Sooga raised her sword and stepped forward.
She lifted her sword toward the group of disciples of the immortals, intending to protect .
I’ve said it several tis, but I am a monster.
I’ve deliberately shown that I am a monster many tis.
And I’ve also made it clear that this body is rely a vessel, many tis over.
So, if I told her to run, she should run. Why is she advancing toward the enemy?
Sooga is not strong enough to fight on equal footing with the Heavenly Demon.
She likely won’t even reach the level of Omyoungseong, let alone the Heavenly Demon or the sect leaders.
So, running away is the right choice.
I grabbed the tal spear lodged in my body. I slowly forced the reality to subside. To regain a clean body.
The spear inside my body quickly transford into a violet hue.
The sensation is different.
Normally, there is no resistance, but this ti it feels like sothing soft is in my fingertips before it suddenly bursts.
Pfft.
It cracked deeply. Cracks spread in all directions from where I stood. It was like a bullet had pierced through bulletproof glass, cracking the surface in all directions, but except for the hole, the rest remained unbroken.
In other words, a hole has ford.
Inside it is a pitch-black void. When I placed my hand on it, it felt like a mirage, passing through emptily.
Well, when it first appeared, it spread from , so if sothing had happened, Choseol’s body would’ve been affected sohow.
I started walking forward.
Sooga is already ahead of .
She’s probably stepped forward to prevent from being attacked.
From Sooga’s perspective, she’s rushing forward with her sword raised, silently.
When the person aiming the Sealing Needle pulled the trigger, the Sealing Needle shot out rapidly.
Clang!
Right in front of Sooga.
About three seconds later, I heard a sound in my ears.
Sooga’s eyes tracked every Sealing Needle that ca flying at her, deflecting them one by one. Since the weapon requires reloading, the mont they fired was the last opportunity for those using the Sealing Needle.
Sooga looked at the nearest person and raised her sword.
Then, she casually swung the sword.
Blood splattered, and warmth imdiately flowed into .
Sooga has no hesitation when it cos to killing.
But that’s not strange at all.
Because she’s already killed. When Sooga entered the Heavenly Demon Church, she underwent the dark practices it initiated.
Binding a crying child in the middle of an open space and forcing one by one to hit them with stones. And if the child with the stone refused, the next child would be bound instead.
To survive, the children had no choice but to throw the stones. And this would continue until the child died.
From that point on, the number of children who would resist drastically decreases. They’ve helped kill, so they can feel it deeply.
But what happens if soone explodes with emotion and resists?
The next sacrifice is made.
In this way, children raised in the Heavenly Demon Church are thoroughly trained from a young age to easily kill people.
If you look closely, it’s a thod to train people to act like beasts.
And this was an instruction from Daegon when the Heavenly Demon Church was still new, in exchange for treasures and food.
In other words, there is a dark malice from a civilization advanced enough to dominate one world and attack others.
It works.
Without hesitation, Sooga imdiately cuts down the next person.
But the first two people she killed were all Sooga had accomplished.
When she tried to swing her sword at the next target, the sword was instantly cut in half. Even the violet mist from the sword was cut along with it.
The faint heat left in the wake of the red light showed how powerful the opponent’s weapon was.
Sooga turned her gaze, and standing there was a man with the Sealing Needle, along with another man dressed differently, watching Sooga.
Sooga’s eyes turned toward the red lightsaber in his hand, and slowly, her gaze ascended toward the man.
“Wow, did that cruel immortal corrupt even this child with evil sorcery?”
He looked at Sooga with pity.
“Who’s the cruel immortal? Why, suddenly target Choseol?”
Sooga asked him in a low voice, one she had never used before. He took sothing like a cigarette from his pocket and lit the tip of it with the red lightsaber.
Normally, it would need constant oxygen to keep burning, but the heat must have been imnse, as it imdiately ignited with just a slight touch to the end.
He took a puff and pointed his lightsaber toward , now charging toward .
“Look at what that evil immortal did to you.”
Sooga flared up.
“What? Is it the purple hair? Or is it the white skin? Choseol gave a blessing, and I’ve returned from a completely ssed-up body to what it originally was. No, it’s even better now.”
But he continued to look down on Sooga with a pitiful expression.
“That bastard immortal calls that a blessing? Yeah, it may look good. Because it’s the last spark you’ve gained by selling all your potential.”
I too realized sothing was being said. The identity of the Harvesters. Why they get so powerful. Seeing the strangely confident expression on his face, he clearly believes what he’s saying.
“My potential?”
Sooga also asked him, her sword raised.
