My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 206

#206

The Prelude to Chaos (1)

Now there is a cold silence, but in the middle of a space that was full of the noise of battle just a moment ago.

“…….”

A man was slowly circling a certain section and looking around several times.

A being that seems vague, yet intimidating, and in some ways feels ordinary.

He was Hoeju, the head of the Beoncheonhoe, the largest secret organization on Earth.

‘I don’t know.’

The spot he was looking at now was the place where Hahoe Mask last stood.

I checked again and again to see if I had missed something, but no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t find anything special.

The space was perfect as usual—.

There were no flaws or traces left behind.

And that was the strange part.

‘It just disappeared as if its existence was erased. Without any foreshadowing.’

We developed several hypotheses considering various unique skills, but no matter what we put in place, we could not come up with a satisfactory conclusion.

In order to escape from this space, it is essential to jump across dimensions, but it can’t be that easy, right?

Also, even if he escaped this position with truly extraordinary abilities, at least a trace of it had to remain.

It doesn’t disappear without a trace like it does now.

‘I feel like I’m possessed by a ghost.’

It was something I couldn’t understand, but it was also a reality that had to be accepted since it had already happened.

In addition, countermeasures should be prepared to prevent the same thing from happening.

“Hoeju! “The treatment is complete!”

While I was lost in thought for a long time.

He turned to look in that direction when he heard a voice from behind him.

“…doctor. “What is the status of the ruler?”

“Wow~ First of all, we have passed the immediate hurdle. As expected, it seems like the damage was reduced to some extent because it happened only once! “This guy is very motivated and tends to push himself too hard, but his skills are good, right?”

The doctor slowly turned his head, looked at the unconscious man, and said something shameless.

The thought that he had provoked the other person to do something had already completely disappeared from his mind.

“Useup, but…”

The ruler was covered with all kinds of mechanical devices and magic tools taken out for emergency treatment, as well as unidentified biological tissues and drugs.

The doctor turned his body around a few times and looked at him, then frowned as if he was displeased with something.

“…No matter how hard I search, I can’t find it. You’re just throwing away borrowed items everywhere! Ugh~ This is something my friend has been painting over… It’s made from materials that can’t be found anymore, so I wonder if he’ll lose it!”

He even went so far as to beat up people who were injured while performing their duties.

He might have been able to complete the task properly, but he was unable to do so and only suffered losses, so it was undesirable for him, who had an extremely self-centered way of thinking.

“Hmm, it’s not an item that can be easily removed, so if we catch Hahoe Mask, we can retrieve it. “I’ll have to try different ways to make sure I don’t miss it next time!”

Since the plan was to catch him and dissect him from the beginning, there was nothing much to change.

“Puh hee~ By the way, you took this one! Would you have thought that even if you saw it clearly with your own two eyes, you wouldn’t even be able to understand the principle? It makes my blood boil! “Wow!”

Hoeju glanced at the doctor, who was burning with crazy motivation as usual, and then looked back down at Yulryeongja lying on the floor.

It’s been a long time since I stepped forward due to restrictions, but I wasted the long-awaited opportunity without much gain.

Didn’t you just see a loss instead of an income?

‘Hahoe mask…’

Hoeju repeated the name again and engraved it clearly in his memory.

I promise to pay for the current humiliation.

***

An immortal castle located in the northern mountains of Outerica.

This place, filled with the energy of death everywhere, was the central base of the immortal army and was a demonic landscape where most of the military power Hans had gathered so far was gathered.

Of course, the villains collected from each region… not all of them, including black magicians and members of underground organizations, were here.

They chose to leave such miscreants at the location and use them as consumables whenever an attack was needed nearby.

However, it was Hans’ policy to bring in immortality as many useful beings as possible, such as those who were strong above a certain level or those from the immortal army that emerged from the scars of the abyss.

Additionally, with monsters dying in droves in the northern mountains, there was a constant supply of additional undead.

