Chapter 33
“Send all those who can work to the barrier construction site!”
“According to Cain-nim’s ‘prophecy’, we all only have 10 years of life left anyway.”
…What?
“By what right do you… Ugh!”
When some of the sorted people weakly resisted, they were roughly subdued as the men shouted.
“Rights?! Those don’t exist anymore!”
“We’re trying to build a paradise where we can live peacefully without worrying about monsters for the 10 years we have left.”
What nonsense is this?
The world ends and all sorts of cults start running wild.
‘But 10 years, that’s oddly specific, isn’t it?’
Actually, according to the ‘TOAA’ storyline, this world is destroyed by Asura’s hand in 10 years.
“No! Please let me go with them… Let us die together…”
As a woman separated from her young son wailed, the men in black clothes burst into laughter.
“Don’t worry. You’ll be reunited with your son soon.”
“I’m going.”
Baek Yi-heon, who had been observing the situation, could no longer hold back and muttered.
His clenched fists were trembling.
“Noah.”
But he was restraining himself when normally he would have rushed out immediately.
He was asking for my permission.
“…..”
Without answering, I counted the number of Dowonhyang guild members armed in black clothes.
About twenty in total.
And they were probably all awakened ones.
‘Damn. What should we do?’
Could Baek Yi-heon take them all out?
I feel sorry for those people, but maybe we should just run away now…
But the deliberation didn’t last long.
[(Messenger) Indra consumes causality to intervene in the human world.]
Simultaneously with the voice in my head.
Tang—!
Sehun, who had been playing quietly beside us, dropped the golf ball he was holding.
The heavy ball rolled down to the marble floor of the first floor with a loud noise.
Tang, tang tang, tang…
We made direct eye contact with the men in black clothes.
Then a moment of silence.
“Oh! I-I’m sorry… My hand just…”
Sehun’s voice, trembling and apologizing in surprise, was quickly drowned out.
“Who’s there!”
“Coming down from above. How? Are you awakened ones!”
The men in black immediately drew their weapons.
‘Oh this *****.’
[(Messenger) Indra whistles and pretends not to notice your rough cursing while sweating.]
“Noah. May I fight?”
I took out a C-grade wind magic stone from my hip pouch and gripped it.
Then I shot a strong wind towards the locked main entrance and shouted:
“Why are you asking! Of course!”
As the wind I shot shattered the outlet’s door, Baek Yi-heon leaped down to the first floor.
A sea dragon’s fang was already in his hand.
I shouted loudly from the second floor towards the people.
“What are you doing! Everyone run away quickly!”
Then one of the guild members in black, barely blocking Baek Yi-heon’s attack, yelled.
“If you run away, we’ll kill you all!”
At those words, a guild member standing near the door quickly blocked the open entrance.
It meant they would kill anyone who tried to leave.
If that wasn’t enough, he shouted at the people confused by the sudden situation.
“That’s right! Anyone who kills that woman and child on the second floor will be specially admitted inside the barrier!”
Instantly, the expressions of the people changed.
“Just one woman and a kid, that seems doable.”
“Then I could live inside the barrier too…”
People with crazed looks in their eyes started rushing up the escalator.
“Noah!!!”
Baek Yi-heon, who was fending off the attacks of about twenty guild members, shouted loudly.
“Damn it.”
Right. This is human nature.
Save them from drowning and they ask for your belongings.
‘Is this the result you wanted from me, God?’
[(Messenger) Indra remains silent with a face deep in sorrow.]
I hurriedly took out an earth attribute magic stone from my hip pouch.
I intended to summon tree roots to tie up the people like last time.
But no matter how much power I poured in, the magic stone didn’t react at all.
“Why?!”
Perhaps interpreting my cry as a question, the messenger in my head responded:
[(Messenger) Due to causality restrictions, non-contractors cannot manifest divine power except in special situations dealing with evil gods and their minions.]
Damn it.
