Chapter 416: Attraction |
“Wouldn’t it be worth it if it were this big?”
Ryu Min doesn’t know exactly how many tera Deorant has. However, with 130 billion terra, he could face him without hesitation.
“I don’t have any more energy to gather. There’s no more time to waste either.”
Stopping Deorant as soon as possible was an urgent priority. But where could he find that guy?
After thinking it over, Ryu Min came up with a plan.
“Do I really need to search for him? I can make him come to me.”
Ryu Min smiled and disappeared somewhere.
Deorant was recalling Death Side, the dimension’s supervisor.
“That scum deserves to be crushed. How dare he kill my children?”
What father wouldn’t be furious to see his children die before his eyes? Although, strictly speaking, they were more like his creations.
“He was struck by the cerebral energy spear, so he shouldn’t have survived.”
Fortunately, although he had taken revenge, Deorant soon realized that it wasn’t over when he moved to the next world line.
“That human is... Death Scythe?”
Although sparks flew from his eyes at that moment, he barely managed to calm down. He had clearly seen how he killed Death Scythe with the cerebral energy spear in the previous world line.
“How is it possible that I see the same human if I’ve changed world lines?”
Is there a human identical in different world lines? That would mean the human was duplicated.
“It seems that wasn’t his true form.”
Just like he had taken the form of an old man, Death Scythe must have also taken a human form.
“Wait! Does that mean the one I killed wasn’t the real Death Scythe?”
It seemed that the one struck by the cerebral energy spear was an innocent human from the original world line.
“It doesn’t matter. All additional humans in the dimensions must be eliminated.”
More than that, what enraged him was that the revenge hadn’t ended.
“Death Scythe... Where the hell will I find that bastard...?”
Could he be in another world line?
With that thought, Deorant began checking the world lines he had ignored until then.
Then he realized something.
Some world lines hadn’t collapsed yet.
“How is that possible...? I remember sending Host and Seed, so why didn’t they collapse?”
Only when he looked inside the world lines did he understand the reason.
“Host and Seed... have completely disappeared?”
His creations, which he had released into the world lines, couldn’t be detected at all. They had all been annihilated without a trace.
“This world line as well, and this one too!”
Some remained, but others had been completely erased.
“Who the hell...? Who killed my children?”
Although his anger rose, he soon recalled someone.
“Death Scythe. That bastard...”
The image of the guy who looked up at the sky after eliminating Host and Seed vividly came to his mind.
“It must be him who killed them... A dimensional supervisor who didn’t properly investigate killed my children!”
Outrage filled him.
It wasn’t the time to focus on collapsing world lines.
First, he had to find and eliminate Death Side. Otherwise, he would surely kill his creations once more.
“I must find him. I must find out where he is...”
As he frantically searched through world lines like a madman, Deorant suddenly stopped at sensing a strange energy.
“Is this... a new world line?”
Somehow, an unknown world line had appeared.
While he was busy reducing useless world lines, one more had been created.
At that moment, Deorant’s mind went blank.
“I’m going to destroy this world line immediately!”
He had to destroy the newly created world line first. The search for Death Scythe could wait.
With that thought, he headed toward the newly added world line.
At that moment.
“Hmm? Is this... a temporal interstice?”
Deorant found himself in a temporal interstice.
“How did I end up here while searching for a world line...?”
While Deorant was puzzled.
A presence that made his eyes widen appeared from the darkness.
[You, you are...! Death Scythe!]
“Don’t call me by such a ridiculous name, will you?”
Ryu Min stepped out of the darkness, smiling. He no longer needed to imitate a god’s voice and act as the dimension’s supervisor.
The enemy had already fallen into his trap.
“You thought it was a world line? Deorant?”
[You bastard. What have you done? How did a world line turn into a temporal interstice?]
“It’s simple. I created a new world line to lure you. I figured that when a world line was created, you, obsessed with dimensional management, would come rushing in. And within it, I connected a temporal interstice to trap you.”
[So you disguised the exterior as a world line and deployed a temporal interstice inside it?]
“You understood well. I commend you.”
[How did you manage that?]
“I used the power of time. It cost a bit of tera, but it was worth it.”
[The power of time...? So you created that world line?]
“Exactly. It was me.”
Finally, they confronted each other.
The culprit behind the proliferation of useless world lines.
For Deorant, who had been focused on eliminating world lines without identifying the cause, this was a blessing.
