236 – The Brightest Darkness – 1
The mouth is wide open, preparing to exhale a jet-black breath downward. It was something I had seen somewhere before.
As soon as I realized that fact, my head reflexively rotated. In the game, once the breath pattern came out, you had to run and get out of the attack range.
‘…… It won’t be the same.’
However, it was obvious that the same method would not work here. At that time, even though the size of the World Eater was huge, it was huge within common sense.
Now the scale itself is different. The size of one pupil was about the same as the sun in the sky, but it didn’t look like I could escape if I ran like this.
Even while I was thinking about it, the black energy gradually got stronger as its mouth opened wider and wider. Then, a jet-black breath was fired.
The breath, which could be called darkness itself, approached quickly, crushing and melting the ground from the front. Flowers, grass, and trees melted in real time.
The left and right range was tens of meters no matter how low you set it. There was no room to escape, so I had to mobilize another method.
‘I never thought I’d be tested this quickly.’
I took a deep breath and held my posture, just like when I practiced the verb. If this method doesn’t work, I’ll be just like nature melting down there.
I braced my stomach and shouted loudly.
“Scatter!!!!!!”
One of the five dragons I learned from Parnari was ‘scatter’. In the game, if it was just about blocking the guy’s breath, here, it’s a completely different skill.
When the dragon collided with the black breath, the jet-black energy literally ‘scattered’. Every existence that constitutes the concept of Breath has collapsed.
The power of destruction that lost its pivot could not last long. The landscape, which had been dyed black and melted, stopped expanding.
‘It’s done.’
It worked. I internally let out a sigh of relief.
The moment a concept is put into a verb, the difference in power becomes meaningless. As long as I gave the order to ‘scatter’, the beings that make up the world only follow the order unless it is the same verb.
I stood still and looked up at the red eyes in the sky. The vertical pupil constricted for a moment, perhaps surprised by my action, and then began to reduce my size.
The red sphere, which was at a level comparable to the sun, shrank to the line of common sense, and soon the figure below the neck took shape. It was a familiar size and a familiar look.
ㅡI thought it was the last push…… Wasn’t it…….
Thoughts raged. Unlike back then, when it was hard to even barely hold on to keep my head from exploding, I didn’t feel any pressure now.
It’s either because I’ve regained some of my strength or because I’ve learned the dragon.
The goddess plowed the floor and glanced at the spot she had been pushed out of. No matter how far she had been pushed, there was still no sign of coming back.
ㅡ Familiar energy…… I get it now…… The man who saved the world…… It sealed the memories…… Unraveling…….
“If you have familiar energy, you will know who I am. Say it. Who am I?”
This was also a question for me. She seemed to know the answer while the goddess who should have given her an answer had disappeared somewhere.
ㅡThe first immortal…… The one who inherited the mission…… The one who suppressed the curse…….
“… ….”
ㅡAll…… It’s the road you’ve been through…….
As soon as I heard her words that came out of the world eater’s mouth, I got goosebumps. It was because all three of them, in turn, were words referring to the protagonists of the Brightest Darkness series.
The main character of Brunet 1, the first undead to appear in the world.
The main character of Brunet 2 who woke up after a very long time in the world of Brunet 1.
The main character of Brunet 3 who suppressed the immortal centipede with his own will and maintained his reason.
That’s why, in turn, they are the first undead, the one who inherited the mission, and the one who suppressed the curse. Since he is referring to those 3 people as my past, it means that I personally experienced them.
Puzzles that were simply guesses were being put together one by one.
‘It must be like this now because I lost my memory.’
ㅡBut…… Pointless…….
“Is it pointless? What?”
ㅡIt’s already too late.
And then, as his eyes glowed red, something attacked. My body reacted instinctively, but it was too late to do anything.
“Return-“
Before I could even use the dragon, a tremendous shock struck me. I fell back to the ground and was pushed backwards for a long time, grinding all the ground nearby.
Piles of plowed dirt spilled over him, soiling his uniform. When my head recognized the situation, a tingling pain rushed through my body. My back was especially sore.
“Keugh…… ?!”
I sighed. Until now, I had rarely felt such intense pain, so it hurt like crazy. It was a feeling I hadn’t felt in a long time.
I flew backwards for a long time like that, and only after smashing two more large trees, I managed to stop by half-breaking the third tree.
A lot of leaves fell over my head.
“…… Coke.”
A dry cough leaked from his mouth. Judging by the fact that he vomited blood and didn’t, it didn’t seem like he was going to die.
I checked the whole body. The jet-black uniform was a mess of grass, soil, and leaves, and there was no place where the body was not sick. It was fortunate that the bones and flesh looked intact.
