Chapter 408 - Thank you (4)
A no-name, low-rank god possessing the Divine status of a high-rank god was almost unprecedented. Even if such a Divine status were to be transferred to them, their bodies would be incapable of withstanding the powerful Divine status. In the end, they would explode.
‘That makes it all the more dangerous for a human.’
Of course, many human heroes in the colonies had amassed Achievements, and they were able to acquire Divine status. However, they were all low-rank gods!
‘There is no way he can withstand a pillar-rank god’s Divine status!’
Of course, it was obvious why the snake god had fed his Construct this Divine status.
‘Constructs are the main source of a Zodiac’s power!’
'The power generated by Ares’s Divine status can almost rival the power of the fighting-type gods!’
A single Construct would be worth several thousand gods.
Everyone ground their teeth when they saw the light. They were here to prevent the snake god’s power and influence from growing.
‘If he becomes the ninth great force, it’ll be troublesome.’
Despite their worries, they laughed as if they didn’t mind this development.
“It doesn't matter. The problem comes after he swallows the Divine status.”
“!”
All Divine statuses had innate power and properties. Moreover, Ares’s Divine status was vicious.
The advantage was that one would acquire high battle capabilities. However, it contained innate traits of madness and savagery. This was why anyone who had this Divine status transferred to them found their personality changing.
They couldn’t win against their self-destructive tendencies. They either destroyed their surroundings or caused self-harm.
The previous Ares used to possess a calm disposition, yet when Ares’s Divine status was transferred to him, his personality had become tyrannical.
“During the previous transfer, didn’t Ares kill dozens of gods?”
Well, the same thing always happened when a pillar-rank god’s Divine status was transferred.
This was why they clicked their tongue.
“This is the fault of the Zodiac for being greedy. The Divine status won’t be able to stay within the body. It’ll come back out. Get ready to retrieve it. It’s a Divine status of the god of war.”
“Yes. That poor bastard won’t be able to endure this and will die—”
At that moment…
“Ooh-ohhhhhh!! Wishhhhhhhhh!!!!”
“!?”
Chun Sungjae roared as fierce flames erupted from his body.
[The Zodiac Saint has completely absorbed the god of war’s Divine status.]
[New abilities have been granted to the Zodiac Saint.]
[The innate attributes of the Zodiac Saint have combined with the god of war’s power.]
[The Zodiac Saint’s body and technical skills have improved.]
During his stay in Eden’s colony, Sungjae had grown much taller and had built up his body. Still, it was the body of a human.
When he consumed Ares’s Divine status, his speed, power, and battle skill all increased. His fighting abilities and his body were strengthened. It was basically another awakening!
An enormous-sized fire explosion occurred. Chun Sungjae jumped out from the flames, his arms and legs on fire.
“!!”
He sent kicks toward the gods.
Kwahng!!
The enemies were sent flying alongside the powerful flames. They glared at him.
“Bastard…! It really is the god of war’s power…!!”
Chun Sungjae was a long-ranged, magician-type fighter who relied on his knowledge. Now that his physical abilities had increased through Ares’s Divine status, he was optimized to become a close-ranged magician!
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“Wishhhhhhhh!!!”
After putting a buff spell on his body, Chun Sungjae blasted the heads of the gods with his knee.
Kwahng!!
Three straight balls of fire were sent toward the fallen gods to make sure they didn’t get back up.
“Kuh-huhk!!”
The gods gnashed their teeth, and Lee Gun let out a leisurely laugh. These gods had invaded the earth.
‘If we want to attack and defend against the gods, we need Divine statuses. It is a must.’
Anyone with a human body couldn’t contend with the gods.
‘For Yooha, Virgo worked to fine-tune her in various ways.’
Despite her being qualified to possess it, what she had taken was the Divine status of a pillar-rank god.
Therefore, Virgo had helped optimize Yooha’s body for the Divine status of Athena. She had given the young girl various pointers and guidance on how to carry herself with her abilities and position. In other words, Virgo had been a detailed-oriented coach.
‘Detailed-oriented guidance is not needed.’
Things like modification were unnecessary. The ability to smash everything was the only thing needed. He knew he shouldn’t release the Divine status in this fashion, but…
‘He just has to avoid dying. That is all that matters.’
Lee Gun laughed as he pumped the power of Life into Sungjae. In front of the power of Life, dying or becoming a cripple was impossible.
Chun Sungjae possessed the fighting-type Divine status and razed his surroundings into the ground.
The gods ground their teeth as they shouted.
