[Summoning the Dead (死者召喚)]
Hugo was horrified by the figure that appeared.
It was none other than a humanoid silhouette.
It was the saint of the Fish Seat.
It wasn’t certain, but from the clear features hidden beneath the long, gloomy hair, it was unmistakable.
"Liv!"
It was Liv Lich, the saint of the Fish Seat, called the second Magic God Seat among the Twelve God Seats.
If the Gemini Seat was a mage with a magical engineering feel, the Fish Seat was a mage with a druidic feel.
Even their styles were different.
Even though they were both heads of the same magical faction, Gemini Seat’s Heiji was tall and had a leopard-like strength, but the Fish Seat? Not so much.
She was much shorter, and if you compared them, she had the vibe of a reclusive philosopher who never left her room.
‘If I had to say, it was like the difference between an outgoing person and a shut-in.’
So when you looked at her alongside Heiji, the contrast was stark.
Anyway, from what he remembered, the Fish Seat saint was a girl who rarely smiled.
‘Well, I think she didn’t like Gun, though….’
No, was there anyone who actually liked that guy?
In any case, why was she appearing here?
And seeing that her form was like jelly, she didn’t even seem to be in proper condition.
Well, it didn’t matter.
[You are a contractor receiving the protection of the hostile god.]
[Warning. This is a being who has received the protection of a god threatening to the Snake Lord.]
[Warning. As a saint under your command, you must punish the lord’s enemy.]
Along with a woman’s voice, his body reacted automatically.
‘!’
The magical power of the Snake Lord’s Seat had surged.
It was surely because she was a saint of a god hostile to Lee Gun.
In the end, at that sight, Liv hurriedly tried to flee.
‘If Lee Gun catches me, it’ll be trouble.’
As soon as Liv tried to run, Hugo shot an arrow as if asking where she thought she was going.
But.
Whoosh!
"!"
The arrow simply passed right through her and went by.
Hugo was startled.
‘Physical attacks don’t work.’
If that was the case…!
At the same time, as if pleased, she tried to disappear into the wall.
She was thinking they could never catch her with their power.
And in an instant, she passed through the wall….
[Ugh!]
However, she couldn’t, and Lee Gun grabbed her by the hair.
Tight!
Flustered, Liv turned her head, but Lee Gun pulled her hair taut as if asking where she was going.
Hugo also tried to help Lee Gun grab her but.
Whoosh!
"!"
Once again, Hugo’s hand simply passed through.
And to the bewildered Hugo, Lee Gun spoke as if he were pathetic.
"You think you’d catch her? Dummy. She’s a soul."
"What?"
"What skill do you think I just used?"
"!"
Hugo realized he’d messed up.
The skill Lee Gun had just used was a skill born after his Death God rank had reached stage two.
[Summoning the Dead (死者召喚)]
In short, it was a skill that summoned the dead.
Which meant!
"W-wait. Then you’re saying she’s dead?!"
"Well, since she reacted to this skill, that’s probably the case."
Shocked, Hugo could only let his jaw drop.
Because hadn’t Liv been the one who had just recently contacted Lee Gun, asking him to protect her sanctuary?
And that was less than a month ago!
And that wasn’t all.
When Giselle had stormed into her sanctuary with the Bull, she had definitely been beside them then too.
‘Then could she have been murdered in those few weeks?’
But whether that was the case or not, Lee Gun smiled chillingly.
"Anyway, this works out. I had business with the Fish Seat."
The Fish Seat was the one who had transformed Zhang Rui into Kevin at the Demon’s Tower.
He was going to grind down all the gods involved in his affairs and place all their God Seats under himself.
‘Even without that, once I eliminated Plenty, the others started moving.’
Those who were aiming for Plenty’s territory, now vacant land, had begun to stir.
The ones who had brought monsters to Earth. And the ones who had torn that person apart twenty-four years ago.
And the Fish Seat would be a great help in eliminating the monarch that had invaded Seoul twenty-four years ago, and in dealing with the remaining gods.
But that was when it happened.
As if mocking Lee Gun’s murderous intent and plans.
Liv, who had been drooping with long hair in a wreck-like state, flashed her eyes.
Soon, a strange pattern gleamed in her large eyes.
Flash!
Along with a bizarre flash, Lee Gun frowned.
Because a severe burn mark appeared on his hand.
Crack!
[You have taken a heavy blow to your divine rank from the power of Simyeo (Deep Fishing).]
That wasn’t all.
[The Apostle of Simyeo hides its form.]
"!"
At the same time, Lee Gun looked at his grip.
Liv, who had been caught by him, had vanished.
As if she were the God Seat of transformation, she had quickly transformed into something else and disappeared.
Her presence couldn’t be felt.
The transformation ability used by a saint-level wasn’t that sloppy.
