Episode 1317
The border of the outskirts of Arok.
Hamiel was walking along, looking around cautiously.
The thornbush that separated the outer and inner parts of Arok was densely intertwined, but there must have been a gap. She was looking around intently, and at one point she ran over with joy.
“Hey guys!”
The spirits were scurrying about, trying to send a single bead through a narrow gap in the thornbush.
Here, Hamiel joined in, grabbed the protruding bead, and pulled it hard.
Soo-ok!
“Whoa!”
Finally, the orb was pulled out, and Hamiel fell hard on his buttocks. But before he could even think about the pain, he flew forward and barely managed to catch the crystal ball as it rolled toward the lake.
“Well, that’s a relief.”
Memorial crystal ball.
She took it and hid it in her bosom, and immediately began to run, splashing in the shallow lake. She was headed towards the Lotus Falls, where waterfalls gushed out from the outskirts of Arok.* * *
Groan, groan, groan, groan!
All the practitioners training outside of Arok were gathered together and chatting.
“Is that… … true?”
Arius asked with a complicated expression. Moses banged his fist on the table in annoyance.
“Oh, that’s right! Have you been living a lie? Arok wasn’t the heaven you thought it was!”
After calling the people together and telling them everything she had seen in Arok, she said that her colleague Zion had also been captured and taken away.
Everyone who heard the truth about Arok just rolled their eyes as if they were greatly shocked.
“… … Brother Moa. I understand what you mean.”
One practitioner continued, scratching the back of his head.
“We can’t just believe and act based on the words of a worldly person we’ve only lived in for a few days.”
“That’s right! Arok’s story is an exaggeration, isn’t he just trying to use us to rescue his trapped comrades?”
When Moje heard that, he slammed his fist hard on the table.
Then, the table flashed and transformed into a splendid silver relic, and Moze, who had struck it with his fist, let out a ‘Keupp!’ and shook his sore hand.
“Why should I deceive you guys? Even if I tell you the truth, you just turn a blind eye and pretend not to hear anything! You idiots only listen to what you want to hear! Even if I tell you the reality, you’re busy denying it, right? Huh?”
The Vatican’s Mosé was typically a cynical figure with a public outlook.
Naturally, his way of speaking is bound to make the listener feel bad.
At that time, the atmosphere among practitioners was getting worse and worse.
“La, Laus! Excuse me!”
At the right moment, Hamiel came running in, panting. She slammed the crystal ball down on the relic table with a thud.
“I asked the spirits to bring me the memorial crystal ball that captured Arok! Check it out!”
When Hamiel was driven out of Arok, he didn’t just sit back and do nothing. He had the spirits secretly hide a crystal ball and use it to film the inside of Arok.
Soon her memorial crystal orb lit up, revealing the Arokians.
-Hahahahahahahahaha!
-Ah, I’m happy! I’m so happy I could go crazy!
The Arok that practitioners had in mind was a peaceful paradise where they could spend time with the divine beings and eat only fruit, enjoying happiness without any worries.
But when I took a step back and looked at the memorial crystal ball, it was different from what they thought.
The sight of the Arok people laughing and running around naked was no different from that of animals. They laughed even when their knees were scraped and they laughed even when they rolled on the floor and hit their heads.
It wasn’t happiness, it was more like being drunk on alcohol or drugs.
“This can’t be happening… … .”
The practitioners who saw this sight were shocked.
“Then what have I done so far?”
“My 10 years… … .”
Among them, Arius was staring at the crystal ball with his eyes wide open. He seemed to be desperately searching for someone, even though he was in shock.
“Brother Bowes… … !”
It wasn’t just Arius. The guide from Arok who had first welcomed Simon and his party was also looking at the screen with bloodshot eyes, looking for his father and mother.
In the case of practitioners, there were many cases where their family members or acquaintances were in Arok. They were all sighing deeply and lamenting.
I didn’t know it was like this.
I didn’t know that this was the paradise they talked about in the temple, that this was eternal happiness.
“I don’t know if you guys know this, but.”
Moje took out a document from his bag and spread it out on the table. It was data from an investigation into the administration outside Arok.
“This is evidence that Saint Asperia received money and brought the wealthy and the wealthy from Sky Island to Arok. It’s called the ‘Arok-bound free pass ticket.’”
The practitioners were checking the documents and commotion. Some senior practitioners didn’t seem that surprised and just kept their eyes tightly shut.
“You probably thought that you could enter Arok only after cultivating your spirit and receiving the approval of the divine beings, but that’s not true. Anyone with money could become an Arok.”
Arok is the only holy place of happiness in the Holy Federation.
Wealthy capitalists and high-ranking priests wanted to spend the rest of their lives in Arok after retirement, and by donating the money they had saved throughout their lives to Asperia, they were able to live in Arok secretly.
“Well, come to think of it, there were some worldly people who went in to see the saint in person, and they never came out again.”
“I heard you used the teleportation magic circle inside, but did you just sit there?”
“Arok tricked us!”
“If this is what f*cking happiness is, then it would be a hundred times better to live in this world and just eat and drink!”
Amid anger rising everywhere.
“To this extent… isn’t it okay?”
Suddenly, a practitioner spoke. Everyone’s eyes turned to him.
