novelraw Chapter 180 : The Secret of the World
Chapter 180 : The Secret of the World
"If you follow this path, you will find a place where the passers are gathered."
Murong Yoo, following the instructor's guidance, walked along a path with the others who had passed. Murong Yoo recalled the words the instructor had said earlier in his mind.
'A constitution specialized in demonic art.'
Was that why?
The reason why his achievements were slower than others no matter how much he learned the martial arts of the Righteous Faction.
On the other hand, he could not blindly believe the instructor's words. Because there was too little evidence to believe the instructor's words in the first place.
Still, he had passed for now.
Murong Yoo did not place a grand meaning on the fact that he had achieved something on his own. He was just feeling a sense of pride in himself for the first time.
'I can also do something on my own.'
Murong Yoo did not know well until this time that this was a sense of accomplishment.
"It seems that is the end of this path."
"I guess so?"
Murong Yoo, who had been awakened from his solitary thoughts by the sound from the side, looks ahead.
A bright light was emanating from the end of the passage.
"Let's go!"
The other children were running towards that place excitedly. Murong Yoo was also swept up in the atmosphere, and his steps were gradually getting faster.
And so, when he got out of the passage, the scene that was revealed.
"Wow."
A vast nature that a divine being might live in greeted Murong Yoo's party.
When he raised his head to the end, there was a mountain that stretched high into the sky, hidden by the clouds.
Around, there were fields that filled all directions and unknown beautiful flowers blooming here and there.
Animals and insects that he had never seen before were playing there.
On one side, a huge waterfall was flowing, and the children who had passed before were sitting around it.
"Are you the final passers?"
A person who looked like a new instructor approached Murong Yoo's side.
"Yes!"
"You must be lucky. You guys go and sit over there too. The entrance ceremony will begin in one hour from now."
Upon hearing the words 'entrance ceremony', the fact that he had really passed came to him once again.
'I really did it on my own!'
When he went to the place where the waterfall was, Paeng Yoo-ran approached.
"Yoo-ya! I knew you would pass!"
"Haha. I was lucky."
"Luck is also a skill. Look here! There are a lot of amazing things."
Originally, Murong Yoo would have felt inferior to such a Paeng Yoo-ran. He would have considered it as the pity or curiosity that the strong show to the weak and would have placed himself below. But now, Murong Yoo was not feeling such an emotion towards Paeng Yoo-ran at all.
The emotion that Murong Yoo was feeling from Paeng Yoo-ran now was simply the emotion that she wanted to be friends with him.
Is this also a change that comes from achieving something on one's own?
What was certain was that Murong Yoo did not dislike this change.
"Really? Where should we go see?"
"Huh?"
Paeng Yoo-ran tilts her head.
"Why?"
"Because you seem to have changed somehow."
Paeng Yoo-ran comes closer and puts her hand on Murong Yoo's head and then takes it off, repeating this.
"Did you grow taller in the meantime?"
"Do you think I would have grown in a day?"
"No! You grew a little! Really!"
"Really?"
Paeng Yoo-ran extended her hand.
"Oh! Let's go quickly! It might disappear!"
Murong Yoo hesitated for a moment. But he soon held her hand as if it were nothing.
"Yeah. Let's go."
And when they reached the end of the waterfall, Murong Yoo could see that Paeng Yoo-ran's words were not a lie.
At the end of the waterfall, there was a huge puddle.
There, a huge fish that he had never seen before was floating.
"I asked the instructors here. They said that's a whale.
Just then, the whale let out a cry.
Poooo!
The sound was so huge that it echoed throughout this entire space.
And Paeng Yoo-ran said with a rather excited expression.
"It's coming!"
-Yoo-ya, in Hainan, there lives a huge fish that is bigger than any other living creature on land. And that fish can shoot out a huge stream of water.
It would not be a coincidence that the words the Sword Empress grandmother had said someday came to mind now.
Splash!
A huge stream of water shot out from the whale.
