episode_0071

“Auntie, you’re going to stay here, right?”

“That’s right. I want to serve Oronak, who protected us until the end.”

Irina decided to remain in the Ice Flower Tribe village.

Although I would have liked to take her to the village of Lugeron, Irina wanted to guard the headquarters as an apostle of Oronak.

I put my regret aside and took her hand as I spoke.

“I will visit you often, Irina.”

“Hmm… Next time you come, bring your pretty child.”

Irina blushed and said to Sylvia.

Although I was slightly embarrassed by that sight, I responded with an awkward smile.

“…I’ll try.”

So we returned home.

Thanks to the destruction of the god’s legacy, Seolsan was not as cold as before; rather, it was warm.

“As time goes by, I think this place will change into an environment where people can live.”

“I guess so.”

I thought maybe there would be more land available for cultivation.

Anyway, we returned to the village with excited hearts, and were able to meet Carlson first.

“You’re back!”

He was wiping the blood off the tip of his sword at the village entrance.

I asked him as I looked at the grotesque little man dying at his feet.

“Mr. Carlson, what are those?”

“Goblin.”

“Goblin?”

I saw it for the first time.

It’s clearly a common monster in fantasy worlds, but in my 21 years of life in this world, I was able to see the most famous monster in fantasy.

“They usually live by digging caves or tunnels. They steal food from villages, and sometimes they form groups to pillage. Fortunately, they are weak, so even young men from rural villages can deal with them.”

“That’s strange. I’ve never seen it in the Dark Forest.”

“Haha, of course. The Dark Forest is too harsh for goblins to live in. The villagers must have seen goblins for the first time.”

“So where did these guys come from?”

“Probably from the opposite direction of the Dark Forest.”

I thought deeply about his answer.

I was a bit nervous because guys who didn’t appear before suddenly appeared.

Putting my worries aside, I said goodbye to Carlson and headed straight home.

Elsia, who had been waiting for us outside the door, was there to greet us.

“Elsia!”

“Mr. Xi’an, you’re here – wow?!”

I was so happy that I hugged Elsia and spun around.

“What’s going on?”

“Nothing happened.”

“Thank goodness.”

“Is your brother here?”

Clia, who was inside the house, ran over to me at the sound of my voice and hugged me.

“Brother, what’s my present?”

I was a little taken aback by Clia’s appearance as she looked for a gift as soon as she saw me, but I lightly patted her head and went straight to find Chloe.

“Chloe, I’m back.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

She was resting in the bedroom.

Her belly, due to give birth next month, was swollen and fuller than before, and it made her think a lot.

The first thought I had when I saw my beloved wife after a long time was regret. I couldn’t be by her side even though it was her first pregnancy.

“Hey, Chloe… ”

“It’s okay.”

Did you read my thoughts?

Chloe took my hand and said with a smile.

“I hope my wife is safe

“Thank you… and I love you.”

“I love you too.”

After such a long time, I was able to return home.

. . .

As expected of the goddess of the home, Hestia, Helen was observant and waited outside.

“Sorry, it’s later than I thought.”

“No. It was really nice to see you looking after your family first.”

Helen responded to my apology with a bright smile.

Hmm… It’s burdensome.

“This is the clothes I was talking about.”

“What a mysterious fabric. And of course… ”

I handed Helen the clothes I had worn as a baby, and Helen looked closely at the fabric and the civilization depicted on them, then looked up at me and said.

“Sir, I have something important to tell you. Would you mind if we move to a place where we can be alone for a moment?”

“Not here?”

“Yes, if possible, I’d like a quiet place.”

“Okay.”

Although something felt off, I followed her advice and moved to be alone with Helen.

“Elsia, I’ll be back for a bit.”

“Have a nice day.”

“And let Sylvia, Clara, and Vivian rest a bit. They had a hard time coming here. Let’s start planning the farm work tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

After talking to Elsia about some general household chores, I headed straight to the icehouse I had made earlier with Helen.

“Would you like this place?”

“It’s a little chilly, but it’s a good place to tell secrets.”

“It’s a secret story… ”

Somehow Helen’s choice of words is a bit

Because it felt like the old man was becoming secret friends with the little girl.

“So what do you want to say?”

“Do you remember when the Troll King said that you were the most arrogant race?”

“Of course.”

The troll king, Grog, called me the most arrogant of his kind, and Helen had always taken a significant stance on my origins.

“The most arrogant race is a nickname for the giants. Their civilization was so great that it threatened the gods. If they had not been judged for building the tower, which was evidence of their blasphemy, perhaps this world would have been a world of giants by now.”

“What a great tribe.”

“Yes, and the characteristics of the giants were strong physical abilities and great sexual power.”

“It’s just completely me.”

“Yes, that’s why I also thought at first that Cian was a descendant of the giants, just like the Troll King.”

Grog once said that giants were the most powerful race that ever ruled the world.

If people like me were a swarming race, it wouldn’t be strange if we conquered the world.

“Wait, at first? So I’m not a giant?”

“Yes, I, the Troll King, and even the Goddess Hestia were mistaken. Lord Cian was not just a giant.”

Helen, who even mentioned the god she served, touched my hand and said something a little shocking.

“Sian is a Titan.”

“Titan?”

