Chapter 311: End of THE WORLD (2)
“I, Inventory.”
The moment he said that.
Ting!
A status window popped up in front of Team Leader Jo.
“Uh, uh……?”
It was the inventory status window.
Something that could never be seen in reality, something that only appeared in the World.
“Ha, haha……Chairman, I didn’t know you had already finished developing the hologram AR technology……”
Team Leader Jo concluded awkwardly with a smile.
But his brain refused to accept it.
No matter how he looked at it, it wasn’t a hologram.
The resolution was too high.
Even the already commercialized hologram function of smartphones wasn’t this good.
This, no matter how he looked at it, was a real status window.
But Team Leader Jo didn’t believe it.
He kept thinking it was a hologram.
Because this was reality.
“Do you really think so?”
However, Chairman Yoo denied Team Leader Jo, who was trying to look away.
Whoosh.
A jet-black energy emanated from Chairman Yoo’s hand like a snake of death.
The energy wrapped around Team Leader Jo’s arm and forced it to move.
“C, Chairman……”
Team Leader Jo made a tearful face, drenched in cold sweat.
Creak. Creak.
Team Leader Jo’s arm stretched out towards the inventory window.
The jet-black energy moved his fingers, making him press the ‘Discard All’ button on the status window.
Clatter.
[Administrator Privileges Card (Unique)]
[Dcafe Muscle House Maknae is Magic All-In Volumes 1-9 Joara Serial Scan.pdf]
[Dcafe Ranker is a Model Student, It’s the Established Theory of Academia Text Complete.txt]
[Hero’s First Token (Rimi Nuhu) (Replica)]
[Hero’s Second Token (Fake)]
[Hero’s Third Token (Half-and-Half Dragon)]
[Hero’s Fourth Token (Fake)]
[Hero’s Fifth Token (Crouching Black Tail)]
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All the items in Team Leader Jo’s inventory came out.
Not in the World, but in reality.
“Khehehe. Good. It’s not a complete token, but it’ll be enough to prevent him from completing it. Hehe, hehehe.”
Chairman Yoo laughed creepily as he looked at the hero’s tokens sparkling on the floor.
“Huff……Huff……”
Team Leader Jo couldn’t calm his pounding heart.
No matter how hard he tried to pull away from the jet-black energy that was gripping his hand, it wouldn’t budge.
It was as if his arm wasn’t his own.
That was when it happened.
“Hic.”
Team Leader Jo held his breath.
Chairman Yoo was staring at him with blood-red eyes.
Not only his pupils, but even the whites of his eyes were strange.
They were so black that they should now be called black pupils.
Like a demon.
“Team Leader Jo.”
Chairman Yoo called Team Leader Jo.
His voice was extremely low and muffled.
“S, Spare me……Please spare me, Chairman……”
Step. Step.
Despite Team Leader Jo’s pleas, Chairman Yoo ignored him and slowly approached him.
“You said you wanted to go home from work, right? Team Leader Jo.”
“No……No……Please spare me……Please spare me……Please……Please spare me……”
“Now you can rest. You’ve worked hard.”
Whoosh!
Suddenly, jet-black wings began to sprout from Chairman Yoo’s shoulders.
They were the wings of a devil.
The wings of a demon king.
“I, I’ll forget everything I just saw! I won’t tell anyone! Please, please spare me― Kugh?!”
The jet-black wings swallowed Team Leader Jo.
Screams echoed through the room, quickly fading and then disappearing.
When Chairman Yoo withdrew the jet-black energy, Team Leader Jo had vanished without a trace.
[!^$%@* has logged out.]
[No respawn information.]
[No respawn information.]
[No respawn information.]
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Creak.
The door to the chairman’s office opened.
“Oh my, Team Leader and Chairman. Don’t just talk, have some coffee here and……Huh?”
The Team Leader Jo that Kim Bu-ha was looking for was nowhere to be found.
Only Chairman Yoo was standing alone in the middle of the chairman’s office, his back turned.
Moreover, the atmosphere was strange.
