Chapter 46: Hexennacht (5).

<<Are you suddenly calling out the law name.>>

<<I made a mistake. I’ll correct it. ‘No One’.>>

<<…Heukgumiho.>>

The huge voice echoed everywhere.

<<What are you doing now. Even though your vessel has already learned my name. Besides………>>

Thung, the air vibrated.

The huge energy in front of her was laughing self-deprecatingly.

<<I’m already dying.>>

At those words, Chayeon lowered her head again and looked at the collapsed man.

Before she knew it, the man’s breath had stopped.

<<You’ve been eaten quite a bit.>>

<<Yeah. In this state without a vessel, I’ll soon be annihilated.>>

The 7th Divine Pillar, Odysseus.

That was what Heukgu had called the opponent.

This huge universe in front of her was the Shinryeong, the main body.

“…Who are you?”

Chayeon, who had been watching the two Shinryeong’s conversation, opened her mouth.

However, her eyes were towards the corpse below, not the air.

This was a Shinryeong, moreover one of the Seven Divine Pillars, she could tell just by listening to their conversation.

Chayeon had asked like this.

Who is this man that you were dwelling in, and why is he here.

<<How audacious. Well, are you talking about this child.>>

The Shinryeong’s eyes were towards the corpse that was lying below.

Even though she couldn’t see it, she could feel that it was so.

<<The child who was protecting this island with me until just now. To be exact, all three of you.>>

She lifted her head, wondering what she meant by all three of you, but she guessed it soon.

Chayeon, Arena, Byul.

-Because there is also a reliable person protecting this island for us.

On the first day she opened her eyes on the island, Byul had said that.

Was the reliable person she had talked about referring to this man?

<<It seems that’s right. Odysseus owed a debt to her ancestor in the past.>>

<<It’s an old story.>>

Heukgu answered Chayeon’s thought and Odysseus added after.

<<But you also know that that’s not what we’re curious about.>>

Heukgu opened his mouth again.

The vessel of the 7th Divine Pillar, Odysseus, who had been protecting the three, including Chayeon.

Why is such a person dying in a place like this.

<<I was about to talk about that, but, Heukgumiho. I warn you. Take your vessel and run away from this island.>>

A voice that resonated through the air.

<<Run away? What a joke.>>

<<There is Polyphemus on this island.>>

At Odysseus’s following words, Heukgu had no choice but to be surprised as well.

<<If it’s Polyphemus, are you talking about the one-eyed demon. That guy is…………….>>

<<Yeah, I killed him a long time ago.>>

Odysseus, cutting off his words once.

<<He has been resurrected.>>

<<…Resurrected?>>

<<Yeah. Not just Polyphemus. Jormungandr, Leviathan, Gandharva, Hwedo,
Odysseus’s words continued to be said.

Along with that, Heukgu’s surprised aura was felt all the way here.

<<The countless demon kings that we killed for a long time, to borrow the words of humans these days, all the royalty class demons>>

<<Are you saying they have all been resurrected.>>

<<…Your habit of stealing other people’s words as you please is still the same. That’s right. I was attacked by those guys.>>

Heukgu groaned at Odysseus’s words.

Chayeon was quietly putting the unfamiliar names that were coming out one after another into her ears.

<<How could that be possible.>>

<<Your intuition has died, Heukgumiho. How many existences throughout the past and present do you think can do something similar to this?>>

<<…Yggdrasil?>>

Heukgu mentioned the name that had first come to mind, but Odysseus lightly denied it.

<<Are you saying that seriously?>>

<<That’s right.>>

There was no reason for Yggdrasil to revive the demons at all.

Heukgu, who had been thinking quietly, suddenly began to waver.

That wavering affected Chayeon’s mind as well.

“Haa-euk!”

<<I’m sorry about this.>>

Heukgu, who had quickly regained her mind, resonated with the air in a tone that was as if she couldn’t believe it.

<<Could it be that you’re talking about ‘that’.>>

<<It seems like you’ve finally grasped it.>>

Odysseus, drives in the wedge.

<<Mephistopheles.>>

Mephistopheles.

It was a name she had heard somewhere.

Where was it?

After thinking carefully, Chayeon soon found the answer.

It was the name of the demon that comes out in the play Faust.

It was the story of Faust, a stoic scholar, making a contract with a demon, and then eventually being corrupted by his desires and having his soul taken away.

Like Uroboros, she had thought that Mephistopheles was just a name that came out in stories or legends, but did he actually exist?

Chayeon’s impression was about that much, but the atmosphere between Heukgu and Odysseus was completely different.

