Became the Weapon Monopolist of the Gods-Chapter 70: Return, absorption

After escaping the boundary of the underworld, we headed to the Mycenae palace with Cerberus to confirm that we had passed the task.

─Hahaha! Hercules went to the underworld!

─Even he won’t be able to return this time!

In the banquet hall of the palace, a banquet like the one I had seen before was taking place.

“Ugh, ugh. If he crosses the River of Forgetfulness......”

Eurystheus, who had been hiccupping with a red face, suddenly turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.

Step, step.

“What happens if you cross the River of Forgetfulness?”

“Heh, heh, Hercules!”

Hercules, who was known to have gone to the underworld, appeared at the banquet hall.

“D-you’re back!”

“I brought Cerberus as per the task.”

“Oh, how can a living being be the gatekeeper of the underworld......”

Eurystheus asked with eyes of disbelief.

“Are you saying that you really went to the underworld and came back?”

“Look. This is the proof.”

Eurystheus blinked when he saw ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) the Cerberus that Hercules held out.

What Hercules held in his hand was a small and cute puppy.

The only similarity was that it had three heads, but there was no sign of its majesty as the gatekeeper of hell.

Then that’s right. Eurystheus, who was embarrassed, snorted.

“Are you saying that this is Cerberus?”

“That’s right.”

“Haha, Hercules. Even you have a time to joke. The guard dog of hell can’t be this small, right? Isn’t this a puppy?”

Eurystheus laughed and tried to grab Cerberus' head from Heracles' hand, but Cerberus thrust his teeth into it.

"You bastard!"

Eurystheus, who almost got bitten, raised his hand in anger.

At that very moment.

"Ughhhhhh!"

Eurystheus fell off his chair and fell on his butt.

"Kururur!"

"Kururur!"

Cerberus had grown so big that it reached the high ceiling of the banquet hall.

"Ke, Cerberus!"

Eurystheus, who realized belatedly that it was really Cerberus, the gatekeeper of the underworld, shouted with a pale face.

"Wow, I see! I acknowledge that you have passed the task! Hurry up and put that monster back!"

"......."

The sudden appearance of Cerberus turned the banquet hall into chaos, but Hercules stood silently.

He seemed to be feeling a sense of emotion at having completed the 12 labors.

He had only completed 4, but many things had happened in the meantime.

“Let’s go, Hercules.”

After confirming that we had completed the tasks, we boarded Charon’s boat, the underworld’s ferryman, and returned to Hell to return Cerberus.

And then, we left the boundaries of the underworld and returned to the living world... ... .

─ The 12 labors of Hercules were completed.

The quest completion window appeared.

“Hercules, it was fun.”

“Are you going?”

“Yes.”

Late at night, under the dark sky with the Milky Way, Hercules’ amber eyes looked at me.

They were pure, clear eyes, without a hint of madness.

“It was a short but long journey. Choi Seo-jun.”

“......!”

My eyes widened slightly.

This was the first time Hercules called me by my name.

When I first saw him, he called me ‘you’, and from then on, ‘you’ or ‘stranger’ was the way Hercules referred to me.

It was only when it was time to leave that I finally felt acknowledged by this man.

“It was nice meeting you too. Jeanne, Vanessa.”

“It’s an honor for a great hero to call my name.”

“Hercules, it was really fun.”

Vanessa smiled brightly, and Jeanne’s eyes turned red.

At that moment, Hercules suddenly approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder.

And.

Woof... ... .

A dazzling golden magic flowed out of Hercules’ hand and took hold of me.

It was a moment, and nothing had changed.

But I could tell that Hercules had done something.

“If you have trouble, look up at the stars in the sky.”

“The stars?”

Hercules nodded.

“The stars will be watching over you.”

With that, Hercules turned and walked to Iolaus’ chariot.

“Are you going on another trip?”

“I’m going to see my family.”

“.......”

Hercules’ family meant his wife and children who had died by his hands.

Only after finishing all his tasks would Hercules go to see his family.

“Goodbye, all three of you. May the gods bless you.”

Iolaus bowed deeply to us.

“Take care, Iolaus.”

“You’ve worked hard.”

“It’s a trump card. It’s a gift.”

“Haha, thank you. I’ll use it well.”

Iolaus, who received the trump card as a gift from Vanessa, smiled kindly and got on the chariot.

Now it was time for each of us to go on our own journeys.

Jeanne looked at the chariot with a lingering expression.

“It’s over.”

“It might not be the end.”

“What does that mean?”

“We might come again.”

I thought of the words left by Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.

‘I said we’d meet again.’

Perhaps those words referred to the Gigantomachia, the great war between the gods and the giants that would take place hundreds of years later.

The time zones of Earth and Greece were different.

And Hercules was the hero of the gods prepared for the Gigantomachia.

‘Please, let’s meet again, Hercules.’

His vision became hazy and the world went dark.

It was the moment when the long days in Greece came to an end.

A quiet night.

Hercules leaned against his chariot and looked up at the night sky in silence.

A new constellation had appeared in the sea of ​​stars that were spread out countless times.

A golden constellation that had not been seen before the Twelve Labors.

It was the constellation of the hero who defeated the Hydra.

