Chapter 366 - Goddess of Fate (3)
The goddesses of fate were a troublesome bunch who the gods of the Divine world didn’t like interacting with. This was to be expected since they were goddesses who observed and foretold the fate of gods and humans. Moreover, their role didn’t end there.
The goddesses of fate had received orders from the Great Spirits, so they were allowed to directly interfere and eliminate the fate of gods. It was like what they had done with the incident with Hercules.
At the time, they had slightly tweaked Lee Gun’s fate. They had made it so that Lee Gun was fated to lose to Hercules. This was the “Fate Correction” ability, the three goddesses’ stronger weapon and power.
None of the gods antagonized the goddesses because of this power. In fact, the gods acted favorably toward them since they wanted the goddesses as assets to their factions.
“Idiots, who told you to covet what is mine?”
Lee Gun didn’t care about any of that. He just wanted to screw them over.
The goddesses ground their teeth when they saw Lee Gun’s expression.
‘We have to change his fate.’
When they started to move, Lee Gun contemptuously flicked his finger. It caused Sagittarius’s eyes to turn round, and a scream rang out.
“Ahhhk!!”
The one to scream was Hugo.
“What the hell is this?”
Accompanying the light, a lightning bolt beyond imagination emanated from Hugo’s body.
Kwah-jee-jeek!!
“If you move even a finger, you guys are dead.”
The goddesses reared back in fright when they heard Lee Gun’s words.
“This is the Great Spirit’s…!”
“Isn’t that the Lord of Heaven’s lightning!!”
This was the lightning of Zeus, the opponent Lee Gun had faced in Olympus.
Hugo, who was in pain, didn’t know what was going on. He was flustered, but Lee Gun yelled at him as if it was no big deal, “Go, Lightning Man! If you shoot your bow right now, you’ll be able to use lightning arrows!”
“Hey!!” Hugo was afraid he would die from electrocution before that! “Where the hell did you get this lightning?”
Hugo felt like he was about to faint. He quickly felt that all over his body. Clearly, this was Lee Gun’s doing.
While Hugo had been absent, Lee Gun had fought the god of lightning and probably used the acquired data to make something strange. Moreover, he had probably stuck the item on Hugo!
“Damn it! Where is it?” Groaning in pain because of the powerful lightning, Hugo groped his back.
With Lee Gun’s power of Life, Hugo would come back to life even if he died to the lightning. However, pain was pain.
Hugo became angry when he found a weird delivery sticker stuck to his back, which was emanating lightning.
[Lightning Sticker for Taeksoo’s Use (SSS)]
- A protective sticker created using the data of the Great Spirit Lord of Heaven. It electrocutes the enemy and the user with lightning.
“Damn it! Get this off me!”
“Why? I was worried you would get kidnapped again. I used precious data to make this for you!”
“Really!! You bast—”
Before Hugo could say anything else, the lightning went berserk in all directions. It attacked the old woman.
Kwah-jee-jeek!!
“Ahhhk!”
“Unni!”
It was the power of the Great Spirit for a reason. When Future took a direct hit from the lightning, she fell. Moreover, it seemed her heart had stopped.
The attack was indiscriminate. Sagittarius was surprised as well, but he soon defended against it.
[Family Shield]
Sagittarius screamed when the lightning struck him and fell to the ground.
This made Hugo angry. “I get that your heart is in the right place!! However, this indiscriminately attacks our allies! Don’t you have something more normal?”
Lee Gun looked resigned as he took out colorful gems. “If you don’t like that equipment, you can choose amongst these. I’ll give you a Divine status that might be of help to you.”
“!”
Lee Gun had taken out the Divine status cores of four gods
[Divine Status: Ares]
[Divine Status: Hermes]
[Divine Status: Hades]
[Divine Status: Aphrodite]
Hades was the first one Lee Gun had killed, he broke open the head of Ares, and Hermes was killed by Abyss.
As for Aphrodite, she was captured by Hercules. Lee Gun had taken her core before she could be handed over to the civil servants.
Aphrodite had tried to seduce Lee Gun to run away. In the process, Yooha had broken her and taken out the Divine status.
Since the Olympus gods were human now, their Divine statuses were carried around within their bodies.
The rest of the gods had frozen when they saw Yooha kill Aphrodite. They had quickly elected to go to prison so that Lee Gun couldn’t acquire their Divine status.
‘On the other hand, their bounties decreased if their Divine statuses were missing.’
