Chapter 418
Chapter 418
The king of humanity trampled by the prophet.
No matter how much Pithia awakened herself as the ruler of the ruling seat, she would be on the same level as Level, so why did she lose so quickly?
Sung JiHan looked at Gilgamesh with a cold gaze, and he raised his face to defend himself.
"This, this is...! It's not because I lacked power."
"You're talking so confidently while being trampled."
"Ugh...! The laboratory was already under her control! Pithia, what have you done?"
Gilgamesh looked up at Pithia with a sneer.
Snicker.
She laughed and brought her face closer to him.
"Gilgamesh, do you remember me?"
Tuk tuk.
Pithia pointed to her own face with her finger.
Her smile seemed innocent, but the atmosphere she emitted was incredibly ominous.
"...What? Have we known each other since before?"
When Pithia talked about Gilgamesh before, it didn't seem like it.
Since she awakened herself as the ruler of the ruling seat, she had definitely changed.
And.
"...What nonsense is this? Aren't you just a mere prophet?"
In response to Gilgamesh's answer, Pithia's mouth curled up.
"As expected, you're stupid."
Bang!
She kicked Gilgamesh's head, and his head exploded like a watermelon.
Of course.
Suee...
"What are you doing?"
Perhaps because Gilgamesh possessed the power of the World Tree, his head quickly regenerated.
"Even if your head explodes, it grows back quickly? Wow, your regenerative ability is really good."
"...How dare you be so rude to the king. You will regret it."
"Regret... Are you daring to say that?"
As if she was disgusted by the word "regret," Pithia sat down and slapped Gilgamesh's cheek.
Smack! Smack!
Gilgamesh's head exploded with each hit, and then regenerated again.
'She's strong.'
Sung JiHan observed her hand movements and gauged her opponent's strength.
Pithia easily exploded Gilgamesh's head as if crushing a watermelon.
"I should have done it earlier. I didn't know that exploding your head would be so fun."
"How dare you...!"
Burrr...
Gilgamesh tried to move his body somehow.
But it seemed like he was stuck in something, and only his face was barely moving.
Seeing his own condition, he made a serious expression.
"...How did you control the laboratory?"
"Do I really know?"
"How could I know more about a prophet like you?"
Sueeuk.
Then, Pithia pointed her index finger downward.
"Where is this?"
"...It's the laboratory."
"How could I have controlled this?"
"How could I know that?"
"Oh, really."
Pithia stood up with a bored face.
Thump!
When she flicked her finger, the red light that was spewing from the floor stopped, revealing a new scenery.
A huge dome-shaped space appeared from the center to the beach where Sung JiHan was.
The walls and floor were filled with unfocused red eyes.
In the center, a withered red tree was standing.
"Wait, how did you get into the lab...!"
Gilgamesh exclaimed in surprise, looking around.
Sung JiHan glanced around briefly before moving towards Pithia.
"Pithia, were you also involved with this lab?"
"Indeed, unlike Gilgamesh who can't take hints."
"Yes, you were involved with the lab? That can't be true...!"
"Sigh."
Thud!
Pithia pressed her foot firmly on Gilgamesh's head.
And then, his mouth opened, leading to the newly formed floor of the lab.
With his mouth blocked, he could only move his eyes.
Sung JiHan quietly observed his state and spoke.
"Your attitude is completely different from when you faced Gilgamesh last time."
"Last time, I couldn't see much of my past, only the future."
"Did you regain your memories when you awakened as the ruler of the Holy See?"
"It's similar."
"Before, you provided me with information... Did you newly realize your loyalty to the Divine?"
"Loyalty..."
Pithia chuckled slightly and looked around the lab.
"He demanded loyalty as a price for pulling him out of this hell. I am simply keeping my promise."
"The lab... is hell?"
"Yes. You know that the current humanity started here, right?"
Current humanity.
Even though Homo sapiens might have existed before, the current humanity became part of the Red Administrator here.
