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153 The Great Forest 8

It was Runald who interrupted.

"Are you talking about the 7 G.o.ds?"

"Oh, so you knew?"

Like all places, had powerful G.o.ds that represented it. They were the ones who were called the 7 G.o.ds of , or the 7 pillars of .

Big Brother of the System.

Droyan the Dragon G.o.d.

Ignis the G.o.d of Flame.

Peste the G.o.d of Disease.

Chronos the G.o.d of Time.

Budda the G.o.d of Cycle.

'Nameless' the G.o.d of Madness.

Everyone knew about them in . They were the 7 G.o.ds of the .

"Out of those 7, 5 of them including Ignis, were the ones that traveled to the Great Forest. Droyan, Peste, Chronos, and Budda."

"Oh, they are all famous now."

"Yeah, they are the masters of the largest sites now."

"Ignis too…"

"He's the master of the 3rd site. Have you ever been there?"

"Yeah, it was an amazing place."

The 3rd site, 'Tropical', was a place with a very high average temperature within . It was so hot that it was better to camp out in another site than to sleep in the 3rd site. Karavan smiled bitterly.

"It's not hot. It's just a bit warm."

Warm? Runald thought that was probably the reason he was made Vicegerent and asked, "Anyway, was Big Brother originally one of the 7 G.o.ds? I thought Big Brother isn't considered one of them."

"Well, you are correct in that. Big Brother is much more. There are people who don't consider Big Brother to be in that category."

Big Brother of the System. Just like Karavan said, Big Brother was much more than just a G.o.d. Some even said that Big Brother had moved onto become something more than a G.o.d, thus he was no longer a G.o.d.

"Oh, talking about Big Brother, I've been to all the other sites, but never to the 1st site where Big Brother is said to reside. I wanted to go there sometime."

"Huh? You want to go to the 1st site?"

"Yeah. I've been to all the other sites but not that one."

Karavan then burst into laughter as Runald frowned.

"Why are you laughing?"

"Because that's a funny joke."

"Joke? I'm not joking."

"Huh? Oh… I guess you really don't know then?"

Karavan then stopped walking to glance at where they were at, and then left a trace so they would not get lost, before he continued, "There are two things you got wrong there."

He broke one of the tree limbs from a nearby tree.

"The first is that Big Brother does not exist in the 1st site."

"What?"

"He's at the top of the Tree of Imagery called the [Nest]. I think it's the place where… what was it called? The First Nightmare? Where that exists. Some call the [Nest] the 1st site, but it's not. There are no Vicegerents or Followers there."

Karavan's words caught Jaehwan's attention as he had mentioned 'the First Nightmare'. Runald asked, "Then, where is the 1st site?"

"The second is that the 1st site is not in ."

"What?!" Runald shouted in shock. It was a bad joke. He just said that Big Brother was not in the 1st site, and he now was saying that the 1st site wasn't in either. This was a strange story for Runald who had been living in for 3 years. Of course, it was hard to hear any stories about Big Brother in the first place.

"What are you talking about? There's no 1st site in ?"

"Yeah. The site became so big it was taken out of the Tree of Imagery."

The site was taken out of the Tree of Imagery? How was that possible? Runald seemed confused but Jaehwan grimaced. He had come to a question. It was actually a question he had for quite some time.

If Big Brother was a G.o.d and if his [Setting] was the System, then what would be the range of his world? He thought about the possibility, but he never really considered it seriously. It was more than 'big'.

"Wait. Is that…?"

As if he read Jaehwan's mind, Karavan smiled and nodded.

"Yeah. The IS the 1st site of ."