Chapter 416 - Are they useful? (2)

Lee Gun continued reclaiming the prisoners. This time, he pointed at a god wearing thick armor and having the head of a snake. “What about him?”

[That one’s good. He’s useful. Ah. Only his head is useful.]

“Ok.”

Poo-hahk!!!

Lee Gun sent the snake god’s head flying with his hammer. He didn’t seem to feel any guilt even after sending someone of his own race(?) flying. As if that wasn’t enough, he then blasted everyone that looked to be that god’s comrades.

This was why not even the shadow of a guard could be seen within the prison.

Lee Gun dusted off his hands and looked behind him. Several hundred freed gods stood behind him. “Is that all? Did we gather them all?”

[We still have a bit more left, but... this should be enough.]

The freed Constructs were dumbfounded. They were the gods who used to be affiliated under the past Serpent Bearer.

After Aslan’s death, the Great Spirits had forcefully dragged them away and coerced them to work for the Great Spirits a couple hundred years ago.

However, the Constructs had refused to yield, so they were locked up in this prison for several hundred years.

“I never expected this day to come...!”

“Master...!!”

“Young Master...!”

“I heard the rumor, but I never expected it to be real...!”

These were gods that he had never seen before, yet they looked at him with trust in their eyes. It wasn’t just their gaze.

[You have received enough Faith from the Constructs.]

Lee Gun’s power was being strengthened by the adoration of the gods. The Constructs kneeled in front of Lee Gun and planted their heads on the ground.

“We pay respect to our new master...!”

This amused Lee Gun.

[Wolf of Ruin (Fenrir) pledges loyalty to the Serpent Bearer.]

[Master of Destruction (Sekhmet) pledges loyalty to the Serpent Bearer.]

Every one of them was a high-rank god. That wasn’t all. Some could even be considered pillar-rank gods.

[Master of the Brazier (Hestia) pledges loyalty to the Serpent Bearer.]

Lee Gun laughed as he looked at them. “Are you guys the entirety of the Serpent Bearer’s Constructs?”

“Some more are in the basement here and the prisons of the other forces. However, we can bring them.”

“We will immediately free them and bring them back to you.”

When Lee Gun gave them his consent, the freed Constructs immediately moved. At the same time, something surprising happened.

[You have completed the requirement.]

“!”

Was it because numerous Constructs had pledged loyalty to him?

[Numerous stars are converging toward the Serpent Bearer.]

[Your power as a Zodiac has increased.]

[You have satisfied the requirement to become a Great Spirit.]

Accompanying the notification, a powerful, never-before-seen light emanated from Lee Gun’s body.

The remaining Constructs moaned.

[That light is...!]

[It’s the light of a Great Spirit...!]

A change occurred to Lee Gun’s Divine status.

[Your Divine status is evolving.]

The light encircled Lee Gun’s body. Then lights shot out from his body. They were the Divine statuses of Life and Death. However, something was off.

“Ohhhhh!”

“Finally!!”

The two Divine statuses looked different. They didn’t look like balls of light with expressions on them. They were a young girl and a young boy. Surprisingly, they were both blonde.

The Constructs screamed as if they couldn’t believe what they were saying.

“Personification?”

“Divine statuses can be personified! How can this be...!”

“The rules of the Divine world...!!”

Life and Death didn't care. They screamed as they ran around.

“Finally! I can speak!”

“Finally, I can say something to that damn master!”

“Finally, I can possess Master!”

The girl was Life, and the boy was Death.

Of course, Hugo merely furrowed his brows when he saw them. “Oh no! Those sadists with bankrupt personalities got bodies now.”

One was a beautiful boy, and the other was a beautiful girl. However, Hugo was well aware of their abilities. He had seen them go berserk when they reached stage 6.

Hugo could guess what they would be like. The answer to this was apparent.

Lee Gun’s Constructs realized the identity of those two, so they spoke out in shock.

“They really are Life and Death!”

Death became angry when he heard the shout. He beat the Constructs to the ground. “Master gave me a name! My name is ‘Jun’!”

“Kuh-huhk!!”

“What the hell? Why are they so strong?”

At the end of the day, Life and Death were Lee Gun’s Divine statuses. It seemed they ranked high amongst the gods.

If Lee Gun wanted it, his Divine statuses could become leaders of his Constructs.

The two of them seemed to like Lee Gun very much. They clung to his legs. Well, it didn’t matter in the end.

