Chapter 406 - Thank you (2)
Lee Gun was dumbfounded.
‘What the hell? They gave advice that goes against each other.’
One had said letting Hugo live would be beneficial for them. The other one said it would be beneficial for them if Hugo was killed. The baffling part was that both figures were on Hailey’s side.
‘Both of them have no reason to tell me something that would cause harm to Hailey.’
Scorpio wouldn’t suggest something that would cause harm to Hailey, her Zodiac Saint.
‘In fact, she would have cherished Hailey.’
It was a problem, but Zodiacs thought of Zodiac Saints as their belongings. If anyone else messed with their Zodiac Saints, it would incur the Zodiacs’ fury.
It probably meant Scorpio wasn’t lying.
‘However, I never expected their opinions to be so opposed to each other...’
As if she had read his thoughts, Scorpio spoke.
[Flame or the Red monarch is Eternal Change’s sworn sibling. Of course, she would say that.]
“!”
Angry, Scorpio moved her face closer to Lee Gun.
[You are a Creator. You should trust someone from your tribe instead of a monarch.]
Lee Gun furrowed his brow. He conjectured that Scorpio had been the leader of the Creators. Basically, she used to be a Great Spirit.
In other words, she was his remote ancestor.
“It doesn't matter what you say. I believe in my friend.”
Unexpectedly, Scorpio laughed.
[Yes. Aslan’s father said the same thing.]
“!”
She laughed as if she was looking at a poor child as she continued.
[Do you know why the Creators were killed?]
“I do know. Sagittarius and his allies were overcome with jealousy. It was why the Creators were killed.”
The only Creator to survive from that time was Aslan.
[Yes. However, whom did you think instigated Sagittarius? Do you really think the Creators would die so easily under some evil scheme?]
“What?”
[The instigator was Eternal Change.]
“…!!”
It seemed Lee Gun hadn’t even thought about such a possibility.
Scorpio continued to speak.
[Eternal Change deliberately approached the Creators from the start. He became friendly with them to dig out information about the weaknesses of the Creators.]
Scorpio was probably speaking about the memory that Lee Gun had seen, the memory of the day when Aslan and his father had met Hugo for the first time.
[On the day when the Creators were weakened, Eternal Change disseminated their information to the enemies.]
“…!”
It meant that despite having a friendly relationship with Lee Gun’s grandfather, who was the patriarch, Eternal Change or Hugo had stabbed the Creators in the back.
[Eternal Change was ecstatic as he killed all the gods. He even made me into what you see right now. I can vividly remember how he had behaved.]
“…”
Eternal Change was an excellent hunter. By changing into tens of thousands of appearances, he caused confusion and played one side against the other.
‘At the end, he was vicious in hunting everyone down.’
Eternal Change had also morphed Scorpio into a hideous monster. After being changed into a monster incapable of speech, Scorpio had been unable to use her power.
No one from the Divine world had recognized her despite being a Great Spirit. In fact, she was attacked by the other gods when they thought she was a low-rank god of calamity.
[I survived by hiding amongst the insectoid gods.]
Her lot hadn’t changed until Aslan had found her after he became an adult. After boldly showing up in front of her, Aslan spoke to her.
- Oh, leader of the Creators. You are alive. I have been looking for you for a long time.
With Aslan’s help, she had taken the seat of the Scorpio temple. She had helped Aslan get his revenge as well.
On the other hand, she also remembered what Aslan spoke right before his death.
- I have a child. Please look out for him alongside the twin snakes.
However, Scorpio had been incapable of using a Creator’s power back then. It didn’t matter if he asked for such a favor. Moreover, she possessed a hideous appearance, and she couldn't communicate with others. She couldn’t even approach the other gods.
Despite this, she had done as much as she could in secret. This was true when Virgo helped Yeonwoo and Junwoo revive as humans.
Scorpio had worked in the background so that no one would find out that Yeonwoo and Junwoo had been stolen away.
[Eternal Change stabbed his friends in the back, and he wiped out our tribe. You want to trust such a being?]
In other words, he was the culprit at the center of everything. If not for Eternal Change, the Creators would have never fallen.
[That’s not all. If it weren’t for him, your father wouldn’t have died on his path for revenge.]
