Meanwhile, around that time.
Just before the fog covered East Asia, Australia.
Kalli, who had come to the old Capricorn Holy God's sanctuary, frowned.
“What did you just say?”
“Hand over Igeon-nim to us.”
“What?”
Kalli let out a hollow laugh.
In fact, after usurping the throne of Cancer on Igeon's orders, she had come to find craftsmen to repair her weapon.
Of course, she could have left the weapon repair to Igeon, but she couldn't bring herself to ask, worried it might burden him.
Though Igeon had taken her in, she knew her presence couldn't be all that welcome to him.
She didn't want to cause trouble over something trivial.
Anyway, for that reason, it was fine that she'd come to a craftsman she was usually close with.
“Ophiuchus! Hand over Igeon-nim! We craftsmen will serve Igeon-nim, who has golden hands!”
“Yeah! Do you think we can leave Igeon-nim to vulgar battle fanatics like you!”
These guys?
That was it.
It was good she'd come to fix something, but the greatest craftsmen of humanity had brought up unexpected words.
“Do you even know? Igeon-nim's original profession is the Holy God of Crafting! If he stays on a divine throne that doesn't suit him, his powers will degenerate!”
“That's right! He should come as the Holy God of Capricorn to gain crafting-related powers!”
“Yeah! Vulgar battle believers, go away! Don't cause Igeon-nim's powers to degenerate!”
Eventually, unable to endure the craftsmen's pestering, Kalli burst out in anger.
“Hey, Taylor! Aren't you managing your people properly?!”
The place where Kalli raised her voice was none other than in front of a cauldron.
There was Taylor, the star craftsman who had fallen for Igeon after being defeated in a crafting duel with him.
At the same time, he was one of the ten strongest SS-class among humanity, having shared meals with Kalli, Yuha, and Gote.
Kalli, watching him repair her sword, raised her voice in anger.
“Hey. Are you listening? Your people keep spouting nonsense!”
“It's not nonsense, is it?”
“What?!”
“Even Holy Gods have different skills depending on which divine throne they belong to. Then Igeon-nim is the same.”
“……!”
Kalli flinched.
He was right.
The twelve Holy Gods grow through their believers and unlock skills that match the inclination of the divine throne they belong to.
For example, a Holy God on a healing divine throne can only unlock healing-type skills and cannot unlock combat-related skills.
In other words.
“Igeon-nim has that level of skill even without special crafting powers. So if he belonged to Capricorn and gained that type of power...”
“!”
“It would probably be beyond imagination. But can we put such a treasure of a person on a mere combat divine throne? It would be burying his talent in the mud.”
Whatever, it was fine.
“Anyway, the saint who serves Igeon-nim will be me.”
“Hey! That's your aim! The saint will be me! You idiot!”
But just then.
Swirl, swirl.
The world workshop tower, over a hundred stories high, was enveloped in a strange fog.
And it was when the believers inside were bustling due to the fog that had entered.
“Hey, what were we just talking about?”
“What do you mean, what we were talking about... we will serve that person...”
“That person?”
“Who were we talking about?”
* * *
‘Seongjae and Yuha’s texts, and on SNS, Geon’s name has completely disappeared.’
Hugo was looking at his phone seriously.
‘The fog has covered the entire world.’
So Hugo deliberately contacted guys far away from here, but.
[Geon Stalker: Igeon? Who's that?]
[Cat Butler Bastard: Ophiuchus? There was no such person there. By the way, you got a good weapon, right?]
[Fake Holy Woman: Aaah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know who it is but I'm sorry anyway]
[Marry Geon: (No response)]
“……!”
Hugo became serious.
It was certain.
‘Already the fog had spread worldwide.’
Even guys in the US or Europe had forgotten about Igeon.
It was undoubtedly the work of the magic Holy Gods.
‘They had decided to eliminate Geon.’
No, not just Geon, but even the past of the twelve Holy Gods!
Of course, the reason they were coming out like this was understandable.
In reality, they had planned to raise suspicions to the media.
[The twelve Holy Gods tried to kill Igeon, the hero of humanity]
[The twelve Holy Gods used an unknown civilization to usurp the original owners' positions and became gods]
[Perhaps they are trying to satisfy their selfish desires by applying the same method they used then to Earth]
[In other words, the unknown civilization and some of the twelve Holy Gods might already be in a cooperative relationship]
[The invasion itself might be a scheme of the Holy Gods]
[That is why they tried to kill Igeon, who is connected to that truth]
And the scribes being killed in the past was also because of that.