Whaaaa... ....

Suddenly, a woman appeared next to Hercules as the moonlight gathered.

It was Artemis, the goddess of the moon.

Hercules asked, still looking up at the sky.

“Did he get off okay?” freeωebnovēl.c૦m

“Yes, he did.”

“Please take care of him, Artemis.”

“Don’t worry. You don’t have to worry about me, Hercules.”

“I believe you.”

Hercules got up, taking off his back and got on the chariot.

The great hero of mythology prepared for a new adventure.

It was late at night when he returned to the present.

‘Only a day has passed.’

He opened his phone to check the date, and saw that a day had passed in the present.

It had been a day since he had hunted goblins with Rachel and obtained Napoleon’s hat.

It seemed like he had been on an adventure with Hercules for almost half a year.

“Eungong, check the gloves.”

“Yes.”

At Vanessa’s words, I checked the Nemean gloves.

But... ... .

[Nemean Lion Skin Gloves]

[Rank: Mythic]

─ Gloves made by Vanessa Walker, a woman who twisted fate, by weaving the skin of the Nemean lion. The wearer's strength increases dramatically when entering battle.

Nemean Lion Skin can be inherited. When inherited, you become completely immune to all physical attacks for 3 minutes.

Magic Power: 5000

Cooldown: 3 days

'... ... crazy.'

The tough Nemean gloves had been turned into a relic.

A 'mythic' relic.

It was surprising that it was a mythic relic whose existence was unknown, but what was even more surprising was its ability.

The rapid increase in strength was still unimaginable, but the ability that followed was truly ridiculous.

'Immunity to physical attacks? ‘Is this possible?’

There are plenty of monsters that specialize in physical attacks.

However, the Nemean Lion Skin had the ability to grant ‘complete immunity’ to such monsters.

Although it had the disadvantage of having to wait ‘3 days’ before using it again once, the ability to be immune to physical attacks made even that disadvantage meaningless.

“Depending on the situation, it’s possible to become invincible for 3 minutes.”

“If you use it well, it seems like that.”

It depends on the wearer’s judgment, but this was a truly fraudulent weapon.

“It’s an ability that suits Eun-gong.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, if it’s Eun-gong’s judgment, I’m sure he’ll be able to use it well.”

“Congratulations, Seo-jun.”

The two seemed to be happy about the fact that I was safer rather than the ability’s utility.

I laughed at that sight for some reason.

However, it was too early to be congratulated.

“There’s still something left to check.”

I took out Hades’ gift that I had kept in the general slot.

Red blood was sloshing inside the glass bottle.

‘Essence of Cerberus.’

It was an essence that condensed the magical power of Cerberus, the devil of Greek mythology.

I felt a powerful magical power that could not be compared to any modern essence.

I took out the alabaster and poured all of Cerberus’ blood without hesitation.

The red blood that had condensed Cerberus’ magical power fell on the alabaster.

Then.

Hwaaaaak─!

Blue flames burst out of the alabaster and it began to greedily absorb Cerberus’ magical power.

Tiring!

─ The number of summoning slots increases.

[Summon 5/6]

The number of summoning slots increased. However, the absorption of magical power was not over.

Unlike before, when it ended quickly, the absorption took place over several dozen minutes.

After a while.

Bam.

The alabaster that had been floating in the air fell onto the counter.

The red and blue alabaster had turned bright blue.

As if it had ‘evolved’ into a completely different gem.

When I picked up the fallen alabaster, a status window appeared.

“.......”

After checking the magical power, I was speechless for a moment.

「Snow Flower Stone」

Magic power: 35,000 / 35,000

Snow Flower Stone's magical power, which had not even exceeded 20,000, had more than doubled.

'This is enough to be called S-class.'

In South Korea, there were only 4 S-class awakened people officially counted.

Even worldwide, there were not more than 50 S-class awakened people.

However, Snow Flower Stone's magical power was approaching S-class.

It was truly an unbelievable magical power.

Even though only 1 slot was added, this was an incredible achievement.

─ The re-summoning waiting time is reduced by 10 minutes.

Re-summoning waiting time: 01:47

"!"

My eyes widened.

Vanessa and Jeanne’s waiting time had been reduced by a whopping 10 minutes.

The moment this time became 0 seconds, the two would be able to escape from the distortion that did not belong anywhere and belong completely to Earth.

‘This might be enough.’

With a pounding heart, I took the alabaster to the relic catalog.

Then.

─ It can be stored in the relic catalog. Would you like to store it?

The phrase that the alabaster, which had been too low in rank to be included until then, could be stored in the relic catalog came to mind.

This meant one thing.

‘I can merge the alabaster with me.’

My body, which lacked talent, had a clear limit to its potential.

However, unlike me, the alabaster was a stone that absorbed magic power and grew infinitely.

That’s why I had been feeding the alabaster with magic power and growing it.

I grew the alabaster and transformed its magic power into my full power. To accept it.

If it was a ‘relic slot’, then that was possible.

The relic slot, which was the core of my awakening ability, was like inside my body.

─You can store it in the relic catalog. Would you like to store it?

‘Yes.’

At that moment, an overwhelming sense of resistance came over me.