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Chapter 329: Episode 61: Gigantomachia (7)

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"Lee Sukyeong."

Yu Junghyeok was there.

The next thing she saw was the Top Ten Masters with their necks pierced in midair. Their lifeless bodies fell to the ground alongside choking death rattles.

"I didn't expect to receive your help."

Junghyeok ran with Sukyeong on his back, his face expressionless. He didn't say a word, but she knew where he was headed. He was probably looking for the only doctor in this industrial complex.

"Thank you."

At her unexpectedly sincere words, Junghyeok replied indifferently.

"Stop saying things you don't mean. I know you hate me."

"Of course I hate you. I hate you so much. You're the bastard who stole my role."

"I don't know what you mean."

Time passed slowly in Sukyeong's mind. They said one's life flashed before their eyes at moments like this... Why wasn't that happening? Was it because her life had been so exhausting and difficult?

"I've known about you for a very long time. That child talked about you a lot. He was probably the only child who visited his mother in prison and told her stories like that."

"So, this time he challenged the Twelve Seats of Olympus."

Young Kim Dokja's face as he happily told his story. The countless thoughts that had crossed her mind as she looked at that child's expression.

Perhaps sensing that her heartbeat was slowing, Junghyeok kept talking to her.

"Sukyeong. Don't lose consciousness."

Sukyeong barely held on to her fading mind. Junghyeok's swaying back kept making her sleepy.

"Anyway, I wanted to thank you at least once."

"You've been saying things I can't understand for a while now."

The back carrying her now was the same back that had carried her son. It had carried young Dokja as a middle schooler, then as a high schooler. It had raised the little child she hadn't been able to carry. It was the back that had kept that child alive.

"I wanted to become like him, too."

But the person who had wanted to become the owner of that back more than anyone was her.

"Do you know what Yu Junghyeok did next? You're curious too, right, Mom?"

Her son's words had continued throughout the visitation, which lasted less than ten minutes.

"Yes, I'm curious."

Separated by a wall, mother and son spoke and listened. A story with adventure and life in it. The story of someone living earnestly, though it had nothing to do with her or her son. They spoke through the wall. Back then, the two of them spoke through TWSA. A fictional story that existed nowhere was all the wealth they had.

And now, that story made real was carrying her on its back.

Lee Sukyeong muttered in an unreal voice, "I thought I'd finally get to live my own life..."

"Don't talk."

Junghyeok's back was growing damp with blood. Sukyeong's complexion gradually turned pale. Sparks of Plausibility continued to burn her. Between the pieces of flesh falling from her body, the fables she had built up were evaporating.

To hide it, Sukyeong deliberately asked things she already knew.

"Do you have parents?"

"I heard they died in an accident when I was young."

"You don't sound sad."

"You can't grieve something you don't remember."

Sukyeong knew. It wasn't that he had no memories of them. They had never existed in the first place. Everything about Junghyeok was nothing more than a character's setting. Junghyeok's parents probably hadn't existed from the start.

After hesitating, Sukyeong spoke.

"Everyone is like that. Even I don't remember all of my childhood."

"Do you have amnesia?"

"Everyone has amnesia. Little by little, they lose their memories, and someday, they forget everything."

Sukyeong knew her words wouldn't reach Junghyeok. To the regressor who had lived through the third round, and to that immortal being who would live for who knew how much longer, her words would weigh less than dust.

Junghyeok said, "There are things I remember sometimes. Memories of someone watching over me."

Sukyeong asked at the unfamiliar story, "Someone is watching over you?"

"I don't know what it is either. But there is a gaze that has watched me for a very long time. Even now, I sometimes feel that gaze."

Sukyeong remained silent long after Junghyeok finished speaking. After a long silence, she placed her hand on Junghyeok's blood-soaked head and spoke gently.

"Perhaps that person is your parent."

With those words, Sukyeong looked up at the sky. Countless Constellations were watching them. Her body gradually lost its strength as she felt her flesh crumbling away and her fables pouring out. Straining to focus her blurred vision, Sukyeong continued searching the sky, as if she were looking for a star somewhere among them.

"Lee Sukyeong?"

Sukyeong didn't answer again.

* * *

Kwarararang!

A bloody gale was raging through the "theme park" where the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint had appeared.

After the head of Achilles, who had rushed in to show off his strength, burst apart, a few Constellations charged in one after another, overcome by their fighting spirit. All of them suffered the same fate.

The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's two fists, swung without hesitation, were stained red.

