The scribe still cannot forget.
The time when Yi Geon forcibly shoved her into the Serpent Lord’s Seat.
‘Good. From today on, you’re our slave.’
And Yi Geon’s face as he laughed while throwing her into the stable.
That wasn’t all.
He would often summon that strange fountain pen to pierce her hand, lock her up for 24 hours a day, starve her, and make her organize the Bible.
Because of that, the scribe couldn’t help but be full of complaints about Yi Geon.
‘A guy I’d kill without a second thought.’
Of course, she could understand Yi Geon’s actions.
Because she had tried to kill Cheon Seong-jae and obtain a special skill.
From Yi Geon’s perspective, his precious follower and friend had almost been attacked, so there was no reason for him to treat her kindly.
Rather, from Yi Geon’s point of view, one might say it’s surprising he didn’t kill her.
Of course, it’s not that Yi Geon is generous, but solely because he covets the scribe’s abilities.
Anyway, the scribe was only looking for a chance to leave the Serpent Lord’s Seat.
Because from the start, it was absurd for someone who denies the existence of the Holy God to belong to a holy order.
And.
‘If I can just destroy that fountain pen, I can somehow escape.’
Because if it weren’t for that annoying fountain pen obsessed with her, she could modify the Bible and lay waste to the Serpent Lord’s Seat.
So she had been looking for an ally who could destroy the fountain pen, but.
[Uncle, please marry me, marry me, marry me, marry me, marry me, marry me, marry me.]
[Uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa, uncle is so cool, haa haa.]
The scribe despaired.
Perhaps it was because the scribe’s blood flowed. Even without her creating separate pages, the Bible pages of the Cheon siblings were automatically created, but...
‘Those idiots were hopeless from the start.’
They were truly hopeless in many ways.
That’s why she was going crazy.
Because from the start, if one wasn’t connected to the Serpent Lord’s Seat, they couldn’t destroy the fountain pen.
Why?
Because the fountain pen would be wary of anyone who didn’t carry the energy of its parents and would go on a merciless rampage just from them approaching.
And both the target and she herself would be attacked.
It must mean that if someone isn’t permitted by its parents, they shouldn’t even be together.
And excluding the Cheon siblings, who weren’t worth mentioning, Cheon Ji-u was also a fan of Yi Geon.
It didn’t seem like she would destroy the fountain pen that was restraining her.
Of course, there was one more follower of the Serpent Lord’s Seat left.
Kalli.
She was an unofficial follower who hadn’t been baptized, but with Kalli’s power, she could destroy even this extraordinary fountain pen.
But.
‘She’s no good either.’
In fact, the scribe had tested Kalli with the fountain pen to figure out her intentions.
When Kalli was writing her application to join, she had sidled up and handed her the fountain pen and questionnaire.
[Q. What do you think of Yi Geon-nim?]
[Q. Why did you apply to the Serpent Lord’s Seat?]
Of course, Kalli, who received the questionnaire, had been very nonchalant.
It wasn’t for any other reason.
‘Why are such questionnaires needed to join?’
Was she really the commander of the 1st-ranked God Seat for no reason, and had her experience been for nothing?
Kalli gave a suspicious look, wondering why she had to write this, but the scribe, pretending to be an interviewer, blatantly lied.
‘Yi Geon-nim sent me to find out personally. He said he wants to know about the followers.’
At those words, Kalli was startled and quickly wrote it down.
‘I-I’ll write it right away! Sir!’
The content was ordinary.
But her true feelings that were actually revealed, well...
[I’m going to marry Daddy, marry Daddy, marry Daddy, marry Daddy, marry Daddy, marry Daddy, marry Daddy.]
????
The scribe, who saw the answer sheet, was truly thrown into a mental breakdown.
Wait, is this girl a fangirl too??
What’s more, the commander of the No. 1 God Seat, who is infamous for being cold-blooded?
‘But before that, Daddy????’
After investigating Kalli like that, she had given up on finding an ally nearby.
But in that situation, Hugo?
‘Well, he certainly seemed to have a lot of complaints.’
He looked like an old friend, and recently he had even become a temporary holy person of the Serpent Lord’s Seat, but well...
‘Die! Just get out and die! Go back to the tower right now!!!’
Yesterday, he had fought with Yi Geon too. He even grumbled, ‘What is God doing, not taking away that thing?’
Well, she understood.
‘Because everyone around him is like that.’
Moreover, after recently becoming a subordinate, he seemed to have even more pent-up complaints.
‘His ability to become a temporary holy person was all thanks to the friendship of his friend.’
But that too had ended a little while ago.
In fact, the scribe had heard it from Yi Geon’s mouth.
‘Ugh, that guy got sulky. His faith level got cut in half.’
Half!
A whole half!
