_ Volume 22 Episode 4
529. 95th floor. Essence (3)
The first thing Taesan felt was unpleasant.
The air itself was like a damp swamp.
Unpleasant sensations overwhelm the senses. What he has now entered is his own image. it’s his
However, Taishan was not comfortable at all.
Taesan looked up.
What I saw was a distorted world filled with unrecognizable things.
It was his image.
Hafran was watching what Amelia and the Essential said.
[…is this your image?]
[This is… strange. It doesn’t feel like Master’s.]
“Me too.”
Taesan answered lightly.
This image was ruined.
“Is this me?”
But he will not be perfect.
Taesan moved.
Go into the depths of the image. Moving forward, all we can see is distorted pollution and broken forms. Bardray felt rejected and Akasha groaned.
he is polluted
I knew that before. He remembered what the Transcendentalists had said to him.
[You still have the power you have, even if time goes back.]
[You haven’t reached transcendence yet. There is no area of its own. But your power is unaffected by the flow of time.]
[And that power even steals the power of the immortals and the old gods.]
Maria said that to Taesan. you say something is wrong The power you have is beyond my understanding.
[Why couldn’t you surpass mortality in your previous life?]
[It wasn’t strange that you surpassed mortality there. It should have been exactly
that way.]
[However, the spiritual elevation obtained at that time is retained even after returning back in time. And with that, rob the power of the old gods and immortals regardless. Even the transcendental ones.]
[What made you that way? what twisted you I’m looking for it now… but the answer doesn’t come easily.]
And the wizard said. Originally, you had to go beyond mortality. It wasn’t strange even if you reached the level of transcendence.
but it didn’t come true
Instead of surpassing mortality, Taesan obtained a distorted skill called Spiritual Rise.
A question that has not yet been resolved.
I could see now.
It’s a gosin.
They were deeply related to Mount Tai. I don’t know since when, but Mount Tai has been polluted by them.
It’s probably because of that that he feels a sense of familiarity with the power of the Gods and can handle the color black.
But still, doubts remained.
How to deal with borderline.
Boundaries have nothing to do with Gosin. They cannot use the concept of this world. It was only Taesan’s ability to mix and match divinity and blackness.
Many questions can be answered here.
Taishan continued to walk forward. As a result, Taishan was able to see a single land.
It was not polluted.
It was a very small piece of land, big enough for one person to fit in, but it was clearly of this world. Pollution from the surroundings did not invade the site.
[What is this?]
“It must have been what I had before being contaminated.”
An image of when he was a normal human being.
It was very small and fragile, but it kept its place even in the midst of pollution.
I was certain of one thing with this.
His contamination was not from his birth.
It was after that.
If so, since when? I could guess without difficulty.
move forward again A very small piece of land disappeared, and immediately much was mixed up and ruined.
And I could feel it as I walked.
The covered things were getting bigger and thicker. It meant that it was
a period when his image grew and became stronger
.
Probably Easy Mode. He honed himself there. It was only natural that as he grew up mentally, his imagery would grow accordingly.
It was just distorted and broken, so it was impossible to know what it was originally and what its foundation was.
Taesan continued walking.
The image gets bigger and bigger. Distorted shapes that used to be the size of small buildings soon change to the size of mountains.
And at the end, I could see Mount Tai
.
huge aggregation. Something huge and deep.
A lofty and great destination that even Mount Taesan cannot ignore.
It is not a state beyond mere mortality. Taesan knew.
‘…transcendence.’
The end that even today’s Taesan, where you become in charge of the concept of the world itself as an individual, has not been reached.
It was the spot.
‘This is it.’
That was the level he had reached in his previous life.
However, the shape was infinitely distorted and ruined.
It shouldn’t have looked like that originally.
Shining brightly, more magnificent than anyone else. It must have become something that forms the concept of the world.
okay. It was like the transcendentalists.
But pollution has trampled and crushed that possibility into something entirely different. That
was the possibility he had lost and the point he had reached.
Taesan approaches the broken form and raises his hand.
What could this have become before it became contaminated. try to figure it out and read it. Close your eyes, focus your senses, and contemplate your inner self.
But it is impossible.
Even though it is his own image, he cannot grasp or read the largest image he has. It was as if he had painted on the drawing paper, which had already been stained with muddy water
.
“I am the owner.”
Taesan murmured softly and removed his hand.
Taishan continued to move forward.
Something changed after that. It is clearly distorted and broken, but somewhat familiar and readable. That feeling grew stronger the further we went.
Turbuck.
And Taishan arrived at the end of the image.
There was a being there.
[…Huh?]
Bard Ray was surprised for a moment.
This is the image of Mount Tai. However, there was something completely different inside him.
no. I couldn’t say it was different.
Because it looks exactly like Mount Tai.
Except for the whole body shimmering in gray, it was exactly the same as Taesan.
[Ah…]
Akasha trembled for a moment. I don’t have any good memories of her. Except for his own name, only fragments remained.
