Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint chapter 142

“… It’s a perfect plan. For something like that.”

Jiseon, who poured the drink, spoke again.

“You have a sad expression on your face.”

“yes?”

“Why do you feel regret even after you let go? Do you have any regrets?”

a little exposed

Sheesh, Jiseon. Don’t read the mind reader’s expression. Reading thoughts is my specialty.

“Well, a little.”

People pretend to despise humans who have luxuries, but they envy them from the inside out. It is to feel pleasure by projecting oneself on those who are calmly doing things that they cannot do.

The luxury is not limited to money. The more precious it is to me, the higher the value of that luxury.

Especially if it’s as precious as life… Beyond envy, even to be enchanted.

“But it can’t be helped. Unlike them, I die really easily. You have to be more careful.”

“You say your life is a waste of your life, but I can’t quite understand it. Mr Hughes. It’s a small thing.”

After bowing twice to the Daejongsa Temple, Jiseon raised her head and looked at me. In those eyes, which were quietly submerged, intentions and emotions were overflowing.

“Soin was not chosen by Master Daejong, but Hughes forced him to choose. Thanks to that, the small man lost even his cause along with an arm. It’s just that all the hard work you’ve put in has gone in vain.”

Jiseon raised her eyes and said.

“Why would such a villain have to keep Hughes alive?”

A question that came along with a life that was cold enough to the spine. I smiled vaguely.

If you were going to kill me, you already did.

There’s no reason to kill for nothing.

The original goal was the annihilation of the abyss, right?

I am the one who soothed the spirit of the great master.

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Many reasons came to mind, but I picked the ones that the other person would like the most.

“If you keep me alive, someday I will expose Seonghwangcheong.”

“… her.”

As if he had lost his strength for a while, a little blood was oozing out of the cut shoulder. It was such an unexpected proposal.

Jiseon wrapped her one arm around her shoulder, bowed her head and chuckled.

“… Heartily?”

“I cannot guarantee that it will happen. We, who are not prophets, can only see what is in front of us. But one day, if you discover the secrets of Seonghwangcheong. I’m going to use this doom gang to put them in trouble.”

“I’m afraid. If that happens.”

“Is it your little finger if you want? Oh, it’s a bit difficult for someone who doesn’t have a single arm.”

The top of the pit became noisy. The suppressed soldiers gathered their forces and began to move again. Jiseon said while flicking in the direction of the sound.

“I’m not pretending I didn’t see it, I think I should help.”

“I will go out on my own. Tell me, but please don’t.”

Immediately after that, the soldiers who came to their senses rushed to the edge of the abyss at once. I hid myself among the corpses to avoid their gaze.

With the searchlights gone, all they had was a dim light. Throwing the lights inside, they were terribly surprised to see the corpses that had been hidden in the abyss.

“Aww! It’s a corpse!”

“I know. This is the burial place of the King! Their bodies must have been left behind… ! I remember what I learned in school!”

the commander exclaimed.

“Go down the ladder!”

“Me, inside me?”

“okay! Unless there’s a searchlight, we’ll have to go down and check it out ourselves! By the way, who’s the guy you just talked to? Since when did you respond to legitimate orders?”

The soldiers jumped down the ladder. The commander yelled at the stunned soldier and went down the ladder.

“Explore carefully! Don’t be afraid to step on a corpse! If you’re afraid of stepping on it, then I can’t make a corpse any more… ! So I must have been so helpless before!”

‘While he was also helpless… .’

A nearby soldier glanced at the commander and thought. Fortunately, that thought was just a thought.

As they continued to search with the light of the lantern, they eventually reached the top of the corpse mountain. The commander, who recognized the branch, rushed towards it.

“Loyalty! This is Major Keiosin of the Wilderness Exploration Team! See you, Brigadier… ! Ego! Oh my gosh! Brigadier, your arm… !”

As the soldiers arrived, Jiseon, who had been kneeling reverently in front of Daejongsa, staggered and stood up.

“No worries. Minor damage.”

“It can’t be, can’t you… ! First, first aid!”

great. it is now

While everyone’s eyes were on it, I climbed the ladder they had descended.

The one who remained behind asked me with a faint light shining towards me.

“Hey, what’s going on?”

I pretended to be in a hurry and shouted.

“The Brigadier General is seriously injured! medic! Call the medic quickly!”

“Medical? They are taking care of the wounded now.”

“You idiot! The Brigadier General’s right arm is gone! If it goes like this, the Jiseon who built this country will die by blood! Are you going to put such a stigma on us! Hurry up, call all the medics who were taking care of the wounded!”

The officer, suppressed by my momentum, mumbled back and called the medic. Then he shook his head and came back to ask.

“Hey, but who are you? I’m the commander… .”

But I was no longer there. The lieutenant tilted his head.

Empty wagons are all over the place. It is a vehicle characterized by thick wheels for patrolling the wilderness. I walked with a hum, banging the wheels one by one.

The outside of the wheel is sturdy, but the inside is relatively soft. Every time I passed, the car slumped to one side.

I got into the car that I noticed, threw my backpack inside, and started the engine. Druck. There was the sound of wheels and steering wheel meshing together. The vehicle vibrates violently. I whistled and pedaled.

All the other wheels were turned off on the way, so even if you notice something strange, you won’t be able to chase after it. Looking at it, I don’t think I’m even in the mood for that.

“now. I did one thing.”

