Chapter 1605 – The Realm of Death
“I still have a lot of work left, but I have about an hour.”
“One hour. That’s enough.”
After explaining the situation to Almiraz, I immediately set off for the nether world.
She seemed impatient, perhaps because of her backlog of work, but as soon as I told her I wanted to leave for Mangye, she seemed very interested.
As soon as I remembered the world of ruin, a system notification rang.
Tiring!
[Would you like to use the companion ticket?]
I chose yes, and soon the island, a safe zone, welcomed us.
“What do you think?”
Looking back at Almiraz, she was looking here and there with her mouth wide open.
“Can you feel something?”
After having all of her abilities confiscated by the gods, she was chosen by a forgotten god and given the power of ‘Special Seal’ and a book called ‘Book of Prophecy’.
Since coming to the world of hell, I’ve always been curious about something, and all the forgotten gods I saw here only existed in the form of ‘nucleus’.
What I mean is that I haven’t seen an independent living entity giving power to someone else.
So what is the identity of the forgotten god who gave Almiraz his strength?
If it is a forgotten god, it must be in the world of hell, so then wouldn’t there be a god in the world of hell that is not just in the form of a core, but is alive and moving and can interfere with users in the present world?
What is the Book of Prophecy, and what kind of entity is it that gave it such great power as the ‘privilege seal’, which is actually a ‘divine power seal’?
The contractor, Almiraz, looked with anticipation as if he might know something.
“… Uh.”
After a while, Almi Raj opened her mouth and tilted her head. Was my feeling wrong?
“I feel so many things, I don’t know what to do first.”
“… Oh?”
I guess it’s a big hit.
Almiraz I mean. It seems like a huge power and the nature of that power can be felt here and there.
It is said that temperament is nothing special, but rather a feeling of ‘cold’ or ‘hot’.
“There is something sharp on the eastern side of the sea. There is something very powerful and large in the deep sea below.”
It feels roughly like this.
What Almiraz is sensing is most likely the core of a forgotten god.
Although she doesn’t know the cause, she feels the presence of a forgotten god in the dead world.
Then Almiraz suddenly hugged her shoulders and trembled.
“What’s wrong?”
I couldn’t help but be surprised.
Isn’t Almiraz a tougher female warrior than a tough man?
“… I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“I can’t explain it in words… There’s something in this world.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s different from other things. It definitely exists, but I don’t know if it’s there at the same time.”
What do you mean?
“… I think I hear a burning sound.”
“Hmm.”
At that moment, I thought of the instruction manual’s phrase, ‘If you hear a burning sound, jump’.
Also. It seems like there is something alive and wandering around in this netherworld.
“Do I have to run away right now?”
“Not really. It doesn’t interest us. But I have a feeling we shouldn’t go near it.”
“Then you should do that.”
Almiraz is a survivor who survived various attacks by foreigners for a long time after being confiscated.
Her senses are trustworthy.
“Then, among the forces we are feeling right now, is there a great force that is easy for us to access?”
“There you are. Follow me.”
Almiraz took the lead, still hesitant, as if she was still bothered by the unknown energy.
Fortunately, she soon stopped shaking because she got used to it.
But… When she came to her senses, she saw Almiraz walking in the sky…
Before I knew it, I looked up at Almiraz, who was now taller than me.
“Did you learn levitation?”
“No. It’s the stairs.”
Almiraz stepped on the ground. It made a hollow sound, as if she had stepped on metal.
“There is a maze in the sky.”
“Hey…”
Indeed. After listening, she concentrated and noticed something.
The power that forms the maze is so secret that even I, who surpasses even Kaitz in terms of perception, cannot see it unless I concentrate.
Even if you concentrate, it seems impossible to see the entire outline of the maze at the moment.
Of course. I am.
It seems that Almiraz is fully aware of the structure of this maze.
She smiled at me and snapped her fingers.
“Trust me and follow me.”
“Yes, sister.”
It’s been a while since you showed off your pose.
I followed her in silence and had a very strange experience.
They are just walking forward, but they are walking next to the sky, walking backwards, or spinning around like riding a roller coaster.
However, the body does not tilt or fall headlong.
It seems like they are laughing at gravity and all other phenomena.
Even the surrounding background changes every time you take a step.
Suddenly, the surroundings became dark and at first I thought it was night, but as soon as it got dark, the surroundings began to turn purple.
Since the background was so fin-de-siècle, I asked without thinking.
“It’s okay, right?”
“If you’re scared, should I hold your hand?”
Almi Raj, who was shaking earlier, has a playful look on her face.
I’ll distort that face.
I nodded at her and held out her hand.
“Hold me.”
“Okay~”
Suddenly.
“… Ik?”
This can’t be happening.
I thought he would be embarrassed if I asked him to hold me, but instead of saying nothing, he even clasped his hands?
My face became hot.
Almiraz said without even looking at me.
“It feels like it’s been a long time since I was alone with you.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Aren’t you kidding?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Just like in that exam room.”
Suddenly, I remembered a time when I played a dirty joke with Almiraz during an exam in an exam hall.
