Episode 196
Crunch.
Muscles contract, pupils clear, and heart beats rapidly.
Platy’s gaze shifted towards me. He immediately extended his sword.
Kwaaaaang-!!
Before I knew it, I was blocked by the wrist of the guy who had lifted me up.
It pierced the flesh but not the bone. That’s okay.
Gave strength.
The gathered white lotus energy moves to the shoulder in an instant.
Pushed.
Crackle.
The eerie sound of bones being crushed continues. The thing reacts.
He extended his other palm.
It’s okay.
I immediately shifted my body’s balance by putting my right foot forward. My body rotated as it was.
The Heavenly Sword, filled with centrifugal force, is swung powerfully.
Crunch-!
Platy’s cleanly cut right arm rises into the sky.
He immediately changed the direction of the sword.
Kwaaaaang-!!
My body is pushed back with a loud noise. My eyes meet with Platy, who is standing still with his legs outstretched. He punches the space next to him.
The collapsed and misaligned space-time is put back together.
We returned to the original world. Before Platy could do anything, he kicked the spot.
My muscles were compressed almost to the limit and my heart was pounding hard, but it had not yet calmed down.
I’m still one second ahead of Platy.
He stretched out his left hand. Platy’s face came into his palm.
He mercilessly struck down the end of the handle of the Heavenly Sword that he was holding tightly in his right hand.
Kwaaaaang-!!
Platy, with his face crumpled, fell to the ground. He held the Heavenly Sword in his hands and struck down.
[Martial arts swordsmanship.]
[Chapter 2. Half-body climbing a mountain.]
Fuzz.
Along with a strange noise, a dent was created in the ground with a radius of about 10km where the Heavenly Sword was embedded.
As if compressed.
In reality, it has been destroyed.
The overwhelming amount of escape energy was captured and pressed down over a wide area.
He pulled out his sword and slung it over his shoulder.
I was just convinced of Platy’s death.
after.
It was at that time that I was sighing lightly.
My whole body feels cold. The air becomes heavy in an instant. I immediately kick my seat to the right.
But it was too late.
Crunch-!!
My sides are burning. My legs feel hot as I hear a thud, something hitting the floor.
The organs and blood flowed from the side.
I raised my gaze slightly.
Platycodon.
She was standing there, looking so clean, without a single scratch.
The smile that appeared on his lips made me frown.
I’m not an amateur, I definitely ripped my heart out and made my head explode.
It is impossible to explain.
“… … You have an interesting talent.”
“I repeat, you came here too soon.”
“… … .”
“Does the turning point really want my death, or is this also a trial?”
Platy held out his hand.
“When will you give me an answer?”
For a brief moment, I was absolutely certain that Platy was dead.
But why is it there?
And that too with a body that was not even injured.
* * *
Joo Sung-cheol was running through Gyeongbokgung Palace.
In the clear sky, lightning and thunder continued to rumble, and behind Ju Sung-cheol, a fight between Jin Shi-hoo and Platy was causing cracks in the space.
It’s creepy.
Joo Sung-cheol silently did what he had to do.
Hong Hyun.
Jin Shihou told me to find him. So I’m looking for him now.
The Gyeongbokgung Palace here was clearly different from the Gyeongbokgung Palace in star #2403.
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First of all, the area was huge.
Seoul, South Korea is large.
And Gyeongbokgung Palace here in Hancheon is half the size of Seoul.
You can think of it as being ridiculously large.
The rooms were overflowing and the walls were overflowing even though no one was living there.
There are stables without a single horse, and barracks without a single soldier.
I didn’t understand why they had to create a place like this, but it didn’t matter. Platy was going to die anyway today.
There is only one place for Joo Sung-cheol.
In this vast Gyeongbokgung Palace, I chased after the ‘scent of mana I once felt.’
It’s not called a hunting dog for nothing.
Whether they admit it or not, they have lived as hunting dogs for hundreds of years.
Those experiences and abilities don’t disappear easily.
So, Joo Sung-cheol arrived.
Based on Gyeongbokgung Palace and star #2403, it is roughly in the Dobong-gu area.
Joo Sung-cheol hit the tightly closed iron door hard with his fist.
Kwaaaaang-!!
The door broke. I walked inside without any problems.
And then, I could see.
Hong Hyun is lying on the floor, covered in blood.
I approached him.
Hong Hyun comes to his senses.
“… … Joo Sung-cheol?”
“exactly.”
“… … You finally came… … .”
Joo Sung-cheol was speechless for the first time in a long time.
What should I say?
Should I say it’s miserable?
“… …Why are you looking at me like that?”
“… … I think you know the reason well enough.”
Hong Hyun smiles weakly. It makes sense.
First, the tendons in my limbs were severed, my danjeon was shattered, and all my blood vessels disappeared.
Hong Hyun’s body hadn’t moved since Joo Sung Chul arrived. That was understandable. He probably had no feeling below his neck.
Probably no sensation in the reproductive organs either. The back and front of the pants are covered in excrement. It’s true that there is none.
It was miserable.
As the ruler of a star, or more precisely, as an administrator who had been delegated the authority of ruler by Platy, this is how the powerful man who had wielded absolute power was in his later years.
