Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

162. Fate (2)

#162. Destiny (2)

Cynthia looked straight at Berget.

Behind him was Cheonmu-bong, whom he had not seen in a long time, but there was something else that took priority over greeting him at the moment.

“I didn’t know I would see it like this. I was going to go and see it myself.”

“…you me?”

“Ah, I wanted to try it out just once. Aren’t you supposed to be an apostle of a foreign country?”

“No?”

“… … ?”

Berget tilted his head at Cynthia’s words.

She continued, looking at Bergette with a questioning look on her face.

“He is not an apostle, he is an acting apostle.”

“Agency? Whose agency?”

“…there is.”

Cynthia thought that even if she told Berget about Irina’s existence, he wouldn’t know, so she talked around a bit.

She was now the acting apostle of the Guardians. Her authority was on par with that of an apostle, and her abilities were no different. No, it could be said that she had more than a regular apostle.

In addition to the powers originally granted to the apostles, he also inherited some of Irina’s powers.

“I don’t feel much of a difference. What does agency mean?”

“What does it mean? I could get cut off at any time.”

Cynthia was not a full apostle.

To put it simply, he was like a contract worker.

In the case of a fully bound apostle, it is impossible for a foreigner to unilaterally cut off the contract, but in the case of an agent, it is possible for the guardian to recover authority and power at will.

“I see. I didn’t know because I’ve never seen a proxy before. That’s an interesting type of contract. To make a contract like that… You must have been in a hurry.”

“I desperately needed to get out of there alive. More than that… I didn’t come to you to talk about this kind of thing.”

“hmm?”

Cynthia clenched her fist and drew on her divine power.

Considering that the target in front of her had a divine power greater than Heron, the blow she had struck contained more divine power and authority than the one he had struck at her.

“I guess you’re the type that uses your fists rather than your words.”

Kwaang——! Cynthia’s fist was aimed at Berget.

Her fist was blocked in midair. Berget stood still and created a space barrier, which completely blocked Cynthia’s attack.

“under?”

“Ugh… .”

Cynthia was surprised and Cheonmu Bong was surprised too.

Only Heron looked at everyone with a calm expression, as if he had thought this would happen.

“A moderate attack like that won’t be able to hit me.”

“A moderate attack?”

“okay.”

Berget knew that Cynthia had intentionally attacked without using her full strength. The reason was simple. It could cause damage to Cheonmu Bong. If a sincere attack that went beyond the upper ranks and even contained the rank of an outsider was to strike, the aftereffects on the surrounding area would be enormous.

If you’re not careful, even the barrier you’ve set up could be blown away in one blow.

“… If I increase my power any further, there will be problems. I have no intention of ending the Earth with my own hands.”

“Really? Then let’s move the location—— Yes? This is?”

Berget had planned to take Cynthia on a short trip abroad, choosing between the void, the universe, or a nearby transcendence. But then a problem arose.

Kwaaa———

The sky disappeared as if it had opened up.

As the end approached, the sky that had been purple was covered with a huge black crack. It was a crack so huge that no one knew where it would end. The sky was completely black. It was a space connected to outer space.

No physical phenomenon occurred.

It was because the law of causality was protecting the Earth. Originally, the moment the outer space and the Earth were connected, everything on the Earth should have been immersed in nothingness and faced destruction.

“… You entered terminal stage all at once?”

Cynthia muttered in disbelief.

The end has suddenly entered its final stages.

It was a situation that no one in this room had expected. This was Heron, Cynthia, and Berget, who had reached the rank of the ministers and could read the flow of causality.

“Oh, there are so many unexpected things happening… Is it because you’re so fickle?”

Berget felt that the fate and causality he had read were out of sync. This was because of the intervention of foreign media. The fact that he was capricious was, of course, referring to the Watcher.

“Unfortunately… we’ll have to postpone the fight until next time.”

Berget looked up at the sky with genuine regret. In the gaping void of space, a giant eye was staring at the ground.

It was the eye of the beholder.