That’s why he smiled.
[Hehehe. I finally found you. The cause of the world line proliferation.]
“Does it amuse you?”
[It’s not so much amusing as it is satisfying. Now I can eliminate the cause.]
“Eliminate, huh...?”
Ryu Min smiled.
“Do it if you can. Let’s fight to the death in my world.”
[Arrogant... Soon, you’ll understand who you’ve faced.]
The two, releasing an immense amount of tera, clashed with each other.
A warm afternoon.
Hwang Yong-min was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
“Ah. It would’ve been great to rob that jewelry store...”
He wanted to rob the jewelry store but didn’t dare out of fear of losing his life.
“Black Scythe might try to kill me again...”
He could call him Ryu Min, but Hwang Yong-min didn’t want to admit it.
He couldn’t believe the nerd he used as a messenger was actually Black Scythe.
“Even if they’re memories from a parallel universe...”
He remembered them so vividly as if they had really happened.
“There’s nothing to do, and I’m terribly bored.”
He had finished school, and university wasn’t an option for Hwang Yong-min. He had nothing left to do but idle around.
“Damn it, it would be better to go to prison. Nowadays, the food in prison is so good they call it a ‘vacation in jail.’”
Although his parents were working, he was soon planning to leave home.
He didn’t get along with his family, so being at home was uncomfortable for him.
“I guess I’ll go buy some cigarettes.”
Hwang Yong-min put on a tracksuit and sneakers and headed out to the convenience store.
“The weather is wonderfully nice today.”
A perfect day to drink with friends, but he couldn’t do that.
“Would they have also regained their memories?”
His friends must have remembered what happened in the fourth round, where they resurrected and then died by his hands.
“They’ll probably try to kill me if they see me.”
He thought it would be safer to go to prison.
“Joo Jung-sik and the others, they’re all enemies now...”
He felt uneasy and looked around, but it didn’t seem like anyone was following him.
Relieved, he crossed the street with the green light.
“Huh?”
He saw the sky.
He felt his body spin and then a dull impact.
He didn’t remember anything after that.
He didn’t know he had been hit by a car.
“Is he dead?”
The man who had hit Hwang Yong-min stepped on the gas.
Screeeech! Vroom!
“Ahhhh! There was an accident!”
“Oh my God! Where is that car going?”
“Hey! Stop!”
Although people tried to stop him, the man fled.
He was driving a stolen car, so there was no danger of being caught.
He immediately called someone on the phone.
“Boss.”
Is the job done?
“Yes.”
Did you confirm it?
“I don’t know if he’s dead, but he won’t avoid the hospital. I hit him at 100 km/h.”
That’s not enough. He must die. Anyway, good job. Leave the car in a suitable place and hide.
“Yes. It’s been an honor working with you, boss Jung-sik.”
Yes. We’ll meet again someday.
Joo Jung-sik was a relentless hunter.
Despite Black Scythe’s warning, he never let go of his prey once he had them.
That’s how Joo Jung-sik handled things.
The temporal interstice was Ryu Min’s absolute domain.
No one could escape from there as long as Ryu Min was alive.
Boom!
The tremendous vibration shook the entire barrier.
Moonlight Slaughter, infused with the power of tera, was tearing apart an entity.
[Grrr...]
Deorant, reduced to tatters, no longer had the appearance of an old man.
“Is that your true form?”
[Damn it...]
“Wait. There are still a few more rounds left. I’ll erase your existence completely.”
[Insolent! Do you think you can defeat me, a dimensional god?]
Shouting, Deorant created another cerebral energy spear.
Flash!
The cerebral energy spear and Moonlight Slaughter collided.
Crack!
The tera and tera clashed, releasing energy.
In the temporal interstice, the clash of forces had occurred several times.
Both poured tera into an attempt to annihilate each other.
But this fight couldn’t last forever.
“Moonlight Slaughter.”
Flash!
Once again, the tera collided.
The result was.
[Aaaaargh-!]
[The Soul Gauntlet has absorbed the soul of the slain entity.]
[The soul ‘Deorant’ has been stored in the gauntlet.]
[Extracting the skill from the soul ‘Deorant.’]
[...Extraction successful!]
[You have learned a new temporary skill ‘Dimensional Management.’]
[Absorbing tera from the slain entity’s body.]
[You have absorbed 62,458,548,572 tera from the soul ‘Deorant.’]
Victory was for the one with the most tera.