Chapter 329: Variable (1) (1/2)

‘Around one to two months.’

That was his estimate when he added the information of their location.

The time they spent with Solari was definitely only two days at most, but why had this happened?

“Dungeon book.”

Cordelia said and Jude nodded.

It had the same logic.

The flow of time was different inside and outside the dungeon book.

Even if they spent five or six hours inside, it was normal for only an hour to have passed when they returned outside.

This time, it was the opposite.

And there was one more thing.

“You’ve been there for 2 days?”

They were running towards the frontlines but did not stop exchanging information.

Cordelia who was being carried on the back of Jude was surprised and asked him, so Jude replied quickly.

“Solari’s phantasm… no, Solari herself said that it takes time to hand over the halo to you. Do you know exactly how much time you needed to adjust to the halo?”

“Ah.”

Right after she inherited the halo, the ring of angels.

She was unconscious and it seemed like two days had passed at that time.

“Did those two days become forty days outside?”

“Probably.”

And in fact, it was unavoidable. Even if they had known in advance, they would have no choice but to choose the way to spend 40 days inside.

“Did you receive the halo well?”

“Huh? Uh… maybe?”

“She said that you will not suddenly become an archangel. But you will definitely be different from before now that you have divinity. Your power would have greatly increased. Because your limits itself have changed.”

Cordelia was no longer an ordinary angel.

Although she did not yet have the full power to match her rank, she was already like a goddess in terms of qualifications.

“And I’m a man who fell in love with a goddess.”

“What the heck are you saying!”

Jude grinned as Cordelia slapped him on his shoulder.

He deliberately joked because Cordelia seemed nervous about the fact that she had inherited divinity, and he was glad that it worked.

‘Because it’s true.’

Jude lightly shrugged his shoulders, but Cordelia slapped him in his back a few more times.

“Anyway, we both got power ups, right?”

Cordelia herself obtained the halo of Solari and gained the divinity of the sun.

She had not yet felt any changes, but it was a matter that time would solve.

As Jude had said, there was a stark difference between those who had divinity and those who did not have it.

“It somehow feels cheesy to say that… I’ve powered up and became a goddess, but it’s the truth.”

Jude also got stronger.

His battle against the other Jude who reached the sword horizon had given him a lot of things.

A true Sword Saint.

A person who saw the horizon and the sword’s inner essence.

And although he felt that he had gone overboard, the second form of Sword Origin was now unlocked.

It was called Sword Spirit Union.

But if he had to name it, it would be Jude-class.

[My successor, what’s with that name? I prefer Sword Spirit Union as my name doesn’t appear in Jude-class.]

She was troubled with that.

But Jude immediately replied as if he saw nothing wrong with it.

“But it’s a given rule in Legend of Heroes to name a soul or spirit union as XX-class.”

“Union? You united? With Valencia-nim?”

Jude was startled when Cordelia asked in surprise.

“Eh? No, it’s not in that way. I mean, it was Sword Origin’s second form.”

Becoming one with the sword spirit.

Achieving a more complete ‘become one with the sword.’

“You united with Valencia-nim…”

Cordelia muttered to herself, but her voice somehow sounded cold.

Jude got the chills at that moment and hurriedly made an excuse.

“No! It’s not something improper! That’s right, it’s just a pure union. Like the body, mind, and soul becoming one… that kind of union, okay?”

[My successor, are you trying to get yourself scolded? That’s the same.]

She was right.

The body, mind, and soul becoming one?

And he’s doing that with another woman?

“N-NO! What I mean is! V-Valencia! Valencia, please say something too!”

[Haa… It is as my successor had said. You can say that it’s like we’re just uniting our strength. Our union is a bit… no, it’s completely different from the union of lovers.]

Why do I have to explain this?

Valencia deeply sighed and made her voice be heard outside Jude, and Cordelia pouted as she pinched Jude’s ear.

“Eh?”

“I don’t know. I’ll just pinch you.”

She understood it in her mind, but she was still angry and annoyed.

But it was then.

Valencia said, frowning as she saw something she could not understand.

[My successor, why are you smiling? Don’t tell me you’ve gone crazy?]

‘No, it’s just… isn’t Cordelia cute when she’s jealous?’

Isn’t she seriously adorable?

At Jude’s response, Valencia’s expression turned cold as she shut her mouth.

However, Melissa who was unaware of the circumstances then raised her voice to rectify the situation.

[Moving on, are you saying that you’ve become a lot stronger?]

“Yes, that’s right. I’ve become a lot stronger.”

He had the physical abilities that could overwhelm Grand Sword Masters and an unrivaled Qi energy like that of the sun. With the addition of sword skills that made him worthy of the title of Sword Saint, he was truly close to perfection.

“Then are you stronger than Outboxer009 now?”

A character that Jude had raised in Legend of Heroes 2.

The strongest single player who dominated the first place in the server rankings for 23 months.

Jude immediately nodded at Cordelia’s question.

“I’m stronger.”

His present self was stronger.

And he was going to get stronger in the future.

There were still the eighth door and ninth door in the Ninth Heaven’s Nine Doors, and the Twelve Thunderbolt Steps could also advance to Nine Celestial Steps, the ultimate footwork skill of fantasies.

‘However…’

Several thoughts suddenly came to his mind.

No, it was something that came to his mind naturally.

The memories of the ‘other selves’ who were not the present Jude and Cordelia.

‘It must have happened.’

Those were not fictitious memories that were created.

All of it actually happened.

Then, what in the world happened?

Was it parallel worlds?

Was it regression?

Was it something other than those two?

He could not know for sure right now. Even Solari whom he was expecting to give a clear answer to this problem did not give it.

Or to be more exact, it seemed like she was reluctant to give an answer.

‘Solari knew the answer.’

But she hesitated to answer.

She thought that it was not the time yet.

Why?

Why did she not want us to realize the truth of the memories and why we have them?

‘A matter of time.’

It’s not okay now, but okay later.

Or rather, it will be revealed later.

But not now. It’s something that cannot be revealed now.

Jude stopped his thoughts for a moment. And he concentrated on something else, an important fact that he had overlooked because of the memories that came to his mind in succession.

‘The other Jude was incredibly strong.’

He was a swordsman who reached the sword horizon.

Gallus said that he was ‘the strongest swordsman in his memories,’ so he was clearly the strongest swordsman among the other Judes in his memories.