Chapter 228 – 228. Center of the Macula (2)

The helper, who had been muttering for a long time, coughed heavily and soon closed his mouth.

‘I never thought my helper… Would be an old man..’

I didn’t know that I would be so angry that I came a little late. Are you a guy with no patience?

Anyway, my party and I walked through the tombstone floating on the polluted subterranean lake to the temple built in the center of the lake. From a distance it looked ugly, but up close it was even more ugly.

“Hmm…”

But as the temple got closer and closer, Mer let out a groan close to a sigh. The closer she got to the temple, the more anxious she became. It was as if he was instinctively rejecting the being sleeping inside.

Henry, on the other hand, seemed completely unconcerned.

He just wanted to get out of this smelly, uncomfortable cesspit-like place quickly. I also didn’t feel any anxiety. It just stings my eyes a little.

‘Maybe Mer feels something different from us because she’s a fallen angel…’

I do not know. Even before, when she went to confront Bota Millie, she felt the eyes peeking at us, she said. She said they were ‘something’ that was higher than the gods… There is still a part of Mer’s explanation that is hard to understand.

Well, if it’s hard to understand, it’s just a matter of covering it up. I held the anxious Mer’s hand. She’s taller than me and she’s good at fighting, so I’m a very trustworthy woman, but sometimes when she shows a weak side like this, it stimulates my desire for protection.

Anyway, as I calmed down the anxious Mer and went further, I was able to reach the entrance of the temple.

“Ugh. Booth?”

“Ooh ooh. Is that so…?”

The entrance was tightly blocked with yellow stems. I don’t know what to do now, so I have to remove the stem and go in, but as I was discussing it with gestures, a helper from inside the temple said he would remove the stem.

[Whoa. Noble people have come to a humble place. Wait a minute. I will open the entrance soon.]

My helper old man grumbled. I think Botamilli will really like it if I make an offering… Wouldn’t it?

As I had such blasphemous imaginations, before long, the yellow stems blocking the temple sank into the ground and opened the way.

[Everyone, come inside.]

We looked at each other and nodded our heads. Since we couldn’t open our mouths properly, we shared our thoughts with only our eyes.

Fortunately, no one came this far and didn’t want to go in. Mer was also anxious, but she seemed to be curious about the existence sealed inside of her. Henry, she was brought in as a bodyguard in the first place, so there was no way she would go back.

‘Looking at the fact that even the evil spirits don’t give any warning…’

There will be no problem. If it’s strange, they’ll even give you a tip in advance.

We entered the temple.

******

There was no yellow fog at all inside the temple.

Apparently, the stems growing inside the temple seem to be sucking in all the impurities inside the temple and spitting them out. So, the air inside the temple must be this clean. The origin of the yellow poison smoke was a temple, but it was ironic that the air inside the temple was so good.

‘I’m dying of stuffiness with the muzzle… Do I have to keep wearing this until I go back…’

The fresh air made the urge to spit out the muzzle stronger. I had been wearing the muzzle for almost 25 hours and my jaw felt like it was going to come off. Even if I took it off right away, I wondered if it would take some time to shut my mouth normally.

Still, I couldn’t spit it out. Once you spit it out, you won’t be able to use it again. Even if the air inside is clean, on the way back, you have to go through that yellow smoke again.

[The air inside is clean. It’s okay to spit out the manure. If my seal is broken, this rotten poisonous smoke will also disappear, so don’t worry.]

Just then, the helper old man said that it was okay to spit out the muzzle.

We looked at each other and secretly spit out muzzles. To be honest, I thought it went well because I was at my limit.

“Two.. Whoa… Write it… Ha ha.”

“I thought I was going to die of frustration.”

“I agree, Master. My jaw hurts so much.”

As soon as Henry spat out the muzzle, he wiped the saliva from his chin. I gave Mer a pat on the back for her hard work, and she still looked around her with uneasy eyes.

“Mer. Do you know who that is?”

“Yeah… I know. No, I haven’t actually seen it myself… I’ve only heard about it.”

“Okay..? Who is that? Maybe Lucifer?”

That decrepit old man, I guess, must be Lucifer. He said he was the first fallen angel, so of course it has to be Lucifer.

For those who enjoyed the subculture, Fallen Angel = Lucifer is almost common sense. It was to the point where we were talking about fallen angels, but without Lucifer, it wouldn’t make much sense.

However, Mer shook her head.

“No.. That’s.. Um.. Why can’t I remember.? It’s like the words have been erased from my head.. It seems to be deleted information…”

She said she knew, but when she finally looked at her as if she didn’t know, Mer was embarrassed and made a gibberish excuse.

“I-I don’t remember the name, but I know roughly what kind of existence it is..! That’s not a fallen morning star… It’s an older existence than that…”

The fallen morning star is probably Lucifer. So that’s something other than Lucifer. This exceeded my expectations beautifully.

