Chapter. 18. World 4 (3)
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[….Also, there is one thing left that I would like to say only to you.]
[….You have been my friend since I was nothing. He loved us as equals and as flesh and blood. Edeolana my sister. This thought will be left only to you, not to your mother or other siblings…]
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[….Sister, there is only you. For you… I would like to leave open the possibility of a slightly different choice.]
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Beyond the black stars that filled the record, a translucent image was showing Edeorna’s appearance.
Edeorna chewing and devouring sandy scales believed to belong to Falcatus.
Edeorna is talking to an invisible person while looking at her scaly arms.
And Edeorna drags her battered body towards the bodies of the dead queen and me.
….Edeorna? At that point?
“It wasn’t… alive. The side without dragon scales on the arm. “It’s an alter ego.”
Come to think of it, in the process of rushing into the queen’s nest, ‘It’s a white mute!’ It seemed like I heard a shout. He said that by feeding his flesh to the queen, he shared all of his remaining power with his alter ego, except for the power to restrain me. It was no exaggeration to say that in a situation where the Allied forces were attacking, the Queen used the leftover food to create another self-immolation.
It appears to have lost both of its arms and is in a state of complete disrepair, perhaps because its combat power is much lower than that of the original. It falls to its knees in front of a puddle of my queen’s blood.
[It ended up like this. [Mother.]
It opened its mouth in front of the queen’s long, bisected body.
[I tried to separate humans, spent countless nights making plans, and mobilized all the capabilities of the species to gather strength… but in the end, it ended up like this.]
[Mother. In the end, we couldn’t defeat my father.]
Kuung!
The words that flowed from the clone’s mouth pierced my brain like an awl.
Unlike the clones who moved silently like puppets during the final battle, Edeorna’s clone speaks fluently.
Not the arrogant tone typical of Edeorna, but the polite tone of a bastard that I am familiar with.
And that damn ‘father’.
[….Dear mother. I don’t have much time left to count all my sorrow.]
Tirin-!
You killed the named ‘Falcatus’ in the normal manner.
You failed to prevent ‘Spirit Guide Aldrich’ from leaving the party.
The soul parasite ‘Falcatus’ Thought’ carries out its final plan.
Among the red letters that appeared as if scolding, Falcatus, who was in an alter ego, began to approach the queen’s body.
The armless clone staggered up the queen’s body and came face to face with the queen’s diagonally split head. It met lifeless eyes and pressed its forehead against the queen as if praying.
The voice of the guy who was whispering to the queen began to show something other than sadness.
The corners of the distorted clone’s mouth were turning upward little by little.
[….yes. It is fate.]
[The reason I am able to send thoughts like this is because I was born with the ability to move my body as a parasite on the consciousness of another living creature.] [
Your body has the exact same structure as your mother, except for the ability to reproduce. It was also created.]
[An entity called ‘Edeorna’ has the ability to create an exterior suitable for battle by embodying similar foods instead of the queen’s reproductive ability!]
Madness and sadness. A voice filled with joy echoed through the queen’s room.
[….If defeat was destined, I will give you victory.]
[Mother. I faced the truth of the world and also witnessed my father’s ‘true past’ recorded in the world. The sight of my father, facing death, surviving in a way that even an animal could not imagine.]
The clone, with his forehead pressed together as if in prayer, slowly raised his head.
[….You will survive, mother. Not Falcatus, Queen, or Edeorna, but as a species called Mutation Blood!]
Kwajak!
And the sharp teeth cut off the queen’s neck in one fell swoop.
[We are waiting until his human life span is over.]
[Until Professor Seongja dies and his remains rot away. Until the moment when even the ashes turn into powder and all traces of that person in the world disappear.]
[The seed…. Even if my thoughts disappear, this body will follow the final command…. It will retain my mother and all her characteristics. We will gather our strength for a long time and create a seed that will be perfected…. something….]
Grumpy.
The clone biting the queen’s neck collapsed like a doll with its strings cut, and a worm that appeared from the ground swallowed Edeorna’s clone and disappeared.
The video ended with the faint sound of the paladins breaking through the defense line.
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★★ Thought Falcatus’ plan has been carried out.
☆ Since you killed both Edeorna’s main body and clones, the plan was delivered to one of the weakest clones.
★★☆ The remnants of destruction, ‘Decision of the Evil God’, enter the long process of birth.
– Some events, such as the Great Crisis ‘Second Coming of the Fallen Saint’, may lead to the next world.
– After the disappearance of Falcatus’s thought form, Edeorna’s clone faithfully followed the last command, but the clone’s power, which was nothing more than a dregs after sharing its power with other clones, was insufficient to process the evil queen.
