“You really were a master.”
As Shin Woo-seok said on the phone, he got to where we were in a very instant.
Then he opened the door of the car he had brought himself and said in a polite voice as before.
“First of all, you must be busy, so let’s talk while riding.”
At his words, the three of us got into the car right away.
Interestingly, no one was sitting in the passenger seat.
Lee Yu-na, who was sitting in the middle, was clutching the collars of me and Han Soo-young while pretending to be okay.
Suyeong and I lay down on the seats without a word, as if we didn’t notice anything.
“How is the state of the headmaster?”
“I have nothing to say. Because he bit Seo-ryeong-san and all of the other aides who served the lord, including myself, by his side… .”
Taking the steering wheel, he replied as if he had no face.
Then he politely handed me a cell phone.
“First, write this as soon as possible. We’ll prepare the right one for you later. Before, the master… No, I just changed the model of the cell phone that Sodangjoo was using.”
After handed over the phone, the first thing I did was call Jin Ye-seul and ask him.
“Who are the other people you contacted?”
“As I said earlier, after contacting the Sipgang side, I got in touch with Horie Yuzuki, the hammer of the Thunderbolt. Perhaps within the tenth class, the contact will spread quickly. And the professor who was in charge of Sodangju before… Alice Blesbuck is also living in the Hammer of the Thunderbolt, so he must have contacted him.”
… Again, I didn’t pick up the phone.
However, if Alice Blesbuck had known, she would have contacted Jin-jeong, and naturally, Yesul would have known.
After that, I called Hyun-woo Choi, but there was nothing but a mechanical voice saying that there was no number.
I didn’t expect it, so I contacted Ivan after that.
An answer came from the other side immediately before the call was even cut off.
― ~~~~?
He was momentarily embarrassed by his fluent foreign language, but he calmed down immediately and opened his mouth.
“Ivan. It’s me, Yoo Ji-hyuk.”
— … … .
Contrary to expectations, he didn’t say anything.
After a while, he just asked quietly.
— … Are you really Jihyuk? are you really
“Yeah, it’s me. There is also a swimming pool next to it.”
– Wait, so this is it. how… .
Ivan took a deep breath.
Then he asked again in a quiet voice.
– Where are you now?
“I’m on my way to the realm of the World Tree.”
– Then you stay there until I go.
At the end of those words, the phone hung up with a dripping sound.
While I was bewildered as to whether he had this kind of personality, Lee Yu-na whispered to me next to him.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you, but Ivan has also become a little bit more nervous.”
“I don’t think this is a little bit.”
“So a little bit more.”
… When Ivan and I were reunited, it seemed like a difficult situation would unfold.
Come to think of it, Ivan Hunt, like Yeeun Lee, also led the family in various external activities.
I forgot that he was a very easygoing and friendly guy with a good laugh, but he was not just a gentle and soft guy, as he was gathering and leading a collapsing family.
“ah.”
Then the phone rang and rang.
As soon as he saw the name written on the screen, he immediately brought it to his ear.
“Yes, Evangeline.”
— … … .
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Only quiet breathing could be heard over the phone.
drop.
I looked down at my phone, puzzled by the hung up phone call, and immediately received another call.
This time it was a video call.
“Mr. Evangeline?”
Contrary to the reflection of my face, nothing was visible on her screen.
— … really alive Yuzuki, I thought that child might have had a strange dream.
It was a voice I hadn’t heard in a long time.
She sighed in a very muffled voice and muttered.
– Do you know what happened after you disappeared like that? How much time, money, and manpower was wasted to fix it… I don’t think it will be enough no matter how much you pay.
At her sharp rebuke, I had no choice but to put on an indifferent expression on my face.
That is probably because I was in a position where I had nothing to say even with ten mouths.
“I don’t have a face. I never dreamed it would happen.”
– Human affairs are always like that. But because you were so confident, I didn’t think there would be such a big variable.
She let out another drowsy and gloomy sigh.
― I was just wondering if everyone would be annihilated on the spot.
He bowed his head at the words loaded with heavy bones, and his voice became polite.
“… I’m really sorry, Evangeline. You must have suffered a lot because of me.”
― That four months had happened, was it difficult enough? I almost would have been kicked out of the top ten. If I had gone further, I might have had to take responsibility and pay a heavy price for my sins… !
For a moment, she sighed and stopped talking.
For a moment there was a rustling sound, followed by the sound of squeaking and drinking water.
The sound of making a small order.
Next to them, Sooyoung and Yuna murmured as if explaining that it was a spell that made their voices beautiful.
Whether what the two of them said was true, a voice that was soft and pleasant to listen to was heard immediately afterward.
– What… Even though it was irrelevant because you and that child Han Soo-young returned safely.
Evangeline said so and sighed again.
