Clunk.
A dark sea at night, void of even a single starlight.
The Anytng ca to a halt, its lights casting a dim glow over the waves.
[1000th Dinsion – ????]
Clunk. Clunk, clunk.
Fuel was injected from the rear of the Anytng, but the airship refused to move forward.
It had reached the boundary of the field.
No, more precisely—
The boundary between servers.
Beyond this field lay the place El Cid had desperately longed to reach.
After bringing the Anytng to a stop, I walked toward the bow.
[This is strange...?]
Frey leaped off my shoulder and flew ahead, feeling along the invisible wall.
[There was definitely a door here...]
“You’re saying there’s nothing now?”
[Yeah. The GMs use this passage all the ti, so it should never be closed. If they shut it down, the entire ga would stop functioning.]
I took a deep breath.
The recent raid had been broadcast live to the masters.
Their cherished heroes and fleets had been wiped out by a re gesture of the boss. No veteran player would stand for that. By now, every community of Pick
Up was likely in chaos.
The ga, which had barely been surviving, had just taken a fatal blow.
[Are you saying... they’ve abandoned ga operations?]
“They were developing a new title anyway.”
[Then, the path to Server 1 is...]
I let out a short laugh.
‘So this is how they plan to stall for ti.’
I stretched my right hand forward.
Shrrrk!
Crimson-black scales erged across my entire arm. Hundreds of dragon scales writhing along my forearm coalesced into the shape of a blade.
Dragon Scale Sword.
It wouldn’t be as efficient as Bifrost, but it would suffice as a temporary weapon.
“Step aside.”
Frey flapped her wings and backed off.
Gripping the hilt tightly, I thrust the sword into the empty space.
The tip of the blade sank into the transparent wall and vanished.
‘Didn’t they say there was no escape?’
Crackle!
Fierce lightning surged along the blade.
They had sealed this tightly.
The passage connected to Server 1 was encased in dozens of layers of firewalls.
Clang!
I twisted the blade sideways.
A sound like shattering glass echoed as cracks ford along the barrier.
[Unauthorized intrusion detected!]
[Unknown Error!]
[Unknown Error!]
[Unknown......]
Boom!
I drove the blade in to the hilt.
[Warning!]
[Error – 0032: Critical error detected. Imdiate response required...]
Then, I yanked out the Dragon Scale Sword in one swift motion.
The cracks spread rapidly, and soon, a dinsion gate shattered like a broken window.
A makeshift passage leading to Server 1.
[Ugh...]
Frey paled and shook her head.
Well, I knew I wasn’t exactly normal anymore.
The more I used it, the more I could tell—this ability to manipulate universal data and alter the system wasn’t ant for an ordinary being.
‘Maybe this is what Tell intended.’
But if she was waiting for
to lose my humanity, she was sorely mistaken.
No matter how twisted my mind beca, there was one thing I would never forget.
‘I’m going to kill you.’
I dismissed the Dragon Scale Sword.
Once I stepped through that dinsion gate, I’d be in Server 1.
There was no ti to hesitate. I needed to move imdiately.
“Just a heads-up—once we go inside—”
[...Wait.]
I turned to the side.
Frey was staring blankly up at the night sky.
I followed her gaze. The sky remained dark.
“What? We don’t have ti.”
[Just a mont, just one mont.]
Frey blinked a few tis.
At that instant—
[Warning!]
[Unknown Error!]
[Error – 3912: Critical error detected. Imdiate response required...]
Flash!
A brilliant white light flooded the sky.
[Master Anytng, welco to Pick
Up!]
Among the scattering starlight, a holographic ssage appeared.
[Loading complete.]
[T O U C H! (Select)]
I halted mid-step.
‘This girl... she was banned.’
There was no way Mobius had lifted the ban at this ?? Nоvеl??гht ?? (Don’t copy, read here) point.
The cause wasn’t hard to figure out.
I had just broken the server’s rules.
The resulting system-wide error had also lifted Anytng’s restriction.
“...Seriously.”
How obsessed with the ga was she to log in the second her ban was lifted?
After everything that happened, she should’ve given up by now.
Up above, the light flickered chaotically.
‘Is she looking at ?’
Her screen wasn’t showing a lobby.
The mont she logged in, she had directly accessed the field where I was.
[Loki.]
“I know.”
The master’s role was already over.
With the ga itself collapsing, Anytng had nothing left to do.
Once the server was restored, she’d be forcibly logged out again, this ti permanently.
‘Pointless.’
I adjusted my cloak and stepped toward the dinsional rift.
“......”
A few steps later, I stopped.
Anytng was still watching .
‘Idiot.’
Narrowing my eyes, I let my influence flow freely, connecting my consciousness deep into the system.
‘I see you.’
A small, plain room.
The faint light of a desk lamp illuminated a young woman gripping her smartphone tightly.
So tightly, in fact, that her fingers had turned white.
So this is what she looked like.
Not too different from what I expected.
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