Chapter 541 – 541. Invitation of the Goddess (2)
[It’s not that simple. Is it okay to become like a witch child?]
“I-I… Like Illyana?”
Belldandy said it as if it were very easy, but Erin shook her head from side to side in surprise.
How could she tell her to be on par with an eight-figure high-ranking mage?
“Mo, I can’t. I am…”
Even if she died and woke up ten times, it would be absolutely impossible, Erin was sure.
‘I wouldn’t have Hyun-i do something so unreasonable…’
Eun-hyeon’s classes are so hard and intense that she always wants to give up, but she is reasonable, knowing the limits and controlling them.
However, asking herself to become like Illyana is not a matter of limitation, but a matter of a separate realm where her starting point and the path she walks on are completely different.
After reading his expression to see what he was thinking, Belldandi smiled and started a detailed explanation.
[Whoops. Shinsoo Ai doesn’t seem to understand what I’m saying.]
“Yes… ?”
[Shinsoo child doesn’t seem to know anything about the witch child’s condition right now.]
“…”
Erin, who still had a puzzled look on her face, continued to wait for Belldandi to say.
[My wish for the child is not for her to catch up with the witch child with her talents or skills.]
“… And what?”
[Precisely, we are trying to make Shinsoo child like a witch child.]
It doesn’t mean that he will make Erin a high-ranking wizard like Illyana.
[Now that the witch child is bonded with her child by spirit, she has accepted the power of another of my sister goddesses.]
Illyana was reborn as a lifelong companion of a demigod, transcending her lifespan, as she made a vow of belonging to Eunhyeon.
Acquiring some of the power of Skuld, one of the three Norn goddesses, as a medium through the oath of her household is also one of the achievements that Illyana gained while walking together and wanting to be helpful to Eun-hyeon.
“Then… Lord Belldandy’s words to become like Miss Illyana…”
Only then did Erin understand Belldandi’s intentions.
For an instant, she glanced at Urd’s face and looked into her eyes.
Like Illyana, the story of making an oath to become a member of the Apostles means that she accepts part of the power of the goddess called Skuld, and she accepts the power of the goddess called Urud in front of her eyes.
-… Have the qualifications. Now there is only choice left.
Urdu immediately remembered what she said while looking at him.
The conditions have already been filled.
All she has left is her own choice.
“…”
Erin was lost in her thoughts, forgetting that she had been distracted by the soft skin of the goddess she felt for the first time.
He had many thoughts about what Belldandi expected of him and whether he could repay the expectations of her goddess and Eunhyun.
“Come on, Mr. Belldandi.”
[What is it?]
“This… Can I make my own decisions without consulting Hyun?”
In order to receive the power of Urud, it is no different than a prerequisite to make an oath with Eunhyeon, who is in the middle stage, as a follower.
But is it okay to decide it at will without consulting Eun-hyeon, the person in charge of her?
As there was always a strong tendency to rely on Eun-hyeon in the part where important decisions had to be made, Verdandi’s recommendation this time was a very difficult problem.
It was an attractive proposal that she naturally wanted to accept, but Erin, who was hesitant to accept it, was currently in a dilemma.
[Whoops, is she worried that the child will get angry for accepting this invitation without consulting her?]
“Yeah, there isn’t such a thing…”
Realizing that Erin was really afraid of being hated by her other wives, especially by her Eun-hyeon, Belldandi lifted her arms that held her tight and stroked Erin’s head.
[Actually, when I was a witch child, I was embarrassed by the results of Skuld’s arbitrary actions.]
It was because her Illyana wanted it that Skuld decided to give her Illyana some of her own powers.
Due to the limit of lifespan, the relationship between a human and a demigod had no choice but to become more and more distant as time passed.
Skuld was impressed by her tenacity and obsession, as she accomplished the feat of restoring her World Tree, and strongly aspired to prove herself worthy and unite herself with her Eunhyeon forever.
So, the method that Skuld chose to bestow power on was to become a follower of an apostle.
[The child’s only concern is that she disliked the way in which she had to risk her life for it, but she does not dislike accepting this invitation without consulting.]
The method Illyana chose to prove her worth to Skuld was the restoration of her World Tree.
She only disapproved of the fact that she had to take a risky gamble that, if she got it wrong, she could not accept all the enormous amount of information and her mind would collapse and she would be ruined.
[She is a child who can’t help it, that other children would do such an unreasonable thing while risking her life casually.]
It also means that she cherishes Illyana as her wife.
[So Shinsoo Ai doesn’t have to worry too much. If she scolds the child for accepting this invitation without consulting her, I will punish her child.]
“… Really?”
Erin showed a tempting reaction as she listened to Belldandi’s boast.
Belldandi, who promised to act as a shield in front of her, was at the top of the family hierarchy, unable even to move Eunhyun.
She said that she would do it this far, but her heart, which had been hesitant, began to thump little by little.
“I will.”
Turning her body around to meet Belldandi’s gaze, who was holding her tightly from behind, she spoke again with a determined expression.
“The oath of the family. I’ll make a deal.”
In fact, Erin is not much different from Illyana, Eleanor, and Lily.
As a lifelong companion of the same man, Erin, who wanted to help him by his side, this invitation was a very good opportunity.
And what she liked more than anything else was being able to make her Jailbreak to Brunach, who had offended her own.
Hearing Erin’s clear intention, Belldandy smiled and nodded her head.
[Thought well. Seeing and hearing her face and her confirmation, I’m happy too.]
“Lol.”
Watching the reaction of the two laughing happily at the feeling of stroking their hair, Urud muttered with a disapproving look on his face.
[… I am the one who gives strength, but the two of them go well with each other.]
“Berdandy.”
[Why is that?]
“That… Why is Belldandi-sama’s older sister, the goddess, so angry?”
