Chapter 892 – Alliance
A device that when a person holds the capsule strongly, the psionic waves stored there penetrate the human body and transmit memories for a short period of time. Naturally, Min Ye-jin has never seen the device created by Eden’s scientists for the first time in her life, so she appears to have no idea what the device is.
“I recommend that you do not pass it on without using it, just in case you want to discuss it with someone else. The device is scheduled to be destroyed exactly one minute from now. So that’s it.”
Seong-il enters the conference hall where the guardians of reason executives are seated with confident steps, leaving behind the confused Min Ye-jin.
‘I don’t know if it’s someone else… But Min Ye-jin is the person who saved me from Jo Woo-young, so she is someone who is qualified to see some of the information about Eden.’
Seongil arrives at the conference hall. There, Seong-il was able to encounter five powerful beings made of pure psionic energy.
『You are the strong man who murdered the Bishop of the Transcendence Church, Tichilac. Nice to meet you.』
Unlike Illax, whose dazzling silver color is impressive, this question is from an Isuin who radiates a soft golden light. Interestingly, in addition to their appearance, the remaining Ys people had slightly different appearances in the light emanating from their bodies.
“That’s right. Nice to meet you.”
『My name is Selau-Mai. One of the five Ark leaders who escaped from the fanaticism of the Transcendental Church.』
The human in front of me rules over a powerful group of hunters whose identity is unknown, and is also a powerful being who can even kill a bishop. Even though they are five powerful leaders who practically rule over the guardians of Lee Seong, they all show courtesy to Seong-il.
“Thank you for your hospitality. I am a ‘seeker’ from ‘Eden.'”
Seong-il considers himself not just a human, but a representative of humanity, so he tries to show himself as confident as possible to the leaders of the Ark. Fortunately, the leaders of the Ark did not feel bad about Seong-il’s appearance and thought it was a reasonable attitude, so they all showed a favorable attitude towards Seong-il.
『How did you become so powerful, and how did you train so many psionic users?』
The leader of the Ark, who introduced himself as Taris-Nojulan, seemed to be unable to contain his curiosity and eventually attempted to ask Seong-il a question related to the secrets of Eden.
“I can’t say that. There’s only one thing I can say. I want the destruction of the Transcendence Church and the salvation of humanity. In that sense, even though we may have different ideals, we can help each other. All I can say is exactly that. That’s it.”
Seong-il refuses to share his secret with the guardian of the opposite sex in a firm tone. The leaders of the Ark all look worried at the sight of such a holy day. However, the leaders of the Ark, who were in a very urgent situation as the Transcendental Church was about to ‘ascension’, eventually suppressed their curiosity and spoke to Seong-il.
『Good. In the past, I would not have considered forming an alliance with someone who gives vague answers like you… But the current situation is too critical for that.』
Although Selaumaini is suspicious of Seongil’s identity because he does not share his secrets, he eventually compromises with reality and agrees to unite with his forces. However, he makes it clear that since Seong-il hid the identity of his forces, their Ark also has no intention of fully sharing information with Seong-il.
“It’s reciprocity… Well, I understand. That kind of thing is okay.”
Since Seong-il had lived in the Ark for some time in the past, he knew many secrets, such as how the Guardian of Reason operates and what its purpose is. Because of this, he doesn’t seem to be particularly disappointed by their attitude.
“The reason we unite is not to ask each other’s well-being sometimes, but to destroy the core of the ‘dimensional barrier’ installed in the North Pole, right?”
『That’s correct.』
Illax, who had been silent so far, opens his mouth at Seongil’s blunt words.
『I don’t know why, but the Transcendence Church, which originally intended to train many S-class psychics and perform mental transplants, has changed its attitude and is now targeting many lower-level psychics for transplants. Thanks to this, their plans were advanced by a significant period of time.』
『The prophet always chooses crazy things. You have been abusing and killing other intelligent life forms in the name of fanaticism, but now you are trying to crush low-level believers to death like insects.』
Taris-Nozullan appears angry at the fact that the few remaining members of his race will soon be forced to live indefinitely, and in effect live as the seed of a new race.