– Thanks to its weak ability, the clone hiding deep underground took several times longer to process the evil queen’s crystal than the thought form’s plan.
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The passage of time in the video began to accelerate.
Humanity has risen and fallen since the death of the saint.
While cities and castles were built and collapsed, the remnants of evil lurking underground were steadily growing through the queen’s decisions.
The moment when the war of the empire broke out and the queen’s decision was about to be completed.
[+ year 98: Failure of Dragon Vein Twisting and Big Explosion]
Kwaaang –
The single explosion that ended the war enveloped the world.
The explosion reached deep underground and poured its energy into the queen’s decision, which was about to be completed.
Jeok Jeok Jeok Jeok-
Paang!
– The fragments that were processed with the power of the evil god ‘Mutation Blood Queen’ were swept away in a huge explosion.
– The fragments went into the sea, into the land, and some into the bodies of living creatures.
– They quietly increased their power according to the last command of the thought form…
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“It turns out we weren’t the only ones who were destroyed.”
From the moment I heard the name ‘Falcatus’, my aching head felt a little cooler.
The Dragon Vein Explosion ended the golden age of humanity, but it equally destroyed Falcatus’ final plan.
This can only be 100% good news, compared to confronting the ‘Neo Mute’ army, which perfectly inherited the queen’s power, with a completely destroyed human race – With a huge explosion, 70
% of the pieces containing power were thrown into the sea and mountains, and the remaining 30% were scattered. This is because the situation in which mass production of mute local tribes was made was much easier.
“…If I do this well… I think it could be quite hopeful, right?”
I’ll have to go in to find out the exact internal situation, but if I do it well… I thought I could paint a pretty positive picture.
98 years after the saint’s death. Mute’s final plan began to flow in a direction that even they did not expect, and the animal humans who had been muted under the influence of the fragments began to quietly increase their power according to the final command of the thought form.
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[year +133: ★★The era of the Shardlords has arrived.]
– Information limited –
[year +152: ★★★★★★★★★The final blow of the Underworld King, Lord Kundergal. . Humanity is routed.]
– Information limited –
[year +168: ☆☆☆☆Queen’s Fragment Human Fragment. New Powers.]
– Information Limited –
[year +190: The Age of Brinkmanship.]
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Tiring-!
[The world after year +190 is the era in which the player can participate.]
[Limited information can be obtained through conversations with NPCs or history books during play.]
[Your April World is ready.]
The further back you go, the more spaced out. History, which skipped along intermittently, ended with almost nothing revealed.
It is probably limited because most of the information is directly related to the information of the world I will enter.
“Let’s see… The Mutation Lords who inherited Mute are at the forefront, but there will still be some magic engineering left, right? It is said that the continent split and a strait was created, so sea routes may have developed, which means that long distance travel became difficult without ships, and the king of the underworld’s final blow… What is this? Human fragments? “New powers?”
I went in and had a rough idea of what I would encounter, but there were so many new things that it was difficult to predict.
Ultimately, this means that you have to go in and check important information yourself.
That’s enough of the old story.
“Now I have to create a character and go in…”
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character generation. It’s character creation.
“Would anyone like to come out and see me?”
“Gerrrrrrrr!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a blue lizard jumped out.
“Long time no see! Saladin!”
“Uh… has it been a week? Or should I say it’s been 190 years?”
“Both are meaningless to me as an administrator and a dragon!”
‘First of all, in that guy’s time, 190 years have passed.’
Dragon, an administrator who exists both inside and outside of the game.
“Hey Aldar. “Is this… does character creation have any meaning?”
I asked Aldarshaks, who appeared as if he had been waiting, a question that had just occurred to me.
“Gerrrrrrrr! “What do you mean by meaning?”
“That’s right. In the end, GG is a test to select completers, but isn’t it a bit strange that the tester, the player, can create the character he wants, which is a prerequisite for the test? “If you create a character with the exact opposite personality as you and clear it, won’t that be a problem in producing perfect people in reality?”
GG is just a game and a test for Andrey Gedroits.
Even if a player creates a character completely different from his/her real self and becomes a completed character, if that character is completely different from the actual player, wouldn’t Gedreutz’s plan be meaningless?
“…Grrrr.”
Aldar, who received my question, just stared blankly into my eyes.
“No matter what you do, is it possible to create a character based on your personality?”
“Kerreuk-”
“Well, there is something like deception magic in the game in the first place, so there’s no reason why you can’t make a hint to the player during the character creation stage. “You may think it’s a character you choose based on your own tastes, but in reality, when you create it, you end up creating a character with the same characteristics as yourself.”
