Chapter 58: (Chapter 58)
"It's a bit regretful that we can't ask it for more information."
Shyrveen said while massaging his chin as he stares at the body fragments of the angel statue, and Sung Jin-Woo looked at Shyrveen while confused.
"... But, this thing was trying to deceive me from the get-go, Hyung-nim... Could you be able to believe anything such a monster told us in any way?"
"It's not the matter of believing but thinking that those words just puzzle pieces, and all you need to do was to think of what's the opposite of that piece, then proceed to what will happen next and think for it's opposite again."
Shyrveen waved his hands and elaborate on how his mind works since he lacks of many emotions to affect his decision making.
"... So, you're telling me that I need to think for all of what I'll hear from these... Higher beings will be all lie?"
"Yup. Be practical, even if it's really a lie or not, you already got some hints from it, but you will need to do the question and answer portion by yourself with yourself, and categorize that final conclusions in probability..."
But their conversation was interrupted and they looked to the tallest and biggest, god statue, saying in a shouting manner while sneering.
"HAHAHA! FOOLS! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL ME, INSECTS!?"
Every one of them can very tell that this was the angel statue earlier.
And the god statue pointed its index finger to Shyrveen.
"AND I HEARD YOU BASTARD! LIE!? DO YOU THINK I'M LYING!? MONARCHS ARE ALREADY MOVING TO DO THEIR PLANS! DO YOU ALL THINK THAT YOU ALL WILL STILL BE ALIVE BY THAT TIME!?"
Then the god statue spread his arms widely and continues, as if he is stating something that coming from heaven's law.
"EVEN WITH RULERS THAT TRYING TO SAVE THIS WORLD FROM INJECTING GATES TO HAVE MANA, BUT THIS WORLD WILL STILL PERISH AND MEET IT'S DESTRUCTION WHEN THE WAR BROKE OUT FOR THE 8TH TIME!"
After it felt satisfied and looked down at the humans with despised glare.
"AND IF THAT HAPPENS, IT STILL THE WIN FOR MONARCHS!!! HAHAHA!"
Both men were speechless and Sung Jin-Woo scratches the back of his head and shook his head for seeing something wicked skill like this from Shyrveen, then he looked at Shyrveen with one eye closed.
"... That... Everything escalated so quickly, Hyung-nim... I didn't know that your provocation was easily taken by this... Thing..."
"... Welp, it seems Deisy is really overpowered with just still being a (1 Star), eh?"
Shyrveen shrugs and orders the adult arm-sized purple Chinese dragon to reappears from its hiding.
Sung Jin-Woo was stunned after not sensing even a speck of Deisy's presence.
Deisy wrap her body on Shyrveen's arm and rested its cute head on the back of the hand of Shyrveen, that he kissed her nose bridge.
"You're such a darling Deisy."
"Muu... I'm your only darling, sweetheart, honey, and sweety, darling! Why are you so sweet to Deisy!?"
But Yang Manli appeared beside him, grabs his other arm, and shakes his body while looking at Deisy with jealousy and a little bit malice.
But Deisy ignores her and just focusing on enjoying her time with her owner.
"... Better not to get near at that lovers, brother..."
Han Sen poke Sung Jin-Woo's shoulder and nudge him to get away from the two.
"I'm Sung Jin-Woo, Jin-Woo is my first name."
Sung Jin-Woo followed him and reach out his hand to Han Sen, which Han Sen accepted and shook it.
"Oh, then can I call you brother Jin? And I'm Han Sen, Sen is my first name too."
"Sure, brother Sen."
"And that is Yang Manli, brother Shyr's girlfriend."
Han Sen pointed at Yang Manli that is currently acting cute in front of Shyrveen, before whispering to Sung Jin-Woo.
'She's a sadist and very obsessed to brother Shyr, you might not notice it, but it's because of brother Shyr for lacking of emotional things to trigger her.'
"Oh... I see. Well, it's not bad for Hyung-nim to have someone that can take care of him."
Sung Jin-Woo crossed his arms on his chest while staring at Shyrveen and Yang Manli, then took a glance at Cha Hae-In that soon noticed his stare too but shifted her sight to the side while blushing.
"I know, right? That's the reason too why I did the outrageous thing in the first place... I ignored the brotherhood's code. 'Bro's before hoe's.'."
"... Hahaha! You're a funny one, brother Sen."
