Leveling With The Gods - Chapter 515
[Level Up with God Episode 515]
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Yuwon looked at Sotos with complicated eyes.
Seeing him with the same face as me gave me mixed feelings.
I was curious.
Why did this guy covet his own name so much?
Azathoth, who had enough power, knew how useless it was, and was even more curious.
however.
“Was it something like this?…”
“Did you say it was at best?”
Yog Sothoth.
The man with the face of Azathoth opened his mouth with a resentful expression that was completely different from Azathoth.
“You don’t know. How great you are. “What kind of name is it that is difficult to even mention with the word a■tos?”
Jeopuk-.
Sotos took a step closer.
Gugugugugu-.
The desert shook. Following the sky, Sothos also wanted to make the earth his domain.
“So put it down now. “That name is not something a person like that deserves.”
Such a human being.
It was a word meaning an amusement park.
Sotos knew it too.
The fact is that Azathoth is not a single entity, but is merely a name.
“…cheeky Sothos.”
Compassion shone through Yuwon’s eyes.
“Do you consider me an enemy?”
“You are asking the obvious.”
Yog Sothoth.
If you think about it, he’s been like that since he first received his name from Azathoth.
Even so, after being given a name, the tall and gigantic Sky always envied and was hostile to Azathoth, who had more names than him.
Therefore, Azathoth also did not consider his betrayal to be such a twist.
But then it was even more disappointing.
“But it’s strange.”
Yuwon asked with pitiful eyes.
“Then why do you keep exalting me like this? “Why do you say you’re an enemy?”
Jeopuk-.
Yuwon took a step closer to Sotos.
Sothos pauses.
Yuwon sneered at him.
“You’re still afraid of me. Humble yourself and elevate yourself. “You still rate yourself as below me.”
“That’s not true…”
“Appearance is not important.”
Hwaaah-.
The trembling ground calmed down.
“What matters is the essence.”
Azathoth’s presence enveloped the desert that had been controlled by Sothos.
The ground that had been oppressed gradually became as calm as a calm lake, and ripples appeared on Sothos’ face.
“Did you think that changing your appearance like that would make a difference? “Did you know what would happen if you collected a lot of names?”
“Hasn’t it changed?”
“You can’t even say my name.”
Sotos’ eyes wavered.
Clearly, just now, he couldn’t get the name ‘Azathos’ out of his mouth.
Sotos was shaken by Yuwon’s comment.
He realized that he still felt so far away from Azathoth that he could not even mention its name.
“I will become the object that fears me. “There is no such thing as comedy.”
Tsutsutsu-.
The desert was dyed black.
Yuwon’s name threatened Yog-Sothoth.
The difference in strength was not large. If we fight like this, the fight will never end.
However, other variables emerged that went beyond that difference.
Jiik-.
Sotos took a step back.
Sotos shouted, looking down at his feet that had moved without realizing it.
“no!”
Suuuu-.
Despite Sothos’ resistance, the dark chaos that had begun to dominate the desert did not stop.
Before he knew it, chaos was consuming his body. Sotos could not move in the dark chaos surrounding his body.
“Not really.”
The corners of Yuwon’s mouth rose.
Wanting to become Azathoth means looking up to him.
The moment he appeared in front of him with the face of Azathoth, Yuwon felt both pity and laughter.
“The moment you see your own name as lower than my name, isn’t the relationship between superior and subordinate the same?”
Sotos’ eyes shook violently.
Yuwon looked at him with pity.
“It’s Sothos. Foolish Sothos….”
A mournful call.
Yuwon was no longer looking at him. He was already overshadowed by the name Azathoth and was losing his luster.
instead.
“Now you can’t even see who’s behind you?”
“What….”
Buuuk-!
A white and transparent arm splitting Sotos’ body in half behind his back.
Yuwon looked at Sotos as if he felt sorry.
“Now I see you were a puppet.”
That arm had been targeting Sotos’ back for some time.
Crouching down and hiding in the dark. With teeth and claws hidden.
Blah blah blah-.
Ji-I-Ik-.
Sothos’ body, which had the same face as his past self, was cracking slightly. It wasn’t a very pleasant sight, but I didn’t feel like helping.
Sotos was no longer interested in Yuwon.
Instead, he turned his head and glared at the owner of the arm sticking out through his body.
“you…!”
“I trusted you, father.”
fluttering-.
Sothos’s robe fluttered in anger.
The eyes hidden in the shadows glowed greedily.
“You can do it.”
No one believed that Azathoth was alive.
But only one person was different.
The youngest, purest, and most foolishly blindly followed Azathoth, believing that Azathoth would still be alive.
And at this moment.
“Then, thanks to you…”
Toward the name that had lost its strength under the pressure of Azathoth’s name.
[‘Foolish chaos’ appears.]
“I will be grateful, father.”
A pure white mass with no facial features revealed black teeth.
Kwasik-!
To Yuwon, he is more familiar with the name foolish chaos.
Nyala Totep.
