Chapter 923 – Ruler of the Game
‘If this happens, the AI will lose… Huh?!’
Therefore, Seong-il, who thought that Sado’s struggle might work, feels extreme pain sweep through his entire body. At the same time, I feel a huge and powerful will penetrating my entire body.
‘… No way!?’
Seong-il realizes that AI is trying to use his body as a medium to fight against the evil dimensional power that has descended.
‘… It’s okay. It’s over anyway.’
However, she was surprised for a moment. Since Seong-il was already resigned, she completely let the AI try to descend here based on her body.
Wow!! Wood-duk!!
‘Wow…!!’
Seongil is one’s own body. In particular, he feels the area around his chest being broken down and reassembled at a molecular level, turning into something new.
‘… Portal?’
A strange portal appeared in the middle of one’s body. At that time, I alone predicted whether a new being would be summoned there. Powerful psionic energy erupts from a portal created in Seong-il’s body and begins to cover Seong-il.
‘… This!’
Seong-il’s body, which is starting to crumble, begins to transform into a strange silver giant using the portal as a seed. As if to help the giant, the white meteorite begins to pour enormous power into the giant like crazy from beyond the dimension.
Quaaaaa!!
A disgusting giant made of twisted blood, flesh, and darkness and a giant made of metal and psionic energy begin to clash. And as if to support these two, in the dimension opened by each meteorite, not only psionic energy but also the creatures of the world are frantically spewed out, and they begin to attack each other.
‘The spirit…’
Seong-il feels that her soul is melting little by little and merging into the AI because of the powerful god of mechanical devices that descended through her. Thanks to this, my spirit gradually fades.
‘…’
However, as his ego gradually began to crumble, paradoxically, he became an AI. No, he has access to the Akashic Records held by the God of Mechanisms, so he feels able to explore vast amounts of information.
‘I will easily win the fight.’
Based on the machine swarm’s powerful computing power, Seong-il feels that the machine god can easily destroy the twisted beings of the other world, as the level of power possessed by the two gods is different.
‘Now tell them to fuck off.’
Anyway, his opponent is just struggling. Realizing that destruction is virtually assured, Seong-il decides to explore this great temple of knowledge and find out the truth, rather than wasting his remaining time watching the raging battle outside.
『Game Master: Shall I help you?』
“…!!”
Seong-il looks at him with a surprised expression when the Game Master, who was thought to have disappeared after the descent of the God of Mechanical Devices moments ago, suddenly reappears.
『Game Master: Why? Do you hate it?』
“No, that’s not it. Weren’t you dead?”
Seongil looks at the game master who appears as a strange silver sphere and asks him with an expression of half curiosity and half suspicion.
『Game Master: If it were dead, you could say it was dead. Because my object consciousness was forcibly merged with the main body. I will no longer be an object, so in a way, I can be considered dead.』
“… Then what are you in front of me?”
Seong-il is taken aback by the contradictory answer of the game master, who talks to him calmly while talking as if his ego has disappeared.
『Game Master: It’s a trick. Based on the causality that you have helped me to steadily collect, I have postponed the situation of being absorbed into the ‘main body’ for a while. Well… You could even call it deception. Because he doesn’t even care about me.』
In any case, the Game Master was not trying to betray the God of Mechanical Devices, but was just trying to maintain his ‘self’ for a very short period of time, so the God of Mechanical Devices seemed to completely ignore his small ‘deviation’.
『Game Master: Anyway… I can maintain my self here for a while with the causality I have accumulated. So let’s do it this way. I will be your guide, so you can find the knowledge you want. How about it?』
Of course, there was no reason to refuse the offer, so Seong-il nodded and quickly asked the game master what he was curious about.
“… What on earth is that so-called ‘Gate of Truth’?”
『Game Master: Oh, that? Follow me. Now the causality is enough.』
“Really? Really? Aren’t we running out of time?”
Since Seong-il was a game master who always talked about causality when asked a question, Seong-il asked in a puzzled tone when he answered that the causality was sufficient for the first time in a long time.