Ordinary beings (=mortals) cannot gaze upon it, and only those who have become transcendent can witness that which exists within the phenomenon.

“I’ll be leaving Heron and I for a moment. I have some work to do to prepare for that.”

“for a moment–“

Cynthia tried to catch Berget, but he took Heron away faster than the speed of light. Now only Cynthia and Cheonmu Bong were left.

“… Ahem. It’s been a while.”

“It’s been a while.”

The two exchanged awkward greetings and looked up at the sky.

I had to think about how to solve that first.

***

“What is going on…?”

The sky began to split open, and soon turned pitch black. It was already strange to see the sky change from blue to purple, but when it changed again, this time it wasn’t just strange, it was bizarre.

And there was something to cap off the weirdness.

“Giant eyes… is that it?”

A pair of eyes so large that I couldn’t even guess their size were looking at the ground. The eyes were not fixed. They moved around a little bit, looking here and there. I felt a queasy feeling inside as I looked at that bizarre sight.

‘Why are other people quiet?’

Suddenly I felt something strange.

If this situation had happened, people would have started screaming and making a fuss right away, but no sound was heard.

I stopped a few of the vassals of the shrine who were walking around and asked them if they were okay. Then the vassals asked me back what I was talking about.

“… Representative Han. What are you talking about? Hasn’t it been a while since the sky turned purple?”

“Purple?”

I asked the vassal again, who said the sky was purple. “Is the sky purple right now?”

“By the way? Is something wrong?”

“Ah. No.”

I left the one who said the sky was purple and went to ask the others. Among them were Shin Dong-baek and Illian, with whom I had a slightly awkward relationship.

“The sky is still purple. Is there something special going on?”

“Huh? The sky? It’s purple. Do you see a giant eye? I’m not crazy, how could I see something like that?”

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Everyone was unaware of the pitch-black crack that had appeared in the sky and the giant eyeball that had suddenly appeared.

It was a strange situation.

‘… How did this happen? Am I the only one who can see this?’

I contacted Cynthia, who was out for a moment.

——The power is off, so you are connected to voicemail… .

“… … .”

It seemed like he was busy.

***

The final stage of the apocalypse, the terminal period.

The form of the end is difficult to determine because it differs depending on the planet where destruction occurs, but there was one thing in common.

It was the very existence of [disaster].

In the final stages, disaster inevitably appears.

To be exact, it can appear at any time from the beginning to the end, but if the disaster did not appear before the end, it will appear in the end.

No one knows whether it is a natural disaster, an explosive increase in monsters, or an unidentified epidemic.

In the case of Langrut, a disaster called [Apostle] appeared. The disaster called Apostle, which appeared in the middle of the apocalypse, drove most of the transcendent beings on that planet to death. Excluding those transcendent beings who fled to the sanctuary, everyone died from the power of the disaster.

The power of the disaster was not something to be ignored.

The power was so great that it could devour an entire world. That was why Berget had no choice but to postpone his battle with Cynthia.

If we don’t prevent the disaster, the chances of the Earth ending will increase exponentially.

Because when Earth ends, things will become incredibly tiresome.

“Heron. Observe.”

Berget had Heron, who had the ability to see fate, use her power to make her use it. Although she could also see fate, it was inferior to Heron’s power – vision of the future.

The reason the two wanted to observe the disaster was simple.

A disaster can ruin everything in an instant if you’re not prepared for it. No matter what it is.

That was the reason why we wanted to observe the impending disaster.

“… That, that place.”

“If you have something to say, say it quickly.”

“… I don’t have enough divine power. Please give me some divine power.”

“… … .”

Berget looked at Heron with a bewildered expression, then changed the energy of the Moonless Moon that he possessed back to normal divine power and handed it over to her. Heron, who received the divine power from Berget, used the power with an ecstatic expression.

[ In the name of Heron, the goddess of dawn and radiance, I will open to you a portion of the great records. ]

Chararararararak——

The sound of a book opening reached her ears, and Herron fell into a dream.