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◈ I Made a Tier List the Transcendents Are Obsessed With ◈
Chapter 18: Supreme Sword Maiden Ok Chaegyeong
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The present Second Dimension is the most recently created of all dimensions.
That was not true if one traced its origins, but as things stood now, there was no denying it.
And among them was a Grade 5 civilization planet.
A small country in the Lower Realm, with a medium-sized city.
Hyeondeok City.
...It was a strange place.
I could say that with certainty.
Of course, perhaps that was only natural.
This was where the protagonist of the original work first began to act.
Naturally, countless devices had to be hidden here, and the Winter Tree Mage Tower itself was one of them.
Still, I had not expected to find hidden gems beyond everything the protagonist had plotted and confirmed in the original work.
“Five...”
The girl could only stare blankly at me and repeat those words.
All Wendy could see were the five lights I had brought forth.
She looked as though she had encountered a god.
Then again, to a seventh-rank System Mage, a 5-Star Mage might as well be a god.
The world she saw was utterly different from the one I knew.
I knew perfectly well that I was little more than an ant, but Wendy could not view me from some cosmic perspective.
All she knew was reverence for someone who had reached a realm she could never have imagined.
A place she would not have dared hope for even in her dreams.
‘...It’s not that impressive.’
That was why I felt a little embarrassed inside.
Still, I had realized that my aptitude was not as bad as I had initially expected.
My growth itself was actually rising steeply, contrary to my expectations.
But the short-haired girl before me was far more talented.
Naturally, she could not compare to the protagonist, but there was a reason I called her a hidden gem.
Not long ago, I made a post on a Lower Realm community.
[ Top 20 Special Constitutions by Strength, by Immortal Cultivator Standards ]
Of course, the Transcendents had already been spying on me back then, so they must have seen it too.
There had certainly been a few questions about my other tier lists and rankings.
But nobody asked about this constitution ranking.
The reason was simple.
It was fact.
Unlike my other tier lists, which included some of my own opinions and speculation, this one was different.
The rankings might shift by one or two places, but nobody could say the overall order was wrong.
[ No. 4: Spirit-Binding Heavenly Meridian Body ]
A lot of people have probably never even heard of this one.
That’s only natural. Once the heavenly meridians are opened, they awaken the highest potential of another constitution.
The process is arduous, but if they can be opened, even someone who awakens with an ordinary constitution gains transcendent-grade potential.
The Heavenly Thunder Child, well known in dimensional legends, is an example. They opened their heavenly meridians and gained a lightning body with transcendent-grade potential.
The constitution ranked fourth.
A raw gem born with such absurdly low odds that it would be difficult to find even if one searched the entire dimension.
I had no choice but to recognize Wendy as that gem.
The original work described this trait in considerable detail, so I could recognize it just by meeting her.
That was why I gave her that choice.
“Which will you choose? I’ll respect your decision either way.”
Naturally, that was a lie.
Whichever choice she made, I intended to keep her with me in the future.
If I did not raise her, her future would not be bright either.
The spirit-binding aspect and the heavenly meridians of the Spirit-Binding Heavenly Meridian Body were separate concepts.
She had merely been born with heavenly meridians alongside the cursed Spirit-Binding Constitution, which bound her spirituality.
Her soul would endure, but her body would crumble.
If she died without awakening her heavenly meridians in this life, then in her next life, she would only possess a cursed constitution.
Unless another opportunity came, she would forever repeat reincarnations beneath even that of an ordinary person.
...So I hoped she would simply choose to follow me willingly.
That would be better for both of us.
“Ah...”
Her eyes wavered.
Naturally, her small mind could not easily grasp this entire situation.
She was a girl who had been so happy merely to become a regular mage’s assistant.
An ordinary twenty-year-old woman who did not seem especially strong-willed or ambitious.
That might have been a weakness in cultivation, but I liked that about her.
I was the same as her.
Clench.
Her hands curled into fists as though she had made up her mind.
She lifted her head, looking almost ready to cry.
“Y-Yes, I’ll do it!”
“...Do what?”
“Ah, ah! Not just as your assistant, but as your comrade! I’ll do it!”
It was nearly a desperate shout.
Hearing her gasp for breath, I could not help but laugh.
“Good. You made the right choice.”
It was only natural that mustering this much courage was difficult.
* * *
Salmurim.
As its name implied, it was a world where neither justice nor chivalry existed, where only the logic of strength prevailed.
A vast region of the Ninth Dimension where any evil deed could be justified with sufficient strength.
“Stop! This is the territory of our Star-Extinguishing Stronghold!”
“...Aren’t you just bandits?”
Throughout the long history of the Ninth Dimension, this law of Salmurim had never changed.
