Chapter 832 – Mythology Academy
Seong-il sighs in relief and takes out the Space Ethereal Stone from his pocket. While holding it, he asks the two deans to create a strong barrier to prepare for any possible unrest.
“I understand. You protect the stone while the two of us create the barrier. Don’t let the soul go crazy.”
In particular, Seong-il appears to never let down his guard against Walter Ludian. He never lightly ignores the emotional warning that taking him to the world of Mythology can bring significant benefits, but at the same time, negative events can also occur.
‘I should prepare too.’
If something painful happens if you trust only the two deans for no reason, the mental blow will be doubled, so Seong-il orders Arunlabe to turn it into a powerful barrier-type artifact.
Wow…!!
Arunlabe begins to absorb Seongil’s inner power once again. It soon transforms into an impressive metal staff with a powerful magic bead at the tip.
‘When I plug this in, it seems like magical energy will come out from the jewel at the end of the staff and create a barrier?’
Arunlabe’s new transformation form that I quite like. Seongil first recovers his internal energy through battle meditation, then inserts his staff into the ground and injects magical power.
Then, soft and intense energy waves begin to spread out in a circular shape towards the surroundings. Soon after, the waves form a circular dome centered on Arunlabe.
‘Should I summon my alter ego and expand my territory?’
Don’t overdo it. However, if the clones spread out their joint areas to create a barrier, they can build a defensive wall for quite a long time, so Seong-il felt like the idea was good, so he summoned the clones and created a tight barrier.
“… I guess you’re worried a lot?”
Despite the fact that they have already created a strong barrier, Dean Anila asks with a slightly embarrassed expression when Seong-il installs such a powerful additional barrier.
“Yes. I had a bad feeling.”
“Aha.”
Since the two deans already knew that Seong-il’s ‘intuition’ is in fact close to predicting the future, they realize why he keeps his guard up and creates a barrier. Perhaps that’s why, after hearing Seong-il’s answer, the two deans set up a more meticulous and powerful barrier around them than before.
“… I think this is enough.”
When all sorts of barriers were installed on the island where they once lived to monitor cracks, Dean Anila probably felt that enough was enough and told Seong-il to slowly release the souls.
“Roshtein is right. With this level of barrier, even an apostle of the evil spirit will not be able to escape from this place. As time passes, the magic accumulated here will drain and become weaker, so it is better to try to free the soul now.”
“I understand.”
At the words of the two reasonable deans, Seong-il obediently takes out the ethereal stone of space and begins to release the soul from there.
『Really… Is it over now?』
The souls of countless victims emerge from there. They question Seongil and his party while floating inside the barrier.
“It’s really the end. Everyone worked hard.”
At Dean Gerhardt’s words, the souls who were captured by Tala and tortured like hell begin to cry in a strange tone of sadness and joy.
『Ah… Ah… I can’t believe I was able to escape from my master… No… Tala…』
Victims who were trapped in Tala’s hell for a long time and suffered unimaginable torture by him. They were so brutally tortured and brainwashed that even though they were experiencing freedom, they were afraid to call Tala’s name or insult him.
『Thank you…』
However, as time passes, and they feel that they are truly free, or because time has run out and the power of their souls is released, the most ordinary and weak of the victims begin to disappear with a peaceful expression.
♠Thank you, Anila.』
The friends of the two deans seem to stay in this world for a longer period of time, unlike ordinary people, perhaps because they have accumulated a lot of work during their lives.
『Tala…』
In order to help the two deans and Seong-il who saved them, they desperately inform them of the evil gods’ plans, methods, and goals until the moment their souls disappear.
『Be careful of the Kingdom of Norterramu. The Grand Duke there was a traitor.』
『Beware of the leader of the seven moons. He is of Nigl…』
Some even informed the dean of the heads of state of each country who had succumbed to the evil spirit and were acting as henchmen, and the two deans listened to the matter with expressions of anger and astonishment.