It was a sigh with a different meaning from the murky sigh she had exhaled before.
― Then, as a result, only the criminal record of killing one of the Seven Evil sects remains. It’s okay to show off your chest and brag, because your plan means that two of the Seven Seven Bells have already disappeared.
“ah… Yes. thank you.”
– okay. … So don’t be so discouraged.
After saying that, she coughed a few more times.
For some reason, I smiled and said to her.
“Then why don’t you show your face?”
– My head is messed up.
She replied as if nothing had happened.
― I didn’t want to show you that painted face, so I covered it with my finger, why? Any complaints?
For a moment, she responded with a laugh at the joke that was not like her.
“Ah, no complaints. And to be honest, it doesn’t matter if you have a head like that of Evangeline-san, well.”
— … do you know what he’s talking about right now
Evangeline said it was ridiculous, but she smirked and smirked.
―Anyway, there are things to do here, too, so I’ll go see you in person when I’m done. Now that you and the child are alive, I have something to say to those idiots… I’m preparing myself because I meticulously wrote down the bill I’m going to get from you.
“Because I don’t have that much money.”
– Then you can take it with something other than money.
After a while she spoke to me in a cautious voice.
— … So, in the meantime, you too have to complete the arrangement around you. It’s the first time your friends have experienced something like that, so they must have been very mentally shocked.
I was nodding my head involuntarily at her advice, which I couldn’t take lightly.
“… Yes. That’s right. I will be waiting for you.”
– Okay, then, thank you.
Evangeline let out a small laugh before hanging up.
― And next time I go to see you, I will wash my face and go, so don’t worry about smelling it.
“… What, are you two really close? Since when have you been so close?”
After the call was disconnected, Sooyoung next to me asked in an indifferent voice, but as soon as my eyes met her, I immediately waved my hand as if it was nothing.
“Uh, the last time I asked for a ring. That was the first time I saw you… I think it’s because Ms. Lee Myung-Jun had a story to tell, so she looked at me a little better. Besides, Evangeline is also a popular hero because of his good service to the fans.”
She nodded her head slightly as if she knew.
Meanwhile, Shin Woo-seok, who was holding the steering wheel, coughed in vain.
“It will be arriving soon.”
As he said, we crossed the border of the territory not long after, and drove into the depths where we would not normally be able to go by car.
“From here, you cannot go by car.”
He quietly stopped the car and said quietly.
And we could all have known that, even if he didn’t have to.
It was because the branches of the world tree formed a huge wall in front of us.
He seemed to understand why he said that no one dared approach Lee Ye-eun.
“But maybe if you are the Sodang Lord… You can go inside.”
“Yes, I see.”
He turned slowly and looked this way, his eyes full of concern for someone more than he had ever seen before.
“Please.”
Instead of answering by nodding his head, he got out of the car.
But I did not approach the wall of branches of the World Tree.
Because there was a place I had to go first.
“… Small lord?”
“I’m sorry, Wooseok. I have a place to go first.”
To Shin Woo-seok and his companions, who looked at them with suspicion, he immediately flew away with the words that he would be back soon.
To those two who have been waiting for me for 300 years.
[…] It’s over there.]
At Minerva’s words, we headed to one of the roots of the world tree, almost the size of a building, spread out here and there.
There were barriers and barriers built around the root to prevent people from entering, but that was not even enough time for me now.
“Whoa.”
As I got closer to the root, I could feel a strangely foreign energy on my skin.
The energy of the World Tree that is too pure.
And hidden in it, the unique smell of the seven evil species that cannot be hidden.
“… … .”
According to what is known to the public, Sbangali of the Seven evils was sealed in the World Tree by the shaman of the World Tree, and only after a long time had passed, it was liberated by Jae-Jun Lee, who harbored animosity toward the clan.
Released from the seal, he was repelled from the World Tree’s territory by me and Ye-eun Lee, and after that, even the fragments he had hidden for resurrection were absorbed by me, and he met a virtually perfect death.
In the meantime, I and Yeeun Lee, who first noticed that his seal had not yet completely disappeared and that the association was trying to use it maliciously, even purged the remaining seals and the spirit of the Seven Evil Bells.
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Okay.
At that time, Yeeun Lee had definitely told me this.
‘Some parts of the seal were strangely slightly rotten.’
It’s like a parasitic plant that sucks nutrients little by little.
And at the time Nidhogg died for me, there was only one being that could parasitize by sucking the nutrients from the World Tree.
Sbengali.
At that time, I thought he was just sucking the energy of the World Tree for resurrection.
“Who could have predicted it?”
Beneath the roots of the great world tree.
Standing right in front of the place where the seal existed, I quietly muttered to myself.
“The Seven Devils from the future would have been quietly sitting next to the seal, sucking the nutrients and surviving.”
