186 – Let there be light
‘Soul… … .’
As soon as her mind began to sink deeper into her heart, Charlotte noticed that her soul had resonated with something else.
So, I accepted the sinking consciousness without any resistance. Because the only person that Charlotte’s soul is bound to is Giabi, and the only person who can touch it is her Giabi.
How could she go against her husband’s wishes as a wife? If you touched the tightly bound souls with the soul binding magic, it must have a meaning.
Charlotte’s mind sank slowly to the bottom of her heart. I closed my eyes and felt the sensation of my soul sinking downward. Literally, it was a sensation that fit the expression of sinking.
Warm warmth enveloped her body. Charlotte instinctively knew that the warmth belonged to Giabi. That’s why, I wasn’t afraid at all even though my mind was sinking without a promise.
The boy had brought Charlotte’s soul to this place, and Charlotte had no reason to be afraid in a situation where she could feel the warmth right next to her.
No matter how much time had passed, when the sinking sensation subsided, Charlotte carefully opened her eyes. The place I arrived at was a space painted in dark blue on all sides.
The floor was filled up to my ankles with liquid, presumably water, and it made a clicking sound with the movements of my feet. The sound of water echoed in the empty air.
The ceiling stretching endlessly beyond was the same dark blue color as before the portal was completely built. It was as if the midnight sea had been turned upside down and hung in the sky.
Charlotte was not taken aback. I wasn’t even scared. He was just quietly guessing where this might be and what the hell had led him to this place.
In the confrontation with that crazy bitch, I was driven to the brink of defeat, and at the very moment when the defensive magic circle was about to be engulfed by black mana, I felt the resonance of my soul.
As soon as I felt the resonance of the soul, my mind sank into the depths of my heart, and when I opened my eyes, I was in a place like this. In other words, this meant that there was a high probability that this was the deep world inside Charlotte’s mind.
‘You mean it wasn’t speculation limited to theory?’
Charlotte once conducted research related to the soul.
The performance was virtually zero, but I managed to get one research result that was unreasonable to speculate that the human mental world is greatly influenced by its personality and memory.
It was unimaginable that the speculation was actually true. The bloody red eyes were busy trying to capture this astonishing scene in their heads.
“Did you come to your senses?”
Then, I shuddered at the sound of a voice right behind me. It was a very familiar voice. Charlotte turned her head. The figure of the person who gave the voice came into view.
Long silver hair that reached her waist, with a color comparable to that said to have been made by melting the moon. Creepy, emotionless, cold bloody red eyes. Pale white skin and a sharp nose.
Light cherry lips and a sharp jawline. Moderately sized breasts that can barely fit in one hand. A tight black uniform covering the entire body. Slender, straight arms and legs.
The person who appeared behind her back was Charlotte de Gargantua.
“you…….”
Charlotte frowned at this absurd situation of looking at herself with her own eyes. Is this hallucination? Or is it something else?
For once, it won’t be a hallucination. This was the deep world in Charlotte’s mind, and even in such a place, there was no way she was hallucinating.
Charlotte stretched out her left hand. In response, Charlotte also extended her right hand. Right before their hands met, Charlotte lowered her hand. Charlotte also lowered her hand as if following the motion.
A curtain like the surface of a very clear lake separated the two Charlottes. It was a curtain with a level of transparency that would never be noticed at first glance.
“It’s a mirror.”
Charlotte, noticing the invisible curtain, said that while trying to break the veil with mana, and while hesitating for a moment, the answer came back.
“It is indeed so.”
Charlotte clicked her tongue as her attempt to destroy the veil failed. For some reason, he couldn’t raise his mana. Charlotte opened her mouth with cold eyes.
“It’s useless. Don’t you know that this is your image world? There’s no way you can use mana, which is just a mere product of your body, here.”
“It’s Jim’s world of imagination… Then what are you?”
“What do you think I am?”
Charlotte agonized over whether or not to get angry at the way she answered questions with questions, but decided to just pass it on. Because that was also Charlotte’s preferred way of speaking.
“As you said, I will not deny that this is Jim’s world of imagination. However, it would be impossible for there to be two Charlotte de Gargantuas in this world, so you must be an unconscious or more like a soul separated from Jim.”
