Genius Regressor Makes Mythic Items

The Black Goat, Baal, and even Heavenly Demon. The most highly regarded among the constellations expressed their astonishment.

In reality,

Srrrrr.

The sky of the heavenly realm, which they had darkened, was brightening as if it were dawn. Instantly, it was brightening within that light.

“Splendid.”

“Indeed…”

A voice echoed, neither high-pitched nor low-pitched, yet undeniably holy. And then,

“Aah!”

“Oh, Father!”

Two archangels, Raphael and Gabriel, hurriedly knelt to show their respect.

Then,

“Obey his will.”

His will…

Obey…

With the final echo,

Srrk.

The pouring light vanished. After the indescribable light disappeared, Raphael was more energetic than ever.

“Really! This is really great! Gabriel!”

The reason was simple.

“Our Father personally descended! It’s clear He is pleased with your enlightenment!”

Since their Father, who rarely showed Himself, had personally descended. Gabriel, too, revealed a slightly elevated emotion on her usually emotionless face.

But, “That’s probably not the only reason, Raphael.”

She did not merely rejoice. She looked at the place where darkness still remained despite their Father’s descent.

There,

-This is surprising. That reclusive old man actually showed his face.

-Haha. It feels like it’s been eons since I last saw him.

-Hmm.

Among beings whose names would make any Constellation pale, stood a human, tapping his chin with his finger.

“You’re right. Gabriel. It’s likely because of Shimun-nim.”

“Didn’t Father say to follow Shimun-nim’s will?”

“Yes, he did.”

Raphael also nodded, looking in the same direction.

“That means the information about Lucifer… If Shimun-nim doesn’t want it revealed, we must not ask.”

“Indeed.”

Gabriel’s gaze briefly grew complicated.

Then,

“Phew. Since Father said so, we cannot force him if he does not wish.”

Gabriel let out a light sigh and shook her head. Raphael’s gaze on her turned slightly mischievous.

“Oh my. Can you even force him?”

“…”

Gabriel fell silent.

‘In the past, I would have risked annihilation to judge a fallen one…’

Her silver-blue eyes captured the figure of a pondering human.

“… In my current state, it seems impossible.”

She slightly lowered her head, murmuring softly as if to herself. Raphael’s face showed a slight daze upon seeing Gabriel. It was no surprise.

‘W-was that just now…’

Her usually emotionless sister, whose eyes and mouth barely showed any intense emotions like anger, were slightly curved.

‘Did she smile?’

But only for a moment.

“Then let’s carry out Father’s will.”

Click.

As Gabriel, with her usual emotionless face, started walking,

“Uh, right! Yes, we should!”

Raphael quickly regained her senses and followed her.

***

Meanwhile.

‘Why is that?’

Shimun slightly furrowed his elegant brows.

Tap, tap.

He tapped his chin with his long, white fingers.

‘That light just now…’

The holy voice, accompanied by the pouring light. It didn’t merely illuminate this entire place.

‘It penetrated my entire being.’

An irresistible force. It felt as if his very soul had been laid bare. The light that poured down penetrated every part of his existence, Kim Shimun, almost at a cellular level.

Yet, ‘It wasn’t intentional. It just naturally saw through my entire being.’

Just by sending its gaze, solely through that single action. This, ‘Omnipotence… there’s no other way to describe it.’

Even for Shimun, who had encountered divine beings, it left an impression of omnipotence itself. Shimun had experienced this sensation only once before.

‘The goddess of night, Nyx. Yes, it felt like facing her.’

Nyx, the goddess of night.

The goddess who resided in Tartaros, the hidden piece he encountered when he went to the River of the Underworld, Styx last time.

‘Just meeting her gaze felt like everything was being sucked in.’

A black hole. Or like traveling at the speed of light through the universe. The overwhelming sensation during his first meeting with Nyx had left his mind reeling.

Although unlike then, where it felt like being sucked in, the light now pierced through him. The sensation of ‘omnipotence’ was hardly any different.

