Chapter 424 - Side Story Chapter 44 - 101st Floor (2)
Side Story Chapter 44 – 101st Floor (2)
“Hey, you talk too much. Really.”
As an act of anger, I stabbed Ahbooboo into the dragon’s corpse.
Oh, he likes blood.
I pulled him out again
Ahbooboo was very talkative.
This damn talkative sword should be a bit moderate.
How can he chat without taking a break the whole time we fight?
It wasn’t an easy fight either.
The difference between victory and defeat was a very narrow margin.
The enemy that appeared this time was a dragon.
Wearing golden armor that neither magic nor divine power works, it wields the power of the God of Order.
There was no enemy I could deal with without my divinity.
Again, I had to fight while creating divinity in the short term.
Even so, it was a battle with no guarantee of victory.
Listening to the chatter of Ahbooboo who was fluttering in the middle of the battle was a nuisance.
It felt like I was studying intensively for the entrance exam, and someone was playing a song that was banned next to me.
It would have been better to ignore it altogether.
The story was unnecessarily interesting, and I couldn’t ignore it because it was such important information.
As soon as the battle was over and concentration was released, the divinity disappeared.
Damn it.
What the hell would they create an environment that would destroy your divinity?
After the weakness came the pain.
The body that had embraced the divine was screaming.
I pinched my forearm strongly.
I felt nothing.
I became insensitive to external pain and excessive pain felt inside the body.
This was the problem.
The pain is familiar, but the senses could not be paralyzed.
No matter how much I lost my powers, my sensory skills, including pain tolerance, would still be there.
The pain I had while gaining divine power was enough to ignore all those skills.
[Still, it was fun. Yes?]
Yes. Ahbooboo’s story was interesting.
It was very interesting.
If it hadn’t been for that, I would have given Ahbooboo a silencing spell right away.
In the past, Ahbooboo’s magic skills were superior, so to stop Ahbooboo’s mouth, I had no choice but to throw Ahbooboo into the inventory.
But now that wasn’t the case either.
A very simple measure could be used to silence Ahbooboo.
[This story is from my point of view, so it may be different from the truth, but it is almost correct. Where would you go to take another history class like this? This is history before the world was destroyed once. No one knows it.]
That was it.
This is the story before the world is destroyed.
Of course, there were no records left.
Few would know.
It must be a story that even the God of Hope doesn’t not know.
The God of Hope said that he was born at the end of the cataclysm, at the end of the world.
He didn’t even know about the stories that had been going on before that.
There must be a reason why there was always a gap in the description of the God of Hope.
[Haha.]
Haha what is haha.
“By the way.”
[Yes?]
I stole Ahbooboo from the God of Sky.
I thought that the fact that Ahbooboo existed in the tutorial was proof that he had been abandoned by the God of Sky.
And as soon as he was recovered, I saw that he was divided into several pieces, put back together, and was used as a test object, so I decided that I should bring him back.
However, the relationship between Ahbooboo and the God of Sky was very different from what I had expected.
“Well, I can return you later.”
[If possible, I would like you to pay a little rent.]
It was a funny joke.
[I’m not joking.]
I started walking forward again.
The feeling returned.
I still had numbness and intermittent convulsions, but I was able to move.
It would be good to start off in good condition with plenty of rest, but thanks to Hochi coming in with me, I couldn’t do that.
There wasn’t much time.
The door appeared.
Since someday, this door has been appearing over and over again.
When you open the door, certain situations and enemies appear.
After defeating everything and walking for a while, a door will appear again.
It reminded me of the 13th floor of the tutorial I went through a long time ago.
A temple of goblins made up of over thirty rooms.
It was also a place that suited the theme of the gateway of trials.
It was probably made after seeing it there.
[The 13th floor. I haven’t been there. A very, very long time ago, when I was a human, I went to the temple of goblins. Oh, I didn’t tell you then, did I? Can I do it now?]
Again, again.
There were signs that chattering would begin again.
“Concentrate. You break if you don’t concentrate like that. Then you die.”
It really was.
It’s not like a sword can’t be broken.
No matter how holy a sword was, it was not strange to break in battle.
