On Hiatus: God's Personal Reasons

Chapter 113: O’ God Yu Il-Shin! Please Don’t Die!

A huge chunk of iron, resembling a dumbbell, filled the passageway. It charged forward, mowing down his Goblin Soldiers.

“What in the name of...?!”

Goblin King widened his eyes at the bizarre sight.

Claaang!

He turned around instinctively, looking for a place to run. Behind him, there was nothing but solid walls and his throne. Throne, my throne! The symbol of the king of goblins and the god’s apostle!

Humiliation belatedly came over him. How could he, a great king favored by the god, be scared of this?

“I do not feel fear! Arise, my minions!” the Goblin King unleashed his maximum power.

Then, endless darkness exuded from him, giving rise to more soldiers. But instead of ordinary Goblins, they were Goblin Warriors, an evolved species with enormous muscles. Moreover, there were two hundred of them!

“My soldiers! Show them the true might of our race! Chaaarge!”

“Kiiiiieeeeeek!”

All two hundred Goblin Warriors and the Goblin King clung to the iron, pushing it back! It was a battle of strength!

Suddenly, the huge roadblock of an iron mass stopped. No, it was being pushed back, albeit slightly.

Goblin King exclaimed proudly, “Hahaha! Grat! I don’t know what kind of sorcery he’s using, but let’s use this momentum to push him back!”

“Kaaaah!” Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The Goblin Warriors’ morale soared. At least, until they heard his voice.

“Kekeke! You’ve got quite the muscles, huh? Alright! I won’t hold back anymore!”

“W-what?”

“Heaaaarggh! Ultimate skill, Super Strong Body!”

Baaaam!

Suddenly, the dumbbell charged forward, exploding with ten times the force of before! Even though they could barely withstand the previous one!

“Aaargggh!”

The Goblin Warriors in the frontline ended up getting crushed.

Craaack!

With that, the Goblin Warriors that the Goblin King had worked so hard to create were pulverized, splattering gore everywhere!

“You bastaaard!”

Crack crack!

The furious Goblin King swelled, his already massive body transforming into a muscular giant over 5 meters tall.

“This is the power that the One who Dwells in Ugly Filth has bestowed upon me!”

Tendons and webbings were rippling all over his body. Tearing his tattered robe in disgust, the Goblin King screamed, “Come! I shall take you on!”

With a face full of determination, the Goblin King shoved the dumbbell away!

“Argh!”

...At least, he attempted to, but to no avail, like stopping a cannon with bare hands.

Bam! Swoooosh!

“Aaaargh! No!”

Instead, the Goblin King flew with the dumbbell, slamming against his proud throne.

Slaaaam! Crush! Trudge trudge—

“Hahaha! Boss! Come out! I, Il-Ho, have arrived! Let’s have a muscle competition!”

“Aboo! Aboo!”

Finally, Il-Ho appeared with the baby fairy on his back. No response.

The Goblin King’s mangled crown lay in a pool of blood.

***

“Waaaah!”

“Long live the Fairy Queen! Long live Warrior Il-Ho!”

“Peace has returned to the kingdom!”

The Fairy Kingdom was celebrating. A warrior had descended from Heaven, delivering their kingdom from the brink of destruction!

“Here, Warrior! Here’s the honey, as promised! You can have as much as you want!”

“Hm! Thank you!”

The star of the show, Il-Ho, gulped the Fairy Honey that Elise had brought for him. How delicious it was! And yet, Il-Ho couldn’t enjoy it to the fullest.

Leaping to his feet, Il-Ho crushed the now-empty jar.

“Why is the trial still not over?!”

“Aboo.” The baby fairy, sucking on honey next to Il-Ho, looked at him.

“I wiped out the entire Goblin Army and even took out their leader! So why?! Tell me, Child! What else is threatening you?!”

“Aboo?” the baby fairy only tilted her head, unsure what Il-Ho was talking about.

Frustrated, Il-Ho hit his chest. “Ack! Why am I asking a muscleless child?! O’ great and merciful gods protecting me! Please enlighten your follower!”

Kneeling down, Il-Ho piously raised his hands to the sky. He waited for enlightenment from his gods, but no one answered.

“Argh! They must be busy! Well, no wonder, they’re great gods!” Il-Ho lamented, drawing the dumbbell sword at his waist. He couldn’t just sit idly while waiting for the gods to answer? Above all, he was afraid of muscle loss!

“Weight Increase! 100 tons!”

The dumbbell sword grew with tremendous momentum. Il-Ho put it on his shoulder, then began doing squats. Muscles wouldn’t betray the effort!

“I, Il-Ho, will continue training my muscles until the oracle arrives! One muscle, two muscles, three muscles!”

As he trained, his anxiety slowly vanished, and peace returned.

One, two, and then three days passed. A week later...

“A million and one muscles! A million and two muscles!”

Aside from the time he spent eating, Il-Ho hadn’t stopped training the entire time.

“A million and three...!”

He felt sore all over, as if his body was about to break, but Il-Ho was happy. Stimulation was proof that muscles were building up in his body! Just like that, Il-Ho became one with his muscles, squeezing them.

