Chapter 718: The method to enduring memories 1
Choi Han chose to defend rather than to attack after seeing the silver shield in front of him and the two silver wings surrounding him.
The Black Yong that had tried to rip apart the enemy was now surrounding Choi Han as it curled its body.
Choi Han then saw it through a gap in the yong’s body.
He saw the sealed god’s hand coming toward the silver shield.
Choi Han felt an unknown source of fear as soon as he saw the red aura around the hand.
‘It’s different.’
His instincts were telling him something.
This red thing was something that transcended human abilities.
No, it was something that transcended the things of this world.
He could feel despair from this red thing.
He had no idea how he was able to figure all of that out almost instantly.
Boom.
However, his heart was beating wildly.
He needed to dodge that hand. His heart was warning him to not let it touch him.
Once the red hand finally touched the shield...
Shhhhhhh-
There was neither a loud noise nor an explosion.
The shield slowly became engulfed by the red aura without any noise.
This was the first time.
Choi Han had never seen Cale’s shield disappear so weakly. Even the White Star had had trouble getting past this shield.
‘Is it because gods truly are different?’
Even if this god was sealed, he was still a god.
Dark Tiger Alberu had said that Cage had told him not to stop the god’s game.
This god had pretended to be Cale and the White Star until now, thus only using their powers.
That was why Choi Han had not realized it.
‘He is a god in the end.’
He had not known that this red aura was such a scary and ominous power.
However, Choi Han had no thoughts of retreating.
He had realized a long time ago after coming to this world that he could only move forward by taking two steps if he took one step back. As a result, he chose to take one step forward instead of one step back.
Shaaaaaaa-
The holy shield disappeared.
Choi Han was about to let the curled Black Yong of his run wild.
“......!”
However, he didn’t need to do that.
Paaaat-
The shield appeared again.
The disappeared shield resurfaced quickly. It looked even sturdier than before.
Choi Han subconsciously turned his head, despite having the enemy in front of him.
Cale had his unique nonchalant look on his face as he cast the shield again.
Choi Han subconsciously smiled. He had forgotten about it for a moment.
‘I probably forgot about it because I just saw the sealed god using Cale-nim’s powers.’
The sealed god’s battle style was to use the powers efficiently so that it did not burden his body.
He had intermittently used the shield very efficiently.
However, the Cale that Choi Han knew was different.
‘In some ways, it’s stupid.’
Cale might respond, ‘Stupid?’ If he knew what Choi Han was thinking, but... Cale truly did stupidly use his power endlessly.
It was because Cale’s version of efficiency was focused not on his body, but his goal.
Cale’s goal right now was to protect Choi Han.
That was why he would stop the sealed god to achieve his goal, even if it meant that he would cough up blood in the process.
Cale working so hard to protect Choi Han made another individual move.
“We must stop it!”
The young black Dragon, who had survived the sealed god’s attack, moved his two front paws. Black shields continued to appear in front of the silver shield that looked as if it would be swallowed by the red aura again.
“Damn, I’m experiencing all sorts of things in my final years. That power does not seem to be from this world.”
Gold dust sparkled as they appeared around Choi Han and the sealed god.
Mary pulled a spatial pocket bag out of her black robe and opened it toward the ground.
Boom, boom, boom.
Large things covered in black cloth fell to the ground.
They were the things that had been on the backs of the Dark Elves when they headed to the Mogoru Empire earlier.
Mary’s hands started to move. Black threads flowed out of her fingers and the things covered in cloths were soon revealed.
They were bones. They were bones that had been soaked in dead mana underneath the Alchemists’ Bell Tower.
Clack, clack.
The bones gathered together to create a large Bone Dragon.
It then immediately flew toward the sealed god.
Choi Han observed all of this before closing his eyes for a moment.
These people who had made moves starting with Cale...
They were people who ended up becoming Choi Han’s allies, close friends, and family.
“This changes nothing.”
Choi Han opened his eyes and observed the black Dragon’s black shield silently being gobbled up by the red aura and the silver shield disappearing once again and then made up his mind.
He had faith.
He had faith that this red aura, this ominous thing full of despair, would not reach him.
No, that it wouldn’t matter even if it did reach him.
There was no way he would be swallowed by that thing.
The black Bone Dragon and the gold dust attacked the sealed god at that moment.
Baaaaaaaaaang—–!
An unfathomable amount of gold dust rushed into the area around the sealed god and started exploding.
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Choi Han used that moment to move back.
“I will take on this bastard.”
Eruhaben moved past Choi Han and charged forward at that moment.
However, he soon stopped after seeing something through the explosion.
“Ugh!”
Necromancer Mary plopped down on one knee.
Booboboboooooooooom–!
The large Bone Dragon’s bones lost form and fell to the ground.
The bones looked odd.
They were neither cut nor exploded. They had simply had a part of them disappear.
Everybody here was able to know the reason behind it.
“...I guess he really is a god.”