Lee Gun shook the blood off the hammer as he called for Mimir. “Is that it?”

[Yes. This is it.]

Mimir looked satisfied as it lowered its head.

‘He had the abilities. The only thing missing was the requirements needed to become a Great Spirit.’

Everyone except one was happy as they looked at Lee Gun. It was the Primordial god, who looked dissatisfied.

[Head Smasher says he isn’t a hammer.]

[Head Smasher says he is a book.]

The menacing hammer in Lee Gun’s hand changed shape.

Puhng!

He had turned himself into an antique book!

[Head Smasher (EX)]

- Item made by changing the Primordial god into a Divine item.

Lee Gun immediately spoke up in anger. “Hey! I told you not to take that form!”

The Primordial god complained.

[Head Smasher says it isn’t a hammer. It is a book.]

[Head Smasher just wants to be in its original form.]

[He also doesn’t like the name of Head Smasher!]

“Fuck off! How is a book going to fight?” Lee Gun shook the book in anger.

It made the king of the gods aggrieved.

[He can inflict considerable damage by hitting with the corner of the book!!!]

Lee Gun completely ignored him. “If you don’t change back to being a hammer, I’ll burn you.”

The Primordial god felt aggrieved. In truth, the Primordial god’s original form had been a book.

‘At a basic level, it contains the attribute of all things in the universe.’

The Primordial god was the universe itself. All the abilities and structures of the world were inside the book.

In other words, the book was a reservoir of knowledge, the source containing all knowledge.

It was helpful to Lee Gun when he was making weapons, like a recipe book or a blueprint. However, that didn’t matter.

‘It isn’t helpful in battle.’

Lee Gun was straightforward. His specialty was turning things into a paste. There was no way a book would be very helpful to him. This was why he hadn’t changed just the outer appearance.

At the end of the day, he had turned a Primordial god into a Divine item so that its abilities and durability were overpowering!

‘Its original form suffered greatly when it was killed.’

When the king of gods changed back into a hammer, Lee Gun looked satisfied.

Only one person was watching this. Hugo shook.

‘Gun became stronger.’

The fact that he was treating the king of the gods as his own item was frightening. However, Hugo was shaking in fear because he had seen the gods’ heads get smashed open by the hammer.

For some reason, he felt like that was his future. In truth, he had been threatened by Lee Gun.

- Talk.

- What?

- Why did you kill the Creators?

- ...!

Lee Gun had spoken as if he was ready to decapitate him. It seemed Lee Gun had realized that Hugo had recovered his memories as Eternal Change.

- You were with the Creators because you wanted something from them.

- That is...! I can’t talk about that.

- Why?

- If I tell you, you will hate me more.

Lee Gun’s eyebrows rose when he heard that.

- Then don’t come close to me and your family.

- No! That’s not fair to me. I don’t know what you heard from the Constructs and Scorpio. They don’t know what they are talking about...

- Eternal Change. You went to sexually harass the Primordial god, and in the process, you got caught by the Creators. You lived a life of servitude as a monarch.

- !

- To leave the life of servitude, you spread the information about the weakness of the Creators. You got the Creators killed.

- ...!?

- After you made the Creators extinct, you were barely able to be freed from your imprisonment. Then my Fath.... No, you found out the thirteenth survived, so you couldn’t run away from the Divine world.

- ...?!

- After several hundred years, you were able to kill the thirteenth. You were finally freed after all the Creators were dead. So you brought your comrades to eat the gods and wrecked the Divine world.

- ...!

- How can I trust someone like that?

- ...!

Hugo couldn’t say anything. However, Lee Gun spoke as if it wasn’t a big deal.

- Of course, I do trust you.

- ...Gun...!

- However, I want to confirm one thing with you. Don’t think about lying to me. Speak the truth to me as a friend.

- W...What is it?

𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Afterward, Lee Gun had asked a question.

When Hugo gave an honest answer, Lee Gun’s expression had been a sight to behold. In fact, it had been the angriest expression that Hugo had seen from Lee Gun.

In the end, the enraged Lee Gun had punched Hugo and spoken swear words that Hugo had never heard before.

Hugo once again appreciated that Lee Gun’s words were very foul and harsh.

- You son of a bitch. You can’t die an easy death.

This was why he was dragged here as a meat shield; regaining Lee Gun’s trust was a very difficult task.

“Master? Where are you going?”

“You already achieved your goal in coming here.”

