Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Chapter 401

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 401: Episode 76: Book of Revelation (3)

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[Members of the same faction have clashed!]

[Current chaos score: 85]

We all stared blankly at the system messages appearing before us.

"Who could it be?"

Han Suyeong forced out the question, but no one could answer.

"Don't tell me the kids are causing trouble?"

"Do you think they're you?"

Even if they were kids, they wouldn't act so recklessly in a situation like this.

Though I was a little worried about Gilyeong...

I looked at Anna Croft. "Anna Croft."

"I'm looking."

Even if the pages of the future had been torn out, the events from before they vanished would remain. Like a book ruined by a printing error, there was always a delay before it was discarded.

[The chaos score is increasing!]

"We don't have time to wait around."

Yu Junghyeok was the first to leap into action.

Sweat beaded on Anna's forehead as she desperately searched through the pages of the future.

In the end, Suyeong and I decided to move as well.

"Anna, let us know through Telepathy if you find anything."

We left Anna behind and rushed out of the cabin.

Several Allies had already come out onto the deck after sensing something strange.

"Dokja-ssi, what's happening?"

I explained the situation to Huiwon as briefly as possible.

"There are people attacking members of their own faction."

"Huh? Why would they do that?"

Jihye frowned as if she couldn't understand it at all.

"Didn't you say we'd all die if the chaos score rose any further? Isn't that why the angels and Demon Kings went in there?"

"Could they have the same goal as us?"

"If they did, they wouldn't raise the chaos score now."

The Allies seemed to have already found the answer without me needing to explain it.

"Then, could it be...?"

I nodded.

"We have to stop them, no matter what. If we fail, something truly terrible will happen."

"What kind of lunatics... No, why would they do this?"

Why did they want to bring about the end of the world?

It was difficult to give a precise answer.

Still, there was one answer in the Star Stream that could be applied to every incomprehensible situation.

"Because there are so many different kinds of fables in this world."

Good and evil weren't the only things in this world. Just as Kim Dokja Company was neither good nor evil, there were people who pursued fables we could never sympathize with.

Some lived to prevent destruction, while others lived for destruction.

Tssssss!

The Plausibility in the air was fluctuating unstably. Sparks burst up from all over the battlefield.

Yu Junghyeok, who had already climbed onto the bow, seemed to have detected the largest spark.

"There are five places. Split up."

As soon as he finished speaking, Junghyeok's figure vanished northward.

I gave my companions their orders.

"Suyeong, east. Yuseong, Jihye, and Gilyeong, head south. Huiwon-ssi, take charge of the ship just in case."

"What about you, Dokja-ssi?"

"I'm going west."

Sparks were erupting in every direction. One to the north, one to the east, one to the west, and two to the south.

"We don't know which faction caused this. If the culprit belongs to the same faction, don't fight them. Call the others immediately."

The situation had reversed.

Until now, good confronting good and evil confronting evil had raised the chaos score. Now we had to deal with good using evil, and evil using good.

That was the only way to follow the original rules of the Great war of Angels and Demons and stop the chaos score from rising further.

"Damn, now that things have changed, this is suddenly annoying. No wonder the Constellations are pissed off."

"We're leaving!"

Jihye and the children moved first, followed by Suyeong and me.

Suyeong leaped through the air, scattering [Black Flame]. Her body was covered in wounds, large and small. I called out to her.

"Be careful."

Suyeong frowned slightly before flying east.

That brat. Here I was worrying about her, and that was her response.

―You be careful too, idiot.

Midday Tryst arrived a beat later, leaving me with a strange feeling.

Was I overthinking it to feel that both Junghyeok and Suyeong had changed so much?

[The chaos score is increasing!]

[Current chaos score: 86]

I activated [Way of the Wind] and raced through the air. Since [Demon King Transformation] was active, the skill's effect was incredible. I tore through the sky and reached the source of the spark in an instant, then carefully surveyed my surroundings.

They're hiding.

Reincarnators' corpses lay scattered across the battlefield. A few Reincarnators, gripped by fear, were crouched down, screaming and weeping.

Someone had clearly massacred allies here.

