Leveling with the Gods

Side Story 95

The day before.

In response to Zeus's announcement that he had sent a summons request to all medium to high-level Guilds, YuWon replied reflectively:

"That's where I'll reveal it."

"That will be the right moment."

A question mark appeared over Hercules' head.

He didn't understand what that meant, and he didn't understand YuWon and Zeus, who spoke without providing complete explanations.

He couldn't follow the conversation like this.

However, as expected from a father, Zeus, who usually wasn't like this, explained to the perplexed Hercules the previous conversation.

"I mean revealing this guy's true identity."

"Do you mean Kim YuHun?"

"No, I need to reveal his real name."

Even with the following explanation, Hercules' doubts didn't completely dissipate.

"Anyway, they won't remember, will they?"

His doubt was valid.

Even Zeus himself and those present had forgotten YuWon at some point.

Most people were the same. They didn't even remember Kim YuWon's name, let alone what he had done.

No.

They didn't try to remember.

If his name was mentioned, they diverted their thoughts as if something prevented them from thinking.

That's why YuWon resorted to using a "pseudonym."

Kim YuHun.

It was the name he had used since the Great Celestial War.

"Things are different now."

YuWon shook his head.

"Starting from Pandora, you, Son OhGong, Varuna, and even Zeus. Now there are many who remember me."

That wasn't all.

Now, Tsukuyomi, Yama, and many others also remembered YuWon.

YuWon didn't know it, but in the Murim World, the Heavenly Demon also remembered him.

"It's gradually coming back, thanks to the name Kim YuHun."

"It wasn't a bad method. I could also remember who you were by deducing who Kim YuHun was."

Although it was a somewhat special case, Zeus' example clearly proved it.

Kim YuHun, who appeared in the Great Celestial War.

By searching for who he was, the number of people who remembered YuWon increased one by one.

"Are you going to move again?"

"I've never stopped moving. It's just that the rest here has been a bit long."

The concept of time was different inside and outside the Tower.

For those outside, only ten days had passed, but for those inside, a year had gone by.

"Will you be okay?"

"I never planned to hide forever. It's not like I wanted to hide in the first place."

He didn't want to live a noisy life, but he hadn't done anything wrong and had no intention of hiding.

Thanks to everyone forgetting him, he had been able to live quietly reluctantly, but that didn't mean YuWon wanted to be forgotten forever.

"In that case, it will be a race against time from now on."

Facing YuWon's decision, Zeus redrawn the board in his mind.

"Yes. We have to finish it before we attract the attention of the Administrators."

Not only had the Players forgotten YuWon's existence, but the Tower's Administrators who fought against them were also in the same situation.

YuWon's appearance, a key Player in this battle, meant that the end of the fight was near.

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Here, there are no eyes of the Administration.

YuWon's eyes scanned the room. He observed the hundreds of Ranker Players gathered in the conference room of Olympus, from the altar to the clouds stretching below.

Before coming here, he had carefully checked the area just in case. The eyes of the Administration were everywhere, so he had to be doubly sure.

However, now...

Whether because the battle against the Administrators had just ended or because Olympus was being especially cautious, there was no trace of them in this place.

"My name is Kim YuWon."

Thanks to that,

"But there are those who know me as Kim YuHun."

YuWon could reveal himself in this way.

The only ones he had to hide his identity from were the Administrators.

Moreover, there were no Great Dream Fragments here.

"Kim YuHun... Did he have another real name?"

"Has anyone heard of him?"

Most shook their heads at the question. However, none of them could confidently say that it was the first time they had seen YuWon.

"I definitely saw him somewhere..."

"The name Kim YuWon also sounds familiar to me. Where have I heard it?"

"He's not in the Ranking."

People searched for "Kim YuWon" in the ranking instead of "Kim YuHun."

They checked from the first to the tenth place, even up to the three-digit rank, but YuWon's name was nowhere to be found.

The closest they found was Lee Seong-Yun's ranking at 1,000, but it didn't make sense for someone with the strength to fight against the Administrators to be outside the top 1,000.

"Are you an Administrator? Or do you come from outside?"

Michael, the Leader of The Heaven, asked YuWon.

He too was wrapped in a strange sensation.

What was happening?

It was as if he had a fog in his head, a feeling that he could almost remember something. However, Michael trusted the ranking more than his own memory.

There was no such thing as an unregistered Player in the ranking.

All Players who took the Trials were under Administration surveillance, and the birth of a new Player Ranker always left a trace.

Therefore, the fact that he couldn't find him in the ranking could only mean one thing.

That the opponent was not a Player like them but an "Administrator" or one of the "Outers."

However...

"No."

YuWon shook his head at Michael's assumption.

"I'm a Player. Like you."

Hwaak-!

With those words.