Therefore, the Holy Gods would want to deal with those who know their information like the scribes, but... who knows.
‘Geon couldn't be easy to deal with.’
They were trying to erase Igeon's existence anyway.
Therefore, they chose a method that is fatal to the Holy Gods and doesn't require them to lift a finger: Oblivion.
They intended to erase the very existence and kill him in a different sense.
‘Well, nothing has happened to Geon personally yet.’
A god can maintain and strengthen their existence only by being worshiped by someone.
A minor god that no one knows and will soon be forgotten cannot have the same religious power as a major god designated as a state religion.
In other words, if the target disappears due to Oblivion, faith itself cannot be established, and a god who lives off worship will inevitably lose power and vanish.
‘So we must quickly break this magic and revive the memories of Geon.’
But even so, Hugo almost fell into a slight conflict.
Why?
“Daddy is the best! So cool!”
“Daddy, please marry me...!”
That was it.
Even his daughter, who usually didn't show affection, rushed into his arms and launched a love offensive.
He hadn't yet grasped the reason, but the cause was probably the forgetting of Igeon's existence.
Perhaps the faith that had been directed toward Igeon had been transferred to him.
Sure enough.
“Daddy, you're really the coolest in the world.”
“Daddy, I love you.”
And maybe because he experienced something that could never happen normally.
“Yeah, why should we find memories of that bastard Geon? This is enough as it is... Ugh!!”
Hugo got punched twice by Igeon.
Thanks to that, Hugo raised his voice in anger.
“Why are you hitting me!!! Are we friends?!”
“Your smirking pisses me off.”
“As expected, you remember me, right?!”
Igeon picked his ear.
And then.
Buzz!
When his phone rang, Hugo was startled. Then, at the familiar number, he answered urgently as if he'd been waiting.
“Heilli!”
-Is Igeon there?
At the familiar name, Hugo was relieved.
“I knew you would remember Geon!”
-Yeah. Probably because the system recognized him as a colleague, he was able to avoid it.
“What do you mean time?”
Heilli fell silent.
-It's nothing. More importantly, since I'm recognized as the monarch, I can't enter that fog.
“What? Why?”
-That fog is being used by the magic Holy Gods using the [system]. They probably set an entry ban on this side's blood to prevent me and the Scorpio Holy God from interfering.
Hugo flinched when the Scorpio Holy God was mentioned.
That was because, unlike other Holy Gods, the Scorpio Holy God was a god about whom nothing was known at all.
A god whose identity was completely unknown because Heilli usually stepped in.
‘If they chose a person from the unknown civilization as a saint, he's definitely not an ordinary god.’
Hugo narrowed his brows.
‘Well, for some reason that Holy God seems to dislike me quite a bit.’
He himself didn't know the reason.
‘Maybe it's because of Igeon? Well, he helped with my wife's matters, so he's a grateful god.’
Anyway, that wasn't what mattered now.
-If people's memories disappear like this, Igeon is in danger. But since the power of Oblivion is this side's power, I have a rough idea how they used it. I'll tell you how to solve it.
“A solution?”
-This fog is a part of the flesh of Oblivion. There will be wizards who are drawing this fog. Most likely, they are the Gemini fairies.
Hugo's eyes changed.
If that's the case, it's not difficult.
-Holy Gods, who become stronger as they are deified, are greatly influenced by those who deify them. In other words, if the people who remember Igeon disappear, Ophiuchus's power will also weaken, and he will eventually be unable to use his power.
That is why saints are essential for divine thrones.
As the most faithful ones, as the religious leaders who gather believers to deify the Holy God.
“Wait, then why do the kids recognize me as the Ophiuchus Holy God? Do you know?”
-It's just a guess.
“?”
-Probably, erasing the existence of the 13th Holy God is difficult, but erasing the memory of the person Igeon is easy.
A god is hard to erase, but Igeon is a human who was clearly active as a hero.
-So they plan to distort the 13th Holy God into a worthless human by their standards and deal with the powerless Igeon first.
“Heilli, you just called me a worthless human...”
Whatever, it's fine.
“Igeon also seems to have forgotten me, why is that?”
[A god has no faith in themselves. So it'll be 0%, and since the Ophiuchus Holy God was recognized as you...]
“So he forgot me? But the great Igeon got caught by such a trick?”
