Chapter 316: End of THE WORLD (7)
The fight was fierce.
Regardless of gender, age, or race, everyone united as one to oppose Chairman Yoo.
At first glance, it seemed reckless for them to fight a losing battle against the Demon King who had taken the world’s Administrator Privileges, but they fought fiercely as if rejecting fate.
However, like fate, they fell one by one, fleetingly.
“More light……”
“Even if darkness wins, the sun will rise again……”
“This path is my salvation……”
All of the Holy Cross returned to the embrace of heaven and earth, calling upon God.
And finally.
<One who serves God>
<Pope of the Holy Cross>
▼Yohan
“I, Yohan. A pitiful and sinful being. A mere human. I will lay down the power that God has given me and depart……”
The last Pope fell.
Now there is no one in the World who serves God.
The Divine Power, faith, and even the statues have disappeared.
Only broken crosses and holy blood remained, sticking to the floor and forming puddles.
Bodies continued to pile up on the pool of blood.
<Leader of the Beastkin Alliance>
<Beastkin King>
▼Buried Bones (NPC)
“Uh huh……In the end, I’m buried in the ground……Yes, this is a good temperature……”
The bodies of the beastkin stopped piling up.
Instead, broken steel and metal, once-shining weapons, began to pile up on top of them, their luster lost and stained with blood.
<Leader of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan>
<Blacksmith of Flames>
▼Lothar Zwitter (NPC)
“A tomb of steel stained with blood……Not a bad place to sleep……”
The sound of hammering disappeared.
The luster and shine of the metal and steel were all stained with blood, only to rust away.
Then, a purplish liquid mixed with the crimson blood.
<Head of New Devil Co., Ltd.>
<Descendant of the Demon King Traitor>
▼Lupera (NPC)
“As expected……For us who betrayed once……To reclaim the true you……”
As traitors to their race, they lived 700 years as branded sinners and finally met their end without changing history.
At the end of history, the Immovable Mercenary also collapsed helplessly.
<Leader of the Free Mercenaries>
<The Mercenary who Inherited the Name of Immovable>
▼Miharan (NPC)
“Mission……Failed……”
Everyone’s blood was gathering together.
Human blood.
Beastkin blood.
Dwarf blood.
Demon blood.
And Elf blood.
Even Fairy blood.
Splash.
The fairy’s silk-like wings were submerged in blood.
<Leader of the Fairy-Elven Alliance>
<Wings that Cleave Space>
▼Takiki (NPC)
“Huma……Finally……To your side……”
The 700-year-old clock of history was broken.
The clock that had started to move failed to reach the future, shattered while longing for the past.
[Administrator Privileges (Mythical)]
[Destructible Object]
The last was the dragon’s blood.
<Leader of the Dragonian-Elven Alliance>
<Half-and-Half Dragon>
▼Half-and-Half Dragon (NPC)
“Kuh huh……Facing death while looking at the sky……I have no regrets since I flew freely……”
Even the Half-and-Half Dragon, whose HP never dropped below half, couldn’t withstand the fate of the mighty administrator.
His jewel-like eyes, half-closed as he looked up at the sky, reflected the black sky.
Ragnarok.
The two who stood until the end at the world’s end were otherworlders without player cursors.
“Thank you, Kyung-joon. Things have sped up thanks to your foolish choice.”
“It’s all over.”
“Yes, it’s all over thanks to you. It was already annoying to collect the Hero’s Marks and hunt down the 7 Heroes, but it’s so much easier that you came here to die on your own.”
[Acquired the Hero’s Second Mark.]
[Acquired the Hero’s Fourth Mark.]
Chairman Yoo picked up the two shining marks from the mountain of corpses and held them in his hand.
Chairman Yoo clenched his hand tightly and absorbed the Hero’s Marks.
[Hero’s First Mark (Rimi Nuhu) (Duplicate)]
[(New!) Hero’s Second Mark (Takiki)]
[Hero’s Third Mark (Half-and-Half Dragon)]
[(New!) Hero’s Fourth Mark (Redbeard)]
[Hero’s Fifth Mark (Crouching Black Tail)]
[Hero’s Sixth Mark (Miharan)]
[Hero’s Seventh Mark (Yuna Sikarrie)]
[Hero’s Zero Mark (Huma)]
[Possessing all Hero’s Marks.]
[Can be synthesized into a treasure.]
The 7+1 marks were in the hands of Chairman Yoo, not Kyung-joon.
Chairman Yoo wrapped them in a jet-black aura, signifying his intention to never hand them over to anyone.
And he absorbed them into his own body.
[Completed the Hero’s Treasure.]
[Acquired Transcendent Power through the power of the Treasure.]
[Administrator Privileges: Mythical → Transcendent]
Booom!
An imprint was engraved in the center of Chairman Yoo’s body.