『Whoa… I must have behaved indecently for a moment.』
The leaders of the Ark appear to apologize to Seong-il, perhaps because they were unable to hold back their anger and felt embarrassed for expressing their emotions. Still, perhaps because they have expressed their anger and become cold-hearted, they begin to explain to Seong-il in earnest about the dimensional barrier located in the North Pole.
『Currently, the Earth’s North Pole is protected by a powerful psionic barrier. Of course, this is to prevent the facilities related to the dimensional barrier from being touched from the outside.』
“What level is the barrier? Is it impenetrable?”
『You can say so. As the South and North Poles are the most important facilities of the Transcendence Church, they have invested all the capabilities of the race there and installed a strong psionic barrier to prevent easy entry from the outside.』
The Transcendence Church is said to have done something ridiculous by surrounding such a huge North Pole with a dense psionic barrier. The barrier was so thick and strong that Illax said it was physically impossible to penetrate.
“… Is it impossible to go through the deep sea or land? What about teleportation?”
『You should not try to analyze the psionic barrier they use general physical common sense.』
In response to Seongil’s innocent question, Selaumaini decisively cuts him off.
『The shield, created by placing several ancient relics, completely overcomes physical limitations. It completely blocks the North Pole, ignoring all physical constraints. Even the dimension is tightly blocked.』
“… Then how on earth are we going to attack that place?”
『Do you know why we are crossing dimensions and waging war against the bishops of the church?』
“… I don’t know about that.”
Seong-il wanted to avoid looking down on the leaders of the Ark by pretending to know as much as possible. However, Selaumaini’s question was truly a matter that Seong-il did not know about, and it was also a matter that he had always been curious about, so Seong-il obediently reveals his ignorance.
『It’s simple. This is because the powerful shield used to defend the North Pole can only be attacked through dimensional gaps.』
Selaumaini explains that although the North Pole itself was tightly guarded, the coordinates that maintained the shield had a weakness in that they were fixed to specific coordinates in infinite, overlapping dimensions.
『Originally, the defense tower would have had to protect itself from enemies by constantly crossing countless dimensional gaps, like the ark we live in… But the problem is that they are protecting the North Pole, and furthermore, ‘it’. I can’t do anything excessive to avoid attracting people’s attention. If you do something like that, the shield will become unstable, or you will get caught by ‘things’.』
‘I see. Paradoxically, the most inaccessible dimensional space is the only exposed space.’
Seong-il listens to the leaders’ explanation and realizes why they have been wandering around the dimensional gap like crazy and engaging in a fierce battle with the Transcendental Church.
“Does this mean that you will join forces with me and attack the dimensional gap?”
“No. That’s not true.』
“…?”
Seong-il is dumbfounded when the leaders suddenly change their language after talking as if they would break down the North Pole barrier together.
『Originally, I was going to suggest that since you have the power of a bishop, we should join forces to attack the dimensional barrier. However, when I listened to Illax, he said that you have a top-class holy relic that can even destroy the dimension.』
‘You mean Arunlabhe?’
As a seasoned leader, Illax saw the Arunlabe of Seongil and seemed to recognize at a glance that it was a powerful holy relic capable of destroying even the power of the dimension.
‘Come to think of it… I did order it to change its form into a weapon that could destroy the dimension.’
Seong-il had to change Arunlabe into a weapon specialized for dimensional attack in order to break through the powerful dimensional shield deployed by the bishop and escape there. Perhaps, upon seeing Arunlabe’s changed appearance, Illax mistook Arunlabe for an object with specialized power to destroy dimensions.
“Hmm… So, while you are drawing attention from the dimensional gap, do you want me to personally destroy the North Pole barrier as a holy object?”
『It’s almost similar. The only difference is that the place we want to destroy is Antarctica.』
“… Antarctica?”
