Chapter 274

Surya was beyond the last door . Yoo Jonghyuk’s fist struck the door and broke it down, revealing a pierced skyline with strong winds . The last train car with Surya was cut apart, as if it had been ripped out by something .

[You came sooner than expected . ]

Surya stared at the sky and spoke with his back to us . A square space was visible beyond the cut train . The light of the divine being stretched out into the darkness . It was like a palm gathering sand on a vast beach .

I deliberately spoke in a polite tone, “Surya, let’s stop here . ”

The divine light that couldn’t touch the providence of the universe looked at me . Surya’s eyes stared at me . They seemed to be saying that even if they didn’t understand the Star Stream, there was no way they couldn’t read everything about me .

[A man who knows the ending of all the worlds… it is a really wild story . ]

Perhaps Surya had heard the sentence of my ‘giant story . ’ Before I could answer, King Oedipus stood by Surya’s side and replied, [It is just a metaphor . A pun . ]

It was rather fortunate if he thought so . I felt a bit uncomfortable since the story contents came directly from me .

[The constellation ‘Mass Production Maker’ is questioning your sentences . ]

[The constellation ‘God of Wine and Ecstasy’ is wondering about your giant story . ]

[The constellation ‘Prisoner of the Golden Headband’ is telling him to be nervous . ]

[The constellation ‘Maritime War God’ is forming clenched fists . ]

[The constellation ‘Secretive Plotter’ is looking at you . ]

Surya’s gaze towards me was changing . I realized that no matter what I said, I couldn’t stop him .

[Come on child . The time given to you is 10 minutes . ]

Surya’s four arms were raised in a fighting posture . His size gradually became bigger as he opened up his status . He didn’t use any weapons . Surya intended to exclude me simply using the pure power of stories .

[10 minutes later, this carriage will collide with the Demon World . ]

There was no more need to delay and Yoo Jonghyuk rushed in first . A blue aura reminiscent of the Breaking the Sky Sword Saint emerged from Yoo Jonghyuk’s body . The Breaking the Sky Swordsmanship was spreading its light .

I wasn’t the only one affected by the giant story . Yoo Jonghyuk also had a stake in this story . Despite his injured body, Yoo Jonghyuk was now able to exert a power equivalent to a constellation .

There was the sound of a blade and a pole colliding . It wasn’t Surya who received Yoo Jonghyuk’s attack .

[Kuooh…!]

King Oedipus let out a pained groan as he confronted Yoo Jonghyuk .

[Kuaaack!]

Oedipus squeezed out power from an overheated incarnation body but he seemed to be having a hard time dealing with Yoo Jonghyuk .

“Kim Dokja!” Along with Yoo Jonghyuk’s cry, I leapt through Oedipus’ defenses and headed to Surya . In the air of the train, the several times larger Surya greeted me .

[The exclusive skill ‘Electrification’ Lv . 12 (+2) has been activated . ]

I was surrounded with the light of Electrification and a blue-white energy struck Surya’s chest . The other time, Surya stopped my Electrification with one fist .

However, this time was different . Surya’s skin was touched by the blue-white energy and started burning . This was from a slight blow .

Surya’s eyebrows twitched with surprise . I flew through the air and collided with Surya’s fists . The shock shook my heart but I endured it .

[The power of the ‘giant story’ is working for you . ]

The world’s sentences were swirling around me . The power allowed me to compete with the mighty narrative-grade constellation . This was a great story but Surya was still alive .

[I said it before . You can’t win with the skills you have stolen . ]

Maybe it was as Surya stated . I always struggled with the skills of others .

“This isn’t something that I stole from others . I read it . ”

[Read?]

As Persephone told me, an existence was a story . Memories of sentences that had been read for many years . Everything that I had read and seen now became me .

[The exclusive skill, ‘Fourth Wall’ is strongly activated . ]

On the Fourth Wall, the sentences of the giant story emerged .

