Lee Geon, pointing at himself, raised the corners of his lips.
And at Lee Geon's question about whether he could send himself by courier, everyone's eyes went round in bewilderment.
The Lord of Scorching Flame, who had brought Lee Geon here, especially flinched and whispered.
"Are you serious?"
But soon, at Lee Geon's expression, the Lord of Scorching Flame screamed internally.
'This bastard, he had no intention of doing any reconnaissance from the start…!!'
Hermes. That is, the divine realm's transportation and passenger service was a major player, competing for first or second place across the entire divine realm. And rumors said its reach could even transcend dimensions.
In fact, it was already stated to be a god who could move anywhere in this world, except for time travel.
So, having heard that story, Lee Geon might have planned to find Hugo this way from the beginning.
'Still, that doesn't mean… out of nowhere, delivery!'
Did he think such a thing was possible?
But whether it was possible or not, Lee Geon simply raised the corners of his lips.
"If the recipient won't accept Ho Gu, I don't care if it goes to Hades instead."
"……?!"
The staff at the counter looked flustered.
"What. Can't you do it? Ah, can people not be shipped as freight?"
"Ah, no… if you classify them as livestock products, it is possible to send them…."
The staff, flustered, glanced over Lee Geon and the Lord of Scorching Flame.
"In the current situation, you're going to the Netherworld?"
"Ah, you said your name was Death Spear, right? Aren't you affiliated with Olympus?"
They looked Lee Geon up and down suspiciously.
Lee Geon was currently wearing the Lord of Scorching Flame's clothes. A white jacket. The black jersey he had worn when he arrived had already spread through eyewitness accounts, and besides, it supposedly smelled strongly of human.
Even his hair color had been changed by the Lord of Scorching Flame from black to red.
Thanks to that, Yu Ha had panted excitedly and taken a bunch of pictures.
His overall divinity was already sealed, so there was no need to touch that, though.
Anyway, perhaps those efforts were effective. The gods were in a situation where they completely mistook Lee Geon for a member of Olympus.
"They say Olympus is in shambles right now because of that god called an entertainer?"
"Going to the Netherworld at this time, when a summons has been issued… could you be fleeing?"
"Surely you're not somehow connected to the current incident…."
At those suspicious gazes, the Lord of Scorching Flame grew frantic.
"No!! That's not it!! This child is a part-timer at my shop! Some wretch cheated this child out of his money and ran off to the Netherworld!!"
At this, Lee Geon looked at the Lord of Scorching Flame as if dumbfounded.
But the Lord of Scorching Flame stroked Lee Geon's head and said,
"As an employer, I can't just stand by either. And it's about time this child has to start paying tribute to the divine realm; anyway, we're in a hurry! Please!"
As the Lord of Scorching Flame sweated profusely, the staff tilted their heads.
It was the first time they had seen the Lord of Scorching Flame act like this.
'He's always calm and cold.'
'They say he's the divine realm's top noble gentleman.'
But Lee Geon looked at the Lord of Scorching Flame with an expression full of dissatisfaction.
Why use such a useless method, was what he was thinking.
'If words don't work, just make them work. That's it.'
'Indeed.'
In the end, as Lee Geon and Yu Ha were about to resort to double-sided weapons, the Lord of Scorching Flame desperately grabbed and held down their arms.
'Ah! These crazy snake masters!!!'
All of them were nothing but wretched bastards!
Anyway, the Lord of Scorching Flame, who was hiding Lee Geon, was extremely serious.
'If I get dragged into this, it'll truly be hopeless.'
And it was then.
The staff looked at Lee Geon and said,
"Well, out of respect for the Lord of the Sun, we'll make a special exception and send you by courier as livestock product, but."
"As you may already know, there's a report that a criminal committed a terrorist attack at the divine realm's immigration office a few days ago."
"!"
"It just so happens that the one in charge of that immigration office is our great god of Olympus. So they're saying all Olympus affiliates should actively cooperate in catching that terrorist…."
At those words, Lee Geon tilted his head.
"The immigration office? If it's that, I…."
"Ahhh!!!!"