The gold explosion subsided, and the sealed god was standing there without having taken any damage.
The red aura was no longer in his hand.
Instead, he was holding a large red scythe.
This red scythe made people think of blood.
The Bone Dragon and the gold mana were both swallowed by this scythe the moment they touched it.
The people watching... They finally realized the sealed god, no, the God of Despair’s power. He no longer looked like the relaxed person he had been with this scythe in his hands.
Smirk.
Baaaaang—!
With a loud explosion, from the hill and the forest... Large stone spears started shooting up from the ground.
He had taken the Scary Giant Cobblestone in Cale’s place.
Choi Han was using that earth power and the numerous stone spears that had floated up from the ground started moving.
Choi Han then pointed his sword somewhere.
His target was the sealed god.
“Huuuuuu.”
He let out a short breath before the Black Yong left the tip of his sword and charged toward the enemy.
The stone spears gathered around the Black Yong.
The Black Yong then became bigger.
Shhhh—
The red aura hit the stone spears as well.
However, there were numerous stone spears left even if one or two were destroyed.
The Black Yong would reach the stone spears in the end.
Choi Han did not doubt it at all.
It was at that moment.
“Hmph.”
The sealed got snorted before picking up his scythe and slicing from left to right.
It was directed at the sky.
The red aura created a line in the sky.
At that moment... Crown prince Alberu was holding a spear as he approached someone who was casting a shield.
“Why are you not doing anything?”
Cale was standing there as if he was deep in thought before he made eye contact with Alberu and started speaking.
“If the test stops...”
Only the area around Cale was calm. Alberu felt as if he was out by the lake when Cale quietly mumbled.
If the test stops...
“A new test will start.”
“What?”
Alberu asked back and Cale smiled at him.
“That should be how it works.”
It was a warm smile as he put his hand on Alberu’s shoulder.
“It was nice to see you, hyung-nim.”
“...What?”
‘Why am I your hyung?’
Alberu tried to ask but Cale was not done yet.
“Will I see you again? I always seem to see people again despite thinking it is the end.”
Once he said these things that Alberu could not understand...
Alberu opened his mouth to ask his questions but he could not say anything.
Only one voice could suddenly be heard in the world.
It was a voice without any emotions or warmth.
It was the same voice from earlier.
– Completed determination of the source of error.
Booboboboooooooooom–!
Cale felt his body starting to shake. He looked around.
Cale, Toonka, Choi Han, Mary, and the sealed god...
Only the five of their bodies were slightly shaking and their bodies were warping.
It was probably the same for Rosalyn and Clopeh who went to the Eastern continent.
‘They are probably about to come back.’
The original plan was for Rosalyn and Clopeh to lead their respective forces here to put an end to the sealed god.
That plan was useless now.
It was what they were all feeling while looking down at their bodies.
They heard the voice again.
– The source of error has been determined to be an indiscriminate destruction of rules.
Cale looked at the sealed god.
The bastard was smiling.
– It has been determined that the current test cannot proceed.
The test has stopped as he had expected.
The sealed god mumbled while looking at Cale.
“I just need to gather it again.”
He licked his lips with his tongue.
“With even more delicious prey.”
Cale could tell what the prey the sealed god was talking about even without being told.
It was most likely talking about the despair from Cale and the rest of the people who were in this first dispatch into the temple.
– Reverting to the original test.
Chhhhhh-
Cale could feel his body slowly moving away from this place. He turned his head. He observed the black Dragon flying toward Choi Han with a chaotic expression on his face. Choi Han reached out his hand that was fading and whispered something to the black Dragon.
Cale turned his head and nonchalantly commented to Alberu.
“Your highness, you are meant to be here. Please remember that.”
That was the end, and Cale could not get a clear look at the unexplainable expression on Alberu’s face as he let the darkness take his body.
‘The original test...’
It was probably the test that Ahn Roh Man had told them about.
‘Good.’
The corners of Cale’s lips curled up.
The sealed god would not appear in this test anymore. Instead, he would be sealed somewhere in the temple.
If he finds the place where the God of Despair is sealed, once Cale finds the item he is sealed in...
‘I just need to Embrace it.’
Then the sealed god would no longer be able to gather power through the temple.
Of course, it was possible that the sealed god would swallow the despair from this first dispatched team through the original test and become stronger.
He trusted his friends, but there was no way of knowing what would happen.
‘The answer is for me to clear the test as quickly as possible and get out of the illusion.’
Cale was not worried about the original test that Ahn Roh Man had told them about.
He felt the darkness disappear and saw a blue light suddenly engulf him.
Blue.
That was supposed to mean sadness.
Paaaaat-!
The cold blue light disappeared and Cale looked down at himself.
He was wearing clothes for mourning.
Cale raised his head and observed something.
He could see portraits of Choi Jung Soo and Lee Soo Hyuk.
He had lost his family at a young age, but the day that he had lost his second family had returned as an illusion.
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Translator’s Note
Oh snaps. Not this moment...
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