Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

158. God of War (2)

#158. God of War (2)

Heron, goddess of dawn and radiance.

One of the beings belonging to the Pantheon, a transcendent being that has attained a higher rank.

She is the woman who gave herself the stigmata and imposed the karma of chaos, ultimately causing her to suffer in the second dimension called Langrt.

Cynthia looked ahead.

A woman in white was looking at herself, a woman with white skin. That woman was Heron.

After noticing the various waves of divine power appearing on Earth, Cynthia came straight here.

‘…Why did I come to you at the very moment when the Master ascended to the position of transcendence?’

Cynthia knew that Cheonmu Bong had set foot on the transcendental karma. And this time, she felt that she had completely broken down that boundary and belonged within it. She wanted to go and congratulate him right away… but unfortunately, she had something to take care of.

During my time in Langrt, I dreamed of revenge countless times. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have been locked in the gate and wouldn’t have had to live alone in a secluded space for years.

‘Strangely… I have no thoughts.’

Cynthia felt angry when she saw Heron, and she wanted to attack her right away. However, her burning desire for revenge had already died down, and she wanted to hear Heron’s reason rather than attack her indiscriminately.

Why did you do this?

“… I had something to ask you when I saw you.”

“okay?”

Heron was surprised to see Cynthia suddenly appear in front of him, but he did not show it and responded to her words.

“What are you curious about?”

“Why. I want to hear the reason. From the time you gave me and Grace the stigmata, to the time you passed on the karma of chaos to me. And the reason you started all this. I don’t think it was just for fun… .”

“That’s why….”

Heron looked at Cynthia with a blank expression.

A tiny being, a mere pawn, had returned from a great journey. He had attained a higher status and was becoming an equal being, asking himself questions. It was a moment of mixed emotions.

“You don’t know anything. No, you know something. But you don’t have the knowledge that is appropriate for your level.”

“… It would be difficult if you only spoke incomprehensible language.”

“How much do you know about the end times?”

Cynthia opened her eyes wide when she heard Heron’s words, then turned to her and asked her a question.

“Why do you ask about the end?”

Although she responded to Cynthia’s question with a question, Heron answered her question without saying anything.

“Because that’s where all the stories start.”

“… … The Earth is where the end of this universe will begin. And right now is the beginning of the end. The being that caused this situation is an alien being, a being called the Watcher. And, I only know that the extradimensional planet Langrt that I visited and the universe it exists in also met its end because of the Alien Watcher.”

“I know to some extent.”

“Isn’t this enough knowledge?”

“Your knowledge is shallow. I don’t mean to belittle you. The reason why the Watcher wants to end this universe. What the end times mean. How to prevent this universe from ending. You don’t know anything about that, do you?”

“… … .”

Cynthia couldn’t say anything to Heron’s words. As she said, she had no knowledge of what was said. It was information that could not be accessed even through the Akashic Records. Information about foreign media was prohibited from access.

“You… know all the things I said earlier?”

“Yes. That’s why… I’m moving like this. I’ve consumed my divine power to bestow the stigmata on you and two other humans, caused the karma of chaos, and consumed the law of causality to descend here, all in order to ultimately prevent the end of this universe.”

“I was just a pawn chosen by you.”

“Don’t be so negative. Thanks to you, this universe has a chance of not being destroyed. Besides, if that girl Arceli hadn’t intervened… things wouldn’t have gotten this messed up.”

With the intervention of the mad goddess Arceli, the chaos karma was amplified to a frenzied degree. If it weren’t for her, Cynthia would never have gone all the way to Langrut.

“That’s the conclusion.”

But that was just talking about the results.

If it weren’t for Arceli, Cynthia might have died, and she would never have become a Transcendent. She would never have met Anonymous, Irina, and she would never have been given the position of Deputy Apostle of the Foreign Ministry.

Cynthia did not regret going to Langrut. Rather, she considered it an opportunity. It was regrettable to be separated from Han Seong-jin, but thanks to that, they were able to stay together longer.

“I guess it doesn’t matter.”

“okay?”

“I didn’t come to see you to reprimand you for what happened in the past. I just wanted to know why… why you made me like this and why you came to Earth.”

“Then both questions are answered.”

“To some extent. As for the rest… I don’t think they’d teach you even if you asked. Is that right?”

Heron nodded to Cynthia’s words.

She was a little surprised to find out that Cynthia was more articulate than she had expected. She had thought she was an emotional being like Berget or Arceli… but she was actually an overly rational and logical thinker. She had thought that since she was a suicide, she would start a fight out of the blue, but that wasn’t the case.

“Then… I have something to do. Can you just let me go?”

Heron asked Cynthia.

The space around here was a powerful barrier formed by her vast divine power. Because of this, even Heron could not freely leave this space. It was a barrier that contained the power of none other than the external god.

“Oh, I should send it. Yes. I heard you have a lot of work to do to prevent the end of the world… .”

Cynthia cleared her mind of complicated emotions.

There was no reason for the always cheerful person to be so gloomy because of a mere transcendent being. He could just erase all thoughts of the past and the end. After all, thinking about it wouldn’t give him an answer, right?

There is only one thing to do now.

“No matter how the end came to be, no matter how hard you tried to prevent it… the end result was that you screwed me over, right?”

“huh?”

“So I’ll just hit you once.”

Cynthia unleashed the power of divine speed granted to her by her guardian.

***

A cave in the mountains with few people.

Cheonmu Bong stepped onto the path of transcendence there and became a martial god. His body, which had accepted the flow of time, was filled with divine power, and unlike his aged appearance, he was brimming with vitality.

Heavenly.

The martial arts that led him to transcendence. Cheonmu Bong first used this martial arts immediately after becoming a martial arts god. However, because there was a risk of the surrounding area collapsing, he lowered the power as much as possible and used the technique with minimal output.

The solar terms of the thousandth month had no form.

There was no formula, and no need for thought.

Everything is as the body remembers.

This is a martial art created by sublimating into martial arts everything he has learned from decades of devoted martial arts into his body and his desire to reach new realms.

Kwajik – The barrier of space is shattered.

The one-fisted thrust forward broke the boundary and interfered with the phenomenon. Cheonmu Bong used his divine power to suppress the load on his arm and shook his hand.

With just one movement, one attack, the surrounding area was scorched. The strike that broke the boundary affected all the surrounding space.

The cave was blown away, and part of the mountain was carved away.

“… It was my doing, but it was truly absurd.”

Cheonmu Bong looked around and burst into laughter as if he was in despair. After looking at it for a while, his expression suddenly hardened.

“…Who are you?”

“Wow, for someone who just became a Transcendent, your sensing abilities are quite impressive.”

“… You are also a transcendent being.”

“You too are a transcendent being.”

“You don’t seem to be from here… What brings you here?”

Cheonmu Bong was unable to gauge the strength he felt from his opponent. It wasn’t simply because he wasn’t used to divine power.

It was because the being in front of him was much stronger than himself.

“My name is Berget.”

The transcendent being who suddenly appeared in front of Cheonmu Bong was smiling and extending his hand towards him.