The Lord of Scorching Flame immediately hugged Lee Geon as if gagging him.
The staff looked at them suspiciously.
"I?"
"I… mmph."
"No!!! This child was there too! He's a victim!!!"
"Aha! Is that so. Anyway, the description is roughly like this, so please be sure to take note. They say tracking isn't working, so the culprit is either hiding or someone is sheltering them…."
"They said if there's anyone sheltering them, the great god will kill them."
The Lord of Scorching Flame, who had turned sheet-white, broke out in a cold sweat.
* * *
"Nephew."
"You wanna die?"
"Snake master."
"What."
"I have a question."
"What. You bastard."
The Lord of Scorching Flame asked seriously,
"Uh… why… do I have to get in the box?"
At this, Lee Geon, who was in the middle of packing the Lord of Scorching Flame, opened his eyes menacingly.
"Were you planning not to go then? You have absolutely no intention of saving Taek Soo, do you?"
"No!!! That's not it! I'm asking why *I* have to go! Weren't you the one who was supposed to get in the courier box!"
The Lord of Scorching Flame, feeling wronged, tried to get out of the huge box.
He was currently in a solid wooden courier box, grabbed by the collar by Lee Geon.
Yu Ha, holding a livestock product sticker, was an added bonus.
In the end, the Lord of Scorching Flame hurriedly tried to get out of the box.
Though they had specially requested the staff allocate them a space without any users, to use it like this!
"No, I have things to do in Olympus!"
"Shut up, Taek Soo will be handled by us, so you take care of the trading partner."
"Wh-what?! Why!"
"Why do you think. They say Taek Soo's trading partner is some great god of the Ennead or something. You never know. We must avoid hindering the rescue of Taek Soo. So half-kill that bastard."
"No!!! Hey! Do you know what kind of existence a great god is… mmph! You might be able to do it, but… mmph!!!"
Lee Geon paid no heed and slammed the lid shut. And as Yu Ha attached the livestock product sticker, light shimmered around the box and it was firmly sealed.
Bang! Bang!
"Yaaap!!"
And Lee Geon placed the box containing the Lord of Scorching Flame onto the container belt.
Simultaneously, using a marker pen borrowed from the staff, he wrote on the box.
[To. Great God of the Ennead]
"Aaahhhk!!"
And with that, the Lord of Scorching Flame fell through the hole at the end of the container belt.
He was headed to the delivery destination.
This was because the marker pen itself was an item connected to the authority of the Lord of Messengers.
[Transcend Dimensions (4-Star)]
- Auto-search, Grant
Having confirmed that, Lee Geon dusted off his hands and took out the next empty box.
"Where does Yu Ha want to go? To Dad? Or Hades?"
Yu Ha's eyes sparkled.
"I want to go with Uncle."
Not long ago, hadn't Lee Geon made a fuss about going to the divine realm together with him and Hayley, only to try and sneak away alone at dawn?
In the end, at Yu Ha's words, Lee Geon sighed. Then, as if understanding, he wrote on the box and tried to get in.
"Then straight to Taek Soo…."
But it was right then.
"I'm sorry, but that delivery won't be allowed."
Crash!!!
With an unfamiliar voice, a powerful magical harpoon came crashing down.
Boom! Crash!
Along with it, the container belt stopped, and inside the transport room, a strange man in a suit appeared.
A male god, handsome like the Lord of Scorching Flame. The green-haired male god wore a meaningful smile.
And seeing him, Lee Geon narrowed his brow.
[Divine Name: Wanderer of Boundaries]
[Divinity: Hermes (Divine God)]
"That address you just registered won't work. The Ennead are subordinate gods that even our Olympus targets."
"Huh?"
Lee Geon looked at the male god as if to ask what he meant, but the Lord of Messengers just smiled.
"You're that problematic snake god, right?"
He was a god of considerable divinity.
And his golden-glowing eyes were scanning Lee Geon's outward appearance.
It seemed he could see Lee Geon's divinity leaking out.
The form of that aura was a noble twin serpent.
The Lord of Messengers smiled.
He had been interested anyway, having heard he was the original master of the subordinate god with 600% faith.
