## Chapter 560 – 560. Savior Of The Academy
560. Savior of the Academy
“…I apologize. It was so unexpected that I briefly doubted you, Eugene. If that is the Cult Leader’s will, I will accept it.”
Iste readily bowed her head and apologized to me. It was a relief that I didn’t have to engage in a tiresome argument with her.
“What is your penance? Is it to conquer this special dungeon?”
“Yes. I must overcome all the trials of this island.”
“……How long have you been here?”
“I don’t know exactly… but I entered this island about three months ago.”
“You’ve been here for three months? Without food?”
“Here, you don’t die even if you don’t eat. The only exception is the trial of appetite.”
“The trial of appetite…. You mean those fruits in the forest.”
“Yes. Have you already passed it, Eugene? You’re amazing.”
A look of admiration settled on Iste’s face. I stared intently at her face. I could tell she would become a beauty.
‘If I look at the original illustrations, she was a voluptuous blonde beauty.’
I made a promise in my heart to take her in the future.
“The trial of appetite was nothing special.”
“That trial was difficult for me. I couldn’t leave the trees for a week and craved the fruits. I ate and ate, but it wasn’t enough, yet the act of eating itself was enjoyable.”
I couldn’t understand Iste. Was the trial of appetite so difficult that it took a week to overcome? Sure, the fruits were delicious, but that was it.
‘She seems to have an unexpected gluttony.’
I opened my mouth again.
“What were you doing here?”
“I was looking for a path.”
“Looking for a path? You can leave the desert just by walking straight ahead without doing anything. You were just spinning around in the same place.”
“Was I? I didn’t know.”
“It doesn’t seem like it’s because you have your eyes closed…. Why were you doing that? As far as I know, you’re not blind.”
“Even if I opened my eyes, I wouldn’t have been able to leave the desert. To leave this desert, I must abandon my anger. I haven’t completely abandoned my anger yet, so the desert won’t open a path for me.”
“Anger…? This island is indeed….”
“Yes. This island is a place that tests the seven deadly sins. Passing the trials of this island is my penance.”
“I see.”
I nodded.
Iste from the original story. In other words, the future her was a saintess of the Gumok Church without emotions. I understood why she had no emotions. She abandoned them all here.
“If you’ve been here for three months… you must have passed most of the trials.”
“No. I’m lacking, so I haven’t even passed half of them.”
“That’s a relief.”
Cassandra specifically sent me to Iste. In other words, Cassandra doesn’t want the Iste from the original story.
“You said that you have to abandon your anger for a path to open in this desert, right?”
“Yes. This desert is testing anger. I can tell.”
“You can tell the content of the trials because of those eyes, right?”
“……Yes.”
“But why do you have to abandon your anger?”
“Because a path will only appear when anger disappears.”
“That’s wrong to abandon it.”
I strode closer. If you abandon all your emotions, you become nothing more than a doll. I didn’t want Iste to become a doll. She was going to become a voluptuous beauty and be under me, but it would be a waste if she became a beauty without emotions.
“This island is just testing the seven deadly sins. There’s no right answer. Anger disappears temporarily once you explode it. You don’t abandon anger, you let it out.”
“Ah, that’s…. I don’t know how to let out anger.”
“Really? Then I’ll show you first.”
I forcibly pulled up my feelings of anger. Thinking about the trashy troll teammates I met in the game made me feel angry to the point of my head.
“Aaaaaaaargh! You morons!!”
I shouted curses and stomped on the sand with my feet. Crack. Lightning crackled from my body, and dust spread everywhere.
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
I gave myself over to anger. I rolled around in the sand, my whole body covered in dirt, but I didn’t stop.
After venting my anger for almost 10 minutes, I was exhausted.
『You have overcome anger.』
“See?”
I got up from my spot and shook the sand off my clothes. Iste was staring at me with her mouth open. Even though her eyes were closed, she was looking directly at me.
“Yes? Yes.”
“Just get angry like me. It’s easy, so you do it too.”
“M-Me too?”
“I said I’d help you, didn’t I? So you have to follow my words.”
She clenched her hands tightly and looked flustered, but soon nodded.
“Ah, okay. I’ll try to do it like you, Eugene.”
Iste moved a little away from me and lifted her legs to stomp on the ground. However, she was still careful with her legs, and her pale face was flushed red with embarrassment.
“Put a little more strength in your legs and shout too!”
“…Yes. Eugene! Ack! Ack! Aaaaaaack!”
I couldn’t tell if she was venting her anger or screaming because her legs hurt.
“Keep going. Keep going.”
It seemed to be working. I watched Iste and opened my status window.
『Name: Iste
Strength: F- Stamina: F Agility: F Durability: F- Mana: D-
Trait: Primordial Eye (SS+)
Skill: Extrasensory Perception (B)』
Considering Iste’s age, her physical abilities were decent. Her mana rank was especially high. I was at C rank because I had been constantly training using the mana cube, but Iste was born with it.
‘Her skill, Primordial Eye, is an amazing trait…. Well, it’s hard for her to control the Primordial Eye, so she lives with her eyes closed.’
The Extrasensory Perception skill must be a skill she naturally acquired while living with her eyes closed. The rank is B. It’s much higher than I thought.
『Iste’s Favorability: 12』
Favorability was 12.
Favorability 20 was the level where she would start to be interested in me, but considering we had just met, favorability 12 was normal.
“Shout louder.”
“Ack! Aaaaaaack! Ack ack!”
Iste vented her anger and gasped for breath.
“I, I succeeded!”
“See? I told you that you don’t have to abandon your emotions. Let’s try again from the beginning.”
“From… the beginning?”
“It’s okay. If you follow my words well, it won’t even take a week.”
“You don’t have to go that far….”
