episode_0209

Nordic night.

Denmark, a country in the south of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

Not long ago, Germany regained its autonomy by completely driving out the apostolic forces.

The same goes for Denmark, which is adjacent to Germany.

I left the eastern United States and arrived in Chengdu, Italy. After a few days of travel, I arrived in what is now Denmark.

Wooow-

The group I came with here and I were staying briefly at a hotel on the outskirts of an unnamed city.

The bitter wind created by the cold weather made the hotel windows vibrate violently.

‘It’s not yet winter. but…’

It’s only October now.

However, here in Denmark, the severe cold that can be felt in the middle of winter was spreading.

Not only was it bitterly cold, but the air was filled with the thick magical energy of chaos.

It must be the severe cold created by An Yu-min.

‘Ahn Yu-min…’

The gray city of the full moon.

Me as the possessed person in the game.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t possession.

As the protagonist of the sequel, I felt that the time had come for the story to end.

“I just feel sorry for Song Yu-Hwan. Because of me, that person’s life was ruined. I just want to apologize to the person I was once a friend of.”

Inside the hotel room assigned to a private room.

I was sitting there on a chair and looking at the mirror.

And surprisingly, the person reflected in the mirror was not me.

A handsome man with long brown hair.

And the man wearing a pure white robe.

Letisane was talking to me in the mirror.

I answered Letisane.

“That may also have been Song Yu-hwan’s fate.”

Song Yu-hwan had a terrible inferiority complex to Letisane.

Out of hatred for having lost the woman he loved, he was possessed by a chaotic being.

Letisane was killed by Song Yu-Hwan.

In fact, Letisane’s existence itself did not disappear.

Just like now, Archmage Letisane used the three sacred powers, the mirror, to fix his soul in the mirror.

However, there is only will left in the hidden space of the mirror world.

Complete conversation became possible only after all ownership of the three sacred weapons was obtained, as it is now.

‘I found out after that. The truth of the world.’

Letisane said.

He said he even forgot his real name.

Letisane, a being possessed from the outside world.

He possessed himself as an ordinary wizard character from a game called ‘The Collapse of Yggdrasil.’

I was able to win through prior information from having played the game in advance in the outside world.

It is said that he has become a transcendent person who even surpasses the original protagonist, Song Yu-hwan.

“But I shouldn’t have done that. We should have trusted the main character, Song Yu-hwan, a little more.”

Of course, Letisane was not an egoist who monopolized all the hidden pieces simply out of his own greed.

Beyond being an extra, there is a reason why he became directly involved in the world.

The collapse of the game he was playing, Wigg Drasil.

It is said that the ending could not be seen from the outside world by playing through the main character, Song Yu-hwan.

The world possessed by Letisane has the same level of difficulty as that game with no ending.

No, I said it was more difficult than that.

Rather, Letisane is Song Yu-hwan’s colleague and helper.

He could be said to be a hero who was desperate to prevent the birth of ‘chaos’ and the collapse of the world tree that would occur in the future.

It even went through numerous regressions in the process.

The death of a dear colleague. The end of the world created by the chaos that descended upon the earth.

Despite repeatedly experiencing countless deaths, his will did not break.

Letisane was desperate to save the world from the apocalypse.

“There’s no need to blame yourself too much, right?”

“No. Everything is my fault.”

But all attempts ended in failure.

He created the world’s highest-grade weapon called the Three Gods.

That state was recognized by the World Tree and the Goddess as a saint who would save the world.

However, even though he reached the level of the great wizard, he failed to completely eliminate chaos.

Above all, it is exactly like the original.

It was impossible to prevent the corruption of the main character, Song Yu-hwan.

“In the end, it was my choice and heart that accelerated his fall…”

Also in repeated regression.

Song Yu-hwan continued to be in a romantic relationship with Joo Eun-ji, the woman he loved.

Although her heart rejected it.

Maybe it’s because the story was distorted by Letisane’s possession.

Or maybe it was his own heart that was broken by repeated regressions and a hopeless future, but he ended up falling in love with Joo Eun-ji.

Joo Eun-ji was An Yu-min’s biological mother.

“Even if I went through repeated regressions, I couldn’t change that relationship. So, I have reached the knowledge of the 3 sacred powers. While repeating one round, I was able to touch the center of the World Tree.”

The center of the world tree is the center of Yggdrasil.

Through those actions and his status as a saint who possessed the three holy relics, Letisane finally gained access to forbidden knowledge that was inaccessible to humans.

“It is a prophetic book that predicts the future. no. To put it in external terms, it was dummy data from a cookie-cutter sequel.”

It was like that.

The collapse of Yggdrasil is the world of the game.

As such, there was internal data about the game in the world tree, which was the center of all worldviews.

There, Letisane first read the setting of the story, the collapse of Yggdrasil.

No way could the end of the world be prevented in that worldview.

“So the method I tried was to use the cookie data. Originally, the world of the sequel, which only existed in data, was overturned by the reality I had possessed.”

***

A realm of reality modification that is impossible for humans.

However, even such miracles were possible for an archmage who was qualified as an apostle of the goddess by possessing the three divine powers.

“The world that was created in that way is the current reality. And it was the story of Theia Academy.”

Letisane nodded at my words.

“The apocalypse was able to be delayed by changing reality through the sequel.”

As he said.

According to the original story, humanity should have already come to an end during the Dark Ages.

But with the story of the newly created sequel.

