Even though he heard the voices of John and Victor, Shion did not look back at them. It was because he was already expecting them to come.
It is a disaster that could not disappear no matter how much Shion poured out its powers. Having discovered that the plague that had swallowed Odette was open, Victor and John would have been willing to jump into it.
So what was important now was not their appearance.
'....What the hell is this?'
Shion held Odette in his arms and looked down at his right hand. After breaking the wall of the sphere, he felt a strange sense of exaltation in his right hand. It feels like his vision has changed, as if he has risen to a higher level.
Shion was already an S-class transcendent and was out of standard. Still, she felt that his level had risen even higher. Her nerves and intuition were sharpened as if they had been forged. It was as if someone had forcibly expanded the vessel containing the intellect. It was as if he were one step closer to a god than a monster of a god.
It is only a matter of breaking the wall. But why does he feel so uplifted by this incident?
It was a difficult situation to understand, but thanks to the higher dimension, Shion was able to notice.
'Odette's eyes are different from usual.'
Something from God is replacing Odette's eyes.
Odette was not seeing an illusion now. She was seeing the Revelation that God had sent to her, through the pupil of God's eyes.
"We can't interfere with it right now."
Instinctively, Shion hugged Odette as if protecting her.
The purifier does not have a strong body like the Transcendent. Communing directly with the gods could have been a burden on her body. He was about to use his intellect to cut off her communion with the gods.
Of course, he can't use his intellect against Odette, so he'll have to use it against that god's power.
Shion, who had been looking at Odette's complexion sensitively, frowned lightly.
'That's strange. Why do I think I've seen these eyes before?'
A sense of anticipation swept over him, and an eerie realization swept over Shion's waist. He followed his intuition and turned his head behind his back.
He saw John and Victor in rags as they passed through the disaster. However, Shion's impatience turned his attention not to them, but to Karl, whom they were dominating.
Karl is lying unconscious, bound to the inability of fire and electricity.
'It's unpleasantly similar to that bastard's eyes.'
It's ridiculous. He doesn't want to admit it.
However, as his level increased, his intuition and sense of anticipation also became more sensitive. The pupils of the gods that Odette was endowed with seemed too similar to those of Ka.
"Damn. What is this rotten mine?"
Victor's unpleasant insults broke Shion's mind. Only then did Shion come to his senses. This was not the time to be intoxicated by exaltations or unclear questions.
The World Tree looks disgusting. A situation that has been sucked into a disaster. An unknown orb. He was also busy protecting Odette from all of this.
"Did the World Tree really exist? Isn't that something out of mythology?"
Victor asked Shion as if arguing. However, Shion could not beat him either. He also knew the World Tree only as a fictional story.
He felt a brief sense of self-shame that he had the same level of knowledge as that bastard.
There were very few records left about the World Tree. It is no exaggeration to say that it is almost the only one stored in the old library of the Imperial family, and even what remains is too absurd.
The descriptions of "a tree connected to all worlds" and "an earthly manager sent down by the gods" could only be regarded as myths.
But he didn't think it really existed under the abandoned sea, the deep sea, where there was no light. It was more like a horrible story than a myth.
"Huh.."
Even John, who had a straight personality, frowned and looked like he was upset.
In the depths of the sea, the endless trunks of the trees looked like an axis through the sea. Every branch with no leaves was dangling with rotten fruit.
It had eyes, a nose, and a mouth, so it looked like a newborn's face. Because of its withered appearance, it looked like a newborn baby on fire, which made it look even more bizarre.
The fruits were crying in the deep sea, making a noise and crying without ceasing. He was fortunate that he could hear it faintly, thanks to the sphere that served as a barrier.
"That's it... What is the true nature of the disaster?"
As he had been battling disasters all his life, he seemed to recognize them right away, even if they looked different.
When John realized that the disaster was the fruit of the contaminated World Tree, he felt emptiness in his voice.
"I guess this is why the regeneration is slow."
