Chapter 121 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
All she could do was stare blankly at Lore, who had tried to stop the two by forcing her writhing body between herself and her princess.
… Yes, even in that situation where her own holy sword, which was originally meant to cut down the crown princess, cut Lore’s body in half, she had no choice but to watch as her holy sword cut him to pieces.
The timing of Lore’s intervention was too perfect to retrieve the sword. Lore intervened at the moment when he was cutting down with his sword with all his might.
Therefore, the Holy Sword, which was using inertia as its full force, could not be retrieved with the martial arts skills of the warrior at the time.
It was different from the power of the Crown Princess, who was free to act according to her own will.
The hero’s sword, which clearly did not completely escape the laws of physics, was swung according to the law of inertia, ignoring the hero’s will.
And the sword wielded in that way cut down the handsome boy, who was said to be beautiful, and ended up drowning in a sea of blood.
SGENG! Sigh!
“To… ?”
“… Aaaaa!!!!!!! Roar!!!!!!!!!!”
… The hero could only watch the scene blankly with a dumbfounded expression and utter an equally dumbfounded voice.
And later, at the sight of Lore being cut by the holy sword wielded by the hero and blood spattering, the crown princess lets out a scream that is close to a scream for the first time in her life.
“Uh… ? Uh… ?”
In such a situation, the warrior could only be embarrassed. Because his brain refused to recognize the image of Lore falling to the floor with his upper body cut in half by his own holy sword.
She refused to acknowledge the feeling of the flesh cutting through her fingertips as she cut down Lore.
To protect her sanity, she refused to immediately acknowledge the large-scale disaster she had committed.
Her mental defense mechanism was refusing to acknowledge and accept the fact that I had cut her with my own hands.
… She was very clear and understood what would happen to her if she recognized it.
Therefore, even as Lore collapsed on the floor soaked with her blood, the light in her eyes extinguishing in vain, the warrior could only stand there blankly.
A fountain of blood was splattered by the holy sword he was swinging, and he could only watch in bewilderment as Roar fell down, his body drenched in the splattered blood and his organs scattered on the bright red floor.
“Lore… ! Lore… !”
And the Crown Princess moved in place of the hero who was just standing there blankly.
The Crown Princess, who had miraculously avoided harming him with her own hands, began to struggle to somehow save her beloved.
Using all of her power, she tried to stop Lore’s bleeding and squeeze out the spilling internal organs.
Yet, perhaps because he instinctively and defenselessly understood that there was no hope for him, who had his upper body cut in two by the holy sword, he cried and shouted at the hero with an expression of loss in the world.
“You… ! What… , What have you done?! I’m talking about cutting someone with that holy sword… !!!”
“Oh, no… , I, I…”
Only then did the warrior begin to gradually recognize the reality of what he had done in response to the princess’s cry.
The first thing she unconsciously did was try to deny what she had done. … But evidence too clear to deny appeared on her retina.
… Lore is dying. The one I love who was put into a state from which she could never escape from the swamp of death by her own holy sword.
“Uh… ? Uh… ? Ah… , Ahhhhh… … !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
And the moment the warrior, who refused to acknowledge the fact for the sake of his own sanity, belatedly recognizes what he had done… , Her spirit began to break down.
“Aaaaahhh… !! I-I… ! To do this… ! This is what I was trying to do… ! AA AA AA… !!!!!”
She even let go of the holy sword she was holding and began to hold her head and let out her screams along with her tears.
The Crown Princess screamed as if the warrior was screaming in her mind, which was collapsing, not knowing what to do with the unacceptable reality.
“What… ! What did you do well… ! As you cut… ! If Lore dies like this, you killed him!!!!!”
“Oh, no… ! What I was trying to do was… !”
In response to the Crown Princess’s cries, the hero simply shakes her head, denying the Crown Princess’ words as if screaming with an expression full of despair.
But the Crown Princess had no intention of letting go of the culprit who killed her beloved.
“Save me… !! Please save me somehow… !”
“Huh… !”
Hearing the voice of the Crown Princess screaming with her hatred, the hero belatedly tried to move with the thought that he had to save Lore, but he stopped moving.
… Unlike the Crown Princess’s power, which can be used for treatment, Genos had no ability to heal people.
All that exists is a holy sword that can cut through enemies.
Even that holy sword cannot heal the dying, which means there is nothing Genos can do for Lore, who is rapidly dying.
“Ahhhhh… ! Aaaaa!!!!!!!”
Genos realizes this and once again screams in despair.
