Chapter 124 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is the Hero, the Half Is XXX
Soon, a situation began to occur that embarrassed Eugene even more. … This is because the light emitted from the slave imprint disappeared without a trace.
“What… ?”
Eugene asks, “What kind of situation is this?” As he sees the slave imprint turning off the light just because he wants to. He was making that expression.
Then, she suddenly realized that unlike before, Genos’s breathing had become quite even, so he carefully approached her and checked her physical condition.
‘… Has the debilitating death stopped?’
Physical activity that was dying due to a broken spirit. To my surprise, it stopped.
As if Genos’ spirit, which was thought to be completely broken, had overcome the trauma on its own.
What on earth happened to Eugene in such an unbelievable move? A question came to mind, and then he raised his voice again.
‘… Let’s wake him up first.’
The slave imprint has been deactivated, so if you awaken it quickly now, there will be no need to die from shock.
Therefore, since Eugene could not tell when the slave imprint would be activated again, he decided not to miss this opportunity and quickly awakened her consciousness.
Kwasik!
For that purpose, it was necessary to first destroy the black sphere that maintained the dungeon gimmick, so Eugene immediately pierced the screaming sound into the sphere.
Then, the monster’s blade, which was composed of Unirat and possessed supernatural substitution power in its very existence, easily pierced through the black sphere.
Click! Bang!
With the blade inserted like that, without hesitation, I pulled the trigger of the roaring sound, and the screaming sound with the blade deeply embedded in it caused an explosion from inside the black sphere.
Slam! Slam! Slam! Bang! Bang! Bang! Kwaaaaang!!
Not just once, but all the loaded bullets were fired, causing an explosion, and there would have been no way to withstand the explosion that occurred internally, not externally.
It was a black sphere that exploded and shattered in all directions, and Eugene skillfully struck away the fragments of the resulting sphere using the monster’s handle and looked around at the state of the dungeon.
‘… Fortunately, this part is carried out as in the original.’
After being possessed by Strahl’s body, Eugene experienced so many things that were far from the original that he became cautious without even realizing it.
However, fortunately, after destroying the black sphere, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief after confirming that the special flow of essence that had been encroaching inside the dungeon, which was being detected by Eugene’s Unirat radar, had disappeared.
Eugene, who had confirmed that the flow of essence trapping the challenger in the hallucinatory world had disappeared, calmly examined Genos’ condition. And…
“Umm…”
“… Phew.”
Eugene breathed a sigh of relief when he checked the condition of Genos, who slowly opened his eyes with a shallow groan shortly after the flow that caused him to fall into the hallucinatory world disappeared.
Deep down, I was worried that my mistake would completely destroy Genos’s mind and cause him to go beyond autism and fall into a coma from which he could never wake up.
However, it was natural to feel relieved as Genos opened his eyes shortly after the flow disappeared without any worries.
“Are you okay? “Are you awake?”
Therefore, Eugene put aside some of her worries and asked Genos to check on her condition, even though she knew she would not receive an answer. However…
“Haha… , I’m fine, master.”
“… ?”
… The moment Genos’ completely unexpected answer came back, Eugene couldn’t help but place a question mark over his head without realizing it.
“What now… ?”
No, the guy who had previously suffered from autism (more accurately, he was showing similar symptoms due to PTSD) returned the answer?
As Eugene blinked at the incomprehensible fact, Genos calmly stood up from where he was lying down and smiled at Eugene and answered again.
“Thanks to the master’s grace, I was able to escape the hallucination world safely, so I, Zenos, your faithful servant, report to the master that there is nothing wrong.”
“… “What the fuck?”
And in Genos’s subsequent report, it is said that Eugene was just spouting out his usual curse towards this incomprehensible situation.
… As a side note, it seems that one of the main heroines’ voice, which I heard in person for the first time, was said to have a voice that was more like a jade ball rolling than expected.
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“So who are you?”
“I am Zenos, your faithful servant who can do anything for you, and can even walk on all fours for you, as well as become a carpet for you.”
“… “Who am I?”
“The master who is the reason for my life, who is greater, more beautiful and more brilliant than anyone else, who has the legitimate right to own and wield everything I have, and who is my happiness itself, is Stral Zenon.”
“… “I changed my name, so call me Jeol Yujin.”
“Yes, Master Je Yujin!”
“… No, honestly, rather than changing my name, I know it that way because I have a completely different personality from the Strahl you know.”
“Yes! All right!”
“… They say he’s a completely different person from Strahl. Is there any question about that?”
“It is absurd for me, your slave, to question your words! If the master says you know that, even if you say that the Orbital Continent is flat, I will believe it because it is a slave’s duty!”
… A statement that Genos could not have imagined just a moment ago. Not only are his eyes not dead like the usual Genos, but his eyes are so sparkly that they don’t even look like the Milky Way flowing through them.
