Seoul Station Druid

Void (2)

As he got closer to the ground, the smile let go of the hand holding the eagle's claw.

fault.

The eagle that descended to the side where Kim Mi-so landed stably turned into smoke as if scattered, then united again and landed as a human.

"It's erosion."

In Suho's brief critique, Kim Mi-so unraveled the information she knew.

"It turns black in response to inanimate objects like stones."

Miso Kim kicked a stone at her feet.

Touk, tuk.

Stones thrown into the black space gradually became black as if they were burning from the contact surface.

Suho widened his field of vision as he looked at the stones that were losing their color.

The black space spread out in a circle formed a circle.

There was a tree on the edge that drew attention.

One side turned black as if it had been split in half vertically, and the rest was boasting the natural auburn color of the wood.

Suho approached and placed his hand on the wood grain.

"It's alive."

is transmitted

You can feel the beating of a living tree.

Even though more than half of it has turned black, the vitality of the tree is only stable.

There is no sign of weakness.

'It's death.'

If this is the curse of death, if half of the trees died black as a result, shouldn't it affect the rest?

However, from the feeling that is being transmitted through the hand of the guardian now, it seems that this tree is only half born and has taken root for the rest of its life.

As if only half of it existed.

As if the tree that turned black never existed.

Only that part of the tree's life,

It's like ripping... .

'Delete?'

Suho is a deleted area.

I took a step forward to the place where I returned to nothing.

There was no sound of treading on the ground.

There was no sound of breaking even when the branches were stepped on.

The feeling of stepping into an empty void.

"I caught a living thing and tested it in Australia the other day."

I once caught a goblin and threw it into a black space.

The goblin was encroached into flames and disappeared, as if it had been sacrificed, and the black space widened a little.

"It did not blend into black like stone or wood, but disappeared altogether. And the space has increased."

Kim Mi-so followed Suho one step further.

"I, and the gods I grew up with, were not affected by this space."

It didn't turn black or disappear.

faith ."

He calls himself a human being, but he cannot be worshiped as a god. Miso Kim quickly changed her words.

"I don't think it can affect the things that the boss has power."

It's not the power of God.

It is the power of human Park Soo-ho.

"Hmm."

Suho looked around the black space.

The harmony that should be felt by all living things was not felt here.

Even the scattered dust has harmony, but... .

dump.

Suho sat down in the middle of the black space.

I closed my eyes to focus more.

Kim Mi-so watched as she watched Suho, breathing carefully.

"Your leg hurts, sit down."

"Yeah."

Suho closed his eyes and tried to feel everything around him. But there was nothing to feel in the black space.

only one

There was only Kim Mi-so sitting next to him.

Naturally, the object of observation passed from space to her.

How does this space affect her... .

'You resist.'

Suho felt a thin film of energy enveloping her entire body.

This space of death does not refer to a normal level of death.

Deletion or extinction.

There was a sense of resistance to being erased altogether.

The basis of that power is divine power.

While denying defining himself as a god, he says so because there is no proper substitute for it.

If so, should it be called creativity?

It feels like annihilation and creation are in a tight tug of war with each other.

The power is opposite to each other, so it feels oddly balanced.

There is only one antithesis to the perishability of this void space.

'creation.'

It is a power that the guardian does not know how to handle.

His harmonious power and wild power are also different from those of creation. The power to change the nature of things that were originally there.

It is after the creation of the 'worship' stat that Suho's body is filled with creativity.

It is the power that comes from being worshiped by humans and revered as a god.

'A god is the only creator who deals with creativity.'

It is unknown how he shared this power, but it seemed to be the only way to fight the curse of death or erosion.

Creativity to prepare for extinction.

the problem is.

'How do I get it?'

Even after the worship stats were created, there wasn't much that the guardian could do.

The degree of appointment of priests and of knights.

'There is also the taming of divine beasts.'

Spiritual creatures born and raised in the divine realm.

Compared to those who are now at the shelter of the guardian beast, they are quite powerful.

Even now, only blue dragons are summoned, but there are still many divine beasts waiting in the new realm and waiting for the call of the guardian.

Ah!

Suho, who was sitting cross-legged, jumped to his feet.

At the sudden change, Kim Mi-so looked at Suho with a face full of anticipation.

Did you find a way?

"It's a worship stat."

Yeah?

"If you want to learn a skill, you are not limited by stats."

There are permissible stats attached to each skill.

Skills with the condition of strength of 10 cannot be learned at all by those with strength below that.

Yeah?

"Hold on a second."

" ."

Suho left Kim Mi-so, who seemed to have a lot of questions, and opened the achievement shop.

There is a skill that is unlocked in the achievement shop whenever the worship stat rises.

  Achievement Shop - Retained Points 7827892789

- Expendables

- equipment

- skill

'On the skill side.'

Only skills that require worship stats were selected.

  Summon Ancient Beast

You can summon ancient beasts that have gone into eclipse.

  Voice of God

You can exert influence through a spiritually connected Divine Tree.

Worship stats are created, and these are the skills that are unlocked first.

I've already mastered it, and there are several skills I've learned since then.

