The Gods’ Marriage: Riera’s Story 1
Riera had a dream. There was a child who kept crying. The Earth was decaying into blackness. The child somehow prayed to God to save the Earth and the world. However, he collapsed without receiving the return of his faith.
She called the child’s name; a name that she couldn’t even remember after many years. She shouted it out, again and again. She had only realized the truth by the time she shouted until her throat was raw.
“Ah…”
The child had died of the poison that had already encroached on the world. Riera had become the lone survivor in the world.
“Ahhhh!”
“Argh!”
“Riera!”
“Ugh!”
When she opened her eyes, Riera realized she was soaked in sweat. The ground was not decaying and rotting. She laid on a custom bed made for two. She was relieved by seeing the face of her husband, who looked at her anxiously.
“I’m alive…”
“Of course you are. Now, you can’t die even if you wanted to.”
“Really?” Riera asked, narrowing her eyes at her husband’s honest, virtuous answer.
He nodded confidently and spoke one.
“Of course. I simulate the number of cases where you are in danger by linking Mystic and Declaring Skill. Out of all the 356 mysteries, 9,185 possibilities, and 5,573 success, you survive all of them.”
“Hey, I don’t know what that means, but it’s reassuring.”
She stretched out her arms and held the face of her husband tightly and stroked mindlessly.
Yoo Il-han still sensed the slight trembling of her hand. He reached out his hand, rubbed her back, and asked quietly, “What happened, Riera?” You never had a nightmare before.”
“Yeah, I wonder why.”
What a nightmare!
After throwing away her emotions and being reborn as a higher-ranking being, she had no memory of experiencing a single dream, let alone a nightmare.
However, dreams came from inadequate sleep. But after the grandest marriage ceremony in the world, and after being the happiest woman in the world, she started to dream of memories of her days when she was human—an absurdly distant past.
“Maybe it’s because everything was so perfect.”
“Everything?”
“Yeah…” Riera whispered, burying her face in Yoo Il-han’s arms.
“Because my dreams came true, and I became happy. I don’t want to achieve anything anymore, so I might be able to look back at the footsteps I have walked as I climb to the top of the mountain.”
“Are you sure you are my Riera?” Yoo Il-han asked playfully.
“Can’t I even say anything serious?” Riera replied mischievously, seemed to think for a moment, and then asked him, “Yoo Il-han, aren’t you curious about my past?”
“What is this? Are you testing me on our first day of marriage?”
“Seriously.”
Facing his wife’s honest eyes, Yoo Il-han replied honestly with a humorous expression.
“To be honest, Riera, if I want, I can figure it out right now. About the land you have encountered, and all about the beings you have encountered.”
“But, you didn’t read all of me.”
“That is why I’m more careful. I can’t read it on my own. It’s a rude thing to do to you.”
She didn’t think it was rude. Riera, who could only feel the fact that Yoo Il-han was considerate about her situation, felt a little warmer in her heart.
“Is that so?”
“Yeah, I’m trying to live by killing my curiosity as much as possible. Sometimes it is better to wait for another person to tell me than finding everything out by
myself.”
“It’s awesome. Really.”
He suppressed his curiosity because he might realize everything the moment he was too curious. It was the patience that Yoo Il-han was willing to give only to those he loved.
Riera wondered how hard it was. Once again, she touched his face—the face of the one she loved.
“Ahh, I like it so much. I love you.”
“I know it already without having to figure it out, Goddess of Love.”
“Hmm, of course.”
The two shared a deep kiss. When their lips were no longer linked to each other, Riera said, “Still, I want to tell you this – I want to tell you everything about
me.”
“You’re sure I can know about it?”
“Yeah, but before that…”
Riera got up from her seat and put on her clothes.
The golden sunlight was pouring in through the large window, gently wrapping around her naked body, and it was truly dreamy. Yoo Il-han was enchanted as he stared at it.
In a moment, a fully dressed Riera raised her husband, who blankly stared at her, and dressed him as well. It looked like she’s determined about something and said, “Let’s go on a trip—a honeymoon.”
“Oh, it’s something people do after getting married, right?”
He realized he said it as if it was other people’s business. They were now married for one day.
Yesterday, during the wedding ceremony, Riera was struck and had difficulty moving to the bedroom in heaven. It was natural to forget things after the wedding.
“Honeymoon, yeah. Where should we go? Guam? Hawaii?”
“What the hell are you talking about? After all, you are the one who put the whole world together.”
Indeed. Yoo Il-han was wondering which place to go to with many attractions. Riera smiled and said, “Let’s choose one of the worlds combined with the Earth. Let’s go on tour.”
Yoo Il-han was flustered. He finally realized why she came up with the word honeymoon.
“You… that story.”
“It was ‘Layas.’ If you know the name, you can find it, right?”
Yoo Il-han said no more and nodded. Riera reached out to him with a dazzling smile.
The new groom grabbed the new bride’s hand and they left the room.
“Ah, Mr. Il-han!”
As soon as they came out, Na Yoo-na, who was on standby at that place, raised her arms and tried to hug him. Then Yoo Il-han evaded her with a quick maneuver. Riera glared at her with a terrifying face.
“Don’t you have any manners? Do you want to interrupt us newlyweds?”
“Hey, if there is such a thing, I couldn’t stick to the one in charge, right?”
“Yeah, well said. I’ll teach your body directly the cost of endless greed and brutality.”
“Kyaaaa!”
Realizing that Riera decided to go against Na Yoo-na, Yoo Il-han gently knocked on her forehead.
“Come back later. Now I have to take care of Riera. If you disturb us newlyweds, you will be punished.”
