchen and cut ripe kimchi and made it into a snack, answered calmly.
“I look like someone who will do me a needless favor.”
“…”
“When you look through Jeonji’s eyes, you must have seen something about me… Is it wrong?”
Ji-ha Yul, who has been drinking lightly, sets it down in front of him and his women and offers him a glass with a puzzled expression.
Issilite intercepted it from the side.
Subterranean Yul looked at her asking what she was doing, but Isilite paid no attention to her and returned her cup to her.
=The owner is young.=
“… What happened I can’t go to Earth.”
“Why? Don’t you miss your family?”
Ji Ji-yul giggled at Hwan-in’s question, then poured alcohol into his soju-sized glass and poured it all at once.
“A monster adapted to bloody slaughter, return to Earth, what do you think will happen?”
“I went back and nothing happened.”
“…”
“…”
“… Uncle is really like an idiot.”
Since a real madman with good socialization education speaks like that, Ji-ha Yul, unable to think of anything to refute, turns his words around, grabs a piece of kimchi, and tilts his glass again.
Hwanin smiled at the compliment of ‘you play games together’ and took out her family album from her aspen and held it out in front of her.
“… !”
“Your parents and younger brother are doing well, but they spend tens of millions of won every year looking for you. Since you disappeared, the trip I used to go four times a year was only going once in a while.”
After sitting still for a while, Ji Ha-yul receives the family album with trembling hands and starts turning the pages carefully.
“Your parents seemed to be guarding the house, worried that the place you would come back to would disappear. My younger brother made a small frame of a picture with you in her room and put it on her desk.”
“…”
“7 years have passed since you disappeared. You still look like a high school girl, but if you look around the world, there are many people who have stopped growing with that appearance.”
“…”
“Even if you stay here, there will be no time for revenge. As long as the targets of my revenge are similar to you, I will trample them all. Will you still stay here? Remembering the dead? Are you ignoring your family waiting for you?”
Widely. Ji Ji-yul, who passed the end of the album, poured the alcohol from the glass down his throat with a frowning face full of tears.
Tears welled up in his eyes in the wind and ran down his cheeks before dripping into his glass.
“What does the old man know about talking like that?”
“I lost my parents in a car accident. The last images of my parents engraved in my eyes were in such a miserable state that I couldn’t recognize them when they were alive.”
“No shit, but really. Do you know how rude you are?”
What are you preventing me from saying! Hwanin smiled and said to Ji Ha-yul, who was tearful and angrily.
“It is my opinion that mourning and remembering can be done by the side of the family, but I cannot force my thoughts on you.”
“So, I’m going to help you avenge you, too! That’s right! Merian Nol’s dogs are fucking and joining! “
“In return, I will take you to Earth.”
Bang, Ji Ji-yul, who raises his elbow on the alcohol table with a loud voice, wraps his face around him.
“Who doesn’t know that… ?! I don’t know if this kind of opportunity comes once in a lifetime or not! But I don’t even know how I feel, so what can I do… !”
The person I saw again after 4 months had changed to an absurd level.
It’s not a story about appearances. The energy you see inside is going crazy enough to make you wonder if it’s human.
If he had been in his present form when he first saw that human, he would have mistakenly thought that he was a Shinsoo.
That kind of person is determined and is trying to destroy Merianol. At this rate, that person will take his revenge.
After that? Having lost his purpose, he will slowly wither away like a tree withering away and disappear without a sound from the world.
In vain, in vain, without any meaning in life.
But many people died to save themselves. A loved one, a reliable colleague, a friend, even an eccentric master.
He gave up his nickname of great sage unbelievably and gave up his life for himself without even a chance to stop.
Standing on the lives of so many people who must have lived many times more wonderful and valuable lives than you did… How…
“Is that why you went around helping and rescuing people in need?”
“… You’re reading other people’s thoughts, and it makes you feel really bad.”
“They gave their lives for you… It’s cliché, but it must have been because I wanted you to live happily. Otherwise, you wouldn’t feel so guilty.”
“So you want me to find my happiness, even for them? Isn’t that an obvious persuasion?”
“What’s so bad about the obvious? With one choice you can save at least three lives. If that’s for you, you’ll have some trouble with two people who would throw away their lives like straw, but in the end, the one person who will choose you. Wouldn’t that be enough reason to convince yourself?”
“…”
Ha Ji-yul’s shaky gaze turns to the cover of her family’s album.
Mom, Dad, brother, and me.
The cover of the photo album, which originally changed four times a year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, has been in the same place for 7 years, and the light has faded.
Hwanin, who was looking at Ji Ha-ryul, who was shedding tears as if he had remembered it from time to time, quietly stood up from his seat.
Persuasion is a little subtle, but… At that level, it can be said that it has passed about 80%.
Hwanin, who left Chi-ryul alone by beckoning to his girlfriends, sighed lightly and took out the communication crystal ball.
Now it’s time to move on to the next step.
