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When the Primordial Heavenly Lord’s words ended, Bohyeon Jin-in’s body was outside Mount Kunlun.
And when the words of the Outer God wearing Choseol’s body ended, the petals that had been in the shape of a flower bud made of meat spread widely.
Instead of 9 petals, 9 arms spread out, revealing the flesh inside.
At the center of the flower, a small sun was blazing.
It was originally a special weapon.
A special agency created by the Empire to deal with anomalies.
A special public agency somewhere between the tiger-hunting man named Chakho Gapsa and the special phenomenon containment agency of some urban fantasy.
A general leading one of its large groups.
It’s an object he had in case of emergency.
It has the name Son of Huahui, and if you know that Huahui is the name of the goddess of the sun, you’ll get a sense of what kind of object it is.
That object is the Extreme Yang Spear.
Its method is in the form of a hydrogen bomb, but its form occurs like a solar explosion.
This means it’s not just heat. This weapon becomes a sun descending to earth mixed with all kinds of mythical powers, tearing apart unreality. Because it’s that level of weapon, someone at the level of a general had it in case of emergency and.
Used it properly.
But at the moment of explosion, the Outer God pressed down on reality and twisted it.
If it had exploded as it was, the human and Taoist realms in Mount Kunlun would have been engulfed in flames and melted away.
That weapon contained flames that would have melted all existing defense functions and burned even the passages leading to where Kunlun’s immortals live.
But even that was nothing to someone using Choseol’s body.
In the state just after the explosion started, it forcibly twisted people and melted the weapon into their minds to make it into a single tool.
The Great Kraken’s biotechnology skills, excellent enough to surpass one world, helped. But it’s also true that was subtly insufficient on its own.
What became the basis of the imagination to seal that explosion in people was rather from another side.
When the Outer God was human. The words from a manga that a person’s heart is like a world.
There is knowledge, and there are ideas to lead it.
Those two fused maliciously.
The place where light that flowed in and disappeared with the Outer God had been. Physical light was placed there.
In other words, the identity of the one flower is a lump of meat with a bomb that stopped while exploding inside.
If you say that blooms, it means this.
When the mind is opened, the explosion that was paused temporarily resumes what it was originally doing.
At that moment.
The place where the Outer God and the Primordial Heavenly Lord were standing.
There was light there.
The explosion, without distinguishing friend or foe, burned all space centered on the ignition point with the power of the sun as it had originally intended.
The epicenter literally evaporated, and more than half of the vast space called Kunlun was covered in fire.
Amidst the tremendous heat storm and radiation scattering in all directions.
Choseol is standing wearing the flower like an umbrella. Just like avoiding the heat on a hot summer day, without a single injury.
“It’s good that it has a function to protect the user, but recharging the flames is impossible. It’s disposable. This thing.”
The principle is simple. If the calyx can hold the sun, the opposite is also possible.
But that’s all.
It can only protect, and has no other functions.
Other means are needed to cross the space that has become a scorching hell. When the outer god was looking around in trouble without such means.
“I thought you were committing suicide with a bomb, but is it personal space shielding technology?”
At that time, in a place where it’s impossible for people to be alive, a voice of a young man was heard.
When the Outer God looked in the direction of the sound, a boy floating in the air quite far from the Outer God came into view. Though the shell had changed, the Outer God immediately recognized him.
“This time it’s not something but a living person.”
The Outer God opened its mouth while looking at the white light in the middle of that boy.
“Primordial Heavenly Lord.”
The boy wearing quite fluttering clothes in various places stands in the air looking down at the Outer God. The anti-taiji wearing a girl’s shell.
Compared to when it fought with Supreme Leader Tongcheon who invaded from outside, it looks too weak.
Rather, the monster has no power at all to the extent that it’s strange it can’t be defeated.
The Primordial Heavenly Lord recalled when Supreme Leader Tongcheon brought a mixed force combining locals he had gathered in this world and foreigners he had brought from outside.
There’s no sensation of blood drying up like then.
There’s no sense of danger like when directly confronting and fighting the Great Kraken.
No matter how you look at it, what’s in front is just a simple human girl.
That’s frightening.
It was about 50 days ago that he heard the news that something had gone wrong with Supreme Leader Tongcheon. He heard it when they annihilated the Severance Religion’s subordinate organization named the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult by joining forces with the human world.
When they followed traces of the Severance Religion, they found only the remains of a huge city deep in the sea, and received intelligence that the city seemed to have evaporated in one blow by the power of a powerful immortal.
And they found video footage capturing the scene of the city disappearing far from the epicenter. It’s estimated to have been a kind of outpost, but there were no survivors.
Those who were in places that escaped the explosion were all dead, having taken their own lives in miserable states.
Those who directly fought the Great Kraken know this phenomenon.
When Supreme Leader Tongcheon, the Great Kraken, revealed his true body.
Unless one has reached a certain level mentally, the Great Kraken’s overwhelming presence tears apart weak souls without distinguishing friend or foe.
The fact that there are many corpses that took their own lives like this means the true body manifested, and yet suffered a crushing defeat.
Who killed Supreme Leader Tongcheon. Or is he really dead.
The Primordial Heavenly Lord began investigating.
At that time, someone came.
