Chapter 425
At the Martial God’s star, Tuseong.
The Martial God looked down at Ashoka from his position.
[As you said, I allowed participation in this tournament, but… Ashoka. Can I entrust you with finishing the job?]
“Yes. If the hand can be retrieved, I will retrieve it. If not, I will seal it.”
[Good. I trust you won’t go against the prohibition.]
“This aligns with my purpose as well… I will faithfully carry it out.”
The Martial God looked down at him bowing faithfully and recalled the past.
Long ago, the sage of humanity who interfered with him at every turn along with Dongbang Sak.
Because of that guy, he once tried to burn all of Earth and start anew on a different planet.
However, the situation changed when Ashoka, who realized his intention first, proposed “infinite regression”.
‘Until now, he has been the most helpful to me…’
The fact that the Martial God could gather such immense power in Tuseong and aim for the Administrator position was also largely thanks to the infinite regression Ashoka established.
He was once the worst enemy.
But since he bowed his head and claimed to be the Martial God’s disciple, he became more helpful than anyone else.
However.
‘We’ve regressed together countless times, but I still can’t figure out his true intentions…’
In the past, the Martial God successfully carried out all his plans.
Although he had to avoid and run away from Dongbang Sak, who possessed transcendent nothingness, and couldn’t face him head-on.
He had to seal the World Tree, so his range of action was limited.
Like that, there were minor variables in everything, but overall, it was within the Martial God’s grasp.
However, Ashoka.
No.
[…It was Siddhartha. Your old name.]
When Siddhartha interfered with him, all the things he schemed were blocked.
If the power gap between him and himself wasn’t overwhelmingly large.
Or perhaps, if Dongbang Sak wasn’t bound to the World Tree.
He would have been killed by Siddhartha and Dongbang Sak long ago.
“Siddhartha is a name I forgot long ago.”
Ashoka recited that name with an expressionless face.
The Martial God’s eyes flashed.
Yes.
That unreadable expression was always a burden to him.
The sage of humanity who toyed with him.
In the end, he became his disciple with all sorts of prohibitions, but.
No matter how much time passed, trust didn’t go to him.
Rather, he only worried about when this guy would backstab him.
The red light in the Martial God’s eyes deepened further.
[I remember my promise with you. In exchange for postponing humanity’s destruction, you infinitely move the shackles of time.]
“You promised to save humanity when you became a transcendent being.”
[Yes. I will keep my promise. If I become the permanent Administrator, I will save humanity. I will extinguish all the sacred flames.]
“…Thank you for your words alone.”
[So, I trust you won’t act rashly. If our contract is twisted, humanity will be annihilated.]
The Martial God made Ashoka affirm it again and again.
The most difficult to control, the Martial God’s disciple Ashoka.
It was an action that arose from the underlying distrust towards him.
“I will accept your order.”
And in front of such a Martial God, Ashoka knelt down and bowed his head.
With a strange smile on his lips.
* * *
[5 wins and 0 losses in the Beginner’s Arena! The triumphant human representative team, at the forefront is Yoon Seah playing the warrior role.]
[Is this year the right time to go to the intermediate race? It is known that evolution bonuses also come from Seong Jihan’s tournament.]
[Sovereign Constellation Ashoka ends all matches in 1 second.]
[What is Ashoka’s true name? The gods of Indian mythology are all listed.]
These past few days, the topics that received the most attention were the Beginner’s Arena and Seong Jihan’s tournament.
At first, the Beginner’s Arena, which could bring evolution bonuses to humanity, had more attention.
However, as Sovereign Constellation Ashoka showed the feat of ending every match with a flash, people’s curiosity about who this person really was grew.
“Ah, it’s a shame I couldn’t go watch uncle’s match today. It had to be scheduled at the same time as the Beginner’s Arena.”
“You can just finish quickly and come watch.”
“But doesn’t it end with a flash from the Wheel-Turning Sage King?”
Yoon Seah, who no longer called Ashoka as Ashoka.
“Are you pushing the Wheel-Turning Sage King theory?”
“Yeah. Uncle said it seems related to Buddhism. But Buddha… doesn’t seem like he would summon that skull.”
“I’m going to ask him straight if he’s Buddha.”
“Oh, really? Why?”
“Just got a feeling.”
“Oh, is it uncle’s intuition activating?”
Yoon Seah, who had watched how accurate Seong Jihan’s intuition was, opened her eyes wide upon hearing those words.
The person who turns the terrifying skull wheel is Buddha?
[But Jihan. Did you find a way to deal with his skull thing? What if the hand gets taken?]
“Right. Come to think of it, whether it’s Buddha or the Wheel-Turning Sage King isn’t important. What if uncle gets turned back into a baby?”
Ashoka’s time reversal that turned the opponent back to the moment of birth.
They needed to find a way to resist that overwhelming power that had been doing 1-second cuts until now.
“Well, I did some research on countermeasures for that in the training room.”
“Oh, uncle prepared everything even while going to commentate.”
“Yeah, I can’t lose the hand like this, right?”
Although the reason Ashoka appeared in the tournament was to receive Total Annihilation, Seong Jihan didn’t fully trust those words and prepared for the worst case.
It would be big trouble if he went into the match without any preparation and got his hand taken away due to time reversal.
‘I could resist time reversal through Return of the Light.’
The martial art Annihilation God’s Secret – Return of the Light, which still doesn’t make sense and has many questions.
However, seeing Ashoka’s power, Seong Jihan realized that Return of the Light could be a means to counter it.
Of course.
‘This is also an intuition without basis though.’
The ‘intuition’ that always showed Seong Jihan the way to survive.
That instinct, which he had already relied on many times until now, was telling him that Return of the Light was the key to counter Ashoka’s power this time as well.
At that moment.
Zing…
[You will soon be summoned to Space Arena.]
A message window appeared in front of Seong Jihan’s eyes.
Was it starting now?
“I’m going. Seah. Continue your winning streak.”
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HEL SCANS
[Translator – Asura]
[Proofreader – Gun]
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