Leveling With The Gods - Chapter 590
[Level Up with the Gods Side Story Episode 66]
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On a green meadow.
A bronze-skinned man with dark yellow hair who resembled Zeus leaned down and made eye contact with the mountain goat.
“Hmm…”
Ananta sighed softly as he looked at the mountain goat.
He looked around and touched its fur.
He even stretched out his cheeks as if he was curious.
Meeee…
The mountain goat let out a small cry as it looked up at Ananta
. The small, one-eyed mountain goat was an absolute monster,
but
“What are you?”
Ananta could see clearly:
“You are not my baby?”
This mountain goat in front of him was not a monster.
It was not a player, a monster, or an ordinary mountain goat.
That was the mountain goat in front of Ananta.
“What a strange guy…”
He continued.
Meeee-.
The goat cried as if it was resisting Ananta who was trying to lift the ball.
And right after that.
Cheok-.
The goat’s mouth opened and bit Ananta’s shoulder.
Kwasik-!
Waddeuk-.
A sound like chewing on a bone.
The blood dripping from my shoulder fell onto the blades of grass.
The force was enough to tear off my entire shoulder in an instant.
But even so, Ananta did not let go of the ball he had stretched out.
“Look at the strength of your chin. “It’s a small crab.”
Meaaa-.
A mountain goat resisting as if telling it to stop.
Ananta looked at the goat and grinned.
“Oh yeah. “Now I understand.”
Kwaduk-.
The mountain goat’s head was crushed.
Purple blood flowed out and the cries gradually became quieter.
“You are the one from outside.”
Kwajijijiji-!
A dazzling bolt of electricity bursts out, coloring the world yellow.
The charred body of the mountain goat turned into purple smoke and dispersed.
Ananta blinked as he felt an energy that had a different nature from magic.
‘This energy…’
I’ve felt something similar somewhere before.
I was thinking about it for a while.
Sigh-.
Ananta smiled as the memory of immediately after being released from the seal came to mind.
“Was it you?”
licking-.
Thinking of Yuwon’s face, Ananta quenched his appetite.
By devouring several managers, he recovered his lost heads.
no.
It wasn’t just recovery.
“I was planning to meet you anyway, but it turned out well.”
By hiring several managers, Ananta had already increased its headcount beyond that of its heyday.
Manager was the best nutrition.
After devouring the first manager, Ananta has been hunting managers ever since.
And that is why Ananta now appears to have disappeared.
of course.
“Let’s meet up soon.”
The prey Ananta wanted most was an amusement park.
Jeopuk-.
Ananta, who destroyed the mountain goat, began to move his feet again.
This manager hunt was the last.
After eating the manager on the 93rd floor, there will be no need to hide and move like this anymore.
Next is Olympus.
And Yuwon, who cut off his own head, was the target.
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[The 192nd mountain goat has disappeared.]
Yuwon, who discovered Ananta through the mountain goat, stopped eating and stood up.
We quickly found the place where the mountain goat was, but the location was too high.
’93rd floor?’
After all, we have now come down to the martial arts world located on the 10th floor.
‘too far.’
The distance to move in search of Ananta was considerable.
Even if he moved in the original sun chariot, it was impossible to track Ananta at this distance.
There would be no guarantee that he would remain on the 93rd floor until then.
‘I have no choice but to miss it this time.’
After thinking for a moment, Yuwon shook his head.
‘…no.’
After all, it didn’t suit my temper to release a guy who had been let go once.
“You can’t do that either.”
You might miss it.
It was impossible to sit still and be deceived by such uncertain possibilities.
And then.
Jiing-.
A kit ringing in Yuwon’s pocket.
The person who contacted me was Zeus.
“What?”
-found.
A word that omits the subject.
But it wasn’t difficult to figure out what Zeus was looking for.
“Ananta?”
-okay. That’s the guy we missed.
What I expected was correct.
In the first place, the only person Zeus was looking for was Ananta, and Yuwon had just found Ananta at the same time.
The viewpoints of Yuwon, who released the mountain goats of the Black Forest to find Ananta, and Zeus, who released the Eye of Olympus to find Ananta, coincided.
“If it’s him, I just found him too. “It was on the 93rd floor.”
-Then do you know what he has been doing all this time?
“until now?”
-You don’t seem to know.
A voice mixed with laughter came from beyond the kit.
He seemed to feel a sense of victory in the fact that he had noticed Ananta’s movements one step earlier than Yu-won.
“Stop being puffed up about something like this and just say something.”
-It was a manager hunt.
“manager…?”
It was the administrators who released Ananta from the seal.
So naturally, the problem was that they thought they were close to one side.
I was just wondering if the administrators were hiding him, but I never thought they would actually be hunting the administrators.
-That guy turned both players and administrators into enemies.
“…The end is decided in one of two ways.”
Ananta’s choice was quite extreme.
“Either it will devour the whole thing, or it will die at the hands of both sides.”
Players and Administrators.
In fact, the two sides could be said to be the entire world.
However, rather than choosing to stick to one side and fight against the other, Ananta chose to turn both sides into enemies.
I knew what his goal was.
‘Are you trying to become the strongest creature?’
It was a foolish choice.
A guy who takes a difficult path and wants to see it to the end.
And that’s why Yuwon felt an eerie sense of crisis from Ananta’s presence.
“…I guess I’ll have to postpone looking for that guy until a little later.”
“Go right away?”
Pandora, who was busy moving her chopsticks, got up from her seat.
