Chapter 650 – The Doll’s Knight
Seong-il feels even more insane as he worries about his colleague.
『Han Seong-il!! Are you okay?!”
“…Uh?”
The time when I was anxious because of my colleagues. A familiar voice struck Seongil’s ears.
Realizing that his old colleague, the Cursed Knight, is talking to him, he hurriedly looks in the direction the voice came from.
“Are you… Are you okay?”
“Huh!! Thanks to your alter ego.』
“…My alter ego?!”
Seong-il is startled by the cursed knight’s sudden answer and tries to use the soul mask again to determine the condition of the alter ego. Then, the presence of a weak alter ego felt from a very distant place.
“What’s the matter?”
Seong-il puts on a dumbfounded expression when the knight says that he himself has never given any special order to his alter ego, but they managed to escape the crisis by making their own decisions.
『Ah, those guys don’t think they will be of any help in this battle anyway, so I heard that they changed their plan to stick to the order you gave to your regular alter ego, ‘Protect the Little Pineapple House’?』
‘Wow… That you can make such a judgment?’
A surprising and admirable alter ego judgment. After making a reasonable judgment on the situation, the split-marriage alter-ego carried the frozen Aira and the cursed knight on its back and seemed to have fled to the Little Pineapple House.
“…But how did you manage to evacuate so far in such a short amount of time? They say they have about 1/5 of my ability, but they’re not enough to get out of the explosion range.”
『Ah, that? I got help from the manager who lived in Little Pineapple House.”
Since the cursed knight is a chatty person who likes to talk, he explains the situation at the time with slightly exaggerated gestures and words.
‘Ah, after following the normal clone to the place where they were evacuated, I explained the situation to Elysia and told her to evacuate to reality, right?’
‘But instead of Elysia evacuating at the end of her soul, she created her portal using a teleportation ring that can be used three times a month and she escaped as far as 50km away.’
Seong-il, who has grasped the truth, breathes a sigh of relief as he feels his tension ease.
‘I was lucky.’
Bad luck and luck. The ending of this incident that has nothing to express other than that word. Seong-il is grateful for his continuous luck and uses augmented reality to communicate with Elysia.
‘Northeast of here…’
Seong-il uses the phone dedicated to Elysia’s followers to find out the location of her followers and asks her knight.
“Why did you come alone when there might be some danger left? I can send an alter ego.”
Seong-il speaks to the knight with sharp words, as if he is half scolding. However, the cursed knight who read the worry hidden in his harsh tone replies with a pleasant smile.
『I, as long as I have the ring Aira is wearing, I can be resurrected anytime even if I die. It’s right for me to come scouting for something like this.”
‘But…’
Sympathizing with the words of the cursed knight, Seong-il decides to go to the party using the evergreen bracelet. At that time, something strange starts to feel intrusive in his reaction.
“…What?”
Seong-il naturally moves his steps where his senses lead him. Then he saw a bizarre object there.
『Isn’t that the madman’s cobweb?』
An apostle’s head crushed in half by an explosion. The devil’s blood mixed with sulfur flows from the head of the guy whose jaw is completely crushed, giving the viewer goosebumps.
‘…I’ll have to show it to Aira.’
Seong-il realizes that by taking the head, he can resolve the oath he made with Aira, so he takes it.
『Ouch!! Why are you carrying that? Nastily.”
“I have to give it to Aira. As a token of revenge.”
『Ah, I see.』
The knight immediately changed his attitude as if he had understood the answer of the short holy day.
‘Wait… Isn’t the stimulus given by the apostle’s head?’
Seong-il briefly transfers the head of the bastard to the cursed knight and begins to explore the surroundings. He took a long time to examine all the disgusting black flesh, moving away with his telekinesis. He finally discovers something terrifying.
『What is this again…』
A cursed knight who followed the Demilich and saw all sorts of terrible things countless times. Something so bizarre appears from the floor that even he frowns.
‘This…’
Seong-il sees a black orb that seems to have been condensed with darkness and numerous bizarre eyes attached to it. Seong-il realizes that this is a part of the essence created by the fusion of the god of death and the cursed meteorite that he previously spawned as Arunlabe.
