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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

Editor: ChaoticRain

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 212: Episode 40: Hatching (1)

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I'd never felt anything like it before. It was so overwhelming that I forgot to say, “I am Yu Junghyeok,” and focused only on the sensation. It felt as if all space and time within dozens of meters revered me. This was what Constellations felt.

[Your Incarnation body is unsuitable for expressing your status.]

Even though I had deliberately adjusted it down, the burden on my Incarnation body was enormous.

And this wasn't even a proper release of my status.

[Your status is temporarily adjusted due to incompatibility with your Incarnation body.]

[Your current status is Historical-grade.]

An ordinary Incarnation body couldn't endure fabled-grade status.

Even Historical-grade status couldn't be maintained in a symbol form, so it went without saying that my patched-up Incarnation body had no chance.

Even so, this was enough.

“Ghk, khk, kuugh...!”

The surrounding Incarnations clutched at their chests in agony.

Only after seeing that did I quickly limit the range of my status to the marquises. The half-kneeling marquises already wore vacant expressions.

[Someone in the Demon Realm has detected your presence.]

[Someone in the Demon Realm has detected your presence.]

[Someone in the Demon Realm has detected your presence.]

I had only released my status for a moment, yet three messages appeared.

They were probably demon kings from nearby Demon Realms.

It didn't matter. They would learn about me sooner or later anyway.

Besides, they wouldn't be able to tell who I was from this level of status alone.

[Your Incarnation body cannot endure your status!]

The fables behind my back began to peel away. Fortunately, they were in my blind spot, so the marquises hadn't noticed.

“Th-this presence...”

“A Constellation!”

Marquis Osteon screamed once he came to his senses. Marquis Cuarteto beside him was on the verge of falling backward. It was a pleasing sight, but I couldn't drag this out any longer.

[Your Incarnation body is beginning to collapse!]

My combat power wasn't particularly high compared to my status. That meant I had to finish them while they were intimidated by it.

[Exclusive Skill, Bookmark, has activated!]

For some reason, though, the skill was forcibly terminated along with sparks bursting through the air.

[Your Incarnation body is too unstable to use that skill.]

...Damn it. Had I rushed this too much?

[You have used power that does not conform to Plausibility!]

[The Exile Penalty is accelerating.]

I had expected this might happen after my recent battles. Still, my Incarnation body was collapsing much faster than expected, and releasing a Constellation's power had apparently placed a considerable burden on it.

The marquises seemed to be adapting as well, raising their own presence against mine. From the looks of it, they possessed one Legendary-grade fable or several Historical-grade fables. They were marquises, after all. They were probably at least as strong as Reinheit of Paradise.

“Even if you're a Constellation, you can't kill me within a Scenario!”

He was fairly clever, too.

Shhhk.

Marquis Osteon transformed back into an Executioner and raised his scythe at me. Jang Hayoung, the only Fighter, had been knocked away. At the moment, there was no way to kill him.

To make matters worse, things began to turn even more against me.

“An Exile? ...Don't tell me?”

Enough Fable Fragments had fallen from my body for the marquises to finally notice. I couldn't use [Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint] because of the skill restriction, but their thoughts were obvious.

「If only I could get my hands on that bastard's fables...」

Like hyenas circling a wounded beast, they began to cautiously surround me.

“Call for reinforcements! If we stall for time, he'll destroy himself!”

Along with a whistle came the presence of Executioners approaching from all directions. Additional forces must have been dispatched, and I could feel unusual movement among the nobles near the Factory as well.

「Kim Dokja thought.」

To take down marquis-level opponents, I needed to use at least [Electrification].

「But I can't use skills.」

If I dragged this out any longer, not only my Incarnation body but the other industrial citizens would be in danger.

「I need to kill them without using skills.」

How?

「There was only one way.」

The moment I made up my mind and stepped forward, Marquis Osteon, who had been approaching me, let out a terrible scream.

“Kuuaaaah!”

Osteon's arm rolled across the ground. As an Executioner, he couldn't be harmed by ordinary attacks.

Which meant...

“You shouldn't let your guard down like that.”

Jang Hayoung stood behind him, smiling like a villain. Considering what had happened earlier, their recovery was unbelievable.

[The character Jang Hayoung is using the skill Undying Body Lv.7.]

...Undying Body? That was an ultra-regeneration skill from the Murim world.

When I approached, Hayoung muttered as if making an excuse.

“One of the people I was chatting with earlier was a Murim martial artist...”

I sighed as Hayoung trailed off in embarrassment. It seemed they hadn't only been talking to the Black Flame Dragon. Still, Undying Body belonged to the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint...

“Attack them all! Kill the Fighter first!”

Marquis Osteon shouted toward the reinforcements. The remaining four Executioners and the nobles who had rushed over surrounded us: three counts and five barons. Among them was Baron Melen, whom I had seen on the day I first arrived here.

“There! Save the Revolutionary!”

The agitated industrial citizens came running from the distance to save us, but there weren't enough of them yet. Hayoung's face turned pale at the sight of the nobles drawing their vicious weapons.

“Is there no way? I can't kill those guys.”

A Fighter was strongest against an Executioner but weak against every other Position. I had to deal with the rest.

“You only need to take care of the Executioners.”

I stood in front of the other nobles targeting Hayoung. Countless spears and blades flew at me, but I didn't dodge.

[You are currently under the protection of the Scenario.]

I was under protection, so I couldn't die. I only needed to take them down one by one without overextending myself.

As if it had read my thoughts, a message rang out through the air.

