Quai’s advice continued.
“This is important. Overment is not merely the name of a team formed from Lost Constellations. Overment is also the true name of the being you call the System.”
“The System’s true name... I had no idea.”
“There was no way for you to know. They only allow others to learn their name after meeting the minimum qualifications they established.”
“And what are those minimum qualifications?”
“Reaching the final stage of one’s possessed class, one of the processes required to become a Constellation.”
“So that’s why you’re telling me now?”
“You will need to make many preparations. Though they lost their qualifications and became Lost Constellations, each and every one of them once represented their dimensions as Constellations. And there is one more thing. They possess an overwhelmingly powerful motivation that compels them to fight desperately.”
“Don’t tell me they baited them with freedom?”
“Yes, that’s correct. If the Lost Constellations belonging to Overment fulfill certain conditions, they can regain their qualifications as Constellations.”
Just as expected.
Really, what else would make anyone swear loyalty to an enemy?
What vicious bastards.
Squeezing everything out of people and using them until the end.
Su-ho’s eyes narrowed.
“Then has no one ever defeated Overment and won the indie game?”
Quai nodded.
“It will not be an easy battle. To put it extremely, among the Constellations who once experienced battle against Overment, there are some who became so overwhelmed by despair at the time that they no longer even dare attempt the indie game again.”
Just how strong are they?
But Su-ho was not someone who would give up over that.
“Even so, I won’t give up. If I intended to give up, I never would have started in the first place.”
“A wonderful mindset. That is why I sincerely hope you achieve what you desire and carve a new history into this universe.”
“Of course I will. Do you have any further advice regarding Overment?”
Quai shook his head.
“At present, the only things I can tell you are the name Overment and their identity. Once you become a Constellation and participate in the indie game even once, you will naturally learn everything.”
“Understood. Then please help me a great deal until then. Master Sachsen told me the Seven Holy Arts I learned are all heavily influenced by your assistance, Quai.”
“Of course.”
The two shook hands one final time.
“Then I’ll be going now.”
After finishing his farewell, Su-ho finally stepped through the Subspace door and headed outside.
When the door eventually closed, Quai looked at the trace Su-ho had left behind and formed a faint smile.
It was a smile carrying many meanings.
***
He returned through the dimensional gate.
The place he returned to was the safe house in Cheongdam that also served as his residence.
It felt like he had returned from a long journey.
Probably because he had experienced Bell’s childhood.
But when he actually checked the clock, surprisingly, not even a few hours had passed.
“Seriously.”
His sense of time felt stranger and stranger these days.
Su-ho let out a faint laugh and dropped himself onto the sofa.
Comfortable.
How long had it been since he’d felt something this soft?
Was it because he had returned after finishing a long trial?
Suddenly, the scenery inside the house felt dreamlike.
“Status window.”
[ An Su-ho ]
Lv : 400Class : Black PopeRank : Guardian GodBetting : ＜Umbra＞＜Heracles＞＜Sword Demon＞Traits▲ : ＜New Blood★＞＜Heracles＞＜King of Ruined Nations＞＜King of the Demon Realm＞＜Sun-Moon Body＞Strength(S) : 148True Demonic Power(G) : 437Super Senses(S) : 90Command(N) : 220Bonus Stats : 0A status window that had not changed much.
Ah, of course, it had not remained completely unchanged.
Several stats had risen by a few dozen points, and the triangle beside his class had disappeared.
His level had not risen.
After all, the only monster he had killed there was a single Malice Beast used as a target for the Extermination of Evil test.
Even so, it held great meaning.
Quai had said he had finally completed the entire class progression process as a Player.
‘Never thought the end of it would be becoming a Pope.’
People really never know where life will lead them.
Life truly was unpredictable.
After closing the status window, Su-ho quietly stared up at the ceiling.
Then he frowned slightly as he recalled the Pantheon Stones.
At that moment, he felt a small amount of mana being pulled away.
“Whoa!”
Startled, Su-ho quickly sat up and gathered the energy twisting together.
He had nearly dropped the Pantheon Stones into this place.
‘That was seriously close.’
If the Pantheon Stones suddenly crashed down here and shattered the ceiling, who exactly was supposed to clean that up?
Apparently, just as Sachsen had said, even if he could not use the other holy arts yet, summoning the Pantheon Stones themselves was possible.
Su-ho pulled up the list of Seven Holy Arts he had learned through Sachsen.
[ Holy Arts ]
RecoveryPurificationProtectionExtermination of EvilConsecrationWeakenExtreme EnhancementThe seven holy arts he had received through Sachsen’s recommendation.
Including the Sacred Covenant, it almost felt like they should be called Eight Holy Arts instead of Seven Holy Arts, but since the Sacred Covenant was not something he could repeatedly use, calling them Seven Holy Arts seemed correct.
‘Still, Recovery, Purification, and Protection all had normal names, but after that the names suddenly became strangely different.’