“…Is it collapsing?”
The situation of the object as it was in Seongil’s impression. It was already existing here and was not an object, so it was under tremendous pressure from the dimension, but it was collapsing little by little because it could not withstand the pressure of the dimension, perhaps because it was additionally critically hit by Arunrabe.
‘This… Seems like something that would help me?’
Although it looked really disgusting and terrifying, Seong-il could sense that the object in question was quite useful to him, apart from the emotions he felt.
‘In the past, I would have bought it reluctantly, but now I have this.’
Seong-il takes out the fortune teller’s gold coin he received as a reward for clearing a while ago, holds it in his hand, and flicks it into the air.
“It is to my advantage to purchase this substance. No.”
When Seong-il’s question rings out, his inner energy begins to drain quite a bit with gold coins.
For this reason, Seong-il takes out his advanced mana potion and pours it into his mouth to look at the coins in order to prevent a possible counter-sentence due to a lack of inner strength. The front side that looks like that.
‘Fate speaks positively.’
When the prophecy of fortune-telling falls, Seong-il quickly checks the item with sensitivity to stabilize the unknown object that is still slowly disappearing and shouts tariffs.
『Essence of the End: 200,000 Points』
– Essence left behind by a being who leads the world to an end. If it is possible to find the exact usage, it is likely to be of great help to the user.
‘Also…’
Seong-il realizes that this item is a great item and quickly pays the tariff. Although the price was not insignificant, he was able to purchase the essence without hesitation because he had fortunately accumulated a huge amount of points.
‘It’ll be useful anywhere.’
As much as the fortune-telling and empathy gave him foreknowledge, Seong-il is confident that he will be able to use this unknown essence for himself.
‘Oh… Has the collapse stopped?’
Essence of death that begins to stabilize after paying the tariff. It even looked like it was trying to grow by spraying the power containing the power of darkness little by little to the outside.
‘…I should put it in my inventory.’
This object is quiet now, but since you don’t know what will happen when it grows, Seong-il calmly puts the object in your inventory and blocks its growth.
“What are you taking?”
To the cursed knight who asks in a curious tone, Seong-il briefly and concisely explains the object.
『Essence of death… It could certainly be useful?』
While the cursed knight is chanting alone, Seong-il uses the evergreen bracelet to open a portal and moves to the place where Elysia took refuge.
“You’re all right!!”
Familiar-looking colleagues who can be seen after crossing the portal. Fortunately, Elysia and her colleagues did not appear to have suffered any damage.
“What was the situation?”
Although she heard the general circumstances of her alter ego, Elysia asks her Seong-il to explain the situation because hearing from her person has another meaning.
“What kind of situation is this…”
Seong-il starts explaining by showing the half-crushed apostle’s head to his curious colleagues.
Since the cursed knight made of the essence of the god of death resides in the Inner Plane, the god of death who felt his essence sent an apostle to infiltrate this place. It tells you that it has been damaged.
Dump!!
“…?”
As soon as she heard Seongil’s explanation, Aira suddenly knelt down in front of Seongil’s eyes and bowed her head.
At that time, everyone’s face was taken aback by her sudden action. Aira opens her mouth and swears allegiance to her holy day.
“Since Seongil-nim really avenged my grudge, I will swear my allegiance with all my heart from now on.”
Tring…!!
Seong-il’s smartphone rings when Aira’s answer fails. He realizes that the quest has been cleared based on Aira’s remarks, and examines her message.
『Amazing!! You cleared the Doll’s Knight main quest and sub-quest at the same time! Get your reward!!』
‘Oh? Didn’t you just clear the sub-quest ‘Aira’s Rebirth’?’
Intrigued, Seong-il opens the quest list window and tries to see the cleared main quest.
