Chapter 1052 – 1052. Divine Authority
I continued to grill Kang Jiwoo for information.
The locations of the Light Source Church’s branches. Politicians connected to the Light Source Church. The Light Source Church’s methods of abduction, and so on. I heard all sorts of information.
“…Is it okay for you to blab about the Light Source Church’s information like that?”
“It’s fine. You are a noble person, Yoo-jin.”
A noble person.
Even though she knows I want to kill the cult leader, she still treats me like a noble person.
“Is there really no way to kill the cult leader?”
“The current cult leader cannot be killed. But in the future, things will be different. There is one possible method for you, noble person.”
“Tell me that method.”
“You should ask Gwangshin-nim. Gwangshin-nim has a great interest in you, so he will probably listen.”
I twitched my eyebrows. Gwangshin was my enemy. Wasn’t Han Harin’s death essentially Gwangshin’s fault? And now that I realize it, Gwangshin’s world can’t be normal. Even beautiful women will turn into monsters. If I become an apostle, I’ll become a tentacle monster like the cult leader. I have no desire to become a tentacle monster.
“……Are there any other methods?”
“There aren’t any. As the Divine Authority ritual approaches, the cult leader’s immortality has become complete. It’s proof that Gwangshin-nim has gotten closer to Earth.”
Kang Jiwoo stated definitively. I hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“…What if. What if it wasn’t now, but the past? If it was the cult leader from about a month ago… is there a way to kill him?”
“Hmm. Is such an assumption meaningful?”
“It is to me.”
“Since you wish it, I must tell you. A month ago… yes. There is a way. The cult leader’s power is linked to Gwangshin-nim and this temple. Simply put, if you destroy this temple, the cult leader’s power will also weaken. Although, even if you destroy the temple now, the cult leader will be fine.”
I found out a way to kill the cult leader. It was so easy that it was anticlimactic.
“The entrance to the temple. It’s not just in Japan, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. There are temple entrances in various places around the world. Recently, a new entrance has appeared, I heard.”
“Where are the other entrances?”
“I don’t know about any other entrances except for the one in Japan. Other guides know.”
“I see.”
I gripped my sword. Kang Jiwoo didn’t run away or show surprise, but just stared at me.
“Yoo-jin. Are you going to kill me?”
I made up my mind after seeing Han Harin’s corpse.
“I’ve decided to kill everyone in the Light Source Church. You’re not an exception.”
“I see. Then I will gladly accept my death.”
“Why? Don’t you want to live?”
“I do want to live. But it’s your will, Yoo-jin. That is, it’s Gwangshin-nim’s will, so I will die with a happy heart.”
“You crazy bitch.”
“Ah, Gwangshin-nim. Please take me into your embrace…”
Swish.
Kang Jiwoo’s head fell off.
I looked at Kang Jiwoo’s head with a heavy heart. Although she was a crazy bitch, she was a woman I had been intimate with a few times. So, I didn’t feel refreshed.
Leaving Kang Jiwoo’s corpse behind, I went outside. As I had said, I killed the Light Source Church’s followers as soon as I saw them. Yet, my anger didn’t subside.
‘I’ve roughly grasped the structure of the temple. Except for the ritual chamber, there’s nothing particularly special.’
I headed towards the ritual chamber. However, my goal wasn’t the ritual chamber. According to the cult leader, there is a sacrifice management room within the temple.
‘Since the sacrifices are used in the ritual, the sacrifice management room must be near the ritual chamber.’
The ritual continues non-stop for 24 hours. And they offer sacrifices every two hours. To do that, the sacrifice management room must be nearby. It would be troublesome if it were far away.
An auto camera was flying beside me as I ran through the temple.
‘Is it here?’
In a corner of the hallway, a little away from the ritual chamber, there was a firmly closed iron door. Everywhere else was burned or broken and in a mess, but this place alone was intact, as if protected by some other force.
I opened the firmly closed iron door.
The ritual chamber reeked of blood as soon as the door was opened. This place smelled faintly of disinfectant.
“……!!”
