Chapter 685 – The Ark
Yoo Chang-jin briskly pushes through the promotion test, which should have taken several weeks, without even reviewing it.
After lightly thanking him, Seong-il turns his back and walks back to the dorm.
“Uncle… It’s not going to harm that friend anyway… Isn’t it kind of like being restrained and tested?”
“Heh heh… You guys are really…”
“Ah, I’m not trying to do something inhumane either…”
“No. I don’t mean that.”
After cutting Yoo Jun-kyung’s words, Yoo Chang-jin, who came back as the head of the stern Hunter Association, asks the two colleagues with a strange expression.
“You know what?”
“Yes? What…?”
“That friend wasn’t intimidated by me in the slightest.”
“Ah, he’s a bit bold.”
Min Ye-jin, who is confident that she knows Seong-il a little bit, answers Chang-jin Yoo’s words with a slight smile.
“No. I don’t mean that.”
“Yes? Then?”
“That friend. He really didn’t feel the slightest threat to you or me. That means he’s confident in his skills.”
“Yes?”
When Yoo Chang-jin explains that Hunter, who is only a B-level at best, is not afraid of a confrontation with them, Min Ye-jin and even Yoo Jun-kyung look dumbfounded.
“Why? Can’t you believe it? But, I’m also a person with sensitivity?”
“Ah, well… It’s not that I don’t believe it…”
“It’s true. That friend, he didn’t feel any threat against us. Normally, he would feel threatened if a being with a higher authority and stronger than himself repeatedly invited him to experiment, but he didn’t feel any pressure. “
“Hmm…”
At Yoo Chang-jin’s words, the other two hunters quickly erased their absurd attitude and pondered something.
“We. No, we may have something of a secret that can withstand or escape even against all the guardians of reason.”
Yoo Chang-jin looked at the door where his holy days left, with a very interesting expression on his face.
***
‘Looks like he’s hiding something…’
Seong-il said as if the chairman had coolly told him all the facts to ask for his cooperation, but in reality, he instinctively sensed that he was cleverly hiding some truths.
‘It seemed like he had left out some truths and told me… But at least everything he told me was true, so…’
As the actions of the chairman are a deceptive ploy that he likes to use, Seong-il does not criticize him.
As he walks down the street, thinking about many things, Seong-il realizes that he has reached the front of the inn before he knew it.
‘Whoa… Let’s start soon.’
He has prepared and practiced countless times, but apart from that, when he thinks of sharing his secret with someone in real life, Seong-il feels his heart beat.
Kiki…!!
“I’m here?”
The voice of a beautiful woman can be heard as you open the door and enter.
“Didn’t everything happen?”
“Yeah. Anyway, why did you visit the Association?”
At the time of dawn, he couldn’t ask because he was tired and deep asleep, but now that he is awake, Lee Ah-hyun wonders why Seong-il visited the association unexpectedly.
“Ah, because of the promotion review application.”
Surprisingly, when he hears that Seong-il has applied for a grade review that goes up vertically from grade C to grade A, Lee Ah-hyun’s expression turns into astonishment.
“You… You… Are you applying because you’re really confident!?”
Perhaps Lee Ah-hyun was quite surprised by Seong-il’s behavior beyond common sense, so she broke her usual poker face and asked Seong-il a question in a loud voice.
“Yeah. Well… To be honest, I don’t think it will be difficult.”
Seong-il recites to Lee Ah-hyun exactly what he heard about the promotion review.
“…After all, don’t you mean you have to awaken new abilities to pass the test? Are you confident?”
Instead of answering Lee Ah-hyun’s words, Seong-il takes a coin from his pocket and flicks it into the air.
“…?”
Lee Ah-hyun doesn’t understand Seong-il’s sudden behavior and makes a puzzled expression.
“…!!”
In the meantime, surprisingly, the appearance of a coin slowly falling from the air. Lee Ah-hyun realizes that the coin is affected by some kind of psychic power.
“You… You… Have awakened your abilities again?!”
