Chapter 37

Training

“You’re unique . ”

Mush muttered . Sungmin didn’t hear anything, but Mush was different . Sungmin stopped and turned around . Mush was crouching and looking at Sungmin .

“It’s been a year and a half . You’re going to need another penalty . ”

Time passed fast . Sungmin swung away his hair . What should he get this time .

He had 6 right now . That was unique . There were many people who stopped here, but not many people succeeded and left .

“You’re the first out of any No Classes here . ”

That was true . No normal No Classes would be like this . Then what about martial artists and magicians?

“They don’t do this either . ”

Mush laughed . Most people didn’t try to train in this mountain . No, if they did, they wouldn’t have survived . That was true for a lot of people . People needed desperation in this place . If they didn’t have that, they wouldn’t be able to survive here .

“If I was being honest, I thought you wouldn’t have survived half a year . ”

Yes . Sungmin bitterly smiled . If it weren’t for Sogo, he wouldn’t have survived half a year .

“Maybe it was because you died already . What do you want to get that you’re working this hard?”

Mush wondered that seriously . She had seen many things as a God in this mountain, but there was no one like Sungmin . He died and came back to life . That wasn’t common .

A better life

Sungmin mouthed .

A goal to surpass

And continued .

I want to see the end .

And he answered that . Everyone said that . It was more of a longing than a goal . End . Mush muttered .

“The end of what?”

Martial arts .

“You’re a human so what are you wanting to see . Humans don’t have that long to live . You’re going to have to become an immortal if you want that . ”

Mush muttered . Therefore, it was impossible . It wasn’t easy to surpass the principle of death . It was possible, however .

“There’s always a chance, but that’s only just a chance . Usually the ones who do have talent, and those people are called geniuses . There are only a few geniuses that surpass death . There could be one person out of thousands of years . Do you think you can do that?”

I don’t know .

He didn’t say that he couldn’t .

Sungmin changed . Humans change . Like Wijihoyun said, Sungmin changed . He knew that he had no talent, but he didn’t want to feel failed .

He hated effort .

Now he liked it a bit .

“ . . . You’re unique . ”

Mush muttered . She came closer to Sunmin .

“Gods are unpredictable . That is true for all Gods . Yes, this is only my unpredictability . I’m not saying that . ”

Mush muttered something unknown . Sungmin stopped swinging . He suddenly felt strange feeling at the words Mush muttered

“And I’m talking to myself . ”

It was like an excuse to someone . Mush narrowed her eyes and looked at Sungmin .

“There is no coincidence . At least, not in Eria . ”

What?

Sungmin asked . Mush turned around . It was to not see Sungmin’s question .

“Eria summoned humans randomly from places . There are unique people . Eria doesn’t ask anything of them . Just to live . That is all . ”

That… he knew . The unfairness of this world . But why? He tilted his head and looked around .

“That is the same for all otherworlders . ‘Skill . ’ That makes it easy to learn something . There is a reason for why that exists . ”

What is she saying? Sungmin wondered but couldn’t ask . Looking at her, she didn’t seem like she would answer him anyway .

“Yes . There is a purpose . Like there is a purpose for your soul to defy the principle, there must be a reason for why you came back . Even though it might be just a well wrapped coincidence . ”

There was something . Sungmin shut his mouth . Mush wasn’t looking at her . Like she said, she was talking to herself .

“There must be something important that would occur if you came back . If you came back, you must prepare . To be the person that you were fated to be . ”

Yes . That is it . Mush muttered . She stopped but didn’t turn around . She instead looked up at the sky .

“Stop . This is my territory . If you don’t want to disappear together, then don’t come here . ”

Mush warned . There… was a cold feeling . Sungmin held his breath . When she turned around, Sungmin lost that feeling .

“When you leave this mountain . Go to Dremur and say to the God of time Denis that Mush sent you there . ”

God of time? What is that?

Sungmin asked . He had memories, but he didn’t have any memory of a Time God . Mush laughed and pointed at him .

“Well, humans wouldn’t know . ”

Sungmin’s mind brightened up . He quickly put his hand towards his head . A memory that he didn’t have stuck deeply in his mind . Sungmin didn’t know where Dremur was, but he now knew of it . And then, he knew of the existence of the God that was living there .

Why?

Sungmin asked . Mush laughed at that .

“Didn’t I say . I’m unpredictable . Just unpredictability . I wanted to say things to myself . ”

She crouched down again .

“You’re a unique and funny fellow . It seems like there is no chance of it… why did you come back? There might have been a mistake . But i know there are no coincidences in this world… and also, you survived my tests . ”

Test?

Living in this mountain? Sungmin tilted his head . Yes . That was a test by itself . The penalties got harder everyday he was here .

“Plam . ”

She opened her mouth .

“Plam is the test from Mush . ”

He didn’t understand straight away .

Plam . The trainee that lived here for the longest time . Sogo as well as Bejun said . Don’t meet up with Plam . You will fall into despair . That was true . When he first met Plam, Sungmin fell into despair . The disparity in talent . The talent that a true genius had .

“Plam exists to make people fall into despair . The human that doesn’t fall into despair tries to move forward for the possibility . You… did better than I expected . You tried to push yourself harder for your lack of talent . That’s wasn’t the right choice and was a stupid one . But it wasn’t a wrong choice as well . I actually like your stupid choice . ”

He sort of had an idea .

There was no one that he knew of named Plam in his past life . It was a strange thing . With the talent of Plam’s, he would have succeeded in spreading his name easily . But why did he not hear anything about him . Why was he here . And even as he was here for a long time, why did he not seem to have any penalties .

It was a simple answer . He didn’t exist . It was the test of Mush . That was the purpose of Plam . That… was always true . Plam tried to make you feel hopeless every time he was here .

He laughed at Sungmin’s effort . He laughed at Sungmin's training . Don’t do this because you have no talent . You can’t do anything no matter how hard you work . That arrogant idiot only wanted to see Sungmin feel hopeless .

I … see .

Sungmin answered . He knew . Plam was for that purpose . Only another test . He noticed for a while, Plam didn’t come anymore .

It was when he started to not feel hopeless anymore .

“You did well . ”

Mush laughed .

“That thing I told you…is a reward for passing my test . What you get out of it is, of course, up to you . ”

Mush lifted herself up .

“Sogo . Don’t tell that mute girl about Plam . If you do, i’ll have to kick you both out of this mountain . . ”

Mush left after that . Sungmin stood there trying to think . There was no coincidence . The otherworlders . There must be reason for their summoning . For the same reason .

There was a reason that he came back .

‘Me?’

Sungmin blankly stared down at his hands .

A second rate martial artist . C rank mercenary . A No Class who had nothing . 13 years of nothing .

There was a reason that I came back?

One thing came out of this chaos .

If you came back, you must prepare . To be the person that you were fated to be .

The words were stuck in his head . Sungmin picked up his spear in silence .

Even if he couldn't be the person that he was fated to be .

There was an end that he wanted to see .