Chapter 157: Incomplete Revival (1)
I had one last escape route left.
It was to stay here without seeing the ending.
I would no longer get involved with Draken or the Four Heavenly Kings, and I would avoid the main heroines and live here for the rest of my life.
Anyway, Draken’s descent and destruction would happen 1,000 years later.
I thought it was something that would not happen in my lifetime.
“10 years later…!”
However, that escape route had just been blocked.
I had even thought about running away with Cornelia and living in a secluded countryside.
That option no longer existed.
10 years later.
Draken would not come here.
‘This world’ would move to Draken.
Drawn by an absurd force, the entire world would cross dimensions and arrive in the Otherworld.
When that happened, there would be nothing I could do.
If Draken descended here, I could resist to some extent, but there was no way I could defeat him in the Otherworld, his home ground.
In terms of the game, it would be like starting a fight in a room where the boss mob had invincibility.
“There is no answer.”
If I escaped, this world would be destroyed.
I had been reassured by the unrealistic number of 1,000 years, thinking it was a distant event.
But now that the destruction was approaching within the tangible distance of 10 years, I finally felt the weight of responsibility.
I had created this world.
And by intervening, I had brought forward its destruction.
I had brought about the end of all the creatures that lived, breathed, moved, laughed, and talked.
Thinking about it made me short of breath and dizzy.
This was no longer just a game world.
There was no more regression to go back to.
I asked myself.
Have I lived this last life with value and without regret?
Yes.
I could say so without an inch of hesitation.
The only regret I had was that I could not convey my feelings to the main heroines because of the system’s wall.
I could not approach those who had forgiven me even though they remembered the regression.
That was all.
‘Maybe I’m trying to kill Draken because…’
I had thought that I was攻略ing Draken because I wanted to go back.
But when did it start?
I had stopped thinking about what I would do if I went back.
From some point on, it was stubbornness.
I had come this far through regression, and I had become stubborn with the thought that everything would be for nothing if I could not complete the攻略.
I did not want to make all my hard work up to this point meaningless, so I clung to an intangible goal.
But now I had a goal.
I had a reason to stay here and defeat Draken.
I would correct my mistake.
I would take responsibility for everything I had hurt through my regression.
I would not run away.
I would stay here with dignity.
‘I can see ahead.’
Only then did my vision, which had been dark, clear up.
My body, which had felt like it was freezing in the cold, began to move.
I began to feel something warm in my chest.
I had overcome it.
Yerina’s grudge-filled cold air had not stopped me.
Crash!
I crushed the dungeon core with my hand.
Then the inside of the dungeon became dark and the cold air disappeared.”This is not a crisis. This is an opportunity.”
Although a 10-year time limit has been imposed, it’s not really a big deal.
I was planning to have a showdown within 2 years anyway.
It just adds a bit of psychological pressure, but it won’t disrupt my plan.
On the contrary, the benefits of retrieving Draken’s authority are greater.
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Although ordinary monsters don’t rely much on authority, so their power reduction is small.
But what about the Four Heavenly Kings?
It’s obvious that both Belphegor and Luna must have suffered a great blow.
If I’m going to strike, now is the time.
I have to strike now without giving them time.
It’s obvious that they must have been very flustered.
But they must be trying hard to hide it and putting on a brave front.
They would never have expected me to notice that their authority had been revoked.
Moreover, the Four Heavenly Kings all have a way to communicate with Draken.
They have the ability to cross over to the other world through dimensions.
If such a trait is taken away, it might create another way to attack Draken.
If I’m going to strike the Four Heavenly Kings, it must be now.
Or it must be done in the near future.
The problem is that I don’t know where the Four Heavenly Kings are, let alone how to find them.
“That won’t be a problem.”
Now I have someone to ask.
Fumbling, I opened my bag and revealed a black stone.
Kali’s Soul Stone.
In other words, Kali’s soul.
[Accumulation: 59,800/62,500]
Before I knew it, the maximum accumulation was just around the corner.
Now that it has been revealed that this is a soul.
It’s clear what will happen if the accumulation is filled.
“Hmm?”
As I looked at Nameless with the Soul Stone, the little spider tilted its head.
I’ll have to borrow your body for a while.
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“Ugh!”
Flash!
The girl’s eyes opened, and she gasped and raised her body.
Kali.
It was the moment when the druid Kali was resurrected.
“?”
Kali immediately checked her body and felt a sense of wonder.
It was a human body.
The body of a young child with long blonde hair.
It seemed to resemble her younger self.
But judging from the ridiculously small amount of magic power she felt in her body, it didn’t seem to be the case.
“What the hell is this?”
As she tried to recall her memories, her head throbbed and a headache came.
She couldn’t remember.
She couldn’t remember anything.
It was as if someone had put a seal on her memory.
