Episode 178
The history of the beginning is a flow.
At least the editors have all watched to see what happens if you deviate from that flow.
If someone who shouldn’t die dies and someone who shouldn’t live lives, a world of indescribable disgust and unimaginable horror is created.
That kind of world is also created by editors.
Star #2403 is a perfect world, no different from the beginning of history.
But other stars are different.
In the case of Star #2544, it is a world where the stories of the stars so far have been applied to the stories that have been changed in the Abyss, and in this world, there is no Confucius, no Yi Sun-sin, and no Lincoln.
How to create variables to prevent impending doom.
It is a fight that began to prevent that one destruction.
The midnight action of the stars, the will to sharpen.
One star that flows according to the history of the beginning is the main stage, and the rest of the stars are sub stages.
Think of it as an experiment with a kind of control group.
To prevent destruction.
The ascendants, including the editors, have already found the ‘answer’.
The period of time that has passed is not hundreds or thousands of years, but tens of thousands.
They were looking for it now.
‘The original variable’.
A being that can completely change the history of the beginning without any repercussions and prevent the destruction predicted from the beginning of history without any distortion of causality.
That’s the original variable.
Find it and prevent destruction.
That’s their goal.
“Were you impatient?”
There was no answer. How could someone who was already dead answer?
He sat down and placed his hand on [the 12th editor’s] back.
“There was no such thing on the countless stars that have perished so far. Why couldn’t you wait, even though you come across traces of stars that have already perished and have no chance left every day?”
The man looked at [Editor 12] with sad eyes.
“He is the most likely being to be the original variable that has finally appeared after thousands or tens of thousands of years. He is the seed of change that can prevent the destruction that I, as an editor, have never been able to prevent.”
There was silence for a moment.
“… … If not him, I will take your revenge.”
The constellations fear the editors.
Simply because they’re strong?
That’s true to some extent.
The power of the editors far surpasses that of the common constellations. It takes at least a hundred top-tier constellations to kill the weakest of the editors.
Although it is a being of that level, there is another reason why the constellations truly fear it.
Constellations cannot interfere with other stars.
But not the editors. They have full influence over the stars, albeit with some restrictions.
For example, constellations tend to be obsessed with gaining achievement points. How do they get those achievement points?
Obtained from the incarnation.
The editor can kill that incarnation without mercy. He can also destroy the star that the constellation interferes with.
also.
You can go to where the constellations are and kill them.
As I said before, there are some restrictions, but they are bearable. The editor of the story of the stars is in that position.
If you look at this differently.
It also means that one can give ‘commands’ to the constellations.
One giant hornet might be okay, but when there are thousands of giant hornets, it’s a completely different story.
In addition, the power of editors is considerable.
It’s not for nothing that revision is used as a means to restrain ascenders.
It’s neutral now, but if Jin Shi-hoo isn’t the ‘original variable’ that the editors and reviewers thought he was.
At that time, I won’t just sit by and watch you run wild like a bald eagle.
Yes, that’s right.
That will do.
After carrying the 12th editor’s body over his shoulders, the man disappeared.
A scientist’s laboratory is plunged into complete silence.
* * *
Han Jeong-ah looked around.
Should I say it’s quiet?
It was a ‘cave’ that was so dark that not even the sound of breathing could escape.
Where to go, what is this place.
I didn’t have time to think.
Because time in the Abyss where Jin Shihou is continues to flow.
I took a step.
That was when.
“It’s not you.”
It was a thick, low-pitched voice. And Han Jeong-ah was momentarily puzzled by the voice that naturally had the weight of an emperor, as if it were a voice that was standing above someone.
This is clearly the first time I’m hearing that voice, but why does it sound so familiar?
I turned my head.
It was still dark. I couldn’t see anything.
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I walked in the direction where the voice came from.
“Not you either.”
It stopped again.
“… … Could you give me some general directions based on where I am? I can’t see anything.”
“It’s 3 o’clock.”
After changing direction, I started walking again.
Instead of walking slowly, I ran.
Then the voice rings out again.
“There is no need to rush so much. This is beyond the ‘Gate of Truth.’ Your body is somewhere else, and what is here now is your spirit.”
I didn’t understand it a bit.
“You can think of it as time barely passing.”
As soon as he finished speaking, something entered Han Jeong-ah’s field of vision.
It was a chain.
A total of twenty-eight chains extending from beyond the ceiling covered in darkness.
The material is not ordinary iron or anything like that.
The Mithril I saw in the Abyss before coming here.
That’s exactly Mithril.
