Chapter 262 – 262. What Needs to Be Done Is the Same

Lesh was eaten.

Inside the mouth of the evil spirit.

[Wow.]

Agaf watched the gods being torn apart in real time and let out an exclamation as if he was at a loss for words.

It was my first time seeing such a ridiculous scene, so I had no idea how to react.

The demon god was dragged to a place I couldn’t see and eaten, and the black idol also flashed and disappeared.

Same thing with Orochi, I’ve never seen how it works.

However, Lesh is being divided in real time, perhaps because the situation is urgent.

The scene resembled a scene where computer graphics were falling apart into pieces.

It was torn apart so horribly that it is difficult to express in words. As I was intuiting that I was disintegrating into atoms and disappearing, I felt a sense of nausea and at the same time I felt pain and dizziness as if there was a slight crack in my mind.

Did I intuit something too high-dimensional?

I have a headache.

“Huh.”

Lesh has completely disappeared.

The evil body that absorbed Lesh at the same time… So, a large white mass was rolled up into a round sphere while muttering a spell.

A coil of enormous size.

The chest gradually shrunk. What are you doing?

Is this world being cut off from other worlds?

[Ah. Can you hear me?]

“Yes? Ah. Yes.”

Soon, the evil spirit spoke.

[Thanks to you, I was able to sever the connection with the unknown monster. Thank you.]

“Uh.”

It was just a coincidence, but I decided to show my gratitude when he said thank you.

“Then do you have anything?”

[That…]

After much thought, the evil spirit opened his mouth.

Hyungsin’s words were somewhat shocking.

“So. You’ve lost most of your strength?”

[To be more precise, it should be said that as soon as the connection was severed, the power that had been used until now could no longer be used. In a word… I have been using the power of that Void Snake being.]

“Huh.”

This was the truth.

The reason why the evil spirit was strong was because it drew power from a being called the Void Snake and used it.

Now that the connection has been lost, he is unable to draw strength from the Void Serpent and has become weak.

What’s even more terrifying is that I, who believed in one evil spirit, ended up becoming a duck egg from the Nakdong River.

I lost most of my power, and even the power of the swallowed demon, the black idol, and Orochi were lost.

I ended up penniless. They say the only thing I have is the power of the lesh I just swallowed.

With the power I have now, it is difficult to even give me a blessing, let alone drive away the winter night on Earth.

“So what happens now? “What should we do?”

This is an unexpected result.

I was just worried that our world would be destroyed immediately by the existence of the Void Snake, so I relayed this fact to the evil spirit and made it disconnect.

Somehow, even the way to drive away the winter night disappeared.

“Fuck.”

Was my choice really right?

I don’t know.

Still, if the gods had continued to be sacrificed, there was a very high possibility that the Void Serpent would eventually have eaten up the gods and discarded them.

So, in order to block it before that, I made it disconnect.

Thanks to this, there was no way to drive away the winter night. The evil god who did not receive power from the Void Serpent was no different from other ordinary gods.

[Calm down for now. I’m free now, so let’s find a way together.]

“You’re really free, right?”

I’m not sure about that either.

They say they disconnected it, but is it true that they disconnected it properly?

[I cut the line that was reaching me. You probably won’t find me for a while. Also, by swallowing Lesh’s memories, the door to this world was closed. Obviously… I don’t think you’ll be able to find me right away.]

“Is that so. I hope so.”

I hope it closed properly. If even this fails, there is no hope anymore.

“Ha.”

[Kang In-ho.]

“Huh?”

[Don’t be too disappointed. There must be a way.]

“Is that so?”

[Yes.]

Agaf cheered me on. Moreover, she spoke to her evil spirit, who seemed to have lost a lot of her intelligence.

[Hey! Abomination!]

[Huh? Ugh.]

[Now you are… Weak.]

[What.?]

[I no longer feel the dignity and intelligence that makes it difficult to talk to him. It is similar to the black idol parsad we encountered… Or underneath it. Even that is made up of the power of the Lesh that was just swallowed up.]

[That. That is…]

As if I had been stabbed in the head, I was speechless.

[So I want to ask. Now… Do your apostles still act as apostles?]

[What?]

[The remaining 12 apostles, excluding Kang In-ho. I asked if he was still the apostle of the ‘bad god’.]

A vicious body.

This is the godhead created by the Void Serpent.

In fact, it was safe to say that the current evil spirit had lost its connection with the Void Serpent and had become a completely different and separate god.

So…

[The connection with the apostles… Has been lost.]

[You’re screwed.]

“Why? “What is it?”

[Kang In-ho, listen carefully. The connection between the evil spirit and the Void Serpent was lost. Moreover, the same applies to you who came here. However, this is not the case for the remaining 12 apostles who remained in the outside world.]

“What do you mean?”

[Are they really the apostles of the evil spirit?]

“Well, I made a contract with the evil spirit…”

[However, the power that was used did not belong to the evil spirit. It was simply a blessing bestowed by the Void Serpent through a being referred to as an evil spirit.]

“Then…”

[The herbal tea that Lesh gave me a while ago. With that scent, you have escaped the influence of the Void Serpent, but others are still driven by the power bestowed upon them by the Void Serpent. The evil spirit has become a being that can no longer be called the evil god.]

“…”

[The apostles must be killed. If we don’t kill all 12 people, the Void Serpent… Will find this world again. Then, the act of suddenly disconnecting like now will never be successful again.]

“Fuck.”

I immediately stood up.

I have to go out. There was no time for this.

[Does the bright mirror work properly?]

“Uh. “I’m fine.”

[The 12 apostles must be caught within today. Hey… The god who was an evil spirit.]

[Huh.?]

[You also have a mission.]

[Mission?]