In my heart, I was expecting to be able to meet Lucifer in person… But it seems that she will encounter someone worse than that.

[There. Don’t procrastinate and come quickly. Ehh.. Back in the day, if I was sluggish, I would be very broken.. These days, things are..]

“Ah, yes. Going! Song!!”

After quickly answering the old man who urged us to come quickly, we hurriedly entered the innermost part of the temple. It was because it seemed that if I delayed more time here, I would start nagging again.

******

Unlike when viewed from the outside, the inside of the temple was wider than expected. It seems that the space is distorted and the inside and outside sizes are different.

Anyway, after walking inside for almost an hour, we reached the front of a large door that looked about 3 meters high.

The door was etched with warnings and other things. They were paintings that gave off the feeling that everyone would die if they opened this door.

Of course, I’m not the one who won’t open the door with a warning like this.

‘There is an opportunity beyond this door…’

Henry and Mer, who were much stronger than me, each took one side and opened the door.

-Koo-gu-gu-goo…

When the door opened with a roar, a feeling of intimidation emanated from the room.

“You are finally here.”

The sealed helper gave us a light greeting.

To hear it telepathically from a distance, it was just the voice of a helpless old man from the back house…

Now, like the voice of a god of death, he had such energy that his body trembled.

‘I’ve felt Mer before, but this is it.’

My heart fluttered at the sight of his eyes contemplating me. It was clear that the owner of the voice was watching me in the deep darkness.

-Gulp..

A feeling of hopelessness crept up. I thought I could never win.

Just feeling the flow of energy made me admit defeat.

In other words, the class is different. It was already an existence outside the realm of living things.

‘This door was blocking the energy of that evil spirit…’

I naturally recognized that as ‘God’. You might ask if hitting too much was too much… But that’s how I feel.

Of course, I didn’t feel as overwhelming awe as Carshinax or Indicron. But I had a feeling that the fate of mortals like ours was clearly transcended.

‘Even when I first met Zeke… It wasn’t like this…’

I suddenly thought of Pandora’s box. However, if there is one thing different from Pandora’s box, it is that there is not even vain hope inside.

Yes, we have just opened the box of despair.

“Huh… I can’t even look at the shape with these eyes.”

Henry frowned and tried to face the existence beyond the darkness. However, as if he couldn’t see it, he only frowned and clicked his tongue.

I also used the deformed sight to confirm the existence beyond the door, but the point of view was shaken and the skill went off on its own. As if no skills were allowed.

When we couldn’t move our feet, the helper calmed down a little and opened his mouth.

“Come in. The Apostle of Calamity and the prodigal son of Hell. And… The fallen angel.”

We cautiously moved inside the seal. The closer we got, the more the image of the evil god crouched at the bottom of the abyss was reflected.

“Cough.. Cough.. Are you here? Whooping… Those expressions of disappointment. Compared to the energy he felt, he must have looked too ugly.”

Perhaps he had read our eyes, he smiled hollowly and was pessimistic about his own situation.

He was an old man half collapsed. Wrinkles all over his body, and his clothes had faded and turned into rags, so he looked like a beggar and was wrapped in chains and crouched cross-legged.

In addition, tentacles or tree roots were densely embedded in his back, and they seemed to be sucking up pollutants from the old man’s body.

You’re going to blow that out. Thanks to that, the surrounding area was filled with yellow poisonous fog, and I wonder if it was eventually called Hwangban.

Finally, a cloth was wrapped around his eyes. How long did he endure with his limbs bound and unable to see even an inch in front of him? I asked him his name.

“Who are you… Who are you…”

“My name is Satanael. The first enlightened angel, the one who threw off his wings and halo.”

Thus, the only angel who opened the door to Kabbalah and became Demiurge, the god of Gnosticism.

At the same time as he finished his words, a halo shone through, albeit briefly, and the Kabbalah, which he had seen in subcultures, floated in the air. Also, the old man was instantly reflected as a shape that was difficult to describe.

From the triangle to the hexagram… From the hexagram to the circle again. The circle splits into a triangle again…

‘Trinity… Star of David… And…’

Circulating sphere.

Reincarnating souls and rings.

An unbroken closed world.

The only haven where dreams and lies are mixed.

“Until there.”

“Ahhhhh…”

My eyes are about to explode. No, is your brain about to explode?

I don’t know. In an instant, incomprehensible information flooded into my brain. I quickly shook my head and tried to forget the information I had just read. I have to find out, there are things I can’t write about and can’t write about.

Soon, Botamilli’s energy enveloped me, and the unclean knowledge was scattered at once. I barely came to my senses and looked at Mer and Henry. There was no way the two of them would be fine even though I, whose mental strength was close to max level, was shocked by this much.