And no matter what, the total figure couldn’t have been over 100%.
‘If it was cut in half from there, at worst it’s 50%!’
Unless he’s a fool, there’s no way it could be higher after being cut in half.
And at the 50% level, it’s practically the level of no faith, neither good nor bad!
Well, from the way he treats Yi Geon, it seemed about right.
Anyway, it was a good opportunity.
‘If I take care of Yi Geon, I can save Heilli-nim too.’
Heilli was just unable to think straight because she was wearing love goggles.
And above all, the scribe personally detested Yi Geon.
It was because, right after she had been kidnapped by Yi Geon and thrown into the Serpent Lord’s Seat...
When she was changing clothes, Yi Geon found out she was a woman.
Well, Yi Geon didn’t even blink, as if he already knew.
‘What are you surprised about, you bastard? I knew you were a woman from the first time I saw you.’
So the scribe couldn’t help but be flustered.
‘Why? Why isn’t the information distortion working!’
She was being chased by subordinate gods. So she had used one of her skills to dull the target’s perception.
For instance, if you cross-dress, it usually shows, but with the information distortion skill, one doesn’t really raise such questions.
It was a terrifying distortion skill that made you accept something like ‘the earth is square’ without doubt, as if saying ‘Oh, I see.’
Of course, it had a downside: once you recognized the truth, the distortion would break.
Anyway, that’s why even the Holy Gods couldn’t find her for a long time, and she could pass inspections easily.
Even Yi Geon’s followers and holy persons didn’t notice at all!
With the sole exception of Heilli, to whom she had revealed herself!
But how did Yi Geon!
‘Did Heilli-nim tell him?’
No, that couldn’t be. She wasn’t the type to reveal others’ secrets.
‘Well, that guy is like a ghost.’
Anyway, thinking she had relied too much on her skill and been careless with her disguise, she had bought an excessive amount of disguise items, even overdoing it.
‘Why the bandages?’
Yi Geon clicked his tongue and said.
‘I’ll protect you, so don’t do things like that. It’s not good for your health.’
‘……!’
At the strangely warm words, the scribe had thought to herself, maybe Yi Geon is a good guy.
But.
‘Because anyway, it makes no difference whether you do it or not.’
‘Hey!!!!!’
Yi Geon laughed out loud and said.
‘What? No one besides me noticed anyway. It’s fine. Even without using information distortion, no one would know.’
‘You son of a bitchㅇ#$ㅑ&#$*!’
In the end, the scribe screamed in frustration.
Well, honestly, Heilli was overwhelming. Even just looking at Yu-ha right nearby, it was an insurmountable wall.
Thus, the scribe sharpened her blade.
‘I’ll leave this damn place.’
Anyway, personal grudges aside, it wasn’t a bad opportunity.
She had just needed a catalyst; she had been planning to take revenge (?) on the Serpent Lord’s Seat and then escape.
‘From the start, Holy Gods are a plague to humanity.’
So, as per the original plan, she would kill off the Holy Gods’ existence as well.
In any case, the unknown civilization was something they themselves didn’t fully understand. So that would be a weak point for Yi Geon and the Holy Gods.
The scribe’s eyes flashed.
First, she had to go find that guy.
* * *
And around that time, in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Libra Seat’s sanctuary.
“Whaaaat? Yi Geon is making custom weapons for the Archer Seat followers?????”
Kevin, who had received a text from the child followers who’d run an errand, flew into a great rage.
He couldn’t help it.
“Seriously, why does Yi Geon always make stuff only for that Archer Seat???”
Still, since he’d become a subordinate, Kevin had hoped that Yi Geon might at least spar with him, but Yi Geon had completely forgotten about it.
Secretly, they too had wished for Yi Geon’s weapons, but they didn’t want to bother him unnecessarily. And it seemed he had no intention of making any for them.
But well, it wasn’t that he couldn’t understand.
“Well, the Archer Seat guys are bone-breakingly poor.”
[!]
Kevin nodded, saying that could be it.
“The Archer Seat guys are so poor they almost walk around half-naked. Even the great Yi Geon’s sympathy was triggered. Anyway, it’s a good thing. Those battle god seat fellows should at least have decent weapons so we’re not ashamed as fellow subordinates. If we envy those guys, it’d be our shame...”
[Oh, by the way, they say Baby Snake-nim sparred with the Archer Seat followers.]
[Oh my, really?]
“These damn enviable bastards!!!”
Kevin’s eyes spat sparks. How could mere followers dare to have a chance to face Yi Geon directly!
He had put in so much effort, offering all kinds of energy boosters and hunted meats as tribute just to fight Yi Geon!
So he had said, ‘Didn’t you promise to spar with me?’ but Yi Geon had only said this:
‘I never said when I’d do it.’
Well, that’s true enough.
