Chapter 734 – 734. Final Selection
With the notification that the achievement had been achieved, three options appeared before my eyes.
[1. Return to origin]
[2. Eternal permanence]
[3. Incomplete ending]
That was my choice about the ending.
“Are you asking me to choose one of the three? Cough…”
I checked my options while barely holding on to the flame of life that was dying out in real time.
That’s hilarious. They force me to make this choice until the very last moment.
It’s the same, but now it’s even familiar.
[Back to origin: You go back to before the disaster occurred. The world will be peaceful forever and nothing will happen. Only you will live with the memories of disaster. Additionally, you can return with a semi-immortal body and one skill of your choice. The world will no longer be consumed by destruction.]
The first option was to drop everything and go back to the past.
Still, it is said that they will give you the memories of the past, a semi-immortal body, and even a skill. With this, we can go back to the day before the disaster occurred.
It takes us back to the Lunar New Year holiday on January 31, 2022, when we were playing games in our rooms without knowing that a disaster was about to occur.
Maybe this is the happiest ending.
I might become an immortal monster among ordinary humans and dream of unifying the world with the body and skills I brought back.
If I go back to the past with the observation skill that opens the Sanctuary of Ten Thousand Demons, which is the most outstanding skill among the skills I have, or the Yin-Yang Three Blades skill that allows me to control nature itself, no one will be able to touch me.
Even if you return with the Great Collapse in mind, you could gain the power to destroy the Earth itself. That’s what it means to be overbalanced.
You become a monster that can’t be dealt with firearms. That way, we could conquer the Earth and live happily ever after. However, since I will be the only one who remembers the days until now, I might feel a little lonely.
Because the memories of the gods and my women are all being reset.
Maybe the gods who don’t remember me will get angry and say that I am taking away the power and using it as I please. Otherwise, it could have been classified as an error because it regressed and ended up on the first floor of the black market.
[Eternal Permanence: You can choose if you want to remain here. You will become the greatest being in the entire universe and will be transformed into an omnipotent being. You can create countless new worlds and have the opportunity to observe and savor countless stories. But you won’t be able to get out of here. We must live the life of an observer forever.]
The second option was for me to become a prophet.
Here, trapped in the infinite space of the Ascendant’s Furnace, you will be able to create the world and live a life of observation forever.
That might make you happier than you think.
For eternity, without anyone’s interference, I will be able to enjoy this world alone and create and decorate whatever I want.
But forever I will be alone.
I may slowly wither away and die in the infinite solitude and loneliness shown by the prophet’s puppet.
The being who gave me the choice now is a kind of strange phenomenon that does not know solitude or loneliness, but I will not be like that.
I don’t think I, a former human, could become that kind of lonely person. I. Will collapse someday.
I don’t know how far in the future it might be, but it wasn’t hard to see that it would happen if I chose this.
So, the last option.
[Incomplete ending: You lose all your power and return to the abyss. All your rank and accumulated strength are left here. You can only escape with the glory of victory. Instead, the world’s flames will not go out, and the universe will not move towards destruction. It will be very difficult and difficult to regain the lost strength.]
This was a pretty dizzying choice.
It was a choice to give up all my strength and escape from here with the only goal being escape. If number 1 allows you to fly into the past with some power, this means that you will lose all power instead of being able to maintain your current status.
‘It doesn’t matter, right?’
Even though it may be arduous and difficult to regain lost strength. In the end, if you spend time in the abyss, one day you will be able to regain all the strength you lost.
It’s a matter of how long it takes, but in some ways, this may be the best option.
It might be fun to go back to the past, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to risk my life because doing so could cause problems.
Becoming the strongest, immortal being seems like it would eventually become boring, so it’s a bit of a choice.
“Kuheook…”
Blood poured out from the mouth.
Now you have to choose one of the three.
“No. 3. Incomplete ending. “I will do this.”
Selected.
Losing all power and escaping from here.
I decided to give up everything I had, including my divinity, skills, class, causality, and even my inhibitions.
[Rewards will be given.]
Soon my body was released from this space.
This was the best ending I could come up with.
The best option to play as much as you want on a server managed by a prophet for eternity.
You do all the hard work.