Naked humans were contained in tanks. The tanks were filled with transparent liquid.
‘They don’t seem to have consciousness, but they’re alive. It’s not ordinary water.’
Just counting the numbers, there were over 1,000 of them. I could see young children and adult men and women. After looking around, I couldn’t see any elderly people. It seemed they deliberately excluded the elderly to use them as sacrifices.
There were also humans outside of the tanks. They were lined up as if waiting in line. I knew that their order was the order of the sacrifices. The human at the very front was the next sacrifice.
I reached out to a sacrifice who was unconscious. It was a blonde woman. Her breasts were quite large, a D-cup. Her skin was white, and her body was clean without a speck of dust.
‘She’s alive.’
She seemed to be anesthetized and unconscious. It was a natural measure. If the sacrifices woke up and caused a ruckus, things would become troublesome. If it were just one or two, it would be fine, but here, hundreds of sacrifices were gathered like objects.
“Tss, tss…”
I felt a presence from the ceiling. I was startled and froze, then looked up.
A spider monster was hanging from the ceiling.
Its appearance was bizarre. On its head, there were three female faces with long, flowing hair. Six eyes were staring at me. On the spider’s back, six female breasts were hanging like fruits on a tree.
“Are you the sacrifice manager?”
The cult leader was a tentacle monster. It wasn’t strange that the sacrifice manager was a spider monster. Sacrifice management would be very important. It was natural for a more trustworthy being to be in charge.
The spider monster jumped towards me. The spider’s sharp legs aimed for my body. I trusted my armor and confronted the spider monster.
Clang! Clang!
The Stormbreaker armor protected me from the spider’s legs. But it wasn’t perfect. Parts of the armor were pierced or dented. The strength of the Stormbreaker is proportional to my skill. That is, the spider monster was stronger than me.
‘But I only need to endure once!’
I took advantage of an opening and thrust my sword into the spider monster’s torso. Zzzzt. Red current flowed through the spider monster.
“Kieeeeeeek!”
The spider monster screamed. Transparent liquid spurted out from the six breasts on the monster’s back. I was in front of the spider, so the liquid didn’t touch my body.
“Die!!”
I put strength into my sword. The sword went down but stopped. It was hard to cut through.
‘My strength is fading… Damn it. My body isn’t moving as I want it to.’
I felt drowsy. I realized that the liquid the spider had emitted was a type of anesthetic. I never dreamed it would have this much power even without touching my body.
‘Heavenly Heart!’
The drowsiness disappeared, and my physical abilities increased. I brought my sword down and split the spider’s body in half.
“Keeeeeek…”
The spider’s split body spilled its innards onto the floor. I kicked the spider’s torso, which was about to fall on me. The spider fell backward. I was worried it might be immortal like the cult leader, but thankfully, the spider monster died on the spot.
‘Even if nothing else, the anesthetic is amazing. If I didn’t have Heavenly Heart, I would have been in danger.’
I quickly left the sacrifice management room. I couldn’t afford to be anesthetized and pass out as soon as Heavenly Heart ended.
After getting outside, I frowned at the pain that belatedly came from my left arm and shoulder. The armor was pierced and dented. If I had killed the monster a little later, I might have been the one to die.
‘I roughly know the internal structure of the temple. But I can’t be satisfied with just this. I need to gather as much information as possible.’
Next, I needed to find out the entrance to the space where the temple was located.
I quietly went outside the temple. The sounds of battle continued to be heard inside the temple. I could vaguely see Park Suho fighting the cult leader.
‘…Was Park Suho always this strong?’
It seemed to be thanks to the goddess’s power.
In any case, it was a good opportunity for me. Thanks to Park Suho fighting the cult leader and buying time, I could move around comfortably.
I ran aimlessly outside the temple. It wasn’t the place where I had come with Kang Jiwoo’s guidance. I needed information from other places.
Then, I found a dungeon gate. At the entrance of the gate, there were more than 10 followers standing guard. They seemed to be former hunters.
“Oh! You are the noble person!”
