I Became the Final B Chapter 140 : Chapter 140

Chapter 140. Journey to Annihilation (1)

Hearing Riman's words, Yenzen's face quickly hardened.

Yenzen said.

“...It is dangerous.”

“Isn't that why I asked you to prepare a chain? If things go wrong, pull

out imdiately.”

“That's not the problem. Your mind could be damaged.”

“...My mind?”

“Yes. Everyone who crossed the line like that is currently in a ntal hospital.”

“Hmm.......”

Contemplating for a mont, Riman said.

“Those people, how many minutes did they last beyond the line?”

“Yes......?”

“They wouldn't have gone crazy as soon as they crossed the line. They must have lasted at least a few minutes. Is that not so?”

“...That is correct.”

“Then wouldn't it be fine if I stay within that ti fra?”

It was a correct statent.

Of course, Yenzen could not agree with that statent.

Since the artery exists 10mm inside the wrist skin, it sounded like saying let's just cut 9mm.

So, being dumbfounded, Yenzen spat out his inner thoughts as they were.

“Are you crazy?”

“No, I am extrely rational. That's why I can have such thoughts.”

This was also a correct statent.

So Yenzen's head started to ache a little.

“Excuse , Mr. Leman, doing that......”

“An ordinary chain won't do. I might break it unconsciously if sothing goes wrong.”

“Excuse .......”

“You have chains made of Hyunchul (Black Iron), right?”

“...Yes, we do.”

A rare alloy created through a special slting process in a mana furnace, Hyunchul.

That pitch-black tal not only possesses trendous strength but also has the property of repelling mana, thus possessing considerable resistance to magic.

It was the optimal material for tying up a wizard.

And naturally, Sanhae had Hyunchul chains.

To use for the purpose of subduing powerful summoned beasts that resist violently.

Riman said.

“Tie that Hyunchul chain to . And if things go wrong, pull it to drag

out of the line.”

“When do we pull you out?”

“How many minutes did those who went to the ntal hospital last beyond the line?”

“...The average is 3 minutes. Of course, they weren't there for 3 minutes continuously, but the total ti going in and out sums up to 3 minutes though.......”

“Then pull

out imdiately after 2 minutes.”

Yenzen barely nodded his head.

Because of the anxiety in one corner of his heart, he couldn't bring himself to say ‘yes’ with his mouth.

CLINK.

Like that, 40 minutes later.

A heavy Hyunchul chain was fastened around Riman's waist.

And the other end of the chain was wound around the hand of a large doll.

It was Yenzen's doll.

A doll boasting monstrous strength enough to pull out a giant tree with one hand.

Whatever Riman did, it certainly possessed enough strength to drag him out of the line.

“Phew.......”

This sigh ca not from Riman but from Yenzen's mouth.

A sigh with a considerably high content of tension.

But on the contrary, Riman's expression was quite tranquil.

Yenzen asked.

“...Aren't you even anxious?”

“If things go wrong, I'll just pull my feet out myself, well.”

“No, I an... never mind.”

Yenzen was about to say more but stopped.

Frankly, because Yenzen himself was curious about what result this reckless act of Riman would bring.

A person who solved a problem that dozens of wizards spent several nights on in just one hour with only individual capability.

Such a person approaches the closest point of the Annihilation Zone and collects information?

‘...Perhaps he might discover sothing new that we couldn't obtain.’

Perhaps sothing groundbreaking that could end this disaster.

So Yenzen just swallowed his saliva quietly and watched Riman's actions.

Soon the chain connected to Riman's waist was pulled taut.

Heavy tension settled over this entire location.

Yenzen, as well as everyone's gazes, turned toward Riman in unison.

Among those gazes was Saya's as well.

Not knowing what would happen beyond the line, they decided to leave Saya outside for now.

Soon Riman threw a gaze toward Yenzen.

A signal that he was ready.

Yenzen nodded quietly.

SWISH......-

Riman took a step beyond the red line.

Those who crossed that line hadn't remained sane until now.

Going crazy, or jumping into annihilation themselves.

Towards that dangerous land.

Riman took a step.

STEP, STEP.

He entered.

A point 2 ters beyond the red line.

Now only about 1 ter left to the ‘real’ boundary line of the Annihilation Zone.

Yenzen swallowed dry saliva.

‘What will happen.’

Those who crossed the red line jumped into the Annihilation Zone on their own feet without a single exception.

Those who walked in with ropes tied to their bodies struggled with all their might to jump in.

And those who went in and out several tis like that all entered ntal hospitals.

Then what about Riman.

‘Are you... different?’

One second that felt like an hour passed.

And two seconds, three seconds.

Ti flowed.

And nothing happened.

“......?”

“......??”

Riman was just standing still in that spot.

At the utterly unexpected calmness, everyone couldn't hide their bewildernt.

“What......?”

“It would be normal to run wild saying he'll go beyond there......?”

What on earth is happening?

At the ti when this sentence passed through everyone's mind.

Riman was listening with all his nerves on edge.

To hear the voice flowing into his head.

* * *

‘What is this?’

Imdiately after crossing the red line, a certain voice began to flow into Riman's head.

But there was a question whether it was okay to na that sound a ‘voice’.

Since it was virtually a sound infinitely close to noise.

‘What... what on earth is this sound?’

A sound like a drunk contrabass murmuring on a dawn street dug into his head endlessly.

Only buzzing without lody, rhythm, or aning.

Riman suddenly felt puzzled.

‘Everyone jumped in there possessed by just this kind of sound?’

But it was a fact that nurous people were possessed.

So Riman closed his eyes and listened to this sound.

However.......

‘I still don't know.’

