Chapter 837 – Mythology Academy
“I see. I understand that you are an ancestor… More specifically, a descendant of the Flame Emperor. But what on earth does it mean to be ‘sold’?”
Walter laughs bitterly at Gerhardt’s question and then answers his question with a difficult expression.
“But unlike the Demon Emperor, who came to his senses at the end, our ancestor, the Flame Emperor, could not give up his greed for power and eternal life until the very end. Even until the moment he realized the truth and was attacked by his enraged vassals and blood relatives and died!!”〈 Br〉
‘… He was quite crazy.’
Normally, if he is judged to have been used, like the Demon Emperor, he becomes angry and has to retaliate against the being who used him, but in the case of the Flame Emperor, unlike the Demon Emperor, he was unable to come to his senses perhaps because he was thoroughly used from deep within his soul.
In order to preserve his soul, his power, and his eternal life, he ultimately offers his soul to Tala at the moment of his death. However, after accepting his soul, Tala deliberately left him to die.
“The Flame Emperor offered his soul to Tala and begged, but Tala seemingly did not save his life. But…”
Interestingly, and surprisingly, Tala didn’t really give up his chess piece, Yan Emperor. He truly came to ‘favor’ the Flame Emperor, who for hundreds of years had become corrupted by his whispers and turned into a chess piece to suit his taste.
‘Well… A monster who is intoxicated with power and desire and eats his own flesh and blood is a piece of trash that suits Tala’s tastes.’
Tala makes it look as if the Flame Emperor has been completely destroyed after being killed by his minions. The reason he went to such trouble to conceal the Flame Emperor’s whereabouts was, in fact, because the ‘Flame Emperor’ was not simply a corrupted being, but because Tala had secretly mixed his essence into his soul.
In fact, Tala is not simply playing with the Flame Emperor in order to use him, but is a kind of ‘medium’ who has made it possible for him to ‘re-descend’ to the world of Mythology ‘singlely’ at any time. In other words, it was closer to having insurance.
“… Tala did not want his ‘brothers’ to discover the secret and steal or destroy the Flame Emperor. That is why he wanted everyone to see him as an incompetent and corrupt fool until the end.”
Thanks to such a brilliant trick of deceiving even his allies, the Flame Emperor was not destroyed and a ‘part’ of his soul was barely able to survive and take its place in the lineage of his descendants.
“… It was all because of the ritual that we often mistakenly thought was a ‘family ritual.'”
In fact, the ‘family ritual’ based on crystals was close to the ritual of offering one’s body and soul to Tala. Therefore, most of the descendants of the Flame Emperor, regardless of whether they were strong or weak, had no choice but to be bound by a contract with Tala.
“… So, are you saying that all descendants of the Flame Emperor are slaves of Tala?”
Interestingly, in response to Seong-il’s question, Walter nods his head as if saying no. When Seong-il doesn’t understand and asks him back, Walter gives a very surprising answer.
The reason is that the binding of a contract becomes stronger as the recipient receives excellent compensation, but surprisingly, the Tala did not give any special blessings to the descendants of the Emperor of Flame, and as a result, the Tala had no choice but to have a weak binding force.
“Wait… Then what is superpower awakening?!”
Seong-il listens to Walter’s story and points out the contradictions. In response to his question, Walter reveals a shocking secret.
This tells us that the blessing of awakening supernatural power that the Flame Emperor obtained through the ritual was surprisingly not Tala’s.
“… Wait a minute. The crystal wasn’t what allowed the awakening of superpowers?”
“Yes. Surprisingly yes. Really surprisingly.”
“…?!”
Seong-il thought he fully understood the current situation in the world of Mythology, but when he heard an unexpected statement from Walter’s mouth, he was so shocked that he couldn’t answer and just blinked.
“… Surprisingly, the power that granted superpowers was not the power of a foreign body.”
“Hmm!? Then who dropped it off?”
A question in a surprised tone comes out of the mouth of Dean Anila, who was quietly listening to the story.
“I… I don’t know if it’s accurate because I haven’t seen it in person. Tala really likes to deceive and deceive people…”
Still, Walter begins to explain the behind-the-scenes story of how Tala entered the world of Mythology.
