Chapter 735 – 735. Superpowerful God (3)
“… Oh, wow!”
Erin forced herself to swallow her screams as they escaped her mouth.
It’s not that her body is sick.
A pain that came into her own heart, into her soul, and shredded her insides.
[Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me.]
[Help me! Please!]
[A child! I want to see my child!]
[Kill me! I want to die!]
There are countless thoughts that mess with her mind.
Some people do not realize that they are dead and continue to beg for their own lives that have already been crumbled, while others desperately want help.
Someone else was desperately looking for their child, whom they could no longer meet, and someone else desperately hoped to escape from the sea of hell full of these terrible thoughts.
There is no such thing as order, and the sea of thoughts that endlessly cries out only one’s own will is chaos itself.
Erinn’s spirit at the center of the hell’s whirlpool could only hold out to avoid being devoured by her innumerable thoughts.
‘Going crazy… Same…’
Her desire to let go of her mind and be at ease like this intensely fills her heart.
Mental exhaustion, on a different level from her exhaustion from her strenuous physical labor, is trying to pull Erin’s mind down into the far-off abyss beneath her floor.
If she loses her mind like this, her body and mind will surely be at ease.
But at the cost of it, the fear that none other than her own mind might be lost made Erin’s heart hold on to the end.
[Hold on!]
Fortunately, she is not alone now.
The reason Erin was able to barely survive without getting her mind eaten by the sea of thoughts was because of the help of the nine-tailed fox.
Now, the nine-tailed fox was purifying the magical power of the fallen divine beast that entered Erin’s body.
Originally, this purification work should have been carried out simultaneously with Erinn accepting all the grudges of the terrible thoughts.
However, if Erin did not have a nine-tailed fox, which was a huge burden for her, she might have been contaminated by the resentment of her thoughts and corrupted like another nine-tailed fox.
Right now, Erin was focusing on accepting all the grudges of these thoughts.
Her mind was already weighed down by the heavy sensation that made her breathless even with that alone, but Erin desperately persevered.
‘I… I’ll accept them all.’
Erin accepted all of these thoughts.
Erin could not leave those who desperately cried, begged, and complained of pain.
Is it sympathy
No.
Erin’s feelings now were more like regret or guilt.
‘Sorry. Sorry. Really… Sorry.’
These are all innocent souls who lost their lives and sucked their vitality from the indiscriminate massacre of nine-tailed foxes from another dimension.
And the one who had her mind eaten and her body taken away by that nine-tailed fox is another Erin.
If Erin hadn’t had her body taken away by a gumiho, no, if only she had had her heart strong enough to resist the temptation of a gumiho to avenge her.
The genocide that took place in that dimension would not have happened, nor would the dimension have been destroyed.
Erin felt responsible for her own weakness, which had been the culprit of her.
Because she is, she accepts every emotion that enters her mind: despair, anger, sadness.
She was and she was confident she would hold on to it.
Because the current self had a gumiho.
[Joy. Cheeky.]
After reading Erin’s intention to openly rely on herself, the nine-tailed fox sneered while purifying the fallen god’s magical power.
[In this situation, you are not responsible for the magic of this fallen divine beast and the grudge of the evil thoughts. Know the subject.]
Gumiho’s words are the right theory.
This happened in another dimension, and even if the cause of the disaster were other selves, they had no involvement in it at all.
For Erin, who is in this dimension, to feel responsible for it is her futile fuss.
“… Lol.”
However, after hearing what the nine-tailed fox said, Erin didn’t make her feel bad. Instead, she laughed.
Why are you smiling in this difficult situation?
Even that smile somehow made the gumiho upset.
[… What are you splitting?]
“Just… Miho, I want you to be very disingenuous.”
[…]
Now, it has been about two years since Erin and Gumiho have known each other.
Erin immediately understood that the nine-tailed fox’s words were not words of disrespect, but words of comfort.
In addition, if you think about it a bit, you can understand why the gumiho, who normally only gave himself face-to-face and gave no help at all, is actively helping only this time.
She, like Erin, feels responsible for the current situation.
“You can just tell me not to care. Why are you so ticklish?”
[… Done. Do it yourself.]
“Oh! Sorry! It’s my fault! Don’t go! Miho!”
Startled, Erin hastily apologized to the nine-tailed fox, who offended her.
She never really thought that the gumiho would leave her behind, but Erin herself knows best how helpful the gumiho is in this hopeless situation.
She imagined a situation in which she had to purify all the magical powers of the fallen divine beast while dealing with so many thoughts on her own without the help of a nine-tailed fox.
“No! I really hate it! Help me! Mihoya!”
Just imagining it is the worst.
[… Joy.]
The nine-tailed fox snorted and continued to purify the fallen god’s magic.
Even if he said that, the option of Gumiho abandoning Erin could not exist from the beginning.
If Erin is wrong, Eunhyun will be the first to hold the nine-tailed fox accountable.
He is a benefactor who gave himself new freedom by making a new fox orb.
Of course, the gumiho is not an honest person who repays the favor, but it is because of the realistic judgment that he does not want to turn him into an enemy rather than grace.
No matter how little by little he recovered his strength and regained his prestige as a divine beast, he never wanted to deal with Eun-hyeon.
The reason Erin is so arrogant and regards the nine-tailed fox as her friend is also because Eun-hyeon is behind her.
The childish scuffle between the two ended like that, and soon the cleanup work was over.
