“!”
At the unexpected voice, Igeon’s eyes went wide.
“……?”
And then.
Pow!
[Special data (adult level) obtained]
- Fat (F-grade)
Pow!
[Data obtained]
- Sparse hair (S-grade)
Pow! Pow! Pow!
[Data obtained]
- Boiling greed for material things (C-grade)
[Data obtained]
- Obsession with money is the best (C-grade)
Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!
[Obtained Divine Seat experience]
[Obtained Divine Seat experience]
[Obtained Divine Seat experience]
[Obtained Divine Seat experience]
The surprised Igeon grinned. Of course, the password he wanted didn’t come out, but…
“Jackpot. This is totally sweet.”
Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!
Eventually, Hyugo, who had been watching, shouted.
“What the hell are you doing!”
Of course, the Saint was a direct contractor of a Divine God. He was no ordinary human. Perhaps because of that, even in death, unlike ordinary humans, his body did not rot.
So it’s already hard to call that an ordinary corpse, but…
Pow! Pow! Pow!
“Ugh, fat again!”
“Hey, aren’t you going to stop?!”
But then it happened.
[Data obtained]
- Mark of the Baekyangjwa (A-grade)
[Divine Seat experience has reached 50,000]
[Level up (lv.2)]
[Automatically converted to points]
[Points: 3]
[Remaining Divine Seat experience: 0]
[You can use points to create new skills, level up, etc.]
At the same time, an astonishing thing occurred.
“!”
The mark that had only appeared on his left palm was now etched on his right palm as well.
It was undoubtedly the same mark he had seen in the magic circle when he had unleashed the Creation Workshop.
And now, upon confirming, this was surely the brand of the Baemjuinjwa.
And one on each hand. As he continued to stare at the two peculiar snake marks, the marks moved and letters formed again.
《Upgradable Skill》
[Super Regeneration (F▶E)] (Required points: 1)
- Cooldown reduction, duration increase by 10 seconds, regeneration range increase
[The 13th Sense (F▶E)] (Required points: 1)
- Upgrade of the snake’s visual ability among the five senses, activation time
《New Divine Seat Skills Available for Creation》 (Currently usable points: 3)
[Act Forbidden by God] (Required points: 5)
[Hundred Poisons Body] (Required points: 1)
[Take the Hit for Me] (Required points: 10)
[Sanctuary Creation] (Required points: 5, specific conditions required)
[Subordination] (Required points: 5 / Sanctuary open required)
It seemed that the experience accumulated so far was used in this way.
And while other skills were interesting, one skill in particular caught his attention.
‘Act Forbidden by God?’
That was not all.
[When new Divine Seat skills are created, you can also utilize the corpse of the Baekyangjwa Saint.]
At the voice he heard, Igeon smiled as if intrigued.
‘Well, I probably don’t have enough experience for that yet.’
At that sinister smile, Hyugo instinctively flinched, but it didn’t matter.
‘First, let’s upgrade the important ones and various things for testing.’
So this time, he decided to select all the skills that cost 1 point each.
As he thought so, the application was immediate.
[Skill distribution complete]
[Super Regeneration (E)], [The 13th Sense (E)], [Hundred Poisons Body (F)]
After the upgrade, the palm marks disappeared with a flash of light.
‘Now then.’
Igeon stomped on Yang Wei.
Actually, it was good that he gained experience and upgraded his abilities thanks to this guy.
Pow!
But still, the situation that gave him that opportunity was a bit hard to understand.
That was only natural.
‘I didn’t get any experience or data from those already dead.’
That was the case.
Even at the mart, he had tested with dead monsters, and back then, this warning had come up.
[The target is not in a fresh state, so nothing can be obtained]
[Data has been lost.]
In other words, it meant he couldn’t extract data from corpses. It meant his trait didn’t work.
But from Yang Wei’s body, he could obtain things?
‘Then is he not dead?’
No, that’s not it.
[Yang Wei] -Deceased-
[Level is too low to see through the details of the deceased]
He was definitely dead.
‘Then is it because he’s fresh?’
It was a funny story, but the possibility was the highest.
But there was no way they’d treat him as fresh just because he hadn’t rotted.
‘There’s clearly some other reason…’
But then it happened.
Flash!
Suddenly, the Sacred object he had made earlier reacted.
It was the Red Hare that he had written a name on and placed on the desk.
And.
[Absorbed the mana of ]
“!”
At the message that suddenly came, Igeon’s expression turned strange.
Of course, that object was a Sacred object that absorbed the mana of whoever touched it. It could absorb the mana of someone it brushed against by chance. So that in itself wasn’t strange, but…
‘Why specifically Baekyangjwa?’
In the end, Igeon, sensing something, smiled.
‘Could it be.’
“Igeon?”
Igeon, who had been smiling as if disgusted, activated one skill as a test.
[The 13th Sense (E)]
As the skill activated, Igeon’s pupils turned into snake eyes.
