<h4>Chapter 212: The Northern Front 1</h4>
‘… Is this a parallel imaginary world?’
It was somewhat unassuming as ast-ditch effort to survive, but Woohyuk didn’t let his guard down.
This was because he saw and understood Crue’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 fric 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 simr but subtly different from the Valkyrie Ruins in the Norton Kingdom.
As Woohyuk continued his search…
“Are you really going to put that n 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 ce where the conversation was taking ce.
“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 ck-haired angel enthusiastically voiced his opinion.
Next to the angel was a goddess with pink hair who silently dropped her head while standing on thekeshore.
Woohyuk, who saw the two of them, looked startled.
‘Is that angel… me?’
The angel was very simr 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 youe here to talk about the unchangeable nature of our rtionship?” 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 n will seed, and the day wille 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.
Pina walked to the shore and gently raised her right hand.
Then, the appearance of a burning celestial world appeared on the surface of theke.
“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 nned future could be altered and reversed at any time.
Rafael nodded at Pina’s exnation.
“I know that. Our n, 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 ountable for assisting and abetting me.”
“I will entrust my future to you. So pleasee back. Even if you fail a few times, face the challenge again and seed in your ns…”
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 bying back to this ce and drinking the water from theke.
This had a profound effect on the Creator’s nned 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 rtionship 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 Crue’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 exnation.
This was the beginning of all tragedies, a three-way rtionship triangle.
Crue’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 Crue left Urdarbrunn, the Lake of Fate, Woohyuk followed her secretly.
“Sob…sob…”
Crue 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 simr 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 Crue, who was searching through the old documents.
“What are you doing here?” Woohyuk asked.
“… Rafael?”
Crue stepped back in surprise.
The person in front of her looked like Rafael, but no matter how simrly he looked, the being in front of her was a human.
No, she felt demonic energy in him.
“Do you love Rafael?”
“… So you’re not Rafael. You made me feel bad momentarily.”
Crue showed hostility byying down the old documents and taking a wary stance.
Woohyuk raised his hands to express his intention to talk and then opened his mouth to speak again.
“Actually, you’re half right and half wrong. I’m Rafael who hase back from the future.”
“You are from the future? How do expect me to believe that?”
“Will this be enough?”
Woohyuk pulled out the Lemegeton.
An ancient magic book that contained 72 Demon Kings.
Crue looked surprised when she saw it.
“Nonsense…”
“I want to hear the truth. So, I need you to tell me everything about Rafael’s ns and what you were trying to do.”
If she knew that he was the reincarnated Rafael, he felt that Crue would reluctantly cooperate.
As expected, Crue answered with her head down,
“Rafael is trying to change the system with the angels who want a free world. Using the knowledge of this forbidden library…”
When light and darkness, which have existed since the beginning, became one, the world would face fundamental changes.
It was the Ark of Knowledge that led the world in the right direction.
So, the Ark of Knowledge had long been strictly managed by angels.
Woohyuk nodded at Crue’s exnation.
“I roughly understand the story of the Ark of Knowledge. Anyway, the n seems to have failed in the end. Do you have any guesses as to why that happened?”
“… I don’t know. How would I know?”
“Later, you be a fallen angel and create a riot. You didn’t even show an inkling of recognition when you saw me at that time. I think the cause is here. Can I check the documents you were viewing for a while?”
No matter how much he thought about it, the Golden Library wasn’t a ce where an emotionally wounded woman shoulde right away after learning of her position in a love triangle.
As Woohyuk pushed her sharply, Crue trembled with fear and stuttered,
“I… I be… a fallen angel…?”
“It’s because you touched the forbidden knowledge. And this is the Golden Book.”
Woohyuk pulled out the old document that Crue was looking at from the bookshelf and frowned.
‘This woman tried to change the future to what she wanted.’
Instilling a personal desire into amon cause, for which everyone should join forces, brought a dire result in the future.
Maybe she wanted to be Rafael’s lover.
It became clear to him that she chose to be a fallen angel after touching the forbidden knowledge.
Upon grasping the general situation, Woohyuk snatched Crue’s wrist.
“It’s your fault that Rafael’s n failed. To make everyone unhappy just because you were blinded with jealousy is no different than what a witch would do.”
“… No! I never wanted Rafael to be unhappy! If that truly happens, I’ll burn this ce down!”
Crue’s eye became fiery as magical fire sparked from one of her hands.
Woohyuk quickly subdued her and prevented further trouble from happening.
“If you do that, nothing changes. This is just your imaginary world.”
“An imaginary world…?”
“You’re already dying. You’ve lost your loved ones and your own identity. You’ve been running away from the truth.”
Woohyuk went on to exin how he defeated her.
Crue’s body convulsed as she heard his exnation with a shocked look.
“Ugh… ck…”
“I will resolve the issue and end your terror. I have no personal feelings in this matter.”
He was not Rafael.
He may have been reincarnated, but he had no memories of his past.
However, the fact that he had a rtionship with Leifina from a previous life aroused a subtle feeling within him.
As Woohyuk tried to stab Crue’s heart with Verserios…
“Stop it.”
A man’s cold voice came from behind.
After confirming the identity of the voice, Woohyuk made a confused expression.
‘This presents a bit of trouble.’
Rafael.
The Archangel, his identity from a former life, was aiming a spear at Woohyuk with a threatening nce.
“Have you been listening to our conversation?”
“Yes. I honestly don’t believe it, but I’m willing to talk.”
“Actually, that’s the same for me.”
It was naturally difficult for any human to ept this kind of story.
When Woohyuk briefly talked about his past, Rafael looked worried.
“Am I not able to do anything… I feel guilty towards Pina after hearing your words.”
“She is someone I must keep safe and cherish in the real world.”
Woohyuk started to understand why Leifina was given as a hidden reward in the Witch’s Sanctuary.
The Creator was trying to intervene in his future through her.
However, Woohyuk was always ready to crush such a design.
At least there would be no giving up or sitting down on this new path.
After bing a demon, he would destroy all the absurd systems created by the Creator.
This was so that everyone would no longer suffer from the Creator’s mischiefs.
When Woohyuk released Crue with a determined expression, Rafael also loosened his attack posture.
“By the way, do you really have no memories of your previous life?”
“If I had any, I wouldn’t have suffered so much. The Goddesses of Fate, who reced Pina, didn’t leave me with any memories or tips.”
“The Creator will always be watching you. It’s my personal opinion, but listening to you about the current situation, it would be better to seal all 72 Demon Kings first.”
If one could fill all 72 Demon Kings in Lemegeton, one could freely move to the Demon World and obtain a quest to be a demon.
At Rafael’s words, Woohyuk''s eyes sparkled.
“A quest to be a demon?”