_ Volume 22 Episode 3
528. 95th floor. Essence (2)
Taesan looked around. It was a world of dust that barely held its shape, where he could feel nothing.
“Is this your planet?”
“It was once so. It was radiant above all else, and full of those who served Me. My apostles protected the planet from the outside, and My Grace covered the planet. It was a place filled with happiness and joy, where no one was in distress.”
But that was a very long time ago, a very long time ago. Now this place is completely dead.
“It’s bitter.”
Essential smiled bitterly. The countless mortals who had served him. The apostles he had personally baptized. All of them had disappeared without his knowledge. How they must have cried out his name as they disappeared. Thinking about it made his heart ache.
But that’s already in the past.
Essential’s face became calm.
“There is not a single mortal who remembers me.
“No. It’s a strange feeling.”
“Are you sad?”
“It’s sad. But, well, believers can gather. The same goes for apostles. People tend to gather around great people. That part is not a problem.”
Essential chuckled.
The Essential was different from the gods of Levinenov and Akasha. The Essential was the god who governed the concept itself. To him, the faith of mortals was only a secondary part.
If you wish, you can gather your faith at any time
I could strengthen my divinity. There was no problem.
“By the way, I didn’t know you’d be here so soon. I told the magician, but I thought it would take quite some time.”
“Is this the place?”
The Essential said that in order to see the essence, an altar and a sanctuary are needed. But it is not known whether they will be managed or whether there will be mortals left.
This appeared to be the planet where the altar and sanctuary were located.
“It doesn’t look all right, but is there anything left?”
“Because it’s my sacred relic. It won’t rust or anything over time unless I disappear. But… … it did collapse.”
Essential rolled his feet. Dust exploded, revealing his surroundings.
In Taesan’s field of vision, numerous pillars and decorations were visible scattered on the ground.
“As you can see, it looks like this. Would you mind helping me out a little?”
“Do you need my help?”
“This is an altar and a sanctuary. It is a building for me. In other words, if I build it myself, the meaning of the altar and sanctuary will be lost.
“It’s messy.”
“Is that a problem too?”
“Did someone else make it for me? Did I make it for myself? Or did I make it for those who serve me? Depending on each of those, many things you touch will change, so it is good to be aware of it.”
“okay.”
The conclusion was that Taishan had to build an altar and a sanctuary. Essential chuckled.
“I’ll explain, so take your time. Oh, by the way, your body is like this.
“You have to make it yourself. If you use your abilities, the meaning becomes blurred.”
“It’s quite annoying.”
“After all that hassle, a concept emerges.”
In order to know the essence anyway, an altar and a sanctuary were needed. Taishan raised the pillar.
It wasn’t that difficult. I started slowly building the altar and sanctuary while listening to Essential’s advice.
“You look like you have a lot on your mind.”
As the sanctuary was gradually built, Essential asked Taishan.
“Have you thought a little more about yourself?”
“To some extent.”
Taesan lifted the pillar and swung it. The pillar, which was larger than the mountain, was lifted easily and stuck to the ground.
Taesan became stronger and gained a lot of experience. He returned to easy mode and fought and won against Goshin, although he was not in perfect condition.
And in the process, I learned a lot about myself.
“There is something inside me.”
What was once a half-doubt has now become a certainty.
“And that’s probably something to do with the old gods.”
Taesan felt a sense of alienation and familiarity in Easy Mode. Easy Mode was a place created by Koshin. There was no reason for him to feel familiar.
He knocked down the gatekeeper and something happened inside him. He took the gatekeeper’s power as if he was happy. It was as if it were his own.
And forced reach.
At that time, there was no blackness inside him. What was left after being pulled to the bottom was nothing more than a fragment that could not form a form.
Forced access does not make the impossible possible. Originally, the black color would not have flowed out. Taesan also anticipated this and immediately planned to use other means.
But black came out.
More, and darker, than he expected.
It felt as if something completely different inside him had been pulled out.
“You want to know the essence, so in the end, you want to know that.”
“That’s not wrong.”
Taesan answered and continued building. It gradually began to take on a complete shape.
Essential, who had been staring blankly at Mt. Taesan, opened his mouth.
“I have seen what is in you.”
Taesan’s body stopped. Essential continued speaking calmly.
“I’m sorry to say this, but I
“I couldn’t stand the gold. I tried to see your true nature without you noticing. I’m sorry.”
“… … Okay.”
I tried to find out, but it was meaningless. It was something I had half expected. It was impossible for a god of substance not to be curious about his true nature.