As her face got red, she let go of her hand and walked briskly, clasping her hands behind her back and whistling.
… You’re making fun of me!!
I was contemplating whether to grab her voluptuous twitching buttocks with my hands. Almiraz suddenly made a gesture that seemed to open her door.
Kiyi.
No. The door actually opened.
The size of a door in the middle of the purple sky. A rectangular light shines.
“It seems like the being inside here can gain the most powerful power in the easiest way.”
The words were vague, but the tone was confident.
I nodded and walked inside the rectangular door.
When we went inside, there was a very large and thick transparent wall.
It’s like a wall, but a mountain in front of you.
And beyond the wall, far away. Something is sitting on the empty floor.
It is so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Even if you try to focus on Ryunar, the divine power blocks your view.
“What is that?”
“I don’t know about that. I think we should get rid of that.”
“Is that the one you were shaking about earlier?”
“Are you going to use that for the rest of your life?”
Almi Raj rolled her eyes and pointed in front of her.
“I said I was sure, right?”
It’s certain.
In other words. Whatever it is, it definitely has great power. Being able to obtain nuclear weapons.
It means believing in yourself.
I trust Almiraz’s judgment.
Even if it’s wrong. I am confident that I can overcome it with my own strength.
“But how can I get there?”
“Just move forward.”
As she said, she put her feet on the transparent wall.
Giiiiing!
My body breaks through the transparent wall and heads forward, making a loud noise.
“Oh?”
It’s amazing.
How should I express this? Okay. It feels like I’m falling headlong into the future.
Just as I was wondering when this was going to stop, the transparent wall ended.
Then, I see things that were not visible before.
For example, the sky.
There are two large gender symbols engraved in the sky: male and female.
The floor was a shiny white disc, and gender symbols were also drawn on this white disc.
The climax is the appearance of something unidentified that was sitting earlier.
Half of the body is male, and the other half is female.
The monster’s eyes, which were split vertically into male and female halves, had gender symbols instead of eyeballs.
However, there is a male symbol in the female body. There are female symbols on the male body.
What is it? That is.
It’s a very strange-looking guy… Brr. I was thrilled.
It’s not because he looks creepy.
That. It’s very strong.
Maybe. Much more than the king of goblins that I saw in the heart of the Samshinjeon not long ago.
This. I guess I should use the God Score skill?
Maybe you even have to pay a price.
A pleasant tension runs through your body.
As I watched the monster rise, I pulled out my sword, and before I knew it, it was right next to me. Almiraz landed lightly.
“If it’s just the two of us, we can easily win.”
Is this a joint battle with Almiraz after a long time?
But instead of answering, Almi Raj stretched out her hand.
The familiar ‘privilege seal’ is emitted from her palm.
Awesome-!!
The monster’s body hardened like ice and then froze. It collapsed.
Shake.
The round core in the middle of the monster’s body rolled around on the floor.
Almiraz picked it up and held it out to me.
“?”
As she was about to leave her mouth open at the absurd conclusion, Almiraz shrugged her shoulders and laughed.
“I said I was sure, right?”
“Huh.”
I also knew one thing for sure.
In Manga, all you need is Almiraz behind her ass.
“I think it would be hard to get to the other place because the terrain is very rough. Although that place was hidden earlier, it was easy to get to if you knew the way.”
“I see.”
Surely. If it weren’t for Almiraz’s sense of mystery, it would have been next to impossible for her to find that room. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a hidden piece, like the heart of the Samshinjeon that I found a while ago.
“It is said that the power of this core is one of the greatest in the world.”
“You are truly amazing, Almiraz.”
“I didn’t say that because I wanted to be praised.”
The horse still looks happy.
We returned to the safe zone, and I stood in front of the mural.
The rock god’s core also reacted to this mural.
The same goes for this nucleus.
“That. Are you going to use it there?”
Almi Raj seems to have noticed the purpose of the mural once she saw it.
“Contemplating.”
“I think it would be a good idea.”
“What is the basis?”
“My sense.”
“It’s very harsh.”
As I said before. In the world of ruin, you only need to trust Almiraz.
[There are two seats remaining.]
Listening to the voice that appeared in my head, I made a point.
Then, one of the countless pictures on the mural glowed.
It is a painting of a woman and a man embracing each other like a snake.
[Can you remember it?]
I nodded, and the core in my hand disappeared as if it had been sucked into the mural.
The picture of the man and woman is erased, and instead, a human image slides out of the mural.
If the pattern so far had followed, I expected a mixture of a woman and a man to appear, but surprisingly, except for the strangely feminine clothes he was wearing, he was an ordinary-looking man.
And the system voice echoing in my mind.
[You have discovered a hidden core in the nether world.]
[You reminded me of a hidden, forgotten god.]
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
Oh my god. A whopping 3 ups.
These days, leveling up is slow enough to make you tremble at just 1% of experience points, so to get 3 levels up!
Indeed, Almiraz’s judgment was correct.
And I became curious.
What kind of forgotten god is this who gave this much reward?
The answer came soon.
[The god of gender change came to mind.]
…?