But there was something strange.
'Strange. They definitely said he was a divine god of the 5th level of divinity.'
The Lord of Messengers, who was close to the civil servants, had eavesdropped on Lee Geon's information.
He hadn't heard the details, but he had heard as far as him being a god of cycles.
Typically, level 1-2 gods were lower gods. Levels 3-4 were intermediate gods.
And divinity level 5 meant he was undoubtedly a high-level divine god.
But so what.
'No matter how I look, he's the lowest-level god.'
He didn't know the reason, but he had what you could call a human smell. The energy he felt, for starters, was just that.
At that level, the divine realm's automatic monitoring system would classify him as a lower god.
Well, since he was a new god, precise measurements hadn't been taken yet, but in most cases, the result would match the divine realm's automatic monitoring system.
If it was to that degree, the civil servants could have been mistaken.
Since he seemed to have the rare case of two divinities, maybe they combined levels 3 and 2 and treated it as level 5?
'They definitely said it was a power of cycles that only activates when the two are combined.'
In that way, those broad-minded civil servants might well have called him level 5.
So the Lord of Messengers laughed.
According to the laws of the divine realm, gods were treated as divine gods depending on whether they had a subordinate god or not, but usually, lower gods felt ashamed of the divine god title, a symbol of a ruling god, and commonly returned the position.
That's why the gods regarded that snake god with contempt.
Not only had he dared try to have a subordinate god of 600% faith, something even high-level divine gods couldn't achieve, but as a lower god, he hadn't even returned the divine god seat.
However, the Lord of Messengers hid his feelings and approached Lee Geon and Yu Ha.
"I like you two. Especially you."
The Lord of Messengers looked at Yu Ha and smiled.
"Would you like to become a subordinate god on our side?"
"?"
Then he grabbed Lee Geon's shoulder.
"Will you come over to our Olympus side too? As it happens, our great god is quite interested in you."
Right now, a war under the name of the Great God Selection Tournament was about to begin.
Even the great gods were treating it as important and trying to lead their faction to victory.
And.
'If this guy is the master, surely there's a special secret method that created 600% faith.'
Wasn't there also a rumor from a distant dimension that the monarch of an unknown civilization had been murdered?
Though it could just be a rumor, those were monarchs who made even high gods go on alert.
'If we only knew the secret method, even they…'
Therefore, the Lord of Messengers, his eyes glinting sharply, activated his authority.
[Reversing Flow of Information (4-Star)]
It was an authority that could forcibly peek into and steal an opponent's information.
But it was right then.
Flinc'.
The Lord of Messengers, who had been probing Lee Geon's divinity, flinched greatly.
'Ah, no, wait.'
He showed a rare look of bewilderment.
'This bastard, his divinity…!'
It had surpassed a high god. And the number of divinities this guy possessed wasn't two.
'Three? No….'
But it was then.
"!"
While the Messenger God was probing, Lee Geon, grinning widely, was holding something.
It was none other than a spear made of Chaos Energy!
Sensing the power emanating from it, the Messenger God reflexively froze, turning sheet-white.
"No. Wait. What is that!"
"None of your business."
The moment the words fell, the Monarch's spear pierced the Messenger God's body.
Crash!
"Aagh!"
Simultaneously, Lee Geon wrapped the Messenger God's body round and round with tape, then.
Placed him inside a new courier box.
And then.
"Here, send this bastard to the Monarch."
"What, no, wait! Hey?!! Mmph!!"
As Lee Geon shut the lid, Yu Ha once again attached a livestock product handling sticker.
And Lee Geon wrote the recipient on the box.
[TO. Abyss (Monarch)]
And with all his might, he pushed it toward the end of the container belt, into the black space.
Whoosh!
As the box was pushed hard, the Messenger God inside screamed.
"Agh! No! Hey! Open thi…!! Agh!!"
But whether he screamed or not, the Lord of Messengers was sent off by courier as well.
Simultaneously, Lee Geon entered the courier box on which he wrote the name Hades, together with Yu Ha.
The transport was instantaneous.
(To be continued)