Where Promises Intersect (1)
The unstoppable sea.
Only the dark moaning of Gyebaek intermittently resounds through the void where not even the sound of the wind can be heard.
From a cluster of stars shining faintly on the other side of the dark sea to the shapes of countless galaxy clusters that shine farther away.
Lennok, who sympathized with Gyebaek’s consciousness, could clearly perceive the miracle and the end, which could not even be properly recognized by human senses.
In an unconscious moment, the flames that had risen from the other side of the sea suddenly disappeared like a flash, leaving sticky residues of magical power in the form of slime.
A gigantic tree trunk rooted among the stars, absorbing nourishment and breathing ceaselessly.
The remains of a giant crouching with countless meteorites wrapped around it like a ring, staring at the sea from beyond the void.
Huge wings resembling stingrays flap, absorbing the star’s hot wind, and satellites made of huge eyes orbit and watch the passing stars.
Black thunderbolts and blue prominences rippled like waves, immeasurable life and consciousness merged, divided, annihilated, and re-created.
If he was an ordinary human being, he would have gone mad the moment he faced any phenomenon.
“….”
The scenery of the open sea that I encountered for the first time in my life.
None of them really show their true nature, but just by facing the fragments, Lennok was able to get a glimpse of what they were like.
Each one of them has a bizarre meaning that is like an apocalypse from the human point of view, but in this dark sea, every moment is just an afterimage that is close to a fleeting moment.
The monsters that exist outside the open sea, transcending the cycle of cause and effect, are no longer bound by the laws of creation and extinction.
Even the endless repetition of being born, disappearing, and reviving on their own was nothing more than a light whim in the return of unconsciousness.
Why did the Guido Church call them gods and worship them, and why such a fanatical religion became the number one religion on the continent?
Lennok, who was looking out over the open sea using Gyebaek’s consciousness, understood.
Even the reason why the apostles who were born as incarnated bodies after receiving the revelation of such a god’s power eventually fell into madness and became monsters.
The laws of the human mutual world, the law of the weak and the survival of the fittest, have no meaning to them.
They are just wandering around in search of something to satisfy their desires in immeasurable free and hunger.
And it was an obvious fact that one of the destinations of that wandering and anguish was this world.
However, the first emotion that came to Lennok’s head was not fear but admiration, even after seeing the scene that strongly hinted at the ending.
‘It’s beautiful.’
By simply looking at and observing the seascape over and over again, Lennok’s inner self is imbued with an inexhaustible powerful spirituality and intuition.
Looking down from a much higher place than Lennok, observing and recognizing the fragments that sneeringly pass by, the horizon of thought is rapidly expanding.
It seems that I can look at this sea forever and fill it with strange and great ideas and inspiration.
However, Lenok forcibly ignored the powerful impulse that welled up in a corner of his heart and turned his consciousness around.
It is dangerous to indulge in more than this.
Right now, this place is just looking out to the open sea in a state of sympathy with Gyebaek’s consciousness.
I had to keep my mind tight so that I could get out quickly in case of an emergency.
‘The sight….’
He wanted to look back at the well from which Gyebaek came out and the shape of the star, but Gyebaek did not turn his consciousness back.
It was only moving faithfully according to the last geath that was driven into the body through the stake and activated.
It was only then that Lennok realized that Gyebaek hadn’t changed at all even after he jumped out of the open sea.
The memory of Aurel Silford he just ruminated on was just a by-product of Lennok’s sharing of Gyebaek’s senses.
The real Aurel Silford has already lost its essence, and only fragments of it remain like dregs, hovering around his body.
‘…The opportunity is now.’
No matter how you think about this operation, there were too many strange things, and Gyebaek’s existence was by far the most heterogeneous among them.
There was no way to control it, so the crazy monster that was digging into the sea around the continental coastline was suddenly pulled up to the sea and made it run in a straight line to the well.
Even a series of measures that made Gyebaek crawl into the well by driving a stake prepared in advance.
The clown said it would activate the last geath, but Lennok needed to know exactly what he meant.
