NOVEL NEXT chapter 41
41 – Whole and One, One Whole (-365)
“…”
That it was wrong from the beginning?
Is our first meeting faked?
My head is dizzy.
Feels like being the main character of the Truman Show.
Precious relationships, breathless days.
Who knows what it feels like to be manipulated by the one who made sure this all went right.
It’s like a game.
First of all, the progress of the story has to go, so it’s a game that keeps the main character alive even if it’s somewhat contrived.
‘What is the purpose?’
The problem is that I am not the main character of the story.
A little human whose only game friend is a foreigner.
There’s no need to keep the world going while keeping me alive, right?
“What the hell…What is the purpose?”
I couldn’t understand it, so I muttered.
Then the voice of Nyarlathotep entered my thoughts.
“I’ve made my own guesses. And I’m pretty sure of those guesses.”
“What is it?”
She said she guessed Yog-Sothoth’s purpose.
But Nyarlathotep averted my eyes and avoided answering.
“By the way…I won’t bother to say this because it won’t make sense to you. To be honest…Our purpose isn’t bad either.”
“What?”
The purpose is not bad for them either.
In other words, the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones are meant to be accepted with pleasure.
But that’s a goal I can never accept.
‘What is it?’
I am not Nyarlathotep.
I don’t have enough intelligence to realize all of the opponent’s goals with a simple head roll.
That’s why I had to synthesize clues and actions.
‘Yog-Sothoth.’
Who is she?
Retrieve your memories and go back to the beginning.
* * *
“Hmm… Nothing special.”
About a year ago.
It was around the time I had just woken up and left the orphanage.
At the time, I was enjoying my first online game and enjoying it day and night.
At that time, I didn’t have any particular desire to live as a hero, and it was because I was living at a convenience store part-time job.
“What the f*ck.”
I briefly explained my first meeting with Yog-Sothoth long ago, but I’ll explain it in detail this time.
I made a 3-person party with Cthulhu and Ctuga and went to the dungeon.
– Who are you?
At some point Yog-Sothoth joined our party.
-?
This game has a system where once you form a party, no one can join the party until you clear the dungeon.
It was impossible to suddenly join the party in such a game.
-I don’t know?
-ㅇㅇ;; who are you
-It’s amazing
Then, after chatting like that, she just joined the dungeon.
‘Is it nuclear…’
At the time, I just thought it was a hack or a bug and moved on.
Since she was a healer who wasn’t in the party in the first place, I benefited from running the dungeon with her.
So I demonstrated superhuman control and cleared the 10-star dungeon for the first time in that game.
-You’re doing it
[Yog Sothoth sent you a friend request]
-Accept
“What?”
Just when I thought Yog-Sothoth’s control was okay, she sent me a friend request.
A lot of things happened after that.
It’s obvious when you think about it now, but monsters appear in places where monsters shouldn’t spawn.
Items that shouldn’t have been dropped just randomly dropped.
I thought he was a bug exploiter, so I didn’t keep him close, but I still remember him as being okay as a human being.
* * *
‘Yes, I was playing with an entire game from the beginning.’
The game I played was the world’s #1 MMORPG with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players.
It was said that since I first encountered such a game, I had been tweaking it to my liking.
In other words, it means that you originally had the world in your hands.
-Take this
-??
And then, for no reason, he threw a catapult-level item into me.
It’s safe to say that this favors me to some extent.
Finally, I’m trying to save myself somehow.
I don’t know what I want. Perhaps…
‘Did I want to live with you?’
Maybe he just wanted to live with us.
‘Yes, then it makes sense.’
Cthulhu, the reason why Cthu joined the party was because he just wanted to hang out with his close friends.
In the process, he became interested in me after realizing his time manipulation.
‘But how did I realize time manipulation?’
If you think about that, it’s a headache, so let’s just move on.
He did all this because he just wanted to be with us.
If you look at it like this, there is no problem if you just accept it. It’s just that the ability is heinous, and there is no evil purpose.
But there is one most important fact.
‘These memories are all fake.’
Boom!
I quickly started writing something down in the notebook on my desk.
What? After I woke up, I didn’t really have any intention of living as a hero?
That’s crazy. I dreamed of becoming a hero even before I woke up.
I can’t believe anything.
You must only believe in the ‘present’ that you are seeing.
