[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith":3,"chapter-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-336":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Childhood Friend of the Zenith",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1240312,1667,"Chapter 336: Mother (3)","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-336",336,"\u003Cp>How could I not do that after hearing such a thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My mother is a calamity?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the World Tree, a calamity was a delegate that was brought upon the world by the world itself, to get rid of all lives in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Blood Demon was the first calamity to exist, then the second that came into my mind was obviously the Heavenly Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What nonsense are you speaking of right now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t help but get angrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t the Heavenly Demon, but my mother instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you think that makes any sense?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Calm down, apostle. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t suppress my boiling emotions, and flames came out of my body without me being able to control them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the first time I let my boiling anger take control of my actions after reaching Peak Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve wondered what the beast inside me was for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was certainly possible that it existed even in my past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also was able to understand that the beast only woke up in this life, because of the power I gained from the giant snake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did my best to try and understand everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The calamity…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The existence that destroys the world for the principles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shouldn’t be my mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kicked the ground out of anger, and it formed a crack and made a small crater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Where did you get such nonsensical information from?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried my best to cool down my head and speak, but it wasn’t easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t think that my beloved mother would be mentioned in a story like this, and I was already too confused because I heard too much information at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, I had to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now was the only time I was able to hear such information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do you see my mother as calamity?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Apostle. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree remained calm despite me speaking with anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed as if it knew that I was going to show such a reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ What do you think a calamity is? ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…You explained it all just now, didn’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tree said that it was a delegate sent by the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve heard it at least three times by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree started to explain after hearing my response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Then where do you think such an existence comes from? ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pardon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to put on a confused expression after hearing the World Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where they come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ In order to learn about your mother, we must first look into what they are. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean by that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To learn what a calamity is?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I worked by brain to figure out what that meant, but the World Tree told me the answer, as if it was telling me not to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ A calamity is… ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ A ruler from another world. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my eyes in shock after hearing the World Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on what the tree said, it meant that the Blood Demon or my mother if she truly was a calamity, were rulers from other worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by how the beast inside me was also a ruler, I didn’t think that all rulers had the same appearance as the one in front of me, which was a giant tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But putting aside that fact,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…My mother wasn’t a human to begin with?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remembered my mother’s face that always had a kind smile plastered on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In my memories, she was just an ordinary lady who didn’t differ from anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a kind woman who loved taking care of children, enjoyed all seasons, and had love for flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she was a calamity that should’ve ended all lives in the world I lived in,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…That’s not possible. Then how come my world is so peaceful?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then my world shouldn’t have been this peaceful right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, is a ruler from another world even allowed to leave their own world to go to another one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the calamity came, and that was my mother,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about my father?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I clenched my fist after that thought reached my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this story was true, then did my father know all of this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother was an ordinary lady. She wasn’t a calamity.”Whether it was the Blood Demon or the Heavenly Demon, I was able to know that they weren’t ordinary human just by looking at their absolute strengths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why even after hearing from the World Tree, I didn’t think that it was strange for the Blood Demon to be a ruler from another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, I couldn’t understand how my mother could have been the calamity no matter how much I thought about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that really is the case,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it means I too am not a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made me question even my own identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Your mother is indeed a calamity. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And I’m asking why you think that way.”[ … ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree fell in silence for a moment after I argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of silence, the World Tree reached its roots out towards me, brushed my hair as if it was feeling sorry, then spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ To put it more accurately, she was a ruler of a world that had already disappeared. But I think it’d be right for you to hear this from your father rather than me. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, I had to be shocked after hearing the tree’s response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are telling me father knows this as well?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know how many years it has been ever since I spoke the word ‘father’ out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I included time from my past life as well, then it was an extremely long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That showed just how shocking this was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which means… you also know my father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant that the World Tree knew my father as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just where did it start going wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ … ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree fell in silence often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know why it became silent, but I despised that silence especially now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree seemed to have realized that my patience has reached its limit, because it finally started to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It was a very long time ago. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the World Tree, this happened very long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It was when your father found this place. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father came to this place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Yes, he was holding the hand of a white-haired lady. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White-haired lady?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who was the tree referring to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought about my mother for an instant, but she had black hair and black pupils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I didn’t know how a human was able to find this place on purpose. All I was able to do was just fall in shock. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came purposely?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was that possible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wouldn’t have been able to come here if it weren’t for Cheol Jiseon’s power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t some ordinary Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was shocking to hear the story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I was able to know immediately after seeing them. That lady was the second calamity. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…!”Does that mean that the white-haired lady the World Tree spoke of was my mother?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my mother’s hair color wasn’t…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I didn’t know why the lady came looking for me. She shouldn’t have had any reason to look for me. