Episode 950
‘How can this be…?’
Raon looked in the mirror and his fingertips trembled.
‘It was clearly an ordinary mirror?’
I have been doing various experiments since entering the room of the ego. I never thought that this situation would suddenly occur in a room where nothing changed even when I used the fire ring and the cartoon ball.
Swish.
Unlike himself, whose expression hardened in embarrassment, Raon in the mirror had a faint smile on his face.
‘Fortunately, I don’t feel any ill will.’
It seemed as if I had not been interfered with from the outside, and the person I saw in the mirror had a familiar and warm aura.
-Huh? What’s that plump cotton candy over there?
Lars frowned, pointing at himself in the mirror.
-You are so ugly! You are so fat and chubby that it is unsightly!
The guy snorted, disparaging his own appearance.
‘…Is that you?’
Raon looked back at Las and let out a hollow laugh.
-What nonsense are you talking about! How can that lump of sh*t be the king? Kkeuk!
Lars opened his mouth wide enough to pop out his teeth as he realized the cotton candy in the mirror was him.
-Why, why is the King reflected in the mirror! And why is he so ugly!
‘You’re just like that.’
He waved his hand, saying it was cotton candy from the beginning.
-Absolutely not! The King is said to possess the greatest beauty in the Demon World!
Lars was clutching at his head, feeling that the graceful and beautiful figure he once possessed had disappeared. Unlike himself, Lars’s actions in reality were reflected in the mirror.
The person in the mirror just smiled faintly, not knowing whether or not he was aware of the current situation.
“What’s so funny?”
As Raon frowned and asked the question, the surroundings began to darken and the room itself began to disappear. The old walls disappeared, leaving only the rippling darkness and the mirror reflecting himself.
‘Are you telling me to come closer?’
All that’s left is the mirror in front of you, so now the only option left is to approach it.
“Phew.”
I took a short breath and walked towards the mirror. I extended my right hand towards the smiling Raon in the mirror.
Swish.
The mirror’s surface rippled and accepted his hand without resistance. It felt cool and soft, like putting your hand in a stream.
-Hey, aren’t you getting sucked in? Get out quickly!
Lars grabbed his shoulder and shook him, telling him to get out of the mirror.
‘No, I think it’ll be okay.’
The person in the mirror simply smiled without showing any malice. It seemed as if this mirror was the entrance to the room of my true self.
Wooooow!
Raon surrendered his body to the mirror. The moment his hands, arms, and entire body were sucked in and overlapped with his reflection in the mirror.
“You’re finally here.”
Raon’s mouth moved as he smiled in the mirror.
“my….”
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“hmm….
Raon opened his eyes with a frown.
‘Are you asleep?’
As I stood up on my hands, I looked at the floor and saw black waves flowing like shadows. It looked like a river, but it didn’t sink down.
‘I definitely went into the mirror?’
At the end, I thought I saw myself in the mirror and said something, but I couldn’t remember it.
‘But where is this place?’
I sat up and looked around.
‘Is there a place like this in the world?’
The land he was standing on had a black waterway flowing through it, and a vast ocean spread out in front of him.
However, the color of the sea was not ordinary.
‘Silver Sea?’
The winter sea, which seemed to have a silvery snowfield spread out on the blue sea, continued endlessly. Looking at the horizon rippling, it seemed like a great ocean.
‘Then what about the back?’
As I turned around, feeling the heat on my back, I saw a huge mountain of sand, like a pile of beach sand. This mountain was so high that I couldn’t see the top properly.
‘Is this now the room of the true self?’
As I had initially thought, the small room seemed to be the entrance leading into this place.
‘That’s why you said you don’t need Nadine bread.’
Now it seemed like I had finally figured out why Glenn said he didn’t need Nadine bread. Since we were going into a space that wasn’t real anyway, there was no need to eat it.
‘for a moment….’
I brought up the Nadine Bread story, why is it so quiet?
Normally, when I hear the name Nadine Bread, I would immediately have a fit, but I couldn’t see the cotton candy.
‘Ras?’
I quickly turned my gaze and called out to Lars, but he didn’t appear.
‘Am I the only one who came in?’
