common story
Aris was an orphan.
If he had been an ordinary orphan, he would have been a member of the back alley or sold as a slave, but Aris had a mysterious ability, so he did not have an unhappy childhood.
The ability to see through, understand, and manipulate intangible energy.
Aris was able to use that ability to imitate a wizard, solve simple requests and chores, and spend her childhood well enough with the money she earned.
However, such a life did not last long.
After hearing rumors about a girl with mysterious abilities, various people and forces gathered to secure her, and Aris, who felt fear in the process, left the city and hid in a nameless forest.
‘This sounds like your story.’
-I don’t remember writing anything like this, but it seems like my story is right.
‘It must have been written by your original.’
-It’s the original, can’t you pay a little more attention to word choice? You say you’re seriously hurt
Contrary to the idea that they would give up if they lived hidden in the forest, people who tried to find Aris did not stop.
There are very few people who can use magic only with their senses, even without proper education.
However, there has never been a human who can reproduce not just simple magic, but the vision of the magic tower or even the original magic of an individual, just by looking at it.
Wizards and magic towers looking for an heir, priests and churches that believed they were related to the devil and pursued them, nobles and nations to secure mysterious abilities, and even heterogeneous tribes pursued Aris, and eventually Aris was captured.
The problem was what happened after that.
– They didn’t see me as a human being. It was regarded as just a test subject with special abilities. They repeated all sorts of experiments and studies to uncover the secret of my abilities.
If it was simply a talent that would appear only once in decades or hundreds of years, it would have been considered an important talent and treated appropriately.
However, Aris’ ability was unprecedented and unprecedented, and people wanted to acquire more than just one magician with mysterious abilities.
In order to interpret the mechanism of the ability and reproduce the ability, Aris is trapped in an unknown place, takes unknown medicine, undergoes unknown experiments, cuts off blood and flesh, learns unknown mana management, and faces death every day. went to and from
– I wanted to die. But even death was not allowed to me. No matter how terrible the experiment was, it would return to normal with just a few bottles of potion.
At first, all I wanted to do was die.
However, by the time that he had lived like that for more than ten years, Aris’ thoughts changed.
– I don’t want to die. want to live No matter what it looks like, it will surely survive by any means. I will survive and avenge myself. I will return the pain I suffered to those who made me like this, to those who did not help me, and to this world.
An endless resentment and vivid malice for everything in this world that can be transmitted even through paper.
Even though it wasn’t something she had experienced, Aris was unable to say anything when she encountered the things she had experienced and her vivid feelings.
‘Don’t worry too much. Aren’t you the one written here? you are you Aris is Aris. You and this Aris are completely different people.’
-I’m Aris too.
‘No, that’s not it… … .’
– Poop.
Is it because I have no experience of comforting others?
Even the theoretical level of greatness came out only words, but Aris burst out with a small laugh as if her mood was relieved at the sight of Yoosung stuttering in embarrassment.
– It’s okay, so keep reading.
“Kuhm.”
Then one day, Aris suddenly became free.
This is because a certain country that coveted Aris sent people, and a battle broke out while the country was transporting Aris to another place, and both sides were destroyed.
Aris, who became free, disappeared somewhere, and the two countries did not trace her whereabouts, thinking that each other took Aris.
A few years later, Aris reappeared.
It’s a completely different look from before.
Aris wandered around the world, stealing the abilities and visions of countless strong people and different races and making them her own, and as a result, she grew into an enormous monster that no one could use her hands on.
-There was fierce resistance, but in the end, I was able to destroy the country that used me as a test subject.
The people of the world called Aris various derogatory names such as the demon king, the one who invites destruction, and the witch of destruction, and sent a subjugation party, but it was not enough to stop her.
However, it was impossible for Aris to do anything more than that.
-But my limit was there. His body, scarred and weakened by years of experimentation, had little time left. I needed to live longer. I don’t want to die. want to live I wanted to live.
And Aris was able to find the answer in the time she spent as a test subject.
Numerous data about himself and the results of biological experiments obtained through decades of national power and human resources.
Aris set about making a new body out of them.
Creating life artificially wasn’t as easy as it sounds, so at first she failed repeatedly, but Aris’ eyes shone even at times like this.
He succeeded in creating life artificially by observing and adjusting the flow of life force, and even succeeded in creating clones with the same abilities as himself.
However, Aris could not be satisfied with that.
– It was impossible to fight the whole world with this body. A stronger and stronger body was needed.
Aris, who used only herself as the subject of the experiment, was no longer there.
After catching humans, heterogeneous species, and monsters, Aris devoted herself to creating new species by fusing different life forms into one or extracting the superior abilities of each species and transplanting them to other species.
‘The victim who became the perpetrator, it’s a common story.’
-The monsters down there… … .
‘It must have been the result of an experiment. You, the homunculus, were wearing proper clothes or had keys to open all the doors, so you must have assumed the role of a manager in charge of managing the test subjects and the mansion.’
-As a janitor, I don’t remember doing such a thing.
‘Either it was manipulated by magic, or it was done by fiddling with the brain. Let’s read on for now.’
