Chapter 697 – The Day the Gods Came ─ the Princess Heads to the ‘Nest’ Where the Old Gods Reside.
“I want to know what happened, Captain Yuna.”
Yuna, who has been talking to the people around her for a while, smiles brightly at a word from General Jade, who is holding a cup of coffee in his left hand.
“Ah, General. Looks like you’ve already heard the story.”
“I can’t help but listen. It seems like it’s been quite loud for the past few hours.”
General Jade’s eyes were shining as he sipped his coffee.
“Eve Terra, Lilith, and Venus Holympia, which we introduced last time and are called VVIPs, have moved out of the space center.”
“Ho… That Eve Terra?”
There was a reason for the general’s surprise. Eve was a woman famous for never falling off the spaceship no matter what happened.
It was clear that she had been working hard to create hope for humanity for 20 years, but she had been suspicious of General Jayde for a long time.
“Good, I guess I can put into practice what I was planning from last time.”
“Uh, General? You know that this is a very dangerous plan, right? I can’t recommend it.”
“Captain Yuna…”
General Jayde closed his eyes and shook his head quietly from side to side.
“It is clear that Eve Terra devoted herself to humanity, but isn’t it her fault for creating this situation in the first place?”
“General… You saw it with me last time. You can’t say it’s her fault alone, right? Furthermore, you know that, right?”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s not like she did something crazy like resurrecting her old god on her own.”
The general clucks his tongue and sips his coffee again.
“But something happened that someone must take responsibility for, and Eve Terra is the perfect person to take that responsibility.”
“General? Hasn’t Eve Terra served humanity for 20 years? She’s done more than she could do on her own, right? I’m not trying to take her side, but…”
Yuna takes a deep breath.
“She is the only one who has complete control over this Olympia spaceship and the ability to repair it in case something goes wrong.”
“It doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason… The higher-ups didn’t want Eve Terra on board the spaceship.”
“General Jade. Do you know what those high-ranking people are doing right now? Except for receiving situation reports from us through the cyber network once every six months, that crazy—”
“Captain Yuna, be careful what you say.”
When General Jayde puts down her coffee and says something, Yuna twists her face and laughs.
“You should be careful what you say!! Eve Terra has been building the Olympia spaceship for 20 years! The only human who can maintain this spaceship, so it doesn’t get destroyed! For the satisfaction of the high-ranking people who are messing around on the cyber network. Let’s throw it away?!”
“Yuna…”
“Are you crazy, General?! Are you spinning?! The few engineers and scientists who are stuck on this ship! You know that even if you gather them all, they are worse than one Eve Terra! Come to your senses!!”
As Yuna screams, her face turning bright red, General Jayde places her hand on her face.
“I guess… I guess I’ve been ordering you to watch over Eve Terra for too long. I never thought you’d act this emotionally.”
“It’s not emotional, you’re probably crazy! Aren’t you seriously talking nonsense about launching this spaceship while Eve is out for a moment…!”
“Isn’t it true that Eve Terra hid the fact that the spaceship was completed?”
“So! I told you in the report earlier! This spaceship is not complete yet! The most important step—”
─Taang!
“Ah… Ha…?”
Yuna barely moves her right-hand due to the terrible pain she feels in her chest, and caresses her chest, which is spitting out bright red blood.
“My… Collock… General… Are you crazy…? You can’t fire… Kolok, I’m telling you this from the bottom of my heart…”
Yuna flops down in her seat and lets out her breath with difficulty.
“Captain Yuna. You greatly underestimate the outstanding talents of this great country.”
“What’s underestimating… Kolok, you… Will kill us all…”
Blood spurted out from Yuna’s mouth as she exhaled with difficulty, but General Jade’s expression did not change at all as he pulled the trigger.
“Let the operation continue.”
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“Wouldn’t it have been better to bring Virgilia too?”
At the princess’s words, Eve, who was standing behind her, looked dumbfounded.
“You want me to bring my only daughter with me on my way to capture the ‘old god’ who turned this Earth into a post-apocalyptic era?”
“Well, that’s not a very good idea. It would be safer if I stayed at the space center with Yuna.”
Because Eve and Lilith answered one word at the same time, the princess stopped mentioning Virgilia.
The three of them were standing in a ruin that had been completely destroyed to their surprise.
