Chapter 310: Chapter 310

Seoul (14)

“Appear!” Kirikiri cheerfully explained .

What do you mean by ‘appear’?

I looked at Kirikiri, who had just appeared in the room, turn to her side as I lay in bed . Perhaps because of my unsurprised demeanor, Kirikiri pouted her lips . Then, she pushed my body away and laid on the side of the bed .

“Inconvenient . ”

“Get up if you’re uncomfortable,” she said and made me move .

Kirikiri was not a stranger, but she wouldn’t be happy if I was doing anything else while she was explaining . At the very least, I had to feign attention in front of her .

Because I got up from my bed, Kirikiri brought a chair from the corner of the room, put it in front of the bed, sat down, and smiled at me .

It was unexpected . I thought she’d continue laying on the bed or sit on the floor . Kirikiri, who was sitting on a chair felt strange, out of place even .

Was the reason she rolled around on the ground, not because she didn’t have any manners but because she was on the fields?

Once again, it was unexpected . At that moment, I heard footsteps from outside the room .

In a few seconds, Yong-yong opened the door and ran in .

He clung to Kirikiri .

“Hi!”

“Hello!”

Are you gonna do that again?

It took a long while for Yong-yong and Kirikiri to finish twirling with their hands crossed and expressing their happiness before we could start conversing .

* * *

“You’re not surprised at all . Heng . ”

“There’s nothing for me to be surprised about,” I said to Kirikiri, who had Yong-yong in her lap .

In the first place, I was the one who thought Kirikiri should be summoned, so why would it be surprising?

“How’s the Tutorial?”

“A total mess, haha . ”

I didn’t think she should have laughed and talked so carelessly .

That being said, the situation was bound to be a mess . From the challengers’ point of view, the Tutorial was suddenly brought to a halt and locked up .

“It was too dangerous to keep the challengers in the waiting room . They’re planning to move all of them to a nearby residential area . ”

That would be better . The longer people were trapped together, the more stable they would be . Above all, the waiting room on the Korean server was quite a good place to live .

When Kim Min-hyuk was there, the first goal of the Order of Vigilance was not to clear the Tutorial but to create a better environment . Of course, it was a few years ago, but the foundation they built at that time was not going anywhere .

The Order of Vigilance, who played the role of a manager, was still there, so it would run well .

“Do other servers have problems?”

“Yes, I don’t think the Day of Great Harmony can solve them .

The Day of Great Harmony gathered challengers and forced them to solve their own problems . Due to the nature of the Tutorial, there were certain problems that could only be solved when challengers met and discussed together . However, if the party causing the problem became a majority, the Day of Great Harmony would no longer be meaningful .

“We’re discussing whether to put apostles in . ”

“Apostles?”

There have been several occasions of apostles entering the Tutorial—all of which were on the Hell difficulty level’s stage .

“You remember the Dragon we met on the 50th floor? Maybe it’ll be let in . ”

“Oh, that coward dragon . ”

I remembered the dragon from the second half of the Tutorial . The dragon said it belonged to the Hundred Gods Temple and was not an apostle of any god . I could trust that it would do well on its own .

I remember the first impression it made was terrible . He was weak and terrified, but the dragon faithfully did its job . The dragon chose stages that were of great help to me . I gained a lot back then, but the experience became more useful after being trapped on the 60th floor .

If I had passed the 50th floor meaninglessly, I might not have made it to where I am now .

“Give me Yong-yong . ”

“Yes . ”

Yong-yong dozed off while sitting on Kirikiri’s knee . I thought that it may be because it was time to sleep .

Because of last night, he must be exhausted . He couldn’t sleep because he went to catch the mantis and sobbed the entire time . I took Yong-yong from Kirikiri and hugged him tightly .

“Ehem ehem,” Kirikiri awkwardly coughed .

Having deliberately cleared her throat, Kirikiri spoke in a feigned serious voice . “According to your performance on Earth, the Hundred Gods Temple has decided to hand you the planet’s jurisdiction . The Earth is no longer under the Hundred Gods Temple’s joint jurisdiction, and all the gods have decided to give up their rights to the Earth . ”

That was what I had heard from Kirikiri before coming out of the Tutorial . The Hundred Gods Temple wasn’t very interested in the Earth, so they could give me the rights to Earth . But I didn’t think they would hand it over to me for nothing .

Of course, I didn’t mean to refuse it .

“If you accept the transfer of jurisdiction, it will be dealt with immediately . ”

“Of course, I accept . ”

It was almost free . As soon as I said I would accept it, the eyes of the gods quickly disappeared .

Now the unpleasant glances were gone . Even though they were gods from the Hundred Gods Temple, they couldn’t directly watch me, but they could see how the Earth was moving and trace my movements .

The eyes of many gods, who were already fixed on the Earth, had made me feel very uncomfortable .

“I think there’s still one god watching the Earth . ”

It was a familiar gaze . The God of Light . He was still looking at the earth, exuding off an aura of regret .

“Earth is no longer a zone of the Hundred Gods Temple, so it’s free for other gods to watch . ”

“But now it’s my zone . I’d like them to stop looking into other people’s territory without permission . ”

“The God of Light is always rude . ”

After a while, the last remaining god’s gaze on Earth, the God of Light, disappeared . He left behind a few words before his presence disappeared entirely .

[Disappointed…]

[I’m so, so… disappointed . ]

I knew what the God of Light had expected because it was obvious . He thought something would explode as soon as I got to Earth, but it was unexpectedly quiet, so I guess it was disappointing .

“Can’t you just hand over the Tutorial like this?”

“Of course not,” replied Kirikiri with a mischievous smile . “The Tutorial is extremely important . There are many reasons for that, but the biggest one is that you proved the Tutorial is handy . Above all, the need to foster apostles and provide means of self-defense on planets remains important . ”

She shrugged her shoulders . “And in the case of Earth, it was easy to hand over the planet because not all of them were interested . ”

It seemed like the Earth was almost like a nuisance . I asked about that .

“Earth is not a good planet to nurture faith in . When the Hundred Gods Temple first got interested, indigenous religions were already firmly established . Above all, the planet was highly developed and excessively polluted . No one was willing to take the loss and make it their territory, so it remained a common zone until the end . ”

That’s true .

Faith didn’t require a high level of science . The existing religions on the planet were also slowly losing their effects as science and knowledge developed rapidly . In the meantime, it wouldn’t have been profitable to build a new religion and seek faith .

Even if one tried to show up in person and make changes, there would have been restrictions as it was a common area of the Hundred Gods Temple .

I thought that this wasn’t much different from a while ago .

“Of course, it had a large population, a long history of civilization, a diverse source, so it would have been a great place to extract the source from . Enough to risk invading the common zone of the Hundred Gods Temple . ”

“Yes, I understand . It’s worth it . ”

It was worth handing it over to me in just two days . I nodded absentmindedly .

Kirikiri said while nodding her head just like me, “Yes, yes, even more worth it, since it’s now a planet that’s on it’s last legs . ”

“…Huh?”

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