He enjoyed the moment he had been waiting for for a long time.
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The scrawny little boy held sand in his hands.
How hungry were you? After thinking for a while, the little boy put sand in his mouth and started chewing it.
Jeokjeok-.
It was tasteless.
The sand was hard and stuffy without any moisture. I couldn’t even drink water, let alone food, so it was difficult to even swallow sand with my parched throat.
“Tut tut!”
The kid quickly spit out sand.
I thought you were crazy.
The world is a desert, so why worry about starving if you could eat this?
Nevertheless, the little boy could not give up his regret.
I was hungry. no.
I wanted to live.
Meeeeeee-.
“…?”
I heard a goat bleating.
The kid swallowed his saliva at the thought of finding something to eat. If it were a goat, you could probably tear it off and eat it alive.
That’s what I thought.
however.
“…You’re skinny.”
On top of a desert hill.
There was a man looking down at himself next to the mountain goat.
The face was not visible in detail due to the light. But still, the kid looked at him as if he were fascinated instead of the mountain goat next to him.
The hunger disappeared.
I felt like I wouldn’t be hungry if I was with the author.
The kid started following the man who turned around.
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“I won’t give you anything to eat.”
This was what the little boy heard after following him for several days.
I wasn’t disappointed.
It’s not that they don’t give you food, it’s that they can’t give it to you. The little boy had never seen a man eat anything before.
“Still, will you follow me?”
Those words sounded like something that would slowly fall off.
The kid nodded.
Still, I wanted to be by your side. Then I wouldn’t be lonely and hungry.
“…okay. “Then do it.”
The man said that and started walking again.
The kid looked at his back blankly for a moment. Then the mountain goat next to me cried as if asking what I was doing.
Meeee-.
The little boy looked at the mountain goat pushing his back.
Did you say his name was Shub Niguras?
The man seemed to be having a conversation with this guy from time to time.
“…I’m still going anyway.”
The kid started following the man again.
That turned into days and then months.
After about a year, I started feeling hungry again.
Grrr-.
Where on earth does this road end?
Without a destination in mind, I continued to follow with my weak body.
Now I couldn’t think of anything.
All I could think was that I should never lose him.
I was walking along, overcome by evil, without even knowing how time passed.
chuck-.
The man in front turned around.
“lost.”
The man approached slowly.
The man with his knees bent made eye contact with the child.
For the first time, I faced him directly without looking up.
“I’ll give you a name too.”
Sigh-.
The man put his hand forward.
What a name.
What is that?
The concept of ‘name’ did not exist for the little boy. It was natural since I had never called anyone before.
but.
“Your name is… Nyala Totep. “That’s your name.”
“Nyala….”
The moment the kid heard the name, he immediately understood what it was.
Nyala Totep.
Nyala Totep.
Nyala….
The little boy muttered his name repeatedly.
Azathoth glanced at the kid and started walking again.
With the thought that this is a child whose true feelings are unknown.
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Azathoth stopped handing out names.
There weren’t many names left, but more than anything, the world was full of names.
heaven and earth. Rocks and wind. Even a small spark.
Azathoth settled into a small hut. Shub Niguras and Nyala Totep were present in the hut.
No one could call Nyala Totep a kid anymore.
He had a good name, Nyala Totep, but he had grown too big to be called a kid.
Of course, the face without features was still there.
“…father.”
Azathoth turned his head at Nyala Totep’s call.
It was because I still didn’t like that name.
“I told you not to call me that.”
“I knew you would.”
“But why do you keep calling me father?”
“You gave me a name.”
“….”
In response to Nyala Totep’s answer, Azathoth silently turned his back on the hard wooden bed and asked.
“Why did you call me?”
“I just wanted to call you. father.”
“Is that really all it is?”
“Beware Yog-Sothoth. The same goes for her.”
Shub Niguras.
She has been interacting a lot with Yog-Sothoth recently.
It wasn’t just those two.
So did everyone outside this little cabin.
Everyone was intoxicated by the name and coveted the rest of Azathoth’s names, drooling over them.
Even Shub Nigguras, who is currently staying in this cabin but is not there.
“you?”
Azathoth still showed his back.
“Should you be careful too?”
“I…”
Nyala Totep hesitated to answer.
Everyone in this world turned their backs on Azathoth. The same was true for Shub Nigguras, who was considered the closest.
But there is only one person in this world.
“I am okay.”
It was okay for just one person to show their back.
“It’s still okay.”
Sarah-.
After answering that, Nyala Totep covered herself with an old cloth and turned her back to follow Azathoth.
Nyala Totep thought to herself.
Even if everyone in this world turns against you, I won’t do that.
Even if this were my golden opportunity to aim for your head, I wouldn’t do it.
You don’t have to.
Because you love us so much.
Take a look. Even now, aren’t you showing your back so that I can stab you in the back?
iced coffee-.
My foolish, foolish father.
There’s no need to hurry.
Didn’t I tell you I’m fine?
-Because I’m looking farther away.