‘Just…… What was it I was attacked by something.’
It is true that the World Eater made me like this. However, the pupils only shone for a moment, but other than that, I couldn’t see any movement.
It was fortunate that I was able to recite at least half of the dragon. If he hadn’t been able to react to the attack just now and had been beaten intact, he would have been shattered.
Staggering, I put my hands on the floor and stood up. The World Eater was still standing in the distance. It looked damn good because of its size.
When the pain somehow subsided, rational thinking became possible. The one that pushed the goddess back. It was clear that I was also hit by that attack.
‘…… Am I still alive?’
As I stepped on the floor and stood up, a thrilling current flowed through me as if I had been hit in the elbow. It looked like he wasn’t dead.
“Are you okay? You?”
As I was trying to straighten myself up, I heard a woman’s urgent voice from above. Someone landed right next to it. The impact of the landing caused her head-sized chest to throb.
A woman with jet-black hair, golden and silver odd eyes, who must be the goddess of this world.
I was moving very urgently, but the cloth covering the nipple and genital area showed no signs of coming off. It was as if it had been glued together.
Looking at it swaying gently in the wind, it doesn’t seem to be fixed.
“As you can see, it’s just fine.”
“I’m sorry. I tried to put a protective barrier on her, but it was too late…… I wondered what would happen if he died.”
The goddess let out a sigh of relief as her tears welled up.
“You seem to know who I am, so I won’t explain myself. Are you the god of the Holy Land?”
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“For now. Now that he has taken away almost everything he has, it’s embarrassing to even call him a god.”
The embarrassing thing is the way you dress. I barely swallowed the words I was trying to swallow.
“Then let me ask you one more question. Is it the sun or the moon?”
“…… Yes?”
The goddess froze in place as she was in tears.
“I’ve been curious since before, and it turned out well. I know that there are two gods of the Holy Land, the sun and the moon, but where did one disappear to and are you dealing with them alone? I’ve asked before, but you got away with it. I must listen this time.”
“… ….”
At my question, the goddess rolled her eyes here and there as if embarrassed. Rather than being melancholy, his expression was closer to being slightly subtle in answering.
Judging by the look on his face, it wasn’t like he was killed by the world eater. If that had happened, I would have had to apologize.
“That, that… ….”
The goddess continued to hesitate. At this point, she began to think that it was strange.
I couldn’t answer the last time I asked if it was the sun or the moon, and I’ve never seen two people show up at the same time. ….
No way.
“…… Could it be that there was only one person from the beginning?”
Nodding. Her head moved up and down. Again, this was a shock. Until now, I firmly knew that they were two people, but in fact, the sun and the moon were one?
“No, then why did you act like there were two of you?”
“There are circumstances deeper than the sea here… ….”
“Answer.”
“A creature forsaken by God, because of that.”
“…… You mean him?”
A completely unexpected answer came back. What does it have to do with a creature abandoned by God and a goddess playing two roles?
“I couldn’t help it because it was twisted into a strange creature and contaminated even the concept of a single god. Do you remember the abyss next to him? All of them are the result of the deterioration of the faith I received when I was the only God.”
“Uh… ….”
While I was frozen, the goddess hurriedly turned her body.
“I’ll explain more later. Now is not the time for this!”
As soon as a barrier of golden halos appeared in front of us, our breaths collided. Both sides blocked by the barrier melted mercilessly, billowing up ominous black smoke.
“Ugh…… !”
The goddess gritted her teeth and frowned at her. Her saliva escaped from between her lips. Even blocking that breath was overwhelming. There were cracks all over the wall, and my hands were shaking.
She couldn’t stand it any longer, so she shouted with all her strength.
“Scatter!!!!!!”
The barriers and breaths within the range of the dragon scattered into the air. The goddess looked this way with surprised eyes.
“Since when did you start using dragon words…… ? Have you finally got your strength back?”
“Your strength has returned, what do you mean? Didn’t he give it back to me?”
We startled at each other and looked at each other. Both eyes were like, ‘What the hell is he talking about?’ Neither of us understood what the other was saying.
“Me, me? To you?”
“I heard you helped me when we parted from hell? So I thought you left the strength to fight him and helped me wake up with spare time?”
“No, of course I said I would help! I couldn’t afford to care about anything else because I was so overwhelmed with just stopping him from rampaging! I didn’t do it on purpose, I didn’t do it because I had no choice!”
‘No, the goddess gave it back?’
Surely Nix said that too. It is true that the goddess intervened, but it was not that she increased her strength, but that she returned it. Does this make Nix wrong?
