Chapter 721 – 721. The World’s Deterrent
Solomon became stupid.
“Hey. Hey! Kid. I’m going crazy.”
Solomon has lost his taste.
A genius wizard who had reached the pinnacle of magic turned out to be a dementia patient.
No, it is worse than a dementia patient.
He just turned into a complete brat.
“It’s serious.”
A middle-aged girl.
This is a fucking horrible thing.
No matter how many strange and serious things I have encountered, I am a person who has a threshold of disgust.
If you were from the Yi tribe, who were born to eat in the first place, you wouldn’t know it. Seeing this seemingly fine-looking middle-aged man lying on the floor and wiggling around made me feel nauseous.
‘It might be better if it were a woman.’
It is a natural fact that an idiot pretty girl is much better than an idiot middle-aged man.
This can’t be helped now. It was Solomon’s fault for not being able to withstand the cleansing effect of the soul stabilizer.
“Now. “Let’s take a sip of this.”
“Ugh…”
I grabbed Solomon who was struggling and poured TS drink into his mouth.
This is it. Solomon’s body gradually began to change.
[You. The hell.]
Asura speaks as if he is embarrassed.
[They are making all the strongest people in the universe into women…]
“Oh, that’s it. There are circumstances.”
[Isn’t it just a matter of realizing an individual’s desires…]
“If you did, you shouldn’t have caught me. Isn’t it? This is the law of supremacy over the strong that Asura spoke of.”
[… Right. That is correct.]
It’s true, but Asura blurts out the words as if he doesn’t want to admit it.
I can’t help it. Rather than looking at a middle-aged mite, it’s better to make her into a pretty girl.
And since the brain has been washed anyway, if we create a woman like this, wouldn’t we be able to say that she is truly a woman born in heaven?
In the ultimate sense, a girl who is close to perfection is born.
“Now, wake up.”
“Ugh…”
Mattangi helped Solomon, who had gone away with drool dripping down, to his feet.
If you leave it in the abyss research wing for about two months, it will return to its original state.
“Now I just have to escape.”
Now that you have mastered Solomon, you can say that all your work is done.
The mission assigned to Aram, Nicole, and Charles is actually not important enough to take time, so I think we can just leave it at this point.
“Wow…”
“What are you again?”
“How did you catch that…”
“No, who are you?”
As I was trying to move with Solomon, someone I couldn’t tell if was a corpse or a lump of flesh crawled out of the corner.
After looking at him closely, I was able to figure out his name.
“Gavial?”
“How can I say my name…!? Are you Solomon’s new body?”
“Solomon’s new body.”
There was a guy who did something similar.
The King of Heroes, now absorbed by Machina, similarly attempted to live eternally by creating a new body.
That devil seems to think that I am Solomon’s new body.
Perhaps, before entering this space, we should have dealt with that guy first, heard the story behind this place, and then started hunting for Solomon.
However, thanks to skipping all the intermediate processes, it has now become a behind-the-scenes story that you don’t have to worry about much.
“Okay. Gavial. I don’t know what kind of fear you feel, though. “You are of little use to me now.”
“Now, wait a minute.!!!”
He raised his hand and fired a magic cannon at the writhing Gavial.
As soon as a beam of pure magical energy without any added properties swept across the floor, Gavial disappeared without a trace.
“Magwang killing gun…”
“Oh. Was it that kind of magic?”
“… Extreme operation that only shoots out a huge amount of mana. Efficiency is terrible…”
“This bastard.”
He hit Solomon’s forehead with honey chestnuts.
Solomon became a beautiful girl with gray hair and a slightly intelligent appearance.
As I was holding her forehead, something else popped out from the corner.
“What are you again?”
“Lol. Gavial is dead. “The gatekeeper died, unable to even protect the door.”
“Who are you?”
“Me? I am. “It’s like a messenger from a prophet.”
“… What?”
The moment she heard that he was a prophet, she preyed on Solomon, kept him, and then prepared for battle.
I couldn’t feel any energy from the other person.
‘This was the first thing that was strange.’
An ordinary person moving around so casually in a place full of demonic energy?
There is no way something like that exists.
Either they are hiding their energy completely, or they have something that I can’t feel.
“Wow. Hey, this is my friend. Let’s not be too picky about me. “I didn’t come to fight with you.”
“…”
“I came to evaluate you.”
“Evaluation…?”
“Okay. Evaluation of this story. You are the main character of the narrative the Prophet is reading. He loves to see you grow through hardships and adversity. But this time… It was a bit too much.”
“What do you mean it was too much?”
“First, teleport. Okay, this is good. Fast movement is a good feature that increases convenience. You can travel around the entire universe through the World Tree. Very good. However, it is too convenient and the difficulty control fails. “I will deduct 1 point.”
The guy pulled his paper out of the air and checked it.
“The second is that your strength has now surpassed its upper limit. “I deduct 2 points because I don’t want to see you taking the power of a god and pretending to be mortal and hiding your eyes.”
“You fucking bitch. Who are you to deduct points.!”
My body stiffened.
It doesn’t move.
Divinity? No.
I didn’t feel any divinity from that guy.
Not mana or magic, but something completely different.
“Oh my. This is the kind of power you can’t handle. Yes, this is the world’s deterrent.”
“Fuck… What bullshit…!!!”
