Chapter 1648 – 1648. God’S Atlantis
I looked down into the pit.
Just as Krysema had said, the pit was large and deep. Even though the sun was still up, the inside of the pit was so dark that I couldn’t see anything at all.
‘It’s like an antlion’s pit.’
Once you go inside, it seems like it would be hard to get out again.
“You must go in alone. Only then will the warriors acknowledge you.”
That meant I had to leave the undead behind and go in alone.
“I was planning on going alone from the start. This is just a minor trial. I’m more than capable of handling it myself.”
I jumped into the pit.
At first, it felt like riding a sand slide. The slope made me descend rapidly underground. When I reached the bottom, complete darkness, without a single ray of light, greeted me.
As an undead, I could see through the darkness.
‘It’s convenient not having to start a fire.’
The path was one-way. I liked that I didn’t have to look for a way.
I walked forward.
From the outside, it looked like a large and deep pit, but the inside was quite narrow. It was about the width of a single adult male walking comfortably.
Whoosh.
Something flew towards me. By the time I heard the sound and felt the presence, it was already too late to react. Thud. The thing that pierced my chest was an arrow. I calmly looked at the embedded arrow before pulling it out with my hand.
‘Is this some kind of trap?’
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Arrows flew towards me.
Unlike before, I wasn’t careless. I formed a protective aura. The arrows that were flying towards me hit the aura and fell to the ground with a thud.
‘The arrows were aiming precisely for the head and heart. The accuracy is too high to be a trap set by a mechanism.’
I came to one conclusion. Krysema’s claim that this trial was a tradition of the tribe might be a lie. A lie to kill me here.
‘Black Wave.’
I used black magic.
A black wave spread out from me. I could feel the objects that the wave touched.
The things that shot arrows at me weren’t humans. They were stone statues holding bows and quivers that shot arrows at me.
Thud thud thud.
Other statues ran towards me. The statues were holding swords in their hands.
“I was a little nervous since they said 99% die in this trial, but now that I’m experiencing it, it’s nothing.”
Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Dragon Fist.
I thrust out my fist. The fist aura extended like a dragon, destroying the statue in front of me.
Every time I saw a statue, I swung my fist.
I broke through the statues blocking my way and moved forward.
The narrow path widened as I moved forward. At the same time, the number of statues targeting me also increased.
‘Do they think I’d be defeated by these kinds of statues?’
Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Dragon Fist.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Heavenly Demon Palm.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Heavenly Demon Flying Claw.
I moved both hands without rest. I destroyed the statues with my fists, palms, and claws. I even felt a strange sense of pleasure as the statues shattered into pieces.
“Easy.”
I destroyed over 100 statues and moved forward.
Then, at some point, I started to get confused about whether I was moving forward. It was because I couldn’t see an exit at all.
‘It must be my imagination. This is a one-way path. It doesn’t make sense to get lost. If I keep going forward, I’ll find the exit.’
If necessary, I could take out a space-movement scroll from my inventory.
At some point, the statues stopped appearing. Since there were no statues attacking me, I could walk comfortably.
“Do you really think you are right?”
I stopped walking at the voice that came from the front. I was surprised and looked ahead.
A man was standing there. The man was wearing Tutankhamun’s golden mask, was shirtless, and wore golden bracelets and a skull necklace. The man was me. The difference was that the man’s skin was green.
“Who are you and why do you look like me?”
“I asked first. Answer my question.”
The thing that looked like me and had my voice was definitely not me.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Dragon Fist.
The attack didn’t work. It was as if it didn’t exist, the Dragon Fist passed through its body. I clicked my tongue and walked forward. The thing was standing still, but strangely, the distance wasn’t closing.
“Do you truly believe you are right?”
“Of course. I am right.”
“Why?”
“Because I’m strong. Is there any other reason?”
“……”
Suddenly, the space changed.
It was a desert.
Two men and women were falling into quicksand.
“Save us!”
“Please save us!”
They reached out to me, asking for help. I thought for a moment about what this was all about.
‘Are they testing my morality?’
I looked at the man and woman. Half of their bodies were already buried in the quicksand. The man was nothing special, and the woman’s beauty was average.
I ignored the man and woman and walked forward.
“You had the power to save both of them. Why didn’t you?”
“I want to ask the opposite. Why should I save them?”
The space changed again.
An old man was kneeling and reaching out his hands to me.
“Bread! Could you share some of that bread with me, even just a little?”
In my hand, a piece of bread had appeared. I looked back and forth between the bread and the old man. Giving the bread wasn’t difficult.