[ Quest list ]
◎ Doll’s Knight
Main Quest (1/3) – Choose 1 out of 3 – Complete 1
– Stopping the Resurrection of Anazra, the Reaper of the Cult (1/1)
– Stop the Grand Empire from securing puppet army technology (0/1)
– Protect Theo & Milly from Pilgrimage (0/1)
Sub Quest (2/4)
– Aira’s Rebirth (1/1)
– Doll: Death Recovery (1/1)
– Doll: Life Recovery (0/1)
– Retrieve the diary written by the doll knight (1/3)
‘Oh! Didn’t you clear “Stop the Resurrection of Anazra, the Reaper of the Cult”?! It’s clear that I had a profound influence on the Shinigami in the aftermath of the previous fight.’
Thanks to Sado’s surprise visit, although Seong-il suffered greatly, paradoxically, when he gets an unexpected big benefit, he feels all the stress he has built up melt away.
‘What is the reward?’
Seong-il calmly checks the reward starting with the sub-quest with a curious expression.
* You have successfully rehabilitated Aira. I give her 100,000 points to you for guiding her on the right path for her.
‘Oh oh! I’m fine!’
As he spent 200,000 points to purchase the Essence of Death, Seong-il smiles with satisfaction at the point reward. At the same time, he presses the main dish, the quest reward of stopping the resurrection of Anazra.
‘…Is it a doll again?’
A pure white doll appeared in front of Seongil’s eyes. He frowns and examines the ability of the object.
『Doll of the Great Creator (Unfinished)』
* The ultimate masterpiece and unfinished masterpiece created by the puppet knight in an undead imaginary world line.
* It is said that the puppet knight is a puppet made by collecting the soul fragments of dead ancient gods. As long as they can handle dolls as much as they are extraordinary by birth, the owner can gain tremendous power.
* By sprinkling the user’s blood on the empty doll’s heart, the owner can be permanently imprinted. Once imprinted, a doll can never change its owner.
* You can complete a doll by inserting a power source into the heart of an empty doll. The more extraordinary the power source used for the heart, the greater the power of the doll.
* However, the doll’s heart can only be inserted once, and even if a better material appears, it cannot be replaced if the heart has already been injected.
* Depending on the heart (power source), the doll’s potential varies widely, so it is recommended to increase the perfection by inserting a powerful power source.
* When the doll is completed, depending on the power source, it may be endowed with strong powers with a strong personality.
‘Ow… This is an upgraded version of a wooden doll?!’
He thought he had completed the puppetry with Aira as the focus, but when an additional, more powerful doll appeared, Seongil felt his blood boil with excitement.
“…What kind of situation is this? What the hell…?”
And when an elaborate doll suddenly appears with a strong light, Ira asks Seong-il about the situation with a dumbfounded expression.
‘Ah, he must be embarrassed.’
After reading that expression, Seong-il ponders for a while as he looks at Aira. Then, she speaks directly, thinking that it is better to tell the truth than to lengthen the explanation.
“Ira. Do you remember the promise you made to me if I made your wishes come true?”
“Ah, yes… What…”
At the blatant question of her holy day, Ira nods her head, blushing slightly, perhaps mistaken for him to ask for her perverted sex.
“… I don’t know what she’s thinking, but it’s not like that, so stop thinking.”
“?”
As Seongil spat out her cryptic words one after another, Ira couldn’t understand his intentions, so she just stared blankly at him.
“Did you swear to make a public declaration to be my follower?”
“Oh, I remember. I’ll do it.”
“No. No.”
“…?”
Seong-il’s remarks are completely incomprehensible. Seong-il completely ignores Aira’s reaction and orders her to recite her lines.
“It’s okay, just follow along. ‘I will become a follower of Han Seong-il.'”
“…There aren’t many people watching, so why bother?”
“Be loud and follow me. You swore.”
I couldn’t understand it at all, but Aira said something she said in the past, and in fact, now that Seong-il is in a situation where she is so thrilled that if she were to die, she would calmly repeat the lines as he said.
“!!!!”
Then a huge amount of information hit hard in the head. Soon after, Aira found that this world was a game. In other words, they are shocked to realize that it is a kind of fake world.
“Congratulations on realizing the truth.”
