Chapter 212 – The Northern Front 1 (1/2)
It was somewhat unassuming as a last-ditch effort to survive, but Woohyuk didn’t let his guard down.
This was because he saw and understood Cruella’s destructive power.
Looking closely at his surroundings, Woohyuk moved his body, which was recently restored with the Power of Resuscitation.
‘This is not the Eeth Continent.’
It was a space full of frenetic unstable energy and a weird aura.
He was somewhere in the woods, but he couldn’t hear the cry of birds and the wind was not blowing, so it was very quiet.
Furthermore, he had never seen the architectural style of the visible buildings before.
It was similar but subtly different from the Valkyrie Ruins in the Norton Kingdom.
As Woohyuk continued his search…
“Are you really going to put that plan into action, Rafael? There are certainly not a few angels who are against it.”
A familiar voice came from one corner.
‘Leifina?’
She was, up to what he knew, practicing swordsmanship in the training hall.
Woohyuk disappeared using the Earth God’s Deception Spell and carefully headed to the place where the conversation was taking place.
“But someone needs to correct this faulty system, Pina. A world where everyone’s future is predestined based on hierarchical order, no one but the Creator wants that.”
“…”
A black-haired angel enthusiastically voiced his opinion.
Next to the angel was a goddess with pink hair who silently dropped her head while standing on the lakeshore.
Woohyuk, who saw the two of them, looked startled.
‘Is that angel… me?’
The angel was very similar to himself, except it had white skin like white jade and blue eyes like sapphire.
The same went for the goddess with pink hair. She looked exactly like Leifina.
As Woohyuk stood dumbfounded and at a loss for words, Rafael started speaking,
“Pina, I know you worry about me. But in this world, we cannot be together. I am the Archangel who carries out the will of the Creator and you are the Goddess of Fate. So…”
“Do you want to say it’s wrong? Did you come here to talk about the unchangeable nature of our relationship?” Pina replied while she stood with her back towards Rafael and her head turned back to look at him with sad eyes.
Rafael was silent for a moment, then shook his head.
“It’s not an excuse. It’s not wrong either. I just came to say goodbye. I wanted to convey my will to you. Even if the other gods don’t know, I wanted you to know.”
“I know I can’t stop you. Maybe, the plan will succeed, and the day will come when we will be together. But there’s a possibility of failure, so please listen to me.”
“What is it? I will listen.”
Rafael stared at her with a curious expression.
Then, the appearance of a burning celestial world appeared on the surface of the lake.
“This is one of the many possibilities in the future. The Creator will design what will actually happen. But that’s not absolute either.”
Although the Creator was the reigning entity over the system, he could not do everything at his will.
A typical example of something he couldn’t control directly was the beings of the abyss.
Their power was able to change the system, and the Creator had always felt a sense of crisis from their existence.
In other words, the planned future could be altered and reversed at any time.
Rafael nodded at Pina’s explanation.
“I know that. Our plan, too, is to use the forbidden knowledge to prevent the Creator from interfering with the system more than is necessary.”
“Yes, but the problem is that it’s difficult to achieve that goal in just one attempt.”
Because Pina was the Goddess of Destiny, she knew how detailed the Creator was and how difficult the task at hand was.
Rafael looked surprised as she offered him a bluish potion bottle.
“Are you sure you want to give me the Elixir of Urdarbrunn? If you do this, you too will be held accountable for assisting and abetting me.”
“I will entrust my future to you. So please come back. Even if you fail a few times, face the challenge again and succeed in your plans…”
Those who drank the Elixir of Urdarbrunn could continue to reincarnate into new beings even if they died.
Of course, the memories of the previous life would be erased, but they could be recovered by coming back to this place and drinking the water from the lake.
This had a profound effect on the Creator’s planned future, as the Creator could not do anything about this loophole.
“Thank you. Your heart… I will take it someday.”
Rafael hugged Pina tightly.
After observing the relationship between the two, Woohyuk fell into shock.
‘What the hell is this…’
If what he heard was true, had he been reincarnating until now and pursuing the same end goal?
However, he couldn’t understand why such a scene appeared in Cruella’s imaginary world.
While looking around, Woohyuk found an angel hiding in the distance and watching Rafael and Pina with a stubborn expression.
‘… Was that it?’
The scene seemed to be understandable even if there was no additional explanation.
This was the beginning of all tragedies, a three-way relationship triangle.
Cruella’s reckless decision to take forbidden knowledge and corrupt her own body may have originated from his own past.
Of course, since it was just a hypothesis, Woohyuk decided to watch the scene unfold until the end.
‘It would be dangerous to expose myself and talk to that angel right now.’
The hidden angel had on an angry expression.
After a while, when Cruella left Urdarbrunn, the Lake of Fate, Woohyuk followed her secretly.
“Sob…sob…”
Cruella ran through the forest while a river of tears flowed down her face.
After some time, she arrived at a huge library.
Numerous ancient documents were stored in it.
‘The structure is similar to the Ark of Knowledge that Helena referred to.’
As far as he knew, the Ark of Knowledge was made by humanity who inherited the blood of Lilith.
Woohyuk appeared and spoke to Cruella, who was searching through the old documents.
“What are you doing here?” Woohyuk asked.
“… Rafael?”
Cruella stepped back in surprise.
The person in front of her looked like Rafael, but no matter how similarly he looked, the being in front of her was a human.
No, she felt demonic energy in him.