So, I can’t use divine power against humans.
“N-Noona, I’m sorry…”
“It’s not your fault, don’t worry, Sehun-ah.”
This is all because of that damn god’s arrangement.
I grabbed Sehun’s hand and started running towards the upper floor.
Humans with madness flashing in their eyes chased after me, groaning like zombies.
“I’ll catch her!”
“Get out of my way, don’t block the path, damn it!”
But fortunately, the people chasing me were slow because they were fighting among themselves.
I quickly climbed the stopped escalator, passed the 3rd floor, and went up to the 4th floor rooftop.
Safety regulations long gone, the rooftop door wasn’t locked.
I slammed the iron door shut with a ‘bang!’
Then, I hastily wedged a wooden plank from the floor into the door handle to secure it.
“The rooftop! They went to the rooftop!”
“If we throw them off, it still counts as killing them, right?”
Bang! Bang!
“They’ve blocked the door!”
“It looks like it’ll break if we push hard enough. Someone bring a chair from downstairs!”
“Damn it…”
The rotten plank won’t hold for long.
Humans trying to kill me in front, a four-story drop behind.
As I bit my lip, caught between a rock and a hard place.
“Noah!”
I heard someone calling my name from below.
When I turned my head to look down, I could see Baek Yi-heon in the distance, as small as a palm.
He must have taken care of all the group on the first floor.
He shouted loudly, infusing his voice with mana.
“Jump down!”
“What…?”
Bewilderment. And then fear choked my throat.
Does he know it’s four floors up when he’s saying this?
“Unlike you who can use mana, I’m just a normal person…”
Bang! Bang!
“Push harder! We’ll push together on the count of three!”
But even at this moment, the hastily barricaded rooftop iron door was shaking as if it would break any second.
It’s amazing how suddenly well-coordinated these humans who were fighting each other just moments ago have become.
It was obvious the door wouldn’t hold for long.
“Hah… Sehun-ah. Am I shaking?”
“Yes, Noona. A lot.”
Hugging the child who answered honestly tightly, I threw myself over the railing.
My heart seemed to fall separately from my body, with a time lag.
It felt like I was leaving just my heart on the fourth floor and jumping down with only my body.
I could see the roller coaster of an amusement park in the distance, upside down.
At the moment when I unconsciously closed my eyes tight in fear.
“Open your eyes.”
Huh?
When I slightly opened one eye, I saw the face of a breathtakingly handsome man smiling down at me.
‘…Baek Yi-heon is smiling?’
I was already in his arms, on the ground.
“How? I didn’t even feel you catch me…”
“I wrapped Noah’s body with mana to cushion the impact.”
You can even do that?
But there wasn’t much time to be amazed.
“There they are! Catch them!”
People pointing at us, crowded on the rooftop railing.
Along with that, guild members in black clothes rushed out from the first floor entrance.
“…They were civilians, I couldn’t bring myself to kill them.”
Baek Yi-heon quickly said before I could say anything.
“While fighting considerately…”
“Who’s blaming you?”
I grabbed his hand as he mumbled what sounded like an excuse and shouted.
“If you’re not going to kill them, then run!”
“There’s a woman too! This is why useless civilians should just be used for building barriers!”
“Chase them! Catch them!”
Baek Yi-heon ran, carrying Sehun in one arm.
If it were just him, he could easily outrun the guild members, but it wasn’t easy trying to escape with me, a non-awakened, and a child in tow.
And above all.
“Ack! Why are Busan’s alleys so complicated!”
I cursed as we ran frantically.
It was hard to Cain speed in the alleyways that were tangled like a spider’s web.
The guild members chasing us shouted in triumphant voices:
“This is our territory! You’re dead if we catch you!”
Damn it.
As the distance between us and the guild members was getting shorter.
A white hand suddenly shot out from a curved alley.
The white hand grabbed the hem of my clothes as I was running frantically and pulled me towards it.
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