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by admin“Why is this like this?”
As I muttered in an embarrassed voice, everyone who was talking around me gathered around me.
However, their reaction to seeing the corpse of the Frogian, with about half of its body crumbling and disappearing, was the same as mine.
Everyone was shaking their feet at this phenomenon they had never seen before.
‘Why on earth is this happening?’
To find out the cause, the body was scanned using a barrier technique, but there was no effect from the special technique.
They said that crumbling like this was a natural phenomenon.
Fantasy novels sometimes depict corpses disappearing, leaving behind only magic stones, but at least in this world there is no such setting.
The monsters of this world tear apart the corpses of the monsters they hunt and use them as resources in various fields, just as they obtain the meat and skin of ordinary animals.
And because the only suppliers of such monster corpses are hunters, the income of the hunter industry is high.
Hunting monsters and selling their bodies. A company or government agency purchases the corpse of a monster that comes to market and pays the price to the hunter.
The profit structure is like that, but what if the monsters you worked so hard to hunt crumble to dust?
‘It’s perfect to starve to death.’
Unlike phenomena such as eliteization, this is an abnormal phenomenon that has never been known to the public.
I’ve never seen anything like this, even in games.
I was tense in a situation I did not understand. Without realizing it, my more refined barrier detection techniques quickly read the surrounding space.
“Ah… .”
Han Se-hee sighed. This is because the Frogian’s body was completely crushed and turned into a handful of dust.
And at the same time, powerful information was thrust into my head.
The place where the detection technique discovered the abnormality was inside the six-sided barrier that contained the body of the Frogian.
The reaction that was not revealed when scanning the Frogian’s body only appeared now that the body had completely turned into a pile of dust.
Clang-!
In order to confirm the identity of the reaction captured by the detection technique, I dismantled the six-sided barrier and put my hand into the pile of dust inside.
Buried in the pile of dust was a crystal ball. It was a blue-white bead slightly smaller than the palm of my hand.
‘What magical power… !’
A seemingly ordinary bead. But its contents were anything but ordinary.
Hot but cold. A heterogeneous magical energy with properties that fit that description was constantly surging from within the blue-white bead.
“… Throw that away right now, Seong Yu-jin!”
“What?!”
At the moment when I was analyzing the bead by applying a barrier to find out its identity, Hermod, who was staring at me, urgently shouted.
I was taken aback by the sudden shout, but since Hermod had cooperated sincerely without causing trouble since entering the dungeon, I believed his words for now.
Swish-!
We threw a blue-white orb toward the muddy swamp outside the barrier we had used as a stepping stone.
After the beads left my hand, I began to solve the questions that popped into my head one by one.
What was the identity of that bead and why did Hermod shout so urgently?
Those questions were resolved faster and more clearly than expected.
─Welcome to my palace, Éljúðnir.
‘… what?’
An alluring and bewitching voice that I had never heard before resonated in my head.
Elyudnir. The place mentioned by the voice is also a place I have never heard of.
I threw it away as soon as I heard Hermod’s voice, but was it too late?
“Get out of the gate! If we want to safely save Seong Yu-jin, we have to call the professor!”
Consciousness becomes distant. The senses that escape from the body are drawn somewhere.
Hermod looks at me collapsing and urgently gives instructions to Miguel and Han Se-hee.
‘Surely, if it’s that guy’s mystery, what happened to me… .’
With that thought, my vision reversed.
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“… It was a child that took a lot of effort to send, but in the end, he died.”
A cool voice rang out in a dark space, a cold world where cold blue-white flames burned.
An ugly soul coming down from beyond the sky.
A woman in a dress with blue-white hair held out her hand toward the spirit, like the flames burning around her.
“Still, I did my job.”
The soul, shaking like a flame that took the form of a small frog, was particularly weak here and there.
The blue-white woman observed the scene carefully and gently placed the soul on the ground.
Grumbling-.
The soul that left the woman’s hand instantly became one of the burning fire around it and began to surge violently.
The woman who was looking at the sight with satisfaction raised her head.
As she raised her head, what she should have seen was the vast sky, but the world above her head was nothing more than a field of blue-white flames, just like the landscape at her feet.
“… In the end, Riftrasir was taken away by Othinus.”
The child was originally sent for reconnaissance to confirm the existence of Riftrasir, but it was still a shame that it came back like this.
The woman muttered as she stroked the flames around her with her hand, lamenting slightly.
A black-haired, dark-eyed human male who hunted Frogians while shooting a blue magical spear here and there appeared in front of her.
I stretched out my hand, but the hand only passed through the human male’s body without the slightest resistance.
“What a pity.”
This is a place that is reality but not reality, and as such, it is a world where we can only glimpse reality as dreams and illusions.
