Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 142

EP.142 Hello, Tantalus

“…a perfect plan. For something like that.”

After pouring a glass of wine, Ji-seon spoke again.

“You’re making a sad face.”

“yes?”

“Why is it that he regrets that he has been abandoned? Do you have any regrets left?”

revealed a little

Chet Jisun. Don’t read the mind reader’s expression. Reading minds is my specialty.

“A little bit.”

People pretend to despise the extravagant human beings, but inwardly they envy them. It is to feel pleasure by projecting oneself onto those who calmly do something they cannot commit.

That luxury is not necessarily limited to money. The more precious it is to me, the higher the value of that luxury.

Especially if it’s something as precious as life… beyond envy, I’m even enchanted.

“But it can’t be helped. Unlike them, I die really easily. I need to be more careful.”

“It is said that it is a waste of life, but I cannot understand it. Hughes. The small man would like to ask.”

After bowing twice to the Grand Master, Ji-sun looked at me with her head raised. Intentions and emotions rushed through those calmly sunken eyes.

“The small man was not chosen by the Grand Master, but Hughes forced the Grand Master to choose. Thanks to that, the small man lost his cause along with an arm. All the hard work so far has gone in vain.”

Jisun raised her eyes and said.

“Why would such a small person have to let Mr. Hughes live?”

A question that flew in with a chill to the spine. I smiled vaguely.

If you were going to kill me, I’ve already killed you.

I don’t even have any reason to kill myself.

The original goal was to destroy the bottomless pit, right?

I am the one who soothed the master’s soul.

Many reasons came to mind, but among them, I picked the one the other person would like the most.

“If you spare me, I’ll reveal the seonghwangcheong one day.”

“…her.”

A little bit of blood oozing out from the severed shoulder blade, as if the strength had been relaxed for a moment. It was such an unexpected proposal.

Ji-sun wrapped her shoulder with her only arm and bowed her head, laughing.

“…sincerely?”

“I can’t guarantee that will happen. We, who are not prophets, can only see what is right in front of each other. But one day, if you find the secret of Seonghwangcheong. I will use this gang of ruins to get them into trouble.”

“I’m afraid to do it. If that happens, that is.”

“A little finger if you want? Oh, isn’t it a bit difficult for someone without an arm?”

There was an uproar above the pit. The subdued soldiers gathered their troops and started moving again. Ji-seon glanced in the direction of the sound and said.

“I’m not going to pretend I didn’t see it, but I’m going to help.”

“I will go out on my own. Please do not inform me.”

Right after that, the soldiers who came to their senses ran all at once to the bottom of the abyss. I hid myself among the corpses, avoiding their gaze.

With the searchlight gone, dim light was all they had. Throwing a light inside, they were startled to see the corpses hidden in the abyss.

“Aagh! It is a corpse!”

“I know. This is the burial place of the king! Their corpses must have remained…! I remember what I learned at school!”

the commander shouted.

“Get down the ladder!”

“Inside me?”

“okay! Without a searchlight, we’ll have to go down and check it out ourselves! Anyway, who’s the guy you just talked back to? Since when did you talk back to a legitimate order?”

The soldiers suddenly lowered the ladder. The commander yelled at the bewildered soldier and climbed down the ladder.

“Explore carefully! Don’t be afraid to step on a dead body! If you’re afraid to step on it, then you can’t make a corpse any more…! That’s why you must have been so powerless earlier!”

‘He himself was helpless…’

thought a nearby soldier, glancing at the commander. Fortunately, that thought was just a thought.

As they continued their search by the light of the lantern, they eventually reached the top of the mountain of corpses. Recognizing Jiseon, the commander suddenly ran towards it.

“Loyalty! I’m Major Keio Shin of the Wilderness Explorers! Meet the Brigadier…! Oh dear! oh my god! The brigadier’s arm…!”

When the soldiers arrived, Ji-seon, who was kneeling reverently in front of the Grand Master, stumbled and got up.

“Nothing to worry about. Minor damage.”

“It couldn’t be…! First aid first!”

good. It is now.

While everyone’s eyes were on that side, I climbed up the ladder they had lowered.

The person who remained behind asked me, shining a faint light on me.

“Hey what’s up?”

I pretended to be in a hurry and shouted.

“The brigadier is seriously injured! Medic! Call the medic quickly!”

“Medical? They are taking care of the wounded now.”

“You stupid! The brigadier’s right arm is missing! If this continues, Ji-seon, who built this country, will lose blood! Are you going to put that stigma on us! Quickly call all the medics who were taking care of the wounded!”

The officer, overwhelmed by my momentum, mumbled back and called for the medic. Then he nodded his head and came back and questioned.

“Hey, but who are you? I’m the unit commander…”

But I wasn’t already there. The adjutant tilted his head.

Empty wagons are everywhere. It is a distinctive vehicle with thick wheels for patrolling the wilderness. I walked along, bursting the wheels one by one with a hum.

The outside of the wheel is sturdy, but the inside is relatively soft. Every time I passed, the wagon slumped to one side.

I climbed into the wagon I watched, threw my rucksack inside, and started the engine. drooling. There was the sound of wheels and steering wheel engaging. The car body vibrates violently. I whistled and pedaled.

I blew off all the other wheels as I went, so even if I noticed something strange, I wouldn’t be able to chase it. Looking at it, it seems that I don’t have the mind to do that.

“now. I did one thing.”

