Episode 824
When dawn comes, the darkness recedes.
It was one of the natural principles, like water flowing from top to bottom, but it was not very good news for those who ran away from someone’s pursuit.
Especially if the pursuer is a monster to the point of being questioned whether he is human or not.
‘ already?’
The doppelganger bit his lip as he gazed at the slowly brightening sky.
It’s too early. No, it would be more accurate to say that it delayed more than expected.
‘At least everything should have been over before dawn.’
The doppelganger knew too. No matter how much I regret and chew on it, the reality won’t change.
To that extent, the plan he had set up had already gone awry a long time ago, and ‘The Guy’ was at the center and beginning of everything.
‘Jin Tae-gyeong.’
throbbing.
Just the mere thought of the name causes stabbing pains to rise from all over the body.
The doppelganger, who had been killed hundreds of times by Jin Tae-kyung, shuddered as he recalled his fearsome status.
‘I shouldn’t have approached him from the beginning.’
It was a mistake and greed.
He shouldn’t have hurriedly left after stealing Genji Yagamoto, or
he shouldn’t have shown himself to the end in the first place.
‘It was just a matter of adding just a little bit more.’
From the beginning, the target was other humans.
Numerous hunters left behind. If he could absorb their mana and vitality, he would have been able to achieve his intended purpose.
‘Damn it.’
However, Jin Tae-kyung did not let go of his doppelganger easily.
There was no law to
allow him to get out of his sight, treating him like a slave .
It was unhappiness for the doppelganger and luck for the other hunters except for Jin Tae-kyung.
If the doppelganger had escaped Jin Tae-kyung’s clutches, if he had put on Yamamoto Genji’s body and headed to the main base in the rear… it
would have led countless monsters and fanatics and stained the desert with blood.
Of course, the result was the exact opposite.
The monster army was crushed, and the fanatics who had been carefully raised were used as shields for safe escape.
‘I never thought I’d be fooled like this.’
The doppelganger had a bitter taste.
That’s literally tens of thousands of power. Aside from his mightiness, it was all the more regrettable that he lost private soldiers who obeyed his orders absolutely.
‘Still, since he confirmed that he was the chosen one… the master must be satisfied.’
The doppelganger, thinking of the owner whose meaning and depth were completely unknown, shook his head. He was a doppelganger
who had been secretly ruling the world behind an invisible curtain for the past few decades, but
even he was an insignificant servant in front of his master.
Just like the stupid people in front of him who are following him even at this moment.
“Is it still far?”
A mysterious man, wrapped in a black turban, replied to the words he gave in a seemingly solemn tone.
“I will arrive soon. You are the great Prophet.”
“It was slow. At this rate, they may catch up. Increase your speed.”
“Did you say catch up?”
“Yes, he is more of a monster than I thought. I don’t know what he’s going to do.”
Doppelganger’s words, which were mixed with impatience and fear, unlike usual, exchanged glances with dozens of suspicious people who ran around the doppelganger as if escorting it.
It has already been running at full speed for close to an hour. But I’m going to speed it up even more here.
The suspect, who was watching the doppelganger on his back to save energy, finally opened his mouth cautiously. “I’m sorry to tell you…
It’s difficult to speed up any more than
this .”
“what?”
“Please forgive us for our shortcomings. Prophet.”
Footsteps that move without a break even while talking.
The doppelganger, who was staring at the back of the head of the fanatic carrying him on his back, suddenly opened his mouth.
“Yeah, that’s right. It’s my fault. Even if it wasn’t so, I urged you, not knowing the circumstances of those of you who were overdoing it.”
“It is difficult to bear such words.
Please take it.”
“no. How can I not know your heart? He must have felt uncomfortable leaving the battlefield, leaving behind the brothers and sisters he had grown up with.”
“That’s…
“It must have been hard for me to accept why I had to run away like a wolf to avoid the wicked pagans. Isn’t it?”
The eyes of the men in black shook through the turbans.
Every word of the doppelganger
was piercing right through their hearts.
They were raised as personal guards only for the prophets by Amir, the chieftain.
However, the promised land that everyone longed for was a barren canyon, and pagans were waiting instead of green vitality and hope.
And the fierce battle that ensued and the brothers and sisters who fell while scattering blood.
But they didn’t care. Because I thought it was a holy war to set God’s will right.
Because I believed that
the death of my brothers and sisters was also a holy martyrdom .
At least, that was until the prophet they respected showed up in an insignificant form and left the battlefield.
‘Is this really the right choice?’
Escorting the Prophet, they crossed deserts and wildernesses and passed oases to the boundless western lands.
While running without rest for a moment, the question that suddenly passed through my mind grew bigger and bigger.
God is omnipotent. A prophet is a great prophet.
