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Chapter 333
[You have entered an unidentified space.]
Before regression, Jeong-hoon obtained an unknown power while preventing the first apocalypse.
This unidentified space is exactly where he obtained that power.
A place filled with nothing but darkness.
Even though a red fla was blazing at the center, it failed to illuminate the surroundings.
‘Master, is that it?’
‘At a glance, it looks like a fla, but it’s not. It’s pure energy.’
Anima was right.
That was not a fla, but energy.
A ridiculous power that sent Jeong-hoon to the past—
More precisely, to the past of a parallel world.
“Let’s get it quickly and get out.”
Obtaining the power was simple.
If he brought his hand close to the fla, it would coil around and be absorbed swiftly.
Just like before regression, Jeong-hoon brought his hand close to the fla.
Then the fla wrapped around his hand and began to be absorbed quickly.
A familiar sensation coursed through his right arm.
At the sa ti, the power settled deep within his lower abdon.
At that mont, an unfamiliar voice echoed in Jeong-hoon’s mind.
“Tenebris?”
His voice wavered, seemingly surprised.
“There’s a way to find out everything.”
Through Baal, he had learned that this was the place where Tenebris was sealed.
So it was only natural to conclude that the one speaking to him must be Tenebris.
After a brief silence, Tenebris burst into hearty laughter.
“A useful one?”
“…So in the end, you intended to use as a tool for revenge?”
He wasn’t wrong.
If not for the regression, Jeong-hoon wouldn’t have even dared to stand against the Architect.
“I get it. Then take care.”
Jeong-hoon turned away without hesitation.
Now that he had obtained the power, he would prevent the remaining apocalypses and eliminate Escanon to restore peace.
That was Jeong-hoon’s final goal.
Then Tenebris urgently called out to him.
“What now.”
“The seal?”
“I don’t want to.”
Jeong-hoon shrugged and added,
“What I want is to eliminate the Architect and end this ga. I have no intention of helping you get revenge.”
Jeong-hoon’s eyebrow twitched.
“Wouldn’t taking out the Architect also end the ga?”
“Are you saying… we have to eliminate the Nad to end it?”
“So you want to break your seal? Because stopping the apocalypses will be possible if your revenge succeeds?”
“Impossible?”
The fact that he was defeated implied Tenebris was also at the Nad level.
For a Nad to be sealed for such a long ti, it was inevitable that his power would be stripped away.
Even if Jeong-hoon managed to break the seal, it likely wouldn’t be of much help to him—but if he determined there was sothing to gain, he might consider it.
“Then what exactly do I gain by breaking your seal?”
To that, Tenebris responded as if he’d been waiting.
“The power to regress?”
“Of course not.”
He had no confidence that repeated regressions would allow him to surpass his current state.
Besides, since it involved moving into parallel worlds, there was no telling how many more dinsions would be sacrificed.
So everything had to end in this life.
“…Are you saying it can go berserk?”
Tenebris let out a short sound of admiration.
‘What? Berserk?’
‘What does that an?’
Mukho and Anima reacted with confusion.
‘To put it simply—when I die, the power goes berserk and forcibly reverses the tiline.’
‘Reverses the tiline?’
‘So that’s how you were able to regress…’
Jeong-hoon nodded.
Both Jas Marcus and Jeong-hoon—
the condition for regression had always been death.
When death occurred while possessing the power, it would run rampant and forcibly trigger regression.
“But before I regressed, I was able to control that energy.”
Jeong-hoon had successfully controlled it just before his death.
The crimson mana that flowed throughout his entire body.
“…Really?”
“Thinking wrong?”
“…I have.”
The goddess of fate, Psyche.
Through Psyche’s pocket watch, he had once traveled to a future in a parallel world.
There, he t Jas Marcus and learned that he had regressed into a parallel world.
“What?”
“Wait a second. So it’s not actually regression into a parallel world?”
“Manipulated?”
“Then everything I saw—are you saying it was all fake?”
Then was the fact that Jas Marcus was a regressor also a lie?
“Was there soone who repeatedly regressed before ?”
“The na of that regressor—was it Jas Marcus?”
“I was told that in the future I traveled to using the pocket watch.”
Tenebris’s voice sank to a lower tone.
It wasn’t hard to guess why.
It ant the ones above had seen through everything.
Psyche already knew that Tenebris had been forcing regressions through humans in an attempt to resurrect.
It was a path that couldn’t avoid detection from the start.
And yet, the fact that there hadn’t been much interference ant there must be another reason.
“Huh?”
“You erased your presence?”
“Got it. Then how do I break your seal?”
The Nad held the power of creation.
In other words, while the ones beneath them—the Celestial Rank—designed the monsters, it was the Nad who actually created them.
“So basically, I need to hunt monsters?”
“…Got it.”
With that, Tenebris’s voice faded away.
* * *
As soon as he stepped out the door, Baal approached as if he had been waiting.
Baal asked urgently, and Jeong-hoon paused, wondering how to answer.
‘He’s a Transcendent too. Then it’s better to hide it.’
Though Baal had taken his side, he was still a ruler of the 96 Demon Realms.
Jeong-hoon couldn’t trust him completely just yet.
“Yeah.”
“What exactly is Tenebris, anyway?”
“Evil God?”
Baal’s story wasn’t all that interesting.
Put simply, Tenebris had been plotting to annihilate all Transcendents, including the gods themselves, and when the other five gods noticed, they joined forces and successfully sealed him.
‘Honestly, sounds like a good thing.’
If Tenebris had really wiped out all the Transcendents, then the destruction of dinsions—like what happened to Earth—might never have occurred.
“Anyway, there was nothing in there.”
Baal glanced at the symbol engraved on the door.
A mark resembling the sun was embedded in the door.
It was the symbol of Tenebris.
“Either way, I’m heading back.”
An unknown power.
No—now that he had obtained Tenebris’s power, there was no longer any reason to stay.
‘I’ll have to start hunting monsters like crazy until the second destruction begins.’
That’s the only way he could stop the second destruction and return to break Tenebris’s seal.
* * *
Despite having successfully prevented the first destruction, Earth was still in utter chaos.
As the difficulty of dungeons increased, there was no one capable of clearing them, and penalties continued to accumulate.
Penalties didn’t just bring about disasters.
Just like when the phenona first beca real, monsters began pouring out and attacking people.
They even had the ability to detect humans, making it impossible to hide in shelters.
[Lv.840 Grand Master Orc]
[Lv.855 Grand Master Ogre]
Monsters at levels 840 to 855.
Unlike ordinary orcs and ogres, these had physiques not so different from humans and were ard with high-grade weapons and armor.
“Kill all the humans!”
“Kill them!”
From the start, the monsters headed straight for the shelters and massacred the humans. Those who barely escaped ran for their lives.
“Uwaaah!”
“It’s a monster! A monster appeared!”
“Please, save us!”
“Gahk!”
“Kyaaaagh!”
But they didn’t get far before being caught by the monsters.
“Human, I’ll kill you painfully.”
Grinning slyly, the monster began cutting off fingers one by one.
“Gaaaaagh!”
Those who died in the shelters suffered less, but those who fled died slowly, experiencing unspeakable pain.
Fwiish!
Then it happened.
An arrow flew from sowhere and pierced straight through the Grand Master Orc’s head as it was focused on killing a human.
“Guhh!”
The arrow effortlessly penetrated the helt and shattered the orc’s skull.
The orc collapsed lifelessly to the side.
“Who’s there!”
“Who did that!”
As one of their own went down, all the monsters turned their heads in the direction the arrow had co from.
There, a single human was walking toward them slowly.
“I’ll start by killing you first.”
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