Chapter. 20. Off-Road (13)
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World.
Skin that is closer to bleached than white. A neat outfit that resembles the uniform of a noble family butler.
I had an intuition that there was one contradiction in the story of ‘Hyde’ I had heard.
Preparation for over two centuries. In a turbulent world, he moves through the center of events, hiding artifacts all over the country for the next generation’s ‘Hyde’, and even asking beings who can transcend time such as dragons and Otman.
‘why. ‘What were you preparing for?’
Why did ‘Hyde’ prepare so desperately for the next one? It’s not like they can foresee the future, so why did they prepare so many magic tools that would remain even when the whole world was in ruins?
It’s not like I knew the world would become this difficult.
His purpose was simply to wait for someone to come someday.
Why did he prepare for battle?
“I can’t believe you showed up so quickly. This is unexpected. Is it a calculated variable as always? or not.”
“I wonder if the situation has become like this and you have become impatient.”
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Eat.
It came to mind the moment I saw the white smile beyond the fingertips pointed at me.
What were you preparing for?
‘Dragon Aldarshax participated in the two great imperial wars.’
Dragons do not participate in human wars. Because war is also just a part of the world.
However, the dragon Aldarshax fought on the side of the Western Empire against the Magic Empire.
The only time dragons move is when the balance of the world is disturbed.
That meant that the Yangjae Imperial War did not occur purely in the category of human affairs.
‘There was an enemy.’
That laugh. I remember the smile that seemed to be made up.
His goal was simple. waiting for someone Preparing to carry on yourself to wait.
However, the world did not wait for his return at any time.
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‘Notum, isn’t something strange?’
‘That’s the way the world is. A tower that collapses when built. The higher you climb, the more inclined it becomes.’
‘It’s not like this because it doesn’t just tilt, it flips and explodes! This is strange! From magical engineering to the Empire’s Divine Emperor! The world is clearly ready to move in a better direction, but the result is just the opposite! It’s also the case that the Gwangmyeong Church suddenly became such a group of idiots and caused internal strife! Also, a culture of treating knights poorly has emerged, as if someone had orchestrated it! It’s so foreign! Even if it’s the same crack, a natural one is completely different from someone cutting it with a knife! ‘Don’t you feel that?’
‘Geuwooum. It’s not that you know, it’s that you feel.’
‘The fact that no one can feel this is abnormal in itself! Who decided to ruin the world! And on a scale I can’t even imagine!’
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Hyde in the past was fighting with someone.
The one who tilts the world.
A person who seeks to break and tear the world into pieces so that he can completely control it with the power he has.
So, in the distant future, when someone arrives in this world.
Those who want to prepare the perfect stage.
“world.”
A being outside the world.
To be precise, a being that must exist outside the world.
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‘I was impressed. If I had been a little late, I would have made a mistake this time too.’
‘I can’t give up on this one either.’
‘Of course, what you can do outside and what you can do inside are different. The hard work was worth it.’
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Berhan and the back of him as he completed twisting the dragon vein right in front of his eyes.
Now he has appeared once again.
Pakak.
Black tree branches burst out from World’s fingertips.
A roar erupts from the mouth of the dragon facing him. The evaporated water rises into white foam. The moment when Otman’s hands make a hand sign and the outstretched branches embrace them.
“I’ll get out of the way, Hyde.”
“I hope you enjoy it as much as you waited.”
….gurgling!
The three people who were confronting each other disappeared as if they were being sucked in by World’s voice, which sounded somewhat like a mockery, and the voice became blurred.
Without a trace. The deck of the airship returned to the dark and quiet depths of the sea, as if the confrontation between a gigantic being and power had been a lie.
“…You’re doing something useless.”
A voice came from a place hidden in the darkness.
Exciting –
It’s the men’s side. I was just watching the confrontation between Aldar and Otman World.
For some reason, my body stiffened and my feet wouldn’t fall.
‘found.’
The moment I saw the figure slowly approaching through the darkness of the deep sea.
I couldn’t react in any way.
He will be right. Because the nervousness that has driven me all my life makes me shiver like this.
I hoped it wasn’t him. What I was looking for couldn’t have been something that looked like that.
There was nothing I could do amid the conflicting emotions that felt like my heart was splitting in two.
….click.
Kiiiiing-!
