chapter 25
25 – I will return
The overall progress was the same as yesterday.
As the sun slowly rises over the horizon, the doors of the Colosseum open with the sound of a trumpet.
Hercules blocked the entrance like a mid-boss in the game.
And the warriors stamped their feet, pounded their shields, and shouted my name.
-Kung! Kung! Kung! Kung!
-Dianes! Dianes! Dianes!
Unlike yesterday, the 50 little heroes in a dense formation are at the entrance of the Colosseum.
I opened the way for the villain who blocked it.
My blood spontaneously boiled at the spleen and power as if I was watching a scene from a Sparta movie I had seen in my previous life.
“This is the twin wild boar hunting tactic. I finally try to use it against that wild boar!”
“A wild boar is caught with a wild boar… Is there any other more effective tactic than this?
Hey there! Your voice gets smaller! Louder! Big!”
-Wowaaa!!
….If it weren’t for the whispers of the two shovelers that could be heard between the shouts of the soldiers.
“Um, Tessie over there? Dianes is looking this way?”
“What do you mean? Jason, can you hear our strategy meeting through the cheers of these soldiers…”
Mmm, that’s cute. Cute.
Perhaps they are Greek heroes who are famous for their tricksters, so they try to catch the greatest boss of all time, Hercules.
It was very impressive that he did not choose the means and methods.
Yes, if you’re a cunning strategist, you shouldn’t cover the means and methods for the purpose.
Just.
It was very unpleasant that I became the means and method.
“…Are you really looking this way?”
“Yaya! Why are the voices so small!! Louder! Big!!”
Theseus and Jason’s faces turned white for a moment when our eyes met, but nonetheless
Called out my name with a loud voice, trying to fight me and Hercules somehow.
“Cute things”
Let’s see you later.
He will have to pay the price for using the master of magic as a chess piece in a play like this, not someone else.
Anyway, I think I need to play a little with the beat.
Neither the sparkling eyes of those aspiring heroes, nor the great hero buds in front of me, were in any situation to step out.
Above all, a one-on-one with that guy, Hercules, was what I was hoping for too.
Yesterday, I extinguished Atalante’s mind, and instead planted a little bit of the realization of the Samjae that I realized in the empty seat.
At the same time, I was able to confirm my enlightenment and state once again.
‘My enlightenment is still within me’
The realization of the previous life reached by breaking away from the limits of the body, forging the heart, and sublimating the spirit.
The state and realization engraved in the soul, not the body, still existed within me.
I knew this secretly while practicing martial arts secrets and martial arts, but yesterday’s inaction and state of my previous life, which I tasted again in the image world, convinced me of this.
‘Going up again’
Somehow, no matter what, we have to go up again.
This was not a mere need or wish.
This was instinct.
Like a salmon returning home against a rugged mountain stream.
Like migratory birds heading south in a strong wind.
I should have returned to the realm I originally reached, to the position I had reached.
The thirst that the beauty of the Aegean Sea and the richness of Greece made me forget
It was infested again by the body that had been briefly recovered from the mental world.
Slightly stronger than the famous Greek heroes?
Have you competed with a mythical strongman and reached an equal number?
Damn it, that was a given.
When did the Great Emperor of the Heavenly Demon, who brought down mountains and dried up rivers, become so simple?
To be content with a mere first-class level, but to live in fear of Zeus and Apollo.
Have I been unknowingly overwhelmed by the name of God and the name of Shinhwa?
Since you were born human, is it foolish to go against the gods?
“Nonsense”
A demon is not like that.
If heaven forbids me and earth rejects me.
You should drop the sky and trample it under your feet, and you should crush the earth and scatter it into the air.
That’s a demon.
How could I have forgotten this because of the trivial incident of being born in a different body?
However, impatience is prohibited.
A well-crafted tower cannot be destroyed even after a thousand years.
A tree with deep roots raises its head alone and plans for a thousand years even if the whole forest burns down.
Since the level of spirit and spirit has already reached a distant state, it has achieved an unforgettable grand duke, so all you have to do is train a vessel to contain it.
Even though I knew it from the beginning, I experienced the body of my previous life again for a while, and my current body is so much better.
I couldn’t stand it because it was cramped.
Simple physical training was not a problem.
The evolution of the body that can only be obtained in countless life-and-death crises and extreme situations.
The moment when blood and flesh splatter and breath rises to the chin, and the instinct that comes with a sense of crisis rings the alarm bell.
What I needed the most right now was that extreme moment.
And fortunately, in a mythical world full of gods, monsters and heroes, I am the greatest in history.
I was facing a so-called great hero.
The son-in-law became quiet before he knew it.
Me and Hercules faced each other in the middle of the Colosseum.
“Your eyes have changed”
“Something happened”
“Did anything good happen yesterday?”
Hercules smiled sinisterly and glanced at Atalanta behind him.
Well, thanks to Atalanta, it reminded me of old memories, so it wasn’t entirely wrong, but it wasn’t what he thought.
