A few hours earlier.
The [Ascension] mission by which a superhuman sought to become a transcendent.
Gyeon Riok had fully expected that it would not be especially kind to the one undertaking it.
The wording was somewhat difficult to interpret, but Gyeon Riok calmly deciphered the mission that had been assigned to him.
[Die by poison within the most dangerous trap, and awaken through poison.]
In the end, this part was probably the key.
There might be any number of interpretations of what constituted the ‘most dangerous trap,’ but the Black Layer Sea was not his world.
Once he focused on the fact that his current identity was ‘the pirate Immortal Spear,’ the path became much simpler.
‘The Temple.’
He had to go to Bahamut’s Temple.
The timing, though, was rather suspicious.
It had stayed silent all this time, only to appear now, just as he was about to reunite with his older sister for the first time in fourteen years.
‘Did he deliberately do this to stop us from meeting?’
Surely not.
Gyeon Riok decided it had to be a coincidence and left it at that.
Bahamut was, after all, an Assembly Officer presiding over an entire world. Surely he could not be that pathetic.
‘It’s already set in stone that Gyeon Jioh is going to beat him half to death anyway. Delaying it won’t change the ending.’
Besides, Bahamut wasn’t Gyeon Jioh or anything…… Could anyone seriously claim he had spent fourteen years pretending to sleep just because he didn’t want to deal with the aftermath?
Even a max-level shut-in specializing in avoidance couldn’t pull something…