It was a day when there was heavy rain.
Lee Gun picked up a cat in front of his house.
It was a baby kitten covered in blood.
Its entire body was broken, and there was an especially nasty burn wound on its face.
“My god, kitty… Where did you hurt yourself like this?”
Of course, the kitten had been Hailey, who had lost her power.
There was no way Lee Gun would have known this.
At the time, Lee Gun had left the orphanage, and he was living by himself.
He was still a student, so he didn’t have much money.
Despite this fact, he had taken the kitten to the vet, and he had taken care of it with all his heart.
“I want you to heal quickly. Oppa will take you somewhere nice, and we can go play.”
It had taken quite a long time.
“It is cold. Why are you outside? Come here. You can sleep with oppa.”
Yeonwoo and Junwoo were still living in an orphanage, and they knew about the existence of the cat.
They knew Lee Gun dearly loved his cat. This was why Lee Gun had been very sad when the cat suddenly disappeared. It was why they had been equally sad as Lee Gun.
Of course, a young girl with a burn mark in the same location as the cat had shown up in front of him.
At the time, he had no idea who the girl was. She had merely shown her face at the time.
Back to the present.
Hailey had opened her eyes, and Lee Gun was gently touching her face.
“You are all healed.”
“……!”
Hailey was very happy after she opened her eyes.
It was to be expected since she saw Lee Gun as soon as she opened her eyes!
Moreover, it was a dream where Lee Gun was gently petting her!
It really was the best of dreams…
Dream….
Dream?
“??!!?!”
When Hailey came to her senses, she almost screamed.
It wasn’t a dream.
Lee Gun was stroking her face.
However, she didn’t have the opportunity to scream.
“I looked for you a very long time. I’m glad. You became pretty.”
Lee Gun gently rubbed her face and forehead as if he was petting a cat.
It caused Hailey’s face to turn red.
He was close.
Lee Gun was unnecessarily close, and his lips were that much closer.
She was at her limits.
[P…Princess?!!]
Hailey once again lost consciousness.
The sound of her head hitting the ground was quite loud, so her subordinates cried out in despair.
[Princesssss!!!]
Lee Gun was also surprised.
He was very taken aback, because he had reigned in <Life> in order to save Hailey.
“Shit. Is <Life> making trouble again?”
He criticized <Life> for already causing trouble, and it seemed <Life> felt aggrieved.
It had to do with the fact that he had consumed energy to the extreme when he used the power of <Cycle> on <Time>.
The effects of the power going berserk had temporarily died down, but <Life> once again started to move in a violent manner.
It caused cries to erupt from all directions.
On the other hand, the Zodiac Saints couldn’t close their mouths when they saw Hailey live again. The Chun siblings didn’t care about that. They clung to Lee Gun as they wailed in joy.
“Ah…!!”
At that moment, the nearby disciples were surprised.
Phantom beings were gathering in front of Lee Gun.
“They are…!”
They were none other than the Constructs of the Serpent Bearer, who used to be called the strongest god.
[The Constructs of the older Serpent Bearer temple feels the presence of their owner. They are approaching you]
[When the empty seat of the Serpent Bearer became filled again, the other old servants cried out in joy.]
[The older servants want to meet their master.]
All of them came close to Lee Gun before they took a knee.
Of course, these weren’t their true bodies.
After the death of the 13th original owner, most of them were forcefully taken by the other Zodiacs.
They were here secretly as they avoided surveillance from the Zodiacs.
[We cannot see you with our true forms, yet we are fortunate enough to see your face before we die.]
[We want to become a source of power for the Serpent Bearer like before, but we cannot escape the owners that hold us. We cannot stay here too long.]
They were able to send their clones when they felt the danger to the Serpent Bearer and their original temple.
The Constructs ceaselessly shed tears.
[We can no longer be with you, but we will always help whenever needed.]
[Please keep your exalted body safe until the day we meet again.]
Lee Gun nodded his head as he looked at them.
“Alright. Thank you.”
The Constructs wailed in joy at those words, then they disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The only one left was the leader of Eeny, Meeny, Miny. He was the one that had been imprisoned by the Gemini temple.
