Chapter 438 - One Solution (1)
It was 6 o’clock, and the sun was setting.
After the monsters had been gotten rid of, civilians and countless disciples gathered at a gymnasium.
Everyone was surprised by the shadow that had appeared there.
“Lee Gun-nim!”
“What? Lee Gun-nim?”
“My god! I’ve never seen him in real life!”
The disciples let out a bright smile when they saw Lee Gun’s shadow. The reason was his return, but they had also heard an additional piece of news.
“I’m pretty sure Hugo-nim will be coming with him…!”
“What? Did he make up with Hugo-nim?”
“As expected of Lee Gun-nim, he’s bringing Hugo-nim back into the fold…!”
The high-rank disciples were very interested in this topic, so they gathered here.
At the end of the day, Hugo was a Zodiac-Saint-rank fighter. Nothing good would come from him heading over to the monarchs’ side.
Lee Jaewon and Goat were here as well.
“Welcome back, Lee Gun-nim.”
“You said you will be coming back with Hugo-nim…”
“Yes. He is here,” Lee Gun answered.
“Where….”
Lee Gun pointed at something with his chin. The disciples screamed when they followed it with their gaze.
“Ahhk!! Hugo-nim!!!”
They had wondered what Lee Gun had been dragging along with one hand.
“Ahhhk! It wasn’t a monster that he butchered?!”
“It wasn’t a monster that he cut up!”
Yes, everyone had thought the item Lee Gun was dragging along was a monster that he had butchered. But it was Hugo.
It was unclear as to how far he had dragged Hugo here like this, but Hugo’s legs were dragging across the ground.
In the end, the high-rank disciples screamed when they couldn’t even recognize Hugo.
The fact that a Zodiac Saint’s body could be damaged this much was surprising, but…
“Are you sure he’s alive?!”
“Hugo-nim!!!!”
When Lee Gun saw their reactions, he stared at Hugo. Then he furrowed his brow.
“…”
It seemed he had become self-aware that this didn’t look great.
Puhng!!
Lee Gun extended his hand and used the stage 5 Revive.
“Look. He’s healed now.”
“H-Healed….”
“Didn’t you just use Revive…”
At that moment…
“Gun! You…!!” The fallen Hugo opened and closed his mouth as he opened his eyes. Shaking with anger, he extended his hand toward Lee Gun. “Bastard… You said… You’ll kill me once…!”
It seemed Hugo hadn’t suffered only once at the hands of Lee Gun.
“You…liar…!!”
Hugo was enraged, but Lee Gun had a shameless smile on his face.
“What? You said your Karmic debt will decrease if you died as a human. I bet we got rid of more Karmic debt by killing you several times, right?”
“#*$#*!!!” Hugo let out an alien sound as he grabbed Lee Gun by his collar.
After he had regained his power, his physical stats had been upgraded to that of a monarch. It meant that the durability of his body had increased.
This was why using Super Regeneration on him instead of Revive would not have been enough. Still, it was a matter of principle!
Lee Gun ignored him. He tossed aside Hugo, then checked the city’s restoration. When he realized the disciples were doing a good job, he was pleased.
He then asked, “What about the inheritance? Did it succeed?”
“Ah.”
The Constructs lowered their heads.
When he had disappeared, he had tasked the Constructs to carry out a task. It was the inheritance of Sagittarius.
[We did as you instructed, and we were successful in carrying out the process of inheritance.]
If the Divine status survived, it could be used as the foundation, and a god could be reborn. In such cases, everything, including abilities, could be transferred to the reborn god. In other words, it was reincarnation.
However, the process of inheritance that Lee Gun had ordered wasn’t a simple inheritance.
The Divine status of Galan and the soul left over within the Divine status had been scraped together to revive him.
[This child is him.]
All the disciples were impressed when the Constructs brought a seven-year-old child.
“Oh! Sagittarius!”
“He looks the same!”
