Chapter 590

Chapter 590

Side Story 66

In a green meadow.

A man with tan skin and intense yellow hair, similar to Zeus, bent down and looked into the eyes of a goat.

"Hmm..."

Ananta murmured as he observed the goat. He looked it up and down, touched its fur, and even playfully pinched its nose.

Beeeh-.

The goat bleated softly while looking at Ananta.

Small and with a single eye, the goat was undoubtedly a monster.

However.

"What are you?"

Ananta knew for sure.

"You're not one of my offspring, are you?"

The goat in front of Ananta wasn't a monster. It wasn't a Player, not a regular goat, nor a normal monster.

That's what the goat in front of Ananta was.

"You're a weird one..."

Fwoo-.

Beeeh-.

The goat resisted as Ananta pinched its nose, bleating.

And then...

Crunch!

The goat's mouth opened wide, and it bit Ananta's shoulder.

Crunch!

Drip!

The sound of bones breaking. Blood gushed from his shoulder and spilled onto the grass.

A force that tore his shoulder off in one bite. However, Ananta didn't let go of the goat's nose that it was tugging.

"Look at how strong you bite. Despite being so small."

Beeeah-.

The goat resisted, as if asking him to stop.

Ananta stared at it and smiled.

"Oh, yes. Now I understand."

Crunch!

The goat's head tilted.

Purple blood spurted, and its bleating gradually faded away.

"So, you're the one from the outside."

Crack!

A blinding lightning bolt, tinting the world yellow, erupted. The goat's body, charred, dissipated into violet smoke.

Ananta blinked, feeling an energy of a nature different from Arcane Power.

'This energy...'

He had felt it somewhere before. While pondering for a moment...

Hiss~

Memories of his release from the seal flooded back, and Ananta smiled.

"Was it you?"

Ananta licked his lips as he remembered YuWon's face. By devouring several Administrators, he had regained his lost heads.

No.

He hadn't just regained them.

"I've been looking forward to seeing you again, so this is perfect."

By devouring some Administrators, Ananta had increased the number of his heads even more than at his peak.

Administrators were the best food.

Since he first devoured an Administrator, Ananta had been relentlessly hunting Administrators.

And that was why Ananta seemed to have disappeared.

Of course...

"Soon, we will meet again, all of us."

Although the prey Ananta desired the most was YuWon.

Step-.

Ananta, who had eliminated the goat, resumed his march.

This hunt for Administrators would be the last.

Once he devoured the Administrator of Floor 93, he wouldn't have to hide and act in the shadows anymore.

His next destination was Olympus.

And his goal, YuWon, the man who had cut off his heads.

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[Goat number 192 has been eliminated]

YuWon, who had detected Ananta through the goat, stopped eating and stood up from his seat. He hurried to the location where the goat had been, but the place was too far.

"Floor 93?"

Exactly now that he had descended to the Murim World on Floor 10.

'It's too far.'

The distance was considerable to chase Ananta.

Chun Mujin muttered quietly and emptied his cup. The bitter taste reached his throat without even enjoying the aroma.

It was a pity.

"I was going to greet him properly tomorrow."

"Do you remember who he is?"

A middle-aged man who had approached silently.

It was Shin Muguk, the Celestial Swordsman, known to be the closest to Chun Mujin among the pillars supporting the Heavenly Demon Cult.

"Sit."

"If you command it."

"Let's drink together."

Knowing that his guest would drink, Chun Mujin had prepared a cup in advance.

Shin Muguk received the cup, drank the liquor Chun Mujin poured, and then refilled it.

Only after emptying several cups.

"I remembered. Everything."

"Is he really the Young God we should serve?"

Shin Muguk learned of the Sub-Boss's existence through Gwang Hamuk. At first, he thought it was just a hallucination resulting from his recent exhaustion.

Or that the Sub-Boss had deceived Gwang Hamuk.

A Sub-Boss that not even the leader knew about.

It was impossible for such a thing to be possible.

However...

"The System doesn't lie. And only I can name the Sub-Boss."

"Then..."

"Yes. It was true."

The existence of the Sub-Boss was real.

But it was strange. Why had everyone in the Heavenly Demon Cult forgotten such an important person?

"Maybe you secretly named him Sub-Boss?"

"No. It can't be."

In response to Shin Muguk's question, Chun Mujin unintentionally laughed.

It made him laugh to think that he would have reacted like this before recovering his memories.

Kim YuWon.

Shin Muguk was the one who first informed him about him.

--"He defeated the Celestial Dragon. And then said he would face Kwon Cheonju's trial."

--“Isn't that arrogant? Although I sent him to the Training Cave since there's a procedure, I'm not sure if he can pass Kwon Cheonju's trial.”

Shin Muguk chattering, telling him about YuWon without knowing that he had already faced YuWon in the first trial.

--“He received Kwon Cheonju's Three Strikes.”

-- "No, it wasn't just the Three Strikes. He fought on equal terms."

-- "Isn't that amazing? Maybe he really can become the Master of the Holy Fire!"

Shin Muguk, who was always boring to the point of being tasteless, was excited.

Chun Mujin had completely forgotten how fun it was at that time.

"He went up to Floor 10, broke the formation I had set up on the Heavenly Mountain, and climbed up here on his own."

"Eh? What does that mean...?”

"And he fought Kwon Cheonju, that friend, and drew."

"Yes, yes?"

Shin Muguk was surprised with wide-open eyes. It wasn't that the leader was joking about something like that, and if what he said was true, it meant that a Floor 10 Player had drawn in a fight against Kwon Cheonju.

And the most surprising thing was that this fact had been completely forgotten within the Heavenly Demon Cult.

"Why did something like that happen...?”

"Who knows. It's really incomprehensible."

It was a question that even Chun Mujin, who couldn't understand the reason, couldn't answer.

Chun Mujin bowed his head and looked up at the sky.

The Sun Chariot that had already disappeared.

Chun Mujin drank the next sip while looking at the place where YuWon had gone.

"However, what is clear is that we all knew him."

"All of us...? What do you mean?"

"That's right."

It was an incomprehensible answer. No matter how much he thought about it, he had no memory of the Sub-Boss.

Chun Mujin smiled bitterly without giving more explanations. He looked back at the tea cup and remembered YuWon.

The Master of the Holy Fire.

The only Player who passed his Trial.

And also...

'Right. We all knew him.'

The one who saved this world from the Outers.

Even though everyone in this world had forgotten him.

"We were all saved by him."

Chun Mujin finally remembered.

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