「 This is the story of a reader . 」

I ran towards Surya . In the trail of my run was the countless hours I spent alone reading . It was an ordinary life . I sat alone in a dark room and read Ways of Survival . On the bus after my part time job was over, in the army, in the classroom, on the subway home from work…

「 At the same time, it is the story of Dokja . 」

I lived in that world alone . I entered the mind of countless characters and became different beings again and again .

[Only this story…]

Therefore, I was a regressor who had never regressed .

[The exclusive skill ‘Way of the Wind Lv . 11 (+1) is activated!]

A returnee who had never returned .

[The number three bookmark has been activated . ]

[The exclusive skill ‘Beast King’s Sensitivity Lv . 10 (+1)’ has been activated . ]

Maybe I was a reincarnator .

Surya’s face slightly distorted as he was confronted with my ‘status . ’ Every time our statuses clashes, I could feel our bodies being destroyed . Surya was also pulling out all the power he could .

[This is too much! It is ridiculously insufficient to get the qualification of the end!]

I shook my head . “It seems like you are mistaken about something . It isn’t only the giant stories that can reach the end . ”

Maybe Surya wouldn’t understand . I had only received enlightenment after learning from Yoo Jonghyuk’s myriad failures .

Surya’s face hardened and he concentrated his strength into his four arms . Perhaps this would be Surya’s last attack .

I didn’t back down and stood up to him using the power of Electrification . The glare of the sun that melted everything was fired towards me . The blue-white light couldn’t overcome the high temperature and was pushed little by little .

I had just taken a step or two back when a rough and solitary story wrapped around me from behind . It wasn’t necessary to see whose story it was .

The sparks between Surya and I became more intense . Slowly, the pushing stopped .

[The constellation ‘Master of Steel’ is looking at you . ]

[The constellation ‘Master of the Skywalk’ is looking at you . ]

Lee Hyunsung and Yoo Sangah . There was also Jung Heewon’s story . The history of all those who struggled to survive was nestled inside me .

「 The woman who woke up from a long crouch and laughed while holding a sword to destroy evil . 」

They weren’t here but there were others who shared our history .

「 The boy who lost his mother and held the insect in his hand cried . 」

「 The man who built the castle roared for the family that wouldn’t come back . 」

Lee Gilyoung and Gong Pildu .

「 The woman who built up the truth by lying gladly became his shadow . 」

There was also Han Sooyoung .

[The exclusive attribute ‘Scenario Interpreter’ is activated!]

Everything I lived made their way into the story . Surya’s incarnation body was right in front of me . Surya’s weakness was something that couldn’t be read with the Duke of Loyalty and Warfare’s stigma . Yet strangely, at this moment I knew where to stab Surya .

[The exclusive skill ‘Reading Comprehension’ is activated . ]

Unbroken Faith shone brightly and an intense white light pierced Surya’s chest . There was the sound of something breaking as I poured out all my magic power before flying through the sky .

Among the fragments of the story that poured through the air like a fountain, the collapsed Surya could be seen .

[Surya! The Supreme God of Light!] Oedipus shouted and the situation started falling apart .

Meteorites were oxidized in the atmosphere and Surya’s train collapsed . I was falling towards the ground .

“Kim Dokja!”

Yoo Jonghyuk flew like the wind and grabbed me while the chimera dragon picked up my falling companions . It was truly a narrow escape . A few fragments of the last car left a long trail as they fell towards the ground . The shattered debris wept . Fortunately, the industrial complex wasn’t going to be hit .

Shin Yoosung was watching me from the head of the chimera dragon . “Ahjussi!”

Joy could clearly be seen on the child’s expression .

The next moment, a voice was heard from the cloud of dust on the ground . [Not yet! Not yet!]

It was King Oedipus . The miserable looking existence shouted at us from among the fallen constellations .

[The Demon King of Salvation! I know that the succession of the giant story hasn’t ended yet! If you give us the story, we will leave here . ]

The game was already over but he still hadn’t given up . It was Yoo Jonghyuk who replied on my behalf . “Why should we?”

