Chapter 1750 – 1750. Savior Of The Academy
“Contractor, I am Yuferis. Do you have a request for me?”
An overwhelming presence that made my whole body tremble.
This guy was definitely a top-tier wind spirit.
It was fortunate that Seong Hari wasn’t nearby. If this guy had attacked Seong Hari out of the blue, things would have spiraled out of control.
‘I was expecting at most a high-level spirit. A pleasant miscalculation. If it’s the power of a top-tier spirit….’
Top-tier spirit.
It was on a different level than a high-level spirit. Its power was no different from a natural disaster. In the old days, they were revered as land gods. Each individual was different, but they probably had enough power to blow away a city.
“Do you see the barrier surrounding this space? Get rid of it.”
“Understood.”
He didn’t say anything unnecessary and just unleashed his power. It was easy. If he were a true top-tier spirit, he would have held his head high and made ridiculous demands.
The wind picked up.
It was a cool breeze, like one that blows in early summer. The breeze was so gentle that I almost laughed. However, the result of that breeze was anything but gentle.
The places where the cool breeze had passed were rough, as if a beast had bitten them.
‘I don’t know the principle, but the space where the wind passed is twisting and distorting.’
Hasegawa Isshin’s barrier? How could it withstand it when the space was being crumpled like paper? Even at this moment, Hasegawa Isshin’s barrier was breaking.
Fragments of the barrier fell like twinkling stars. The sight was quite beautiful.
“A top-tier spirit…?! Terra!!”
Hasegawa Isshin called out to the AI. I didn’t know what they were talking about, but judging by his crumpled face, it wasn’t the conversation he wanted.
I checked Seong Hari’s location. She was bound by the barrier and had fallen to the ground. She was burning the barrier with lightning, but it seemed to take time. There was quite a distance between her and Hasegawa Isshin, which was actually a good thing.
“Yuferis! Kill that damn old man!”
“He’s no ordinary old man. I’ll move myself and grind him to dust.”
“What? No, stop!”
Before I could finish speaking, Yuferis moved like the wind and flew towards Hasegawa Isshin, throwing a punch. A tornado enveloped Hasegawa Isshin’s body. Hasegawa Isshin began to resist using the barrier. Yuferis raised his fist again as if to finish him off, but then paused. Yuferis’s gaze turned to Seong Hari below.
“A disgusting traitor was here.”
Yuferis extended his fist towards Seong Hari and fell. I ran towards Seong Hari. But I was too slow to close the distance in an instant.
“Mom!!!”
Seong Hari calmly swung her spear. With that seemingly light attack, Yuferis’s right arm was cut off.
Yuferis was a spirit. His essence was wind itself. Even if his arm was cut off, he could recover immediately as long as he had spirit power. However, Yuferis’s right arm did not regenerate.
“You traitor! How dare you…!”
“It’s a virtual reality anyway. I’ll use your power.”
One of the two traits Seong Hari possessed, Spirit Devourer (S), was activated. Yuferis gripped the wind. A cool breeze blew around him, distorting the space.
“In the name of all spirits, I will punish you!!”
Seong Hari took a deep breath. Her feet dug into the ground.
Crackling.
Blue lightning gathered at the tip of the tightly held spear and then spread out. The spread lightning forcibly grabbed and compressed the distorted space. Then, she thrust the spear towards the compressed space.
The spear pierced through Yuferis and pierced straight up to the sky. I stopped at the sight.
Yuferis’s existence scattered and was absorbed into Seong Hari.
Seong Hari looked at me. She lightly kicked off the ground.
Rumble!
With a thunderclap, she instantly arrived in front of me. Electricity crackled around her body.
Flash of Lightning. I recalled the technique she often used, but immediately denied it. It was something beyond Flash of Lightning.
“Yujin, there’s only one way to overcome this situation. Summon spirits for me. As many as possible. Mom is asking you.”
“I have mana potions, so I can do it. …But Mom, are you okay? You don’t look too good right now.”
“Mom is fine. I can do anything for Yujin. And this is virtual reality, right? I know they’re not real spirits. Please, Yujin. We need to go back to reality now.”
Seong Hari looked up at the sky. Hasegawa Isshin was deploying a barrier. The layers of the barrier were shining like a universe. The universe became more detailed as time passed. The speed was incredibly fast. He was clearly getting help from Terra.
There was no time to hesitate. I took out a mana potion from my inventory and gulped it down.
“Spirit Summon!”
Crack!
The air froze. At the center was a diamond-shaped piece of ice. Unlike its unremarkable appearance, its power was similar to Yuferis’s. Before the top-tier ice spirit could even speak, Seong Hari’s spear blade tore it apart.
“Aaaaaaah!”
The spirit was absorbed into Seong Hari with a scream.
“Not enough, Yujin.”
She urged me. I drank mana potions and summoned spirits. After devouring one top-tier spirit and six high-level spirits, she became a bolt of lightning and rushed towards Hasegawa Isshin.
His barrier, his universe, shattered like broken glass.
“This is impossible…! My barrier can’t be broken so easily!! Terra! What are you doing?!”
His voice, mixed with shock and bewilderment, was like a scream.
“Your barrier was amazing. Even that old hag would have had a hard time with your barrier. But it’s not enough to stop me now.”
“The power in the Terra simulator is based on reality! Your current power is impossible! No matter how much you are the Heavenly Lightning Monarch…! That strength has crossed the line!!”
