Episode 386 < Garden of Time. (2) >
4.
140 years.
I had heard about a similar time.
– During a discussion with my teacher, you once said that you survived for 130 years alone… Was this it?
– yes. That’s it.
That hollow voice.
It felt like wind was coming out of my heart as I listened.
– oh my god. In other words, you, Mr. Geomje… .
[ no. Suddenly, it occurred to me that I might fail on the 99th floor or so. ]
The conversation that Geomje had with me in the world of Jincheon suddenly flashed through my mind.
[Geomje nobleman. But even people like you died on the 99th floor. ]
The Geomje had a strange reaction to those words.
[ Hmm. Well, death… . ]
I remember him repeating that.
What kind of questions and answers were exchanged after that?
[What’s on the 99th floor? ]
At that time, Geomje did not give any specific answer.
On the surface, he said, ‘I just don’t want to tell you,’ but that couldn’t have been all.
[Still can’t tell me? ]
In response to that question, Geomje said this.
– Let’s take a walk.
I blinked.
Before I knew it, Geomje had stood up and was looking at me with the same face as before.
– Uh… .
– Follow me, dude.
And Geomje began to ‘walk’ like he did then.
“…….”
Since entering this stage, which should be called the 91st floor, my body has lost weight. The world no longer tried to catch me, and no matter how hard I stepped, my footsteps never made an echo.
I feel like I’m isolated from the world.
Therefore, as this week passed, I gradually stopped doing the act of [walking]. It was more comfortable for Bae Hu-ryeong to float around like he usually did.
-Mahos said it was like hitting TCL.
The princess said.
– I don’t know exactly what TCL means, but I can guess.
Now that gravity no longer works, all physical forces have lost their meaning. If I wanted to, I could walk through floors and walls.
Therefore, I was able to see how difficult it was for Geomje to ‘walk naturally’. Even in the world of Jincheon, I felt it was a great talent, but after being in the same situation, I truly understand.
-What are you doing? It’s not coming.
The Geomje glanced at me with his back to me. It was like lightly looking back during a walk.
I suddenly realized that this was an important moment.
– please wait for a moment.
Instead of floating away, I said that and gathered myself.
First, place the soles of your feet on the floor. I still couldn’t feel the touch at all, but I tried to [stand upright] as naturally as possible.
-hmm.
Geomje waited quietly. He didn’t urge, but he didn’t give advice either.
Nevertheless, I knew right away that what I was doing was not a clerk, but something strange.
– Just a moment more.
– Take your time.
– yes.
I was deep in thought with a serious attitude.
‘How do you stand up?’
It’s a ridiculous thought even to myself.
But an even greater certainty took hold of me.
‘This is important.’
This moment was important.
‘To stand… First place the soles of your feet on the floor. Then the floor supports me… There is no support floor now. then… .’
Sensation as if a fluffy lump is floating around the head.
I took a deep breath at a topic that seemed like it could be caught but couldn’t… Inhaled it?
‘no. Of course, that’s just an imitation of inhaling.’
I focused my consciousness.
‘I am completely like a ghost right now. Of course, there is no such thing as [air] that I can suck in. And that means… .’
The moment I thought that, the next question immediately came to mind.
‘for a moment. ‘How can I [hear] sound when there is no [air]?’
I found it very strange.
Isn’t the contradiction that is often pointed out in science fiction movies being the sound of explosions echoing in outer space?
‘Strange.’
In fact, when I was talking to Bae Hu-ryeong and the princess who were on the same level as me, it felt similar to when I imagined the sound. However, the voice of Silvia and the director was just heard as voice… .
‘Sound is transmitted through the vibration of air… But there is nothing like air that can affect me now. Then I shouldn’t be able to hear the sound. in other words… .’
The moment I realized it.
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Silence enveloped me.
-…….
It was a silence that felt like entering outer space. No, it was even older than that. It was the silence of the beginning, when time did not exist and space had no meaning.
– Hmm.
Before he knew it, Geomje changed his posture from behind his back to with his arms crossed and smiled softly.
But that laughter only came and went in my head, and did not disturb the silence I was feeling right now.
I was completely mesmerized by this pure white moment.
‘Pure white.’
And, soon I realized that that was also strange.
‘I can’t say anything. …By the same logic, it can’t be a sword either.’
It was not an abstract meaning that color could not be attached to silence.
It had a much more specific and essential meaning.
‘How am I [seeing] this scene right now?’
Color is a wave of light.
Just as sound is a vibration of air and air is needed to resonate, in order to [see] something, [light] must exist before it.
‘But I’m not affected by anything now. Gravity too. Repulsion force too. ‘No physical force acts on me.’
Is light special and an exception?
That can’t be possible. Light is often classified as a special property in games, but light is just one branch of physical phenomena.
As someone who wielded a holy sword named after light, I knew this very well.
‘Then I shouldn’t be able to see anything, just as I shouldn’t be able to hear anything…’ .’
The moment I felt it.
