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Cale, invisible, approached the sanctuary walls.
The conversations between the guards and the guides reached his ears.
"Ugh! What is this? Because of Hinpa, only we are suffering! They suddenly ask us to get his share too? That doesn't make sense! We already met our quota a long time ago!"
"I know. But what can we do? You and I are the youngest. There's no other option."
The conversation between the two guides was blatant.
"How do they expect us to get sacrifices one day before the ritual? Does that make sense?"
"Ugh. I don't know. Ah, but I think we couldn't get the right ones suddenly."
One day before the ritual.
That word reached Cale's ears. Today was the day of the ritual.
Furtive glance.
Cale's gaze turned again to the sky covered in gray mist.
A guard who seemed to be the captain approached the two guides who were complaining.
"Oh, gentlemen guides, you have worked hard. We will take care of these sacrifices from now on."
"Yes. There is no more time to bring more, so take good care of these."
"Yes, sir guide."
Cale watched about ten people who had been captured.
People with different appearances and attire.
"……."
"……."
They were too scared to say a word.
'They're not NPCs. They're not semi-NPCs either.'
But they're not players either.
They are real people who were dragged from outside the game.
Cale. I think we've discovered something important.
As Super Rock said.
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At that moment, one of the people who were being dragged by the guards shouted.
He shouted towards the guides.
Cale couldn't understand the language he was speaking.
Cale.
Eruhaben, the only one who had come with him, spoke.
He was also invisible.
If my guess is correct, this is a big problem.
But the Ancient Dragon's words didn't continue.
The captain of the guards approached the man.
"This bastard, a mere sacrifice, dares to raise his voice to the gentlemen guides?"
Thump~
The captain of the guards hit the man with a club.
"Stop."
"Ah, sir guide."
"Tsk. What will happen if the sacrifice is damaged and we can't perform the ritual correctly?"
"Ah. I'm sorry!"
The captain of the guards lowered his head, and the guide averted his gaze.
Another guide approached him.
He looked at the man, who was staring at him while being tied up by the guards, and spoke.
"Take good care of this guy. He has an interesting look. These guys are always the last ones to survive."
He averted his gaze and asked the guide.
"What is he saying? Isn't he someone you brought from your world?"
"Jeje."
The guide, who heard the question, held back a laugh and replied.
"He's saying they lied to him. That they told him it was a contract, not a kidnapping."
"You brought him with a contract, not a kidnapping?"
"Yes. He was a fairly famous knight, but he needed money urgently for his daughter's treatment. So when I offered him an escort contract, he came right away."
"Ohhh. He'll fight well then."
"Yes. He'll fight with all his strength for injustice. Jeje."
The guide stopped laughing and signaled the captain of the guards to retreat.
"Captain, a moment."
Then, the guide approached the man and whispered.
"@%()-. @%)^)^*!_)."
His words made the man's gaze change.
"……."
The man, who had been biting his lip, finally let himself be carried away silently.
"What did you tell him?"
"I told him that if he wins in tonight's fight, we will not only give him the money for his daughter's treatment, but we will also get him a doctor to save her."
The other guide let out a mocking laugh upon hearing the answer.
"Despicable bastard."
The guide who had brought the man shrugged.
"Jeje."
Then, he raised his hands towards the sky in a gesture of reverence.
"For the return of Chaos-"
Only at that moment, the guide's eyes were full of sincerity.
There was a strong longing for what he truly desired.
"For the return of Chaos-"
"For the return of Chaos-"
The other guides and guards followed suit and raised a short prayer.
"Then we will take them."
The captain of the guards moved first with his men.
I will follow them.
Eruhaben moved.
I will see where they lock them up and return.
The Ancient Dragon left, and Cale remained still near the guides.
Duke Hinpa.
He was quite strong.
Not as much as him, but still quite strong.
"Let's go."
"Yes."
A few guards remained to guard the gate, and the two guides headed there.
As they did, they continued to converse.
"What happened to Duke Hinpa?"
"Didn't you see what happened in the Kingdom of Lan? He's probably dead."
"Hmm. Soon the saint will give us an answer."
"We just have to follow his will."
After saying that, the guide spoke disdainfully.
"If he died because he couldn't handle a fake kingdom, then Hinpa was an idiot. He was only strong, but useless."
"Don't talk like that. Not many had faith as strong as Duke Hinpa. And-"
The guide's words made Cale's eyes sparkle.
"And, this place is no longer fake, is it?"
"Of course."
The guide smiled.
"It's becoming real."
"Yes. That's why we're bringing sacrifices from outside."
The guide moved his head from side to side, as if he were annoyed.
"Before it was really difficult. We had to register them one by one as NPCs or players. And to do that, we had to hide from the hunters and deceive them."
The guide sighed.
"But soon all that will end."
"Yes. Soon-"
The guide's gaze turned to the sky.
A sky covered in gray mist.
"Soon, Chaos will descend."