They had come here to fulfill the requirement Lee Gun needed to become a Great Spirit.

On the other hand, Lee Gun smirked as if to say they were speaking nonsense. “I have one more goal left to accomplish here.”

“!”

Soon, he started to move.

* * *

“My god! What the hell is happening over there?”

The Divine world was turned on its head for an entirely different reason.

“The thirteen Zodiacs were captured?”

“They are going straight toward the execution ground?”

“What?! Those Zodiacs once used to be the ninth great force...?!’

It was the center of the Divine world. When one passed the bridge connected to the castle, one reached a large stretch of land: an empty plain with rocks and debris.

A surprisingly large hole lay in the middle of this land. It looked like a sinkhole, but it was something much scarier.

Surprisingly, several gods were being held above the hole.

The gods gathered on the bridge were shocked by what they saw.

“They really are the gods of the thirteen Zodiacs...!”

“Gods of that stature were...!”

The captured gods were cuffed by something that looked like cubes, and they were hung from the cubes in the air.

Of course, the captured gods were busy fighting among themselves.

“Why did I get captured? Is it because of you?”

“Don’t ask me about it...”

“Also, where is Scorpio?”

The ones hung here were Virgo (Artemis), Leo (Narasimha), Sagittarius (Apollo), and the slave Aries (Jade Emperor). As if that wasn’t enough, Carly was also there; she was considered Libra. Then there was Goat, Lee Jaewon, Capricorn Saint Taylor, and Aquarius Saint Sophie, among others.

There were six humans who worked as Zodiac Saints without having their Zodiac. These humans had been brought here suddenly, and they were foaming at the mouth.

“Ahhhk! Why am I here?”

“Huh... Huhk! T... This place is....”

As if she was displeased, Virgo gave a side eye to her sibling. “This is your fault for not doing your work properly”

“Don’t blame me....”

“E...excuse me. This doesn’t seem to be the earth. Do you know why we were dragged here...?” Goat was pale with fright.

The gods started to sweat.

The Great Spirits had the special right to call for judgment. These Zodiacs and humans had been caught when a Great Spirit had used his ability.

In simple words, those suspected of having sinned could be captured and summoned once using the ability of judgment.

This ability worked on all gods except the Great Spirits. The origins of the gods didn’t matter. They could be disarmed, captured, and summoned through this ability.

This was possible because the Great Spirits were the current heads of the Divine world. Moreover, they possessed the Great-Spirit-rank permission tickets (Exoneration).

But why were the Zodiac Saints here...?

Lee Jaewon and Goat were shocked when they saw puzzlement on the faces of the gods.

“Even the gods do not know why?!”

“Uh... We have no idea. Ask the Serpent Bearer. He might have done something...”

“?!!!”

Leo was going mad as it raged. A collar had been placed around its neck that was letting out lightning. “Did Valhalla lose their mind? How dare they mess with us?”

“Shut Up! You guys will be executed by being dropped below, and the inheritance process will start.”

“Who authorized this—”

[I allowed it.]

“!”

The Great Spirit of Valhalla cut off Leo as he appeared. The Lord of Heaven appeared there, along with thousands of gods under Valhalla.

The sky was covered with gods, ranging from Valkyries to giants. It was an incredible number.

The Lord of Heaven appeared as an enormous giant made of purple flame. He looked at them with contempt.

[Execute them.]

However...

[Who gave you the right to execute them?]

“!!!”

Everyone was surprised by the familiar voice.

“S-Snake god!”

“Lee Gun-nim!!”

Lee Gun appeared with his shadow. He settled atop one of the pillars surrounding the scaffold. He was letting out a menacing energy, and it was the appearance of the stage-six god of Death!

The gods flinched.

‘That appearance is...!’

Every god became guarded when they saw the massive power he was emanating.

“Did you say he’s ranked the same as the Great Spirits?”

“That’s correct.”

It had been a rumor. Valhalla’s Great Spirit had also seen the ranking. However, he hadn’t believed it. However, the Great Spirit was sure of it now that he saw Lee Gun for himself.

‘He clearly isn’t a pillar-rank god!’

At that moment, as if he had been waiting for the gods of Valhalla, Lee Gun extended his hand and smirked.

[Finally, I get to use it.]

When he spoke, an enormous light exploded forth.

[You have met the requirements and acquired the power needed to become a Great Spirit.]

[The Divine item of Death has been activated.]