Chapter 123 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
It is said that that personality was shattered into pieces in her mental world and that it was about to die in the arms of a new personality.
And the new personality, which was enveloped in the golden ashes that resulted from the disappearance of the original personality, soon begins to absorb the ashes throughout its body.
Hwaaaaa!
“Ah… , No need to worry. Me in the past. From now on, in your place, I, Genos, who only cares for you, will live in this world that was nothing but hell for you.”
Through him, even the past experiences of his original personality were absorbed, and the personality that took Genos’s place was destroyed by slave imprinting and the personality that took its place opened its eyes.
Uuuuu… !
And just like that, her imaginary world began to resonate as if she had been waiting for the moment when Genos’ personality would be completely reestablished.
It is said that Genos, who had a completely separate personality from Genos until now, realized what it meant and smiled and muttered.
“Indeed, master… “It’s perfect timing.”
It is said that Genos, a new personality whose consciousness began to rise to the real world rather than the hallucinatory world caused by the dungeon gimmick through the vibration of the world of images, smiled brightly at the thought of meeting his master.
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“… “I’m bored.”
Meanwhile, about 5 minutes before Genos’ personality completely collapsed and he was reborn as a slave imprint.
Eugene, who burned down the hallucination world with his own power and emerged into reality, checked the condition of Genos, who was dying in real time and collapsed right next to him, and saw that his complexion had turned pale.
‘How do I do this? I feel like I’m completely screwed… ?’
If it had been the original plan, Eugene would first escape from her hallucinatory world and wake her up before Genos’ mind completely collapsed.
‘As a bonus, it’s a very low probability, but let’s wait and see if Genos overcomes the trauma on his own and escapes the hallucination world.’
In short, if Genos showed no signs of escaping from the hallucination world on his own, Eugene was planning to force her to wake up, but if he showed even the slightest sign of her, he was planning to leave her alone for now.
Of course, I didn’t intend to just leave it alone.
Since Eugene has a fairly thorough understanding of the hidden dungeon, there is a way to force Genos to wake up.
In addition, if she showed even the slightest sign of overcoming her trauma on her own, she knew how to help her.
‘With this.’
The method of forcibly waking up Genos and the method of helping her overcome her trauma on her own were all related to the black sphere that existed in the middle of the dark room where Eugene came to his senses.
The sphere in question was a type of counterfeit magic that maintained the gimmick that maintained the hallucinatory world of this hidden dungeon.
‘If the person who overcomes the hallucination world on their own and awakens first destroys it, it is possible for others to awaken as well.’
In other words, if Eugene destroys that black sphere, Genos will also naturally awaken in the hallucinatory world.
‘If you show signs of overcoming the trauma on your own, you can make the hallucinatory world loose by shocking this counterfeit device.’
In short, it helps those who are in a hallucinatory world realize that the world is a hallucination world, and of course, it reverses the situation where they can only be caught up in repeated trauma.
Like Eugene, the trauma can be made to move in a way that is different from the trauma that is replayed in repeated hallucinations.
Eugene, with his powerful mental power and spirit that had reached the level of an absolute being, broke through the output of the Imitation God from the front.
However, if Eugene, who comes to his senses first, gives this fake god a moderate shock, others will also have a chance to escape from the hallucination world like Eugene.
Eugene, who was well aware of that fact, entered the dungeon with her, thinking that even if the probability was low, Genos could overcome the trauma on his own and wake up from her autism.
… In other words, she believed in something, so she made Genos accompany her to this hidden dungeon.
… However, the means that Eugene believed in had become unusable due to the difference in perceived time between the hallucinatory world and the real world, which even Eugene did not know about through original knowledge.
Hwaaaaa!!
“… How do you really do this?”
The problem was not simply that Genos’s mind was completely broken as a result of Eugene awakening later than expected.
As Genos’ mind and heart collapsed, his body also began to collapse due to the dungeon gimmick.
In other words, Genos’ body is slowly starting to die, and the slave imprint on Genos’ back is emitting golden light in real time, as if he cannot tolerate this.
‘If I force him to wake up now, will he wake up?’
After Eugene awakened to that fact, she had no choice but to immediately stop her actions of destroying the black sphere-shaped imitation sacred energy in order to awaken Genos.
… That was the slave imprint that was inflicting pain at the level of bone spurs on Genos’ body in real time.
The reason Genos is lying casually in this state is probably because his mind is lost in a hallucinatory world and he cannot feel physical pain.
In such a situation, forcefully awaken Genos? If he made a mistake, it would not be surprising if he died of shock from the pain of burning his entire body’s nerves the moment he woke up.
‘Driving me crazy… , Why did things get so complicated… ?!’
And Eugene, who had never expected this situation, could only watch Genos’s condition nervously, unable to do this or that.
‘I’m really going to get caught if I do this wrong…’ … !’
I didn’t really intend to bother Genos like this. The hope that I might be able to overcome the trauma.