But even so, Akasha felt fear.
The fear imprinted on the instinct itself came over. Bardray was perplexed and Akasha was afraid. And Taesan moved on.
It is in him, but not his. Taesan was unaware of the black color that spilled over and engulfed the surroundings
.
It raises its head and looks at Mount Tai.
Each other’s eyes meet.
[You have encountered .]
It was not a name that the system could describe, nor was it a broken and unreadable name like the old gods.
It was just empty.
And Taesan had seen that empty system a few times.
“Since when have you been clinging to me?”
No answer came back. Taesan didn’t want an answer, so he raised his sword without paying attention.
“Are you a usurper? Or something else.”
It stares blankly at Mount Tai.
And the mouth is open
[It’s unfortunate.]
Somewhere languid but greedy. Tired nonetheless. The voice of an old man. It was the voice
that Essential heard when he brought out the image
.
[If I waited a little longer, it would have been completed.]
It rises from the seat. The black color pours down and covers it.
Taesan frowned.
“that.”
That black color was somehow familiar.
In that black color, there was the energy of the apostles and the fragments of the old gods he had defeated. He swallowed it and swung it around, so it was impossible not to know. The existence in front of him
was handling
that power as if it were his own.
[But even now, there are still desirable fruits.]
Jet black covers the opponent. And Taesan saw it.
In that jet black, things from this world were mixed.
But with Taesan, it was different. Blended, but not so perfectly borderlined. It was just an imitation.
tongue-in-cheek
“You usurper.”
A foreign existence nested within him.
is a usurper The only Gosin that could imitate the things of this world was the usurper.
That fact wasn’t particularly surprising. It was something I had already predicted. Other than the usurper, there was no Gosin that could stain him.
But I didn’t know that it was so deep inside him.
How the forced reach brought the bottom black.
The reason is simple.
It was because he brought the black color of the usurper.
[You are mine.]
A quiet voice echoed in Taesan’s image.
* * *
Kwaaaaaang!
An explosion goes off.
Taishan broke out of the usurper’s jet black and ran out.
[What!]
It was only then that Bard Ray let out the emotions he had been holding back.
[what! Why is there something like that in you!]
“I don’t know, so don’t ask.”
Warak.
The boundary line rises and puts on a bard ray. He swung his sword roughly.
Damn it!
black color breaks
Sensing the power he felt, Taesan narrowed his eyes.
“The usurper himself is not.”
It wasn’t that great of a power or a feeling. At least, the body wasn’t settled inside him.
However, an existence of that size could not have settled down inside the mountain without anyone knowing.
“Is it an alter ego?”
The usurper’s alter ego lightly waved a finger. The created boundary line
becomes a wave and sweeps the image. Taishan also draws out the boundary line.
Quadd Deuk!
Crush and mash. Taesan was puzzled by the sensation he felt through his hands.
‘It’s stronger than I thought.’
I knew there was something in him, but I thought the strength would be terrible.
The reason was simple.
Taesan did not realize that there was something inside him until he contemplated himself and reached a certain level.
It was the same with the transcendentalists. They saw the distortion of Mount Tai, but did not know the exact cause. Even the most high-ranking transcendentalists, such as the demon and wizard Maria. Only those who directly saw his inner side noticed the usurper’s existence.
It is so weak that the transcendentalists do not notice it. That was Taesan’s idea so far, but the power the usurper showed now far exceeded expectations.
“I don’t know what.”
Why does that place in the image of Mount Tai
? Why did he not get caught with that much power? I didn’t know anything, but one thing was certain.
That is an entity hostile to Taesan.
is his enemy
Then Taesan had only one thing to do. He gave strength to the hand holding the sword.
I think about knocking it down. Darkness dwells in Taesan’s hand.
[You activated Chaos Call.]
The boundary area surrounds Mount Tai. It is a distorted power that is neither the concept of this world nor the old gods that only Taishan possesses
. No opponent has ever resisted this force. If there was, the overwhelming amount or quality was enough to suppress it.
Taesan energizes his whole body and runs at full speed. The distorted boundaries are shattered all at once, and a path is made for the usurper.
And the usurper stretched out his arm.
Kaga gak gak!
The boundary area begins to diverge. Taesan’s pupils widened.
The usurper was blocking his sword with his arm.
If there was a problem, it was that the arm wrapped around it
was just plain black, not a distorted border.
It wasn’t extremely compressed, nor was it a huge amount. It was an extremely ordinary level to be able to make the present mountain without difficulty.
but couldn’t break through.
It was not simply a matter of quantity or quality or concept.
It was a more fundamental problem than that.
[You’re mistaken.]
Kwadeuk.
The usurper takes the sword. The boundary line
is sharp, but it does not hurt the usurper’s hand.
Smell. Distorted things spread in the image. It was a free movement, as if the owner had become a cold defector.
[I am you.]
And the awakened image rushes to swallow Taesan.
[You are mine.]
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