SSS-Class Gacha Hunter Chapter 116

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Episode 116

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Achieve feats and receive rewards.

By now, the sight of Winry at his house on days when he had accomplished something was no longer unfamiliar to him.

“Thank you for your hard work this time too.”

“It’s getting harder as the days go by.”

“It means that the path you have chosen is such a great path. Even considering that, the Demon World is a very difficult opponent.”

“I have no regrets.”

Jeongdo puffed out his chest. He did not regret his choice to save humanity. Even if I went back to that time, I would probably make the same choice.

“Winry, can I ask you something?”

“Please do anything.”

“I was vaguely feeling it, but… There’s something a little strange about it. The person I met this time called Ramon from the Demon World said that. They couldn’t believe that I was from a place where the third wave of erosion had just occurred. Oh, by the way, does Winry know this guy named Ramon?”

“Ramon of the Demon World… well. I am not aware of all beings in the universe. “We are only aware of a certain number of beings that are among the most important in the universe.”

Although I may have said it in a different way, it means that Ramon is not worth remembering by Winry. The last time she met Khaled, the commander of the Demon World’s 1st Corps, Winry also said that she knew Khaled, which means that there is a huge difference in rank between the two.

Jeongdo opened his mouth, lashing out at the power of the demon world.

“okay. Anyway, when I fought that guy, I was loading a character named Richard. In other words, we loaded people from the past who actually existed on Earth. But he said that he was a force that could not exist in a world where the third erosion occurred… .”

Jeongdo hardened his expression and continued speaking.

“Does this mean that the Earth of the past was a third or higher world?”

And if so, does this mean that the modern Earth has actually regressed from the past and returned to the time before the 3rd? No, in the first place, I didn’t even know what the criteria were for dividing it into 1st and 2nd.

Winry closed her eyes at the question.

And after thinking for a while, he opened his eyes and spoke.

“Permission has been granted. “I think this will be a bit of a long story.”

Winry waved her hand in the air, and a small table and tea set appeared in front of her. She still couldn’t feel anything. She was confident that she had become a lot stronger, but she still couldn’t fathom the woman in front of her. Jeongdo sat down at the table and Winry poured tea into a cup.

The scent of tea began to fill the room.

When Do-do had just taken a sip of tea, Winry began to open her mouth.

“To begin with, the level of the Earth has not regressed compared to the past. There are many reasons, but the biggest reason is the difference between the ‘real universe’ and the ‘copy universe’. “The character you are loading is implemented based on information from the ‘real universe.’”

“… yes?”

I had no choice but to ask that question.

He already knew that the history of the ‘real universe’ and the ‘copy universe’ had begun to diverge due to him. However, it is ultimately a change caused by oneself. Shouldn’t the history before one’s birth be the same as the real universe? However, according to Winry’s words, it means that there has been a difference between the characters of the ‘real universe’ and the ‘copy universe’ since ancient times.

Winry sensed the level of doubt and waved her hand in the air again. Then an object appeared in Winry’s hand. The degree squinted his eyes and looked at the object.

“This… Beam Project?”

This is an output device often used in lectures and presentations by college students. A device that outputs images on a white wall when a beam is fired from the machine toward the wall. It is a machine with a similar principle to the projector used in movie theaters. No, but why on earth are you using that machine now?

“In order to explain the principle of the radiant universe, we selected objects with similar principles as possible among objects on Earth. Please look at this.”

Winry gently shook the small beam projector in her hand.

“This is the ‘real universe.’ To be precise, the original video produced by this machine is the ‘real universe.’ And this is the ‘copy universe.’”

After saying that, Winry activated the beam project.

Faaah!

Light came from the beam projector and was projected onto one wall of the house, and an image began to play on the wall.

The video was simple.

Winry was walking aimlessly to the right of one wall of the house. That was the end.

‘As expected, it’s pretty.’

