I Woke Up and Found I Had Become the Villain

Day 2

“Which era shall we visit this time?”

Cheon Seoa, who had risen not just to the sky but reached space, said while looking down at the Earth spread out beneath her feet.

Cheon Seoa had originally intended to go to the ‘modern Earth’.
That is, the time just before she fell into the world of immortal cultivation.

However, her thoughts changed when she fell onto the primitive Earth.

Since I’ve witnessed the birth of Earth, I want to experience its various eras.

A goal that changes as easily as flipping one’s palm.
If other Repairers had seen this, they would have been shocked and spat blood.

Spacetime manipulation is not something to be used lightly.
To use it so casually, and for the mere reason of ‘wanting to travel with a light heart’.

However, if it’s Cheon Seoa using spacetime manipulation for such a reason, it’s a different story.

From the beginning, even as a Repairer, didn’t she act on her whims and accumulate countless grudges?

The reason she became the public enemy of all Repairers in the Repair world wasn’t simply because she mastered magical engineering.

“Hmm, I’ve decided.”

Cheon Seoa, who had been lost in thought for a moment, concentrated magical energy on her fingertips with a somewhat bright expression.

For an instant, a powerful magical energy that seemed capable of dyeing even the universe black burst forth, eventually gathering at her fingertips to form a small bead.

When Cheon Seoa lightly tapped the bead, it slowly moved forward before suddenly disappearing without a trace.
In place of the vanished bead, a hole containing a swirling abyss appeared.

Cheon Seoa stepped through that hole without hesitation.

* * *

“There was a pitiful person here too.”

In a lush jungle.
Cheon Seoa appeared before a man who was breathing heavily, his body covered in severe wounds.

The man, slowly approaching death, looked up at Cheon Seoa, who was looking down at him with clouded eyes.

“How pitiful.”

Cheon Seoa once again uttered ‘pitiful’ towards the man.

Like the man who was previously chased by the people called the Blue Wind Tribe, the man now before me was also a pitiful person.

The man in front of me was the chief of a tribe called the Guruguru tribe.
However, betrayed by a subordinate who coveted his position, he lost his entire family. He himself was also severely wounded and was heading towards death.

“Poor man. Do you perhaps want revenge?”

Revenge…?

The moment the word ‘revenge’ was uttered from Cheon Seoa’s mouth, the man’s eyes trembled.

Revenge.
Of course, he wanted it.

Against the subordinate who dared to betray him, annihilate his family, and even tried to kill him. And against the tribe he had ruled, who sided with such a subordinate.

But how could he take revenge?
He had lost everything. Moreover, he was so severely wounded that no matter what method he employed, the outcome would only be death.

“If you lack strength, I can help you. If your wounds are the problem, I can help with that too. What do you think?”

…!

As Cheon Seoa spoke again, the man’s eyes trembled even more violently.

“You just need to blink your eyes. Then I’ll ask you one last time. Do you want revenge?”

Blink.
Blink blink.
Blink blink blink blink blink!

In response to Cheon Seoa’s repeated question, the man blinked his eyes frantically.

Even the man himself didn’t know where such strength had come from.

“Alright. To someone like you, I’ll give this.”

As the man accepted his proposal, Cheon Seoa smiled and pulled out a book.

It was something written with human blood on animal hide.

“This is called the Blood Wolf True Body Technique. It will be perfect for you.”

Blood Wolf True Body Technique.
It was a magical cultivation method no less impressive than the Nine-Layered Torment Technique given to the man encountered earlier.

It was one of the body tempering methods for training one’s own body, and if mastered, one could become a Human-Beast Blood Wolf.

The man looked up at the Blood Wolf True Body Technique that Cheon Seoa was handing over.

He could guess that it would give him the power to take revenge.

However, his current body was completely broken.

Both legs were completely crushed.
His arms were cut off without a trace.
Dozens of arrows were stuck in his back, and deep cuts on his stomach caused his intestines to spill out.

In fact, the man’s condition was so severe that it was a miracle he was still alive.

Nevertheless, Cheon Seoa tilted her head with an innocent expression and said,

“Won’t you take it?”

She had tried to offer help with good intentions.
The other person had agreed to accept her help. Why wouldn’t he take the Blood Wolf True Body Technique?

Ah! Could it be.

“Don’t you like it? But the Blood Wolf True Body Technique is the perfect magical cultivation method for your talents? Even if you learn something else, you won’t be able to achieve great success, let alone reach a proper level.”

That’s not it.
That wasn’t it.

The reason the man didn’t receive the Hyeolrangjincheigong that Cheon Seoa handed over was because he had no hands or arms to receive it.

Just as the man was about to open his mouth with difficulty.

“Come on, don’t feel burdened and take it. And I hope you achieve your revenge.”

Before the man could say anything, Cheon Seoa placed the Hyeolrangjincheigong on the man’s ‘hand’ and disappeared.

Cheon Seoa vanished instantly before his eyes.
Surprised, the man suddenly sat up.

At that moment, the man realized.

“The wounds…?”

That the terrible wounds engraved on his body had completely disappeared.