But why are they running away
? Why did he cowardly leave the battlefield, avoiding the heathen army, which was less than one-tenth?
No matter how much I try to suppress it with the firm faith that I have cultivated throughout my life, unanswered questions come out in my heart.
And at this moment, it finally becomes a sound and flows through the tip of the tongue.
“Actually, I don’t quite understand.”
The prophet on his back did not answer.
Accepting the silence as permission, the seal of the hump cautiously continued. With my eyes on the destination that finally
appeared far away.
“If you fight back, you can win. Didn’t the Prophet always tell us? that God is always with us That is why it will always be full of victory and glory.”
nettle liquid.
The wind blows along the steeply launched new models. In the meantime, the voices of other black righteous people mingled.
“We abandoned our brothers and sisters and ran away.”
“I am afraid of being abandoned by God.”
“Prophet. Do I dare to ask what the Almighty has said?”
It was then.
The prophet, or doppelganger, who had been silently listening to their stories, opened his mouth.
“Stop.”
The suspects, who had been advancing forward without a moment’s rest, stopped.
The doppelganger, who had recovered the power consumed while moving on his back, muttered as he stepped on the ground.
“You’ve finally arrived.”
The surroundings were lonely and desolate.
There was no trace of an oil field that was once the second largest in the world, and there were unknown bones rolling around in the land where not a single blade of grass grew.
land of the dead.
The moment they saw that scene, these words crossed the minds of people in black. One of them summoned up the courage to ask.
“Where is this place?”
Even the people in black wondered about the same thing.
As mere servants, they simply followed orders and did not dare to guess the will of the great prophet.
And the next moment, everyone’s eyes widened at the word that reached their ears.
“A time of trouble called Cataclysm. It is the land in which He tarried, though for a little while.”
U | Ha
“My Master, who is also the Lord of all things, has spoken. go to humans Wait there.”
For a moment, the air seemed to stop.
The people in black, who looked around with bewildered eyes, knelt down at the same time and cried at the top of their voices.
“Oh oh oh oh…
“Inshallah!”
“God is great!”
It was a natural reaction.
There is only one master that the Prophet attends, and this land where he came was not enough to be called a holy land. And
a line of voice continued
above their heads as they lay flat on their faces and cried out for God’s grace .
“Did you say you were afraid of being abandoned by God?”
The tone was soft. Like soothing a fussy child.
“Did you want to hear what he said?”
Finally, upon arriving at the holy place, the hands that brushed the hair of the worshipers who prostrated themselves were warm. As if caring for the painful wounds of a patient moaning in pain.
“Then let me know.”
However, the gaze looking down at them was neither soft nor warm.
It was a change like the sunlight in the desert turning into a northern wind and snow cold, and the voice that followed was chilly and frozen.
“How insignificant you guys are.”
That moment.
Perong! Fighting.
The people in black who were thrilled blinked their eyes.
When I raised my head, which had been buried deep in the ground, I could see red blood and flesh scattered everywhere.
“uh…?”
A mesmerizing voice leaked from someone’s lips.
It was a pure question and an unacceptable reality.
And before they could find an answer to the question, a thick darkness fell over the heads of the suspects.
Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Chills ran down my spine. The unwilling hands and feet stiffened like stone statues. Even the body and mana he had trained all his life, and the sword wrapped around his waist
, were useless
at this moment .
ah.
A single moan.
The people in black looked at the approaching darkness with the greatest fear and shock they felt for the first time in their lives.
Their faces were reflected in the smooth darkness like a mirror surface.
4 This is..’
A voice that doesn’t leak anymore. Whole body hardened.
The suspects
moved the young man without even screaming. A man’s face appeared above the darkness that embraced them.
A great prophet who will lead all to the Promised Land.
No, ‘it’ that they believed to be a prophet was smiling at them.
It was leading me to the abyss in the terrible abyss where there was neither death nor anything.
“Listen. these stupid things You weak, insignificant humans.”
The darkness absorbs fresh vitality. Dozens of whitish souls
flowed toward him in the darkness as if possessed.
“There is only one King in this world.”
Darkness swallows up the bloody water that flows out through the seven holes. The taut skin shrivels and the bones crumble.
death approaching. Or the abyss.
In the sight of plummeting into the abyss, they heard the last voice of the devil
— the ‘seven gods’ 『 . … .
already abandoned you
A resounding word.
that was the last
Twenty-nine mummies, kneeling as if in worship, remained in the place where darkness fell.
And, as has been the case for hundreds of years, it was only a being that took on a new life, no,
I thought.
Whoa ah.
Until a dazzling beam of light bursts out of the air above the ruins.
Until
blue-white flames spilled out in that far-off flash .
Quaaaaaa!
The mighty flame dyed the doppelganger’s eyes blue.
do—:r: de*i