Why did the last geas that restrain Gyebaek sleep without being activated? Why did you let it go until now and then activate it?
What is the content of that geas?
oh oh oh… … !!
While deep in thought, the speed of Gyebaek, who rose to the other side of the open sea, begins to accelerate.
At the same time, on the other side of the darkness where nothing could be seen, something swept past.
Even Lennok, who borrows part of Gyebaek’s senses and looks out over the open sea, cannot properly perceive its shape.
He has no time for long contemplation.
He uses the experience of digging into Amila Banger’s consciousness and penetrates into the deepest part of Gyebaek’s consciousness.
All of this itself is a supernormal ability that was created because Lenok disassembled and absorbed Gyebaek’s Geas into the Ouroboros magic system.
It was an extremely reckless idea to touch Gyebaek’s gias through Ouroboros, but as a result, Lennok succeeded.
Beyond the level of understanding the law of geas itself, it is now possible to interfere and tamper with it on a direct or indirect level.
In a way, it is a great achievement that I realized how to deal with the law that is fundamentally connected to Lennok’s penalty.
It may even be possible to create and transform new geas beyond simply touching other people’s geas.
But instead of pondering the endless possibilities and new abilities, Lennok began to focus on the immediate task.
Chareuk!!
Grabbing the end of the chain that was entangled in an immeasurably complex way within Gyebaek’s body, he headed for the other side.
Inside the ascendant’s body, which was rapidly swimming across the open sea and advancing into the far-off void, it dug deep beneath the base of his consciousness.
Through the Ouroboros magic system, it passes through the geas that have been analyzed and classified once, passes through the waste that loses its target and expires, and finally reaches the key hidden at the bottom of the center.
It was the last command given to Gyebaek Aurel Silford among the 80,000 geas that completed it.
Gyebaek’s essence is completely reversed, and the last Giath is located in the innermost part of its existence.
[■■■■■■■■■■■.]
He grabbed the tip of the gias, which was shaped like a black stake that Lennok had driven in with his own hand, and slowly opened it.
It was because the leader used the power of the stake he made to activate the geas and clearly conveyed the meaning to Gyebaek.
It was enough to follow the flow of power backwards and read the meaning of Geass.
The strange feeling of grabbing the end of a tangled ball of thread and unraveling it at once.
At the same time, the unknown characters engraved on the surface began to change into understandable shapes one by one.
Kiriririk… … .
[Once again ■■■ ■■■■.]
‘Once again… … ?’
Kirik… … !!
[To Ascension once again ■■■■.]
Kiriririririk… … !!!!
[Challenge the ascension again.]
The last Gias who completed the existence of Gyebaek.
And the last command, which was sleeping on the other side of the deepest consciousness, was finally activated.
The phrase engraved on the stake said to have been made by the leader himself, which even the clown did not know, is Baro.
It was a stern sentence to ‘challenge for ascension once again’.
‘….’
Lennok hesitated at the completely unexpected sentence.
Challenge the ascension once again.
As soon as Gyebaek remembered this sentence, he jumped out of the well on his own as if he had forgotten all the moments he had been fighting with Pyeonram.
All Lennok did was drive a stake in and assist Gyebaek in trying to crawl into the well on his own.
Why does Gyebaek, who has already failed to ascend to heaven, have to challenge that grand goal again?
And why did Gyebaek, who was told to challenge the ascension, throw himself into the open sea without hesitation?
The moment Lennok found a ray of light among all the questions and tried to put all the puzzles together.
Woo woo woo… … .
A faint sound of music began to be heard from somewhere.
‘…what?’
The open sea that exists outside the world is a void where nothing exists.
In that void where everything that exists loses its meaning, all human senses do not function properly and are twisted.
In the void that does not respond to all stimuli and signals emitted by life and absorbs everything, humans forget even their essence and go crazy.
A vast ocean of darkness in which cause and effect diverge and do not converge regardless of their origins, without causal cycles.
What does it mean to hear a sound that shouldn’t be heard in that space?
