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As soon as I finished speaking, a cheerful sound penetrated my head. With a creaking sound, the soggy winter surface flipped vertically toward the ground.
The soft light flowing from the mirror illuminated the ground on which everyone, including Sehyun, stood. It was a strange light that felt like it was falling like a waterfall.
[As I mentioned earlier, the time you can be in Luzebua’s cognitive world is approximately a week from the moment you enter. Of course, it could be shorter than that, or it could be longer. Therefore, the time period recommended by our guides is about five days.]
Five days with everything at stake.
[If you do not find Luzebua’s self within that time, you will be at a crossroads in two directions. Either you get eaten by the pollution, or you get trapped there forever. Even if you manage to get out, the barrier will be broken and you will end up in an all-out war with ‘Beusbrihel’. Of course, I don’t know if that would be possible without the goddess’s armor.]
“Well, I… “It’s like you’re saying bad things or something, and then, tsk.”
Someone clicked their tongue and glared at Billwill, frowning as if agreeing with everything he said. Billwill looked down at the players standing silently in the soft light.
The slowly blinking gaze brought back a long flashback. The guides did not live with such dry emotions and expectations from the beginning.
When welcoming the first planet, the guides had no doubt that the Lord Players would save the world. However, as the number of new arrivals to the planet increased, the guides began to live with giving up and failure in their hearts, as is natural.
Perhaps, like the goddess, they too may have been contaminated by the evil of ‘Beusbrihel’. The time spent living in a world where hope was out of reach was painfully lonely. Even though they knew that the end was certain, the guides summoned different planets each time and guided them, and watched them knowing that they would fail. Deciding it was fate.
They believed that this was the only way to carry on the will of the goddess.
The 42nd planet Earth has arrived. The guides foresaw the end of this long ordeal. However, because Earth is a planet like a double-edged sword, the guides could not conclude that this was the end of hope.
However, each time they achieved something, the guides gradually realized what their duty was and with what feelings and minds they had started this long journey.
It all started when, in the turbulent days when I lived forgetting my duties and rules, someone first said ‘please’.
【There is one thing I would like to ask you, is it possible?】
This planet was the first time I asked the guides for something. And the person who first uttered that request was an empress with noble eyes and white fur, half human and half horse.
Since then, numerous players have come to Billwill and the guides to ask and request many things. The players asked countless questions and made demands to the guides, crossing the thin line, to the extent that the guides, who had forgotten even their duties, put their heads together and discussed logic and nature.
【I will ask you a question.】
【I will ask a question.】
【May I ask you some questions?】
【Do you know how to kill it?】
There was only one purpose: to fight against ‘Beusbrihel.’
[We are aware of the many hardships and hardships you have gone through. At times, I have been inspired and inspired countless times by your accomplishments. Sometimes, your frustration becomes a dagger. Therefore, I know well the bitterness of the futility of having to break down in the face of adversity.]
The guides were the ones who were here after experiencing that bitterness more than anyone else. Torture of hope and despair thousands and tens of thousands of times. It was the guides who wanted this cycle to end more than anyone else.
[Nevertheless, I have never given you any words of comfort or apology. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to you on behalf of all guides. I sincerely pray that you will come back. Please find Luzebuia’s self and persuade him.]
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Billwill’s mouth. Everyone knew what that smile meant. Now it was time to go.
Everyone raised their gaze towards the mirror where soft light was pouring in. Preparations are complete. Now the only thing left was to participate.
[I will open the door to Luzebuia’s ‘Cognitive World.’]
There was a sound of wind blowing from somewhere. In the distance, the sound of water splashing against rocks mingled with me, and I felt the cool breeze on my skin, where I had previously felt nothing.
Before I could even realize what it was, an intense light shined down from above my head. Everyone covered their eyes with their arms and hunched over. A distant border of light divided the line of space.
The ground beneath my feet floated, and my body began to be consumed little by little by the brilliant light. Accordingly, the sound of the wind and waves became closer and closer. When the sound became a vivid feeling and reached him, Sehyeon saw his own body being erased by the light.
