“Isn’t this too much?”
The Secretary cried her eyes out. Guisoon’s hands were covered in bandages, and countless papers lay stacked in front of her. These weren’t normal documents. They were all original texts taken out from Lee Gun’s bible.
“Ahhhk! My workload grew when that damn snake bastard started merging the temples! Damn it!”
She was in the Nameless Land, the old holy ground of the Serpent Bearer, which the Zodiacs had sold to the monarchs.
The situation was hectic as Guisoon edited the bible. The reason was the increase in the number of Serpent Bearer disciples through the mergers.
“Why is this bastard’s bible acting like a chat window? A line appears every second! This is crazy!”
Normally, only the outstanding disciples could leave behind a record in the bible. However, it seemed everyone could leave a record in the bible if their faith was over 100%.
Of course, higher faith meant the disciples could receive abilities directly from the Zodiac, and these abilities were outstanding. The requirements fit the bill. However, that wasn’t important right now.
[Psalm of Taylor has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
[Psalm of Chris has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
……
[Psalm of Izaya has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
[Psalm of Chun Jiwoo has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
After merging with the Taurus temple, Lee Gun had spoken to the Taurus disciples.
[If you cannot raise your Serpent Bearer faith to 100%, all the abilities that you’ve developed will disappear♡.]
To keep their abilities, the Taurus disciples had raised their faith to 100% as if they were mad. Moreover, those who were capable of doing that were A rank and above. They were a lot of excellent disciples. That was why…
[Psalm of Taylor (Poetry Inclination) has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
[Psalm of Chris (Recipe Inclination) has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
[Psalm of Daniel (Diary Inclination) has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
[Psalm of Chun Jiwoo (Novel Inclination) has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
…
[Psalm of Joel (Cartoon Inclination) has been added to the Serpent Bearer’s Bible.]
“Ahhk!! How the hell do I fix the form of the cartoon?”
Each of the disciples had a different inclination. When it came to the Chun siblings, they simply wrote praises. The others wrote poems, diaries, recipes, cartoons, etc. It was diverse.
However, whatever the form was, all of these inclinations praised Lee Gun, since these disciples possessed 100% faith.
Of course, some of them were fanatics, so a lot of twisted affections were there as well. Naturally, Guisoon couldn’t be at peace when she saw such records.
[Boo-ohhhhhh!!!]
The fountain pen stabbed her hand.
[The fountain pen asks what are you doing. It wants you to hurry up and get back to work!]
[It says the twisted fandom of the disciples may be directed toward its parent. It says to hurry up!]
“Ahhhk!! I’ll kill you! Serpent Bearer!”
Someone laughed at this sight. It was Lee Jaewon. “Lee Gun-nim knows you’re working hard. That’s why he made you that mansion. He gave you a reward.”
“Reward, my ass! He’s making sure I work without going out!”
When Lee Jaewon mockingly laughed, Guisoon looked at him with a haunted look in her eyes. “Why are you acting like this? You’re one of the perpetrators too.”
“What? Why me??”
Guisoon screamed when Lee Jaewon looked aggrieved. “You are part of the Sagittarius temple, yet a bible of yours formed with the Serpent Bearer! Lee Jaewon Bible. Moreover, it’s in comment form!”
“C-Comment?”
“Yes! What you create gets posted on the internet! Yours is more troublesome, since I can edit only when I erase the comments! Do you realize how many calls I have to make daily to erase them?”
“Uh… Still, you don’t have to fix much when it comes to me, right? There is no way I write fanatical texts like Yooha and Sungjae…”
“… What did you just say?”
Lee Jaewon cleared his throat when he saw the murderous look in the Secretary’s eyes. He started to sweat.
Guisoon raged. Of course, the most troublesome one was Hugo’s bible.
“It’s nuts with Hugo Otis. I get a new one every second! It has been produced at a record speed ever since he joined the Serpent Bearer temple! Take him back to the Sagittarius temple!!”
“I’m not sure Lee Gun-nim will allow it.”
However, that wasn’t important right now.
“Did you finish investigating the weird corpses we found here?”
Guisoon furrowed her brows. Lee Gun had ordered them to investigate the mysterious corpses found in this place.
However, Chun Jiwoo had immediately identified them.
A couple of hours ago, Chun Jiwoo had brought her tools to this land, and she became very surprised when Guisoon showed her the corpses.
“My god! Only small amounts are left, but they are Zodiacs!”
“What?!”
“Moreover, the dead bodies of the Zodiacs changed into monsters.”
“What?! You were able to discern all of that at once?”
“Oh my! Before I was eaten by the toad, I was a scientist studying monsters and gods.”
“Ah… You were a research engineer at MIT. You were the one to make the missile that could take out the monsters.”
It was clear where Chun Sungjae had gotten his smarts.
When Lee Gun had disappeared, Chun Jiwoo and the scientists of humanity had wondered if there was any way that humanity could resist the monsters. That had led to Chun Jiwoo receiving data about the Zodiacs from Hugo, and she researched monsters.
When she had looked over the corpses, Chun Jiwoo said something unexpected, “That’s odd. One of the corpses contains data similar to the data of Sagittarius.”
“!”
“These really might be the corpses of the original owners…”
Thinking about that conversation, Guisoon said to Lee Jaewon, “God-nim said he found the data of an original owner inside Oblivion.”
“!”