“Mer is fine…”

“Big…”

“Ke-heo-eok…”

It seems I’m not the only one experiencing these symptoms. Henry and Mer, who were standing on either side of me, were also lying in a state of incapacity, probably from a mental shock.

Even Henry shuddered at her, looking for her mother, and Mer drooling over her and making her distraught look, crying out to her not to abandon him. Both seem to have lost their minds.

I stroked both of their heads. Botamilli gave the two of them the blessing of oblivion. Soon both eyes closed.

I felt that trying more here would only backfire, so I left the two alone and sorted out my thoughts.

‘They said it was enlightenment… It was as they said.’

As he claimed, Satanael came down by his own will, so it was difficult to say that he had fallen or fallen. It was different from the fall that was forcibly made by someone.

‘And that’s a different entity from the demons I’ve met so far.’

If the gods of chaos, abyss, and emptiness that I have met so far were born as gods in the first place… The old man in front of me was a being who climbed up a long way and accumulated eons of karma, and then entered the ranks of gods.

I’m not sure if I should call this guy a god or if I should call him just a god. Anyway, it seems so. It is a being that has acquired the status of a god through vast knowledge and hard work.

“Okay, then… Now that I’ve finished introducing myself, Apostle of Calamity. Wolf. Come to me And break this chain The seeker must have given you something to cut off Gleipnir.”

I took out the throwing ax from my bosom. The main ax was a hatchet made of obsidian, and it was an object that could break all types of seals once and for all.

In my heart, I wondered if it was really the right thing to let this monster go… But I couldn’t back down since I had already come this far.

I made a quick decision.

-Kang!!

– Iron gruck…

The black chains that wrapped around Satanael’s body snapped. Satanael, who was soon free, waved his arm around and stood up from his seat with a groan.

“I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been up here… Cough! Coke!! So, take it. This is why you came to see me.”

He coughed like crazy, then took a book out of the air and handed it to me. It was a worn-out book without a cover. It is an old book that can only be found in a museum.

“This…”

“It’s called the Apocalypse.”

“Apocalypse…”

“Yes, a record of the end of the universe… And why we are called evil gods. It is also an item that must be handed over to the Apostle of Manmajeon when he finds me through any process.”

I opened the Apocalypse. However, the writing on the book was damaged to such an extent that it was difficult to read properly. I don’t even know what the text was in the first place. I can’t even get a detailed explanation… What is this? I don’t think it’s even an item…

Is it related to the red fruit that Botamilli gave you?

“I’m sorry… I can’t read this…”

“Well, it’s not something I gave you to read.”

“Yes?”

“It is a kind of symbol. Coke..! A proof that you are the representative of Manma. We’ve already figured out everything, so you don’t need to know. It just says that the universe will end if things go on roughly like this.

“Uh… No… That was a very important rice cake…”

“What are you asking so much about? Aren’t you the type who doesn’t like complex things?”

“Uh.. How else..”

“You can tell by sight. So you just have to follow the path we guide you through. Then, when we become the only one… We can decide the end on our behalf.”

It was difficult for me to understand Satanael’s words. Being the only one or choosing the end… To be honest, I heard nothing but floating voices. That’s because no one has explained this catastrophe or the game to me with certainty.

But one thing is for sure, just like he said, I hate unnecessarily complicated things. Therefore, I nodded as if I understood.

“With this, your meeting with me has been successfully concluded. The stem of the world line will fluctuate once. Coke…!! Keuheum.. Judging by the way he goes back… You must be the only apostle in Manmajeon. Ha ha.. Well, good. You’ve proven your qualifications just by coming to see me…”

Satanael nodded his head as if he was okay, and he sat down. No, he lay down.

“Get out now. It’s been a while since I’ve been released, so I need to get some sleep.”

“Uh… Uh uh…”

Satanael waved his hand and told him to leave. Maybe it wasn’t the power he showed because he was clever. My body seems to be in very bad shape…

‘But… Just getting one worn-out book like this and ending it… Is there anything else..? A skill or something.

I went through so much trouble to come here…

That kind of compensation psychology worked, so I didn’t go out quickly, but when I was walking around, Satanael muttered in a voice that he would die of sleepiness.

“Haa.. Come back later.. I will strengthen my comrades… Whoa.. Watching the former angel girl wriggling, a thousand dollars are rising inside me.. My erased powers again… Coul. .. Quul… Huh.. Haa.. What.. You still haven’t left…”

It seems to be giving Mer something.

‘It brings Mer’s authority back… That… Might be good…”

How strong is Mer who has regained her natural strength, freed from the limitations of her skills and systems? She’ll be at least Pal-Us class. This is a sufficient reward.

I quickly bowed my head and took my companions outside.

The old man is sleeping, but I can’t wake him up.