We are all confused at the situation where we are out of focus, but the goddess is the first to say ah! Made a noise.
“I think I know how it goes! It means your body is recalling the memory before your head!”
“…… Is that good, right?”
“If it was in the past, it would have been bad because it would have been an excuse for that, but…… It’s already too late now, so we need to get back to our strength as soon as possible.”
Thump! The conversation was interrupted by the sound of a huge body coming down. A body of black and indigo came close. Golden and silver divine powers were buried everywhere on the scales.
It seemed that the goddess was buying time by sabotaging her own way rather than kindly waiting for the conversation to end.
ㅡThe last outburst…… Insignificant…… Failed…….
“Shut up your snout. We haven’t lost yet.”
ㅡUndefeated…… ?
In an instant, his emotions were expressed, and the earth shook only in the aftermath.
Giant trees that looked much taller fell over in the opposite direction of the Eater of Worlds, and all the flowers and grass were plowed up, revealing a desolate dirt floor.
—-Even if you do that…… Are you trying to use that human…… Nasty…… Disgusting…….
“… ….”
The goddess bit her lower lip lightly. I wondered what it was like to use me. First of all, if you see that kind of reaction, it means that the goddess has something to stab.
ㅡ Human…… Its last hope…… What did that do to you…… Do you know…….
“I know. You said you sent me to another world. Three times as well. No All three times were in the same world, only in different time zones, so it would be more accurate to say that they were sent to the same world three times.”
—-What happened in that world…… Do you know…….
“Okay. I don’t know that far. I lost all my memories.”
Then, emotions close to ridicule mixed into my thoughts.
—-I suffered countless pains…… She suffered countless deaths…… That broke you…… Human…… The reason the memory was erased…… Think what…….
Actually, I expected it to some extent.
Unlike the main characters of Brunet 4, who reached the ending without even dying once due to the setup, the main characters from Brunet 1 to 3 are immortals, so they really die and die and die again.
If I had been through the same thing, I would have died beyond counting. It wasn’t particularly surprising.
The fact that the main characters of the Brün series are resurrected as if nothing happened no matter how many times they die is a metaphor that the character will not give up unless the player gives up.
I would not have given up either. So you must have seen the ending.
—-The cause that ruined you…… Pretending to be for you…… It is great hypocrisy…….
“… ….”
Just before the goddess lowered her head, I jumped.
“So?”
As if my answer was totally different from what I expected, the round odd-eye turned towards me.
And what was different from what I expected was that it seemed to be the same for Sero Pupil.
ㅡDidn’t you understand…… Human… ….
“No. If you understand, I would have made it overflowing. The Goddess brought me here, and thanks to that, I was able to die. It’s strange that I can’t understand.”
Drawn out the nightmare of losing wings. I’m not sure if this can hurt him, but with a goddess by his side, it’s going to work somehow.
If not, it should be enough to at least show my will.
“By the way, what does that have to do with me rolling over and you arguing on my thoughts?”
I pointed the tip of my knife at him. The red vertical pupil slightly constricted.
“Either I forgive the goddess or she gets angry. That’s for me to decide It’s not something a lizard like you can decide on its own. Understand?”
He turned his head. When her eyes met, the goddess trembled her body.
“Goddess.”
“…… Yes.”
“Well, I have a lot to tell you about. I’ll listen to the rest after it’s all over. Instead, tell me this one now. I’ve failed twice to get an answer, and I’m going crazy because I’m really curious.”
“…… All right. What is it?”
“What was the Brightest Darkness series like?”
“It is…….”
The goddess who had pursed her lips for a while quietly opened her mouth.
“…… What you went through in my world was created with the concept of your world.”
“Ah, so it is not that I was possessed by the world in the game, but the goddess created the world I was possessed into as a game. The actions of the main character in the game are what I did.”
“Yes, it is…” ….”
Yeah, somehow it was strange.
It wasn’t that I was possessed into the game and pretended to be the main character instead of the player character. It was the brunei series that made the things I went through into a game.
I finally understood the true meaning of Nix’s words. The reason why he pointed to me when asked who the main character of Brussels 3 was was probably because Brussels 3 itself was a game about my past.
After all the puzzles were solved, I felt at ease. Recently, I had nothing but complicated things in my mind, but it felt like my head was clearing up a little after a long time.
“I don’t know why they made it into a game…… As I said earlier, I’ll leave that for a later date.”
He aimed his sword. The Eater of Worlds growled, as if my attitude was very intrusive. The surrounding landscape, which had already been a mess, turned upside down once again.
“Right now, it seems like getting rid of that thing is more urgent.”