216 – Side Story – Ariel Everleigh
‘…Damn.’
In the deep darkness where you can’t even see the path ahead.
‘I barely managed to escape, but…’
The very small eyeballs that had been floating around blankly for a while soon began to blink their eyelids and become lost in thought.
‘I lost almost all my strength…’
Lumia managed to escape at the last moment of the collapsing prison, but the problem was just beginning.
‘How did you gather this power?…’
This was because the strength that had already been weakened due to living in a shabby human body was almost extinguished by being housed in an eyeball, the smallest of the body parts.
Thanks to this, I was able to escape by tearing the dimension before it disappeared, but that was all.
She has lost the power to move her space wherever she wants, and it is now unknown how long she will have to wander the dimension.
“……..”
Suddenly, endless dark spaces appear in her gaze.
The good news is that Lumia’s original body part was the ‘eye’, so she was able to observe the countless dimensions spread beyond her endless space.
‘It’s fortunate that I still have the sense of sight…’
But the problem is that all senses except sight cannot be felt.
Originally, she is a being that feeds on emotions that arise from beyond the dimension.
For that, we need a ‘brain’ that can accept emotions into our heads and think, a ‘heart’ that can feel them with our hearts, and a ‘body’ that can accumulate the power created in that way.
All of these things were needed to return to the original high-dimensional life form.
But now, she is left alone as an eyeball in an unknown space.
In order for her to regain her original appearance, she needed twice as much time as she originally did.
It was natural because she had no space to analyze and store the emotions she saw and felt.
Even, no matter how many eons she has gone through so far, it may not be enough.
‘How on earth… Did something happen like this…’
Lumia muttered as she stared into space with her empty eyes at such facts.
No, the light in the eyes suddenly darkens.
‘Yes… Sky.’
– Gooooo…
‘It’s because of the sky…’
Eventually, her hatred for the being who dared to make her like this begins to overtake her eyes.
‘Be prepared…’
A truly terrifying feeling of hatred that will never be forgotten no matter how many eons of time have passed.
‘Wherever you are… I will definitely find you…’
That feeling of hatred caused the eyes, which started wandering aimlessly in the air, to become engulfed in blind resentment.
‘…I will destroy your sky.’
Even as time passed and the pupil vaguely forgot the events that had happened to him and even his old name, destroying the ‘sky’ remained its only purpose.
Foreign press.
Although he was reduced to an insignificant being, he spent countless years devouring countless dimensions with hatred.
Until he was reborn as a vicious, one-eyed god of the outer dimension.
– Foreign media! Lend me your strength!
‘……Hmm?’
Then, for the first time in a long time, the foreign media discovered an interesting dimension, after an incalculable amount of time had passed since it got its name.
– This demon, ■■■■, earnestly requests…!
‘That’s fun…’
A gigantic dimension that has never been discovered before, guarded by the beings that make up the sky that one hates so much.
If I could obtain that dimension, it might be possible.
The neutral zone, ‘Blue Star’, is the only space where he cannot descend, having succeeded in recovering his strength beyond his past.
Even though so many years have passed, the ‘sky’, whose presence can still be felt somewhere, is dyed in darkness.
After making that judgment, the eyes smiled for the first time in a long time and responded to the summons.
‘…A black world will arrive.’
And the world became dark.
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“…Sigh!”
A girl was tossing and turning in bed, sweating. No, now a woman who has completely lost her girlish appearance suddenly opens her eyes and raises her body from her seat.
“Ha, ha…”
Before long, she was holding her floating red hair in her hands, sweating coldly and breathing heavily. Her name was none other than Ariel Everray.
She has been the number one ranked hero for the past 10 years since graduating from the Academy, but due to a recent injury she has decided to retire.
And today, I was about to go to work as a professor at my new job, the Academy.
“It’s that strange dream again…”
But she also had one problem, and that was that she had been having strange dreams over and over again for the past few days.
“It’s too vivid to be just a nightmare…”
That unforgettable incident that happened 10 years ago.