“I’m just helping with my penance too. I’ll help you properly. Of course, I don’t intend to be here for three months like you. I’ll finish it within a week.”
•••
A luxury pension in Gangwon-do collapsed.
Sung Hari stood in front of the remains of the building, her spear over her shoulder, and looked around. Corpses wearing Gumok Church masks were scattered on the ground around her. Sung Hari had tried to get them to talk by torturing them, but the fanatics were completely unresponsive. Rather, they rushed at Sung Hari, even sacrificing their own lives.
They were unresponsive. They wouldn’t tell her about Sung Yujin either. In the end, Sung Hari killed all the Gumok Church members in a fit of anger and even destroyed the barrier around them.
Sung Han-gu, who had followed Sung Hari belatedly after receiving information from the Hero Association, clicked his tongue.
“Hari, you’ve become a parent, but your temper is still fiery.”
Sung Hari stared blankly at Sung Han-gu. Her eyes filled with tears.
“……Dad. Help me. Find our Yujin… please.”
“…….”
Sung Han-gu was momentarily speechless at Sung Hari’s appearance.
“I should take back what I just said. Don’t worry. Yujin is your son, but he’s also my grandson. I came here to find Yujin too.”
Sung Han-gu used spirit magic to summon an earth spirit. Even if it was an uncontracted spirit, he could receive help at least once if he used spirit magic.
The high-grade earth spirit that suddenly appeared from under the ground was a toad-shaped creature with a huge body over 3 meters tall.
-Did you call me?
“Yes. Spirit of this land. I would like to receive your help.”
-My help? It’s not difficult to help. If you pay a reasonable price.
Lower and mid-grade spirits easily help for fun. They are also quite friendly to humans. However, high-grade spirits look down on humans. Especially if they are spirits who have been the masters of this world.
“Here is the price.”
He took out an unknown object and offered it respectfully. The mud toad snatched the bottle.
-Tears of a dragon species. You are a human who has the basics.
The mud toad’s eyes rolled and briefly turned to Sung Hari.
-There is a human I don’t like…. But I can’t just leave after receiving this kind of item. Good. Tell me what you want. Spiritist.
“My grandson was kidnapped and I know he was brought near here. But as you can see, my grandson was not here. I want to know where my grandson is.”
Sung Han-gu spoke calmly. Even if his heart was burning, he had to remain calm.
-You want to see the memories of the land. I understand. Shall we take a look at what happened?
The mud toad closed its eyes. And after about 30 seconds, it opened its eyes again.
-Your grandson is not here. A masked guy took him. A barrier… no, magic. It’s a magic so elaborate and excellent that it’s hard to believe it was made by a human.
“……!!”
Sung Han-gu clenched his fist tightly. He held back the urge to shout and ask where he was right away. If he shouted, the mud toad might feel displeased and not cooperate.
“Where, where did he go? Can you tell me?”
-Normally, the deal would end here. But those guys dared to capture a lightning spirit and lock it in a small wooden cage. They are despicable. I don’t like them, so I’ll tell you their location.
The mud toad raised its large forefoot and slammed it on the ground. Instead of a footprint, a map of the Korean peninsula was drawn on the ground, with a circle marked at a certain point on the peninsula.
-That magic is connected to the underground of this place. The deal is over. Don’t call me for a while.
The mud toad disappeared as if it was being sucked into the ground.
Sung Hari and Sung Han-gu quickly moved and looked at the map of the Korean peninsula left by the mud toad. The map of the Korean peninsula was drawn in quite detail, so it was easy to pinpoint the location of the mark.
“…Gwanak-gu, Seoul…?”
Sung Hari turned around. Sung Han-gu grabbed her wrist.
“Wait. If you’re thinking of going alone and destroying everything, stop it. Yujin is there. Yujin could get hurt because of you.”
“Yujin is probably trembling and waiting for me right now! Maybe those guys are doing something to Yujin…!”
“I know. That’s why we have to save him more surely.”
“……Are you telling me to contact the Association?”
“No. The one who kidnapped Yujin is a hero designated by the Association. There might be other traitors in the Association. Our family will step in directly. Hari, let’s move together.”
“……I’ll accept your help just this once.”
“I don’t know what your father’s intentions are, but I think of you as a member of the Jinryeong family, not just Yujin. Don’t forget that.”
When the heroes dispatched by the Association arrived at the location, no one was there.
•••
“Huff. Huff….”
I gasped for breath and wiped the sweat flowing down my forehead with the back of my hand.
What was making me so troubled was the trial of lust.
Iste had guided me to a cave, saying it was the easiest trial. However, this trial of lust was only easy for Iste. Iste was still young and didn’t know much about sex itself.
She didn’t know much about sex, so she could pass easily. But I was different.
“Hehehehe.”
“Aing.”
“Hoooot….”
There were naked beauties around me. All of them were eye-catching beauties, and their figures were voluptuous. My dick was already throbbing.
‘This is fake. It’s the trial of lust.’
It was the same as the trial of appetite. If I ignored the women who were seducing me and passed by, I could pass the trial. My head understood it clearly.
The problem was that my body wouldn’t move. My hands were taking off my clothes on their own, and I was showing off my erect dick to the beauties.
The beauties smiled and clung to my body. Their scent, warmth, and touch. All of it was real.
‘This is an incredible trial.’
I remembered what I had said to Iste before.
There was no need to abandon the emotion of anger.
It was the same with lust.
‘Lust eventually disappears when satisfied.’
Thud!
I grabbed the woman in front of me and laid her on the ground.
“Kyaa.”
The woman laid on the ground twisted her body coquettishly.
“Even if it’s fake, I’ll see it! I have to taste it once!”
I rushed towards the woman.
