Hugo’s and Kevin’s eyes turned round when they heard the voice. However, before they could register who the voice belonged to, something flew past their faces.
Shweek!
A spear! It had flown past them like a laser! Leaving behind an afterimage made of green light, the black spear pierced through all the five monsters at once.
Kwahng!
The enormous worm-like monsters roared as they fell.
The spear had traveled a distance of over several hundred meters, yet the throw was a clean one.
Boom!
The surprised Hugo and Kevin turned their heads back again. Their gazes landed on Lee Gun, who had thrown the spear.
Dusting off his hands, Lee Gun muttered, “How dare these worm bastards crawl up out of the ground? They really are asking for death.”
“…!”
As expected of Lee Gun, he didn’t even let one monster live.
However, there was another reason for the two Saints’ surprise.
“Lee Gun-nim, huzzah….”
“!”
That was the Leo disciple whom Lee Gun had sent flying. The two Saints got angry when they saw the bloodied disciple.
“Gun! What the hell are you doing right now!” Of course, Hugo was taken aback by Lee Gun’s misconduct.
“Lee Gun! Why the hell are you fighting the cat’s minions!” Kevin was pissed off to see Lee Gun fight the Leo disciples. He went on a rampage. “You ignore me whenever I request to fight you. You treat me like I’m invisible!”
Even while coming to this place, Kevin had kept trying to pick a fight with Lee Gun. However, it didn’t matter. Lee Gun treated him as if he were a fly or a mosquito, ignoring him again and again!
Yet, Lee Gun had immediately agreed to a match against the Leo Saint!
Kevin continued, “As if that wasn’t bad enough, you’re personally sparring with people way beneath you!”
Hugo was dumbfounded by the Virgo Saint’s anger. “In what world does that look like sparring to you?”
Lee Gun was bullying his opponent in a one-sided manner! That was clear!
The Leo disciple, who was very durable, looked like he was about to die. He surrendered to Lee Gun. “Lee Gun-nim, huzzah…! Lee Gun-nim, huzzah!”
How much did Lee Gun beat him up to put him in such a state? However, that wasn’t the problem.
‘I’m pretty sure he said to join his…’ Hugo got an ominous feeling. He asked a question to confirm something. “Gun, who did you send flying again?”
“What? Are you deaf? I just told you he joined my temple. He’s my disciple now, idiot.”
Hugo clenched his fists. “What’s your name?”
The bloodied disciple tilted his head in puzzlement as he looked at Lee Gun.
“Was your name Puppy?”
“It’s Puffin!”
“Ah! His name is Muffin.”
“I said it’s Puffin!”
It seemed Lee Gun didn’t know his name. Hugo wanted to curse, but he gave up on it. ‘My god! Who the hell does his missionary work like this?’
Of course, Hugo was the one who had suggested Lee Gun should do his own missionary work. After all, Lee Gun still didn’t have a disciple specializing in missionary work. However…
‘This isn’t missionary work. This is basically intimidation and abduction!’ Normally, in missionary work, one showed one’s best behavior to scout others. The more outrageous part was the fact that Lee Gun wasn’t scouting just one person.
“P-Puffin! Are you ok!”
“!”
Two survivors appeared from the direction where Puffin had flown from.
“Fuck! You’re the first string tanker that lines up at the front line for the Leo temple, yet you’re bleeding from your nose?”
Their voices shook as they shouted.
Lee Gun grinned and turned his gaze toward them. “Alright! Next batter up!”
When Lee Gun met their eyes, the two disciples froze. Until a moment ago, they had been protesting to Lee Gun for putting their Saint in such a state. However, even the thought of protesting had disappeared from their minds now.
‘This man is a monster.’
They should have known when the rumors started circulating about Lee Gun dropping the Leo Saint from Drachma!
In the end, Lee Gun cracked his knuckles as he approached them. One of them screamed in terror.
“Excuse me, Lee Gun-nim!!”
Lee Gun’s fist stopped. His eyes fiercely rose. “What, you little shit.”
Lee Gun looked annoyed, so the disciple flinched in surprise. However, he didn’t back off as a disciple of the Leo temple. At the end of the day, this man had defeated their Saint.
“With all due respect, do you mind if I say something?”
There was a fire in the disciple’s eyes, so Lee Gun laughed. “You’re brave. Go for it.”