This meant, ‘It implies that whoever it was is at least on par with Nyx, or even beyond…’

Conceivably higher than even the constellations connected with Zeus and the Black Goat who befriended Nyx.

‘Well, the name is Yahweh after all. It’s not surprising.’

Shimun let out a faint laugh.

Soon, ‘Then this means he also knows about Lucifer being sealed within the original Lemegeton I obtained…’

Just as the goddess of night, Nyx, had realized his regression.

‘Wait. Could it be that he knows about my regression too?’

Shimun’s smile faded, and his furrow deepened.

‘So he knew everything and still said nothing, just told them to follow my will?’

Was it a reward for helping his daughter, Gabriel, attain enlightenment?

However, considering it, ‘the things Lucifer has done seem pretty significant…’

Judging by the reactions of Baal and other constellations, Raphael summoning him to this place, and Gabriel’s urgent actions, which, in retrospect, were all due to Lucifer.

It didn’t seem like an ordinary incident at all. Yet, just passing it over and telling him to follow his own will?

The constellations of Shimun seemed to share the same thought,

-Huh. That damn old man. Still as inscrutable as ever. What’s he thinking?

-Wasn’t he always such? One who barely shows his true self.

-Hmm.

Each harbored doubts about Yahweh’s actions. At that moment, “Shimun-nim.”

Gabriel and Raphael approached. Thanks to achieving enlightenment?

Though not as much as Raphael, Gabriel, while still expressionless, asked with her clear silver-blue eyes, “You seem deep in thought. Is something troubling you?”

“Ah, well…”

‘I have no idea what your father is thinking.’

Unable to say that, Shimun hesitated for a moment.

“I was thinking about how to explain the matter of powers. It’s not strength I acquired by choice, you see.”

He responded with a mischievous smile. It wasn’t entirely a lie.

‘It was a gift from Lucifer, given suddenly under the pretext of a token of friendship. Before obtaining it, I didn’t know what kind of power it possessed either.’

Lucifer’s unexpected gift. It even caused him some difficulties with the sudden surge of power. Perhaps sensing Shimun’s sincerity, “You don’t need to worry about that anymore.”

Raphael shook her head with a warm smile.

“The initial reason we invited you here was to ask about the acquisition method of the powers and the whereabouts of Lucifer, but…”

Raphael glanced briefly at the sky where the light had poured down.

“Because our Father said to follow your will.”

“Indeed.”

Gabriel, who had remained silent, also nodded in agreement.

To this, Shimun responded,

“My will…”

Shimun pondered over Gabriel’s words.

‘This means there’s no need to talk further about Lucifer.’

He had already experienced firsthand the power of the mythic artifact. If, as Raphael said, this artifact carried Lucifer’s unique energy, expelling him now would most likely lead to losing the artifact as well.

Moreover, ‘Lucifer himself mentioned that he has a true self elsewhere.’

Lucifer had indicated that his true self was not the one currently before them. Even the constellations of Shimun were unsure of the true location of Lucifer’s essence.

‘If I expel him without thought, and he returns to Earth as a calamity, I’ll be the one in trouble.’

Having organized his thoughts, Shimun answered with a deepened smile,

“So, this just means I wasted my time being summoned here, experiencing unnecessary trouble?”

“I deeply apologize for that. It was never our intention.”

“I have no excuse for my rudeness.”

Raphael and Gabriel bowed their heads in apology. Shimun, who had been trying to lighten the mood with his playful remark, scratched the back of his head, seeing the two archangels being so serious in their apology.

‘This isn’t right…’

“Well, alright then.”

Since it had come to this, “I am a player. Instead of mere words, let’s settle this cleanly with a reward.”

Shimun straightforwardly demanded compensation.

“Though I couldn’t provide much information about Lucifer, it’s a fact that I wasted my time and effort coming here in vain, right?”

“Of course. We never intended to ask about Lucifer’s whereabouts without offering anything in return.”

Raphael nodded with a warm smile. In fact, before Gabriel’s abrupt intervention, Raphael had prepared a form of compensation knowing that Shimun was a player.