If it wasn’t for the sword Ahbooboo knew how to protect himself, he would have been shattered sooner.
As much as I was fighting the battle, Ahbooboo had to concentrate.
[Fine. What is there in life, no, swordsmanship? I have to do what I need to do right now and do what I want to do.]
He suddenly became a liberated sage.
Did he even come as a sage now?
[Because I have already died many times. Do you know that ? Dying isn’t as bad as you think. It feels like a light load. If you have a chance, I recommend that you try to die at least once.]
I understood.
When you let go of your attachment to life, many things become easier.
The choices are wider
But it was impossible.
“You idiot, once I lose, I’m done.”
My divinity is extreme.
There is only one chance.
Even if the resurrection is planned, it is impossible to try to die once.
It was unclear how my divinity would interpret death.
If it is judged a defeat, I end there.
[The more extreme the divinity, the more dangerous it is.]
said Ahbooboo.
Who doesn’t know that?
After the first sprouting of divinity, you can realize it immediately.
I thought this would hold me and shake me.
It was unavoidable.
My divinity was extreme.
That was because my situation was desperate at the time.
Enough to destroy everything around me, including myself.
[Oh. I’m the one who experienced it, and it wasn’t a pleasant experience.]
“Shut up.”
If Lee Yeon-hee didn’t come into the tutorial.
What if Yong-yong and Hochi had not been my family?
I thought about it sometimes.
I would have probably skipped the tutorial.
It would have taken a lot longer though.
And when I came out like that, I would have gone crazy.
[What still…….]
I decided not to respond.
Instead, I opened the door.
Glittering gold was the first thing that caught my eye.
Damn it.
After leaving this place, it seems like I will hate gold for the rest of my life.
What the hell was the gold containing the power of the God of Order made of?
What is the point of destroying magic and ignoring divine power?
Its performance is so deceptive, it’s almost unbelievable from an opponent’s point of view.
Ignoring the gold, there was no choice but to harm the wearer directly.
Trying not to rub against that gold somehow.
I saw the enemies with golden armor and golden spears.
Those monsters…….
No, could you call those things monsters?
The identities of the enemies were the little rabbit beasts.
It looked similar to Kirikiri, but it was a little different.
If Kirikiri looked more like a human, those rabbit beasts certainly looked like tall, bipedal rabbits.
They were like the rabbits of the village where Kirikiri lived, the story of which Ahbooboo had been talking about.
They are rabbits.
It was quite meaningful.
The one we killed in the previous room was a dragon.
“Isn’t it a sea monster we killed in the previous room?”
When I opened the door, there was a beach where mermaids appeared.
A huge sea monster was protruding from the shore.
Of course, he was armed with gold containing the power of the God of Order.
Before that, fairies who ridiculed ideals appeared.
A group of human thieves appeared without end.
A long time ago, I even killed the Great Evil.
It was the same order as the enemies in the High Seeker’s journey that Ahbooboo had told of.
At this point, I could be sure.
When Kirikiri made this place.
She seemed to think that if someone challenged this place, they would surely be the God of Sky.
In fact, Ahbooboo said that the God of Sky had prepared to attack this place.
It was interesting.
Knowing the tangled secrets made it even more interesting.
What was more interesting was the behavior of the rabbits.
The rabbits suddenly threw their golden spears to the ground.
I was taken aback by the action.
I thought they were definitely going to throw it at me.
The rabbits stood in a line and folded their arms.
And lay down as it is.
It looks like… It seemed that all of them who went to a protest were lying on their back with their arms folded.
“What are you doing? You guys.”
I asked so without knowing.
The rabbits heard me and cried out in a loud voice.
“You can’t go beyond this! If you want to go, step on us!”
“That’s right. If you’re going to go, you have to step on us!”
I couldn’t help but ask.
“Why can’t I go over there?”
The rabbits explained.
“All powers must have rules. Even the gods must have rules. No matter how insensitive you are, you must not break the rules.”
So that’s it.
These are the words to the challenger who came here to control the God of Order.
At the time when this place was built, did they not think of the possibility that the God of Order would run rampant and destroy the world?
“I’m sorry, but I have to pass.”