“Souls reincarnate in the world. Every life dies and is born again, becoming a better existence. In the end, there’s ascension. Ascension ans escaping the cycle of life and death and becoming an immortal. But after this life ends, you’ll be born again as a lowly worm, dying and being reborn forever, unable to ascend again. You’ve used up all your potential.”
Sooga blinked.
“Is reincarnation really a thing?”
I had spoken about it before, so Sooga quickly understood. The man in front of her looked surprised.
“You know about it? Yes, reincarnation exists. People find the opportunity to refine their souls with each rebirth. But you, that’s impossible. That evil god has stolen every bit of potential you’ll ever have, and what’s left is what you are now.”
The words made question as I reviewed the mories of the disciples of immortals or Taoists that I had just absorbed.
Why is it that I’m contained like this?
Sooga still has warmth inside her.
I’m simply contained within that warmth. If it were true that my potential had been stolen, it doesn’t make sense. Because Sooga still holds potential.
Nothing has been taken, so why is it being said that it’s gone?
Is he really sure about this?
While they spoke, I managed to reach Sooga’s side.
“Is it true?”
As soon as I arrived, Sooga asked .
She asked as if it were obvious that I knew. Although the distance was quite large, so it should have been difficult for her to hear.
Maybe, she realized I had been watching through their eyes sohow.
But now is not the ti to worry about that, so I decided to let it slide.
At least, I decided to only speak the truth.
“I don’t know.”
As soon as I answered, the man beside swung his hand, knocking away the person with the Sealing Needle and raising the red lightsaber toward .
“The monster who deceived even children has arrived. Let’s see what lies that fox demon of myth will spin with her deceitful tongue.”
The disciple of the immortal, or Taoist, nad Hwangbocheon, had an unusual na. In this country, it’s rare for a surna to be a compound one, and here it’s Hwangbo, with the na being Cheon.
“I’ve shared myself with the one I made a contract with. Every living being holds light. I contain myself in that light. As long as they’re alive, I won’t take anything from the one I made the contract with.”
But before I could finish, he laughed mockingly.
“Funny. You didn’t know what happens when you stick your filthy essence into soone?”
“When you heal the wounds, they get stronger.”
He continued to laugh at and slowly changed his expression.
It wasn’t the look of soone looking at a liar. It was a look of disgust, as if looking at sothing repulsive.
“You didn’t know what you were doing to them?”
“Isn’t it making them better?”
At least, that’s what I thought until that mont.
When he beca enraged, Sooga quickly rushed forward and held her broken sword out toward Hwangbocheon.
“Were you so ignorant that you could commit such evil acts without hesitation? You say the power isn’t in the soul but in you? You used it all freely? You’ve distorted their souls, draining everything they’ve built over ti.”
But Hwangbocheon didn’t imdiately swing his sword. Instead, he turned to accuse .
“And after draining everything, their souls will shatter and scatter into fragnts.”
“But it’s the sa if you die. What’s wrong with choosing to restart like this instead of living a horrible life right now?”
Sooga spat out.
Hwangbocheon looked at her with pity. This person consistently sympathized with Sooga. It was the gaze of soone seeing a victim of a cruel immortal.
Looking at the story up to now, he would likely be a good person.
“If that happens, you won’t be born properly. You’ll be born as a lowly insect, repeating a life of endless suffering. Even the larger pieces, you won’t escape the endless wandering of this world until you’re completely scattered.”
If you fall to the place I’m at, you’ll just lt away and disappear. If you bring the light, though, that will happen.
But I leave the light as it is. The warmth is enough for .
But I understood now.
So that’s how it works.
Even in Daegon’s knowledge, there are similar aspects. So knowledge of soul engineering.
“To live one life and then suffer until your soul is completely exhausted. That’s what you’ll endure.”
Hwangbocheon pitied Sooga while still growing angry at .
“That’s because of an evil monster who doesn’t even realize they’re evil.”
That’s wrong.
I know I’m evil. Though I wouldn’t have said it out loud.
Hwangbocheon raised his hand.
And then the people around him aid the Sealing Needles at Sooga and , and Sooga was very tense.
Then he spoke.
“I’ll burn you completely so that kind of horrifying pain doesn’t exist.”
Ah, so that’s why Jungjaewoo and Byeongil were thrown into strange flas.
The flas that burn even the light.
And so of that fla is now in Hwangbocheon’s hand.
So, they’ve really co to catch .
So, I stepped forward, grabbed Sooga’s shoulder, and spoke.
“Alright. I’ll die. But please, let these children live.”
Let’s invest in the future.
In my faded mory, the man laughs loudly.
Loudly.
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