Chapter 728,
Chapter 183. The outpost (3), which started from the inside,
had a total of two closed training grounds dedicated to the vigilante.
One was the ‘secret palace within the secret palace’ that could only be reached through the power of ice and mote, and one was the top floor of the secret palace.
The space Siris was trying to open was the latter.
The former has limited opening because Siris can’t handle full ice yet, and Elona Ziple is currently sealed inside.
Problems could arise if Misha and Elona were stimulated by clumsily opening the secret palace inside the secret palace, and above all, the place could not respond quickly from the outside in case of a problem with Jin.
[Boong!]
Siris burned the gin on top of the motte. The pulse she felt in the wrist she held on to lift him was so feeble.
‘I’m sure Jin’s mental attacks are on a different level than me and other people…’
As Siris thought, the mental attacks experienced by people other than Jin were several levels lower.
It wasn’t enough that he had endured such a thing until now, and Siris felt deep respect for Jin, who said he would go to fight alone.
Mort went outside and slowly climbed up the wall of the secret palace.
I tried to teleport, but even the natural shaking when running in the alien snowfield seemed like it would be a blow to Jin now.
Jin was weaker than ever.
In the meantime, Valeria and Quaul and other colleagues and members of the secret palace went up to the top floor of the secret palace first and waited for Jin.
Before long, Motte reached the top floor.
“Whoa…”
Jin, who came down from Mort’s back, took a deep breath. The air was cold enough to make his lungs shiver, but Jin hardly felt it.
This is because the senses of the real world have become extremely dull. My eyes were cloudy, my ears were hard of hearing, and my limbs were without strength at all.
The colleagues who were watching whether it was okay to send such a person to the closed training ground alone could not help but worry as they saw Jin walking with Gilly’s support.
Jin looked at his colleagues who came blurry into his field of vision.
“Mister…”
Gilly’s watery voice trembled. It was difficult to see Jin exhausted to the limit.
“Looks like everyone has been waiting.”
Jin wanted to say this in a confident voice as usual. Everyone, don’t worry too much and wait.
But now, I wanted to share my feelings a little more honestly.
“If I don’t leave the training ground after five days. I lost then. And that means my death.”
At that point, Gilly couldn’t hold back his tears.
Valeria bit her lower lip and patted her on the back.
People didn’t say anything for a while.
“Honestly, I’m not sure I can win. But I will not leave a will. I don’t want to say a sad goodbye as if it’s the last time. After this fight, there is a real settlement.”
Jin glanced at Siris. It meant asking to open the door to the closed training hall.
When Siris took out the ice cube and inserted it into the door like a key, white energy flowed out like a wave from inside the training room.
The door opened to reveal a vast, white, cold land.
“So it can’t end here…”
Jin trudged slowly through the distance. Pressing the ground with Bradamante like a staff.
The bag containing the minimum amount of food could not have seemed so heavy.
The sense of reality was dulling in seconds. I hadn’t even taken a few steps, but I already felt that my colleagues behind me were far away.
“jin! come back safely I’m also holding up well against mental attacks, so I’m sure you’ll be able to win! When I get back, I’ll give you some eel sticks!”
Surprisingly, it was none other than Darkfire that shouted first and with very precise pronunciation.
The dark flame was the only one of the secret beasts to experience mental attacks.
“Oh what what what! Why is that guy talking so well all of a sudden!?”
Top was startled and shouted.
Even the solemn colleagues were startled by the sudden, accurate and fast voice of the flame of darkness.
“I’ll hand out eel pods! Pork eel…!”
“Hey Darkfire! Are you okay? huh? No, it’s not like I was able to speak straight. Not okay.”
“I’ll hand out eel pods!”
Holding Darkfire by the shoulder, Topi recognized that he was closing his eyes in the agony of the mind attack.
In the middle of my confusion, I just made a sound for Jin, but somehow it was only being pronounced clearly and quickly.
Darkflame is clearly the weakest person in this Secret Palace. He was so strong too.
The cry of the dark flame to distribute the eel continued like a dodol. My colleagues couldn’t see it, but Jin himself didn’t even recognize it. Jin smiled faintly at the sound.
Soon, as Jin fully entered the closed training hall, Siris closed the door with a heavy face.
Now, there is only one thing my colleagues can do for Jin.
It was to wish him victory. Like so many ordinary people in the world.
* * *
The inside of the training hall was pure white, but to Jin’s eyes, it looked like a night sea without a single light.
It was impossible to tell whether he was standing, sitting, or lying down.
But what is important to Jin right now is not reality. In the meantime, the inner battlefield that had been fiercely connected without a moment’s rest was more important.
Therefore, I had to sink deeper inside. To the extent that no sense of reality remains and is completely erased.