The stream of water was so high that it reached the sky.
And the stream of water falls.
A huge rainbow is formed in between.
"How is it? Isn't it beautiful?"
Murong Yoo nodded.
"Yeah."
Paeng Yoo-ran was grinning between the rainbows.
Whether an hour had passed, the instructor's words were heard.
"Nice to meet you. I am Sa Cho-hon, the senior instructor who will be teaching you for the next 3 years."
The children, including Murong Yoo and Paeng Yoo-ran, all turn their heads in the direction where the voice is coming from.
The person who had introduced himself as Sa Cho-hon was a one-armed man wearing all black.
-He's one-armed!
When Paeng Yoo-ran whispered, Murong Yoo answered, watching his expression.
-It's rude to call a one-armed person one-armed.
-Really?
-Yeah!
-Alright!
"You have all reached this place through each selection process. Let's get straight to the point. The words you will hear from now on will be beyond your imagination. Also, from the moment you hear these words, you will never be able to leave the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult alive. I will give you one last chance. If you want to give up here, stand up and go out through that passage. Because it is connected to the entrance where you first arrived."
A child raised his hand.
"Are you going to give up?"
"No. I have a question."
"What is it?"
"Is what we are about to hear related to the Chaotic Heavenly Society?"
"Oh! You seem to have quite a bit of knowledge about the affairs of the martial world. Which family are you from?"
"I am from the Zhuge Family."
"I see. Unfortunately, you are wrong. Any other questions?"
A child raised his hand high. Murong Yoo, startled, looked to the side. Because the person who had raised his hand this time was Paeng Yoo-ran.
Murong Yoo somehow felt that Paeng Yoo-ran would ask a strange question.
The instructor's sharp pupils were directed at Paeng Yoo-ran.
"Are the guys we have to fight strong?"
"They are strong."
"Then, are they stronger than you, instructor?"
"Oh. That's a rather arrogant question."
"Which family are you from?"
"I am from the Hebei Paengga."
"Oh! You must be the precious daughter of the Hebei Paengga, Paeng Yoo-ran."
"Yes! That's right!"
"Let's see. There are guys who are stronger than me, and there are guys who are weaker. Is that an answer?"
"Yes!"
Murong Yoo whispered to Paeng Yoo-ran, who had finished her question.
"Aren't you scared of that instructor?"
"But I'm curious. And aren't you excited? That you can meet many strong people in the future."
"I don't know about you."
"Hehe. My dad said that a woman should have many secrets."
After that, a few more questions followed, and there were no more.
"I will assume that no one has given up. Then, I will formally introduce myself. I am Sa Cho-hon, who will be in charge of your physical fitness class from now on."
Three people suddenly appeared next to him.
"Hello. I am Yoo Soo-ah, who will be in charge of the swordsmanship class."
"Hello. I am Braha of the mind art class."
"I am Soma of the martial arts."
And another man appeared.
Soon, the atmosphere in the hall became heavy in an instant.
"Nice to meet you. I am Hyuk Won-sang, the 30th leader of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult."
Everyone here bowed to Hyuk Won-sang at once. At this, the children also tried to follow, but a gentle energy prevented them from bowing.
"You don't have to. Because you are not yet disciples of the Divine Cult. Now! Then, from now on, I will tell you what you are really curious about. Why the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult suddenly opened a kindergarten for the entire martial world."
The following words of Hyuk Won-sang were enough to surprise the children, no! the entire martial world.
* * *
The words of the 30th leader of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult were as follows.
In the past, there was an organization called the Chaotic Heavenly Society.
They were all eliminated by the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
However, in the process, a small problem arose in the timeline due to the enemy's leader.
"Simply put, with the death of the leader, different timelines that would have never met originally came to intersect with their respective worlds. And a problem arose."
Originally, their respective worlds would have never met.
But due to the influence of the Black Heaven Lord, who was also the first leader, who had crossed the timelines, the timelines began to get twisted.
