CH 402

ecdysis

“surely?”

“Did you find out something?”

“In memory… … . So, in my memory, which absorbed my life before I died, the portal was opened twice.”

One time that opened on the planet Midear and caused the New Dragon War, and one time that returned to Earth.

“The first stayed open after it was opened. Until the end of my life.”

“The second opened briefly and ended. It disappeared as soon as I entered the portal. As if I had done my duty.”

“Once was permanent and once was single-shot.”

“okay. If the creator is like that, then surely there is a purpose, right?”

“If the purpose is… … .”

Suho tapped his temple.

“I think this bastard pervert.”

Not knowing how far to face the blasphemy, Miso Kim kept her mouth shut.

“It’s about opening up the ecosystem called Earth and playing a survival game. Among the surviving species, only the strongest are gathered in the new realm.”

“It’s fine, God. It’s just like the figures this guy collects.”

Souvenirs of the surviving races.

The strongest of the beast race, the strongest of humans.

“But he kept trying to tie me to the planet Midear.”

I’ve talked to this extent, but it’s not Kim Mi-so that I can’t understand.

“Are you saying that you feel sorry for the strongest orcs?”

“right.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes?”

“What do you think? Do you think that’s right?”

“Ugh.”

Kim Mi-so briefly pondered and answered with a serious face. It was a question that could not be answered after thinking for a long time.

“I don’t know what his intentions are.”

“Ugh.”

Suho stroked his chin.

Well, I don’t know myself, but is it different from Kim Mi-so?

“Isn’t it more important to know how to act than to guess the intention?”

“That’s right.”

Suho strongly agreed with Kim Mi-so’s words.

Whatever the Creator’s intentions were, what he was going to do was more important.

If you’re born, you’re living hard, so what’s the point of asking why you were born?

However, I did a brief investigation because I don’t know why erosion really happens.

Either way, you need to know why to stop it.

What Suho wants is not to plant an apple tree in the face of destruction, but to prevent it.

“Hmm, I really don’t know.”

corrosion.

Curse of Death.

Is the Black Man really only acting as a device to prevent divine intervention on the perishing earth?

Anyway, the plan to save the earth that Suho and Baeksa had planned failed.

Blackman eventually descended on Earth and spread the curse of death.

There was no reason to go up to the new realm and search the tombs in Gucheon to defeat the Black Man.

What is the difference from before the earth returned by the white sand only after this?

“How about taking a look?”

“What?”

“Wouldn’t it be better to study the erosion by looking at it first?”

At Kim Mi-so’s words, Suho shook his head.

Obviously, before the return, Suho did not study erosion in depth.

There were too many dungeons on Earth, and because of the ceaselessly popping dungeons and the advent of the divine beasts, even a hundred were not enough.

At that time, I couldn’t even appoint Kim Mi-so as the high priest, and I couldn’t even appoint others as priests or knights of God.

‘I was trying to catch you in one room.’

Black men are the death of God anyway. The memory itself of a previous life.

Just as Suho defeated the Black Man and absorbed the Mana Stone, the Black Men united as if they were attracted to each other.

That’s what I thought then.

Rather than searching for hundreds of thousands of black men, wouldn’t it be okay to just wait for them to merge into one and then kill them?

He defeated the Black Man, but failed to save the Earth.

Because Suho City occupied only a handful of the Earth, and the rest of the area was eroded.

The dead black world was a space that could no longer be called Earth.

Suho’s choice is a return to the pre-erosion.

And he made a plan to protect the earth from the new realm so that erosion would not occur on the earth, but it went astray.

‘You have to try again to fail.’

Suho was aware of his own condition.

Erosion is not well understood.

The choice to go back as before is a hoax.

There is no point in repeating middle school life by returning because you are afraid of becoming a high school student.

If it is an unavoidable future, it is better to study accurately and prepare for it.

“Where is the nearest?”

Suho asked where the erosion took place, but Kim Miso’s answer was unexpected.

“A forest of beasts.”

“Huh?”

Suho’s head tilted obliquely.

“Isn’t that possible?”

Even when erosion occurred in the past life, only this place was safe.

Guardian City cannot be invaded by the curse of death.

Because the World Tree protects this area.

‘Maybe we should be planting trees before the real destruction.’

When Suho was distracted by a thought that suddenly came to mind, Kim Mi-so answered.

“Director Jae-sik Jang was eroded.”

“Ugh.”

Suho stroked his chin.

I can’t.

Erosion itself is death.

How could a living person be eroded?

Suho stood up, bearing in mind that his thoughts were about to continue.

I don’t know when I started having so many useless thoughts.

Wasn’t he clearly an activist who acted more directly than he thought?

‘Is it a side effect?’

If you kill Black Man, you get a Manastone.

Memories of past lives, experiences, and memories filled with power.

The guardian’s mental system was mixed with the lives of countless guardians who had already absorbed many magic stones.

The only thing that is not crazy is that Park Soo-ho is the only subject who has experienced various lives.

It was not a mixture of completely different selves, but a mixture of memories experienced by one self.

Since there are so many of them, it seems that part of their personality has also changed.

I was a little less improvised and thoughtful than before, but on the contrary, I was thinking too much.

“Let’s go for now.”

The guardian guild headquarters was built on the west gate of the inner city.

If you look through the western window, you can see the forest of the beast, and if you look through the eastern window, you can see the fortress.

pod.

Suho jumped out of the window and stood in front of the world tree as a single point of light.