Surprisingly, Seong-il seems to have awakened an ability related to deceleration in addition to response and physical strengthening, and Lee Ah-hyun’s expression turns into astonishment.
“What are you playing with? You can wake up as much as you like.”
“What nonsense…”
It was for a while that he looked shocked. When Lee Ah-hyun and her lover Seong-il, the only colleague she relied on in her ark, seem to have widened their skills again, her expression turns melancholy.
“Ha… If you pass, we’ll have to work as a separate team now.”
“Why?”
“…Why? It’s obvious that I’ll become a burden to you now.”
Lee Ah-hyun, who usually doesn’t have severe emotional ups and downs, responds to her Seong-il with a strong reaction, as if she was quite shocked.
“Are you sure you can do it like me?”
“Don’t play with words!!”
When it seems that the distance between her and the only person she can entrust to herself has widened, Lee Ah-hyun becomes uncharacteristically emotional.
However, even after seeing her like that, instead of appeasing her Seong-il, she smiles and tells her Lee Ah-hyun.
“Have you already forgotten what I said yesterday?”
“…!!”
The time when her depression and frustration filled her whole body and her emotions could not be controlled. A word of her holy day that struck her own ear.
Only then does Lee Ah-hyun recall that her Seong-il believed in some kind of pseudo-religion.
“You…”
“You explained everything yesterday. The reason I was able to grow so fast.”
“That’s what you mean…”
Since it is an explanation that makes no sense, Lee Ah-hyun only distorts her expression, but does not show any positive reaction from her.
“It’s okay. You haven’t forgotten the promise to go with me, right?”
“Hmm…”
When Seong-il spoke to herself with a cold and hard expression instead of the usual warm expression, Lee Ah-hyun hesitated slightly and fell silent.
“Once you go, you’ll know whether my words are bullshit or not. So, are you going to go or not?”
“…I’ll go. I promised.”
After receiving an affirmative answer from Lee Ah-hyun, Seong-il smiles at her and tells her one of her conditions once again.
“As I said before, if what I say turns out to be true, you should seriously consider joining the Goddess Church, as you promised me. You haven’t forgotten, have you?”
“…I’m not stupid enough to forget it all in one day. However, what if I don’t like the religion after hearing all the stories?”
Perhaps because of the aliens, Lee A-hyeon questions Seong-il with a hostile attitude.
“Ah, in that case, just keep the secret. Joining is free. There is absolutely no compulsion.”
“Okay.”
She was confident enough to persuade Lee Ah-hyun, and Seong-il replied with a determined expression.
“Okay. Then let’s go.”
When Lee Ah-hyun doesn’t deny it, Seong-il secretly opens her inventory and takes out the last remaining dimension of the pineapple house.
“…That?”
When Seong-il takes out something bizarre from his bosom, Lee Ah-hyun looks at it with a slightly nervous expression.
Design is also design, but since the bizarre pineapple Seong-il took out repeatedly fades and brightens, Ah-hyeon feels that the object is unusual.
“I know when I see it.
Seong-il brings the pineapple house of the dimension to the door of the small room he usually uses as a dressing room.
“!!”
Then, the pineapple house of the dimension is sucked into the door as if it melts. Seeing the unrealistic sight, Ah-hyun makes a surprised expression.
“This is an artifact that allows you to cross dimensions. Follow me.”
Seong-il, who gave her a brief explanation of the pineapple house in her dimension, held her hand in her hand and led her to open her door.
“!!!!”
Seong-il’s sudden action reveals a shocking scene to Lee Ah-hyun’s eyes, who walks beyond her door without thinking.
The interior of an antique building like marble. When a situation like Alice in Wonderland occurs to her, Lee Ah-hyun is shocked and loses consciousness.
“Follow me. This is just a stopover. The real thing is different.”
“Yes?!”
When Seong-il tries to lead him somewhere else instead of explaining the situation, Lee Ah-hyun blankly follows him with a dumbfounded expression.
