episode_0271

Akasha returned to Lair with Asha and Adele, who had lost their minds. There were restrictions on other people’s spatial movement, and as a result, there was a risk of exposing his location by flying directly, but he did not care.

“Welcome, master.”

Querkus, another automaton who was guarding the rare in place of Akasha, greeted Akasha warmly.

“Okay. Was there anything unusual about the rare?”

“As always, not a single ant baby came near.”

“I plan to be busy for a while. I’m sorry you have to stay confined to the research building, but I hope you’ll continue to be on guard.”

“Everything is as you wish. Please leave it to me, master.”

Quercus was curious about Asha and Adele, which Akasha carried with both hands, but did not pay a single glance. I was afraid that if I rolled my eyes for no reason, I would incur Akasha’s hatred.

Only after Akasha was completely inside the lair did Querkus turn his gaze to Yuglan.

“This is ridiculous.”

“……Chesh.”

Yuglan’s awakening, death, and resurrection could be felt even by Quercus, who was far away. It was a humiliation for all three of them, so Querkus’s mouth turned into a half moon.

“He boasted so much about working outside, but I thought he would end up in an accident.”

“Shut up, Quercus.”

“Anyway, what are those things the owner brought? Just by looking at it, it doesn’t look like it’s human.”

“It’s a dragon.”

“I see.”

It was an overly calm reaction. As expected, Quercus only had the impression that dragons were of the same race as their master, Akasha.

“It looks like he was lynched by two dragons. If you look at the fact that even though he was completely drained of his energy, he even died.”

“Hmph. A thousand human troops also joined in. If it were you, you would have died ten times.”

“Haha! Talk about whatever you want. Even if I die ten times, I won’t beg for my life and come back to life, even if it means causing trouble to my master.”

“……You son of a bitch.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a dragon. But for some reason, the owner holding them seemed to be in a very good mood.”

That was what Querkus was complaining about. Considering that Akasha’s love was already lacking, it was undesirable for Yuglan and others to appear.

“It seems that the master resembles someone who had a kite in the past. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve seen you so happy.”

“Damn, I’m jealous.”

“There is no need for that. They ended up like that because they disobeyed their master.”

“If only I had offended my master as quickly as possible and died…”

“Hmm…….”

Yuglan kept his mouth shut. Although I sympathized with Querkus’ words, it seemed unlikely that Asha and Adele would die unless something serious happened.

‘Seeing that even though you fought like that, you ended up saving him and bringing him back…’

It meant that the two of them were somehow needed by Akasha. And Akasha was thinking of uses that Yuglan could never imagine.

His research building is like everything about Akasha. Akasha put down the fainted Asha and Adele in a place filled with all kinds of equipment and smiled wryly.

“No way… To be able to gather faith at such an early age… What an unfair power.”

Even Akasha, who devoted his life to studying, was never able to build faith. No matter how great he becomes, to others he is just a strong dragon.

On the other hand, Asha and Adele, who were born less than a hundred years ago, received the faith of nearly a thousand people and developed their faith simply because they were of God’s blood.

It is truly the height of unfairness. But as a result, Akasha arrived at that unfairness.

‘at las…!’

Akasha trembled at the thought that research that had been blocked for over a thousand years could be resumed. Unable to build her own faith, all that is left for Akasha is to extort the faith of others.

However, other people with faith mean God, and for Akasha, God was someone who was difficult to even approach.

Even though they may not be gods in the true sense of what Akasha thinks, their power is real.

Neutralizing divine power, training spatial magic, and attempts to weaken the faith of the gods were all merely means to deal with the gods.

In the meantime, I had just started to build my faith and secured two very fragile gods. Asha and Adele’s appearances were no longer important to Akasha.

Akasha’s idea was that if she gathered her faith and became a god, she would be able to meet the real Hiers rather than being vicariously satisfied with children who looked like Hiers.

Of course, this is the first time Akasha has dealt with a defenseless god. I also know that faith is something that cannot be easily extorted.

