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Chapter 326: Episode 61: Gigantomachia (4)

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Over the long years, the giants forgot the rage of the first <Gigantomachia>.

The repeated Scenarios robbed them of their will and dimmed the glory of their former days. Now, the 60th Scenario, <Gigantomachia>, was nothing more than a festival for the Constellations, where a few giants were conscripted.

[Go back.]

Rather than resist the world, the giants had chosen to be forgotten by it.

Their despair was so immense that I couldn't speak for a moment.

I wished Sangah were here. She was much better than me at persuading people.

"They said the giants who once ruled the Age of Myth were something special. What a disappointment."

It was that uniquely rude tone. Surprisingly, Kim Namwoon had spoken up.

"You lumps aren't even dead like me yet."

Despite the terrifying Status radiating from the giants, his little mouth kept running. His voice was strangely heated, as if he were venting old regrets.

"You're still alive, so you can still change the future. Are you giving up already? Aren't you divine beings greater than humans? Beings with incredible mental energy and strength? F■ck! And you're whining because you lost a few games!"

A vicious energy rose around the giants.

I quickly stepped in front of Namwoon and continued.

"You can still change. This <Gigantomachia> will be completely different from every <Gigantomachia> before it."

[History does not change.]

"Have you already forgotten how the Seat of the Thunder God betrayed you? Have you already forgotten how you helped him lead <Titanomachia> to victory, only to fall into the abyss of Tartarus?"

Sangah wasn't beside me, but I remembered the way she spoke.

She was well versed in world history and mythology.

Remembering how she had persuaded King Heungmu with her gift for words, I said, "And what about <Gigantomachia>? It was a battle you could have won. If it hadn't been for the human heroes' help, you could have won. Are you really going to let yourselves be recorded forever as a defeated myth?"

[Insolent child. You cannot understand...]

"I understand. I understand all of your despair."

It was a lie, because I knew nothing about them.

But it wasn't a lie, either.

"I know someone who was in the same position as you, but unlike you, never gave up until the end."

In the end, we could only understand others through the stories we possessed.

"I know someone who stood against a world far beyond you, despaired hundreds and thousands of times, yet never gave up until the end."

Junghyeok and Namwoon looked at me.

Briareus asked.

[Whose story are you talking about?]

"It's the story of a hero I know. If you wish, I can tell it to you."

Briareus laughed at my words. It was a sneer steeped in deep-rooted distrust.

[One who hides behind the Wall.]

At that moment, I heard the world creak.

[I know that you possess a Final Wall Fragment. You must be hiding behind it, avoiding the eyes of every other Constellation.]

It was true.

[What sincerity could there be in the words of such a coward? You cannot persuade us.]

Absurdly enough, I couldn't refute him. It felt as though he had pointed out something I had avoided facing for a long time.

[The Fourth Wall is enraged!]

[The Fourth Wall says there is no need to listen to someone like that.]

Unexpectedly, it was the Constellations who helped me.

[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband condemns the giants' helplessness!]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon thinks Mighty Storm is pathetic!]

[The Constellation Secretive Plotter shakes his head.]

Briareus expressed surprise at the sudden flood of Indirect Messages.

[You have impressive sponsors in your channel. Ghosts of the Scenarios, what regrets do you still have? What story are you so curious about that you keep following this little child?]

Watching the Indirect Messages pouring down from the air, I thought for a moment.

My decision didn't take long.

"I'll deactivate the Wall."

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon looks at you in shock!]

[The Constellation Secretive Plotter gazes at you with calm eyes.]

"Will you listen to my story then?"

「Kim Dok ja, you can' t do tha t.」

A powerful spark burst within me as [The Fourth Wall] spoke.

「I can' t allow tha t.」

'Just once. Even for a moment is fine.'

「If you do tha t, you will be in dan ger.」

[The Fourth Wall] was adamant.

[The Fourth Wall trembles faintly.]

Truthfully, I wasn't confident either. If this Wall disappeared completely, I didn't know whether my mind would endure intact. Even so, I had to do it.

「Ab so lute ly no t.」

'If you won't listen, I'll forcibly shut you down.'

At my threat, [The Fourth Wall] shook even harder.

[The Fourth Wall] had always protected me. I had no desire to fight it.

In the end, [The Fourth Wall] was the one who yielded first.

「No t all of i t.」

'Then?'

「On ly par t of i t.」

Just as I was about to answer, I heard a sound like the sky collapsing. Artificial cracks formed in the world that had warmly enveloped me. My mind grew clouded, and the calmness I had maintained all along rapidly turned to anxiety.

[Part of The Fourth Wall has been opened.]

