Chapter 369 – God
#369.
“Die!”
“Haap!”
Kwagwagwang!
A sword and a spear collide to create shockwaves.
A tense tug of war in which neither side backs down. Feeling the flow of power, Hayeon swung the spear and let the sword flow.
However, Levan Martini skillfully retrieves the sword and removes the stabbing spear.
10 minutes from the raid. In the meantime, the heat of the fight had reached its peak.
Kaaang!
Again, the swords collided with sparks flying. For Levan Martini, he felt the urgency to defeat the enemy in front of him even a second faster.
‘Shit. What the hell are they doing?’
If there were five guardians, it was a great power that could reduce a considerable amount of power to ashes overnight.
And yet, how can you be pushed so far? I can’t believe it at all.
The 1st seat of guardian, Israel, first rushed at the mysterious man’s attack, and now he was fighting like crazy somewhere far away.
Even when he shows up occasionally, isn’t it rather pushed back?
The incontinence slowly spread and caused a crack in the faith and trust towards him.
A gap arises in the agitation.
The flame-bearing feathers that hovered leisurely in the sky flew from the square.
“This!”
Kwakwagwagwang!
I try to dissipate the impact of the explosion as much as possible, but the heat alone is enough to take a hit. His wrists were also tingling and painful from the impact.
Then, Ha-yeon gathered all her strength and focused on one point and threw herself down with her spear.
Phew!
The spear cut through the wind without even resisting and pierced Levan Martini’s stomach.
“Keoouk!”
Along with the intense pain, I felt that my vision was going far away. His lungs shrunk because he was choking and unable to breathe.
When her oxygen supply is cut off, her brain goes on strike and she eventually faints.
Ha-yeon threw the Levan Martini, which fell on her, to the floor, holding her breath.
“Whew, it’s quite different from what it looks like.”
She thought it would be no big deal because her eyes were torn all the way, and she was only good at mean tricks. But to her surprise, she was a paladin on the same level as her.
Hayeon shook her spear lightly and waved her hand at Isabella, who supported her party in the air.
Kwakwang!
At the same time, the fight ended with the guardian holding the sword who had been hit in the temple by Lougiena’s dagger from one side.
Fortunately, Gail Brave, the 2nd seat of guardian whom he often met face to face, could not be seen as if he was not involved in the human experiment.
If it wasn’t for him and Israel, the rest of the Guardians would never be able to compete with the party.
Ha-yeon saw Cho-rin leaping out of her shield and heading for her carriage, and she moved closer.
“Sister!”
“Oh, Ha Yeon-ah. Are you injured anywhere?”
“I’m fine. I’m fine!”
“Okay? Thank god. But Ha Yeon-ah. Excuse me, can I go straight to the carriage? I’m worried about Serendia.”
“Sure. Let’s go together! I’m curious too. What the hell would the godhead fragment look like?”
There is no God in Union. This is because all those gathered here are those whose dimensions were once stolen by the Dimension Eaters.
Of course, since she has never come into contact with the existence of a god, she has never witnessed a god, and as Ha-yeon, who came from an earth where supernatural powers did not exist, she cannot help but be especially curious.
Chorin smiled at her innocent appearance and hurried to the carriage.
The chariot’s wheels had all been crushed by Isabella’s feathers flying right after Gaon had pulled out Izrael.
The door was already wide open. A man’s cries are heard from inside.
“Serleader! Come to your senses! Serendia!”
There, Alexander was holding Serendia lying dead on the bed and caressing her face endlessly.
Chorin looked at the scene with her sad eyes and suddenly felt a certain attraction and turned her head to her side.
“Ah…”
Then I saw a cluster of green lights shining brilliantly in her transparent box.
People feel fear when faced with the unknown. That extreme emotion makes humans have simple thoughts.
Perhaps that is why even the slightest change can turn fear into awe.
That was right in front of my eyes.
It is hard to keep an eye on her deity fragments, which are mysterious enough to make her heart reverent just by looking at them, yet boast a divine aura.
Chorin involuntarily took one or two steps towards her deity fragment.
Eventually, the moment her hand got close enough to touch,
Passsss…
The light from her deity fragment flashed once, and the box that stood in the way between her and Chorin disappeared as if her eyes were melting.
And without a chance to respond, the fragments of the divine attack flew like rays of light and permeated Chorin’s chest.
After a very short delay,
Wow!
Brilliant green light soared to form a long column reaching up to the sky.
It tells only one thing.
God descended on this land.
***
Halfway up the mountainside where the leyline collapsed.
Gaon, who was exchanging battles with Israel without a chance to breathe, stepped back while looking up at the pillar of light that turned the sky green.
Israel also felt the intense divinity radiating from the pillar of light and narrowed his eyes.
At the time when the two of them were confused by the unexpected situation and continued to confront, sparks flashed and Isabella flew quickly.
