chapter 3
3. Clearing up the misunderstanding
The moment his sword cut through the sky, Chun Yu-hyeon saw something beyond.
It was indescribably unclean, dark and terrible, like deep, muddy mud.
The abyss was just blindly wriggling to cover the world with its body, just as a plant longs for light.
I felt a visceral revulsion as I watched it cover the plane and squirm.
Throughout his life, he saw and thought of an existence that was like a phenomenon or concept, rather than just a living being that did not resemble anything he had seen in his life.
‘Is that a foreign press? Do you just want to swallow everything and assimilate it with yourself? What a disaster.’
Looking at the abyss where even he couldn’t predict the odds, Yoohyeon regained his composure a little as he thought about that thing appearing in his world.
‘I think we need to hear about whether something like that invaded the world.’
Palseonryu Chukji(八仙流縮地)–
Originally, he planned to ask after defeating everyone with a question and answer dance, but thinking that he should listen to the story first, Yoohyeon secretly folded the space and moved to the place where he fired a sword strike.
Just then, next to the woman of the original presence and the man who seemed to have fallen after receiving his sword, the faintly felt owner of the beings appeared on rainbow-colored legs.
Just as he thought he had more people to ask, he felt the hostility of the gods burning in front of him and was about to defeat them all.
“If we fight anyway, we’ll all die–“
Isn’t the woman who seems to have blocked his attack, explaining Yoohyeon with her terrified face as if it were a big horse?
‘I feel like I’ve become a blood horse! Just because he’s a god, I wondered if he would stop this order!’
Yoohyeon, who was dumbfounded, sneakily appeared and spoke.
“I didn’t intend to kill them all like that. Who do you think is a lunatic murderer? He said he was a god, so I thought he would be strong, but he’s weaker than I thought. But it’s nice to see that he’s good at grasping the subject.”
‘Who do you think is a homicidal maniac?! And isn’t it wrong that those who are called gods are so weak?’
Thinking that if the gods heard it, Yoohyeon said again, thinking that his clothes would explode.
“From the time the fallen one and new ones appeared other than you. Why did you throw the sword? It was to go to your world.”
When do you mean when will you come? Of course, he must have come through the passage.
And how is it going when you don’t even know how to drill a hole in the great joint dimension? He was a swordsman from birth and had only wielded a sword all his life, so he did not know such a mysterious skill.
For some reason, Yuhyeon felt upset when he felt that Moorim was looking at him with the same expression that the Heavenly Demons were looking at him.
“So let’s hear what the hell is going on. Let’s talk and think about what to do.”
Yoohyeon looked at the gods thinking that he was being too lenient towards the gods who brought him as if he was kidnapping (?) Without asking for their consent in advance.
At this, Freya, who was terrified, cautiously approached him and asked.
“I’m terribly sorry, but… Did you come from the portal we summoned?”
Yoohyeon, whose displeasure was relieved by his apology and questioning, nodded his head obediently.
“If the portal refers to that black hole, that’s correct. At first, it appeared in front of me and tried to pull me in, so when I looked closely, I knew it was heading to another dimension.”
After Yoohyeon’s words, Freyja said as if she was dumbfounded for a moment.
“Didn’t you hear about portals from someone else..? War god? Or sword god? What should I call you?”
Then, Yoohyeon, who wrinkled her face as if asking for something incomprehensible, said to Freyja.
“What are you talking about? It’s the first time I’ve seen such a thing? Also, it’s called Sword God as a false name in the world, but just call me Yoohyeon. That’s my name.”
Then Freya asked in a trembling voice as if she was even more flustered.
“Heomyeong..? Yoohyun..? Maybe.. Really, but are you not a god? Of the Moorim world? You can’t be that strong even though you’re a human..?”
Yoohyeon, who thought he was playing with words by saying obvious things, got annoyed.
“What does that matter now? I’m a pure human being. Don’t test my patience by telling stories.”
Then, as if she had finally grasped the situation, Freya, with a teary face, began to explain.
“That’s not it.. That.. Yoohyeon-nim is a human, so he didn’t know that well, but the coordinators of many worlds close to ours, that is, the gods, have already agreed to summon him..”
“What..Agreement..? With whom do you mean an agreement? Are there gods in Murim? I heard that they all disappeared after the old feudal war? I’ve never felt such an existence.”
Yoohyeon was taken aback by the completely unexpected answer.
“Uh… So the person we saw when we called for help… Ah! Here he is! This is the person we met at that time.”
Then Freya summoned a magic circle in front of her eyes and seemed to touch and search for it, then showed it to Yoohyeon.
Then, what appeared in front of him was swordsman Lu Dongbin (劍仙 呂洞賓), who had been sparring with him just a few days ago.
“Gunseon? Has she ever met him?”
Geomsun was one of the immortals in the world of sage that he instinctively felt when he first reached the realm of the Hyeongyeong.
Obviously, he could have felt and gone, but he had to abandon his body in order to ascend to the world of celestial beings, so Yoohyeon gave up to take care of his pupil.