Simultaneously, a different field of vision unfolded.
“I-Igeon?”
Was it because the skill level had been raised? The world turned into a monochrome world like an infrared photograph.
Color vanished from the world, and in the pitch-black world, a blue person moved.
It was Hyugo.
The people outside the window were blue too. Animals were blue too.
It seemed that living beings were expressed in blue. Inanimate objects were just black.
And.
‘Things related to unknown civilizations appear red, I see.’
The ornament placed at Hyugo’s seat was a prime example. It was something he had made long ago from a monster’s leaf.
But.
“……!”
On the desk. Next to the Red Hare, there was something else unique.
“……?”
It was a red flame.
But the state of the flame was a bit odd.
As if it hated to approach Igeon, but at the same time, it was desperately tugging at the Red Hare, as if it coveted the Sacred object he had made.
So he approached to see what it was.
“Uh, uh? Don’t come! I said don’t come!”
“……!”
At the familiar voice, Igeon’s lips curled up.
And taking long strides, he grabbed the red flame with one hand. Then he picked up the rabbit doll on Hyugo’s desk.
And without hesitation, he shoved the flame into the doll.
Then an amazing thing happened.
Poof!
[The trait of the One Who Strikes All Things manifests]
[Regardless of type, you can strike skills, objects, buildings—all things—to dismantle the target and recreate anything.]
With a flash of light, the doll jerked its head up. And it escaped from Igeon’s hand like crazy.
Because of this, Hyugo could not help but be startled.
“Wha…! What is that!”
“What do you mean what.”
Igeon stomped on the doll that was trying to flee in a panic.
“That’s the little bastard I killed, just missing his head.”
“……!”
At those words, Hyugo was horrified.
“Yang Wei?! That is?”
“Yeah. Can’t you hear this brat talking?”
The doll pinned under Igeon was cursing at Igeon, telling him to get his foot off.
But it seemed Hyugo couldn’t hear any voice at all.
“What sound are you talking about…”
“Ah. Seems only I can hear it.”
“!”
That was the case.
The identity of the flame was none other than Yang Wei’s soul.
And since the voice hadn’t been heard even by himself earlier, maybe it could only be heard when the skill was activated.
At the same time, he immediately realized why he had been able to extract data from Yang Wei’s physical body.
‘Since the soul remained, the physical body was treated as fresh.’
The Red Hare must have also drawn mana from the soul.
‘Since Saints make soul contracts with Divine Gods.’
So it was natural that the mana of the Divine God remained in the soul.
But Hyugo was even more flustered by the claim that it was Yang Wei’s soul.
That was only natural.
‘There’s no way a Saint’s soul would remain!’
Because upon death, the Divine God takes that soul on the spot. That was the kind of direct contract.
Of course, what happened afterward, even Hyugo himself didn’t know.
“Anyway, how is the soul that the Divine God should have taken still…?”
“As for that, it might be because the Material God ran away.”
“What?”
“I don’t know the reason, but when I killed this bastard, the Baekyangjwa Divine God fled.”
“……!”
Hyugo opened his mouth as if he couldn’t believe it.
‘Ran away, was that real?’
No, of course, it was absurd that a Divine God would abandon its Saint and flee, but…
‘No wonder.’
If the Divine God ran away, the reason the soul remained made sense.
‘Does that mean there was no time to call the soul?’
Anyway, at this point, even Igeon realized the reason why he had been able to kill Yang Wei so easily.
Of course, it didn’t mean Igeon was weak.
‘A Saint is not an ordinary human.’
The power of a Divine God varied depending on the number and quality of its followers.
And since it was the Material God Seat, the number of followers belonging to it was quite large.
‘Though the proportion of ordinary people is high.’
Anyway, it meant that the power of the protection Yang Wei basically received was quite strong.
Because of this, Saints of strong Seats couldn’t even be pierced in their vital spots by a knife. They cultivated such special power.
In fact, when it came to a life-or-death struggle with those guys because of the incident with Igeon and his wife, his own arrows were all deflected as well.
‘So, I had wondered how on earth he managed to pierce the heart.’
If the Divine God fled, it was possible.
But even so, it was an incredible feat.
Even if the Divine God fled, Yang Wei was already the Saint of the Baekyangjwa.
Even if there was no direct protection, piercing that vital spot was no easy task.
That’s why he himself had been essentially unable to touch those guys.
But.
‘Perhaps.’
Hyugo looked at Igeon with a pounding heart.
But regardless, Igeon smiled fiercely at the rabbit trying to escape, as if it served it right.
“Before I shove you into a fly’s body, be quiet and spill the password. You’re not thinking of running away, are you?”
Then the pinned Yang Wei shut his eyes tightly.
Like hell he was running away.
Even if by luck he was discovered by the 12 Saints, given their personalities, they would clearly just take all of his followers.
And even if he succeeded in escaping, that was a problem.
That madman Igeon was a guy who could read your presence even if you fled to the sea, and the prickly Shin-goongjwa Saint Hyugo was a perfect shot.
