Resurrected Immortal 679

Chapter 679 – 679. The Deliverer

“… A guide?”

Eunhyeon wasn’t the only one who was puzzled by the title he heard for the first time.
Erin glanced up and observed his reaction, but Eunhyeon also stared blankly at Pope Arban, not understanding the meaning of the title he had called him.

“Anies. Albert.”

“Huh?”

“Yes. Grandfather.”

“I want to talk with this person alone for a while.”

Hearing Arvan’s request, the two nodded.
The situation in which the pope and an outsider were alone was a story that could not be easily tolerated as a temple priest, but at the same time as an unofficial face-to-face, this meeting was what Arban wanted from the beginning.
Besides, since she was Eunhyeon, who was also Agnes’s friend, she accepted it easily.

“Hmm. Okay.”

“All right. You two, please follow me.”

Agnes and Albert left the Pope’s chambers with Eleanor and Erin.
After the party left, Eun-hyeon, who was left alone in the room, was invited by the Pope to sit down.

“Please sit down.”

“… Yes.”

Eun-hyeon, feeling hesitant about calling herself the title of leader, sat down at the table recommended by the pope to continue the conversation.

“Please forgive me for not being able to sit in front of you because I am not feeling well.”

“It’s okay. Please stay as you please.”

In the first place, it was also funny to argue with disrespect to the pope, the most powerful person in the Holy Nation.
Even though he is a friend of the current saint, Agnes, and the husband of her next saint, Eleanor, this behavior is rather disrespectful.
However, Arban did not put his authority in front of him.
Rather, he is being too kind and benevolent toward himself.
It is not a feeling you can send to someone you are meeting for the first time in your life.
His attitude, as if he had known him before, was strange.
Eunhyeon asked Arban.

“… You said you’ve been waiting for me for a long time.”

“Yes.”

“Is it because I worked as a team with Agnes 20 years ago?”

“It’s not just because of that. I knew that you would appear before that, long before that.”

“…”

Eunhyun frowned.
Arban said he had known him long before Anies met him.
What does it mean?
How could he have known that he would meet Agnes 20 years ago?
The first possibility that came to Eunhyeon’s mind was that Arban ‘heard about himself from someone.’

“Who are you? The one who informed you of my existence.”

Who the heck is that
Eunhyun guessed who it was in her head.
Eun-hyeon, who has lived an immortal life for 400 years, has wandered all over the continent, changing her name and hiding her identity, but there were people who vaguely noticed her existence.
Eun-hyeon and his purpose and method were different, but Ortas, the first king of the kingdom of Pernias, who used his fox beads to settle the souls of his descendants and lead an incomplete eternal life.
Eunhyeon and he vaguely noticed each other’s identities and were aware of each other’s identities, but did not greatly interfere in each other’s ways.
As Ortas, there is no reason to touch Eun-hyeon, and from Eun-hyeon’s point of view, he has to prevent various disasters, including demons and black magicians, because he couldn’t do anything foolish to turn the entire kingdom of Pernias into an enemy.
Even if Ortas was a villain who betrayed the nine-tailed fox and created an uncontrollable number of victims, Eun-hyeon, who had to maintain the lower world, could not do anything about Ortas.
Eunhyeon guessed that someone who knew about her existence from 20 years ago, no, maybe even longer, leaked her story to Arvan.
Facing Eunhyun’s gaze demanding clarification, Arban started talking with a small smile.

“A long time ago, there was a believer who came to me.”

It is the story of the time when he had just passed the age of majority and turned 20, when he had completed his training at the temple and was granted the rank of apprentice priest.
As a low-ranking member of the temple, while on the job of praying for the devotees who came, the old woman said to Arban.

-Approximately 30 years later, you are raising a god-blessed girl. And that girl meets a guide who will greatly influence the fate of this continent.

“I didn’t believe it at first. I just thought it was an old woman’s absurd nonsense.”

Believing the old woman’s prophecy, which had been told endlessly, was foolish, no different from saying that the stones rolling down the street were actually rough diamonds.

“But the prophecy came true.”

After about 30 years have passed.
Arban, who has accumulated many activities and achievements and rises to the top priest, accepts one disciple.
As if to directly prove that he had received the grace of the goddess, he was a girl who possessed immense divinity in his arms that was incomparable to any other priest or paladin.
When a small 15-year-old country girl named Anies manifested divine power and was led to the sacred kingdom of Erenia, the old woman’s words passed Arvan’s head as if a spark was suddenly ignited.

-Approximately 30 years later, you are raising a god-blessed girl.

“Since then, I have never doubted the old woman’s prophecy.”

Arban welcomed Agnes as his adopted daughter, and at the same time began educating her as a priest, nurturing her into a high-ranking priest who would entrust the fate of her continent.

“Because I thought it was a necessary preparation to meet you.”

Aies, who was able to utilize the immense divinity she had received with the blessing of her goddess, naturally went to the front line and met her Eunhyun.

“…”

After explaining all the prophecies he had heard from an old woman, Arban calmly looked at Eun-hyeon’s face.
Eunhyun, who was deep in thought with a complicated expression, opened her mouth a long time later.

“There is something I want to ask you.”

“What is it?”

“The old woman who prophesied to the Pope 50 years ago… Who was it?”

“I do not know.”

Her origin, her family, and even her whereabouts after that were unknown.
Now I don’t even know its life and death.

“After becoming a top priest, when I realized that the old woman’s prophecy was true after educating Agnes as a priest, I sent people to inquire about it in every way. But even then I couldn’t figure out anything.”

