Chapter 157 (1/2)
Chapter 157 Enemies on the Same Boat
“Are you okay?” Shadia asked Chi-Woo, as crawling with both his hands tied up like a caterpillar
‘Urgh’ Chi-Woo barely ed to lift himself up and s “I should be asking you that”
“I’ht,” Shadia responded with an equally bitter seneratenew et out of this place first…” She let out a short sigh and asked, “What happened though? Why are you alone?”
“So unexpected happened,” Chi-Woo said “We were unable to force our way through, so I split up from the others and acted as bait”
“Ah…What happened to the rest of the group?”
“I heard they hth recruits”
“Really?”
“Yes, I got a ht”
“That’s a silver lining at least How is it on their side?”
“Well…It doesn’t seees, a few points could be extrapolated:
1 Originally, the total nu the 326 members now
2 Five of the twelve families who lit up the Celestial Realhth recruits They were Ho Lactea, Nahla, Afrilithl, Mariaju, and Eustitia
3 The eighth recruits’ otten God in a ruined city and help revive the city so that it could becohth recruits were currently locked in the center of the city, but they had no intention to give up their mission
5 The above point was partly due to pride, but the fact that the hero froot captured played a part The heroes from the Afrilithl and Eustitia fa the prophecy’s mission as justification
Shadia looked dazed She was stunned above all that the five of the twelve families had come to Liber
“Wow…The Celestial Realm is serious What a crazy line-up…” Then she looked a bit sad “If they are members of the twelve families, they must have been raised as heroes from their birth But it seems like even they can’t doher head low again in helplessness
“Don’t worry too much,” Chi-Woo said calet out of here alive, but live here… Are you not planning to escape from this place?” Shadia asked in surprise and added, “Why? Are you going to come up with so, Chi-Woo stared at her quietly
“Boss…you knohat? When you say sos will turn out that way… Weird, isn’t it? There’s no basis at all” It sees she wanted to ask, but she didn’t Her voice became quieter, and she blinked drearily with a s heavier Rather than sleepy, it looked like she was about to faint from the blood loss
“…Sleep now”
Shadia closed her eyes at Chi-Woo’s words She began to breathe evenly, and Chi-Woo let out a long sigh
‘A trick’ He had no such thing All he could do was to struggle with all he had for survival; he had to continue clashi+ng with the probleht he understood better nohy heroes risked their lives to act as heroes
Chi-Woo thought he would just spend the rest of the night like this, but then the half-deot out of jail by himself with his hands tied and moved under heavy surveillance He was led to a place where fivefor him in their seats Chi-Woo had to work hard to hold back his surprise
He had trouble cal down as he faced monsters he had only seen in pop culture content before Fro tree he had reen monster who looked to be about a ht jade-colored spirit in the shape of a tall wo flowing hair and beard Lastly, there was a creature that seemed also half human: a centaur with a human torso and a horse’s lower body With the half-demon behind Chi-Woo, there were six ulped Obviously, the atmosphere in the roouest, and the monsters seereen lasses asked, his eyes sparkling with great curiosity “I heard about what he did, but it’s surprising To ht away Could you tell us who you are first? And the reason you came here?”
Chi-Woo answered honestly for now; he told them that he was a hero from the Celestial Realm, and the rescue team had come to save the heroes stranded in the city He didn’t think he should lie or purposefully misspeak since there was a mysterious tree that could tell lies, especially in a situation where he needed to gain even a little bitHe spoke the truth, but only as little as possible
The monsters were surprised to hear this “To think heroes fro in rows like this… They used to be sent one by one on a regular basis What surprising news It seems this place called the Celestial Realm considers the situation on Liber very seriously”
In other words, heroes had been surowth system had been implemented before but decided to focus on the current situation for now
“I heard you captured a God,” another voice interjected It was the centaur “Please tell us the situation in ht the God”
“Hhting, but that was because of the God’s will”
“The God’s will”
“Yes I felt that way, because…” And Chi-Woo began to explain what had happened at that ti them that the God wanted to be annihilated and that the God resembled a hen someone blurted out an exclamation
“Ah! How could that be!?”
“Doesn’t asps everywhere
“Is that hureen monster checked with the tree, and the tree answered in a low voice, “…It’s the truth”
The tree’s heavy voice brought about a sweeping silence