“It’s half the answer.”
“It means that the other half is wrong.”
Charlotte nodded.
“It is true that I am your unconscious, but I am not separated from you. It is not necessary to distinguish the original, but it is not inferior to calling the two together as ‘we’.”
At the title of “we,” Charlotte put on a puzzled expression. Then, Charlotte’s expression in front of her also changed to trembling.
They said it was true that it was a mirror, but it seemed that even such a detailed expression was copied.
“I understand what you think. If so, why did you appear in front of Jim?”
“I have come to show you our limits.”
“Limit of luggage?”
Even though Charlotte used the expression “we,” Charlotte only mentioned herself. It was awkward to be called by such a name.
“It is.”
“If it’s Jim’s limit, you’ve already experienced it, so if you’re going to give me trivial advice, go back. Even if you don’t have to listen to that, you know it well.”
“I’m not trying to give advice.”
Two pairs of blood red eyes, shining like the finest ruby, met each other’s eyes. A terrifyingly cold chill was contained in the passing gaze. Neither of them backed down an inch.
To be precise, since Charlotte exuded a bloody spirit, the other Charlottes were close to copying it as well.
“Why do you think we have arrived here?”
“My wife must have arranged for it. If so, what is the reason not to follow it?”
“If so, do you know exactly what Giabi arranged for you?”
“That’s none of Jim’s business. Just trusting and following his will is all I can do. If you’re trying to find fault with that, don’t mind me, I’ll rule you out at all costs.”
Charlotte took a step. With a clicking sound, a wave spread in a circular shape from the shallow blue liquid on the floor. Charlotte also took a step forward. Circular waves overlapped.
“If so, it’s not us right now. Since you don’t know what I know, how can you call two people who know each other by the title ‘we’?”
“You keep repeating what you said. You know what I don’t know?”
“I know. And I have no choice but to know.”
A circular wave was engraved once again on the shining blue surface of the water.
“The shackles on the soul have been completely released and released, how could I not know?”
“The shackles on the soul are released? What nonsense is that—”
Charlotte, who was about to frown, put on an urgent expression as if she had realized something after saying that.
“no way…….”
With an urgent expression, another nodded.
“Did you notice? The soul bond between you and your father-in-law. It means that it has been completely undone.”
Charlotte’s complexion grew even paler. His face was stained with sorrow. I can still feel Giabi’s warmth in my body, but the bond between the souls has been broken?
So it didn’t work. It couldn’t be. A tremendous shock hit Charlotte’s head. If she didn’t have the minimum amount of pride she should have as a woman, she would have definitely hit her ass.
“How, why did this happen… nonsense, nonsense.”
“My words are unmistakably true. Because your soul was liberated, you were able to face me like this in the depths of your heart.”
“…”
There was no answer coming back, but Charlotte continued speaking without waiting for an answer.
“It was a really crude bond. Don’t you think so?”
Upon hearing this, Charlotte unknowingly hardened her expression into a stern expression, and strode towards her, grabbing hold of her neck. Charlotte also grabbed Charlotte by the neck.
A violent force entered the hands that held each other’s neck. His arms trembled with anger. There was an atmosphere that seemed to break his neck at any moment.
“How dare you say you know what you know? Are you trying to judge the connection between Giabi and me? do you want that?”
“To make a new one, the old must be destroyed.”
“……What is it?”
At the unexpected words, Charlotte’s hands that were gripping her neck loosened as if she would break them at any moment.
“Explain. What are you talking about? You have to destroy the old to make a new one?”
“Creation of Heaven and Earth.”
“…?”
Charlotte’s hand loosened. Charlotte’s hand also loosened. The crumpled clothes and bright red handprints left on her neck quickly returned to their pale white skin and clean uniform.
“Your soul is now completely liberated. So, it means that you can achieve true ascension, not half ascension as before. Now you are truly qualified to step out of the human frame and step into the world beyond. It means. Yes, like that bitch who stole our father.”
Charlotte, who had reflexively growled at the word, “our husband,” regained her composure and calmed down. Doesn’t it seem like he resembles that crazy bitch?