“The temple is burning. What are you doing here?”
“We are guarding this gate. It’s an entrance that appeared about two weeks ago. Usually, the cult leader eliminates the entrances… but this time, he strangely didn’t eliminate it.”
“Why didn’t the cult leader eliminate the gate?”
“He said that since the time is near, it’s better to be connected to the outside. We don’t know the details.”
“I see. Gwangshin-nim just told me. He wants your lives.”
“Ahhh! Gwangshin-nim wants us! How ecstatic! Gwangshin-nim! Please accept my insignificant life!”
They took out daggers and committed suicide by cutting their own throats.
I went outside the gate.
The air changed drastically.
Gloomy skies and flesh-like, squishy ground greeted me. It was a dark forest with a rotten smell. The black forest welcomed me, and wyverns that were nothing but bones flew through the gloomy sky. Undead monsters.
‘There are traces of a village. It wasn’t originally a forest, but a village. The village buildings are too modern to be inside a dungeon. This is… an encroached dungeon.’
This was probably the encroached dungeon in Hokkaido. Considering the connection between the gate behind me and Han Harin, it was certain.
‘The cult leader… no, the sacrifice manager. If that spider monster comes out, it could easily wipe out a raid team.’
The sacrifice manager’s anesthetic was so potent that even I couldn’t last more than 10 seconds. If it weren’t for Heavenly Heart’s status ailment immunity effect, I wouldn’t have been able to defeat that monster.
I was about to tear up the prepared space movement scroll but stopped. Information about this encroached dungeon might also be helpful to me.
‘I have enough time, so let’s wander around. With the Illusiter, it won’t be difficult to hide from the monsters.’
Moreover, the monsters were undead. Undead have weaker tracking and detection abilities compared to other monsters.
After wandering around for about 3 hours, I found people.
They were hunters from the Japan Hunter Association, guarding the perimeter of the encroached dungeon.
“A survivor!!”
They made a fuss and approached me.
Judging by their appearance, it seemed that the second raid team from the Suwol Guild had also been annihilated.
‘Suwol Guild… you incompetent bastards. If you had done well, this wouldn’t have happened. If you hadn’t been so proud and asked for help from the association, Harin might not have died and could have been rescued.’
I gritted my teeth and said to the Japanese association.
“Where are the others?!”
“Don’t tell me… were they all annihilated again? What kind of terrifying monster is inside the dungeon gate? Is it an S-class dungeon, not an A-class dungeon?”
I raised my voice and shouted at them.
“I am Ryu Hansol from the Suwol Guild! The second raid team was annihilated except for me! That gate is an S-class dungeon! A dungeon break is about to happen! We need support! We need support! Hokkaido is in danger!”
Everyone’s faces instantly turned serious. It was the Japanese association, not the Korean association where the Suwol Guild was located. They wouldn’t have information about the individual members of the Suwol Guild. Even if they investigated, it would take time. And they couldn’t easily ignore the information about an S-class dungeon break.
‘I’ll lead the Japanese association’s support troops and go back to the temple and wipe them all out. And then I’ll regress.’
Even if it was meaningless, I wanted to see the Light Source Church bastards die with my own eyes.
“Tell us in detail! Tell us in detail! What was inside the dungeon gate?!”
“There were tentacle monsters and spider monsters. The tentacle monster doesn’t die even if you kill it, and the spider monster sprays a powerful anesthetic…”
I mixed truth and lies. I deliberately didn’t talk about the Light Source Church. It would be hard to believe even if I talked about the Light Source Church now. I had to emphasize that there were powerful monsters and that a dungeon break was about to happen. From the Japanese association’s perspective, that was a more urgent and serious matter.
“The second raid team from the Suwol Guild was annihilated… This is no ordinary matter! Contact the association and request support from all the guilds in Hokkaido! We will take care of what the Suwol Guild failed to do!”
They seemed to be happy that they were taking care of what the Suwol Guild had failed to do. It might be because they could tarnish the Suwol Guild’s reputation. Or maybe there was something else I didn’t know about. Maybe it was because they could give a blow to Korea.