[Did you think you could recreate Gigantomachia with only this much?]

The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's booming voice made the frightened participants hesitate. Han Suyeong and her Allies, who had been cautiously watching, had already hidden behind the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint.

Lee Jihye said, "I guess we don't even need to help."

"Can't we just hide here?"

Lee Gilyeong added.

Suyeong chewed the candy in her mouth and muttered, "This doesn't make sense. Were the giant race really this strong in Gigantomachia?"

It was obvious that the giant race was strong. Yet this Scenario was Gigantomachia, the Scenario where the giant race had lost. Naturally, under the influence of 「Stage Transformation」, the giant race in this Scenario couldn't use its full strength.

Especially against a hero like Achilles...

[I looked down on you because you were a half-blood giant... You're quite impressive.]

Achilles, whose head had clearly burst and who had died, was waking up.

[The Constellation Sorrow of Troy has activated the Stigma Immortal Hero!]

His crushed head regenerated, and the blood that had spilled out became a crest and restored his body.

「Achilles cannot die unless his Achilles tendon is cut.」

Achilles's regenerated body was even larger than before. As he quickly grew beyond three meters tall, the Incarnations nearby muttered fearfully.

"A giant?"

Achilles's body had grown as large as a giant's.

The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint asked, [Are you also a half-blood giant?]

[...]

[How ridiculous. Someone who inherited a giant's blood became a servant of Olympus?]

[I am not a giant. I am Achilles, a hero of Olympus.]

Watching the two giants clash, Suyeong understood why 「Stage Transformation」 still hadn't activated. Achilles was a hero of Olympus, but he had never participated in Gigantomachia in the past. Moreover, like the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint, he was a direct half-blood descendant of giants.

Kwoooong!

The shockwave created by the giants' collision shook the entire theme park.

Achilles rubbed his tingling palm and muttered in disbelief.

[How can a mere half-blood possess such strength? I've never heard of someone like you. What kind of fable do you have...?]

The giant Sky-Splitting Sword Saint silently looked up at the sky.

[They say my distant kin was born after castrating the sky.]

She was a Transcendent. Unlike the other Constellations, she had sought ultimate strength by honing only a few fables.

The path she had walked so far had only ever been one.

[The fable Path of Sky-Splitting begins its story!]

The power that had given her the name Sky-Splitting Sword Saint, power meant solely to destroy the sky.

As the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's fable poured forth without end, an Indirect Message came from somewhere.

[The power of the Primordial Giant that broke the sky protects the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint.]

[The power of Sky-Splitting has been enhanced further!]

Achilles was shocked by the message.

[A giant that broke the sky? Could it be...?]

The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint said, [You will share the same Fate.]

A terrifying current surged from the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's entire body.

Just as the Incarnations staggered backward, the sound of a great horn rang out from somewhere.

[The nebula Olympus is stirring!]

In the distance, a ship was cutting through the sea toward them.

The Argo.

[The Great Fable Heroes of the Expedition begins its story!]

The Incarnations who spotted the enormous ship cutting through the waves cried out. They recognized who was aboard at a glance.

"Heroes! The real heroes are coming!"

"The Constellations of Gigantomachia!"

Unlike Achilles, heroes who had truly participated in Gigantomachia were arriving. Even farther away, Constellations were flying across the sky. They were fabled-grade Constellations of Olympus, beings with power that couldn't compare to Achilles's.

[The Star Stream announces the opening of a new stage.]

At last, 「Stage Transformation」 was about to begin. The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's overwhelming momentum rapidly faded. Gaining courage from this, Achilles laughed and spoke to the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint.

[Hahaha! Young giant. You do not know what calamity you have brought upon yourself! You...]

His words didn't continue to the end. Someone emerged from another portal that opened in midair and burst his head apart.

Achilles's enormous body fell to the ground, his head having burst twice in a row.

The man who had brought down the giant body didn't hesitate to cut Achilles's Achilles tendon.

[The Constellation Sorrow of Troy perishes in agony.]

Pssshhh.

Achilles's giant body scattered away.

Suyeong smirked as she watched the white coat fluttering in the air.

"You sure took your time."

Kim Dokja, breathing lightly, looked at his Allies and asked, "Kim Dokja Company, is everyone ready?"

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Heavy footsteps sounded from somewhere. Along with a roar that shook the ground, countless mountains rose from midair. Giant hills rose up, destroying the entire theme park.

Standing atop one of those mountains, Dokja said, "Now, let's begin the real Gigantomachia."

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