406. Alec Drite
“I never thought I would see the goddess of blood and slaughter in person.”
{I came to see you because I wanted to meet you.}
Chew!
At the same time Sehmet said this, blood gushed out of the puddle under his feet and transformed into a chair.
{Because it’s not unusual for a god to come to meet a follower.}
“It’s rare for a god to come to see even the smallest god... but the reason doesn’t matter. Let’s get right to the point.”
Ma Cheol-hyeon sat down on the bloody chair and opened his mouth.
“...why did you save me?”
The fact that he saved me by using his powers, and the fact that he came to see me while descending on the ground is also the same.
No matter how you think about it, there is no reason to treat them so special.
{Because I owe you a lot. It is in return.}
“Debt?”
Ma Cheol-hyeon was taken aback when he heard the unexpected answer.
If you say that you owed money, wouldn’t you be the one who saved Sehmet’s life?
However, Sehmet gave an inconsistent answer, saying that he owed Ma Cheol-hyeon that he saved his life.
“What are you talking about?”
{As the god of blood and slaughter, I should express my gratitude to you as I have brought forth an entity that will bring about chaos that shouldn’t be revealed in the world.
}
{...}
Sehmet, who was silent for a moment, answered in a simple one line.
{You found what I was looking for instead.}
“What are you looking for?”
{The ruins, no... Should I call it a prison?}
“A prison?”
{Yes, let’s just say it’s a prison where the great one is confined. That’s what the ruins you found are like that.}
Sehmet smiled while shedding bloody tears.
It was a chilling scene where you could feel that you were using Min Soo-yeon’s shell, but inside you were a completely different being.
‘The ruins of the cave... It wasn’t normal after all.’
Even thinking about the ominous aura felt deep underground, it was possible to know that there was something unusual there.
‘As far as I know, Sehmet... Although he’s a black god, I’ve heard that he’s a different being from a goofy god.’
However, if such a god is a being that is referred to with the modifier ‘great person’, then what the hell is the identity?
“What the hell is in those ruins?”
{Do you want to know?}
“You knew too much. die! Unless it’s the same development.”
When Ma Cheol-hyeon answered with alert eyes, Sehmet nodded as if he understood and opened his mouth.
{In the ruins... \\÷♤ ¥●□}
“Huh?”
{\\\ ¤**●※■●○%%##^%♧÷}
Apparently Sehmet opened his mouth and said something, but he couldn’t understand it.
‘I’m not kidding. He’s talking about something...’
At first I thought he was joking, but Sehmet’s expression was very serious.
In other words, Ma Cheol-hyeon’s brain just couldn’t understand Sehmet’s words.
{You may have noticed, but I can’t tell you even if I want to tell you. Because he is forbidden to even mention, let alone record.}
“Forbidden?”
{So if you take it out of your mouth, it will be distorted, and if you write it down on paper, it will be scattered.}
“If it’s a game, it’s like a ban on swearing in chatting...” {I don’t know
what you mean, but I’ll say it .}
means hanging on.
“Anyway, that means you’re not an ordinary being.”
{Yes.}
“Are you like a demon whose resurrection will destroy the world?”
{I don’t know that. Because it is something that cannot be clearly defined.}
Ambiguous answer.
I couldn’t tell if it was really like that or if it was because of keyword restrictions.
“Then why was Sehmet looking for the Great Old God?”
{Hmm.}
Of course, Ma Cheol-hyeon didn’t believe her at all, but as long as Sehmet was friendly to him, he was sure that the priest of the Sehmet Church would not be able to harm him, so he wasn’t very wary.
‘As Sehmet said, if that bastard obtained great power... It wouldn’t be good for me to find out that I’m alive.’
What matters is the future.
It won’t be difficult to find Shin Yu-jun, but there’s no guarantee that even if you find him, you’ll be able to kill him.
There is a 100% chance of being killed instead of being killed.
‘I’m sorry, but let’s hide for now.’