I felt like I was going mad. My vision turned red, my heart raced, and my surroundings spun. Voices were already pouring out from some of the fables I possessed.

[The fable Eternal Hellscape begins its story.]

[The Exclusive Attribute Scenario Interpreter is controlling the story.]

The things I had experienced in the 1,863rd round drifted through my mind. When I blinked, I saw letters pouring out of me.

It was the story of TWSA that I had read.

The feast of fables unfolding before me was so dazzling that even I nearly lost myself in it.

Junghyeok was there.

The Yu Junghyeok from the original story, who no longer existed.

Fragments of the rounds I remembered were being passed to the three Hecatoncheires brothers. I began to vomit.

「I killed him.」

「I shouldn't have done that.」

「I could have stopped it.」

Even so, I remained conscious until the end. I had a duty to tell this story. Only I remembered all of it.

「“I won't give up. A hundred times, a thousand times. No matter how many times I regress, I will kill every last one of you.”」

Junghyeok stood there, opposing Olympus.

The giants' eyes widened all at once.

「“I will kill you all without leaving a single one behind.”」

Junghyeok's rounds passed by.

Junghyeok fought.

In the 211th round, he killed one of the Twelve Seats for the first time.

In the 325th round, he killed two.

In the 438th round, he killed four.

The round numbers quickly passed the four-digit mark.

「“I told you. You will die.”」

He spoke, swung his sword, and put his words into action.

Among them was the <Gigantomachia> Scenario the giants had lost.

Junghyeok smiled as he gripped the Twelve Seats by the necks.

「“You will not survive forever.”」

As they watched the heads of the Seats explode, the giants' eyes filled with shock.

Junghyeok was there, fighting again and again. Junghyeok, slaughtering Constellations across 1,863 regressions.

Each time he killed a Seat, the giants' fists trembled. Something they had lost long ago was awakening in their eyes.

In the end, only a story could persuade someone disheartened by a story.

Awakening forgotten feelings and rekindling a worn and crumbling will.

Showing that a certain kind of life was possible.

Only a story could do that.

[The Exclusive Skill The Fourth Wall has activated!]

The fable was finally cut off. Just as my strength gave out and I was about to collapse, someone supported me.

It was Junghyeok and Namwoon.

The giants were looking at me.

[So...]

The giants asked me.

[What happens in the next story?]

[What happened after that?]

I knew the yearning reflected in their eyes well.

"Do you want to know?"

That desire to know the next Scenario even while hating the Scenarios.

[I want to know.]

Tstststst!

"Then find out for yourselves."

The giants' eyes wavered once more. Their chapped lips, which had said they no longer cared about the next story, all trembled at once.

Their next words came only after a long while.

[Do you think we can win?]

I understood what they meant, so I answered confidently.

"You can win."

Three hundred eyes glared at me.

Then, after some time had passed, more eyes began to appear. Three hundred eyes became four hundred, then five hundred.

In the darkness that slowly receded, countless Gigantes lay prostrate around the three Hecatoncheires brothers.

[Giants, listen.]

Thud.

A mythic footprint remained where a foot struck the ground.

[We will participate in <Gigantomachia>.]

The ground shook with a roar. All of Tartarus began to boil with the giants' Status.

One by one, the giants began stomping their feet.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

As if they had been waiting for it, the footfalls reverberated in rhythm. The giants rose all at once, creating a magnificent sight.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

Footsteps toward destruction.

Watching the giants rise from the darkness like waves, I finally breathed a sigh of relief. It had been difficult, but I had succeeded.

Then Persephone's constellation's declaration rang out from the air.

[You should hurry, Demon King of Salvation. Olympus has already selected and taken away the giants who will participate in <Gigantomachia>.]

"Selected the giants?"

[You didn't know? <Gigantomachia> has already begun.]

"What do you mean? There should still be a week left."

[Have you already forgotten that time passes differently in the underworld?]

I realized my mistake. Just as I was about to ask about the time outside, I heard the voices of passing giants.

[How many were taken for this <Gigantomachia>?]

[Four were taken this year.]

Four?

"That can't be right. There should be five giants assigned to this Scenario."

The giants looked at me and answered.

[Four.]

I quickly opened my smartphone and checked TWSA.

「Five giants participated in this year's <Gigantomachia>.」

There was no mistake. According to TWSA, five giants would participate this year.

But only four had been selected and taken away?

A chill ran down the back of my neck.

When I turned around, Junghyeok's expression had also grown serious.

"Kim Dokja."

Every giant in the Star Stream was imprisoned in Tartarus.

With one exception.

The giant race we knew.

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