Pour
Karen calmly accepted her delayed fate. However, that only served to send a chill through Seols heart.
We were sohow able to co out of this alive.
It was a miracle.
Final Cobacks effects only ended thanks to Galifas Corpse Night and Karuna and Jamad buying ti.
No, she could have killed Karuna if she just felt like it. She simply spared us.
Rather than surviving, Seol was simply shown rcy.
Obviously, if Karen went all out, Seol could have used other thods too, but in the end, neither party used all their powers.
Regardless, she is still incredibly powerful.
Jamad and Karuna would have been considered imnsely powerful if it were any other Adventure, but they were helpless before Karen. It was due to the difference in their stats, but even so
Step
Karuna, who had taken the full brunt of Karens Red Lotus Slash, wobbled over to her.
Karen
Pour
Karen, who looked like a demon when she burned down the surrounding forest, suddenly put away her sword.
Seol wasnt surprised by this, though. He believed that Karen had an ending that she desired.
...What are you doing? Why did you let go of your weapon?
Karen responded like it was nothing, with a hint of laughter in her voice.
Because I dont have ti left. I dont want to do this anymore.
Hmph! Youre only starting to talk now because youre at the disadvanta
Jamad! Stop provoking her.
I got it, I got it. Sigh The uninvited guest will leave now.
Jamad, realizing that the situation was over, returned to Seols side.
Since Karen was accepting her death, Seol decided to just watch.
Pour
Flash!
Karen looked at Karuna while being hit by the pouring rain.
Karuna, my brother.
Sister.
During the ti that I have left I want to hear your story
...As much as you want.
In this high-stakes situation where Seol could die at any mont, the situation took an unexpected turn.
First, Karen tried to receive an answer from Karuna.
Im still stuck on that day What about you?
Karen.
What happened? No, let change the question I dont have much ti
Karens body was decaying away.
Not only had she fought, but she was also an undead without a master. The small amount of ti she spent revived ruined her body.
That day Did you really co back?
I was headed there.
I see I knew there was no way that you would intentionally break a promise. Yeah, right
Im sorry, Karen. Im sorry I couldnt keep my promise that day.
Karuna stepped closer to Karen.
She was no longer able to maintain her decaying body.
Thud
Karuna grabbed her back and carefully laid her down in a gentle, natural manner.
But why how did you beco a shadow?
Its because I died.
Haha You died? Thats ridiculous.
Soone sealed my powers. I dont know the details either, though.
Yeah, that makes sense then. You were invincible, Karuna. You were even stronger than .
Crumble
Half of Karens face had rotted at this point.
The two continued their conversation, though, ignoring it entirely.
Why are you serving that uncouth human, though? Is your mory of Jin gone too now?
The human she was referring to was Seol.
Karuna shook his head.
Jin is still my emperor. But now I serve soone else.
He looks like hes lacking a lot compared to Jin krgh though
Hes a good person.
...Really? So youre saying that hes not a good king then.
Through following him and traveling with him, I was able to et you again.
Hahaha If you put it that way, hes a-an excellent master.
Karens body trembled.
The life that she had regained was about to be extinguished once more.
By the way, what was what was the outside world like?
Do you an the world outside of the Empire?
Yeah, the world you stubbornly sought after.
Karuna closed his eyes, like he was recalling sothing.
There was the sea, said Karuna.
The sea? You an that place thats bigger and filled with more water than urgh a lake?
Yeah, I saw the sea. It really existed.
Haha So You went that far, is that right? How was it? Do waves really exist?
Of course. The water ebbed and flowed. The people there also ate fishy sardines to the point they got sick of them and smoked tobacco.
That sounds like such a boring life. Really But even so I want to see it.
See them?
No, the sea, you dumbass.
Crumble
Karens lower half had completely decayed.
A foul sll filled up the area, but the rain even washed that all away.
K-Karen!
Karuna so youre still soones knight.
Lets go together, Karen. Lets go see the sea together.
Do you really think I could? My body my heart they have all burned up. The only thing I have left What do I have left? What is a knight with no one to serve? Yeah, thats just a monster
Youre not a monster, Karen. Youre my one and only sister. Were going to go together! W-We can finally be together now!
Karuna spoke more hurriedly than before, while Karen only beca increasingly calr.
The exchange between soone leaving and soone trying to hold on was always this painful.
No, I cant go with you. The king that you serve is too weak. He cant take .
Thats thats
Thats why this is where I end my journey, Karuna. Urgh
Splatter
It was the spine-chilling sound of intestines breaking through skin and hitting the floor. Seol and Karuna knew that she was monts before death.
Karens fading eyes simply looked at the open space. Her cloudy eyes had lost their color.
Karuna, are you there? H-Hold my hand.
Karuna gripped Karens hand tightly.
He wanted to let her know that he was there with her.
I see I cant feel anything. Dying is always scary by the way, Karuna
Karen dont die dont die, Karen. Stay with !
To be honest A part of hoped that you could take along with you even though Im like this
KAREEEEEEEEN!
Thud.
There was no special farewell.
Pour
The rain simply washed everything away. Whether it was the ash from the burned forest or the regrets of the dead corpses.
She spent her final monts letting go of them.
The reason that Karen didnt kill Seol, Karuna, and Jamad was because she still had regrets to let go of.
Even so, she wasnt able to empty all of them.
Her final words for Karuna lingered in the Great Forest.
It was almost like she was still alive.
Her voice repeated in their ears like an echo.