The end times have been postponed.

‘Has the end of the world been delayed by 20 years due to changes in reality?’

Letisane would have been a gamble worth taking.

In fact, since we have delayed the end of the world, it is like half a success.

But something happened that even Letisane did not expect.

“I am cautious about talking about my daughter in front of you… and I am not asking you to save her life. But my daughter’s original sin came from me.”

His explanation continued.

Perhaps it was a side effect of repeated regression and reality modification.

The chaos that polluted the world.

While Letisane didn’t notice, the chaos seeped into Letisane.

Although the chaos did not directly affect Letisane, who possessed the 3 Divine Powers.

Letisane’s contaminated blood caused the butterfly effect.

The daughter who inherited the original sin of blood is An Yu-min.

Ahn Yu-min took away my destiny to become the main character of the sequel.

A new future has emerged where the story of Theia Academy progresses, centering on An Yu-min.

Letisane in the mirror covered her face with both hands and looked desperate.

“Yes! It’s all my fault… That contaminated blood that came from me gave birth to all the current tragedies. You too are a victim of that. Even if I apologize repeatedly, I will not be able to wash away my sin.”

Letisane repeatedly apologized to me for that sin.

Literally chaos.

By changing reality, they succeeded in continuing the world of the sequel in reality and delayed the end of the world.

Chaos could not be prevented from corrupting An Yu-min.

And I, who should be the main character of the sequel.

I came to love An Yu-min, the hidden seed of chaos.

‘It couldn’t have been avoided. The reason I fell in love with her… was probably the inevitability created by chaos and reality alteration.’

Chaos would have even intervened in the data of the sequel.

I, who should be the main character, has instead lived my life with incorrect data and memories that An Yu-min is the main character of ‘The Gray City of the Full Moon’.

And to make An Yu-min a true protagonist.

I even dedicated my life to her.

But not everything in reality went as Chaos hoped.

A variable has been created.

I should just disappear from the sequel’s story.

The true power of the mirror was awakened.

‘Will Aigis’ banishment actually save me?’

The expulsion caused a trauma similar to death.

But at the same time, that trauma became the trigger for awakening, so it’s a complete contradiction.

Letisane continued.

“Is it because my daughter expelled you to protect the possibility of a sequel and make you the main character again… or is it because the chaotic influence on my daughter has turned her into an extremely jealous person? For me, I don’t know. That is…”

And Letisane said something unexpected.

The moment when the reality change of the sequel was realized.

The fact that his regression ability has disappeared.

“I can also use a cheating ability called the system just like you. But there were no regression-related skills left in that system window for me.”

As much as he used the divine power of changing reality.

The cost of Letisane’s loss was great.

It is no longer possible to know the future through regression.

Naturally, the future of ‘The Gray City of the Full Moon’, which was delayed 20 years from the end of the original work, was unknown.

However, Letisane was not just a possessor, but a true great sage.

Cookie data for the sequel that he checked in advance.

Using that data, a system called Letisane’s Ark and a hotel of mirrors were created.

Everything about being a great sage there. He left his 3rd gengi.

20 years in the future.

I am confident that I will definitely take back the role of protagonist that was taken away by An Yu-min.

For that purpose, he did not resist even when Song Yu-hwan killed him.

Maybe it’s his own way of atonement for Song Yu-hwan. He looked at me with serious eyes.

“We already knew your personality and future through that cookie data. If you are the one with the fate of the unknown and the mirror. Unlike Song Yu-hwan, he will definitely be able to find his place as the protagonist.”

Of course, Ahn Yu-min, the main character who changed both the Ark and the Mirror Hotel, also had access.

But as Letisane said.

As a true protagonist, I finally got my hands on the third novel.

“And the #1 rank in the Academy.”

Letisane’s eyes seemed full of regret for me and pride in me having lived up to her trust.

“So, Lee Jun-woo. I truly appreciate you. Please complete the true ending of this world on my behalf. Your mirror will lead to the ending of the world.”

“Okay.”

I nodded.

To end this whole story.

That place is my last remaining role as an unknown and protagonist.

Of course, I plan to decorate that ending with my complete victory.

“This is the last gift I can give you.”

Letisane’s body in the mirror was dyed blue.

I instinctively felt that his will would soon disappear.

Blue light begins to emanate from the mirror.

In response to that light, the world tree on my left arm began to take shape.

It was an old-fashioned magic staff made of wood.

And as soon as the staff was completed, Letisane’s presence disappeared.

– Good luck to you, the true protagonist.

The head of the staff had a magatama-shaped pattern engraved on it.

It is definitely a weapon that corresponds to Letisane’s Orb.

As expected, when I touched the orb to the pattern, it became one with the staff.

‘The grade is Celestial.’

A heavenly staff that surpasses the level of Legend, the level of the 3 sacred powers.

My preliminary information.

So, I acquired a transcendent level item that doesn’t even exist in the cookie data.

Now, Yggdrasil is contaminated.

All preparations to head to An Yu-min’s location are complete.

How will you end your relationship with An Yu-min?

I finished organizing everything in my mind.

Ignition.

If the false protagonist’s party created through distortion caused by chaos is Aegis.

After entering Theia Academy, Ignition was the Jinju Artificial Party I created with colleagues I truly trusted.

“Let’s go. In the name of Ignition.”

next day.

I headed to the Yggdrasil Mountains with Ignition’s colleagues.

There, I met An Yu-min.

It was time to end it all.