Chapter 253. The Gates of Hell (4)
“You’re saying you have no intention of resurrecting Lucifer?”
“I already told you. I don’t.”
“That’s strange...”
After hearing my explanation and Princess Longji’s, Nezha tilted his heads.
All three of them tilted at slightly different times, which was strangely dizzying to watch.
“The Holy Grail was made from the jewel that was embedded in Lucifer’s head, right?”
“I’ve heard that legend.”
“Kang Yujin is one of the Lucifer Vessels Ha Mina created, right?”
“That’s true.”
“You’re Kang Yujin’s Constellation, and now you’ve obtained the Holy Grail.”
“So aren’t you planning to turn Kang Yujin into Lucifer?”
“No.”
"..."
At my answer, Nezha crossed his arms.
Watching him fold six arms together in a complicated knot somehow made my head hurt.
“Did I completely misunderstand this?”
“Looks like it.”
“Nezha, I think you did too.”
Nezha’s expression grew stiffer by the second.
Apparently, he had finally realized that he had attacked the completely wrong people.
“Nezha, if your mission is to stop Lucifer’s resurrection, then you should be going after Christina and Sylvia, not us.”
“What?”
“Christina and Sylvia attacked us the moment we obtained the Holy Grail.”
“They’re both Lucifer Vessels just like Kang Yujin, and they want to become stronger.”
“They’re probably trying to use the Holy Grail to gain Lucifer’s power.”
"..."
Nezha listened to Princess Longji with his mouth slightly open.
“Then the people I should’ve attacked weren’t you... but Christina and Sylvia?”
“That seems to be the case.”
“Hmm... thanks for telling me.”
With that, Nezha turned his back on us.
But I had no intention of letting him leave that easily.
“Wait.”
“Why are you stopping me?”
“You’re just going to leave without apologizing?”
“A-Apologize? Why should I apologize?!”
“You misunderstood the situation and attacked us.”
“Princess Longji and I could’ve been seriously hurt.”
“I’m the one who got hurt!”
Nezha shouted while pointing at the bullet wounds in his back.
“Nezha, that’s what people call bringing it on yourself.”
“Ghk...”
Princess Longji’s cold reply made Nezha’s shoulders slump.
Despite the terrifying appearance from a moment ago, he suddenly looked like nothing more than a young boy.
“So what do you want from me?”
“Forget the apology. Let’s talk a little more first.”
“Yeah. I have a lot of questions.”
“Tch... fine.”
In the end, Nezha nodded.
Since we also needed to regroup with Merlin, Astolfo, and Galahad, we decided to talk while walking toward the Gate.
“Nezha, how did you know we were searching for the Holy Grail?”
“I received a message.”
“A message?”
“Sometimes anonymous messages arrive through my Observer.”
Anonymous messages.
I had never heard of anything like that.
“Could it be a Constellation without a title, like I used to be?”
“No. It’s not like that.”
“It’s genuinely anonymous.”
“What did it say?”
“Today, it just said that the Holy Grail had appeared.”
“And it included the coordinates around here.”
So he had come straight here and attacked us because we were the ones carrying the Holy Grail.
“I can detect objects containing powerful energy, like the Holy Grail.”
“That’s how I found you.”
“Nezha, who sends those messages?”
“How would I know?”
“I told you they’re anonymous.”
Nezha shook his heads at Princess Longji’s question.
“But for a long time, those messages have been telling me about Lucifer...”
“And that stopping his resurrection is my duty as a Constellation.”
"..."
Who was giving Nezha those instructions?
Could it be Taigong Wang?
“But Nezha... didn’t you sponsor Kang Yujin quite a lot even though he’s one of Lucifer’s Vessels?”
“I didn’t know at first.”
“I only found out recently.”
“And... Kang Yujin didn’t do anything wrong.”
“That’s true.”
“Even if Ha Mina created Lucifer Vessels, without the Holy Grail they’re nothing more than imperfect imitations.”
“My mission is specifically to prevent someone from using the Holy Grail to resurrect Lucifer.”
So that was why he hadn’t acted against Ha Mina or Kang Yujin until now.
“Then Nezha, can Lucifer really be resurrected using the Holy Grail?”
“Resurrecting Lucifer requires up to three elements.”
Nezha raised three fingers.
“The first is flesh.”
“The body.”
“Lucifer possessed an extremely powerful body as the Demon King.”
“His original body was shattered in an ancient war, so a replacement body is needed.”
“Is that what Ha Mina’s Vessels are?”
“Yeah.”
“It isn’t enough to simply make a body that looks exactly like Lucifer.”
“It has to be an existence powerful enough that the world itself recognizes, ‘Yes, this is on Lucifer’s level.’”
If so, the current candidates who might qualify were probably Kang Yujin, Christina, Sylvia, and Alexandros.
“The second is spirit.”
“This is the spiritual energy Lucifer possessed from the days when he was still an angel.”
“It’s different from magic power or internal energy.”
“You could call it the power of existence itself.”
“Is that a Christian concept?”
“Maybe. I don’t really know.”
“Lucifer’s spirit would have scattered when he died, but if you have the Holy Grail, you can secure spiritual energy comparable to it.”
“Then a Vessel that was merely physically powerful would gain an existence of a much higher spiritual rank, like Lucifer.”
Lucifer had originally been the greatest angel in Heaven.
Even after falling, he had ruled at the summit of all demons.
So the idea was to use the Grail’s divine power to grant a Vessel spiritual energy on Lucifer’s level...
enough to raise its very rank of existence.
“And the third is soul.”
“That doesn’t need much explanation.”
“This one can’t be substituted.”
“You need Lucifer’s actual soul.”
“You mean the soul of the dead Lucifer?”
“Yeah.”
“Apparently, once flesh and spirit are prepared, Lucifer’s soul will naturally return.”
“I don’t know the details, though.”
“Where is Lucifer’s soul?”
“Maybe Hell?”
“Wasn’t Hell where Lucifer and the other demons lived in the first place?”
“Huh? Now that you mention it... yeah.”
“I never really thought about that.”
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