One among them had tempted Lee Gun the most, but he had decided to put off taking that god’s Divine status. After all, he planned on raiding the prison later on.
Anyway, this was how he had acquired these precious Divine statuses of high-rank gods.
“Choose one that you want as a power-up. What about Aphrodite?”
“Give me something decent, alright?”
Hugo expressed his anger, but the goddesses of fate were angrier than him.
‘He might have put it in an item, but how could he use the power of a Great Spirit like that?’
They became guarded against Lee Gun since he had stuck an item imbued with the power of Zeus on Hugo. Normally, the power of a god couldn’t be used in a piecemeal like this. It was even more unlikely on a new god that smelled like a human.
‘His ranking was high enough to surprise the civil servants.’
While Lee Gun’s fate had been read, there was a limit to pinpointing his level too. However, the goddesses didn’t betray their feelings since they knew the worth of Lee Gun’s Divine status from the beginning. They had been eyeing it.
It was why they had gotten involved in the incident with Hercules. They just had to create an opening and steal the Divine statuses of the pillar gods.
‘The Divine status is as precious as it could be.’
It could be called the core of a god.
“How dare you talk about letting a mere Construct take the Divine status of a high-rank god! How insolent!”
“He already has a Divine status. Do you think it’s easy to handle two high-rank Divine statuses?”
“Divine statuses aren’t fragments of power that can be upgraded. Only the Great Spirits can handle multiple Divine statuses. There is no way Pushover is capable of doing it.”
Lee Gun’s eyes flashed with coldness. “If he can’t do it, he’ll get beaten up.”
“!”
“I can do it, so why can’t he?”
The goddesses were dumbfounded. Of course, they knew what his words meant. The light in their eyes changed as they asked a question.
“Can you really use them? Can you use several Divine statuses instead of fragments?”
“That’s right. Well, it’s annoying if they get stolen, so I was thinking about making return-type equipment.”
When he said equipment, the goddesses scoffed. They thought he was taking the joke too far. However, Hugo froze for an entirely different reason.
‘Does he plan on turning all the gods within the Divine world into equipment?’
The probability of it happening wasn't zero.
‘Unless something dire happens, I doubt he’ll…’
However, the problem right now was with himself.
‘If I can’t handle the Divine status, my bones will be pulverized. I might also be used as an ingredient for making equipment.’
“It doesn’t matter in the end.”
“!”
Lee Gun arrived next to Hugo and handed over a Divine status core. Then he took the Book of Fate, which Hugo had stolen.
The goddesses of fate glared at them.
“How dare you!”
Lee Gun pulled the book as if he planned on ripping it apart. “You guys tormented the gods with this, right? From what I heard, this is the source of your power. Unless you don’t want me to destroy it, you should take out the Rule Book.”
The goddesses of fate were dismayed. The rules of the Divine world were written inside the Rule Book. This book had major and minor laws that made the foundation of the Divine world. It was a book of law with various rules.
Moreover, gods that numbered more than the stars wanted to fix the laws to their advantage. This was why the gods sucked up to the goddesses of fate.
The goddesses of fate were flabbergasted. No one had tried to threaten them in this fashion before. No god had the guts to do it.
“We thought you sent Louis-nim as a tribute because you wanted the Rule Book or you wanted to change your fate.”
“You vulgar and arrogant bastard…!”
“We should have known by your cowardly actions when you turned the gods into humans!”
However, they soon started laughing.
“That’s a Divine item. No god can harm it. Not even the attack power of a fighting-type god—”
Kwah-jeek!
“…!!”
The goddesses’ expressions changed when they heard the sound. The metal cover of the book started to break apart. The goddesses looked at Lee Gun in shock.
Lee Gun merely smirked. “While my attack abilities might not work, this is merely an item.”
“!”
Lee Gun used the Manufacturer skill “Dismantle.” His eyes flashed. It was one of the abilities that were freed after he had paid off his debt. “I don’t care how great this item is. The Dismantle skill works really well against it.”
“…!”
The goddesses of fate couldn’t believe this.
“Isn’t that the skill of a Manufacturer! That bastard is a Manufacturer-type god?”
“That’s odd. When I read his fate, he had the power of only Life, Death, and Cycle…!”
Something was off.
‘Almost everything is revealed through Fate Reading. It doesn’t matter what type of god it is.’
This included Great Spirits. It was out of the ordinary for them to be unable to see all the information at a single glance.