“Yes, you were born with the blood of God.”

Oh, um… I think the scale has gotten a little bigger?

. . .

“God is largely divided into two types.”

Before explaining the Titans, Helen began to teach me the basic concepts of God.

She showed images through a golden disc above her head.

“The primordial god who was born with the universe and is called the rule of the world, and the god who ascended to heaven by combining the divinity from the primordial god.”

“Are the beings called primordial gods universal beings?”

“Yes. However, the gods of the beginning have a primitive tendency because they were born with the universe. They are blindly expanding their territory. The ‘one who walks the lowest’ that Sian-nim dealt with also falls into this category.”

“He was definitely stupid compared to his great abilities.”

According to Irina, the ‘bottom walker’ who caused this disaster, who had the power to stop time and destroy the world with just a legacy, is said to be a being of a different class among the external gods, and is said to be called by a uselessly long nickname rather than by name.

They say that just mentioning the name of a cosmic being would cause an ordinary human’s brain to explode.

However, unlike other non-standard entities, it was very simple.

Even if I could have seen the attack and avoided it, it would have simply stopped time in front of its eyes as its instincts led it, and in the end, it would have been stupidly hit by my slow attack and been destroyed.

“Unlike the primordial gods, the gods who ascended on their own power exist in personal form.”

“Are those the twelve gods you serve?”

“Yes.”

Hestia, goddess of love and family.

Compared to the natural gods, it was obvious to anyone that they were gods created by humans.

And if Helen is right…

“Then, the goddess Hestia was also human in the past.”

“To be exact, they were humans in the Creation Era. Modern humans, whose bloodline has faded and who are inferior in all aspects, are difficult to view as humans in the Creation Era.”

Helen continued her explanation with a bitter expression.

“And the reason humans in the creation era were able to become gods was because they had a wide range of divine powers like the ocean, but they also had a strong will to unite various divinities as their own.”

“One thought?”

“If the Holy Spirit is a vessel that can contain divinity, then one thought is the power to manipulate divinity according to one’s own will.”

“Is that possible?”

“It is possible if you accept the divinity of the natural gods and embody it as your own. Just like how Sian-nim personally applied Hestia-nim’s divinity to strengthen his physical abilities and created the divine flame at the tip of his sword.”

Of course, I could see that it wasn’t as easy as it sounds.

Like a 4th-tier knight, blooming divinity in the sword is a task that consumes more psychic power than expected, and strengthening vitality for even 10 seconds is difficult, but controlling divinity at will is a whole other realm.

It was unimaginable to use not just one but several of these divinities in combination.

“In this way, the humans of the Creation Era ascended in their own ways and became new gods, and the lineages that produced gods in this way were later called the Aesir gods, the Vanir gods, and the Titan gods.”

“The lineage of the gods… The name itself is magnificent. So what is the method of ascension?”

“There are two ways, a special way and a general way.”

Helen created two human-shaped dolls from golden discs and continued her explanation.

“A special method is to ascend by combining the divinities that the Ascension Gods have developed to create a new concept. Hestia, whom we serve, belongs to this category.”

Goddess of love and family.

She was a special god, as befitting a goddess with a concept created by humans rather than the world.

“Naturally, the only way to approach the level of a god was to have a single-minded devotion to the divine.”

“Then what is the general method?”

“This is the initiation carried out by the Vanir gods.”

“New arrival?”

Is it different from a shaman’s possession?

“Just as we can use some of the divinity by following the doctrines and will of God, it is a method of giving personality to the existing god by offering priests who have the faith to become one with God as sacrifices.”

“That’s human sacrifice… ”

“This is a wrong method compared to the Yass clan, but theoretically it is a very possible method.”

“This is driving me crazy… Anyway, the Yass gods are one great genius who became a god with his outstanding abilities, while the Vanir gods are many people who sacrificed themselves to become one god?”

“If I explain it simply, it is like this.”

“Then what about the Titans?”

“The Titans are bizarre.”

Helen again created human dolls and giant beast dolls from the golden discs.

“Before explaining the ways of the Titans, you must recognize that the reason humans in the Creation Era became gods was because the environment they were in was difficult.”

“It’s tough? If you listen to the explanation, it seems like they’re stronger than modern humans, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

“That’s not true. As humans grew stronger, other races also grew stronger, and when external gods invaded, humans were enslaved to the gods or offered as living sacrifices. Even as a plaything of the gods, their neighbors were turned into monsters, or their own women, sisters, and daughters gave birth to monsters. Monsters like that still exist all over the world.”

I frowned at the idea of a story that sounded like some kind of horrible cosmic horror. One’s life was ruined by someone’s will alone.

“In such a desperate world, humans wanted gods more than anyone else. However, no god would reach out to humans. So humans decided to become gods themselves. Even if it meant sacrificing their own lives.”

“So that’s why they tried to create a god even by sacrificing human bodies.”

At first, it felt like human sacrifice, but after hearing their circumstances, I began to understand.

It was a struggle. A struggle to live more humanely.

“Perhaps the humans of that era were mad. But the Titans had a different kind of madness.’

“The results are different?”

Helen, speaking meaningfully, brought up a shocking story.

“Because the method the Titans chose to become gods was to eat divinity.”