“Are you being presumptuous in your sympathy?”
“… … Sympathy is the least courtesy a human can show. Yes. I sympathize. But.”
“however?”
“That’s it. You have to pay the price for every choice you make.”
Hong Hyun asked with a self-deprecating laugh.
“So, why did you come?”
“I have no personal interest. My master told me to bring you here. That’s why I came.”
Joo Sung-cheol approaches.
Hong Hyun’s body covered in filth seems uninterested, and as he tries to carry Hong Hyun’s body on his back, Hong Hyun stops him.
“stop.”
“… … .”
“You have something to do faster than taking me.”
“What is that?”
“… … If things continue this way, your lord will surely have a hard time.”
“… … What?”
“What good is it if we talk at length? I also want Platy to die. And Platy is an ascendant. Beings like you and me can never be killed. Do you think the reason is simply because of ‘power’?”
I didn’t understand what you were saying.
“Plati has separated his soul. This means that simply killing Plati in front of you is not the end of the matter.”
“… … Please tell me more.”
“Why did this place, the Republic of Korea, become an ancient city?”
Before Joo Sung-cheol could ask, Hong Hyeon continued speaking silently.
“For tens of thousands of years, Platy has been experimenting.”
“What experiment are you talking about?”
“What could it be? Human experimentation.”
“… … .”
“Here, all the people of this land where the Republic of Korea used to exist were sacrificed by Platy. The bones, flesh, and souls that made up their bodies all became Platy’s nutrients. Platy compressed those nutrients. They realized the true meaning of reincarnation and achieved liberation.”
Joo Sung-cheol didn’t understand what he was saying.
“… … Idiot. Platy has one life, but it’s not one.”
“… … Not just one?”
“Even if you kill him again and again, Platy will come back to life. He will appear in a new body as if nothing had happened. This is because the souls he sacrificed in the process of completing his liberation are reconstructing his body. So go and tell your master. If you want to kill Platy, find Platy’s ‘main body’.”
“… … .”
“If you don’t find the main body, Platy will continue to revive. I don’t even know how many times I have to kill it. So find the main body. More precisely, find the ‘supply source.’ I don’t know the details, but it should be near Gyeongbokgung Palace.”
Joo Sung-cheol got goosebumps all over his body.
It is impossible to underestimate the power of platy.
He is an ascendant.
A monster among monsters.
Common constellations have their heads cut off and their limbs disintegrated at the touch of his hand.
A being that can change the balance of the world and break the laws of physics.
That’s an ascendant. But, if that ascendant kills and kills again, he comes back to life?
In the first place, killing them is not an easy task. You have to burst their heart where their energy circulates, and you have to decapitate them so they can’t be conscious.
That is the way to bring the strong ones who have reached the state of trance to ‘complete death’.
Repeating it countless times is too cruel for Jin Shihou.
Should we say that this is a method that can bring out the very bottom of Jin Shihou?
This is the home ground of the Ascendant Platy.
Even within the heavens called Hancheon itself, Gyeongbokgung Palace is where only Platy resides.
There was a reason why I was brimming with confidence, even though I couldn’t use the relics of a scientist who was said to have revealed the future.
Must be informed.
“… …Thank you for the information. But can I trust it?”
“… … History repeats itself. Tell your master not to bring the same despair to the ‘Hong Hyun’ of that world as I did.”
“… … .”
“That will do. Go.”
Joo Sung-cheol ran without looking back.
So when they arrived there, there were two men lying down.
It was Jin Shihou and Platy.
Joo Sung-cheol’s eyes turn to Platy.
Platy’s body, with its limbs cut off and a hole in its groin, did not ‘regenerate’.
Soon, as if disappearing, Platy’s body turns to smoke and disperses.
Jin Shihou stood up, supporting himself with his arms.
He was bleeding all over, but he was clearly alive. His wounds healed quickly.
In front of Jin Shi-hoo, who sighed as if he was tired.
There was a platy whose entire body was ‘reconstructed’.
The robe he was wearing, his neatly trimmed hair, everything was fine.
Platy smiles.
Joo Sung-cheol got goosebumps all over his body.
anything.
Something seems wrong.
* * *
to be honest.
I didn’t think it would be so easy to kill.
Not only did he have overwhelming regeneration, but I also thought that his powers were definitely the strongest I had ever met.
It was true.
It was hexagonal in every way.
It was clear who was stronger.
But I didn’t expect this.
“Is it hard?”
Without answering, he swung down his Heavenly Sword. The blade cut through the sky and aimed straight at Platy’s head.
but.
Ugh.
The blade is caught in the bastard’s hand.
“Your arms have gotten weaker.”
Platy stretches out his palm. He tries to defend with his elbow, but it’s too late.
Paaaaang-!
My body was pushed backwards with a loud crash. Gulp, blood burst out of my mouth. My chin was sunken.
The inside was also turned upside down.
Platy splits.
“You probably have an idea of the principle, but haven’t figured out a solution yet?”
“… … I don’t understand.”
“What do you not understand?”
“How many people have you eaten?”