[The Dictator has forcibly reclaimed the Night.]

Dictator. It was the Position that referred to the duke who ruled this industrial complex.

[No one has died tonight.]

The time of Night had ended, but the battle continued.

No, it was only beginning.

[The Scenario's power that protected you has vanished.]

“His protection is gone! Kill him!”

“He has incredible fables!”

Watching the nobles rush at me as if they had expected this, I gave a bitter smile.

“You used your head, but that was a mistake.”

With the Night gone, the Executioners couldn't use their power. And the two marquises, the industrial complex's key forces, were here.

It was the situation I had been waiting for.

“I will open my fable.”

My Incarnation body was too unstable to use skills. That didn't mean I had no way to fight.

[The fable Insect Genocide begins its story.]

In my current state, awakening a Legendary-grade or higher fable was impossible. But against opponents like these, there was no need to use a Legendary-grade fable.

It was a fable that made the greatest use of the power of one's status. A fable once used by a demonic noble named Tentacio in Dark Castle.

When I slowly blinked, the nobles before me suddenly seemed to shrink.

"Insect Genocide" was a fable gained by slaughtering tens of thousands of weaker beings. It became miserably weak against the strong, but it was different when facing the weak.

[You possess absolute power over all beings whose status is lower than yours.]

[This fable is effective only against beings below a certain level of status.]

The nobles approaching me turned pale at the terrifying aura seeping from my entire body.

“Th-this is impossible...!”

But it was already too late to regret it.

Crack!

I didn't even need my sword. I instantly expanded every muscle in my body and began beating the nobles down with nothing but my fists.

“Kuuaaaah!”

It was slaughter in the truest sense.

[You have acquired a Historical-grade fable.]

[You have acquired a Historical-grade fable.]

The fables possessed by the nobles entered my hands one after another.

[Your Incarnation body is rapidly collapsing!]

I punched holes through the barons' bodies in an instant, then grabbed the counts by their hair and crushed their heads. The tide of battle changed in a moment, and the nobles turned and began fleeing.

“Run! We can't fight him! Hurry-!”

A few escaped. But I didn't let the important ones get away.

“Kuuaaaah!”

Marquises Cuarteto and Osteon struggled as I grabbed them by the napes of their necks. They showed signs of drawing on their fables, so I smashed their heads together without hesitation and pierced their hearts with both hands.

“Kuugh...”

Things might have gone differently if they had put up a more serious resistance. But the marquises had already been broken by my status and died without being able to fight back.

[You have acquired multiple new fables!]

[You have defeated the demon marquis Cuarteto!]

[You have defeated the demon marquis Osteon!]

[You have achieved a new achievement!]

[Your infamy spreads throughout the Demon Realm due to killing marquises!]

[High-ranking nobles of the Demon Realm fear you.]

[You have acquired 50,000 coins as an achievement reward.]

There was clearly a difference in class even among marquises. Reinheit of Paradise had seemed stronger than both of these bastards combined.

When I looked around, Jang Hayoung and the remaining industrial citizens were cleaning up the situation. The surviving Executioners and nobles were slowly retreating while forming a line near the Factory.

[Your Incarnation body has reached its limit.]

[The fable Insect Genocide has been forcibly terminated.]

My vision swayed, and dizziness struck me.

I shouted toward the remnants fleeing toward the Factory.

“Baron Gyrat, Baron Sarabos, Count Mokba!”

Those were the names of the surviving Executioners. They were the enemies Han Myeongoh, the Spy, had told me about beforehand. Hayoung and I were both too drained to chase or fight them now.

That was why I called their names.

It was a warning of sorts.

I knew all of their identities.

Who they were and what Positions they held.

So they could die at any time.

The Executioners trembled as they faced threats for the first time in their lives.

I continued.

“Tell the duke.”

Dawn light had begun to spread through the Demon Realm's sky. Amid the faintly rippling shadows, I slowly finished speaking.

“Tell him to learn to fear the day.”

It felt as though I would collapse at any moment from the destruction of my fables, but I didn't lose consciousness until the noble remnants had completely vanished toward the Factory.

Someone muttered.

“R-Revolution...”

That was the beginning. One by one, people began to cry out for revolution. As I listened to their shouts, I recalled my favorite line from the Revolutionary arc.

「At last, beneath the brightening dawn, time began to flow again in the industrial complex where it had long stood still.」

The anger and cries of people who had slept beneath the Night for so long.

They had slumbered for so long that emotions they didn't even know existed were waking one by one.

“Revolutionary! Revolutionary!”

“Yu Junghyeok! Yu Junghyeok!”

[Your influence has surpassed that of the Real Revolutionary.]

[You meet the conditions for creating a fable and acquire one.]

[A new fable, Silver Screen Revolutionary, begins!]

It was a shame Bihyeong and the Constellations hadn't seen this. I could have received a whole bundle of coins.

Then, as if it had been waiting, a message appeared.

[The Dokkaebi's Egg reacts to your fable.]

[The Dokkaebi's Egg begins recording your story.]

The vibration in my chest grew stronger, followed by another message.

[The egg's hatching is imminent.]

Crack, crack.

Hearing the sound of fractures spreading through it, I knew the time had come.

Then again, this stage didn't need another dokkaebi. The dokkaebi meant to tell this story had been decided from the beginning.

[A temporary channel has been created in the Demon Realm.]

The Demon Realm Scenario was beginning now.

[The Constellation Demon King of Salvation has entered the temporary channel.]

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