It was a giant with a copious amount of white fur. It was a god that looked like a yeti.
[The <White god of Light> is happy to finally meet the Serpent Bearer.]
[It is very sorry for sending subordinates that weren’t of big help to the Serpent Bearer.]
[It promises to pledge loyalty to the new Serpent Bearer.]
Lee Gun nodded his head at the notification.
“Alright. I will allow it.”
Accompanying a massive light, the furry god’s appearance changed.
It turned into the shape of a very beautiful and powerful woman.
[Chief Gatekeeper of the Serpent Bearer temple (Heimdall) (Highest rank)]
[God of Light(Highest rank) has become the Construct of the Serpent Bearer.]
[It has the spec to be put in the seat of the Royal Construct(Directly under Zodiac). Will you place it there?]
“No. I have someone else I have to place there first.”
Was it because of the faith and the fact that the existence of <Time> had been completely disassembled?
[You have satisfied the condition.]
[You have become the only god of <Earth>]
[You have become the Zodiac of district <Earth>]
[<Earth> has been designated as the holy ground of the Serpent Bearer]
[Will you give a name to district <Earth>?]
Lee Gun picked at his ear as if he found the task to be very annoying.
“My land.”
[<Earth> was changed to <My Land>]
[Heroes can be grown into Constructs, and you are able to challenge outside holy grounds.]
[In the same vein, the Zodiacs ruling over other places may show interest towards the Serpent Bearer’s holy ground…]
Lee Gun didn’t find this to be important, so he surveyed his surroundings once again.
He had brought back Hailey. The ones left were Yeonwoo and Hugo.
Before he did that…
“Come here, Hugo.”
Hugo wailed in joy when Lee Gun called for him.
“My ears didn’t deceive me! Teacher called me by my name again!”
The Zodiac Saints, who had been putting things in order, shook their heads from side to side when they saw this.
At some point, Hugo had stopped being a Lee Gun fanboy, so they had forgotten about it.
However, Hugo that they remembered had always been like that.
On the other hand, Virgo fell into her own thoughts when she saw this.
It was to be expected since Lee Gun had united the temples, and he had become the one and only god of earth.
This was why she suddenly had a thought.
‘Maybe, the Serpent Bearer planned all of this.’
She was referring to the 13th original owner.
He was reputed to be one of the strongest gods in the Divine world. He was called one of the cornerstones of the Divine world.
Of course, he had been a magic type Zodiac. He was unlike Lee Gun, who was outstanding in his fighting abilities.
Still, even the great spirits were afraid of him as a god.
Yet he was a kind god, who treasured his Constructs. The Constructs were usually treated like slaves, so the Constructs had willingly followed after the 13th original own.
However, Virgo remembered the day of the usurping.
When Virgo told him to run away, the 13th original owner laughed as he spoke.
‘No. This is enough.’
‘What?’
‘They are the underhanded usurpers. With this, my <Revenge> is done.’
‘……!’
That’s right.
His comrades were murdered by Constructs, and he was dying as well.
Yet he was laughing.
He acted as if the original owners deserved to die.
That smile had bugged her for the longest time, and it was the reason why she had kept an eye on the <Serpent Bearer>.
In the end, she could only come to one conclusion.
‘Could the Serpent Bearer have….’
However, such thoughts lasted only a moment.
“Ahhk!! Teacher!!”
Hugo, who had been ecstatic at his name being called, screamed.
It was time for him to be sent back to his own time by Lee Gun.
[You are using <Time>’s data]
[<Time Travel> (1 turn)]
Lee Gun broke the black gem.
It was one of the countless pieces of data that he had acquired by killing the young <Time>.
Of course, it couldn’t perform amazing abilities since it was the data of young <Time>.
However, it was capable of sending Hugo back to his original time.
“Ahhhk!!”
Hugo was swept up by an enormous light.
At that moment, Lee Gun grabbed Hugo’s forehead.
“T…Teacher?”
“Farewell. Say hi to the version of me that is there. Tell him to hang in there.”
“What?!”