“Um, Chairman? Where is Team Leader right now……”
Kim Bu-ha stopped talking mid-sentence.
Creak.
While his body remained still, Chairman Yoo’s neck turned 180 degrees.
“I’ll let you go home from work too.”
Chairman Yoo, looking at Kim Bu-ha, was shining with red eyes.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
This is the Study Territory.
At the very top of the hill where they had pledged allegiance to the flag, Kyung-joon was observing the devastated surroundings.
The outer Outer City had long fallen, and zombies that wouldn’t die were everywhere.
Only this Inner City remained intact.
However, this place too, would soon become like that.
Kyung-joon finished his observation and turned around.
In front of him, the residents were gathered as usual, looking at Kyung-joon.
However, everyone was in a serious condition.
Bodies turning purple from being bitten by zombies.
Even if they weren’t bitten, purple spots were all over their bodies.
They were all cursed by the demon king.
They were still maintaining their sanity, but it was unknown when they would turn into zombies.
Kyung-joon spoke.
“It’s been a while. Everyone gathered like this.”
The residents who remained until the very end were all from Leah Village.
Those who had been with him from the beginning of the Study Territory until now.
“It seems like just yesterday you were all crying and fussing about moving from Leah Village.”
“Lord. Only Fezun did that.”
“That’s right. We didn’t cry.”
“Even you, Crescens?! Lord! There’s no need to say such things now!”
Everyone laughed.
Even though they were about to lose their minds, they laughed even more vigorously.
“Haha, right. That’s right. But thanks to Fezun, the territory’s agriculture has greatly improved. Who knew he would create something much better than my fertilizer?”
“Ah~ That’s right. I was really surprised back then.”
“Lord, Lord. Thanks to that, Fezun’s name is quite famous even in the Beastkin Alliance. As the Kyung-joon·Fezun Fertilizer Fixation Method.”
“Ugh……I told them to take my name out of it, but everyone really……”
Kyung-joon and the residents of the territory reminisced about the past two years and had a pleasant chat.
The first time they moved in, the first time they received carpentry and magic lessons from Kyung-joon, the time they were greatly impressed by Kyung-joon Fertilizer and Kyung-joon Air Conditioner, the time they greatly expanded the territory, the time they all made slime cold noodles together, the time they created No Studying Day and held a festival, the time they helped with Kyung-joon’s physics certification test by running test simulations, and so on……
They really talked about everything.
“Ah, by the way, I’m telling you this now, but actually, the Energy Tower and the villa you saw when you first moved in, those weren’t decorated by the Black Secret Village, but by me from the beginning.”
Kyung-joon finally revealed the truth that he had been hiding.
Everything he had done while imitating Heukgil-dong’s voice with Voice Modulation was all an act.
“Hahaha! We already knew that!”
“We kind of expected it!”
“We were completely fooled back then!”
“We were really fooled! Haha!”
The residents already knew the secret without him having to tell them.
Kyung-joon also agreed, saying he kind of expected it.
Laughter never ceased under the perishing purple sky.
Then.
Rumble!
The sound of the Inner City’s fence breaking could be heard.
“It’s time.”
Kyung-joon smiled bitterly as if he was disappointed.
And he started calling out names one by one.
“Fezun.”
“Yes.”
Kyung-joon stood in front of Fezun.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“……Yes!”
The exchange of greetings was short.
But Kyung-joon’s gentle hug conveyed many things that words could not express.
[Imprinted 『Sleep Imprinting』 on Fezun.]
Thud.
Fezun collapsed on the floor.
And in an instant, he was tainted by the demon king’s curse.
However, his sleeping expression looked very peaceful.
“Crescens.”
“Yes.”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“……Yes! It was my pleasure!”
[Imprinted 『Sleep Imprinting』 on Crescens.]
“Muse.”
“Our time is ruuuunning ooooouuut.”
“Stop singing.”
“How did it come to this……”
[Imprinted 『Sleep Imprinting』 on Muse.]
“Brute.”
“Woof.”
“Dough.”
“Knead.”
“Paste.”