“!”
[Time would have never been born or led the monarchs to invade the earth. At the same time, Junwoo and Yeonwoo wouldn’t have been murdered tens of thousands of times by Time!]
In other words, Eternal Change deserved death. This was why Scorpio could never accept it. She had kept telling Aslan to kill Eternal Change, yet Aslan always replied in the same way.
- Oh, mighty Great Spirit. Please leave Eternal Change alone.
In the end, that conservation had always ended in an argument. However, she had thought Aslan’s son would be different.
[Eternal Change is the culprit that caused everything. That’s why you should get rid of the bastard who remains next to you…]
Kwahng!!!
An explosion occurred within the holy ground. It was Lee Gun’s doing.
Lee Gun looked oddly pissed off. He narrowed his eyes. “Fuck off! I don't mind if you no longer speak to me.”
Scorpio furrowed her brows.
[Are you saying you can’t trust me?]
“No. I just don’t want to follow the word of a god who neglected me.”
[!]
Lee Gun feigned laughter. “If you knew everything, you could have given me a heads up through Hailey. You could have done it before I was trapped in the Devil’s Tower.”
Scorpio furrowed her brow.
[It would have been impossible in the first place. After I was changed into a monster by Eternal Change, I lost the ability to communicate with others. I only regained it around five years ago. It was only possible because I saved Hailey’s Contribution to grow my power.]
“That does sound likely.” Lee Gun furrowed his brows.
In the first place, Scorpio had been different from the other Zodiacs. She never revealed herself or tried to communicate with anyone.
At this point, he was curious as to how Aslan was able to converse with her.
‘He must have possessed a deciphering ability.’
Aslan had the power to create any skill. He might have made a skill that could decipher the language of the monsters.
It didn’t matter in the end.
Lee Gun furrowed his brow as if he was displeased. In the first place, he hated being ordered around. “I will be the one to make the choice. That’s why don’t order me to kill him. Also, I cannot trust everything that you told me right now.”
Of course, although he said that, the words of Hailey’s mother bothered him too.
- Leave him alive.
‘It doesn’t matter who. They are all trying to give me orders.’
There was a chance that Hailey’s mother had indeed said it because she was on the same side as Eternal Change.
In reality, she had probably told him to leave Hugo alone since it would be good for Hailey and Lee Gun.
‘If Scorpio is speaking the truth, there is no way the thirteenth would leave Taeksoo alone.’
Weren’t they supposed to be enemies? If so, Alsan would have left Hugo alone when Confusion tried to kill him.
‘Why would he go out of his way to swap him out?’
Moreover, Aslan had told Lee Gun how to find Hugo’s soul, which had fallen into the underworld.
‘Was it because he was worth taking advantage of?’
At that moment, the enraged Scorpio backed off for a moment. She no longer went on the offensive.
[Alright. I will respect your choice. However, it will be inevitable. You will learn the true nature of Eternal Change.]
Lee Gun’s eyebrows rose.
On the other hand, Scorpio brought out an unexpected item and offered it up to him.
Flash!
“!”
Accompanying the blinding light, a Divine status fell in front of Lee Gun. From what he could sense, it was clearly the Divine status of a Creator.
[It’s my Divine status.]
“!”
[You will be able to threaten the gods and the monarchs with this. Moreover, you will be able to end the life of Eternal Change.]
“End the life of Eternal Change?”
[Let me tell you this. Eternal Change cannot attack the Primordial god and the Creators.]
This surprised Lee Gun. “He can’t attack the Creators?”
[Yes. He’s a sinner who ambushed the Primordial god. We were guards in charge of monitoring him.]
“!”
The primordial god was an exalted existence. All the gods of the universe worshiped and followed him. It meant ambushing the Primordial god was a grave sin.
[Of course, we couldn’t let a monarch back into the population. We bound his soul so that he couldn’t attack the Primordial god and his guards. That’s why he used others to kill the Creators.]
He did it on purpose to release the restriction placed on him.
This was why Scorpio was giving this item to Lee Gun.
[It may be my Divine status, but it also contains the Divine statuses of other Creators. I am the first Creator. I am in charge of gathering all the souls of my kind when they die.]
