༺ Monologue (5) ༻
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[Status] Na: Isaac
Lv: 103
Gender: Male
Year: (2nd)
Title: Prospective Second Year
Mana: 23880/24000
– Mana Recovery Speed (B )
I bit my thumb.
The sensation of my teeth sinking nto it could be felt vividly.
I lowered my bitten finger and blinked slowly.
“Since when was it? I an when I returned to this state.”
“You got gradually better at the karaoke and now you’re completely back.”
“Why didn’t you say anything?”
“Well, I just wanted to observe the situation for a bit. President’s will power and stuff is good so I thought it would get better quickly.”
“…”
I feel like I’m losing energy…
Dorothy’s nonsensical proposal regarding how I should just play a ton seed to have a much larger effect than I had expected. The reason I turned gray was probably because I felt isolated.
Since entering the Trial of Sandstone, I had been doing nothing more than marching along the sa path I had already traversed during my ti as a prep student. After all, I lived alone, isolated from everyone else.
However, because of this girl, akin to a refreshing breeze, I didn’t even have a chance to get lost in that feeling.
It was a simple solution that perfectly suited my exam life. Thinking of a solution was only a headache for , but…
‘It felt like Dorothy literally grabbed by the collar and pulled out of that abyss.’
Even so, only my body had regained its color. The world was still monochromatic, so I hadn’t even returned to the starting point yet.
Putting that aside though…
“Uh, do we have to keep holding hands?”
This is so embarrassing…
“It’s fan service. You don’t like it?”
“No, I asked because I like it a bit too much.”
“Nihihi.”
I couldn’t believe I could hold the soft hand of a goddess. I liked it because it felt like we were a couple.
In that state, I was lost in thought. Thanks to Dorothy, I had a sliver of a clue to solve this situation…
To not be ostracized in this world.
If I smashed apart this world without abandon, making an existence that no one could ignore…
It was possible that the world would return to its original colors and I could overco this trial. It was a violent thod, but it was worth a try.
…However, there’s no way that things will go as smoothly as I thought.
[External variable has intruded and greatly influenced the Trial of Sandstone!]
‘What the?’
Suddenly, a system window popped up in front of .
External variable intrusion?
“Huh…?”
In succession, Dorothy’s hand, which I had been holding, disappeared like a collapsing sandcastle. I hadn’t lost my senses again. It was just that there was nothing to hold at all.
I looked at Dorothy again. Her body… It was turning into sparkling stardust and disappearing.
“Senior?!”
Dorothy looked down at her hands that had already disappeared, making an expression full of aning.
It was a calm expression, almost as if she had already known this would happen.
“Nihihi, I seem to have overexerted a bit. I can’t hold on any longer.”
It seed as if she had already been aware of her body’s condition, as Dorothy sheepishly smiled.
A transcendental ability that allowed her to intervene in other worldlines. No matter how one thought of it, it was absolutely ludicrous to think that such an ability could be easy to utilize.
Dorothy had been overexerting herself for .
[Conclusion: [Gormos’ Obsidian Blade] is readjusting the Trial of Sandstone.]
“President.”
Before I knew it, half of Dorothy’s body had already disappeared.
However, she stared at my face intently, as if she wanted to see even just a little bit longer.
“I had so much fun today. Because you were there with .”
Dorothy smiled softly.
“That’s why you have to co back, okay?”
“…Yes, of course.”
And then, she disappeared completely.
Stardust fluttered in the wind, leaving an afterimage in my field of vision as it lingered. Dorothy seed to have returned to her original world.
I was only thankful to Dorothy. Thanks to her, I was able to solve the most infuriating task.
However, looking at the contents of the system window…
Gormos’s Greatsword or, ‘Obsidian Blade’, seed to have recognized the impact that the variable known as Dorothy had on .
It looked like it was planning to adjust the trial content anew, as much as she had intervened. The difficulty would probably increase significantly.
‘I acknowledge it.”
This was the middle of a trial to beco the owner of an ultimate weapon. It was absurd if I could pass the Trial of Sandstone and beco the owner of the Obsidian Blade through Dorothy’s help.
Seeing the still descending sky, it didn’t seem like the trial itself was going to initialize. The plan was to probably make the remaining ti left much more difficult.
‘And my trauma…’
In ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱, the purpose of all trials were ultimately the sa. It was to overco trauma. This trial would be no different.
However, besides my prep student life, was there anything that I could call a trauma? Maybe getting rejected after confessing to a girl I liked in high school? Flipping over a pot of well-cooked ran right as I was about to eat it? Honestly, the things that ca to mind were only at that level.
“…?”
Suddenly, dense and dark ash powder intruded into my field of vision.
As I raised my head, large amounts of ash swirled in the wind, unfolding a vast spectacle. What was all this?
It got up from the bench and observed the cityscape.
The nurous buildings filling the city were gradually turning into ash from the top down, burned by black flas. It was not so much burning as it was a fla that ‘annihilated’.
At the sa ti, a complex and pitch-black shape of sothing, akin to the darkness of the universe, was erging from various places, encroaching space.
