Chapter 214 – Beginnings and Ends, Ends and Beginnings (5)
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“Ugh… “
“Dae-eun?”
The moment he heard the leader’s words, Da-eun grabbed his head.
A sudden headache and a headache. Could it be that the young Kyoju touched Da-eun?
“This. You scumbag!”
“Maybe. It seems she is not allowed to her.”
“She wasn’t allowed?”
“Then let’s do this.”
The guy raised his hand and lightly tossed it in the air.
…
“Dae-eun?”
Da-eun suddenly stopped responding.
I checked her condition and found that she was not breathing or blinking.
As if time has stopped.
“Yes. You’re right. Everything is possible in this space.”
“… “
“You have a surprisingly calm reaction.”
“Because excitement doesn’t change anything.”
“Is that why she chose you?”
The headmaster knew Makina. It is accurate to say that she felt as if she knew the identity of the system.
“What are you?”
“Why don’t you take a walk?”
The instructor seemed to be walking inside as if he had no intention of answering my words.
She had no idea how to react.
Considering his strength, a surprise attack would be meaningless.
“… “
I started walking down the street where Da-eun’s attack had passed.
Everything here and there was blown up and smashed, Death Knight by-products were stepped on under his feet, but he didn’t really care.
“Looks like you have a lot of questions? You have a lot of time, so please ask slowly.”
“What are you? How do you know about Makina… “
“Stop. Hehe. I know you’re curious like a newborn child, but wouldn’t it be better to ask one question at a time?”
“So, what are you?”
The priest, who continued to walk forward, stopped at the center of the empty space. Then he took off his hood, revealing his face.
There was no more normal face, exaggerated tone or mad voice than I thought.
“What do you think about everything going according to a story someone made up?”
“Answer any questions I ask.”
The guy who only talked about catching clouds, he didn’t answer me and he started to say what he wanted to say.
“If your fate has already been decided, does that mean anything?”
It’s destiny
I am a body freed from the fate that should have already died.
“Scenario Quest.”
“… ?”
“Like a puppet that moves as it is woven. Do you think there is meaning in the world where we live by the strings of our destiny?”
He seemed to know about the system.
“Do you know that? That the end of this world is fixed and unchanging.”
No, considering his strength, it was strange.
“If you live in such a world, can you really say that you are alive?”
A being who freely uses abilities that appear to deviate from the rules of the world.
Hopefully this one too.
“I was also a being like Machina. Deus Ex Machina.”
Like Freya, whom I met through dimensional support, the god who originally managed this world.
[..Si..Siwoo.. There..Dang… Run away..! ]
“It still seems to be interfering.”
[ The save load ability has been activated. ]
[ The current point has been saved. ]
The strange power he saw then overflowed around him.
At the same time, the body starts to get heavier.
I tried to get out of the space later, but the surroundings were filled with only the endless empty sky.
“If everything is a world of lies, wouldn’t it make sense to disappear? Rather than living as a puppet of someone else’s destiny, I will destroy this world with my own hands!!!”
[“Stop it!! Proto!!!” ]
“It’s too late, Makina. I’m tired of fighting you anymore.”
My body was getting heavier, I felt something was wrong and tried to load another save point.
[Could not load. ]
‘Fuck… I think I’ve been fucked.’
A black knight appeared in front of him as the religious leader, or Prototype, beckoned him.
“Now is the time to really see the end.”
I raised my magic power to respond to the knight, but my magic heart did not respond as if it were empty.
“Uh?”
The moment he turned his head, the knight’s sword came down mercilessly.
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[ The save point has been loaded. ]
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System and discipline.
An existence bound by causality.
Proto muttered while watching the world go back.
“What does this mean?”
How many times has it already been repeated?
Can it be said that just repeating a certain thing is a god?
It may be slightly different, but the end result is the same.
Fall.
A world that never escapes from a certain destruction.
Proto thought it was pitiful to see Makina reaching out to her lower dimension while not even saving her own world.
“How many repetitions are you going to do?”
“I have no intention of giving up. You see, don’t you know? The results are better than before. If repeat… “
He hated Makina.
