Chapter 510

That was an old promise .

⸢”I’ll finish your story for you . “⸥

I couldn’t keep that promise during the 1863rd turn .

[Your ■■ has begun shaking unsteadily!]

I pushed myself up while gripping the [Unbreakable Faith] tightly . The hilt of the sword that accompanied me from beginning till now through almost all the scenarios, could be felt in my hand .

The tip of the sword touched the ground and sentences began rising up . Sentences that I had never seen before .

⸢He was more curious about the end of this world than anyone, and . . . ⸥

⸢And more than anyone else, he wished for this world not to end . ⸥

My last Fable had begun .

” . . . . Kim Dok-Ja?”

I removed Han Su-Yeong’s hands covering my ears .

Her eyes were trembling . My reddened appearance was reflected in her irises . A lengthy wound was running across my cheek; wings were torn, and the Demon King’s horn was broken . I was truly in a mess .

And Han Su-Yeong believed in such a mess of a man until now and came this far .

[Have you made up your mind?]

The Dokkaebi King in the centre of all the exploding sparks asked me .

The beings from the 999th turn, the ‘Outer God Kings’, were doing whatever they could to fight back . The battle so far had been evenly matched, but judging from the direction of the storm of the Probability’s aftermath blowing in, it should be the 999th side falling into a disadvantage in the end .

“That’s right . ” I replied to the Dokkaebi King . “I shall cross the ‘Final Wall . ‘ And then, meet the one behind it . “

The culprit of all these tragedies, the ‘Most Ancient Dream’ .

“I’ll meet that guy, and stop all of this world’s tragedies . “

The ‘Dokkaebi King’ grinned as if he was satisfied with my decision .

[Indeed . Very good . That’s eminently possible when you become my successor . Now, come this way . Hurry, and inherit the ’s will . . . . ]

“I never said I’ll take you up on your offer . “

I activated [Way of the Wind] and the [Lightning Transformation] at the same time .

This world’s fastest movement technique was soon enveloped by the pure-white electrical energy, transforming my body into a single streak of light beam . With the fastest speed I could ever produce, I shot past both the Dokkaebi King and the Outer Gods .

The destination I chose was the deepest part of the [Final Wall] .

[You . . . . !!]

I heard the stunned voice of the Dokkaebi King . I also saw the sentences dashing across above the [Final Wall] in the distance .

⸢The place where the Abyssal Black Flame Dragon’s last scale, and Uriel’s last feather, had fallen . ⸥

I roared out in panic and dashed towards that very sentence .

⸢The place where Persephone’s last teardrop had fallen . ⸥

I needed to stop those sentences from finishing . Even if I saw the end of this world, I must never let those words come to an end .

Perhaps he had realised my intentions, the Dokkaebi King was shouting out in sheer astonishment .

[No, stop! You are not a permitted being yet! You can’t even touch that Wall, let alone cross it!]

Tsu-chuchuchut!

The moment he was finished, the storm of the Probability’s aftermath suppressed my entire body . The sparks exploded with enough force to utterly crush my Incarnation Body right down its atoms, and for a moment there, the inside of my head blanked out from the pain .

[The ‘Final Wall’ is rejecting your approach!]

The Wall was rejecting me .

It was stopping me from touching its sentences, to change them, and even from crossing over it . As if I couldn’t even be permitted to reach it at all .

In an instant, the words on the Wall widened the space, and retreated to a far-off distance .

⸢Those sentences weren’t Kim Dok-Ja’s . ⸥

Powerful gusts of wind knocked me off my feet . I was like some words cast out to the distant empty blankness, miserably rolling on the ground towards my rear . Then, my back collided with something while issuing a loud ‘thud!’

“You idiot! You think you can achieve something by rushing out all alone??”

It was Han Su-Yeong . I replied to her with a grin .

“I wasn’t rushing forward alone . “

The ’s members were running towards us from behind .

I didn’t want to lose anyone . I simply couldn’t afford to lose anyone .

“Dok-Ja-ssi! Keep running!”

Jeong Hui-Won, her [Hour of Judgement] activated, rushed towards us while scattering the reddish glow from her eyes .

Yi Hyeon-Seong and Yi Ji-Hye were positioned either side of her, while Yu Sang-Ah and the kids were right behind them . Meanwhile, Jang Ha-Yeong and our masters were taking up the rear of the group .

