Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
58. Natural enemy (7)
The Power of Fate activated among the Dragon King God’s shaman maidens, among which traitors were mixed.
But right now I couldn’t use ‘Player’s Trajectory’.
The limited time of the Gwangrim and ‘Power of Fate’ card was all consumed, and there was still a lot of time left until the Gwangrim reset time, midnight of Greenwich Mean Time +09:00.
Hence, the only thing I could use were my abilities.
‘Then won’t I have to deal with Use of Everything? However…’
‘Use of Everything’ was a powerful move, but even the Use of Everything had limitations in the current situation.
‘I left most of the item cards with Hwang Jiho, so there are not many weapons I can use!’
If needed, I might have to take out the Nine Iron Teeth Rake in front of them.
While organizing moves about how to respond if the existence of the Nine Iron Teeth Rake was discovered in my head, I prepared to deal with the situation.
Paaa…!
The moment the system message disappeared, the particles of the superpower wave mixed with singing voices of the shaman maidens all gushed with light at once.
The output of the superpower wave flowing through my body increased as much, and vitality flowed into my body so much so I opened my eyes wide.
“Uisin-ah!”
As if sensing something was strange, I heard Yong Jegeon’s voice calling me.
It seemed like he was running this way, but as if he couldn’t enter the magic circle, he stopped right in front.
When I tried to shout: ‘It’s fine, don’t come’.
My vision suddenly changed.
Blackout[1].
The surrounding darkened, like as if I closed my eyes.
‘This place…’
The dark space where only a faint sound of wind was heard.
As I found myself in this space, I felt déjà vu.
‘It’s similar to the time when I met Acea through Yu Sang-hui’s Gwangrim…’
The situations were alike.
Acea’s priestess Yu Sang-hui.
Dragon King God’s shaman maidens, five color shaman maidens.
Power of Fate, which activated in the process of treating me.
And the dark space that unfolded.
When comparing those two cases, what was to happen next was certain.
‘If so, the one here right now is…!’
Just in time, radiant five color light descended from above me.
I naturally turned my gaze towards the origin of that light.
Even without seeing him, I could guess who the other party was.
‘… It’s the dragon!’
On the other side of my vision, the enormous dragon with his eyes covered, was drifting in the air, with his body covered in five color clouds.
Between the five color clouds I glimpsed the Dragon King God’s scales, and they shined mysteriously with as much color as the clouds.
It was the being I saw for the first time, and the other party didn’t say a word, but from the current situation and looking at the dragon’s appearance, I could be certain.
‘It’s the Dragon King God for sure! In PMH he appeared only as a silhouette.’
The Dragon King God slowly descended from the sky.
The Dragon King God landed on the ground, but because his whole body was so enormous, I had to very much look up.
Soon, the Dragon King God opened his mouth.
[Hi.]
It was a short greeting, but when the Dragon King God opened his mouth, I felt enormous superpower pressure.
It was a force much stronger than in the time with Acea.
‘This place is the Yong tribe’s territory, and there are five of Dragon King God’s shaman maidens, is it because of it?’
He seemed to have this much power in the Yong tribe’s territory on the Korean Peninsula, so I don’t know how it will be if I go to the Dragon Palace.
I greeted him politely, while also expressing respect to Dragon King God’s power.
“Hello.”
When I greeted him, the superpower pressure, that was pressing on my surrounding, disappeared.
In the lightened air, I heard the Dragon King God’s voice that seemed mixed with laughter.
[You’re a polite child just as I heard, huh?]
Just as he heard? What did that mean?
Did the Dragon King God hear a story about me from someone?
As if observing me, the Dragon King God brought his horned head closer to me.
From the looks of it, perhaps he didn’t see in front of him because his eyes were covered, but then I couldn’t understand the goal of coming closer.
[I heard stories about you. While you use the power of god in this land[2], don’t you have exchanges with people blessed with fortune[3] by gods? So it’s hard not to know.]
The higher beings talk among themselves about me?! [4]
In fact, among the characters I used through the ‘Player’s Trajectory’, there were many people who received the blessings of higher beings, and there were also abilities to borrow a god’s power like Ham Geun-hyeong’s Gwangrim.
‘Then the higher beings of this world would know about me, huh…!’
At the time of the Fantasy Auction, I used Yeom Junyeol’s power.
As Yeom Junyeol had the Dragon King God’s blessing ‘My flames won’t burn you’, there is a chance that the Dragon King God was aware of me from that moment.
My expression clouded.
‘… Wouldn’t he be dissatisfied with the being, who he never bestowed a blessing to using that power?’
Incurring the rage of higher being was a blunder among blunders.