“Yes. This is it. Huh huh. Yes! Power! Power overflows! Now there is nothing in The World that can threaten me! I am the god of the new world! Kuhahaha!”
Chairman Yoo’s jet-black aura began to cover the World.
“Thank you, Kyung-joon! Thanks to you, I was able to achieve the plan I had been looking forward to for decades in less than 3 years! As a reward, I’ll let you watch the new world I create from the sidelines! As L001 with Y999!!”
“You’re welcome.”
Kyung-joon sat down on the floor.
And he took out a notebook he had brought in his pocket.
“I should be the one thanking you. Thanks to you, you experimented on my behalf.”
At the end of the world, and in front of the transcendent being, Kyung-joon was incredibly calm.
Kyung-joon’s unwavering demeanor, from the first time he saw him until now.
“……What? Experiment?”
As the transcendent Chairman Yoo frowned, the sky cracked with a loud bang!
However, Kyung-joon simply observed the cracked sky as if it were a ‘phenomenon’ and wrote it down in his notebook with equations and formulas.
And he said.
“Chairman Yoo. Have you ever heard of the term Event Horizon?”
Event Horizon.
The horizon around a black hole where time stretches infinitely and space disappears to zero.
There, space-time collapses and no event can occur.
Kyung-joon continued, writing equations in his notebook without waiting for Chairman Yoo’s answer.
“As you know, the Event Horizon only occurs where there is a huge mass, that is, where energy is tremendously compressed. And the same goes for mana. So, the power that transcends events, no, ideas, mana―”
It was at the moment Kyung-joon spoke those words.
[Administrator!&!(Authority!&(!Transcendence*!(>?]
[!&!*(!!(^(.]
[……]
【……】
【Confirmed arrival at the Event Horizon.】
“―will send you to the other side.”
Whoosh!
The jet-black energy that enveloped the World began to gather below Chairman Yoo.
Crack! Crackle!
The floor was revealed.
There was a giant circular device on the exposed floor.
An item that began with Huma’s prophecy 700 years ago, took shape after hundreds of trillions of hammer blows, and was finally completed by the hands of his descendant.
And a device that, after countless sacrifices over half a year, could finally be activated.
The one that would put an end to the story so far.
【Activating the Transcendent Item 『Giant Warp Device』.】
It began to activate.
Crack!
The cracked sky revealed the pitch-black universe.
Woooong!
The same universe was revealed in the center of the Giant Warp Device.
The other side and the other side.
The World and reality.
And what would serve as a path and boundary connecting these two other sides was precisely.
“Kuaaagh……!! My power……!! My power……!!”
Chairman Yoo.
【Creating a new universe.】
The energy began to surpass human comprehension.
It couldn’t be controlled.
It couldn’t be managed.
It couldn’t be handled.
The Administrator Privileges – the new universe – was already beyond Chairman Yoo’s comprehension.
“Kyung-joon……!! You bastaaard……!!”
Chairman Yoo reached out towards Kyung-joon.
But his hand soon crumbled and added its existence to the newly forming cylindrical universe.
“No……!! Nooo……!! I can’t end like this……!!”
Chairman Yoo, who transcended everything.
His consciousness disappeared beyond the realm of thought.
【Boundary Universe (Horizon Universe), creation complete.】
He himself became a universe.
Chairman Yoo, who became the path, the boundary itself, permanently connecting the parallel lines of The World and reality, which could never meet.
“Beautiful.”
A giant cylinder, containing the colors of the universe, connected the earth and the sky.
The ground where the Giant Warp Device was located was The World.
And in the sky, reached by following the Boundary Universe, another Giant Warp Device was visible in the distance, small.
It was a familiar place to Kyung-joon.
The abyss of Vladivostok.
The only place in reality where one could warp to The World.
With this, reality and The World were perfectly connected.
Flutter, flutter.
A bat flew from the Boundary Universe towards Kyung-joon.
“Whew, I almost got screwed too. Damn descendant.”
A sharp voice and characteristic flippancy.
“It’s been half a year, Demon King.”
Kyung-joon greeted the Demon King, who had barely escaped from Chairman Yoo, with a chuckle.
“So, where’s the item?”
“Tsk, is that all you have to say after half a year? Here.”
The Demon King tossed something round to Kyung-joon.
It was a treasure.
[Completed Treasure]
▶Allows you to use Transcendent Magic once.
▶Item Grade: Transcendent
The true completed form of the Hero’s Treasure, completed thanks to Chairman Yoo.
The Demon King muttered as he looked at it.
“To think I was sealed and almost screwed for 700 years just to make this one thing, freedom! I’m an idiot for falling for that guy’s 100% safety guarantee.”
The Demon King recalled the promise he had made with Huma the day before he was sealed by the 7 Heroes 700 years ago.
That was why he had come this far, and why he was able to bring the 700-year-old story to a conclusion.
The Demon King looked at Kyung-joon and said.
