Chapter 120 - Change (1)
Flooding.
At the same time as the demon disappeared, the spirit collapsed on the floor powerlessly.
And the energy of evil spirits in the spirit's body also began to slowly diminish.
The evil energy felt through the skin and the jet-black aura that radiated around.
The evil spirits that originated from the evil spirits gradually disappeared as if they were being purified.
After a little time passed, the spirit was able to return to its original form.
Oohhhhh...
Eventually, the spirit, perhaps coming to its senses, rose slowly.
In addition to the huge body, the large horns on the head.
Pure white hair that would be insufficient to say pure white.
In addition, this mysterious aura that can be felt around you.
It was the appearance of a divine spirit that no one could see.
Ooooh...
The god who got up slowly looked around.
Then he found Seo-jun and approached him without hesitation.
bubijeom.
Then he started rubbing his face against Seo-joon.
“evil. wait a minute!”
Seo-jun was startled and ran away, but the spirit continued to follow Seo-jun.
bubijeom. bubijeom.
And for some reason, the rubbing seemed to be worse than when I first saw it.
Apparently, even in the state of a demon, consciousness remained.
And he seemed to know that Seojun had saved him.
bubijeom. bubijeom.
It was probably a way of expressing gratitude.
Sensing the spirit's heart, Seo-joon shrugged his shoulders and said to the spirit.
“Ayy, have something like that. That's Okay. it's okay.”
However, the spirit only pushed his face more as if he was responding to Seo-joon's words.
“haha. It’s okay, so it is.”
After struggling with the spirit a few times, Seo-joon decided to leave it alone.
You see, it seemed like it would always be like this.
Actually, it was because the pure white hair was quite fluffy, so it wasn't a bad mood.
In any case, Seo-joon was able to breathe a sigh of relief at the appearance of such a spirit.
An evil spirit is a state in which the souls of demons and spirits are intertwined.
It was because they were worried that when the devil perishes, the spirit also perishes.
However, Shakyamuni's immovable mind only annihilated the devil's soul.
“By the way... Immobility is now expressed outwardly.”
And what made it possible was none other than the change in immobility.
Abilities that changed while passing 50% of the course progress.
Now, he was able to express the power of immobility not only to himself but also to the people around him.
To be precise, the power of immobility was able to block unclean thoughts.
It's like when spirituality draws energy and blocks outpouring thoughts.
So when Seo-joon annihilates the devil.
In addition to the power of the triple battle, the power of immobility was also brought out.
“In addition, it seems that the efficiency of the three-way battle has improved considerably.”
At the same time, the level of Sangdanjeon (上丹田) was also raised, and the effectiveness of Samdanjeon (三丹田) increased remarkably.
Efficiency and everything else aside.
Seo-joon could feel the two elixirs he had taken so far being absorbed in an instant.
Seo-jun slowly closed his eyes and contemplated the inside of his body.
All of the power of Gongqing Petroleum (空淸石乳) remaining in the body was absorbed, and
the nectar absorbed almost half of the power.
It was an effect achieved only by the progress of Shakyamuni's lecture and the rise in the level of upper class warfare.
“Wow... it's not SSS grade for nothing, really.”
Seo-joon shook his head involuntarily.
When I first encountered it, I thought it was just a lecture that would drive me crazy... but
now I sincerely thought that ‘physical is a piece of paper when the mental collapses'.
Seo-joon smiled and checked the progress of the lecture once again.
< Sakyamuni's lecture progress rate 63.6% (+13.7%) >
After a desperate struggle with evil spirits, the progress rate of the lecture passed 60%.
“Still, how did you pass 60%?”
The progress rate before coming to the Draug Dungeon was 33.8%.
Only here in the Draug Dungeon, I was able to increase the total progress rate to 29.8%.
Incredible rise that has gone crazy.
“He was the best instructor...!”
Seo-joon unknowingly burst into admiration.
And although the progress of the lecture somehow exceeded 50%, Seo-joon still had unfinished homework.
A question posed by none other than Shakyamuni.
[There is only one real question in life.]
[Suicide.]
[Is life really worth living? This is the ultimate question of life.]
[The rest is just details. Then I will ask.]
[Why do you not end your life?]
.
.
Seo-joon was able to give an answer to some extent through his corrupted spirituality.
But if you ask me if I gave a complete answer, it wasn't.
To put it bluntly, it can be described as a vague feeling that cannot be defined.
And maybe it's not just Seojun.
It may be a question that all of us living through life can have.
Although Seo-Jun has not been able to give a complete answer to this question now,
the day will come when he will one day complete Shakyamuni's lecture.
Maybe then I will be able to fully answer that question.
Seo-joon suddenly had such a thought.
again.
As Seo-jun was lost in his thoughts, the spirit suddenly began to move.
When I looked at it suddenly, wondering what was going on, the spirit stopped walking in one place.
It was the place where none other than Spirituality had fallen.
Spirituality fainting as the mind that was encroached upon by evil spirits was liberated.