Extermination of Evil was understandable, but could they not have simply used the original names for Blessing, Weaken, and Enhancement?
Still, he decided not to question it.
After all, the newly named ones had all supposedly been holy arts created specifically for Sachsen.
Beyond that, there was not much else to check.
His swordsmanship had already reached the Ninth Form, the Semi-Ultimate Realm, achieving growth beyond expectations.
‘Then the next step is...’
Naturally, clearing the Trait Quest.
The Trait Quest, of course, referred to New Blood.
‘This is going to be a long road.’
He was not exaggerating.
Su-ho’s New Blood was a massive union of bloodlines consisting of Dragon Blood, Vampire Blood, Giant’s Bloodline, and Fairy Blood, so to clear the “Trait Quest” itself, he would need to unravel the stories behind every bloodline contained within it.
Su-ho’s thoughts turned toward the Dragon Blood side.
‘That arrogant old lizard’s name was Omega, wasn’t it?’
Omega.
The final Dragon Lord and the last Arc Dragon.
His speech had been so rough that Su-ho eventually responded in kind, and because of that, Omega ultimately gave up trying to converse with Su-ho.
‘More accurately, he postponed it.’
Would it happen again this time?
Probably.
They said a person’s habits at three lasted until eighty, so for dragons—long-lived beings who lived far longer than humans—it would be even worse.
Of course, after meeting Master Bell, he realized everyone had their own circumstances, so he had no intention of recklessly charging in like before.
‘Still, if this meeting goes too far, I’ll use Extermination of Evil or whatever else is necessary.’
After thinking briefly, Su-ho activated the Trait Quest.
[ The final Trait Quest is being activated. ]
[ The System desires that you, who have obtained the qualifications, become even stronger. ]
[ Would you like to begin Trait Quest - Dragon Blood? ]
[ Would you like to begin Trait Quest - Vampire Blood? ]
[ Would you like to begin Trait Quest - Giant’s Bloodline? ]
[ Would you like to begin Trait Quest - Fairy Blood? ]
The moment he pressed the quest button, notifications poured out one after another.
Su-ho narrowed his eyes as he looked over the four quest notifications.
‘First...’
Dragon Blood was eliminated.
Perhaps because he had just returned from such a long and exhausting journey, this time he needed something that felt slightly more relaxing.
More specifically, he did not want to think too much.
With that in mind, the Giant side was eliminated as well.
As far as Su-ho remembered, if he went there, under Seolmundae Halmang’s recommendation and guidance, he would have to participate in the succession struggle to become the King of Giants.
‘I don’t know exactly what’ll happen, but it definitely doesn’t sound easy.’
So that one was out too.
Which left Vampire Blood and Fairy Blood.
Those two had fairly similar objectives.
‘For Vampire Blood, the main objective was eliminating High Blood according to the Cursed Prince’s request. For Fairy Blood, it was wiping out the Fairy Hunter faction.’
So if he chose, it had to be between those two.
Among the four bloodlines, Vampire Blood and Fairy Blood seemed like the only ones where he could move around without overthinking things too much.
Maybe because of that, Su-ho did not deliberate very long.
“I’ll go with Vampire Blood.”
Su-ho chose Vampire Blood.
The reason was simple.
Unlike Fairy Blood, where he would need to endure discrimination from the other fairy races while opposing the Fairy Hunters, Vampire Blood only required dealing with the High Blood faction.
‘Even Marloe, the Fairy Queen of Protection, looked down on me like crazy.’
Like Omega, she had treated Su-ho as some kind of mongrel hybrid and spewed absurd racial discrimination at him.
Just imagining himself fighting heroically on their side already gave him a headache.
‘If that’s the case, I’d rather fulfill my promise to the Cursed Prince instead.’
Revenge.
What a simple and direct objective.
And emotionally, he could sympathize with it enough.
The Cursed Prince, Levan de Nosferatu, displayed exceptional talent from birth and became the first among countless siblings to inherit the name of High Blood.
And then one day, because of the damned prophecy of the “Representative of God,” Alucard—the royal vampire, High Blood, and High Priest who served First Blood and held the highest position among the priests—his entire life was destroyed overnight for absolutely no reason.
“Among the princes of the House of Nosferatu, Levan de Nosferatu will one day bring about the tragic fate in which our High Blood are annihilated.”
Su-ho recalled Alucard’s prophecy that he had seen through Levan’s memories.
Seriously.
Whether here or there, religion really was the damned problem everywhere.
That made the decision easy.
‘And now that I’ve acquired the Seven Holy Arts, vampires, who are close to demons and evil, might actually be the easiest Trait Quest to resolve.’
Having made his decision, Su-ho answered the System’s question.
He would choose Vampire Blood.
[ You have selected Trait Quest - Vampire Blood. ]
[ The quest is beginning. ]
FWOOOSH!
A crimson radiance burst forth.
At the same time, his vision darkened into black-red.
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