CHAPTER 292: GUMIHO'S RISE

As soon as the Extinction treatment ritual ended, Ethan received a new quest.

The reward for the fifth survival quest he had just completed was the strengthening of his physical abilities through awakening.

Thanks to this, Ethan had greatly increased his Perfect Evasion probability, further boosting his safety.

‘The sixth quest.’

-You have strengthened your body by increasing your survival probability.

-Your survival probability has increased through potential.

-You have reached the limit of survival probability.

‘Reached the limit?’

-Break through the survival probability that has reached its limit.

-Your current survival probability [25.5%]

-[4.5%] remaining until breakthrough.

-Survival probability that has reached its limit will decrease over time.

-Extinction has been slightly weakened. The time it takes for survival probability to decrease has increased.

25.5 percent was quite a high survival probability.

But in terms of percentages, it literally meant half of half.

‘So this survival probability was the limit of Extinction that I could endure.’

Ethan let out a sigh.

‘The limit of survival.’

According to the explanation in the notification window, it seemed that his survival probability would not increase further unless a dramatic change occurred in his body.

In addition, the survival probability would even decrease over time.

‘Still, I guess I’ve bought some more time thanks to the Rosicrucian Order’s ritual.’

Ethan grinned.

‘Was I being too presumptuous thinking too far into the future?’

He had been planning for the future as if he had already escaped from Extinction.

‘I should focus on solving this disease right in front of me first. I can think about the future later.’

“Thank you all for your hard work. My condition seems to have improved greatly thanks to you.”

“We apologize. Our skills were insufficient to cure you completely.”

“I heard that the original magic book containing this ritual is in the Dawn Council’s headquarters.”

“…That’s essentially non-existent. I’m sorry to say, but that original magic book is in the deepest part of the headquarters. The guardian there is the 1st Apostle. The 1st Apostle of the Dawn Council.” ŕ𝐀Ꞑɵ𐌱Εꞩ

“So it’s not impossible.”

“…I meant to say it is impossible.”

“It’s not lost, it’s still there intact.”

“Are you perhaps unable to hear my voice because I’ve used up all my energy… Lord Ethan?”

“Please investigate the movements of the Dawn Council. If possible, we need to obtain that original.”

Ethan closed his eyes and opened them again. Then, intense yin energy began to spread around Ethan.

Since learning Bihyeongrang’s Ghost Power, Ethan could control this yin energy at will.

Because the source of this yin energy was Extinction, to the Rosicrucian Order’s believers, the yin energy Ethan emitted was truly evidence of a god.

“Aah…”

As Ethan emitted yin energy to the fullest, the vice chairman could only look at Ethan with seemingly entranced eyes.

They, too, were beings who received power from strong yin energy like Ethan.

“Oh god…”

“Oh god!”

“We will obey your command.”

“We will obey your command! Please give us your orders!”

All the believers prostrated themselves before Ethan.

The vice chairman and the Rose Apostles who had risen late also prostrated themselves before Ethan.

Ethan scattered the yin energy.

“The Dawn Council will try to kill me. To destroy everything you have achieved so far. So we must stop them. Find out their movements, their trends, everything. We must reclaim everything they have taken away.”

Ethan said.

“But I must not be in this process. I was never here and never spoke with you. The ritual to summon the god must have completely failed.”

Everyone nodded at Ethan’s words.

Ethan is the only proof of success for the Rosicrucian Order.

It was natural for the Dawn Council to try to eliminate that evidence. Such a thing had to be prevented at all costs. No, even exposure to them had to be prevented.

Dawn Council and Rosicrucian Order.

Because Ethan knew both groups very well, he could naturally control the Rosicrucian Order.

“I’m counting on you, Vice Chairman. No, you’re the Chairman now. Inheriting Sir Noticad’s will… let’s carry out Lord Sundrake’s will together!”

When Ethan smiled and extended his hand, the vice chairman nodded with a solemn expression.

“Yes, I will certainly do so! Well… I will at least try. I’ll go to the Dawn Council’s headquarters and try to get the original magic book of the ritual…”

“I’m counting on you.”

***

-It seems the rankings in the New World have been changing frequently lately.

-I heard the rankings of the top-tier gods had been stable for a long time.

-Could this be the time when the top-tier rankings finally change?

New World.

Starting with Cheok Jun-gyeong’s rise, the rankings in the middle and lower tiers also began to change.

It wasn’t just the gods aided by [Only subscribed to the right gods] who were rising.

-It seems quite a few gods have jumped to the upper ranks through subscription reviews or shorts videos spread by [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscribers.

-Isn’t this good for us? Thanks to this, we’ve been able to save a lot of likes. Since we can now preview the videos.

-If I ever meet the [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber, I’d like to express my gratitude.

Amidst these changes, even among the top-tier gods who had been following their own independent paths, changes began to occur.

-Wow, even Immortal Lü Dongbin is starting to use shorts?

-The number of likes and views is skyrocketing as soon as he started using them!