A heterogeneous appearance that transcends human beings… No, that’s not important. After staring at the video for a moment, Do-do turned her head and looked at Winry.

“The specific principles are completely different, but roughly this is how a ‘copy universe’ is created. The real me in this machine would also be walking like the copy of me on the wall. Instead, the distance between the ‘real universe’ and the ‘copy universe’ is no more than the distance between this machine and the wall. A distant distance that transcends not only space but also the concept of time. Only by crossing that distance can the real universe create a copy universe.”

“… I can only get a feel for what the principle really is. Just a feeling.”

It was like a specific principle, but it was clear that Winry wouldn’t understand it even if I told it to her. However, I had other questions.

“Why does the real universe create a copy universe? “Is it meaningful to create the same thing?”

Winry almost overlooked it by using the beam project as an example, but ‘radiation universe’ is a radiation phenomenon that occurs on a universe-by-universe basis. It would be copying not only the Earth but also countless universes. And that copying would certainly require an enormous amount of energy. This is energy that cannot be compared to the electricity consumed by the beam projector.

Is it necessary to create a radiation universe while consuming such energy?

“It’s to observe changes.”

However, Winry answered immediately as if there were no doubts. And he looked at the degree. There was a strange heat in her eyes. She looked like someone you couldn’t normally imagine as Winry.

“The small possibility that arises from that change. A miracle that can come from that small possibility. “It is to recreate the miracle of the beginning.”

Winry’s voice began to grow stronger. He came right up to her and made eye contact with hers.

“And that miracle is now before my eyes. “There are enough reasons to create a copy universe.”

“ah… Okay, so please stay away a little bit!”

Jeongdo shouted urgently with his face turning bright red.

I had felt it before, but Winry seemed to have a tendency to get more excited than necessary when it came to things related to the ‘miracle of the beginning’ such as <Communication-lv.3>.

“Excuse me. “You looked indecent for a moment.”

Winry slightly bowed her head towards him. And when I looked up, Winry was back as usual. Jeongdo felt a bit of regret for some reason and asked Winry again.

“Now that I think about it, I know that they are looking for the miracle of the beginning, but I have never heard anything about why they are looking for it.”

“that… .”

Winry hesitated slightly and then opened her mouth in a regretful tone.

“I can’t tell you yet. “This is an unauthorized question.”

“Ah, I was wondering when that damn story would come out.”

Today, he seemed to be able to talk well, but in the end, he ended up saying something that I couldn’t hear because it wasn’t appropriate. After thinking about it for a bit, he asked another question.

“I understand why we need a copy universe. But isn’t change necessary to observe that primordial miracle?”

“That’s right.”

“however… What do you mean things change here?”

After saying that, he looked at the wall again.

The video of Winry walking was still playing on the wall. Perhaps, if there was an infinite supply of electricity, she would walk forever.

And that was natural. The beam projector is a device that only displays the original. There was no room for elements of change to intervene anywhere.

But Winry thought differently. She tilted her head slightly and opened her mouth.

“It looks different enough to me… It might be difficult for the human eye. “Then let me make it a little easier for you to understand.”

After saying that, Winry raised her right index finger.

“Mr. Jeongdo. “What happens if you put this finger in front of the device?”

Winry said and put her finger in front of the beam projector. To be precise, this is the part where light is projected. If you put your finger there, of course…

“There is a shadow on the wall image… ah!”

“That’s right. “Change happens.”

Winry gently moved her finger in front of the projector and half of the image on the wall was swallowed up in shadow. After that, Winry withdrew her hand and spoke again.

“Even without my hands, variables such as fine dust floating in the air are causing changes in the image. You can apply this phenomenon to the universe. However, the scale of variables in space is a bit large. In Earth terms, things like black holes, dark matter, and the Big Bang act as variables and cause change.”

“If it’s that much of a variable, it won’t be a small change, but just a different world… .”

Jeongdo said, looking slightly tired of the scale of the universe. Winry nodded her head in agreement.

