When I grab him, I can touch it.
Without needing to rise from the bottom, I can dye myself directly from this body.
The light is big.
It’s truly enormously big. If a person is like an apple, this being called Tongcheon is like the moon. It’s so big that I wonder if it’s okay to touch something this large.
But conversely, with this size, couldn’t it contain me?
What would happen if I dyed it all with myself?
I push myself into the light.
“What is this.”
I touched the light. Before, I would cover the light immediately upon touching it, but this takes time.
“Let, let go! I said let go!”
Why is he having a fit? So I released my grip and stepped back a few steps.
“I’ve let go of your hand.”
Though I let go of the hand, I’m still touching.
To explain it simply, it’s like this.
There are two circles drawn on white paper. They say for things to touch, the black outlines of the circles need to touch.
Even if the circles touch and separate, if you place black paper underneath, aren’t the two circles essentially connected even when separated?
The black extends upward from the black paper.
When I create objects or heal wounds, it’s like rising up above the black paper below.
When I touch it, the light shakes back and forth.
The memories come in extremely slowly.
No, strictly speaking, there are too many memories. So I can’t finish it at once like with humans. It’s similar to when the first world fell to me.
Back then it took a long time to grasp because there was too much light, this time it takes long because the light is too big.
Since I could cover humans in an instant, I didn’t know, but covering something this big has taught me something.
First, it’s difficult to take warmth unless I cover all the light.
I think I could absorb it little by little, but somehow I feel like he would counter that, so I’m trying to cover it all before taking it in one moment.
Since this is the first type I’m taking, I’ll approach carefully.
That’s when Supreme Leader Tongcheon reached for the four twisted lines behind his back. When those four intertwined and transformed into something like a fork, he held it and reached toward me.
Thwack.
“The Death Lines. A weapon that kills immortals. Whatever you are, it seems you can’t block this.”
Holes appeared in my head, neck, and two in my chest. Not just holes – something invisible flows in along the wounds.
As always, it’s just like a river flowing but the water is invisible. You can’t see the water at all, only the rocks and sand inside flowing along.
It digs inside while meticulously tearing apart the flesh.
Checking the condition, each blade destroys different parts. The two in my chest tear apart the flesh. But one mainly crushes meat, while the other flows through blood vessels before entering bones to dissolve them.
I have no idea about the ones stuck in my neck and head.
Besides initially making holes, there’s no movement at all.
So.
What of it?
I don’t feel any hindrance. My flesh is destroyed, but since when did I do anything with flesh?
I raised my arm and grabbed the equipment called treasure.
“What? Both your flesh-soul-spirit and fate should be destroyed, how!”
Flesh and soul and spirit. Fate. Is that why there are four blades?
But, Tongcheon. You’re too concerned about what’s merely inside a glass bottle?
I kept spreading out and slowly dyed him in my color. The pure white light is gradually changing to dark purple.
Can’t you see this?
Can’t you feel this?
Aren’t you a god?
Or is this level nothing to you?
My flesh will soon turn to dust. I pressed down on reality before the vessel completely broke.
Thwack.
An enormous crack bloomed around me, incomparable to when my body shattered to pieces. It bloomed in all directions like a flower centered on me.
And my body returned to normal. The parts of the weapons that touched the cracks melted and disappeared.
“The world will collapse if you continue, foolish girl! Do you think you can escape this Death Sword by distorting reality! Your fate is already over!”
Tongcheon shouts loudly.
But that’s my line.
It took time, but I’ve completely covered his light and.
I completely licked the light.
And when I grasped the light for warmth…
Hehe.
Hehehe.
Hehehehe!
Ah, my goodness! It’s warm!
Not a faint warmth, but heat! Heat again! Yes, this is it!
This is it! The heat I can obtain from now on!
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!”
This one screams?
Ah, right. Originally when I only took warmth from living things, they became monsters?
His whole body swells up as if exploding, returning to a giant fishman form, and as the fishman form peels away, a monster combining fish and amphibian traits bursts out from behind.
And as his body twists, eyeballs fall out with muscle and tentacles sprouting in their place, while on the opposite side ribs and shoulder blades break through the body, deviating from their original form.
I thought since he was a god, he’d be more of a spiritual being, but he’s not that different from living creatures.
But no.
You can’t escape.
It’s warm.
It’s mine.
It’s mine.
It’s mine.
It’s cold.
It’s cold. Cold, cold, cold, going mad from cold again. But I can’t go mad.
Ah, aah. Again. No. Is this not enough? Is this warmth not enough? Can I not stay warm forever? Until when must I be cold?
Or rather than insects or humans, do I need to hunt things like you?
Hm? Supreme Leader Tongcheon. The Great Kraken.
Or if I squeeze you more, will more warmth come out? More?
I thrust myself into the Great Kraken who’s twisting and screaming underwater.
