<h4>Chapter 124: Suit yourself</h4>
Dohyuk gasped.
He never expected, nor had he dreamed of such an event to happen.
For ss, he considered his feelings as dead. He had nothing to protect anymore, and the only thing remained was vengeance. Yet, that was not true — he still had feelings.
Through five months of teaching people, he had remembered those feelings.
“This is not my world.” He imed, “But I do not want these people to die.”
Maybe he saw his own people in the students he was teaching. But even then, it was his newfound purpose.
“That is all I want.”
“...”
Dohyuk then felt nauseous from within as a message popped up.
<<Faith ((#$****-**-*&**>>
“Wha-”
The words were crashing into one another. Casita’s system was telling Dohyuk that this was wrong.
*XX8****yyy**ikdd****=___
Dohyuk’s body began to tense up, as he shot up straight and began to shake as if he was having a seizure. ss stood up and grabbed Dohyuk.
-Faith: ((((#####)))))—-*****
(((###))—-*** UNIDENTIFIED ENTITY>>
<<Disciple cannot be epted>>
The body that was holding onto Dohyuk was the ce ss who chose to run from Casita. It could not be recognized by Casita’s system. That’s why the messages were buggy since having religion was also a part of the system after all.
<<Use the phrase: Reject faith to reject the entity>>
The system warned him.
“Ugh... it’s not letting me...”
“What...?!” ss asked as he shook Dohyuk’s shoulder multiple times. But he couldn’t say anything.
<<Unidentified entity>>
<<Use the phrase: Reject faith to reject the entity>>
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Dohyuk then closed his eyes and straightened himself. It was still out of control, but he was able to stand up by himself at least
He looked at ss and asked, “Can you say it one more time?”
“...?”
“That you trust me and will follow me to the end?”
“...Of course.” ss nodded.
“If you want, I will happily give my loyalty and sacrifice, my master.”
“D-did you hear that?” Dohyuk said. “He said it.”
He was full of sweat, but he was smiling. It didn’t matter who it was. Someone was trusting him. A mere seizure and threating messages weren’t enough to scare Dohyuk.
“Take it away if you want, you bastard.”
<<Divine Power activated>>
<<Divine Power: Unbreakable>>
<<Nature activated>>
-Over the Horizon
In the next moment, a light began to shine from Dohyuk and from ss. Then from ss’s chest, something about the size of a fist began shooting out. It was the shape shifting that ss used to do, but it wasn’t ss who was controlling it.
<<Acquired Disciple>>
Dohyuk saw the message, but the font was a bit different. It was the same font that showed the upgraded Flying Master Kicks.
<<Disciple: ss de Ardema>>
The metal object that came out from ss’s chest attacked Dohyuk. The object then turned into something snake-like and wrapped itself around Dohyuk’s left arm before it ttened into a thinyer and covered Dohyuk’s entire left arm like a metal arm that resembled ss.
“...”
Dohyuk watched it dumbfoundedly and grabbed it with his right arm. It was weird. He could feel his left arm covered by something, but he could also feel his right hand touching it.
“Digest.”
Nothing happened. Dohyuk looked up.
“What is this...”
“What is the meaning of this?!”
ss finished speaking first. He was looking at something.
“Why do I have messages again... no, wait. Why are you my ‘God’ now?!”
“Uh, because...” Dohyuk shrugged, “You believed me?”
“Believe? Me? No... I mean- yes. I did, but that is because I will serve you and...”
“Isn’t that the same thing?”
“It’s different!” the metal man shouted. “Religion? I serve you as my god? That’s... what’s the difference between serving Casita... or Vehume...”
“I’m not them.”
“Take it back.”
“What?”
“I don’t n on serving you as my god!”
Dohyuk then walked over to him. He knew why ss was angry. Like Dohyuk, ss hated all gods.
“Even if you say that...”
There was nothing Dohyuk could do. Yet as he ced his hand on ss....
– 96/100
“Whoa.”
“What is it? What do you see?”
“Your faith is very honest, despite what you say.”
Before ss could reply, Dohyuk continued, “Well, it’s not going away anytime soon so we’ll talk it over for now.”
Dohyuk then raised his left arm.
“What is this?”
His left arm now looked like what ss was made out of.
“...I am not sure.”
ss answered after a while. “My body and thebyrinth is under my control, but I couldn’t control the part that came out from my body. Even now, I don’t think I have control over that.”
“...You said your ‘Nature’ is gone right?”
“My Nature?”
Dohyuk nodded. He must have received something from ss when he became his disciple. Yuri and Giwon had given him their first Nature to Dohyuk after bing a disciple. Dohyuk thought it was the answer.
“No, that is not my Nature.” ss shook his head, “My Nature is gone.”
“It’s gone?”
“I don’t know the reason, but a Nature is deeply rooted within one’s core. I am a different being at the core after I moved into this metal body. I believe the Nature is affected by it.”
“...”
Dohyuk scanned through his stats, but he couldn’t find an answer.
“So... everything is in question for now. Okay. At least there’s no harm. I have some business with the prison.”
ss asked, “The prisoners?”
“Yeah.” He nodded, “I need a guide.”
It was fortunate that the people were out drunk. If any of them were awake to hear who Dohyuk was trying to bring out, they would have been terrified.
“Take out Jung Ilgyu.”