Chapter 227

Chapter 227: God (2)

A real godship was obtained due to the death of the body and the rise of the soul .

Gustarte .

However, he had a body . It meant that his body itself was made of divinity . Nevertheless, he had fallen and was used by a mortal .

Even so, it couldn’t be denied that he had a divine flesh .

‘Absorb him . ’

I moved away from the Tree of Origin . I would become a true god by absorbing Gustarte . But I would have to give up my present life .

A god . . .

I had never thought about it .

The first god I met was the devil Death Bringer . Death Bringer recognized me as a participant of the game and sent me back to Earth . Thanks to that, I became one of the 72 demons and now reached the position of grand duke .

And the gods of Earth . While I was on the verge of death, the 72 gods joined forces to turn back the axis of time . I was able to have more experience than others .

However, I had never thought about becoming a god myself .

I shook my head .

I couldn’t be swayed by something I hadn’t imagined before .

From the day I was born, my dream was to become the demon king .

People might say it wasn’t comparable to being a god, but I placed different values on each position .

For me, I wanted the position of the demon king . My dream was to sit on his throne and laugh loudly . I came all this way for that one reason . My goal wasn’t going to change now .

It was irrelevant if I died . Even if I became a omnipotent god, I wouldn’t be able to sit on the demon king’s throne . The gods had a different concept of time, and they didn’t intervene in the affairs of mortals .

The administrator of the origin saw me as the next god’s candidate .

‘I will awaken Gustarte . ’

I had completely different thoughts from the administrator of the origin . It was because he had a completely different opinion from 0001 . So I thought about waking up the involved party .

The study of Gustarte’s body was still ongoing, but it was sluggish . The information was so intensive that it seemed like it wouldn’t end in one or two years of research .

But time was limited . After a year, the next enemy to appear would be the Hell Monarch, or a person impersonating him . I needed to prepare for a confrontation with him in the Demon World .

Until that time, I couldn’t leave Gustarte’s body alone .

“Yihi . ”

“Yes Master . Did you call?”

Since I entered the dungeon, Yihi had always been waiting nearby . This phenomenon was further strengthened after I collapsed at Greenwich Observatory . It seemed like she didn’t want me to leave her sight .

I calmly said .

"Tell Gaparam, I want to see the results of his research on the Moon Arrow . ”

“Yihihi . I watched the research but couldn’t understand anything . Then, should I go and kick him?”

“Go ahead . ”

“Yihihihi!”

Yihi laughed happily as she flapped her wings .

Gaparam stood before me nervously, with one hand holding the research materials and the other one holding the Moon Arrow . The leather on his face looked like a child’s face .

"The study results are good . You did well . ”

The homunculus was very useful . On the actual battlefield, the dominance of the homunculus was great . The homunculus was the one who broke Duke Beilla’s neck .

“No . It is thanks to Master’s grace that I managed such an achievement . ”

Gaparam bowed deeply . He seemed to have a deep respect for me . Since giving him Gustarte’s body, Gaparam started to act very politely towards me . I didn’t care about his original tone, but it didn’t hurt to have Gaparam act like this .

"Have you made any other progress in the research?”

"I’ve found out the reason for the homunculus’ short life . I had to approach the culture differently from the design itself . When I looked at how a god’s body works . . . ”

"It is a technical talk . ”

"I wrote it down in a simpler manner in my journal . ”

Gaparam handed over the research data .

Most of the results were things that I already knew . He described the tests on the flesh and the effects of a weakened Greed, but it was just a hypothesis .

"Tell me about the Moon Arrow . ”

He handed over all the data . Then Gaparam sighed and said .

“It isn’t a common item . The Moon Arrow is more veiled than his body . But one of the numerous veils . . . I found out that the Moon Arrow exists for ‘balance’, but that is all . ”

Balance . Maybe it also represented the origin .

It seemed like the arrow might restore Gustarte’s original balance .

I spoke in a small tone .

"I have to try it . ”

"What?”

"I will stab the Moon Arrow into Gustarte’s body .

" . . . . . . !"

Gaparam jolted with surprise .

"I-it isn’t clear what will happen . He might run wild . ”

"The Seven Sins are objects aimed at the gods . Did you know that? And Greed is the best at sealing Gustarte’s power . ”

That’s right . During his research, Gaparam found an association with the Seven Sins . The remnants of the flesh managed to suppress Gustarte’s power, but the Seven Sins themselves were aimed at the gods .

The more that I thought about it, the sneakier the Hell Monarch appeared . He had prepared a lot for his revenge .

“ . . . I understand . ”

Gaparam quietly retreated after handing me the Moon Arrow .

I turned my head . Gustarte was lying down like he was dead . If it wasn’t for the rise and fall of his chest, then I really would have thought he was dead .

I held the arrow vertically and I struck Gustarte’s chest without any hesitation .

Puok!

