OBS Book 2: Chapter 251: Lunacy, Worship. And the Way (13)
Book 2: Chapter 251: Lunacy, Worship. And the Way (13)
Cale looked into Hons' shaking pupils as he spoke.
“Over there.”
“!”
Hons looked at the spot Cale was pointing at and flinched before slowly moving away from that spot.
He then landed next to the area.
Boom.
The ground shook once more and Hons looked at where he had been sitting.
Cisco was still unconscious while buried in the mud.
“.......”
Hons looked away.
He then spoke to Cale once again in a serious tone.
“I, Hons, want to be on your side. I know your identities.”
“Hooo.”
Cale looked at Hons, who no longer looked serious with his black eye and large body, before asking.
“Who are we?”
Hons responded without any hesitation.
“You must be the ones who saved Xiaolen and defeated the Blood Demon.”
Smirk, the corners of Cale’s lips started to rise. He looked at Hons with interest as he spoke.
“You seem quite interested in external affairs.”
He then thought to himself.
‘Yes, by now it only makes sense for some of our enemies to figure out who we are.’
Especially in Aipotu, even if the enemies did not know who they were, they should at least recognize the things that they had done.
‘Since the Purple Bloods schemed against the Blood Cult.’
They pretended it was a hierarchical yet cooperative relationship on the outside, but the reality was that the Purple Bloods had planted a bomb to destroy the Blood Cult.
"That’s right. I am very much interested in other worlds.”
"Why?”
Cale motioned to Eruhaben with his eyes while chatting with Hons.
Eruhaben understood his intentions and channeled his mana.
Splash splash.
He pulled out and tied up the unconscious Cisco.
Hons peeked at her before pretending not to see anything.
“Since the world will be destroyed soon.”
Cale recalled what Eruhaben had told him.
‘This world does not have much time left.’
‘Apparently this world will perish if the foundation disappears.’
Cale thought about the goal of the Hunters once he heard about that.
They were trying to offer the worlds they were in as sacrifices to create a new god, the omnipotent god.
Thinking about that, the Dragons of the Purple Bloods were doing very well.
‘However...’
Cale had a question. It was actually a thought he always had on his mind.
‘If they offer up the world they live in, where do they plan on residing after that?’
The Five Colors Bloods probably didn't need to worry about that since they were wanderers.
As for the black mages in Xiaolen or the Blood Cult...
The leaders of the respective Hunter families would have their followers who gathered together to create their factions.
‘They are also competing against each other.’
Yet they were still casting away their world?
This decision seemed inconsistent.
‘Mm.’
Cale had a couple thoughts about that matter.
‘Maybe-’
He also had one idea.
He thought it made no sense but it sounded plausible.
“Hey.”
He felt as if he got a bit more info about the answer to that question.
Cale approached Hons, whose face was as large as Cale.
He then looked into his eyes.
“What you just said.”
Hons had said something.
‘That’s right. I am very much interested in other worlds.’
Cale asked the reason and this had been his answer.
‘Since the world will be destroyed soon.’
Cale analyzed his words a bit differently.
“You said that the world will be destroyed soon.”
He gently asked.
“When you say world, are you talking about Aipotu? Or are you talking about all the worlds?”
Cale recognized the emotions gathering in Hons’ eyes.
This Dragon half-blood...
"As I expected, it was the right choice to choose you guys.”
Cale's comments just now were a confirmation for his decision.
“I do not know everything. However, there is a hypothesis I have.”
“Hold on.”
Cale had to ask Hons a question before their conversation continued.
Before they talked about anything else...
"Why do you want to be on our side?”
He still had not received a clear answer about that.
Hons looked away from Cale for a moment.
He then looked up at the sky.
“I, my death is near.”
‘Mm.’
As Cale slightly flinched.
“As I expected.”
Eruhaben quietly mumbled and Cale looked toward him.
– This Dragon half-blood seems to be telling the truth. No wonder he seemed fatigued during their fight. It was because he did not have much life left.
He then heard Hons’ voice.
“I've lived an unsightly life but, maybe because my death is near... I've been thinking about the good memories I've had while living in this world. Even someone like me had a lot of good memories.”
He really didn't have much time left. It was not a couple years.
It would not be weird even if he died tomorrow. He was sure that he would die earlier than Pope Casillia.
The church did not know about that.
That meant that his allies did not know.
Dragon half-bloods were born in instability.
There was no order for their leaving.
Human and Dragon blood.
Their bodies overloaded or they died immediately if the balance between the two was broken.
It made him keep looking back now that his death was near.
It felt extremely cheesy but it also felt obvious.
Hons had no attachments to this world.
Honestly speaking, it didn’t matter to him if it ended up destroyed.
But he had memories and the people who gave him these memories kept falling into her mind.