“Why is that…?”
Where are those flas and black shapes appearing?
This was sothing I had frequently seen in ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱ and had witnessed with my own two eyes during the Trial of Frost; It was the magic of Evil God Nephid…!
‘It’s reusing the Evil God in this place?’
Is it fucking crazy?
Kuoooooo───!!
“The fuck?!”
Even the ground was collapsing…?!
This wasn’t the ti to be lost in thought. I began to flee.
I looked around. The desperate screams of gray people who were crossing the street. They were either annihilated in an instant by the black flas, falling beneath the collapsing ground, or being devoured by the black spheres.
‘What should I do?!’
What kind of madness was it to reuse the Evil God right after readjusting the trial? Was it planning to just go fast and furious now?
Where was the Evil God? Why was the Evil God’s magic appearing here in the first place…
Crash──!
When I looked back, the ground behind was sinking, as the solid heap of soil collapsed!
Think. Think fast. I need to find a way to survive here. Please, neurons, do your job!
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“Keuk…!”
A groan burst forth. My body just had to beco excessively heavy at this mont. A part of my body had turned to stone. It seed like a substantial amount of my vitality had been depleted.
However, I exerted all my strength and desperately avoided the collapsing ground, running for my life.
And then…
Kuoooooo───!!
“Uwak!”
The earth shook like crazy.
Before I could fall, I quickly created a rock with [Rock Generation] to anchor myself.
Scratches appeared on the road before it cracked and broke apart. I couldn’t stop moving.
A high-intensity earthquake. Even the burning skyscrapers easily ca tumbling down.
And…
“…!!”
I felt a dense mana that pressed on my skin. It felt like just the mana itself could crush with its sheer force.
A mana that easily surpassed even the Floating Island, Cavallion the Earthshaker.
“The Evil God? No wait… What’s that?”
It wasn’t the Evil God.
It was a different type of mana from what I had felt during the Trial of Frost. I had no way of knowing what it was, but it felt strangely familiar, like déjà vu.
A drop of cold sweat trickled down my cheek. I clenched my teeth and while gasping, I swallowed hard and looked towards the epicenter that emitted this trendous mana.
I didn’t know where it was, but it was certainly very far away.
Kwanggggg─────────!!!!
From there, a navy blue light rose terrifyingly, like a volcanic eruption. How flashy. It was probably the light of a magic circle.
High in the sky, a wave of dark blue mana spread. It extended in all directions like ripples and swept over my head. As a result, the light that had filled the city abruptly disappeared and the Republic of Korea was shrouded in an alien black light.
Soon after, sothing received the light of the magic circle and revealed itself on the surface.
It was sothing with an extrely obese build.
[■■■…]
A strange voice echoed in the atmosphere. I couldn’t understand what it was saying at all.
Moreover, I couldn’t check what the owner of the voice looked like.
Bzzzzzzzz──.
Because noise enveloped that creature.
Almost as if it was an existence that shouldn’t be seen.
‘It’s not a demon.’
Although I couldn’t detect demons at a far distance…
If their mana leaked into my perception range, I could sense them. I had learned this during the Trial of Frost, thanks to the Evil God.
‘So what in the world is it…’
I tried to open the status window, but…
[ ※ Unable to check the information! ]
Even the status window couldn’t uncover a single scrap of information.
Whether it was Dorothy, Alice, the Primordial Beast that transcended death, or even the Evil God, who was my final goal… It may have been limited, but the status window had still appeared.
That creature seed to be fundantally different from all the existences I had seen until now. It ant that it was hiding so sort of secret.
Furthermore, the problem was that I couldn’t even speculate what it was.
By all ans, in ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱, there was nothing more dangerous than the Evil God. Was it a hidden last boss? No, there was no way that was the case. After all, even as a ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱ tryhard, I had never seen anything like that.
It seed that the noise couldn’t completely conceal that creature, as from ti to ti, small gaps opened and closed, revealing parts of it. Each ti it did so, I saw skin with unclassifiable color and nurous eyes embedded thickly.
Suddenly, an unbelievable possibility crossed my mind.
Whenever I tried to see sothing related to ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱, noise occurred and the sa phenonon was happening with that gigantic form.
‘That ant…’
That being was not an existence from ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱.
However, that being was an existence related to ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱.
That being was probably an existence that belonged in the land of the Republic of Korea.
And it appeared when this world was facing its end. Almost as if it had been shackled up until that point.
I suddenly had a thought.
Why did noise occur for ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱?
The world and people appearing ashy were related to my trauma. However, there was no reason for ❰Magic Knight of Märchen❱ to be affected.
In other words, the one causing the noise was separate from my trauma. Could it be that it was… that monster?
“…!”
At that mont, a cheerful sound effect rang in my ears. I was so tense that I jumped in surprise.
In front of , there was a system window.
“What’s this…?’
After looking at that system window, I stood stiff, as I did not understand the situation for a while.
[[The Evil God of Destruction Nephid] has brought forth the end of all worlds.] [Survive until the initialization.] [Loading…] [1%]
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