The Asin realm where the goddesses of fate had been hiding was shattered by the attack.
"Aaaack!!!"
And the first to vanish somewhere were the Seongsin, and all the apostles who had been able to invade the Asin realm with the help of the Seongsin were also blown away.
Ku-gu-gung!
"Damn it, the castle is collapsing!"
The ground split apart, and everyone fell toward some unknown underworld.
It was a world where ominous black pillars of light were rising.
And within that pillar of light, the bloodied Leo Seongsin shouted.
[You must absolutely not fall in there! Hurry, get away!]
"What? What is that place?!"
[An entrance connected to the Void Realm!]
"And what is that? The divine realm?!"
At Steven's question, the Leo Seongsin yelled.
[Just get up there!]
"Ugh!"
The Leo Seongsin bit down on Steven and the Cheon siblings with his mouth and threw them upward.
And then, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he himself seemed about to fall into that entrance to the Void Realm.
Cheon Seongjae tried to teleport the Leo Seongsin by touching him, but his hand did not reach.
The Leo Seongsin, who had been struck by the attack, appeared to have reached his limit and flailed his beastly paw.
[I will be passed down anyway, so it doesn't matter. Just protect that worthless snake god who can't even be passed down!]
And just at the moment the Leo Seongsin was about to disappear like that, Gwisun—no, Igeon—swiftly headed downward.
Tak-tak!
"Gwisun!"
A quick movement, stepping on the debris to descend!
Igeon, possessing Gwisun's body, moved with an agility she could never have managed, and grabbed the Leo Seongsin's tail.
[Keo-heok!]
"You little brat, where do you think you're trying to slack off? You get up there and work too, punk!"
As if asking where he got the idea to die, Igeon threw the massive Leo Seongsin.
[Aaack!]
"Seongjae!"
Cheon Seongjae, nodding, activated teleportation on everyone.
Thus, Igeon managed to pull everyone back to Earth.
Back on Earth, they collapsed onto the floor, panting heavily.
And as the Seongsin Advent possession was released, Gwisun collapsed, and the Cheon siblings looked for Igeon.
"What about uncle?"
"Where exactly are you that you can't come directly and had to possess Gwisun?"
[Here.]
"!!"
Along with a familiar voice, the building burst open.
And a moment later, Igeon walked out with an irritated expression.
"Geon!"
It seemed Igeon had been trapped in a small bottle, as he came out kicking aside the broken fragments.
But his appearance was unusual.
"Uncle... you're incredibly small..."
The reason he hadn't come himself and had used Seongsin Advent was because Igeon's form was as tiny as a thumb.
It was undoubtedly the doing of the goddess of fate.
Everyone knelt and lowered their heads to match the height of Thumb Igeon.
"Geon!"
"Are you Igeon?"
"Uncle, are you alright?"
"Yeah. My body functions fine. Well, until I return to normal, fighting in this body will be tough."
At that, Cheon Seongjae clutched the front of his clothes and roared.
"I'll offer my body!!! Please, come in as much as you want!!"
"?!"
Transforming into a tall, voluptuous blonde woman, Cheon Seongjae sobbed.
It seemed Cheon Seongjae had been fiercely envious that only his sister and Gwisun had experienced possession by Igeon.
"I'll purify myself with a bath and wait!!! No, the problem from the start is that the Ophiuchus has multiple apostles! So everyone but me is excommunicated... Ugh!!"
Ultimately, Cheon Seongjae collapsed after being hit by his sister, and Cheon Yuha held out pieces of paper to Igeon.
"Uncle, these are fragments. Will these do?"
"!"
Igeon smiled, looking at the fragments Yuha offered.
The knowledge archive was strictly a divine artifact.
If there were remnants, restoration, and even complete recreation were easy.
And sure enough.
Flash!!
As Igeon used his power, employing the strength of the Ten Heavenly Masters, the knowledge archive began to be formed into an entirely new appearance.
[A completely new knowledge archive is born.]
[It is a blank-slate knowledge archive.]
Along with a massive light, the knowledge archive was born anew.
Flash!!
An event that could reestablish the order of the universe had occurred.
The newly created knowledge archive looked like a blank-page encyclopedia.
That wasn't all.
[An ego has emerged in the knowledge archive.]
[The knowledge archive follows its parent. It waits for the parent to write the rules.]
[The newly born young knowledge archive wishes to be named.]