“And the ones who allowed me to make those memories are currently putting their lives on the line, no...”
He shook his head.
“They are planning on giving up their lives to throw this world into chaos.”
Others who were in the same situation as himself...
“I do not want them, those people who are precious to me, to die within their despair and anger.”
The ten Dragon half-bloods aside from himself...
They did not share a single drop of blood in their veins.
Nonetheless-
“I also will not go down like this!”
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
A wind storm roared and he instantly charged toward the enemies.
Yanni pulled her dirt sword out and charged forward as well.
‘Pfft.’
Peterson felt Tasha’s Wind Elementals following his wind and held back a laugh.
This indignity...
He will be able to overcome it.
– Cale.
Cale heard the Super Rock’s voice at that moment.
– I'm sensing some odd movements in the ground.
Cale responded to the Scary Giant Cobblestone.
"What kind of movement?”
– ...There is a worm moving and it seems to be from the debris of that Earth elemental from earlier.
His gaze was at a battlefield a bit away.
The three Inquisitors and the two Dragon half-blood knights were being easily suppressed.
Even easier than he had expected.
This was especially true about the short red-haired Inquisitor, who was too easily captured for her level of strength.
“Hoooo.”
Cale asked in a refreshing tone.
"Which direction?”
– East.
“East?”
Cale looked toward Hons.
“Hey.”
“?”
"What is to the East?”
“!”
Hons’ eyes opened wide before he calmed down.
“That is where one of the three Stars reside. The God of Earth's castle is there.” (TL: They use the same term to be both a place and an individual. So I'm just taking liberties to use it as a castle [place] for the Star [individual])
Cale recalled the information he had.
The ten Dragon gods...
Three of the Dragon gods were incomparably strong compared to the others.
They were called the Three Stars.
Cale commented about their attributes.
"Earth-”
The Third Star's attribute was Earth.
“Ocean.”
Second Star the ocean.
And finally...
The first Star-
“Domination.”
They supported the Dragon Lord but also ruled over their own territories.
– Cale, should I leave the worm alone?
“Yeah.”
Cale nonchalantly responded to the Super Rock before starting to smile.
He looked toward Hons.
“Polymorph again.”
He pointed at his house.
He was pointing in the direction of the invisible Black Castle.
“Let’s go talk at my place.”
He then nonchalantly asked.
It was what they had been talking about earlier.
‘He said that the world was going to be destroyed soon. Is he talking about Aipotu? Or is he talking about all of the worlds?’
Cale asked Hons.
“What did you say will be destroyed?”
Paat!
Hons returned to his original bulky human appearance and looked down at the shorter Cale as he spoke.
“The entire world.”
Hons calmly continued.
“However, that too is the worst possible situation that I could imagine. What I am talking about right now is not the answer. It is simply one hypothesis.”
Hons knew quite a bit about the Purple Bloods and was very knowledgeable about what the Hunters were trying to do.
“In order to create the omnipotent god in a world that is already in balance, a new system needs to be created.”
Hons was not certain about it.
“I believe that the Hunters have created that new system. That should be why they are trying to destroy the worlds one by one.”
He shook his head.
“However, I do not know what that system is nor where it is located. What I do believe to be likely is that the system has its foundations in the new world that they will inhabit.”
Hons, just like Cale...
Fully believed that the Hunters had a place to go to once they lost their homes.
It was the reason he did his best to figure it out.
“I do have one clue about it.”
Hons planned on earning Cale's trust by revealing this information.
He had not come empty handed.
“My father, the First Star, once said something.”
Cale flinched.
The First Star.
The Dragon with the attribute of Domination.
That Dragon was Hons’ father?
He looked at Hons after hearing what he said next.
“He said that the fake reality will soon become real.”
He then added on.
“He said that even those motherfucking Transparent Blood bastards could be useful at times.”
He continued to speak.
“I'm sure you know about the Transparent Bloods? They should have some hints about the new system and the world. So if you dig into them-”
He could not continue to speak.
Cale was not listening.
Instead, Cale looked up at the sky and nonchalantly commented.
“As I expected.”
All of the Hunters he had seen until now had been trying their best to offer up a world.
However, the Transparent Bloods seemed to be paying a lot of attention to virtual reality.
That had led to Cale thinking about it.
Maybe, perhaps-
His hypothesis, which was almost confirmed, settled itself in Cale’s mind.
“Virtual reality-”
What was virtual reality?
It was a fake world.
That place would become real.
And the omnipotent god will be born there.
“...I found it.”
He finally found a way to get some information about the omnipotent god.
A thick smile appeared on Cale's face.
– Human, are you planning on scamming someone? Why are you smiling like that?
Of course, he ignored Raon's comment.
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Translator's Comments
Yes, back to scamming.
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