"Yes. And we are preparing the ground for that moment."
The guide, still looking at the sky, murmured.
"Chaos-"
With those words, the two guides disappeared inside the gate.
Cale didn't enter the gate, but watched it and then returned to the forest.
"What happened?"
Cale, who had returned to the forest, was no longer invisible.
The magic circle.
Eruhaben had made it so that invisibility would automatically deactivate upon entering the magic circle where his companions were.
"They were guides and sacrifices."
Cale told Alberu everything he had seen and heard.
"Wow. Today is the Night of Pleasure."
Rosalyn couldn't hide her disappointment.
But her eyes shone with determination. She was thinking about what to do.
"Cale."
Alberu reacted to something.
"It's becoming real?"
The conversation between the two guides.
He focused on that.
The Heavenly Demon too.
"It seems that this place is becoming a real world, not a virtual reality."
Alberu continued.
"After all, the enemies' true desire is to create an absolute god and turn this New World into a real dimension to create their own absolute kingdom."
"That's right."
Cale nodded.
"But, Cale-nim."
Rosalyn joined the conversation.
"How is that possible?"
She didn't hide her doubt.
"This world is governed by a system, but let's admit that it can't see everything. From what has happened so far, many things have happened outside the system's judgment."
No one objected to this doubt.
"But, is it possible to make this world real, beyond science and magic? Didn't they say that you can't connect with divine artifacts here?"
It's true. Cale couldn't use the mirror, a divine artifact of the God of Death, here, and he could only contact the God of Death when he went to Earth 3.
"Ah."
At that moment, Alberu let out a sigh.
A sigh of understanding.
"Then, how does the power of the God of Chaos exist here?"
The moment he said that, Rosalyn and the Heavenly Demon's eyes sparkled.
"!"
"……!"
An understanding passed through their minds.
Raising My Precious Absolute God.
This game seemed to have separated reality from virtual, but there were connections between the inside and the outside everywhere.
Then, Cale spoke.
"I'll have to confirm it later through the God of Death, but I have a guess."
Cale's eyes darkened.
He reviewed the records so far.
"The enemies."
The hunter family.
The demon kingdom.
The forces of the God of Chaos.
"They have sacrificed countless lives to attract them to this game."
The laboratory created by the Transparent Blood Family was like that.
The demons who disappeared in the demon kingdom were like that.
The sacrifices brought by the cult of the God of Chaos were like that.
"I thought it was for the absolute god."
The absolute god is inside this game.
The title of the game is Raising My Precious Absolute God, isn't it? And the Wanderers of the Five-Colored Family must have a reason to stay here.
Cale thought that somewhere in this world there existed someone who would become the absolute god.
"That's why I thought they had sacrificed countless lives for the birth of the absolute god."
The one who would become the absolute god.
He had heard how he devoured humans through Kang Geun-mok, the secretary of the president of ㈜Transparent.
"But there are lives that were not sacrificed and still exist in this world."
They didn't need to ask who.
The companions first thought of an existence.
"Count Lupeh, one of the three evils, is an example."
Count Lupeh.
He wasn't sacrificed to the absolute god.
But he was still dragged into this game.
"Many, countless lives that we don't know have been dragged into this game. Isn't this place already more than virtual?"
Perhaps not just data, but something close to the soul.
Perhaps real souls had entered this game.
Surely the enemies had a device to transfer souls here, didn't they?
Like the semi-NPC registration device.
'Eden Miru.'
He's clearly an NPC, but he has a soul.
He was also an existence that proved that this world wasn't completely virtual.
"Haven't they been bringing real souls to make this world real?"
Hmm.
The Heavenly Demon sighed.
Cale spoke calmly.
"Perhaps soon, even here, it will be possible to contact the God of Death through divine artifacts."
New World.
Cale felt that the truth of this world was slowly coming into his hands.
"Wow."
The Heavenly Demon spoke in a low voice.
"We can't take this lightly."
The enemies might be more prepared than they thought.
Alberu and Rosalyn agreed silently.
"But, you know."
Cale spoke.
A subtle smile appeared on his lips.
"I think the enemies have only been stabbing each other in the back from the beginning."
Alberu, who received his gaze, soon let out an exclamation.
"Ah!"
He remembered the conversation that Cale had transmitted word for word.
'Before it was really difficult. We had to register them one by one as NPCs or players. And to do that, we had to hide from the hunters and deceive them.'
He spoke.
"The cult of the God of Chaos has been deceiving the hunters from the beginning."
"Yes."
And Cale had an idea of what that was.
The guides said.
'Soon, Chaos will descend.'
'Yes. And we are preparing the ground for that moment.'
The guides also prayed.
"For the return of Chaos."
Cale recited that prayer aloud and looked at his companions.
"I think the God of Chaos is planning to enter this game."
The place for the birth of the absolute god, where the God of Chaos will appear.