Sung Jin-Woo was stunned after hearing Han Sen then laughs as he taps Han Sen's shoulder that shrugging while smiling smugly.
Sung Jin-Woo felt that this young man had the same story as him and they can bond each other easily like Han Sen and Shyrveen to each other.
Every surviving Hunter was panting and sighed in relief that they are alive while sitting on the ground.
They felt so many emotions after seeing their comrades that died and just watched the people in the middle area of the chamber as they are resting.
And the Architect that controlling the god statue and that has been ignored by humans was confused and enraged.
'Why... Are they still... Casual about this?! What are they talking about!?'
"What are you both thinking!? Did you all gave up!? Do-"
But only to be interrupted by Shyrveen, that the Architect can tell that this person is just waiting for it to say something.
It saw Shyrveen claps, and the other humans in the vicinity claps too, before hearing his shocking words.
"First of all... Welcome back to reality."
"..."
Shyrveen gestured it to look around and that's when he saw that all of its dolls were destroyed, making the Architect's mind to be blank about it.
"Second, Do you think you have that ability in the first place?..."
"What do you mean-..."
The Architect was very confused now and saw Shyrveen pointed at its chest, that it follows the finger where it is pointing at and it saw and realized that the Architect is back to its body, the angel statue from the beginning, and it is not controlling the god statue earlier anymore.
And the body of the angel statue is still nailed with the arrow, bound by the whip, and restrained by the branches on the ground.
And the Architect's angel statue body began to tremble, tried its best to struggle after the fear finally consumes its mind before looking up and shouted at Shyrveen.
"No... No, no, no, NO!!! What's happening!? Why I can think like this!? Why I have this absurd false knowledge!? What did you DO!?"
"Lastly..."
But Shyrveen ignored him and summoned his third Super Beast Soul which is Apollyon this time.
'... It seems that I'm fine summoning multiple Beast Souls, but as long as I don't meddle with them though...'
The forty meters long Chinese dragon appeared and circled around the room for a couple of times to settle it's long body and stop.
Apollyon is towering over their heads but he is looking down on the filthy stone monster in the middle of the area.
"That monster!"
The fear increases in the Architect's mind after it realized the thing in front of it was from another universe of the Great Gene Universe.
It didn't appear on its mind that 'The One' can bring the monsters to this universe and add that the Architect can feel the little Mana inside its body.
But that isn't the thing that the Architect is having concern with, but the weird and heavy feeling of its otherworldly aura in its body.
Shyrveen raised an eyebrow and corrected the Architect.
"Beast Soul. Don't lump my dear pets to those shitty monsters..."
The Architect finally loses its mind after realizing that this is the so-called Beast Souls, that was being mentioned inside of the universe shard that Ashborn found and let it, the Architect, to research and found out about the things inside of the said shard.
Add that the Beast Souls that it countered today can rival the Architect and some Monarchs too.
"Those things!... HAHAHA! That universe is really mysterious to have that kind of abilities, no!?"
"... But sadly, you can't go to that universe as Jin-Woo's system's administrator now... And if we kill you here, there's a possibility that you will still live since... It seems that this is not your real body..."
Shyrveen only shrugs and continued as he ponders while looking at the angel statue.
"But even if it's true, you will still go back to scratch without the system and connection to Jin-Woo. So..."
Shyrveen hanged the words that Sung Jin-Woo realized that it was for him to continue and went to the angel statue.
"You can go back to these Monarchs side, dear Architect... If they didn't kill you for good for losing the chance to continue spying at Shadow Monarch and me, that's it... So, thank you for your blubberings, seriously."
Then Sung Jin-Woo pats it's shoulder and walks away before waving his hand.
"Bye..."
"... Apollyon."
Shyrveen finally called the last order and Apollyon gladly follows, and opens it's jaw and crushed the angel statue with its iced fangs that didn't have a time to squeak a single little voice.
Apollyon, with experiences in Mana from consuming the monster's Magical Cores, it didn't consume the whole monster but crush it's body to a fine powder to find the Magical Core.
And in just a couple of seconds, Apollyon found the core and spit out the stone powders before he gobbles down the core to his maw.
After seeing the dragon consuming the angel statue as if it is like some candies, Sung Jin-Woo sighed in relief.
'With this, it's done...'
And as if he was shaking off the worries about the Architect, Sung Jin-Woo lightly shook the dust off from his right hand that he used to tap the angel statue's shoulder.
