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The sight of heaven returning after about a year always felt new.

Scenery of vast grasslands stretching beyond the horizon.

Special animals called divine beasts lived all over the sky and the earth.

Shinsoo is a word that originally refers to early transcendental animals.

They were also beings who had accumulated karma and reached transcendence.

When an animal accumulates karma, it becomes a god.

This applies to all animals living on land, in the sky, and in the sea, so the divine beast existed everywhere.

Also, the place I am currently in is the realm of the divine beasts and the place where the divine beasts live here in the heavenly world, so I saw many divine beasts.

‘Just then another one comes over there.’

I turned and looked in one direction.

Where I looked, something with a huge body was approaching with a huge rumbling of the ground.

thud! thud! thud! thud!

Although it was obviously far enough to be faintly visible, the rumbling of the ground could be felt up to here.

The divine beasts around me were startled by the approaching huge sound and were busy running away, and soon I saw a divine beast running towards me, boasting a huge body.

To describe the Shinsu’s appearance, its body was well over 10 meters long and had black stripes on its white fur. The face looks like a tiger.

It was a divine beast called White Tiger.

As I looked at the white tiger that had come right in front of me, I spoke.

“White Tiger. How are you?”

-peekaboo!

Unlike regular tigers, it showed its friendliness by making cute noises and rubbing its face against mine.

As if responding to the warm welcome, I stroked the white tiger’s face with affection and then climbed onto the white tiger’s back.

“White Tiger. Will you go to the goddess?”

-peekaboo!

Baekho nodded as if he understood.

The white tiger then lowered its body, kicked the ground, and soared into the air.

“It’s cool.”

Scenery passing by every moment.

Although I couldn’t see the surrounding scenery clearly due to the high speed, I could definitely feel the cool breeze passing by my face.

Riding on the back of the white tiger, I was soon able to reach my destination.

When I arrived at my destination, I stroked the white tiger’s face and then walked away.

The ground at the destination was entirely made up of clouds, and angels with wings were moving busily above them.

I found a familiar face among the busy angels.

The angel also recognized me and turned his gaze this way.

“Yuchun?”

“Uriel. It’s been a while.”

Angels usually have wings, but the number of wings varies depending on their rank.

And the archangels, the strongest of the angels, have six wings, and Uriel was one of those archangels.

Uriel approached me and asked with a puzzled expression.

“I clearly remember that you went to the lower world, but have you already returned?”

“Uh. The schedule ended faster than expected. Who is the goddess?”

“Ah… ”

Perplexity was evident on Uriel’s face.

I asked him because he seemed reluctant to talk.

“What’s wrong?”

“That’s it… The goddess suddenly disappeared, saying she had something to do.”

“What?”

I listened to Uriel and asked again.

Those were words that were difficult to accept.

“The goddess disappeared?”

“Yes… ”

It wasn’t strange for the goddess to be away.

However, what I find strange is that in this period, I have never emptied it.

The universe consists of countless dimensions, which are managed by the goddess.

Of course, managing that many dimensions is impossible even for a goddess.

Therefore, most of the management was left to lower-level gods, and only a few dimensions were managed with special care by the goddess.

Usually, the goddess’s job is to manage the causality in the lower world so that it is not damaged, and to prepare for attacks by beings from other dimensions, such as the Demon King, and to select those who can accept the goddess’s power.

‘Even if the time for selection is a little generous, now is the time when causality is most unstable.’

First of all, it’s because I went down to the underworld.

In general, when a fight occurs between a hero and a demon lord, rather than a being from the underworld, the causality is bound to be distorted. Therefore, at this time of year, the goddess was usually busy adjusting causality.

However, I couldn’t help but be taken aback by the sudden departure.

‘Even the person who told me to come back so quickly… ‘

It disappeared so suddenly?

I didn’t understand.

“Did the goddess leave anything?”