'The next skills .'

Suho looked at the skills he had not yet learned in relation to the cult stats, but could not find it at all.

what?

Yeah?

Of course, in the eyes of Kim Mi-so, the achievement shop is not visible.

In her eyes, it looked as if Suho suddenly got angry as he stared back and forth in the air with unfocused eyes.

"Wow, this isn't there."

Things I learned after the first two skills I learned.

  Tame the Divine Beast

  Priest Appointment

  Divine Beast Transformation

  Establishment of the temple

Suho gently stroked his chin and closed the achievement shop.

Either way, the number of cases is one of two.

Whether the temple was built last, or whether it was not on the shop list, but naturally unlocked if the worship stats were higher.

'I think it's the latter.'

It is a skill that manipulates the power of God.

If it's a hidden skill, it's understandable.

Go.

Yeah?

suddenly?

Kim Mi-so lifted her hips and followed Suho, who stood up and walked.

Suho, who escaped from the black space, smiled at her face, which seemed to have dozens of question marks on it.

"Why do you have that face?"

Yeah?

Kim Mi-so asked such a question and became gloomy.

can i ask this

Do I deserve to be heard?

So many thoughts piled up in a short moment, and I couldn't come up with a logical answer.

"I want to know."

Well? that?

Suho pointed to the black space.

What Kim Mi-so wants to know is the reason for Suho's thoughts and actions, but once he nodded his head.

Yeah.

You'll understand when you listen.

"It is empty. It has been erased."

"Is it different from death?"

"When you die, a corpse remains."

Ah ."

Even dead animals still have corpses.

It becomes food for other animals, and it rots and becomes soil.

But that black space left nothing behind.

It is not the ground, the rock, or the tree that has turned black as the topography is. It was just lumped together and empty.

"So it's annihilation."

okay.

Earth's things remain on Earth even if they die, and they cycle anyway.

"It's like space."

Suho continued to speak.

"I don't know what the power of annihilation comes from, but it changes life and grows bigger."

It expands space by swallowing living things, whether people or monsters.

Suho gestured.

passus.

Trees sprouted around the black space.

Sussuk!

The fast-growing trees grew entangled with each other here and there.

squeaky.

In the past, it became a huge dome woven of wood and tightly woven without empty space.

In addition to the upper space covered by the hemisphere, the roots are also covered under the soil, blocking the access of living things.

Looking at the series of processes, Kim Mi-so, who had a little more organized thoughts, asked.

"Is there any way to get it back?"

"I'll have to look for it. It won't fill up if you pour it on an empty space. We have to make a new one, because this is the power of creation."

Suho has yet to deal with the power of creation.

It just deals with things that have already been created.

Ah!

Kim Mi-so felt dizzy as she thought she would dig into the foundation of the world like this. Isn't this the same as unraveling the origins of the world?

A fearful anticipation made her body tremble.

"I have a thing called an achievement shop. By killing monsters, achievements are accumulated."

Kim Mi-so asked with twinkling eyes at the word "shop".

"What can I buy?"

Suho opened the achievement shop and quickly bought a consumable.

Papa.

Kim Mi-so was surprised to see the bread that appeared in Suho's hand.

Ah! Come to think of it ."

Before moving the enemy to the Guardian Guild, Miso Kim belonged to the Awakened Management Bureau.

What I was doing there was the head of the returnee management team.

The first report about returnee Park Soo-ho came to mind.

'Bread and water, the real world talent.'

I thought Suho's awakening ability was a realization, but now that I think about it, it's not a simple ability to see.

"Buy skills and equipment."

" ."

At Suho's words, Kim Mi-so's face brightened and then darkened again. It seems that I have found the answer, but I am still troubled, and I seem to be facing a problem that gradually falls into a labyrinth.

"Isn't that achievement shop directly related to creation?"

Buy what you don't have

"I don't know. Are you buying it with achievement points?"

is an equivalent exchange.

"Are you in the new realm, or are you coming from a shop in another dimension?"

At Suho's words, Kim Mi-so quickly became pale.

Seeing the change in her colorful expression, Suho smiled.

"Isn't it worth researching?"

I don't know yet.

These achievement points and also the achievement shop.

"When people started believing in me and considered me a god, the 'worship' stat started. All of the skills I bought with this had divine power."

It is the power that God deals with.

Strong enough to withstand the void.

How creative would it have been?

enough to survive extinction.

"Oh, so!"

Kim Mi-so was able to understand Suho's reaction a while ago.

"If you increase your worship power, new skills may come out. At the end of it, the power of the Creator... ."

Kim Mi-so's face brightened.

"You can research the Achievement Shop as you develop your cult!"

It became clear what to do.

Seeing her like that, Suho reminded me of one more important fact.

"We have to stop the erosion."

There are already two spaces that have been destroyed and eroded.

It has been prevented from getting bigger by growing the divine tree, but this is only a first aid measure.

Isn't there something that roams around and causes erosion?

"You have to catch Black Man too."

The memory of the dead god, the power.

You wouldn't have to go up to the new realm to find the grave.

The death of the past is now about to be dealt with on Earth.