“You don’t happen to not know what magic to use, do you?”
“No way.”
Kyung-joon held the treasure and raised it high in the sky.
There was only one magic to use.
The mythical version of Eternal Telomere, Telomere’s Salvation.
A magic that transcended that, a magic that would save everything.
【Transcendent Magic 『Salvation of the World』】
Holographic waves spread in all directions from Kyung-joon’s center.
Everything that had been destroyed over the past half year began to be rebuilt.
Dead lives began to regain new life.
New soil filled the polluted and broken land, new vegetation sprouted, and the black sky cleared up to a blue sky once more.
Everything was returning to its original state and being saved.
New creation at the end of destruction.
The World was reborn as a new world, connected to reality.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
The sacrifices of everyone who died in the fight against Chairman Yoo were undone.
Because they died and came back to life.
“Kuhahaha! The meat tastes really good after saving the world!”
“Hey, Beastkin King. Don’t just keep eating, leave some for us dwarves. Don’t you know we made all these grills?”
“We beastkin hunted the meat! You punk! Hey Miharan! Come and eat with your mercenary friends! Uhaha!”
“I will.”
A party was in full swing around the Boundary Universe, the cylindrical path of cosmic light connecting the earth and the sky.
“Demon King-nim. I have been waiting for 700 years. From now on, the one who will lead me, Lupera, and our demons is you. Please take the position of head of New Devil Co., Ltd.”
“Kuh huh. Yes. How long I have waited for this day. I will make the demons great again and rule the world!
“Krrraaa! What nonsense! The ones who will rule the sky are us dragons! Krrraaa!”
“Kyung-joon! You are the last prophet! You are the one written in the Book of Revelation, the benevolent one who comes from afar on the clouds! Please bestow upon us a new revelation to counter the vain ambitions of these other races!”
“Suddenly? Mr. Pope, why am I the incarnation of God?”
“It was all written in the Book of Revelation. Two shall come from afar, one the end and one the beginning. The moment the end comes is a new beginning. As darkness covers the world, light shall dawn anew upon it. The beginning here clearly refers to you! I! I have witnessed it with my own humble eyes, lying down!”
“No, were you just pretending to be dead while everyone else risked their lives and died?”
“The last prophet of this land! The last savior! God’s agent! Kyung-joon! From now on, our Holy Cross will change its name to the Church of Kyung-joon!”
“Don’t change the subject.”
“Why is it still such a mess even after it’s all over……Sigh……”
Only Fairy King was holding her forehead and shaking her head at this unprecedentedly chaotic party.
She asked everyone amidst the noise.
“So, in the end, we’re connected to that otherworlder’s world. What are we going to do now?”
When Fairy King asked, everyone focused their attention on her, and a sudden silence fell.
And that silence was soon broken.
“You ask an obvious question. We must dispatch the followers of the Holy Cross……the Church of Kyung-joon immediately and build churches. And we must instill faith in those otherworlders who lack it.”
“Krrraaa! All skies belong to us dragons! It is only natural that we dragons should be the first to fly in the skies of the otherworlders!”
“Is the meat in that other world delicious?”
“Kyung-joon’s magic engineering this time was truly amazing. We dwarves must properly learn the science and engineering that are its source so that our technology can further develop.”
“I don’t care what that other world is like. I just go if there’s a mission and a reward.”
“Khehehe. I’ve tasted the World once 700 years ago, so starting the conquest of a new world from that other world wouldn’t be bad either. So take me with you, Kyung-joon! Let’s conquer the world together! Kyahahaha!”
“What nonsense! We’re first!”
“No, we’re first!”
The party became even more boisterous than before.
But like the saying goes,”Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,”Kyung-joon shook his head at the countless requests to accompany him from each of the leaders.
“Are you all crazy? What are you going to do if a dragon suddenly flies around in a place without magic, someone uses holy magic, and dwarves come to learn technology? It’ll be an immediate panic.”
“Then is it okay for us beastkin to go eat meat?”
“That’s not okay either.”
Kyung-joon rose from his seat.
And he went to Fairy King, who had been watching the situation silently with cold eyes.
“Fairy King-nim. Let’s go.”
“Hmm? Go where, all of a sudden?”
“Where else? Over there.”
Kyung-joon pointed to the bottom of the Boundary Universe, where The World’s Giant Warp Device was located.
“……Didn’t you say it would cause a panic if we went now?”
“It’ll be fine since only Fairy King-nim will go. Fairy King-nim should be able to use Hide Casting. I’m currently forced logged out of my main character, so I can’t use spatial magic.”
Kyung-joon’s current body was not his level 999 body in the game, but his real body.
He could use most magic thanks to the mana core transplant, but it was still insufficient for spatial magic.
“I have somewhere to be quickly.”
He had seen the conclusion in The World.
So now, it was time to see the conclusion in reality.
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