Despite his young appearance, this boy was clearly Sagittarius. He also had the same abilities, but…
[He can’t remember anything. Master did put his soul inside, but…]
“Really?”
[Yes. The process of inheritance is like this.]
“Really?”
[He does have thinner hair than usual.]
“Is that so?”
The reborn Sagittarius shook in fear when he saw Lee Gun’s fierce eyes.
Lee Gun clicked his tongue. “That’s too bad. I planned on bringing back his memories too.”
“…!”
The Lord of the Fire Wheel had said that he could go through the process of inheritance while retaining his memories.
This was why Lee Gun had conducted this inheritance. “How long does it take for someone who became a god through inheritance to grow into an adult?”
[It varies a little by each individual… In the case of inheritance, it’ll take him around five years to grow into his original self. This is possible since the data was stored in the universe.]
“Is that so? Take care of him until that time.”
Everyone, including the Constructs and disciples, was shocked.
“D-Do you plan on tormenting him?!!”
“Are you going to use him as a slave when he grows up?!”
Dumbfounded at their shocked gaze, Lee Gun spoke up. “Hey. I’m not terrible enough to torment someone who can’t remember anything.”
“W…What?”
“Even if I had a bad relationship with him in his past life, I’m not psychotic enough to torment someone who doesn’t remember anything.”
They looked at Lee Gun, dumbfounded. Was this some ploy into working Sagittarius as a permanent slave?
Suddenly…
“Lee Gun-nim! This is bad!”
The magicians of the Gemini temple who had gone to Lord of the Fire Wheel to mark him returned with pale expressions.
“Abyss seems to have lost.”
“…!”
“Also, Ennead’s Great Spirit is moving with the gods who serve him.”
Lee Gun had thought this might happen. There were countless gods, and Lee Gun had absorbed around half of them. It was possible because he had absorbed the force of Kunlun’s Great Spirit.
Anyway, he had taken half, so who would the other half follow?
‘I got rid of the Divine world, and they cannot enter the earth now. They must be pissed.’
Virgo was worried about this, so she asked,
[Aslan. You said you cannot kill Ennead’s Great Spirit, right?]
“Yes.”
Leo, who had been chased out of the earth earlier, had been invited back in by Lee Gun. The Zodiac smirked.
[When I heard that you tried to kill them, I found it to be unexpected since you were close to the Great Spirits! You were especially close to Ennead’s Great Spirit! You guys were drinking buddies!]
Aslan spoke coldly and mockingly. “I’m not sure ‘close’ is the right word to describe it.”
He thought about what had happened with Ennead’s Great Spirit in the past. It was a bit before Aslan had carried out his revenge.
- I heard your human wife was killed by unidentified assailants. I’m sorry!
The Fire Wheel Lord had called a broken-hearted Aslan to Ennead. He consoled Aslan as he poured alcohol for him.
At the time, Aslan would sometimes visit colonies of other gods, and he had met Lee Gun’s mother in one of them.
She had been killed when some unknown assailants had attacked her. At the time, Aslan had been on a mission for the Divine world, so he had been unable to protect Lee Gun’s mother.
He was sure that the culprits were connected to the Divine world, but he had no idea who had done it.
- You had a child.
- Yes…
- I’m sure you are devastated at losing a precious child. If he were alive, he would have been a talented child. I’ll pray for the soul of the mother and son.
Aslan had flinched. Others would be too brokenhearted to notice, but…
- How did you know my child was a son?
- !
- I asked how do you know this?
- How else? You just told me.
- I don’t remember mentioning the sex of the child.
Aslan felt a murderous intent develop within himself as he figured out something. He had realized the identity of the culprit who had killed his wife while she had Lee Gun in her stomach.
He had realized who had given the orders and who had released his wife’s location and the information about his child to his enemies!
“No one should have known the location of your mother, but he did. I have no idea how, but… Anyway, he is a god that I was unable to kill. I have no idea how to kill him either.”