The soul of the monster that had just come into my hands was the offspring she gave birth to, and the soul of the creature formed in her arms. The woman who read the memory of the experience from the soul of the creature muttered quietly.
“But even though we lost Riftrasir, we still got Leaf.”
She smiled and raised her arms above her head, revealing flaming handcuffs on her wrists.
The shackles placed on sinners who tried to end the world in the past, but ultimately failed and were thrown into the abyss.
The seal of the shackles, which had slowly worn away over thousands of years, was now noticeably weakened.
“My name is Hella.”
A sinner who senses that his moment of freedom is not far away announces his name to the world.
“The day is not far before the Empress of Hell will return.”
The Empress of Hell, who was dragged down to the abyss, saw a golden rune on the body of the human who killed her offspring.
In the past, she saw the runes of the God King who brutally slaughtered her descendants and eventually sent even her compatriots who shared her cause into the abyss.
“So now it’s your turn.”
Ah, Othinus.
Rightful king of the great Asgard.
You, foolish and foolish, have taken our destiny from us.
In order to create a more beneficial world, we will take the gold from you.
“Self.”
Welcome.
“The final arrangement of Yggdrasil, who unfortunately escaped from Ragnarok.”
To my palace, the manor of Éljúðnir.
“I am waiting for you here.”
A grand banquet has been prepared for you in the banquet hall of Helheim, my world.
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It is bleak and desolate.
That was the impression I felt as soon as I opened my eyes here.
As if the world itself has embraced death, the world unfolds endlessly, with no vitality found anywhere.
‘… ‘Where the hell am I?’
This is a scenery I have never seen before while playing .
In other words, it was like saying that I couldn’t tell what kind of threat was coming for me here.
The detection and defense techniques engraved on the barrier were more elaborate than usual, and I took one step at a time and was alert to my surroundings.
‘How on earth did this place come to be?’
Like a post-apocalyptic world, it is full of cold air and land reminiscent of a frigid region.
The entire area is surrounded by walls, and a splendid but eerie palace is located at the highest point of this ruined city-like space.
‘Palace.’
Éljúðnir, which the unknown voice spoke of, was also clearly a palace.
So, is the person who called me here the lord of this castle?
I moved forward with curiosity. Since I was invited to the palace, I headed there first.
I am fully aware of the fact that it is dangerous to obediently accept an invitation from an unknown person, but now that I don’t even know where this place is, I have no choice but to go to the palace in front of me.
We walked and walked until we reached the front of the stairs leading to the tall palace.
“Krrrr… .”
“Kung! Kkkk!”
“Oh… .”
But I couldn’t bear to take the stairs.
This is because there was a monster guarding the palace beyond the stairs.
‘What kind of monster is this again?’
Three huge dogs. In fact, only the shape was that of a dog, but the size and felt power made it look like something completely different, not a beast of this world.
Two dogs threatening me on either side of the entrance to the stairs, and one dog glaring at me from the space halfway up the stairs.
A total of three dogs were blocking the stairs leading to the palace.
‘Should I take it down?’
Unlike normal monsters, even when facing me, they are just wary and do not attack first.
Do I have to start climbing the stairs to attack in earnest? I developed a hypothesis in my mind and gathered the magic power of the core and circuit.
Break through the stairs as quickly as possible and enter the palace interior.
With that determination, I began to increase the magical power I had built up in earnest.
‘now… !’
The moment I was about to hit the ground like that.
“Please make way. You are a guest who was invited by me.”
A familiar voice was heard.
A blue-white crystal found in the collapsed remains of Frogian. It was an exact match to the voice that had been ringing in my head since I held it.
“This is my first time seeing you. It’s the Riftrasir of this era.”
The woman’s curvaceous body and blue-white hair that reached her waist caught my eye, but what really caught my attention was not her body.
“These children are my watchdogs. They’re good kids, don’t be so scared.”
What should we call those marks that covered half of her body?
It was dirty like a scar, but deeply rooted in the body like a brand, and had a beautiful structure like a unique pattern with some meaning.
Half of the body is stained with a deep, dark purple that can be mistaken for black at first glance.
The gaze extending from my shaking eyes met her gaze looking at me in front of me.
A clear and sharp purple gaze.
The moment I saw her eyes, I unconsciously held my breath.
‘… Dangerous.’
Purple eyes.
Because the vivid purple eye glow was the exclusive property of beings who were not allowed in this world.
“First of all, let’s just say something lightly.”
Ragnarok.
“My name is Hella.”
It is the apocalypse that will inevitably come in the future to destroy this world, and the worst catastrophe that I must solve.
“Still a young human child, what is your name?”
The purple color in the eyes was a symbol of those who possessed the blessing of the end.
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