“…How is it? I have no words. Really? Did you really?”
However, Hercules, who seemed to have accepted my silence as an affirmation, shimmered with benevolence.
His mouth opened wide in disbelief.
“No, no matter how powerful the headbutt, that Atalanta…”
“Isn’t it too full of lewd demons in your head?”
Is this guy like that and the Greeks think with their lower legs instead of their heads?
If you do anything, the 19-karat gold talk pops out.
“What do you do to a kid who passed out in the first place? There was also Asclepius in the clinic.”
“Why? Isn’t that better?”
“Have you seen this bastard?”
What did I just hear?
Is this the great hero of Greek mythology?
Is it better that Atalanta fainted or that Asclepius was present?
I couldn’t figure it out. Never wanted to know
“Okay, shall we begin?”
“…Okay, should we start soon?”
Grinning, Hercules smiled ferociously and pointed the spear in his hand at me.
“It is said that it handles other things well, but it is still a spear that competed with Master Chiron.
Let’s play together”
“Isn’t the spear your main weapon?”
In mythology, it is remembered that Hercules did not use any weapon other than an olive wood club or bow.
In the first place, he was a great hero whose body was a full-body weapon, so he probably didn’t need a separate weapon.
“Oh, how did you know that?”
“You can tell by looking at it, it shows that she has learned spearmanship to some extent, but her posture is not that of a spearman.”
The Greek spearmanship I have seen was a typical ritual spearmanship in which a shield and a spear were used as a pair.
A spearmanship that blocks an opponent’s attack with a shield and attacks from a safe distance using the spear’s long reach.
However, if you are not carrying a shield, holding the spear with both hands is the default.
But Hercules was swinging his spear with one hand as if he were holding a club.
“Hey, what is it? But since you use a spear, wouldn’t it be fair if I also use a spear?”
“…What?”
Fair?
What did this young hero say?
“So. Since I use a spear, you have to compete with a spear you haven’t used before. Is it fair?”
“Yes”
“In other words, if you compete with something other than a spear, will you win?”
“By the way, the one I am most confident in is Pankterion. Even if I look like this, I am very strong.”
“In other words, if you don’t use a spear, I won’t be your opponent at all?”
As my face slowly hardened at the displeasure running down my spine, Hercules seemed embarrassed.
I tilted my head.
“…Hey hey. It was good to see how they overpowered Atalanta yesterday. That is nothing to me.”
With the arrogant conviction and confidence that you can’t even scratch your body with that level of martial arts.
Hercules smiled and continued.
“No matter how you look at it, you are born with the lineage of Zeus, the Goddess, and you grew up eating the milk of the goddess Hera.
If I catch the lion of Kitaion with my bare hands and attack you in a hand-to-hand combat, whether you pick up a spear or a bow
Do you think I will be your opponent?”
Strong euphoria and self-confidence.
Honestly, if it was Hercules in mythology, I could understand.
Since he was born, Typhon’s son and a mighty monster, the Nemean Lion, only attacked him and said that he saw blood in his body.
Even if you show that much confidence in front of anyone in the world, you wouldn’t dare call it arrogance.
But only one person.
That confidence of Hercules in front of me was arrogance, nothing more, nothing less.
I accidentally put down the window.
“…..”
“Hey, don’t do that. Lift up the window. No spear blade in the world can scratch my body.
But the fact that you couldn’t be my opponent with your bare hands is a definite fact… Huh?!”
Daily report.
It was the step I needed to get into the Hercules Gap where I smiled confidently.
The body of Hercules, who proudly opened his upper chest without even wearing armor, was truly admirable.
A body stronger and harder than any armor in the world.
As expected, it was worthy of being called a great hero.
“But, after all, it is only a body made of human blood and flesh”
“What… Huh?”
In an instant, I dug in and the five fingers I extended touched Hercules’ chest.
Hercules, who seemed taken aback for a moment, smiled again and shrugged his shoulders.
“Hey, what are you doing? No matter how desirable my body is…”
“Shut up, watch your breathing”
If you do it wrong, you could become a half asshole today.
-Wow!
The bet of Muryeong Simgong, raised from the Danjeon, was concentrated on the five fingertips along with Shinmagi.
“…What?”
Hercules looked down at me with a puzzled expression, perhaps instinctively realizing that something was wrong.
The situation was already over.
“The agony of the five senses overcomes heartache”
Jeongdo In Moorim, when discussing qigong, Shaolin’s Yeokgong and Hwasan’s Jahagong were given the most priority.
However, in the Heavenly Demon Religion, there was a magic ki-gong of the rare era that opposes it.
The great master of the Cheonma Shinkyo Qigong, and the Dokmun Muongong of the Demon Destruction Demon, Jongwigeol, which no one could have followed in the Qigong of the Twelve Gods.
Woongweipagong (五蘊僞破公) was exactly that.
And at this moment, Oonwipagong’s secret weapon exploded on the great Greek hero’s body.
“Oonwipagong-Beonpagaecheon(煩波開天)”