The Mythical Hunter has Returned - Chapter 186



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Episode 186

Hyun Lee repeated in a small voice as he watched the white spirit moving away from his body.

“This isn’t what I wanted.”

His eyes turned towards the horribly distorted Abyss.

The surrounding area is covered with terrible magic and monsters.

There are countless gods and apostles fighting against him.

The smell of blood hung thick in the air.

Lee Hyun’s face distorted as he watched the people dying.

“iced coffee….”

A sigh filled with belated regret.

His trembling eyes turned to me again.

Blood was still gushing from my chest.

As the force of the fountain of blood gushing out gradually weakened, Lee Hyun’s face relaxed.

“Oh, my… oh my… Dojin… .”

Is this a thank you to him for putting an end to this horrible spectacle he has created?

Or is it gratitude for being corrected on the wrong path?

I don’t know why he’s telling me this, but the gratitude he’s expressing to me now is definitely sincere.

‘Since when have I been influenced by the Creator…?’

“Sleep well.”

Lee Hyun’s eyes closed as he looked at me.

He was laughing.

I took my eyes off Lee Hyun and saw a white soul falling from his body.

It seemed too weak to be called a creator god.

The creator god had lost his only believer.

To the gods, faith is the ultimate indicator of power.

A god who loses faith loses his power and disappears.

Just because Lee Hyeon died, he became such a worthless white soul.

This meant that he had only one believer, Lee Hyeon.

‘Then the power of the Creator is Lee Hyeon’s faith.’

I could see how strong and noble Lee Hyeon’s faith was.

I reached out to the soul that was trying to fly into the sky.

When you try to grasp something that is too insignificant to be called a god.

Still!

-Kuaaaah!

A man who emerged from the Abyss.

He caught the spirit of the creator god who was looking for new believers before me.

-Hoohoohoo, Creator God, is this the result of your choice?

-Let go! It’s not over yet!

-The only believer is dead, so what else is there here?

I saw a man holding onto the creator god who had become a spirit.

It was a familiar face.

“Xenon?”

Zenon, the god of destruction.

The other world god I killed in my previous life.

The god of destruction and the leader of the other-worldly gods.

After killing that bastard, he gained the job of a God Slayer and went back to the past, so he remembered better than anyone else.

-Ah, Kim Do-jin. I saw it well. I mean, the journey you continued to take to kill the Creator God.

“… … .”

I held the nameless one.

I have experience killing once.

Twice won’t be impossible.

“How do you know my name?”

-I know. I gave you that power.

“… … ?”

I glared at the guy.

-Of course I don’t remember giving you strength. That can’t be helped, because I’ve never met you in this timeline.

Zenon continued, smiling.

-But I know. Whoever kills me will inherit my power. The power to destroy the opponent and destroy everything.

“… This is your power?”

-Yeah. Thanks to that, I can no longer use any power in this world.

Zenon laughed and waved his arms.

-Well, thanks to that, I had a fun time. I can’t tell you how much fun it was to see you kill the gods one by one.

He continued speaking, looking at the Creator God in his hand.

-I was waiting to see this arrogant and foolish child collapse, unable to overcome his own desires.

-You guys don’t know! What a great blessing it is for God to be free from faith!

The creator god cried out.

I ignored the words of such a creator god and spoke to Zeno.

“The Abyss of Desire said it gave me this power. What happens then?”

-Ah, the Abyss of Desire. Have you been there?

“Yes. There I saw the desires of the gods. And why they were tainted by greed.”

Their lives were treated as gods.

And the loneliness of the forgotten.

I saw there a desire to escape this life.

Zeno nodded at my words.

-Yes. It is true that the Abyss of Desire gave them power. And it is true that it gave you power.

“You gave me strength?”

-I too am a being who gained power from the Abyss of Desire. Since my power went to you, it can be seen that you were influenced by the Abyss of Desire.

“Is that what you mean? What kind of place is the Abyss of Desire?”

Hearing those words, Zeno looked at me while holding the Creator God in his hand.

-I’d like to tell you, but it’s impossible here. Will you follow me?

“What do I trust you for?”

– Don’t be alarmed. I don’t have the power to kill you. I am as weak as the Creator God who is now in your hands, having been stripped of all my power. If you kill me, you kill me, but I cannot kill you.

I bounced off the little eater of truth I brought just in case.

It seemed as if those words were true, as the black ink still had a black tint to it.

“Okay.”

-Okay. Follow me.

Zenon snapped his fingers.

At that moment, the space where Zeno and I were standing changed.

A black space with nothing in it.

But I knew where this was.

The final Abyss that killed Zenon in his previous life.

-You said you were curious about the Abyss of Desire?

“okay.”

-The Abyss of Desire is a place that is not ruled by any god. The Abyss itself can be said to be a god. And it is the beginning and the end of all gods.

“Wait a minute, that sounds exactly like the Abyss of Desire is the Creator God.”

-No. Creation makes a beginning, but it cannot finish an end.

“Then I guess I’ll need both your power and the power of the Creator.”