The subordinate gods were all astonished.
[An ego... in the knowledge archive!]
[More than that, a blank-slate knowledge archive...!!]
[Does that mean the master can create the rules for a new divine realm?!]
In a word, that was the position of a primordial god!
Was this not essentially Igeon becoming the master of the divine realm?
"Well, the name... should do."
[The name of the knowledge archive has been changed to .]
[ flaps about, greatly pleased with its name.]
The gods gaped.
'Lord Igeon has spoken the word...!!!'
'The sacred knowledge archive containing tens of thousands of years of history is named that...!!'
But whether the gods were horrified or not, Igeon called the goddess of fate who now took his form.
"You, since you were the administrators, you remember all the originally written laws, right?"
[We do remember, but do you intend to write the same rules? Whatever you write from now on will become the new rules of the divine realm.]
"Well, first, I have to separate the divine realm from Earth."
As Igeon gave a slight flick of his finger, the fountain pen in Gwisun's hand eagerly flew to him.
Holding the fountain pen, Igeon immediately added content to .
- The divine realm does not exist. Anyway, it doesn't exist. Anyway, it's unnecessary. Get losttt
[Master?!!!]
Simultaneously with the addition of that rule, great changes began to occur on Earth.
[The very existence of the divine realm is being completely annihilated.]
[The existence of the divine realm is disappearing from the universe.]
[Traces of the divine realm are completely vanishing from Earth.]
[Aack!!!]
The gods screamed.
Igeon had completely annihilated the lexical existence of the divine realm, making it so it never was.
And perhaps because of that?
The divine realm's artifacts and lands that could be seen everywhere on Earth all began to vanish.
As the divine realm truly began to disappear, the subordinate gods, and indeed all gods, wailed and looked at Igeon.
[Master!!!]
[If you do this, our home...!]
[You madman!!! Told to separate the divine realm from Earth, so you annihilate its very existence?!]
This was no longer a matter of restoring the divine realm or not.
And beyond becoming refugees, the gods for whom their homeland itself had become nothing despaired.
[Then, where are we supposed to live...!!]
"Not my problem. Go pitch a tent outside the universe and live, or something."
As if he didn't care as long as Earth normalized, Igeon continued adding rules to .
- All gods are expelled from Earth. (Ophiuchus excluded)
[Aack?!!]
First, the Leo Seongsin disappeared.
It seemed not even Igeon's own subordinates (?) were forgiven.
And all the gods who had come to Earth screamed and vanished, one by one.
Thanks to , they were all suddenly expelled from Earth.
The subordinate gods of Ophiuchus were all perfectly fine, but they looked at Igeon with bewildered expressions.
Yet Igeon shamelessly added rule after rule.
- Gods can never enter Earth (Ophiuchus excluded)
- Gods can never cause harm to Earth (Ophiuchus excluded)
- If gods merely come within a 100km radius of Earth, they must hand over everything they possess (Ophiuchus excluded)
(...abridged...)
(...abridged...)
And having written down about 100 harsh laws in total, Igeon dusted off his hands as if greatly satisfied.
"Good. At least with this, those bastards won't be able to pull any tricks on Earth."
[M-Master.]
Mimir was sweating as if he had never seen such a thing before.
'Well, this will certainly prevent the master from tormenting Earth, but...'
Meeting Mimir's gaze, Igeon raised the corner of his mouth.
"I said it, didn't I? It's temporary."
[!]
"The concept of law itself is just wordplay from the start. Depending on how it's abused, there are plenty of loopholes to slip through."
Isn't even the law on Earth the same?
Often, it exists but is useless.
And you can't just stuff it full of 'you can't do this, you can't do that' one by one.
And even if one did block it like that.
"What if I disappear?"
"!"
Igeon seemed to precisely recognize his own weakness.
"Because I'm an insignificant creature too young to be remembered by the universe, I can't even be passed down."
At those words, Cheon Seongjae was enraged.
"What? Isn't the universe an idiot?! No, how many gods have achieved feats like Uncle! Wouldn't the fact that he left footprints in such a short time mean he should be remembered even more?!"
Cheon Seongjae firmly asserted that the universe must already have Igeon's data not just stored, but deeply rooted.
Igeon spoke.
"Anyway, the is just a temporary measure. It's not a fundamental solution."
In other words, he had to personally deal with the Ennead Great Seongsin, who had disappeared along with the .