[… What?]
The one who asked back Erin’s sudden question was Urd, who was twitching his eyebrows.
Erin’s expression is full of curiosity, as if asking because she really doesn’t know.
However, it was Berdandi, not Urd, who gave her a ridiculous expression, who answered the question.
[Never mind. I just hate interfering too much with the underworld.]
Basically, Urud abides by rules or laws and hates breaking them.
For gods, the lower world is a place that they must protect, but there is no obligation to protect its members in an intact form.
It only keeps the huge form of ‘the underworld’ from collapsing, and it doesn’t matter much to the gods what happens to the countless lives that are contained in the form.
On the contrary, Belldandi, who values it very much and is influenced by it and manifests in the underworld, is a very special case.
When Skuld became interested in Illyana and the possibilities that her grace created, she gave Illyana strength, but Skuld also did not pay much attention to other human beings and other lives.
“Uh… But is it okay if you give me strength?”
He shows a very disapproving attitude, but is it really okay to receive Urud’s power?
Erin gave a puzzled look.
[Recently, her sister also saw her child and had a change of heart.]
“… What about Hyun?”
[Recently, the part where the child is trying to acquire a godhood…]
[Berdandy. Don’t talk nonsense.]
Although there was Verdandi’s persuasion, it was none other than Urdu’s decision to intervene in the laws of the underworld and endow Erin, Eunhyeon’s wife, with power.
After an endless struggle with his teacher, he decided to put his hopes on Eun-hyeon, who was perfected as a half-god while passing through trials and gaining divine status.
I intercepted Belldandy’s words as he proudly boasted about it.
[Anyway, giving you power itself is something I also agreed to. It’s something I don’t like, but… It is also true that there is no better way than this when looking at it from afar.]
Urud stretched out her hand toward Erin again.
A small golden orb floating on his palm left Urd’s hand and floated in the air.
Erin stared at the golden orb that flew towards her at her slow speed.
The aggregation of aura that feels nothing, let alone danger, is similar to the one composed of the divine power flowing from Eunhyun’s body.
Erin put on her bewildered expression as her golden orb, floating through her air and finally inside her own body, melted away in an instant.
“… Is it over?”
[Okay.]
“That… What kind of power did you give me? . Even a rough explanation…”
[It is the power to bring back the past.]
“No. Even if you say that, you won’t understand at all?”
Erin was taken aback.
Her powers, expressed in very abstract and vague descriptions of hers, which she had never heard of before, entered his soul, and Erin did not feel anything in her, far from feeling any different than before receiving her powers. There was no
[That’s up to you.]
“What the hell is that…”
[To put it in human terms… Hmm, yes.]
Urud, who had a worried expression on his face, looked at Erin to see if he had found the right expression and spoke again.
[Can you explain how you move your body?]
“…”
Erin stiffened her body like a stone and lost her words to speak.
[The way you use power, you just have to use it. The business is over, so stop disappearing now.]
“No. For a moment… !”
Her foolish Erin hurriedly tried to talk her out again, but when Urd waved her hand in the air as if it were annoying, her Erin’s body disappeared without a shape.
After Erin returned to her underworld without any resistance or protest, only two goddesses remained in the empty space where nothing existed.
[… Sister.]
[Why.]
[The power you just gave to Shinsoo Ai’s soul… I think there was a soul attached to it?]
[However.]
Sensing her eyes wide open and questioning, Urud clicked her tongue slightly as if it was annoying and explained her circumstances.
[I received a small gift from Proserpina, whom I met in her corridor. While thinking about what to do with her, she just sent it away. Are there any problems?]
[… No.]
As if looking into the distance, Belldandy turned his head into the air and thought of Eun-hyeon in the underworld.
[Just… She thought the child would be a little surprised…]
Wanting to help Eun-hyeon, she thought of giving Erin her powers as a small surprise, but she had a hunch that things might have turned out bigger than she thought.
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“… Ah-oh.”
As soon as her spirit awakened, Erin, who immediately opened her eyes, kicked off the covers to relieve her unreasonable feelings that filled her heart.
Immediately after she lost consciousness due to her accumulated fatigue, her annoyance at Urd, who had driven her away like a fly after passing on her business only to the point of ignoring her habit of appreciating the situation around her, rose.
“Whoa… However… Where are you?”
Erin, who took a deep breath and calmed her emotions, looked around her and examined her situation belatedly.
She immediately remembered that she had been carried away by Agnes immediately after she passed out, but she could not comprehend how much time had passed since she passed out.
One thing I could be sure of was that this was a lodging building used by the Artia Knights who are currently dispatched to Mograf.
“You came back safely.”
Erin let out a sigh of relief when she confirmed that she and Aneswaeira had made it back safely.
[Where is this place?]
“Uh?”
Erin jerked her head to the source of her voice when she heard the voice of a woman talking to her out of the blue.
The unusual way of communication that speaks directly to her own soul, not to her own voice, heard through her hearing, is not an ordinary human communication that she has experienced several times.
She glanced up and down at her, noticing a single translucent spirit floating in the air beside her.
A woman with a grave expression with her long hair pulled back into a ponytail.
What was amazing was the first outfit she saw as if she was not from this world.
[…]
“…”
She couldn’t bear the quiet silence that continued without any conversation, and it was Erin who woke up first.
“Yeah… Who are you?”
[Before asking who I am, it would be polite to give your name first.]
Erin was quite taken aback by her grave ghost’s remark, and hastily lowered her head.
“I’m sorry.”
It must be a ghost with no face, but for some reason Erin herself couldn’t explain the feeling of intimidation that had to come out in that position.
“I am Erin… My name is Hersha… Uh… May I ask the ghost’s name?”
[Siete.]
“Yes?”
[This is my name. Siete Lopez. Where is this place?]