Before Lenok could think or understand it properly, Gyebaek rolled himself up.
Charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr… … .
The tens of thousands of chains that make up the body come together and become elongated and compressed to form a spiral column, converging at the extremes and narrowing.
On the other side of Gyebaek’s body, which had turned into a giant bullet, the darkness that had been constantly shaking and dancing began to subside little by little.
no it’s not sinking
Something huge enough to cover the endlessly dancing dark sea is approaching Gyebaek.
It’s just that Gyebaek’s senses can’t fully recognize and look at it, so the landscape beyond it is being reflected.
It already existed the moment Lennok began to dimly realize what it was.
Woo woo woo… … !!
In the midst of the faint resounding trumpets, something opens at the end of the darkness that has been submerged as if it is splitting.
Cracks wide enough to contain Gyebaek’s body, which is hundreds of meters long, opened at both ends, and a huge circle appeared between them and slowly rotated.
It moves little by little but unmistakably, contracts and opens.
Even though the radius of the circle covered hundreds of meters, Lennok could tell.
‘…Nonsense.’
I can’t believe it even though I see it through the senses of Gyebaek and am sure.
The movement of the circle in front of him now looks like the expansion and contraction of the pupil.
The circle that split on both sides in front of Gyebaek was the pupil of a being bigger than the fallen ascendant.
The moment he recognized it, the music began to reverberate louder than ever at Lennok.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Although Gyebaek has no ears, and Lenok only has a floating consciousness, the sound of music seems to pierce his ears.
As if praising and showing off, the volume is raised endlessly and magnificently, as if it were only now that they were finally aware of its existence.
As if my eyes were shaking violently at the sound, my senses fluctuated and my consciousness drifted away.
Gyebaek let out a scream close to screaming and pushed his body that had been rolled up like a bullet forward.
Conversely, right after that, Lennok’s consciousness was thrown back as if to resist the movement.
The moment of swimming toward the open sea so far returns to the way out at double speed, like a lie.
It is as if the entire mind and consciousness are shouting with one voice that this is not the way.
Aaaaaaaaaaa!!
The sound of waves crashing into your ears as if trying to erase the sound of the music.
Amidst the shock of losing consciousness at any moment, Lennok somehow opened his eyes and stared at the rapidly receding landscape.
Even though he is moving away from the spot so quickly, he cannot see the whole body of a creature much bigger than Gyebaek with his own two eyes.
The elongated torso boasts a scaly figure with its head in the shape of a solid boat laid down heavily in the sea and stretched in a languid posture.
If there was a dragon with a ship thousands of meters as its head, what would it look like?
Can I dare to call that a life like Lennok?
He who floats among the stars, swims among galaxies, eats the meteors that roam around the stars, and drinks the tears of the sun.
A being that is prophesied to open the sky and descend upon the earth with the end of the world.
For the first time Lennok had witnessed the true form of one of the giants with his own eyes.
Kirik… … .
Gyebaek’s body rotates slowly like a bullet and slowly rushes into the center of the huge pupil.
As if he knew he had to kill the being by using its body as a weapon.
Then, to challenge the ascension once again—
Push!!
As Gyebaek’s body digs into the center of the pupil, part of the pupil of the huge pupil begins to turn black.
As if ink had been dissolved, black slime pierced between the pupils without hesitation.
The pupil stared blankly at Gyebaek, who attacked him, then lifted his eyes a little and looked elsewhere.
That fleeting moment when he accurately gazes at Lennok, whose gaze is gradually moving away from him.
Fall out!!
With the sound of electric current suddenly heard, Lennok’s consciousness went out.
* * *
“haha…!!”
A colony of floating islands in the Philenom Dominion.
The Garden of the Moon, hidden by transcendent barrier art.
Headquarters of the Blue Eye, where the huge tower lighthouse is now collapsed.
Watcher Fern was running down the hallway, gasping for breath like crazy.
“Bo I have to report…. If you don’t tell me now!!”