The Moon Arrow shone with a blue light after it entered Gustarte’s chest . The light grew . The Moon Arrow changed to look like a big key . A hole was formed in Gustarte’s chest for the key to enter .

Soon, Gustarte’s body rose up . After the key entered, Gustarte’s body was split into thousands of pieces before joining back together again .

His flesh was being reconstructed . Just like a snake shedding its skin, the unnecessary parts fell to the ground . This process was repeated for dozens of minutes .

Once the reconstruction finished, Gustarte opened his eyes . He looked at me with deep eyes that were clearly different from when he lost his ego .

“Randalph Brigsiel . This is Earth . I must have malfunctioned for a significant amount of time . ”

His words made it seem like he already knew everything . I didn’t see any confusion at all . I felt strange as I looked at him .

"Gustarte, you are a god of the Reverse World right?”

"That's right . I am a god that originally shouldn’t be here . And . . . although I am back, I don’t have much time left . Soon Death Bringer will notice and erase me . ”

“ . . . Are you referring to the devil Death Bringer?”

"Yes . Now that I’ve regained myself, I am the only god who knows Death Bringer’s purpose . His system is even able to neutralize intermediate gods . . . he will remove me before I can tell the other gods . ”

That was the story behind being controlled by a mortal . Upa wouldn’t have been able to just suddenly discover a method one day to control Gustarte . I felt a pure sense of curiosity .

"I want to know more . ”

“Randalph Brigsiel . Didn’t you participate in the experiment involving Death Bringer’s system? Impossible things are created through this system . The dark spirits used a crack to plant a powerful fungus in a gap in my mind . ”

I somewhat understood it . The system . The messages that floated in front of me seemed like they were created by Death Bringer .

Certainly . . . I had been curious . Such a system was created for a reason .

Death Bringer had said .

"From now on, you are a player in a game I created of this world’s destruction!”

It meant the system was a game created by Death Bringer .

I received new information that the dark spirits were the reason why Upa could control Gustarte .

Gustarte read my expression and said .

"The dark spirits have learned how to deal with cracks . They accessed the nothingness through the crack . The dark spirits invaded my world, which had been connected to the nothingness . Originally, it was impossible, but they borrowed the power of the system and I couldn’t do anything . The system is complete . It even has the power to tie up gods . Death Bringer plans to use this system to remove the other gods . ”

"In other words, the demons are his test subjects . ”

"That is correct . Death Bringer isn’t the type of person to be interested in filling the position of the demon king . Gods shouldn’t intervene in such a thing . As the dark spirits master how to use the cracks, they will naturally seek out other gods, or they would try to wake up the beings in the nothingness or origin . The ancient beings that had already been lost . . . I don’t know why but the dark spirits have become limbs that move according to Death Bringer’s intent . ”

The story contained a lot of information . I couldn’t follow it easily .

One thing was for certain, the dark spirits were doing a job .

But it was strange .

This hadn’t happen in my previous life . The dark spirits had been on the defensive against the other spirits . There were no cracks or fungus that could control cracks .

"This is all possible due to you . Randalph Brigsiel . It is a side effect of shifting the axis of time backwards . As a result, there is a slight imbalance in the world and lots of cracks formed to fill it up . The many cracks set examples for the dark spirits . Maybe this was what Death Bringer intended . If he planned such a thing by guiding the gods of earth to you . . . he is a really scary guy . ”

"I am the cause? This happened because I came back?”

"So, you need to repair it . The system created by Death Bringer is so perfect that even I can’t touch it . If you take advantage of that face, you might be able to turn his plan upside down . ”

I shook my head .

"I don’t intend to interfere with the gods . ”

"Is this interference? Death Bringer is already acting through the dark spirits . He has received enough data from the demons . Who knows what might happen in the future? Death Bringer might get rid of the demons remaining on Earth . ”

“ . . . He will delete the evidence . ”

"It is an undeniable truth . It is already in progress . ”

My eyes narrowed . It was hard to deny Gustarte’s words . But it seemed like that was only half the story involving Death Bringer .

“Gustarte . Is there any relationship between the dark spirits and the resurrection of the Hell Monarch?”

The Hell Monarch had died . I had his heart . But it is said that the Hell Monarch is in the Demon World . It was weird no matter how I thought about it . That’s why I asked Gustarte .

"Hell Monarch . . . it isn’t impossible for the beings deep in the nothingness to return again to this world . Neither the gods or Death Bringer can interfere . The dark spirits planned and executed the work .

"But I saw a message that the Hell Monarch was destroyed . Is there a means of destruction without a complete disappearance?”

"The deep depths of the nothingness is a place where even Death Bringer isn’t allowed to enter . It isn’t unusual for the system to assume that something it couldn’t detect was destroyed . ”

One of the things I was most curious about was solved .

The Hell Monarch wasn’t destroyed, just trapped . Then, the dark spirits reached into the nothingness and pulled him out .