“Kkereuk-”
“Because in the end, it turned out that the characteristics of my character ‘Professor Saint’ were the same as me in real life. No, wait a minute. I, the soy sauce gay bar, added random characteristics? How did that happen? “What about the people who committed suicide after receiving money for random characteristics?”
“Kiluruk?”
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Aldar was quietly watching while he was alone in his thoughts.
“…You can’t answer this either?”
“No, I was watching because you were doing well on your own! Professor, you always have a habit of asking others when you know the answer! “Kiluruk!”
“That’s just a rough hit.”
“Well, to explain it simply, everything you thought is correct. In the first place, the process of character creation is an illusion. In reality, due to the implications of the system, all players end up playing a character that is most similar to their real-life self and even reveals deep past wounds that they are not even aware of!”
“…Random traits or traits given by others, like my [Mental Breakdown]?”
“Aren’t all those ‘other people’ also connected to the connector?”
“ah.”
It was a little creepy.
So, the characteristics that were randomly selected when creating 3 World characters are all characteristics that the system selected based on the idea that ‘Professor Park is this kind of person.’ Even the [Mental Breakdown] thrown by Gange means that the system hinted to Ezel himself, the soy sauce gay bar in the connector, and made him choose it.
“In a similar vein, there is a system where the difficulty increases so that people who play by purchasing characteristics with money can never clear it. “Kiluruk!”
“If you play a character different from your own, you won’t be able to take the test properly… That’s right. “I roughly understood it.”
Hmm… that’s disappointing.
I pushed the ‘character status window’ that I hadn’t seen in a long time out of my sight and let out a deep sigh.
“In the end, isn’t there any advantage you can expect from character creation? If you create a character that is different from mine, you will be disqualified. “Whether I pick it up or make it randomly, the result is the same.”
“First of all, it would be like that if you were a normal player.”
“Hmm?”
Hey, I guess there’s something there?
The blue lizard in front of me had the expression of a grandfather hiding a Christmas present in front of his grandson.
“What do you have?”
“sure! How dare we send our ‘most precious player’ away empty-handed! Just as Rabbit moved on to the next world and started as a member of the ‘Rabbit family,’ there are also things that remain in the world itself that can be inherited!”
“Is that so?”
“Kiluruk! Please proceed with the system character creation process!”
Tiring-!
When Aldar waved his hand, the system’s beep sounded as usual.
[character generation. All immutable elements except Player ‘professor’ name are processed randomly.]
[Additional settlement of the previous character’s activities begins.]
Tiring-!
[Family crest: None. He had very limited romantic relationships, lost his only lover in the desert, and had no particular relationship with any woman. His descendants did not survive the next generation.]
“Gyeong.”
“No-”
Shiba. I should just close my eyes and give it a try.
Tragically, Professor Seong-ja’s work ended.
Tiring-!
[The roots of the world. The World Tree shows you deep favor. The high elves who share the branches of the World Tree show you unconditional favor. Instead, the dark elves, who make up most of the remaining elves, either oppose you or try to possess you.]
[Thanks to the World Tree’s favor, ‘unconditional short-term peace’ comes to your character creation area.]
“Ah, this is how it goes? ”
It’s a situation where I have to go inside and look at the atmosphere to check whether the Canf kids like me or not, but in the second case, it was one of the most necessary things for a newly created character.
‘Unconditional short-term peace in the creation area’
Isn’t the time when GG players need to be most cautious is right after character creation?
Initial play without any growth in the ruthless GG with no spawn kill manners is literally a minefield marathon, but the World Tree will cover that initial hell. It buys me time to grow as I fall into a dystopia that is almost like hell.
“As expected, people who learn are different. There are very few cases. World Tree.”
Thanks to this, I no longer have to worry about going through hell as soon as I fall.
Tiring-!
[Scales of the world. The wyrm Atlaheba expresses his deep favor to you. Balaur Lizardmen and all other reptilian sub-races feel an unknown attraction to you.]
[The ancient dragon glances away from the tilted scale. You can adjust the approximate birth date and age when your character was born.]
“Approximate birth?”
“He could be the illegitimate son of the fifth son of a duke’s family or the eldest son of a fallen noble family. You can adjust your origin to some extent without giving too much of a benefit. Of course, you can also come from a commoner background.”
“What is your race?”
“Not to the point of race! “It hurts the relevance to the players!”
Hmm…. Either a noble family with the threat of being assassinated as a side noble or a reasonably decent family among commoners.
“It’s ambiguous. “It’s ambiguous.”
“Because dragons must protect balance.”
Atlaheba’s favor seemed to just go back and forth in balance.