“Didn’t the Oneiroi tell you? No. Even if they didn’t tell you, you would already know what deterrence is, right?”
I know.
The world’s deterrent.
‘A force that seeks to restore the world line that has been distorted by the invasion of the outside world. The kind of power that this world exerts to protect itself… A power that cannot be seen or felt, literally like a god of incredible strength.’
I have already experienced the world’s deterrence.
Shin, who was one of the executives, showed me a little bit.
Now that I think about it, where did that being gone?
It’s gone. When I think about it, many the self-proclaimed neutral gods who were part of the management team have disappeared.
Has their cause and effect been passed on to that being?
“Whatever you think, it’s okay. I will continue my story. “You should continue to worry on your own.”
“Ugh.!!!”
“Let’s see.” Yes, points were deducted for teleportation. Points were deducted for loss of power balance. For convenience’s sake, I also deducted points for killing all the hostile characters without much dialogue. What else is there? Okay, okay. Bringing women and leaving them without any gestures? Points deducted for this too.”
“What do you want…”
“What do you want? I don’t want anything! Because I just move as ordered. “If that’s what you want, a fun situation?”
“Fuck…!!!”
I can’t feel the eyes of the gods.
It seems like they used some kind of means to create a barrier where it’s just the two of them.
Perhaps this too is a miracle achieved through the use of deterrence.
‘That’s not God or anything.’
He is just a puppet of the prophet.
And the prophet is above all gods.
That was the puppet that the monster sent down to torment me.
‘I clearly recognize the face. ‘The images reconstructed in the brain are all different.’
The image entering the retina is changing every moment.
It is a shape that is difficult to describe, no, impossible.
At some moments, he looked like an ordinary office worker, and when he blinked for a moment, he turned into a child again.
It literally imitates and imitates everything that exists in this world.
“Good night. 14 points deducted. Tsk. “I failed.”
“…”
“Aren’t you curious about what happens to students who fail? You’re not asking? You decided not to react to my words at all. Are you waiting for help from the gods? There’s no way he’s coming to help. If that were possible, the divine beings you believe in would have already dealt with the prophet.”
“…”
“You guys can’t even figure out where to go. What kind of being is a prophet? What do you want? “Why are they letting you all unite?”
“…”
“It seems like a silent practice. But I can read your thoughts. So, are you wondering why the game happened? Shall I tell you?”
“… Fuck.”
“The small and weak things in this world. So, the cosmic thugs who called themselves gods started a game, risking their lives. And the reason the Prophet allowed it was to find out.”
“Find it.?”
“Okay. I was trying to find it. A being that can truly be affected by greed.”
“…”
“I’m at a loss for words again. You were chosen. “Only you can survive in this ruining terrarium.”
“The others.”
“What does the rest matter? Whether you give it up or not. It was an ugly life anyway, right? Why? Are you angry? “Are you upset to think that all the ‘trophies’ you’ve collected for your love are being lost?”
“…”
My teeth were ground.
Because that guy treated my women like trophies.
“Isn’t that right? Did you truly love them? He said he loved me but didn’t even pay attention to me. You love them for loving you. “This is a bundle of contradictions.”
“It’s not worth getting angry about.”
“I didn’t say that to make you angry. I just told the truth. And if you’re going to be furious, you should also sympathize with the characters you’ve spent so worthlessly on.”
“They were my enemies.”
“Even enemies have their own stories. Now you don’t want to listen to their stories. Because he gained omnipotent power. “You stopped listening to other people’s stories.”
“Should I even listen to everything they say?”
“No. You don’t need to listen. Likewise, you don’t need me to listen to the stories of your God, your wife, or your girlfriends. It’s the same thing. They are only meaningful to you. Because they have no meaning to the prophet.”
In the end, what that guy wants to say is.
He said he was going to kill everything I had.
Just as I kill my enemies worthlessly.
“First, shall we start by chopping up the things that are in here one by one? Pink hair? Yellow hair? There are also witches. “There is also a devil?”
“Keuuuuugh…!!!!!”
I did my best to escape this bondage.
We have to stop that guy.
The prophet clearly said he wanted to see my suffering and adversity.
If you don’t move from here, Aram, Nicole, Sarul, or Paimon will be killed.
“This. Shivaaaaal!!!!!”
Click.
My body relaxed.
The inhibitions that were holding me down were released.
The moment my body regained its freedom, the prophet’s puppet disappeared.
It was impossible to see even with God’s eyes, and it was difficult to feel even with God’s senses.
It was as if I had taken a step back from this world and erased its very existence.
Just like a dark king.
[You are resisting this. I pushed away my inhibitions. This is really fun. That means your presence has grown.]
“What are you saying!!! Come here!!! Come on!!!”
[If you rely on visible powers such as divinity, mana, ether, or magic, you will never be able to reach the Prophet. Increase your presence. Soon, the Prophet will bring down disasters of Destruction difficulty for you. Have fun dancing. If it wasn’t as fun as this time. Because I will come back again. Fight hard with the gods.]
“Oh my…!!!”
Soon the puppet’s voice disappeared completely.
I collapsed on the spot. I couldn’t move my legs due to the feeling of exhaustion.
I won, but I didn’t win.
A being that neither mana nor divinity can communicate with.
In the sense that the world’s suppressing force was pressing down on me, the only thing I could demonstrate was my own power of existence.
Presence.
We need to grow this.