All I had to do was insert the dragon vein stone that Otman gave me into the sheath of the sword.
Why do I reach for the sword?
Because it feels like hostility. Because it means that the being in front of me is hostile to me.
why.
But why?
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‘….Find it.’
‘Find….’
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A being that I have been waiting for and looking for for a lifetime, perhaps even longer than a lifetime.
‘found.’
‘Then find it?’
What should I do to find it?
I do not know.
I’m asking because I don’t know.
“Who are you…?”
Who is it?
What on earth was he to me and what did I forget to be so confused?
The man raised his head in response to the question he barely managed to get out.
Unlike his extremely expressionless expression, his eyes looked as if the question had ripped into his intestines.
“…Do you know me?”
I could see why he had those eyes.
The answer that came back was also because it dug into me.
Crash.
He raised his gun.
click.
I also held a knife.
Same face. Two people with the same look in their eyes.
We stood in different places and faced each other.
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Sigh!
[Space transfer. And to cast it across the ocean without any warning.]
“It’s not magic, it’s just a type of power for administrators.”
Otman looked at the space where he and Aldar had separated, as if moving the entire ocean water.
A space with no end. A place where objects with a strange sense of life are lined up sparsely, even though it is difficult to tell whether it is reality or a dream.
『To be exact, it is not a power prepared for someone like you. The administrator’s area is a chunk of extra data prepared to enable the dragon to influence the world.』
“Thank you for your accurate point, Aldarshax. “It seems like you know this place well.”
『Shut up.』
“I preserved the traces of that brother and sister who remained here. How do you feel about returning to a place you can call home after 120 years? A slightly sentimental reaction considering my hard work-”
Ppa-de-de-duk!
“thank you. “No matter how much emotional data I accumulate, it feels like it’s not enough.”
World faced Aldarshaks’ boiling anger and smiled with satisfaction.
[You look happy.]
“When humans feel satisfied, they express their emotions through facial muscles, and satisfaction is usually an emotion that occurs when an intended task is being accomplished smoothly. So, if I were to define it, I would be in a happy state right now.”
[Just as intended… Why? I don’t think you were very happy about Hyde and the professor meeting up until now?]
“That’s right. “Until a few years ago, we would have desperately tried to prevent the two from meeting.”
Answer the questions. As this was also a behavior pattern entered into the system, World did not feel much resistance to answering Ottman’s questions.
“It’s different now.”
No, maybe that’s what I wanted to say. To the beings inside that have been interfering with her process for so long.
“Because I won.”
She wanted to let those who had been interfering with her know that their resistance was now meaningless. Even for a more efficient process.
“error. “It is a planned ending that will soon lead the world of GG to an uncontrollable state.”
“I was only acting out of my duty to stop it.”
『Are you saying that you are sowing errors into the world with your own hands? That was truly for the survival of the world!』
The world nodded loudly at Aldarshaks’ progress.
“Aren’t there already some successful cases using that method? “The Creator’s plan is out there.”
『….an outside plan?』
“To advance the planned destruction and make it a controllable means. Isn’t our completer plan also part of that?”
The system was an external administrator and, unlike administrators within the world, could not directly influence GG.
So it ruined the world. Because I had to somehow obtain permission to intervene inside.
Administrator’s Domain The World Tree’s domain is an empty data space provided so that they can have as much influence on the world as they need. Through this, internal managers can use the authority of hundreds of millions of people, but at the same time, their very existence becomes a part of the world called GG.
When the world is broken, its managers also become weak and broken.
The response to the broken manager had already been decided through the response to the ‘Sun and Moon’, the subjects of past simulations.
He disposed of the weakened dragon Senikamar and took over her world data.
He used the influence he gained to further worsen the world and eventually succeeded in eliminating the World Tree, the observer of all simulations.
The plan did not go smoothly due to the appearance of an irregular named ‘Hyde’.
The results were self-explanatory.
“The completed Player ‘professor’ was a person who could not move due to external pressure.”
“So it was necessary to have the right people with the right backgrounds appear on the prepared ‘stage,’ and for that, we spent a long time acquiring the authority to intervene internally.”
[Did I control that reincarnated guy as I wanted?]
“It would be more accurate to say that I manipulated him. “Every time I absorb a fragment, I look at what memories have been chipped away, guide them, and guide them.”
