Chapter 857 – Mythology Academy
“Dean. For now, I will go back ‘there’.”
Although he was disguising himself as an unknown strongman, Seong-il bids farewell to his group first because his identity may be revealed if he continues to stay here.
After secretly moving to a secret place, Seong-il returns to reality and takes a rest, half-lying on his office chair, feeling that he has taken care of all the urgent matters.
“Whoa… Let’s take a moment to catch our breath.”
While he was lying down and resting, Seong-il began to have one additional question about the game master.
“… Wait a minute. Don’t kid from other worlds remember Tala?”
Curiosity begins to well up in Seong-il’s mind as he understands the question. Therefore, in order to satisfy his curiosity, he approaches followers in other game worlds and tries to ask them about Tala.
“Tala? What is that?”
Surprisingly, Erica does not remember the evil alien Tala. She seemed to have no memory of Tala, let alone ordinary followers like her, and even transcendent beings like With Grasil and the Goddess of Harvest.
‘… The record has been completely destroyed.’
Colleagues who act as if Tala never existed in this world. Seong-il sees this and is shocked to realize that the game master actually used universal reality manipulation to deal with Tala.
‘But… It’s a pity that I don’t know whether this applies to reality or not.’
Since he has never told the secrets about the game world to anyone in real life, Seong-il is disappointed that he cannot figure out whether this phenomenon only applies to characters in the ‘game world’ or whether it applies to all reality.
Seong-il was worried about the game master’s manipulation of reality for a while. As his head cools, he thinks that the Game Master’s manipulation of reality may not be unreasonable.
‘Hmm… If deletion surprisingly only applies to characters in the ‘game’ world, there might actually be nothing strange about it.’
Since the game master is the independent entity that creates all game worlds, Seong-il believes that it may be natural for the game master to have a transcendent influence on various game worlds.
‘Whatever it is, it’s amazing.’
Seong-il, who has satisfied his curiosity to some extent through experiments, begins to value the game master who helps him even more than before without realizing it.
“Enough of solving my curiosity… Shall we try an experiment now?”
Seongil wants to test the potential of his newly acquired powerful skill. He sits alone in the gym he always uses and summons the Creator’s doll.
“Deceive fate! Become the Creator’s doll!”
Pointing to the doll, Seong-il tries to use Deception of Destiny, one of the newly acquired skills of ‘Forgotten Essence of Foreign Gods’.
Gulp… Gulp…!!
Then, a strange power flowed from Seongil’s shadow. It looks like darkness and clay, and when Seongil’s command is given, it begins to float in the air and transforms into something.
“Hello!”
Surprisingly, the power presumed to be the essence of Oesin changes into an appearance that is completely identical to Seong-il and begins waving its hands at him.
“Wow…!! This works?”
“Yes. Indeed, the Creator’s doll and I have exactly the same capabilities.”
“Oh… Really?”
Just like the Creator’s doll. The doll made by deceiving fate also shows a very clever appearance. The clone even reads Seong-il’s thoughts and begins to recite information he might need.
“It’s exactly the same! By using ‘Time of Creation’, Seongil can copy and use the same power as you for 1 hour!”
“Oh!!”
“However… Since I copied the Creator’s doll, the penalty is probably the same.”
The second doll tells Seong-il that he, too, can only use one hour of creation time. Even the fact that it takes one month for death shows the same thing.
“For your information, this does not mean that you cannot use all remaining essences for a month. Only the ‘Deception of Fate’ skill cannot be used! ‘Mask of Deception’ and ‘Mockery of Fate’ can still be used.”
“I’m okay…?”
The way the penalty is applied is not bad either. Therefore, Seong-il decides to use as much of the forgotten essence of Oesin as possible to create a second alter ego.
“Should I try deceiving fate…?”
Seong-il naturally thinks of Lanz Ludian and tries to use Deception of Fate. Then Seong-il’s body begins to be covered with Il-jeon’s black essence, disguising his appearance to look like Lantz.
“Wow… It’s really the same?”
Of course, you have to look good. As the voice and atmosphere are completely changed to resemble Lanz’s, Seong-il appears impressed by the mask’s performance.