"Yes. Gilgamesh claimed that he spread his divine seed and his descendants prospered."
"What do you mean by divine seed?"
Thump!
Pithia kicked Gilgamesh's head again.
A bitter smile appeared on her lips.
"Then let me ask you. Did he have his descendants alone?"
"He needed... a woman, I suppose."
"Right. A child wouldn't come out of his belly, would it?"
"Of course not. Were you Gilgamesh's partner?"
"Partner... That's a word I don't want to hear. That."
While saying that, Pithia touched the withered tree in the center.
"Still, you guessed it right. I was his first partner. Um... If we compare it to a similar myth, I guess I would be Eve?"
Eve.
Pithia referred to herself like that and let out a hollow laugh.
* * *
"Eve... Are you talking about Adam and Eve, by any chance?"
Adam and Eve, known as the beginning of humanity in the Bible.
They lived in the Garden of Eden but were driven out after Eve fell into the temptation of the snake and ate the forbidden fruit.
"Come to think of it, there's a snake here too. He."
Thinking of the deity called "snake," Sung JiHan asked Pithia.
"So, is this place supposed to be the Garden of Eden? But the scenery is too harsh for that."
"For him, it was a paradise."
Thud!
As Pithia flicked her finger, a screen appeared.
Inside it, the lab was not as desolate as it is now.
The pupils of the floor and walls were moving properly, and the central tree was radiating vibrant vitality.
"Gilgamesh, the sole survivor of the primordial experiment. He was the only one acknowledged to spread his seed. Of course, at first, they tried to clone him because the process of human reproduction was cumbersome..."
Zzzing.
The screen changed.
Inside it, numerous Gilgameshes stood inside the test tubes.
"Did the enemy tribe clone him?"
They were part of the Administrator's tribe, so they must have had that level of technology.
The Gilgameshes in the screen numbered 500.
In the examination room, flames surged.
Except for one person, all the cloned humans of Gilgamesh were burned to ashes.
"Like this, everyone except for the main body of Gilgamesh has been burned to ashes."
"Hmph... Of course! No matter how much this body is replicated, it cannot defeat the real one..."
"When did this happen again?"
Crack.
Gilgamesh forcefully pulled out his face that was buried in the ground.
Pithia stepped on his head again and forcefully pushed it back in.
"Real Gilgamesh doesn't seem to be in a good mood."
No matter how you look at it, those two, Adam and Eve, are distant.
While Sung JiHan thought that, he saw the changing screen.
"The enemy tribe tried various experiments, but all failed and eventually had to return to traditional methods."
"If it's a traditional method..."
"This."
Pithia made a circular shape with her right index finger and put her left index finger inside and took it out.
At the blatant gesture, Sung JiHan smirked.
"Eve seems to be embarrassed."
"Ah, just call me Pithia. It was unnecessary to call me Eve. Then this human will become an inseparable existence."
She called herself Eve, but Pithia didn't like it.
What do you want me to do?
While Sung JiHan frowned, looking at her.
"Anyway, that's what I'm saying. Our Adam, no, Gilgamesh has become a paradise."
Ziiing...
The screen changed again.
There, a man was happily laughing while leaning against a tree.
And hundreds of women who had not worn a single feather were surrounding him.
Then Gilgamesh stood up and made one of the hundreds of women lie down...
"I don't want to see scenes of that guy mating."
"I agree with that."
At Sung JiHan's request, the act video was skipped.
The screen that showed the appearance of paradise as Gilgamesh changed.
"Then, shall we see the other side of paradise?"
The next thing that appeared was a screen of hundreds of women lying side by side.
[Administration of growth enhancer.]
Although it was an alien language, Sung JiHan could understand the voice.
The bellies of the women swelled.
As if the balloons were getting bigger, they grew too fast.
It felt eerie and disgusting to Sung JiHan, who was a human.
And...
[Extraction.]
When the bellies were sufficiently grown.
As the bellies of hundreds of women split open, the fetuses forcibly came out and floated.
