406. Alec Drite
“I never thought I would see the goddess of blood and slaughter in person.”
{I came to see you because I wanted to meet you.}
Chew!
At the same time Sehmet said this, blood gushed out of the puddle under his feet and transformed into a chair.
{Because it’s not unusual for a god to come to meet a follower.}
“It’s rare for a god to come to see even the smallest god… but the reason doesn’t matter. Let’s get right to the point.”
Ma Cheol-hyeon sat down on the bloody chair and opened his mouth.
“…why did you save me?”
The fact that he saved me by using his powers, and the fact that he came to see me while descending on the ground is also the same.
No matter how you think about it, there is no reason to treat them so special.
{Because I owe you a lot. It is in return.}
“Debt?”
Ma Cheol-hyeon was taken aback when he heard the unexpected answer.
If you say that you owed money, wouldn’t you be the one who saved Sehmet’s life?
However, Sehmet gave an inconsistent answer, saying that he owed Ma Cheol-hyeon that he saved his life.
“What are you talking about?”
{As the god of blood and slaughter, I should express my gratitude to you as I have brought forth an entity that will bring about chaos that shouldn’t be revealed in the world.
}
{…}
Sehmet, who was silent for a moment, answered in a simple one line.
{You found what I was looking for instead.}
“What are you looking for?”
{The ruins, no… Should I call it a prison?}
“A prison?”
{Yes, let’s just say it’s a prison where the great one is confined. That’s what the ruins you found are like that.}
Sehmet smiled while shedding bloody tears.
It was a chilling scene where you could feel that you were using Min Soo-yeon’s shell, but inside you were a completely different being.
‘The ruins of the cave… It wasn’t normal after all.’
Even thinking about the ominous aura felt deep underground, it was possible to know that there was something unusual there.
‘As far as I know, Sehmet… Although he’s a black god, I’ve heard that he’s a different being from a goofy god.’
However, if such a god is a being that is referred to with the modifier ‘great person’, then what the hell is the identity?
“What the hell is in those ruins?”
{Do you want to know?}
“You knew too much. die! Unless it’s the same development.”
When Ma Cheol-hyeon answered with alert eyes, Sehmet nodded as if he understood and opened his mouth.
{In the ruins… \\÷♤ ¥●□}
“Huh?”
{\\\ ¤**●※■●○%%##^%♧÷}
Apparently Sehmet opened his mouth and said something, but he couldn’t understand it.
‘I’m not kidding. He’s talking about something…’
At first I thought he was joking, but Sehmet’s expression was very serious.
In other words, Ma Cheol-hyeon’s brain just couldn’t understand Sehmet’s words.
{You may have noticed, but I can’t tell you even if I want to tell you. Because he is forbidden to even mention, let alone record.}
“Forbidden?”
{So if you take it out of your mouth, it will be distorted, and if you write it down on paper, it will be scattered.}
“If it’s a game, it’s like a ban on swearing in chatting…” {I don’t know
what you mean, but I’ll say it .}
means hanging on.
“Anyway, that means you’re not an ordinary being.”
{Yes.}
“Are you like a demon whose resurrection will destroy the world?”
{I don’t know that. Because it is something that cannot be clearly defined.}
Ambiguous answer.
I couldn’t tell if it was really like that or if it was because of keyword restrictions.
“Then why was Sehmet looking for the Great Old God?”
{Hmm.}
“It wouldn’t be such an obvious story as wishing for the destruction of the world.”
{How should I explain this? Because it is the root and the object derived from it?}
“Eh… what?”
{okay. Let’s say it’s a parent-child relationship so it’s easier for you to understand.}
Sehmet replied calmly, but Alec was confused when he heard that one word!
“Then Sehmet-nim’s parents are trapped inside… What do you mean? No, more than that, do you have a mother and a father?”
{Although I think it’s more appropriate to compare it to a body organ like a finger or arm rather than a parent-child relationship. Humans seem to have a hard time understanding it.}
Sehmet said this and smiled.
