#Episode 14
No reason to keep him alive? None.
There is, but there isn’t.
I will think that it does not exist and will not even assume that it exists.
This rascal who is covering my colleague’s face in this place is dying.
He clenched his fist tightly. White smoke rose.
I see a guy with a confused expression. I ignore him.
Just like that, he brought his fist down once more.
[The Seven Bonds of the Holy Fire of the White Lotus Sect.]
[Chapter 3 Blood King’s Fist]
Kwaaaaaaaang-!!
A huge crater is dug and the thing is thrown into it.
It was covered in dust, but I could see the face of the beast, spitting blood from the corner of its mouth and looking very pained.
I just held my thumb and middle finger together and flicked it.
Thump.
[The Seven Bonds of the Holy Fire of the White Lotus Sect.]
[Chapter 1. Breaking the Heavens with a Bullet.]
Pubbubu-!
Something like a bullet pierced the abdomen of the guy who was lying on the ground.
The bastard vomited blood again.
Cool.
I opened my mouth as soon as I heard that sound.
“Which apostle are you?”
“… … You… … Who the hell are you? Who the hell are you to have such power… … .”
I snapped my fingers again.
Phew.
Blood spurts into the bastard’s abdomen.
“Do you know what the hardest thing in the world is?”
“… … Cool.”
“You’re talking to a little kid. I ask the questions and you answer them. That’s our rule. It hasn’t even been two minutes since I told you. Do you forget that? This is not stupid.”
That was when.
“… … Ha, if that kid uses his strength outside of the standard range like this… … Oh my.”
Should I say it was unexpected?
It was a surprisingly normal voice.
I narrowed my eyes. All the wounds on the bastard’s body had disappeared.
The regeneration is clear.
The guy just sat up. He looked around and then clapped his hands loudly.
[First Immortal Technique.]
[Chapter 1 Spatial Isolation]
The world before my eyes changed. Space began to distort.
I looked around with strange eyes.
This is a space within space.
The space on the outskirts of the dimension is clear.
The guy slowly got up from his seat. The crater was still there, but the people who had been ‘watching’ around it had disappeared, and the collapsed spaces were still collapsing.
Should I say that it was a space where time had stopped? It was definitely a very strange world.
“You’re using a technique that’s not even funny.”
The bastard slowly cleared his throat.
Knock knock.
“I didn’t know the original would come back.”
“I didn’t know. I really thought you’d come back.”
“How did you get back?”
“Why don’t you tell me? Even if you tell that stupid kid, he won’t understand.”
“… … .”
“That’s not wrong, but why is your expression like that?”
One step, the thing moves. At the same time, wings sprout from behind the thing.
“I am the 189th apostle.”
“Guinea.”
“The number of the apostles represents the order of strength. It is higher than the 200th one you were acting like.”
“Even if you say it’s high, it’s just the same. Whether it’s 189 or 200, it’s only a week’s difference based on a one-month-old dog. Aren’t you being too confident?”
The guy snickers.
“Here, the apostle can release his power.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“There’s no way the human world can handle the power of the Apostles. Yes, your arrogance ends here.”
He scratched his chin.
I didn’t understand it at all. That was when I was about to open my mouth.
The guy is kicking the seat. His movements are unexpected. He’s pretty fast.
Suddenly, a shining sword was in his hand.
This is no ordinary sword. It is a sword made of mana.
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He swung it just like that. It was just as fast.
This whole process took just over 0.1 seconds.
Yeah, that was it.
Kwaaaaang-!!
My hair flutters in the wind with a loud noise.
It was simple.
The bastard’s sword was in my right hand, and he was looking at me with a puzzled expression.
“……uh?”
The distance is approximately 20 cm.
He spoke in a tone of disbelief.
“This guy is really crazy.”
“……what?”
“You can unleash your power here? Why do you think that only applies to you?”
I put strength into my right hand.
Kwajik-!
The sword of the mana-made bastard is completely shattered.
He continued speaking while looking at the mana spreading into the air.
“I’m just curious, but who gives you orders?”
“… … .”
“System?”
The 189th apostle did not answer, but his expression was answer enough.
“It seems similar. They made the Earth a mess, sent two hundred people to another world, and replaced them with counterfeiters. So what’s the ultimate goal?”
He just stretched out his left hand.
Kwak, the bastard’s neck is naturally grabbed.
That was when.
Light burst out of the bastard’s eyes. It was natural.
Natural energy gathers and spreads out like a flash of light.
“What the heck is X-Men?”
There was a reason I could talk leisurely. It was because it all disappeared as soon as it touched my body. It was called a self-defense power, and it covered the body with mana. Natural energy was clearly a higher level of energy than mana. The fact that such natural energy could not penetrate also meant that the difference between me and that guy was that big.
The guy who noticed this panicked. He struggled to get out of my hands. But it was meaningless.
Because I had no intention of letting you go.
“I asked, what is your ultimate goal?”
“Do you think I’ll answer?”
“If you don’t do it, I’ll die here, so wouldn’t it be better to do it?”
“You speak well. Even with an expression that makes you look like you’re going to kill me.”
I ended up laughing.
“That’s surprising. That stone-headed man has that much insight.”
“… … .”
“Actually, I’m not really curious. Whatever the purpose, I just have to kill them all.”
“… … .”
“Are you willing to tell if I torture you?”
“No. Even if I did, it would be meaningless. There is a ban on it.”