It was truly a terrible nightmare, with the minnows that managed to escape from that incident bringing fear again from somewhere.
“…..Ha.”
I wanted to tell someone about this right away and get their opinion, but I couldn’t.
If you weren’t the ones involved in the incident, you would probably just dismiss it as a crazy dream caused by the stress of the past.
But I know she was deeply involved in that incident.
That she could not dismiss her dreams as her daily chores.
‘I wish we could meet and talk at a time like this…’
However, at that time, the people involved in the incident and Ariel were not in a relationship where they could meet whenever they wanted.
Especially since a few months ago, when ‘he’, who had been hiding in the shadows for a while, left everything to himself and completely disappeared with the Dominating Hands, although it may have been a few years ago.
It has become unclear how we can meet again.
“Ha…”
Ariel, who was sighing deeply alone at that fact, soon quietly got down from her bed and stretched out.
‘Still, it’s my first day at work, I can’t be this discouraged.’
It’s her first day of work as a professor, something she’s been looking forward to, but she can’t be this discouraged.
Isn’t this disrespectful to the person who trusted in him and left?
“Whoa…”
With that thought in mind, Ariel finished her stretching and soon quietly stood in front of the mirror next to her.
“……..”
Then she quietly looked into the mirror for a moment.
“…Hmm.”
Then her face darkened slightly, unlike her previous promise.
“Can I really take charge of this world?”
She met him again in an alley 10 years ago, until they briefly reunited a few months ago.
As the new No. 1 Ranked hero, Ariel Everleigh clearly did her best to protect the world.
Although their numbers began to decrease, the still threatening demonic beasts were unable to overcome her defense line, and the monsters whose numbers were gradually decreasing were recently on the verge of extinction.
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Moreover, due to the joint operation between her and her Dominating Hands that took place behind her back, the villains have recently been living in poverty more than ever before.
It is truly a peaceful era that will never be seen again.
Although Ariel did not admit it herself, she was already evaluated as having surpassed the achievements of her predecessor, Justinia, who was number one in the rankings.
The popularity of ‘Justia’, a hero name named after Justia’s real name, was also on the verge of skyrocketing even after she announced her retirement.
“Why are you… Why…?”
But still, there was one thing Ariel did not understand.
“Could he have passed this on to me?…”
That’s right, her river Sky, which she encountered in her alley 10 years ago, has completely ceded to her.
“…Why?”
It moved from Justia to Kang Ha-neul, and now from Kang Ha-neul to her.
[Hero’s Path]
[Disabling system…]
It was an unidentified system.
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“If I’m going to give it to you, I’ll give it to you if it works properly…”
A few minutes later. Ariel’s first day of work as a professor, something she had longed for.
“…I don’t know what they gave me to do with this guy who has been inactive no matter what I do for 10 years!”
But no matter how much she tried to increase her tension, her condition was not very good due to the nightmare of the past few days and the pressure of her first day at work.
“And yet, after 10 years, he suddenly came to me and said… What? Are you asking me to take care of the world?”
Of course, deep down, I was disappointed with ‘him’.
“How nice it is to talk together after a long time!”
Because of this, Ariel ignored the gazes of the people around her and hurried her steps, shouting for no reason.
“I’ll tell you where I’m going… Huh?”
Then, she suddenly stops walking with a puzzled expression on her face.
“Uh…?”
This was because, from afar, I began to feel an ominous feeling for some reason.
‘That can’t be possible…?’
The road was filled with the chill felt just before the appearance of demonic beasts with a minimum hazard level of level 1 or higher.
But now she is standing in the middle of an artificial island.
It was impossible for a level 1 or higher demon to suddenly appear in this city center, which had the world’s highest level of defense.
‘…Maybe I was mistaken because I wasn’t feeling well?’
So, that was the moment when she tilted her head with a slightly puzzled expression.
– Kugwagwagwagwang…!
Suddenly, a loud noise echoed through the streets.