Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 50

Chapter.4 Eyelids (23)

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[Wake up.]

Took. Again.

The sound of water falling coming from somewhere. A black space where no sense can be felt. In his faint consciousness, the professor felt that this was a place he had been to some time ago.

‘helminth······. Did you end up dragging me back here?’

As I growled at the empty space, the black smoke-like face of a parasite appeared with its chin resting in the empty air. The guy had a very cool face, different from his usual sneer.

[It’s a plague. They said that this is why they don’t harvest black-headed beasts.]

‘Stop talking nonsense and tell me why you brought me here again?’

[what? Did I call you? You?]

Sreuk-

The one floating in the air came down to the floor. The guy walking towards me had two black, smoke-like hands with two flesh-colored fingers that were different from the rest of his body. The index and middle fingers that are not on my left hand in consciousness. A part of my body that is completely under his will.

Wow.

The right hand with the strange fingers placed its hand on my shoulder.

[Stop talking nonsense and wake up. Because it doesn’t seem like there’s that much time outside right now.]

Outside? What is this kid talking about?

As I nervously tried to swat away the hand of the guy who was saying something I couldn’t understand, I saw one of his black fingers disappear and a flesh-colored finger grow on top of it.

[Oh, I’ll take this.]

The professor looked at his left hand in shock. It’s gone. My ring finger was there just a moment ago. It was transferred into the hands of a bastard.

‘How did this happen…!’

[Don’t be like that. You said this was given at a really cheap price, including a discount for an acquaintance? When you go out and see what I’m going to do for you, you’ll be so thankful that you’ll bow down to me.]

A crack

appeared in the empty black space, and light began to seep in through it.

[Wow, look at you finally waking up. Slowly bursting shell child.]

‘Hey! wait! Explain how this happened!’

The parasite didn’t even pretend to hear the professor’s shout and picked its ears with its new fingers.

[Go out and listen. And if you can’t take it because you’re so grateful, you can lend it to me for about one day a week.]

‘Damn it! I have to tell you so you can understand what I’m saying…!’

Whoa!

The crack split, the black space was filled with light, and the professor woke up.

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When I open my eyes, the first thing I feel is pain.

Headache and dizziness. Pain that feels like your body is being squeezed from the inside.

‘What was I doing that I lost my mind?’

The first thing that comes to mind. soft lips. Umm… what happened next? I don’t think there have been many memorable events more important than this…

‘You know the topic, beast! ‘You don’t even have the right to mix hands with me!’

“Isaac!”

Jump up!

The professor suddenly woke up from his dazed consciousness. Only then did the surroundings come into view. It was as if a bomb had been dropped, and there were no household items everywhere, and as always, all kinds of red notifications were blinking in the status window, the chat window was going up like crazy, and in one corner, there was Isaac, clutching his arm and muttering frantically.

The professor looked at his arm as if it were fine, with a bit of ash on it and a few tears, but Isaac was constantly scratching his arm as if he was trying to rip something off, then holding his head and screaming.

“No! No, no! Get away from my body, please! Nightmares, nightmares will overtake the world! I have to stop it, I have to stop it!”

Pow!

With Isaac’s death-like scream, the back of his neck swelled and burst, and something like a fat centipede jumped out and crawled onto his head.

“This is crazy! Insomnia crap (insomnia crab)? Are all non-mainstream mute species really coming out?”

Insomnia Crab. Like the tunnel bug Pale Face from last time, it is one of the special entities that is not commonly seen. Although it is classified as level 6 to 5, it is almost the size of a palm, has no combat power, and is not very profitable as it has to be conceived and produced by the queen herself, making it almost a piece of trash.

There are only two abilities. It weakens the spirit of the host and plants the image the queen wants within it. If the host falls into unconsciousness or becomes unable to fight –

Kiriririk Kirik! Kiririk!

Poobuk puk! Phew!

In that way, it pops out from the body, sticks its tentacles straight into the head, and controls the host.

“Ahhhh! Ahhhhh!!!”

The tentacles had completely penetrated his brain, and a scream like the cry of a dead man was pouring out of the controlled Isaac’s mouth, and water was gathering around him. The difference between Insomnia crabs and mutes infected with common infectious agents is that Insomnia crabs can use the host’s knowledge to some extent!

“Hydraulic power- rumbling gu-!”

Kurrrrrrrr-!

“That’s a hydraulic ball? The same spell I used?!”

Even if it was controlled by Crab, it was impossible to acquire all the enlightenment of a 6th rank wizard. The spell used was the most basic hydraulic sphere, but its scale and power were different. A huge sphere of water created on the hand by collecting all the water flowing around it.