Soon, the world became bleached white. However, before being swallowed by the light, Sehyeon saw the shadow of someone standing in the distance. It was a man with a familiar face, a goat’s head and a body so tightly muscled that it was ferocious.
As soon as I realized that, the world turned upside down countless times. I told him that only Lee Jae-young’s hand, which was tightly holding my clothes, was alive and breathing. Dozens of times he felt the ground beneath his feet sinking, and before he knew it, Sehyun was standing in a quiet world.
Along with the chill, I could sense a thick, fishy smell coming from the tip of my nose. When she opened her closed eyes, she saw a black world. I couldn’t hear anyone breathing. Dead, breathing figures were vaguely visible in the dark space.
One thing was certain: everyone was in one place. Sehyun, Fen, Jaeyoung Lee, Baluk, Rijeong, Theo, Dohyeon Baek, Tyra, Hume, and Ryoma, were all in one space.
When the sound of waves came from somewhere, Sehyeon realized the identity of the chill. The ground they stood on was waterlogged. The icy water flowed over everyone’s ankles.
slam-
There was the sound of waves hitting the reef again from somewhere. Sehyeon looked around him. Maybe it was night, everything was dark. Only after someone took out a flash artifact from the inventory was Sehyeon able to check the surrounding terrain.
It was a space filled with bricks all around. It felt like I was trapped inside a circular tower. There was a spiral staircase overhead with no end in sight. The open sky was darkness itself.
The place where everyone was was at the very bottom of the tower. Right where the stairs start.
“Everyone go up the stairs quickly!”
Only after hearing Fen’s urgent words did I realize that the water was up to my calves. Se-hyeon parted the water and ran to the stairs while holding on to Lee Jae-young. The water lapping around my legs looked like it was alive. The water was pitch black and colder than ice. The black water was rising frighteningly from under the tower.
The ominous news continued there. At one point, white letters appeared before everyone’s eyes. Up the stairs, the sound of a flash artifact falling was heard.
Sehyun’s eyes also trembled like the light that blinked and brightened the surroundings. A few lines of text made my heart pound. It was nothing else.
[Entered the 94th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
[You have entered the 95th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
[Entered the 96th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
[Entered the 97th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
[You have entered the 98th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
[You have entered the 99th floor of the ‘Tower of Tests.’]
Floating in front of my blank gaze was a sentence that I had only seen inside the tower. And not just one, but numerous layers.
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As soon as the light and the 10 road players facing the guides disappeared, Numan walked slowly. It wasn’t long before Numan came. I stood from afar, overheard their conversation, and watched their final moments as if sending them off.
On the way to the end, there were many people who made eye contact with Numan. From Fan and Rijeong who bowed their heads as if asking for her to look after her, to Theo and Hume who looked at her with indifferent expressions, to Jaeyoung Lee who stared at them indifferently.
And the last person I passed by was Sehyun.
Jeopuk-
Numan raised his head arrogantly and approached the guides.
“I would like to ask you one favor.”
[A favor requires something in return. And depending on the severity of the request, the price you have to pay will also vary.]
“Look at that stingy little thing. Oh, anyway, you can just give it to me.”
[Let’s listen.]
“Please call all the people who are messing around outside here. “They are saying that if those top 10 guys fall, they will all die, so does it make sense that they don’t know anything?”
Numan snorted loudly and twisted the bridge of his nose and rolled his eyes, wondering what was so displeasing.
“I believe that everyone has the right and the right to know about the current situation. So, please call out to those bastards who are sleeping outside with their feet stretched out. I’m going to be so upset. “It’s sad that I wasn’t able to participate as a participating member, but why did you hide it?”
[…] Rights and qualifications.]
“This is why I hate superiors. We need to expose everyone and give them equal rights to know. Are you the only ones who know this? Well, if they die, what happens? Shall we sleep together too? “Someone please find me!”
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It was from Fan and Li Jeong who visited him last night that Numan heard about the goddess’ pollution and the cognitive world. The reason Huen and Li Jeong visited Numan was to ask her to manage her alliance on their behalf when she would be away for a while.
And Numan thought that everyone should know this fact before making their request. That was what Numan thought was ‘fairness’.