His two legs that had been crushed were now firmly supporting him on the ground.
His two arms that had been cut off had regrown perfectly, and his hands were tightly gripping the mysterious ‘Hyeolrangjincheigong’ that the unidentified woman had given him.

Even the deep gashes that would have spilled his internal organs.
The dozens of arrows that had been stuck in his back.

Everything had vanished without a trace.

For a moment, the man wondered if he might be dreaming.

But all of this was not a dream.

The blood that had flowed from his wounds still soaked the ground, giving off a strong smell of blood.
In his hand was the mysterious object called Hyeolrangjincheigong.

“Ah…!”

The man let out a low sigh.

“I give thanks to Rakuru.”

The man suddenly knelt down towards the place where Cheon Seoa was standing and bowed his head.

Rakuru, whom the man mentioned.
It was the name of the god passed down from the jungle where the man’s tribe, and by extension, the tribe itself, was located.

However, it was not an ordinary god.
Rakuru was a being who had fought against numerous gods over the world in the distant past.

However, it is said that Rakuru, who was defeated in that battle, became an evil god and was sealed somewhere in this jungle.

Of course, that is nothing more than a legend and myth.

But the man regarded Cheon Seoa, who gave him the opportunity for revenge, as the incarnation of Rakuru.

* * *

“Hwaaam. I’m tired.”

Cheon Seoa yawned lazily and muttered while licking her lips.

Until now, Cheon Seoa had been traveling through various time periods on Earth.

And she gave small help to unfortunate people.

The ‘unfortunate’ people who received Cheon Seoa’s help were nine in total.
The magic techniques Cheon Seoa gave them were also nine in total.
Including the previously mentioned Nine Heavens Nine Demons Technique and Blood Wolf Body Technique, there were also the Heart-Eating Soul-Departing Great Power Technique, Sea-Calming Dragon Sword Technique, Blood-Sucking Technique, Three Eyes Three Disasters Technique, Six Faces Nine Noses Technique, and Demon King’s Great Water Technique.
Lastly, in the era that would become Korea… before it became the Korea of the present.
She gave the Seven Desires Demon God Technique along with the Seven Desires Sword to a man she met here, suffering during the Japanese colonial period.

However, was it because she traveled through too many eras and places in such a short time?

Cheon Seoa felt another wave of fatigue and exhaustion.

“Huaaahm-.”

She yawned lazily and smacked her lips.

This fatigue and exhaustion weren’t due to the frequent use of space-time manipulation.

She was simply, literally, crazy tired and sleepy.

To begin with, for Cheon Seoa, who had surpassed the Great Completion stage and reached the Dao Formation stage, space-time manipulation was as natural as breathing.

The current tiredness was just a kind of side effect from being cooped up in Daemacheon for too long, and then suddenly visiting too many places after such a long time.

“Hmm, anyway, it seems like it’ll be the time before falling to the Mortal Realm in a few decades.”

As Cheon Seoa muttered while yawning continuously, she took a step.
Suddenly, Cheon Seoa arrived in the middle of a vast ocean.

No matter where she looked, there was only an endless horizon of the open sea.

“Hmm, this place will do.”

Cheon Seoa nodded with a satisfied expression after looking around.

It wasn’t bad.

And so, Cheon Seoa went to the bottom of the deep sea and set up a formation.

Yin and yang were reversed.
The five elements flowed backwards.
Heaven and earth were flipped.
The harmony of reverse creation would be achieved.

“Yin-Yang Five Elements Reverse Creation Formation complete!”

Cheon Seoa gently waved her hand, pushing away the deep sea water, and revealed a bright smile.

Although it was made in a simplified form, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Reverse Heaven Formation would be able to withstand even a hundred years.

Of course.

“There’s no need to last a hundred years… Ah! But I should set the alarm properly.”

Belatedly remembering the importance of the alarm, Cheon Seoa waved her hand again, and with a thud, a huge bell fell beside her.

“With this, the preparations are comple… te…”

Yawn!

As Cheon Seoa mumbled while yawning again, she suddenly collapsed and closed her eyes.

The sound of her soft breathing and the up and down movement of her chest indicated that she had fallen into a deep sleep.

* * *

1999.

Nostradamus, the prophet born in the 16th century, said:

In the year 1999, on the day when the seventh month rises.
The sky will open, and the king of terror will descend, bringing about the end of humanity.

Of course, most prophecies, especially those about the end of the world, never quite hit the mark.
And Nostradamus’s prophecy was no exception.

However, humanity on Earth did experience a major upheaval.

Sometimes as urban legends, sometimes as urban myths, and sometimes as delusions, people with supernatural powers began to reveal themselves.

But they didn’t appear out of nowhere, as if they had suddenly fallen from the sky.
In fact, they had been hiding and operating in the shadows of society from ancient times until now.

However, people couldn’t understand why these powered individuals suddenly revealed themselves, coinciding with the day Nostradamus mentioned as the end of humanity.

Just guessing that they had some reason to reveal their existence, which they had hidden for thousands of years.

Thus, the ability users who revealed themselves in 1999 blended into society very naturally.