“I practice every day to get rid of my worries, but honestly, it’s not going well. Rather than being this painful and difficult-”
-Gyarrrrr!
-Ahahahahahaha!
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His gaze turned to the Arok people who were laughing maniacally.
“I think it’s better to live happily without thinking about anything like them.”
“What are you talking about, brother! That’s not happiness, it’s brainwashing!”
“Actually, I agree with what that brother said.”
Opinions among practitioners began to differ, and the situation became increasingly chaotic.
“Let me tell you something.”
Arius raised his hand and drew attention to the surroundings. Everyone’s eyes were focused on him.
“Whether you interpret this as paradise or not, the important thing is that Saint Asperia deceived us.”
He got up from his seat.
“Those who are now in Arok, our former colleagues who once passed through the ranks of practitioners, our family and friends, would they have wanted to go to Arok even if they had known this reality? I don’t know.”
Arius remembered the boy’s words that had been causing ripples in his mind recently.
-If you have no thoughts, no worries, no concerns, then you have no desires, no dreams or ambitions to achieve. Is that true happiness?
He closed his eyes tightly once and then opened them.
“Whether it is happiness in Arok or happiness in the secular world, we are people who have come to seek happiness! However, we have not pursued happiness that we define ourselves, but happiness that is defined and given to us by others. As a result, we have come to face this reality.”
A heavy silence settled over the surroundings.
“That is why we must ask. To the Arokians, to our families and brothers and sisters! We must ask them properly if this is really the happiness you have been hoping for! If there is even one person who says no-”
Arius raised his voice.
“We must fight Arok!”
“That’s exactly what you said.”
Everyone’s heads turned.
A scraggly-haired practitioner with a bandage wrapped around his chest was walking with a cane.
“Ta, Brother Talrock!”
“You’re alive! Goddess! Thank goodness!”
Talrock waved briefly at his colleagues, then came up to Arius and spoke with a serious expression.
“Let us go to Arok. Let us go and prove to those who have deceived us.”
He clenched his fist.
“I mean, even bugs can move.”* * *
At the same time, inside Arok.
[Find it!]
[It was definitely over there!]
A large-scale search operation was underway in Arok.
All the Saints’ enforcers were scouring Arok for escapees and traitors. Meanwhile, Simon and Bowes were running, panting.
“Brother Bowes! A little faster!”
Simon turned around and shouted. Bowes spoke, struggling to breathe.
“Brother Zion! If we continue like this, we will be surrounded!”
“It’s okay, just a little more!”
When I came to investigate the secret relics said to be beneath the Palace of Eternity, I happened to find that the Saint’s executors had also realized Simon’s escape and were searching the area.
Fortunately, there were many Arok people in this area who ate the fruit and laughed nonchalantly. The Arok people approached the executioners of the saint who were investigating, dripping with sweat.
“Oh my, why is your expression so wrinkled?”
“Smile, smile! Be happy! Smile!”
As the Arokians approached and interfered, the saint’s executioner roughly pushed them away.
[Do not disturb!]
Phew!
Arok-in was hit by an elbow and fell to the ground, blood streaming down his face, but he was still laughing so hard that tears welled up in his eyes.
“I was right! It’s so good! It’s blood, blood! Ahahahahaha!”
The saint’s executors made a disgusted expression, then hardened their expressions and resumed their search. Their eyes were filled with determination to never let that happen again.
“Brother Zion! There is no place to run!”
Bowes whispered, catching his breath.
There was a steep cliff behind, so there was nowhere to run. For now, I was hiding behind the dense trees, but the search net was getting narrower and narrower.
“Don’t worry.”
Simon smiled, spread his palms, and raised his divinity.
“I didn’t come to Arok without any plan.”
Simon, with both arms outstretched, began to perform ‘extreme’ movements, gathering the divinity around him.
The saint’s executors, sensing the gathering of divinities, stretched out their arms and shouted.
[Over there!]
[I found them!]
The saint’s executioners began to rush towards the area, holding spears. But Simon did not blink and focused on making a final attack.
“What, what are you doing! Brother Zion! Shouldn’t you do something, whether it’s attack magic or a barrier!”
Simon smiled brightly.
“Please trust and wait.”
Kiiiiiiiiiiiing!
Simon completed his extreme training. As the dazzling divine power poured out, the saint’s executioners who had been running towards him flinched, stopped walking, and covered their eyes.
[what……!]
[Ugh!]
The saint’s enforcers staggered toward Simon in the dazzling light, but they weren’t using extreme force to simply block his vision.
Here in Arok, the ultimatum is a device to call someone.
“I learned Kyokushin from my younger brother. He told me that Kyokushin is a resume that Shinsoo sees-”
Simon raised the corners of his mouth.
“That was a perfect expression.”
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
All the saints’ executors stopped walking and looked up at the sky.
A divine beast with large, pure white wings curved sharply like claws was looking down at them.
Its true identity is none other than one of the strongest beings in Arok.
“The six divine beasts of paradise!”
“Ah, why did Aurebon find an escaped convict… …!”
At Simon’s signal of extending his arm, the wings of the divine beast moved, sending the saint’s executors flying.
The most powerful reinforcement has appeared.