-Anyway, the conclusion is that something in the ruins is quite important to Sehmet-nim.
That is why he saved the life of Ma Cheol-hyeon, who would not have even looked at him if he was only a believer, even using his powers.
Knock tok.
Sehmet, sitting in a chair, murmured, tapping the armrest with her finger.
{The problem is that someone broke the seal and went inside.}
“…”
Shin Yu-jun, who lost all his precious comrades, obtained the right to enter the ruins.
‘It’s lonely…’
After cutting Ma Cheol-hyeon and watching him fall down the cliff for a while, he headed to the ruins of the cave without the slightest hesitation.
{I’d like to tell you about what that child did inside the ruins… but I can’t speak with my mouth.
}
{Well, let me tell you that I obtained quite strong power there.}
Of course, since you entered such a ruin, you must have received an enormous achievement and reward.
{If you want to get revenge, I’m thinking of lending you my strength.}
“Power?”
{Don’t you want to become my apostle?}
Sehmet proposed an apostle contract to Ma Cheol-hyeon.
At that time, it was not long after the dimension movers landed on the Azul continent.
There weren’t that many dimension movers who got rare skills, let alone apostles, so if they became apostles, they would be able to become strong enough to be incomparable to others.
“I will refuse.”
However, Ma Chul-hyeon firmly refused.
{Surprisingly. Don’t normal humans ask for strength because they’ll
sell their souls if they can only take revenge?
I can no longer believe in people, so how can I believe in God?
{Sorry. If a child like you became my apostle, it would be a great strength.
}
{It doesn’t matter. Even if you don’t sign a contract with an apostle, you can still give grace.}
Just right!
When Sehmet flicked his fingers lightly, a red light flashed from Ma Cheol-hyeon’s arm.
{It’s not an official apostle, so it won’t give you much power, but it can be useful. At least I won’t be killed.}
Opening the status window, Ma Cheol-hyeon found out that he had acquired some of Sehmet’s powers.
“I know you’re grateful for finding my parents’ graves, but is there a need to spread this much to a low-level follower who isn’t even an apostle?”
{Because I like vengeful spirits.}
“…”
{They don’t care if their bodies are broken, they’re a tribe that splatters blood everywhere they go.} It
was a response worthy of a goddess of blood and slaughter.
Even Ma Chul-hyeon was not an ordinary black magician, but a blood mage, so it was not worth investing in Sehmet.
{I want to talk more, but this body seems to be the limit.}
Sehmet, who was examining Min Su-yeon’s body, wiped her mouth and looked at the blood on her sleeve.
Even if you are a dimension mover, it is not easy to handle a god with the body of a general priest rather than an apostle.
{Then don’t go away.}
Puff!
After that, the smell of blood from all directions disappeared in an instant, and Min Soo-yeon staggered and sat down on the floor.
with a splash.
All the blood that soaked the floor and walls disappeared without a trace as soon as Advent ended, probably because of Sehmet’s power.
-After that, Cheolhyun Ma stayed at the church branch and devoted himself to recovery.
“The item you requested.”
“thank you.”
It didn’t take long for Min Soo-yeon, who received Sehmet’s orders, to recover to full condition as she worked as Ma Cheol-hyeon’s healer and helped her.
‘If I had taken something like poison, Sehmet-sama would have taken care of it.’
Of course, Ma Cheol-hyeon didn’t believe her at all, but as long as Sehmet was friendly to him, he was sure that the priest of the Sehmet Church would not be able to harm him, so he wasn’t very wary.
‘As Sehmet said, if that bastard obtained great power… It wouldn’t be good for me to find out that I’m alive.’
What matters is the future.
It won’t be difficult to find Shin Yu-jun, but there’s no guarantee that even if you find him, you’ll be able to kill him.
There is a 100% chance of being killed instead of being killed.
‘I’m sorry, but let’s hide for now.’
