Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 422

422. Request for Help

The moment the Demon King took over Rembrary’s body and looked around, Sajae immediately escaped to the underworld, just before the Demon King could engulf the Wild Animal dorm in his personal dimension.

Rembrary couldn’t even properly resist with the divine power he borrowed from God, so Sajae thought it was better to retreat than to engage directly.

After escaping to the underworld, Sajae returned to the parking lot near the Wild Animal dorm in the mortal realm.

‘Did I get out alone?’

Looking around, Sajae stared at the window of what was likely Woo Yeonwoo’s dorm and sighed inwardly.

He knew the Demon King would try to suppress the Grim Reapers, but he never imagined he would drag them all into his own dimension.

Sajae circled the parking lot. Thanks to Larthus’s efforts, the Demon King’s power had greatly increased. It would decrease in the future, but it hadn’t diminished significantly yet.

Entering the Demon King’s dimension in this situation was not wise for the Grim Reapers. Moreover, if they disappeared like that, it would be difficult to locate the Demon King’s dimension from the outside.

Sajae loitered around the parking lot, staring at the dorm window. Should he return to the underworld and strategize, or…

“Where’s Rembrary?”

Just then, a familiar voice called out as they ran over.

Sajae turned his head and saw Shin Joowoon, the Lion Lord, Ardor, and Mulu rushing towards him.

“Where is the High Priest?”

“Where did Rembrary go?”

“I’m going to kill you, you heretical Grim Reaper!”

Those who gathered around Sajae, who was standing alone, asked different questions, and Ardor skipped the questions and drew his gun.

They had been waiting after hearing Rembrary say, ‘Wait here,’ so they were surprised to see Sajae loitering alone in the parking lot and rushed over.

Sajae was already annoyed, and when they made such a fuss, he frowned and was about to say something, but the moment he saw Shin Joowoon, he formulated a plan and hurriedly grabbed his arm and explained.

“Rembrary absorbed some of the Demon King’s essence from Woo Yeonwoo into himself.”

Ardor was about to shoot, declaring he was going to kill him, but Mulu hit his arm to lower it. Shin Joowoon asked with a frozen expression.

“Demon King?”

He was still not used to the idea of the Demon King or cult gods, but he had witnessed the Demon King inside Woo Yeonwoo attacking the god Rembrary served right in front of his eyes.

He had seen it turn a timid, ordinary person into a being with completely different powers in an instant. That being moved into Rembrary? Was that even possible?

“Rembrary was planning to suppress the Demon King, but it didn’t work out well.”

Shin Joowoon recalled the Demon King pressing on Rembrary’s forehead, and after that, Rembrary strangely couldn’t cure Larthus’s poisoning. Was it the same principle? Or simply a lack of power?

“As soon as the Demon King took over Rembrary’s body, he dragged the Grim Reapers nearby into his dimension. I barely managed to escape before that.”

The moment Shin Joowoon’s eyes were about to turn fierce, Sajae reached out and grabbed his arm first.

“I need your help.”

Shin Joowoon was about to get angry about why he moved the Demon King fragment to Rembrary, but he brushed off the ice that had begun to form on his fingertips and asked.

“My help?”

Ardor and Mulu also looked at Shin Joowoon, puzzled. Shin Joowoon was strong, but he was completely native to this world, and he was even embarrassed to mention the name of the Demon King. He was strong, but he was neither a priest nor a paladin. But they needed Shin Joowoon?

“I’ve felt it before, but your power has a unique quality. It’s different from the power of a saint, the power of an Awakened [a person with supernatural abilities], and even the power of us Grim Reapers or people from other worlds. It’s even different from the power of the gods. Do you understand?”

“Let’s say I do.”

“Freeze Rembrary.”

Ardor took out his gun and cocked it, saying he was going to kill him, and Mulu didn’t stop him.

However, the bullet fired was blocked by an ice wall that appeared in the air and could not go any further.

Shin Joowoon shook his hand to remove the ice wall and gestured for Sajae to continue.

“Rembrary has divine power, so he will be able to survive. The Demon King fragment is already powerful in itself, but it’s just a fragment. Its limitations are clear. It was even suppressed by Woo Yeonwoo, an ordinary human, for a few minutes.”

“…….”

“While Rembrary is frozen, the Demon King fragment will also be frozen. Even if it’s just a small fragment, if we have it contained, we can prevent the Demon King from merging into one. In the meantime, we will find other ways.”

“Buy time?”

“Yes.”

“Isn’t that too vague? If Woo Yeonwoo could suppress the Demon King fragment for a few minutes, couldn’t Rembrary suppress it for a few minutes too?”

It was a proposal that he would have dismissed after reading the first page if his subordinate had brought it.

“It’s just a possibility. And even this method doesn’t give us much time. The Demon King took the Grim Reapers. If he eliminates all the Grim Reapers and hides, it will be difficult to even find Rembrary’s body. This is not a solution, it’s a way to avoid the worst.”

It would have been better for the Demon King fragment to be inside Woo Yeonwoo than inside Rembrary.

The current situation was much worse than when the Demon King was in Woo Yeonwoo’s body, in that Rembrary, a great force, had gone over to that side.

Shin Joowoon nodded, though he was not pleased. He could melt the ice he made if necessary. But if the Demon King took Rembrary’s body and hid somewhere, as the Grim Reaper said, there would be no way to do anything after that.