Originally, the Primordial Heavenly Lord also knew from communications that someone had come. But he was going to ignore it because he was busier looking for the one who killed the Great Kraken.
But when that someone said they killed the Great Kraken, the Primordial Heavenly Lord sensed danger and moved immediately.
He urgently evacuated all the immortals in the immortal realm called Kunlun, and ordered those in the Kunlun in reality to help him.
Then, to see the enemy’s state, he controlled a reception doll from afar to meet that someone.
He sent the doll and pretended to converse with her while buying time, and brought all of Kunlun’s resources to observe her and interpret her identity.
The power and knowledge that Kunlun, the Heavenly Religion, has accumulated so far showed its true value in this situation.
The interpretation ended immediately.
There was someone standing in a position essentially symmetrical to this world, rather than malice.
And his judgment was correct.
The Primordial Heavenly Lord barely understood the meaning of the words that Supreme Leader Tongcheon had died.
Though it still looks like just a person, inside that skin is someone that not one world but all worlds combined might not be able to defeat, let alone injure.
With traces of the Jade Emperor and Supreme Leader Tongcheon mixed together, becoming like that and holding a living weapon.
“At least.”
It’s full of openings. A tall woman who doesn’t know how to fight at all is standing there. So all of that looks like a lie.
So the Primordial Heavenly Lord, as he had done so far, engaged in conversation to find an opening.
It seems to have a nature of answering sincerely when spoken to unexpectedly, so he uses that.
“Yes?”
“At least, I’d like you to tell me why you’re attacking Kunlun. You criticized us through Bohyeon Jin-in saying someone you consider family died. Is it revenge?”
The Primordial Heavenly Lord is detailed about tragedy.
Because living for a long time means having broken through that many tragedies. So he asked the monster that looks as if it has humanity.
Did we make some mistake?
Did we just create a chain of revenge?
But that monster shook its head.
“No. I don’t know much about the principles of the world, but I know human morality to some extent. When judged by that standard, the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult where I was was harm itself, and they were people who should all be caught and killed. If the era was a bit more developed, we could have distinguished people to save and corrected those who lived, but we can’t do that in this world.”
To the Primordial Heavenly Lord’s ears, it sounded like this:
What you did was right, and I’m not angry about it.
“You criticized, didn’t you?”
“If someone you lived with like family was murdered, isn’t that much normal? So I don’t blame you. It’s only wrong on that side, and you’re right.”
“No, even from a human perspective, excessive massacre is wrong. We didn’t distinguish you one by one, but processed you as one bundle. This is clearly our mistake.”
This was his true thoughts, and also words to shake the monster in front of him. What kind of evil would it commit if this side admitted fault.
To watch that danger with calm eyes.
But the monster’s reaction was different from expectations.
“You’re a good person.”
It purely praises. Rather, to the point of being embarrassed, with nothing but truth to the extent of being troubled, the monster looked straight and said.
“In the end, the bad one is this side.”
The monster folded its arms.
“I know that souls robbed of warmth are discarded like trash, and knowing that, I’ll increase harvesters to obtain warmth. Continuing from now on. Forever. Never stopping. Until the cold inside me subsides.”
In some eras, they express it like this.
Sociopath.
If there are people who commit evil acts because they’re in pain and suffering, there are people who don’t break down no matter how harsh it is and do good.
Even if it’s natural to collapse from pain and dip your hands in evil actions, on the strict logic of good and evil, that is still an evil act.
Just as evil is evil even if it’s right for society to do so in that era.
If not, even the act of ripping out people’s hearts and killing them in some culture would become right. Even if it’s clearly right in that era’s context, you have to say what’s not right is not right.
The monster asserts so.
“So even those I called family, I’ve already made into harvesters. It’s shameless to seek revenge saying I threw them away after stuffing them in the trash can.”
The Primordial Heavenly Lord found traces of something that had all been ground away there.
But before he could point that out, the monster continued speaking.
“Your light is big, but compared to the Great Kraken, it’s as small as dust. It might be unfair to compare with the Great Kraken who built up his light by piling up sacrifices layer upon layer. It’s not big enough to gain warmth by fighting like this.”
They both know that’s talking about souls. The Primordial Heavenly Lord also remembers the power of souls that Supreme Leader Tongcheon had built up excessively.
The one in front now says that was truly sweet, and small lights like himself are less than expected. But the Primordial Heavenly Lord could predict what it would say next.
“So. You fought the Great Kraken with such a small light. That knowledge. It’s truly admirably wonderful technology.”
It looks at him with greedy eyes saying it needs that technology. Knowing that the path it walks is pure evil, it commits sins freely because it needs to.
“What will you do with this knowledge?”
“Everything I can.”
The Primordial Heavenly Lord nodded at those words.
Judging there was no more information he could obtain, he called forth various tools.
Countless sophisticated tools that move in organic forms rather than mechanical devices, mixing wood and metal, appeared and aimed at the monster.
“Then, I too will do everything I can to stop you.”
The Primordial Heavenly Lord hardened his expression and opened his mouth pointing at the monster.
“Gravity a thousandfold.”
Ignoring the calyx wrapping the Outer God like a world, the force called gravity that penetrates worlds smashed into the monster.