It wasn’t even an unreasonable expectation. The rare talent of Moon Gok-seong that Yeon-hwa talked about was a talent that would not be surprising at all no matter what miracles Genos might achieve.
The story is that she was not chosen by the Holy Sword and became the hero of her time for nothing.
So, Genos, who possesses that kind of personality, may be able to overcome the trauma with his own strength through this dungeon.
With that in mind, I took her with me and rushed into her dungeon, but overcoming her trauma was a disaster for her, and a situation that resulted in me catching her child without even thinking about it.
‘What should I do…? … ! If Genos dies like this, the plan will really go awry in many ways… !’
In a situation where most of the plans were ruined due to Lore’s death, there was literally no answer if Genos, who was the only one saved, died.
Her talent was a talent, but since she was a warrior chosen by the Holy Sword, Eugene could never give up on Genos.
‘Even if the Holy Sword has been returned to the Empire, this person will be the owner of the Holy Sword until he dies in the first place.’
In order to elect a new owner of the Holy Sword, the previous owner of the Holy Sword had to die.
Of course, it was not possible to aim for that and kill the person chosen by the Holy Sword to select its new owner.
If you try to change the owner of the Holy Sword in that way, perhaps because it is not a sacred item, there is a historical fact (setting) that there will be cases where the Holy Sword does not choose an owner even though it is a crisis for humanity.
Therefore, even though her empire received her holy sword back from Genos, they did not execute her in order to elect a new hero for her.
‘Well, considering what Genos did, I don’t think the Holy Sword wouldn’t elect her new master even if he was executed…’
Nevertheless, from the perspective of an empire with historical facts, it would have been difficult for them to step forward and execute the warrior just in case.
Perhaps that was also the reason why Genos was only made a slave rather than put to death even though he committed the crime of killing a saint.
‘The important thing is that as long as this child lives, this child will be the owner of the holy sword.’
In other words, if you keep Genos as a slave, you will naturally have the opportunity to use the holy sword. In fact, in the original work, Genos’ exclusive weapon was also a holy sword.
And Eugene, who knows very well how unrivaled the holy sword can be against demons, is in a position where he must somehow save Genos and use it to his full potential.
‘No, it’s the Holy Sword, Nabal, and if this guy dies right now, there will be a power vacuum of 2 people…’ … ! 2 people… !’
At the point when you have to beat the true ending route, two of the nine biggest players, the protagonist and heroine, die?
No matter how hard Eugene tries to fill that void, there are limits.
In some cases, there was a chance that several more people would die in the future, so I couldn’t lose my former warrior’s strength like this!
“But there’s nothing I can do?!”
In other words, in the end, Genos had to be saved somehow, but as a result of things getting twisted, there was nothing Eugene could do.
If only his mind had collapsed, he immediately destroyed that black sphere and awakened his mind in the hallucinatory world.
And he would have had to somehow restore his broken spirit through some kind of hidden piece that he knew about.
Even though the hidden piece has some serious side effects, it is said to be directly related to mental recovery, so there was a part of them that believed in it.
But the current situation was not just about mental breakdown.
Since even the slave engraving is shaking like crazy, it is difficult for Eugene to force Genos to awaken.
‘What do we do? Should I even force it to wake up? But what if you die of shock?
But Eugene wasn’t sure what would happen if he left it like this.
In the worst case, you will not be able to prevent your body from dying and your body will collapse along with your mind.
“… Fuck you, you fucking bastard. “Why do they have to do it through this route even when they are possessed?”
Yes, I could understand the point of possessing Yeong-sik, a villain whose banishment was confirmed.
But even if he were to be possessed, how could Eugene have arbitrarily possessed the main character in a route that leads to a dead ending without any opportunity to interfere?!
Thanks to this, didn’t Eugene end up causing even more trouble while trying to control the protagonist’s trolling?!
“… No, if you think about it, wouldn’t you say that he possessed me because the world will be destroyed like this?”
If the goal of the person who possessed Eugene was salvation, it could have been that he possessed Eugene in order to forcefully save the world since it was a route with no possibility of saving it on its own.
When I think about it, Eugene nods his head in agreement at the guess, which makes some sense, but then he starts pulling out his hair again.
“… That’s not important now!! What are we going to do with this?!”
Eugene, who had been criticizing himself without realizing it, soon gritted his teeth and glared at the black sphere.
‘… If you leave it like this, you’ll end up withering away from the dungeon gimmick. If so, awaken it first.’
And the moment Genos’s consciousness awakened, he didn’t know if he could prevent shock death if he gave a command to the slaves to somehow block all senses.
Eugene, who remembers such a gamble, immediately brings out a scream from his solar plexus and tries to destroy the black sphere, just like he did in the hallucination world. However…
Hwaaaaa!!
“… What?”
… At that perfect timing, the slave imprint that had been scattering light behind Genos’s back began to glow more intensely than before.
Eugene narrows his eyes again, unable to figure out what’s going on this time.