-Yes. The Abyss of Desire is a place where two opposing forces collide and are born. And the beings there constantly test God.

Zeno’s face hardened.

“Like me and Lee Hyeon?”

-Yes. It’s similar. Just like you guys fought. Lee Hyeon fought on behalf of the Creator God, and Kim Do Jin, you fought on behalf of me, Zenon.

“It’s the power that makes you do anything to achieve your desires.”

Zenon nodded.

“Then isn’t the Abyss of Desire the real god?”

-That may be so. But that guy is a kind of ‘concept’. It is a concept of desire that is neither a god nor a human being with a specific self. Strictly speaking, should we say that it is a being higher than God?

Zenon smiled.

His smile seemed somewhat tired.

It’s a concept.

It was the first time I heard that there was a being that was so much higher than God.

Does this mean that the concept of desire bewitched God, and thus the ego was created in the abyss of desire?

Looking at Zeno’s eyes, it seemed like this thought was probably right.

-Your head is sharp. I can see that you understood it right away.

“So even God isn’t perfect after all.”

-Since I have descended into this world, there is nothing I can do about it.

There was a brief silence.

“Why are you telling me this?”

-I felt it when you took my power. That I was tired.

“Are you tired?”

-We fought hundreds, thousands of times in a nearly endless loop. I probably fought him in situations I don’t remember.

“Does that mean it’s burdensome now?”

-Yeah. There’s no reason to fight anymore. Not even for the Creator or me.

Zeno was speaking his truth.

-I want to break all the chains of evil. That’s why I came to you.

“If you stop here, your fight won’t end, right?”

-Yes. Somewhere, another me and the Creator God may be fighting for their lives. Just like the many Abyss worlds that have opened up in this world so far.

I heard that the world of the Abyss was once a world inhabited by beings who believed in those gods.

Now, it is a land that has been twisted and broken by the greed of God, and only monsters remain.

If Zeno’s words were true, it meant that the battle between the God of Creation and the God of Destruction continued in the world within the Abyss, and the result was destruction.

After thinking for a moment, I asked the guy.

“Then what kind of beings are the monsters of the Abyss and the gods of the other world?”

-Simple. The last god left behind as a result of the battle between the creator god and the destroyer god of that world.

The sea god Azur and the lava giant Ignis were both the result of the battle between the god of destruction and the god of creation.

“Does that mean we got our butts kicked by your fight?”

-I’m sorry, but that’s true.

“That’s a little annoying.”

Zeno had no answer.

-The Abyss is the remnants of our fight. This world would have ended up like that too. If the Creator had won, the gods who held humanity’s last faith would have created monsters and fought each other to take over this world.

“What if you won?”

I saw a future where the creator god won.

But I have never seen a future where the God of Destruction wins.

-Then the world will disappear. Not even a single Abyss will remain.

“Then what happens to you?”

-I’ve finished my role in destroying the world, so I’m just going to disappear.

I saw Zeno.

“So all of this happened because of the concept of the Abyss of Desire?”

-okay.

“Can’t we get rid of it?”

Zenon shook his head.

-There is a way, but if we do that, this world will lose its power.

“Because it’s the desire that moves this world?”

-You know a lot.

The desire to be better. The desire to live a better life. The desire to live more comfortably.

This world was created by the gathering and movement of countless people’s desires.

If it is excessive, it can lead to bad endings, but if it is not excessive, it can lead to healthy development.

Just like the god of creation and the god of destruction.

“Then, the freedom without faith that the Creator wants is….”

-If you think about it, it is a disastrous greed that will lead this world to destruction.

“Are you saying that you will break the chain by letting go of your desire to destroy?”

-okay.

Only then did Zeno smile again.

-What do you think? Now the choice is yours. A human who has gained the power of the God of Destruction and stopped the greed of the God of Creation. Kim Do-jin, who has come this far with the sole goal of protecting humanity and ending the greed of the gods, it is your choice.

Zeno said, showing the soul of the creator god he held in his hand.

-Will you break the Creator’s greed and bring peace to this world? Or will you become the master of a new desire? If not… .

The corners of Zeno’s mouth went up.

– Another way is to destroy this world so that desire never appears again.

“You want me to become a destroyer like you?”

-okay.

That’s funny.

If I was going to destroy the world, I wouldn’t have come this far.

It wasn’t always good things, but the world wasn’t one to crumble and disappear because of such things.

“What happens if I kill both of you?”

-The passage connecting this world and the Abyss will disappear, and peace will come.

I shook my head.

“No, I mean the gods.”

-Well? You’ll lose a significant portion of your powers. You’ll become a being superior to an ordinary human.

“Me too.”

-I don’t know about that. It’s the first time I’ve been at a crossroads like you.

I was lost in thought for a moment.

select.

It was a heavy word.

The fact that my choices could change the order of this world weighed heavily on my heart.

“Phew, now it’s time to make a choice.”

After being lost in thought for a while, I slowly opened my mouth while looking at Zeno.

“I am….”