Chapter 1182 — Book 2: Chapter 379: I'm sure it was not enough (4)

“Ahhh…ugh……!”

So Hee was covering her eyes with her hand but still could not believe this situation.

Bang! Baaaaang! Bang!

The white threads that lost strength fell to the ground and became dyed by the dark red light.

‘How-!’

So Hee could not believe it.

“Ugh, how–!”

How could he cut through my white threads so easily?

Kim Hae-Yi.

That guy had turned his unique power into his own form.

The seed had sprouted.

It was also a higher level unique power than So Hee’s.

‘But still-!’

Still, Kim Hae-Yi's unique power had not been able to stop all of So Hee's power.

All it managed to do was dye her white threads dark red.

‘That's normal!’

Even if the levels were important when it came to unique powers, there was a lot of trial and error for a seed to sprout properly and grow roots.

‘So how-’

So how was the bastard who had been fighting with her until moments ago… He had not even sprouted his unique power properly!

He only had a seed!

It didn’t even have a proper form!

So how can he suppress my power with just his presence?

‘This is possible?’

So Hee had a thought in the chaos.

‘No way!’

One thing…

There was one possibility.

‘Five Colors-’

A level that only three people currently had in the Five Colors Bloods.

‘So is his power at the Five Colors level?’

But the Five Colors level was not just given out.

After the deal with the Divine race, only a portion of the wanderers developed unique powers.

Among them, the Five Colors level-

“Ah.”

A smile appeared on So Hee's face.

She lowered the hands that had been covering her eyes.

She couldn't see anything through her closed eyes.

All she could feel was the blood dripping down.

She put her hands on the ground and looked up.

“You-”

The bastard who cut her…

“You are not just a normal single-lifer.”

Apparently there were those who were born with fate.

“You have the fate of a hero-”

A hero who would save a world.

You needed to be at least at that level to be qualified to have a power greater than the Transparent level.

“You were one of those bastards!”

He wasn’t someone like So Hee, who started from the bottom and ended her life without being able to overcome that differential. Not an existence that became a single-lifer, but-

Those lucky bastards who were born with the fate to become heroes!

“Fuck!”

She could not hold back her anger.

‘I worked my ass to get here-!’

They don't know shit about what I had to do to get here!

I did all sorts of things to enter the Five Colors Bloods!

Oh how they looked down on me for being the weakest in the Five Colors Bloods!

Despite that, she persisted.

In order to create her own territory in the future-

‘To create my own kingdom!

I worked so hard for this!

I got rid of all obstacles, and absorbed all nutrients that could be helpful for me getting stronger!

I did all that to get this far!

But to lose like this to a halfwit whose unique power isn't even fully developed……!’

She felt extremely wronged.

‘Who the hell is this bastard……?!’

She then had a thought.

‘Yeah. Who is this guy?

Why didn't I know about a guy like this until now?’

She opened her mouth.

"Who are you? You, who the hell are you?”

She could not use her unique power properly now that her eyes were injured.

It was difficult to escape as well.

“Who are you?!”

So she needed to at least know one thing.

She was certain that at least one of the wanderers would come to save her.

Even if she was the lowest-ranking member, there was still quite a bit that she knew.

“Now-”

Tell me now! Who are you?!

Screeeeech-

The eerie screeching started around her again.

It sounded as if it would explode.

So Hee shouted as if she expected that to happen.

“Reveal your identity now! Otherwise, we will all explode!”

It was at that moment.

“You are threatening us despite having no thoughts about dying?”

She heard a nonchalant voice.

“!”

So Hee felt her whole body go stiff.

It was not just her.

“Your Majesty, please hurry-”

“Mm.”

Queen Tamahi had been quickly heading to the stage with her subordinates before she stopped.

It was not because she wanted to do so.

It could not be helped.

“!”

She suddenly felt suffocated.

Shaaaaaaaaaa-

A strand of wind.

The stadium was now so quiet that they could hear the wind.

Only the Queen, her confidants, and a few martial artists were left here.

They were all people in the Lan Kingdom with high levels of martial arts or experts in different fields with lots of experience.

Nonetheless-

“…….”

“…….”

Nobody could easily open their mouths.

The sky was still dark red, but the white threads and the black yong were now gone that they had been thinking that the stage was just a bit darker than usual. But all of that changed.

