Chapter 259
Like an ember in the wind, the crystalline heart flared red before quickly catching fire. It then sank into Jae-Hyeok’s chest.
[Absorbing the Firebird’s Essence.]
Jae-Hyeok’s eyes were calm, free of even a flicker of worry.
Were it anyone else, perhaps they would’ve carried doubts. After all, absorbing an unknown and mysterious power could pose certain risks. High-level players, especially, tended to be the least willing to gamble with misfortune.
The reason was simple.
The greater a player’s power, the more they had to lose in acting recklessly—and what could be more reckless than absorbing the essence of a mysterious, supposedly divine being?
Of course, Jae-Hyeok didn’t have this worry.
The root of fear was ignorance, and though Jae-Hyeok had never met a divine being, this also wasn’t his first time hearing of them. Both the Reinhardt farmers and the Lord of the Twilight Kingdom had spoken of gods.
Most importantly, Jae-Hyeok had long confirmed the existence of at least one god after inheriting Iyarugt and speaking with Elder Song.
Thought his name was yet known...
An aura lingered on both Iyarugt and Peak Sword’s Scabbared, an aura that was at once endlessly deep yet infinitely faint...
Paired with the story of Peak Sword serving a god, Jae-Hyeok was sure that what he’d sensed was traces of a god’s aura.