No matter how many of them were dispatched inland, it was inevitable that the surrounding mountains would be completely covered by the undead army.

And the inside of the castle that rose in the middle of that sacred place of death.

In a grand battle with dozens of Death Knights lined up—.

[King… have you come… Girl Olivia… I salute you…]

Hans, sitting on a huge throne made of skulls and bones, leisurely looked down.

[Yes, Olivia. From the looks of it, there didn’t seem to be any major problems while I was away.]

His appearance was exuding a dignity befitting the name ‘Immortal King’, as if he had been attacked by the Lord of Heavenly Heaven at some point.

Of course, the reverberations of divine power still remained in his body and his mental world was overloaded, so he was not in a very good condition, but in any case, such problems were minor problems that could be easily solved with time.

‘There are times when the time difference with Earth is inconvenient, but it is also quite helpful in times like this. It’s the same when creating undead.’

Then, my thoughts suddenly went to the additional awakened undead that Dwell was in charge of.

Considering the time difference, it is now time to complete the objects after Salma.

Since I had just become acutely aware of my lack of power in the fight against Buncheonhoeju, I couldn’t help but become more interested in undead, which can increase power most easily and quickly, independently of the growth of the avatar.

‘It won’t be of much help in the fight against him unless he’s at least a Salma-level undead, but it will still be helpful when dealing with the underdogs of the Buncheonhoe.’

Perhaps, if I had brought out undead like Heratos or Salma, the dragon I saw in this battle, I would have been able to fight Hoeju more properly.

It was a fact that was often ignored because the Immortal King’s specifications were so outstanding, but he was a warlock and necromancer who specialized in the rear.

But this time, he chose to save it as much as possible and fill it with his own body.

To use those forces at the most critical moment in a more certain situation.

[…Dispatch to the continent is progressing step by step as announced in advance… Recently, the pace has slowed down a bit due to the continental summit meeting being held…] Even as

Hans was continuing his thoughts, Olivia’s report was continuing.

As she was the head of immortality management and head of information, one of her duties was to summarize and report on the past events whenever he returned.

‘There’s nothing unusual about it. Well, the information power of Heinrich and Heinz II is quite impressive.’

Aside from what had happened within the Immortal City, he already knew most of the facts, but he did not stop talking and rested his chin leisurely before falling into other thoughts again.

Multitasking can now be done like breathing, and isn’t there a chance that information he didn’t know may pop up?

‘Now that I think about it, I need to properly test the item that the ruler took away… no, he left it as a gift.’

Hans was of a different class now than when he first met him, so the one arm of his spirit body did not bring about a dramatic change.

At best, it only provides additional merit when using mental black magic.

Of course, I was quite satisfied with that alone as it would make reading forbidden items and memories easier, but the real value of this gift was in the bead he left behind in the mental world.

‘The basic effect is to further amplify the ability emanating from the mental world… but the level is unusual. It’s impossible to measure the limits without actually using it.’

As they were people who swept up cultural relics from various worlds, they had a lot of interesting things.

What dimension did this stuff come from?

First of all, the fact that it existed in the mental world rather than reality was unusual.

[And I captured one of the white giants that appeared on the continent… and entrusted Dwell to investigate…]

While Hans was pondering the utility of the marble.

Olivia started reporting interesting facts.

‘Captured the White Giant? …Right. Come to think of it, I heard that one from the Principality of Rohan escaped into the mountains.’

The Immortal Army currently concentrated in a small area near the Immortal Castle had enough power to destroy several countries even if they charged head-on.

It would not have been an easy task to capture a giant with just the officers, without even having to send an army.

[However, I haven’t been able to get any useful information from that guy’s mouth yet… They say he keeps repeating that he wants me to meet the king…] [

…Speaking? You also want to meet me?]

What she said next was enough to pique his interest.

One nostril that was unsealed from the beginning, a mouth that was unsealed immediately after capture, and one ear that was said to have been recently pierced.

The giant’s head is repeatedly expressing its clear intention.