Hugo looked at Igeon as if it were absurd.
Igeon was yawning lazily while getting a drink from a distant vending machine.
‘...No matter what, the great Igeon?’
Hugo looked at Igeon as if something was strange, but Heilli became serious.
There seemed to be a hint of a guess.
-Didn't you say that Igeon had already been consumed by Oblivion?
“!!”
-Since he's been consumed before, the power of Oblivion might work on him.
“Oh no...!”
-Anyway, hurry. Even now, records about Igeon are disappearing all over the world. If the magic Holy God kills Igeon, the next will be you, designated as the 13th Holy God...
But just then.
Thud!
At the sudden sound from the other end of the phone, Hugo narrowed his brows.
“Heilli?”
-Why are you here...!
With those words, the phone was hung up.
“Heilli? Heilli!”
Heilli didn't reconnect. Even the holy relic of Scorpio that Heilli had lent disappeared, making Hugo flinch.
‘Something happened over there.’
At the same time, Hugo, who was checking his phone articles, was surprised.
‘All articles related to Geon have disappeared.’
Indeed, the fog had undoubtedly covered the entire world.
So when Hugo saw Igeon far away, he was startled.
‘Ophiuchus's power has disappeared.’
The divinity that had been felt from Igeon had become almost negligible.
Was it because, as a hero who had been deified and remembered by people for 20 years, he had taken a hit?
‘Damn, it's dangerous.’
And then.
As if they had aimed for the timing when Igeon had weakened.
[Oh, I found you.]
“!”
In the distance, beings who appeared to be fairies appeared.
And seeing them, Hugo became urgent.
‘They came to kill Geon, whose divine throne had weakened.’
Sure enough, they spoke.
[If we throw him to Oblivion, it'll be a perfect cleanup.]
At this, Hugo urgently drew his bow.
Now that Geon is weakened, he had to handle it now.
[Let's deal with it quickly.]
[Ah. Wait. Before that, let's call the master...]
But right at that moment.
[Huh?]
One of the fairies widened her eyes.
Because Igeon had appeared above their heads.
[?!]
So the fairies were startled out of their wits.
Igeon had clearly been hundreds of meters away!
But they couldn't even scream.
“I was wondering when you'd show up; I was bored to death.”
[?!!]
Because Igeon, who had appeared in midair, threw his fist at the fairies' faces before they could even scream properly.
Boom!!!!
In an instant, the fairies were hit in the face and sent flying, collapsing an overpass.
[Huff, huff!]
[What! Didn't they lose their memories because of Oblivion? The master clearly said he wouldn't be able to use his power because his memories were consumed by Oblivion...!]
But there was no time to be flustered. Because Igeon approached the fairies, cracking his knuckles.
His expression was very vicious.
So the terrified fairies freaked out and asked again.
[Do you know us?!]
“No, not at all.”
[You're doing this even though you don't know us?!]
“Yeah. I don't know who you are. But I feel like I should hit you.”
[What... Kyaaak!!]
As soon as the words fell, the fairies got hit again and flew away.
In the end, the fairies who had come with a light heart realized the seriousness of the situation and used summoning magic.
[Attack!]
[Huh? Are you sure? The master said to put him alive into Oblivion since he would have lost his memories...!]
[Even though he lost his memories, that bastard is crazy!]
[And anyway, there's not a single human in the world who remembers Igeon. His divinity has fallen, so his power must be halved!]
[Anyway, all he can use as you can see is brute force like that...]
But at that moment.
As if mocking those words, an earthquake shook the ground.
Boom!!!
As if they had been waiting to crawl out, a fierce demonic energy rose from Igeon's body!
[Kyaa!]
It was unmistakably Ophiuchus's power.
The fairies, who almost collapsed at the threatening sight, freaked out.
[What?! Why is his power the same!]
[He shouldn't be able to use Ophiuchus's power because his divinity dropped!]
[C-could it be that believers still remain?!]
[What are you talking about! The faith was set at 500%... Mmmph!]
The fairies' faces were grabbed by Igeon's hand.
At the same time, Igeon, holding the fairies' skulls, grinned viciously.
“There is one, named Taek-su. Among my believers, he's at 600%.”
Crunch!!!
The fairies' skulls mercilessly burst apart.
At the same time, Hugo's face turned into that of a demon.
“Hey! Weren't you supposed to have lost your memory?!”
Igeon smiled obnoxiously.
“Yeah. I don't remember.”