After organizing his thoughts, Ma Cheol-hyeon spoke to Min Su-yeon.
“Priest sister.”
“huh?”
“Do you know of a gem called alexandrite? During the day when the sun rises, it takes on a green light, and when the moon rises, it takes on a red light.”
It’s time to introduce Cheolhyun Ma’s unexpected jewelry.
(To explain a bit more, alexandrite is a color changing mineral that turns green when exposed to sunlight and turns red when exposed to light from candles or electric lights.
)
“Presume that the man named Ma Cheol-hyeon is dead.”
“what?”
“From now on, I am ‘Alex Drite’. It is named after a mysterious jewel that shows different appearances during the day and night.”
“…”
It’s been about two weeks since Min-yeon Min knew Ma Chul-hyeon, but she couldn’t get used to the nonsense she spits out every now and then.
“Just as Alexandrite hid the red light in the dark night, I will hide my past in darkness and be reborn as Mr. Alec, a citizen of the Azul continent.”
“Either way.”
“Because Ma Cheol-hyeon died there that day along with his other colleagues.”
“…That’s unfortunate.”
It’s hard to understand because it’s 90% nonsense, but instead of living as Ma Cheol-hyeon, a lonely vengeful demon who lost all his colleagues, he declared that he would become a third person named Alek Dreite and punish Shin Yu-jun.
It seemed to be a way to overcome the sadness of losing a colleague in its own way and to maintain reason.
“Now that that’s the case, can you get me some dye? Alexandrite’s red color symbolizes the blood mage, and the green color is
because I dyed my hair green…”
“Then… let’s go white.”
“Is there any reason?”
“Everything is blank at first. In other words, white symbolizes the beginning.”
Ma Cheol-hyeon, with black hair, became Alec with white hair and wandered the Azul Continent.
– “Well… the story roughly happened like that.”
After finishing the story, Alec extinguished the cigarette he was biting on the floor and put it in his inventory.
In the end, the death of his colleagues, the fact that Sehmet cared for Alec, and the fact that Alec completely changed his style and became distrustful of dimension movers.
It was all because of Shin Yoo-jun, the tailor.
“Ho-ga-ho-wi.”
After listening to Alec’s story, Kang Seung-hyeon took out a lion idiom.
Hu Ge Ho Wei (狐假虎威).
When translated, it means that the fox borrows the tiger’s power, and that a lowly person wields dignity with the power of others.
“A fox campaigning with a tiger on its back? I don’t think it’s a lion idiom that fits this situation, right?”
“Ah, the Ho-ga-ho-wi that I am talking about means ‘Ho-gu comforts Ho-gu’. When I asked why he was close with Mr. Kim Ho-jung, it turned out that the two of them were hanging out with each other.”
“Is that what you mean by listening to my tearful past?”
Alec replied as if it were absurd, but then continued with a blank laugh.
“There is nothing wrong with that. If Healer hyung was at our party instead of me then… That shit wouldn’t even have happened.”
“of course.”
If it was Kang Seung-hyeon, he wouldn’t have taken Shin Yu-jun to the ruins, and in the first place, he wouldn’t believe that someone who is kind to others for no reason is suspicious.
“But you know it’s pointless to fight over something that has already happened, right? You’re not like that.”
“That’s right. Just pass it as a complaint.”
“And I liked the mindset. Instead of living as a vengeful ghost whose only purpose in life is revenge, he will become a third person and punish them rationally.”
Kang Seung-hyun doesn’t usually listen to other people’s stories, but I enjoyed that part with interest.
“I said that, but as soon as I met him, I rushed at him and got robbed.”
“More than anything else, quite surprising information came out of Mr. Alec’s story…”
“What? The origin of Alek Drite?”
“Nothing like that.”
“then?”
“That story just made it clear.”
Kang Seung-hyun opened his mouth and touched his chin.
“Until that day, Mr. Kim Ho-jung did not have the ability of the black beast.”
