Episode 1320
“Let me ask you, Arok’s parasites.”
Asperia came down from the sky in an elegant dress, her long veil fluttering in the wind reminiscent of a fairy’s attire.
At the appearance of a great being that no one dared look up to, the sound of practitioners gulping their saliva echoed throughout the room.
“Why did you come into Arok without my permission?”
“… … I’m sorry for coming in without permission. Haona.”
Thud thud.
Arius stepped forward with a determined face and met her eyes.
“We definitely want to hear the saint’s explanation.”
[How rude!]
The saint’s executioner shouted and grabbed the spear. But Asperia covered the executioner’s mouth with her gaze and smiled gently.
“Please continue speaking.”
“Why did the Saint deceive us all?”
Arius’ lips trembled as he desperately tried to calm his emotions.
“We did not shed blood and sweat to come to this false place. The cultivators, those who were troubled by the painful past, those who gave away all their wealth in search of happiness, the saint has deceived and trampled on them all. Here!”
Arius spread his arms.
“This is not paradise!”
“but.”
Asperia, floating in the sky, looked down at him with a twisted smile.
“It’s true that you’re happy, right?”
Kuk.
Arius gritted his teeth and bit his lip until it bled. He who had preached that being caught up in worldly emotions and worldly desires was weakness, was now trembling under the influence of intense emotions.
“Look, everyone.”
-Hahahaha!
-Ohhohohohoho!
Aroks are rolling around naked on the ground, laughing happily. They are eating fruits with their mouths full, laughing and rolling around in the grass without a care in the world.
Asperia put her hand to her mouth and spoke with her voice amplified.
[Is everyone happy?]
At her question, the Arok people laughed heartily and shouted.
“I am happy, Saint!”
“thank you!”
-Gyarrrrrrr!
-Hahahahahahahaha!
As the laughter of the Arok people echoed, the practitioners had to tremble with an increasingly intense sense of alienation.
“I just gave happiness to those who came to find it. Don’t people all live to be happy? The Arok people will turn their eyes away from the outside world and live the happiest life they can think of before they die. What’s the problem?”
She folded her hands and smiled slowly.
“Happiness is an emotion that cannot be denied in any case.”
Hwaaaaaaaah!
Red ash flowed out from her body, and a gust of wind blew up and hit the practitioners. They fell to one knee with a whoosh!
My mind became hazy all at once, and extreme pleasure and happiness surged through my entire body. I felt an intense urge to just lose my mind, close all my thoughts, and roll around on the floor.
dump!
thud!
Some of the practitioners started to laugh and giggle as they lay down on the grass like Arokians. Arius shouted.
“All practitioners! Please practice to the fullest!”
Kiiiiiing!
To resist Asperia’s power, all practitioners held out by exerting extreme efforts and increasing their concentration.
The technique once trained to obtain the divine waters of Arok was now being used to fight Asperia.
“Ugh!”
Moze and Hamiel each controlled their emotions to avoid being consumed by happiness in their own way. Moze placed a blessing on her head to suppress her emotions, and Hamiel used the spirits to create a sound barrier.
Hohoho!
Asperia’s laughter echoed.
“Why should you suffer so much in resisting happiness? Leave everything to the main woman and be at ease. No matter what the outside situation is, the main woman will protect this Arock, so all you have to do is enjoy it.”
Her voice spread out like sticky cotton candy melting in the sunlight.
“You’ve been training hard for that, right?”
dump!
thud!
The red ash swirls more and more violently. One by one, the practitioners who have been practicing extreme martial arts begin to collapse like puppets whose strings have snapped, and they fall to the floor, laughing out loud.
‘It’s dangerous if we continue like this!’
Arius was sweating profusely. The extreme training was ultimately a training to increase concentration and eliminate negative afflictions, and it was not enough to resist the feeling of happiness.
“Ugh!”
While everyone is at a standstill and unable to move.
Buck!
Surprisingly, the troublemaker from the outskirts of Arok, Talrock, began to walk briskly.
“This X-baaaaal!”
Talrock pulled out his divinely entwined scythe, his face flushed with rage at Asperia.