Thus, it was only natural that the Ninth Dimension had once possessed the worst reputation in the Great Heavenly World.
“Have the owner of this merchant vessel come out at once! How dare you pass through the territory of our Star-Extinguishing Stronghold without permission!”
“...I am the owner.”
It was also a place filled with beings of profound martial talent, as many ancient souls gathered there.
From petty banditry and disputes to galaxy-scale bloody calamities, such incidents occurred frequently.
Salmurim had truly been such a dangerous place.
“Ha! You finally come out. You know what you need to do now, right?”
“Of course. I know perfectly well.”
“Kuahaha! Then from this moment...”
At one corner of Salmurim, a spaceship traveling to trade with another planet had encountered a bandit gang.
If things had followed their original course, the bandits would have killed everyone aboard the merchant vessel, seized both the ship and its cargo, then returned to their base.
Indeed, greed gleamed in the eyes of the man who appeared to be their leader.
Then, a thunderous cry burst from his mouth.
“You’ll need to make a payment, of course!!!!!!”
“Certainly. But please make sure to issue us a receipt. It would be troublesome if we ran into more bandits later.”
“There’s nowhere with more reliable follow-up service than our Red Star Stronghold! Don’t worry, shipowner.”
“Ah, do you accept payment in goods as well? We have some merchandise whose transaction was canceled...”
The shipowner and the bandit leader exchanged the standard toll as though they were thoroughly accustomed to this, then parted ways.
There were no sinister schemes or underhanded tricks involved.
The merchant vessel safely reached its intended planet, while the Red Star Stronghold simply waited for its next “customer.”
...This was not some isolated exception.
Such sensible exchanges were common throughout Salmurim, which had once been filled with misfortune.
The change had taken place within nearly three hundred million years.
Naturally, the original atmosphere had not changed on its own for no reason.
Even now, there were those who repeated the ways of the past.
“Aaaagh! Urk! Huurgh...!!!”
“You are quite noisy. You are merely paying for your sins.”
But they were eliminated before long.
Those who did not uphold the new laws of Salmurim could never transcend from the Upper Realm onward.
There was not a single exception.
“Hmm, only three today?”
“Yes.”
“Report it to the Society. Tell them the pacification of the west is complete.”
“I have already contacted them. Let us return.”
The High Divinity Flame Emperor of Salmurim leisurely returned after eliminating enemies of the martial world.
In a world where lawlessness had once been carried out through the logic of strength, laws enforced by that same logic of strength had been established.
This change in Salmurim began with a single gathering.
The Sword Saint Society.
A gathering of the twenty foremost martial artists in the Ninth Dimension’s Salmurim.
Of course, not all of them were called Sword Saints.
As mentioned earlier, the Sword Saint Society consisted of twenty people who had reached the pinnacle of martial arts in Salmurim.
Of them, only nine had their roots in swordsmanship. Not even a majority.
Then why was this gathering called the Sword Saint Society?
“...What? Only half came?”
“The old geezers say they’ve been busy lately. Gwiheo was completely sulking last time. So don’t ride them too hard.”
“They don’t properly do what they’re told. They were always going on about respecting the strong, and now they want us to respect them just because they got old?”
That was because the Sword Saint Society was not a gathering of Sword Saints.
Supreme Sword Empress Ok Chaegyeong.
Having transcended four hundred and thirty million years ago, she had risen to the peak of Salmurim in less than a hundred million years. She was its undisputed strongest.
The Sword Saint Society had been created solely by her will and operated solely by her will.
“All right. Word will reach the others anyway. You all have a rough idea why we gathered today, right?”
“People have been talking about it lately. Because of the posts from that fellow called Oz. Honestly, I don’t know why everyone is so excited about them...”
From her seat at the center, Ok Chaegyeong continued with a sharp look in her eyes.
“What matters is that there are bastards muddying public opinion before he even gives an exact conclusion. Especially those babbling weird nonsense like Loy123alty or whatever.”
After recalling those posts in the Gallery for a moment, she declared in a firm tone.
“It’s the same as what we’ve always done. This time, however, we’ll guide them in the Gallery instead of in reality.”
It was a response to the evildoers muddying public opinion in the Gallery.
There were no fewer Transcendents in Salmurim than in any other dimension, so they could respond sufficiently.
“From today onward, everyone will implement decisive countermeasures. Pass this on to every Absolute under the Society. Tell them to show what true chivalry is. Understood?”
“Yes, ma’am!”
That was the order Ok Chaegyeong issued at the Sword Saint Society’s regular gathering.
In short, it was a “firepower battle” against the Heroes of the Eleventh Dimension...
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