She shouted in an urgent voice.
“Gaon! It’s a big deal!”
“… Is there a problem?”
“Lee Cho-rin absorbed the Deity Fragment.”
“A Godhead Fragment?”
“Huh. According to Joo Ha-yeon, something like a halo of light flew in on its own.”
At most, she thought that the guardians who were cornered must have hurriedly transplanted the godhead fragment to her saintess.
Could Chorin absorb it? Gaon couldn’t contain her rising anxiety.
I wanted to go check the situation right away, but I couldn’t move recklessly as long as Israel was there.
While hesitating, Ezrael suddenly released her powers, returning her body to its original state and retracting the sword.
Looking at me curiously, he said.
“There is no reason to fight any longer.”
“What?”
“I don’t know the details, but the box containing the Goddess Fragment is an item that can never be forcibly opened. If it melted by itself and the fragments of her godhead flew by themselves, it would mean that she chose the woman named Icho Rin as her master. For me, if Martina-sama returns, that will be enough. Nothing else matters.”
So, it means that Israel is just hoping for the resurrection of the goddess, and it doesn’t matter who wields the power.
Even if the resurrection went through inhumane processes such as human experimentation and brainwashing.
While Gaon muttered that he was a madman, he stored Poongun in the subspace.
As soon as the immediate situation was over, Isabella took the lead with the pillar of light.
After a while, when she arrived there, she was able to see Chorin lying on her back, floating about 2 meters in the pillar of light.
Her face was calm. Her calm expression, as if nothing had happened, seemed to say that all her worries were futile.
Ezrael, standing next to him, nodded heavily at the divine sight.
“Indeed. There must be a reason the church was trying to secure new recruits. Absorbing the Deity Fragment without causing any backlash.”
“Rebellion?”
“Did you not know? Hundreds or thousands of attempts have been made so far, but the test subjects could not withstand the backlash of the divine fragments and their bodies collapsed. Even the saintess made all her preparations, and the transplant success rate was less than 30%. It is truly a miracle that there is nothing wrong with sudden absorption.”
The way she casually reveals her own sins is hateful enough to make me want to kill her right away, but I sympathize with her at least one point.
‘It’s a miracle.’
A life that entered her maiden belly without any sign of it. This is the part where you can see that her birth is unusual.
Chorin’s very existence was a miracle.
Maybe that’s why it was possible to accept the godhead fragment. It was to find a host for perfect resurrection.
It reminds me of one assumption that I didn’t want to think about. Gaon bit his lip.
‘What will happen now?’
It’s fortunate if it’s simply absorbing the divine fragments to acquire divinity and be reborn as a goddess.
But what if that’s not the case? What if the godhead fragment contained the personality of Martina, the goddess of life, and eventually swallowed Chorin’s body?
So what should he do if he ends up losing all his original memories.
Time continued to pass in worry, and the end was at last.
Sssss…
The pillar of light seemed to be getting thinner little by little, and then Chorin’s body slowly sank down.
Soon, the eyelids trembled and flashed! It opened with a flash of light.
There was a strange sense of intimidation in the eyes filled with languid yet dreamy energy. As if looking down from a distant height, the feeling of weight is enormous.
Chorin’s eyes passed people one after another, and she finally turned to Gaon. But she has no emotion that can be seen in her eyes.
Gaon clenched her fists hard at her amplifying anxiety before approaching her with her stride.
“Chorin.”
“…”
“Why are you not saying anything? Can’t you remember me? Say something!”
Silence is unfamiliar
Her emerald eyes, which were usually full of affection for him, are cold. It felt like someone was holding my heart.
It was the moment when he could not hide his emotional agitation and tried to threaten again.
“Huh!”
Cracks spread across his face, which had been as hard as frozen ground on a cold winter day, and eventually smiled.
Even the eyes that seemed to be looking at objects, not people, suddenly became lively and showed their feelings toward him.
She smiled at her warming.
“I’m surprised?”
“… Mr. Chorin?”
“It was a joke, but were you surprised? Why can’t I remember Mr. Gaon? He is the person I love.”
“…”
“Are you really that surprised? She is surprisingly timid, Mr. Gaon? I’m going to call you a coward coward.”
As a joke, Chorin gently poked his cheek with her finger.
Warm warmth was transmitted through the contact surface and touched her heart. Gaon couldn’t stand it any longer and hugged Chorin tightly.
“Thank god. Thank god.”
“Miss Gaon…”
“I was scared. I’m afraid Chorin won’t remember me. She’s afraid we’ll never be together again. I’m really, really glad.”
She had no room for bravado. I was just happy at this moment. She could only thank the world for not taking Chorin.
Perhaps feeling that, Chorin erased her mischief and she patted him on the back.
“Don’t worry. Together for life I am not leaving.”
“… I will not let you go.”
Gaon said that as if he had promised, and restrained Chorin stronger than ever.