Since it was a space where only one person could enter at a time, it seemed like Lass was bounced off rather than being able to follow.
‘It’s nice because it’s quiet, but….’
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It’s a bit of a shame.
Maybe it was because I was always with Lars, but I felt a little bored without the guy’s nagging.
‘Still, this is better for training. But…’
Where should I go from here?
The silvery sea and the golden mountains built up from sand. Neither of them had an end in sight, so I had a hard time deciding where to go. Both felt familiar, which made it even harder to choose.
‘Then for now… .’
Raon raised his gaze and looked at the golden mountain.
‘Shall we start from the mountain?’
I thought it would be better to first climb a mountain with a peak rather than a sea where I didn’t know where to go.
‘Then quickly… huh?’
Raon tried to climb the mountain by stepping on Taehwabo, but he froze in place.
‘There’s no Aura… .’
There was not a single bit of the aura that had always filled his danjeon left. No, he could not feel his danjeon itself.
‘Is this how it is?’
Raon looked up at the peak of the sand mountain hidden by clouds and twisted his lips.
‘But what can I do? This won’t be enough to stop me.’
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My legs sank in. It was not easy to take even a single step up this golden mountain, as if everything on it was made of sand.
‘It’s not ordinary sand.’
Even if the aura disappears, the secrets of the learned magic do not disappear. Even though I was using the flow of Taehwabo, it was difficult to escape this sand hell.
‘I lose all my energy just from walking.’
I was just climbing a sand mountain, but my stamina was being sucked out as if I was fighting a war.
‘Not only is there no aura, but physical abilities have also been greatly reduced.’
I definitely felt it as I climbed the mountain. My superhuman physical abilities had fallen to the level of an ordinary adult male. I was just climbing a steep sand dune, but my breathing was ragged and my legs were weak.
‘It’s so hot there… .’
As a transcendent being with fire resistance, he should not be affected by heat, but it was so hot that his clothes were soaked with sweat, and the hot sand made him feel as if he was getting burned every time he walked.
“no way….”
Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked up at the top of the mountain.
‘Have even the characteristics disappeared?’
I reached forward and called up the status window.
‘It’s not coming out.’
The status screen and messages that always responded to his calls were completely gone.
‘The message that comes from the world of imagination disappears…’
The status window and reward message could also be seen in the world of the mind. Seeing that even the status window connected to the soul was disconnected, it seemed that this room of the ego was a truly special space.
“It’s terrible.”
The annoyed feelings inside spilled out of his mouth. The room of the ego. No, the man in the mirror seemed to want to make himself suffer.
‘Okay. I’ll take it as much as you want.’
Because I am confident in my tenacity.
Even when he lived as the assassin Raon, and even now that he has become Raon Sieghart, he has never seen a more vicious villain than himself. He was more confident than anyone else in his ability to endure.
“I will go all the way.”
Raon wiped the sweat from his forehead and stepped toward the sand in front of him.
As I climbed higher, it became difficult to climb with just my legs because of the angle, but I forced myself to continue climbing by digging into the sand with both hands.
‘My hands feel like they’re on fire.’
It felt like my hands were wrapped in red-hot iron chains. I continued to climb the sand mountain, enduring the dizziness caused by the pain.
‘How long has it been since I’ve felt this way?’
I’ve felt on the brink of death many times while fighting against strong opponents, but it’s been a really long time since I’ve felt this much pain from the natural environment.
‘I’ve been eating too much raw food lately.’
When you achieve something, your ability level goes up, and when you do something, the system creates a corresponding characteristic. It is no exaggeration to say that you grew up preciously because you received more than the effort you put in.
‘But why did you come and erase the trait?’
I didn’t understand why the room of ego took away my abilities.
‘Let’s think about it, what’s left for me in this state…’
Is it just mental strength and swordsmanship?
Physical abilities, stamina, aura, and status screen. Many things were gone, but the swordsmanship and mental strength that he had continuously built up remained.
‘Then, should I practice swordsmanship with my head instead of my body?’
Now that I think about it, I’ve swung my sword physically every day, but it’s been a while since I’ve swung it in my head.