While she was talking on the phone with Zeus for a moment, she had already finished Yuwon’s dish.
“That’s right.”
Now that I know what Ananta was doing, my top priority has to be him from now on. I
have to move as quickly as possible before he eats up more managers and gets bigger.
“It will take some time. This is the 10th floor. “Ira.”
-10th floor? What happened up to the martial arts world?
“Something like that happened.”
-First, let’s try to catch it from our side as much as possible. The 93rd floor is quite far from there.
“Okay.”
-Don’t be too late. Either for the good or for the bad.
With those words
, the call ended.
‘For better or for worse…’
Yuwon pondered Zeus’ last words. ‘
Somehow, somehow.’ ‘I’m thinking of catching it.’
The good side meant that Olympus had succeeded in hunting Ananta on its own.
It meant not being late when the hunt had already ended.
And the bad side meant that the hunt had failed.
‘I guess I should hurry.’
It’s not that I’m ignoring Zeus, but I didn’t have a good feeling.
Ananta ate the manager.
Fighting hastily wasn’t a good choice now that it’s unclear how big it would have grown.
Grrrrrrrrr.
Yuwon and Pandora immediately left the dorm and headed out to Cheonsan Mountain.
The heading was up.
It was the 93rd floor where Ananta appeared.
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The light was strong enough to block out the moonlight.
The Heavenly Demon poured himself a drink as he watched the sun chariot flying up in the sky.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The top of Cheonsan Mountain was as bright as day. .
Cheon Mu-jin’s face appeared on the surface of the alcohol reflecting the light.
“…I’m leaving.”
Cheon Moo-jin muttered softly and emptied his glass.
The bitter taste spread down his throat before he even had time to enjoy the scent.
It was a shame.
“I was planning to at least say hello to you properly tomorrow.”
“Do you remember who he is?”
A middle-aged man suddenly came next to me.
It was Geomcheonju Shinmugeuk, known as the closest to the Heavenly Demon among the pillars that support the Heavenly Demon Religion.
“Sit down.”
“If you allow it.”
“Have a drink.”
Cheon Mu-jin must have known that there would be guests, so he prepared a glass in advance.
Shin Mu-geuk, who received the glass, emptied the alcohol that Cheon Mu-jin had poured for him and then poured another drink into his glass. Only after emptying the glasses
one by one.
“Remember .” “It happened. Everything.”
“Is he really the leader of the small cult we should serve?”
Shin Mugeuk found out about the existence of Sogyoju through Gwangha-muk.
At first, he thought that Gwangha-muk had gone crazy because he had been through so much recently.
Or that person called Sogyoju had deceived Gwangha-muk.
A Sogyoju who didn’t even know the sect leader. I
thought that such a thing couldn’t be possible . But,
“
The system doesn’t lie. And I am the only one who can appoint a small religious leader.”
“Then…”
“Yes. “It was true.”
The existence of Sogyoju was a fact.
But it was strange.
Why has everyone in the Heavenly Demon Church forgotten such an important person?
“Did the sect leader secretly appoint him as the leader of the small sect?”
“no. No way.”
In response to Shin Mu-geuk’s question, Cheon Moo-jin laughed without even realizing it.
It made me laugh to think that I would have reacted like that before I could remember.
Yuwon Kim.
It was Shin Mugeuk who first told him the news about him.
–“He defeated Tian Zilong. Then he said he would take the test for that friend, Cheonju Kwon.”
–“Isn’t it bold? “There are procedures, so I sent him to the training center, but I don’t know if he will pass the Kwon Cheonju test.”
Shin Mugeuk visits him and talks to him little by little.
As if he didn’t know that he had already faced Yuwon in the first test, he brought news about him.
–“He received Kwon Cheon-ju’s three-choice meal.”
–“No, the herbivorous diet wasn’t the problem. “We competed on equal terms.”
–“Isn’t it amazing? “Maybe he really can become the master of the torch!”
Shin Mugeuk, who has always been so polite as to be boring, is making such a fuss.
Cheon Moo-jin had even forgotten how funny it was back then.
“He went up to the 10th floor, broke the defense that I personally laid out on Mt. Heaven, and came up here in person.”
“yes? What is that…”
“And then I fought that friend of Kwon Cheon-ju and ended up in a draw.”
“Yes yes?”
Shinmugeuk was so shocking that my eyes were tearing.
The cult leader could not have been joking about something like this, and if it were true, it meant that a player on the 10th floor had achieved a draw in the fight with Kwon Cheonju. And what was even more surprising was that it had happened
. It was something that had been completely forgotten within the Heavenly Demon Church.
“Why did that happen…”
“Well, that’s right. “You never know.”
It was a question that even Cheon Moo-jin, who could not understand the reason, could answer.
Cheon Mujin shook his head and looked up at the sky.
The sun carriage disappeared before we knew it.
Cheon Moo-jin emptied his next glass as he watched Yu-won leave.
“But what’s clear is that we all knew him.”
“All of us… you mean?”
“okay.”
It was an answer I didn’t understand.
No matter how much he thought about it, he had no memory of Su Jiaozhu.
Cheon Moo-jin smiles bitterly without further explanation.
He looked at the teacup again and thought of Yuwon.
The owner of the torch.
The only player to pass his test.
also.
‘That’s right. Everyone knew.’
The one who saved this world from the Outer.
Everyone had forgotten about this world.
“We were all saved by him.”
Cheon Mujin finally remembered him.