“You little shits. What the hell are you doing in my sanctuary.”
A familiar face dropped down in front of them.
The movement was incredibly light.
And everyone was shocked at the face that appeared before them.
Perhaps they were even more surprised than when Kevin had shown up.
“Lee Geon!”
Kevin brightened as soon as he saw him, glad to see him, while Hugo froze completely, in stark contrast.
Flustered, Hugo slyly hid the broken bow behind his back.
At the same time, Taurus, who had been kicked away by Lee Geon, scrambled to his feet with a bewildered look.
His face seemed to ask, Why is Lee Geon here?
“You were supposed to be capturing the Red Eyes... Kuh!”
“Shut it. Sneaking onto someone else’s land like thieves and harassing people?”
Lee Geon, who had hurled rebar at Taurus, was enraged.
On the other hand, the enemies watching him had expressions of utter disbelief.
Not only had he shown up in Korea, but above all, that light just now.
That was unquestionably the power of the 13th God Seat.
That’s what made it incomprehensible.
‘Why is the 13th God Seat’s power in the Sagittarius Sanctuary?’
This was the Sagittarius Sanctuary. By all rights, a red light should have surged, so why was a green-blue light rising?
‘Green-blue is the light of the 13th God Seat.’
The light of Ophiuchus, which some called the color of an ominous calamity, had shot up from the Sagittarius Sanctuary.
‘Something like this can’t happen.’
But whether they were surprised or not, the vassal gods who had been touched by that light were vanishing.
[M-Master...!]
[Ugh, I’m sorry.]
They were ones hit directly by the power of a constellation deity.
The beings who had been boldly circling as if trespassing in the spirit zone were now staggering and collapsing to the floor like flies drained of strength.
Like bugs that had been sprayed with insecticide.
And they were crawling on their bellies, hastily fleeing the Sagittarius Sanctuary building.
Since the Sagittarius Sanctuary was merely the scope of a single building, they could escape the sanctuary’s influence just by reaching the road.
But perhaps taking a direct hit from a constellation deity’s power was a critical blow.
[The followers of Absolute Order are crying out in pain.]
[The enemy followers, wounded by Ophiuchus’s sanctuary defense skill, are returning to their original location.]
[Defense of the occupied territory successful.]
At that notification, Lee Geon snorted.
Serves you right for leisurely chanting incantations in the middle of someone else’s sanctuary.
From the start, a sanctuary is a place where a constellation god’s power is exerted at 100%. Unless they were insane, they wouldn’t be leisurely preparing magic there.
To put it in perspective, it was like a neighboring country’s fighter jet casually performing mid-air refueling over another country’s airspace.
In other words, they had severely underestimated Sagittarius.
And it was then.
[Sanctuary protection is ongoing.]
Lee Geon looked at his skill window with satisfaction.
[Serpent’s Nest Wrath (C)]
- Attack skill exclusive to sanctuary defense.
- Consumes all accumulated sanctuary energy to generate a powerful protective field.
- A powerful mental magic that deals damage to all seeds that oppose the god seat.
- Area: Sanctuary boundaries.
- Duration: 3 minutes (C).
- Usable when sanctuary energy has accumulated over 80%. At 100%, full power; below that, power gradually diminishes.
Lee Geon grinned.
Having returned to the Sagittarius Sanctuary with his skill, he had tried out the sanctuary defense skill as a test.
Of course, that was only possible because he had set the Sagittarius Sanctuary as his primary occupied territory.
[Ophiuchus 1st Occupied Territory: Sagittarius Sanctuary Inner Room]
Well, setting it as an occupied territory wasn’t hard.
It was a room that had originally been unused, so he had boldly claimed it as his workshop. There was one guard-vassal god, but he just beat it up and chased it out.
And he secretly designated it as an occupied territory.
Of course, in the process, Ophiuchus’s energy swirled around, but maybe it was because he was using it as his weapon workshop.
Hugo seemed to figure it was just that, and didn’t pay it much mind.
Anyway, the effect of the defense skill was considerable.
[Defense skill is continuing.]
[Blocking enemy intrusion.]
[Sanctuary energy is decreasing.]
Sanctuary energy was accumulated from the activities—contributions—of followers and vassal gods.
Thus, normally, the more followers there are, the faster and more energy accumulates. But with high faith, it doubled, and even with just one holy item, it was quite profitable.