Twenty-eight mithril chains of incredible thickness and length, each measuring over a meter thick.
What on earth is this chain for?
Han Jeong-ah could tell right away.
I stopped walking.
There was a man.
He was kneeling with a mask on his face, bound by ‘a huge number’ of mithril chains.
The mithril chains were not twenty-eight in number.
There were only twenty-eight visible from the direction Han Jeong-ah was going, but in reality there were one hundred and twelve.
Side, front, and back for men.
The countless, huge mithril chains that covered it all were showing tremendous weight in themselves.
I feel overwhelmed by the atmosphere.
“Are you [the embodiment of resentment]?”
“That’s what it’s called now.”
Sure. It’s this guy.
This man called himself here.
“I’m sure you have many questions. Why are there so many mithril chains binding me? Why do I wear a mask? What have I done in the past?”
“I think this is a situation where you can’t help but be curious. Can you tell me?”
“If I tell you a story, it will be long. To make it short, it was not my will to wear the mask. It would be right to see it as a meddling. And the reason the mithril chains are binding me is to seal my power.”
“… … What if I let you go?”
The man bursts into laughter at those words.
“If you could solve it, the corrections would not have allowed you into this space in the first place.”
“……okay.”
“Now let’s get to the point. The reason I called you here is not because of what happened in the Abyss.”
I was curious.
Han Jeong-ah thought that the reason she was called here was because she wanted to talk in detail about the proposal to sprinkle what was in the box on the agar.
“Have you thought about it?”
“What?”
“Why didn’t I have an incarnation while I was tied up here?”
“… … .”
“I tell you for sure, you are my first incarnation.”
“So?”
“The reason I have never had an incarnation before is because there was no need to.”
“Now is there a need?”
“Yes. Sprinkling the contents of the box onto the agar is secondary. I need your help to get out of this place.”
“… … When we first signed the contract for incarnation, didn’t we make a pretty simple contract?”
The simple contract mentioned here was that Han Jeong-ah would sprinkle the contents of the box on the agar, and [Crystal of Grudge] would make Han Jeong-ah a transcendent being.
Equivalent exchange.
Give and take.
It was such a simple contract, but something was different. [The Crystallization of Resentment] spoke to Han Jeong-ah.
“It’s a separate thing. What I’m about to propose is.”
“Speak. I’ll listen.”
Han Jeong-ah paused at the words of [Crystal of Resentment] that followed.
That was understandable.
“Do you know what a ‘suitable person’ is?”
A word that appeared suddenly.
Suitable person.
Han Jeong-ah has definitely heard this word.
It wasn’t long ago.
I had a lot of conversations with Jin Shi-hoo last night.
‘I was on Titan and came back to Earth, and there were some weird guys there.’
‘They said that they need to find someone who is a good fit or something. They said that she is like my older sister, so we need to hurry up and finish up and go back.’
‘There’s a bastard hiding on Earth right now, called the Six Paths Sage or something. I have to catch that bastard, but I have a lot more work to do than meets the eye.’
The person who appeared in that conversation.
That was the story of the star, now bound in 112 mithril chains, coming from the mouth of the constellation whose words could be described as ‘overwhelming’.
I’m really curious.
“I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know the details.”
“Okay, then let me tell you. The word ‘suitable’ means ‘original.’”
“Is it original?”
“The one who exists as a hero, or who will soon be the ‘one and only’, and who will be the ‘first’. That is the one who is suitable.”
The implications of this are significant.
“… … The one who will be the ‘first’… …?”
“Yes. The one who will be the first, and the one who is the first.”
Han Jeong-ah thought.
Why are you telling me this story now?
“I’d like to make a suggestion.”
“What do you suggest?”
“Don’t you want to be a suitable candidate?”
“… …Me?”
“Yes. You.”
“… … What’s the benefit?”
“You will gain freedom. What greater gain can there be?”
“… … Are you still free?”
[Crystal of Resentment] snorted at those words.
“In a world where you don’t know when you’ll die, you have such mediocre power that you can’t even question it if you die right now, and yet you’re free? No, you’re not free. In this world, the only free beings are ‘Jin Shihou’, who was with you in the Abyss, and others like that. Even the ascended ones aren’t free. Why do you think that is?”
“I don’t know. Why?”
“Because it has a relationship with editing.”
“… … .”
“You probably know that the story of the stars is about preventing destruction. But do you really think that’s all there is to it?”
“… … .”
“Don’t you think that they are pre-selecting variables in order to destroy it?”
I was confused. What is this… … .
“Ask me a fundamental question. Why do you think my story shakes you now?”
“… … .”