“This is a relic imbued with my power, which was prepared as a reward. Regardless of the information about Lucifer, I offer it to you as an apology.”

Raphael presented a cross fashioned from golden light. A relic imbued with the power of Archangel Raphael.

Considering her title as the Archangel of Healing, ‘It’s undoubtedly a relic containing healing powers.’

As an archangel of the heavenly realm, which held a high hierarchical position among constellations, the healing power contained within this relic would be unimaginable.

‘Wait. The Chernozem incident is coming up soon, isn’t it?’

The Chernozem incident that occurs in the harvest season of autumn. While he planned to address it beforehand, ‘Having a healing relic as insurance wouldn’t be bad…’

As Asclepius’s staff could only heal living beings, recalling the events that occur in Chernozem, the relic imbued with Raphael’s power would be extremely useful as insurance.

Yes.

Insurance is just that, insurance.

‘Insurance is just a precaution; circumstances may not arise where Raphael’s relic needs to be used.’

If so, the compensation would lose significant value.

‘If necessary, I can create something mythical rather than relying on a relic.’

Thus, “Though I find it very appealing, could I perhaps receive something else instead?”

“Something else?”

Rather than a one-time-use relic, Shimun needed a form of compensation that would provide continuous benefits and possess potential for the future.

He nodded and said, “Yes, I understand that you’ve had contact with Yujeong before.”

“That’s correct. Yujeong is a player of great interest to all of us, excluding the Seraph.”

“All of you excluding the Seraph?”

“Indeed. Her potential in divine energy is so significant that one might mistake her for a heavenly being who was mistakenly born as a human.”

“Huh… I didn’t know that.”

Though the Seraph was excluded, the archangels themselves were of the highest rank in terms of divine energy, no?

Receiving the undivided attention of such archangels?

‘As expected of our Yujeong!’

Shimun felt a surge of pride.

Seeing Shimun’s pleased expression, Raphael perhaps misinterpreted it.

“I understand what you want, Shimun-nim. Haha, you are truly benevolent.”

Raphael continued, smiling warmly.

“Instead of this relic, you wish for me to support Yujeong in its stead?”

Though there seemed to be a slight misunderstanding, the conclusion was the same, so Shimun nodded without hesitation.

“That’s correct.”

Yujeong was already highly regarded in the healing community. Receiving various support from Raphael would surely bolster her growth immensely.

Her future contributions and potential, based on her growth, were invaluable compared to a one-time relic. Moreover, ‘Even if there’s an issue during the Chernozem incident, I can rely on Yujeong, who’s backed by Raphael’s support.’

And that support wouldn’t be a one-time deal like the relic.

But, “Very well. However! Considering that Father has acknowledged you and that you look after Yujeong, even though she is not blood-related…”

Raphael, not fully aware of Shimun’s calculated thoughts, admired Shimun’s benevolence.

“As an archangel, I cannot simply accept this. I will support Yujeong as much as I can.”

Shimun, satisfied but also curious, tilted his head. The maximum support she could provide.

“Raphael, wouldn’t that essentially make you Yujeong’s patron Constellation?”

It was effectively the same, wasn’t it?

In that case, ‘Being her patron Constellation would be advantageous for Raphael too, wouldn’t it?’

To Shimun’s inquiry, “Well…”

Raphael gave a slightly troubled smile. She glanced between Shimun and Gabriel.

“The truth is… I already proposed to become Yujeong’s patron Constellation, but she refused.”

She answered with a rueful smile.

“Refused?!”

Shimun’s eyes widened. How could that be?

“Why?”

Raphael was a high-ranked heavenly being, no?

Especially for Yujeong, who possessed divine energy, she was an ideal patron Constellation. However, “It’s not just Raphael, Shimun-nim.”

The shock was not over for Shimun.

“I too, and even Uriel, another archangel, offered to become her patron Constellation but were refused.”

Gabriel continued with a blank expression. Shimun was left speechless.

‘No way… Yujeong?’

In his previous life, he had only encountered Raphael among the archangels, so he wasn’t fully aware of the others’ powers. However, given that they were also high-ranked angels, they must possess tremendous power.

