Resurrected Immortal 866

Chapter 866 – 866. Puppeteer’s Heart (4)

“Arcis’ starting point is magic.”

“Magic?”

“The magic of collecting information on your own, drawing appropriate conclusions based on that information, and putting it into action.”

Artificial intelligence or AI, which is commonly used on Earth, may be a similar concept.
After hearing Eunhyun’s explanation, Cecilia made a surprised expression.

“The magic… You have an ego?”

“Can you believe it?”

“No. That kind of thing…”

If I had been myself for 2 years, no, I wouldn’t have believed it.
That’s right, the magic used by people is just a concept like a tool, and it doesn’t think and move on its own.
It was common sense that was close enough to be called the law of the world.
However, Cecilia’s common sense has already been broken since she accepted Eun-hyeon’s suggestion and started researching at the institute.
Seeing, hearing, and feeling this scene created by Eunhyeon and enjoying the benefits directly, I couldn’t help but believe it.
With the knowledge she knew, it was impossible to create something called ‘magic that acts with ego’, so she was shocked to realize how amazing Eun-hyeon was.

“Hmm. Magic with self…”

Eventually, Erin chewed over Eunhyeon’s words once more, wondering if something had come to her mind.

“Is my brother like that too?”

“Alvin’s case is a little different.”

Elvin was different from Archis in that he discarded a part of his soul that was damaged by black magic and removed the unharmed part to settle it into the concept of magic and reborn as a spirit.
Fixing a soul that already has an ego into magic and creating an ego from scratch are completely different concepts.

“Still, to think of Erwin right away, Erin is smart.”

“Uh? Hi-Hi. A real egg? Am I smart?”

At Eunhyeon’s sudden compliment, Erin rubbed her face against Eunhyeon’s chest with a grim expression.

“Then.”

“Hyeoni is also really amazing!”

“Huh. Thank you.”

Eunhyun smiled at Erin’s praise and stroked her hair.
She continued her explanation, confirming that Erin’s mood had been relieved by blushing her face a little while ago.

“Archis’ ego is highly magical, composed of a very diverse and complex command system. No, should I say magic?”

“Spells?”

“Ah.”

When Erin tilted her head at the expression of plural rather than singular, Cecilia sighed as if she realized something about her in that expression.

“Okay. In that way… Was it really made by one individual?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t believe it…”

Cecilia was still frowning.
Her feeling of looking at the feat of a scholar at a height impossible for herself made her feel admiration and at the same time feel a little discouraged.

“What do you mean? Can you explain to me too?”

“To put it simply, it’s similar to what I asked Erin earlier, Doran. What do you do to make weapons?”

“Fire the furnace, heat the iron with the heat, and forge it with a hammer.”

“It is to systematize and engrave each one of those actions into magic.”

“Hmm?”

Sprinkle water to put out the fire.
Firewood and embers are put in to light the brazier.
A hammer is hammered to smelt the heated iron.
Innumerable behavioral tips and patterns engraved on it in order to bring out the desired phenomenon and result.
If a special situation arises, it immediately responds by showing actions appropriate to the situation.
It was a magical collection composed of countless command systems, as if a pre-made program was working.
Eunhyun continued Cecilia’s explanation.

“And by collecting a lot of data and creating countermeasures, the dolls draw their own conclusions and start to find countermeasures in order to respond to similar situations or phenomena.”

The doll, which moved and acted according to the set program, created the question ‘Who am I?’ From a certain moment and endlessly repeated the process of defining its own definition.
Eventually, after numerous updates over 300 times, Archis was able to define himself as ‘Arkis’.

“Um, I don’t know what you mean, but I do know that it’s a really, really, really great doll.”

Come to think of it, the existence of Emilia, who unconditionally carried out her orders and Eunhyun, was unusual.
Moreover, the appearance of Cecilia and Doran showed how great the birth of a doll named Archis was.

“How did Hyun-yi meet such an amazing doll?”

“That…”

Eunhyun gave a small bitter smile.
It can be called a memory now, but I remembered the embarrassing memory of the past and put the moment in my mouth.

◆ ◆ ◆

The disaster that killed many people and swept the land was subdued.
The earth shook with every step he took, and the huge breath he exhaled from his mouth burned the air, a disaster itself that turned many lives into ashes.
After many sacrifices, the monster was subdued, and silence encroached like a lie on a night.
Eun-hyeon gathered all the dead bodies of her colleagues in one place.
He took a shovel and dug a pit, where he buried his comrade’s body.
Then he dug another pit, buried the bodies of the other comrades, and buried each one with great care.
As he was quietly digging a hole to bury his colleague, a doll girl approached him.

“You. What is your name?”

“… ?”

Eun-hyun, who continued to shovel on the dry land filled with terrible deaths, had no choice but to stop at the clear voice talking to her.
He couldn’t feel the presence of people.
Even if it was a quiet and light step, not feeling it could be regarded as a painful mistake for Eunhyeon.
If this was a battlefield, and if the opponent was an enemy with malicious intent toward him, he would have already died.