And while the protection skill was active, Lee Geon quickly looked at Hugo.
After all, wasn’t there one reason he had rushed here?
‘The royal sacred artifact.’
It was because of the part that Seongjae had given him.
But Hugo, flustered at Lee Geon’s gaze, stepped backward.
He had to hide it before Lee Geon saw the shattered royal sacred artifact.
However, Kevin, who had no idea, happily grabbed Hugo as he tried to flee.
“Where do you think you’re going? When Lee Geon finally came. This is great, hurry up and fix that too...”
“?!”
Flustered, Hugo kicked Kevin in the shin.
Crack!
“Ack!”
Kevin, kicked without warning, grabbed his leg.
“What are you doing! You!”
Hugo stared at Kevin as if telling him to shut up.
“You, go and stop them! Hurry! You said you came to help!”
Kevin seemed dumbfounded. His expression said, What’s wrong with this bastard?
“Shouldn’t we fix what’s broken first!”
At that, Lee Geon started and looked at Hugo.
“Broken?”
At Lee Geon’s look, Hugo flinched. And then Kevin, frustrated, snatched something and held it out to Lee Geon.
“This!”
He held out a bundle of jacket.
It was what Hugo had wrapped the broken bow parts in.
And as Kevin unfolded the contents, Hugo screamed.
“Hey!”
At the same time, when Lee Geon saw the broken parts, Hugo screamed internally.
He was dead now.
But Lee Geon, looking at the part, was sweating slightly.
‘Just as I thought.’
He had guessed from the moment he saw the part Seongjae gave him, but he hadn’t imagined it would come to this.
‘Damn. I thought it would hold out to some extent, but in the end, it couldn’t withstand the power of the skill.’
In fact, the part that Cheon Seongjae had picked up and given him was the finishing component of that royal sacred artifact.
It wasn’t absolutely necessary, but it was a part that affected the bow’s sturdiness.
He had been propagating extra parts to replace it with something better, and then forgot.
Anyway, it was probably because this part shattered that Hugo couldn’t fight properly and got injured in a fluster.
So Lee Geon, feeling a little guilty, slyly activated his skill.
[Activating loan skill.]
[Loan god seat skill to Hugo Auters.]
At the same time, a sound came from Hugo’s timepiece.
[Skill loaned from Ophiuchus.]
[Super Regeneration]
Hugo, who had been preparing to run away immediately in case Lee Geon got angry, was startled.
When he checked his emblem, the Super Regeneration was clearly in there.
Well, there was nothing strange about it.
Since Lee Geon was also the 13th God Seat, naturally he could loan god seat skills.
But.
‘No, how badly does this bastard want to beat me to death that he’s loaning a regeneration skill??’
Terrified, Hugo froze completely.
But Lee Geon, who felt sorry, cleared his throat and said,
“I’ll only charge 100,000 won for the repair.”
Hugo made an expression of even deeper incomprehension.
“100??? Not 10,000,000?”
“Charging that much would be heartless. You got hurt because this broke, right?”
Hugo doubted his own ears.
At the same time, he was deeply moved.
“Thank you. Even though I accidentally broke it, you go so far...!”
At that, Lee Geon’s expression turned strange.
Hmm?
What did he just say?
But Hugo was overjoyed as he used the loaned Super Regeneration skill.
“Honestly, I was nervous. I was worrying that maybe I gave it too much strength after so long and broke the thing you worked so hard to repair.”
At that, Lee Geon narrowed his brows oddly.
What’s with this guy?
Did he think the bow broke because of him?
As expected, Hugo said with great remorse,
“Really, thank you. But how can I ask you to fix it for just 100,000 won? Just the materials alone would be over 1,000,000...”
“Right?”
Huh?
He was flustered for a moment at the sudden voice. Lee Geon, who had been sweating, grinned wickedly as if nothing had happened.
“Don’t you think 100 is a bit off?”
“Ah, no, I mean...”
“Deal. Then the original amount. 10,000,000 won.”
“What?!”
“No, 10,000,000 won is too weak. You dared to break something I fixed like this. 20,000,000 won. And all the floors from the 1st floor to the 5th floor of this building are mine.”
“Hey!!!”
He was trying to designate the entire building as his sanctuary, not just the inner room.
