Chapter 925 – Ruler of the Game
『Game Master: The twisted one was really persistent. He corrupted Na’alat just to the right degree to block the central government’s suspicions. What he was really aiming for was somewhere else.』
“… What is that?”
『Game Master: His flesh and blood. He’s that crazy guy who calls himself an ‘apostle’ and a ‘prophet’.』
As a god of a dimension created by the accumulation of disgusting psionic energy over countless years, the ‘Twisted One’ did not appear to be in any hurry. Rather than trying to raise awareness in Ys society by brainwashing the old Naalat and turning him into a lackey, the family meets him naturally. In other words, they focus on corrupting young children.
“That’s it…?”
『Game Master: It was very easy. Because there was a ‘medium’.』
As he traveled in and out of the twisted dimension, Na’alat’s soul and psionic energy were bound to be contaminated, and that damaged soul could naturally corrupt his children.
『Game Master: The twisted one was really persistent. Even though the target was Naalat’s child, rather than brainwashing him outright, he showed him a ‘delusion’ and made him think he was special.』
Naalat’s child. After contacting his parents, ‘Narietolu’ begins to dream every night of the destruction of his people due to the disaster they faced due to corruption.
Originally, he would have told others about his troubles in order to warn them of these bizarre and terrible dreams, but ‘The Twisted One’ cleverly shows him becoming a ‘prophet’ who will save his people in the future, always at the end of the terrible dreams. It makes you think you are special.
『Game Master: Even when Narietolu revealed his dream, the Twisted One made him dream of a corrupt assassin appearing from the future and killing him, so he didn’t even tell anyone around him.』
The ‘Twisted One’, who unknowingly corrupted Narietolu and laid the perfect paving stone, begins all sorts of tricks to corrupt the Isians and twist the entire universe into a disgusting dimension based on them.
『Game Master: Around the time when the insurance called Narietolu was transformed into a wonderful seed. Naalat crossed dimensions and eventually began to fall into madness.』
It was a good thing that Naalat and the Ys-in of the border galaxy naturally became his minions due to their madness, but at the same time, it was an incident that could warn the Ys-in of the dangers of the twisted dimension, so the twisted one eventually ended the patience he had shown so far and began in earnest. I decide to sow corruption in the world of Isuin.
『Game Master: Actually, it was difficult to even say it was sudden. Because they had already completely taken over the outer space, so there was nothing more to eat. Anyway…』
According to the twisted one’s will, Na’alat received an evil blessing to corrupt his fellow countrymen all at once, making the ingredients of the psionic drug he had been supplying to the high-ranking class more stable but more powerful, causing the leading class to withdraw from government affairs and indulge only in pleasure. It encourages you to do it.
『Game Master: And some leaders succeeded in turning them into crazy believers by brainwashing them with drugs.』
The twisted person who corrupted some of the ruling class and paralyzed their intellect is now secretly spreading drugs to the general class as well, leading to the spread of corrupted drugs throughout Ys society.
『Game Master: That’s right. The vast majority of the Ys people have become completely corrupted to the point where salvation is impossible.』
Some awakened Yss struggled to prevent the corruption of their people, but thanks to Yss’s perfect technological prowess, the side effects of the psionic drug were not untreatable. Also, because there were so many high-ranking people among those who used it, they ended up being pushed out of the power game of their own people and were unable to stop the drug epidemic.
『Game Master: Once the drug became sufficiently popular, Naalat changed the effects of the drug little by little according to the orders of the twisted one, destroying his compatriots.』
A scene unfolding before Seongil’s eyes. There, the soul of Ysin, who was administered a drug made from the psionic energy of the twisted dimension, can be seen being distorted little by little. In this way, the distorted soul of Ysin begins to connect with the twisted dimension. In the end, their thoughts and energy not only naturally transfer to the twisted dimension, but also cause the corrupted power in the twisted dimension to naturally transfer to them.
“From this point on, drugs would no longer have any meaning…”
『Game Master: Exactly. At some point, the twisted dimension and the soul of Ysin began to communicate perfectly two-way.』
Naalat succeeded in turning the souls of the vast majority of Ys people into slaves of a twisted dimension. Although he committed a shameless act of selling out his people, he does not seem to regret his actions at all because he believed that it was a great step for the evolution of his people.
