Chapter 146: Chapter 146 - Three Norns (5)
Chapter 146: Three Norns (5)
“To see the great Urd like this . It’s such a sight hard to see . ”
From a corner of Urd’s dark holy territory, a snake popped out and turned into a human .
[If you’re gonna say bullshit just leave, Hermes . ]
Urd shotued at Hermes with an annoyed voice .
Hermes lightly tapped his staff, Herald, on the floor, and laughed .
[You wicked… . . ]
As he continued to laugh, Urd became even more annoyed .
Urd was planning on making Yeon-woo feel confused . Because from her perspective, there weren’t a lot of people with this kind of a messy past .
Many players entered the Tower with all kinds of regrets in their past . Of those, Yeon-woo was the best .
Most players lived with a hope .
People who had no other things to achieve came to the Tower to do what they couldn’t here, and others wanted a new life . Some wanted medicine to fix their loved ones .
Whatever the reason was, they climbed the Tower with hope . That was the life they lived . It was their present and future .
But Yeon-woo was different .
He didn’t have a particular hope, and just climbed the Tower . He didn’t escape the shackles of the past . No, he pushed himself into them tighter .
So she stimulated that point . Urd was a god that saw the past . It was easy to pick the past out to test people .
Like she had done in the past, she thought Yeon-woo wouldn’t be able to escape them .
However .
“Don’t you think it’s time you stop misleading people? People like that poor friend over there aren’t your playthings . ”
Hermes turned his head to the door . The poor child he was talking about was standing there .
Hepburn . She was fated to be the high elves’ queen, but she couldn’t stand up from the scorn of her species and fell into another hole .
Then, a woman plodded out of the darkness . Every time she moved, her dry leg showed itself and disappeared again .
Hair that came down to her feet, and eyes consisting of just white with no pupils . She was half hidden by the darkness, but she was a beautiful woman .
Urd stood face to face with Hermes with a frustrated face .
Seeing his smiling face, it overlapped with Yeon-woo’s face laughing at her as he left her territory .
He snorted . Yeon-woo dared to snort in front of a god . As if telling her to stop with the bullcrap . No, as if it was hilarious . He snorted like asking if this was all she had and left her territory .
She had forced out a pass that he wanted to avoid using any means . Yeon-woo had experienced something similar that his brother had experienced .
He had been abandoned by his trusted comrades in the middle of enemy territory and forced his injured body to travel 150 km .
From that, Yeon-woo lost all his emotions . He threw away anger, hate, revenge, and became a doll without any emotions . That was when the monster called ‘Cain’ was born .
Later, he learned that it was a slight misunderstanding, but it was too late .
Yeon-woo never looked at them again . Rather, he glowered at them like he would kill them if he saw them again .
And he forgot about it .
She had made him relive that memory . That it would be the same this time . That it wasn’t different, so he should betray before he was betrayed . She whispered in his ear not to trust anyone and live with suspicion and worries his entire life . She told him not to live the same life as his brother .
Urd thought Yeon-woo wouldn’t be able to escape her trap .
Everyone she had met was like that . That was how she met Hepburn, and how she ‘collected’ her other dolls .
But Yeon-woo just kicked it away like that was obvious . And he headed straight to the 17th floor like he wouldn’t ever see her again .
Urd couldn’t read his mind . Just what was he thinking?
Living in the past and not being able to wake up a Mythical Beast because he didn’t have any dreams or hopes . How was such a guy able to escape her?
“Since you make the string of fate, I guess . You might not know . Yeah . Since everything seems like a puppet show for you . Not knowing that people who are connected by the string might be moving on their own will . ”
“Don’t make me laugh, Hermes . The string is decided . The beginning, and the end . Fate cannot be avoided . Everything that we saw was right . ”
Hermes shrugged his shoulders .
“Well, since the path that we see is different, I guess what we see on it is different too . ”
Urd ground her teeth .
“You Olympus fools are always like that . Mere usurpers . ”
“Because we overcame it . But you all haven’t . That’s the difference . ”
“Ha! Overome, my ass . You’re all only cowards who stuck a sword in your father’s back . And locked him up . But what? Overcome?”
“I always say this, but this conversation only runs in circles . ”
Urd bit her lips . Hermes was right . Since their domain was different, what they saw was different . Even if they were the same gods, they were different . From their creation .
“It seemed like you all have been watching that child . ”
That child . She meant Yeon-woo .
“It’s not just me . Athena is also interested . Ares and Dionysus as well . No, actually, it’s not just us, but more correct to say that everyone is interested . ”
From when Yeon-woo had begun to adjust his inheritance of the Draconic species to his own liking .
From when he had the idea to create a Mugong that would help the Magic Circuit that didn’t flow in his body .
Most of the beings on the 98th floor were interested in Yeon-woo . A few of them seriously thought of how to make him their apostle .
If he had reached the 50th floor, which was the qualification to become an apostle, he would’ve received so many offers that he would’ve been sick of them .
“And same goes for the demon guys,”
“What?”
Urd widened her eyes at the unexpected words . Unlike the gods, who showed an interest in the lower floors, it was hard to guess what the demons were thinking . But they were also targeting Yeon-woo .
“There’s rumors that Agares of the East is drooling . ”
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Agares was the second ranking of the 72 Demon Kings . He symbolized destruction and madness, and had an endless greed even for demons .
But knowing that such a guy had stepped up… . .
Something came to Yeon-woo’s mind .
A small piece of a memory that she saw from Yeon-woo . A message from a demon that Laplace delivered . That nameless demon was Agares .
