Chapter 8 - Apostle of Justice reborn Part 1/2

Heo entered Eun Young-Il house and sat onto the sofa. Eun Young-Il went into the kitchen to prepare some tea for Heo. After preparing the tea, she returned and gave it to Heo, who gratefully accepted the tea. The two sat together, the room filled with an air of tension and uncertainty as Heo about to reveal the shocking truth he had uncovered about Jang.

"Now, if you're settled and calm, let's hear your story. Tell me what you were saying about Jang's plot earlier," Eun Young-Il said to Heo with a composed expression, sipping his tea attentively.

Eun Young-Il is a vice president of Phoenix Reborn, She is a righteous woman who cannot bear the misery life of human and she wanted to vanquish all the dimensional gate, restoring the world to how it was before these gates started appearing on Earth at least that was the world known about her and Heo also accepted this reality about Eun Young-II.

Heo started to tell the whole story about what he had heard regarding Jang's plan to kill Eun Young-II tomorrow in the Dragon Dungeon and portray it as a noble sacrifice.

"Oh! Really? What a marvelous plan to kill someone, and no one knows about it. As they say, what happens in the dungeon stays in the dungeon," said a male voice, not that of Eun Young-II. Heo turned his head, and he was in shock after what he saw.

He is Jang Jin-Ho himself, standing behind Heo, placing his hand on Heo's shoulder with a sinister smile on his face.

Heo's face turned pale, his eyes is in shock, and the tea cup slipped from his hand, falling to the floor with a loud clatter.

"How... How... Why... Why... are you here? RUN, RUN... Eun Young-II!" Heo muttered in a slow voice, then screamed for Eun Young-II to run away from Jang. The fear in his voice is clearing warning her to flee from the dangerous situation.

"Both Eun Young-II and Jang started to laugh" It held an frightening and sinister tone, revealing the evil intentions that had been hiding in their hearts. The chilling laughter echoed throughout the room, sending a shiver down Heo's spine.

"You are still clueless, Alas! And you will die clueless, my sweet little innocent Heo," Eun Young-II whispered into Heo's ear, her finger patting his cheek gently. A sinister smile played on her lips.

"You didn't get it, Heo? The plan was not to kill Eun Young-II, but it was you, Heo, Your death is very important to us in our grand scheme, I could not bear to send C, D, B or A rank hunter, I came by myself to give you a death" Jang revealed, exposing the truth behind his scheme. He had used Eun Young-II as bait to draw Heo to her house.

"Why? I'm not even an Awakener. I don't possess even a tiny bit of power. I haven't even crossed paths with you," Heo explained to Jang, trembling in the face of his death. He was baffled and terrified, unable to understand why he had become the target of such a malicious plot.

"You don't need to know. Shhhhh! That's enough talking," Eun Young-II replied to Heo, putting her finger to his lips to silence him. Her eyes held a strange malice, leaving Heo with a feeling that the truth might remain hidden forever.

"Shall we finish this? My darling, I'm getting bored! It's about time to end our little game of hide and seek," Eun Young II replied to Jang with a wicked grin.

"Mass Teleportation skill!" Jang used one of his active skill, instantly teleporting Heo, Eun Young-II, and himself to another location far from the city. In a desolate desert with an S-rank dimensional gate looming before them.

Skill : Mass Teleportation

- Usage You can teleport up to 10 people to different locations where you have already visited before.

- Rank : A

- Type : Active

- MP Cost : 500

- Cooldown : 10min

"Lightning Strike!" Jang use another one of his active skills, directing it towards Heo. The air crackled with electricity as a bolt of lightning shot forth, aiming to strike Heo with its powerful force.

Skill : Lightning Strike

- Usage : A powerful and swift attack that harnesses the energy of lightning to strike the target with immense force.

- Rank : EX

- Type : Active

- MP Cost : 100

- Cooldown : 10 sec

Jang used his skills back to back, wanting to finish the battle as quickly as possible without giving any chance to Heo. He was determined not to waste any opportunity to defeat him and was relentless in his pursuit to take down Heo.

Heo could not even react. With his very own eyes, he witnessed the lightning strike piercing his chest. He looked down at both hands, now covered in blood, and he is coughing blood he fell to his knees on the ground and coughing up more blood from his mouth.

"Why? Why on earth are you doing this to me? Damn it, why? Why are you killing... cough... cough... huff... huff, " Heo was in agony, tears welling in his eyes, and he was yelling at Jang and Eun Young-II, He was clueless about why he was being killed. In his final moments, he unable to grasp the reason behind his miserable death. As he was in his last moment of death, both Eun and Jang stood there, watching him die, their laughter and grins only adding to the cruelness of the scene.

"Someone, someone, are you listening to me? Anyone? Why? Why is this happening to me? If anyone is listening, please, I am begging, grant me the power to take revenge against those villains," Heo prayed to God in his final moments of death, his heart filled with rage and a burning desire for vengeance.

But alas, no Gods from Heaven listened to his prayer. Or perhaps we should say that someone was indeed listening to this prayer.

After his death, they picked up his lifeless body and threw him into the S Rank Dungeon, where his death would remain hidden from the world. With no one to bear witness to Heo's tragic end.

After death, his soul traveled into the void, where he found himself endlessly falling. There was no end to the abyss, and he kept descending into the boundless emptiness, surrounded by pitch black darkness.

"Where am I? What is the time now? Why am I falling endlessly?" Heo asked himself, his mind in a state of confusion and unconsciousness. In this timeless void, he struggled to grasp his own identity, lost in a abyss beyond any comprehension.

"Ding Ding..."

Suddenly, he heard an alert tone in his mind.

[Alert]

"Dost thou desire to live?," ##### inquired

"Wait, What? Agghh," Heo replied, his head throbbing with pain, and he had no idea what was happening.