Chapter 160 – I Just Don’t Like It
After that I stopped all training.
I didn’t read any martial arts books, I just leaned against the wall like a crazy person and stared blankly at the ceiling, thinking the whole time.
Recalling the conversation with Mayu dozens or even millions of times, I continued to scan for any clues.
A new clue touched my head when my shaggy beard was covering my lower limbs from not shaving for a long time.
“They said they would prioritize the brightest guys.”
Mayu told her the process, but didn’t explain why.
What is different about a person who has experienced a mysterious phenomenon that is called the truth of the universe and that even the mighty archangels and demons could not expect?
As the question about the status that bothered me and the question just before merged into one, an unexpected answer came out.
“… Irrespective of status?”
If you think about it, it was.
What I felt after living on the continent of Fantasia for a while was the fact that people here are morbidly obsessed with levels and stats.
Even the people from the Count Werner family, where I was right now, didn’t just treat people like idiots with a level floating above their heads.
However, people who have moved from an abandoned dimension, such as Earth, where stats do not exist at all to a dimension that received [God’s Mercy] Like Fantasia, have no choice but to be relatively less courted by stats on the premise that they have memories like me.
The great demons, archangels, and other strong people in the celestial world and the demon world are monsters that are not defined by stats in the first place.
They should also perceive their status and level as a fence that specifies the limits of their existence and restricts their freedom.
“Are you saying that a dog on a leash can never get off that leash for the rest of his life… “
Ironically, God’s arrangement to protect humans from external monsters becomes an obstacle for humans to transcend themselves.
Those who train in Fantasia to raise their level and stats for the rest of their lives, the premise itself is wrong.
Levels and stats are secondary.
What if we thought that when the strength of the body becomes stronger, the stats naturally follow, and when it goes beyond that, the stats simply become a broken mechanism?
I don’t know how much time I’ve already spent in the hanging scroll space that Mayu prepared.
Does it make sense that my level is fixed just because my numbers are tied in a situation where it is not strange even if my stats or levels rise with a huge amount of training?
In fact, my level has already reached a certain level, but what if I became the main dog on a leash and defined my own limits?
“Let’s throw away the stereotypes in our heads.”
I muttered involuntarily.
There is no such thing as a stereotype.
It is to forget the perception that I am a human being and the concept that I am a living being and live on this earth.
Even subconsciously, they realize that they have to revise the underlying fundamental concept and jump into the sea of consciousness.
With a plop
Struggles and sinks down constantly.
Fearing that the ego would collapse, the defense mechanisms that make up the brain somehow tied me up with nerve bundles and tried to bring me back to the surface, but I didn’t care and continued to go down.
All the concepts I had taken for granted from before tried to tangle and squeeze me, but I threw away all my five senses and didn’t even trust my sixth sense, and continued to go down.
What would it be like to dive into the Mariana Trench with only a sandbag on your feet?
This sense of being shattered by a storm of pressure like a blade may also be a curtain that hides the essence of the world, and may be a hand of jealousy catching religious monks running toward the truth.
In the end, when you come down to where you can see the bottom, it is a world where perfect nothingness and chaos coexist.
One last step now.
Let’s take a step without hesitation in that unknown space that may be darkness or light.
Spot
An endlessly vast universe that I couldn’t perceive with my senses was welcoming me.
The real world of images that existed beyond the unconscious.
Did you say that oriental medicine describes the human body as a microcosm?
I thought it was a simple metaphor, but it wasn’t.
Numerous stars were showing off their presence, and planets and stars were repeating their orbits and rotations according to certain rules.
Smaller dimensions like the solar system gathered and gathered to become one gigantic Milky Way flowing like a waterfall, and a shining comet passing through it caught my eye from time to time.
Some stars burned so loftily that they would vaporize me just by daring to look at them, and other planets threatened to sting me if I approached them with their sharpened ice picks constantly emitting cold air.
It felt instinctive.
I have to find ‘me’ here.
I have to find the ID that I spilled in the past in the endless sand desert.
Something to prove that I am me.
You have to find that something that must be there somewhere.
Once walked
I don’t know if it was walking, flying, or teleporting, but the scenery of the universe passing by like a shot quickly got smaller on both sides and then disappeared.
A hot star, a star full of barren plateaus, a comet that shines more than anyone else, a slowly rotating Milky Way, a green planet like the old Earth, and a satellite frozen cold in the dark are completely different from me.
Where is ‘I’?
Like a wanderer seeking an oasis, he walked endlessly.
I thought that one day I might be able to find ‘me’.
Pounding pounding
I don’t know how far I’ve moved.
A place that can be called the most corner of the universe.
A place where all the stars that were so bright disappeared and only pitch-black darkness lurks.
I looked at a place where the stench was vibrating and seemed to volatilize reason just by being nearby.
Black hole.
A prey that devours everything.
Pounding pounding
I moved my steps toward it as if I had been possessed without even realizing it.
Once I step into the filthy mud, a hand of despair and fear grabs my ankle and begins to drag me into the bottomless mire.
