Chapter 132
Chapter 132
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 132
Chapter Title: Divine Bloodline's Trials
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Being born into the divine bloodline didn't mean one could live an easy life.
As players, their awakenings were confirmed, and though Go Jaehan and Shin Sookyung granted them freedom, that bloodline always carried the weight of divinity.
KABOOM!
At first, it was true that he felt a rebellious spirit toward such a life.
KABOOOM!
But soon enough, he came to realize.
Just how blessed—and enviable—this life truly was.
From that moment, he began to embrace the weight.
It wasn't so bad, in fact.
KABOOOOOM!
Living as a player was the perfect outlet for Go Yunsu to unleash the energy dwelling within him.
Like his other siblings, Go Yunsu sought out gates and never shied away from battle.
In some ways, he might even have had it better than his eldest brother, bound to the country, or his youngest sister, focused on activities in America.
Go Yunsu had operated alongside Royal, providing support for gates across the world.
THUD!
That had been the case.
Drip.
Go Yunsu let out a hollow chuckle as he glanced at the blood trickling down his forearm.
All his experience up to now seemed utterly meaningless.
It felt just like the moment he had first awakened as a player and stepped into his inaugural gate.
"Hah!"
A strength that drew a hollow laugh without fail.
The Cyclops, rated as an S-Rank monster, lived up to its reputation.
Estimated level 500.
And there were nearly ten of them.
Drip, drop.
[Experience accumulated in the mana storage seeps into the player.]
[Level up.]
"Hah."
This time, the hollow laugh held a different meaning.
"Looks like a real lunatic was actually born into our family."
The pendant sent by Go Yohan—given by their usually stoic youngest brother—he had simply regarded it as a welcome trinket, nothing more.
"A lunatic, huh?"
He had no idea where its limits even were.
Without the pendant from Go Yohan and Paluka's aid, he would have died dozens of times over by now.
"That lord..."
"We can praise the kid together later."
"Very well."
And one more thing.
Humm.
At some point, Rachel had snapped out of her daze and was lending her support.
She still seemed utterly baffled by how she was wielding such power.
[Protection of Alunta activates.]
[Players' defense increases.]
[Blessing of Alunta activates.]
[Players' attack power increases.]
She possessed the power of that incredibly rare buffer class.
And thanks to it...
SKREEEEEK!
Go Yunsu, Paluka, and the few remaining players were holding on.
But.
"...We're screwed, aren't we?"
"Looks like it."
Her voice was light, but their faces had darkened considerably.
BOOM! THUD! THUD!
Earth-shaking roars.
A massive form was charging straight toward them.
A Cyclops—but with two heads.
"Twin-Headed Cyclops..."
A monster that hadn't even been sighted, only speculated about.
S-Rank, but its power was palpably beyond any ordinary Cyclops.
Humm.
The level reader whirred noisily, spinning erratically.
[Estimated level...]
By the time the Twin-Headed Cyclops had closed in, the level reader announced.
[582]
A dizzyingly distant number.
KABOOM!
The Twin-Headed Cyclops slammed its foot into the ground and thrust its face forward in an eerie pose.
Zzzing, ziiing, ziiiing!
Mana swirled from all directions, gathering destructive crimson light into its two eyes.
...!
No words were needed.
The moment that finished charging, an unstoppable annihilation would arrive.
Their response was immediate.
KAAAA!
He drew upon every last ounce of strength, reallocating everything he had been carefully rationing against the Cyclopes.
And then.
Crackle!
Like the Cyclops, Go Yunsu drove his foot into the earth.
Grrrrk.
His muscles clenched around the spear, compressing to the bursting point.
Bang!
First, Paluka's spear launched as a javelin toward the Cyclops' eye.
It faltered, as if losing momentum amid the destructive light.
Crunch!
Yet it ultimately embedded deep into the Cyclops' eye.
And right after.
BWOOOSH!
Go Yunsu's spear tore through the air toward the remaining eye.
But.
"...Damn it."
Too late.
The destructive light had already fully charged.
KAAAAAAAA-!
It shredded Go Yunsu's spear and hurtled toward him in that frozen moment.
Whirrr! Whirrr! Whirr!
The level reader began malfunctioning on its own.
And then.
Pop!
It exploded, unable to handle the output.
'Why?'
Ironically, on the brink of death, that question arose.
Swish.
But seeing Paluka smiling at him, he knew instinctively.
"You've arrived."
KAAAAA!
"You rascal."
If those were his final words, how ridiculous would that be?
Yet Go Yunsu and Paluka both knew they weren't.