“Take this with you! It’s the last Life and Death Pill!”

Yi Seol-Hwa couldn’t come with us because of Gong Pil-Du, so she threw the pillbox at us, instead . I took a [Life and Death Pill] out right away and swallowed it . My wrecked Incarnation Body began recovering rapidly .

[Stop!!]

Along with the Dokkaebi King’s cry, bizarre-looking creatures revealed themselves from among the contexts of the paragraphs recorded on the Wall . They were ‘Outer Gods’, too – beings that hadn’t earned Fables worthy enough to be recorded on the Wall .

[[■■■!!▪▪▪ ▪▪▪ ▪▪▪!!]]

Not all Outer Gods followed their kings . There definitely existed some that chose to become the Dokkaebi King’s underlings despite possessing great powers themselves, and voluntarily worked as the slaves of the scenarios .

Kwa-kwakwakwakwa!!

[Stop them! If you do, I shall record your Fables on the ‘Final Wall’!]

Our martial art masters discovered tentacles rushing in from all directions and unsheathed their weapons .

“Leave this place to us . “

The Breaking the Sky Saint’s [Breaking the Sky Swordsmanship] and Kyrgios’s [Purest Sword Force] combined into a single ray of light, and engraved their sentences over the Wall .

[Great Fable, ‘The 1st Murim’, has begun its storytelling!]

Two greatest experts of Murim stopped the tentacles and a desperate struggle soon ensued . Unfortunately, the time they could buy was only for a fleeting moment .

There were simply far too many ‘Outer Gods’ flooding out from the ‘context’ the Dokkaebi King had opened up .

[All Fables of are emitting bright light!]

We couldn’t afford to waste the time our masters bought for us . The Wall’s surface recording Uriel’s and the Great Sage’s Fables had already grown that far away .

There could only be one answer . We needed to approach it fast than its retreating speed . But, how could we . . . .

It was right around then a certain paragraph floated up on the [Final Wall] .

⸢To think that a ‘Green Zone’ is located on a wall . . . To begin with, people were responsible for attaching the concept of ‘rooms’ on it, weren’t they . ⸥

I abruptly looked down at the floor we were standing on .

The floor itself was another type of ‘Wall’, laying in a different direction . And our footprints were left engraved on the Wall we ran on . The Fables we had compiled were floating up on the footprints we left behind .

⸢”By the way, Dok-Ja-ssi, what are you so focused on reading just now?”⸥

⸢It was the moment when my life’s genre changed . ⸥

⸢”The number of people remaining in the subway cabin is twelve . And there are only three insects inside the net . “⸥

⸢One world was dying, while a new world was being born . And I was the sole reader who knew the conclusion of this world . ⸥

It was from the first scenario . Back when we were trying to escape from the subway .

⸢Please select your backer . Your chosen backer will become your trusty sponsor from now on . ⸥

⸢[Constellation, ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’ is disappointed in you . ]⸥

⸢[Constellation, ‘Prisoner of the Golden Headband’ is amused by your choice . ]⸥

Those were from the Sponsor Selection . Starlights were illuminating our feet .

We began running again . The Fables created the path we should be running on .

⸢”Is it true that you’re monopolising the food?”⸥

⸢”Stand up, everyone . The scenario has just begun, after all . “⸥

⸢”An arrogant tenant showed up, I see . “⸥

⸢”Hyeon-Seong-ssi, do it now . Destroy everything, please . “⸥

Past the battles of Geumho and Chungmuro Stations, and . . .

⸢”I’m the . . . ninth quitter . ⸥

⸢” . . . . My apologies, but, may I inquire what your name is?”⸥

⸢”I’m Yu Jung-Hyeok . “⸥

The memories from the battles of the ‘Capture the Flag’ and the life-and-death struggle of the prophets were remembered next .

⸢”What an amusing thing this is . All this history belongs to the past, yet why have you all gathered in this place once more?”⸥

⸢”That bastard is nicknamed the tyrant king . Doesn’t matter whether you’re a man or woman, you’ll be taken as a concubine if you’re pretty enough, and if you’re not, either you’ll be killed off or become his slave . “⸥

⸢”In that case, Dok-Ja-ssi, you’ll end up as a slave if you get caught . “⸥

⸢The top dog among the Seoul’s Seven Kings was, of course, the Conquering King Yu Jung-Hyeok . ⸥

We greeted the Gwanghwamun’s ‘Battle of the Kings’, and . . .