However, the probability was so high that it could not be compared to Akasha’s own faith.

For Akasha, who had already completed most of her research except for collecting faith herself through various attempts, gulping down faith from a fully prepared table was an easy research topic.

‘Keuheu… Khehehe…!’

Akasha’s eyes were filled with desire.

***

I quickly reached Harpen and searched the entire nearby forest. But Asha and Adele were nowhere to be seen.

“Ugh!”

Just as I was groaning at the thought that it was already too late, the opposite sex came back late. I realized that it would be a much better idea to look in the mirror than to just fly in like this.

“Aaaah!”

I returned to Arjen’s Lair, venting my anger for no reason, and quickly looked in the mirror.

“Ah…!”

But the mirror was immovable. No matter how much faith I poured out and shook, I could not see where Asha and Adele were.

‘why……!’

There are two possibilities. Either Akasha took some means to block the connection…

‘Either the children have enlightened their faith…!’

The mirror was originally designed to watch children’s journey and help them acquire faith as planned.

Therefore, when children successfully become gods, they are made to naturally fulfill their role.

No matter what, the conscientious measures that I had taken in the belief that I would not spy on my children’s trip to the end are now holding me back like crazy.

‘Dangerous….’

Even though he has become a god, it is an even more dangerous situation if he has been kidnapped by Akasha. I have no idea what Akasha will do to the children.

It’s not that I’m ignorant, it’s that there are so many cases that I don’t dare think of them.

“Arjen… Arjen!”

“Eujin, what’s going on?”

Arjen, who immediately appeared in response to my urgent call, seemed quite embarrassed to see me looking very disheveled.

“The children… were kidnapped by Akasha!”

“……What?”

Arjen, who had been calm about everything, was startled by my words and quickly used magic. It’s probably magic that tracks the children’s location.

However, contrary to the brilliantly shining magic circle, Arjen’s face darkened.

“Huh…? I can’t track you…?”

“Damn….”

It seemed that both possibilities were true. Akasha, who kidnapped the children, must have moved to her own lair, so measures to track and prevent her location will be thorough.

“Yu, Eugene! Uh… what should I do? Our children…!”

“Akasha…!”

As I pondered over the name that had now become the enemy of Cheolcheon, I gained faith.

A faith that has been built up close to its limit over a long period of time. Because I had to focus on raising my children, I exploded the faith I had worked so hard to build up.

There is only one purpose. Tracking the location of children.

Faith, which can achieve anything you desire, lives up to its nickname of being all-powerful, embedding information about a place I have never been to in my mind.

“Ugh….”

The power of God, which uncovered all the double and triple security that Akasha had secured, disappeared in an instant because it was not suitable for its original purpose, but it clearly fulfilled its role.

“Arjen, follow me!”

“Ugh! I’ll sing Luv too!”

Luv, who appeared in the original Arjen and Orha bodies, followed behind me as I flew with the remaining faith. I mustered up all the strength I had from breastfeeding, and without even having a clear direction, I just headed towards the destination that came to mind.

“Found it!”

Finding the exact location of the rare was a piece of cake once it was a short distance away. When I found the entrance to a large cave, I immediately landed and tried to go inside.

“What kind of people are they!”

A mysterious man stopped me. I wasn’t curious about its identity. Since they will be Akasha’s limbs anyway, there is no need to mix up the conversation.

“How dare you ask where this place is….”

The man could not finish his sentence. Arjen arrived later and trampled it in the form of a dragon.

“An automaton… Don’t block the way ahead!”

Arjen’s voice mixed with deep anger. It reminded me of the first time I met her.

The eyes of a mother whose child was in danger were truly fierce and sharp.

There was no mirror here, but I thought that if I checked my own face, I would probably have the same expression.

“Keuuu…!”

However, as if my and Arjen’s anger had nothing to do with it, the body that had been shattered by Arjen began to reattach itself and recovered to its original appearance.