Starting with Ethan’s shorts, New World subscribers who had developed a taste for shorts were now at the point where they wouldn’t watch long videos without shorts.

Of course, there were still those who immediately watched long videos, but quite a number had started enjoying shorts.

Short and intense.

The era of short-form content had begun in the New World.

-Huh, what on earth are these shorts? This short length seems like trying to catch a shark with a fishhook. Well. But this change isn’t bad. It’s just hard to adapt.

Putting everything into a short video.

It might seem easy, but it wasn’t an easy task.

-Huh? Gumiho?

-Subscribers, a new god has appeared. It’s a name I’ve never heard before.

-The view count is no joke. The likes are also incredible.

-Most of the videos are shorts?

Meanwhile, another god began to rise in the real-time trending rankings.

-All the videos are shorts?

-There are some videos that aren’t shorts, but they’re extremely short?

Until now, all videos in the New World were long. A minimum of 1 hour was standard, and there were many videos that went beyond that.

That’s why you could purchase the skip function by paying a price.

This happened because there were gods with such diverse personalities gathered together.

Gods especially wanted to show their power clearly, so they took a strange pride in excessively long video lengths.

In fact, until Ethan became active in the New World, the trend was for endlessly long videos.

There was a perception that if the video length was long, the ability was great.

-10 minutes? The long ones are 20 minutes?

-They’re extremely short? Can we learn anything from this?

Subscribers who couldn’t easily believe it. But Gumiho’s videos were already proving their excellence with views and likes.

Moreover, the newly uploaded video was already on the real-time trending rankings.

-How to exorcise and dominate spiritual beings (with Lord Bihyeong) [Trending Video #5]

A whopping 5th place.

Considering that the 1st to 4th places were all occupied by top-tier gods, it was surprising for Gumiho, who could be considered a small to medium-sized channel, to secure 5th place.

-Wow, this god called Gumiho has grown mainly through shorts so far?

-Then is this Gumiho god the originator of shorts?

-Did [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber imitate this?

While suspicions about Ethan were rising using Gumiho’s shorts as an excuse.

An analysis post about the Gumiho channel was uploaded to the community.

-[Channel analysis of Gumiho, the god who reached 5th place in trending videos]

The content of the post was generally similar to analyses of other gods.

Whether to subscribe or not.

What you can gain if you subscribe.

But the important part was separate.

-I’ve checked and resolved the shorts issue that many subscribers are suspicious about. I asked Lady Gumiho directly through a collaboration.

This post contained what everyone was curious about.

-Lady Gumiho said he worked with [Only subscribed to the right gods]. Both the shorts videos and the 10 to 20-minute videos were helped by the [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber. It seems to be an official collaboration.

Comments began to explode on the content that Gumiho and [Only subscribed to the right gods] worked together.

-Wow, so that person [Only subscribed to the right gods] made another channel blow up?

-Incredible. So Lady Gumiho was originally doing shorts and blew up this time through collaboration.

-I’m glad I maintained a neutral stance. There’s no way that person would do that.

-But it’s really amazing. Everything just blows up when they touch it.

-I immediately subscribed to Lady Gumiho.

Meanwhile, Gumiho, who had been diligently making shorts videos and short videos, began to panic at the sudden explosive response.

“W-what’s going on?”

The number of subscribers was continuously rising in real-time.

The likes were piling up to a scary degree, far exceeding Gumiho’s expectations.

“Miho.”

“Mr. Do, you’re here! Look at this now. I can’t handle it!”

“What did I tell you, Miho? I said a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had come.”

“No, it came too much! It’s scary.”

The dokkaebi approached Miho.

The dokkaebi also knew that collaboration with the [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber was a great thing, but he didn’t expect it to cause such a big repercussion.

“Let me take a look.”

The dokkaebi’s eyes widened and his mouth opened as he checked Miho’s subscriber count and like count.

“Right? It came too much, right?”

“N-not a genius, but a ten thousand geniuses, no, even more than that. Look at the subscriber count and like count rising in real-time, Miho!”

“Mr. Do, at this rate, we might jump to the middle tier? We might even reach the upper tier if things go well!”

“To think it would be this much. Really, to think it would be this much.”

Saying that, the dokkaebi grinned. He looked exactly like a true fan who had confirmed how much influence his star had.

“We shouldn’t end it here, Miho. The trump card, is it still left? We were going to invite one more person besides Bihyeongrang, right?”

“That’s really difficult. It’s absolutely impossible, that.”

“Isn’t it a god’s job to make the impossible possible?”

“But the other side is also a god!”

The dokkaebi was silent for a moment. It seemed he could no longer hear Gumiho’s words.

“A collaboration with the new god. We’ll give that to [Only subscribed to the right gods] and aim for another explosion!”

At the dokkaebi’s words, Gumiho sighed, pondered for a while, and then nodded.

“Oh well, whatever. I’ll try! I’ll definitely bring that person!”

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