‘We’ll have to dig in further.’
‘Even a Manufacturer god shouldn't be able to…!’
Desperate, they looked at Hugo.
“Hey, servant!”
“!”
“If you return that Divine item, we’ll reduce your Karmic debt!”
“What? Karmic debt?”
“Yes! I can’t believe you can stay next to that snake god with that Karmic debt. It’s odd…”
Hugo scoffed. “Karmic debt? What nonsense are they talking about—”
Boom!!
“…!”
Was it because he had recovered the ability of his important part here? Hugo’s vision suddenly changed.
‘…!’
His surroundings changed. No, his surroundings were the same; he was just seeing a vision. It was similar to his foretelling ability, but a little different. This wasn’t the future. It was…
[Kyahhhk!! Run away!]
[Murderer!]
[He killed them all!]
Hugo saw countless corpses of gods in front of him. There were tens of thousands… No, more than that. It was as if he had killed them all.
Kwah-jee-jeek!!!
The sound of destruction rang out as Hugo’s vision returned to normal.
‘!’
Taken aback, Hugo looked at his hands, which had been covered with blood until a moment ago.
“Kyaahhhk!”
“That bastard!!”
The goddesses of fate raged as they looked at Lee Gun. Lee Gun had destroyed the Book of Fate, and he didn’t have a single ounce of a guilty conscience.
In fact, he looked dumbfounded. “Is this for real? What the hell is up with its durability?”
Lee Gun was able to seal one of the abilities of the goddesses of fate with this. “Ah! Whatever. If you want me to fix this, you have to take out the Rule Book. You have to fix what I want.”
The child-like Past extended her hand with bloodshot eyes.
“You’re facing the goddesses of fate. You’re acting too arrogant!”
At that moment, a saw-toothed wheel appeared as it split the sky.
Koo-goo-gooohk!
The goddesses thought about the order that came from the Great Spirits, which had come right after the destruction of Olympus. It was an order regarding Lee Gun.
- Listen to us, Goddesses. We want you to change the fate of the snake god. We want you to expel his right as a god.
- That means…
- We want you to destroy his existence itself. Let him reincarnate as a microbe.
Of course, the goddesses had ignored the order. Lee Gun was too valuable to do such a thing, but things were different right now.
Their eyes flashed. The saw-toothed wheel kept spinning endlessly as lightning shot out. Then, something surprising happened.
“Koohk!”
“Gun!”
Lee Gun’s vision shifted. When he opened his eyes again, they turned round.
‘This place is…’
He found himself on top of a bed.
‘Earth?’
However, it wasn’t the present.
‘It was when I was living with Yeonwoo and Junwoo.’
This was before he had become the thirteenth awakened being, before Yeonwoo and Junwoo had died.
At that moment, he heard a voice.
[We read your past record. You were able to revive the girl, but you were unable to find the younger brother.]
“!”
[We know you read the record within the underworld to find the soul of your sibling.]
[That was why you entered the Divine world in the first place. You came to find the soul of your sibling, right?]
“!”
It was Past’s voice. This was the ability of Past.
[Crossroads of Fate (5 star)]
- It changes the fate of the past.
[That is the time when your younger brother was still alive. What happens if he is kept alive?]
Lee Gun’s eyebrows rose.
[From what I’ve heard, you received the Divine status of the snake god because of the power of the two siblings. If the younger brother is kept alive, you will lose the power of the snake god, but won’t you be able to find your sibling?]
The goddess laughed.
[The existence of the hero Lee Gun would disappear, but the other heroes will take care of the world in your stead.]
Lee Gun checked the Divine power within his body. He could still use his power. It meant he could save his younger brother here. The goddess wanted him to change his fate.
‘In the end, she wants me to choose between family and being a hero.’
[You never wanted to become a hero. This is a special opportunity to save your sibling.]
Lee Gun furrowed his brows. Of course, he had a way to get out of this power.
‘It isn’t like the fight against Time, where we switched timelines. I just have to forward the time until the present.’
He still had the data of Time, which he had kept for emergency use.
‘Using it is a shame since the ability of Time is so useful.’
Lee Gun had killed Time using Cycle, so not even his corpse had been left behind. Only a minuscule amount of the monarch’s data was left.
Lee Gun smirked at that moment.
‘Wait a moment. This is the past. That means Time is here, right?’
Would it be possible to duplicate him?