With that crazy bitch who made herself the object of jealousy and killed herself in all timelines.
While Charlotte was justifying herself by saying that she did not have the same temperament as that crazy bitch, Charlotte drove a wedge.
“That is the process of building the world.”
“Building the world…?”
“To be precise, it is the process of overwriting the world that bitch created with yours.”
It would be more efficient that way, he added. I felt like I was hurting my self-esteem a little. Since when did Charlotte de Gargantua pursue efficiency?
“Soul binding was what made it possible to raise our potential to the limit, but on the contrary, it was also a fetter that kept us from rising above the limit. Everything is ready. We are just waiting for the moment when we see the truth.”
“……I understand what you want to say. If so, how do you know that?”
A slight crack was engraved on Charlotte’s face, which had remained expressionless. It was a very subtle movement, but Charlotte could clearly see the corners of her mouth rising just a little bit.
“This is the world in your image. The reason it’s so cold, blue, lonely, and dark is because your image has such a temper.”
I tried to spin it around, but in the end it meant that Charlotte’s personality was terribly twisted and filthy cold.
I didn’t deny it because it was an accurate assessment.
“So, what do you want to say? Are you saying you’re going to criticize Jim’s character?”
“I’m going to be you soon, so there’s no need to spit in my face. I have only one thing to say. Accept all of this.”
“Accept…?”
“How do you think a person who has not fully enlightened himself can understand the laws of the world? Don’t deny yourself, and don’t deny Charlotte de Gargantua. That’s all I have to say.”
Do not deny yourself. Charlotte thought for a moment about the meaning of these words. He had already completed a surprisingly objective analysis of himself.
Even though he reached the point where he could see the timeline and the space intertwined with it, in the end he still couldn’t defeat the crazy bitch who stole Giabi.
But don’t deny me What more to think about here?
“I already know everything. He has never denied me.”
“You know everything?”
The tip of the horse was raised slightly. Since there was a question mark, it was as if that Charlotte was not at all like that.
“Do you really think so?”
The transparent curtain separating Charlotte from them shook greatly. Then, Charlotte’s expression in the mirror changed. It was an expression of ridicule.
“Are you sure you didn’t deny yourself?”
“…”
With her unique discernment and clear brain, Charlotte immediately understood what Charlotte was trying to say. That was literally an expression referring to Charlotte’s nature.
A nature that is believed to be replaceable at any time.
The inner meaning contained in it was not so grandiose. It meant not denying one’s nature, but accepting it as it is.
Charlotte was lost in thought. Meanwhile, the water, which had been only about ankle high, began to rise above it. The time of the image world was gradually coming to an end.
The height of the water surface rose rapidly. The water passed through the calves and knees and swallowed even the thighs, and the sky accelerated accordingly.
Even in that situation, Charlotte and Charlotte still did not move. One was deep in thought, the other was busy watching.
‘The essence of Charlotte de Gargantua, Ira… … .’
Charlotte had thought that at least the outward personality could be easily changed.
If her husband wants it, she is confident that she can play any number of ways, from a cheap prostitute on the street who fawns over men with a few pennies spread her legs, through a poor but devoted commoner woman to a high-handed and arrogant aristocratic woman from a prestigious family. there was
I thought that the boy was only playing the current Charlotte because he considered himself to be a bloody queen with cruel and violent tendencies because he had not yet completely freed himself from the trauma of the past.
However, what Charlotte of the deep world demanded was essentially different from such ‘acting’. It was also a carefree way of telling Charlotte to admit her true intentions.
Acknowledge that Charlotte de Gargantua, the arrogant, arrogant, arrogant and conceited Queen of Blood, is her true nature.
The height of the water had already passed through her chest and reached her collarbone. It was right after that that Charlotte’s mouth opened.
“It is so true. I have been missing the most important thing ever, which is nothing other than denying myself.”
“Did you notice?”
Charlotte smiled. The water went over the collarbone and up to the bottom of the chin. Before even her lips were locked, Charlotte opened her mouth for the last time.
“Now, no more.”
Finally, the world of images, unable to withstand the distorted cracks any longer, was filled with blue liquid. Just like when she first came down to this place, the spirit of Charlotte, who had completely closed her eyes, rose to the surface little by little.