⸢”That’s why I will not sit down on the ‘Absolute Throne’ . “⸥

… . And, I destroyed the [Absolute Throne] .

⸢”However, I won’t permit anyone else to sit down on this throne, either . “⸥

Every moment had been a battle against adversity . Not one scenario was easy, and we always had to risk our lives and fight the odds .

All these tragedies had become a story in the end . And we were running with that story .

Fables untangling endlessly like a ball of threads soon formed a single image . That image soon morphed into a white tiger . A white tiger sporting noble whiskers and stripes was now running beside me .

[Fable, ‘King of a Kingless World’, is seeing you off on your journey . ]

The ‘King of a Kingless World’ – my nativity Fable was seeing me off .

The white tiger created the path we must tread on and roared out loudly, before coming to a sudden stop – as if the road from here on wasn’t its to create, its yearning eyes chasing after my path .

[Fable, ‘One Who Opposes the Miracles’, is seeing you off on your journey . ]

Before long, my second Fable taking on the figure of a blue hawk was flying above my head . It was the Fable I earned by killing the Returnee Myung Il-Sang who descended as the ‘Calamity of Questions’ .

[Fable, ‘One Who Scorned the Storyteller’, is seeing you off on your journey . ]

Our every Fable was enabling us to run on the [Final Wall] .

The expressions of my companions also changed as their own Fables appeared . Yi Hyeon-Seong hesitantly looked behind over and over again, while Shin Yu-Seung couldn’t hold it anymore and broke down in tears .

⸢This was the road they had lived on, and the story they need to finish . ⸥

[Fable, ‘One Who Hunted the King of Disasters’, is seeing you off on your journey . ]

The Fable I earned by hunting the shadow of ‘Yamato no Orochi’ back in the [Peaceland]; a gigantic shadow of a snake was supporting the road we were running on .

Every single one of them was a precious story to us . We lived all those moments to their fullest and that’s why all of us were here now .

Tsu-chuchuchuchut!

Our Fables lost their strengths and collapsed as the storm of aftermaths grew harsher and harsher .

[Fable, ‘One Who Murdered the Outer God’, is seeing you off on your journey . ]

A Fable resembling a massive squid protected us from the aftermath’s storm .

[Fable, ‘Demon King of Salvation’, has begun telling its last story . ]

With every ounce of energy I could muster, I wielded the [Unbreakable Faith] . We shook off the incoming ‘Outer Gods’ and dashed towards the [Final Wall] .

The Fables of the Constellations were still telling their stories in the distance even now .

⸢The ‘Flame of Conflagration’ fell out from Uriel’s hand . In that last moment, she looked up at a certain star shining in the night sky . And then . . . . ⸥

It was still not too late . Uriel, the Abyssal Black Flame Dragon, and even the Great Sage, they were all still alive .

This story could be changed .

[The ‘Final Wall’ is not permitting your approach!]

We only had to go a little bit further .

[‘Access prevention process’ has been initialised . ]

And then, our steps came to a halt .

Right before our eyes stood thin, transparent walls layered one after another . Each wall was made up with incredible density .

We struck it several times, but its sturdiness couldn’t be broken through the powers of individual Fables .

We could now see the ‘Outer Gods’ ignoring our masters and rushing towards us . The Dokkaebi King seemed to be relieved now as he shouted something at us, too .

I ignored them all and looked up at the night sky .

⸢All the stars of the universe had dimmed, but that didn’t mean every single of them did . ⸥

A ripple-like thing spread out from a certain spot in the night sky . The first one to realise what was going on was Han Su-Yeong . She rubbed her eyes hard and muttered out .

“He’s way too late!”

The front section of a train could be seen dashing towards us . Surya’s sun train was rushing in our direction as the ark’s debris could be seen bouncing off its hull .

[Constellation, ‘Supreme God of Light’, is incarnating into the Final Scenario’s location!]

[Apologies for my tardiness, Demon King of Salvation . ]

He had finally attained the Status of a Myth-grade, and arrived in this stage by crossing the night sky .

“Not at all . You are just in time . “

[Great Fable, ‘Demon World’s Spring’, has begun its storytelling!]

Finally, the condition for the ‘Beginning/Gi(起)’ had been satisfied .

[The ‘Stage Transformation’ is activating!]

Fin .