KAAAAAAAA!
The beam of destruction split in two right before their faces, veering harmlessly past the players and civilians.
Right in front of Go Yunsu's nose.
What he saw was silver-white hair.
KABOOOOOOM!
Behind, the beam wrought true devastation in a massive explosion—but it didn't matter.
Hadn't he said it?
"Not too late, right?"
"That was close."
The kid had come.
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*
He tore through dimensions and intruded.
His hypersensitive divine sight immediately locked onto his target.
He kicked off the empty air.
And leaped in.
"Not too late, right?"
He extended his hand, slicing space to warp the beam of destruction.
Behind him.
KABOOOOOOM!
An explosion rang out.
The Cyclops' heat ray reducing the land behind to wasteland.
But what followed was.
KABOOOOOOM!
The explosions from the air Go Yohan had shredded to reach this place.
The heat ray cleared.
And the revealed sight was.
"...Hah."
Enough to make Go Yunsu chuckle hollowly once more.
He hadn't even seen what happened, but one side of the Twin-Headed Cyclops—something he was certain would overwhelm him even at full strength—had been completely torn away.
"Just how much of a monster have you become?"
"Well..."
The face turning back.
Thud!
The sound of the Twin-Headed Cyclops, having lost one head, collapsing outright.
"Is that what you say to a little brother you haven't seen in ages?"
"Impressive."
Go Yunsu said.
"And proud."
At that, the two brothers smirked.
Go Yunsu was different from Go Woojin or Go Minji.
...
Beside him, Paluka trembled, not daring to speak.
He soon.
Swish.
Tried to bow despite his injuries.
"No need for that. You did well."
...! Th-thank... thank you.
There would be things to discuss about Paluka with Go Yunsu.
But not now.
Step.
Go Yohan passed straight by Go Yunsu.
"Go Yohan...!"
Go Yunsu tried to grab him, but Go Yohan was already at his target destination, far ahead.
Tremble.
Before Go Yohan's nose was a blonde woman huddled and shaking.
...
She gasped as if unable to even breathe properly—not from sudden awakening or mana overuse.
"Yo-you... da-da..."
She looked like a terrified child wailing.
"Yo-you... what... are you...?"
The reason she was so frightened was no one other than Go Yohan.
Rachel.
In her awakened gaze.
KAAAAAAAAAA!
Go Yohan appeared as the incarnation of unfathomable, dense darkness itself.
"If anything, that's what I want to ask."
It was as if the darkness itself was speaking to her.
"What are you, exactly?"
In Go Yohan's gaze, she didn't appear human at all.
Through his divine sight, her very composition was pure white light.
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To cut to the chase, Rachel fainted again.
From this, it was clear she wasn't an ordinary person.
Nor even an ordinary player.
Moreover.
"...She doesn't even know what she is herself."
Rachel herself seemed unaware of what kind of being she had become.
"Go Yohan."
Then Go Yunsu approached and spoke.
"Rachel is..."
He had received reports about Rachel.
Go Yunsu's deep confidante, his lover.
"Rachel is..."
Go Yunsu seemed to want to say something but couldn't bring himself to.
He had noticed she was the cause of all this, and one suspicion gnawed at him.
"She didn't approach with any ulterior motives."
Go Yohan dispelled that doubt.
"I checked beforehand."
...
"But it doesn't seem to be the British Royal Family either."
"The Royals? Royal?"
"Yes."
Go Yohan said.
"They only identified her as a key figure once she boarded the flight to Korea. If not, she wouldn't have been on that plane to begin with..."
Go Yohan continued.
"...or connected with you, brother."
The British Royal Family had long been aware of the Temple.
Though Go Yohan himself had only recently surfaced, reports indicated they knew of the Temple's heavy involvement with Korea's divinity.
They were watchful, but cautious.
Precisely that level.
"And."
Go Yohan's words weren't over yet.
"They wouldn't have revealed themselves so urgently like this."
...?
Go Yunsu hadn't caught on yet, but Paluka seemed to have.
Considering the zealots attached to the divine bloodline and the players cultivated by Go Yohan and his apostles, it wasn't surprising.
"What do you mean by that?"
"They're here. In person."
Go Yohan walked forward.
"You can ask them directly about the rest."
Go Yohan had arrived in North Korea where his plane had vanished, using his divine sight to locate and open the hidden gate.
Even he had taken time.
Whoooosh.
So how in the world.
...! "Them?"
How had they gotten here so fast?
"...Royal."
Royal Guild—they had revealed themselves, appearing right ahead.