Watching Charlotte walk away, Charlotte murmured.
“Yes, that’s the mindset.”
If you’re going to create a world, you have to be willing to do that.
Consciousness flickered. Blinking, I opened my eyes. As soon as I came back to my senses, I saw black mana trying to forcefully squeeze through the defense magic circle.
Except for the blue mana barrier that was on the verge of breaking, there was nothing but black mana in the rest of the space. Absolute darkness spread all around.
Charlotte raised her head.
The bloody red eyes embedded in his left eye, the beautiful bloody red eyes that would have been worth more than even the finest ruby, shone quietly.
As if proving that it was a dragon’s eye, the pupil that had been torn vertically had returned to normal, but not ordinary, human eyes.
At first glance, it looks like an ordinary human eye, but upon closer inspection, it has eyes that no one would think were human.
Immediately after the eyes bloomed, the ring of the ancient dragon on the ring finger of the left hand could not withstand the enormous pressure and crumbled helplessly with a crackling sound, rolling on the floor.
Charlotte didn’t even look at the ring. It did its own thing and broke, so even if it did, I wouldn’t blame my master.
The soft light of the blue mana became even stronger. Charlotte, who had endured dangerously as if she would run out of mana at any moment, was no longer here.
There was only the blood queen who showed off her overwhelming power with a soul freed from the shackles and overflowing levels of mana.
Charlotte’s eyes read the world.
He read all the substances that make up the world, time, space, and the intricate black mana in between. There were no exceptions. Literally, I was reading everything.
The brain, which far exceeded the limit of the amount of information it could process, screamed continuously, but Charlotte ignored it. Time was too short to give thought to the screams of a mere computing engine.
Read, read, read again. No effort was needed to understand. The moment you read an object with your eyes, the information immediately turns into knowledge. The intermediate process to do so was meaningless.
ㅡpajik.
A small crack appeared in one of Charlotte’s two jewels.
Through the crack, a red liquid ran down her cheek in the form of a single tear. Despite this, Charlotte’s left eye bulged even wider.
The crackling sound rang out once more. This meant that the cracks had deepened. The blood that flowed down his cheek like tears reached his chin and dripped onto the floor, forming a small puddle.
The eyes that couldn’t stand the act of reading the world were literally being shaved off, but that was okay. It was a wound that I had to endure enough to think of what would happen after this.
Tears made of blood flowed uncontrollably. In proportion to that, the puddles formed on the floor quickly grew in number and size.
And finally, when the bloody eyes really turned into blood and the material world was no longer captured, Charlotte opened her mouth.
“I.”
Those distorted eyes that melted away were no longer looking at the human world.
“It is the end.”
The act of seeing something was no longer necessary.
“I am the beginning and the end.”
Because Charlotte already knew everything.
“I am creation and destruction.”
The world is imprinted in my head, so why do I have to see the world?
“I am the Alpha and the Omega.”
The blue mana that overflowed from its body turned all the black mana surrounding it into nothingness and engulfed the world in the color of Charlotte.
As if it should have been.
“So, Jim soon.”
Accept your own nature. It was the realization that Charlotte had gained from the world of images.
Charlotte had been denying her true nature. I thought I could change it to anything I wanted, and I thought I could replace it anytime.
But no.
All the evil deeds and bad karma she had committed as the Blood Queen were not acting. It was an act that revealed his true nature.
Charlotte was the arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, conceited, cruel, cruel, harsh, violent, and ruthless blood queen. That was Charlotte’s nature and essence.
“It’s Charlotte de Gargantua.”
sentence has been handed down
A sentence proclaiming that the master of this world has changed.
Charlotte reached out. One broken eye contained the world itself. So, in a way, it wasn’t even that his eyes were broken.
It just changed into something better.
“As the dawning of the world, I say.”
All blue mana stopped acting at once. It was to wait for an order from their creator, which he had to obey.
Void eyes stared at everything else kneeling before it. Charlotte didn’t say much. He didn’t even give detailed, word-for-word orders.
He gave only one order to all who had to support Charlotte.
“Let There Be Light”.
Then there was light.