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous ruler was incarcerated and no longer existed in the world, so all she had to do was erase all lives in it if she really was a calamity, yet she went looking for the World Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What did she want for her to visit you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ She asked me how to get rid of her burden. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree was saying that my mother wanted to escape from the burden she was tasked with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is such a thing… possible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principles of the world were so important that the World Tree was punished and became stuck in this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeon Il-Cheon succeeded in going back in time thanks to the World Tree, but he failed to kill the Blood Demon completely, and was only able to seal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But was there a way to get rid of the calamity’s burden?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ No, it is impossible. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Tree gave me the answer I expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in my human eyes…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, I wasn’t even sure if I could even call myself human anymore, but putting that aside, I didn’t know if such a thing was possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ However, I believed that it might be different with your mother. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pardon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ When you first asked what your burden and what the existence inside you was, I said that you must first learn about your mother. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tree indeed did say that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Not all rulers… could be the same. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They can’t be the same?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If my mother really was a ruler like the Blood Demon and the World Tree, then was there something different about her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still couldn’t believe the fact that my mother wasn’t human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also couldn’t think of her as a whole different existence, like the World Tree I was currently talking to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much I thought about it, my mother was just an ordinary lady in my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I continued to stare at the World Tree without being able to believe any of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the World Tree spoke as if it wasn’t concerned about my gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[만계(萬界)의 주인.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ The ruler of Ten Thousand Lands. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ That is your mother’s true name. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”Just hearing such a name made me think that she wasn’t an ordinary existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>******************In a basement filled with cold air, a lady wearing a face cover had her head down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a lady who was called by the title, ‘Dancer’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t possess any other name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what her master called her, so that was her name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer continued to breathe without moving even the slightest bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How long has it been?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only a few seconds which was only an instant for others, but that wasn’t the case for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her master left this spot which was like a nest for her master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That concerned her greatly, so the Dancer only continued to wait for her master with her head down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A big vibration echoed in the room along with a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dust began falling from the ceiling due to the vibration and it dirtied the Dancer’s hair, but she still didn’t move an inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short time of few seconds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the fog floating on top of the floor became denser, the Dancer lifted her head up and looked forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something started to vibrate behind the fog in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A light shined very dimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Not bad. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The return of her master, and his voice tickled the Dancer’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded as if he was in a good mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Are you okay?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer asked in a worrying tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was understandable, as her master wasn’t allowed to leave this place recklessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I am more than okay. I just learned about something very amusing. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Demon continued to speak in a satisfying tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Only a trace was left, so I wondered what happened… how amusing. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a tiny trace was left and nothing else was left on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the Blood Demon had been wondering what the ruler of this world did, and why the exiled existence got in his way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It was for a more pointless reason than I thought. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ruler was exiled because it broke the world’s principles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, it was struggling its best to help this world in any way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whichever it was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It is not bad. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it is able to break the world’s principles, the world will not allow that, and it will bring the world back to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was amusing for the Blood Demon to see the previous ruler fighting against the path that was set by the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It is a problem that I paid a higher price than I expected. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Demon felt changes occurring to itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to use an extreme amount of strength to send its consciousness into a world where the previous ruler was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, it had to use even more strength to put its consciousness into a lifeless body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Dancer. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer lifted her face up after hearing the Blood Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Prepare the scale. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer’s shoulders flinched after hearing the Blood Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that the Blood Demon who hid itself for a very long time, was going to take an action directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By that, you mean…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It seems like the time I’ve been waiting for, will come earlier than I expected. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Demon’s voice was filled with joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so joyful that it was the first time the Dancer heard the Blood Demon speak like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing her master, the Dancer carefully responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What action should be taken on the vessel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ Vessel, huh? ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Demon needed a body if it wanted to take action directly itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer knew the answer to the question she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were many ways for the Blood Demon to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the Blood Demon didn’t want such methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right as the Dancer was about to stand up to look for a method,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ The child of the Taeryung Clan has died. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer had to become frozen after hearing her master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was already a problem with Namgung Cheonjun, but there was lots of meaning for the child of Taeryung Clan dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for the Dancer who knew about ‘its’ identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ It didn’t seem to have met its death fully, but that will certainly happen. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Demon speaking in such a way, meant that he would end up dying ‘again’ even if he wasn’t fully dead now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing her master, the Dancer slowly looked up to the Blood Demon and spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I shall prepare a new body, as well as memor- “\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ No, there is no need. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer looked back at the Blood Demon in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was the Blood Demon refusing it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jang Seonyeon’s existence was still needed for the Blood Demon’s goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why he was kept alive even if it was difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why did the Blood Demon give such an answer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dancer stared at the Blood Demon with a confused expression,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I’ve retrieved the soul and memory, but there is no need to put the memory into the body. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Blood Demon responded to answer the Dancer’s question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ I shall go in it myself. ]\u003C\u002Fp>",2487,"2026-06-05T15:09:39.031Z",1,"novelbin.me","01bd60d6737f2eebaadca049eb23460519ff9f46776f509e838fa62427ff70fe","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-337","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-335",974,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchildhood-friend-of-the-zenith-cover.jpg"]