It’s a good car that rolls without roads, but the downside is that it’s for military use. If you hit the road in this one, you’ll get all sorts of doubts. It’s just a pity that I had to go in moderation and throw it away.

Just in time, I saw Tantalus rising above the ground. I enjoyed the speed as I turned with Tantalus so that my vision was blocked.

“Ego. What should I do now…”

In fact, the work to be done was decided.

In this heartless world, if you don’t have money, you can’t even get a status. Whether you go to another country or hide yourself by laundering your identity. It will cost you money in the process.

Money is the oxygen of the world these days.

First of all, I have to go to the back alleys of Amitengrad, the capital of the military, and take my hidden possessions. You also need to turn your assets into cash.

And there are things to find out.

good. The decision has been made. Having decided on a destination, let’s just enjoy the scenery for now.

A structure large enough to compare with a landmark filled my left field of vision. The one-story concrete floor and the terribly broken prison building on top of it are dreary.

I looked up at the nearby building and fell into admiration.

All sorts of things happened in that building. Eat, sleep, play with Aji, sometimes fight, then sleep again.

Well, when I thought about it, it was nothing.

But wouldn’t it be that the collection of nothing special is going to live soon? Is it necessary to give life so special meaning? Isn’t that the only true life to be happy with that alone?

The broken prison seems to be trying to hold on to my mind instead of my body. I won’t go back in, but it will forever lock up a piece of my memory.

Hello Tantalus. A place of my special experience…

Bang.

Then I bumped into something. The automatic carriage, which rattled up and down, stopped starting. Putting my head on the steering wheel, I opened the driver’s door and shouted quickly.

“Ah! Drive straight!”

I shouted reflexively, but there was no answer. No, in the first place, there were not many other things that could be bumped into here.

What the hell did you bump into? Did you step on anything strange?

Back behind the vehicle, I noticed something strange.

“What is this sign?”

The sign that rose from the ground was weakly bent from the middle.

where did u see this? I have a sense of déjà vu, but I can’t come up with it. I groaned for a while, then recalled the memory and snapped my fingers.

Oh right. The officer who escorted me. Did they stop when they saw this sign? A sign that marked the end of the road.

I must have heard the voice of the signalman here, and the guards threw me down on that order.

“hmm. Come to think of it, it must have been Inspector Evian from Edelphite. I forgot.”

You dare swing a steel bar at me? When I think of that time, my bones ache. The suppressed resentment creeped out.

good. Before returning to Amittengrad, I now have a place to go. Let’s stop by Edelphite and investigate.

It was time for me to get back into the car. A grid of cracks was seen in the ground near the sign. It was strangely artificial to say that the ground cracked when Tantalus capsized.

if?

I went over to it and grabbed the ground cracked in a lattice pattern and tore it off. The ground lifted easily like a layer of skin.

It was also a fake land. Was it revealed by the shock as Tantalus collapsed?

In the place where it was peeled off, there was a square metal structure that was distorted unsightly.

The design was more like a box than a building. It looked as if a box hidden in the ground was ejected from the impact when Tantalus crashed into the ground.

“what? Have you hidden any treasure?”

Looking at the size, it looks like a large room, but there’s no way people live in a place like this. Who lives in a metal box buried in the ground? He must have hidden something inside.

After a long time, hunting and gathering instincts were activated. I pulled out a skewer and stood on top of the box. There was a hollow, hollow sound of metal.

“Checking the gift box is always fun.”

what do you want I whistled, poked a skewer through the dent, and got to work.

However, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t open the box. No matter how much I pushed the lock, it didn’t respond, and I stuck a skewer through the dent, but nothing caught. I clicked my tongue and threw the skewer.

“Chit. What do you do when you read people’s minds? I can’t read the mind of a lock.”

Come to think of it, I’ve never picked a lock with bare ground. They stole keys or figured out passwords.

Chet. It’s a pity to go on like this…. What should I do.

Steel dented by a massive impact. The twisted seams reveal the inside.

hmm. I don’t think I could have opened this if I had a little more strength or if I was heavier.

“Let’s try it just once.”

I put both hands on the steel box.

Originally, it was a Earth Spell of the Earth Mother God that could be used only when the image reached the Earth Mother God. That’s why only Earth Mother could use it.

However, now that the secret of Grand Master is revealed to the world, maybe I can write it too. Like ritual magic or basic qigong.

Concentrating his mind, he thought of Jiseon and Grand Master.

For them, the land flows. It is a being that begins with the life that lives in it and moves through the great flow of nature. Earth Sorcery is a technique that brings about changes in the land that should have taken place over tens or thousands of years.

It’s called steel, but it comes from the earth. Grabbing my feeble senses, I cast Earth Sorcery toward the steel door.

“Huh!”

wajangchang.

The doorknob sat down. My body fell to the ground according to the law of gravity. Having been beaten, I rolled across the hard floor.

“Ouch.”

I woke up with a grunt and what I saw was a space full of a sense of life.

No, should I see this as having a sense of life or not?

“It was a real room.”

It was clear that someone was living inside this box. All the furniture in the narrow box was covered with hand stains.

But what kind of person can live confined in such a small space? In that sense, this overflowing sense of life rather gave the impression of a play of the absurd.

“Set Lux.”

Anyway, I didn’t know if there was something I could pick up here too. I proceeded to illuminate the dark interior with ritual magic.

“what.”

As I continued to search, something caught my eye.