“Uh, uh…”
As the resentment of her thoughts that had been messing around in her head gradually disappeared, Erinn’s spirit, which had endured to the end, did not collapse.
However, as soon as her work was finished, Erin’s legs gave out from the overwhelming fatigue and almost collapsed on the floor.
“Stand up. Son disciple.”
It was Siete, one of the Hundred Ghosts who had been guarding her side up until now, who grabbed Erin’s arm and forced her to stand up as she was about to collapse.
“Ah, Master…”
“The situation has not been sorted out yet.”
Siete pointed with his finger at the wildly rampaging basilisk.
Kyaaah!
The basilisk that stirred the inside of the estate was in a state where one of her eyes had been cut off by Erin, but it was still alive.
“… Yes.”
Erin stood up again with Siete’s support.
Damn!
She smacked herself as hard as she could on both her cheeks with her palms.
A tingling, burning pain radiated from both cheeks, jolting her spirits.
“Hmm…”
She immediately checked her own condition.
Fortunately, her body wasn’t so tired.
To put it bluntly, the hardest part is the mental side.
But Erin let go of her spirit here and she couldn’t be knocked down.
‘Era and her older sister are still fighting, but I’m the only one who can’t let her collapse here.’
After examining her own body, she immediately looked at her hundred ghosts.
All the white ghosts were alive and well.
Above all, Siete’s existence will be of great help in the fight against that Basilisk.
“Ego! All the white ghosts… !”
[Wait.]
“Huh?”
She immediately tried to order the white demons to subdue the basilisk, but Erin was stopped by the nine-tailed fox.
[Release the summons of the hundred demons.]
“… Why?”
The gumiho’s request was out of the blue.
Now it is a situation where we have to mobilize even one strong force to deal with that huge snake.
Erin couldn’t understand her request.
[Now is a good opportunity. I will teach you how to make a new phantom beast. In order to do that, you must first gather all the magical power that is being consumed by the maintenance of the hundred demons.]
Erin tilted her head at the word ‘phantom beast’, but she didn’t react that well.
“Do I have to do it now? Honestly, do you think Master is stronger than that phantom beast?”
[I agree with that.]
Shiete was the one who taught her swordsmanship to her Eunhyeon, and even the nine-tailed fox knew that if she purely looked at her skills, no one would follow her.
Although she has never fought in person, she knows that her swordsmanship is different from hers.
She even felt threatened by Siete for a moment as her other self, a corrupted divine beast.
[But there is something more suitable to deal with that.]
That’s the return.
“Hmm…”
Erin was troubled.
At least the nine-tailed fox is squeamish and arguing, but he never gives harmful advice.
If so, at least it seemed worth listening to.
‘Ayra, I’m worried about her sister…’
[It doesn’t take long. I’ll assist anyway, so even an inexperienced half-penny like you should be able to make it right away.]
“… Even if you have to say it, speak so meanly! Naughty! Really!”
Frustrated by the words of the gumiho urging her to make a choice, Erin came to a conclusion.
“… Good. Let’s do it! You have to do it fast instead! Ayra, I have to help her sister!”
[Joy. If you do well, there is no problem at all.]
First of all, Erin sent back the hundred demons she summoned.
“Thanked! Master!”
Even so, she bowed her head and did not forget to express her thanks to Siete alone.
She said, “All right. Buy her a drink later with her protégé.”
“Yes! All right!”
As soon as all the hundred demons were reverse summoned, Erin started making the phantom beast with the nine-tailed fox.
The creation of the phantom beast that the nine-tailed fox teaches Erin is a technique she independently created through witchcraft, and is her original expression of the extreme of witchcraft.
It is simple to make phantom water.
Erin’s role is to put her magical power in the frame made by the nine-tailed fox, and in the process to draw an image of her phantom beast in her head.
The reason why this has not been possible so far is that Erin’s knowledge as a divine beast was far from lacking, but the fundamental reason was that the amount of magical power required to create her phantom beast was absurdly insufficient.
Originally, I had no intention of teaching Erin this magic.
But now, this moment.
As Erin absorbed all of the power of another nine-tailed fox, she gained immense magical power, and she fulfilled the condition.
‘Is it coincidence or fate… I don’t know.’
I couldn’t help thinking that this situation itself was like a script drawn up by someone else, as if it were an opportunity to stimulate her Erin’s growth.
If this was a script written according to someone’s intentions, Gumiho wondered what his role would be in this script.
After much thought, Gumiho decided to pass on his vision to Erin.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that Erin, who is still at an insufficient level as a divine beast, will not be able to fully inherit that vision.
‘But someday I’ll take over completely.’
I don’t know how many decades or hundreds of years it will take, but as long as Eun-hyeon is with us, the end of Erin being reborn as a perfect divine being has already been decided.
By observing Erin until then, the gumiho made her conclusion.
[Imagine.]
The clearer and more specific the image is, the faster the birth of the phantom beast and the stronger its presence.
Accepting the advice led by the nine-tailed fox, the first thing Erin thought of was the shape of a fox.
A giant fox who guarded the entrance to the tomb of the Pernias family under the orders of Ortas, who once lived in Orbis Island hiding his identity.
The appearance of a gigantic beast that showed off its majesty by revealing its sharp teeth while revealing elegance with its nine tails wagging as if overflowing.
[The name of this sorcery is ‘Strong Power’.]