[Nyarlathotep nodded.
All my past is a lie.
I’m scared.
Ctuga swallowed as if realizing what I had done.
Cthulhu began to pull notebooks out of the drawer.]
So I started writing down what I was seeing right now.
With the agility that reached hundreds, he was able to write down everything in front of his eyes in a short amount of time with only a few decimal points.
“Crazy!”
[The notebook opened by Cthulhu is blank with all the paper torn.]
What this means is clear.
“f*ck, I got caught! Run!”
Wow!
Yog-Sothoth has noticed our actions.
I quickly smashed the window and bounced outside.
[The night view was spread out in front of my eyes.
I see the training ground I used to go to often.
The rest of the guys jump after me.]
The first thing that caught my eye upon landing was The original Takoyaki shop next to the apartment.
Of course, it was destroyed in the aftermath of the disaster and became an abandoned building.
“What the f*ck!”
I saw what was written on the note and ran through the takoyaki building with my body.
Intentionally blocking means inducing a path.
I had to go my way, not the way she intended.
[I started running towards the training ground.
The speed is so fast that it will arrive in about 5 seconds.]
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
“No!”
Wack!
I counted exactly 5 seconds in my heart, but when the training ground still didn’t show up, I turned around.
It meant that the structures were rearranged arbitrarily.
‘Leaving Korea!’
Now that it’s like this, it’s easy to escape.
To get out of Korea and travel around the world.
To play hide and seek in Seoul, which takes 1 minute to go round, is too narrow.
[I ran towards North Korea]
“Hyunseong Kim!”
From the side, Cthulhu shouted with an expression that he couldn’t even remember his original form.
“Get on!”
Wriggling wriggling.
After she said that, she changed into an octopus-like figure.
But I didn’t feel the mental shock at all.
“Run to the sea!”
“…!”
The ocean covers 70% of the earth.
If you want to escape, the sea must be much wider than the land.
Besides, it’s full of water without a single structure, so it will be difficult to manipulate even from Yog-Sothoth’s point of view.
“I can’t breathe?!”
But I’m just a human who can’t breathe underwater…
“You have the power of a shaman!!”
At that time, Nyarlathotep, riding on top of Cthulhu, shouted.
Ah, that’s right. I had the power of a backroom fox.
“[The one who breathes in the void]”
A spell that comes to mind as soon as you increase your spiritual power.
Now I can breathe underwater.
“Hold tight!”
Whoop!!
[Cthulhu advances by destroying all buildings
The speed was so fast that the face was distorted by the strong wind pressure.
We have already arrived at the East Sea in less than 5 seconds
That’s how we went into the ocean$&!@&!@]
‘f*ck!’
The notebook was soaked in water and could no longer be used.
But it doesn’t matter. This place is the sea
You won’t chase us.
Growl.
I tried to speak, but I couldn’t use my vocal cords because of the water in my mouth.
Tuk-tuk.
I patted Cthulhu on the back, saw her turn her head, and opened her mouth.
Uh, di, lo, go, is, go, ya.
She spoke with her mouth, but she understood perfectly and opened her mouth.
“Rruhe. No matter how bad he is, he won’t be able to withstand the recoil if he touches him.”
Maybe it’s because he’s originally an octopus, but he can talk even in the sea.
‘Le Rue.’
The place where I was trapped for 5 years.
Yes, if you go there, you won’t even touch Yog-Sothoth.
No matter what anyone says, it was created by 10 foreign reporters.
Even Yog-Sothoth won’t be able to withstand the recoil if you touch it that far.
The place where Cthulhu also managed to escape by speeding up time.
It was said that even Cthulhu would not be able to withstand if R’lyeh was touched.
But how can I touch Leruhe…
“How crazy!”
Cthulhu roared in horror.
“…”
My brain hardened, I shook my head and thought.
No way, no way…
Sure.
I stretched out my head and looked down.
Ha, ha, ha…
Bubbling.
The empty laughter that burst out before I knew it turned into bubbles and went up to the sky.
Rruhe was smashed.
And.
“Are you here?”
Yog-Sothoth was sitting there.
“I don’t know when I noticed.”
f*ck!!
“Shall we have a close conversation?”
All the surrounding seas have evaporated.
No, it turned out that it wasn’t there in the first place.