He shrugged. That’s fine.
“That’s too bad. I’m serious. I was thinking of torturing you.”
“……what?”
“But I can’t bring myself to torture him since it’s someone I know.”
“… … .”
I wasted so much time.
“I’m going to hit you once from now on. If you can hold out, I’ll let you live.”
He looked at me with a dubious expression. But it’s true.
I always keep my promises once I make them.
“Just hold on for a moment.”
He pulled his right fist back.
Hururuk.
White smoke enveloped my fist. It looked like white flames.
The space he created becomes distorted. His eyes open wide.
There was nothing more than that.
He threw his fist straight at me.
[The Seven Bonds of the Holy Fire of the White Lotus Sect.]
[Chapter 3: Change of Tie: Bloody Heavenly Spirit Killing Fist]
Kkwuddudduk.
Space distorts and a fist extends out. It lands on the bastard’s face.
like that.
Plop-!
The bastard’s head exploded without a trace. There was no bone fragments, no blood, nothing like that.
It just disappeared.
Even if you have a stupid head, it probably wouldn’t be able to withstand my fist.
At the same time, the entire space I was in vibrated.
It is a rule that sorcery is dispelled when the sorcerer dies. No sorcery in the world deviates from that rule.
If there is a magic to escape, it is because the device that the caster prepared in advance already exists. And in that case, even that device is bound to be visible.
If the sorcerer dies in any way, the spell is broken.
So I came back to my original place.
Together with the 189th apostle who returned to a ‘human’ body.
#Chapter 4
“It’s too realistic to be a novel, and too unrealistic to be an essay.”
It was what the man sitting across from Jinsong said.
He was an Awakened Person of American nationality, and his rank was S-rank, but he was not one of those Awakened Persons who could clear gates or anything.
Stuart Mill.
Before becoming an Awakened, he was a renowned linguist at the University of Pennsylvania, and after becoming an Awakened, he worked on analyzing the various ‘civilizations’ that appeared at the Gate and interpreting their languages.
He didn’t have a single thing like the common fighting skills.
Among his skills, the most impressive one was ‘translation’.
His translation skill level is SS-level. He is the only person on Earth who has raised his translation skill to the highest level.
That’s what he was saying just now.
“It’s very interesting. The languages written here are very similar to Earth’s English and Chinese characters. The continent of Titan… … To be exact, this planet Titan is literally a fantasy world.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. It would be easy to think of that world, where dragons and orcs, goblins, and countless other monsters live, as a fantasy world where magic and martial arts, or the East and the West of the present age, are mixed. This is clearly a record of that world. The problem is.”
Stewart’s expression was serious and grave the whole time.
“The question is, is this really true?”
“… … .”
“So far, there has never been a place called Titan. The gates have mostly featured past civilizations on our Earth, like Egypt, and occasionally the ‘Yoron Continent’ and the ‘Meiza Continent’. As you know, the golems that mostly appear in A-class gates are from the Meiza Continent. The world is certainly vast. I suddenly think that this might just be the beginning. Oh, this is just my personal opinion, so don’t worry about it too much.”
Stewart is a scholar. Scholars are always imagining and thinking.
Investigate, infer, and uncover the facts.
There is one important thing here.
That the translation is finished.
“Do you see these letters and patterns engraved on this front?”
[The 200 Strange Monsters], [The Golden Lion Mercenaries], [The White Lotus Sect], and [The Holy Empire].
Next to the words except for Lee Baek-goe were stamped patterns that looked like they were stamped with a seal. Stewart continued, pointing out each pattern.
“Usually, when you look at the stone tablets or important records left at the gate, you get a faint sense of ‘Mana.’ I think Jinsong-nim would know. The mana of the Earth and the mana inside the gate are different, yet the same.”
“If you’re talking about the part where it’s the same mana but the concentration and such are very different, then yes, I understand.”
“These patterns smell like mana. A very strong scent, like something you would find in ancient texts. I can assure you that it is a scent of mana that I have never seen before in any of the hundreds or thousands of gates I have seen in my time on Earth.”
“… … .”
“As I said earlier, this is more of an essay than a novel. Although it is unrealistic, if the general background in this book is true, it is plausible. However, the man named ‘Jin Shi-hou’ who appears here, by any chance… … .”
Stewart was very careful about saying this, but he had to.
“Are you Jinsong-i’s younger sibling?”
I didn’t intend to hide it. Stuart was not an ordinary person from a small town, but a world-renowned linguist. But I didn’t intend to go around bragging about it. Jinsong’s answer to that question was silence.
Jinsong said with a quiet smile.
“Thank you, Professor. Your knowledge was very helpful.”
Professor Stewart didn’t want to argue or anything. In the first place, there was a condition attached to deciphering this ancient document, which was that he had to agree to a ‘pledge of silence’. The pledge of silence is a kind of magic scroll. If you sign this pledge, you must keep the matter in question completely secret. If you tell anyone other than Jin Song-i, directly or indirectly, Jin Song-i will be informed immediately, and Jin Song-i can immediately end Professor Stewart’s life.
Even though she signed the pledge, Jin Song-yi didn’t mention that the person in the document was ‘that Jin Shi-hou’.
Professor Stewart didn’t look upset. He smiled and stood up.
“You said you were going to America today. Are you going with me?”
“yes that’s right.”
“I’ll be downstairs drinking coffee. Please come slowly.”
“Yes, I’ll follow you shortly.”
