Igeon was dumbfounded.
‘What is this? They’re saying completely different things.’
One side says it’s better to let him live, the other says it’s better to kill him.
And what’s more, both are on Haili’s side, so it was absurd.
‘Neither of them would say something that harms Haili.’
There was no way a constellation god would do something to harm their own saint.
‘If anything, they’d cherish her.’
Thinking of her as their possession was the problem—constellation gods flipped out if anyone touched their saint.
So they probably weren’t lying.
‘But for their positions to be so completely opposite…’
As if reading that thought, the Scorpio Constellation God spoke.
[ , that is, the Red Lord is his sworn brother, so he can say things like that.]
“!”
The Scorpio Constellation God, seeming angry, brought her face close to Igeon.
[You are a Creator. You should trust a fellow of your own kind, not a Lord.]
Instead of answering, Igeon’s brow furrowed.
Well, presumably, this one was the former head of the Creators.
In other words, she must have been the Great Constellation God.
In short, she was his distant ancestor.
But.
“Whatever you say is useless. I trust my friend.”
Unexpectedly, the Scorpio Constellation God smiled at that.
[Right. Aseuran’s father said exactly the same thing.]
“!”
It was a smile as if looking at a pitiful child.
Sure enough, the Scorpio Constellation God continued.
[Do you know why the Creators died?]
“I know. Those bastards the Burning Ones and those who joined forces with them were blinded by jealousy and killed them.”
At that time, the only surviving Creator was the young Aseuran.
[Right. But who do you think gave orders to the Burning Ones? Whose scheme do you think caused the Creators to die so easily?]
“What?”
[The one who ordered it was .]
“……!!”
Igeon didn’t seem to have expected that much.
The Scorpio Constellation God went on.
[ approached the Creators deliberately from the start. And as they grew close, he extracted the Creators’ information and weaknesses.]
That must have been the memory of the Scorpio Constellation God that he had seen.
Clearly, it was the memory of the day Aseuran’s father and son first met Hugo.
But.
[It was who spread information to the enemies about the day when the Creators would weaken.]
“……!”
That meant , Hugo, had been friends with Igeon’s grandfather, the chieftain of the Creators, but had then stabbed them in the back.
[ gleefully slaughtered all the gods, and turned even me into this form. That sight is still vivid in my mind.]
“…….”
was an exceptional hunter.
Because he transformed into myriad shapes to cause discord, and sowed dissension.
‘And in the end, he’s a brute who hunts indiscriminately.’
In the end, that turned even the Scorpio Constellation God into a hideous monster.
She had become a monster unable to speak, unable to even use her power.
No one in the divine realm recognized her as the former Great Constellation God.
No, on the contrary, she was treated as a low-grade evil god and attacked.
[That’s how I survived, hiding among the insect gods.]
Until Aseuran, who had become a saint, found her.
And Aseuran, having boldly become the master of Ophiuchus, had said to her:
- Great chieftain of the Creators and Great Constellation God. So you were alive. I searched for you for a long time.
After that, with Aseuran’s help, the Scorpio Constellation God took her place as the Scorpio. She also helped with Aseuran’s revenge, incidentally.
Of course, before his death, Aseuran had said this:
- I have children. I hope you will watch over them together with the twin little snakes.
But even with such a request, since she had become a monster, she couldn’t use the power of a Creator.
What’s more, with her grotesque appearance and inability to communicate, she couldn’t even approach gods.
Nevertheless, she secretly did what she could.
It was the same when Virgo reincarnated Yeonwoo and Junwoo as humans.
Back then, it was the Scorpio Constellation God who secretly cleaned things up so that the fact Yeonwoo and Junwoo had been taken away wasn’t discovered.
And currently.
[ is the one who wiped out our entire race, even hitting his own friend from behind. You trust such a bastard?]
In short, it meant that he was the ringleader of all the incidents.
If it hadn’t been for , the Creators would never have fallen in the first place.
[Not only that. If it weren’t for that bastard, your father wouldn’t have died scheming revenge.]
“!”
[Then would never have been born, that bastard would never have brought the Lords to invade Earth. At the same time, Yeonwoo and Junwoo wouldn’t have been murdered tens of thousands of times by !]