“Are you awake?”
“?”
Thud.
At that moment, Kali felt someone’s presence and hurriedly pulled the covers over her.
She looked for something that could be used as a weapon, but there was nothing.
Kali could only wait helplessly on the edge of the bed for the presence to approach.
Finally, the door opened.
A strange man appeared.
“Those eyes. It’s Kali. It seems the soul transplant was a success.”
“Child… Do you know me?”
“Don’t you remember me?”
“.”
Kali shook her head.
At this, Eugene sighed in disbelief.
For the time being, a simple spell had been cast on Nameless’s head to prevent access to the memories that Nameless had seen and heard so far.So all Kali could remember were the memories engraved on the magic stone.
However, for some reason, Kali’s memories were not complete.
‘Did some get lost during the processing of the magic stone?’
Kali’s soul stone was the result of unnecessary parts being cut away and transformed into the most efficient form by passing through Tay’s hands.
Thanks to that, there was no great difficulty in transplanting it into a nameless body.
However, it seemed that some of those ‘unnecessary parts’ had been memories.
Of course, that was natural.
Originally, pure souls did not contain ‘memories’.
“I am······.”
How should I explain it?
The moment Eugene hesitated, pursing his lips.
“My colleague! You’ve become my new colleague. Since I’ve become this body, it means I died and was resurrected. You resurrected me······. Right?”
“Yes. As you said. I am the Necromancer Mijeong, one of the Four Heavenly Kings.”
“······.”
Eugene immediately revised his plan after getting a hint from Kali’s answer.
Originally, he had planned to threaten the weakened Kali to get information.
However, now that she had mistaken him for a colleague, there was no need to do that.
Mijeong looked at Eugene with a ridiculous expression at his habitual impersonation, but Eugene continued the conversation without paying any attention to it.
“My body?”
“Your current body was created by collecting and piecing together the remaining parts of your lost body.”
“I see······. Even so, you must be a skilled necromancer. You were able to resurrect me with only parts of my body.”
“······.”
Necromancy?
Eugene didn’t know anything about that.
In the first place, the nameless body itself was a resurrected body created by Luna’s resurrection.
Eugene had only done the simple task of putting Kali’s soul into that resurrected body.
However, Kali had no way of knowing that.
Eugene decided to continue acting as a competent necromancer and a colleague of the Four Heavenly Kings.
Anyway, there was no way that the nameless body with its dull senses could figure out the truth of this lie.
“Drink. It’s hot chocolate. Since you’ve fallen to the level of an ordinary human, you’ll need a lot of calories.”
“Yeah······.”
Eugene handed over the hot chocolate he had brought for himself.
Kali carefully took it, pulled the blanket up to her chin, and sipped the hot chocolate.
Eugene cheered inwardly at the sight.
The difficulty level had become much easier.
It seemed that if he continued to pretend to be a colleague, he would be able to extract more information.
Sola was only a candidate for the Four Heavenly Kings, so the results of the interrogation were not very satisfactory.
But this time, it was a chance to find out deadly secrets such as the weaknesses of the Four Heavenly Kings or Draken.
“Do you really not remember anything? Tell me anything you can remember.”
“My name is······ and I was a Druid. And I serve ‘him’, and my colleagues were Belpegor and Luna······. Ah! You took the place of the other one.”
“That’s right.”
“Other than that, I don’t really······. I remember that we were trying to do something with the World Tree, but, ugh······.”
It didn’t seem like she was lying.
She had really lost her memory and didn’t know who I was.
Eugene made that judgment and took Kali’s hand as she held her head in distress.
“It’s okay. Now that you’ve been resurrected, you’ll gradually regain your strength. I’ll help you with that.””How······?”
“Your body is currently scattered into pieces and being researched all over the world. From now on, I will retrieve them and put them back together. Of course, I can find the location of your body parts with my ‘eyes’, so don’t worry.”
“Oh······!”
“Don’t even think about contacting the other Four Heavenly Kings. There are people impersonating Belphegor and Luna right now. You can’t tell their true identities with your ordinary human senses, so you shouldn’t even think about contacting the Four Heavenly Kings alone. If you trust me and follow me, I will let you meet the Four Heavenly Kings.”
Eugene quickly made up a plausible lie.
He told her not to even think about meeting Belphegor because things would get complicated if she did.
He made it so that she had no choice but to rely on Eugene.
He didn’t have to think about the aftermath because he planned to turn her back into a magic stone as soon as he got a little bit of information.
However, there was one thing that Eugene didn’t take into account.
“Human child······.”
“Call me Mijeong.”
“Mijeong······. I have a question, can I ask you something?”
“Anything.”
“By any chance······. Were we lovers in the past······?”
Kali’s misunderstanding was getting out of hand.