Why have I never thought of that?
I guess my thinking just halted because of the thought of borrowing my Playable Character’s powers.
[I know what you’re worried about. It’s okay not to worry.]
“… Yes?”
The Dragon King God, who observed me, spoke with a voice filled with laughter.
[The power you’re using is a power of god[5], not our power. So we cannot interfere.]
My doubts deepened at the Dragon King God’s words.
Then where did my power come from?
Somehow it seemed like even the Dragon King God wouldn’t know the answer to this question.
Supposing he knew the answer, he would know about the Transcendent Universe that brought me to this world.
The Dragon King God kept comforting me with an affectionate voice.
[Even if you used my power without permission, I have no plans of punishing a child, who saves and helps my children. There are gods who get enraged by humans’ small mistakes, but I’m different from them.]
It seemed that ‘my children’, which the Dragon King God mentioned were Yong Jegeon and Yeom Junyeol.
The Dragon King God’s words showed he cherished the dragons.
At those words, I had doubts.
‘Then why…’
Why did the Dragon King God interrupt the revenge for Yeom Junyeol in such a cruel way?
When the Dragon King God withdrew his blessing in PMH, he did so even when knowing that it would mean Yeom Bangyeol would burn to death.
Even when his own flames burned his whole body, Yeom Bangyeol couldn’t believe that the blessing disappeared.
‘… Did he cherish the shaman maidens more?’
I couldn’t figure out how the gods, who appeared in the myths, loved their creations, including humans.
No matter how it was a being they loved, they would send lightning because they caught a small flaw, or even if the being was to be severely punished, they would show mercy and forgive, and take them as their future grooms, etc. The gods’ fickleness was difficult to understand by the human standards.
‘There may still be something I don’t know.’
If so, what I have to do right now was observation.
As there wouldn’t be many opportunities to directly meet with the Dragon King God, I had to obtain more clues even if just a little to predict the Dragon King God’s actions.
“Thank You for saying such. However, the one to save teacher Yong Jegeon-nim and senior Yeom Junyeol-nim this time was teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim.”
[Yeah, that great archer also contributed to saving my children. But that doesn’t mean that you didn’t throw your body for our children.]
“…”
[It’s fine in front of Yong Jegeon, but abstain from saying such things in front of Junyeol. It has been a long time since I saw him this upset.]
I guess this Dragon King God also knew that I made Yeom Junyeol cry.
The Dragon King God’s last words sounded somewhat sharp.
Even so, feeling that the Dragon King God cherished Yeom Junyeol this much, I felt rather reassured.
As if he thought of something seeing my attitude, the Dragon King God spoke with a satisfied voice.
[Um, you show courage and are fine just like Yong Jegeon said. Good.]
“Teacher Yong Jegeon-nim told my story?”
[Ye, when I gave Yong Jegeon a revelation, he told your story. He said there was a human who he wanted to invite to the Dragon Palace.]
Just after going to the Ju-Oh Island, Yong Jegeon had such a conversation in the past.
— The next time Dragon King God-nim gives a divine revelation, I’ll bring up your story.
— I’ll say that there’s a human I want to invite, so I wish He allows you in.
I guess Yong Jegeon didn’t forget it and asked about the entry to the Dragon Palace from the Dragon King God.
But I was worried how much of my story he told about to the Dragon King God.
[I was a bit worried about bringing the child who uses the power of god to the Dragon Palace. So I said I’d think about it, but… it seems it will be fine, huh?]
I guess I luckily passed the Dragon King God’s interview.
After saying that, the Dragon King God shot the superpower wave into the sky and rose up.
Paaat!
The Dragon King God’s superpower wave, which was gushing with light, condescended into a shape.
Inside the bead small enough to fit in a palm of the hand was a piece I presumed was a dragon scale.
[I allow you to enter the Dragon Palace.]
The bead created by the Dragon King God descended in front of me.
As I held the bead with both of my hands, warm energy flowed from it.
‘Is this the Dragon Palace’s entrance permit? Even the bead itself seems to be an amazing item…!’
He said I had saved the dragons, but it was certain it wasn’t an item that one would easily give to a human they meet for the first time.
I accepted the bead and politely thanked the Dragon King God.
“Thank You.”
[Okay, let’s see you in the Dragon Palace later.]
As if he finished what he had to say, the Dragon King God’s sense of existence was gradually erased.
When the dark space brightened, and the Dragon King God’s presence almost disappeared.
[Strange, eh…?]
The Dragon King God asked with a doubtful voice, as he looked down at me.
[If you have breathing problems, tell Yong Jegeon or my shaman maiden. I’ll personally instruct Yong Jegeon.]