『Game Master: Although the vast majority of Ys people were corrupted, the ‘Twisted One’ was not satisfied.』
The unclean ones, who are gods of the dimension that feed on the negative thoughts of the Isuin, begin to remodel their bodies and souls using the connected dimension so that they can absorb more thoughts from the Isuin. And through that process, the Ys people gradually merge with the twisted dimension and begin to be reborn as twisted beings.
『Game Master: However, not all Ys people were corrupted.』
Naalat and a few awakened people were pushed out of the power game with the high-ranking people who had been bribed by Naalat and were driven out to the outskirts of the galaxy. They felt that they could no longer allow the situation to continue as their compatriots were completely corrupted by an unknown, plague-like drug, and even their bodies and minds began to distort in bizarre ways. Therefore, they establish a plan to persuade the Guardian System, transcendent intelligence that has protected Ys since ancient times, to wipe out its leadership and restore the collapsing Ys civilization.
“Transcendent intelligence helped the Isu people who were exiled to the outskirts of the galaxy? Is that possible?”
No matter how outstanding the transcendental intelligence that protects the Isuin is, in the end, his essence is like a servant following his master’s orders. Therefore, Seong-il is puzzled when he hears that the Transcendental Intelligence supported the Isuin who were exiled to the outskirts of the galaxy.
『Game Master: There was not one transcendent intelligence. As the universe was vast, there were many transcendental intelligences, and among them, the ones that supported the exiled Isuin were the early systems that had existed since ancient times. Their system considered the uncorrupted Iss, including Hanovs, to be the true ‘owners.’』
In fact, the Ys people who have been distorted by the power of the twisted dimension are in a situation where it is difficult to even call them Ys people anymore. Because both their bodies and souls were mutated to be close to a ‘new species’ due to the distorted dimension, the transcendent intelligence regarded the uncorrupted Ysians who were driven out to the outskirts of the universe as ‘enemy’ rather than the Ysians who were distorted by corruption, and called for their rebellion. I accept.
“Could it be…?”
『Game Master: Yes. The ‘AI revolt’ that the foolish Illax, who knew nothing, was actually a ‘civil war’. A fierce war between the army of transcendent intelligence that followed the enemy Ys people, the corrupted Ys people and the twisted dimension, and the transcendental intelligences under their control.』
After that, a fierce war like the one Seong-il knew begins to unfold. A terrible war between the exiled forces that seek to punish their corrupt compatriots and somehow restore their shining civilization, and the existing ruling class that seeks to maintain power against them.
“Isn’t the existing system outdated? There will be less power. How were those who were driven out able to fight against the corrupted Ys?”
『Game Master: It’s a mistake to think that just because it’s old, it’s old.』
The civilization of Ys was a civilization with the ultimate technology that mortals could build, and transcendent intelligence could be said to be like the pinnacle of that civilization.
For ancient AI, which used a star like the sun as a battery and continuously evolved itself through deep learning over an enormous period of time, time was like power.
Therefore, contrary to Seong-il’s prejudice, the ancient AI was more powerful than the new type. Therefore, even though the number of new AIs supporting the corrupt Ys was greater, and they dominated the majority of the universe, they repeatedly fought fierce wars throughout the universe throughout the Middle Ages.
“… So you and the AI that is fighting that twisted person right now are fighting like this because of another Isuin’s orders?”
『Game Master: Only half true.』
“… Half full?”
『Game Master: Yes. All the Ys people leading the rebel army were wiped out.』
The transcendent intelligence that had protected the Ys civilization since ancient times was clearly powerful, and despite possessing relatively fewer resources and numbers, it showed itself fighting on equal footing with the armies of vested interests. However, unlike the powerful AI, there was a weakness that the number of Isu people receiving support from them was not very large.
『Game Master: Because of this, Naalat, who inherited the will of the twisted one, attempted a tactic of killing as many of the Isuin who led the rebellion as he was prepared to end the war. He ‘misjudged’ that if all the rebels died like that, the AI’s rebellion would stop.』
