“Buy some fruit, fruit!”
“Aww. Mom… … .”
“Ugh. Didn’t I tell you not to run? Does it hurt a lot? Let’s see.”
When I open my eyes, it is an unfamiliar ceiling, no, an unfamiliar village. I thought I would never be able to open the subspace once I opened it, so I grabbed the codex I had taken out beforehand and looked around.
Everywhere you look, it’s an ordinary town. There was the smell of bread baking somewhere, and children were running and laughing in the alley.
I looked around for a moment at a landscape that was distinctly different from the previous nightmares, and then slowly started walking down the street.
‘Kane or Zero.’
It’s one of two nightmares. What a peaceful atmosphere. why?
Everywhere you look, there are only ordinary people. After looking around for quite some time, I couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary.
However, a strange feeling of incongruity passed through the body.
Feeling a bit tired from wandering around, I bought a chicken skewer and two baked potatoes and tilted my head as I put them in my mouth.
‘There’s nothing strange about it, but something is strange.’
Tickling as if thinking of something. The sun is slowly setting. A drunken man staggers past.
‘hmm?’
After following the man with my eyes, I slowly turned around and walked down the alley.
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From the alley close to the bar to the darker slums.
But the slums are empty, and even if there are drunk people, you can’t hear the loud noise.
Usually when it’s late, someone drinks and argues and fights. In line with that, patrols circulate or vigilantes patrol.
But there are no vigilantes, no patrols, no municipal janitors in the dark alleys, and no poor people?
The people on the street seemed happy and without great sadness or pain.
Feeling goosebumps, I looked around and saw a faint smoke billowing with the sound of war horns in the distance.
‘too far.’
I wanted to check right away, but the distance is too far.
I went back to the main street and started looking for horses in the shops.
A village of this size would have a wagon, but I couldn’t find a wagon even after washing my eyes.
In a sense of urgency, as soon as I saw a man leading a small horse used for farming or as a pack horse, I approached and talked to him.
“Sell me that horse.”
I took out a piece of gold from the coin pocket on my waist and handed it over. The man opened his eyes wide and looked at me, then made a strange expression.
“Where are you going to use your words?”
“You don’t need to know that.”
It’s a nightmare anyway, so it’s probably not even a real person. I don’t even want to talk about it, so I put a gold coin in the man’s hand and snatched the bridle, but suddenly the man grabbed my wrist and grinned.
“… Are you human?”
“human?”
“Human?”
All the other people who passed by the man’s words bent their heads and looked at me.
everyone around. From an old man with a bent back to a child who is still snoring, they all stare at me and come this way.
At that moment, something passed through my mind.
‘User’s eyes.’
[Jacks_Doppelganger cloned by Jax], [Tom_Doppelganger cloned by Tom], [Brown_Doppelganger cloned by Brown]… … .
Everyone in this street, no, in this town, was a doppelganger.
I tried to shake off the man’s hand, but the grip was so strong that it hurt, so I had no choice but to open the codex.
“I caught it first, so I eat it! Ahh!”
After pushing it away with a magic missile, I shook my shaking hand once and quickly climbed onto the horse and grabbed the reins.
“Hey!”
“at there!”
“If anything, I like having a good-looking face like that. I will eat!”
“Let’s share. huh?”
Regardless of gender and age, they chase after me as if they were playing tag.
Since it was a normal pack horse, not a war horse, it had good endurance but was not fast, so I hurriedly got out of the village while casting magic on them.
“sh*t.”
Countless doppelganger traits that were visible as soon as the user opened his/her eyes.
The pressure it gave off spread a chill of fear.
I shook my head once and urged my horse to the place where I heard the sound of the horn and smoke rose.
* * *
The body is heavy.
No, it doesn’t exactly move according to my will.
He was conscious but unable to do anything, as if he were imprisoned.
nothing.
“monster… water.”
At the man’s words, someone slapped the man on the cheek.
The small gold crown on his head fell to the floor with a sharp sound at the recoil and rolled.
“Even though you may not know that it is an honor to have brought you before our monarch out of courtesy because you are a member of the royal family and not an ordinary person.”
The man who was bleeding from his mouth at someone’s harsh words looks up while gritting his teeth.
The monster reflected in its eyes had long gray hair and green jewel eyes.
“I hate you, doppelganger lord! No matter how much you swallow me, I will not break my will. I am! reject you! I swear by my soul I will be forever as myself!”
The doppelganger’s lord lazily opened his mouth at the man’s scream.
“Everyone says that. Until you become my child.”
Zero.
No, the doppelganger lord put his hand on the head of the frightened human man.
Then, in an instant, the human melted and was absorbed into the shadow beneath the doppelganger lord’s feet, and was reborn from the shadow that stretched behind him on the road.
The reborn man knelt to the doppelganger’s lord and kissed his collar.
A sense of kinship and belonging that has never been experienced before. The awe shown to the person who gave the joy of being connected to everyone.
walking step.
Every time you walk on death, a new life is born.
“Ahh… … ! Hold on! No more wires being pushed!”
“You monster! Give me back my friend!”
“I do not remember? When we were young, we lost a lamb while tending sheep and wandered around all night looking for it. I have all the memories of the conversation I had with you back then. What is different?”
“Hey, Jake. Do you remember how we shivered in the trenches until yesterday? now i’m not afraid Rather, it’s lighthearted. I just regret why I didn’t come here sooner.”