Urd clenched her fist . There were this many beings trying to get her food? She hated her things being taken away from her .
Then .
“And most of all . ”
Hermes smiled and brought down Herald on the ground again .
Then, a deep crack was made where Herald was, and it began to spread all over the ground . The holy territory filled with Urd’s energy started to collapse .
In its place, there was a new ashy world .
And tens of colossal boa constrictors lifted their heads to look down .
Hiss . Hiss . Their sharp tongues glistened .
In front of the tens of snakes, Urd stiffened .
Boa constrictors were magical creatures that swallowed dragons and gods in a bite . They were Hermes’s symbol and signified his great strength .
“I hope you don’t forget about me . I picked him first . I was feeling a bit annoyed because others were trying to take him . But cutting in line like this isn’t nice, right?”
Urd clenched her fist . Hermes was one of the only gods who could move as he wished along the land of the living and the land of the dead .
So he could appear in the lower floors himself . Although it required a lot of energy .
If she got on his bad side, then everything was over . He could make the boa constrictors eat her and she wouldn’t be able to say anything .
Eventually Urd had to step back . Even if she was humiliated, Hermes had the power .
“That’s a relief . Since you understand what I’m saying . ”
Hermes brightly smiled and the snakes disappeared back into the ground . The boa constrictors glared at Urd and disappeared after them .
The holy territory turned back into the black that symbolized Urd . But her pride didn’t come back .
“Hepburn . ”
“Yes, master . ”
At Urd’s command, Hepburn appeared from the dark with her head bowed .
Because Yeon-woo was gone, the shadow under her chin was gone .
“Swallow that child . Using whatever means . ”
If she couldn’t have it, she would break it . That was the stubbornness that Urd had retained for a long time .
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And Urd felt strange at what Hermes had said about Yeon-woo, that he had called dibs on him .
The Hermes she knew was like the wind . He was free, and hated being tied down . So even though he became stronger, he had no greed for possession .
But she felt uneasy seeing Hermes so alert .
The gaze she saw in his eyes wasn’t material greed .
‘The eyes when one wants to protect someone . ’
It was a gaze when trying to hide something from the public . Hiding something tightly under wraps so something important wouldn’t be stolen .
‘There’s something about it . ’
Urd thought there was a reason why Hermes was so protective of Yeon-woo . And she didn’t like that Athena and Dionysus were interested in Yeon-woo .
They were the second generation that hadn’t committed any crimes amidst the Olympus full of dethroners .
Since Urd was able to see a god’s past as well, she felt that something was wrong .
Hermes shouldn’t have spoken for so long .
Hepburn bowed at the command . When Urd was lost deep in thought, she closed the door and quietly left .
At that moment .
Urd felt something sharp from the side and whipped her head . Right when she was able to tell her to stop .
Before she could speak, Hepburn’s body was separated from her body on the floor .
A long shadow carried Hepburn’s soul and disappeared into nothingness . The Monster Portent that she thought went with Yeon-woo was hiding in Hepburn’s shadow all this time .
So if Urd had ordered Hepburn to hurt him, the Monster Portent would immediately act .
It was hidden so well that Urd didn’t notice it . No, because the power left behind by Hermes was so strong that she should feel anything with her dulled senses . She had been too lax .
And the result of that laxness . Came back too severely .
“Ackkk!!”
Urd couldn’t chase after the Monster Portent . A terrible pain shook her holy power .
Apostles were connected to their gods, and their spiritual body . Now that it was forcefully ripped away, it could only be painful .
And Hepburn was a precious high elf that Urd had obtained after struggling for a long time . Since she was a Superior species, she was that priceless . The backlash from it was immense .
Her divine power was unraveling . Urd had to protect herself in the world alone .
Shiver .
The darkness shook .
And that day, the 16th floor was upheaved at the halt of an oracle .
[This is the 17th floor, the gate of ‘White Air and Blue Water . ’]
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Yeon-woo moved to the next floor through a blue portal .
He had officially begun his climb, and his head was filled with annoyance from Urd .
But the moment he saw the Monster Portent through the Black Bracelet with Hepburn’s soul, his annoyance melted away like snow .
The soul of a Superior species was as hard to get as a high ranker . No, it was much harder . Especially if it had the power of a god .
He wasn’t sure but Hepburn’s soul was probably full of holy power forced from Urd .
Yeon-woo already started to think about where to use that power .
‘Of course, now I’m completely made enemies with the Three Norns . It’ll be a nuisance for the time being . ’
The three temples would begin to create a search team to look for Urd’s holy power . They might use mercenaries or assassins .
It was going to be annoying, but it actually might be for the better .
Since he used all the souls that he had from Red Dragon and Cheonghwado to strengthen Shanon and others . It was an opportunity to replenish .
Actually, Yeon-woo thought he knew why Urd was trying to get to him . She was trying to get revenge for her younger sister and play with him like he was her toy .
So Yeon-woo felt offended, and he kicked the door open on the way out . He decided to leave the Monster Portent hidden in the shadows .
Also .
What Urd had pointed out in her holy territory were things he was aware of as well .
His experience in the past and what happened to his brother . They were all things that made Yeon-woo be suspicious of people .
Even when he was in Africa, he hadn’t been able to easily trust others . When he entered the Tower, he suspected everyone .
But now, it was different .
He had met many people, and his mind had changed .
But the last two lines in his brother’s diary were imprinted in his mind deeply like a stamp .
You were like my hero . I hope you don’t lose that side of you because I’m hurt .
With these words, there was no way he would change .
Since he couldn’t become an embarrassing brother to his little brother .
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