『Game Master: You agreed to sacrifice your body to summon the main body. Thanks to that, my body has paid a causal fee in return for you to be able to fully view these Akashic Records. So feel free to look around.』
“Aha.”
It seems that he paid the price for giving up his body to the machine man by obediently giving it up instead of resisting it. After roughly understanding the situation, Seong-il calmly follows the game master and begins wandering around the sanctuary of great knowledge.
『Game Master: Here.』
“Hmm.”
Seong-il is puzzled when the ominous energy he saw earlier suddenly appears in the cold silver world. However, believing that there would be no major problems as the game master guided him, he did not hesitate and followed him into the black and red dimension.
“This is…”
Seong-il feels that she has been transported to a space similar to the world of her memories that Ilax showed her in the past. It felt like I had descended into a completely new world. However, unlike the game world where mutual exchange was possible, this world completely ignored holy days.
『Game Master: You heard it from Illax, right? The story about the corruption of the Isians.』
“Yes.”
Since it was a story directly related to the birth of the Transcendental Church, Seong-il remembered the story very well. However, the game master begins to tell part of the story to Seong-il again, saying that he needs a more detailed explanation in order to tell him the truth.
『Game Master: Isuin. So, our creators lived in entertainment, indulging in all kinds of pleasures in the virtual world they created. And that too for tens of thousands of years.』
The Game Master says that at first, Isin used to indulge in light pleasures, just like Illax said. Love, pleasure, adventure while traveling around different virtual worlds, reign as an absolute power, etc.
However, as Seong-il saw in the past, they grew tired of these existing pleasures and gradually began to indulge in more intense and stimulating pleasures.
When the virtual body is destroyed and the mind is shattered while indulging in pleasure by taking horribly strong drugs, the pleasure of entering a new body and consuming drugs by erasing the new body and memories. The pleasure of repeating all kinds of pervert and cruel sexual acts or torture is basic.
After massacring countless beings in the virtual world through war, the captives are herded into one place, causing families to kill each other, or a father killing her daughter. Their great world begins to overflow with Isu people who enjoy all kinds of cruel pleasures, such as maniacs who force sons to rape their mothers and cut off or torture their family members if they refuse.
“It’s disgusting to see it again.”
Seong-il frowns at the sight because he has already seen it once through Illax. However, if the game master had bothered to show him this scene one more time, there must have been a reason, so even though he felt bad, he did not fuss at the game master and just looked at the scene calmly.
『Game Master: Illax just said that there was a problem with the artificial intelligence that was protecting the race while they were indulging in pervert pleasure, but… That’s wrong. It was the Isu people who had something wrong.』
“… They?”
『Game Master: Yes.』
The game master begins to show him the other side of the incident that Illax was unable to show to Seongil.
『Game Master: If they were simply a human-level race, there would actually be almost no problem even if they indulged in pleasure. However, the problem was that Isuin were powerful, higher life forms whose bodies were made of psionic energy.』
As life forms made of psionic energy indulge in pleasure by committing all kinds of terrible and atrocious acts in an infinite virtual world in units of ‘hundreds of trillions’, their disgusting and twisted psionic thoughts begin to wander the universe.
“Is that… A black meteorite?”
『Game Master: Yes. That thing is made up of the disgusting thought forms scattered by so many Ys people.』
The AI that was protecting the Ys people collected and analyzed a bizarre rock mass made up of twisted thoughts, and the AI was able to determine that it was not just ‘remnants’ but a dangerous object that was sending the Ys people’s negative thoughts to another ‘dimension’.
“… Then wouldn’t it have been enough to just destroy it?”
『Game Master: The Guardian tried to do that. But, someone stopped it.』
“Guardian?”
『Game Master: Guardian System. It can be said to be the predecessor of the AI you are currently in.』
At that time, the game master was giving a light explanation about AI to Seongil. In the fantasy, an Isuin appears.