“… This is a voice I haven’t heard in a long time.”
It was a terrible voice, as if it were scraping iron by pressing it with all its might.
“What would you do if you were late for more than a month?”
Sbengali, who was assimilating into the World Tree, wriggled and created eyes and mouths, and still opened her mouth with a hateful voice.
He smiled softly at the sight and held out his hand towards him.
“Can’t you wait another month after waiting 300 years?”
“Hey, you must have looked at that shameless face.”
The boy snorted as if it was ridiculous and made a loud squeaky sound.
“How else would you say that to him other than me?”
Sbengali, who burst into laughter, extended its roots and gradually began to seep into me.
I can feel his power and presence slowly filling up inside me.
I slowly turned my head while letting out a languid sigh at the indescribable sense of satisfaction.
“Raune.”
There, Laune, who had grown a little bigger than before they parted, was staring blankly at him.
“… … .”
Slowly, kneeling on one knee and extending his arms toward him, he began to run away.
“Sorry, I’m a little late… Ouch!”
With a click, he slapped my cheek with a root.
It was a blow that I had not expected at all, so I was pierced and tears were flowing without me knowing.
It was a time when I thought, “Isn’t it too much to slap someone on the cheek as soon as we meet?”
“… … !!!”
After slapped me on the cheek, Laune immediately clapped and hugged me.
His body was trembling and trembling non-stop.
“… … .”
He simply hugged him and hugged him without saying a word.
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On Laune’s neck was a necklace with only scales hanging without a ring.
“Sorry.”
Even though I apologized by pat on the back, Raune shook her head as if not to accept my apology. I said to that guy once again with sincerity.
“Sorry.”
… So I just kept saying I’m sorry to him over and over again until Laune was satisfied.
Until you accept the apology, just keep going.
* * *
I felt a strong energy that I could tell without even putting my hand on the huge wall.
It excluded contact or interference from the outside, and it was not difficult to notice that no one would be able to enter through this wall due to the nature of the world tree, which is completely top-down.
And, to put it bluntly, it worked for me as well.
Strictly speaking, I was also ranked lower than her in terms of her rank as a world tree.
It was a story when only the ranks of the world tree were considered.
“Sbangali, how… Is it possible?”
[Is the first thing you do as soon as we meet after 300 years to be harassing you?]
With a snapping sound, the boy let out an eerie laugh.
[Did you know that this body was just lucky and stuck undetected for 300 years?]
His arrogant attitude was not in vain.
It was because the wall of the giant branch wriggled in an instant, creating enough space for one person to enter and exit.
“Five.”
He sighed in admiration.
“Now it’s a bit more useful.”
[…] Is it that this body has been patiently waiting for such a long time for such a bastard?]
Leaving behind the words of the guy who muttered as if it was absurd, he immediately walked towards the inside.
Hidden within the wall was a building used as Lee Ye-eun’s dormitory and office.
As I had heard it several times, I had no choice but to stop the moment I opened the door without much thought.
It was because the building was full of many televisions.
― Due to the abnormal climate that occurred in northern Africa… .
― Unfortunately, the advance squad of the multinational guild ‘Post Next’ was destroyed in the Tower of Wires… .
― Breaking news, Evangeline Lohengrin, a member of the Ten River, who declared her retreat, suddenly held a press conference… .
― A large colony was discovered in the Pacific Ocean… .
The news from each television was creating an unpleasant harmony.
What the hell happened to Yeeun Lee?
It was a time when questions about what people were doing around them until they reached this point kept coming to mind.
― This is breaking news.
Why?
Among the numerous televisions and numerous voices, only that was clearly heard.
― The news is that an unknown pyramid located in the no-access area suddenly collapsed.
Along with the ringing, a clear notification sound, which is absolutely inappropriate for this place, rang out.
In the notification window that followed, something incomprehensible appeared.
[You have completed the quest ‘The Fifth Evil’.]
[One of the Seven Evils was killed.]
[The person with the highest contribution among those who killed the Seven Evil Species will be clothed… … .]
[Contribution 1st place: Yoo Ji-hyuk]
[The penalty for killing the Seven Devils increases your karma by 100.]
[The penalty for killing the Seven Evils is negated due to the hidden attribute ‘Stranger’.]
[Fragments of Venus’ energy leave a mark deep inside your body, part of your soul.]
“… What?”
what.
How the hell did this happen
It was the moment when I was about to ask such a natural question.
“Who is it!!!”
Someone’s nervous but sharp voice came from inside the dark room.
“How the hell are you here… !?”
Then the master of the voice emerged from the room with the sound of trudging and irregular footsteps.
“… uh?”
The owner of the voice, who finally found me, muttered blankly with his mouth open.
“… Jihyuk?”
And, of course, the owner of that voice was Yeeun Lee.