“Do not lie! you. You are not my ally!”
A colleague who just died comes back to life and laughs. It had the same face and memories, but it was a monster.
A monster that eats humans.
A battlefield where magic flies around each other, protects the comrades who have just died, and stabs the comrades who have been protecting until the end, saying that you should be together.
The dead are reborn after being swallowed by the doppelganger’s lord.
Seeing that figure, Zero, who was only conscious while trapped in the body of the Doppelganger Lord, seemed to suffocate in agony.
Swallowed hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of someone’s life.
From the moment you were born to the moment you grew up and died.
Life repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats.
Those memories are entangled and become a fragmented personality rather than a single personality, dominating the body.
The larger the lump, the more clearly it is divided, but the finer it is, the smaller it is than a grain of sand, the more it will eventually appear as one from a distance.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of memories are tangled together and dominate consciousness as if they were one. And at the center, only the existence of the doppelganger was firmly embedded.
It swallows all living things on the continent and becomes one. A colony where each person has one memory and lives as that being, but in the end, the doppelganger lord rules.
One yet all, living beings all yet one.
Under the sole name of the monarch, everyone will become equal and happy. Write free will and read within the limits permitted by the monarch.
Each person lives with one ego, but everything is controlled by the monarch, so there is no strife or sorrow.
loneliness and pain. The idea that no one understands me exists because there is a wall between myself and others.
Not understanding, envying, envying, hating, and hating are also tragedies that occur because I and others do not sympathize with each other and are not connected.
But when everyone is swallowed up by the monarch and reborn, I am you and you are us.
You don’t have to fight because you don’t understand, you don’t have anything to pity for being worse than me, and you don’t have to be envious for being better than me.
After faithfully living the given memories and life, only the core of the doppelganger remains and leads to a new life.
What if this life is a little hard? In the end, this life is also me, that life is also me.
Now, the lord of humans, subhumans, and doppelgangers is the natural enemy of all existing things.
Both the monster and the mighty dragon.
After everything is swallowed, this continent is like a well-run theater, without extreme pain or suffering.
Everyone will play a role and be happy.
‘no. no. This is wrong.’
Zero screamed silently at the flood of memories.
swallow and swallow again Blood and death are scattered with every step you take, and new things are born from the shadows that stretch behind you like a mantle.
“monster… … .”
At the end of those words, someone is reborn, kneels down, and submits.
No matter how much you hate, loathe, and have instinctive fear, if you eventually swallow it and make it reborn, all of them remain only in awe.
Truly a monster.
‘Please stop… … .’
To avoid this, he did not swallow Kane’s blood.
One of the many memories of swallowing and swallowing Gamur’s blood. The past or future, which will someday be, or will be.
Someone please stop it before it devours the entire continent.
Zero prayed.
* * *
“This… what.”
As I hurriedly hurried up the hill, it seemed that the end had come.
A battlefield without a body.
Even if it dies, it comes back to life and moves, or its body melts and turns into a nucleus and then disappears somewhere.
A contradiction in which blood flows like a river but no corpse.
great war. Humans and demi-humans mix and fight, but one brandishes a weapon with a determination to die in fear, and the other side is stained with compassion and kills the opponent with a pitiful face, as if to save them.
When someone died, they threw their corpse into the shadows with great joy, and the corpse was soon reborn and joined the battlefield.
The one who walks leisurely at the very back of that gigantic war, swallowing the death thrown in front of it and spitting it out anew.
A man standing tall in the midst of all these tragedies.
Drifting gray hair and green jewels.
Not a face that always smiled mildly, but an empty face full of emptiness.
Lord of all doppelgangers. The one who devours everything.
‘It’s not zero.’
Zero but not zero. Not the doppelganger lord we named him.
Is this what it looked like when it wasn’t trapped in the labyrinth? Originally there were five main streams close to the end.
The war with the beasts, the plague, the monster wave, the civil war for the usurpation of the imperial throne, and the undead’s aggression.
However, perhaps that is closer to the destruction of the continent than all of them.
lord of all living things.
I stood at the very back and looked at Zero, who swallowed the dead and reborn like a machine with empty eyes, then ran.
“Zero!”
look at me!
because I am your master
Dozens of people turn to my voice.
The pack horse galloped and ran vigorously. Hundreds and thousands of eyes measuring me.
Eventually, they all joined the battlefield, perhaps because they felt that I was not a threat without being proud of anything, or that it was better to kill even one more.
And Zero, who stood at the very back.
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No, only the monarch of the doppelganger stared at me and opened his mouth.
“Did you call me?”
“okay.”
“Did you come to kiss my clothes?”
I laughed out loud at that.
Ah, I’m glad I didn’t use Agong’an yet.
I opened the subspace with an arrogant face.
“Let’s stop now and go back. It’s an order.”
“No one is giving me orders. You too will be subject to me.”
Yes, there is no coercion in order to just do it.
The doppelganger lord approaches and tries to slowly place the palm of his hand on my face.
And I laughed deeply as I took out the contract of God from the subspace.
“Eul cannot do anything threatening to A, you idiot. Let’s go back, Zero. It’s an order.”
Those nonchalant eyes that looked at me giving orders while holding the contract gradually softened and bent like a gentle big dog.
“yes. Adelian.”
Zero laughed slowly.