[Okay. Do you know the saying that three fight against one?]

[That’s… An old adage, right?]

[That’s right. Three. Trinity. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Etc. You must collect three or more to proceed with the story.]

The evil spirit seemed to understand something from Agaf’s words.

The old adage that three stand against one.

That’s what I heard when I first tried to hunt the evil spirit.

[Three is the minimum number.]

“What about?”

[Minimum number needed to create a new world.]

“That means now…”

[Okay. We must create a pantheon of gods, a pantheon of ten demons, and a pantheon of ten demons. You must create at least three combinations of gods.]

“A combination of gods?”

[Okay. Speaking from what I feel… This world is too vulnerable to external attacks. Defenseless. God is both the one who rules and the one who protects. Since there weren’t even a few gods to protect in the first place, it was natural that they were invaded by a parallel universe as if they were being raped.]

“Wait a minute, Agaf. Are you ultimately trying to create a pantheon?”

[It should be so. No, not just the pantheon. We also need to make Mangwijeon and Manmajeon. It may only be a formality, but it creates three groups. That is the minimum defense.]

Agaf said.

Not only the Void Snake, but you never know when and where someone might strike.

Moreover, this became clear when Lesh died.

“Why Lesh again?”

[To reflect on Lesh’s words, this guy and Hermes were almost the only beings in this world who had a way to banish the gods of other dimensions and block the border. One of those two guys just went after the greater good.]

“That means…”

[This means that the surveillance cameras themselves have disappeared. You’re screwed.]

It seems that Agaf is right.

Lesh was a being who ‘at least’ had quite a lot of knowledge about the dimension.

The Maginot Line has just disappeared to liberate the evil spirits.

“Ha… So, first, we have to kill the apostles and create heaven.”

[Right. And the evil spirit?]

[Huh. I know what you want to say. The dishes are ready.]

“What do you mean by bowl?”

Agaf answered my question.

[Did I tell you earlier? We need three.]

“Uh.”

[The evil spirit fights against ten thousand demons. Ainus, the youngest daughter of the World Tree, tells the story of Ten Thousand Demons. And Asmorphia is in charge of the pantheon.]

“Asmorphia?”

They said he was dead.

When I asked a question, the evil spirit answered.

[Well… The bowl is still there. To put it simply, I have Asmorphia’s corpse.]

“No… If there is Asmorphia’s body…”

[We need to revive it and make it on our side. Above all, Asmorphia is a being modeled after Raythena, the goddess of light and hope. She is the one who suits me the most.]

The evil god sets up the pantheon of demons, Ainus, the child of the World Tree, sets up the pantheon of demons, and finally, Asmorphia takes charge of order and sets up the pantheon.

[It is the most ideal form.]

Agaf said that the attributes of the three matched perfectly as if someone had arranged them in advance.

[Maybe… The World Tree could have foreseen this far. Ainus was clearly pushed into this world after receiving an unknown mission from the World Tree. If you think of the world tree as having sown its own seeds…]

The anglerfish fits perfectly.

It certainly seems like that. Above all, these three are friendlier to me and full of will than the rotten gods of this world.

“Great. How do I revive it?”

[It would have been so easy if I had been connected to the Void Serpent… But now it’s a bit difficult.]

We need to restore our divinity. For this…

[I guess I can catch Hermes and feed him.]

I frowned at Agaf’s words.

“For a moment. Feeding Hermes?”

[Okay. The gods of this world are very uncooperative. And lazy. You can tell just by looking at the way the world was left to turn into this mess. So, it is better to just replace everything and reorganize.]

“For sure.”

So in the end, the work that needs to be done doesn’t change.

“But you’re a bastard. They said you became weak. “Can you eat Hermes?”

[The only power I have left now is gluttony. This is absolute when it comes to gods. If it touches you, it can swallow you up.]

“As long as I reach it?”

[Huh. I have to reach it. Please.]

“Are you just telling me that I need to punch God?”

[Yes.]

I’m going crazy.

Just running away is enough to make my hair fall out.

Now it’s time to hit him. They say that only then will the evil spirit have a chance to devour that god through me…

[You probably won’t succeed with just one attempt. The time has come to eat it.]

“That’s it?”

[Last Dance. Do you remember?]

“If that’s the case…”

An ultra-rare creature that has only yielded one flower, even though dozens of yellow reward boxes have been opened so far.

[Last Dance: If you take it by tearing it in the bud, you will fall into a ‘loop’. From the time you take it, the day repeats infinitely, and to get out of the infinite loop, you just have to swallow the flower root. I hope you find a clue to survival through the endlessly repeating days.]

[Caution. If a creature other than a human eats it, the body will disappear.]

Last Dance.

A mysterious flower that makes the day repeat itself infinitely. It was a plant that was neglected because it was rarely eaten, but it finally found a use.

[Repeating too many loops wears out your soul. I will handle that part.]

“Agaph…”

[Bad body. You hand over the power of Lesh to Ainus.]

[To that World Tree subspecies?]

[Okay. We need to make Aenus into a god and pull out more Last Dance. Since Lesh was originally in charge of forests, wild flowers, and spirits, he would have a good compatibility with Ainus. We need to make Ainus a real world tree.]

The evil spirit answered that he knew.

“Ha.”

I figured out the location of the apostles through the scriptures.

Six people were unable to see properly. There are two guys who openly show themselves and glare at me.

And there were four guys who didn’t notice at all.

Let’s kill these four first.

Yes, what I have to do hasn’t changed from before.

Killing the apostles and feeding gods to evil spirits.

There is still something I have to do.

However, if there is only one thing that has changed, it is the ending.

The confirmed bad ending was twisted.

Now I just have to move towards a happy ending.