And above all, the was strictly a law placed upon gods.
It didn't apply to the Krewders.
He had just been thinking that he needed to handle them directly anyway when it happened.
Booom!!!!
"!!"
A massive explosion occurred not far away.
Everyone was surprised at the sight.
"Could it be a Seongsin?"
"No way...! Uncle just expelled all the gods who would harm Earth!"
But soon they realized the source of the explosion.
"It seems to be monsters!"
"Monsters?!"
At the word 'Krewder', Igeon's brow furrowed.
***
Indeed.
The cause of the explosion was none other than the Lords.
But Igeon had to furrow his brow for a different reason.
Dealing with invading monsters was one thing, but it was because he heard an unexpected name.
- Lord Igeon! It's Lord Hugo! Lord Hugo is with the Lords!
The problem was the eyewitness accounts from the apostles delivering the news.
Listening to it roughly, Hugo had appeared on Earth with the Lords.
- Has he come to hunt humans with the Krewders, after all?
They were asking Igeon's intentions with a sense of urgency.
It wasn't for any other reason.
- Lord Hugo attacked the apostles. So Lord Jaewon too...!
They said Lee Jaewon had also fallen off a cliff after being attacked by Hugo.
So, as humans, it was a worrying situation.
Igeon also couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
'That bastard, who does he think he's attacking?'
He had thought maybe there would be some clearing of misunderstandings after what Asran said.
But it seemed he was a Krewder to the bone after all.
And it was when everyone had scattered to deal with the monsters and find Hugo after that news.
"Aaack!!"
"Seongjae!"
Heard not far away came Cheon Seongjae's scream.
It was no ordinary scream.
When the startled Igeon arrived at the source of the sound, a murderous glint rose in his eyes.
"That bastard."
Indeed.
What was there were Seongjae and Hugo, covered in blood.
And the apostles who witnessed the scene cried out in horror.
"Lord Hugo...!! Attacked the Saint of Ophiuchus!"
Then the startled Cheon Yuha checked on her bloodied younger brother, and Igeon, with a fierce look, pursued Hugo, who was leaving the scene.
As if asking how he dared attack his own child, killing intent Igeon could no longer contain blazed from his eyes.
As Igeon disappeared like that, Cheon Yuha examined her bloodied younger brother.
"Seongjae, are you alright?! Did dad really do this? Get a hold of yourself!"
"Oh my god, to attack his son, has he truly turned to the other side?"
It was then.
The agonized Cheon Seongjae grabbed his sister.
"Sis, that's not it... it wasn't Dad. Dad saved me...!"
"What?!"
And around the same time.
Having distanced himself from his children to a deserted area, Hugo scanned his surroundings.
'Damn. To think there were some left.'
After a fight with a Lord and dealing with him, Hugo clutched a wound on his stomach.
It was a wound he got while fighting a Lord.
And perhaps because of that, Hugo had been chased by the 2nd generation Lords.
Of course, a few of them had gone wild and come to cause trouble, so Hugo had rushed over to clean up.
Well, he had dealt with the ones causing the ruckus anyway, so that was fine.
'Anyway, I need to hurry and get out of Earth too...'
It was just as Hugo confirmed no one was around and was about to turn away.
Whack!!!!
"Keo-heok!!!"
A kick came flying from an unseen place.
And Hugo, mercilessly kicked in the face, was sent flying.
But the Hugo who got hit actually had a puzzled expression.
Because no one was around.
"What the, what is this! There's no one... Keo-heok!!!"
This time, as if stamping down from the sky, something stomped on Hugo's solar plexus.
Under the impact that felt like it could shatter his body despite having the power of a Lord, Hugo vomited blood.
And it was right then that Hugo realized who the culprit was.
"You little insect bastard."
"?!"
Though it was a voice like a mosquito, it was unmistakably a familiar voice!
"Geon... Keo-heok!!!"
Only then could Hugo see.
Igeon, the size of a thumb, kicking him!
Simultaneously, Igeon's form changed.
Poof!!
"......!!!"
Igeon's appearance returned to its original size.
And there was no time to be surprised by that sight.
"Ugh!!"
Igeon, now back to his original form, immediately grabbed Hugo by the throat and slammed him down.
And stepping on him, Igeon raised Sky's Condemnation high.
"Die. You unfilial bastard."
Hugo screamed.
(To be continued in the next episode)