It’s a good car that rolls without roads, but the bad thing is that it’s for military use. If you ride this on the road, you will have all kinds of doubts. It’s just a pity that I have to go in moderation and throw it away.

Just then, he saw Tantalus rising above the ground in his sight. He enjoyed speed as he circled around Tantalus so that his view was obscured.

“Ego. What to do now… .”

In fact, it was decided what to do.

In this heartless world, you can’t even get your status without money. Whether you go to another country or hide yourself by washing your identity. It’s going to cost you money in the process.

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Money is the oxygen of today’s world.

First, I must go to the back alleys of Amittengrad, the capital of the military, and collect my hidden possessions. Assets need to be turned into cash.

And there’s something to find out.

great. The decision was made. Now that we’ve decided on our destination, let’s just enjoy the scenery.

A structure large enough to be compared to the landmarks filled my left field of vision. The one-story concrete floor and the horribly broken prison building on it are eerie.

I looked up at the nearby building and fell in love with it.

All sorts of things happened in that building. Eat, sleep, play with Aji, sometimes fight, and then fall asleep again.

Well, it was no big deal when I thought about it.

But maybe that set of nothing special is going to live soon. Is it necessary to give such special meaning to life? Isn’t that the only true life when you are happy with that alone?

The broken prison now seems to grab my heart instead of my body. I won’t go back in, but it will hold a single memory in my mind forever.

Hello, Tantalus. A place of my special experience… .

bang.

Then I bumped into something. The car, which rattled up and down, stopped the engine. Putting my head in the steering wheel, I opened the driver’s door and quickly shouted.

“Oh, sir! Drive straight!”

I called out reflexively, but there was no answer. No, in the first place, there were not many other objects that could be bumped into.

What the hell did you bump into? Did you step on anything strange?

Back in the car, I found a strange thing.

“What is this sign?”

The sign protruding from the ground was bent helplessly from the middle.

where did you see this There is a sense of dread, but it just doesn’t come to mind. I groaned for a while, then recalled the memory and snapped my fingers.

Oh right. The officer who escorted me. Did they stop when they saw this sign? This is a sign that marked the end of the road.

I could definitely hear the signalman’s voice from here, and the guards threw me down at the command.

“Hmm. Come to think of it, it was Inspector Evian of Edelphite. I forgot.”

You dare swing a steel bar at me? When I think of that time, my bones ache. The grudge I had suppressed creeped out.

great. I have a place to go before returning to Amittengrad. Let’s stop by Edelphite and get an inspector.

It was time for me to get back in the car. Near the sign, the ground cracked in a grid pattern. It was strangely artificial to say that the ground cracked when Tantalus overturned.

Perhaps?

I approached it, grabbed the lattice cracks and tore it apart. The ground lifted easily like a layer of skin.

After all, it was fake land. Was it revealed by the shock of the fall of Tantalus?

In the place where it was peeled off, there was a square metal structure that was uglyly dented.

It was a design closer to a box than a building. It was as if the box hid in the ground had escaped from the impact when the tilted Tantalus collided with the ground.

“what? Did you hide any treasure?”

It looks like a big room just by looking at the size, but no one can live in such a place. Who lives in a metal box buried in the ground? It must have been hiding something inside.

Hunting and gathering instincts have been activated for a long time. I pulled out the skewer and climbed onto the box. A hollow, hollow metal sound was heard.

“It’s always fun to check the gift boxes.”

what do you want to have I whistled, poked the skewer through the dent and started working.

However, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t open the box. No matter how much the lock was pushed, there was no response, and the skewer was inserted through the dent, but nothing caught. I clicked my tongue and threw the stick.

“Chi. What do you do when you read people’s minds? I can’t read the mind of the lock.”

Come to think of it, I’ve never opened a lock with bare ground. Stealing keys or figuring out passwords.

Sheesh. It’s a pity that it goes like this… . how will we do it.

Steel crushed by a huge impact. The inside is visible through the twisted seams.

Hmm. If I had a little more strength, or if I was heavier, I think I could have opened this.

“Shall we try it once?”

I put my hands on the steel box.

It is a land art of the Church of Jimo that can only be used when the original image touches the god Jimo. Therefore, only Zimosindo could use it.

But now that Daejongsa’s secret has been revealed to the world, maybe I can use it too. Like ritual magic or basic qigong.

I concentrated my mind and thought of Jiseon and Daejongsa.

For them, the land flows. Starting with the life that lives in it, it is a being that moves into a comic book by the great flow of nature. Earth art is a technology that brings about changes in the land that should have been done for decades or thousands of years.

It’s steel, but it’s from the earth. I grasped the faint sensation and cast the earth magic towards the steel door.

“Ugh!”

waggle window.

The doorknob sank. My body fell to the ground according to the law of gravity. I was beaten and rolled over the hard floor.

“Ouch.”

I woke up with a grunt, and what I saw was a space full of a sense of life.

No, should I regard this as having a sense of life or not?

“It was a real room.”

It was clear that someone was living inside this box. The furniture inside the narrow box was all covered in hand stains.

But what kind of person can live in such a confined space? In that sense, this overflowing sense of life gave the impression of a play of absurdity.

“Set, Lux.”

Anyway, I didn’t know if there was something I could pick up here. I proceeded by illuminating the dark interior with ritual magic.

“what.”

As I continued to search, something caught my eye.