And she, realizing once again that she can’t expect anything from such a warrior, calls the knights attached to guard her and trains the priests with potions and healing abilities in order to somehow summon Lore.
… However, in such a situation, Lore, whose upper body was split, was not healed.
The saint himself, who had the potential to heal such a fatal wound, was in such a situation, so who could heal him?
… It is said that the saint who was chosen by God to save mankind and the Orbital Continent, which was in danger along with the hero, ironically lost his life to the hero’s holy sword.
… It is said that this was the reason why Genos became her slave, and at the same time, this was the 100th repeated death of Lore that she saw after entering the hidden dungeon.
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Sig… ! Wow!!
‘Who…’
The sensation of cutting into flesh runs through my fingertips, and blood gushes out like a fountain.
And along with the feeling of being drenched in the blood that surged like that, Genos’ spirit, which was tied to the body of the hero in the hallucination world, was now in tatters and had completely collapsed.
SGENG! Sigh… !
‘Someone please…’ … !’
Once again, the feeling of the saint being torn apart by the holy sword replays memories he does not want to remember, breaking Genos’s spirit.
… In order to further completely destroy her mind, which was already broken and unable to even think properly, the 110th hallucinatory world began to regenerate.
‘Anyone is welcome, so please… !’
SGENG! Sigh!
Once again, the holy sword, swung at will, ignoring her own will, cuts into the body of her beloved.
… No, her mind, which had now collapsed into dust, was not even able to properly recognize who she had killed, and was just blankly being engulfed by the memories of her hallucinatory world.
‘Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… ! Kill me… !’
In her not-so-sane mind, Genos was just Bara. She wishes she could die like this…
I could only hope and hope that I would be able to escape from this endless hell, even if it meant dying.
‘Please… Because anyone is welcome… , I will do whatever you want, so please get me out of this hell, even if it means killing me… !’
However, there was no way that a god who had not even saved the saint he had chosen would respond to the warrior’s prayer.
Damn, s***!!
In the 120th hallucination world, the hero once again enjoyed with his whole body the sensation of killing a hero with a holy sword. Now he even forgot to empty his mind and completely lost his mind, only moving mechanically as the hallucination wanted.
‘Kill me…’ …’
Even the thought wasn’t connected properly, and all that remained was the feeling that remained at the tips of his fingers when he cut the saint to pieces with the holy sword.
And that terrible feeling even began to disintegrate the warrior’s spirit into powder and break it into original units…
Damn, wow!
‘… …’
… In the 150th hallucination world, the hero eventually completely lost his mind.
In this state, even if he escapes from the hallucination, his mind has collapsed to the point where he becomes an autistic child who does not respond at all to external reactions.
It could not even be called a spirit anymore, and the situation was no different from the fact that the soul itself had been shattered.
… And the moment the warrior’s spirit completely collapsed, the warrior’s body in reality also naturally began to run toward death.
The mind and body cannot help but be influenced by each other, so when the body dies, the mind also dies, and conversely, when the mind dies, the body also gradually approaches death.
And now, the hero’s spirit, heart, has completely died, and as a result, the hero’s body has also begun to move towards death. In the first place, this hidden dungeon was such a dungeon.
A dungeon that traps a person in trauma and, if they cannot overcome it, completely destroys their mind and soon sympathizes with the collapsed mind, leading to the death of their body.
Genos, a former warrior, was simply unable to overcome his trauma due to the purpose of his dungeon and was being consumed by that trauma and dying.
The mind dies first, and then the body dies along with the mind. The only way for him to survive is to overcome his trauma.
… But for Genos, it was an impossible story. It was a superhuman level dungeon. The case was different from Eugene, whose soul was considered absolute.
Genos’s mind was not even aware that he was in a hallucination.
He is just experiencing the cruel ‘reality’ over and over again and his mind is dying without him even realizing it.
… Eugene thought that with her knowledge of the original, she would at least hold out until he intervened.
However, there was something that Eugene could not take into account, and that was that Genos’ mental power was currently at a lower level than Eugene had thought.
Therefore, even if you were at the highest beginner level in the original, you could not even properly resist the gimmick of the hidden dungeon, which was resistant to some degree, and your mind was melting.
This could be said to be a mistake because even Eugene had never entered the hidden dungeon with a hero who had met a dead ending in which the original protagonist died.
… At the same time, it was also a mistake made because I had never experienced the gimmick of the hidden dungeon in person and only confirmed that the main character party escaped the gimmick of the hidden dungeon through the screen and the time in the game.
Because she had never experienced it herself, she did not know that the time felt in a hallucination was different from the time felt in reality.