All of this proved that the girl who was now somewhat kneeling in front of Eugene, looking up at him, was a person with a completely different personality from the Genos of just a moment ago.
“Ha… , How did things end up like this… ?”
“As a result of the master’s ingenious plan, I was able to rid myself of my foolish past and be born only faithful to the master. All of this is the result of the master’s meticulous plan…”
“… “Just keep your mouth shut for now.”
“… !”
Of course, this situation was never Eugene’s plan. On the contrary, Eugene cared about Genos’s human rights even though he was a slave.
That’s why she accompanied her to her dungeon for the purpose of curing her autism. However, if you look at the results, the exact opposite of what you wanted was revealed.
‘No matter how you think about this, isn’t the personality itself modified by slave imprinting?’
A platinum grade slave engraving on Genos’ back. It proved that she was her rightful slave, and at the same time it was the source of absolute obedience to her master as her slave.
‘It can be said to be a kind of imitation divine device created by the sacred object of the God of Heavenly Punishment.’
It was a divine device given by God, an imitation divine device born from a sacred object, and its power was at a level that could only follow the imprinted ideal.
Of course, as I said before, there were limits, but at least it was not something that Genos, who was only at the highest level of beginner, could resist.
And that slave imprint did it right this time.
‘Was the death from exhaustion caused by the dungeon gimmick treated as suicide?’
Eugene wasn’t stupid. The moment he confirmed Genos’s condition, he had enough wisdom to be able to infer what was going on just from circumstantial evidence.
‘It must have been so luminous and activated to prevent slaves from committing suicide without their master’s orders.’
However, despite this, as Genos, who was caught in the hallucinatory world, was about to die of exhaustion, the intensity continued to increase, and in the end, it can be said that Genos’ personality itself, which did not obey his master, was remodeled as a last resort.
‘The transformation of personality means the transformation of the soul.’
Therefore, it could be said that slave engravings were very scary items.
Not only did it make the imprinted person obey the master unconditionally, but if they continued to resist, it would even change their soul.
‘Because that is possible, it must be an imitation divine device created by a divine object.’
This was impossible even for Cheonma and Yeonhwa, who had mastered the martial art of Seophonjutsu.
It may be possible to temporarily control a person’s will, but permanent transformation of personality, that is, transformation of the soul, is in some sense a miracle that has reached the realm of God.
And in a way, reaching the realm of God was something that was possible for God, and that is why the slave imprint of the Orbital World created by the God of Heavenly Punishment was capable of even changing the personality of the slave.
‘That’s why slave engravings are treated as very dangerous items.’
It was an object that could even touch the soul of the person who had been imprinted on it. It is said that it is not managed at the same level as military supplies in the Orbital World for no reason.
Even if the slave imprint of the Demon Lord or Crescent, rather than the slave imprint of the God of Heavenly Punishment, was discovered, this was also the reason for receiving punishment equivalent to the death penalty.
‘Ignoring the will of the person involved and taking the mental picture… , It’s something that massages the soul.’
If such an object had existed on Earth, it could not have been used to maintain legal slavery in this way.
As it is an item that absolutely ignores human rights, it would have been thoroughly removed as an item that should not be used even by felons.
And Eugene, who came from an Earth where human rights were so advanced, actually had a strong resistance to the personality modification function, as if it were another function of slave imprinting.
‘In Orbital World, this function is considered the most core function of slave imprinting.’
This was not only a difference in values between Earth and Orbital World, but also because those who were legally engraved with slaves in Orbital World were the highest level of felons who had committed very serious crimes.
Just like Zenos, the former warrior who harmed the saint, the child of God who was chosen by God, those with the slave imprint of the God of Heavenly Punishment were, in a sense, recognized as ‘serious criminals’ by the God of Heavenly Punishment.
Unless they had committed such a serious crime, they could not have been engraved with the slave imprint of the God of Heavenly Punishment in the first place.
In other words, they were sinners worthy of God’s approval, and as such, most legal slaves were murderers who murdered dozens of people for no reason.
Or, in the Orbital World, those who brutally murder a child who is recognized as an object of absolute protection, or those who commit a ‘crime’ of the same level, are engraved with the slave mark and treated as slaves.
‘In that sense, the humanity of all legal slaves was ruined.’
Isn’t it possible that the personalities of sinners recognized by God are normal?
In that sense, if it were not for the imprint of slavery, people with enough personality to kill those who became their masters are legal slaves.
‘So, if you purchase a legal slave, it is recommended that you first change their personality through the slave imprinting function.’
In Orbital World, since they did not have proper personalities to begin with, it was thought that modifying their personalities and using them was the natural way to use legal slaves.
‘It’s not that I don’t understand.’
Eugene could also understand this culture of Orbital World itself. It was a slavery system in which only felons worthy of God’s approval were treated as slaves.