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Taesan didn’t care because he would naturally come to know the essentials anyway.
“Thank you. Anyway, I was curious after hearing you. About your existence.”
It is clearly a being of this world.
However, you can manipulate the power of beyond and fuse it to create distorted concepts.
Taesan was a mysterious being to Essential. That’s why he couldn’t stand it and tried to see inside it.
“But something inside you drove me away.”
Taesan’s eyebrows twitched.
“Your insides were twisted. They were broken and wrong. And there was something inside them. It was reading your insides, regardless of your will.
“He chased me away and denied me.”
Kuuuung!
The altar and the sanctuary gradually take shape.
“I don’t know what’s inside you, but at least it has nothing to do with your will. If you had noticed, you could have immediately chased me away from trying to read your essence. Because that is your essence after all. No one else can see it. But it wasn’t you who chased me away.”
There was something else inside Taishan.
“Do you know what that means?”
“… … I don’t know.”
“It means that there is something inside you that is strong enough to chase me away.”
Taesan looked at the essential. The gaze that penetrated the essence was directed at Taesan.
The God of Essence. Only the main character can stop Essential from reading his inner self. No one else can.
For that to be possible, the opponent had to be equal to or greater than God in essence.
Kuuuung!
The final piece has been put in place.
“It’s finished.”
Essential stood up.
“Then let’s begin.”
The Essential entered the sanctuary. In the middle was a human-sized mirror.
One was floating in the air.
“I am the God of essence. I govern the very concept of the essence of the universe. Even if the transcendent being reveals his own essence to me, I can see everything.”
It is a concept given to the Essential. It is an authority that the Transcendent One, who is permitted to rule over the concept of essence, can naturally do.
“But you can’t.”
The tips of your fingers point towards Mt. Taishan.
“You can’t read that way. There is something alien inside you.
Because it denies my intervention. Since it is sleeping inside you, I cannot force it to be resolved.”
“……then?”
“So what we need is an altar and a sanctuary.”
Essential applauds. The altar, which had been dormant for a long time, begins to function according to the will of its master.
Kiiiiiing!
“I cannot solve your essence. I can only provide a place and a possibility. What is inside you and what relationship it has to you is up to you.
“You have to figure it out yourself.”
Ah, warm.
Fingers snap. The altar and the sanctuary synchronise, amplifying the power of the Essential.
“What I will do to you now is the same as the test I gave to my apostles. You must pour out your own thoughts and break the wavering of your heart. Of course, you will not have such wavering.”
For a being that has transcended, there is no such thing as self-shake. In the first place, if there is such a being, even if it is a god,
Even if you reach the state of enlightenment, it is nearly impossible to reach transcendence.
“What you have to break is your imagination.”
The snow on Taishan sank. Essential clenched his fist.
“Place a mirror behind you, relax your whole body, and do not resist.”
The power contained in the fist covers Mount Tai.
At the same time, the essence of Taishan is revealed to the world.
Kuuuung!
It was huge. A huge image bursts out, bigger than the world can contain. And it gets sucked into the mirror.
“eww “
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Essential’s face hardened. It was bigger and darker than he had expected. Essential quickly waved his hand. In an instant, the inside of the mirror expanded hundreds of times.
Something thick, thick, and not of this world is sucked into the mirror.
Taesan felt a very strange sensation. It felt like something inside him was slipping away.
And at that moment.
[stop.]
The voice echoed. This time, even Taesan could hear it clearly.
A somewhat languid, yet greedy, yet tired. The voice of an old man.
Card grab.
Black explodes. It swirls around and tries to exclude. It spits out.
They try to trample and destroy the inner self.
“Hahahaha!”
And the essentials were greeted with a madness.
“It popped out! I don’t know what it is! It happened before! But not now!”
Essential raises both fists and swings them.
Kookookookookung!
It is the power over the essence itself. It tramples and subdues anything that resists in harmony with the sanctuary.
“Just lie down quietly!”
Essential clasps both hands together and strikes, completely crushing any resistance and throwing it into the mirror.
“Hoo!”
Essential turns his hand with a refreshing face.
“It’s clean now. It’s been bothering me since last time.”
“… … It’s strange.”
It was a feeling of emptiness. Something that had filled him up was gone.
“Your entire image is contained within that mirror. You can retrieve it whenever you wish. As long as there are no beings in your way.”
Taesan looked into the mirror.
The inside was filled with ash. Essential nodded.
“Go in and see with your own eyes what is inside you and what you are made of.”
Taishan stepped forward. The mirror swallowed Taishan’s body.
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