Chapter 318
Chapter 318
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 318
Chapter Title: Sepiro (4)
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The hidden treasure vault had originally been completely empty.
This was because Baal's sword had devoured every treasure inside upon becoming 'Transcendence-exclusive equipment'.
However, strictly speaking, it wasn't entirely empty.
Things like blessings, which Baal's sword couldn't consume because they weren't 'equipment', remained.
The Blessing of the Goddess of Life was one such example.
Normally, one wouldn't call a blessing a treasure, after all.
Of course, there could be treasures containing blessings, but this was the blessing itself—a sort of 'spiritual entity' close to a holy spirit.
A spirit infused with the goddess's power.
Such items were still plentiful in the treasure vault.
Aheta had been a greedy bastard, collecting anything he deemed special without discrimination.
'Easter Egg (004)!'
And so, the moment Park Chan-woo selected the 'Blessing of the Goddess of Life',
along with the message that he had overcome his final greed, the fourth Easter Egg appeared.
"...What an odd condition."
But he soon tilted his head in puzzlement.
He had no choice but to.
It was vastly different from the acquisition conditions of the Easter Eggs he'd obtained so far.
The first Easter Egg, earned after clashing with the upper demon Andariel over the 'Reaper's Covenant' on the first night and erasing him.
The second, gained by performing a soul ritual for the soul of the true demon 'Balzac', a human spirit corrupted by the Demon Lord.
Saving Arcana had transformed the divine stigmata into the third Easter Egg.
He had thought that only by achieving the impossible, the incalculable, the sacred and noble 'First Feat' could one obtain an 'Easter Egg'.
But this Easter Egg, born from his 'choice', was the first of its kind.
Overcome the final greed...
Was it because completing the 'Baal Set' was as monumental as those other conditions up above?
He examined the egg in his hand.
Only after reading the description did Park Chan-woo nod.
...Incarnation of greed, huh.
'That fits me perfectly.'
The wording felt a bit excessive, but he acknowledged it.
He could confidently say no other human prioritized greed as much as he did.
Ever since facing Sepiro.
Even before regressing, Park Chan-woo had indulged in 'endless greed'.
It wasn't entirely bad.
Challenging the 'dual class' that even the strong avoided, or the idea of offering Sepiro to the Demon-Sealing God for regression—it all stemmed from greed.
Becoming an archmage surpassing Sepiro.
How voracious was that?
Anyone else would have scoffed.
But reining in his greed to this extent was definitely a first.
He had even turned away from Baal's boots right in front of him.
That was how vital a talent 'Adora' was.
'Adora has staked her life for me countless times.'
There had been noble sacrifices.
She believed he had saved her, but strictly speaking, it was far from salvation.
It was merely a situation driven by his own 'greed'.
Orcmaster Kankun, Death Witch Adora.
Mediating between them was just an effort to reap greater rewards.
And even if he had truly saved Adora.
'She's already repaid it all manifold.'
Adora had done more than the maximum she could.
He had even granted her request to become the demon lord she hated most as a witch.
As a creator, she had developed territories and cleared numerous creator Abysses in Korea.
Above all, she had once sacrificed her 'Wish' to save Park Chan-woo.
She had offered her second Wish without hesitation inside the Great Rift.
'Without Adora, Sepiro would have done as he pleased.'
And that wasn't all.
She had even cast an 'Absolute Curse' on Sepiro.
This, too, was staked on her very life.
She owed him nothing more.
If anything, it was he who owed her.
...If he had wavered over mere desire and chosen 'Baal's Boots', Park Chan-woo would have despised himself.
Even as the incarnation of greed, he had that much common sense.
Though that choice led to the 'Easter Egg', he wouldn't have regretted it even if he hadn't obtained it.
"...".
Park Chan-woo was at a loss for words.
He could only blink vacantly.
By giving up one, he gained everything.
Moreover, the treasures here were what 'Aheta' had amassed with all his might.
Aheta was particularly greedy even among demon lords.
How else could he have possessed the full 'Baal Set'?
Though the equipment had all been devoured by 'Baal's Sword', the non-equipment items remained.
But the most crucial part was.
'Hidden Treasure Vault!'
This was something even ordinary creators couldn't have.
With the Night's authority transferred, it should have gone to the 'Black Witch' by rights.
