NOVEL NEXT chapter 4
4 – Weeping and struggling
It was a scream.
It was a struggle to escape from the things that restrained oneself.
Keee!!!
I started to hear a deafening noise coming from my body.
The weird thing is that I didn’t say anything, but my body was screaming.
“Ah, ah ah ah…”
At the same time, the guy who saw me and swung a sword at me was looking up at me with a face stained with astonishment.
“Ah, Avatar.”
Changgurang.
He dropped his sword and fell to his knees with a speed reminiscent of light.
“Oh, lord of total chaos who penetrates the entire universe and knows all the truths in the world! I sincerely confess the foolish mistake of this foolish creature, please forgive this stupid ant’s rudeness ha ha ha once. Please, please, have pity on this roadworm’s season-long life, buy it, save it! My heartfelt prayers to the creeping chaos and lord of a thousand forms…”
“Noisy.”
Quad Deuk.
“Quaaa!!”
The jelly-like tentacles protruded from my body and began to chew on the man’s body.
“Save, save, kuaaa!”
In a matter of seconds, he was his daily bread.
[Avatar of Chaos: SAN value is consumed according to the level of the transformed avatar.]
[Avatar of Chaos (one who wails and struggles): 5 SAN is consumed per minute.]
An uncountable amount of time has passed.
No, not from my point of view, actually, it wasn’t even a few minutes.
[SAN figures 87 / 100]
The consumption of mental power is getting more and more extreme.
As before, the feeling of dizziness in my head started to get worse.
‘Killed.’
Anyway, I shuddered at the thought in my head as I was swinging my tentacles at random.
A human being, who had only killed worms or insects in his lifetime, suddenly became a murderer.
[SAN figures 83 / 100]
As soon as I realized that fact, my mental strength started pouring down more and more steeply.
The SAN level leaked out like a pot with a hole in it, and there seemed to be no more hole to plug it.
“Quaaagh!”
“Living flame! Our God! aaah!”
Even at this moment, people are dying like fruit flies.
I am simply breaking down the stories that have been piled up for at least 20 years without any overlap.
However, I do not regret it.
Anyway, these guys are trying to kill me.
So, I hope you die on your own before my SAN level goes to zero.
[Nyarlathotep: Even if you choose this, you chose a ignorant guy]
At that time, a chat came from my mobile phone that had fallen to the floor.
But I was too far away to see the contents.
[Nyarlathotep: Hold on for a while, I’ll be back soon]
The flock of believers.
And me who eats it.
Only God knows when this little war will end.
* * *
In the vast outer space, an object the size of a tiny speck of dust is swimming.
The dust goes to Fomalhaut.
It was the alpha star of Southern Pisces and the residence of Ctuga.
The dust that arrived there shouted loudly.
“Reveal the face of the fire-breathing red prostitute instead of the assistant.”
Hwaaa!!
And an unquenchable spark flew towards the dust.
But the dust suffered no damage except for a little scorching.
In the first place, the power difference between ‘foreign press’ and ‘greatest old one’ is clear.
No matter how strong Ctuga was among the old ones, it was nothing compared to the ‘foreign god’ Nyarlathotep.
“That idiot-like temper doesn’t change no matter when you meet him.”
“Shut up.”
A small spark rose above outer space.
The flame slowly took shape and turned into a demonic figure made of fire.
“Kim Hyun-seong would hate that look.”
“…”
As she listened to Nyala Thotep’s words, her body slowly changed, transforming into that of a beautiful woman with striking red hair.
“Go away now. I have nothing to say to you…”
“Why are you doing this now, shall I guess?”
Nyarlathotep suddenly changed his tone.
Originally, there is no one who dares to catch up with her spirit system.
That’s why Ctuga decided to pick and use the tone that would cause him the most anger.
“Didn’t you start this division because you had a lot of fun with a marriage in a game?”
“…Shut up.”
“Hyeonseong didn’t have any thoughts, but he was excited by himself and said, ‘I’m going to name my child with A-pum~.’ You were angry when you let your imagination run wild and I snatched it away.”
A huge flame erupted from Ktuga’s body and attacked Nyarlathotep.
“Isn’t there anything to refute? It’s true. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve destroyed my mentality so easily.”
“Hey, shut up…!”