I will retire now and rest.
******
The abyss where Jang Jojun disappeared.
A small cathedral somewhere.
There a woman was offering her prayers.
“Please… Please just stay alive…”
Mer prayed earnestly.
It’s already been 5 years since Jang Jo-jun passed into an unattainable dimension with his puppet.
There were countless attempts to find Jang Jo-jun during those five years, but they all ended in failure.
There was no Jang Jo-jun in this universe. Even the gods decided that his search was impossible, so they had to wait and wait for him to return someday.
The only thing left is the Apocalypse.
When Loki disappeared with the puppet, he picked up the remaining Apocalypse.
The Book of Revelation with the names of the ancestors engraved on it became the only item left behind by Jang Jo-jun and is now enshrined in this cathedral.
Mer prayed in front of the Book of Revelation every morning.
Waiting for him to come back someday.
I prayed and prayed every day, without missing a single day.
She remembered.
When she first met Jojun Jang.
I first encountered Jojun Jang at a black market slave shop.
He purchased her at a time when she had lost all of her strength and was extremely weak mentally, and their relationship with her has continued to this day.
At first, she was reluctant, but as she gradually opened her heart, she came to admire and follow the man named Jang Jo-Jun.
She waited endlessly.
Time passed again like that.
Two more years have passed.
As expected, there was no news from Jang Jojun, and the abyss was peaceful.
The Earth has become more and more stable, and now there are no zombies to be found.
People were able to return to the city that had been abandoned for 7 years.
Through human hands, electricity and water were restored, and old buildings began to be maintained.
It has become quite different from the previous Earth.
Advanced futuristic engineering replaced nuclear power plants, and the Earth’s ecosystem became more diverse with aliens from alien planets and the plants and animals they brought in.
The Earth has once again become civilized.
Another three years passed.
Even though many things have changed over the past 10 years, Mer has not changed.
She was still waiting for Jang Jo-jun.
She believed that he would return one day and stopped by the cathedral every morning to pray to her apocalypse.
Over the course of 10 years, the mountains and rivers changed, the Maw became a kind of community hub that penetrated the entire galaxy, and the Earth was crowded with all kinds of different races and humans.
In a universe where disasters disappeared, everyone could lead happiness.
Civilizations that are developing and expanding infinitely, and even the gods of pandemonium who have a tight grip on their rampage.
Furthermore, because the increase in entropy had stopped, the passage of time was no longer the destruction and end that was holding civilization back.
Moreover, some of the gods who had fallen and died also returned and rolled around like slaves.
Everything fell into place, and only endless prosperity remained in their hands.
And still, Mer waited for Jang Aim.
Wow.
“Huh?”
After finishing morning prayers again today, Mer was about to go out after tidying up her place.
She suddenly realized that the air was trembling.
It was like a premonition before something was summoned.
This was definitely strange. No one comes here except Mer.
Over the past 10 years, people have stopped coming.
As the search for Jang Jo-jun continued to fail, some gave up looking for him, and others just missed him.
Only Mer firmly believes that he will return, and she has maintained this position.
The result has finally come to fruition.
Jojun Jang is back.
After wandering in the Ascendant’s furnace for 10 years, he was finally summoned back to this world through the Apocalypse.
“No way. No way!!!”
10 years of waiting.
What we faced at the end was…
“Kuheoeook… Mer… Help…!!!”
It was Jang Jo-jun, whose side was sore, and he was vomiting blood.
“Kyaaaaa!!!!!!!”
Mer poured out her divine power towards her dying Jang Jo-jun, screaming.
“Help!!! Help!!!”
Jang Jo-jun is coughing up blood like crazy, as if it wouldn’t be surprising if he dies right away.
Mer’s healing techniques alone are not enough. The wound was too deep.
We met again after 10 years, but as soon as we met, the man vomited blood and died.
“What happened… Uhhh!!!! Aim!!!!!”
Helus, who heard the call and came to visit, was shocked and screamed, and Jang Jo-jun was transported to the hospital room in the abyss.
And then even the gods who heard the news of Jang Jo-jun’s return came to the hospital room, and the hell fell into chaos once again.
He is back.
After wandering for 10 years, I returned to my hometown.
