Chapter 373 - Fate that is starting to change (4)
“What?”
Around that time, the Great Spirit of Mahabharata furrowed his brow when he heard an unexpected piece of news.
[You really saw that girl?]
“Yes. Her name is Hailey. There’s an age difference, but she has the rare features that make her a peerless beauty. There is no mistaking her.”
Sighs erupted all over the region ruled over by the Great Spirit of Mahabharata.
“I never expected the Red Blood Princess to appear here once again.”
“Who’s the Red Blood Princess?”
“You don’t know her? It was when the monarchs invaded us a long time ago. She was a famous Cluder. She was the daughter of an enemy monarch...”
“Ah! That kid…!”
The gods of Mahabharata looked toward their Great Spirit, the Supreme Being. The Great Spirit of Mahabharata possessed the Divine status of Vishnu. It maintained order.
At its heart, Mahabharata was structured where they had a tripartite god system. However, one of the Spirits had gone through inheritance, so he was still in his child form. The other had ceased to exist.
A Construct (Storm) had returned from the snake god. It was done under the order of the Great Spirit. The Construct bowed.
“The problem is Hailey. That woman is with the snake god.”
This caused a murmur amongst the Constructs who served the Great Spirit.
“That girl has the highest bounty in the Divine world!”
The reason for the bounty was simple.
‘She’s connected to the incident where Mahabharata’s Great Spirit Shiva was murdered.’
How the Great Spirit had died was unclear, but Hailey was responsible for it. She was that dangerous of an existence. That was why the gods ground at the mention of her name. It was also why the Constructs looked at their master with conflicted expressions.
“If that woman is with the snake god, Mahabharata cannot openly take the side of the snake god…”
“Also, the Zodiac of the Leo temple was seen next to the Serpent Bearer! What is Leo doing?”
“That’s right. It’s said that woman used to be a Zodiac Saint of the twelve Zodiacs. There is no way Leo would have been unaware of that girl!”
The Constructs who had come back from the mission started to sweat.
“… That person never showed interest in others.”
Groans came from the surroundings.
“Ughh. He should be a fighting-type god. However, he ate his Divine status, saying it was too noisy. That is indeed something he would do.”
Leo was a war god who had been raised by Aslan. While he was raising his Divine status, the Divine status had developed a personality. Leo had eaten it because it was annoying.
At that time, Aslan’s expression had been a sight to behold, since he had been trying to develop Leo into a fighting-type god.
On the other hand, Leo was still very strong. It would have been great if he listened to those around him.
Suddenly, the Great Spirit of Mahabharata said something unexpected.
[Alright. I’ll get rid of the Red Blood Princess. ]
“What?! You will personally go?”
The Constructs who had come back after assessing the situation looked surprised.
“That woman seems to be very close to the snake god. If we mess with them, Mahabharata might…”
[How is that problematic?]
“I-It’s nothing. However… there might be a bigger problem than the Blood Red Princess…”
The gods of Mahabharata furrowed their brows.
“What else is there?”
“It has to do with Pushover. He revealed the version of himself from the time he accrued his Karmic debt. It happened where the goddesses of fate presided.”
“!!”
The reactions to Hugo’s story couldn’t be compared to before. It caused a ruckus.
The reactions were expected since Mahabharata was called the Samsara Hell. It was in charge of the punishment and reincarnation system. Taking care of the sinners was their job.
Basically, the ones who had carried out Hugo’s reincarnation were the gods of Mahabharata. Naturally, they knew about Hugo’s Karmic debt.
The gods of other factions were unaware of Hugo’s identity, so they talked about making him into a Construct. They wouldn’t be speaking so peacefully if they knew the truth.
‘If they knew who he was, they wouldn’t have let him into the Divine world.’
However, that wasn’t important right now.
“His instinct came out when he ate the Divine status. It’s understandable. Is everything ok right now?”
“Yes. Thankfully, he ate the Master of Beauty Divine status, so his evil instincts didn’t awaken.”
When the gods heard that he had eaten the Divine status of Aphrodite, they inwardly let out sighs of relief.
‘It would have been catastrophic if he had swallowed a war god.’
Hugo may be a normal human, but they couldn’t let their guard down if they considered what was inside him.
“Anyway, be careful of Pushover. You might think he’s fine since he’s human, but we must never let his form from his previous life reveal itself.”