“Call for the evil gods!”
Soon, they took out a shining object. Due to the shine, it was impossible to tell what the object was.
On the other hand, Lee Gun tilted his head in puzzlement. It was unexpected. “Those are my clothes….”
His outfit from the earth had been eye-catching, so he had taken off his clothes inside Sagittarius’s palace.
[Clothes discarded by the Serpent Bearer (SS)]
- All items brushed up against a god are infused with the power of the god.
- It contains the power of Life
- 5% Stamina Recovery per minute
- Defense increase (SS)
They seemed to be using those clothes as bait to lure in the evil gods. Those clothes smelled like him, meaning that the energy of the Creator was left behind in them. They were the ideal bait. And there was only one reason they could possess his clothes.
‘Did the Divine world finally catch Sagittarius?’
The gods lifted one of Lee Gun’s clothes high into the air.
“Oh, hunters. One of the Creators, who you like the most, is here—”
Before they could finish…
“?!”
The item was gone.
“What the hell? Where did it go?”
“Uncle’s hat is mine!!!!”
“…!!”
Chun Sungjae had somehow stolen the item, and he glared at the gods.
Lee Gun was taken aback. “That was a hat?” Even he had no idea which item it was.
The gods were flustered.
‘Damn it! It has to be the god of war’s Divine status.’
The speed at which Chun Sungjae had snatched it away was too fast. However, they soon shrugged it off as they held up a different article of clothing.
“Oh, evil gods—”
“Uncle’s t-shirt is mine!!!”
“Evil gods—”
“Uncle’s jacket is mine!!”
“Evil—”
“Uncle’s pants are mine!!!”
“Ev—”
“Uncle’s underwear is m— Kuh-huhk!!”
Lee Gun had enough. He kicked Chun Sungjae. “Those are all mine.”
Then Lee Gun glared at the gods.
The gods furrowed their brows as Chun Sungjae had stolen all the items they needed to call forth the evil gods.
They gazed toward their shadows with fierce looks in their eyes. They planned on calling for their Constructs.
“Go bring the evil gods that we lured earlier!”
“There are several dozen of them near the lake!”
This was the perfect opportunity for the evil gods to make Lee Gun completely powerless! However, the Constructs sounded like they were in a tough spot.
[We kept calling for them earlier, yet they aren’t coming!]
The gods, who had been ordered by their Great Spirits to come here in the guise of humans, shook.
‘Why aren’t they coming?’
They tried to check what was going on, but they soon caught sight of Lee Gun’s red eyes.
Lee Gun was smirking, and Chun Sungjae appeared in front of him.
The gods retreated when they saw this.
“If you plan on staying in our territory, you have to pay taxes first!”
Chun Sungjae’s fist was already in front of their eyes.
* * *
“That’s nuts…!”
At that moment, the Constructs cursed when they saw their comrades fall in real-time.
“It’s the Divine status of the god of war!”
“What is that crazy snake god trying to do right now?”
They had already fled when they saw what had happened. It had left them dumbfounded. They had never seen anyone activate a Divine status so violently. No, the problem was what came before.
‘A human was able to withstand the Divine status of a pillar rank god?’
One of the gods spoke up.
“It isn’t unprecedented. Athena’s Divine status was taken by a human girl too.”
“…!”
Of course, he had heard about it. The angels residing on the earth had been defeated by someone possessing Athena’s Divine status.
“It’s possible if the Zodiac puts in laborious work. The Zodiac has to manage the process to the minutiae to protect the subject.”
However, they had just witnessed it right now.
‘There was no finesse in protecting the human! The snake god just shoved the Divine status into his mouth!’
There was no special process. Lee Gun merely kept pouring a massive amount of Life’s power into the human.
It also meant that the human already possessed the power needed to withstand the Divine status. Where else could such power have come from?
‘A Construct’s power is the power of its master!’
‘Since the master is strong, his constructs were able to withstand the process.’
If the master was weak, the Constructs were relatively weak too.
They gulped since they knew this.
“The one to take in Athena’s Divine status was one of the Serpent Bearer’s Zodiac Saints?”
“Yes. However, I heard Virgo was the one that put it in her…!”
They had assumed Chun Yooha was able to receive Athena’s Divine status because someone of Virgo’s stature had given it to her. However, that might not be the case.
At this point, their expression had turned grim.
“If we can’t use the evil gods, this puts a wrench into the plan of the Great Spirits.”