Tears and runny nose run down, and even though they are covered in sweat, they do not stop.
The spectators collapsed as if they were dead all over the hallway.
Some clumsily picked up weapons, but they couldn’t even wield them, and they looked like they had collapsed.
Though faintly breathing, consciousness is completely blown away, and only the body is holding on to the life reaction.
Could it be that the defense was not sufficient? Fern didn’t even dare to guess that fact.
That’s because the opponent who broke into this lighthouse was a monster that her common sense couldn’t understand.
A genius who casually passed through the barrier of the moon, which was composed by Cheongyeon and was said to be able to trap even ascenders for a while, and destroyed the lighthouse’s computer network in an instant.
Not only the numerous watchers who remained at the lighthouse, but even the person with the highest level of ability who was guarding the Dominion on behalf of Lapis could not last long in front of him.
Perhaps there is an ending worse than death for humans.
And even though she had a hunch that that moment would come to her, Fern did not stop.
The top of the tower where the lighthouse is located.
Spurring into her control tower, now that her restorations were complete, she pushed away her fallen observers and began to tinker with her device.
The situation is irreversible, but someone has to inform the outside world.
If he couldn’t tell the lighthouse keeper, who was away, that would be an outcome worse than death for Fern.
Beep beep beep beep… … !!
“No, just a little more…!!”
Her hands weaken as she touches the tower’s equipment, and her eyes close slightly.
He bites her lower lip to bring her to her senses, causing her blood to flow, but does not stop.
If she falls asleep like this, will she herself meet other watchers?
She may fall into a sleep worse than her death without waking up forever.
Maybe that’s better than the terrible and lengthy sacrifice I made to become a watcher.
click… … !!
Fern, who managed to finish her message while dripping blood incessantly on her instrument panel, presses her send button with her trembling hand.
The moment her finger fell on the instrument panel and she was about to report everything that happened to the lighthouse to the headquarters.
thump!!
Her hand appeared out of nowhere and grabbed her wrist tightly.
“ah….”
Despair showed on Fern’s fading face.
Lifting her trembling gaze with difficulty, she tried to check the face of the person who grabbed the hand.
The noise that stuttered the top of her neck only made Fern’s last resistance futile.
Unable to hold on any longer, she slammed her head into her dashboard and knocked her unconscious.
thud!!
Looking down at Fern, who had collapsed helplessly, In-yeong quietly let go of her wrist and turned her back.
With neither slow nor fast steps, she passes through the quiet hallways and heads for the top of the tower.
A huge cavity made in a circle.
A huge celestial sphere slowly floating in the center of the cavity.
Woo woo woo woo… … !
Around the celestial sphere, a faint glow rotates like a star, illuminating the inside of the dark cavity with a mysterious light.
In-young passed by the armchair placed in front of the celestial sphere and carefully placed her hand on her celestial sphere.
The moment her smooth fingers gently brushed the surface of the celestial sphere.
“I have been imagining this moment for a very long time.”
A quiet female voice echoed from behind Inyoung.
“But I never thought we’d meet like this.”
“….”
When In-young turns her eyes away from the crackling noise, the image of the armchair she has passed over catches her eye.
In an armchair that had been empty until just now, a woman who hadn’t taken off her girlish looks was sitting neatly looking at him.
blue hair. Brilliantly shining eyes and firm lips.
The resolute and clear determination contained in that expression.
Inyoung looked at him blankly and murmured.
She said, “I never intended to meet in person…. The timeline looks twisted again.”
“….”
“I thought I had cut off all means of contact, but where did the variable come from?”
A bizarre sound that sounds like a mixture of male and female elders and children.
In-young, who was worried about the sign of her chin resting, remembered her fern’s blood on her instrument panel and nodded her head.
“Was the instrument panel a touch type…I didn’t expect that. It’s a pretty old-fashioned way to go in this world, but I managed to install it in the lighthouse control tower.”
“I never expected this to happen.”
Lapis replied coldly.
“Because I never thought that the leader of Pandaemonium would break into the lighthouse alone.”