If there are no problems, there is no need to tell Yong Jegeon, right?
Before I could speak, the Dragon King God already disappeared.
In my brightening vision, the singing of the shaman maidens started to gradually grow louder.
“…”
When I realized that I have returned to the magic circle with the Five Cardinal Color dragon carvings, I met Yong Jegeon’s eyes.
The shaman maidens closed their eyes and concentrated on singing to treat me, but Yong Jegeon was different.
It seemed he was observing this situation without any omission.
Yong Jegeon fell into thoughts for a while as he looked at me, and then the corners of his mouth raised.
He was on the brink of making his special ecstatic smile, but as there were the shaman maidens around, his face seemed to be enduring.
His gaze was directed towards my hands.
‘… He is looking at the bead the Dragon King God gave!’
I summoned the item window right away and put the pass into it.
It seemed that the mood of Yong Jegeon, who observed the process of the bead disappearing without leaving a trace, got even better.
In contrast to him, my mood was bad until the song finished.
Just when the Dragon King God’s shaman maidens stopped their singing.
“Is the guest’s treatment finished?”
I heard the voice overflowing with dignity.
The atmosphere was competently different to when I saw him at the baseball stadium before, but it was easy to recognize who he was.
Wrapped in the blue clothes, the head of the Yong tribe, Cheongryong.
‘The one behind Cheongryong… Yeom Bangyeol!’
Behind Cheongryong stood Red Flame Ruler Yeom Bangyeol.
As the Yong tribe’s head and the team master of one of the world’s top ten otherworld conquest teams were together, the sense of pressure was intense.
“Cheongryong-nim, You came? We safely finished the guest’s treatment.”
“He looks pretty spent, but the superpower wave is stable, eh? You have worked hard.”
After the Nok shaman maiden greeted him as a representative, Cheongryong praised the shaman maidens’ efforts.
Cheongryong spoke courteously with a solemn voice, but he seemed somewhat anxious.
Yeom Bangyeol standing behind him was the same.
‘Did they perhaps realize there are traitors inside like Yong Jegeon?’
If so, it may be easier to get them to cooperate.
As I was worried where I should begin, Cheongryong gestured with his hand.
“There is a lot to talk about, but it’s difficult to do it right now, because there is an important matter. Follow me first.”
“Then we will excuse ourselves.”
“Okay.”
While roughly accepting the shaman maidens’ goodbyes, Cheongryong started to walk quickly.
As if it was natural, Yong Jegeon followed behind him.
While I was guessing what important matter it was, we continued to move.
The destination was the thick iron door carved with dragons.
When Cheongryong raised his hand, both wings of the door opened with a heavy ‘Creeaak!’.
And behind the opened door, I heard urgent voices.
“Cheongryong-nim, it’s just starting!”
“We’re not late yet?”
“Yes, the opening is playing right now!”
Behind the door, an enormous screen was installed.
In front of it, the Yong tribe members and the Red Lion team members gathered and sat, starting at the screen as if they lost their souls.
What was playing on the screen was…
‘Playlist opening video!’
I guess that important matter was watching the live broadcast where Yeom Junyeol showed up.
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[1] blackout — 암전 (am-jeon) refers to the moment when lights on the stage are temporarily turned off.
[2] god in this land — or you could also interpret it as use the power of ‘god from this land’ (hahahaha!)
[3] blessed with fortune — 축복하다, blessing with fortune/wishing for happiness, not the blessing (가호) like in the system, and which Jo Uisin talks about two sentences later.
[4] talk among themselves about me — literally ‘my words circulate among them’.
[5] power of god — First. *screams* Now, the explanation, 신의 힘. ‘신 (sin 神 god)’ could refer to any kind of deity, but it could also refer to a ghost (but with yang energy, not yin energy) or some mysterious and mystical phenomena, but in 95% of cases if refers to a divine being (It won’t refer to the Christian capitalized God, in Korean he is refereed to as ‘하느님(haneunim)). But, if you say ‘신의 (sinui)’ it could mean either ‘something of (a/the) god’ or ‘something godly’. Or it could mean ‘truth and justice’ (so it could be a power of truth and justice, for reference 신의 힘 structure is used by Dragon King God for the entire chapter, so I literally can’t tell). I could actually dig even deeper, because in this particular sentence this note is referring to -이되 was used with that ‘신의 힘’, and I could take to maybe Dragon King God having no regard to grammar and speaking memes… but that would be too much even for me.
Translator’s note: Wan’s natural enemy: This chapter. Freaking gods. I’m not going to sleep, I’m just going to keep thinking about this chapter.
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