“Don’t do it! If you’re going, step on us!”
“I’m sure you won’t be able to step on us with those big feet!”
They were funny rabbits.
The golden spear and the sword are thrown away and they are protesting.
If someone is stepping on it, why can’t they step on it?
I staggered forward.
The rabbits got up from their seats in amazement.
“Really, really, I was going to be stepped on!”
“How could you do that!”
“Barbarian! How mean!
No, you told me to step on you.
The rabbits did not open their arms.
“If you’re going over there, kill us!”
“Don’t go there!”
“Yes, don’t!”
It’s fun, it’s fun.
It was definitely fun.
Even I was curious.
What choice did the God of Sky make when he arrived here after losing his divinity?
[I don’t know either.]
Even Ahbooboo wasn’t sure.
One thing was certain.
I could kill rabbits, with or without divinity, and pass by.
I drew my sword.
No, I tried to pull it out.
The condition of the rabbits was strange.
Yes. This place was no longer a place of ordeal created by Kirikiri.
It was the realm of the God of Order.
The gold attached to the rabbits’ bodies like armor and scales began to hum and resonate.
They slowly opened their arms.
They picked up a weapon that had fallen on the floor.
They started coming towards me with a strange noise.
It was expected.
Because it was like this in the previous room where the beach appeared.
There was no shock or embarrassment because the people of the coastal town, who appeared neutral, had experienced the rush to wield the golden sword.
It was regretful.
Those bunnies must have been born with the fate to be controlled by evil gods.
“I’m sorry… run away…”
The rabbit swung the spear.
The tip of the spear containing the power of the God of Order had the power to create and destroy the universe itself.
Sorry what?
I’m more sorry
I swung my sword at the rabbits.
* * *
I opened the door again.
As soon as I opened the door, someone approached me.
It was my divinity that was asleep.
It is not the divinity that was created and swung temporarily during battle.
It was the one I got myself on the 61st floor,
It was my divinity that I cared for and nurtured until I came here.
As soon as I became aware of the existence of the divine, I became a god again.
I explained it to Ahbooboo, who was bewildered by the sudden change.
“My divinity is back.”
[Yes?]
My divinity, which this place had been holding back, was released.
That fact was confirmed again through other changes.
[I want to eat sweets.]
Seregia, who had lost her divinity and was silent, spoke her first words after a long time.
As soon as she becomes a god again, the words she says are sweet treats.
“It seems that there is no divine restraint from here on.”
It was incomprehensible.
Why did they suddenly return the divinity?
There is one thing I felt when I came here.
The being who created and designed this place really hated divinity.
There was a clear sense of malice.
Somehow they tried to reject and exclude the divine.
It was more than obsessive and persistent.
As I face the ordeal for control of the god of order.
If there is a divine nature, objective and correct judgment cannot be made, so the very idea of having to go through trials and judgments while removing the divinity was like that.
It was a strong disbelief in the divine.
[I want to eat sweets.]
“I heard you, Seregia. I’ll get you some sweets as soon as I get out of here.”
Serezia was quiet at that moment.
Seeing Seregia who had turned into a candy ghost, I also thought that the designer’s thoughts were not so wrong.
Divinity may be a factor that adversely affects intelligence and judgment.
Anyway, it made me wonder why such a designer would now come and return the divinity.
“I know two things.”
[What is it?]
Ahbooboo asked.
“The end is near.”
Not much left.
The existence of the God of Order was felt very close.
It was almost close.
[What about the other one?]
As soon as I became a god, I tried to check Hochi’s status, who entered the entrance.
Soon after, I could see Hochi, Yong-yong, and the old man following me.
I know Hochi and Yong-yong, but I didn’t know that the old man followed me.
I don’t know why he, who was not even strong enough, came all the way here.
They were in danger.
Yong-yong even took out his true self, unusually.
Even the spirits were fighting hard, wielding a greatsword with an ungodly body.
Even Hochi was fighting with a bizarre look I had never seen before.
But it didn’t seem like they could last long.
“I don’t have much time. I have to finish it as soon as possible and get back to the kids.”
Ahbooboo asked me about it.
[Is it very dangerous?]
“Very.”