Ch.114Ep.114 The World of Transcendents

“Cheon-ah.”

“Yes… I’m watching too. He’ll be here soon, right?”

“Yes. Get ready.”

At a woman’s command, a man dressed like someone from the martial arts world let out a sigh.

Since all the battles were over, they had to welcome the man who was coming to put an end to everything.

“But what if he suddenly attacks?”

“What do you mean what? Ain and Lyuniel are standing by, so they can subdue him somehow.”

“Is he only that level?”

“Since he’s surpassed your enlightenment, if he attacks, don’t engage and leave it to those two. I’m going now.”

After the woman disappeared, the man scratched his head and focused on the monitor.

As the fog slowly cleared, the man who had finished all his battles was staring directly at this place.

Radios Magnum.

It was the moment he precisely recognized the existence of the Multiverse Management Bureau.

Seeing this, the man cleared his throat and spoke to Radios.

“Listen without misunderstanding, Radios Magnum. I am the Sword Spirit who gave you the Jahashingum.”

That’s right.

The being now speaking to Radios was the founder of the Jahashingum who had taught Radios its true essence.

He was Myeongcheon, the Sword Spirit known by the title “Plum Blossom Sword Spirit” who had saved an entire world.

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Multiverse Management Bureau.

It was a place or organization that he first became aware of while reading Azathoth’s mind.

According to what was in his head, the Multiverse Management Bureau was responsible for managing countless multiverses in the universe.

And the head of this bureau was a being so powerful that even if all beings from all worlds attacked at once, they couldn’t defeat her.

Even Azathoth couldn’t help but fear her.

Another point was that Azathoth had first made a non-aggression treaty with her as a gambler?

The world Radios lived in had been reborn 100 times by Azathoth.

Because of this, it was a universe that couldn’t be properly detected by the Multiverse Management Bureau.

However, the reason a management bureau existed was to properly manage something.

Normally, anything that couldn’t be managed would be discarded.

But thanks to Azathoth’s quick action, a non-aggression treaty was established, and this universe could remain safe.

However, Radios didn’t like that.

‘Who are they to decide the fate of our world?’

He wanted to tear it all down right now.

Although he knew they had empowered him, by what authority did they rule the universe?

Was it really the right attitude for a management bureau to govern the universe according to their own tastes?

That’s why when Radios received a message from the person calling himself the Sword Spirit, he obediently followed.

First, he needed to enter their headquarters to be able to do anything.

[Welcome, new transcendent. Let’s first come to headquarters and talk.]

The Sword Spirit gave him a few precautions and opened a portal to the Management Bureau.

And at that moment, Radios—

BOOM!

—kicked off the ground with full force and launched a slash attack at the Management Bureau.

“This crazy bastard!!”

CLANG!

Surprised by the sudden attack, Myeongcheon hurriedly blocked Excalibur’s slash with his heart sword.

He had given such warnings, yet from the start this madman was attacking!

“I told you attacking like this would only hurt yourself!”

“Shut up! Tell the person in charge to come out—”

*Cough!*

Radios, who was trying to quickly dispatch the Sword Spirit and head to the center of the Management Bureau, suddenly felt dizzy and staggered.

‘What is this…? Poison?’

His head tingled and his vision became distorted.

Hallucinations should never work on him now. The Judgment’s Ascended Order gave him immunity to all illusions.

But immunity to poison? He didn’t have that.

“Master Cheon. Don’t go easy on him, subdue him first.”

“Ugh… I was caught off guard and couldn’t help it.”

“My poison won’t work well on him either. He’s developing resistance on his own.”

A man appeared beside the Sword Spirit.

Seeing the green energy flowing from him, he seemed to be the master of the poison.

His identity was Kim Yu-hyun.

He was a poison master who had conquered the martial arts dimension and now worked under Sword Spirit Myeongcheon at the Management Bureau.

‘Poison. Have I ever been affected by poison before?’

No, he hadn’t. Poison was generally considered useless in battle, so it wasn’t necessary.

But with such a potent poison… even Azathoth might not be able to fight properly.

“Ugh…”

But Radios had built up resistance to poison while using the Goblin Mask.

And soon he regained his full senses.

“AAAAARGH!!”

“Hey, wouldn’t it be better to talk first—”

“No need for words!”

SLASH!

When Radios regained his senses, the Poison Master who was trying to initiate dialogue—

When he suddenly attacked, the Poison Master clicked his tongue and released an even more deadly poison.

This made Radios hesitate momentarily.

“It won’t work!”

Having already developed immunity, Radios broke through the poison cloud and launched an attack at the Poison Master.

CLANG!

However.

“What a madman. First time I’ve seen someone causing such a ruckus in the Management Bureau.”

“Noah!”

“Why do they keep popping up and making trouble!”