“Ah. I guess it doesn’t matter since you won’t remember this?”
“What?! What are you saying!”
Instead of answering, Lee Gun used the ability of <Oblivion>.
This Hugo was from the 18,733th world. It was where Lee Gun existed.
It meant this was Hugo from Lee Gun’s past.
Basically, the future would change if he remembered what had happened.
This was what Lee Gun had planned to do in the first place.
[<Oblivion> will be used to erase the memories related to this timeline]
Hugo screamed as he disappeared into the gate of Time.
However, Lee Gun suddenly shouted in surprise after Hugo disappeared.
“Ah!”
The Zodiac Saints were shocked since it was rare for Lee Gun to scream.
“What’s wrong! What happened!”
“Shit. I forgot to Oblivion his faith….”
“What?!”
“Since he doesn’t have any memories of this, I guess faith shouldn’t matter too much.”
“Hey! That’s the most important part?!”
It happened at that moment.
“Koohk…!”
“Uncle!”
Lee Gun was about to say something when he fell.
He clutched at his heart.
It seemed just maintaining stage 6, which was the berserk stage, was a problem.
[Warning. The ring of <Order> has reached its limit.]
[Stage 6 Divine statuses are trying to take the life of their owner.]
[<Death> has to be chosen, so <Life> can be killed.]
Lee Gun furrowed his brows as he dismissed those words.
In order to revive ttwo, he had to maintain stage 6 even if it was painful.
Lee Gun quickly gestured with his hand. It caused slime to suddenly appear from an unknown location.
“Hurry… Take out Yeonwoo and Taeksoo!”
It happened at that moment.
“Kuhk!!”
“Lee Gun!”
Lee Gun was tired as he could be. He vomited blood as he fell over.
It was true that he had spent a lot of power getting rid of <Time>, but he also hadn’t slept since his Divine statuses had reached stage 6.
Despite possessing the ring of Order, he couldn’t control stage 6 while asleep.
While he was in such a state, he had to kill <Time> over 18,000 times, and he had used the power of <Cycle>.
There was no way he would have enough stamina left.
[You cannot control your Divine statuses.]
[The Divine statuses stage 6 are destroying the body of the Serpent Bearer.]
Lee Gun lost consciousness.
When the person suppressing them was lost, Life and Death started to go berserk like mad.
“Shit!”
Chun Yooha and Chun Sungjae quickly tried to suppress their respective Divine status when it happened.
Koo-goo-goong!
“!!”
They were surprised.
The stage 6 Divine statuses, which had been about to go berserk, suddenly disappeared.
“Uh? Where’s Lee Gun?”
Lee Gun was also gone.
* * *
“Wow!! Humanity won!”
“Lee Gun brought us victory!”
The news of Lee Gun killing <Time> spread across the world, and the whole world was in the midst of celebrating.
“We just have to get rid of the remaining remnants of the monsters.!”
“We’ll do that in no time!”
“That’s for another time! Where is Lee Gun-nim!”
“We need an interview!”
The happy people diligently looked for Lee Gun.
However, Lee Gun was somewhere else.
He was in a place that wasn’t earth.
[Gun.]
“…fuck off.”
[Gun.]
“…fuck off, Oh Taeksoo.”
[Gun~]
“??!!”
Lee Gun woke up in shock as he felt wind enter his ears.
He was surprised when he saw his surroundings.
His surroundings looked like space.
‘Where is this place?’
THere was something more odd than his surroundings.
“……????”
Lee Gun was struck dumb by the person in front of him.
There was a golden haired handsome man standing in front of him.
‘This guy is the 13th original owner of the Serpent Bearer temple.’
There was a playful expression on his face, but his laughter was oddly arrogant.
Lee Gun bit his tongue.
‘Since <Time> was reverted back to a point before his genesis, this guy must have appeared since <Time> was made from him.’
Lee Gun sighed as he got up.
Since he was the owner of Yeonwoo, he wasn’t an enemy, but…
“I don’t have time to meet you. I have people I have to revive right now….”
[You slept for a long time, my son.]
Lee Gun’s face froze in an instant.
What?
What did this bastard say?