Though now, she was nothing more than a skeleton.
[You have defeated Karen, the Red Lotus Knight.]
[You have earned the special achievent 'An Insurmountable Gap'.]
[You have earned the special title 'Challenger'.]
[You have received additional rewards.]
[If the Remaining Ti runs out or if you choose to take your reward, you may choose to finish your Adventure here.]
These ssages which always appeared when Seol killed an enemy, appeared.
Seol paid no attention to those ssages and watched Karuna.
He was in pain.
No, Karen! Dont leave ! W-We just barely managed to et each other again
[Karuna is unstable.]
[Karuna's loyalty decreases.]
[If loyalty continues to fall, sothing unexpected may happen.]
Though the ssage said sothing unexpected may happen, Seol knew what would happen. He saw many players lose their summons from being unable to recover their low loyalty before.
* * *
I guess the ti has co
Pour
The rain continued to pour down like there was a hole in the sky.
Ahh Ah
Inside the raining forest, Seol had gone through the unluckiest streak he had gone through so far in The World of Eternity.
It was about ti sothing like this happened, though.
Not only was he unable to find Chao, he was forced into dealing with the secret ceremony, trapped inside the corpse's mind, and almost died there. He was then almost killed by Karen, who woke up because of him.
But that wasnt the end. Seol was now unsure what would happen to Karuna, who was perfectly fine before.
In the end, the travel luck is causing a ss.
- Travel Luck Dice has rolled a 2.
- You are quite unlucky.
The unfortunate circumstances were way too intertwined to simply bla it all on the dice though.
I I
Karuna.
My sister my sister
Nod.
Seol stepped in front of Karuna and raised his hand.
Seol, before speaking, thought of Karens words once more.
- No, I cant go with you. The king that you serve is too weak. He cant take .
To Seol, who accomplished countless achievents in Pandea, it was humiliating.
Clench.
Seol clenched his teeth and rustled through his inventory. He was looking for sothing that he prepared a long ti ago for a situation like this, which he knew would happen soday.
I knew that sothing like this would happen one day.
Master?
Seol pulled out food that was roughly the size of a small bean and tossed it into his mouth without hesitation.
And after that, black energy surged out from within him.
Frsss
[You had an excellent al.]
[Jelly From a Cloudy Days Bonus Effect activates.]
[You are able to use 'Miracle of a Cloudy Day', a volatile skill, for an hour.]
The skill fit perfectly with the drizzling rain.
Gather
Seol slowly gathered black energy into his hand. The energy, which looked like a rain cloud, completely filled up his hand.
Though weak and young, he was still soones king.
Serve ! shouted Seol.
Flash!
A lightning bolt struck sowhere in the Great Forest.
At the sa ti, Seols final ans were activated.
[Snowman used the volatile skill Miracle of a Cloudy Day.]
[You forcibly use Shadow Summon on Karen, the Red Lotus Knight.]
Crackle Crackle
Black lightning wrapped around her body.
Even at a glance, Seol could tell that the black lightning had imnse power.
However, the ssage that Seol was waiting for hadnt shown up yet.
Seol, with a composed expression, observed the lightnings movents.
And then, after a while
A clear change had occurred.
Bzzzzzzt!
[Miracle of a Cloudy Day is successful.]
[Karens consciousness is being awakened.]
Clench.
Seol clenched his fists as tight as he could.
The viewers, watching this, were all in shock.
- This is insane Maybe?
- This cant be real right? Soone tell it isnt
- It is.
- He really saw this far into the future?
- This is crazy I thought the ga balance was destroyed because of her but it was destroyed because of him?
- What the hell?! How did things end up like this?
Black lightning wrapped around Karens body as it started to float up.
Kang Seol.
He had rolled many different types of dice over the past 17 years.
And he believed that the most difficult die to handle was the six-sided die. The sa die that most other people considered the standard, ordinary die.
It was because the difference between each of the numbers was very large.
Between 1 and 2.
Between 3 and 4.
Between 5 and 6.
These numbers look similar at a glance.
But, through his experience with The World of Eternity, Seol quickly realized that he was mistaken.
Rolling a 4 on the travel dice simply made good things happen every once in a while. Rolling a 3 on the travel dice, however, gave random odds of both good and bad things happening.
And 2 was an unlucky roll. It was awful to the point that it sotis even directly influenced the difficulty of the Adventure itself.
As such, there were so people who quickly left the area as fast as they could if they rolled below a 3.
But here, there was also soone like Seol who ignored the rolls.
The person who defeated the Red Lotus Knight, an extrely powerful existence, has been fighting for a long ti with the dice.
To turn a 3 into a 6.
To turn a 2 into a 6.
To turn a 1 into a 6.
He fought.
He always fought to create the best result.
And he always prepared with the worst in mind. Through that, he was able to achieve sothing like this.
He was soone who overca the six-sided die.
Serve , Karen!
He overca the dice, he was soone who took seven steps.
[You have earned the special achievent 'Dice are rely Numbers'.]
[You have earned the special title 'Outlaw'.]
Flash!
A bolt of black lightning struck again, wrapping around her.
And then, there was another change.
Crackle!
Argh Ahhhhhhhh!
Karuna?
The lightning that surrounded Karen suddenly expanded and devoured Karuna.
No! Karuna!
M ast er
Karunas voice disappeared with the lightning, leaving Seol alone.
Pour
The only thing next to Seol now was the sound of rain.
Along with one ssage.
[Karens Connected Soul activates.]
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