* Taunting Fate (Active): Temporarily steals the fate of humans who have sworn ‘obedience’ and ‘loyalty’ to him and creates a copy. The copy is a completely identical being, sharing memories with the main body, but does not share fate or death. (If the copy dies, it can be reused after 24 hours.)
“Mocking fate… What kind of mechanism is it?”
Seong-il reads the text of the ‘Mocking Fate’ skill and becomes interested. First, Seong-il thinks of one of his followers who meets the conditions of her text and decides to summon her.
“Huh? What… What?!”
Elaine, who was helping another colleague deal with her magic in her workshop, was startled and looked around when she suddenly appeared somewhere.
“Did you… Summon me with magic?”
“Well… You can say so. Where were you before you were summoned?”
“Me? I was in Yuna’s workshop…? I was working.”
“I see.”
Instead of explaining the situation to Elaine who was summoned in front of him, Seong-il tries to get rid of the summoning of Elaine by turning off the skill. Then the information comes into my head.
‘Oh. If you reverse summon after summoning once, you need a waiting time equal to the summoning time, right? However, the maximum time is 24 hours.’
Seong-il finds the skill very interesting and calmly moves to Yuna’s workshop where Elaine is working.
“Hey! What was that a moment ago?!”
Elaine is horrified by the sudden insertion of a ‘strange’ memory into her head and asks her Seong-il about her situation. Seongil calmly explained to Elaine about the newly acquired skill.
“Hmm… So you were just working here normally?”
“Yes. But at some point, the memory of me being summoned to you and having a brief conversation with you was implanted in my head.”
“Ho…”
Seong-il realizes how the Destiny Taunting skill unfolds and finds the mechanism very interesting.
‘The body doesn’t know anything. Are the memories of the alter ego’s activities transmitted when it is reverse summoned or when it dies?’
Seong-il could feel that this mockery of fate was a very useful skill because if she used it well, she could lead her followers into battle while protecting their lives.
‘It would be quite useful to summon Eunwol or White Knight.’
Since most of Seongil’s followers were not specialized in combat, Seongil decided to consider sending those who were most specialized in combat among his followers into the field.
‘Is Eunwol like that? The last time I saw you, you were already quite full.’
However, Seong-il felt very reluctant to take Eun-wol, who is pregnant with his child, to the battlefield, even if it was just a fantasy, so he decided to use White Knight or Aruril instead of Eun-wol on the battlefield whenever possible.
‘I’m sure Eileen will be fine. ‘
Her spirit has become very strong since she became an apostle of God.
Thinking like that, Seong-il tries to summon Aruril, who can be called the strongest among his followers, by mocking fate.
“… It’s not working? Why?”
Seong-il is puzzled as he does not know the reason when Gengheon Arulil, the most popular of his followers, is not summoned.
‘Is it because something like divine essence has been injected?’
Seong-il alone speculates that this phenomenon may have occurred because Aruril was transplanted with a piece of the essence given by the God of Knowledge in the past. In the end, Seong-il realizes that he can only summon people who are not demi-gods, but he decides to be satisfied with summoning Eileen.
‘Eileen alone is enough. After he became an apostle, he also became stronger than before.’
Although it had its limitations, it was still quite useful, so Seong-il was not particularly disappointed and decided to find a way to use the skill well in the future.
“That’s enough for new skills…”
Seong-il is now in trouble as he takes out the two remaining rewards, ‘Class A Skill Copy Ticket’ and ‘Item Enhancement Ticket’.
“Skill copy ticket! One of my favorite rewards!”
In fact, Seong-il often evaluated the skill copy right very favorably because he was able to build his own kingdom and Eden, humanity’s final bastion, based on the Inner Plane copied using this item.
‘But… I don’t have any skills worth copying yet, so should I just leave it alone? If there is a skill you want later, use it then…’
On the other hand, if you don’t use the skill copy ticket properly, it means that you can miss out on opportunities such as acquiring the inner plane, so rather than hastily using the skill copy ticket, Seong-il saved it for a while and decided to use the skill copy ticket when he really needed it. Eat.