This sea was completely 'polluted'. The power of the purifier is the exact opposite of the purifying power, the power to corrupt the sacred.
The level of pollution, which increases when using the Sense, is soaring quickly just by being in this sea. Even the regeneration of the S-class Transcendent slows down.
At that moment, a woman's cheerful voice came from outside the sphere.
"This is how it happened. They all followed me."
Victor's brow furrowed at the voice.
"What? ...Isn't this sherbet or a woman's voice doing something? Why do you hear that woman's voice here?"
At the moment when Shion and John also had the same question, they shouted, "Boom!" With a sound, an old woman pressed her face close to the transparent sphere. Her light blue eyes scanned as if she were trying to look into the sphere.
"Nothing goes as planned. All I needed was Odette."
Although they were of different ages, the old woman's features and voice were the same as Charlotte's. Realizing that she was the mastermind of disaster, the Transcendentas tensed up to protect Odette.
It was then that Shion found something hanging from the old woman's neck.
'The gills of the Kraken.'
Shion's eyes narrowed when he recognized those gills.
The Kraken was a sea monster like Cerberus, parasitizing inside Shion, and the phoenix parasitizing Inside Viktor. It was also an S-class monster that parasitized inside the Transcendent in the distant past.
'Who is the Transcendent that Kraken parasitized. He's the one in the Bible.'
An S-Class transcendent who rose from his hospital bed thanks to the miracle of Rosalyn, the first purifier. A historical figure who is said to have brought the first victory from disaster.
The Kraken's gills, which would have vanished with the death of the Transcendent, hung from Charlotte's neck.
***
It had been a month since Rosalyn lied to the priests.
After feeding Mengele, Hannah withered rapidly. She had lost weight and her complexion had darkened to a frightening degree, and she looked like a dying old tree.
The wasps quickly devoured Hannah's purifying power, and the more she did, the more the water in Rosalyn's awakening dream slowly filled. It was so large that it reminded her of a fountain in a square.
However, even if she could take the liquid from Hannah, she could not take away the power of purification. Rosalyn's liquid was red and thick, and corruption and darkness, far from the light of purification, were always sinking to the bottom.
'I'm worried about this lie.'
The World Tree could be given an oracle to a priest or another priest at any time. She doesn't know when the World Tree will expose Rosalyn's lies.
Since she started lying, she had to finish it. She couldn't stop until she was perfect. Therefore, she chose to go to the basement of the Great Temple.
"The Great Hall is protected because of the branches of the World Tree. Because there are branches of the World Tree, the priest can receive an oracle..."
It protects the Great Hall from all kinds of misdeeds, and it is the most powerful way to connect the Great Hall and the World Tree. It was to steal the branches of the World Tree, which was heavily protected.
But the moment she managed to cross the rope and grab the branch.
"Kyaa!"
It glowed as if rejecting Rosalyn, burning her palms. However, despite the burning pain, Rosalyn did not let go of the branch until the end.
'Do you think I'm going to back down like this? If I were going to step down from here, I haven't even started. I'm going to be a real S-class!'
Rosalyn spilled the liquid she had stolen from Hannah. The thick liquid of corruption and darkness rippled out into the scorched palms.
The branches lost their light as they became wetter, and then they turned red. The tree branches that were alive began to rot in an Instant.
When all the water she had stolen from Hannah had flowed away, a withered fruit bore at the end of a branch, drenched with the scent of roses.
The moment the fruit bore fruit, enlightenment came over her like a thunderbolt as if communing with a tree branch.
The World Tree is God's representative, who is connected to all worlds. As if to prove her, the truth of all the world unfolded before her eyes.
Rosalyn realized her past life as Han Song-i and the distant future that would unfold when Han Su-wan appeared. The truth that unfolded before her eyes could be summed up in a single sentence.
"Rosalyn can enjoy eternal life as a purifier. If only Han Su-wan could handle it."
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