“I thought it was cheap from the moment I first saw Arok, but I knew this would happen! How dare you fool me for 7 years? Huh?”
Arius’ eyes widened as he watched.
The practitioners, as well as the powerful Moa brothers, were barely holding on, but Talrock, who had been practicing shallowly, was walking through happiness with only one emotion, anger.
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“Die! Witch!”
He threw the scythe he was holding with all his might. With a loud noise, the scythe flew through the emotional storm and passed by the tip of Asperia’s arm.
A small abrasion appeared on her arm, and her eyes became fierce.
“Parasites and such.”
Asperia gestured again, and the divinity gathered and flew in the form of a spear, piercing Talrock’s body repeatedly.
Phew!
Phew! Phew!
“Brother Talrock!”
Talrock fell, and she gathered up some red ash and hurled it at Talrock. Talrock’s angry expression faded, and he started laughing, ‘Hahaha!’
The extreme pain and the sight of him laughing while his body was impaled on a window was bizarre.
“Leave the rest to me and come to paradise.”
Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Asperia’s power grew even stronger. Arius, who had been desperately holding on, gasped for breath as he looked at Talrock, who was smiling while impaled on a spear.
‘Yes, you can’t resist happiness just by emptying your mind.’
I needed something intense to cover my happiness.
The moment he raised his head while thinking deeply.
“!”
In the distance, I saw a familiar face, that of Arok.
A naked man, giggling and struggling as he escapes from the ruins.
‘Brother Bowes!’
It had been ten years since I had seen my brother, but the joy was short-lived.
Hahahahahahaha!
Bowes’s eyes were filled with tears as he laughed. Veins were visible on his forehead. Arius’s eyes turned murderous as he saw this.
“Asperia!”
Kechaang!
Arius released his sternness and began to walk away with brisk strides. His eyes were filled with intense hatred.
“hmm?”
Asperia adjusted the ash and focused it on Arius, but Arius endured by receiving all the power of happiness in his body. In the meantime, Moses, Hamiel, and the other practitioners were able to catch their breath.
“Only you, in my hands… …!”
Arius’ eyes became bloodshot.
Arius, who had been teaching his juniors to be free from defilements, is now facing the saint armed with the strongest defilements.
‘There is no light without shade.’
Damn it.
He took a step forward.
‘Happiness that shines without a single dot of darkness is an illusion.’
Damn it.
He took another step forward.
‘Why didn’t I realize it sooner!’
Kiiiiiiiiing!
He once again demonstrated his extreme power. This time, instead of escaping from emotions, he focused on them and created a conglomerate of divinity.
<Extreme – Awakening>
The emotions were anger, hatred, and murderous intent.
‘I must get rid of her!’
Gooooooo!
He spread his arms and began to gather divinity. However, Asperia was not the one to just sit back and watch.
“It’s annoying in one way or another.”
When humans try to control their emotions, their movements become slower. Knowing this principle, Asperia leisurely gathered divinity into her hands and created a pure white winged spear.
The power to move one step ahead of any opponent while they resist emotions. That was one of the true values of Asperia’s power.
“Die. You bug that doesn’t know the value of happiness.”
Phew!
The moment the winged spear flew towards Arius’ heart.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
A calm voice rang out, and the spear stopped with a thud right in front of Arius’ chest.
Suddenly, a boy with a bluish glow at the roots of his hair was standing there with shining eyes.
“At this moment, the most brilliant living being in Arok is you, Brother Arius.”
Fukuaaaaaaaaaah!
A huge red ash cloud swept around Simon like a whirlwind, driving away Asperia’s ash. The power of the cloud swept away the happiness that was trying to engulf humans, and the practitioners who had been holding on finally fell down one by one with expressions of life.
dump.
Arius, who had exerted all his strength, also sat down. He raised his head.
“Hey, Brother Zion!”
Gooooooooo!
He grabbed Asperia’s spear, put strength into his hand, snapped the spear shaft in two, and dropped it to the ground, then looked at Asperia.
“I’m glad we met like this. Fake.”
A crack appeared on Asperia’s face.