<<But if it’s Mephistopheles, then he would have been sealed even before ‘we’ were born. How did he wake up again.>>

<<Why are you asking me that? However, I am certain.>>

Odysseus continued her words.

<<Mephistopheles is the only existence who can do something like this.>>

Heukgu groaned quietly.

As Odysseus said, the only one who could do something like this throughout the past and present was Mephistopheles.

<<Then does that mean that the royalty-class demons who had died once have been resurrected?>>

<<It will be starting again. Hexennacht.>>

Hexennacht.

This time, it was a word that she was really hearing for the first time.

“What is Hexennacht?”

Chayeon cut in.

<<It’s also called Walpurgis Night. It’s an event that is like a great disaster for us Shinryeong and humans.>>

A great disaster.

<<Already, dozens of rifts have appeared on this island alone. They are spreading from the center of the island. It would be good for you to run away quickly too.>>

<<Who do you think is running away.>>

<<If it was the original you, even if there were several royalty class demons, it wouldn’t have been a problem. But you’ve lost your power, haven’t you.>>

<<The opportunity to replenish my power has come just in time.>>

At Heukgu’s words, Odysseus showed a surprised aura.

<<…Is that so. You’re right. You’re right.>>

<<Since I’m going to die anyway, wouldn’t it be better to become a weapon to fight against those guys in the future.>>

<<That’s right.>>

Heukgu and Odysseus exchanged words, but Chayeon couldn’t follow the flow of the conversation.

<<Chayeon.>>

“…Huh?”

When Heukgu called her, Chayeon answered a beat late.

<<Take up your sword.>>

Along with those words, Heukgu’s sword, which had disappeared for a while, was implemented in Chayeon’s hand.

<<From now on, I will eat Odysseus.>>

……………Eating Odysseus?

Again, a beat late, Chayeon reacted to those words.

“Are you okay?”

<<What are you talking about.>>

“Aren’t you guys acquainted?”

Eating Odysseus.

Those words soon meant that she was going to kill Odysseus here and absorb the power.

<<This guy wants that too. Rather than disappearing meaninglessly like this, it would be better to be helpful to the world.>>

<<…>>

Odysseus was silent at Heukgu’s words.

“…If you say so.”

Since it’s something that Heukgu is doing, I’m sure she would have judged it well.

She lifted the hand that was holding the sword.

The energy flowing out from her heart slowly spread and moved towards the tip of the sword and gathered together.

Even if Heukgu didn’t tell her, Chayeon instinctively felt like she knew what to do.

<<I’ll leave the aftermath to you.>>

Odysseus said that as the last.

For some reason, Chayeon felt that those words were a greeting to her.

“Yes.”

So she answered that without realizing it.

She thrust in her sword.

The energy permeated her.

That sensation, which she had thought was achromatic, was actually cyan and white.

She could feel the energy surging and raging within her body.

The cyan and white energy, which had been tangled together and rampaging, was soon swallowed by the black energy, which was much larger than it.

The black energy that had surged in like a wave crashed down from all sides, and the cyan and white energy was swept away by the tsunami.

After all the processes were over, Chayeon’s body regained its peace.

She could tell.

Heukgu had regained her power.

The Heukgumiho, who had eaten the huge power called the Seven Divine Pillars, had now repaired all her wounds and regained her original appearance.

That meant that,

“…I can go back.”

Now Chayeon had a body that could go back to being a man.

If she wanted, Heukgu would ‘get out’ at any time, as she said, and look for a new vessel.

<<Are you going back?>>

Heukgu asked.

For the fourth time already, she was asking Chayeon the same question.

How had she answered the first and second times?

It seems like she had reacted as if there was no point in asking.

Had she considered another method when she heard it in prison?

And the fourth time that she had heard the same question.

“Don’t ask when you know the answer.”

<<I was testing the waters for the sake of natural communication.>>

At those words that she had heard somewhere, Chayeon could only chuckle.

“I have to go back.”

<<The situation is different from before. It would be good to hurry.>>

Even if she didn’t say it, Chayeon was thinking of doing so.

She didn’t know what Hexen whatever or Walpurgis was, but according to Odysseus’s words, this island was now swarming with dangerous demons.

That meant that Arena and Byul could also be in danger.

What was fortunate was that, unintentionally, powerful Ineungnyeokja were gathered around them.

Since there were as many as two of the Seven Divine Pillars, the mansion must be the safest place on this island.

<<I’m saying this because I think you’re mistaken about one thing, Yggdrasil doesn’t have combat ability. The only meaningful combat power that side can rely on against royalty class demons is Wolmyo. Join them quickly.>>

“F*ck, why are you telling me that now!”

At Heukgu’s belated words, Chayeon screamed and flew up.