Igeon’s expression was one to behold.
What appeared before him was unmistakably a newborn baby.
A baby less than 100 days old at that!
A little child who had just opened its eyes!
And seeing the newborn baby that had appeared as if to protect Igeon, the Cheon siblings let out a scream that seemed to shake the world.
“Aaak!!”
“Ji-su!!!”
“Why is she there!!”
It was so.
The child that appeared before Igeon was none other than the youngest born this time to the Hugh family!
And at the sight of that newborn, all the citizens of the Holy City screamed.
Lee Jae-won, who was defending the surroundings as the Holy God’s proxy, and Gote were the same.
“Why is the youngest miss!!”
“Ji-su-nim!!”
Just by looking at the newborn’s clothes with Igeon’s character drawn on them, it was unmistakably the youngest.
And the name ‘Ji-su’ was a name Igeon had personally coined by taking parts from ‘Ji-u’ and ‘Taek-su’.
In any case, having awakened from birth, Ji-su could use all manner of abilities.
Truly, levitation was passive, and she had teleportation, even suspicious beams!
It seemed to have arisen from a combination of bloodline power and Igeon’s blessing, but at any rate, that wasn’t important right now.
“Bbyaaaahhh!!”
The newborn that had appeared out of nowhere mercilessly fired a beam at the Ten Heavenly Lords.
Kugugung!!
[The newborn fires a ray of destruction]
[The newborn fires a ray of destruction]
Struck by the beam once more, the Ten Heavenly Lords retreated.
It seemed to be an attack that even worked on a Great God.
‘No. I can faintly sense Ophiuchus in that power.’
Of course, he had used his blessing power on her even when she was in the womb, so he wondered if that influence had flowed in, but such things were no longer important.
‘What kind of monstrous lifeform did that bastard create?’
Or was it the prenatal education of his own documentary tapes that the Cheon siblings played every day that was the problem?
Faced with the attack of a child already close to a monster, Igeon broke out in a cold sweat, but the child itself seemed angry, as if asking who dared to imitate, who dared to lay a hand on someone.
In any case, it was right then that he thought he couldn’t leave things like this.
Igeon’s cell phone rang. Given the situation, he tried to ignore it, but because of who the caller was, he answered immediately.
“Ji-u-ssi?”
- Igeon-nim! I’m sorry! Um, I know this isn’t the time to be calling…! But Ji-su has disappeared…!
“Ah.”
- Her development speed is abnormal, and she’s a child who keeps disappearing while chasing after Igeon-nim… So I thought maybe this time too she did some strange thing and went over there…!
At Cheon Ji-u’s voice, which was terribly anxious, Igeon broke out in a sweat.
“Uh no, uh that is….”
Instead of answering, Igeon looked at the child in front of him, shooting beams and causing a ruckus.
- If by any chance she was kidnapped by gods, or even abducted by monsters…!
“Ah, it’s fine. Far from being kidnapped, she’s beating people up. Truly a talent worth using….”
- Yes?
“No no! Don’t worry, I found her. She’s here. I’ll protect…”
At that moment, a blow from the Ten Heavenly Lords flew at Igeon.
In his fluster, Igeon grabbed the child and shouted.
“Beam!!!”
Kugugugung!!
At that beam, the horde that the Ten Heavenly Lords had summoned in the meantime were split in two.
It was a gruesome sight, as if sliced by a laser.
And no matter how much he was weakening every visible enemy’s body with the power of the blessing, this was unmistakably Igeon’s avatar.
At the destruction that mercilessly split them, the citizens of the Holy City froze.
“That’s some SS-grade destructive power….”
“It’s a baby, right? It’s a baby, right?!”
“Samchoon! Our youngest, our youngest!”
That appearance was just like when Igeon sliced up enemies with his sword!
‘No, more indiscriminate and murderous, but!’
But regardless, the child in Igeon’s arms happily stretched out its fingers like little Vienna sausages, going ‘kyah kyah’.
At the same time, Igeon checked the child using a power.
[The ability of the spirit beasts he had taken as vassals activates]
And perhaps it was because he had become a Great God and gained abilities different from before.
He could see a new sight that hadn’t been visible before.
‘Souls.’
The form of souls, which had only appeared as pure white spheres, could be seen in more detail.
The form that had changed in an instant was a face he knew well.
Even the information about it.
As if to prove it.
[It is a soul.]
At the voice he heard, Igeon felt the tip of his nose sting without realizing.
The child smiled brightly, stretching out its hand to Igeon. That smile seemed strangely familiar.
At the same time, Igeon frowned upon seeing the soul of the Ten Heavenly Lords.
Perhaps because the youngest was beside him, the form of that soul could be clearly compared.