It was the reason why I chose the closed training center. I needed a space where I could fully focus on my inner battlefield without even the slightest external stimulation.
Jin was carefully submerged. towards one’s inner world.
It is walking in the middle of the boundary between life and death.
Even if you miss a step, oblivion and death will attack Jin.
‘Do you think that’s right?’
‘Do you think that method is right?’
‘So can you reach me?’
‘Can you save those countless people from me?’
On the way to the underworld, Rosa’s voice was heard from time to time.
I shuddered with anxiety every time that dark voice stirred my ego.
I also regretted it. I felt the urge to turn around and leave immediately.
The closer I got to the inner world, the more my fear grew.
A huge fear that he had never felt in his previous life and in the present was crushing Jin’s ego.
‘This is the first time I’ve seen you tremble with fear.’
‘It’s the first time you’ve seen it, but it’s happened often.’
‘Is that so?’
‘You must have been like that when you were human too.’
‘I’ve never given in to fear. So show me that you can do the same as me.’
At first, Jin thought of fighting alone to do the same.
However, the deeper he went into the inner world, the faster Jin realized it.
That in order to overcome fear in this desolate and solitary world, you must eventually become a monster just like Rosa.
That without becoming a monstrous monster, one would have no choice but to be terrified of loneliness in the inner world.
A line of white lines came into Jin’s field of vision.
Jin intuitively recognized that it was a kind of door to the deepest part of the inner world.
Beyond that, Rosa’s ego would be waiting for her.
Also, the white line was a crossroads of choice.
Depending on what kind of mind you pull, the result will change.
If you pull with the mind to become a monster, you will become a monster, and if you want to remain a human, you will just open up.
‘But as long as I remain as a person…’
‘You can’t beat me.’
Rosa was now seeing through Jin’s thoughts like Lingling in the past. It was because the ego that was in contact with the inner world was getting closer.
‘Now you can read my thoughts, son. This inner battle is a gift I have prepared for you. This mother wanted to make you a more perfect being before making a decision. To be able to fight on equal footing with me.’
Open the door with the mind to become a monster. That’s your only hope of defeating me.
Rosa said so.
Jin grabbed the white line. When I looked back, the road I had come down to was shattered and flying like dust.
The moment he tried to pull it with the mind that he must become a monster, Jin flinched and stopped moving.
It was because I suddenly heard a rustle in my ear.
It wasn’t Rosa’s gloomy voice, but the wishes of the people outside tickled Jin’s ears like a whisper.
Jin couldn’t hear it at all. It was just the feeling of a cool breeze blowing in my ears, but it was enough to make Jin think again.
‘I almost gave up the one thing superior to you in order to stand up against you in order to become like you.’
A person protects himself from danger because he has an emotion called fear.
If you are afraid, you can run away, and if you are afraid, you can properly deal with it.
It was the human way to fight back while struggling with fear.
‘Even if I become a monster and defeat you… it will only result in another evil spirit appearing in the world.’
Due to the ego being devastated by the long mental attack, Jin was missing the obvious fact.
Having come to a conclusion, Jin carefully pulled the white line.
And when the door opened, what was seen was not Rosa’s self.
It was neither an empty, empty space nor vague darkness. It was a back view of a man sitting.
“father…?”
Shiron Runkandel Jin’s father. The reason Rosa stands where her original self should be is because Jin did not become a monster.
“jin.”
I had never missed my father so desperately as these days.
The limbs that had been weeping were filled with the same strength as before, and hot blood seemed to fill the hazy mind. Unknowingly, Jin was running toward Shiron.
However, he could not reach Shiron.
A huge cliff as deep as the Great Sea separated Jin from Shiron.
As Jin stopped in front of the cliff, Shiron looked back.
It was his father’s face that he hadn’t seen in a long time.
The rich man looked into each other’s eyes for a while.
“It held up well.”
Soon after, Jin was able to suddenly realize what Shiron had said.
In fact, Shiron was watching her from the beginning to the end in this inner world, which was so lonely and painful.
“There will be a day when we will meet again.”
After saying that, Shiron turned around and started walking.
Now, it’s as if we want to go back to our respective battlefields.
For a long time, Jin watched his father walking towards a deeper and darker place.
It didn’t seem appropriate at this moment to say anything more to his father.
When Shiron’s back disappeared and Jin looked back, he saw that the roads of the inner world that had been broken earlier were being re-formed.
Like Shiron, Jin walked up the path silently.
When Jin escaped the inner world and regained a sense of reality.
Outside, four days had passed and Rosa’s mental attack, which had driven the world into agony, had completely disappeared.
Jin opened the door to the closed training hall with more energy than ever before.