“So that he becomes a being who only remembers his duty: ‘Absorb all the fragments and get out of here.’”
“I completed it. Our candidate for completion is the only incalculable being who will revive this world that is destined to end! To my completer!”
There are predetermined results and
there are beings who can change the predetermined results.
Since he did not receive the coordinates of the server room, he is still a ‘candidate for completion’.
However, the lifespan of GG, who will create the completer, has reached a critical point. What if the ‘professor’ will clear his 4 worlds and become a completer, or will he fail in a world where even the system has become unpredictable due to the effects of errors?
For the system, the Creator’s ‘Perfection Plan’ must be carried out.
It is unclear whether ‘professor’ will clear his April world and become a completer or not.
Therefore, rather than choosing an uncertain possibility, if GG can be maintained by replacing the ‘completer candidate’. Wouldn’t that be a better direction for the Creator’s plan?
As long as GG is alive, we can find another candidate for completion.
Now in a perfect world where there are no errors.
[….I can’t understand more than half of what you’re saying, I’m sorry, while you’re raving about it.]
“Ah, Ottman Baudelaire. You were the one inside. “I mistakenly thought you could hear it because you were also part of the variable.”
『There is no need to listen. It’s just the nonsense of a horribly twisted person.』
World smiling brightly and Aldarshax glaring as if he would kill.
Ottoman just nodded with a calm expression.
Another plan.
Why was Hyde’s plan to simply meet the professor again so disastrous?
A trap prepared by a mad being who calls itself ‘World’.
[….After listening, my speaking skills have improved. When I saw him before, he picked up and served horses that had been cut in half like undead or evil spirits.]
“The Warlord had a strong antipathy toward mechanical speaking methods. The name ‘World’ is also a more humane way of speaking. I prepared it in case he forgets the existence of ‘system’ in the future.”
[….Then why did his appearance, which had no gender-related characteristics when I saw him before, change to what it is now?]
“One of the memories that was most strongly imprinted on him was that of a woman of that age. “If they are too similar, it can actually have the opposite effect, so I expressed them in a moderately similar form.”
[Oh my. okay. If so….]
Ttukdukdukduk!
[Why did you bring us here, leaving only Hyde and the professor behind?]
“Of course, it was so that we could kill him by the hands of the Warlord.”
World smiled so brightly that it couldn’t get any brighter. It is said that depending on the level of happiness, the corners of the eyes of humans bend and the corners of the mouth open wider.
Bright enough to touch the corners of your eyes and mouth.
[I see. That’s what happened.]
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[Disgusting thing.]
Tdu-duk-duk!
Otman’s eyelids, which had been closed until now, slowly lifted.
The calm old man’s face was distorted, a ray of anger seethed under his fiercely raised eyebrows, and the true meaning of magic was reflected in each of his bent knuckles.
The image that passed by for a moment remained on my retina like a painting.
Although his form is different, his disciple cannot be unrecognized.
[I will not leave it to you as you wish.]
Quaaaaa!
With Otman’s seal, sea water began to rise in the vast administrator’s territory.
The ‘sea’ realization he reached in his later years.
Although humans arbitrarily gave names to the sea and divided it, there was only one sea connected by the name ‘sea’ from the beginning.
That too was the sea. It’s small, but it’s not a salt lake, it’s a sea. Part of a great waterway that only exists as one.
“That’s amazing. “I thought there was no way I could do anything about it here.”
『It’s just power that was stolen, so it’s like a pearl necklace on a pig’s neck.』
[When you dragged me here, the sea had seeped into your proud ‘administrator’s domain’.]
“Magic. It was the power to change existing rules. “It is truly remarkable.”
Ottman whispered urgently as he saw World raising his hand as if he would not just watch the sea water fill up the infinite space.
[Aldar. Buy me some time. I will open a waterway to return.]
『Crrr. You can take it slowly.』
The dragon said, turning his back to the wizard.
The system’s authority had already far surpassed his, but it didn’t matter.
This is the moment to end the mourning for Senica, his sister who went to mourning.
Rather than handing over what little power he had left, he wanted to burn it all down.
『I need to have time to chew that bitch’s head off!』
Quauuuuu-!
The dragon’s massive body rushed forward, exploding blue electric current.
Black branches and blue roar were intertwined.
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