“Proof.”
“Cutter.”
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Like that, one by one, Kyung-joon hugged each resident.
Eventually, after putting all 106 residents to sleep with Sleep Imprinting, only Kingyear remained.
“Kingyear. You did the best.”
“You flatter me. I’m just sorry I couldn’t live up to your expectations. However, if it were the me from my younger days, I might have done better. Hahaha!”
Kingyear grinned and boasted about his younger days until the very end.
Kyung-joon also laughed along with his unchanging demeanor.
“Then, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
“Yes. Don’t worry and sleep tight.”
[Imprinted 『Sleep Imprinting』 on Kingyear.]
Thud.
With that, Kingyear also collapsed on the floor and fell into a dream of his younger days.
After laying everyone down neatly, Kyung-joon looked at the horizon far away.
On the boundary line that divided the sky and the earth, he could see a huge jet-black pillar rising, something he had never seen before.
And then it disappeared without a trace.
That meant only one thing.
[Completed the mythical quest 『The Price of Passing on the World』.]
[The demon king’s seal has been completely released.]
[The contract with the demon king has expired due to the completion of the quest.]
[Jet Black Focus, Jet Black Tenacity, Jet Black Creativity, and other jet-black study buffs have been unlocked.]
[Jet Black Power will disappear due to the expiration of the contract.]
[Jet Black Focus, Jet Black Tenacity, Jet Black Creativity, and other jet-black study buffs have disappeared.]
“Haha, I knew this would happen.”
Kyung-joon couldn’t help but laugh at the situation he had already anticipated.
Still, the demon king had some conscience.
▶Kyung-joon: Lv.999
The level that had risen due to the release of the seal remained the same.
<Master. It’s almost time.>
<The birth of the second demon king has been confirmed at the Seolha Entertainment headquarters.>
“Okay. Let’s go finish this.”
Kyung-joon walked.
He kept walking.
━Groooowl!
━Graaaah!
Hundreds of thousands of zombies were surging towards Kyung-joon like waves.
The moment they engulfed Kyung-joon.
Swoosh.
Kyung-joon passed through them without taking any damage.
[Mythical Magic 『Quantum Tunneling』]
━Groooowl!
━Graaaah!
The zombies, unable to catch Kyung-joon, kept swarming in, trying to make him their comrade.
They surrounded him, enveloped him, and soon formed a mountain of zombies.
That was when it happened.
[Sleep Imprinting]
[Sleep Imprinting]
[Sleep Imprinting]
[Sleep Imprinting]
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Hundreds of thousands of magic circles were created all around.
Clap.
The sound of Kyung-joon clapping his hands could be heard.
Rumble.
The zombies instantly fell asleep and began to collapse.
Step. Step.
Kyung-joon walked and walked.
When he finally emerged from the mountain of zombies, he cast a new spell.
[Mythical Magic 『Wormhole Creation』]
Crackle!
A passage connecting the World and reality was created.
As Kyung-joon entered it.
Pop!
The World soon became as silent as a mouse.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
Only the clothes of Kim Bu-ha and Team Leader Jo were scattered on the floor.
Whether it was eaten and spat out or not, black things that looked like human bones were scattered on top of them.
“Secretary Oh.”
“Yes.”
At Chairman Yoo’s call, Secretary Oh deactivated his stealth and appeared.
[Jet Black Power activated.]
[Within a 50m radius is the World domain.]
As long as Secretary Oh in reality stayed close to Chairman Yoo, he could use the skills of his character in the World.
“Clean this up.”
“Yes.”
Secretary Oh easily disposed of the remains of Team Leader Jo and Kim Bu-ha by putting them in his inventory.
“How should we handle their identities?”
“Just handle it as death from overwork, and give them good compensation for industrial accidents. The cause of death will be a heart attack anyway.”
Surely the media would make a fuss, but The World was already making enough noise about its downfall.
It wasn’t strange at all for a few employees to die from overwork in the midst of all this.
“So, what about Kyung-joon?”
Chairman Yoo asked the most important question.
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