Of course, Hyugo currently couldn’t show his full ability because another Saint had damaged his family Sacred object, the Divine Bow, but the story changed with the existence of Igeon, who could restore that Divine Bow.
Sure enough, Igeon smiled.
“Just quietly become my slave.”
It was a smile like a loan shark’s. In the end, Yang Wei cried out.
“Damn it! I’d rather be a maggot than your slave!”
Yang Wei desperately wriggled out from under Igeon’s foot. One of the doll’s arms was torn, but it didn’t matter.
“Even if I self-destruct, I’ll take you down with me!”
In the end, the place Yang Wei urgently headed to was none other than his own dead body. Yang Wei pulled something out of his corpse.
It was a sheep-shaped golden key ring.
At that object, the surprised Hyugo tried to use his power.
‘That’s…!’
He had reason to be surprised; that was a vassal god summoning Sacred object.
Originally, vassal gods could only be summoned by Divine Gods, but this was a summoning Sacred object prepared for emergencies.
‘Of course, the negotiations after summoning are a separate matter!’
“Igeon, get down!”
The alarmed Hyugo hastily summoned flames, but Yang Wei, having activated the Sacred object, sneered.
“It’s already too late! I’ve already summoned it!”
This vassal god was so strong it could be considered a vassal of a Combat Divine Seat.
It was so dangerous that even he himself, let alone negotiating, almost got eaten frequently, but it didn’t matter.
“With this…!”
But then it happened.
Clink!
The golden key ring that was summoning the vassal god suddenly shattered.
Yang Wei was terrified.
“What! Why did it break!”
As the summoning Sacred object broke, Yang Wei was horrified, but Igeon laughed heartily.
[The opponent dared to try to summon the vassal of the Baemjuinjwa]
[It cannot be summoned because it is not your own vassal]
“Is this what you’re looking for?”
“!”
As Igeon gestured, something was summoned behind him with a brilliant light.
It was a beast.
[Piggy Bank is in a dying state]
“!”
Pishu was lying there, whimpering. And Pishu, whose eyes met Igeon’s, was startled and tried to run away.
Yang Wei was appalled.
“What! Why is she coming out of there!”
In the end, the horrified Yang Wei hurriedly tried to pick up another key.
A sharp paring knife was held in Lee Geon’s hand.
[ Skill activated ]
[ Ophiuchus basic traits activate ]
[ Ophiuchus traits , , ]
[ The Serpent Bearer’s trait grants a critical hit property to any object ]
[ Grants a sharp property to any object ]
[ Any object becomes a weapon ]
A ferocious energy rose from the ordinary paring knife. And in an instant, it slit the throat of the doll that appeared red.
Thunk!
“!”
The target was the black acupoint on Yang Wei’s neck. The moment that acupoint was cut, a black flame escaped.
The doll soon collapsed, lifeless.
Hugo lamented that the doll his daughter had given him was ruined, but Lee Geon paid no mind.
Gripping the black flame in his hand, Lee Geon grinned savagely.
“From now on, I’ll say only three things, so every subordinate of Aries is to bow their heads and carry them out immediately.”
“……!”
“First. Withdraw all your forces from Korea right now.”
“!”
“Second. Of course, hand over my assets you’ve taken.”
“……!”
“Third, the museum you ran by looting my house! The admission fees you collected with my belongings! Hand it all over, you bastards!”
Yang Wei was in despair.
In the midst of this, his star god did not even answer, no matter how desperately he called.
‘Anyway, even if my star god were here, we couldn’t beat Lee Geon…’
But that’s when it happened.
Lee Geon sneered.
“Well, you’re not the type to listen even if I say this. So first, hand over the contract.”
“…What? A con, contract?”
“Why. Among your sacred items, you have one. Was it a lifelong contract, anyway, something that kills you if you violate the terms, something like that. For now, bring me ten of them.”
Realizing what he was talking about, Yang Wei was horrified.
“Do you even know how much one of those is worth…!”
“Ah, shall I test it on a cockroach instead of a maggot?”
“Fine! I got it, I got it!”
This was why he hated Lee Geon.
Now that things had come to this, he was certain to be used like this, having the assets of Aries slowly nibbled away.
‘Damn. I should have just stayed hidden in the Aries Temple, why did I have to come into Korea!’
Taking the contract out of the trunk, Yang Wei ground his teeth.
But whether he did or not, Lee Geon, who had obtained the sacred contract, contently wrote down the terms.
Even the signing was over in an instant.
“Here. Sign your name here.”
“Damn!”
And while Hugo was clicking his tongue and watching this signing scene.
“!”
Lee Geon subtly held out the sacred contract.
[ The Sagittarius Star God and all its subordinates shall follow Lord Lee Geon ]
“What are you waiting for, sign it too.”
“…….”
As if I would!
Hugo tore up the sacred item.
(To be continued in the next episode)