However, no matter how deceitful her eyes were, Aris was an individual and her lifespan was short.
In the end, Aris decided to create an ideal body that combined the strengths of all races based on her experiments so far, and transplanted her soul into it.
– Just today, I will be reborn. There are still some unsettling points, but it doesn’t matter. With my eyes, I can solve any problem.
A few pages were turned, but nothing more was written after that phrase.
– How did it end up?
‘It’s either a success or a failure. One thing is certain, either way, Aris is not in this mansion.’
-why?
‘Why why? Don’t you see the monsters running rampant down there? If I stayed in this mansion, would I just watch it?’
-ah!
‘I don’t know if the experiment succeeded and left to seek revenge, or if it failed and died, but either way it’s fortunate for us. If a monster like this had been in the mansion, there would have been no escape.’
A witch who destroyed a country.
No matter how modern weapons are, there is no way they can defeat them.
“Now that we have figured out the situation, let’s get out of here. Didn’t I say that the items on the second floor were worth some money? Take a few and go down… … .”
Yooseong, who raised his head, realized belatedly that Alice was nowhere to be seen in the room and stiffened.
‘Where did he go alone again?’
The monsters didn’t seem to exist on the third floor, but it wasn’t certain.
Because there might be monsters popping out of nowhere or traps, Yuseong carefully followed Alice’s whereabouts and started searching the third floor.
However, Alice could not be found anywhere, and in the end, only one huge room was left in the middle.
“If you’re not here, you’ve gone downstairs.”
You came to a place where there are no monsters at all, but you go down to a place full of monsters?
It makes no sense.
-If you think about it like that, doesn’t it make sense to start with the fact that Alice moved alone?
Ignoring Aris’s tackle, Yuseong energized his hand holding the handle.
Awesome!
The door opened with a sharp sound, as if it had not been oiled.
And the moment I checked the appearance in the room, a small moan flowed from Yoosung’s mouth.
“This… … .”
How else can I describe this landscape?
Numerous pieces of flesh, body fragments, and internal organs were scattered everywhere.
Some were presumed to be human, but there were also things that were obviously not human, such as horns, scales, and tails, and the terrible smell of decaying things was enough to paralyze one’s senses and make one’s consciousness bewildered.
While looking around the numerous magic circles, candles, and innumerable utensils whose purpose could not be guessed, he belatedly realized what had happened in this room.
“Did you change into a new body here? It seems that it is quite far from success, but it seems to have failed.”
“right. It failed.”
Alice’s voice.
However, Yoosung did not relax and aimed his rifle in the direction of the sound.
Clap!
“what? Was there anything like that in my house? What kind of thing is that?”
Familiar faces and familiar voices.
But it wasn’t Alice.
“… … Is that Aris?”
A brain attached to Alice’s head.
And the tentacles connecting the brain and the head, and the relaxed expression that Alice hadn’t shown before, etc., were overflowing with evidence to guess her identity.
“Are you quick-witted? Did you know about the experiment and did you read my diary?”
“Oh, I read. I wrote a new body or something at length, but it didn’t go as well as I thought?”
“Ha, that’s what I mean. I succeeded in creating an ideal body, but I failed in resolving the rejection.”
Aris pointed to her head, to be exact, to the brain attached to her head and continued.
“I was barely able to protect the soul and the vessel of the soul somehow, but that was all, so it was really difficult. The body has disappeared, there is no way to affect reality, the magical power is gradually decreasing, I thought it was the end, but my God! I never thought the homunculus would come all the way here. If the order I gave with the last remaining strength hadn’t worked, I would have really died.”
“… … .”
Yoosung bit his lip.
When I said I didn’t want to go up to the third floor, when I heard strange noises, at least if I had paid a little more attention when reading, this wouldn’t have happened.
Alice is deprived of her body, and the worst witch she thought was dead is reviving and blocking her path.
“… … May I make a suggestion?”
“proposal?”
“Because I am a peaceful person who hates fighting. You don’t seem to be in a proper state either, so why don’t we break up like this without doing anything to hurt each other?”
“I’m sorry, but that seems difficult. Is this just a temporary measure? In order to resurrect, you have to go through the proper process, and to do that, you need two bodies: one for the ritual and one for the new one. This is all you need for the body to perform the ritual, but it seems that there is nothing left but you in the new body. And above all… … .”
Aris’s eyes were dyed golden.
“I am also interested in you. The way you talk, the way you think, and most of all, it seems like you can’t even hear my voice beyond the point of not following my orders. The body is a homunculus, but it feels like another soul is nestled inside it?”
“… … .”
“I’m curious about your identity as well as the fact that you’re holding strange items that weren’t in the mansion. i want to know about you I want to pull out every single thing in your head and make it mine. don’t worry. because it won’t hurt On the contrary, it will feel very good.”
“The negotiations are broken.”
“Doesn’t it matter? The outcome is already decided anyway.”
Yoosung also smiled brightly at Aris, who was smiling brightly.
“okay. The outcome is fixed.”
Yoosung pulled the trigger without hesitation.
this is not a game