About 4 hours passed since then. I was busy pretending to contact the Suwol Guild. In the middle of it, I received help from Baek Ji-eun to prove my identity. This would be revealed later, but…
‘There is no later. I’m going to regress.’
I decided to go all out.
About 500 A-class hunters gathered. More than 2,000 B-class and lower hunters gathered. A large number of people gathered. Even helicopters were floating in the sky. They were broadcasting station helicopters. Things had gotten bigger than I thought. It didn’t matter.
“After the briefing, we will immediately attack the dungeon. The results of measuring the gate show that it is an A-class dungeon, but it is a place where the second-ranked guild in Korea, the Suwol Guild, has failed to attack twice. It is highly likely to be a mutated gate. The difficulty is estimated to be S-class or higher.”
It was when a Japanese association official was starting the briefing.
Kuuuuuuuuung.
The world shook.
“An earthquake?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me! At this time?”
“No. This is… not an earthquake! Something! Something has appeared!”
The Japanese hunters were making a fuss.
I swallowed my breath, feeling an immense presence.
“What is that…!”
“The gate is getting bigger?”
“The gate is black! What’s going on?”
The gate tore open, and a huge being revealed itself.
Tentacles.
A mass of tentacles as huge as pillars slowly emerged from the gate. Red eyes could be seen beyond the black gate. The Japanese hunters were speechless and felt fear at the enormous presence.
It appeared faster than expected. Park Suho had been offered as a sacrifice, and of course, all the followers of the Light Source Church had been offered as sacrifices. Perhaps the cult leader himself had sacrificed himself.
-Is this Earth? It feels good. I can feel more abundant karma than in other places. Earth, welcome your true master.
Gwangshin, Brahmasen, scattered madness. Brahmasen’s gaze was filled with madness.
The hunters went crazy. They screamed and ran in all directions, or they sat down on the floor and took their own lives, or they started fighting each other.
There were less than 30 hunters who were still sane, including me. But as time passed, they all eventually went crazy.
-Although it is not a complete descent, you can withstand one of my eyes. You are indeed a unique human. Sung Yoo-jin, become my apostle. I will save the woman you love.
“Shut up. I’ll save Han Harin without your help. And I’ll kill you with my own hands someday.”
-You reject the opportunity even though I gave it to you. You are foolish. It’s not like I need you. Die now.
Tentacles flew towards me. They were well over 1km long and over 50m thick. I summoned a drone from the [Vampire Detective] world and flew into the sky.
‘Even if I’m going to die, I’ll give him one last blow.’
I summoned a tactical nuke from my inventory and dropped it.
It was a tactical nuke from the [Vampire Detective] world that could easily wipe out a city.
Immediately after, I tore a space movement scroll and appeared in a high-class inn. I endured the enormous heat that engulfed the inn, trusting in my Stormbreaker armor. The inn was swept away by the impact, but I endured.
“……Did it die?”
I muttered in a hesitant voice.
It was fine. It had grown so much that I could see it even from here. Two red eyes were looking this way. Another eye appeared.
‘That’s just a part of its body.’
Tentacles stretched out. The tentacles grew larger and larger, exceeding 50km.
There was still time before the tentacles reached me.
“……When did you start preparing for this?”
-I have been preparing for it long before you were born. Do you feel powerless? Don’t be sad. It’s only natural.
“Is that so? Too bad. In the end, you’ll be the one to fail.”
Just before the huge tentacles fell on my head, I used the 30-day regression ticket.
[Using the 30-day regression ticket.]
[Regressing to 30 days ago.]
[The Play Life app is not affected by the regression.]
I could see the world regressing except for me.
The clouds in the sky were turning backwards, and Brahmasen’s tentacles, which had grown to kill me, were shrinking. The inn, which had been shattered by the impact of the nuclear explosion, returned to its original form, and it changed to before the nuclear explosion.
I felt my consciousness fading.
[You have regressed to 30 days ago.]
I opened my eyes on the familiar bed.