[Title appears - Subboss of the Heavenly Demon Cult]

[Title appears - 12th Demon King]

YuWon revealed the titles he possessed.

The gazes of those gathered in the conference room turned towards the two titles displayed.

"Heavenly Demon Cult Subboss?"

"12th Demon King?"

Heavenly Demon.

And Diablo.

The two titles YuWon showed were related to them.

It was natural.

They were titles symbolizing the status of leaders of the large guilds with history and mythology.

Only two people could bestow them: the leaders of those guilds.

Scratch, scratch~

However, one of them didn't remember.

Diablo, with a embarrassed expression, asked Michael.

"Did I give him that title, right?"

"Are you asking me that?"

"Why are you like that? It's normal not to remember some things."

Diablo answered timidly, something unusual for him.

This time, he couldn't help it.

Clearly, it was a title that couldn't be obtained without his permission, but he remembered nothing about it.

"I think everyone is feeling the same."

At that moment...

As if supporting Diablo, Lee Rangjin spoke up.

"I mean the strange déjà vu feeling I get every time I face him."

Upon Lee Rangjin's words, everyone in the conference room nodded as if they had made a pact.

And they all were surprised to realize that it wasn't just their imagination.

Even though there were people in the room seeing YuWon for the first time.

There was no one who found him completely unknown.

"Please explain it to us, Heavenly Demon."

Lee Rangjin's gaze turned to Heavenly Demon.

Unlike the puzzled Diablo, he had remained calm the whole time after YuWon revealed his titles.

"What's going on here."

YuWon's eyes followed the people's gazes until they reached Heavenly Demon, who was sitting silently in a corner.

At that instant, their gazes met.

'You remember it now.'

YuWon was sure by the look in his eyes.

Heavenly Demon also remembered him.

Apparently, as he had awaited a worthy successor all his life, he had remembered him more easily than others.

As expected...

"May I speak?"

Heavenly Demon asked YuWon for permission before speaking.

Of course, that's what he wanted.

"I would appreciate it."

It was better that someone else told this story.

Especially if it was someone as weighty as Heavenly Demon.

Regardless of the ranking, he was the oldest Player in the room.

Even Diablo had asked him to teach swordsmanship, so his words couldn't be taken lightly.

"His name is Kim YuWon."

And thus, through Heavenly Demon's mouth...

"All of us were saved by him."

YuWon's story began.

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Heavenly Demon's story was quite long. Perhaps due to his calm nature, his narration was slow.

When YuWon's story started, some fools even shouted that it was a lie when it was mentioned that he had tied with a Ranker on the first floor.

It was such an incredible story.

Then, it was talked about how he passed the Heavenly Demon Cult's Trial and became Subboss.

About how he fought alongside Hercules and reformed Olympus.

About how he defeated Surt from Muspelheim, stopped the Gigantomachy, and finally put an end to the never-ending Great Heaven Demon War.

YuWon's feats were too long to be described with words.

In addition to that.

"He was the one who fought the most against those Outers."

YuWon's greatest feat was undoubtedly in the battle against the Outers.

"Foolish Chaos. It's because of that Name that we remember him the most. We, the Inner, didn't even know of his existence for a long time."

Heavenly Demon's gaze turned to Zeus.

"Even Zeus himself. And Surt from Muspelheim. And the endless Great Heaven Demon War... Now everyone here knows that it's all his doing."

Before Heavenly Demon's words, the expressions of Thor, Diablo, and Michael, who had been involved in that war, tensed.

Their heads hurt.

Why hadn't they thought about events related to him before?

"How do you know? Do you remember the details?"

That was the key question.

How did he know?

Why did Asgard suddenly fight against Muspelheim? And how did they win?

And how did the Great Heaven Demon War end?

"We've all forgotten it. No, we didn't want to think about it."

"Just tell me the essentials, the essentials."

Diablo, finally unable to contain his impatience, spoke.

Disapproving glares shot towards him, but he didn't care.

At that moment, his priority was to calm his own confusion before worrying about the opinions of others.

"You just asked. Seeing that guy, is he an Outer?"

Heavenly Demon mocked Michael's words.

"According to my knowledge, he's something similar."

And at that instant...

["The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young" appears.]

Beeeh-.

Beeh-.

Along with the familiar sound of a bleat, a Black Woods appeared inside the conference room.

Beeeh-.

"This is..."

"Shub-Niggurath!"

"As expected! How the hell could he be a Player?!"

It was terror.

Shub-Niggurath.

The entity that claimed the lives of countless Players and caused the first disaster in the Tower.

The Black Woods Mother, the one who first recorded the terror of the Outers in the Tower.

By uttering her Name, the Players gathered in the conference room showed hostility towards YuWon.

But at that moment...

Fwaaa-.

["The Otherworld Adversary" appears.]

Another Name, completely opposite to the previous one, appeared.

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