“Where is he?”

“In the Demon King’s dimension.”

“Where is that?”

“…….”

“You don’t even know that?”

Shin Joowoon asked, dumbfounded, and Sajae was troubled to answer.

No. He had a vague idea through the location of his fellow Grim Reapers. Although he couldn’t see it, the Demon King’s dimension was probably overlapping with the Wild Animal dorm area.

The problem was… there was no way to get in there. Just as the Grim Reapers couldn’t get out of there.

At that time.

A hand appeared in the air and rested on the shoulder of the Lion Lord, who was blankly watching the situation.

Surprised, the Lion Lord looked at the hand, and Mulu hurriedly conveyed Redrin’s words.

“Lion Lord, Redrin says to go forward.”

The Lion Lord tilted his head, bewildered.

“Go forward?”

“She says there is a faint signal from Rembrary. If you use your ability to move, she will directly adjust the direction.”

“What is that…”

The Lion Lord tried to ask more, but Ardor shouted, “Go!” and grabbed his arm, and Shin Joowoon, Mulu, and Sajae all stuck close, so he moved his body to the white car in front of him as he was told.

The Lion Lord was about to argue, ‘See, nothing has changed,’ but the scenery had completely changed in one step forward.

The white car was gone.

A space filled with darkness. A space where the four sides could not be distinguished. A black space where it was impossible to tell whether it was wide or narrow, or whether it had an end.

The Demon King in Rembrary’s form was sitting on the throne there, looking down at the Grim Reapers.

The Grim Reapers were conscious, but they were all lying face down and couldn’t even get up.

The moment the Demon King saw the intruder who suddenly entered.

In that short moment of less than 0.5 seconds, the Demon King and Shin Joowoon attacked each other simultaneously.

A sound like a large icicle breaking was heard, and before the Lion Lord could grasp the situation, he was knocked to the ground by a sudden force.

Feeling like a giant was pressing him from top to bottom with his palm, the Lion Lord couldn’t even lift his head and his face was buried in the ground, barely wiggling his fingers.

“Ugh! This!”

He couldn’t even get up, and if the angle was slightly off, he couldn’t even breathe, so the Lion Lord did his best to create a space to breathe first.

Then, when he rolled his eyes, he saw feet that were presumed to be Mulu and Ardor. They were all collapsed.

There was also a black suit lying next to him. Since Sajae’s clothes were the same as the Grim Reapers, he couldn’t tell if it was Sajae.

But Shin Joowoon was not visible, so the Lion Lord couldn’t judge whether things were going well or not.

Did it fail? It must have failed. The Lion Lord sighed as he moved his fingers, hoping to touch something.

Even moving with his ability was impossible. There was nothing to grab onto in this black space, so he couldn’t move other objects either.

However, the Lion Lord soon had a strange thought. The force pressing down on him and the others was still there, but he couldn’t hear any sound from the Demon King. Not even an angry sound, a mocking sound, or a sneering sound.

The moment he had doubts, the pressure finally seemed to ease a little and then disappeared completely.

The Lion Lord tried to teleport to escape, but since the sense of space was strange, he got closer to the Demon King’s throne instead.

“!”

He was horrified and stepped back, but thanks to being near the throne, he could see the Demon King’s condition in detail.

Since he didn’t seem to be about to attack, the Lion Lord called out to the opponent, who he didn’t know whether was the Demon King or Rembrary, in an awkward posture.

“Rembr… ary? Is that right?”

But the person sitting on the throne was in a strange state.

Only half of his body was frozen, and the whites of his eyes were black on the frozen side, but the unfrozen side was the same as Rembrary’s usual self.

It was clear that Shin Joowoon had collapsed under the Demon King’s power and had not been able to control his power properly, freezing only half of him.

“Is it Rembrary?”

The Demon King’s power couldn’t have disappeared unless Rembrary’s consciousness had returned. The Lion Lord was relieved and took a step forward, calling out to Rembrary.

By now, the Grim Reapers, Sajae, Shin Joowoon, and Mulu had also gotten up and were approaching.

But before the group could properly examine Rembrary’s condition, this time the Grim Reapers drew their weapons and rushed towards Rembrary, who was sitting blankly on the throne. It was to kill Rembrary while the Demon King was suppressed.

However, before the blades of the swords and spears could reach Rembrary, an ice wall formed around him blocked their weapons, and the sound of guns firing erupted from all directions.

The Grim Reaper who was wielding his spear was injured in the hand by Mulu’s spear, which cut his spear in half, and stepped back.

Shin Joowoon warned Sajae without removing the ice barrier.

“There was no talk of killing him.”

A warning that he would fight if they tried to kill Rembrary.

Sajae nodded and signaled to the Grim Reapers that it was ‘temporary’.

“We have decided to find a solution while he is frozen like this. You must not kill him.”

“Sajae!”

The Grim Reaper next to him protested, but Sajae shook his head. Some Grim Reapers did not accept Sajae’s unilateral decision and grabbed their weapons again.

The Lion Lord glanced at Rembrary. He was puzzled that Rembrary was still motionless in the midst of this commotion.

Normally, he would have used that strange ability to suppress his colleagues, including the Grim Reapers, and then said something frustrating with a gentle smile. If it was Rembrary who had come to his senses.

Could it be that the Demon King… is imitating Rembrary? The Lion Lord swallowed hard.