That familiar and familiar feeling brings a smile to my lips without even realizing it.
I took a slow step without resistance.
Getting closer and closer to its core.
When my unique wickedness reared its head, sticky and filthy things clung to me like a bee that found honey and gave me strength.
If it’s this black hole, if it’s an army of true despair of unknown size, then I’ll be the strongest in the world…
Flash
“Uh?”
Suddenly, an ‘eye’ appeared beyond the dark abyss.
To be precise, something that could not even be called snow, swimming slowly.
However, it is something that can only be called an eye in that it is ‘watching’.
R r r r r r r r r r r r
A ferocious roar unheard of anywhere in the world shakes my existence and soul to the root.
Only then did I realize
This place… It was a house with an owner.
All of these negative feelings that I felt were the property of that unknown being.
I was just a shoplifter.
Coo wo oh oh
When an unknown being who has discovered something abnormal constantly ‘watches’, tremendous suction power is generated from the core.
Consciousness is sucked in helplessly.
If even an idiot touches that nucleus, that monster will definitely ‘recognize’ my existence and ‘fusion’ as it is.
“This far… “
I can’t resist.
That unknown existence crouching in the endless mud is like my senior.
It doesn’t mean you can never win.
If he swallowed the same time and years as that being, he is confident of winning, but how can a tiger cub win a fully grown wolf?
“Sir… To go away like this.”
I was devastated.
In the meantime, I’ve been trying so hard to control evil in my hands, but in the end, it ends up being eaten by a greater evil.
In a way, the moment I close my eyes with the thought that it might be an ending suitable for a natural wicked person like me,
Rumbling
An enormous mass of lava that could not even burn space and melt it appeared through the darkness.
The sticky darkness that had entered my body volatilized and disappeared.
Cooooo!!!!!
Hearing is nonexistent, but with a roar filled with immeasurable rage, the darkness is pushed away like the ebb tide.
Thump
Lava wraps around me and quickly escapes.
The army of darkness, which had retreated once, confirmed that it was a beast that had bitten its instep, but it was absurdly small, and pushed back with a roar.
Kwak Kwah Kwah Kwah!!!
I ran away without looking back as the tsunami attacked me.
I could tell without even asking that if I was caught, I would be worse off than die.
After running away for a while, a galaxy with countless stars appeared.
The chase ended there.
Churrr…
With a low cry, the unknown existence disappeared into the abyss again.
With him… My consciousness left the image world as it was.
Flash
Eyes open.
I looked around.
I was still a hanging scroll space, and nothing has changed…
“Haha… “
What? Mayu’s condition is a bit strange.
With all limbs gone, only the upper body remained, struggling.
That’s when she sees me and gets angry for the first time.
“Damon, are you crazy? I meant to realize the world of images, but who told you to provoke that ugly monster of the abyss?”
As she glared at me, struggling without her limbs, she opened her mouth with a bewildered expression.
“What was that?”
“What, it’s something terrible created by the gathering of trash that are rejected from all over the universe. You just almost got absorbed by him.”
“Then… Was the little light made of lava in the middle Mayu-sama?”
“Yes, I saved him.”
It was unintentionally costing his life.
But after I saw something that matched me in the world of images, I felt that something had changed.
The confidence that I could find the image world again and see the black hole even if I was immersed in meditation for a little bit was filled with confidence.
Of course, getting caught by that watcher is dangerous, but what if you borrow that power just enough to not get caught?
No, what if you steal it?
I thought that if I ate his power like a villain or trash, I might become something.
Close your eyes again and recall the world of images.
Once you’ve entered it once, it’s not difficult the second time.
Watching those ‘eyes’, bring her tip slightly.
Sssss
A terrible black whirlpool rises above my head with the ominous sound of the wind.
As sticky hands wrap around my body, black veins sprout from my skin.
When I opened my eyes, instead of the black pupils that were supposed to be, the eyes of the abyss shimmering with the haze of death took their place.
“… Status window.”
-Status Window-
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Status window, level, status
Nothing ‘defines’ me.
Right now, this state is probably me in the state of using the divine power that Ayuna wanted.
I don’t know if the power just got stronger.
What was certain was that he had become a part of that vast world of images.
“There must have been a reason why the hero contained his divine power and his body was smashed.”
The hero’s skill, indomitable will, was probably a skill in which the angels forcibly docked his consciousness into the world of images.
It is fortunate that it ended only with the body breaking down as I took a peek at the fragment of the truth at once without deep examination of the inner side.
“Damon, can you help me?”
Mayu’s voice awakened me from my thoughts.
Looking down, I saw Mayu sweeping the floor with her back, all her limbs destroyed by the watcher as a reward for helping me.
“For now, put it on a chair over there… “
Quazijic
He grabbed it by the neck and lifted it up.
The wide-eyed Mayu’s red pupils dilated.
“Ke, kekek… Why… I helped you… “
She slowly opened her mouth as I watched her writhing in my hands her ungainly with her greedy eyes.
“I just don’t like it.”