Moreover, the opponent was the saint of the second Magic God Seat.
The problem was her personality was a shut-in and a lazybones, but her ability was outstanding.
And above all, because of that laziness, she hated working and was a ghost when it came to hiding!
"She must have transformed into an object."
"Obviously!"
She was the type who, too lazy to go to the battlefield, would transform into a lamp, a sofa, a book, or wallpaper and sleep soundly even when they came looking for her.
Knowing that, Hugo used his clairvoyance to examine the furniture.
"Tch, she couldn’t have escaped outside."
If she had, the sanctuary’s barrier would have reacted.
And as they looked around.
Swoosh.
A microbe was trying to slip out through a crack in the door.
‘Those two won’t notice anyway.’
That was right. That was what Liv had transformed into!
And no matter how great those two were, they wouldn’t notice a microbe.
Just as she was sneering to herself and about to leisurely slip out.
Crash!
"Lee Gun!! Is it true you had a lover?!"
"?!"
Suddenly, Kevin fell from the sky.
And at his sudden appearance, both Hugo and Lee Gun were dumbfounded.
But in that situation, the most flustered one wasn’t them.
[Pfft-hek…!]
It was Liv, who had been crushed under Kevin’s foot because of his sudden appearance.
Should one say the timing was terrible?
Just as she was about to slip through the crack of the door, Kevin appeared out of thin air and stepped on her!
And that wasn’t all.
Of all things, Kevin was an awakener who originally had an ice attribute!
Crackle!
[The Apostle of Simyeo is frozen by the Full Moon Ice.]
"!"
Due to the low temperature emanating from Kevin’s magic power, the floor froze, and Liv’s movements slowed.
But Kevin, having no way of knowing that, spoke.
"Hey. I’m asking! Is it true that Lee Gun had a lover?!"
Hugo was dumbfounded.
He didn’t know why this bastard had appeared out of nowhere to ask that, but.
"Lover? That forever-alone bastard Gun, a lover… Ack!!"
Hugo was kicked by Lee Gun.
As if that answer was enough, Kevin looked relieved.
"What, it was a false rumor?"
Still, he’d almost heard something interesting. As if disappointed, Kevin clicked his tongue.
"Well, it doesn’t matter as long as he didn’t. I heard a rumor in my territory that Lee Gun had a child. Obviously it had to be a lie, but when I heard he had a lover, I was surprised just in case, but if he didn’t, that’s fine. I’m going back."
As Kevin tried to lift his foot, Liv, whose upper body was now free, was overjoyed.
‘Yes, just lift your foot. If you lift it, it’s done.’
The Virgin Seat and she had poor compatibility.
Because when the temperature dropped, fish couldn’t move freely.
So if only Kevin disappeared, she could explode the power of a god and destroy this place.
But contrary to Liv’s wish, Hugo grabbed Kevin.
"What. Did you seriously come all the way here using teleport just to ask that?"
Eventually, as Kevin turned his head, weight was put on his foot.
[Pff-hek!]
Liv, who had been about to cast magic, was crushed again.
But Hugo got angry.
"Do you know how much that costs for one use! You could have just called! From Europe to here, it’s at least four hundred thousand dollars…!"
"What, I don’t check the price because it’s a bother, but that’s cheap, isn’t it?"
Hugo wept tears of blood.
These damned rich God Seat bastards.
They could live off four hundred million won for ten years as living expenses for the sanctuary!
And he says it’s cheap!
In the end, seeing Hugo weep tears of blood, Lee Gun clicked his tongue.
"I’ll eat the Gemini Seat’s god soon and let you use the teleport facility. More importantly, there’s something I’m looking for."
At Lee Gun’s words, Liv laughed hollowly.
‘Eat the Gemini Seat’s god? As if that god would let itself be eaten so easily.’
Because they were both Magic God Seats, she knew better. Heiji must have been caught laughably by Lee Gun due to falling for his trick, but that god.
The god of magic was on a different level.
To block that absolutely unyielding magic god, one would need the wisdom of the Fish Seat’s god, which was also a god of a Magic God Seat, but.
‘Well, it’s a story that doesn’t concern me.’
And that was when.
As if the conversation was over, Kevin moved, and Liv was delighted.
Was his foot lifting? The power pressing down on her body began to fade.
‘Good, hurry!’
But that was when.
Crash!
Kevin, who had been about to leave, suddenly put strength into his foot.
"!"
And in an instant, a chill bloomed!
[January of the Bitter Wind]
At the sudden skill activation, Liv screamed.
[The Apostle of Simyeo is surrounded by ice and cannot move.]
[Transformation cannot be maintained.]
At the same time, light burst from beneath Kevin’s foot.
And that was Liv, returned to her original form!
"Oh."
Lee Gun smiled as if asking whether she had been there.
Liv was unable to move due to the Virgin Seat’s energy.