In other words, the timelines began to affect each other.
You might ask why this is a big deal, but this had a very big advantage and disadvantage at the same time.
The advantage was that they could exchange knowledge and culture with each other's worlds, which would have had no exchange originally.
And the disadvantage was.
"If one world is destroyed, it will also affect other worlds."
At this time, a child raised his hand.
"Speak."
"What exactly is the effect?"
"You can think of it as a kind of chain reaction. If one world is destroyed, the world connected to it will also be destroyed someday. Surely."
The truth about the world that they had heard so suddenly.
The children were all doing their best to accept the reality with their mouths shut.
Without any consideration for that, Hyuk Won-sang continued.
"After the annihilation of the Chaotic Heavenly Society, the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult has been doing its best to prevent the chaos of this timeline with only the power of the Divine Cult for the past 10 years. But as time went on, the aftermath became so large that it could not be stopped with only the power of the Divine Cult, and in the end, we have come to a situation where we have no choice but to borrow the power of the martial world comrades. We have already informed a very small number of the Righteous Faction of this fact. Perhaps most of the parents of the passers here know."
"You must be confused. Although ten years old is almost grown up in the martial world, you are still children. I will swear this one thing on my name, Hyuk Won-sang, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Your lives will never disappear meaninglessly."
At that moment, the space suddenly began to tremble.
"It's happening right on time."
The children all turn around.
Then, a crack began to appear in the space.
"W-What is that?"
"W-What is happening all of a sudden!"
"Waaah! I just want to go home!"
Murong Yoo was also looking back.
His heart had been pounding strangely since he had heard the leader's words earlier.
-Dad is doing a very important job right now.
"We call this a crack."
Hyun Won-sang's explanation continued in a gentle voice.
"The world in that crack is connected to another world. It may be the same as this martial world, but the timeline may be different, or it may be a completely different world. And we divide it into a total of 5 grades, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, according to the measure of the power that the world in that crack has. And sometimes, a crack that does not fall into any grade appears, and we divide this into three stages: heaven, earth, and human, as out of standard. And rest assured."
A monster that he had never seen before began to pop out from the cracked crack.
"The martial world we live in is an out-of-standard human grade among the many timelines."
Then, does that mean there are two more places that are stronger than the martial world? Is this a factor to be relieved about?
"It seems the crack connected this time is the 5th-grade Great Forest. The creature you see over there is a giant mantis, one of the mobs living in the southern part of the Great Forest. In the martial world, it has the power of about a first-rate martial artist."
"Kiyak!"
He could see why it was called a giant mantis.
There is a saying, 'a mantis trying to stop a cart'.
A saying that a mantis raises its front legs to block a cart that is much bigger than itself.
It seemed that that proverb would have to disappear now.
Because the mantis is bigger than the cart!
"This is one of the opponents you will have to fight in the future. Of course, besides the animal world you are seeing now, there are also various worlds such as the phantom beast world, the human world, the beastman world, the demon world, and the spirit world. How about it, aren't you excited?"
Excited, my ass!
If he were to be hit by the front leg of that giant mantis, his body would be torn in two.
Thump, thump.
Hyuk Won-sang walked in front of the giant mantis.
"I thought I had stabilized it a while ago, but the reproductive power of the Great Forest is truly amazing."
The giant mantis swings its front leg at the mere human who has appeared in front of it.
It was as sharp as the sword strike of a decent first-rate master.
Hyuk Won-sang blocked it with just one finger.
Soon, the sound of something burning was heard.
"Kiyak!"
The giant mantis struggles in pain, but it cannot escape from the mere two fingers of Hyuk Won-sang that are holding it.
The giant mantis turned into a handful of ash.
Hyuk Won-sang, with the wide-open crack of the world behind him, grinned and said.
"Welcome to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult."
To Murong Yoo, those words sounded like this.
You guys are fucked.
(End of Chapter)