◈ 521. [STAGE 25] Dancing With The Devil (5)
Ttogak. again.
The sound of the shoes stopped and the figure emerged from the shadows… …
A blue-skinned Jiangshi wearing an oriental-style dress that shows off her voluptuous figure.
The Jiangshi looked at the white night and smiled bitterly.
“That… . >
The white night, looking at the Jiangshi with eyes full of astonishment and fear, muttered in a trembling voice.
《… Isn’t it me?”
Is this how it feels to watch the self in the mirror come out of the mirror?
The white night, frozen in shock, cried out in a fit of fuss.
“what’s this? What are you! I’ll kill you right now… … .]
Shouting like that, the Midnight Sun tried to use magic, but the mana didn’t accumulate at all.
Baekya was puzzled and looked at his body condition… … Only then did he realize why he had been unable to move for a while.
《… Huh?]
Because he didn’t have a ‘body’ right now.
Because he was just a skull-shaped data floating on the screen of a small magic panel.
“uh? no… uh? This… .》
“Yes.”
Looking at him with a pitiful gaze, Ash brought the glass to his lips.
“The two of you cloned from the White Night, Black Night and Soya. I swapped your Jiangshi body and your cybernetic body.”
《… ?!”
“You’ve been copy-pasting your mind to multiple bodies, right? It is also possible to exchange them.”
Ash’s mouth drew a cruel arc.
“why? you envy the other you You were jealous of another you who occupied the electronic world that you thought was the end point of your research. so i changed it Is it okay to thank you?”
“What is this… unbelievable… … .]
The dark night, trembling inside the screen, turned his gaze away.
Then, she glared at So-ya, her other self who switched bodies.
Now everything has been explained.
The reason he fell for the shallow magic tricks today must be because another self tried to disrupt his perception.
From the principle of talisman magic to the secret technique of transferring the spirit to a new body.
Everything was leaked to the human side by another self.
“Why… Another me?]
Black night vomited his anger because he didn’t understand.
“You’ve succeeded… … You obtained the ideal eternal life we sought!”
《… .”
“But why? Did you do this to the point of giving up your eternal life?”
After a moment of silence.
Soya, who was silent for a while, slowly opened Jiangshi’s mouth and said.
《… I thought the final point reached as a lich to escape from the finite confines of life was the cyber world.” “
But why!”
“But when I got there, I understood. The fact that it is never an infinite or permanent space.》
《… !]
I thought that if I transferred myself into data, I would be able to gain eternal life in the cyber world.
But no. After all, it was just another form of refuge built within the physical space of the Mage Tower.
A world that will disappear like a phantom if the magic tower collapses at any moment and the system goes down.
《In the end, only the form has changed, and one day this life will wear out and disappear… … I realized.”
The lich is a wizard trying to escape from death.
From a weak human body to an undead skeleton, to a jiangshi, and to data from the cyber world… … .
I kept moving my body, but there was no eternity anywhere. Only the prolongation of a pitiful life continues.
True eternal life was not in a place like this.
“Then Ash proposed to me. I’m selling a trap like this to kill you, so why don’t you cooperate?”
Sawya glanced in Ash’s direction and nodded slowly.
“If I could sell a trap to kill you for sure… I thought that if I could be the only one again, giving up the cyber world would be a good exchange.] Regardless of
data or Jiangshi, finite things are the same.
In order to return to being the only one, Soya, who was a cyber rich in the cyber world, was willing to give up her realm.
As a result, the body was exchanged in this way- Dark Night was trapped inside a small and narrow mechanical device.
《I will now study a new eternal life with the body of this Jiangshi.》
Soya whispered as she looked at her other self with a look of pity on her face.
《You are trapped in that completely closed world… … let it fade away slowly Another me.”
“No, no, no… !》
Dark Night struggled, but the mechanism he was trapped in was not connected to anything outside.
If it had been a system built inside the Mage Tower, he would have been able to wield the mountain-like powers bestowed on the Mage Tower.
The mage tower has already collapsed, and there is not even a mediocre mana induction tool installed inside this mechanism.
He was only conscious and unable to do anything.
《No hey hey hey hey hey hey hey!》
Ash slowly grabbed and lifted the black night with the mechanism she was holding.
“I hope you don’t have any regrets, black. You and I both tried to use and prey on each other.”
Looking into the dark night inside the mechanism, Ash spat out calmly.
“But rather than you, who only studied in the magic tower all his life, I, who got hit with dirty water here and there and rolled in the mud… A little more good at this muddy trick fight. That’s all.”
“No, Ash! please! An-》
“Don’t worry too much about your brain in a vat.”
Ash smiled softly and moved his fingers slowly to the mechanism’s power button.
“I’m not a mad scientist, but I can send you some electrical stimulation… Wouldn’t it be?”
“wait for a sec! please! ash! hear me… … .》
Duk-
Ash’s finger pressed the power button and the screen turned off.
At the same time, darkness came to the cyber world inside the small machine.
Submerging into a completely dark world of nothingness where nothing exists… … Suddenly, the dark night realized.
That the target he danced for was not an ordinary human being.
Truly like a demon – that he was the commander of the enemy army.
***
Duk-
The earth’s tablet PC-like mechanism is turned off.
“after.”
I let out a short sigh and put the machine on the table.
Then Jiangshi slowly came in front of me and opened his mouth.
《Thanks to you, now I am unique.》
“… .”
《The other me was eliminated, and the Lich Corps also lost all of its commanders and highest ranking Liches, so it can be seen as virtually annihilated. You have carried out my request perfectly.”