Nyarlathotep saw the paradoxical sight of water dripping from the eyes of living flames.
“Crying? Crying? The Great Old One, the living flame, the fire vampire, the god who burned the silver guy, cried because of a human being? Did you have such a good intelligence?”
“Shut up, turn it off! I did it…!”
“Are you crying because you were criticized for being hundreds of billions of years old? You’re still a god? And you’re trying to kill Kim Hyun-seong, whom you love so much for signing a contract with me? If you look closely, what you’re doing is worse than a 7-year-old kid by human standards.”
Nyarlathotep slowly began to assume human form from dust.
Silver hair, blue eyes, and a raised mouth.
All of that was enough to anger Ctuga.
“Even if you wanted to kill like that, you could have gone yourself. Why did you leave it to the followers? I want to kill you, but it’s a waste to kill you?”
“…”
“Keukkeuk, is it hard to cry now?”
C’Thu lowered his head and began to shiver.
“Will you tell me the only way to be with Kim Hyeon-seong?”
“?”
With all his self-esteem, Nyarlathotep, who had crashed, got to the point.
“Right now, Hyeonseong has eaten a lot of your followers and is filled with fire energy. So you have to make a contract to alleviate it.”
“…!!”
Double contract.
A deformed form of contract between two constellations in one human body.
And since it was a contract that could not be made without the consent of the first Constellation, it was a contract that would never be made between gods with extremely bad relations, such as Nyarlathotep and Ctuga.
Because of the nature of gods who have a strong desire to possess in the first place, there are very few cases where double contracts are concluded.
“Huh, will you let me?”
“Yes. My abilities were so extreme in the first place that I needed a suitable one.”
Nyarlathotep’s ability is so powerful that it becomes poisonous.
From the speech skills that enslave people with simple words, to the power to simply massacre the lowest level C-B villains in the F class.
And it costs more than expected to accomplish them.
Extremely high risk and extremely high return with 0 durability.
In order to make up for this shortcoming, it is necessary to have moderately usable abilities in everyday life.
“That’s what you are.”
“Can I…”
“It’s okay, sleep, and this is the only way you can connect with Hyeonseong.”
“But…”
“I won’t? Then I can’t help it. I’m going to ask Cthulhu. If it’s a deep sea lord, it’ll cool down lightly.”
Wheek.
“Oops!”
Nyala Thorep turned, and Ctuga hurriedly stretched out his hand.
“Mae, I’ll tie it! I’ll tie it! So don’t go!”
“…So what do you have to do?”
“Okay…”
Cthuga gathered his strength and opened his mouth.
* * *
“…! An order has come from the gods! Retreat!!”
“Hu, retreat!!”
Although they knew they were going to die, they rushed at them and suddenly started screaming and running away.
It was a story that had nothing to do with me. Rather, it was fortunate that the annoying guys disappeared.
Roar!!
At that time, a huge fire erupted around me.
But it had no effect on me at all, rather it was a fire that seemed to protect me.
[Nyarlathotep shouts to release the transformation immediately.]
“Okay, okay…”
Hearing that message, I immediately lost my transformation and fell to the floor.
[SAN figures 68 / 100]
Negative thoughts fill my head.
I’d rather just die like this. No, actually, I would just die if I stayed like this.
[Nyarlathotep says to accept the contract and walks away for a while.]
[Ktuga clasps his hands and flinches closer.]
[Ctuga starts knocking on the chat while shedding tears.]
Diring!
A chat came from the cell phone with the broken screen next to me.
[Cthugha: I’m sorry about everything so far]
[Cthugha : But I really like you. Can you accept my contract?]
[Ktuga is sending an incarnation contract.]
[Nyarlathotep approves.]
“…”
I stared at the system message with blank eyes.
[Do you want to accept?]
“… You asshole.”
[Ctuga trembles.]
I slowly reached for the message.
“Let’s do this from the beginning…”
[Accepted.]
[Ktuga smiles brightly and purifies the energy of fire in your body.]
[Maximize fire attribute affinity!]
[Nyarlathotep manages to draw strength, restoring your SAN level]
“Hut!”
I was startled by the sudden surge of consciousness and hurriedly got up from my seat.
[Nyarlathotep shouts to run home.]
Hearing that, I quickly ran toward the house.
You must never get caught.