That was the absolute truth. In the past, Hugo was someone who had destroyed the Divine world and slaughtered the gods. In truth, he was the reason Brahma had to go through his inheritance.
Then there was Hailey, who had killed Shiva.
‘All the troublesome ones have attached themselves to the snake god..’
“It would be best if we don’t send Pushover back to the earth like we originally planned.”
“If he awakens by mistake, he’ll destroy that dimension.”
“The best thing to do is to put him in the dimension of torture or some isolated dimension….”
The Great Spirit of Mahabharata clicked his tongue.
[That isn’t just. It doesn’t matter what his past life was. He’s a human right now.]
“What if his instincts come out?”
[If they do…]
The Constructs were shocked by the next words.
* * *
As this discussion was going on, Hugo, who had raised the alarms of the gods, was being bullied by Lee Gun.
“Go get some food. I’m going to die from starvation.”
“What? Food?”
“Yes. I used too much of my abilities today. It feels terrible. FYI, I’ll eat only meat.”
The unexpected order left Hugo dumbfounded. Of course, Hugo used to serve Lee Gun three meals a day when the latter was his teacher, but… “Bastard! I bought you snacks! What more do you want?”
“Yes, servant. If you’re heading out, you can get me something too. FYI, I eat only prime meat and the highest-grade fish. If it isn’t the finest ingredients— Kuhk!”
Hugo kicked Sagittarius. Although he was annoyed by Lee Gun’s order, it was understandable.
‘There is a reason that baldie wanted me to send hamburgers as tribute in the past.’
The Divine world’s food was terrible. It had the effect of filling the Divine power.
‘If I had to describe it, it tastes way too healthy.’
It seemed he didn’t want to suffer through that particular misfortune again as a god. How bad was the snack?
[Ah! You have a good eye. That is a special skewer! The meat was marinated for a hundred hours in the excrement of the X god! It costs only ten Talents!]
[…?!]
Even the mighty Lee Gun threw away the chicken. Well, that wasn’t important right now.
“Since we have a guest, you should bring us something to eat.”
“Guest?”
Instead of answering, Lee Gun pointed at Anubis and the outdoors. “I told him to bring the key that’ll allow us to head toward the underworld. To go to the earth, we’ll use the same route that you took.”
“What? What about your body?! Only souls can pass through there!”
“I can make a clone when I reach the earth. I can throw away the original in the Divine world.”
Sagittarius looked at him as if that wasn’t a good idea. “Your body is that of a fighting-type god. Even you will have a difficult time making the clone. The clone’s body will be inferior to your original body”
“It can’t be helped. While I might suffer a loss in spec, I’m in a hurry to get back to the earth.”
Anubis furrowed his brow.
‘Well, there is a route he can take where he won’t have to throw away his body. He won’t be chased by the gods on this route either.’
That was the route used by the janitors. In other words, this was the route traveled by trash cans. The route was so dirty and dangerous that no god traversed through it. However, that tunnel was connected to all worlds.
Moreover, that route could only be opened by the Cleaner “Set,” the fighting-type god of Ennead. However, Anubis had no reason to tell Lee Gun about it. Why?
‘You will be eliminated here by the fighting-type god.’
Knock, knock!
“!”
The god Anubis had called was already outside the door.
“I brought what you asked for, my lord.”
It was an unfamiliar goddess carrying a scroll. It was the transformed Set.
* * *
‘I will forever deprive you of Divine status.’
It would be the same for Anubis and Lee Gun.
Set’s eyes flashed as he came to visit Lee Gun. After receiving the order from the Great Spirit of Ennead, he had put Osiris through the inheritance process. He planned on doing the same for Anubis, then he could clean up Lee Gun.
“What is this?”
Set could only twitch his eyebrows when foul objects were placed in front of him.
“Gun… You….”
“What?”
Hugo looked at the strange food. No, it was more of a sorry-looking monstrosity than food. He massaged his brow.
A dish that couldn’t be called a chicken was before them right now. Lee Gun had made it himself by frying this chicken.
‘What did he fry it with? How could he produce such trash food…’
The reason why Lee Gun had made this chicken simple. While Lee Gun had been conversing with Anubis and the underling that Anubis had called, Hugo had brought boiled chicken for them to eat. It was a bland dish.