It didn’t matter which power or spell Aslan used. None of it worked against the Great Spirit of Ennead.
The gods despaired since Aslan was meticulous, yet he was unable to find a way to kill him.
“No. There is a way to kill him for good."
[What?!]
[Are you sure about that?]
“Are you being serious?”
“There is only one way.” Lee Gun smirked.
* * *
“Are you sure about this plan?”
After a short meeting, Hugo, who had secretly heard Lee Gun’s plan, wanted to confirm something with Lee Gun.
Lee Gun responded as if it was no problem. “I’m sure it’ll work. Of course, it’ll be changing the rules of the universe itself.”
“You aren’t talking about the rule of the Divine world. You are going to change the rules of the universe… Are you sure about doing something at that scale? What about the Karmic debt?”
Instead of answering, Lee Gun laughed as he looked at Head Basher (Primordial God). “I’m fine since I have this.”
Hugo had the memories of being hit by the Head Smasher. He started shaking from the trauma. He soon pointed toward the hammer. “T…This is it? It’s the exoneration ticket?”
“Yes. It’s possible to settle your Karmic debt with this too.”
Soon, the hammer transformed into a young child, and he started rubbing his cheek against Lee Gun.
Hugo glared at Lee Gun as if he found this claim unreliable.
Feeling Hugo’s gaze, Lee Gun answered, “Don’t worry. If it fails, I’ll make a substitute, and I’ll hand him over to the Chun family household. From top to bottom, I’ll make him better than their real father.”
“What the hell??!!”
“Anyway, with this, it doesn’t matter if you kill Ennead’s Great Spirit. Hailey will be fine too.”
Hugo tilted his head in puzzlement. “Hailey?”
He understood why he was being mentioned in the plan to get rid of Ennead’s Great Spirit, but why Hailey as well?
“Hailey has nothing to do with Karmic debt.”
Lee Gun had a bitter expression on his face. “She won’t be able to live long.”
Hugo screamed. “What?!!”
Lee Gun kicked him to shut him up.
Soon, a flustered Hugo whispered, “What are you talking about…!!”
“Be quiet. I just found out not too long ago.”
Of course, Yeonwoo and Heiji hadn’t told him about it. He already knew it beforehand, when Hailey had kidnapped(?) and taken him to the Scorpio temple’s holy ground.
As he had mingled his body with Hailey, he naturally was able to touch her. He had gotten a sense of her lifespan then.
He was the god of Life and Death. It was child’s play for him to find out someone else’s lifespan by mere touch.
Hugo was trying to determine which piece of information surprised him the most, so his mouth hung open. He slapped himself to close it. “You can tell a person’s lifespan through touch?”
“I might not look like it, but I am the god of Life.”
“How can you say that with a straight face? You probably meant to say you are the god of calamity— Kuh-huhk!!”
Lee Gun kicked Hugo’s shin.
His ability to read lifespan wasn’t known to anyone. Anyway, it was unclear who had made it to be this way, but all forbidden children didn’t live long lives.
Moreover, Hailey’s already-short lifespan had grown shorter because she had gotten close to Lee Gun.
Of course, Lee Gun could extend it using the power of Life. However, her getting close to a god was considered a sin. Hailey was destined to die as an evil god because of her Karmic debt. Lee Gun had no idea who had made it that way.
“Anyway, I’ll be able to take care of the Karmic debt already on the books.” Lee Gun merely had to make a new book and get rid of her Karmic debt. It would allow Hailey to return to normal.
Hugo nodded as he knew about this rule better than anyone. He had tried to use this rule to kill himself. It was why he had visited the Primordial god.
At the time, he thought that it was a useful rule that he could exploit.
“Right. That can never happen. I want to see my niece or nephew. I want to turn them into fans of their uncle. Exonerate her right now and marry her. You have to choose me as the host for the ceremony.”
Lee Gun let out a bright smile when he heard this.
It was unclear what the item was, but one could tell he had something up his sleeves by looking at his smile.