Flutter flutter—

Just then, the baby fairy flew over with her rainbow-colored wings, perching on top of Il-Ho’s head.

“Aboo aboo!”

The baby patted Il-Ho’s head with her tiny hands. It was her way of telling him to stop exercising and play with her instead.

However, Il-Ho didn’t stop his squats and said, “No, Child. Go away. I need to build more muscles before the oracle arrives. A million and four muscles!”

“Boo!”

The baby fairy puffed up her cheeks, mumbling to herself.

Sss—

Then, something amazing happened. The baby fairy glowed, growing several times bigger than before. Since she was young, she couldn’t wield magic properly. Nevertheless, she was still an incarnation and apostle of the Spirit God, the Fairy Queen. This level of magic was child’s play!

“Kyaaa!” the baby fairy giggled. Il-Ho would play with her now, right?

However, Il-Ho still didn’t pay her any attention.

“Oh, nice!”

No, if anything, it only encouraged him to train further.

“Kekeke! I didn’t know you had such talent! Now, I can work on my head and neck muscles!”

After all, he had the brain of a gym rat.

“Aboo!”

The baby fairy puffed up her cheeks even more. She was upset after getting rejected by Il-Ho! She flapped her wings and iridescent powder rained down like snow.

“Aboo aboo!”

Ruuuumble!

Her body grew with terrifying momentum.

“Oh, this weight is just nice... Huh? Aaargh!”

Il-Ho was already straining himself with the dumbbell. With the addition of the growing baby, it was too much for him to bear, and his knees buckled.

Baaam! Crush!

“Eeep! Warrior Il-Ho!”

Seeing that the baby had grown into the size of a hill, Elise, the Fairy Queen’s governess, screamed as she flew over.

***

After getting knocked out by the baby, Il-Ho had a dream.

God Yu Il-Shin had appeared before him.

“Ah! God Yu Il-Shin!” Il-Ho’s face lit up.

However, something was off.

“...Lord?”

His strong and awesome god was lying on the ground, motionless.

“Blood...!”

God Yu Il-Shin was seriously injured! A huge pool of blood had formed around him!

“God Yu Il-Shin! What happened!?” Il-Ho cried out.

Il-Ho ran toward him, but an invisible wall stood between them.

-Heeheehee! Is he dead? Finally!

-Hehehe! As expected of the Demon Lord’s disciple. Still, he’s no match for our combined strength!

-Hmph. To think that it took us 300 seconds to defeat this rookie! How embarrassing!

Il-Ho saw three figures surrounding God Yu Il-Shin. An old man, a red flame with a sword, and an ominously frigid blue flame. All of them had an unusual aura.

-Keeheehee! Time to rip his heart out!

The red flames raised his sword.

“N-no!”

Il-Ho's heart pounded heavily. Even when he was on the verge of being cut down, he didn’t feel this way!

Bam bam!

Slamming his fists against the invisible wall, he cried in despair, “You bastards! Stop right away! I'll never forgive you if you hurt God Yu Il-Shin!”

However, his cries did not reach them.

Pwooosh!

The sword mercilessly pierced Yu Il-Shin’s heart.

“Aaaargh! No! God Yu Il-Shin!”

The red flame snickered, about to cut Yu Il-Shin’s chest open, when a message from God-Maker appeared.

Ding!

[A life-threatening crisis targeting the wielder of the innate power has been detected.]

[You have met the conditions for activating Silently Crawling Nightmare’s innate power Night Rose.]

From Yu Il-Shin’s head, a terrifyingly beautiful red rose bloomed, emitting a ferocious aura.

-Hehe. What's this?

The red flame reached out, but soon yelled in astonishment.

-Ack! Run!

-Kyaaaak!

In full bloom, the rose let out an ear-piercing scream.

Flick flick! Baaam!

A multitude of thorny vines crashed over the three. That was the last of them that Il-Ho saw.

“Gasp! God Yu Il-Shin! Are you alright?!” Il-Ho cried out.

-He’s still alive. But, his life is hanging by a thread. A Low-tier God like him is no match against three fallen gods, who were once High-tier Gods.

A familiar voice came from behind Il-Ho, causing him to turn around in surprise. He saw a mountainous god covered in rock-hard muscles.

“Y-you are!” Il-Ho recognized this being instinctively.

He was the Muscle God, also known as Eternal Seeker, the other god who had guided him aside from Yu Il-Shin.

-As we speak, Silently Crawling Nightmare’s incarnation is protecting him from the demons. But Yu Il-Shin doesn’t have long left.

“N-no way!” Il-Ho bashed his head onto the ground. “Please save God Yu Il-Shin, Muscle God! I, Il-Ho, am willing to give my life to you!”

Eternal Seeker lowered his head. His empty eyes then looked at Il-Ho.

-Causality prevents me from helping him. You’re the only one who can save him now. Warrior Il-Ho, are you willing to stain your hand with blood?

“Of course! I’m willing to do anything for Yu Il-Shin! What can I do?! Please tell me, O’ great Muscle God!”

Eternal Seeker then said with a cold and dry voice,

-Kill an equivalent incarnation and sacrifice them to Yu Il-Shin.