That had made Lee Gun furious.
[Damn it! Why the hell did you boil the chicken in the water again…!!]
[You get to eat while doing nothing, so why don’t you just eat it? Oh yeah! I heard that eating it without salt is popular. That’s why I took out the salt— Kuhk!]
[Damn it! This is why I want to go home!]
Set, who had transformed into a goddess, laughed as he spoke.
[There is no way the earth’s food is better than what we have here. Is there something that you like over there?]
Lee Gun’s eyebrows rose. Then he furrowed his brows as he had replied,
[Ah! This won’t do. Wait here. I’ll show you gods the greatness of the earth’s food.]
Lee Gun had immediately turned Lime into an enormous frying pan and used Torch to make chicken with vigor.
Thirty minutes had passed.
Lee Gun said it was chicken, but it looked like trash…
No, it was food.
“N-Nephew. This looks completely different from the chicken that I know.”
“It looks terrible, but it should taste good. Eat it.”
Sagittarius looked amused as he tried to pick up the chicken, but Hugo quickly grabbed his hand in fright. His actions meant Sagittarius shouldn’t eat it at all costs; it’d kill him.
‘You don’t know how bad Gun is at cooking.’
There was a reason Hugo had provided Lee Gun three meals a day when the latter was his teacher. It wasn’t because he had endless respect for Lee Gun, and neither was it because he was a pushover.
‘I did it because I wanted to live!’
For someone great at making items, Lee Gun was horrible at making food. Lee Gun didn’t have any feel for cooking. Moreover, the problem had worsened when he returned.
Items that Lee Gun made contained a sense of self. The food he made was imbued with life, so the sauce moved on its own and the entrees opened and closed their mouths.
‘Thankfully, this dish isn’t moving…’
However, Hugo flinched when he saw a pill bottle in Lee Gun’s hand.
[Pesticide]
It seemed Lee Gun had used it to kill the life of the twitching food. Hugo blanched even more when he saw the energy imbuing Lee Gun’s hand.
[Death]
The pesticide couldn’t kill it, so he used his ability!!
Set didn’t know this, so he dubiously looked at Lee Gun. “A-Are you sure this is edible?”
“Of course. It’s the most popular food in the place where I reside. I guarantee its taste. Right?”
Feeling Lee Gun’s gaze, Hugo and the Constructs started to sweat.
“Uh. Yeah.”
“T-That is correct.”
Amused, Set looked at Lee Gun. While he had come here under orders, he had also been interested in Lee Gun.
‘Normally, humans are slaves not worthy of associating with gods.’
It was natural for a Zodiac to feel shame if one lived in the dimension that the god ruled over. Humans and other colonists were slaves. They could exist only thanks to the Zodiacs.
However, the earth was a place being treasured by someone who possessed a Divine status capable of destroying Olympus.
This was why Set was interested in Lee Gun and the colonists that he ruled over.
‘If the colonist slaves are high quality, I might be able to trade them.’
Moreover, Lee Gun was a fighting-type god. Fighting-type gods were very rare. There was no downside to becoming friends with the snake god.
“Thank you for the hospitality. I will eat it with thanks.” Set smiled as he ate the chicken of unknown origin.
Lee Gun smiled in satisfaction.
As soon as Set swallowed the chicken… “Kuh-huhk. Kuh-hoo-poo-huhk!”
Set wanted to die.
At that moment, Anubis’s face turned pale.
“Wait a…!”
It seemed Set couldn’t maintain his transformation. He transformed from the goddess back to a menacing fighting-type god.
When a familiar male god suddenly appeared there, everyone became guarded.
“Master!”
“My god! He’s the Cleaner for Ennead!”
The Constructs unsheathed their weapons. They seemed to have a great epiphany.
“Master knew this bastard’s identity, so he poisoned him!”
“As expected of Master!”
Lee Gun felt hurt inside when they called it a poisoning attempt. While he had known his opponent was in a transformed state, he wanted his opponent to get a taste of real chicken.
In the end, Set gasped as he looked for an antidote.
[Stimulate (5 star)]
That was one of the unique abilities of a fighting-type god. He tried to activate the healing ability.
[You cannot recover your body with it.]
[The fighting-type god of sand is having a hard time breathing.]
[The fighting-type god of sand is dying.]