Eventually, Yi Geon had said to the frustrated Kevin:
‘If you steal the subordinates of the Libra Seat, I’ll do it.’
And he’d heard that some of the Libra Seat’s subordinates were in the Libra prison.
‘Well, if I snatch away their subordinate gods, it becomes a great driving force for the seat’s growth, so I understand.’
Subordinate gods possessed that much power.
Because they were one of the three major elements that made up a god seat, and could even be seen as the power of the Holy God.
Moreover, Kevin personally had too much pride to be used by them and stay still.
‘I’ll pay them back as much as I received.’
That’s why he had joined hands with Yi Geon.
And with the intention of repaying his debt to Yi Geon, he had sneaked in to raid the Libra Seat’s prison, which was fine, but...
[You dare try to steal my servants. You’ve completely lost your fear.]
“!”
At the familiar voice from the prison, both Kevin and the subordinate gods were on alert.
‘Jijel!’
But soon, they couldn’t help but be taken aback.
‘She’s locked up in prison?’
That’s right.
Jijel was locked up in prison like the other subordinate gods.
What’s more, Jijel was in an unexpected form.
Perhaps due to damage from Yi Geon, her appearance was completely different from what they knew.
Holy God? She wasn’t that.
‘A monster?’
She looked half Holy God and half monster.
‘What happened?’
Anyway, they wondered who had locked her up, but they soon found out the culprit.
[My kin. I had heard you were imprisoned, and it was true.]
“!”
A man appeared from the opposite side.
He was a half-human, half-beast monster with the face of a goat.
Kevin immediately went on alert. At the same time, he furrowed his brow.
It was because of what the goat had said.
‘Lord of Time?’
If it was the Lord of Time, wasn’t he the master of that Demon’s Tower?
And.
‘He was definitely the one who trapped Yi Geon and used him as an experimental subject.’
He had heard he was the one who’d kept the Corpse Lord imprisoned underground.
Wait, before that, what did that guy just say?
‘Kin?’
It bothered him, but Kevin furrowed his brow.
What mattered now was the enemy in front of him.
“Lord of Time or whatever, it’s quite convenient that you locked up that woman on our behalf.”
Kevin immediately drew his divine treasure, Frost Winter.
“Good. I’ve dealt with Zhang Rui, so next is your turn. I’ll deal with both of you at once...”
[You dealt with Zhang Rui?]
“!”
Jijel asked back in surprise.
But that was only for a moment; suddenly Jijel burst into laughter.
She seemed quite incredulous at that fact.
[Yes! You’ve killed the blood relative of the Lord of Time! Are you truly not afraid of the consequences...]
Crunch!!!
Before she could finish speaking, a cold energy pierced through Jijel’s torso.
“It is you who should fear the consequences.”
“!”
“Become a tribute for Yi Geon.”
Finally, Kevin’s murderous cold air aimed at the two.
But.
“!”
The monster who had come to see Jijel became blurry. Thus, the monster simply let the attack pass through and sneered with interest.
[If it’s this Yi Geon, he’s the one that the cruel Lord of Time was said to have specially watched over 24 years ago.]
24 years ago?
That was when Yi Geon first appeared before them as an awakened.
[Well, it has nothing to do with our lord.]
At the same time, a chilling demonic energy surged up. And that power was an aura that could even swallow a Holy God!
‘He’s no ordinary guy.’
Whether he came targeting Jijel’s subordinate gods, he was radiating killing intent towards both Kevin and Jijel.
At the same time, both Kevin and Jijel coughed up blood.
The monster’s eyes flashed as he spoke.
[Don’t worry. I’ll soon send that Yi Geon you speak of after you.]
At the same time, Kevin let out a hollow laugh.
“There’s a limit to ignoring our Holy God. Yi Geon won’t go down easily...”
[Ah. It doesn’t matter. I’ve already recruited traitors from within.]
“……!!”
Kevin flinched, and the corner of Jijel’s mouth went up.
That monster was clearly from the side of the Lord of Plenty who had kidnapped Sophie.
He was of the faction of the Lord of Plenty among the many forces.
Though a newborn force, they were ones who terrifyingly took control of their surroundings with their unique power.
And now, he had clearly come to steal her subordinate gods, but the words about attacking Yi Geon pleased her.
And seeing him speak like that, he must have found a sure target.
Sure enough.
Kevin and Jijel’s expressions turned to both joy and dismay.
[Cough... Haha! I thought you were just uselessly sleeping, but you’ve been working without playing around! How delightful!]
“Dammit...”
[Yes, I’ve recruited the Archer Seat, the closest one to Yi Geon. He will die at the hands of the being he cherished the most.]
At that moment, Kevin and Jijel’s expressions were a sight to behold.
What? Recruit who?
(To be continued in the next episode)