And there was no light.
-…….
Complete darkness. The absence of pure light consumed me.
5.
When I was born, the Earth was a shining star.
There were cities everywhere. After leaving the city and walking a short distance, the next city appeared. The number of people peaked and slowly decreased, but the number of buildings being built actually increased. It was as if the cities were siding with each other and diligently raising their babies, leaving the people alone.
Each new building was overflowing with light. Even after the people disappeared, the light remained like a debt. It certainly made sense to think of it as a shabby ghost town or unlit ruin, but for some reason it didn’t make sense.
Someone called it a singularity. But more people knew that it was just the unrestricted proliferation of cancer cells.
[The night sky was once much darker than it is now. ]
Even though the director said so, I couldn’t imagine that scene when I was young. When I was born and grew up, the night sky was always shrouded in a hazy film-like fog and shining purple.
[This star is suffering from a fever. ]
So the darkness I first saw was not at night, but in the water.
Even more than that, it was in people’s hearts.
– I did.
I muttered without realizing it.
– This is darkness.
True darkness was not black. There was simply nothing given.
White space.
gap.
So it felt dazzlingly white, or it felt distantly black, but it was definitely neither.
Something empty. I looked at a world that still contained nothing.
– It’s beautiful.
– Yes, Confucius.
I felt Geomje’s answer from somewhere.
– What is full is beautiful because the only thing left to do is to empty it. In the same way, even something empty is beautiful because it only has something left to fill it with.
I turned my head in the direction where I heard the answer.
– you idiot. Do you know what ridiculous things you are doing now?
– indeed.
I moaned.
– I have no head now.
– okay. But you turned your head. Well, it’s not bad, but if you do it unconsciously, isn’t it just the same as before seeing this darkness?
The Geomje spoke in a sound like the hem of a coat of paint fluttering—no, it wasn’t a sound at all— but he spoke.
– Know and move. Only then can you move properly. Be aware and feel. Only then can you accept it correctly.
I nodded.
no.
Before that, I first created [Myself].
– me… Gongja Kim.
The body’s age is approximately twenty-five years old.
The time I actually had to go through… Roughly 1,000, no, roughly 10,000.
‘No.’
Things like [approximately], [roughly], or [roughly] should not be used.
accurately.
-…….
I think of myself… Imagine.
I begin to think of myself from birth until now, and of Kim Gongja from the beginning to this moment, without adding or subtracting anything.
-…….
Mind-numbing work.
It was never easy.
[Voices coming from the tower… … . It’s not something that runs automatically by the system, so… … . ]
[ yes. It’s handmade. ]
However, it was not impossible.
[Death King. To you, it may be an incident that occurred simultaneously, but to me, it is just a task that can be solved one by one. … … Inefficiency ultimately occurs when time and space are limited. … … The concept of inefficiency does not exist. ]
‘Guwonha advisor.’
I thought about the person I once possessed and the tasks she undertook. Compared to that amount, reflecting on my own life was nothing more than a grain of sand.
‘sand… ‘Fox.’
Even the moments that made me remember the fox have become a reference now.
That wasn’t all.
‘The underworld.’
The space I arrived at when I died resembled this place.
‘sanctuary.’
When I was first building the sanctuary, the experience of filling an empty world was useful in many ways.
And above all.
‘Master.’
There was a resemblance between that very white season and this darkness.
Embraced in the darkness, I thought of myself… I imagined… made… Thought… and.
Eventually, I opened my eyes.
-……,…….,…………
I took a breath.
I can feel the temperature, outline, direction, pitch, and volume of my breath.
Everywhere.
The nape of my neck is shaking from my own breath. That’s right, I had a nape of my neck now—and it’s shaking.
– Ha, ha… hmm… … .
Saliva is flowing from the lips.
I realized I didn’t have the vocabulary to describe this sensation.
Simply, it’s a lack of experience. Even though I have died and lived the lives of countless people, I could not properly explain this feeling.
I couldn’t intuit the state of my own body.
It’s not that you don’t feel it, it’s that you feel it too much.
– It is said that it is the job of the senses to distinguish between the self and the outside, but overly clear senses blur that boundary.
someday.
Somewhere.
– Remember it well.
The Geomje’s voice was heard.
– That is [seeing].
Excited.
The darkness ended with the sound of my heart beating.
The light burst—the dam broke—the border of the world was roasted alive in the blazing light in the distance—and so the darkness fell.
– okay.
So I was back in my sanctuary, the Garden of Rotten Flowers, right there on the 80th, 89th, and 91st floors.
Geomje welcomed me with his arms crossed.
– Let’s take a walk.
It’s like recommending again something that was recommended just a moment ago. No, obviously, that would have happened just a moment ago.
– yes.
I nodded, still shaking my dazed head.
– Let’s take a walk.
I slowly stretched my feet to the floor and towards the side of the Sword Emperor.
Trudging.
I stepped on it.
Trudging.
I started walking with Geomje.
Trap!
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