Chapter 480 – Transcendental Species (5)
When I opened my eyes, I saw everyone sleeping and clinging to me.
One of the changes that occurred after the wives became pregnant was that they got tired easily and went to bed quickly.
Well, I didn’t know it was natural since I wasn’t a single body.
I’m not sure, but I think I’m twice as tired as usual.
Anyway, I carefully removed the hands that were on my arms and chest and stood up.
They groped each other as if they were looking for me, and then I saw them hugging each other and falling asleep again, so I got out of the arms of my wives, who were sound asleep after nursing me all night, and went outside the mansion.
“After.”
It was late at night, not yet before dawn, so the various buildings around the mansion were also dark.
Even in the half-built bee kingdom, the lights are off, with only the lights held in the hands of a few patrolling were honey bees shining.
Also, Hanzo’s Orphanage on the other side was quiet with the lights off.
Anyway, late at night, I checked my body and my divinity.
“I guess I’ll have to wait a few days.”
The battle was short, lasting less than a few minutes at most, but that’s just how time goes. The amount of divinity I consumed when defeating Apophis was well over half of the divinity I possessed.
In order to recover everything, I had to wait a few more days to recover the depleted divinity.
In other words, there was no need to go anywhere for the time being.
I played with the kids, did some homework, and was busy doing various things, so I didn’t rush it and relaxed my body first because it was all going to happen quickly.
Throbbing…
Even though it had already regenerated, my body still felt achy as if it still had the effects of being covered in Apophis’ poison.
Unlike Shinsung, which would recover after waiting a few days, it seemed like the aftereffects would remain for quite a long time, but it was still good.
This level of pain was worth enduring. It was a small injury that my wife didn’t even notice last night. In the first place, the only minor wounds were muscle soreness after killing half of his body.
…Still, if they had noticed that I had such a small injury, they would probably have been extremely worried.
As expected, they might have tried to follow me, saying that my plan to kill them one by one alone was not possible.
No matter how pregnant I was, I could only help if my wives helped me.
As long as you don’t overdo it and help, you could have easily defeated a guy like Apophis even if two or three of them attacked him.
In the first place, I wouldn’t have been able to use the unreasonable move of covering myself with poison, approaching quickly, gathering divinity, concentrating it on one point, splitting its chest, and crushing it with a single blow.
Even a minor injury like this would not have occurred.
…And, it shouldn’t have been that way.
In the future I saw, I saw myself turned into a rampaging giant monster.
I saw myself as a monster who burned and destroyed the whole world, as if I hated it.
At first, I just denied it, wondering what I could do to become such a monster.
Not anymore.
It’s hard to just deny it, because in many ways, that was me.
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, there were no such signs.
The first time was during Sati.
When Sati was dying, when he was on the verge of losing his mind due to anger.
However, I did not lose my temper in the end, and with power that I could not have used in the first place, I unilaterally defeated my opponent, who would have had a hard time even if I had fought him now.
Well, the person I was dealing with at that time wasn’t the main body, and the powder body I was dealing with was in bad shape because the main body had been beaten up by Justitia.
Still, even though I was not even a superhuman at the time and was not an opponent I could have defeated, I still won.
To use an analogy, it was like breaking a rock with an egg.
Next was what happened during Carmina.
A surprise attack using Angra’s power to control shadows.
If I hadn’t seen the future through foreknowledge, I would have had my heart pierced and died instead after seeing the future where Carmina died.
Yes, I definitely died once then.
And… I, who should have died, became a monster, rose again, ate Angra who attacked me, and through her divinity, her status was raised and she was resurrected.
It wasn’t automatic hunting, and in fact, I was dead and not even conscious, but it felt like another me rose up and recovered from dying by leveling up.
And, I had some idea of who this other me was.
Ugh…
Another power I feel inside me.
I felt something different from divinity, but similar to it.
This is it.
It was the power I called ‘Divine Assistant’.
It was a power so called because it had similar properties to divinity, but unlike when I vaguely knew of divinity and had the experience of handling it, I felt it clearly now.