It was much dimmer.
[It is a copy soul created by the Great God’s authority.]
In other words, the soul of Jun-woo inside the Ten Heavenly Lords was a copy.
In the end, with no reason left to hesitate, Igeon raised his hand.
Along with it, intense black flames surged up.
Fwoosh!
In an instant, Igeon, turned into a giant of black flames, summoned his sword.
The pincer-shaped form changed along with the black flames.
That form was not for mockery or binding, but solely for thorough destruction.
It was the form of destruction.
Without hesitation, Igeon swung the pitch-black sword toward the Ten Heavenly Lords.
[Void (6-Star)]
This power that makes existence itself as if it never was descended upon the Ten Heavenly Lords.
* * *
“Ji-su!!”
Cheon Ji-u screamed upon seeing the youngest in Igeon’s arms.
The youngest was happily going ‘kyah kyah’ upon seeing her mom.
Of course, Igeon had said she was fine and that the child was safe, but still, the place where the child had gone missing was that kind of place.
“I’m so glad nothing happened…!!”
Cheon Ji-u, having taken the youngest into her arms, finally collapsed as if her strength had left her legs, as if relieved.
It was an event so shocking that even the Cheon siblings nearly fainted, a tremendous incident indeed.
Thanks to that, the citizens of the Holy City also brushed off their startled hearts, but they actually tilted their heads seeing Igeon’s expression.
“Igeon-nim looks to be in a very good mood.”
Wasn’t he the one who had looked constantly upset ever since the topic of Hugh came up?
But looking at the youngest, Igeon was beaming with a bright smile, unlike before.
And because it was rare for Igeon to smile such a (?) smile, everyone found it strange, but Igeon was content.
‘Jun-woo had reincarnated as Ji-u-ssi’s daughter.’
Was this why he had said he wouldn’t recognize him?
And having perceived the inside story, Igeon spoke to Ji-u.
“Please raise Ji-su well. She’s a good child.”
At those words, Cheon Ji-u and the Cheon siblings tilted their heads.
Why would he say something so obvious.
But Igeon gently caressed the youngest’s cheek, which was like a rice cake.
Probably, if Ji-u and the Cheon siblings were her family, she would grow up truly happily.
She would never have to grow up getting beaten as had happened in the orphanage.
Igeon didn’t mention Jun-woo. He thought there was no need to say it.
Therefore, the only ones who noticed the inside story were the Holy Gods watching the scene.
‘I see. So that’s how it was.’
The Virgo Holy God, who had secreted away Yeon-woo and Jun-woo and reincarnated them as humans, seemed to have her questions resolved only now.
Yeon-woo and Jun-woo were her friends, but they were also the baby snakes that Asran had picked up.
And hadn’t Asran, discovering the two dying from an attack, said this with pity.
[So it turned out like this because the divinity was passed down to twins.]
[Passed down? Then what divinity did they have? Seeing how weak they are, are they lower gods?]
[No. That’s not it. But whoever did it, because they were born as twins, the existing divinity was also split in two. That’s why they can’t use their power, and their lifespan is short. Like this, they can’t even breathe.]
It was as good as being born with a disability.
Thus, because they would suffer all their lives and then vanish along with their divine bodies, Asran had separately placed the divinity of Ouroboros into the twin snakes, hadn’t he?
That was their current divinity.
A divinity that was one from two.
Of course, their original divinity was split in two and as good as gone, but as Ouroboros, they became Asran’s vassal gods.
But when Yeon-woo and Jun-woo died, the Ouroboros passed to Igeon, and the original divinity merged back into one as they died.
That divinity appeared before Igeon in the form of an ‘egg’.
‘That’s that snake, Apophis.’
And Jun-woo’s soul reincarnated as the youngest daughter of the Hugh family, as it was.
‘Right. Yeon-woo and Jun-woo originally possessed the divinity of Apophis.’
At the same time, the Virgo Holy God noticed something peculiar.
Didn’t they say that when Apophis swallows the sun god, it is night, and when it doesn’t, it is day?
The Apophis divinity was the arch-enemy, a venomous snake, that threatened Ra, the Great God of the Ennead.
In any case, why would the Apophis divinity, which should never be passed down to twins, be born as twins and weakened?
The answer was simple.
‘It was the doing of the Great God of the Ennead.’
He had eliminated a Holy God he didn’t like.
In a method of torment, splitting it into twins to weaken the divinity and starve it to death.
‘But there’s no way karma wouldn’t accumulate from such a deed.’
It was an act that maliciously changed the fate of a god.
‘Then how was he unharmed?’
That wasn’t all.
Even after killing a Primordial God, how could he live so long without accumulating any karma?
