◈ 511. [Evil Side] White Night (2) After
the Lake Kingdom sank, another 300 years passed.
For a long time, the Mage Tower of the Midnight Sun had endured.
There were many moments of crisis, but with continuous maintenance and magic enhancement, the Mage Tower was equipped with complete automation and defense functions.
Inside, the midnight sun quietly continued its research.
While the survivors of the Lake Kingdom desperately try to reactivate the barrier, pump out the water inside, light up everywhere, and fight the monsters again.
While countless legends, tragedies, betrayals, and corruptions are still being written in this hell.
The Midnight Sun didn’t care about the outside world and delved into her own research.
Already, to her, everything outside had nothing to do with futile struggles in the underworld.
Her purpose was to reach the foreign gods of that world and punish them.
Because it was a higher-level goal.
‘To do so, we dig into the origins of magic.’
The Midnight Sun had uncovered most of the distant ancient history related to the origin of magic.
thousands of years ago in the distant past. When the world split into life and death and the space between them, the spirit world.
Heterogeneous powers began to flow from the spirit world into the real world.
This power was called ‘magic’ and could only be wielded by a select few races.
The races that have a guardian connected to the spirit world. They waged war with each other, and four major races came to hold hegemony in the real world.
A fairy who possesses Evergreen, the evergreen tree of life.
A beastman who possesses Evered, the archenemy of struggle.
A dwarf who holds the prize money Evergold.
A mermaid who possesses Everblue, the supreme water of circulation.
And while the four major races fought for supremacy in the world, the human race was in a position to be worked as a slave.
Humans, who did not gain the power of magic, were the weakest among all races and could not even develop a decent civilization, and were dominated by other races and used as meat shields.
It was at this time. What caused ‘someone’ among humans to rebel?
‘Someone’ succeeded in forcibly creating ‘Everblack’, the guardian of humanity, by grafting four guardians of four races.
Through this medium, mankind has also been able to borrow and use power from the spirit world, and has succeeded in becoming a new powerhouse comparable to the four major races.
Humanity, newly acquired magic, developed magic obsessively, and the Lake Kingdom, the birthplace of Everblack, developed into the world’s most powerful magic kingdom… … .
‘… Something strange remains here.’
Most of the ancient history has been uncovered, but there were parts that were unknown even as a midnight sun.
So, who the hell created Everblack in the first place?
The record of that ‘someone’ who brought magic fire to mankind had been wiped clean.
In the case of other races, those who planted the first guardian tree and brought magic are praised as the founders or saviors.
Only mankind had no record of this ‘someone’ left.
As if I was struggling to erase and forget… … .
‘Well, who brought it first has nothing to do with my purpose.’
The important thing was that Everblack, the guardian of mankind, could access the source of magic through the black thorn tree.
And the Midnight Sun was convinced that the source of this power was those hateful eyes-foreign gods.
‘If you follow this power, you will be able to reach the foreign gods of the other world… … !’
In the darkness under the lake, Midnight Sun continued her research. no i was going to
Crunchy… … .
“uh?”
Suddenly my hand broke.
She was unaware of it because she was concentrating on her research, but her body, which was resurrected as a lich, had already reached its limit.
Even after his resurrection, three hundred years had passed. Her body was already in a state of white bone with no place to rot anymore.
“this… !”
It was embarrassing to the White Night, who hadn’t worried about lifespan after the resurrection.
Baekya urgently repairs his broken limbs and begins to look for ways to extend his lifespan before his body completely collapses.
and concluded No matter how much he repairs himself with this body, the limits are already obvious. will soon collapse and die.
‘I have to move on to a new body after all… … .’
A body so strong that you don’t have to worry about your lifespan if you’re going to move it. And yet, with a body optimized for magic use.
After much deliberation, the Midnight Sun decided to try his hand at manufacturing a secret weapon, one of the strongest undead, brought from his homeland in the east.
However, although he had the vision of making jiangshi, his skill level fell because he had never touched it before.
In the end, by the time he managed to create a Jiangshi that could be called a prototype, the lich body of the midnight sun was on the verge of collapsing.
‘I’m in a hurry, I’m really dying at this rate… … Hurry up and move your mind to a new body… … .’
With a trembling skeleton body, the white night hastily prepared the magic before the body.
Lich Resurrection Magic was applied as it was, but it was a magic that only changed the resurrected body.
And the moment the magic was activated, the white night suddenly thought.
what?
But is it really ‘me’ that is being transferred like this?
What is ‘I’ in the first place?
memory? mental? soul? Otherwise –
Flash!
Before the question could take shape, the magic was activated. The consciousness of the midnight sun was crushed and disappeared along with the question.
and… .
***
《Ouch!》
The white night, who came to his senses in his new body, stood up and let out a gasp.
The midnight sun looked down at her bluish hands. It was the body of a middle-aged man, chosen because it was the most complete among the experimentally produced Jiangshi.
“west… You succeeded.]
Her memory and knowledge were the same, and there was no problem using magic. White Night let out a sigh of relief.
It was then.
Dalgrak-
There was a dull sound next to me. White Night looked back at him.
There was the body of the skeleton lich he had been using a while ago.
Is it an illusion?
Baekgol, who had been leaning on the test bench as if collapsing, suddenly seemed to see this side.
“uh?”
A sound like that came out of the gaping mouth of the white bone.
And in the next instant, the white bones collapsed.
《… What is it?”
Baekya grumbled at the collapsed white bone and jumped up. Unlike before, this body was very lively.
《It can’t be compared to the time of the skeleton… … .]
Baekya grinned as he opened and closed his fists.
《I need to do more research on the production of Jiangshi.》
Of course, the original research is more important than that.
It felt good to run away from imminent death. The Midnight Sun hummed a song and moved the body of the new Jiangshi to head inside the Mage Tower.
