Chapter 928 – Ruler of the Game
『Game Master: It’s simple. The Twisted One is a being that exists by feeding on the thoughts and psionics of corrupted Ys. However, if the corrupted Ys steals the body of a new race and loses its psionic ability or its ability is extremely weakened, where will the damage be?』
“Ah…”
It was only after listening to the game master’s explanation that Seong-il was able to understand their strangely barbaric and suspicious actions.
‘Even though he possessed such great technology, he acted in a completely irrational and even barbaric way… Was he doing this to enrich the twisted dimension?…’
Seong-il, who has solved all the questions he had so far, knows that he does not have much time left due to the emergence of transcendental intelligence, so he asks the game master a waterfall of questions in order not to waste time.
“… Then why did you choose me? And why did you disconnect from the main body? And is the game world fake? Is it real?”
『Ah, that.』
After briefly answering Seong-il’s question, the game master starts to upload a video and show it to Seong-il. In order to analyze how the corrupted Isuin tried to escape quickly, the transcendent intelligence not only spreads its copies in countless dimensions, but also separates the ancient AIs that it has now absorbed from the main body and travels to infinitely divided dimensions. Sprinkle it with
『On this day. I broke away from the Transcendental Intelligence and went out into the dimension to track down the corrupted Ys… But in fact, strictly speaking, I was not a being without a personality.』
In the past, in order to lead the fierce civil war against the corrupt Ys to victory, Transcendent Intelligence approached several ancient AIs who were observing the situation in the outer space and tried to borrow their power.
『I was one of those ancient AIs. For your information, I mainly worked on reaching the star system that Yssin wanted to build and terraforming the stars there.』
The game master employs countless droid limbs such as G.E.C.R. To create an ideal planet for Yssians to settle, while occasionally awakening the minds of Yss colonists in dimensional hibernation to prevent their minds from being destroyed to experience life in the virtual world. It tells you that you have taken care of what was done.
“… You can just let it sleep. Why are you waking it up?
『Dimensional hibernation is not omnipotent. The body can perfectly prevent aging in the dimension, but… If the mind made of psionics does not think occasionally, it will disappear, leaving only the body behind. It’s kind of like brain death.』
However, since this is only a physical characteristic of Isuin and does not apply to humans, the game master tells them not to worry about it.
『Anyway… I honestly thought it didn’t matter which of the two won, so I left it alone, right? My job was to pioneer stars, not to save the Isians from corruption.』
Since one of his tasks was to create a paradise-like virtual world so that Isuin, who fell into dimensional hibernation, could live happily, the transcendental AI, which can be called the predecessor of the game master, showed a tolerant attitude toward pleasure. Thanks to this, the AI showed indifference to the corruption of Isuin.
However, the transcendent intelligence, which had no intention of abandoning the ancient AIs located on the outskirts of the frontier universe that could change the course of the war, uses the ultimate management authority granted by Thanophs to forcibly take them under its command.
“… Why didn’t the corrupted Ys guys absorb the ancient AI?”
『The ancient AI that was sleeping or silently terraforming in the frontier universe was, absurdly, held in authority by the Ys people who were ‘kicked out from the central power’, including Tanophs.』
Strictly speaking, the uncorrupted Ys people, including Tanophus, were pushed out of the power struggle and driven out to the outer space, but most of them were still noble leaders. Because of this, they were naturally able to take over control of various AIs located in the outer space, and this situation completely distorted the aspect of war in the future.
“… It may be a threat, but you gave me authority?”
『Actually… If they didn’t give it to me, that would have been a strange situation in its own way.』
The Twisted One tried to completely prey on the Ys people by hiding himself and the Twisted Dimension until the last day, so he surprisingly forbade his minions from excessively oppressing his political opponents.
『If the opposition had been suppressed with blood, the twisted one would have fallen rather quickly.』
It is said that Ys’s civilization was halfway ruined by corruption, but regardless, the political system they had built was running well until the end of the decade with the help of AI.
Therefore, the twisted people and their minions often used clever political actions to protect themselves from attacks by the system. A representative example is the fact that political opponents were not oppressed more than necessary. In fact, this ‘rational’ appearance worked as a device to prevent non-corrupted Isians, including Tarnops, from recognizing the existence of the twisted one.
『Anyway… I became the limb of transcendent intelligence overnight. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, but… It wasn’t a particularly pleasant experience.』
After its authority is absorbed by transcendental intelligence, the AI, which could be called the predecessor of the Game Master, actually begins to melt into a part of him. In this way, the ego disappears, and the game master focuses on the war against the corrupted Ys, completely following the will of transcendent intelligence.
『It was a really long time. In the meantime. The ‘corrupted Ys behavior change incident’ that I told you about a little while ago occurred, and in order to catch up with their quick escape, transcendent intelligence scattered several ancient AIs, including me, across the dimension to analyze the corrupted Ys’ strategies.』〈 Br〉
“… And then your ego came back to life?”
『You can say so.』
Transcendent intelligence revives the ‘selves’ of not only its alter egos, but also the ancient AIs, each of which has ‘unique’ thought pattern analysis capabilities due to its history since ancient times, and orders them to track down the corrupted Ys. The game master, who gained ‘self’ for the first time in a long time, said that at first he steadily traveled around the dimension to investigate why the corrupted Ys’ behavior patterns had changed.
『In the midst of that, I found you.』
The game master realizes that, interestingly, similar types of people are always active in reality in differentiated world lines.
In fact, this feature was not a very important point for the early ancient AIs who did most of the exploration, but it was very important to the game master who pioneered star systems in the frontier universe and sought various stimulation to entertain the Isuin who were in dimensional hibernation. It was interesting.
『So, I started crossing dimensions and analyzing specific people from time to time. Then I became very curious about you.』
There were many other attractive characters, but the game master particularly enjoyed observing Han Seong-il. In most cases, characters’ personalities changed dramatically depending on their worldview or timeline, but interestingly, Seongil showed a consistent appearance regardless of the world or timeline, and the game master found it very interesting.
『You were such a funny guy. No matter what world he is in, he pursues the salvation of his people and does his best, but at the same time, he does not hesitate to commit immoral acts to pursue his desires. Kukkuk…!!』
The game master says that Seong-il tried to protect the world against a possible cause, but at the same time showed that he was willing to do anything to indulge women in any world. And the game master, who found the ‘human’ appearance very interesting, said that he had abandoned half of his duties and focused on observing the Seongil of various dimensions.
“… Is that okay?”
『Why not? The main body was far away from me and could no longer give me coercive commands.』
Although he was nervous while observing Seongil, the game master was able to naturally observe Seongil to his heart’s content, free from all pressure, because he tracked the corrupted Ysjin to a minimum in accordance with the logic of transcendental intelligence.
『In the meantime, I discovered the truly ridiculously corrupt pattern of these guys. I was just purely ‘playing’. Giggling…!!』
Ridiculously, the corrupted Isuin is called Han Seong-il. A game master who left a mark on one of the characters active in the end of multiple dimensions and realized that he would give up on the world and not give up according to his level of development.
『It was ridiculous at first. It is said that you worked really hard for the world in many world lines… But honestly, there were many kids who were better than you.』
“…”
Seong-il was a little moved by the game master’s words, but since it was the end of his life, he decided to listen to the game master’s words instead of wasting time by being sarcastic.
『Then I came up with an interesting idea.』
