He and It Chapter 63: A God’s Marriage (34)

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Chapter 63: A God’s Marriage (34)

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Roche’s pupils dilated for a moment. His form changed rapidly, from a flowing gale to a breeze that was eager to disperse, passing through ten thousand different forms in an instant, yet the Winter Goddess’ ice pick was always viciously fixed in his heart, as it lifted him directly from the ground into the air.

“You…Why…” 

The Storm God struggled as hard as he could, and his robes were gradually covered by thick spreading frost, “How dare you try to…kill me…”

“Because you’re too stupid and believe whatever the rumors say,” the Winter Goddess sighed. She took off her crown, and brushed her long hair slowly before she put it back on. “Stupid gods don’t usually live long. And on the contrary, not only should you not blame me, you should thank me profusely.”

Roche’s heart made a crunching sound as ice crystals cracked. He hissed out in defiance and intended to strike back at the Winter Goddess, however all those attacks were overpowered and were easily blocked by his opponent.

“I wonder why?” the Winter Goddess laughed coldly. “If you fall into the hands of the Lord of the Ice Sea, your death will be a thousand or ten thousand times more miserable than it is now. Even if you hand over His human, do you think He will just let it go? It took so many gods to calm His wrath, and now you’re the only one who’s provoked Him…Imagine the pain you’ll have to endure, my brother!”

“However,” the Winter Goddess came closer to him, absently tracing patterns on the frost. “To be honest, your name is recorded in the fourth generation’s God’s genealogy, so you don’t seem to be quite qualified to be called my brother in a proper manner…”

The Winter Goddess laughed, and each breath she exhaled created a small whirlwind of ice and snow in the chamber. She lowered her voice and said softly, “Go to Death and seek your place as Lord God, and eternal bride with my blessing, Roche.”

The ice pick made a deafening cracking sound, and Roche’s torso shattered into a million mangled pieces with that sound.

The Winter Goddess stomped on the crackling ice, lifted him by the head, and walked straight out.

Yun Chi held his breath. He heard something off, in the words from the mouth of the murderous goddess.

“Where do you get your fake news from?” “What do the rumors say, and you really believe them?” “Go to death and find your place as a main god.”

Sa’gya vaguely mentioned that apart from the Winter Goddess, Roche was also a strong contender for the Lord God’s position, and since he held the position of Wind God, there was no need to mention the sensitive accuracy of his information. Plus, even after the rumors about Sa’gya had become so outrageous, there was no god who knew about it that would come out to debunk the rumors?

Plus, Sa’gya had only left a short time when Roche came to the door. You could say he had good eyes and ears, and that was indeed excellent, but in the end which party leaked the information? Sa’gya wasn’t a reckless character. He must have kept his own whereabouts secret, the rest…

The only strong elements that littered the world today, besides the wind, were water and ice.

Yun Chi projected quietly.

First concoct unrealistic rumors to convince all four generations of gods that Sa’gya was nothing more than a soft target to be pinched, then release a message to let the wind spirits know about Sa’gya’s departure, followed by Roche’s capture and his own forced separation from Sa’gya.

Just now, listening to them, it seemed that Sa’gya was now making a fuss outside. Now the Winter Goddess could use that opportunity to rightfully take Roche’s head as a bargaining chip to make amends…

In that case, she had logically removed the contender for the Lord God’s position, and she had also taken the initiative to show Sa’gya a favor, and might even be able to gain the gratitude of the other gods…A deal that killed three birds with one stone. No matter which way you looked at it, she was the biggest beneficiary.

When he considered that, whether or not he was overthinking it, Yun Chi didn’t dare to walk up the path. He cautiously returned the way he came, running wildly through the dark passage and climbing back up the steps to the hall where the divine calendar was kept.

Perhaps sensing the sad news that the owner had passed away, the vitality of the interior of the Divine Palace was fading drastically. The colorful and dazzling decorations dimmed, and the exquisite jade carvings and gold carvings had begun to spread decaying cracks from the inside. The thousands of painters who used to work there had long since disappeared, and the hall was empty, littered with smashed brushes and paints.

Yun Chi escaped quickly and found that the chaos outside was even greater than inside. The palace looked as if it had been sacked, burned and pillaged by the mob that had rushed in, so much so that the entire palace was on the verge of collapsing in the midst of the chaos.

Was Sa’gya there?

Yun Chi, hopeful, stumbled toward the end of the corridor, as he dodged falling vases along the way. The shrine was about to disintegrate, but just as he was about to turn a corner he braked sharply, sending debris sliding under his feet.

Yun Chi clutched the guardrail next to him in a death grip with his arm to prevent himself from losing his footing and falling.

“My god…”

Yun Chi was completely dumbfounded, for instead of a cascading palace, there was a deep gully like a rift in the sky in front of him. The cross-section of Storm God Palace was right in front of him, and it had actually been directly split apart by some unknown external force!

“How can this be? I can’t fly…”

Seeing that the half he was in was also in danger, and unable to stop fluttering in the wind and rain, Yun Chi could either find his way out again, or close his eyes and jump. Anyway, with the Divine Clothes protecting his body, he wouldn’t be able to die.

At that moment, a strong voice suddenly came from the gloomy sky above, “Mother Goddess, is it you? Or the bride of the Lord of the Ice Sea?”

Yun Chi looked up and saw a vast, immense face spreading out from the vault of the sky. Haze filled its complexion, streaming clouds formed its contours. It was the face of an old man, deeply wrinkled, with long snow-white whiskers trailing to the sky.

Yun Chi was subdued.

“You…Who are you?” he asked aloud. “Could it be Ugo, the God of the Sky?”