This was not a ‘divine assistant’.
It could be said to be a power quite separate from divinity.
Although it was similar… It was a completely different power.
And…
“It’s my source.”
This wasn’t a power that suddenly came to me.
It was the power I had in the first place.
If you think about it, there were a lot of strange things.
In a shitty orphanage, the orphaned baby who wasn’t able to eat properly due to frequent fasting days and other things due to the shitty director of the orphanage, didn’t he grow taller and his muscles grow?
I wondered if I had some kind of mutation, but it was nonsense to begin with.
Compared to the amount I eat, the rapid growth in itself makes no sense.
And the reason why I became like that also came to mind.
That I am not ordinary.
That you are different from others.
That I am a being who is not protected by anyone.
That was when I realized that I was an abandoned orphan.
Okay.
When I found out that the orphanage director who always said he was doing this for us and beat us up as a form of loving discipline, but who we thought was protecting us, was actually just a bitch who didn’t have any of those things.
When I found out that the orphanage director had been encouraging girls to do things they shouldn’t have done.
At that time, I grew up rapidly.
Beyond causality.
To survive.
I gained the strength to survive.
Although it sucks, in a world where there was no war and was peaceful in its own way, before even entering middle school, he was well over 180 cm tall and had muscles that rivaled even those of Helchang.
In a world where mana, supernatural powers, much less martial arts or other abilities did not exist, that alone meant that I had the specs of a post-human level, and that was actually the case.
Probably, it was just my expectation, but if I was living in a remote area with bullets raining down on me at the time… I think I would have been in worse shape than that.
Wouldn’t even a bullet have become such a monster that it would get stuck in the muscles?
Okay.
I guess so.
From then on, I was different from others.
Unlike others, he possessed transcendental innate power.
And, I already knew what such a being was called.
Of course, one of my wives, Lilith, knew because she was like that.
“I didn’t know I was a transcendental servant.”
A new species that was born in a human body, but is human but not human.
An illegitimate child born with powers from birth… Born with the qualifications to become a ‘god’.
The reason I was abandoned as soon as I was born was probably because my parents did not consider me their child.
Although I am a transcendental species born without parents to begin with, considering my name is already there, it seems somewhat unusual that I was born with parents.
Perhaps because they are a transcendent species from a dimension that lacks mana and is underdeveloped after losing all its power, the dimension that is my actual parent seems to have been unable to use its power at all.
Well, that aside.
The fact that I was actually a transcendent species of the human species was not particularly important anymore.
Unlike my newly acquired powers, the fact that I had them from the beginning was not that important.
“The power of growth.”
As I, Kang Han-jo, experienced various things while living in this world, the power I gained by becoming a demigod was birth.
To put it bluntly, it could be said to be a power specialized for reproduction.
For him, it is a power that comes with incredibly strong regenerative power and vitality.
What I have done so far is the power that was born to me as a deified person in ancient times, so it was a power that suited me.
“And adapt.”
Or, evolution.
Or survival.
I don’t know what to name it, but it is the power to ‘change’ in order to somehow survive in the situation and environment I find myself in.
It was the power to survive while changing myself.
That was my innate power as a transcendent species to begin with.
So, that was it.
Laura.
When I met that crazy bitch and was on the verge of death, I was suddenly awakened by the Gift.
When I accepted Ammut’s ordeal, I changed to be able to handle divinity with ease.
When Sati was dying, the Gift reawakened to kill the enemy.
Protecting Carmina, and when she died… And getting back up again to survive.
In order to survive, my power moved.
Then.
So what was the reason I became a monster and was destroying this world?
That…
“…I guess you wanted to do that.”
I.
My future self wanted to do that, so in order to do so, I abandoned my own sense and became a monster.
And, I guess there was only one reason why I would do that.
He clenched his fists.
I was angry at the ‘possibility’ that had not happened yet, but would still happen in the future.
Even if Angra died, the future I saw did not change.
Even if Apophis was killed, the future I saw did not change.
Perhaps, it is lacking.
But it was okay.
“If everything stops, things will change.”
I will make that happen.