‘Yujeong doesn’t have any trait that prevents her from having a patron Constellation like Shihyuk does…’

Why would Yujeong refuse the archangels’ offers?

Seeing Shimun’s stunned expression, Gabriel continued,

“We also asked her for the reason for the refusal.”

“What did she say?”

“She said she believes she doesn’t deserve to have angels as her patron constellations.”

“What? What does that mean?”

“Well, we don’t know the details either…”

Gabriel reminisced, looking at the air before her words trailed off.

Then, “Her eyes at that time were exactly like those of someone I once respected.”

“Someone you respected?”

At Shimun’s questioning, Gabriel hesitated, then rarely frowned.

“Yes, eyes filled with a thirst for revenge. Her eyes were just like those of an angel on the verge of falling.”

She answered reluctantly.

“Revenge…?”

Shimun’s face darkened significantly. He had a hunch.

‘Could it be… is she still holding onto what happened to Chairman Lee Suncheol?’

Chairman Lee Suncheol. A person who became a major turning point in Yujeong’s life in her past life.

‘I thought she had moved past that…’

Could it be resentment toward Desperado or Continental, who assassinated Chairman Lee?

Or was there another reason Shimun wasn’t aware of?

‘I need to find out more.’

As Shimun resolved himself, Gabriel’s indifferent voice reached his ears.

“I believe Yujeong will be fine.”

“Even if she is consumed by vengeance, she won’t fundamentally change like us.”

“Fundamentally change?”

“Yes. Even if she defies the heavenly laws, she won’t lose her divine energy or become an entirely different being, will she?”

Gabriel’s words.

‘Indeed, it was the same in the past life.’

The scene where Yujeong decapitated Chairman Lee and the leaders of South Korea on live broadcast surfaced in his mind.

Even after that, Yujeong, with her overwhelming divine energy, swept away the belated awakened suppression unit and disappeared without a trace.

In any case, ‘As long as Yujeong is fine, it doesn’t matter.’

As long as nothing bad happens to Yujeong, it didn’t matter what kind of revenge she sought.

‘My people come first to me.’

Feeling considerably at ease, “Thinking about it, you are right. Thank you for the advice, Gabriel.”

Shimun expressed his gratitude sincerely.

“It, it’s nothing worth calling advice!”

Gabriel displayed a rare moment of fluster, hastily turning her head away. To this, “Haha! It seems some roots do change, even without defying heavenly laws.”

Raphael laughed mysteriously.

“Ahem! By the way, is there anything you desire from me?”

Gabriel cut in abruptly, clearing her throat, and asked Shimun.

“What do I desire?”

“Yes. You returned the favor I owed you magnanimously. I also want to express my gratitude properly.”

“Ah, you mean a reward.”

Shimun nodded and rested his chin in thought.

‘I hadn’t considered receiving a reward from Gabriel as well…’

Then, “Oh! There is one thing.”

Shimun clapped his hands.

“What is it? Do tell.”

Gabriel quickly asked, glancing nervously at Raphael.

***

A green sea unfurled before them.

An indescribably beautiful natural scenery.

Within it, “Hehe! Kyung, over here!”

-Kyung!

A child and a colorful dragon.

-Kyaa! Shiyeon, wait for me!

-Riding on Kyung is so much fun!

And various colorful spirits were laughing and playing. It wasn’t long before they reached. A gigantic tree that couldn’t be taken in with a single glance.

“Ernen! Ernen! I’m here! Kyung is too!”

-Kyung!

The child and the dragon shouted energetically toward a woman.

-We are here too! We are here too!

-Yes! Ernen, we are here too!

Dozens of spirits followed, echoing like a chorus.

“Fufu. There are many places you might bump into here. You know to be careful, right?”

Ernen welcomed the visitors with a fresh smile. At that moment, “Hm?”

Ernen’s refreshing smile vanished. The reason was simple.

Aah~.

With a hymn-like resonance,

Hwaaahhhh!

A holy light poured down over the vast greenery.