In the first place, it was impossible to find a person who had visited the temple 30 years ago now.

“That old woman… Was it really an ordinary ‘old woman’?”

Eunhyeon’s question was not about asking the old woman’s identity, but rather about guessing the old woman’s identity.

“I do not know. At first, I thought it was a prophecy of the goddess Vesta, which contains the will to save this world.”

He is a priest of the temple dedicated to the goddess Vesta.
It was natural to think so.

“But… After thinking about it over and over again at this age, I came to the thought that it was not the goddess Vesta.”

The goddess Vesta she enshrines bestows the grace of divine power on humans and bestows her power of salvation, but she did not give a prophecy to save the world.
In the first place, if prophecies were really real, the numerous disasters that have occurred would have given some way of speaking.
So Arban was convinced that the old woman who prophesied to him fifty years ago was not a prophecy of Vesta.
Eunhyun also agreed with that part.
If the old woman was really the agent of the goddess Vesta, she would have given these words to Eun-hyeon, who had already met her face several times in the divine realm.
And even among the gods, actions such as interfering with the affairs of the underworld were taboo, so this was impossible even for the gods.
That is why the existence of the old woman who prophesied to Arvan was even more mysterious.
What is the identity of the being that even the gods can do the impossible?

‘… Belldandy.’

Eun-hyeon called her goddess to ask for advice about the prophecy Arban had heard.

[Okay. Aye.]

Belldandy, who appeared at the apostle’s call and showed up, nodded with a stiff face and focused on Arvan’s story.

“But… Haven’t you already heard from Agies? I am… She died once, 20 years ago.”

“Yes. It was. But I kept waiting. I didn’t tell Agnes, but I knew you would come back.”

“That too… Is it because of the prophecy?”

“Yes.”

The prophecy Arban heard from the old woman was not the end of it.

– The guide will be sublimated into a higher class existence by burning all his life.

In the old woman’s prophecy, everything was already decided, including the appearance of Agnes, the meeting with Eunhyeon, his death, and finally his resurrection.
It was Belldandy who was stunned by the prophecy.

[Nonsense… !]

The reason Eunhyeon was resurrected and was able to live a new life again in the underworld was because of Verdandi’s efforts.
After persuading many gods to agree, he summoned his soul from the Underworld and sent it back to the Underworld, granting a second life to his body, which had been buried for 20 years.
Because of the efforts of such a goddess, Eun-hyeon is alive now.
However, if Eunhyeon’s resurrection was already a predetermined result in the prophecy, it means that even Belldandi’s efforts and actions were already foreseen.
Seeing Belldandi’s shocking reaction, Eunhyeon was convinced.

‘There is. A higher being who can foresee and control even the actions and will of the goddess.’

[But, child. That’s too… Does not make sense…]

Belldandi didn’t believe it, saying it was too leapfrog, but Eunhyeon had already noticed this possibility from before.

‘Berdandy. I’m sure I’ve said it once before.’

On the path he is walking, he places characters who are helpful and benevolent to him, and prepares for adversity and hardships that can help him and those around him grow.
It seemed that someone was weaving countless threads into the thread of her own destiny that was stretching endlessly forward, and making it into one big stem.
Accidents and accidents intentionally arranged to complete the existence of Eun-hyeon in preparation for something to come.
Eunhyun was now convinced.
Some existence that even the gods of the divine world did not understand is plotting something using him.

[…]

Now, even Belldandy couldn’t dismiss Eunhyun’s idea as an excessive leap.
The prophecy Arban heard was just as shocking and difficult to accept, but unlike Belldandy, who was flustered, Eunhyeon, who had already guessed to some extent, calmly accepted the prophecy.

“Thank you. Because you said it.”

“It was an honor for me to meet you. You are the guide who will save the continent.”

“I am… He’s not that great of a person.”

“No. It’s not like that.”

Arban smiled benignly and shook his head.

“I already heard about what kind of person you were through Agies. Since you passed away, Agnes has started a serious career as a priest. At that time, in the eyes of the child, it looked like he had a certain goal.”

“…”

“I was amazed that this guy, who didn’t match his personality and showed no interest in activities inside the temple, started working as hard as anyone else as soon as he returned from the war.”

So Arban asked Agies what had changed his mind.

“And then, to my surprise, he responded like this. ‘This is the world he sacrificed to protect, so I have to work hard too.'”

Undoubtedly, Eunhyeon was the cause of the remarkable change in Agies.

“You, the catalyst that made that child change, are undoubtedly a wonderful person whom no one would be ashamed of.”

“…”

Eunhyeon put on a troubled expression, not knowing how to respond to the excessive praise directed at her.

[Whoops, what are you thinking about? That you just have to accept. The child is wonderful.]

On the contrary, Belldandy, who shrugged at the praise his son had received, patted Eunhyun’s head and smiled with satisfaction.

“The reason I forced Agies to meet you is not only because you are the guide in the prophecy I received. Thank you for guiding Agnes, who is no different than a disciple and daughter, and returning her safely… Thank you so much.”

Arban bowed his head slightly and expressed his gratitude.
The gratitude expressed as much as possible with an old body that made it difficult to move was an infinite favor sent to Eun-hyeon as a teacher and parent, which he had not been able to do 20 years ago.

“May the goddess’ protection be with you…”

His prayer had no effect on Eun-hyeon, who already possessed divine power, which is a higher concept rather than divine power.