“He just said he had something to do and left. The problem is that the causality of the dimension that the Goddess was managing is still distorted. They say we are urgently trying to fix things, but… It’s a situation where you don’t know what will happen… ”

Uriel let out a long sigh as if he was in pain.

She is one of the archangels who lead the angels and can be said to be a direct descendant of the goddess.

The current situation is bound to be quite difficult.

‘Now that I think about it, I wonder what the other kids are going to do.’

Other archangels suddenly came to mind.

Looking at Uriel’s situation, it didn’t seem like it would be much different, but considering his unique personality, I didn’t think that would be the case.

I asked Uriel, who still had a grim expression on his face.

“What about the other kids?”

“Same… Everyone is almost dying. Raphael has already collapsed.”

“He deserves it. Because he’s a guy who usually works a little and goes out to play.”

Rather than continuing to work and taking on numerous tasks.

If you take on a lot of work without doing any work, it will be even more painful.

Normally, Raphael would have gone out to play no matter how much work he had.

Given the situation, it seemed like he was helping.

‘The result was fainting.’

No matter how much I didn’t do my usual work, I couldn’t even imagine how busy Raphael, the most powerful archangel among transcendent beings, must be to the point of fainting.

“You work hard.”

He looked at her with eyes full of sympathy and patted her shoulder.

Uriel’s eyes flashed for a moment, and he looked at me with eyes filled with madness.

His eyes were so creepy that it was hard to believe he was an archangel.

“… In that sense, Yucheon… ”

“I’m busy with work, so I’ll stop.”

I quickly escaped before Uriel caught me.

“I’m Yucheon-!!!!!!”

I heard Uriel’s voice mixed with a scream, but I easily ignored her voice.

No matter how pitiful it was, I had no choice but to end up like that.

When I meet Uriel later, I’ll probably notice him quite a bit, but I’ll leave that to my future self.

To me, now was more important.

I ran like crazy until I lost sight of the angels.

***

After barely escaping from Uriel’s grasp, I returned home and was lost in thought about what to do.

A goddess who does not know when she will return.

It was boring to just wait, and I was worried.

‘But to go back to where the angels are… ‘

This time, I felt like Uriel would never let me escape.

Maybe they’ll run wild to catch it somehow.

How could I have escaped from there?

I was sitting on a chair and inadvertently raised my head.

Memories of my colleagues were hanging in the place I looked up.

‘picture.’

When I was alive, there was no such thing as photography.

That’s why I couldn’t leave anything behind.

However, a former colleague who had reached the level of an archmage said he wanted to leave a trace of us, and developed a magic camera.

How surprised I was at that time.

I used to joke that I could make a lot of money by making jokes.

‘That was already several hundred years ago.’

Once again, I felt like time was passing really quickly.

It sure seemed like only yesterday that I was fighting alongside my comrades, but hundreds of years have already passed.

It was truly an incomprehensible flow of time.

I muttered quietly while looking at the photo I took with my colleagues.

“I miss you… ”

Although I have a small wish to talk to my colleagues once again.

I knew that it would be difficult in reality.

That’s right, my colleagues… Because you won’t be able to come here.

‘… ‘Why didn’t you come?’

I think I definitely knew that.

I couldn’t remember why.

‘Am I old too?’

I forgot something I shouldn’t forget.

It was really funny that I, a transcendent being, had forgotten my memories.

‘It’s something a dog would laugh at.’

He has already achieved transcendence and taken off his human mask.

Sleep, appetite, physiological phenomena, etc.

It was absurd for me to forget something like a human, since I could no longer feel what I had experienced when I was human.

I burst into laughter at a situation that even I couldn’t understand.

‘Is it because I still have so many memories and feelings from when I was human?’

I don’t know exactly, but I thought maybe that was the reason.

Because that’s the only difference from other transcendent beings.

I got up from where I was sitting.

‘I don’t know what to do.’

I decided to move it first and then think about it.

After making that decision, I looked at photos of my colleagues and left the house.