Chapter 400
[ Episode 400. Stasis of the system]
The entire underground city shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and people’s screams resonated.
Koo Goo Goo!
Enemy!
-Geuhuh!
At the same time, a loud noise pounded in my ears. I blankly looked down at my arms and then examined my body. I felt like my head was broken.
“iced coffee.”
I raised my voice and watched the battle unfold before my eyes. Oh can I move?
I tried to move my body. However, the aftereffects were severe, and it was an awkward body movement like a newborn child.
“Ahhh.”
I’m back… have you come?
Is this reality or fantasy?
No, there was something to check before that.
“Original sin.”
An awkward voice called something.
“Nebro.”
As soon as I corrected it and called again, something inside me raised its head slightly.
[“Did you see everything?”]
“Yes.”
The appearance of Samael and everything that happens after that.
It was so terrible that it was a memory that I don’t want to think again. But for me, it was also something that happened just a little while ago.
[“Is Ilias still repeating the regression?”]
I couldn’t answer Nebro’s question.
Perhaps seeing me here like this, she will…
[“Hehe, I know. I can’t die even now, so I must be reviving.”]
“…….”
Fuck.
I had nothing to say.
After Samael appeared, Ilias died. I couldn’t do anything but watch.
Laplace’s contract with the devil came after that. However, perhaps because the timeline was twisted, the contract had already been signed.
[“In the end, everyone was unhappy. After all, you also made a contract with Laplace’s Devil. I can imagine how dog-like that is.”]
“Nebro.”
[“……I resent you, but I don’t blame you for that. Because I know that your acceptance of the contract stemmed from feelings of regret and remorse.
”
[“A contract with Laplace’s devil is not an ordinary one. Do you know what a reckless contract you made?”]
“Yes. I know everything now.”
The true identity of the system was Laplace’s demon.
Thanks to the system, I was able to survive in this world, but paradoxically, if it weren’t for the system, I wouldn’t have come to this world.
Laplace’s devil was a transcendent, but unlike a general transcendent, he was a conceptual transcendent. Therefore, the term ‘transcendental concept’ may be more appropriate than the word transcendentalist.
‘It’s so complicated that I don’t know where to start solving it.’
Through this past experience, I also vaguely guessed my true identity.
Before I was Jinhwan Kim, I was a transcendentalist. No, to be honest, it was meaningless, like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg.
Kim Jin-hwan could have been first, or I, who was a transcendentalist, could have been first, or perhaps now, Adrias, could have been the first.
‘The content of the contract with Laplace’s devil is to lose all memories and repeat reincarnation. The goal is to collect sins.’
It was a slightly different form from Ilias’ return.
And I’ve been through life so many times that I don’t even know how many times I’ve been reincarnated. Since I lost my memory, I must have lived my life without even knowing that I had a goal.
It was this life that made the singularity.
Living as Adrias without losing Kim Jin-hwan’s memory. It’s probably because of original sin or the power of Nebro.
Nebro, who lost Ilias… is a monster who finally destroyed Shaiya and destroyed the law of cause and effect.
[“I helped you like you before. After all, this goal, the collection of sins, is also reaching its end.”]
“Yes.”
[“curious. What will life be like after achieving the goal?]
Nebro laughed bitterly.
It was the lonely self-mocking of those who had nothing left.
[“Because you protected everyone, unlike me. Will we be able to live happily?”]
“Nebro.”
But there was one thing that even Nebro didn’t know. It is the reward of achieving the goal.
Unlike Ilias, with the restriction of losing my memory, I decided to get an additional reward from the contract I made with Laplace’s demon.
‘I can’t say it, but…’
Because it was a contract violation, I couldn’t tell Nebro about the details, but I had to achieve my goal even more because of that.
Everything Nebro did had to be proven to be in no way useless.
Kwakwagwagwang!
“You were fighting gluttony.”
The many figures in the distance felt like lies. Especially in the case of Luna, it was confusing because it overlapped with Ilias.
[“It’s not an illusion or a lie.”]
“Nebro.”
[“It’s real.”]
Nebro said strongly to me.
[“Calm down, Adrias.”]
That’s right, I was Adrias.
In a situation where the underground city was shaking as if it were collapsing, I quietly regained my composure. Concern and confusion were not the emotions I needed right now.
“First, from binge eating.”
A magic circle was created around me.
Beyond triple casting, which was never dreamed of before, to quadruple casting.
‘It wasn’t a dream.’
The experience I had with Nebro made me stronger in itself. After a little more time, it seemed like I could go beyond the quadruple and cast a penta or more.
Koo Goo Goo!
Did Nebro always feel like this?
When I used magic in this way, I felt dizzy due to the rapid consumption of mana.
“What is this!”
The unknown godfather looked surprised. It’s been a while, but you’re still correcting it.
The whole city started shaking. The four magic circles created by quadruple casting are organically connected to each other and transformed into one huge magic.
the devil’s window.
Fuck! bang!
A huge dark light pierced the gluttony. The light was not one, but was inserted like a spear from all sides.
Bubbubuck!
Soon, the plugged black light split in all directions and tore the body of gluttony into shreds.
“Eat Lu too.”
I couldn’t hear my voice, but Ludo, who grasped my intentions, began to devour the gluttony with flesh ripped in all directions.
Gluttony has excellent regenerative abilities. However, the weakness of that regenerative power was, ironically, the same act as his name.