Yoo Jonghyuk landed on the ground, dropped me down and took out the Black Demon Sword . Then King Oedipus spoke . [Otherwise, your precious world will disappear . ]

“Do you want to talk about fate again? I know you don’t have enough probability left in the Demon World . ”

[What if it isn’t the Demon World?]

He flicked his fingers and a huge panel appeared in the air . It showed a blue planet that we knew well .

Yoo Jonghyuk frowned . “It seems you’ve sold your pride as a constellation . Is this your last hurrah?”

At this point, it was impossible to destroy Earth even if all of Olympus’ probability was used . Yoo Jonghyuk was aware of this and wasn’t panicked at all . King Oedipus laughed .

[It’s impossible to destroy Earth . But what about this?]

He flicked his fingers again and the screen changed . At this moment, the faces of Yoo Jonghyuk and the party members hardened .

The Korean Peninsula was engulfed in flames .

***

“If I knew this, I would’ve gone to the Demon World . ”

Han Sooyoung frowned as she gazed at Gyeonggi-do burning with red and blue flames . In fact, there was a reason why Han Sooyoung didn’t go to the Demon World .

[You are currently cursed by the demon king ‘Andras . ’]

Han Sooyoung had been caught in Kim Dokja’s plot and cursed by the demon king . Thanks to this, she would become the meal of the demon king as soon as she visited the area . Lee Gilyoung stomped his feet beside her and shouted, “Won’t everyone be with Dokja hyung by now? I wish I was Shin Yoosung…”

“I guess so . However, that place will be harder than here . ”

Han Sooyoung felt the disaster coming through the flames and gulped . After Kim Dokja’s group left for the personal scenario, the disaster scenario had come to the Korean Peninsula .

[The time limit for the disaster scenario is 30 minutes . ]

The problem was the disaster that came this time were constellations .

“Damn Olympus . ”

She didn’t know what type of back-door dealings they made with the dokkaebis of the bureau but the constellations of Olympus had come as the ‘disasters’ of this scenario . Due to the difficulty, the scenario would end after 30 minutes . In these 30 minutes, the Korean Peninsula was likely to disappear from Earth .

“What are you going to do now?” Gong Pildu asked while blowing out cigarette smoke .

The reason the Gyeonggi-do area had lasted so far was thanks to Gong Pildu’s Armed Fortress . Han Sooyoung replied, “Just hold on a bit longer . There is a way . ”

“The opponents are the incarnation bodies of constellations . There are more than five of them . How are you going to win? You aren’t Kim Dokja . ”

Their auras showed they were great-grade constellations . Perhaps they were ancient heroes or lesser gods of Olympus .

[There are only small people on this little land!]

Her head hurt from all the noise . Han Sooyoungcalmly pulled out a dark stone .

[Abyss Stone . ]

It was an item Kim Dokja told her to collect before they separated . Thanks to this item, she could send the other party members to the Demon World despite lacking probability . She had used three so far and there were six remaining . The number was a bit lacking but this was the only way .

“This… I didn’t know I would use them catching bugs . ”

As Lee Gilyoung’s insects protected the fortress and Gong Pildu’s fortress continued firing, Han Sooyoung started the descent ceremony by offering the Abyss Stone .

It was just for a short time but she could call an existence to balance this twisted scale .

Sparks flew and the Abyss Stones started to disappear one by one as an offering . It was a fearsome presence who could only use a portion of their power through the six Abyss Stones .

The sky of Gyeonggi-do turned dark and filled with thunder . A huge shadow was revealing itself behind Han Sooyoung . Han Sooyoung sighed lightly and slowly opened her eyes . “Black dragon . You can do whatever you like . ”

[The constellation ‘Abyssal Black Flame Dragon’ is grinning and revealing white teeth . ]

TL: Rainbow Turtle