“You…”

As he belatedly looked at the approaching person with caution, a small girl caught his eye in Eun-hyeon’s field of vision.
Archis asked again.

“What is your name?”

“…”

Eun-hyeon put on a puzzled expression at the words of the little girl who asked her name without hesitation.

“Did you not hear me?”

“No. I heard.”

“Then why aren’t you answering?”

“I don’t understand why you’re talking to me all of a sudden.”

“Can’t you talk to me?”

Archis tilted his head.

“It’s not like that…”

“Then why aren’t you answering?”

“…”

Eunhyun was at a loss for words for a moment.
It was strange.

‘What?’

It feels like something is going wrong with the conversation.
The girl tilting her head as if she didn’t know anything was also very different.
A girl wearing a black gothic dress that doesn’t match the battlefield.
Eunhyun belatedly recalled the rumor about the girl in front of her.

“… Could it be that you are that ‘puppet master’?”

“… I asked the question first.”

Her girlish face was expressionless, but the way she spoke was oddly gruff.
Eun-hyeon reluctantly matched her girlish rhythm.

“It’s Eunhyun. My Name. What is your name?”

“Archis. Archis Mendel.”

After briefly hearing each other’s names and making a full statement, Eun-hyeon turned her gaze away from Archis and started shoveling.

“What are you doing?”

“… Can’t you see? You are asking people.”

“I know that. You call this a “Burial”? What I want to ask is why do you have a store?”

Burial is one of the stages of funeral by burying the body or ashes in the ground.
I knew it in a dictionary sense, but I couldn’t understand why burial had become a common custom.

“…”

However, Eunhyeon, who had no way to know the details, had no choice but to stop her shoveling once again and look at Archis.
I was reminded again that Archis was a doll, not a human, but it took me a while to accept it.
To be honest, it was annoying, but judging from Archis’ attitude, it seemed that he would continue to annoy himself unless his curiosity was satisfied.
She sighed and replied appropriately.

“Because I want to do it.”

It was a short time, but they were colleagues who shared life and death with him.
Not a single one survived and only you were left.
Eun-hyeon felt responsible for their deaths.
If he had been stronger, if he had been wiser, he could have survived with them.
They died because he was weak, because he was stupid.
So he wanted to do something for those who had already died, leaving him alone.

“They used all the medicine on the already dead body?”

“…”

Eunhyeon couldn’t help but frown at Arcis’ remarks that kept touching her.
However, when he saw the face of Archis, who was looking up at him as if he was really curious, his anger disappeared.
It was a strange feeling to see the expressionless face of the doll girl, who really wanted to know something she didn’t know.

“I don’t know about you, a doll, but it’s not that easy to calculate and match the human mind.”

Even though he knew his comrade was already dead, he really felt like he would go mad if he didn’t drug him.
So he had to do it then.
I was wasting my time burying my dead comrades and praying for their rest, because it felt like my heart would collapse if I didn’t do that.

“Mind.”

Arcis paid attention to one word in Eunhyun’s words.
The word heart.

-Finally I… I couldn’t teach you ‘mind’.

These words were also included in the will of Allen, his father and creator, who was facing the end due to his old age.

-I hope that one day the day will come when you will be able to say ‘I am alive’… Even though I couldn’t, someday someone will show up to tell you about it.

“Perhaps.”

Maybe this person is the one who can tell you what ‘mind’ is.
A question that occupied a lot of the doll girl’s memory as she started to develop her self and Allen died.
And it was a question that has never been answered.

“If you help me…”

“What?”

“Can you tell me what that ‘heart’ is if I help you?”

It was the moment when Archis decided to accompany Eunhyeon on his own.

◆ ◆ ◆

“That’s how I ended up accompanying Archis for a while.”

For a while, Eunhyeon and Archis got along really well.
The two were similar in some ways.
Because Eunhyun, whose physical time stopped permanently and aging did not progress, and Archis, who could activate semi-permanently by replacing parts of the body, had in common that in a sense, they were closer to beings who lived eternal life.

“After a few years of walking together like that, Archis suddenly declared individual actions.”

Because he wanted to find a successor who could carry on the knowledge and skills that made up his existence and the dolls he had created so far.
Eunhyun nodded and respected the doll girl’s choice.
It was a companion that was established because the interests were the same from the beginning and the purpose was similar.
And unlike other colleagues who left his side due to his death, the breakup with Archis was a good ending and settled down as a memory that was not too painful for Eun-hyeon.

“So, Archis created the labyrinth and waited for a successor to pass on his knowledge and skills.”

And ironically, Eun-hyeon took over.

“Hmm…”

Among those who heard Eunhyun’s story, Erin thought hard about something.

“Erin? What’s the matter?”

Eunhyun, who was gently brushing her hair and touching her hair, tilted her head and called out to Erin.

“Hyunah.”

“Hmm?”

“Maybe that doll called Archis. Mal said that she broke up with Hyeon to find her successor, but couldn’t it have been waiting for Hyeon in that labyrinth?”

“… What?”

Eun-hyeon didn’t understand Erin’s guess for a moment and asked back.