A man wielding a huge black scythe blocked the attack aimed at the Poison Master.

He was Noah Whitlein.

Known as a hero in another universe, he had saved numerous multiverses as part of a special team before joining the Management Bureau.

“Looks like we all need to step in.”

“Sister is busy managing other things, so let’s finish this ourselves.”

Soon, two women also appeared and surrounded Radios.

The woman with black hair and red eyes was Ain Devileon, known as the Demon Empress.

The woman beside her emanating cold energy was Lyuniel Lastin, known as the Sword Star.

Sword Spirit, Poison Master, Hero, Demon Empress, Sword Star.

Like Radios, they had all transcended to an invisible realm.

They formed a circle surrounding Radios.

“So you’re… the ones defiling the universe.”

“Defiling? Us?”

“Yes! What’s so pure about establishing a management bureau and controlling the universe according to your tastes!”

“I didn’t expect to hear such nonsense.”

Hearing Radios’s outburst, the Demon Empress drew her sword, “The Unbreakable Divine,” with an irritated expression as if she’d heard something absurd.

“Enough talk, come at me. Brats like you need to be taught a lesson.”

“You bastard!!”

WHOOSH!

Finally unable to contain himself, Radios activated the Jahashingum with Excalibur.

The Sword Spirit, startled, was about to draw his sword.

At the same moment, the Demon Empress grinned and drew three enormous swords the size of stars.

“What, what is that?”

“Dreimal · Schwerttanz.”

BOOM!

Three impossibly massive swords rushed toward Radios.

He was startled by the different dimensional scale of the attack and took a defensive stance, but—

“Kuhek!!”

It was impossible to completely block swords with the mass of stars.

“Eeek!”

Nevertheless, he didn’t give up.

As he rushed toward the Demon Empress like an Asura with bloodshot eyes, using the Goblin Mask’s power to fully restore his body—

Shiver!

An inexplicable chill ran through Radios’s entire body.

A feeling that if he didn’t dodge now, he would die.

But Radios couldn’t slow his speed, and—

“Erst und Letzt.”

“..!”

FLASH!!

With a bright flash of light, Radios’s consciousness briefly disappeared and then returned.

“..? What just happened?”

“I used my time manipulation authority to restore your consciousness.”

“You, who are you?!”

“Lyuniel Lastin. The Director’s younger sister… that’s me.”

Radios tried to attack as soon as he heard her words, but his body was completely frozen and he couldn’t move.

His magical power was also being slowly drained by chains, suggesting he was in a special chair.

“You really are strong. If Ain and I had arrived late, Cheon and Yu-hyun might have been in danger.”

“…I have nothing to say to you.”

As Radios calmed down a bit, he grumbled through gritted teeth.

For some reason, he felt like he lost his reason as soon as he entered the Management Bureau.

That’s why he went berserk, and ultimately was subdued.

“Erst und Letzt. What kind of technique is that…?”

“Ain’s ultimate secret technique. Even my sister would have to properly defend against it.”

“Your sister, you mean the Director who established this Management Bureau?”

“Yes. Ain will probably be able to reach the lower level of the Absolute class soon.”

“Absolute class?”

That’s an unfamiliar term. Could there be ranks even among transcendents?

“You seem to think of yourself as a temporary transcendent… but the formal name is Multiverse class.”

“Multiverse class…”

Multiverse class is divided into Absolute, Supreme, High, Middle, Low, and Lowest. And each class is further divided into Highest, High, Middle, Low, and Lowest.

Among them, the Sword Spirit is High class-High rank, the Hero is High class-Low rank, and the Poison Master is High class-Lowest rank.

The Demon Empress is Supreme class-Highest rank, and Lyuniel before him is Supreme class-Middle rank.

“What about me now…?”

He became purely curious. He was also interested in how they assigned these ranks.

He had been knocked unconscious after taking an attack from the Supreme class-Highest rank Demon Empress.

Lyuniel answered his question.

“You are Supreme class-Lowest rank. That’s about right.”

“…”

“For reference, my sister is Absolute class-Highest rank. That means she’s untouchable.”

“…”

Radios nodded blankly at Lyuniel’s words.

He wasn’t sure why he was listening to all this.

“I apologize for attacking right from the start. I couldn’t control my emotions for some reason…”

“Really? Well, there are many people who want to talk to you, so I’ll leave now.”

“Suddenly?”

“You suddenly attacked us, so why can’t I suddenly leave?”

“No, that’s not what I meant…”

He just said it because it seemed like she was trying to end things quickly.

And the person who entered after Lyuniel left was—

“Are you a cat who can’t repay kindness? You know who I am, right?”

“Sword Spirit…”

It was Myeongcheon, the Sword Spirit who had taught Radios about the Jahashingum.