In short, was a damnable bastard.
That’s why the Scorpio Constellation God couldn’t understand.
Because whenever she told Aseuran she would kill first, Aseuran always said this:
- Great Constellation God. Just leave be.
In the end, the discussion always ended in a war of words.
But that son would be different.
[ is the source of all trouble. So immediately get rid of that guy next to y…]
It was right at that moment.
Boom!!!
An explosion erupted inside the sanctuary.
It was Igeon’s doing.
Igeon, looking oddly ticked off, was frowning.
Sure enough.
“Yeah, get lost. No need to open your mouth any further.”
The Scorpio Constellation God frowned.
[Could it be you do not believe my words?]
“No. I just don’t want to follow the words of a god who left me alone.”
[!]
Igeon gave a hollow laugh.
“If you knew everything, you could have let me know through Haili before I was trapped in the Devil’s Tower.”
The Scorpio Constellation God furrowed her brow.
[That was impossible from the start. Because after turning into a monster, I lost the ability to communicate. And I only regained it a mere five years ago, when Haili gathered contribution points and nurtured my power.]
“Well, I kind of figured that.”
Igeon frowned.
From the start, the Scorpio Constellation God was different from other constellation gods. She was a god who neither revealed herself nor communicated.
Well, at this point, he did wonder how Aseuran had conversed with her.
‘That guy must have had some interpretation ability.’
Aseuran had the ability to create any skill, so he must have made a skill to decipher even the words of a monster.
Whatever, that was fine.
Igeon, as if displeased, raised one eyebrow slightly.
He hated taking orders from the start.
Sure enough.
“I make my own judgments, so don’t order me to kill or not kill. And I can’t fully trust everything you’ve just said either.”
Of course, though he said that, Igeon was actually bothered by what Haili’s mother had said.
– Leave that guy alive.
‘This one, that one, all ordering me around.’
Well, that side might simply have said not to kill him because was on their side.
In fact, after all, she had only said to leave Hugo alone for the sake of herself and Haili.
‘But if what Scorpio said is true, there’s no way the 13th would have left Taksu alone all this time.’
Wasn’t he an enemy?
If it were Aseuran, rather, he should have left Hugo alone when he was killed by .
‘But he even went as far as to switch them out.’
And didn’t he even let him know so that he could find Hugo’s soul, which had fallen to the underworld?
‘Was it simply because he was worth using?’
And that was when.
The Scorpio Constellation God, who had been rushing in angrily, pulled back for a moment.
[Understood. I will respect you. In any case, it won’t be long before you too see ’s true colors.]
Igeon raised an eyebrow.
But the Scorpio Constellation God unexpectedly held out an item.
Flash!
“!”
With a dazzling light, a godhead dropped before Igeon.
And from the feel of it, it was unmistakably the godhead of a Creator.
[It’s the godhead I possessed.]
“!”
[With this, you can be a sufficient threat to gods and Lords. What’s more, you’ll be able to snuff out as well.]
“Snuff out the ever-changing ?”
[I’ll tell you this, cannot attack the Ancient Gods or the Creators.]
Igeon was startled at the unexpected information.
“That bastard can’t attack Creators?”
[That’s right. He was a sinner who had assaulted the Ancient Gods, and we were the jailers tasked with guarding him.]
“!”
The Ancient Gods were great beings whom all gods in the universe served and followed.
As such, the crime of assaulting the Ancient Gods was immense.
[Of course, we naturally didn’t just throw a being who was a Lord into our midst freely. We placed a soul-binding on him so he couldn’t attack his jailers and the Ancient Gods. Well, so that’s why he must have killed the Creators through instigation.]
Deliberately, to lift the restrictions placed on him.
That’s why the Scorpio Constellation God said she was giving him this.
[That is my godhead, but it also contains the godheads of other Creators. As the primordial Creator, I served the role of gathering the spirits of fallen kin. Doubling as a gravestone.]
In short, what she held out was a tremendous power beyond the level of a Great Constellation God.
That is, power strong enough to make gods flip out.
Indeed, it was true.