The Great Spirits wanted to avoid fighting directly with Lee Gun. Anyone who did that suffered a great loss.
This was why they were trying to use the evil gods, who had appeared after catching the scent of a Creator. All the pillar gods had planned on mobilizing when Lee Gun would get weakened.
However, the evil gods that they had lured out weren't enough to catch Lee Gun.
“We have to use the five great calamities.”
“Do we have to go that far?”
The five great calamities were the leaders of the evil gods. In the past, they had been close associates of the Primordial god.
They had always been powerful gods, yet they had chosen to assassinate the Primordial god, then sold his power to the Cluders. They were traitors.
“Their appearance is proof that they have fallen.”
When gods broke the rules to fall from grace, their outer appearance turned hideous. They looked like evil gods.
Anyway, that wasn’t important right now.
“The five great calamities were able to kill the Primordial God. The snake god won’t be able to do anything in front of them.”
“Shall I go locate them? After their jailbreak, the fighting-type gods continued to track them. It shouldn’t take long…”
“No.”
The gods smiled as they looked somewhere.
“One is already very close.”
They disappeared in a flash, arriving in front of someone. It was Chun Yooha.
* * *
Inside the holy ground of the Scorpio temple, Chun Yooha was a nervous wreck as she paced around the same place.
‘Uncle will be fine.’
She wanted to go to Lee Gun, but she had locked herself in the holy ground when she heard that the evil gods had appeared. The reason was what Virgo had said when Yooha had received Athena’s Divine status.
- In the past, Giselle planted an evil god in your arm. It’s an evil god called one of the five great calamities.
- Five great calamities?
- They are the ones who killed the king of the gods. Moreover, they committed a taboo of selling the power to the Cluders. They might have been close associates of the Primordial god at one time, but they are now the most wanted.
-!
- Also, the corpses of the Creators had been sold to the monarchs. They were known as the villains of the universe.
- Aside from the Pantheon, gods are scattered all over the place. Most of them are unable to enter the Pantheon, and they are considered uncouth. There are a sizable number of them.
- Then….
- Also, the Creators are the ones who made the Divine world, and they are the only gods that can repair the treasures of the Divine world. Their worth is sky high. They are valuable enough that their corpses are excavated.
- !
Anyway, they were the villains who had sold the powers of the Primordial god at an expensive price. There was no way they would leave a valuable Creator alone.
The problem Yooha faced was that one of the leaders of those villains was inside her arm.
‘I’m able to control it with the skill of the Leo temple for now…’
When she had met her uncle for the first time, the being sealed within her arm had gone berserk. It all made sense now.
‘It happened because Uncle is a Creator.’
Still, she had decided to send Sungjae just in case.
“One of the leaders of the evil gods is here.”
“!”
Suddenly, unfamiliar gods landed in front of Chun Yooha. She furrowed her brows as she took up her spear.
‘Valhalla? No, there are gods wearing clothes that I’ve never seen before.’
Were they one of the other members of the eight great forces?
The unfamiliar gods smirked as they spoke.
“The power keeping the evil god sealed in your arm… Is it Leo? Is it the power of Narasimha?”
“I heard Time stole one that had been sealed. I never expected it to be within that girl…”
Chun Yooha didn’t even bother hearing them out. She attacked. It was obvious why they had come looking for her.
[Come out, sealed leader of the evil gods. There is a prey nearby that you will like. A Creator is there.]
They chanted, making Chun Yooha’s arm flash. They planned on breaking the seal of Leo to bring out the evil god.
[Come out.]
Doo-doo-doo-doohk!!
Chun Yooha gnashed her teeth as she stabbed her spear toward the gods. The attack ruthlessly pierced through their necks.
Poo-hahk!!!
The gods bit their lips. There was a reason she possessed the Divine status of Athena.
‘She is strong.’
However, chaotic energy emanated from her arm, and something popped out. The shock caused Yooha pain. She flinched, and her spear missed.
The gods smirked in greeting as they looked toward the roaring shadowy figure.
“You have come out, one of the leaders of the evil gods.”
“With this, we won’t even have to lift a finger to get rid of Lee Gun—”
At that moment, the surging power suddenly attacked the gods.
“!!”
They wondered what was going on, but their eyes widened when they saw the shadowy figure.
“Isn’t that the snake god?”
Lee Gun had appeared from the rising fog.
‘Is it a trap?’
When their gaze was stolen…
Kwah-jeek!!
Someone grabbed their heads.
“I knew you guys would do that.”
It was Yooha, but her eyes were red.