In other words, she was giving him incredible power, which might exceed the Great Spirit rank, a power great enough to make gods lust after it.
[It contains a very strong power.]
[With the power of the Serpent Bearer, you will be able to make a powerful Divine item on the same rank as Heaven’s Punishment.]
All gods possessed a Divine item that corresponded to their Divine status.
Moreover, Lee Gun possessed three Divine statuses. It meant he would be able to handle three Divine items. Of course, Heaven’s Punishment was a Divine item of Life.
[I cannot use it, but you are talented at manufacturing items. You can create anything with it.]
He might be able to make a Divine item that corresponded with either Death or Cycle.
Flash!
As soon as Lee Gun placed his hand on the Divine status, the light transformed into a weapon.
[The Creation power of the Serpent Bearer was applied.]
Well, it couldn’t be called a weapon yet. It was shaped like a bat.
Lee Gun laughed as he held it up. “Alright. I’ll use it well.”
[Great! Then you should get rid of Eternal Change using it—]
“Right. Thank you for giving me this, but…”
[!]
“Why are you insisting on giving orders to me?”
[What?]
“There will be no third strike.” Lee Gun took a big swing with the weapon of light, making Scorpio flustered.
[Wait a moment, my descendant!]
Kwahng!!!
He didn’t care if she was his ancestor or not. A large explosion occurred within the holy ground of the Scorpio temple.
* * *
Lee Gun dusted off his hands as he exited Scorpio’s domain. The members of his household, who were outside the domain, rushed toward him.
“Uncle! Are you ok?”
“We were worried since it took you a long time to come out!”
“What? It wasn’t long. I’ve only been in there for ten minutes.”
“It has been three hours since you entered that place!”
“Ah!”
It seemed the time within the domain of a Zodiac flowed differently.
“Also, what happened? There was an explosion…”
“Ah. I got into it with Scorpio.”
“What?!”
At the same time, a worried voice came from Lee Gun’s shadow. It seemed his Constructs, who were hidden in his shadow, had been listening in on the conversation.
[Are you sure it’ll be ok? She is Master’s….]
“Yes. It’s fine. She won’t die just from that. Moreover, she seems to have an ulterior motive, too.”
Thanks to that, he was able to receive a Divine status from her and he had tested it out on her. He wanted to see if it became the Divine item of Death or the Divine item of Cycle. If he had tested it out at home, there would have been an explosion there too.
[Scorpio Saint might become angry with you.]
Lee Gun bit his tongue as he looked at Hailey, who had been waiting for him outside.
‘I already told her about it beforehand, but did I overdo it?’
However, Hailey wasn’t angry at all. Unexpectedly, she was laughing as if she had expected this. “She didn’t listen to me no matter what I said.”
It seemed she had known what Scorpio would request from Lee Gun. As soon as she had started opening her mouth, Scorpio kept ordering Lee Gun to kill Hugo.
His Constructs were nervous as they asked a question.
[Are you ok despite hearing all of that?]
[Are you sure about not killing Eternal Change and letting him be…]
“He won’t cause harm to humanity, and he won’t betray us. It doesn’t matter for now.”
[Are you sure about this?]
The Chun siblings had no idea who the Constructs were talking about. They tilted their heads in puzzlement.
Lee Gun spoke in a low voice so that the Chun siblings couldn’t hear it. “He might not look like it, but he’s a hero who protected humanity up to this point. There is no way he’ll betray humanity—”
Lee Gun had been surveying his surroundings when his eyebrows rose. “Where is Taeksoo?”
“I don’t know. He went outside. It seemed urgent.”
Heiji pouted as she looked between Hailey and Lee Gun.
[Masterrrr!! This is bad!]
“What is it now?”
He wondered what they had seen.
A desperate voice rang out from Lee Gun’s shadow.
[Pushover!! Pushover is having a secret rendezvous outside!!!]
“Secret rendezvous? He has Miss Jiwoo. I’m sure it’s one of my fans.”
[That isn’t what I meant! He betrayed us! He is meeting…!!]
When an unexpected name was mentioned, murderous intent emanated from Lee Gun’s eyes. He had gone out of his way to shield Hugo, so what was this?