The light turned black and shrank. But it’s still plenty big. Even if you combined all the lights from living beings around here, they’d be too small compared to this shrunken light. That’s how massive the Great Kraken’s light is.
“Kiaaaaaaaaaaaak!”
Then harpoons made of bone, muscle, blood, or organs shot out in all directions from the Great Kraken’s body.
A very small warmth enters me.
Ah. Didn’t you know?
If I take your warmth, no matter how much warmth you crave, it comes to me. Because you’re connected to me. Cold, isn’t it? Freezing, right? That’s what I feel.
You were warm, weren’t you?
Right?
You were always happy, right?
So it’s fine for you to become unhappy now, isn’t it? Right? Isn’t it?
I watched the Great Kraken who was going berserk searching for warmth. How’s that cold? Is it hard to bear? Weren’t you a god? Why can’t you endure it? You should endure it. What does that make me then?
Or are you thinking of saying you’re not a god?
You said you were a god.
You.
Or are you not a god? In other words, this is warmth I can take, right? Hm?
The Great Kraken concentrates blue light in his maw.
It’s not killing intent directed at me. He’s trying to kill life to gain more warmth.
I know.
When you become maddeningly cold, you can only think about where to get warmth.
Then, you see the warmth.
So how have living beings taken things from other living beings until now?
Kill and eat.
Acting on instinct to escape the terrible cold.
The light is directed below the water’s surface.
A massive cluster of countless warmth gathered deep in the water.
There’s an underwater city far larger than the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. A huge metropolis where fish-people live. Contains a lot of warmth.
And that place disappeared along with the flash that the Great Kraken released.
Hehe.
Warmth is coming in.
Yes. You can’t get it, the Great Kraken.
I can see his extremely troubled expression on his shredded face. At the same time, a massive shockwave starting from the epicenter heads this way but.
Was this how you do it?
I extended the Great Kraken’s arm, consuming the already messy internal organs and materials he considered important.
And in return, bubbles formed like what the Great Kraken had made earlier.
The shockwave the Great Kraken released bounces off the bubbles.
I can control the body. Knowing this, humans were too small. Only with a being this big and full of secrets about using their power could I learn this.
I learned how to control it when I licked the light.
Hihi.
Slurp
Oh?
The parts used to make bubbles burst away. It’s not exploding, it’s being sucked inward like being ground in a blender.
I’ve seen something similar to this.
When Heavenly Demon spread her curtain, the monsters being sucked in and dying.
Ah, I see. That’s my body touching reality through the Great Kraken’s body.
It’s the opposite of the rules that make up this world, as Heavenly Demon said. So it collides with all surrounding principles and vanishes.
I thought it might be like antimatter colliding with matter and annihilating, but unlike pair annihilation, there’s no heat. It just gets coldly sucked in and disappears.
As the Great Kraken panics, arms and legs regrow from his remaining parts. Simultaneously, the sensation synchronized with the Great Kraken tells me.
Fuel is insufficient.
Though I can’t feel at all what that fuel is, I learned through experience that it’s qi or magic power.
In other words, you can’t transform or regenerate anymore, right?
Suddenly I thought of something. One shriveled black light. Could I emerge like in the first world using this?
I gently pushed myself in.
Creak-crack!
Like art made by creating tree patterns in tempered glass, a tree of cracks grew as it pierced through the Great Kraken’s head.
Too, heavy.
Haah.
Seems I can’t do anything with this material.
But I learned something.
I can push myself into and control any body with sufficient size.
Though I have to consume a lot in return. The principle is the same. There’s no difference between moving Choseol or Rebecca’s body and moving the Great Kraken’s body.
A vessel thoroughly made to contain something.
A body that can contain gods.
A zero point imprinted on reality.
Only that can fully contain me and not get ground away when I move.
I learned very, very, very many things.
And I found new prey. Not warmth that slightly eases the cold, but real warmth.
Those who call themselves immortals, who mistake themselves for gods.
Those who can travel between different worlds.
Hehe.
Yes. You who were at the bottom.
You were so warm.
I touched my face. Then I looked back.
Over there, Heavenly Demon stands watching me with a tense face. But she hasn’t drawn her sword.
She looks at me then closes her eyes with an expression that says ‘kill me if you’re going to.’
I glanced at the bubbles holding back the surrounding water. There’s quite some time until the Great Kraken’s body is completely consumed. No need to hurry.
I slowly approached Heavenly Demon.
“You fool.”
And I cupped her cheeks with both hands. I’m taller than her, you see. Heavenly Demon, startled, slowly opens her eyes. Black eyeballs with blue glowing pupils.
“Let’s go back. We caught the fool.”
While rejoicing at finding targets to steal warmth from or turn into harvesters in the future, I grabbed Heavenly Demon and returned to the house where Soo-oh was waiting.