Chapter 60 – 060. The Nobility Chain Raid Case (6)
A long silence continued between Erin and Eunhyeon.
“…”
“…”
The two male students, Billard and Grass, who were caught in the middle of the situation, were also confused, not knowing what to do in this situation.
It was Eunhyeon who broke the silence first.
“Hey, there are two of you.”
“Yes, yes!”
Grass was startled and hurriedly answered Eunhyeon’s call.
Realizing right away that it was Eun-hyeon who blew away the enormous iron door, which was so hard, the thought that Eun-hyeon was an unusual person made him unknowingly jump out.
“Should I run away?”
That way of speaking and demeanor that is not at all relaxed.
I wondered who the hell the man was, but right now the priority was to get out of the clutches of that crazy fox-beast.
Grass nodded several times and shook Billard, who was still stiff in his seat, to come to his senses, and moved to leave the warehouse.
“For a moment.”
Grass stopped abruptly at the voice of Eun-Hyun, who restrained his actions, and slowly turned his head.
“What, what is it?”
“What if you go out alone?”
Eunhyun made a sad face and pointed in one direction with her index finger.
Grass blankly turned her head in the direction he pointed.
“Ah.”
When he saw Ashton lying on the floor, he let out a small sigh.
“You have to take that. The level of running away just to live on your own is spectacle.”
“Keugh…”
“Eww…”
Villard and Grass groaned slightly at Eunhyeon’s face, but if it became known that they had left Duke Armitas here and fled by themselves, something bigger might happen later.
The two boys hurriedly ran, each supporting Ashton’s shoulders, and moving slowly, dragging his body across the floor.
“You thought I would just let you go?”
It was the moment when Erin, who couldn’t stand still in this situation, rushed at the three people who were trying to get out of here.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Little Dragon Jingak]
Coo!
When I gathered mana in my legs and hit the floor with force, the energy released from my legs broke the ground and moved forward.
As she progressed, the form of small dragon-shaped magic power attacked something in front of her that occupied Erin’s body.
“What?!”
Erin’s body, which collided head-on with the small dragon of magical power emitted by Eunhyun, could not withstand the impact and bounced off, floating in the air.
After confirming that the three of them had safely left the warehouse, Eun-hyeon raised her body and calmly opened her mouth to Erin, who was glaring at her.
“Congratulations on being resurrected and coming out into the world. But stop here. That is the way for him.”
Erin, who heard Eunhyun’s words, stopped her body and narrowed her eyes as she glared at her.
“Do you know me?”
“Yes. It’s an honor to meet you. Goddess.”
By placing her hand on her chest, bowing her body slightly, and greeting her formally.
Eun-hyeon was showing the utmost courtesy to the nine-tailed fox, who was possessed by Erin.
Divine beast.
The ancient times, or the ‘age of emptiness’, in other words, the age when the earth’s civilization existed, a magical beast that is said to have the power of a god.
They were also beings who made a great contribution to ending the war against the demons by standing on the side of mankind.
The being possessed in Erinn’s body was part of the spirit of a divine beast buried under the divine tree of Pernias, called the ‘Tree of Hope’.
When her Eun-hyeon reveals her identity, her Erin’s face gradually begins to change, as if she has nothing to hide anymore.
The ‘nine-tailed fox’ appeared possessing Erin’s body and asked her Eun-hyeon, narrowing her eyes.
“You… He was the one who broke the barrier I made then and saved this child.”
While asleep in Erin’s body, the nine-tailed fox was seeing all of her memories of Erin, and was well aware of how much weight Erin’s Eunhyun had in her mind.
“That’s right.”
“You are not surprised by my existence. Did you know that I was in this child’s body from the beginning?”
“That’s right. From the time you broke the barrier you placed at her school and saved the child, I saw a part of your power dwell inside Erin’s body.”
This was also the fundamental reason why Eunhyeon taught Erin the basics of her magic as well as swordsmanship.
Even if you don’t have as much talent as swordsmanship, you can achieve more than a certain level of achievement through bone-breaking efforts to the point of death, but magic is an impossible field if you don’t have an innate talent.
Therefore, Eun-hyeon knew that her body contained some of the tidy nine-tailed fox’s mana, which she had accumulated for nearly 400 years, and she taught Erin to use it.
The fundamental reason that Erin, who was unfamiliar with swordsmanship and magic, was able to catch up with the other students and receive high grades in a few months was because a part of the divine beast inside her body made a great contribution.
“You… You are not an ordinary human being. How can a human hold a divine power inside her body? No way…”
The nine-tailed fox, who saw through Eun-hyeon’s condition at once, recalled a possibility, and her hardened expression gradually turned into astonishment.
“Are the gods crazy at last? How could you think of making a human an ‘apostle’ and endowing it with divine power?!”
“Well, our three goddesses are a bit unique, right? One in particular…”
It is so bewitching and full of color that I can’t even put it in my mouth.
[Does that mean me?]
Realizing that she was not treating her well, Belldandi pulled Eunhyun’s hair with a sullen expression.
‘Goddess… I’m talking serious right now…’
[Heh, hehe.]
Belldandy cleared her throat and let go of her hand that was holding the tip of Eunhyun’s hair.
Thinking carefully about the meaning of Eun-hyeon’s thoughts she just read, Eun-hyeon must be very aware of her own seduction.
Maybe this could be taken as a compliment?
Around the time Belldandy was thinking about that.
At the same time as Eun-hyeon’s hair was grabbed and lifted up into the air, the Gumiho, who felt her vaguely divine power, looked at Eun-hyeon with an expression of ‘No way?’ And asked.
“I can’t believe that even in the underworld… ?”
