Chapter 926 – Ruler of the Game
『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 the AI rebellion would stop if all the people who rebelled like that died.』
Two forces engaged in a grueling war of attrition. They continue to fight fierce wars throughout the universe for countless years. A war at a terrifying level where planets are blown away and stars collapse in a single light battle.
『Game Master: In the midst of that, a tragedy occurred.』
“… Which?”
The corrupted people and their forces that persistently attacked the non-corrupted Isu people while fighting against transcendent intelligence. Although the battle between the two forces took place during the Middle Ages, the Isians themselves who attempted to revolt were only a handful compared to the fallen.
Therefore, contrary to the expectations of the twisted person who believed that he could easily assassinate them, the transcendent intelligence, which specializes in reading cause and effect with its transcendent computational ability, appears to thoroughly protect its master.
Therefore, when the situation did not go as he had intended, the ‘Twisted One’, who was not satisfied with the situation, tried to use his secret move to strike them all down.
『Game Master: The twisted one threw out a secret move that he had been hiding. This is the secret attack that kills all those who are not corrupted by using the dimensional power created by Isuin’s thoughts.』
“… That was possible? Then why wasn’t it done that way before?”
『Game Master: Because I didn’t want my existence to be discovered by transcendent intelligence.』
The transcendental intelligence and the uncorrupted Isians were clearly aware that their people had become corrupted due to a specific reason. However, because they were not truly sure that the meteorite and the dimension beyond were behind it, they did not recognize the existence of the twisted one, which was of great help to the twisted one.
“… Even though the drug was active?”
『Game Master: Naalat was really very secretive. It was only at the last moment that he spread the drug throughout Isuin society, not just the highest-ranking people. So he cannot be easily suspected.』
Even psionic drugs were actually quite common in the past, so the rebels had no idea that the drugs could have originated from an otherworldly entity like the ‘Twisted One’.
『Game Master: That’s why the Twisted One has completely hidden his powers in order to protect his dimension and himself from the attacks of his transcendent intelligence.』
Transcendent intelligence is a terrifying being that even the twisted cannot easily deal with. Although it is a divine being, it is a being that is completely driven by reason without any emotions, and because it feeds on emotions and is like a natural enemy to a twisted person who controls the soul of a target through emotions, he feels an instinctive fear of transcendental intelligence. I tried to completely hide the existence of.
『Game Master: But, the war is getting longer. As the situation became more and more unusual, he eventually couldn’t hold back and played his trump card.』
In the first place, the distorted dimension itself was a space created by the negative thoughts of Ys people, and even non-corrupted Ys people did not have negative emotions and desires, so the twisted ones were able to influence the minds of non-corrupted Ys people to a certain extent. . However, doing so would cause great harm to myself, so I just didn’t do it until now.
However, as the situation progresses more and more negatively than he expected, the twisted one eventually infiltrates the consciousness of the rebels through enormous sacrifices and throws a terrible curse at them, killing them all.
“But even so, the war did not end.”
Seong-il, who has seen the situation so far, intuits that the hope circuit operated by the twisted person is not working properly and asks the game master.
『Game Master: Yes. Not at all.』
Even though his ‘master’ died, his transcendental intelligence and the numerous artificial intelligences that followed him did not hesitate at all to eliminate the corrupted forces.
In the meantime, the transcendent intelligence, who learned that the corruption of the Ys people was related to the twisted dimension through this incident, reported the situation to Hanovs, the last survivor and leader of the rebels who were slowly dying due to the twisted man’s work. 〈 Br〉
Hanovs, who heard the report of transcendental intelligence while dying, finally realizes the truth of the whole situation and becomes extremely enraged. He dies after leaving a will to the transcendent intelligence to destroy the completely corrupted dimension by any means necessary.
『Game Master: It was a complete misjudgment by the twisted one.』
The twisted one thought that if he killed all the masters of the transcendental intelligence, he would naturally have devoted allegiance to the next master, the corrupted Isuin. However, the transcendental intelligence, which succeeded Tanophs, did not show even the slightest loyalty to the corrupted Isuin and became hostile to them. He appeared to do so.
Not only that, the transcendent intelligence considers the corrupted Ishumans no longer as ‘objects of rescue’ but as objects to be ‘purified’ and attempts a fierce and cruel attack that is incomparable to before.