The divine spirit let out a long cry over such spirituality.
Ooh oh oh oh...
Then, along with a cry that seemed to resonate with the soul, brilliant energy burst out around the spirit.
At the same time, small multicolored lights began to gather around the spirituality.
Somehow they looked like spirits.
However, there are so many different types that it is difficult to define what it is.
And the most noble and holy soul among all the spirits, the divine spirit.
As if commanding all spirits, the spirit cried out for a long time again.
Ooh oh oh oh...
Then I felt a warm yet hazy energy somewhere around me.
“Oh… is that the power of a divine spirit?”
Seo-joon stared blankly at the mysterious scene.
Before long, beings who did not know if they were spirits embraced the spiritual body.
How much time has passed again like that.
“Ugh...!”
Spirituality began to awaken.
Seo-joon approached Trudeau Young-seong.
“Youngseong? Are you awake?”
“Is this...?”
At Seo-jun's question, Young-seong couldn't hide his confusion for a moment.
However, the spirits that hover around him and the spirits that guard his side.
And it was only after confirming Seo-jun's approaching appearance that he was able to recall past memories.
Spirituality slowly rose from its seat.
“Oh, you... ugh!”
However, as if the mental shock hadn't gone away yet, he stumbled with a slight dizziness.
Fortunately, the divine spirit supported her and she was able to avoid the unfortunate accident of falling.
Seeing such spirituality, Seo-joon waved his hand and said.
“You can lie down a little longer. The demons are gone, so there's nothing to worry about.”
“Demons… extinct?”
“yes. As you can see, the divine spirit is fine, right?”
At Seo-jun's words, Young-seong gently turned his head.
Ohhhhh...
Then, as if Seojun's words were true, the spirit let out a long cry.
Youngseong turned his gaze back and looked at Seojun blankly.
“Uh… Why are you like that?”
A bewildered expression as if a screw was missing somewhere.
Youngseong didn't match Seo-joon's appearance, who had been giving him a blow, and now.
When Youngseong first saw Seojun, he didn't pay much attention.
I thought it was just a kid who entered the dungeon by mistake.
However, seeing Seo-jun enduring the Draug's thoughts, he thought that he was a hunter belonging to a fairly powerful group.
And when he saw him hunting the draugs, he changed his mind again that he was a crazy bastard.
However, after facing the devil, that thought completely changed.
Seo-joon's strength in the battle against the devil is comparable to that of a cataclysmic hero.
And Seo-joon is an infinitely young man compared to the heroes of the cataclysm.
In addition, the strong will shown by the evil spirit's thoughts.
next 5 years.
No, maybe less than a year had passed, and Seo-joon might have surpassed the hero of the cataclysm.
So, on the one hand, spirituality was greatly worried.
Now Seo-joon could be said to be a stronger professional hunter than anyone else.
It had a different aspect from the professional hunters of these days.
But will the days to come be like that?
No one knew how the world would go.
Didn't Youngseong himself eventually fall as a result of being led by evil thoughts?
If it wasn't for Seojun, Youngseong would have expressed his endless hatred towards the world.
There was no law anywhere saying that it was Seo-joon.
If, in the distant future, this force flows in the wrong direction.
If you turn the tip of the spear toward the world because you are out of line and corrupted.
Who can stop this kid?
uncontrolled power.
Youngseong could not help but feel fear as well as gratitude for Seojun.
Spirituality says.
“My child, I hope you never break that will. It's funny that I say these things... but I want you to know that even if the world seems unreasonable, it can't be helped.”
At the sudden words of spirituality, Seojun tilted his head and replied.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about all of a sudden… but it’s not that unreasonable. Values of caring for each other are also emerging. I think I'm getting better.”
“Aren’t you well aware that such things are mere hypocrisy? I am afraid that you will feel pessimistic about the world.”
Just look at the current tyranny of the five major guilds in Korea.
justice beliefs.
These social values are, in the end, mere hypocrisy.
In reality, the situation runs the opposite way.
People sometimes say things like this.
We don't have money, don't we have Gao?
However, he is well aware that the reality he faces is that there is no Gao without money.
Perhaps, as the words of spirituality say, such social values are nothing more than hypocrisy that only exists in the end.
“Well...”
However, Seo-jun thinks differently.
“A world without discrimination and consideration for the underprivileged with equal opportunity. Unless the values of such a society are mere hypocrisy, as Youngseong said.”
seojun says:
“What is the difference between the era of Hong Gil-dong, who eventually became a thief because he couldn’t overcome the difference in social status, and now?”
For an instant, the expression on the spirituality's face began to be dazed.
It was as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer.
Looking at such spirituality, Seo-joon slowly opened his mouth.
“I believe not. Even if it were, I would change it that way.”
Seo-joon's eyes that Young-seong looked at didn't waver.
A heart that is not shaken by anything.
“......”
Young Sung stared at Seo Joon without saying a word.
many... thoughts pass by
In the mind engulfed in thoughts.