However, after a few years, he won the heavenly horse and ascended to the realm of the natural wonder, breaking the bondage of the dimension and becoming the first human to step on the land of the celestial realm with the body of a living being.
Because he was lonely because he had no opponents in Jungwon anymore, the meeting with the freshmen he met in the fairy world, and among them, the strength of swordsman, who was revered as a military god by the civilians, was overwhelming.
Did Geomseon do something like this to him, who used to visit the world of heaven and play whenever he was bored? He doesn’t even give himself a word?
Freya looked at Yoohyeon with a worried expression as she was stunned by the sudden feeling of betrayal.
‘What is it? Why are you doing that all of a sudden? What’s the matter?’
“That… Yoohyeon? Do you know him? Have you heard anything from him?”
Then, as if coming to his senses, Yoohyeon spoke to Freyja.
“Sorry, I felt betrayed for a while. Even if I didn’t say anything, did you mean that I’m stronger than you? Are you trying to let me go at this point?”
In Yoohyeon’s head, the happy eyes that Geomsun had been looking at Yoohyeon were jealous, and when he was laughing at himself a few days ago when he was dancing, it was turning into a sneer, when Freya spoke up.
“Yoohyeon-nim, I don’t think that’s the case… Originally, a person like Yoohyeon-nim could never come to the portal..”
Then Yoohyeon, who was lost in thought, shook his head.
“Certainly, it was an attraction that could be escaped with a little more internal energy, but I would have known that I wouldn’t pass it by seeing that kind of inspiration. He’s like a cunning old man.”
‘Otherwise, the portal wouldn’t have appeared at the exact time I went to the fairy world.’
Fortunately, Freyja corrected his misunderstanding when the swordsman, revered as a god by the public, was degenerating into a rare little man.
“No. Sword God, the people we can bring to the portal basically need to have low mana, but we can only summon those who don’t have any problems even if we bring them.
Because there is a law of causality, and the power we need to summon varies depending on how much influence we have in that world, so we can only summon people who have little to do in that world. For example, people who are about to die in an accident, or people who are in a coma, or those people can do it.”
Listening to Freyja’s words, Yoohyeon nodded and asked a question.
“I get that. Then why did I have a portal? I’m not proud of it, but I’m sure no one has as much influence in our world as I do?”
To Yoohyeon’s question, Freya answered as if she had some guess.
“It’s probably because Yoohyeon-nim is too strong. You must have traveled around the different dimensions with the power that rips that dimension apart, right?”
“Even if it’s not in many dimensions, I’ve been to the fairy world a lot.”
It is not an exaggeration to say that even if he sleeps in the human world, he usually lives halfway in the fairy world.
“No matter which dimension the soul belongs to, when it dies, it returns to the underworld of that dimension and life circulates. I think it’s lost. I think it’s because when my magic judges it, I feel like a vegetative person whose body and soul are separated… I’m sorry.”
As Freyja lowered her head as if she was really sorry, Yoohyeon said with a feeling of dejection.
“So I was summoned because I was too strong? There’s no chance someone else intended it?”
“Uh…Isn’t there a chance of that? It’s the first time I’ve had a case like this. I don’t think that swordsman knows my magic in detail…”
Now that Yoohyeon learned the whole story of how he had been summoned to this place, his angry heart subsided as it burned incompletely before he knew it.
However, he was too proud to just step back after recalling all the things he had done until now, so he asked Freya.
“I understand how I was summoned. I don’t like the fact that I summoned others, but I think I gave them a chance because they were destined to die anyway. But isn’t it too much to summon others at will and kill them just for arguing?”
Then, pleased with the opportunity to explain, Freyja replied.
“Actually, even if you die in the tutorial, you will be resurrected with the power of Hel, the ruler of hell in our world. And to explain seriousness and seriousness to the summoners, setting an example is cruel, but it’s the best way…
Because it is the process of giving a painful injection before entering the continent you have seen before, it is inevitable that it will be a little intense.
Can you understand that we don’t work hard to summon and kill at random?”
In fact, Yoohyeon, who had already roughly understood the situation, was going to say that he would not stand by and move on when he said he was sorry, but a much more plausible reason came out than he thought and he had nothing to say.
“Hmmm… I see. There must have been a misunderstanding. I’m sorry for attacking you on your own.”
Seeing the shy apology, Freyja shook his head and said.
“No! I think I can do that. At first, when Yoohyeon-nim asked me, I was nervous because I thought I was a foreign spy. I’m really sorry.”
In the midst of feeling embarrassed because he suddenly felt like he had been forced to apologize, he asked Freya.
“Still, it’s my fault for attacking prematurely. Is there anything you can do to help me in return?”
When Freya heard that a human who seemed terrifying until just now to end the world suddenly decided to fight on our side, she began to feel reassured like a mountain.
Feeling that strange feeling, Freyja opened his mouth with a sneak peek.
“Youhyeon.”