“Tala said… One day she suddenly felt a strange and foreign ‘shock’ that had never been felt before in the universe, occurring somewhere in the universe.”
Tala was just like any other day, spreading deception and lies into the universe for her own pleasure. In the meantime, one day, he feels a strong and heterogeneous shock occurring in the multiverse and becomes curious.
“It was a subtle shock that only Tala, who usually enjoyed looking across the universe to play with mortals, could feel, but the wavelength was so foreign that it strongly attracted Tala’s attention.”
In fact, she loved toying with the plane and the mortals who lived there, but in the plane where Tala reigned as an absolute god, the mortals who inhabited it had already been modified to her liking, so she got tired of them and went to a place beyond her power. I enjoyed playing with mortals.
However, it was very difficult for Tala, a great person, to enter another dimension to influence mortals in another dimension. It would have been a hundred times easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Because of this, Tala, who was always unable to approach mortals, was always paying attention to various small dimensions with a regretful mind, looking for openings, and because of such efforts, Tala was able to quickly catch intense but subtle events that occurred in that dimension.
“And that situation brought great luck to Tala.”
Tala realizes that a strong, unidentifiable shock has occurred in one dimension, causing a serious problem to the point where the dimension is torn apart for a moment.
Tala urgently explores the world. In the world we call the world of Mythology, an unidentified ‘meteorite’ suddenly appeared, tearing through time, space, and dimensions.
Tala was very interested in the appearance of the unusual meteorite, but since the Mythology world where the meteorite appeared was not her dimension, there was a problem that she could not pour power directly into that dimension. Therefore, Tala, like the god of strategy, thinks quickly and decides to boldly use the meteorite.
“Tala decided to change the order of things. First, he would borrow the power of the meteorite to imbue some of the essence of our world, and then analyze the meteorite based on that.”
Although Tala does not know the identity of the meteorite that destroyed the dimension that even the gods dare not dare to do, and it is possible that serious problems could arise in the essence of being with such a powerful meteorite, there is a danger that Tala’s essence may be damaged for her own ‘pleasure’. I decide to take it.
Thus, Tala takes the bold action of cutting off part of her essence and quickly sending it beyond a dimension that has not yet been restored.
“… What was the identity of the meteorite?”
When Seong-il hears the story of the meteorite, which somehow gives him a strong sense of déjà vu, he swallows slightly and asks Walter about its identity.
“Surprisingly… Even a god as powerful as Tala was unable to determine the facts about the meteorite, despite investigating its essence.”
Tala is simply a meteorite that is divided into time, space, and dimension. Even ignoring the laws of the universe, we only understand that we tore apart space and time and arrived here.
Tala is fascinated by a very mysterious and powerful meteorite. For the first time in a very long time, he puts aside his troubles with mortals and begins to furiously analyze the meteorite.
However, even Tala, such a powerful deity, fails to reveal the true identity of the meteorite. Tala was simply able to figure out that the meteorite somehow strongly stimulated the minds of living intelligent life forms, causing them to ‘ascend’ to higher beings.
‘No way… No way…?’
As Seong-il travels through various worlds in the past, he comes across various settings of other game worlds that he encountered ‘by chance’. However, since that situation was only ‘partial’, Seong-il desperately pushes his concerns forward and denies that it was his thoughts.
“Despite spending so much time analyzing, Tala was ultimately unable to discover the identity of the meteorite. But he was not disappointed or angry. Instead, Tala had already come to this. Ignoring the circumstances, he had originally been unable to enter. I decided to take advantage of being able to insert essence into the mortal world.”
As the god of deception, Tala turns his brains on and quickly begins to come up with a plan on how to use this meteorite to play with mortals. After taking control of the Mythology dimension, he thought he would be able to analyze meteorites at a higher level because he could project his own body into this world.
Tala, who changed his plan, decided to use the power of the meteorite as much as possible, but since he did not understand the intention of the meteorite, he tried to control the power as much as possible so that it could be used according to ‘his’ will.
“… That’s how ‘Sujeong’ was born.”