So Hugo was also bewildered, but Kevin flashed his eyes.
"Did you think I wouldn’t know?"
[……!]
Had he noticed Liv’s energy from the moment she was stepped on?
Kevin took out his holy relic and spoke.
"No wonder the tracking skill couldn’t find you. You were hiding by Lee Gun’s side."
Kevin seemed to have a purpose concerning Liv.
"On the day we went to the Demon’s Tower. You knocked me out and transformed Zhang Rui into me using the data you stole, didn’t you?"
Kevin took out his holy relic, the ice sword Frost Winter.
His blue eyes gleaming between his blond hair were filled with a ferocious killing intent.
"I didn’t touch Giselle because she’s Lee Gun’s, but you’re different. There’s a line even to being taken lightly."
The shame of being the only saint who couldn’t even enter the Demon’s Tower, and the fact that he had been used.
How humiliating it had been.
"I’ll cut your throat myself."
And that was the moment he imbued Frost Winter with magic power.
Crash!
"Argh!!"
Kevin was kicked by Lee Gun and sent flying.
Kevin looked wronged.
"What are you doing!"
But Lee Gun clicked his tongue.
"Don’t touch her."
"Why! You can at least give me one revenge!"
Kevin raged, asking if it was because she was a female saint that he was sparing her, but Lee Gun looked at Liv and scoffed.
After all, she was in a soul state, so unless it was him or Yuha, who had the attribute of , no one could cut this one’s throat.
"Besides, this isn’t your enemy."
"What?"
"She died more than twenty years ago. Before the Demon’s Tower."
At those words, the two saints were shocked.
What? She died before Lee Gun was imprisoned?
"Then who is the Fish Seat saint we’ve been seeing all this time?!"
"Could it be the god contracted with Liv?"
"No."
"What?! Then!"
At that, Lee Gun smiled.
* * *
And around that time.
"Waaaaah!"
In Drakma, filled with believers.
The believers were cheering. That was because those who could not normally be seen were gathered here.
"It’s the Ten Stars of the Goat Seat!"
"They’re the craftsmen of the Genius Workshop!"
They were the ones in charge of all humanity’s weapons.
And they were the ones who had suddenly held a live demonstration because of Lee Gun’s weapon, which had been rumored about recently.
No matter what, they were awakener craftsmen who had walked a single path.
To begin with, it was infuriating even to have their skills compared to weapons crudely made as a side job.
And that wasn’t all.
‘Other countries were already saying they’d buy our products at a high price.’
They had been planning to make a killing this time too, but this was the situation.
Having their skills compared to an amateur, they were full of discontent.
‘Well, it’s a chance to lower the faith of the Snake Lord’s Seat and raise the faith of the Goat Seat.’
From the start, the reason the Goat Seat believers were moving like that was one.
‘The god’s command has fallen.’
It wasn’t any ordinary command.
- Twelve God Seats are enough. Trample on and erase the idea of a new seat itself.
It was an extremely rare godly command.
And even if they respected Lee Gun as an individual combatant, if he claimed the thirteenth God Seat, the story changed.
‘Who do you think you are, eyeing someone else’s territory?’
Perhaps that was why.
"Here, we’ve brought a weapon said to be made by Lee Gun."
"!"
And behind them, there were the bewildered believers of the Divine Bow Seat.
They had come out of nowhere and asked to borrow weapons made by Lee Gun.
Well, coincidentally there were a few swords and such that Hugo had sent, so they had included them, but.
"I told them it’s useless."
"To begin with, with what are they going to compare and test…."
That was when it happened.
They picked up a bow made by Lee Gun.
"Please listen carefully! Incorrect information endangers lives. That is why we have hastily put together this event."
"!"
They flashed their eyes seriously.
"To repeat, SS-grade holy relics can only be made at , which is directly managed by our Goat Seat’s god. No other god can make them."
"Yet it is said that Lee Gun-nim has made such an SS-grade weapon. Such talk is an irresponsible statement that even endangers the lives of the believers."
"That’s right. If you are made to purchase a low-grade weapon by calling it SS-grade, what calamity can be guaranteed on the battlefield?"
"!"
At those words, the believers of the Divine Bow Seat widened their eyes.
These guys?
"But do not worry! We will verify it for you."
At the same time, they lifted the bow made by Lee Gun and the sword they themselves had made.
"If what Lee Gun-nim made is truly SS-grade, then the attribute of diamond hardness should be a basic option, shouldn’t it?"
The hall buzzed.
"This sword is an SS-grade we made. We will break it with this. If it is truly SS-grade, it will sufficiently withstand the attack."
"But if it’s not…."
The result was obvious.
Soon, they confidently raised their own sword.
And in an instant, their sword fell upon Lee Gun’s bow.
(Continued in the next episode)