“Okay. I’ll give it to you. The bread doesn’t look very tasty anyway.”
I threw the bread. It flew almost 50 meters. The old man asked me with a bewildered look.
“Why did you throw the bread over there? If you didn’t want to give me the bread, you could have just said so…”
“What are you talking about? I gave you the bread. Go pick it up and eat it.”
“……”
“Old man. If you’re going to beg, beg more politely.”
The old man tried to say something, but soon drooped his shoulders and walked towards where the bread had fallen. I erased the old man from my mind and walked forward.
There was a child under a tree. The boy, who looked about 6 years old, was crying his eyes out. I ignored him and walked past.
Besides that, several other situations greeted me. I ignored them all unless they spoke directly to me. I knew they were fake anyway. Even if they were real, I would have ignored them.
The thing appeared.
“I see. You don’t see humans as humans.”
“Is the bullshit over? I want to finish this crap soon.”
“The judgment is over. You will bring chaos. It’s better for you to die here.”
I could feel an unusual energy from its body.
「The King of the Heavenly Demon giggles.」
「The King of the Heavenly Demon sponsors 10,000 AP.
“Destroy your own heart.”」
I paused for a moment, looking at the notification window.
I couldn’t understand why the King of the Heavenly Demon had suddenly sent a sponsorship. The content of the sponsorship was also strange.
‘It seems like direct advice from a god… Is it really necessary to send this kind of message even while being sanctioned by the system?’
Or it could just be a joke.
‘…Well, there’s no reason why I can’t listen.’
With my right hand, I pierced my own chest and took out my heart.
A heart that wasn’t beating.
I destroyed the black heart as it was. The shattered pieces of the heart scattered in all directions.
‘I’m an undead right now anyway. I don’t feel pain, and I don’t die.’
Clang!
The space shattered.
I was at a dead end. In front of the dead end, there was a scale. It was a tilted scale. There was nothing on the light side, and a single feather was placed on the heavily tilted side.
‘That must be the feather Krysema was talking about.’
I grabbed the feather. Contrary to its appearance, the feather was surprisingly heavy.
I turned around and went outside. It didn’t even take 10 minutes to get out of the pit.
「A meaningless death is watching you.」
• • •
Krysema was startled as soon as I came back with the feather.
“What’s with that reaction? Did you think I wouldn’t be able to come back?”
“Ah, no! It’s just that you came back with the feather in less than an hour, so I was surprised!”
“It was easy. Is that trial that 990 out of 1,000 people fail really true?”
“I didn’t lie. That trial is a trial that only a pure warrior can pass.”
“Pure…? Well, whatever. Give me the second seal.”
“…Please extend your right hand.”
A new red pattern appeared on the back of my right hand. I had obtained the second seal.
I walked past Krysema and out of the village.
“Tutankhamun! Where are you going? Are you perhaps giving up on the seals?”
“Why would I give up when I’ve obtained the second seal? I’m going to kill the giant below the cliff, so get ready to hand over the third seal.”
“…It won’t be easy. The giant is strong. You need thorough preparation.”
“I’ll take care of it.”
I led the undead army down the cliff. Since the cliff was so large, it took more than 12 hours just to get down. By the time I reached the bottom of the cliff, the sun was rising.
‘That must be the giant Krysema was talking about.’
The giant, who was lying sprawled on the ground, opened his eyes and raised his body as if he had sensed my presence. He only had one eye.
「The Eye of Light (Pseudo) recognizes you.」
It wasn’t a monster, but a divine being.
‘A one-eyed giant. It seems like it was from Greek mythology… Was it called a Cyclops?’
The size of the giant, who straightened his knees and back, was a whopping 30 meters. He looked at me and the undead army, then curled up the corners of his mouth and shouted.
“Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
It was very loud.
“Because of you, more than 50 undead fell off the cliff. It’s time for revenge! Kill him!!”
“Kueeeeeeeeee!”
The undead army began to charge towards the giant.
I had no doubt about the overwhelming victory of the undead army. No matter how powerful the giant was, he was just one. On the other hand, there were thousands on our side. There was no way he could overcome this overwhelming numerical difference.
That’s when it happened.
The giant’s eye flashed, and a red laser was fired, sweeping away the charging undead in a straight line. 80 undead evaporated in an instant.
“This is insane.”
The giant’s eye flashed again.
I couldn’t just stand by and watch this time. I pointed my finger at his eye and used black magic.
“Dark Lightning!!”
