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147 The Great Forest 2

"You…"

Jaehwan's instinct told him that the man was dangerous. He was more dangerous than any enemy he had ever fought until now. He then felt regret for the first time in his life. Why didn't he listen to Andersen?

"Oh, I guess you still have the power to stand?"

He had lost his link to Andersen, but he had no link to be disconnected from himself since he was also a G.o.d. That was why he still had his [Setting]. The only problem was that he didn't have any world power.

"It's better that you sit down if you want to see something interesting."

He just pushed Jaehwan lightly on his shoulder, but Jaehwan was thrown back, rolling multiple times on the ground. World power in the millions shook him. When he barely got back up, with his hands on the ground, he witnessed Myad pull something out from X's body.

"Hah. I finally got my hands on this. To think how far I had to go to get this… It's all thanks to you."

Jaehwan's focus then turned to the fist-sized core in Myad's hand. It was a blue core that had 'X' written on it. It was the 'heart' of X. Myad then began to walk off.

Jaehwan didn't know why, but he knew he needed to stop Myad. However, he couldn't even stand properly.

'Dammit…'

There were no more powerful individuals around. All of them just had lost their link to their G.o.ds from X's attack.

"You don't know how excited I was when I found out that you had the [Naked] Setting."

Myad whistled while he pa.s.sed by Jaehwan and stood in front of his destination. It was the 'fake' Machina.

Jaehwan became confused. Why?

Myad then turned to Jaehwan and smiled.

"Oh, there was one thing that you got wrong with your guesses just now. Uh… what was it? This is 'fake'?"

Myad then jumped up onto the 'fake' Machina's left shoulder. On the shoulder, the word 'Daeus' was inscribed. With the sound of decompression, the c.o.c.kpit of the machine opened and Myad pushed the core of X into it.

"This isn't fake. Uh, at least starting from now."

When the c.o.c.kpit closed, world power began to flow from the fake Machina's giant body. The world power that came from X, but much more than before. Jaehwan then saw the writing on the shoulder and the c.o.c.kpit started s.h.i.+ning in bright blue light.

Machina of Daeus.

The machine then stood up, destroying everything around it. Everything began to explode. The Vicegerents were running away, and the auctioneers tried to defend the place to the end.

Everyone was destroyed like insects.

Jaehwan's body shook. That power. That presence. He had faced such a thing before.

The Master of , who squished Generals like insects.

Sole-King Catastrophe.

The power coming from this Gigantes was the same as that of Catastrophe. Just then, he heard a voice from behind. Jaehwan turned.

[Jaehwan! Jaehwan! Can you hear me?]

X's body, which had laid powerless without its core, was moving about. Jaehwan flinched and stepped back. He gripped his sword tightly, as he quickly grabbed and picked up Runald's body.

[It's me! ME!]

It was a familiar voice. It was just unusual to hear it coming from X.

"Are you Anders…"

But he couldn't continue as the Machina's world power exploded, swallowing everything in its path.

[Watch out!]

In the collapsing auction house, X's body covered Jaehwan and Runald as everything turned dark.

That day, Hatchnold Auction House in Caspion disappeared from .

Three days later, rumors spread that the Machina of Daeus from the legend had appeared in , with the new Ancient Three G.o.ds in place.