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Soo stepped forward with a sword in hand.

To protect me, I raise my sword against the group called the Disciple of the Immortals.

I’ve said it many times, but I’m a monster.

I deliberately showed my monster side several times.

And I have told you many times that this body is merely a vessel.

So if you’re told to run away, you should run away. Why are you moving towards the other person?

Soo-oh is not yet strong enough to fight on equal terms with Cheonma.

It is highly likely that he will not even reach the level of the Heavenly Horse, let alone the level of Oh Myeong-seong, let alone the level of the Dangju.

So, it’s right to run away.

I grabbed the iron skewer stuck in me. Slowly crushing reality. So that I can become clean again.

Then, the iron skewer stuck in his body instantly turns purple.

It feels different.

Normally there was no resistance, but this time it felt like something soft was at my fingertips and then burst.

Damn.

It was badly cracked. Deep cracks spread out in all directions, centered around me. It was cracked all over, like bulletproof glass that had been pierced by a bullet, but it didn’t break except for the hole.

In other words, it means that there is a hole.

There is an infinitely dark hole inside. If you put your hand on that part, it just passes by like an illusion.

Well, since it was centered around me when it first appeared, if something had happened, Cho-seol’s body would have been somehow damaged already.

I walked forward.

Already, Soo is in front of me.

Maybe I was facing forward to avoid being attacked.

From Soo’s perspective, he is running forward quickly, holding a sword without saying a word.

As the finger of the person aiming at the sealing needle pulled the trigger, the sealing needle was quickly ejected.

Kyaang!

Right in front of Soo.

And then about 3 seconds later I hear a sound in my ear.

Soo’s eyes checked all the sealing needles flying towards them, and then fired them in order. Since it was a weapon that took time to load, each shot was the last chance for those using the sealing needles.

Soo looked at the person closest to him and raised his sword.

And I swung the sword really lightly.

Blood spurts and warmth immediately flows into me.

Soo has no qualms about killing people.

But it’s not strange at all.

Because I’ve already killed him. The dark acts that were carried out when Soo entered this Heavenly Demon Sect.

An act of tying up a crying child in the middle of an empty lot and making them hit rocks one by one. If the child holding the rock refuses to do it, that child will be tied up next.

In order to survive, you have to throw stones. And that continues until the child dies.

From then on, the number of children who rebel decreases dramatically. It is easy to feel this way because you have helped in the killing.

But what happens if your emotions explode and you rebel?

The next offering came out.

In this way, children belonging to the Cheonmasingyo are thoroughly educated from a young age to kill people easily.

If you look closely, you can see that each and every one of them is designed to educate people like animals.

And this was an instruction received from Daegon in exchange for treasure and food, not long after the Cheonmasingyo was created.

That is, it means that there is malice from a civilization that has developed to the point of dominating one world and exchanging attacks with other worlds.

It works.

Without hesitation, Soo immediately cuts down the next person.

But killing the first two was all Soo had accomplished.

Soo-oh’s sword, which he was about to swing at his next target, was instantly cut in half. Even the dark purple fog was cut along with it.

The faint heat that remains where the bright red light passed lets you sense how powerful the weapon your opponent has.

When Soo turns his gaze, there is a man holding a seal needle and a man in different clothes standing there looking at Soo.

Soo’s eyes turn to the red lightsaber in his hand, then slowly move up towards the man.

“Oh my, that cruel god ruined even a child like this with his evil magic?”

And I feel sorry for So-oh.

“Who is that cruel god? Why are you suddenly targeting Chosul?”

Soo asked him in a low voice that he had never heard before. He took something like a cigarette out of his pocket and burned the end with the lightsaber in his hand.

Originally, it would have to be sucked in and supplied with oxygen continuously to ignite, but the temperature is so high that it catches fire immediately even if you just slightly touch the tip.

A man with that in his mouth and a smoke pointed at me as I was running towards him with a lightsaber.

“Look what that evil god did to you.”

Then Soo got angry.

“What. My hair turned purple? Or my skin turned white? Thanks to the blessing of the first snow, my body that was a mess returned to normal. No, it got even better.”

But he continues to look down at Soo with a sympathetic expression.

“That fucking god calls it a blessing? Yeah, it looks good. Because it’s the last spark you got by selling all your potential.”

A story that I also wanted to know popped up.

The identity of the harvester. He explains why the harvester is so powerful. Judging by the strangely confident look on his face, at least he believes it is real.

“My chances?”

Soodo asked him, pointing his sword at him.