In the end, flustered Hugo burst out in anger.
“Hey! No matter how much I shattered it, that’s still...”
Lee Geon pretended to be tired.
“I stayed up for days fixing it. I even made it when I couldn’t even repair my own things. And you broke it in just a few minutes?”
Hugo panicked, but soon he beat his chest as if he had nothing to say.
“F-Fine... the building aside, I’ll get the money.”
20,000,000 won was quite a sting, but it was cheap compared to repairing the royal sacred artifact.
And he figured that just Lee Geon not being angry was a relief.
“Then I’ll deposit it right...”
But at that moment.
“Fixing the royal sacred artifact? So you were the one who fixed it, Lee Geon?”
“!”
By then, about 3 minutes had passed.
Outside the fading skill, Taurus was sneering.
And as if he’d overheard their conversation, Taurus wore a scornful expression.
“Well, there’s no one else who could fix Sagittarius’s sacred artifact but you. But you’ve become completely obsolete, Lee Geon.”
“What?”
“No matter how much it’s a royal sacred artifact, for you—who only had repairing skill—to fail to fix even one sacred artifact.”
“......!”
“Amazing. Well, with such degenerated skill, fixing that thing would be meaningless anyway... Kuk!”
Taurus was sent flying in an instant.
At last, Lee Geon grabbed Taurus by the head and slammed him into the floor.
Crunch!
“Kurgh!”
Lee Geon’s grip strength closed in, as if crushing Taurus’s head.
So Taurus was bewildered.
‘This bastard, his strength!’
It was different from the old days.
He yielded to no one in strength, yet what was this monstrous power!
But Lee Geon raged as if pissed off.
“You wanna die? Who says I couldn’t fix it? It just bent for a moment because I didn’t tighten one screw!”
“?!”
At those words, everyone’s eyes went wide.
Especially Hugo’s expression was a sight to behold.
What?
What did he just say?
But Lee Geon, worked up, continued.
“It’s not shattered, okay? It was just not fully assembled, okay? You little shit...”
“Geon.”
Oh no.
At Hugo’s voice, Lee Geon broke out in a cold sweat. But mana was rising from Hugo’s body.
“Not fully assembled...?”
“No.”
“So an incomplete thing came and my bow shattered? Was that it?”
In the end, awkward Lee Geon held out his hand.
“I’ll take 1,000,000 won for the repair.”
Hugo was furious.
“A million won, my ass! Take only 10,000 won!! And throw in a 10-year warranty!!!!!”
At that, Lee Geon pouted his lips.
Tch, can’t even buy a chicken with that.
In the end, Lee Geon, as if taking out his anger, looked down at Taurus under him.
This was all this bastard’s fault.
Sure enough.
“Because of you, I couldn’t make any money, so you fork it over instead.”
“Wh-What?”
“And you’ll properly compensate for destroying my sanctuary.”
“What did you say?”
As soon as the words fell, Lee Geon clasped both hands together.
And it was the moment Taurus had a sense of foreboding.
[Activating Combat Instinct.]
Along with that voice, Lee Geon’s clasped hands rose over his head like an axe.
“Wai...!”
Finally, Lee Geon’s hands hammered down onto Taurus’s head.
Booom!!!!!
With a tremendous roar, the ground was destroyed. At the same time, Taurus was driven into the earth.
Bang!!!
It was a horrifying sound.
With monstrous force, Taurus bored through the ground and was slammed into the basement.
At that spectacle, even Hugo and Kevin, who were watching, gaped.
The depth was several hundred meters.
And without even going down that hole to check, one could guess what condition Taurus was in.
If he remained conscious after getting hit by that, he’d be insane.
And then.
“Your sanctuary protection skill did surprise me a bit.”
“!”
At the voice they heard, Kevin and Hugo immediately went on alert.
The figure had revealed itself once Lee Geon’s sanctuary protection skill, which was spread around Sagittarius, completely vanished.
“I couldn’t have even imagined that Sagittarius Sanctuary would be occupied by Lee Geon.”
At that, Hugo flared up.
“Occupied, my ass! It’s obvious that thug just...!”
“Whatever. All we need to do is call all of Libra’s followers here.”
At the same time, a yellow light surged around Libra.
But right at that very moment.
Crack!
A fist smashed into Libra’s face.
(To be continued in the next episode)