‘I lost my mind and I don’t know what happened, but my body was very shaken.’

There were many times when I received serious injuries, and there were quite a few times when I was on the verge of death. But I can assure you that my body has never been this weak before. Even now, if I move, the powder is falling off my skin and it looks like it will collapse at any moment. This body can no longer fight.

‘Rakshasha… I can’t have high expectations.’

They had red blood spots all over their bodies and almost all of their threads seemed to have been used up, so they were holding daggers and confronting each other. Her injuries were also serious.

‘Anything, anything, something worth attacking. Something that can attack an enemy with even a small amount of force…’

Mental breakdown brings things before my eyes as if sweeping away the objects lined up around me. It’s all just broken and broken pieces. It would be difficult to even throw those things with shaky arms.

I was desperate for a gun. A modern weapon that can deliver fatal attacks as long as you can move your fingers.

Snap.

At that moment, the stream of water seeping through the collapsed building touched my fingertips, and a realization passed through my head like lightning.

order. Expressing through voice the meaning of the magic you wish to cast based on your own realization.

Prisoner. To firmly establish an image by structuring it by imprinting it on one’s finger.

The professor slowly raised his right arm as if possessed by something. A shape in which the thumb and index and middle fingers are stretched out, the index and middle fingers are connected, and all remaining fingers are folded. Although it has never been engraved with an image, it is a gun shape with such an image engraved on it that any modern person would think of the same object when they see the shape

.

The water leaking from the magic tower’s magic source slowly flows through the professor’s body and toward his hands.

Gunpowder is magical power.

I put my finger on the barrel of the gun, following the image imprinted in my mind.

The last bullet.

Gulp –

A drop of blood, drawn up by the heart, slowly flows through the dried up blood vessels and reaches the fingertips.

[Water Mana Friendliness – 1st Rank: Water Tolerance]

Why didn’t I know? Since coming into this body, he has been using this realization instinctively. Just as he was using his control over water, Mute’s blood flowed into his body according to his will.

Water, which embraces everything, also accepts blood as water.

A drop of blood flowed slowly and heavily through my veins and reached my finger. I heard a ‘clunking’ auditory hallucination in my head.

‘Aiming’

Get down on one knee and support the bottom of the gun barrel with your left hand. Inhale and hold your breath to stabilize your aim. He was already acting not as a professor in the game, but as Professor Park in the Wasteland.

The tip of the gun is aimed at the enemy’s head, Insomnia Kreb.

1st tier origin spell.

“[Blood Shot]”

“Taang.”

A two-letter spell flows from the professor’s mouth, and

Push!

A bullet of blood, rapidly accelerated by magic, pierced through the professor’s fingertips and headed toward Isaac’s head.

There was no loud noise or deathly scream.

Isaac’s body slowly collapsed, and the hydraulic spheres gathered in his hands scattered and fell to the floor.

The Insomnia Kreb, which was pierced precisely in the center of its body, struggled for a moment and then slowly sank into the water.

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‘I did it.’

As soon as I thought I had won, the strength drained from my body. The hand that had cast the spell was so limp that it had no strength to hold its fingers, and for some reason, the body’s regenerative power showed no signs of recovering.

‘Come to think of it, I felt quite helpless when escaping from Turan.’

At that time, it seems that the battle ended with a feeling of exhaustion as the body had already fully recovered. Mutation Berserk temporarily reduces the body’s regenerative power after use.

A Rakshasha came next to the professor who was lying limply. A smile slowly appeared on the professor’s lips.

‘Are you trying to help me?’

There is no need to decline. When the professor stretched out his hand towards the Rakshasha, the Rakshasa thrust a sharp dagger at the professor’s neck.

“name?”

“….yes?”

“Would you like to tell me your name?”

“I… So, what kind of situation is this?…”

Fishit –

The Rakshasha’s dagger slightly dug into the skin as if he wasn’t going to take questions.

“Ugh! all right! Got it! professor! His name is Rakshasha! That’s it! Okay, so put away the knife!”

When his name and the professor’s own name came out of the professor’s mouth, the Rakshasha let out the breath he had been holding and retrieved the dagger.

“Thank goodness I came back, don’t you think? “I was sure he was a professor ever since I started using magic.”

“Come back? What does that mean? “How can I be certain that I will be myself?”

“…. You really don’t remember anything?”

The Rakshasha pointed at the surroundings with the tip of his chin with a puzzled look on his face. It looked as if the entire room had been put in a press and removed, with everything including wood, stone, and metal broken and torn apart. What they have in common is that they are all wet with water.

