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Chapter 164: God of Madness (11)

Chapter 164: God of Madness (11)

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“Making himself a Follower? What did that mean? Does he believe in himself?”

Runald and Karavan seemed to be confused while listening. What did it mean to divide itself? Whatever it was, it was nothing like believing himself. The only one who could imagine what it was like was Jaehwan. He looked down at his hands.

‘Then the reason why my world power increased is…’

Jaehwan remembered the voices of his clothes. Were they also beings that were pulled apart from him? Were they here somewhere in this world, sending him faith? If that was what happened, it was terrifying. Jaehwan became concerned if he had done something irreversible.

Ra-hamad said,

[Do not worry. You will not turn into one of us.]

It seemed like he was assuring Jaehwan.

[As you might guess, the metamorphosis doesn’t divide your spirit. It just exists within you.]

“Then why…”

[The reason why spirits are divided materialistically is because they took off too many clothes to make the ‘real’ body disappear.]

Ra-hamad continued,

[The number of clothes increases as time passes and you gain more experience. However, Geshtalt took off more than the time he lived. His ‘metamorphosis’ speed had exceeded his time.]

Ra-hamad then paused and looked around. Many of his people were looking at him.

[Our number decreased as time passed, but we had a lot more before.]

Ra-hamad reminisced about the people who had disappeared. Jaehwan asked, “…Why did Geshtalt take off so many clothes?”

[Because of the war.]

It was expected, but it was hard to imagine. Geshtalt must have been at least hundreds of thousands of years old. Maybe millions. He should have had countless clothes. But if he had to take all of that off to exchange it for his world power, it meant he was that desperate. The enemy was that much stronger that he did not even realize that he himself was disappearing.

Jaehwan became unsure. If Machina was that much more powerful, than he thought he couldn’t defeat Myad. He mumbled without realizing, “Machina was that strong…?”

[…What are you saying?]

Karavan interrupted, “Are you saying you became like this by fighting Daeus? You said the war…”

[I don’t know what you are saying. The Three God War wasn’t a war against the Three Ancient Gods.]

Jaehwan and the others became dumbfounded. What was this? Then who did they fight that resulted in a giant site to be laid in ruins?

[…So, I guess the wrong story is still being considered as the truth. That Nightmare from 900 years ago also had it wrong.]

Nightmare from 900 years ago? Jaehwan quickly asked, “Are you talking about Mulack Armelt?”

Ra-hamad nodded.

[I see, so you do know him.]

It seemed like he expected it.

[I can feel his ‘clothes’ within you.]

It seemed like he was talking about the [Record of the Depth] that Mulack had left. Jaehwan asked, “Why did he come here? What did he get from here?”