The people who had been feeling relieved at the peace that finally arrived got chills on their bodies.

“……!”

Queen Tamahi’s pupils started shaking.

She looked toward someone.

It wasn’t the Heavenly Demon, Choi Han, or even Alberu who was next to her.

The person she was looking at-

‘The mask-’

It was the masked Cale.

Tamahi looked down at her hand.

“…….”

Her fingertips were shaking.

She had goosebumps on the back of her hand.

There was no sound.

She couldn’t see it either.

But there was still something there suppressing her.

‘Fear-’

This had to be fear.

However, it was not violent.

It was gentle.

The fear that gently arrived slowly started to push down on her, making her feel as if she was sinking in a swamp.

She then slowly started to feel it.

What this fear was-

‘I can't tell.’

This was a fear she did not know.

I made her think of too many things but also nothing at the same time.

‘It just-’

She recalled a scary night she had as a child.

‘What is this?’

This was making humans think about their underlying fear.

It was also slowly suffocating her as if to take control of her.

‘This is a warning.’

Queen Tamahi realized it.

She realized that the masked man was warning them.

And-

‘He is giving us a warning, but-’

He was treating the enemy differently.

She could feel that.

“Ugh!”

Because So Hee let out a deep groan.

It was different from the scream when she hurt her eyes.

The groan that came from deep inside of her was clearly showing what kind of situation she was in right now.

“Ugh, ugh!”

She put more strength into the hands touching the ground.

Her whole body was shaking.

A little bit, she felt like just releasing a little bit of the tension would make her become dominated by this fear to the point that her body crumbled.

‘What is this?

What is this aura?

This was not the seed of a unique power.

But was it aura? Mana?

‘No!’

It wasn’t those things either.

‘Then a unique power?’

No-

‘Ancient power?’

The ancient powers that now mentioned forgotten unique powers…

Was that it?

‘No!’

That was not it either.

A compressed power like that couldn't suppress her to this level.

‘Then, what could it be?’

Her injured eyes prevented her from seeing who was using this power.

But So Hee still thought of someone.

‘The mask!’

It was that bastard wearing the mask.

‘Who the hell is that bastard that he can suppress a wanderer with just his aura?’

That’s difficult even for most gods-

“Ugh!”

So Hee persisted as she found the answer.

‘A god!’

Yes, a god!

At first, she thought that Kim Hae-Yi was the AI, Ahn Roh Man’s cooperator.

But after seeing his unique power, she thought he was another wanderer.

A wanderer who sided with the gods.

‘And that god-’

Would naturally be part of the God of Balance's side, since that was the side against the God of Chaos.

That was the reason she thought that she really needed to kill him.

Because the enemies were already here in New World.

‘But something is weird if you think like that.’

The World of the Gods was split in half but the wanderer bastards serving the gods already got this far?

‘And this power-’

Fear.

It stimulated a primal fear.

Then there was only one answer.

‘The fear of chaos!’

The ability that the God of Chaos only gave to his most cherished believer, someone at the level of a Saint.

That would make sense.

‘The God of Chaos has always been wary of us.’

He acted friendly to them, but there was no way they wouldn’t see the wariness beneath it.

How concerning would it be for the God of Chaos that there were wanderers who were starting to get the qualifications to become gods?

‘Based on what we heard from our spies, the God of Chaos seems to be scheming something in the Demon World right now.’

If the God of Chaos was doing that in the Demon World, what was the chance he didn’t mess with things in New World?

In fact, he might be pretending that he had no time to talk to us because the World of the Gods was chaotic in order to take us down first.

‘Because the time is near!’

The time for the omnipotent god to arrive, as well as the preparations for it, were almost complete.

So this was the only chance if the God of Chaos wanted to take everything for himself.

“Ha!”

So Hee let out a scoff.

She could not believe it.

“You-”

She looked toward the direction of the aura.

So Hee started to smile.

“You were a tail of chaos?”

However, her smile could not continue.

“Ugh!”

A pressure multiple times stronger than before pushed down on her.

The feeling of being dominated…

The existence of the faint fear within it…

“A tail?”

She heard a calm voice.

That voice was closer than she had expected.

Cale knelt on one knee and made eye contact with So Hee.

Cale smiled and spoke to the girl who could not see him.