“What do I have to do if I want to enter Lee Gun-nim’s temple?”
“?!”
The disciple’s partner looked at him as if he had lost his mind, but the disciple was desperate. He spoke as he perspired. It seemed he had realized this was the only way to get out of this alive.
Looking pleased, Lee Gun laughed. “The prerequisite for joining? It’s simple. Your faith has to be a 100%.”
“Ah! I see! A 100% faith is a simple req— What?”
The expression on everyone’s face was a sight to behold.
Hugo’s eyeballs looked like they wanted to pop out. “What? A faith of 100%!”
What the hell? Did this mean his son’s faith was at 100%? Of course, this couldn’t be the faith toward the Zodiac. The Serpent Bearer had never revealed itself, after all. That meant his son’s 100% faith was directed toward his friend…
‘Hundred percent towards that bastard???’ Hugo grabbed the back of his neck.
The shocked disciples yelled out.
“Lee Gun-nim! I’m sorry, but 100% is impossible!”
In the first place, the Saint with the highest faith was known to have 96% faith! Lee Gun’s requirement was out of the question!
“We can't join even if we wanted to! We don’t meet the prerequisite…!”
“Ah! It’s fine. It’s fine.”
“What?”
Lee Gun’s snake eyes flashed in a dangerous manner. “If it can’t happen, I just have to make it happen!”
What… What the hell did he just say? Frightened by the look in Lee Gun’s eyes, the disciples tried to run away.
Lee Gun sharply laughed since they had nowhere to run. He disappeared in a flash, then appeared in front of the disciples. Grabbing their shoulders, he sent them flying.
“Ahhhk!”
Kwahng!
“That’s an additional two disciples.”
“….”
Lee Gun dusted his hands off, leaving Hugo dumbfounded. He wanted to convert them, so why was he trying to abduct them? It didn’t matter in the end.
“Gun!”
“I know.” Lee Gun’s cold gaze finally landed on the corpse.
The corpse started laughing.
[My god! I would have much preferred if Lee Gun had a hidden son.]
The woman who had an elegant way of speaking was aghast at the fact that Lee Gun was alive. As if to prove this, she venomously asked,
[Answer me! How did you get out of there?]
Instead of answering, Lee Gun mockingly asked, “Are you the one who sent the marinated crab to the bedwetter’s press conference?”
He was talking about the Cancer Saint.
The woman wasn’t offended by Lee Gun’s refusal to answer her question. She broke out in laughter.
[Of course! The bedwetter was so afraid that she was about to confess to everything. I had to get rid of someone like that.]
[Anyway, you should be thankful to us. You never possessed any special abilities, yet we made you look like a hero who sacrificed himself.]
These words left Hugo dumbfounded. “Hero, my ass! You’re the one who made up false rumors stating Gun was an insignificant awakened being!”
[I know nothing about that.]
As if he had decided that she wasn’t worth his time, Lee Gun took out Heaven’s Punishment.
He planned on crushing the corpse’s face, and he didn’t need to activate his weapon to destroy a corpse. However…
[I guess nothing works out as planned. The Virgo Saint took it into his hands to trap you inside the tower.]
The ax stopped in midair.
Kevin and Hugo were surprised. The woman didn’t care about their reactions as she continued.
[Did you not know that? The one to stab you in the small of your back was the Virgo Saint.]
The enraged Kevin was about to unsheathe his sword, but Hugo yelled, “Don’t fall for it! That woman is capable of saying anything to get her way! You know that!”
“!”
“She purposefully shoots her mouth off to stir up trouble!”
For some reason, Lee Gun grinned.
Kwah-jeek!
Heaven’s Punishment crushed the corpse’s face. At the same time, a voice could be heard.
[Heaven’s Punishment has activated using the blood of the wicked.]
[You have acquired valuable data(SSS).]
[<Part of the Libra Saint>]
[You have acquired the data of another Zodiac. You have learned about the <Saint Seal> skill.]
Extracting data from a corpse was supposed to be impossible. The data might have come out because of a Zodiac’s energy surrounding the corpse.
Lee Gun was about to turn his back from the corpse.
[Why did you come out from there?]
“!” He turned his head.
The faceless corpse continued to talk. To be precise, the voice was coming from the special seal engraved on the corpse’s neck. This Saint Seal was emanating the voice, and that wasn’t all.