Beside the test bench, collapsed white bones were piled up and rattling and shaking.
***
However, Midnight’s new body did not last long.
An army of monsters invaded the Mage Tower, and while trying to intercept it, he was seriously injured.
《Hee-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-~ … !]
The midnight sun grabbed the half-flying body and returned to the mage tower with blood pouring from all over. The Midnight Sun transferred his mind to one of the Jiangshi bodies that he managed to save.
Flash!
Fortunately, he was able to move his body right before he died. Baekya, who came to his senses this time in the body of a young boy, let out a sigh of relief.
《… I need a stronger body. No matter what happens, I can continue my research.]
Looking down at the dead body next to the test bench, Midnight Sun clicked her tongue.
“Yes, I need to make the strongest Jiangshi… !]
The purpose gradually changed.
At first, he started making jiangshi to continue research on the origin of magic, but after experiencing several deaths, manufacturing jiangshi became more important than research.
‘You can do it after gaining eternal life… … First of all, we need to prepare a stable foundation for research.’
Baekya was obsessed with Jiangxi research.
It was improved after improvement, and the body was moved several times.
And finally – reached the extreme of Jiangxi research. We have succeeded in producing the best results by integrating all the researches so far.
《… .》
Waking up in an ideal body, the midnight sun saw himself reflected in the mirror. A young and beautiful woman’s body reflected in the mirror.
And behind it piled up like a mountain… … The countless corpses of the Jiangshi he had passed through in the meantime.
《Whoa… … .》
Looking at the accumulated results of the past research, the white night sighed lightly.
This body right now is the best body you can create.
But – is this really enough?
‘What if you collide with that devil? And what if a situation arises in which we fight with foreign media?’
The current body is also powerful, but with such a body that will eventually become mortal, it will eventually reach its limits.
It shouldn’t be. Your own research should continue. Even if the world perishes, it must be connected and reach those foreign gods without fail… … .
《… !]
The midnight sun suddenly looked at the Magic Tower’s magic system panel.
What if you could transfer your consciousness into that mechanism?
In the end, what if you could move yourself to the data of the cyber world instead of a finite body that would eventually break?
As much as it moves to a completely different realm, even if the opponent is a demon king or a foreigner, he will not be able to touch it.
The Midnight Sun considered this to be the ideal eternal life she was pursuing.
Directly connected to various magic devices, the research speed will also be much faster. Moreover, the limitation of lifespan completely disappears.
“This is it… !]
There were many difficulties because it was a transfer to a mechanical device that was completely different from the previous body transfer magic, but after persistent research, the Midnight Sun found a way.
Form the theory, complete the research, complete the experiment… … The day we finally migrate to the cyber world.
《With this, I gain eternal life.》
The midnight sun smiled brightly as she activated the body transfer magic into the mechanism of the magic tower.
“Now I can continue my research without worrying about my lifespan… !]
The magic was activated.
Now, if you close your eyes and open them, you will be reborn as an eternal being in the cyber world.
Believing that, he closed his eyes.
… .
But when I open my eyes.
《Huh?》
The white night was still in the real world.
And another self was standing on the screen in front of my eyes.
《… .”
“… .]
The two Midnight Nights looked at each other in silence for a while.
The white night of the real world, whose fingertips were shaking, murmured softly.
《It can’t be like this.》
The white night on the screen answered calmly.
《What?》
《I am real. I’m white But why… … Am I still here?”
“You are real, and I am also real.”
The white night on the screen continued calmly.
《However, mine is the form we were aiming for.》
《If you are real and I am real too.》
Baekya asked the truth that he had always questioned but deliberately ignored.
《Where are our souls now?》
《You know, another me.》
The white night laughed bitterly on the screen.
“I lost that a long time ago.”
“… .》
《We have been trying to get the ‘information’ of the constructs we believe to make us… … You just kept ‘copying’ it.”
The white night of reality collapsed.
Kneeling on the floor and shivering, Baekya finally realized the true identity of what he had been doing.
Thinking of the corpses of Jiangshi piled up like a mountain in the garbage disposal site of the Mage Tower, I finally realized the truth.
Copy, paste and delete. Copy, paste and delete again.
He came all the way here by killing so many ‘I’.
The white night of reality howled.
《We are fake!》
《… .”
“Me too! It’s all fake! really i… … .》
The white night chewed it up and spat it out.
《Once upon a time… … You’re dead… … .》
When was it?
Where did he, who was originally a human, disappear to? … ?
When did you first move into Jiangshi’s body? yes it may have been then Because that was the first time I moved my body.
Or maybe when he first came back as a lich? Wasn’t he already dead then?
no no… … .
The moment I committed suicide by shooting magic into my head to become a lich.
Perhaps at that time, the existence of the midnight sun was forever dead.
The entity who came to his senses after that might not have been the midnight sun. It may have been a mad undead monster that believed itself to be the midnight sun.
《Another me.》
At that time, the white night on the screen calmly instructed.
“Please kill yourself.”
“… .”
“If you don’t commit suicide, I have no choice but to kill you. After that, I will erase your end from memory. To believe that the existence of me is the only thing that has been passed on. Just like we have been doing.”
The white night of reality stood up trembling.
“I refuse.”
“… .]
《Fuck, you and I are both crazy undead monsters anyway. It’s just a clone that has lost both its soul and its essence. Uniqueness is just self-hypnosis… … !]
The white night, fully awake, created magic behind her back.
《I don’t want to die for you.》
《It’s too bad.》
Clap! Chunk!
The white night in the screen mobilized all the defense facilities inside the magic tower and aimed at the real white night.
《I didn’t want to commit suicide again.》 The
defense facilities of the Mage Tower erupted in fire all at once.