‘Let’s give it a try.’
Rather than the sword as it is now, I pictured the future when I had grown further and thought of sword techniques that would fit that.
Phew!
I thought of the red petals of Hwa-ryeong spreading out like the leaves of the World Tree, and the flames of Hoe-cheon drawing a trajectory like the sun. Just thinking about it made me feel good, and a small smile came to my face.
‘for a moment….’
When you think about swordsmanship, the pain of fever is reduced?
As I filled my mind with swordsmanship, the only word that came to mind was difficulty, the heat of the scorching sun and the pain of the heated sand were drastically reduced.
‘This was the right answer.’
Raon slightly curled his lips. He took the next step very slowly, imagining himself cutting down this mountain of sand with his sword.
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‘That’s right. The Gwanga Sword would have been better there.’
As I drew the sword in my head, I remembered past battles that I regretted. I thought I fought well, but looking back, I realized that I made a lot of mistakes.
‘Did you rely too much on force?’
I was ashamed of my past, when I had mastered the Mangeom, which covered all the secrets of swordsmanship, and only fought battles that relied on strength. It is good to utilize one’s strengths, but I felt like I was too focused on one side.
‘The swordsmanship itself is also a problem.’
I just increased the number of swordsmanship skills without completing a single one.
Although I have mastered many swordsmanship techniques to a considerable degree, I have not seen the end. I regret only increasing the number of swordsmanship techniques while not even being able to perfect the swordsmanship techniques that I created.
‘Let’s go back to the beginning.’
One method and one sword technique. I recalled my days as a trainee when just stepping out and swinging the sword was fun, and drew out the sword techniques I had learned in my head one by one.
Now he could no longer feel the heat of the sun, the pain of the sand, or the physical strain of running. He could concentrate on sharpening his true sword.
Raon climbed the mountain of sand endlessly, drawing sword techniques that could break his own limits. When the secrets of the ten thousand swords engraved in his soul tried to break down the wall and climb higher, his feet touched the hard ground.
“hmm?”
Before my eyes, which had been drawing only the sword, I saw a white plain instead of golden sand.
“Are they all up?”
There was no sand to be seen, only white, hardened ground. It felt like I had finally overcome all the pain and reached the top of the mountain.
‘Even I think it’s ridiculous.’
I turned around and looked back at the path I had taken. The ground was barely visible because of the white clouds. I couldn’t believe that I had reached the top of this mountain without any aura, ability, or trait.
‘Is that the road?’
The only path leading from the top of the mountain was a series of pale golden stairs.
I let out a heavy breath and slowly climbed the stairs. After climbing the fairly long stairs, I saw a man standing on a circular platform.
‘That person….’
He was a tall, blond man, whose face I couldn’t see because his head was down. He was wearing a sword with a flame knot on his waist and was covered in a black coat.
“no way….”
As Raon narrowed his eyes as he went up to the training ground, the blond man raised his head. Red eyes that were calm and settled down, and blond hair that seemed to melt the sun. The man on the stage had a face exactly like his own, as if reflected in a mirror.
‘No, it’s a little different.’
The man in front of her looked a little older than she did in the mirror in her room of self, and he seemed to have lived a much rougher life, as if the fighting spirit of the battlefield flowed through his very breath.
‘Now I know who that man is.’
The first head of the Sieghard family.
I rarely saw his front, but I could tell because I often saw his back. That blond, red-eyed man who was spewing fierce fighting spirit on the stage was clearly the first head of the family that founded Sieghart.
“… … .”
The first lord drew the sword from his waist without saying a word. A wave of tyranny that considered himself the strongest rose above the silver blade that was drawn without a sound.
“It’s too fatal to ask us to spar with all our strength exhausted.”
Raon put his hand on the sword of the Heavenly Sword and smiled faintly. There was still no aura, his stamina was at rock bottom, and the pain had not completely gone away.
But just being able to fight the man I saw in my dream made me smile with anticipation.
“I will learn a thing or two.”
Raon pulled out the Jecheon Sword with trembling hands. He aimed the dazzling silver blade at the absolute ruler of the old era.
“The strongest of a thousand years ago.”