After organizing his thoughts, Ma Cheol-hyeon spoke to Min Su-yeon.
“Priest sister.”
“huh?”
“Do you know of a gem called alexandrite? During the day when the sun rises, it takes on a green light, and when the moon rises, it takes on a red light.”
It’s time to introduce Cheolhyun Ma’s unexpected jewelry.
(To explain a bit more, alexandrite is a color changing mineral that turns green when exposed to sunlight and turns red when exposed to light from candles or electric lights.
)
“Presume that the man named Ma Cheol-hyeon is dead.”
“what?”
“From now on, I am ‘Alex Drite’. It is named after a mysterious jewel that shows different appearances during the day and night.”
“...”
It’s been about two weeks since Min-yeon Min knew Ma Chul-hyeon, but she couldn’t get used to the nonsense she spits out every now and then.
“Just as Alexandrite hid the red light in the dark night, I will hide my past in darkness and be reborn as Mr. Alec, a citizen of the Azul continent.”
“Either way.”
“Because Ma Cheol-hyeon died there that day along with his other colleagues.”
“...That’s unfortunate.”
It’s hard to understand because it’s 90% nonsense, but instead of living as Ma Cheol-hyeon, a lonely vengeful demon who lost all his colleagues, he declared that he would become a third person named Alek Dreite and punish Shin Yu-jun.
It seemed to be a way to overcome the sadness of losing a colleague in its own way and to maintain reason.
“Now that that’s the case, can you get me some dye? Alexandrite’s red color symbolizes the blood mage, and the green color is
because I dyed my hair green...”
“Then... let’s go white.”
“Is there any reason?”
“Everything is blank at first. In other words, white symbolizes the beginning.”
Ma Cheol-hyeon, with black hair, became Alec with white hair and wandered the Azul Continent.
– “Well... the story roughly happened like that.”
After finishing the story, Alec extinguished the cigarette he was biting on the floor and put it in his inventory.
In the end, the death of his colleagues, the fact that Sehmet cared for Alec, and the fact that Alec completely changed his style and became distrustful of dimension movers.
It was all because of Shin Yoo-jun, the tailor.
“Ho-ga-ho-wi.”
After listening to Alec’s story, Kang Seung-hyeon took out a lion idiom.
Hu Ge Ho Wei (狐假虎威).
When translated, it means that the fox borrows the tiger’s power, and that a lowly person wields dignity with the power of others.
“A fox campaigning with a tiger on its back? I don’t think it’s a lion idiom that fits this situation, right?”
“Ah, the Ho-ga-ho-wi that I am talking about means ‘Ho-gu comforts Ho-gu’. When I asked why he was close with Mr. Kim Ho-jung, it turned out that the two of them were hanging out with each other.”
“Is that what you mean by listening to my tearful past?”
Alec replied as if it were absurd, but then continued with a blank laugh.
“There is nothing wrong with that. If Healer hyung was at our party instead of me then... That shit wouldn’t even have happened.”
“of course.”
If it was Kang Seung-hyeon, he wouldn’t have taken Shin Yu-jun to the ruins, and in the first place, he wouldn’t believe that someone who is kind to others for no reason is suspicious.
“But you know it’s pointless to fight over something that has already happened, right? You’re not like that.”
“That’s right. Just pass it as a complaint.”
“And I liked the mindset. Instead of living as a vengeful ghost whose only purpose in life is revenge, he will become a third person and punish them rationally.”
Kang Seung-hyun doesn’t usually listen to other people’s stories, but I enjoyed that part with interest.
“I said that, but as soon as I met him, I rushed at him and got robbed.”
“More than anything else, quite surprising information came out of Mr. Alec’s story...”
“What? The origin of Alek Drite?”
“Nothing like that.”
“then?”
“That story just made it clear.”
Kang Seung-hyun opened his mouth and touched his chin.
“Until that day, Mr. Kim Ho-jung did not have the ability of the black beast.”