Chapter 572 – 572. The Witch of the Second Dimension (3)
Newly assigned as her new librarian, a woman who suddenly appeared and introduced herself as Eun-jeong became the starting point of shaking Illyana’s agitation, which had been quieting down.
Her voice, size, and gender were completely different, but her bright white hair and her red eyes somehow reminded me of Eun-hyeon.
“…”
“Chief? Why is that?”
“No… Nothing.”
Illyana tried to ignore it.
Eun-jung, a new librarian, quickly adapted to work at the magic library after that.
Contrary to the saying that this is my first time working in this field, I have settled down in the library little by little, being friendly with other librarians and taking care of my duties.
The more so, Illyana’s heart became more and more troubled.
Even though there was no point of contact or connection, whenever I saw a new librarian named Eun-jung, a part of her heart kept stirring.
Why?
Illyana herself could not resolve the cause of the complication in her heart.
Fortunately, Illiana, the director of this magic library, and Eun-jeong, a low-level new librarian, did not run into each other that often.
“Hello. Manager!”
“… Okay. Hi.”
If there’s something a little unusual about it, it’s that a woman named Eun-jung is very lively and friendly.
Her sociability, her bright smile, diligent performance of her duties, and friendship with her fellow librarians, was outstanding.
This is a bit different from her Eunhyun.
Illyana accepted Eunjung’s greetings at the library with a sullen look on her face.
It wasn’t that she disliked Eunjung herself, but even when she saw Illyana’s uncomfortable attitude, she didn’t care about Eunjung at all and spoke to her in a friendly way.
To the point where Illyana, who doesn’t have a deep relationship with others, stuck out her tongue.
“By the way, manager. Do you believe in something like fate?”
“… What strange noises have you heard this morning?”
From the morning she came to work, the random question she asked out of the blue was enough to upset Illyana, who had a lot of sleep in the morning.
“Lol. I was just asking.”
However, even after seeing Illyana’s frowning face, Eunjung just smiled and stuck to her attitude.
She was a lot older than he was, but there was something odd about her young new librarian.
All the librarians and staff working in this magical library are a bit afraid of Illyana, an eight-digit high-ranking wizard, and are watching her.
But instead of being afraid of Illyana, Eun-jung in front of her is smiling while maintaining her screwed-up attitude.
Eunjung didn’t erase her smile and quietly waited for Illyana’s answer.
“… I don’t believe you.”
When her Eunjung showed her intention to continue waiting until she heard her own answer, Illyana let out a small sigh and answered her question.
“Why?”
“Because I don’t like it.”
Illyana was a person who did not believe in the theory of fate, in which everything human being had a fixed beginning and end.
If you believe that, it means that it was decided from the beginning that Eun-hyeon, who could not convey her feelings, would die at that moment.
She couldn’t accept the death of Eun-hyeon, who left her alone without keeping her promise to herself, so Illyana didn’t want to believe in such a damned fatalism.
“…”
She then clamped her mouth shut as if she didn’t want to talk any more.
However, seeing Illyana like that, Eunjung rather laughed.
As if he had heard the answer he wanted.
“Yes?”
“What?”
“Isn’t it really absurd if a person’s life has a fixed beginning and end?”
“…”
“Because it’s really not fair when someone has lost someone dear to them and someone else has a lifetime of happiness with their loved one somewhere else.”
What does it mean?
However, one thing Illyana could be sure of was that her first example pointed directly to herself.
Illyana felt goosebumps all over her body in an instant.
Her vigilance instantly raised her magical powers to a battle stance instinctively.
Ugh
“You… What?”
Illyana’s magical power that filled her library’s closet would give an ordinary person a powerful pressure that would crush her lungs, but Eunjung, who was exposed to her magical power, continued to smile and was unparalleled in her composure.
Illyana glared at her Eunjung and asked again.
“Who is this. You.”
She raised her darker and higher-density magic power and pressed her eunjung, but like the first time, she didn’t show any movement at all.
‘… What. This?’
As time passed, Illyana felt strange.
She wouldn’t know if the pressure of her magical power she had raised herself was not as high as that of Rio de, no matter how strong she was, it was not a level that she could easily withstand.
It’s strange when you think about it.
It takes less than a second to deal with her grace with magic that can be activated with the slightest flick of her finger and unfold her spell.
Now, she is standing on the edge of a precipice, where if she takes even one wrong step, she may fall right off the cliff.
But her Eunjung was not doing anything.
Literally ‘nothing’.
Far from raising her magical powers to counter the pressure, preparing for battle, or displaying such actions, she calmly accepted her own pressure from beginning to end.
“… You. What?”
Illyana repeated the same question as her first time.
But the meaning of the question is completely different.
Her first question is how much she knows about herself, why she approached her, and what her purpose is.
However, the second question is the identity of a woman named Eun-jung.
Eunjung didn’t feel anything.
Fear, fear, of course, ’emotion’ itself does not exist in her face as she smiles at herself.
Besides, she was pretending to be a human being, while not possessing the magical powers she should have of course.
Illyana was sure.
That’s not human
Eunjung finally spoke.
“If you could twist your destiny, what would you do?”
“What… ?”
Eunjung no longer respected Illyana, but Illyana’s eyes shook so wildly that she had no time to care.
She realized what it meant to twist a fate that had already been decided.
If, if I could twist the pre-determined ‘Eunhyeon’s death’.