"Probably to prevent something from surpassing him, even if the absolute god is born."
Absolute.
Chaos doesn't like the absolute.
"And this sanctuary seems to be the ground for the arrival of the God of Chaos."
The Primordial Night.
This place really seemed to be an important sanctuary.
"Ha."
"Ah."
"Hmm."
Alberu, Rosalyn, and the Heavenly Demon let out different exclamations.
Cale spoke to them.
"I think we've come to the right place, at the right time."
Cale declared calmly.
"Let's turn the Night of Pleasure into the Night of Chaos."
To the enemies.
He didn't need to say who he was referring to. Everyone understood.
"Ryeon! There's a trail here too!"
Wanderer Cho found a barely visible trail and approached Ryeon.
"Ryeon, I know you're careful, but let's follow the trail even if it's a trap. Are we going to fall into those bastards' trap again?"
But Cho stopped when he saw what Ryeon was doing.
"Cho."
Ryeon looked back at him.
"Did you receive news from the family?"
Cho asked, and she replied.
"They say the saint's location is in the sanctuary."
The Five-Colored Family.
The information they gave them.
The saint is in the Primordial Night.
"Ohhh."
Cho's eyes sparkled.
"This is good. We can kill the saint and destroy the sanctuary all at once."
While murmuring in a low voice, Wanderer Ryeon added.
"The third emperor will come."
"Hmm."
Wanderer Cho sighed.
The Wanderers with five-colored singularities.
They were referring to three emperors. The third emperor was the third of them.
"Today?"
"No. Tomorrow."
"Then it's better to solve this before."
Jeje.
Cho let out a mocking laugh.
"We can destroy everything before he arrives. Isn't that right, Ryeon?"
"Correct."
Ryeon's eyes were still boiling with anger.
She was following the trail the enemy had left, suspecting it was a trap, but she was still heading towards the sanctuary.
She had no intention of falling into another trap, nor the possibility.
She would destroy everything with force.
"Let's go."
They hurried towards the canyon.
The Primordial Night.
Wanderers Cho and Ryeon headed there.
Their gazes turned to the sky.
Upon reaching the end of the jungle, they could see the sky, which was turning red.
The sun was setting.
It would soon be night.
"Ugh. Ugh."
"Ugh, damn it."
The two gasped heavily.
After crossing the desert and reaching the canyon, the two, no, the two players looked at the sky dyed red by the sunset with bright eyes.
"Jejeje! Today I will finally be able to uncover the secret!"
A man looked at the "Death Precipice" and let out a shrill laugh.
"Ugh."
The woman sighed deeply and warned him.
"Hey. Don't relax yet."
"Yes, yes! Today is a special day!"
The man was a fairly famous player in the New World.
He was the operator of a solo broadcast channel specializing in RMPAG.
'CrazyExhibitionist'
That was his username.
He was a person with many subscribers due to his various craziness in the broadcasts.
The reason he had come here with a companion to help him with the filming was simple.
"Today is a new moon, right?"
His lips curled into a smile full of anticipation.
"There are the Primordial Roots!"
The Death Precipice, the only bridge connecting the canyon, formed by four trees.
Seeing this, 'CrazyExhibitionist' had bright eyes.
"Today is the day that bridge disappears!"
The companion spoke indifferently.
"So you're going to jump off that bridge?"
"Yes! Don't you think our subscribers will be curious about what's below the canyon? Especially why that bridge only disappears on the new moon and full moon!"
The Death Precipice.
'CrazyExhibitionist' had bright eyes with the idea of performing another madness, jumping from there.
Subscribers called him Midong, Crazy Pupils.
The companion knew.
That this guy didn't just do these things for content.
He really liked craziness.
Lately he seemed obsessed with the Demon Kingdom.
"The broadcast will be interesting."
"Jejeje!"
Of course, the companion knew.
That this guy didn't just do these things for content.
He really liked craziness.
Lately he seemed obsessed with the Demon Kingdom.
"Wait for tonight!"
Jejeje!
'CrazyExhibitionist's' laughter spread across the desert with the wind.
But it didn't reach the canyon, nor the jungle, nor the sanctuary of the Primordial Night.
It didn't reach Cale either, of course.
Cale didn't know who 'CrazyExhibitionist' was.
So no one, not even Clopeh Sekka, could predict that a great legend would come true today. Cale didn't know.
"Jejeje!"
"You're completely crazy. Tsk."
The voices of the two players were soon lost in the desert wind.
'There it is.'
Cale's gaze turned towards a large temple.
A place full of numerous large and small buildings.
One of those buildings was the archive.
Cale and his companions had infiltrated the sanctuary and had arrived right in front of the temple, to the cult of the God of Chaos.
So a Streamer is gonna accidentally sneak into all the chaos and Cale is gonna make a new legend, huh? Really looking forward to this, lol 😂
ReplyDeleteIt will be very fun to watch and, above all, a headache for Cale hahaha
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