The tree seems to be bigger.

The scope of the influence of the World Tree would have expanded as well.

In retrospect, the area of the World Tree had not undergone erosion. Most of the earth has been affected by erosion, and this is the last remaining place.

Suho looked at the growing tree for a moment, and then his gaze stopped at Jaesik Jang, who was lying in front of him.

“Ugh.”

He sat down next to Jaesik Jang.

Even without touching my nose, I felt as if I was breathing.

“I’m breathing… … .”

If I asked him if he was alive just because he was breathing, it was difficult to answer.

Jang Jae-sik was appointed as a messenger of God by Suho. It said that one side of the ritual was interconnected, similar to the beasts.

I quietly felt the consciousness connected to Jang Jae-sik. Even though he is within reach if he reaches out his hand, he cannot find the consciousness of Jaesik Jang.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Jaesik Jang.

The body is alive, but the mind is dead.

I can’t find it exactly.

“It’s odd.”

What if I became a plant human?

Suho shook Jae-sik Jang and slapped him on the cheek.

“What are you doing?”

It was around that time that Kim Mi-so arrived.

“Why is he like this?”

“I fought the Black Man.”

“Did you lose?”

“no. We won, but at the last moment, Blackman self-destructed.”

“Ugh.”

Well, if I had lost, I would have died.

It seems that he has been attacked by Black Man.

“How have you been since then?”

“Yeah. The elves said they were under the curse of death. After listening to the boss, I think it was erosion.”

slap.

Suho slapped one more time.

Even though her cheeks were flushed red, her expressionless face remained the same as before.

Erosion certainly seemed to have an effect.

Suho showed harmony and breathed life energy into Jang Jae-sik.

Papa Papa!

It is the vitality that can sprout and grow it into a tree in an instant.

Papa Pat.

Suho raised his worship power when there was no change even after pouring out his relentless power of harmony.

faith, or awe.

Despite the pouring of divine power, there was no change in Jang Jae-sik. If he had regained even a handful of consciousness, the connected guardian would have noticed right away.

Tsutsutsu.

Suho withdrew his power.

“Whoa.”

Suho, who sat down again next to Jaesik Jang, calmly recited the results.

“It’s no use.”

“Ah… … .”

Kim Mi-so’s face was stained with disappointment, but Suho’s face was calm.

“Don’t be discouraged. Jaejoong is still alive.”

That’s right.

I’ve only tried one treatment and it didn’t go away.

It’s too early to grieve and give up as if you were dead even though you are still alive

“It is erosion.”

before returning.

Except for the area where the World Tree is located, this was not the case when everything was eroded.

Jang Jae-sik is the first to live even after being eroded.

“You just have to save him.”

He is unconscious, but he must be fighting.

We need to wake up Jang Jae-sik, who is still persistently continuing his life.

I will start with that.

It will be the first step in overcoming erosion and purifying death.

“The eroded land?”

“I found two places. Japan and Australia.”

“Japan is close.”

Let’s look at the eroded land.

“What should Chief Seo and Director Han do?”

At Kim Mi-so’s question, Suho looked at her face. Even the question seemed to be ignorant.

When she came down to the new realm, she was suffering from heavy fatigue, pressure, and responsibility, but it felt lighter.

“Keep looking for it.”

“Yeah.”

“Any other kids?”

“We are preparing to withdraw, but we are still waiting in Japan.”

“Why?”

“The orcs are terrifying.”

Suho tilted his head.

Orcs will know how to retreat.

Didn’t you leave the white sand and the blue dragon to persuade him?

Suho quickly summoned Baeksa.

Papa!

A white flame dragon, similar in size to the large tree trunk of the World Tree, appeared.

[It’s fun, but why did you call me?]

“Aren’t the kids going to retreat?”

[They were fighting among themselves.]

Whether they fight or not is irrelevant.

What Suho wanted is for the orcs to leave this earth. It’s time to go back to the Midear where they originally lived.

“What did you do?”

[I watched.]

Suho’s eyebrows twitched.

“A blue dragon?”

[We watched together.]

The two dragons were watching, and the orcs clashed and fought each other. It was incomprehensible at first glance.

“Did you fight?”

[They fought by themselves. It was a bloody battle worth seeing in a while.]

Whether the fight was fun or not is unknown to Suho.

“Aren’t the Orcs going to re-maintenance and attack?”

[It didn’t look like that.]

The orcs were retreating.

A few orc tribes returned to Midear through the gates. The problem is that sporadic fights are happening here and there at the same time, awakening the wariness of the orcs.

“Okay then.”

Suho thought that the orcs would never again threaten humans.

In the words of the white man, he was just watching, but that alone would have put a lot of pressure on the Orcs.

There was no reason for the Guardian Guild mercenaries to stay in Japan any longer, whether they had a sibling match or retreated altogether.

“Call all the kids. There will be more gods in the future.”

The frequency of appearance of 8-star dungeons will increase exponentially.

Suho is no longer alone.

There are several messengers who have inherited his power.

‘I keep it my way.’

It doesn’t matter whether the Creator has established a rule that divine power must not intervene in the perishing world, or whether it is systematized.

‘Protect it.’

It doesn’t matter what device he used, whatever his intentions. How many people can live with insight anyway?

You don’t need to know the principles or the origin of the world.

I made up my mind to protect it, so I protect it.

The Creator may have made him a god, but the moment Suho recognized him, Suho abandoned his awareness of being a god.