“This…”
A door with a grand and massive design. The time when Lee Ah-hyun stared blankly at the door. Seong-il opens the door of the transcendent without hesitation and leads Lee Ah-hyun.
“!!!!”
And now an even more shocking scene inside. Strangely, there are several doors floating in the air in the larger and more beautiful plaza than before, making the viewer feel unrealistic.
“Is she the ‘colleague’ Seongil-goon spoke of?”
“!!”
As Lee Ah-hyun looks around and frantically looks around, she hears a beautiful voice from behind.
Ah-hyeon, who regained her consciousness, turned her back and saw a beautiful woman with impressive silver hair looking at her.
“Everything… You…?”
“My name is Auril Avalanche. An apostle of the Goddess who serves the great harvest goddess. Nice to meet you. Miss Lee Ah-hyun.”
‘Oh… It kills the mood.’
The appearance of Aruril, which is 180 degrees different from the usual lively atmosphere. Inwardly, Seong-il admires her solemn appearance, befitting an apostle in charge of a school.
“What the hell… This is… What kind of space is this?!”
“This is her own dimension, created by her Goddess out of sympathy for her humanity. We call this her Eden.”
As promised with her seongil, Auril begins to recite the dramatization of the truth of her inner plane to Lee Ah-hyun.
“Another dimension…?!”
“Yes. Another dimension. Aren’t you already living in a dimension ark built by the Guardian of Reason? What’s so surprising?”
“…”
Aruril explains her Inner Plane to Ah-Hyun with her calm demeanor. It explains that this is a new dimension that has just been created, and that it is a space where life can live thanks to the temple and the power of the dimension tree.
“Follow me. Normally, I don’t do trivial things like this, but… Since you’re a talent recommended by Seongil-gun, I’ll give you special treatment today.”
“…”
Normally, she would have calmly questioned Arrill, who speaks incomprehensible words, but because the current situation she is facing is so shocking, Lee Ah-hyun, uncharacteristically of her, can’t respond and just quietly follows her.
“Ah…”
The inside of the magnificent temple that can be seen after descending the huge open space on the third floor. Ah-Hyeon Lee, surprised by her overwhelming inner scene, constantly looks around.
And when you reach the first floor, you see a huge stone statue. The stone statue of a beautiful woman with a voluptuous body was oddly coexisting with a sacred and erotic look.
“That stone statue is the goddess I told you about a while ago. Isn’t it wonderful?”
“Hmm…”
Normally, she would have boldly said what she felt without hesitation, but now she is overwhelmed by the mysterious situation and her head is in a daze. Because of this, Ahyeon Lee just listens to Aruril’s explanation, cringing like a country girl who came to Seoul for the first time.
“…For this reason, the Goddess came down to this world with pity on human beings. However, if she acted directly on the earth, she could have a bad influence on human beings, so she chose me, an apostle, to save the world.”
Aruril, who took a tour of her magnificent temple, showed the beautiful garden outside her temple and continued her explanation about her goddess to Lee Ah-hyun.
Perhaps because she was overwhelmed by such a situation, Lee Ah-hyun takes a humble attitude and asks Arrill questions.
“Goddess… How do you want to help us humans?”
“The Goddess does not want a large-scale battle between humans and aliens. She is concerned that many innocent people will be sacrificed in the process.”
“…How can salvation be achieved without fighting?”
Lee Ah-hyun listens to Arrill’s explanation and asks her back with an expression of incomprehension.
“Whoops…”
However, Aruril only smiled lightly and did not give any answer.
He just wanted to walk for a while. A huge castle wall appears in front of them while walking through a beautiful lake and park.
“Behind this wall lies the answer to the question you asked.”
“…?”
Aruril’s answer is still puzzling. However, if you walk for a while, you can see beyond the wall, so Lee Ah-hyun doesn’t argue in particular and quietly follows Arrill.
“!!!!”
And the shocking sight beyond the wall. Ahyeon is speechless when a sophisticated and modern city appears out of nowhere.
“The Goddess wishes to bring all of humanity under the oppression of aliens to this place, ‘Eden’.”