It is also the earnest wish that Illyana wants to obtain at any cost.
“What is that… !”
Before she could even ask what it meant, Eun-jeong suddenly disappeared.
“Uh… ?”
Illyana was taken aback.
This is because Eun-jung disappeared in an instant in front of her.
Her disappearance wasn’t much of a problem.
The most chilling thing was that Illyana couldn’t figure out the process of her Eunjung disappearing.
She didn’t disappear using her favorite teleport.
Even though she herself was under pressure, her Eunjung did not use her magic at all.
As if it had literally never existed from the beginning, Eunjung, who was confronting Illyana, disappeared as if evaporating.
And on the floor where she was, there was a thick book of magic all at once.
It didn’t just appear and fall out of thin air, as if it had been there from the beginning.
Illyana picked up the magic book as if possessed by something of hers.
“Librarian!?”
“What’s going on!?”
At the same time, the librarians and staff of her library hurriedly rushed to the library director’s office, feeling the powerful magic she had lifted up and scattered.
Seeing them gasping for breath, Illyana immediately ordered her Eunjeong to be brought.
“Eunjeong? Who is that?”
“Are you the librarian?”
“What… ?”
But none of her librarians and staff remembered Eun-jung.
Illyana was the only one who remembered her existence.
As if the existence of Eunjung in this world did not exist from the beginning.
Illyana could not understand the situation she was experiencing.
“… Okay. Look out.”
“Yes? But that magical power…”
“Are you okay! Get out!”
“Ah, I see.”
Sending her librarians and staff out as if she was kicking her out, Illyana carefully examined the contents of the magic book that existed in place of her grace.
“… A different dimension and a parallel world?”
The contents of the book, which had neither the author nor the title, were very bizarre.
But as if she was possessed by something, she quickly read through the contents of the book.
To briefly summarize the contents of the book, there is a source in this world, and that stem gradually extends upward, creating a flow and creating countless options.
And the divergence points derived from those choices were the story of the creation of various dimensions.
If a situation arises in which Illyana has to choose between reading this book and not reading it, she will read this book.
No matter how trivial and small the choices are, they can serve as a turning point.
The number of parallel dimensions derived from the choices of all people in this world, not just one, is far too far to count.
“What nonsense…”
The contents of this book, which Illyana cannot recognize and cannot even prove, are full of absurd information.
However, Illyana did not stop devouring the knowledge in her books.
If she was her usual self, she might have frowned and threw the book away, but she found a possibility passing through her head.
“If… If there is another dimension where Hyun-i doesn’t die…”
A hypothesis that there may be a dimension in which Eun-hyeon lives without dying in countless parallel worlds in people’s heads.
There was absolutely no evidence to support that hypothesis, but Illyana could not endure without believing in it.
“Hyeoni… Can we meet.”
Even if it’s 0.1%, 0.001%, or 0.00001%, if there is a dimension where Eunhyun lives, it’s enough to have hope that it might exist.
“Let’s do it.”
Illyana made up her mind.
Regaining her mind, she continued to devour the knowledge of the book.
Originally, between parallel worlds, it is completely impossible to even interfere, let alone come and go.
Fortunately, however, this book described in detail how to break that rule and cross the dimension.
“The door that connects dimensions…”
It was a means of transportation used when demons invaded the underworld in ancient times.
Instead of making a door connecting the devil and the underworld, if you make a door between the underworld and the other underworld, you can go to a dimension where Eunhyun might be alive.
However, the biggest problem is that what is needed to make this ‘door’ is the human soul.
Illyana had no choice but to ponder, as there must be a large number of souls covering more than half of the continent, not just a small number.
Should she act out, it is inevitable that she will naturally come into conflict with her own old allies again.
“First… You have to start by specifying the coordinates.”
Whether or not she puts it into action is after that.
Illyana developed her magic and began to search for existence in other dimensions besides this one.
“Nice…”
A lot of information flowing into my head.
Despite feeling the headache that her brain would burn from not being able to process them, Illyana did not stop her calculations and dimensional exploration.
Peeping into a single world through magic is a dangerous act that already carries the risk of burning your head and eating away your soul.
The reason Illyana was able to accomplish that was that she was a wizard with the most outstanding computing power and magical power on this continent, but the biggest factor was another factor.
“… Perished?”
This is because all the different dimensions she explored perished without even having to check them all at once.
Like rotten leaves hanging from tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of branches on a large tree.
She took some of the burden off her head by excluding the parallel worlds that perished.
And she continued her search for a parallel world where she existed unharmed, like a leaf.
However, even as time passed and she continued her search, the existence of a parallel world that existed safely could not be found.
A parallel world that perished because it could not deal with the infested demons.
A parallel world that was destroyed horribly after being defeated by a necromancer.
A parallel world that was ravaged by summoned demons and was horribly destroyed.
Although the causes and processes are different, the endings that exist at the end were all the end of the underworld.
And Illyana discovered the commonality of the destroyed dimensions.
“… I don’t have Hyun.”
All of them are parallel worlds where Eun-hyeon does not exist, and even though they made peace after hard work, they could not avoid the path of destruction.
When the number of parallel worlds destroyed in that way reached a hundred, then a thousand, transcending ten thousand and one hundred thousand, reaching 1.4 million.
“Found.”
While Eun-hyeon was alive, Illyana discovered a parallel world that was the only one out of countless worlds that had not come to an end.