Gluttony could not regenerate the parts eaten by someone.
-Geuhuh!
-That’s it!
Soon, the other undead also scattered in all directions and began to eat the flesh of gluttony. In the middle of a scene that seemed like something out of a horror movie, Luna came running.
“friend!”
Seeing her gave me a headache. I felt Nebro hurriedly turn off his consciousness, and soon Luna came to me.
“amazing!”
“Luna.”
A long time.
Is this really true?
“friend?”
Luna tilted her head and reached out to me. Tears filled her face as she touched her face.
“why are you crying?”
“Can I hug Luna just once?”
“then!”
Luna smiled broadly and instead hugged me. When I felt Luna’s warm body temperature, I was finally able to feel it a little bit.
“It’s selfish, but……”
“Huh?”
“I will definitely protect you as much as you do.”
It would be a lie if I didn’t feel guilty. If I were to ask if it was actually my fault, I could answer no.
But guilt and kneeling were two different things. I will rise again and do my best for who I am now.
“This is my promise.”
“What are you talking about, friend! Did you lose your head?”
I stroked Luna’s head for a moment as she asked brightly. Yes, it’s definitely back.
“You have plenty of room.”
Before I knew it, Maximin was standing next to me. He looked at me and Luna with pitiful eyes, then gave a half-collapsed gluttony wink.
“Did you do it?”
“yes.”
Maximin silently watched the dying gluttony. He probably wanted to ask me, who had suddenly become stronger, but he didn’t bother to ask.
“The monster is dying!”
“I live! I live!”
“Support the city! Stop it from collapsing!”
My magic also played a big role, but in the end, it was my party and the undead that ended the gluttony.
Compared to normal wizards, mana is said to be large, but unlike Nebro, it was finite, so my mana showed the bottom just by commanding the spear of the evil spirit and the undead.
– Ha ha ha! die! die!
Excitedly, he took Harungel wielding the staff of lust and cleaned up the remaining remnants.
“…I really don’t know.”
What was your name? The head of the scene, whose name has now faded, came walking with the bodily fluids of gluttony all over his body.
“Are you human?”
“I wonder if there are other things to do than wonder about that now.”
“Anything like this is nothing to you. I envy that composure.”
Threndal said that and still kept her seat. It seems there is a separate business.
“This is news from the emperor.”
“So fast?”
Have I lost my concept of time? I couldn’t remember well because I had been to the past through Nebro.
“We didn’t expect to find it so quickly. no To be precise, the Emperor found out what happened here and is approaching.”
“That’s it.”
You felt the energy of gluttony. Even if he went to find Nebro’s body, he wouldn’t have given up on his sin altogether.
‘Come to think of it, Nebro’s body is……’
Nebro made Shaiya a desert and even broke the causal law, ending the age of the gods. However, he was not fine, but a transcendent who appeared late sealed Nebro.
‘Christ.’
It was a transcendental person I never imagined I would meet. Shakyamuni felt more like an ordinary old man than I thought, but Christ couldn’t understand what was inside.
He also mediated the contract between Laplace’s devil and me. I don’t know what the intention or reason was.
Jjoreureu –
While I was lost in thought for a while, I was suddenly surrounded by beasts. I wondered if he was going to attack, but I didn’t feel any threat, so I just watched.
“Thank you.”
At that time, one of the beasts with the appearance of a small squirrel suddenly lowered his head. Soon after, everyone around them began to express their gratitude.
“I’m human, but I’m grateful.”
“Thank you!”
I was just acting for my own ends, and it seemed that I was misunderstood. They’re famous for their dislike of humans, but that’s a big deal.
“Did you order Threndal?”
“okay.”
It was strange. Threndal, who calmly acknowledged it, felt rather strange.
“It’s true though. If it wasn’t for you, we’d probably all be dead.”
“Isn’t it because of us in the first place that the hardliners did the work?”
“Are you saying that you are the cause? Too much humility.”
Threndal soon turned around and gestured to some of the beastmen. Then he looked at the state of the city and said.
“As you can see, the fight with the emperor has become impossible to help. What’s more important to me is these guys than the purpose of the organization called Sin.”
“It’s the head of the scene, and it’s a sound idea.”
“Does it feel like a contradiction? haha. As you can see, even within a group, each person has a different opinion, so especially our kids have a lot of people who have been victimized by humans, so their inclinations are a bit biased.”
After that, Threndal left for post-war processing. I also roughly checked that the emperor was coming…
“Luna?”
“huh?”
Luna, who grabbed the squirrel’s cheek and played with it, turned her head.
“What about the five senses?”
“They say they’re ready!”
He said he was going to prepare for the ancestral rite, but he forgot that too. Luna’s appearance was so natural.
“I’m sorry for Luna and Guan, but it’s no longer necessary.”
“huh! okay!”
I found out what Galaksur was.
For thousands of years, she has been searching for all the gods, and the five senses, which contain their energy,
are presumed to have been shamans long before Ilias. She probably became the Great King of Hell without ever seeing Galaksur completed.
‘Galacsur is dangerous.’
It didn’t even seem necessary.
If it’s my strength right now, I don’t care about the emperor.
……If it’s a variable, it’s about Nebro’s body.
“Wow! I want to explode too!”
I hurriedly followed as I saw Luna, who lost interest in the squirrel beast and went to kill the gluttonous offspring.
It seemed that I couldn’t leave Luna alone for a while.
[Episode 400. System Identity] End