Ask me to meet the immortal king Hans.

[Dwell is trying various methods in parallel with the experiment… It appears that it is not a normal life form… They say that neither torture nor mental magic will work…]

[Hmm.]

Hans He nodded leisurely and slowly got up from the throne.

A white giant trapped in an immortal laboratory and demanding conversation.

Even so, I felt like I needed information about them, but what kind of nonsense is this?

[Hehehe— That’s interesting. [Let’s hear what they’re saying.]

This was an opportunity to talk directly with a giant, so there was no need to turn it down.

***

Hans, guided by Dwell, entered the place where the head of the White Giant was said to be imprisoned.

And the first thing he encountered there.

Whoosh—

it was a purple mist that spread throughout the space.

Not only was it fatal to living creatures, it was a poison so severe that even the undead could corrode if their magic power was weak…

[Sorry! If I had known the king would come, I would have ventilated in advance. [I forgot about it because I didn’t pay attention to it!]

It didn’t have the slightest effect on the people who are here now.

Moreover, the undead’s vision couldn’t be blocked with something like a smoke screen.

I wonder if Dwell didn’t feel much discomfort while studying giants.

[It doesn’t really matter. By the way… Is this really this guy?]

Hans’ eyes turned to the head of the giant who was restrained by all kinds of means, placed in the middle of the space.

A black magic circle engraved in blood all over the interior, an altar, oozing evil energy, black stakes stuck in various places like needles, and ominous chains surrounding the entire area.

The red and black accessories that matched the pure white head, which seemed to be 4 meters in size, made the bizarreness of this space stand out even more.

But then.

[Ooh—death—. The end of life and the ultimate loss—.]

The giant’s mouth, which had been quietly closed, opened.

While reciting something like a poem.

‘…What is this guy talking about?’

No, I understand you are referring to yourself.

What should I say too much …

[Kukkuk – Yes, this is the king of the lion and the incarnation of death. You are a slave of madness, a servant of the Abyss. You dared to ask to meet me?]

…It was very much Hans’s taste.

He was inwardly embarrassed by the response that came out of his mouth without even realizing it, but he did not show it on the outside and just stared at the giant’s head.

‘…I thought things had been a bit quiet recently, but the switch went up again because of that guy. ‘I’m going to have to work hard for a while to correct my speaking style again.’

But the giant, unaware of his thoughts, opened his mouth again and continued to say only what he wanted to say.

[Alas—death, you have truly forgotten—. Our wish—the mission given by our Lord—!]

Words that Hans could not possibly understand.

‘No, really, what is this guy saying?’

He slightly tilted his skull and glared at the giant’s head.

I know we are from the same abyss.

I guess the reason I asked to talk was because we had a connection.

‘Aspiration, mission and Lord?’

But it seemed like this wasn’t just that kind of problem.

‘Wasn’t death and madness just like the dregs of a world that sank into the abyss?’

There was no information about him in the information left behind by previous immortal kings…

[Death—. The oldest uncleanness—the fate that lies at the bottom of the abyss—.]

When he was so troubled.

Tootuk—tuk tootuk!

As the giant continued speaking, the black wire sealing his right eye began to slowly break.

‘eye?’

At that sudden change, Hans instantly strengthened the black magic circle that restrained the giant and placed a solid defense around himself.

It doesn’t seem like he has any hostility, but it was still a safety measure taken just in case.

[I—as the Lord’s messenger—bring His will to you—.]

And at last the black wire that sealed the eye was completely broken.

The giant’s eyes widened—.

The huge “Eye of the Abyss” residing within it looked straight at Hans.

‘Huh? Wait a minute, this is…!’

The decision that followed was a split second.

Push!

A black beam of light extended from his hand, burning a large hole in the giant’s head and annihilating its core.

but.

The intervention of the abyss had already instilled something into his mental world—.

Something that overflowed inside Hans did not stop there, but soon began to flow back at a rapid pace towards the “Mind Hub.”