The place where the children moved was a huge examination room.
There, there was no fire like the flames that carried Gilgamesh.
But there was enough fire to swallow the fetus.
Babies were thrown into it.
Whoosh...!
As the flames burned intensely.
[4 survivors.]
[Success rate 0.8%.]
[Good results.]
The voice of the enemy tribe sounded satisfied.
"This... is a human factory."
"That's right. In the other side of Gilgamesh's paradise, there was a human livestock process."
"...Were you one of the women lying there?"
"How good would it have been if I were one of them."
Pithia looked at the women whose bellies were forcibly split open and their children were taken away, and sincerely said that she was envious.
"If I give birth to fifty thousand children, I could die."
"...And what about you?"
"Well, unfortunately my success rate was only 10 percent. Maybe it's because I was a wife even before becoming an experimental subject. We were together before that bastard kidnapped me. He seemed like the most caring husband among the tribe, but turns out he was just a scumbag."
"He was your husband even before the kidnapping?"
"Yes, we lived together before he kidnapped me. He seemed perfectly normal among the tribe. But it turns out he was a scumbag."
Sung JiHan nodded.
Gilgamesh was also an experimental subject kidnapped to the lab.
It wouldn't have been strange for him to have a wife before being kidnapped.
"You, you! Don't tell me, the woman who escaped... her name. Um... I'm sure, she had a name..."
Struggling to lift his head while being stepped on by Pithia, Gilgamesh tried to continue speaking.
But he couldn't remember her name until the end.
"Look. You're so stupid like this."
Pithia chuckled and stomped on his head again.
"I didn't just eat the Fruit of Life, I ate it too. Why is my memory the only one that's so good?"
"Did you also consume the Fruit of the World Tree?"
"Yes, they forced me to eat it because of my good performance. That's why I became so healthy."
Thump. Thump.
With that, Pithia pointed at the women on the screen with her finger.
All of them had blank faces.
Even when their bellies split open and their children fell into the pit, they showed no reaction.
"These friends should have hallucinations through the hallucinogen, but it didn't work because of the Fruit of the World Tree."
"You became too healthy."
"Yes. So my belly splits open every time and I can only watch my child fall into the pit while sober. How many have I given birth to... over a thousand. Hasn't reached ten thousand yet? Ah, it's 7,342. Since I give birth to children in two days with the growth accelerator, it turned out like that."
Hee hee. Hee hee.
She laughed while looking at the burning children.
It seemed like a laugh that had lost its strength on the surface.
But Sung JiHan felt chills for the first time when he saw her.
In her wandering eyes.
There were intense emotions that were beyond the expression of madness.
"...Out of those, 10 percent?"
"Yes. Many of them survived. Of course."
When Pithia touched it, the screen changed.
There, Gilgamesh was seen next to the test tube, licking his lips.
[Ha, why is the survival rate so low? Useless things. The field is the problem.]
Even when his child was burning, he showed more interest in the survival rate than death.
"Our Adam didn't like that."
In the changed screen again, Gilgamesh was pointing his finger at Pithia.
[Ha... you again?]
[This woman is boring. Why is she so good at her performance?]
[Hey. What trick did you use? Don't keep it to yourself, share it. Let my concubines eat the Fruit of Life too... You don't know? Ha. Do you think I'll favor you just because of that?]
[Oh, it's you again? Can't you move aside? Seriously, I'll bite you.]
"That's all he said."
"..."
Sung JiHan watched quietly and said a word.
"Can I step on him too?"
"Really?"
"What? We, we are allies...!"
Bang!
Sung JiHan stepped on the air.
Gilgamesh's head exploded once again.
Unlike when Pithia stepped on him, his regeneration was slower.
"It feels a bit better when someone else steps on him."
Clap clap.
Pithia clapped her hands as if she were pleased with that sight.
"Well then, shall we get to the main point now?"
Sssss....
She began to emit intense coldness from her entire body.
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