Even a 5-star ability couldn’t heal it. Set started vomiting blood.
“Kuh-huhk!!”
Only after throwing up all the pieces of food that he had eaten could Set breathe again. He had barely saved himself.
Unsteady on his feet, an angry Set glared at Lee Gun. “I was skeptical, but I should’ve known better. By the food you guys eat, I can tell the history of that race. Humans aren’t worth rehabilitating. I know this well now.”
“Hey, your words hurt.” Lee Gun did try to cook a proper dish.
Well, it didn’t matter. Set seemed to have a generalized bad opinion of humans because of Lee Gun. He immediately used his power. “I thought they could be traded, but I was wrong!”
“!”
“I’ll get rid of them as I originally planned.”
“Master!”
“Do not ever think about stepping into the Divine world again!”
“!”
When Set made a gesture, a red light appeared from the ceiling.
Koo-goo-goong!
The red light sucked in everything, including inanimate objects and all living beings.
[Cracked Door of the Dimension (3rd door)]
Sagittarius and the Constructs flinched.
“That’s the Cleaner’s ability!”
Set was the Cleaner, and he used this ability to get rid of gods.
However, Sagittarius furrowed his brow. “Isn’t that a space connected to a different dimension?”
Hugo had been clutching at a pillar. His eyes widened when the different dimension was mentioned. “Dimension? Then we can go to the earth through that?”
“It’s possible.”
“Then we should exit using that! We won’t have to leave behind our bodies!”
The Constructs desperately yelled.
“No! You can go to the earth through there, but that place is…!”
“Whatever. Just fuck off!”
Set wiped the blood from his lips. His eyes flashed.
This made the Constructs scream. They were in danger of being sucked through that open door.
When the powerful winds tried to pull Lee Gun in, his Constructs quickly yelled at him.
“Damn it! Master! We cannot be dragged into that place at all costs!”
“What is it? If it’s a crack in the dimensions, is it any different from the middle world?”
“It’s a traditional maze of the Divine world, which even the Divine world forgot how to traverse!”
When Lee Gun said he was going to the Divine world, Virgo Constructs had been worried Lee Gun wouldn’t take the straight route. They had been worried he would take a different route. It was the route that Set had connected using a tunnel.
Set laughed. “You said you wanted to sneak out to the earth. I’ll send you that way. While it’s a maze, it still has a departure gate. Since it’s you, you’ll be able to find it quickly. I wonder if it’ll take you ten thousand years to find it.”
“!”
When the Great Spirit of Ennead had said to send them to the earth, he was referring to this method.
“While you deserve to be put to death, we’ll merely banish you. Be thankful to the mercy of the Great Spirit. Don’t step into the Divine world for the next ten thousand years.”
“What the hell is he— Kuhk!”
In the end, all the gods, including Hugo, were sucked into the door. The fighting-type god had opened this door with permission from the Divine world, so not even gods could avoid being sucked in.
Lee Gun was having a hard time withstanding the pull.
“Koohk!”
In the end, he got sucked in too. However, he sent the power of Death flying toward the gate just before that.
Kwahng!!
Set smirked when he felt the shock. “Idiot. It doesn't matter what you send. The door won’t be destroyed—”
Set and Anubis were shocked at once. While the gate wasn’t destroyed, the light coming out of it had changed in color.
‘Black?!’
Anubis realized the implication. He reared back in fright. “Wait a moment…! That’s not the first door!”
“He used his power to change the space where it is connected to…!”
The space was directly connected to the colony. If they went through using that gate…!
“They might be able to go directly to the earth!”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“What?! Didn’t the Great Spirit say they should be thrown into the maze…”
“They are entering somewhere worse than the maze. You do realize what’s in there, right?”
“!”
It was a place gods refused to go to, as even they could die there.
“They’ll die before they can find the door— Kuhk!!” Set groaned as a chain made out of light encircled his neck.
“Kuhk! Wait a moment!”
“You’re going with me, idiot!”
“!!”
The chain was Lee Gun’s “Serpent Eater” skill! Lee Gun smirked as he was sucked through the door. He pulled Set. “You can be my guide!!”
Set was shocked. “No! I can’t leave the Divine world! Wait a moment! Hey! I can’t go there!”
In the end, caught in the snake god’s scheme, Set also disappeared from the Divine world.
