Chapter: 225
A girl, drawn on a wall that is like a mirror but does not actually exist.
For some reason, she looked very familiar. As if it wasn’t the first time I was seeing her…
“You are….”
“Rychlen.”
The black-haired girl opened her mouth as she looked at Rychlen.
“Are you satisfied with your life now?”
“My life?”
What is the girl reflected in this wall asking?
Questions were rising in Rychlen’s mind, but for some reason, his mouth moved on its own when he saw her appearance.
“Life as a hero is not easy, but it’s also a very rewarding life. That’s why I am satisfied with my life. Very much.”
“Is that so? If so, that’s good.”
The girl replied in a voice devoid of any emotion.
“First of all, I recommend that you get some rest. It wouldn’t have been easy to pass through the afterlife alive.”
“Rest? I want to get my friend’s soul back as soon as possible….”
“If that’s what you came here for, I’ll give you everything you need, so please take a short break at the accommodations beyond here.”
“It’s a break….”
Even without that, Rychlen’s body and mind had become worn out while he was on his way down from the Underworld, so he desperately needed the rest the girl had mentioned.
But.
“I wish I could return with my friend’s soul as soon as possible.”
“In your current state, you will collapse on the way back. You need to rest.”
The black girl’s words were firm.
“Whew. Okay. I understand. Just rest, I’ll take as much as you want.”
“I thought about it carefully. And, there’s a lot to talk about while you’re resting.”
“What do you want to talk about?”
“Yes. Stories about you. Stories you don’t know. Stories about your future. Your stories. Stories that can be told in the Underworld where the gods cannot hear.”
Rychlen simply tilted his head at the black girl’s words.
And so, a small lodging appeared at the other end of the black hallway.
For some reason, the accommodation looked familiar to Rychlen.
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Rychlen began to rest in a corner of the room in the dormitory.
The black girl reflected on the wall watched Rychlen like that, then made a light gesture towards somewhere, and then a small box flew over and spilled out the items inside.
Bandages made of soft cloth and medicine made of herbs. Healing potions, similar to those sold at the Temple of Life, poured out of the box and began to stick to various parts of Rychlen’s body.
As if the bandages and medicine were trying to cure Rychlen on their own.
“What is this?”
“It’s a bandage and medicine. I guarantee it will work.”
“No, I can tell what it is just by looking at it… but why is it in the Underworld?”
“I prepared this just in case. I didn’t know it would end up like this.”
The pungent scent of a medicine made from crushed herbs tickled Rychlen’s nose. It was the smell of a particularly effective medicine among those available at the Temple of Life.
“The medicine works well. I can already feel my wounds healing.”
“Thank goodness there were no major injuries. It looks like it can be cured with the medicine I prepared.”
Rychlen moved slightly to check the condition of his body, then opened his mouth while looking at the girl reflected on the black wall.
“By the way, who are you?”
“Is that you?”
“Yes. You. Being here means you are related to the Underworld… . From what I’ve heard, there are three gods of the Underworld. But you… . Something feels different. It also feels familiar.”
At Rychlen’s words, the black girl paused for a moment to consider her words.
“I am Hades, an incarnation of the Goddess of Life… one of her avatars.”
“Hades?”
“Yes. It is a spirit created to help with the increasingly increasing work of the Underworld, and is in charge of death among the realms governed by the Goddess of Life.”
“Does that mean he’s the god of death? Like the three judges of the Underworld?”
“Our areas of responsibility are a little different from theirs. Their main tasks are the trials of dead souls and their future processing. What I do is assist with the efficient running of trials and the transfer of souls that have passed the trials. And when unexpected problems arise, we deal with them immediately, and if there are problems that cannot be resolved in the Underworld, we immediately call the Goddess of Life.”
“There are a lot of things.”
“However, I usually don’t have much work to do other than assisting with court proceedings. I also step in when the Goddess of Life gives direct instructions to the Underworld.”
Rychlen looked at the black girl, Hades, who was speaking like that.