Even shaking out the hundreds of magic books contained in his head, there was no clue to decipher this sound.

As he did so, this thought slowly ca to mind.

‘...Am I focusing on the wrong place perhaps?’

Riman opened his eyes.

And montarily let go of the concentration he had put on the sound in his head.

Other senses intentionally blocked began to breathe again.

Sight, sll, touch.......

‘Wait a minute.’

Touch.

Riman looked down at his right hand.

The skin of his right hand was feeling a minute vibration.

Another abnormal phenonon he hadn't caught because he was distracted by the sound in his head.

The ring he was wearing on the middle finger of his right hand was trembling minutely.

‘The ring is... trembling?’

Riman's ring was a cursed object storing Eoduksini.

But what was originally sealed in this ring was Simryugwi.

One corner of the ‘Yukra (Six Silks)’, called the worst six evil spirits, Simryugwi.

‘Why on earth is this ring trembling?’

It was a phenonon whose reason couldn't be known.

Because the ring had never caused such a phenonon until now.

‘What is it? What aning does this phenonon have......?’

This ti Riman focused all his nerves on the trembling of the ring.

He began to calculate the cycle and intensity of that trembling ticulously.

At that mont.

‘Wait a minute.’

A single hypothesis flashed through Riman's mind.

‘Perhaps... even if I can't solve the spatial flux itself... right, at least finding a path inside there......!’

But this flash couldn't continue further.

WHOOSH!

Because the Hyunchul chain pulled Riman abruptly.

Already 2 minutes had passed.

Riman was dragged out of the red line just like that.

SKID!

Riman stopped while sliding long on the floor.

The buzzing in his head and the trembling of the ring stopped at so point.

He had co out of the red line.

The investigation team mbers including Yenzen ran toward Riman.

Yenzen asked as if pressing him.

“Mr. Leman! Are you okay? Mr. Leman!!”

“...I am okay, so you can lower your voice.”

Seeing that he looked really okay even up close, Yenzen finally relaxed.

“...What happened?”

“Well, what should I call this... First, I heard a sound.”

“Sound......! You an a sound flowing into your head?”

“Yes.”

“What kind of sound was it?”

“Rather, that is a question I want to ask. What on earth should I call this sound?”

“Yes......?”

Riman talked about the buzzing he heard.

Listening to those words quietly, Yenzen said.

“...Certainly strange.”

“Right? What on earth this sound ans.......”

“No, not that that is strange. Rembering the sound itself is strange.”

“......?”

“Because there was not a single person who rembered the identity of the sound heard beyond the line.”

“Ah......?”

“The aning of that sound is the secondary problem. First, the fact that you rembered that sound itself, just that alone ans Mr. Leman has experienced sothing distinctly different from other people and ca out.”

“...Is that so?”

Certainly, hearing that, Riman could guess that he was a special case.

But anyway, what was really important right now wasn't the sound.

The trembling of the ring.

And the hypothesis Riman inferred from it.

This part was what Riman considered truly important right now.

Of course, the basis for this inference was too weak as of now, and there were excessively many leaps in logic.

Nevertheless, it was worth discussing.

Anyway, those in front of his eyes were talents who studied at a Magic Tower for years.

And at Sanhae, one of the world's three great Magic Towers at that.

Riman organized the words to bring up to them in his head.

And at that mont he was about to open his mouth.......

“Hey! Everyone's working hard!”

A familiar voice flew from afar and struck his ears.

An unexpected person was standing there.

‘...Cheonjan?!’

Sanhae's Headmaster, Cheonjan ca here.

Along with a huge truck.

* * *

“Wow.......”

“This is... Peking duck?!”

“There's Dongpo pork too!”

“Shark fin and even crab at soup......?”

The truck Cheonjan brought was a food truck.

And not an ordinary food truck.

A food truck at the level of tearing off an entire five-star hotel restaurant.

Actually, all the people diligently grilling at and frying in that food truck were incumbent hotel restaurant chefs.

The ingredient costs of those foods, and the labor costs of those cooking.

Adding all this up, one could easily predict that the cost paid for this food truck would be enormous.

“It seed everyone was suffering too much. So I ca like this wanting to treat you to a special al.”

“Headmaster......!”

Furthermore, food wasn't the end.

Inside the mobile refrigerator, various kinds of alcohol were also contained.

Like that, a drinking party unfolded.

The atmosphere of the site, which had beco sharp to the limit while staying up for several nights here, lted away softly in alcohol.

Of course, considering the scale of the disaster, holding a drinking party could be rude to the victims.

But when the high person brought the drinking party directly, who could object.

People began to get drunk one by one.

Of course, Riman was dissatisfied with this situation.

Since a drinking party unfolded in a situation where he had to save Lancelot as soon as possible.

But Riman couldn't do anything about this atmosphere either.

So he picked up and ate food, counting it as resolving dinner for now.

He gave all the received alcohol to Saya.

While Riman was eating like that, Yenzen set up a separate drinking table with Cheonjan in a tent.

Filling Yenzen's glass with alcohol, Cheonjan asked.

“How is the situation?”

“A little hope is visible.”

“Ho-oh?”

Cheonjan showed interest.

“What does that an?”

“You received our side's report, right?”

“Yeah. Maze phenonon caused by spatial flux, you said clearly.”

“Yes. It's a conclusion barely reached by dozens of our personnel staying up all night for over five days. However.......”

“However?”

“Leman White, that person reached the exact sa conclusion as us with just a single hour of solo investigation.”

“......!”

“Genius, prodigy, or... monster. An unbelievable person has walked in.”

“If so.......”

“Yes. Leman, that person is our hope.”

“Ho-oh.......”

Cheonjan's eyes sparkled.