It was at this moment that they heard the multiple voices calling out to them.
"Hunter-nims!"
Choi Jong-In and Woo Jin-Cheol and the other surviving Hunters run towards them, except for Cha Hae-In that slowly went to the side of Sung Jin-Woo.
For their perspective.
Start from the moment Shyrveen, Han Sen, and Yang Manli appeared.
Their casualties stop increasing and the destroying of stone statues became more ease.
Then when the moment the angel statue was locked in its position and has been dazing for a whole ten minutes and blubbering such things here and there.
Sung Jin-Woo helped them until no statue remains, even the god statue was turned into rubble, leaving only the angel statue in the middle of the room.
Choi Jong-In want to ask about those things that he heard, they heard from the conversation of Sung Jin-Woo, Shyrveen and the angel statue from the side.
But Cha Hae-In interrupted even though she is confused and have a ton of question, that every one of the surviving Hunters has a lot of questions too, she decided to let this be in the side of their minds for now and stated.
"This isn't the right time to discuss that, so let's get out of here first."
Everyone agreed with her.
"Are there any more survivors?"
She asked Sung Jin-Woo, who possessed the best sensory perception among the group.
Sung Jin-Woo looked into the interior of the chamber and shook his head.
Only twenty-three remained standing outside the chamber.
Over one-fourth of those who stepped inside had died.
Their joy at surviving this encounter only lasted for a short while and the atmosphere grew gloomy and heavy while thinking that this will be much more if the three newcomers didn't arrive and help them.
"In that case…."
Cha Hae-In turned around with a stiff face, but Sung Jin-Woo reached out and held her wrist.
She turned to face him.
The reason why the Hunter's Guild came here was secondary.
Sung Jin-Woo was a lot more curious about something else at the moment.
"Excuse me, but... What happened to Japan?"
Sung Jin-Woo had entered here just before the dungeon break of the S-Rank Gate occurred and so, he was getting legitimately curious about the news coming out of Japan.
Cha Hae-In hesitated slightly, but eventually, came up with a suitable description.
"... They have been destroyed."
Sung Jin-Woo was stunned and glances at Shyrveen that nodded at him.
"Even the great barrier user perished from the giant that thrice the size of skyscrapers... Which is I think it's the boss of that Gate."
Sung Jin-Woo's expression became deeply complicated.
Association's Chairman Go Gun-Hee had told him about what the Japanese Hunters were trying to do back in Jeju Island.
It was unknown what their real goal was, but nevertheless, they commenced with their plan anyway.
If Sung Jin-Woo didn't show up on time, it'd have been extremely difficult for the Korean Hunters to get out of there alive even if the mutated ant monster hadn't shown up.
At the same time, the cavern's wall started to rumble and shake, indicating that the Gate is closing.
Shyrveen claps to get the attention of everyone.
"Nature calls, we need to get out of here."
But he saw Choi Jong-In glancing at the corpses of the other Hunters, that was followed by the rest.
He saw every Hunter gritted their teeth with tears dropping from their eyes.
"... Esmund."
Esmund appeared as the twenty meters tall treant and grabs carefully the corpses with its branches.
'... Some of their bodies are ripped off...'
Shyrveen inserted his mana and Esmund became ice treant and the ice crawls to his branches and soon encases all of the corpses in ice coffins.
But Shyrveen did this separately, one corpse in one ice coffin after he makes Esmund piece them back to their former appearance.
If Esmund can't do that, as long as the corpses are have distinguishable appearance to identify for who is who, is fine.
But Sung Jin-Woo summoned a few of his shadow soldiers and told Shyrveen to hand over the coffins to him.
"Hyung-nim... You're spending Mana too much... Even though... It seems that you can reuse half of the consumed Mana?..."
"... Alright, and yes, I can."
Shyrveen nodded to him and didn't argue anymore and claps again.
"Form a line around me, no need to run for we will skating to get out of here."
Every one of them is too tired to think about how they will do that and just followed Shyrveen's order.
But Shyrveen saw that Sung Jin-Woo offered himself to carry Cha Hae-In and he wasn't rejected by her.
He shrugs and soon, the ice platform was formed below their feet and their shoes were covered within ice cubes.
"Let's go..."
Shyrveen ordered Esmund to grab their waists and proceeds to move, before taking one last glance at the chamber...
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