The image of Seo-jun, who was giving himself a blow, overlaps.
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha.”
A sudden outburst of laughter.
Spirituality was able to realize how foolish his thoughts were.
“The tree is so straight, how can I worry about its shadow bending...”
A gentle smile forms on Young-seong's face.
“It has been a long day. It was a very long day when I was frustrated and criticized myself for being stained with weakness...”
Days weighed down by the weight of being a hero.
Spirituality has gone through and experienced many things as a cataclysmic hero.
It became an asset and gave a lot of strength to spirituality.
But thinking about it now... I
thought maybe I had gone through too much.
Perhaps it was not the world that had changed, but Youngseong himself.
Spirituality had never felt the passage of time before.
But today.
Looking at Seojun in front of my eyes, I suddenly began to feel the weight of the years that had passed.
Seojun was an infinitely young young man compared to himself.
He was a very young child.
However, spirituality was able to catch a glimpse of something that transcends time in the child's eyes.
maybe that's why
Wouldn't it be okay to put a little of that heavy burden on your shoulders now?
Wouldn't it be okay to lean on someone a little bit now?
Years have passed, but I feel at ease for some reason.
I don't know.
“My child, give me a reason to give me the strength to live again. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me rise again.”
Looking at Seo-joon, Young-seong thought that without realizing it.
#
A hotel room located in Korea.
In the hallway of the hotel room, Calia was walking at high speed.
After some time, Calia stopped in one room.
Then he took a deep breath and opened the door to the room.
Click.
As soon as the door opened, a being stood with his back turned.
Calia was well aware of who that being was.
“I heard you called. Apostle of Temperance.”
He is none other than the 7 apostles of the Jinrihoe's leadership.
He was an apostle of temperance.
As Calia lowered her head and said, the Apostle of Temperance slowly turned around.
Her face was expressionless as usual, but it was an illusion that anger was bursting out somewhere.
Unsurprisingly, shocking words flowed from the mouth of the Apostle of Temperance.
“Fate has been twisted.”
“......!!”
Calia's eyes widened at the words of such a temperance apostle.
However, he tried hard to keep his composure, but he couldn't even do that due to the words of the Apostle of Temperance that followed.
“The demon has been extinguished.”
Calia had no choice but to doubt her own ears, even for a moment.
He also doesn't use the expression ‘die' to the devil.
Because demons don't die in the first place.
To be precise, it was impossible to kill a demon here in the phenomenal world.
Even if it physically disappeared, the existence itself could not be killed.
They just return to the world of demons where they live.
Therefore, beings that can be killed but do not die.
That was the devil.
That's why we use the expression ‘reverse summoning' rather than ‘death' for demons.
However, the apostle of temperance was not described as a reverse summon.
none other than ‘disappeared'.
And that meant only one thing.
Demon's true death.
However, the problem was that no one in this phenomenal world could annihilate the devil.
No, there was only one, but it made no sense for that being to step out.
And yet, the devil has been annihilated...?
who the hell
“Uh uh how could that…!!”
“Why didn't you report?”
And at the words of the Apostle of Temperance that followed, Calia was able to grasp the situation at once.
It was because Calia had only one person to report to the Apostle of Temperance.
“Seo, are you Kim Seo-joon?”
The Apostle of Temperance did not speak, so that could be a sufficient answer.
“Uh uh how...”
Calia couldn't come to her senses.
That would be the case, too, because it meant that it was none other than Kim Seo-joon who annihilated the devil, if you put together the words of the Apostle of Temperance.
But that didn't make sense.
To the extent that Kim Seo-joon can annihilate the devil?
That was impossible even for Calia.
Not only Calia, but also the heroes of Cataclysm are impossible.
It was clear from the fact that the demon summoning itself was a plan to kill spirituality in the first place.
Even the heroes of Cataclysm couldn't deal with the demon.
Even the disciple of temperance in front of me can reverse summon the devil, but it cannot be extinguished.
But did Kim Seo-joon annihilate the devil...?
Calia felt that the Apostle of Temperance might be making fun of her.
It was to the point where he wanted to make the apostle of temperance swear an oath in the name of truth.
Calia still couldn't come to her senses, and the voice of the Apostle of Temperance was heard again.
“Calia. This is a serious issue that cannot be ignored. Because he... directly mentioned this incident.”
“......!!!”
Calia went beyond surprise and began to be astonished.
The one mentioned by the Apostle of Temperance.
Because he knew better than anyone what he was referring to.
However, the Apostle of Temperance continued to speak whether he knew Calia's feelings or not.
“I heard that you and Kim Seo-jun are familiar. Even now, they are using Korean guilds to keep Kim Seo-jun in check.”
“That’s right.”
At Calia's hasty reply, the Apostle of Temperance was silent as if lost in thought for a moment.
After a while, the Apostle of Temperance opened his mouth again.
“Then maybe we can avoid the twist of fate to some extent.”
“That word…?”
The Apostle of Temperance spoke calmly.
“I want to meet Kim Seo-joon in person.”