“… … You escaped from prison and now you’re swearing at me again! Are you ready to pay the price?”
“You are the one who will pay the price.”
As the red ash stopped falling, the saint’s executioners also raised their spears one by one and tried to surround Simon. Then Simon opened his mouth.
“Executors, the author is a fake. He is merely an impostor who has imprisoned the real Saint Asperia in the ruins and is using her power to pretend to be a saint.”
An executor frowned.
[How rude… … .]
[How do you prove that?]
The chief executioner of the saintess suddenly stepped forward and asked. The other executioners looked at him with puzzled faces.
“That’s a good question.”
Simon lifted the artifact, jewel-encrusted and divine, from his bosom above his head.
“I met Saint Asperia in the underground ruins of Arok, and she gave me a symbol representing herself.”
The saint’s executors, who saw the real thing, were extremely shaken.
“That, that is truly the symbol of Saint Asperia… …!”
“I clearly heard it was destroyed during the war!”
“That’s right. But how could such a great symbol be in the hands of an escaped convict like me?”
Simon spoke calmly and stared at Asperia.
“This is an item that the real Saint Asperia gave me, telling me to reveal the fake’s true identity.”
Arok fell into a crucible of confusion.
Hamiel nodded, holding both hands tightly, and Moses clenched his fists and muttered ‘jŭbar’ as if he had witnessed his own faith.
“What flimsy logic. Do you all believe the words of such a suspicious man?”
Asperia crossed her arms and laughed.
“That is an elaborate counterfeit. If not, it seems like they are trying to do this by combining the remnants of the original woman’s sacred relics that were lost on the battlefield.”
As she raised her fingertips, a pillar of fierce light rose up around her.
Shaaaaah!
“The real woman is the eternal saint Asperia.”
Soon, large and small footsteps rang out, and countless divine beasts who had witnessed the light in the Arok Forest walked out and bowed their heads toward her.
“I am the only one in the Holy Federation who can use this kind of power.”
The power of the Eternal Saint Asperia is to control human emotions, and at the same time, to gain the absolute love of the divine beasts. Without the need to lead or rule them, all the divine beasts simply become intoxicated by her power and follow her.
Ss …
And among those divine creatures, a white snake reminiscent of a silkworm crawled quickly and wrapped itself around her arm.
Sweat ran down Arius’ forehead.
“Arok’s precious treasure, Eshiram!”
“It’s really Ashram!”
Apart from the six divine beasts of paradise, Eshiram was the greatest divine beast representing Arok.
The very same divine beast that first tested humans according to the will of the goddess. It was said to have existed much longer than the six divine beasts.
“Since Ashram is following the main woman, isn’t that proper proof that I am the real one?”
“I don’t think so.”
Simon clenched and unclenched his fist, then looked at Asperia and continued speaking.
“Are you sure that the spirit is really following you?”
“That’s the end of useless rambling!”
She stretched out her arm and pointed at Simon.
“Bite and kill the false pretender. Eshiram!”
At the same time as the command, Eshiram opened his mouth wide. It was the moment when the divine beast with the venom that could kill thousands of people with a single drop was about to attack Simon.
‘It’s still difficult to use in earnest, but… …!’
Kiing!
Simon immediately advanced to the front, and almost simultaneously, Eshiram rushed toward Simon.
‘Draw out the power of the saint through extreme efforts!’
Simon met the real Asperia, and the essence of the saint, whose interests coincided with driving out the fake, lent Simon strength.
Chaaaa …
An intense divinity emanated from Simon, colliding head-on with the divinity of Asperia.
“what!”
“What happened?”
Everyone covered their faces or turned their heads because of the dazzling light, and after a while, when the light cleared, they were shocked by the sight they saw.
“Why… … !”
Knock knock!
Ashram’s fangs turned and bit Asperia on the back of her neck.
“I told you so.”
Simon continued speaking, lowering his hand with a meaningful smile.
“If the author is the real Asperia, how could he lose to the pretender in a fight for the supremacy of the divine beast?”
The evidence that woke everyone up was spread out before their eyes.