Doo-doo-doohk!
The corpse got up and moved.
This made Hugo draw his bow. “It’s the Saint Seal! It allows a Zodiac to control the disciple!”
As soon as he spoke, a fierce fire arrow flew toward the corpse.
Pahng!
When the corpse took a hit with incredible firepower, flames surged into the air. The fire was hot enough to instantly turn the corpse into ash. However, the corpse didn’t move despite that.
The flames soon dissipated, and Kevin tried to use his sword skill, but it was useless.
Kwah-jeek!
“!”
When his sword landed on the corpse, cracks appeared on the sword’s white blade. This was an SS-rank royal holy item his Zodiac had given to him!
“Tsk!”
Currently, the faith toward the Virgo Saint was falling off, so the Virgo’s power had dulled. ‘That damaged my royal holy item.’
He was sure of it. Even a Zodiac was intervening. It was all thanks to the Saint Seal on the corpse’s neck. The <Saint Seal> was something only the disciples favored by a Zodiac would receive. It was a special stigmata.
‘The Zodiac could use it to control that body.’
The Saint Seal wasn’t a simple tattoo. If one had to make a comparison, it was the evidence that a Zodiac had visited the body. In other words, it was the stigmata that allowed one to carry out miracles.
In simple terms, the Saint Seal was a connection to one’s Zodiac, which allowed one to carry out miracles. It was a bit different from a skill. For example, the Taurus Saint had a body that could survive a nuclear blast; Sophie’s tears could cure blindness just on contact.
The stigmatas were tokens that signified that the Zodiacs took special care of anyone with the seal. Normally, only the Saints had the stigmatas. However, very loyal disciples could receive the Saint Seal as well, and it allowed them to create decent miracles.
Anyway, this seal in particular used the connection to the Zodiac to strengthen the disciple.
‘In most cases, the Soul Seal isn’t used like this.’
In theory, controlling a corpse was possible. The stigmata connected the Zodiac to the body of the disciple. However, this was akin to treating a disciple like a doll or cattle.
‘Well, the Libra Saint is fully capable of doing this.’
As expected, the woman replied in a proud manner.
[Didn’t you hear what I said? There are twelve Zodiacs. That’s enough, so why did you have to show up?]
Hugo furrowed his brows at those words. “She—”
Lee Gun stopped Hugo.
[I had counted myself lucky that you were imprisoned before the thirteenth made its appearance. However, it seems I was mistaken. You’re a disaster. You made Aries run away, and I have no idea where it is. The Gemini can’t use its power now either.]
The woman let out a meaningful laugh and continued.
[As expected, we should’ve gotten rid of Hugo inside the tower too. He’s the reason the thirteenth came back from being nearly dead.]
“…?”
They wondered what she meant.
[Well, it doesn’t matter. You guys can decide which side you’ll join. Think long and hard about it. That man won’t be of any help to humanity.]
Hugo was flabbergasted. “You’re worried about humanity, yet you joined forces with humanity’s enemy?”
[What?]
“You conspired with the unknown civilization. In Belgium, we saw your minion summon monsters.”
[You should ask the Virgo Saint about that.]
Kevin’s eyebrows twitched. What the hell did she just say?
[Anyway, I have nothing to do with this incident. I don’t care if you kill the monsters or not…]
Puhk!
Lee Gun’s ax came down to bisect the body. However, it seemed that wouldn’t be enough to defeat the corpse.
“Wait a minute! You can’t defeat that unless you’re a Zodiac. I’ll let my Zodiac descend…”
Hugo and Kevin had been about to make their Zodiacs descend.
Boom!
However, the corpse just fell over in two parts. The corpse, which had been moving haphazardly a moment ago, became still.
“How…!”
The bisected body melted away as if it had come in contact with a poison.
The two Saints, who were about to call forth their Zodiacs, looked on with round eyes. Only one question had to be asked in this situation.
“Gun? When did you call forth your Zodiac?”
Lee Gun nonchalantly answered, “I didn’t call for one.”
“What?”
Kevin and Hugo were baffled.
“Are you kidding me? You can’t defeat that without the power of a Zodiac! You’re saying you didn’t call for yours…”
“I’m telling the truth.” Lee Gun spoke as if it wasn’t a big deal. “I don’t have a Zodiac.”
What?