“Then. We’ll just go now. How sweet is this freedom?…』
Just like that, the dean’s close friends, colleagues, and students begin to disappear with a look of relief on their faces. Fortunately, no major incidents occurred while thousands of souls were completely destroyed, and thanks to this, all three people breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s the last time.”
The real main thing remains. After clearly erasing his slightly relieved expression, Seongil summons Walter Ludian from the Ethereal Stone.
“Haa… Haa… This place…? This is light…?”
Walter Ludian, who pops out from the Ethereal Stone, looks blankly at the sky with a mesmerized expression upon seeing the dazzling southern sunlight.
“Am I… Am I back?”
‘Didn’t that guy remember anything at all before?’
Seong-il furrows his brows when he sees Walter’s attitude slightly changing.
“Walter. What on earth happened? Why did you disappear overnight that day?”
“I… I… KaaaaaH…!!”
Walter Rudian, who was staring blankly into space, fell to the floor as if in excruciating pain while trying to answer Dean Gerhard’s question, clutching his head and crying.
“He!! He is calling… Kwaaaaa!!”
Walter Ludian is sweating all over his body and his veins are starting to swell. Seeing his unusual appearance, Seong-il carefully increases his strength and prepares to subdue him.
“I am… No longer… A slave… No…!! Ugh…”
However, perhaps because Tala returned to his own dimension, he does not appear to turn into a devil or anything. Still, he seems to be feeling pain as he speaks to the two deans with a distressed expression.
“Kill me… Please…”
“Walter! Answer the question!!”
“Ha… Ha… I… Was sold…”
‘It was sold…?’
Seong-il is puzzled by Walter’s unexpected words as he does not understand their meaning. Meanwhile, Walter Ludian begins to narrate the story of his family’s cursed past.
“We… The distant ancestors of the family… Committed the atrocity of selling their souls and the souls of their descendants using forbidden secret arts.”
“…!!”
Walter, who said that, asks to kill himself quickly with a pained expression. However, Dean Gerhardt, who wanted to know exactly what was going on, asks him to tell the secret story instead of taking his life.
“Whoa… Whoa… I understand… But… The story will be very… Long…”
“It’s okay. I have enough time.”
In response to Dean Gerhardt’s words, Walter tells the family’s secret story with a helpless expression.
“According to what I found out… The Ludian family…”
It is said that in the past, the distant ancestor of the Ludian family, located in the remote areas of the eastern continent, came into contact with a strange giant crystal that appeared through the dimension one day, and through it, he succeeded in gaining powerful supernatural powers.
“There was such a thing?”
“You don’t know… Of course… I heard it from Tala…”
Walter Ludian appropriately glosses over the situation and asks them to kill him. However, Seong-il had no intention of ending the matter so easily, so he persistently interrogated Walter.
As if there was nothing he could do about Seong-il’s interrogation, Walter Ludian began to recite a story from a long time ago, when his family did not use the surname ‘Ludian’.
A long time ago. There was a family on a continent where superpowers were popular. It is said that the family in question, who lived in the remote northern part of the country and had limited resources, was always pressured by the power of wealthy surrounding families.
“Then… One day… Our ancestors…”
As always, the head and ancestor of a weak, powerful superpower family was traveling around the desolate north to survive the pressure of surrounding families, preparing tribute to them. While exploring the rugged north, Gaju coincidentally discovers a strange temple in the desolate plains.
A gloomy cave containing a statue of a strange, nameless god. At the time, the Eastern Continent was a world where magic and supernatural powers were prevalent and reason was the top priority, so religion had long since been relegated to superstition and deteriorated. Therefore, the head of the family realized that this place was a relic from a long time ago when humans were superstitious, and explored the inside.
“Perhaps… He thought he could find… A useful artifact… That could be offered as a tribute…”
In order to survive the pressure of surrounding families, the most important thing was to win their favor, so the head of the family began exploring relics from an ignorant era that she would normally have ignored. If there are any useful relics left, they are to be secured in order to gain favor with the surrounding families.
“… And then I discovered it.”
