Chapter 227: God (2) (1/2)

Chapter 227: God (2)

A real godship was obtained due to the death of the body and the rise of the soul.

Gustarte.

However, he had a body. It meant that his body itself was made of divinity. Nevertheless, he had fallen and was used by a mortal.

Even so, it couldn’t be denied that he had a divine flesh.

‘Absorb him.’

I moved away from the Tree of Origin. I would become a true god by absorbing Gustarte. But I would have to give up my present life.

A god...

I had never thought about it.

The first god I met was the devil Death Bringer. Death Bringer recognized me as a participant of the game and sent me back to Earth. Thanks to that, I became one of the 72 demons and now reached the position of grand duke.

And the gods of Earth. While I was on the verge of death, the 72 gods joined forces to turn back the axis of time. I was able to have more experience than others.

However, I had never thought about becoming a god myself.

I shook my head.

I couldn’t be swayed by something I hadn’t imagined before.

From the day I was born, my dream was to become the demon king.

People might say it wasn’t comparable to being a god, but I placed different values on each position.

For me, I wanted the position of the demon king. My dream was to sit on his throne and laugh loudly. I came all this way for that one reason. My goal wasn’t going to change now.

It was irrelevant if I died. Even if I became a omnipotent god, I wouldn’t be able to sit on the demon king’s throne. The gods had a different concept of time, and they didn’t intervene in the affairs of mortals.

The administrator of the origin saw me as the next god’s candidate.

‘I will awaken Gustarte.’

I had completely different thoughts from the administrator of the origin. It was because he had a completely different opinion from 0001. So I thought about waking up the involved party.

The study of Gustarte’s body was still ongoing, but it was sluggish. The information was so intensive that it seemed like it wouldn’t end in one or two years of research.

But time was limited. After a year, the next enemy to appear would be the Hell Monarch, or a person impersonating him. I needed to prepare for a confrontation with him in the Demon World.

Until that time, I couldn’t leave Gustarte’s body alone.

“Yihi.”

“Yes Master. Did you call?”

Since I entered the dungeon, Yihi had always been waiting nearby. This phenomenon was further strengthened after I collapsed at Greenwich Observatory. It seemed like she didn’t want me to leave her sight.

I calmly said.

”Tell Gaparam, I want to see the results of his research on the Moon Arrow.”

“Yihihi. I watched the research but couldn’t understand anything. Then, should I go and kick him?”

“Go ahead.”

“Yihihihi!”

Yihi laughed happily as she flapped her wings.

Gaparam stood before me nervously, with one hand holding the research materials and the other one holding the Moon Arrow. The leather on his face looked like a child’s face.

”The study results are good. You did well.”

The homunculus was very useful. On the actual battlefield, the dominance of the homunculus was great. The homunculus was the one who broke Duke Beilla’s neck.

“No. It is thanks to Master’s grace that I managed such an achievement.”

Gaparam bowed deeply. He seemed to have a deep respect for me. Since giving him Gustarte’s body, Gaparam started to act very politely towards me. I didn’t care about his original tone, but it didn’t hurt to have Gaparam act like this.

”Have you made any other progress in the research?”

”I’ve found out the reason for the homunculus’ short life. I had to approach the culture differently from the design itself. When I looked at how a god’s body works...”

”It is a technical talk.”

”I wrote it down in a simpler manner in my journal.”

Gaparam handed over the research data.

Most of the results were things that I already knew. He described the tests on the flesh and the effects of a weakened Greed, but it was just a hypothesis.

”Tell me about the Moon Arrow.”

He handed over all the data. Then Gaparam sighed and said.

“It isn’t a common item. The Moon Arrow is more veiled than his body. But one of the numerous veils...I found out that the Moon Arrow exists for ‘balance’, but that is all.”

Balance. Maybe it also represented the origin.

It seemed like the arrow might restore Gustarte’s original balance.

I spoke in a small tone.

”I have to try it.”

”What?”

”I will stab the Moon Arrow into Gustarte’s body.

”......!”