“Anyway… You guys know where the old gods are, right?”
“It has to be that way. If they appear near the space center, it doesn’t matter if it’s like a solar wind has passed by. There have to be one or two things that break down, so we can ignore them.”
“The radiation emitted from the body, yes, the nectanium, is enormous, so tracking it isn’t that difficult.”
The princess nods her head and points in a direction with her finger.
There were the remains of a really huge, huge building.
“Anyway, if it’s true that Lilith’s… Tracking device is working properly, then it’s true that there are old gods in that giant nest, right?”
Nest, the moment they heard that word, Eve and Lilith laughed at the same time.
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone describe a baseball field that way.”
“Well, to be exact, it’s a group, general division, stadium…”
“Don’t I have different eyes than you?! Just understand roughly!!!”
Seeing the princess looking embarrassed, Eve sighs and bursts into laughter.
“That’s right. There must be an old god in that ‘nest’. I’ll tell you in advance…”
Eve points at herself and then at Lilith who is standing next to her.
“My wife and I cannot provide any help with Mr. VVIP’s crazy behavior. Well, if you need a trap and ask us to make one or two traps, of course we can make them for you.”
“Choi, I brought as much equipment from the space center as possible, but…”
“Well, don’t worry about the equipment. I brought Flamel, which Mr. VVIP praised for being able to use alchemy.”
Eve shrugs and points behind herself.
“Is that golem… Flamel… It’s quite surprising that they even gave it a name…”
“As I said before, this is not a golem, but an android that can walk in any environment, and the square box attached to its back is a ‘flamel’, right?”
“F, F, Flamel, to be exact, reassembles molecules…”
The moment Lilith was about to explain, the princess waved her hand. She couldn’t understand anyway.
“Anyway! Isn’t it an alchemy box that can create anything by hitting it with something and voila!”
“Ha… Have you seen Lilith? I told you there was no point in explaining it.”
Lilith couldn’t help but show an expression of understanding at Eve’s words.
“Anyway…! The story around here is quite different from what I thought.”
The princess points to the ruins and the huge ‘nest’ with her hand.
“Why? Did you think it would be full of monsters shedding golden tears? You took your weapons with you.”
“But it can’t be helped, right? If you think about the monsters you encountered on the way to the space center, the number was truly enormous.”
“Of course. Even the poor who complained about not having enough houses to fill a large city have all turned into such monsters.”
Eve scratched the back of her head, looked around, and waved her hand.
“You’ll find out soon enough. Soon.”
Eve slowly walks forward.
The princess thought she was in danger for a moment, but the path to the huge nest was surprisingly quiet.
The princess had swung the weapon in her hand several times on her way here, and she was well aware of the noise made by monsters shedding golden tears.
“It’s strange that you can’t hear that kind of sound here…”
The princess was standing a little high up and looking at her nest. The moment she reached the ground filled with black stones along Eve’s buttocks, she realized that the pure white fog was deeper than she thought.
And as she dug through the fog, she realized that there were ‘some beings’ on the left and right of Eve walking forward, and she couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
“Eve… Are these… Different from those monsters…?”
“That’s a biological answer, so Lilith would know. But…”
Eve cautiously walks forward, making a clicking sound, but does not answer until the end.
“It’s the same creature. It’s human to begin with. So… I don’t know why, but these people who are hypnotized by the old gods you call monsters…”
Lilith’s voice was cautious.
“I don’t know why, but like this… Yes, when I arrive at the place where the old gods are, I take a posture of raising energy and praying. After that, I don’t move, as if I’m in permanent hibernation.”
“No matter what I do, it won’t wake me up?”
“Yes, even if Mr. Venus kicks me.”
The princess swallowed her saliva at that one word and very carefully stepped through the puddle made of the golden liquid spilled by the monsters and headed towards the huge nest.
“It’s funny to come all the way here and check again, Mr. VVIP? Are you really planning to capture the old gods in such an insane way?”
The princess nods her head at a word from Eve, who is standing in front of her.
“Don’t worry. I know better than anyone else how to captivate an arrogant woman.”
Lilith swallowed her saliva and sighed as she looked at the princess speaking confidently.
“The, the, the, the, the way, it’s rape… If someone else had told me, don’t be crazy, I would have told you, really…”