Of course, it looked like something he’d seen somewhere. I couldn’t remember where I’d seen it, but it looked very familiar.
“But somehow you look familiar… Have we met somewhere before?”
“Doesn’t exist.”
“You speak bluntly.”
“To be exact, I have never met you in this life.”
“Present life?”
Hades nodded slightly at Rychlen’s words.
“The story I’m about to tell is related to your past life. It’s also related to your future, so please listen carefully.”
So, Hades began to tell the story.
The story of Baal, the king of the gods.
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“So, are you saying that I am the reincarnation of the god Baal? And that I am a god who holds a high position as the king of gods?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Honestly… I find it hard to believe.”
Hades nodded in agreement to Rychlen’s words.
“The concept of a past life is unfamiliar to me, so if you tell me that my past life was that of a god, I don’t think I can easily believe it. I understand.”
Hades looked around and said.
“This is also the accommodation where you briefly stayed in the Underworld before your previous life was reincarnated. I don’t know if you’ll remember it or not.”
“Mm… It felt strangely familiar. Your appearance also seemed familiar somehow… Is it related to my past life?”
“My appearance seems familiar… I think it’s not me, but something to do with the Goddess of Life.”
“Goddess of Life?”
“Yes. It’s my original. And you in your previous life… . You were the god I admired.”
“Admiration…?”
Rychlen tilted his head at those words. For some reason, he didn’t think it was admiration.
If not admiration…?
“Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it. Whatever feelings you had in your past life have nothing to do with who you are now.”
“Hmm. That’s true. Past life is past life. This life is this life. But Baal. Hmm. I don’t remember ever hearing of a god named Baal?”
“Baal’s name… has been erased from most of history.”
“What? Erased? Why?”
Hades responded to Rychlen’s words as if it were a given.
“When a god disappears, those who believe in that god also tend to change their beliefs. There are few people who believe in a god who does not give oracles or blessings.”
“No, but… isn’t it normal for records to be left behind?”
Hades nodded slightly at those words.
“If it were a normal god, it would have been like that. But Baal was the king of the gods. That position was also tempting for other gods. There were many gods who tried to erase Baal’s traces and cover his name with their own names to take his place.”
“There is no such thing as a robber.”
“The gods who blessed you. Zeus was one of them. No, Zeus was even worse than the other gods. He even coveted Baal’s temple in the pantheon.”
Zeus. The god who blessed Rychlen before she was even born.
But now the god is keeping silent.
Does that god have a bad relationship with his previous life?
Then… why did Zeus give himself this blessing?
“I don’t know. Why did Zeus give me this blessing?”
“Maybe he was just trying to use you.”
“Use? Me?”
“Yes.”
Rychlen’s expression changed to one of incomprehension.
Even though he is the reincarnation of the god Baal, he is just a human now… Well, he is one of the strongest humans, but there is no reason for a god to use him, right?
“To explain that, I must first explain what the Goddess of Life is trying to do.”
“Goddess of Life?”
“Yes. Baal. After you lost your body in an unfortunate incident, leaving only your soul, the Goddess of Life, who had been secluded in her temple, appeared. And then she became angry at Baal’s absence.”
“Staying at home?”
“There are more detailed circumstances, but I will skip over them since it is not appropriate to explain them. Anyway, the Goddess of Life was furious that Baal, whom she had appointed as the king of the gods, gave up everything and was trying to be reincarnated as a human.”
“Are you angry at Baal?”
“That’s not the case… Strictly speaking, it was anger towards the gods who had given Baal a hard time. The Goddess of Life, so angry, gave a prophecy to the gods.”
Hades cleared his throat slightly and said.
“Baal’s spirit will be reincarnated into a human, so return that human to the position of a god. Otherwise, the gods will walk the path of downfall.”
“The spirit of Baal… me?”
“Yes, it is you.”
Hades just looked at Rychlen with a calm gaze.
Bbaengbbaa… Woohoo… Bbaengbba…
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