Yet he had claimed it.
...Thinking about it calmly.
The 'Moon' of Night, the absolute magic created by Sepiro.
He possessed that moon as well.
"...I could become the administrator of Night."
If he won the Racial War and the Black Witch died, it wasn't impossible.
He might not manage Night personally, but he could entrust it to Adora.
With the Hidden Treasure Vault and an absolute magic to replace the 'Moon'!
Moreover, Adora was the Death Witch acknowledged by the Black Witch herself.
In other words.
Rather than usurpation, there was a possibility of 'inheriting' Night's rights.
Even further... perhaps subjugating the witches themselves.
As long as the Black Witch was gone.
'Another reason to win the Racial War.'
It made no sense for dragons to rank low.
They couldn't lag behind the witches.
The only sticking point was.
The other Twelve Races.
'They must have noticed the anomaly.'
The Twelve Races were more obsessed with each other than even the demons.
Especially their fixation on dragons—on Sepiro—was at a fanatic level.
By now, they likely had a grasp on all the irregularities.
'First... ascend to the Dragon God Temple.'
Park Chan-woo shook his head.
Prioritizing the ascent to the Dragon God Temple over other worries.
Only then could he save Adora and everyone else.
The dragonkin were in an uproar.
The news had reached the ears of every clan.
"...His Divinity has created a new 'avatar'?"
"He will ascend to the Dragon God Temple to confirm it?"
"What happened to the previous avatar, then?"
It was obviously about Sepiro.
For ages, Sepiro had used a single avatar.
That avatar had never changed, never died.
It had lived on par with Sepiro's own birth, and now he intended to replace it?
But Shuraphim had announced it.
To the dragons.
To all the clans.
"It was devoured by the Great Rift...?"
"His Divinity?"
"You're telling us to believe that, Shuraphim?"
The previous avatar had vanished after being swallowed by the Great Rift.
It was unbelievable.
Everyone had sensed the ominous movements of the Black Witch and the demon gods.
They were aware of the Great Rift's emergence.
Yet the story that Sepiro's avatar had been devoured and erased by a mere Great Rift was hard to swallow.
It was an avatar that had even faced demon gods.
Who could imagine it falling to a single Great Rift?
Especially the dragons, who revered Sepiro as a god.
"It's truly His Divinity's avatar, right?"
"Shuraphim, Darkan... are you sure you didn't mistake it?"
The heads of the Despair and Sloth clans.
No clan would mobilize lightly just because those two suddenly made an announcement.
Despair and Sloth didn't hold much sway within the dragonkin.
Shuraphim herself was respected, but the Despair clan wasn't highly regarded.
Not unless they were among the so-called 'Three Supreme Clans'.
Radiance, Truth, Eternity.
These were the highest-status beings among the dragonkin.
"We, who serve Sepiro directly in the Dragon God Temple, didn't know."
"And you claim you did?"
"Ridiculous."
They let out hollow laughs.
Though the avatar had indeed vanished, Sepiro's disappearances without word weren't rare occurrences.
They spanned days or even weeks.
But he always gave a heads-up for truly important matters.
Yet they had been completely unaware of the new Dragon God Sepiro avatar's emergence.
No, not even that it had been swallowed by the 'Great Rift'.
And now the Despair and Sloth clans were the first to report it.
All clans shared the same thought.
Even with announcements from clan heads Shuraphim and Darkan.
"...If it's false, you will bear the consequences."
"Wager your entire clans on it."
"If death holds no fear, then ascend to the Dragon God Temple."
If it was a lie.
If the being they spoke of was a fake.
Everything connected to that fake would be eradicated.
Not a single ant left behind—they would all be annihilated.
The Despair and Sloth clans needed no further warning.
One by one, dragons began ascending to the Dragon God Temple.
Those out on leisure, those active in other Abysses.
...Even the Ancient Dragons and the 'Primordial Dragons' that raised Sepiro.
Not one was absent; all ascended to the Dragon God Temple.
To verify if the new Sepiro avatar was the 'real' one.
Among them, the Radiance, Truth, and Eternity clans were utterly convinced that Shuraphim and Darkan had seen wrong.
And so, to the Dragon God Temple.
"...".
"...".
All dragons had gathered.