‘It’s a trace of magic. Maybe… this happened before I came to my senses. So, does this mean that the Rakshasha alone could have prevented this level of large-scale destruction magic? But she was busy keeping Isaac in check until I fainted?’

After coming to his senses, the professor noticed that Isaac was very afraid of something. To the point where he can’t maintain his senses after seeing hallucinations.

“No way…mage panic?”

A wizard is a creature so sensitive to mental things that he can embody his images in the world. When trauma or any negative image appears in such a sensitive mind, even such images are reflected in reality and one falls into a state of endless panic.

‘But… Isaac isn’t a level 1 or 2 training wizard, right? ‘What kind of person could instill such fear in the mind of a 6th rank magician who is nothing short of impregnable?’

“Rakshasha. Are you the one who made Isaac like that before he was attacked by Crab?”

Shaking my head.

“Then… were there other helpers besides the two of us?”

Shaking my head.

“Then who on earth could give that much of a shock to the strong mental world of a 6th rank wizard…”

Knock knock –

“Huh?”

The Rakshasha interrupted me and stared at me, poking my cheek with his finger. I pointed my finger at her and she nodded.

“me?”

Nod.

“I?”

Nod.

“how?”

[Yes, even though he is of the 6th rank, he is a research wizard who has devoted his entire life to research. The consciousness was clearly built high enough to reach the sky, but it was still a tower built by a frog in a well. Maybe it was because I lacked experience in the world, but I seemed more scared than I thought.]

Rakshasha answered my question, ‘How do I know that?’ While he was looking at me with the same expression, the answer to the question flowed out of me.

‘….I?’

Shaking my head.

‘Then… you?’

Nod.

The three fingers of my left hand tapped rhythmically to wake me up from my shock.

[So, please be careful while saving your body. Do you know that we almost died? No matter how good the regenerative power is, what happens if the brain containing consciousness is blown away? Playback will do. With an empty brain where soulless infectious agents are saying ugh. I felt like I was going to die of frustration from holding it in so I used my body while you were sleeping.]

‘You… moved my body?’

[okay. There’s nothing that can’t be done, right? Another consciousness that was stored in reserve entered the body that was in an ‘unconscious’ state? If it weren’t for me, you and that human woman would have been squeezed by that old wizard and already been bottled up!]

No, that’s not the problem. This is a much more serious problem than that.

Realistic mode can be seen as projecting the user’s consciousness into the game. It is literally as if the player’s soul is transferred to this world without any delay in moving the body.

‘But the personality in the game moved my character?’

So doesn’t this mean that, on the other hand, my personality in the game can affect my body outside?

[Hey, what’s so serious? You used it well and gave it back! Why are you so upset when you can’t even praise me enough?]

‘Just shut up, parasite.’

Need to check. Exactly what happened while I was unconscious. Fortunately, I knew many people who would be watching my every move while I was unconscious.

– Professor: I’m going to go to Jokas Nacho Speed Wagon.

– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Come to the dome.

– professor: I expect everyone has seen what happened. Is there anyone who can explain it to me?

– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: I know you’ve been hating groups for a long time, do you understand? First, get rid of everything, including games and nonsense, and come to the dome and crawl into the hospital first!

Even now, chatting from countless viewers fills the chat window. At first glance, I highlighted familiar IDs as usual among the many people who were cheering and saying things like “cool” and “great”, and I saw chats filled with concern from close people.

– Professor: I’m just going, calm down. I came here to ask this because I know things are going strangely. What the hell happened?

– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Do I look so serious?! You said that! therefore!

– Speed Wagon: Explained by me. Is that okay?

– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: ….

– Speed Wagon: It seems very confusing, so I summarized it in three lines.

You lost your mind and

came back to your senses,

acting like a different person and calling yourself ‘Hyde’.

‘…Hyde?’

[Why? How about it? It’s a pretty good name, right? Dr. Jekyll?]

– Jokass: Even if we don’t explain it, you’ll understand what this phenomenon is, right? You just said that your character was moved by an alter ego named ‘Hyde’ rather than ‘professor’ in the game. Like many realistic mode players who have died while playing this game, they have been ‘encroached’. Do you know what this means?

– professor: …..you know.

The professor muttered as he looked at his three left fingers, which were still moving playfully.

“It probably means that the ego in the game is starting to affect reality.

[I wanted to ask you since last time, but who do you talk to like that sometimes?]

In my case, something other than the professor in the game came out.

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