“Hikhik, I don’t want to be hated by you. I’m here because I still had something to say.”
“What is it?”
“I’m the second!”
Yoo Il-han immediately figured out the meaning of the word ‘second.
No, did she beat up all the candidates? Is she a healer?
“What on Earth?!”
“Helliena fascinated everyone, but I managed to resist and made a counterattack.”
“Oh, you are smart.”
“Hmm, Mr. Ih-han knows me so well. I love you!”
“I’ve said you are now forbidden to talk to me like that!”
Helliena, who turned down Kang Mi-rae, the god of magic with fascination, was indeed strong, but Na Yoo-na, who resisted her ability, was also something.
“And Ertha?”
“She got beaten together with Mi-rae. Fufufu… It was the wrong choice.”
“However, both of them are higher-ranking wizards.”
Somehow it seemed there could be a wedding in the future. Poor Ertha. Next time she should be treated better.
Yoo Il-han stayed still in deep thought.
“So, I will be a nice girl and wait here. Goodbye.”
“Sure.”
She seemed quite happy to be able to raise the ceremony for the second time with Yoo Il-han. She laughed a little, recognizing that she was loved.
If it weren’t the first day of his Honeymoon with Riera, she would have hugged him. It wasn’t like Yoo Il-han didn’t know it.
“So, let’s go, Riera.”
“Yes.”
The two came out of the sky and looked down on the vast continents. The Earth, which had all the worlds gathered and merged into one, had already exceeded several dimensions. It was somewhat forceful at first, but now everything that made up the Earth was looking for harmony.
It was a wonderful sight. All became one without any world being left alone. It’s a place where he knew the probability of a tragedy that he was unaware of would now converge to zero.
‘However, I couldn’t know the tragedy that happened before I became a god, right?’
Yoo Il-han looked at his companion, who was looking down at the world with him.
Riera leaned against one of his arms with her beautiful eyes filled with subtle emotions he couldn’t understand.
“I’ll read the record. When you were a lower-ranked being, I’d only read the name and place of the world where you were born.”
“Yeah.”
Yoo Il-han closed his eyes and activated his ability. He could actually achieve what he wanted without making such a gesture, but he wanted to leave this human part for communication with others.
When he was completely alone, he would laugh at it, but each of these small actions was very important to him now.
“I found it. Shall we go right away?”
“Oh, no – slowly.”
This time, Riera felt a bit scared.
“Even if you feel restless, let’s enjoy the landscape a bit.”
“Now it feels like a honeymoon.”
“Yeah.”
Holding hands, they flew slowly through the sky.
Of course, even if it was ‘slowly,’ it was their spirits that moved, so it was clear that they flew at a speed that could not be imagined. But they were surely moving slowly by gradually moving their wings.
[Master, should I do the navigation for you?]
[No need to. You can go away or spy on Orochi.]
[But I don’t want to spy on Orochi! I can’t do it.]
Since he got a body, Mystic had been linked to every higher-ranked being most of the time. It was excellent for computing power. That way, Il-han could look at every higher-ranked being.
Of course, Yoo Il-han had secured the bedroom yesterday. He wouldn’t want anyone spying on their first night.
“Huh? What’s up?”
“Nothing. There was a fly that was trying to interfere with the trip, so I kicked it out.”
He had kicked out Mystic, who wanted to help the Master to have a comfortable journey. He looked at the landscape below. Countless worlds passed by in the blink of an eye.
The world that just suffered the first cataclysm, the world that had set foot in the upper world, and the world that was once the origin of specific forces were all mixed.
It would be a big deal to adapt to the changing environment now, but someday, it wouldn’t.
Yoo Il-han thought that the day would come for them to gather together and change.
“It must be a very distant future.”
“Will you stay with me until then?”
“Yeah,” Riera answered without hesitation and put a mischievous look as if she knew Yoo Il-han was concerned about her.
“Whenever you want.”
“Pfft.”
“Pft-muahahaha. That was cool.”
“Silly you…”
She said something cheesy, and he fell over and over again! Yoo Il-han thought of avenging her, but now he remembered that her condition was not as good as it was.
I’ll do it after her condition gets better.’
They passed another world. Some worlds consisted only of forests, others were only stones, and others were only water. There’s a world without land, a world without sky, and a world without light. There’s also a world created in the stomach of a giant.
Everyone was struggling to embrace a new order, mingling with different worlds.
“There will be a lot of people suffering from the changing environment, but you have no intention of turning it back?”
“No. This is the order I set.”
He couldn’t look into the distant future, but apparently, this is the ‘right way.’
Again, the world had been divided countless times, divided into many camps, and it couldn’t be left to develop meaninglessly.
He would work hard for everyone to live together-all of the dragon’s nest, all the individuals inhabiting Earth: All of them.
“It’s funny that a lonely person who didn’t want to be mixed into groups like that would make a world without a single person being alone.”
“That’s what being an adult is like. I can’t say it’s good, but I don’t think it’s bad.”
“I’m so happy that you can say that.”
“Yeah, you can be happy about that. You made me like this.”
Yoo Il-han, who had replied with a small smile to Riera’s sentimental words, suddenly stopped flapping his wings.
The area under their eyes is isolated from the surrounding. It meant that a space that was originally a world has emerged.
“We’ve arrived, Riera.”
It was all black, overflowing with evil spirits.
For a long time, the area was being purified by forming a shield with God’s power to prevent it from invading other districts. The only clear thing in Il-han’s memory was protecting some of these worlds with Mystic.
‘Is that so?’
But to say that this place was once Riera’s hometown…
“Riera?”
“That’s right.”
Riera nodded quietly.
“This is Layas.”