The old man let out a low chuckle of triumph. “Heh-heh-heh. It seems the Lord of the Ice Sea has mentioned me to you…Well, how can you still linger in Storm God Palace? Quickly sit up here, and I will take you to your husband!”

Halfway through his complacency, he suddenly remembered his duty, and hurriedly sank his face as a pack-beast born out of the clouds wagged its head and descended quickly in front of Yun Chi.

Perhaps this was the best option at the moment. Yun Chi immediately jumped on it and the pack beast rose high into the sky, and quickly left the dying shrine.

“The whole world is looking for you, child. Fortunately my eyes are wide enough…” Ugo sighed somberly. “What an unmitigated disaster. Not only Roche, but I hope that all the juniors who are like Him will remember this lesson!”

Yun Chi hesitated, but still said aloud, “Roche he…He’s dead.”

“What!” Ugo’s beard twitched in surprise. “Did you kill Him?”

“It wasn’t me,” Yun Chi said. “It was the Winter Goddess.”

Ugo fell silent for a long time before he let out a long sigh and muttered in a low voice, “I’ve sighed more times today than in all the past centuries combined…O farce, it is better to end it quickly!”

They had flown up to the very top of the sky. “You’ll see.”

Yun Chi sat on the back of the pack-beast, and looked down for a bird’s-eye view, but after a long time, he didn’t speak.

The shock was too much. It caused his tongue to knot and his eyes to freeze. He didn’t know how long he was frozen before Yun Chi asked, shakily, “Sa’gya…Is this Sa’gya?”

Even from the distance of the moon to the earth, he could see that there was a white sea otter, so huge that it was unrealistic, who was holding an entire land mass aloft on its belly, ready to smash it heavily.

He had seen such a scene many times before. When he hunted in the icy sea at meal time, Sa’gya would drag out a flat stone tabletop from somewhere, put it on his chest, let Yun Chi sit on his belly, and they would eat while slowly drifting and rocking on the sea…

The sweet and cozy memories of the past were all the more startling when they were combined with the scene at hand.

“How did it happen?” Yun Chi couldn’t hide the sourness in his heart. “How did Sa’gya become like this?”

“You were taken by Roche and He lost control because of it,” Ugo whispered. “At this moment, I beg you, not for the sake of the living beings in this world like you, but also for the sake of your Beloved, let Him calm down. If it goes on like this, His sanity will be too far away, and He may not really be able to come back.”

“But what am I to say?” Yun Chi’s body was sweating with anxiety. “Now when I stand before Him, I’m smaller than a speck of dust!”

“His eyes can no longer see anything, nor can His ears hear any sound. Even if your existence is smaller than dust to Him, that is still a million times stronger than anyone else.” Ugo said slowly. “I believe you can do it.”

Yun Chi looked at Sa’gya, and the gold marks on his ear rippled.

Sa’gya was in pain, Yun Chi could feel it. He seemed to be back in that moment when the dusk was like blood, rushing desperately to get back to his home, which left him with nothing but a field of lifeless, miserable corpses.

He had lost his family, and now he had lost Yun Chi. How could fate give hope to a man who had nothing, and then cruelly deprive him of it? The pain he was suffering at the moment was as much as his madness.

No matter what, Yun Chi made up his mind, this mess has to be solved, I’ll take this one!

He leapt off the pack animal’s back, and to Ugo’s astonished cries, Yun Chi fell straight down. He gasped for breath against the gusts of wind that buffeted his face and threatened to tear his throat out as he shouted, “Sa’gya–! Come and get me or I’ll fall to my death–!”

The enraged behemoth stopped its intended smashing motion and swiveled its ears in confusion.

“Chi…?” The white sea otter slowly turned its head which was the size of an asteroid, as it looked left and right.

“I’m here–!” Yun Chi’s divine clothes emitted a translucent white light, and from afar, it looked like a star falling to the earth. “Such a striking all-white color. You’ll notice it quickly!”

The white sea otter’s eyes reflected that bit of white light and widened unexpectedly.

“Chiiii!”

The sea otter let out a gentle, almost tearful cry as he carefully stretched out his palm, but he was too big, so big that no matter how careful he was, he would still inevitably hurt Yun Chi, so the sea otter panicked and retracted his furry palm.

The action of stretching and retracting had already produced a hurricane that could lift Yun Chi high into the sky again, shoulder to shoulder with Ugo.

The white sea otter chirped low and impatiently, and the land on his belly shuddered and rocked back and forth. Finally, it occurred to him to get smaller, so the high tide subsided and the continent sank into the familiar icy ocean, slowly nestling in with the water.

Yun Chi tumbled in the wind for half a day before he finally crashed dizzily into a soft embrace mixed with blood, debris and ice.

“Yun Chi…” Sa’gya called his name in a hoarse, indistinguishable blur. “So great, so great…you’re here.”

Yun Chi lifted his head and looked at his sea otter, whose fur was covered in cuts of all sizes, and whose pupils were filled with chaotic, disorganized light, and who not only had blood dripping from his mouth and nose, but also two trails of blood that snaked down from the direction of his tear ducts. Taking on that kind of perishable demonic form had taken its toll, after all.

Sa’gya lowered his head. His burning nostrils brushed against the golden mark on Yun Chi’s ear as he cried. Tears fell silently on the side of Yun Chi’s neck, and burned his heart to a sour, soft place as well.

“Yes, I’m here,” Yun Chi sniffled and hugged Sa’gya tighter. “I really missed you. Shall we go home?”

Sa’gya nodded seriously, “Okay.”

Immediately after that, he let go and fell headlong from the sky into the sea.

Yun Chi panicked, “Sa’gya? What’s wrong? Wake up! Don’t scare me!”

However, even as he fainted, the white sea otter still held Yun Chi in his arms for dear life and never let go.