“That’s right. Although we say that the real universe wishes for change, we do not wish for a universe in which such control and prediction are impossible. Therefore, the true projection of the universe is protected by powerful magic. However, since distance is distance, the magic cannot block all variables. You can’t even block it. “Very subtle variables that break through that magic bring about small changes.”

After saying that, Winry lifted her teacup, moistened her mouth, and then opened her mouth again.

“This is why the ‘real universe’ and the ‘copy universe’ are almost identical, yet have subtle differences. Those subtle differences lead to numerous results. In extreme cases, countries that did not exist in the real universe may arise. Earth is not at that level, but there is a definite difference.”

Jeongdo stared blankly at Winry without realizing it. To a certain extent, I was so shocked that Winry said so much, even more than what she said. Winry opened her mouth again, paying no heed to his attitude. Did he say that while he shared history with the universe, he never had a conversation until he met Jeongdo? It was a series of explanations that seemed to vent the resentment of the past.

“Back to the beginning. The biggest difference between the Earth in the real universe and the Earth in the copy universe is ‘natural mana concentration’. The mana concentration in Radiant Earth is much lower. Therefore, the real Richard on Earth is weaker than the Richard in the ‘real universe’. This applies not only to Richard, but to all characters from Earth.”

“… okay.”

I only thought that the people of Earth in the past possessed far stronger military power than modern humans. It was thought that powerful magic and martial arts were simply lost as time passed, but that was not the case.

“What is the factor that determines whether secondary or tertiary erosion occurs?”

“The main life form that exists in that universe. In terms of Earth, that would be humanity. It is determined by the amount of mana the main creatures have. As the erosion grows, other universes discover the eroding universe and invade it. The result is a dungeon of monsters.”

“… wait for a sec.”

Jeongdo felt a strange contradiction in Winry’s words.

According to Winry, the ‘copy Earth’ has less natural mana than the ‘real Earth’ due to variables, and as a result, erosion is also slower. That meant that monsters appear on Earth much more slowly than on the ‘real Earth’.

But then.

Why did <Information Draw> turn out to be so accurate?

If monsters appear at different times on the ‘real Earth’ and ‘copy Earth’, shouldn’t all the information related to them also be different?

Jeong Do told Winry about the contradictions he felt, and Winry’s answer was very unexpected.

“Because someone forced the primary erosion of this Earth. Probably to match the real universe and history. Of course, this has never happened in the real universe.”

“… … .”

I heard it once before.

On the first day we visited Hae-joon’s house, Hae-joon and Ellie talked like that.

It seems like someone other than the head of Karma opened the gate first.

Ellie joked that it seemed like someone with a grudge against humanity was doing it to destroy them.

The story I heard back then was now being retold by Winry.

Jeongdo asked Winry again as he felt his heart speeding up.

“Who is the person who forced the erosion of the Earth?”

“… “I can’t tell you.”

“ha. Is it not enough this time? Why are there so many restrictions? .”

“No, it’s not like that.”

Winry slowly shook her head.

“The reason I can’t tell you is because I don’t know. “I tried several times but failed to identify its existence.”

“… yes?”

A person unknown to the entity that truly oversees the universe?

Could such a being exist?

It’s different from Ramon’s case. Ramon was just a person that Winry judged as ‘not worth remembering’, but he was a person that you could always know if you wanted to know.

“… no way.”

Jeongdo swallowed a groan.

Winry. No, there is only one type of being in the entire universe that cannot even understand the real universe.

A being that the real universe wants to meet even though it consumes enormous amounts of energy.

Unknown beings that existed only in the beginning of the universe even throughout the long history of the universe.

“Anyone who intentionally causes primary erosion on the Earth… “It must contain the ‘miracle of the beginning.’”

It was the moment when the person who possessed another ‘miracle of the beginning’ was confirmed, excluding Jeong-do.