“From what year to what year is April World?”
“It takes place around the 190s, after the death of the professor. “I can’t tell you more than that.”
Around +190. According to the revealed information, it is said to be the [Age of Balance at the Edge of a Cliff], so it is probably a time when they finally succeeded in maintaining the resistance line after being robbed by the Mutation Lord or the Shard Lord.
It’s better to be born as early as possible because the situation gets worse as time goes by, but being born late is not necessarily a bad thing.
‘Short-term peace granted by the world tree. When I am born, temporary but unconditional peace will come.’
This means that if you get the timing right, you can drop peace like an oxygen respirator right before the human race in war expires.
“It’s unfortunate that the information is limited.”
“Girl! “If you had told me all that, Atlaheba wouldn’t have given you that benefit.”
However, because the information was limited and I knew nothing, it was difficult to choose a specific time period.
Actually useful gains are about the age of creation. Since you don’t know how many years you will have to work, it’s better to be born as young as possible. Thanks to the protection of the World Tree, I no longer have to worry about being killed at a young age.
“…This isn’t that bad. “It might be worth a try.”
It felt like a ray of light was shining on a bleak future. Since the minimum level of safety has been guaranteed, the rest will have to fight for their lives inside.
Tiring-!
“hmm?”
“Oh, what else is there?”
“…Was there anyone else I knew of at the manager level?”
Just as I was moderately satisfied and about to say thank you, the beep rang once more.
[Feat – Most Holy Human in the World: You have risen to the religious pinnacle of your race. Your new character can inherit some of the abilities of past characters by ‘descending’ into the world in the year of a large-scale religious ceremony.]
“Wow! Advent!”
“La Ratura!!!”
Professor Goja lost his salary, but Ro Haram took charge of it instead!
Inheritance of ability. Yes, this is it! This is the true flavor of New Game+!
The past character, Professor Seongja, was an all-rounder who was well versed in sacred auror magic and had extremely strong physical abilities, making him a monster among monsters.
Of course, before death, the regenerative power is returned along with the queen’s life, so if you use up all of it like in the past, you will become a human firecracker and oxidize violently, but where did you get at least some of it?
Ability inheritance + character age adjustment + short-term unconditional peace upon creation.
“Going to five years old… no, going to three years old!”
“What? Wouldn’t that be taking too big of a risk…?”
“If you try to play safe in a game like this, you won’t win anyway! I’m showing you a giraffe that will go down in the world’s history! Perfect!”
All conditions for a low-age start were perfectly met.
In a rude way, ‘Honey! ‘My child’s regime destroyed our house!’ The same situation is possible!
“You idiot from a noble family! “He’s a 4-5 year old who can’t even come close to succeeding, and because his personality is so crappy, he starts off as a bastard with a shitty personality, from his interpersonal relationships to his reputation!”
“Uh… really? Rather than that, if you come from a decent background-”
“No, it’s an ultra-luxurious start that history proves! “You can definitely go with this!”
I didn’t have enough time to pay attention to the ‘Fallen Nobles’ characteristic of the previous world, and that storyline ended up being wasted.
But if you start young, you have plenty of time, right? We begin with the ‘possession of a genius idiot’ route proven by history!
“I see it, I see hope… At this rate, it might be more hopeful than March World…!”
If there is a slight element of anxiety, it is that the creation period is limited to ‘the year in which the religious sect’s large-scale religious ceremony took place’…
“I believe it, brothers.”
Inheriting abilities was too great of an advantage to give up because of these uncertainties. I can only hope that Gwangmyeong believers are more crazy about religious rituals than they were in the past.
Tiring-!
[Additional settlement has been completed.]
[Please name the character.]
“Professor!”
No need to think. I don’t know how long I’ll have to live in another world, but if I’m called by my name, I won’t forget who I am.
Tiring-!
[check. Player ‘professor”s 4th world character ‘professor’ has been created.]
[Would you like to connect? Y/N ]
“….Fuuuuu.”
Eventually, the probation ended. Now it’s really time to go over there.
To be honest, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t scared. Just reading the text and the blurry video made my spine tingle, but I couldn’t believe I would have to experience that as a resident of that world for years and decades.
Wow!
I slapped my cheek loudly due to the creeping fear.
“Ugh! Let’s go! Let’s go! Hey Aldar! “I’m coming! Say hello to the rest!”
“Good luck Saladin.”
Before my tingling cheeks subsided, I closed my eyes and pressed ‘Y’.
Tiring-!
[Confirmation]
[Player ‘professor’ accesses April World.]
Eventually, the sight before my eyes begins to turn white.
My April World, which I don’t know how long it will last, has begun.
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