“Why am I a tail? I have no intentions of being a tail.”

Of course, he had no plans to be a subordinate of the God of Chaos either.

However, he would be thankful if the enemies got the wrong idea.

Cale looked past So Hee to Queen Tamahi who stopped walking toward him.

Alberu was standing next to her.

Alberu smiled once they made eye contact and spoke to Tamahi.

“Your Majesty.”

“Ah.”

Tamahi realized what she had to do.

New World.

The game, ‘Raising my very own precious omnipotent god.’

There was a reason most of the users remained ‘good’ in this extremely free and open world.

Without that reason, evil users would commit all kinds of crimes in the game.

"Criminal So Hee.”

Queen Tamahi ordered.

“Move her to the Palace's underground prison.”

Criminal.

Once you were labeled as a criminal in a kingdom and imprisoned…

The game users would still be in prison even if they logged out and logged back in.

This was especially true about the Palace underground prison. You needed to have the strength to face off against the entire palace to get out.

‘It is the same whether you are a mid-level NPC or an NPC.’

This rule was the same for mid-level NPCs who could log out like game users.

‘This wanderer should be a mid-level NPC.’

If she was an NPC, she would not be able to leave the game world.

There was one thing different about mid-level NPCs compared to game users.

‘If they die here, they cannot be reborn.’

Users could be revived no matter how many times they died in the game.

There was a penalty for dying, but they still got the opportunity to revive.

But mid-level NPCs would die for good.

“Hey So Hee.”

Cale warmly called out to her.

“!”

So Hee flinched.

Cale didn't care and released more of his Dominating Aura as he warmly spoke to her.

“Don’t think that you can run away.”

He whispered in her ear.

“Well, you can try to run if you want to remain in the game forever.”

Remain in the game forever.

That meant death.

“Fuck!”

So Hee flailed as if Cale's voice gave her the chills.

Screeeeeeeech—- screeeech—

White light blasted out for a moment.

It looked as if she would explode.

“Your Majesty!”

As her surprised subordinates and the martial artists who came to protect her flinched…

Slash.

A thin horizontal cut was visible on So Hee’s neck.

“!”

Cale was surprised but did not let it show as he turned his head.

He could see Choi Han’s sword.

A single drop of blood dripped down from the tip of his sword.

It was So Hee's blood.

“…….”

So Hee could not say anything.

Choi Han had cut through the white light to make a thin horizontal cut on her neck.

So Hee became silent at his vicious spirit.

Cale got a bit scared.

‘He really can’t think straight right now!’

It was understandable.

These bastards were the ones to turn Choi Jung Gun into his current critical state.

Choi Han really was a good guy for letting her off easy like this.

– Hae-il.

Of course, there was a reason Cale had riled So Hee up.

– When the white light had shot out earlier, there was a thin thread flying off in the distance.

Underneath this dark red cloud…

This was the Heavenly Demon’s domain.

After hearing what the Heavenly Demon had to say, Cale quietly looked down at So Hee who was shaking after being suppressed by the Dominating Aura.

‘One at a time-’

Let’s hunt the Five Colors Bloods bastards one at a time.

‘Then we can get the God of Chaos, the Hunters, and the Demon World to fight each other.’

Everything was going according to plan under this big picture.

Cale looked around the mess of a stage and addressed the Queen.

“Your Majesty. You should quickly capture her.”

He pointed at So Hee while looking at Queen Tamahi who was frozen stiff.

He then added on.

“We caused a mess so we will go as well.”

The palace.

He needed to meet the Queen’s husband, the Prince Consort, there.

This was also a part of the plan that needed to happen.

‘Good.’

He felt like things would go easily without having to drag anything else out.

However-

“Mm.”

Cale saw the gazes of the Lan Kingdom's people as they looked at him, the Heavenly Demon, and Choi Han, and started to think.

‘This should be okay, right?

All of them look scared.’

Cale gently smiled and spoke as warmly as possible.

“Why don’t we have a chat and work out any small misunderstandings there may be?”

For reference, Cale was still wearing his mask.

Shake shake.

Only Alberu stood there shaking his head.

Rumble-

The dark red cloud slowly scattered, revealing the blue sky.

The sunlight shining down was slowly seeping into the Hero's Sword, the divine item, the Sun Sword, on Alberu's side.

Nobody noticed it.

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