Well, whatever.
“What?! F-Faith at 450%?!”
At the screams of the citizens, the Holy Gods looked at Igeon.
Igeon was looking at the youngest as if proud.
“Yeah, you see? This child’s Ophiuchus faith is 450%. With this, my divine status has no problems.”
Having confirmed the youngest’s faith, Igeon was strangely very pleased. As if it was natural (?), as if praiseworthy, he was quite happy.
Indeed, as if the 450% faith’s power was extraordinary, Igeon’s divine status was rapidly filling.
The citizens marveled at that.
“450%… a newborn like that….”
“Right? As expected of my niece….”
“But still, there’s no one exceeding 600%.”
Pop.
Igeon glared at the citizen who said that. The citizen, unaware, smiled nonchalantly.
“Well, it’s not to the level of Hugh-nim, but still, with this much, Igeon-nim will be okay… Aaargh!”
For some reason, the citizen had his neck choked by an enraged Igeon.
And around then, the citizens started whispering among themselves.
“Hugh-nim, he didn’t really betray humanity, right…?”
“Hey. No way. Even if others, that Hugh-nim… Shh!”
They shut their mouths upon seeing Cheon Ji-u. But Cheon Ji-u whispered to Igeon as if worried.
“Um, Igeon-nim. Is something the matter with my husband, by any chance?”
“Huh? Why, why?”
Igeon flinched, but Cheon Ji-u continued calmly.
“Well, he packed his bags as if he’d never come back and left….”
Igeon waved his hand as if it was nothing.
“The luggage… I told him to pack because the fight could be prolonged. Don’t worry.”
“He even burned the family photo….”
“…….”
Igeon’s veins bulged.
Is this bastard for real??
Igeon’s eyes flashed as if he would cut Hugh’s throat.
“That… I’ll restore it to how it was. If I use time reversal, I can turn back something like a photo.”
Cheon Ji-u nodded.
Igeon immediately moved as if the greater problem right now was the hidden Great God rather than that Hugh bastard.
“Current situation?”
[As expected, the Great Gods modified the contents of the rulebook, and the divine realm and Earth seem to have fused. About 99%…]
“So the land of the divine realm and the land of Earth got mixed together… In short, we’re sharing land with those god bastards, right?”
[Yes. In other words, Earth has turned into a divine realm. They likely changed ‘____’ in the rulebook to ‘____’. That would make it possible.]
At Mimir’s quick analysis, Igeon smiled as if disgusted.
Probably, aside from him having blown up the divine realm, those bastards had been aiming for this land from the start.
‘They were already trying to plant a strange tree.’
In fact, when he had gone to the future, Earth was already destroyed.
[There are various things in ____. In this way, they will use ____ to do anything to transform Earth to their liking.]
[If we can just find where they are hiding, we can eliminate ____, so it might be worth a try.]
[Before that, there are as many as 4 Great Gods. Are you really okay?]
Igeon held up something shining as if to say it was fine. It was something he had torn off from the Ten Heavenly Lords he had destroyed this time.
[Primordial God’s Authority ____]
[Divinity of ____]
“We also got something good, so it’s fine….”
But right then.
“Keheok!”
[Master!]
“Igeon-nim!!!”
“Uncle!”
Igeon collapsed in agony. Startled, the high-ranking citizens and gods rushed over.
“Igeon-nim! Are you okay? Igeon-nim!”
Igeon gasped for breath, greatly suffering.
At that sight, all the adults were flustered.
That was understandable, since it was the first time in 20 years that Igeon had suffered like this.
But Igeon opened his eyes wide.
His suffering was not for any other reason.
[The faith of Ophiuchus is disappearing.]
[The faith of Ophiuchus is disappearing.]
[The faith of Ophiuchus has been transferred.]
[The faith that was directed toward Ophiuchus is now all directed to the Great Gods.]
[The faith of 6 billion people moves at once.]
[The power of Ophiuchus weakens.]
“These bastards…!!”
The faith of humanity on Earth had been transferred entirely to the Great Gods.
And the gods’ strength changed in proportion to faith.
On top of that, Igeon had awakened to the Great God level and his power had grown, but the maintenance cost had risen accordingly, so he couldn’t maintain his body.
Sure enough.
“Uncle!!”
Igeon’s appearance began to change. It was even more fatal because of the faith that had vanished in an instant.
“Igeon-nim’s appearance is…!”
Igeon’s appearance, which had been close to an adult, changed to that of an early teen.
His body and height shrank, and he was burning with fever.
The flustered Iaso exclaimed.
[This is serious. At this rate, he will degenerate and his existence itself will disappear!]
They wondered what was going on, but they could soon find out.
(To be continued in the next episode)