“Line? I don’t know. It’s just that your world is too narrow, so you feel that way.”
Seong Hari swung her fist at Hasegawa Isshin. That was the end of it. His body was crushed and disappeared without even being touched by the fist.
Seong Hari turned her head. She quietly looked at Young Hari. I felt a sense of unease.
“Mom! Stop! You’re not going to kill Hari, are you?!”
“Yujin, you know it too. We have to kill her to get Susanoo’s Magatama. More than anything, we have to go back to reality. If we don’t end it, we’ll end up dying.”
It wasn’t wrong.
Young Hari was the source of the end. Even if we didn’t kill Young Hari right now, the countdown to the end was continuing. If we didn’t kill Young Hari, we would die. This was a fact that was determined regardless of Young Hari’s will.
“Mom doesn’t want to kill her either! She’s another mom!”
“You are more important to me than anyone else.”
That ‘anyone else’ included Seong Hari herself. I knew that fact.
“Mom! I’ll take care of it! Just wait a little longer! Makina is in reality! I can solve everything!”
“I can’t miss a sure chance to save you. Yujin, you can resent me. I’ll still love you even then.”
Seong Hari turned her body.
“Mom?!!”
She stepped on a platform made of a force field and leaped. With a thunderclap, she ran towards Young Hari.
“Makina!!!”
-Don’t suddenly shout!
“There’s no time for that! Take down the Terra AI right now! Get control of the Terra simulator no matter what!”
-…It seems serious. The chances of failure are too high. The people trapped in the virtual reality could die. Of course, you and Auntie are also in danger.
“Just do it!”
Even if I died, I had full recovery. Even if Seong Hari died, there was a way to save her. But what about Young Hari? She was fake. I couldn’t be sure she was a living being like me and Seong Hari. There was no guarantee that I could revive her.
-Okay. It’s not my fault if something goes wrong.
Boom!
Two thunderclaps echoed.
Seong Hari and Young Hari were fighting. The students of Caso Academy, who had been targeting Young Hari, didn’t dare to interfere. Lightning poured from the sky, and mountains were overturned. It was truly an earth-shattering battle.
‘Young Hari is being pushed back…!’
I ran to stop them somehow.
“Makina! How’s it going?!”
I knew there was a time difference between here and reality. But the situation was too urgent to not urge Makina.
-I’m currently possessing the AI core… Ah? Wait, there’s a demon?
“A demon?”
Why a demon all of a sudden?
Instead of nagging Makina, I used Spirit Eyes to connect to Makina’s vision.
A familiar demon was standing guard over the Terra AI core.
A middle-aged man with purple skin wearing a suit. With a cat tail, he was smiling at Makina.
‘Laplace…!’
The eighth legion commander.
As soon as I saw him, I realized that everything that had gone wrong was all that guy’s fault. Young Hari appearing in virtual reality, Young Hari being the source of the end, it was all that guy’s doing.
But there was still something I couldn’t understand. That guy’s purpose. Why was he doing this?
To torment me? That couldn’t be it. There were more certain ways to torment me.
‘Damn it! I don’t know! Makina! Ignore that bastard and take down the AI!’
-Ah, I can’t. My body won’t move…!
Laplace opened his mouth. He said something, but his voice couldn’t be heard. It was hard to guess what he was saying from his lip movements. The time difference with reality made his lip movements too slow.
‘What the hell is that bastard saying?!’
-Wait a minute. He says, ‘Let them handle things in their world’?
‘…He’s talking to me. Does he know I’m watching?’
I clenched my fist.
I couldn’t get help from Makina.
‘Hacking.’
I used it when I caught the Colossus. It was on cooldown now. The cooldown was 3 hours. In virtual reality time, it was 90 hours.
‘Even if I buy a cooldown reset ticket and use it….’
Could I stop Seong Hari?
With just 1.1 seconds of hacking the Terra AI?
What if I used all the points I had on the hacking skill? It was meaningless. There was no guarantee that the hacking duration would increase significantly. Besides, I didn’t have that many points left because I had used luck in virtual reality.
“Damn it!”
There was no way.
But I couldn’t give up completely here. I ran towards Seong Hari.
‘If I become Young Hari’s shield…!’
Seong Hari wouldn’t kill me. I had no choice but to rely on that.
They were fighting in the sky, not on the ground. They clashed as lightning. Each time they clashed, shockwaves erupted, shattering innocent trees. I gritted my teeth and moved towards them.
“This crazy auntie…! I thought we had some kind of grudging affection for each other… Is this what you’re going to do?!”
“I don’t want to do this either. But you have to die for us to live.”
“Why don’t you think about finding another way?!”
“Another way? What if we can’t find it?! What if Yujin dies?! You said you love Yujin, right? Are you going to kill the man you love?”
“…When that time comes, I’ll die on my own! I’ll save my brother!”
“Then just die here! You’re fake anyway.”
“……”
Young Hari’s movements seemed to stiffen slightly, as if she was shaken. Seong Hari didn’t miss the gap. She thrust her spear. Young Hari forcibly twisted her body to block the spear. Seong Hari’s spear moved like a ghost. It slipped past Young Hari’s spear shaft and cut off her wrist.
Not missing the moment when the spear shaft lost its balance, the spear blade forced its way in and pierced through Young Hari’s chest.