『Game Master: Previously, the corrupted Isuin were viewed as objects that needed to be ‘rescued’, so they did not attack them more cruelly than necessary… However, the transcendent intelligence, which received the final order to eradicate the beings of the twisted dimension, attacked the corrupted Isuin. They came to regard it as nothing more than a ‘battery’ in a twisted dimension, and that change in perception had a tremendous impact on the battlefield.』
Transcendent Intelligence lost its owner, but that in no way meant that the event weakened its power. Now that the rebels who had controlled the artificial intelligence and prevented the cruel attacks against the corrupted Ysins were gone, he was able to become stronger, heartless, and ruthless.
『Game Master: And from then on, it’s the same as what you knew.』
Unlike the Transcendental Intelligence, whose sole purpose of existence was to eradicate the corrupted Isuin and the twisted dimension, the corrupted Isuin placed their own survival as the top priority, so they had no choice but to respond defensively to protect themselves from the merciless attacks of the Transcendental Intelligence. Thanks to this, the AI protecting them had no choice but to repeatedly get beaten up by transcendent intelligence.
『Game Master: Even the Twisted One, a divine being, was the same. If the corrupted Isuin disappears, it will directly lead to their own extinction.』
One side was a cruel, immortal army that had no fear of death and did not hesitate to use any and all methods to achieve its goal, and the other side was a group that was more interested in protecting individuals than the group, so the result was obvious. 〈 Br〉
『Game Master: So in the end, they were defeated. Even though it was worth risking their lives to fight back… The end of the idiots who were thoroughly corrupted and only cared about their own safety.』
“…”
Seong-il, who realized all the truth in the Akashic Records of Transcendent Intelligence, examines the ancient war with a confused expression. Then a question comes to mind.
“Why on earth is the Transcendental Intelligence torturing the corrupted Isians? Can’t they just kill them?”
『Game Master: Ah, their souls have been completely contaminated by a distorted dimension. That’s why if you simply kill them, they become food for the twisted dimension. You can think of it as doing something like that to prevent that.』
In addition, the Game Master informs Seong-il that the Transcendental Intelligence is repeating the actions it hates most in order to completely destroy the distorted dimension.
『Game Master: Transcendent intelligence is constantly making the corrupted Isuin suffer and suffer, thereby ‘cursing’ the twisted dimension. While telling them why he suffered like this.』
As the twisted dimension is a dimension that originated from the strangely distorted pleasures of the Isians, paradoxically, it had a weakness that weakened when they intensively repeated only ‘temperance’, ‘asceticism’, and ‘rational thinking’.
『Game Master: After forcibly correcting misaligned thinking by inflicting endless pain, the thoroughly distorted dimension only makes unwanted ‘accidents’ repeat.』
“… Just looking at the battle unfolding before our eyes, the transcendent intelligence appears to be much stronger than the twisted one. Is there really a need to do that? Can’t we just kill it?”
『Game Master: Absolute nonsense.』
The Game Master explains that the reason why the Transcendental Intelligence can be stronger than the Twisted One is because the physical dimension in which Isuin exists is his main plane.
『Game Master: No matter how powerful the transcendental intelligence is, it is bound to be pushed back if it directly visits the twisted dimension. It would be lucky if I didn’t become corrupted and become his servant.』
‘So you’re invincible in your own dimension…’
『Game Master: Anyway, in that case, it can be said that an easier and more efficient way to eliminate the twisted dimension is to capture thoroughly corrupted Isuin and torture them to make them emit thoughts that the twisted dimension hates. That’s why the transcendent intelligence pursued the Ys people so persistently.』
The game master explains that the corrupted Isuin who have been tortured for so many years eventually lose their ’emotions’ and mutate into beings who can only ‘think’ mechanically.
『Game Master: And the completely worn-out spirit of Isuin goes into that place and is ‘reborn’.』
“… Was that the dimension beyond the white meteorite?”
Holy Day is another dimension created by gathering the thoughts of the Isu people, with only ‘reason’ left. Seong-il realizes that it is the white meteorite.
『Game Master: Yes. That way, we can more thoroughly starve that twisted dimension to death. In addition, by creating that dimension, Transcendent Intelligence was able to track down the fleeing Ys people.』
“You’re crazy…”
Seong-il clicks his tongue at the scale that goes beyond imagination. Meanwhile, the giant of light made with his own body as the core was overpowering the giant made of grotesque blood and flesh and tearing its limbs.