Eun-hyeon put on a slightly troubled expression at her goddess’ complaint, and nodded her head in affirmation to the nine-tailed fox’s question.
“The world is going crazy.”
The gumiho grumbled a little and put on a frown that she didn’t like it as the gumiho moved on with her steps.
“I have no intention of fighting against the apostle of God. I will turn a blind eye to the atrocities that hindered me earlier, thinking of the existence of the four goddesses manifesting in the underworld.”
After giving her a short warning, the nine-tailed fox passed her Eun-hyeon and tried to leave her warehouse, but her Eun-hyeon opened her mouth and caught her.
“That is difficult.”
“What?”
“Honestly, Shinsoo-sama awakened at this timing and took over the child’s body… It’s unexpected for me too. Can’t you just return the child’s body?”
“…”
The nine-tailed fox glared at Eun-hyeon and momentarily thought, ‘Should I just kill him?’, But he persevered and succeeded.
Even from her point of view, she did not want to collide with the ‘Apostle of the Goddess’, whose power was unpredictable when the power of the divine beast was fully restored.
The nine-tailed fox, who had been attacked by a small dragon made by Eun-hyeon earlier, was convinced that Eun-hyeon’s skills would never be unusual.
Besides, isn’t this man named Eun-hyeon who is blocking her path the most relied on and cherished by Erin, the owner of the body possessed by the nine-tailed fox?
What he had to do now was persuasion, not pushing and breaking through with violence.
“You seem to be misunderstanding something. What I am about to do is what this child wants to do. The aristocrat at the center of this country, who himself was despised and scorned by so many people, ignored insulting actions and words that insulted his brother, or even took the lead in encouraging the situation, instead of trying to heal his wounds. It is to kill all of them.”
“…”
“Don’t you know too well? How hard this child lived, and how he endured those humiliating days.”
“I know.”
Eunhyun calmly nodded his head.
Perhaps the reaction was satisfactory, the gumiho nodded and continued.
“I just need to know. So don’t disturb…”
“But if Erin wants to do that, she has to do it herself. It is not a problem that Shin-soo will come forward to solve.”
“…”
The nine-tailed fox glared at Eun-hyeon because he didn’t get the answer he wanted.
“The reason I taught Erin how to use power is the same reason Shinsoo-nim said. She is presenting her options to the child, so that she can make those choices herself. Her choice must be guided only by her own will, and not by the will of anyone else.”
“… You are kind yet giving this child her harsh ways. How can she not think of the pain this child must go through until she reaches her destination to have her own options?”
“It is Erin who is determined to bear that pain of hers, and she is the child herself. The child’s wish must come true only with the child’s strength. You can help, but it makes no sense to do it instead. Besides, isn’t Erinn’s story just an excuse for Shinsoo-nim?”
“As expected, you know. Why did I have to be buried under that tree?”
“In the age of emptiness, after the war, I know that this country hates this country, which captures and kills the weakened god beast alive, buries the remains, plants trees on top of it, and uses the god beast’s remains until death. However, this country and other human beings must not perish just yet.”
The secret of the ‘Pernias Sacred Tree’, passed down only to the Fernias royal family and the successive principals of Aether, the royal school.
It was the divine beast whose lifespan had expired after the war, and left a will to visit the first king of Pernias and make people rich through his remains.
As a result, a place was created in Fernias that discharged an overwhelming amount of clean and dense mana, and a school was established there, and a system was created to artificially create excellent talent by enrolling children of nobles in the school.
However, the history of this divine tree was extremely biased and distorted from the standpoint of the kingdom.
In reality, the first king of Fernias, who had driven out the Demons of the Age of Void along with the Shinsoo, betrayed after the war to kill the weakened Shinsoo, take the remains, and use them unilaterally.
– I don’t have much time left in my life. When I die, bury my corpse in the land of the kingdom so that many children can live on it, create a happy daily life that many children can live with a smile.
By creating a divine tree and Aether, and the first king implanting distorted truths in his descendants, the nine-tailed fox was still regarded as a sacred being among the Pernias royal family.
“Ortas, a country created by a son of a bitch who wouldn’t be happy even if he was torn to pieces. It’s better to disappear. I will tear and kill all of his offspring.”
“If this country is destroyed now, only the people below will fall into chaos. They are not guilty When the boss dies, the subordinates fall into chaos, and a fight breaks out between the subordinates to take advantage of the chaos to take the position of the chief. It is the people who suffer in the process.”
If the structure above is severely disrupted, the effect will naturally be exerted from below.
“Shut up!”
He was betrayed and died, and for nearly 400 years, he faced the humiliation of being humiliated even to his corpse.
The feelings of hatred that had been accumulated for nearly 400 years, with only the spirit remaining after death, were not at a level that could be easily seen.
He saved Erin with the variable of existence called Eun-hyeon, and was able to find her freedom even a little like this by allowing a part of herself to dwell in her body.
Now that it is impossible to guarantee when such a lucky opportunity will come again, it was the first and last chance for the nine-tailed fox to take revenge on the current royal family, the descendants of the first king, Ortas Pernias.
“No matter how ‘Apostle of the Goddess’ you are, if you get in my way, I won’t leave you alone.”
“I am also an apostle under the command of the Goddess, so I cannot leave Shinsu-nim alone like this.”
“Then there is nothing you can do.”
“Erin’s body cannot be damaged, but…”
Eun-hyeon was well aware that the situation was unavoidable.
The shimmering magic powers of the two fluctuate and begin to become entangled in the middle.
Eunhyeon sighed and summoned his longsword and held it in his hand.
The nine-tailed fox pulled out the preliminary sword he had taken from Ashton.
Caang!
The rough sound of metal colliding with metal began to announce the clash between the apostle and the divine beast.