Soya, who had newly taken over the body of the Jiangshi, uttered in a plain tone.
《Even though I lost the Magic Tower… … Well, rebuilding the tower is enough.”
“… .”
“Thank you, Ash. From now on, I will cooperate with you.”
So-ya, who showed an example with a stiff motion, turned back, as if she hadn’t gotten used to her new body yet.
《The party is over, so let’s go then.》
“Wait a minute.”
I called out such a shooter.
“After giving up the cyber world, what kind of eternal life will you pursue?”
《… .》
“Didn’t you realize that no matter what kind of eternal life you pursue here in the real world, you won’t be able to achieve it in the end?”
Soya slowly stopped.
I glared at her back and said quietly and confidently.
“Are you also aiming for ascension?”
《… .》
“You also signed a contract, right? foreign press.”
In the game, if you are hostile to Soya, this guy also uses an instant kill. He used to summon his giant eyes and kill the hero in one hit.
In other words- this guy also signed a contract with those eye candy called foreign media.
“In the end, you too will betray us and destroy this world… … Aren’t you trying to stand on the same line as the eyes of that other world?”
《… .》
“As a prerequisite for that, I tried to eliminate another you. yes?”
When I read Dark Night’s head, I had already grasped all the necessary information.
In the end, shoot this guy too… … They tried to kill each other to get the qualifications to stand on the same level as those foreign media.
“Because you two, Dark Night and Soya, are copies of the same entity, White Night. The mindset has to be the same.”
《… .》
Without answering, Soya slowly reached out and pushed open the door to the private room.
OK… .
Clap! Clap! Clap!
My heroes waiting outside the door appeared.
Everyone is fully armed. Wearing armor and aiming the drawn weapon this way.
As soon as the door opened, each of them pointed their knives at Soya’s neck. Dozens of blades landed on her throat.
《… .》
A bloody silence passed.
Swallowing
the glass of whiskey with ice in it, I coldly kicked my brain.
“You might argue no. But from this point of view, I can’t take any more risks.”
《… .》
“I’m sorry, but I can’t let you go alive.”
《… You’ve been calling me by a strange name since earlier.]
An evil aura hung over the voice of the Lich Archmage who let out a short sigh.
《I am the midnight sun》
Zeng-!
Explosive magic power emanated from her body. My heroes swallowed a groan and had to fall back.
《Here is the great magician of the Lake Kingdom, and the longest surviving great wizard in the history of the continent. And yes. As you said, I will gain the divine status and ascend to the Constellation… … sole existence. It’s midnight.]
Shoot aaaaa!
A gust of wind blew through the entire banquet hall because of the magic power emanating from her body.
Facing the gusting wind, I calmly set down the glass I finished drinking. The white night, which had turned around before I knew it, was facing me.
“There is no meaning to eternal life gained in this underworld. Look at the lives in cocoons that live like worms at the bottom of that lake. That kind of thing is not the eternal life I seek.”
“… .”
“I will go to heaven. I will stand at the same height as the beings of that other world.
”
《To do that, I had to eliminate another me, but you solved that problem.》
Darkness from another world began to gather behind her like a cloud.
“If you’re against me, I don’t need you either. Ash.]
Before long, in the gathering darkness, huge eyes-
Chow!
-I couldn’t open it.
The gathering darkness of the other world suddenly dissipated. The raging wind stopped, and the ominous air that filled it also subsided.
《… ?”
The white night, not understanding the situation, muttered in a puzzled voice.
“what? why? my magic… … ?”
“The body you are using now belongs to Jiangshi… Didn’t you teach us how to make Jiangshi charms?”
I stood up slowly and leisurely put my hands in my pockets.
“I reverse-engineered it one more time and did some spec changes before swapping it out. Put a limit on the use of magical power.”
“What is that… ?! Stop talking nonsense! This is not possible for modern humans!”
“You are an ancient monster, don’t underestimate modern humans.”
This world is a magical civilization.
I don’t think the humans outside played and ate during the years you studied alone in the Magic Tower.
Even if you have never seen magic before, if you know the formula and language, you can reverse engineer it and steal all the basic principles.
‘Besides, we even have juniors.’
Junior is a genius who succeeded in copying and stealing the principle of the Vampire King Selendion’s magic reverse calculation just once, and used it as his ultimate skill.
The shamanism system in the East was different from the basic formula, so I had to mobilize all the wizards belonging to the front lines, including juniors, and put them into reverse engineering and resetting.
I did it though.
‘Wizards are tactical weapons comparable to fighters.’
And fighter jets are as sophisticated, delicate, and fragile as their overwhelming power.
Weak armor and catastrophically low fuel efficiency compared to other weapons of the same era.
Even though it is powerful after it starts flying in earnest, it can be easily knocked down before it starts flying.
Wizards and fighters are very similar.
So- if you put an anomaly on the fuel tank and it won’t even start flying in the first place.
All that was left was a lump of expensive, non-flying scrap metal with the same defensive power as paper.
“You neglected to study history, White Night.”
I nodded towards the inexperienced archmage who was looking at me with a pale face.
“If you bring foreign powers into a civil war, the outcome is mostly the same.”
Their fight must end with their own hands.
If you can’t do that and ask for outside help. To the wildcats outside who approached me with a kind smile… … .
“It gets eaten.”
These two wizards are the same.
In order to defeat each other, they brought in a foreign force called ‘I’.
I thought I could just use it in moderation and throw it away.
But that underestimated me too much.
As I took a step toward the enemy commander, I coldly declared.
“It’s time to pay the price, Wizard.”