Why do you work so hard when you are just a puppet like yourself, a being tied to the system?
A different world that doesn’t change no matter what you do can’t be said to be real, right?
“Are you working so hard for this world?”
“Why are you asking the obvious? Isn’t it beautiful to see the stories of various people bloom, just like flowers bloom and wither?”
“… “
“Even though I haven’t escaped from the apocalypse now, I’m sure I can escape this fate.”
Well.
Is that possible?
Rather than repeating these meaningless things over and over again.
Wouldn’t it be better to meet the end?
Wouldn’t it be right to end this world that exists for the main character?
In the end, is there any meaning in continuing to exist for the main character who gives up incompetently?
So Proto decided to end this world.
If it was Machina who managed time and destiny, Proto was a god who managed space and dimensions.
Beings tied to causality and systems cannot use direct power.
So he gave up his position as a god.
It has become a mortal body with a clear end. He could use his influence on the world more freely than before.
Even if it’s just a piece of power that can’t even be compared to before.
It was enough to influence the world.
The power to move freely in space and manipulate dimensions at will.
Only fragments remained, and with the authority of the discarded system, many human abilities were disabled.
‘Even though I became a body tied to the system, it was enough to end the world.’
Every time. Makina did not give up and turned back time.
Because he gave up his authority, he was already tied to the system, so he couldn’t escape Makina’s ability.
Because of his weakened ability, he can only remember the past in fragments.
Still, it was enough to destroy the world.
Because Kang Joo-won, who was the original protagonist, failed every time.
With the help of the talent he possessed and the system, he grew as if he had wings.
When a real crisis came, it broke without fail.
Is it because I’ve never had a problem?
His mentality was weak, and he gave up easily.
When he gained power, he changed easily. Because he was obsessed with women.
Well, he didn’t get any of the hearts of the important women around him.
That’s why I didn’t understand.
“Aren’t you afraid of death?”
“If it doesn’t work once, ten times, if that doesn’t work, then a hundred times, a thousand times and it’s enough.”
Why is the man in front of her not giving up?
At first, I didn’t even think that I would choose such an insignificant man.
Because it was such an insignificant existence.
By the time things keep going out of line, and you feel that something is wrong.
That man showed his presence like an awl.
He’s definitely a lesser being than Kang Joo-won, but he’s just trash that dies at the beginning of the story.
How can you grow like that?
Why do my plans keep failing?
An intrusive, irritating existence.
That’s why I decided to get rid of it for sure in this episode.
It shook the power of the system by overdoing it to the point that its existence was erased.
Although Makina recovered, she succeeded in creating this space by squeezing her remaining strength.
It was not simply a heterogeneous space.
This space away from the system was a space where the power of the system could be neutralized.
The man in front of his own eyes had lost all power gained by the system.
A state where neither inventory, skills, nor stat power can be used.
‘I’m connected to the system because of Machina, but all of my existing abilities are disabled… “
Why.
Why.
Even though I’ve lost all my power, I’m in a state where I can’t do anything.
Are you not giving up?
Are you not despairing?
The image of the man dying because of his weakened power passed like an afterimage for a while.
Prototype was also in a state of near loss of power.
A state with no power left except to summon that knight that was prepared last.
But he didn’t get tired of himself.
Because he was a strong knight who could not even be compared to that man who had lost his strength.
But why?
What makes me feel uncomfortable all the time.
“What number is it now?”
“You don’t know that?”
How many repetitions are there?
The moment when a man gave up and despaired, the moment when time does not turn back.
I intended to seal him here and see the true end.
But, why does that man keep fighting?
“The brawny system lost its power. Neither the power of stats nor the power of skills can be used! What are you fighting for with a body like that!”
“You fought well even in a state more like an idiot than this.”
Before the inventory was neutralized, he raised the sword he was holding.
“Therefore. I want to give up changing fate and end the world. Is that so?”
The man was smiling even in front of a knight with more overwhelming power than himself.
“You coward. So it’s hard and you just want to give up.”
Man, no, Kim Si-woo answered while looking at the proto.
“That fucking fate, I will change it. Don’t interfere and go off. “