“I don’t know who it was amongst the thirteen of them, but Time used the body of a Zodiac to create Oblivion. He created a monster using it.”
“That means….”
“It’s said that getting rid of the corpses is the most difficult part. Even the usurpers would have had a hard time getting rid of the original owners’ corpses. They buried the corpses in this land and sold the land to the monarchs.”
Quick on the uptake, Jaewon bit his tongue. “You said these are only parts of the corpses, right?”
“What about it?”
“What if the other original owners were made into monsters like Oblivion? What if they exist somewhere around the world?”
“…!!”
Guisoon’s face turned pale. Oblivion was that powerful. What if other monsters of that caliber appeared…
“Earth will get razed to the ground.”
Guisoon bit her tongue when she heard Lee Jaewon’s words.
“Since these are only partial corpses, what if Time was the one to take them?”
“!”
“Anyway, I’m sure Time can turn gods into monsters.”
It meant Lee Gun might be turned into a monster if he got unlucky against Time. That might have been what the corpse-like monarch of Space-Time had talked about when Lee Gun had met it within the Devil’s Tower. It had told Lee Gun to come over to their side, which meant he should become a slave like Oblivion.
Moreover, Guisoon was able to check this through the records within the bible. “It would be great if God-nim never meets Time.”
Lee Jaewon laughed when he saw the Secretary’s anxious expression. “What’s going on? I thought you hated Lee Gun-nim. Do you like him already?”
The Secretary was surprised. Her face turned red as she lashed out. “Who would like a psychopath like him? Don’t get it twisted! I’m just trying to get close to him so that I can stab him in the back!”
“Ah! Is that so?”
“Also, I hate Time because he looks similar to the Cancer Saint!”
Guisoon clearly remembered who had tried to kill all the Secretaries. There was no way the Cancer Saint, the one in charge of the criminal temple, stayed away from the massacre. Guisoon still gnashed her teeth over it.
Lee Jaewon furrowed his brows. He remembered something Lee Gun had said.
“Right. I want you to keep it a secret that the Zodiacs slaughtered the Secretaries to bury their secret.”
“What? Why?”
“Nothing good would come out of her finding out why her family was slaughtered.”
“!”
Lee Gun had said he would be the one to take revenge for her.
Lee Jaewon laughed in a pleased manner.
‘He doesn’t act like it, but he is a kind person.’
“Oh yeah. What about Madam?”
“Miss Jiwoo? Ah! She went to tell God-nim about what we discovered here.”
Surprised, Lee Jaewon urgently moved. “My god! She’s eating for two, so why would she go alone?”
“What? What did you just say? Eating for two?”
“Yes. Hugo-nim will welcome the youngest member of his family. He doesn’t know about it yet.”
Guisoon screamed. “What? Youngest member? His kids are almost grown up?!”
“They always act like newlyweds.”
“Wow! He really is capable. Well, the kid’s siblings are all grown up, so they’ll help raise—” Guisoon screamed when she suddenly had a thought. “Prenatal care!!! I’ll do the prenatal care!!! Please tell them I’ll do it!!”
* * *
Around the same time, in Spain…
This place wasn’t that far from where his niece and nephew were. It was near the Virgo temple’s holy ground.
Lee Gun had immediately come here after receiving the invitation.
Since Spain was the holy ground of the Pisces temple, the entire city was a magic fortress. Buildings like skyscrapers pierced through the sky, and vehicles made out of magic traversed through the city.
It was like another world, and Lee Gun was invited to the palace of Madrid within the magic fortress.
“Welcome, Lee Gun-nim!”
“It’s Lee Gun!”
“Take a photo!”
“The Leo Saint and the Archer Saint are with him”
“No… Hugo-nim is with the Serpent Bearer temple now, right?”
The reporters were outside. It was as if they had been waiting for him.
The inside of the palace was full of people wearing suits. Most of them were familiar faces. They were from royal families from various countries and presidents of various companies.
They were people that Lee Gun had connections with from well before twenty years ago.
Soon, Lee Gun snorted.
‘It seems she’s the one who called me here.’
He could distinguish her amongst the crowd, the Pisces Saint Liv Rich. No, she was the Pisces.
So, he contemptuously asked, “Are you the one who sent me the invitation?”
The last remaining Zodiac laughed at the question. “No. I only lent this place out. This place is my holy ground. Also…” Pisces took out something. It was a necklace with a small glass embedded within it.
Hugo became flustered when he saw it. He flinched. He had felt the same energy inside the world of torture.
‘Is that Ms. Yeonwoo?’
Pisces laughed. “Weren’t you looking for this, Lee Gun?”
Lee Gun snorted. It was clearly Yeonwoo’s soul.
‘When I saw it on TV, I assumed it was a fake.’
As if to prove that this was real, something within Lee Gun’s pocket emitted light. It was the item left behind when Yeonwoo disappeared. It reacted to Yeonwoo and notified Lee Gun of her location.
Hugo glared at Pisces. “I thought Time had it. Why does a god have it?”
It didn’t matter who possessed it. The enraged Hugo tried to step forward, but Lee Gun stopped him with his foot.
“I want you to only support me. Let Leo take care of anything dangerous.”
“W-What?? This isn’t like you. What’s going on?”
Lee Gun was about to say something in response when he spotted someone.
‘…!!’
Amongst the people gathered here was a person who looked very similar to the Cancer Saint Jean-Louis. However, he was clearly a different person.
It was the Time monarch.
