Chapter 239: Two Cats Fighting

Byeol moved closer to Joo Joowon and pressed himself against his skin, like the most dutiful guard, remaining alert to the dangers around them.

Just then, Hwi suddenly slapped Byeol across the face.

Byeol: ???

He flew into a rage.

What the hell? Are you rebelling against me?!

Although Hwi now felt unfamiliar to Byeol, in his understanding, the other cat was still that lackey who had always followed his every command. Yet now, he actually dared to attack him!

Without even thinking, Byeol pounced forward, completely ignoring the condition of his own body. The dignity of the boss could not be challenged!

Hwi was unwilling to back down either and let out a threatening growl.

"Mine! Don’t touch!"

The two cats immediately became entangled in a fierce fight. Their flying fur filled the empty room, making it look as though a dandelion rain had fallen from the sky.

"Cough, cough..."

The flying cat fur and dust were sucked into her mouth. Unable to endure it, Joo Joowon coughed violently and subconsciously sat up from the floor, his head splitting with pain.

The two cats immediately rushed into his arms, both revealing murderous intent toward each other as they waved their front paws and attacked one another.

Joo Joowon, who had been pressed back onto the floor, had his entire face covered in cat fur. With little strength left in his arms, he wiped his face, which was covered with a mixture of dust, cat fur, and sweat, then struggled to open his heavy eyelids.

"Quiet!" The air froze for a moment. In the next second, two nearly simultaneous high-pitched cat voices rang beside Joo Joowon’s ears.

My head hurts...

Joo Joowon dizzily pressed his fingers against his brow. His temples throbbed violently, making it difficult for him to think. He simply sat up again on instinct, groping around as he dragged his heavy body toward the bed. Then, almost instinctively, he spoke. "Stop making trouble. Let me sleep for a while..."

He lay down on the bed without paying any attention to the two cats and soon fell into a deep sleep once again.

Byeol and Hwi looked at each other. After all, both of them were mutated beasts that had already leveled up, so it was not as though they could not understand human speech at all. They each took up a position and stared intently at their surroundings, standing guard like two door guardians. Only their tails continued to swing back and forth in dissatisfaction.

Help! It hurts so much!

The two cats pretended to be innocent as they licked their fur, while the same thought emerged in both of their minds.

Joo Joowon slept for a very long time this time. When he woke up, his mind still carried a hazy feeling, as though he did not know what year it was anymore.

Everything before his eyes was pitch black, making him almost think that he had not opened his eyes yet. After a while, his consciousness gradually returned, and he finally realized what was happening.

How long had he been asleep?

Without the stable schedule he had maintained when he used to work, Joo Joowon had more or less lost his sense of time after the apocalypse. He opened the Lord’s Mission panel and checked the time limit of the mission, only to discover that he had actually slept for nearly two days. There were already less than twenty-four hours left before the special event [Revival of the Darkness] ended.

No, it was more than just twenty-four hours.

Joo Joowon’s thoughts gradually became clearer.

He had almost forgotten that Revival of the Darkness occurred at six in the evening. In other words, even after the Revival of the Darkness event ended, the world’s normal sky would still be in the middle of the night. If someone forgot this point, they would probably be caught off guard and suffer terribly.

And as for his current condition...

His temples were still swollen and painfully uncomfortable, but Joo Joowon was truly somewhat confused. He had no idea what his Mental Power had actually done when it found Hwi’s soul.

He still remembered the situation at the beginning. Because he had never stopped supplying Mental Power, the "signal" had been good at that time, allowing him to receive messages very quickly.

However, as his Mental Power went deeper, the signal gradually became very poor. The connection between his Mental Power and his main body was slowly cut off. Although this did not affect the movement of his Mental Power, it also prevented him from immediately receiving proper feedback through his Mental Power and making an appropriate response.

From outside, he could only gradually sense the traces of his Mental Power being reduced and dissipating. If some Mental Power had remained in the end and returned to Joo Joowon’s body, he would still have been able to know exactly what had happened. However, it had been completely exhausted within Hwi’s soul.

Because of this, Joo Joowon now had absolutely no idea what had happened. He only had a vague feeling of what his "own" Mental Power had done, but he could not be certain about it.

He knew that his Mental Power had burned its boats and chosen a very risky and somewhat crazy method to awaken Hwi.

The feeling of not even knowing what he himself had done was truly unpleasant. Mental Power did not exist independently. It was not a clone, nor was it some kind of conscious entity. It was an extension of consciousness.

His memories, emotions, and will were all carried by his Mental Power. When the connection with his main body was cut off, but his Mental Power had not yet been completely exhausted, the consciousness carried within his Mental Power would still act according to Joo Joowon’s usual behavioral patterns. It was like a repeated movement that would continue until his Mental Power was completely exhausted, only then would it stop.

However, something must have gone wrong in the middle.

No, something had definitely gone wrong.