“The soul reincarnates in this world. Every life repeats the cycle of death and rebirth, becoming a better life, and at the end of it all is the summit. The summit means breaking free from the cycle of life and death and becoming a god. However, when this life ends, you will forever be born and die as a lowly insect at the bottom of that cycle. However, you will never be able to go up again. Because you are dragging everything down.”

Soo blinks his eyes.

“Is reincarnation real?”

There was a story like that among the stories I told. So he understood it right away. The man in front of Soo was surprised.

“You know, right? There is. When people are reborn, they find a chance to purify their souls. But you can’t do that. That evil god stole all the potential you would have, and the remnants of that are what you are now.”

As I listened to the man’s explanation, I began to question the memories of the disciples of the immortals, or so-called Taoists, whom I had just taken away.

Why is it that you are holding me like that?

The cow still has warmth.

In the warm light, I am also just contained. Isn’t it strange that I stole the possibility just because of that? Because, Soo still has the possibility.

I didn’t take anything, so why are you saying I took it?

Are you sure you really know this?

While the two were talking, I barely managed to get to Soo’s side.

“Is that true?”

As soon as I arrive, Soo asks me.

He asks me as if it’s obvious that I know. He’s running so far away that I can’t hear him very well.

Maybe somewhere they caught me looking at them.

I decided to leave it alone since now is not the time to worry about it.

At least, I decided to tell the truth.

I’m not making excuses.

“I don’t know.”

As soon as I answered like that, the man next to me pointed his red lightsaber at me while pushing away the people holding sealing needles around him.

“The monster that deceived even children has arrived. Let’s see what nonsense this mythical fox-like monster is talking about with her cunning tongue.”

The name of this person, who is called the disciple of the immortal or Taoist priest, is Hwangbocheon.

Among the people in this country who have no last name or one-letter last name, Hwangbo is unique in that he has the last name and Cheon as his first name.

“I gave myself to the person who made the contract. All living things have light. I put myself in that light. Until that person dies, I will not take anything away from the person who made the contract.”

But as soon as I finished speaking, he started laughing.

“That’s funny. Are you going to say you didn’t know what would happen if you put a four-year-old in someone’s mouth?”

“Your wounds will heal and you will become stronger.”

He looked at me with a mocking expression, but his expression gradually changed.

That’s not the look you get when you look at someone who’s lying. It’s the look you get when you see something a little more sinister.

“You were doing that to people without even knowing what it was?”

“Isn’t it getting better?”

At least that’s what I thought until that moment.

As he held back his anger, Soo-oh quickly ran towards me and handed the broken sword to Hwang Bo-cheon.

“You were ignorant, so you didn’t hesitate to do such evil things? You said that you didn’t have strength in your soul, but you? You did it to your heart’s content? Because of you, your soul was distorted, and you squeezed out everything it had accumulated.”

But instead of swinging his sword right away, Hwang Bo-cheon blames me.

“And after squeezing it all out, the soul shatters into tiny fragments and scatters.”

“It’s all the same when you die anyway. What’s wrong with making this choice to start over instead of living miserably now?”

Soo-oh blurted it out.

Hwang Bo-cheon feels sorry for So-oh. This person is always sympathetic towards So-oh. It is the way he looks at a victim who has been harmed by an evil god.

Based on the story so far, this person is probably a good person.

“If that happens, you won’t be able to be born properly, and you’ll have to repeat the life of being born and disappearing like a bug. Even the big pieces are like that. The pieces that are too small will have to wander this world until they are completely torn apart, neither living nor dying.”

If it falls to where I am, it will just melt into me and disappear. If it also attracts light, then that would be the case.

But I leave the light on. As long as it’s warm, that’s enough.

But I understood.

That’s how it is.

There is a similar part in Daegon’s knowledge. It is a part of the knowledge called soul engineering.

“You live only one life, and you have to suffer until your soul is completely worn out.”

Hwang Bo-cheon feels sorry for So-oh, but is angry at me.

“And that too by an evil monster that doesn’t even know it’s evil.”

That’s wrong.

I know I’m evil, of course I never say it out loud.

Hwang Bo-cheon raised his hand.

Then, the people around me aimed their sealing needles at Soo and me, and Soo became very nervous.

And then he said,

“To avoid such terrible pain, I will at least burn your soul.”

Ah. So you burned Joo-woo and Byeong-il in a strange flame.

It’s the flame that burns even the light.

And some of that flame is in Hwang Bo-cheon’s hand.

They really came here to catch me for real.

So I stepped forward and grabbed Soo-oh by the shoulder and said,

“Okay. I’ll die. But please spare these kids.”

Let’s invest for the future.

In a faded memory, a man laughs heartily.

Noisily.