[It possesses extremely powerful strength.]
[With the power of the Serpent God, it seems you could create a divine artifact of -level might.]
Gods each possessed one representative divine artifact matching their godhead.
And Igeon had three godheads.
He could wield three divine artifacts.
Of course, though it looked that way, was ’s divine artifact.
[I can’t use it, but wouldn’t you, who are outstanding at crafting items, be able to do anything with it?]
He might even be able to create a divine artifact of or .
Sure enough.
Flash!
As soon as it touched Igeon’s hand, the godhead changed into a form of a weapon of light.
[The Serpent God’s power of creation is applied.]
Well, it was still shaped like a blunt club that couldn’t really be called a weapon yet.
But Igeon, holding it, smiled.
“Well, sure. I’ll put it to good use.”
[Alright. Then use that to deal with . Then…]
“Yeah. Thanks for the gift.”
[!]
“Are you going to keep ordering me around?”
[What?]
“Three times, no more.”
No sooner had the words left his mouth than Igeon swung the luminous weapon broadly.
Thanks to that, the Scorpio Constellation God had a flustered look.
[No, wait! Descendant!]
Boom!!!
Ancestor this, or whatever, a huge explosion erupted in the Scorpio Constellation God’s sanctuary.
* * *
Explosion in the Scorpio Constellation God’s domain.
Igeon dusted off his hands as he exited the Scorpio Constellation God’s domain.
At the same time, the retinue of gods waiting outside crowded around.
“Uncle! Are you okay?”
“You came out so late, we were worried!”
“Why? What. How long was I? It’s only been ten minutes since I went in.”
“Huh? You’ve been inside for three whole hours!”
“Ah.”
Apparently, the flow of time inside a constellation god’s space was different from outside.
“More than that, there was an explosion inside, what on earth….”
“Ah. I had a bout with the Scorpio Constellation God.”
“What?!”
At the same time, worried voices came from Igeon’s shadow.
They had been listening in from within the shadows to the conversation between Igeon and the Scorpio Constellation God.
[Are you truly alright? No matter what, your opponent was your master’s….]
“Uh, I’m fine. I won’t die from this much. And from the start, she seemed to have ulterior motives anyway.”
That’s why Igeon had simply conducted a large-scale test on whether the godhead he received could become ’s divine artifact, or ’s divine artifact.
Because if he did it at home, it would end up like that.
But.
[Erm, the Scorpio Constellation saint might get angry.]
At those words, Igeon, as if thinking ‘oh no’, glanced at Haili who was waiting outside.
He had told her beforehand, but had he gone too far?
However, far from being angry, Haili unexpectedly just smiled as if she had expected it.
“Even if I say anything, you don’t listen. So I had hoped you’d tell him yourself.”
From the start, she apparently knew what the Scorpio Constellation God would demand of Igeon.
After she had started to speak, the Scorpio Constellation God had continued instructing to kill Hugo, after all.
And at those words, the retinue gods asked as if tense.
[In any case, even after hearing such things, will it be alright?]
[Even if we really don’t kill , will it be….]
“Well, as long as he doesn’t harm humanity. And doesn’t betray us, I don’t care for now.”
[Is that true?]
The Cheon siblings tilted their heads, wondering who they were talking about.
At that, Igeon quietly lowered his voice so the Cheon siblings wouldn’t hear.
“Even though he may look like that, until now he’s a hero who protected humanity. Something like betraying humanity is….”
But it was right then.
Igeon, who was scanning his surroundings, raised his eyebrows.
“Where’s Taksu?”
“Dunno. He rushed outside urgently.”
Heiji was pouting and glancing back and forth between Haili and Igeon when it happened.
[My looord!! This is serious!]
“Why. What now.”
Whatever they saw, a desperate voice echoed from within Igeon’s shadow.
[Hogu is!! Hogu is having a secret meeting outside!!!]
“A secret meeting? Jiwoo-ssi is there. It’s probably just a fan of mine.”
[No! It’s betrayal! The other party is!!]
At the unexpected counterpart, a killing intent emanated from Igeon’s eyes.
This bastard, I even covered for him, and now what?
(Continues in the next chapter)