[Exclusive Skill, Reading Comprehension has activated!]

[Exclusive Attribute, Scenario Interpreter has activated!]

[Your insight for assessing the situation by gathering clues about the incident has increased!]

I read the Fable Fragments scattered around me.

There had definitely been a massacre. Yet there was no sign that anyone had fled.

"P-Please spare us, Demon King-nim!"

Six Reincarnators dropped to their knees and bowed to the ground.

I looked down at them. Most had suffered moderate to severe injuries in battle, leaking blood and fables.

But one of them was different. His fable was unusually stable.

"You."

The man slowly raised his head, a sinister light gleaming in his eyes.

I met his gaze. "Are you one of the Seekers of the End?"

The man immediately lunged at me. I was already prepared, so I easily avoided his attack and seized his throat.

"Khk, cough...!"

[You have activated the Exclusive Skill Character Profile!]

As expected, this was the culprit I had been looking for.

A demon king's subordinate.

There was no need to examine his Attributes Window in detail.

"Have you started acting already? It shouldn't be time yet."

The man trapped in my grip let out a sickening laugh.

"The g-great end is coming. Every Scenario has already been decided. The noble absolute fable will be realized!"

His eyes shone like a zealot's, making me feel faintly disgusted.

That was right. Most of the Seekers of the End in the original story had been like this.

They believed that a single absolute fable had been created to support this world, and that every Scenario existed only to fulfill that fable's will.

「Kik kik kik」

The Fourth Wall's mocking laughter echoed in my head.

The Seekers of the End probably didn't know.

That the fable they knew was a single novel I had read.

「It was true that ev ery thing was des tined to per ish from the start.」

'There's no such thing as Fate.'

Countless rounds Junghyeok had lived through passed through my mind.

The Great war of Angels and Demons, repeated hundreds of times.

Its ending had always been similar.

But that was only true in the original story.

"Tell me. How many of you have joined the Great war of Angels and Demons?"

Grrk, grrrk.

Foam flowed from the man's mouth.

"Are you planning to release the Apocalypse Dragon? If you do that, everything will be over. You won't reach the ending of the fable you envision. The fable itself will come to an end."

The man only continued giggling instead of answering. I sighed.

"It looks like you don't intend to answer."

[The Demon King Demon King of Salvation has unleashed his Status!]

The nearby Reincarnators screamed and backed away from the waves of my Status. The man facing it head-on trembled before blood poured from his seven orifices.

Without opening my mouth, I spoke.

[Recite the names of those who joined the battlefield.]

Even under the threat of my overwhelming Status, the man wasn't overcome by fear.

It was the opposite.

"D-Demon King... of S-Salvation..."

His expression was drenched in pleasure and joy. Blood dripped from his mouth as he spoke in a voice like someone who had been saved.

"Kill me! Kill me! Kill meee!"

What the hell was wrong with these lunatics?

Either way, I couldn't waste any more time. If I couldn't get the list from him, I had to find them myself.

The moment I moved to strike his head without hesitation, a message appeared.

[Members of the same faction have clashed...!]

[Current chaos score: 87]

Right, this bastard was evil.

The instant I released my grip on his throat, the fables pouring from his seven orifices surged. His body began to expand.

The man's face twisted into a grotesque smile.

A self-destruct sequence.

It was too late to evade.

Then a flash of light flew in from somewhere and pierced the man's body in a straight line.

Krrrraaaash!

A spear of blinding light, as if carved from the sun itself.

Within the brilliant rays, the Seeker of the End trembled as if being electrocuted. The power of the explosion swelling outward was being absorbed through the spear of light.

In an instant, the Seeker of the End lost all vitality and crumbled into black ash.

I looked at the fable of light scattered in every direction.

Could this be a familiar fable?

[To think you wouldn't invite me to such a festival. I'm disappointed, Demon King of Salvation.]

The moment I heard the constellation's declaration, I knew who it was.

"Surya!"

Surya, the Exalted God of Light.

He had once been a Constellation of Veda, but after the battle against Olympus, he had come to share a Great Fable with us.

[You have attained an impressive Status since I last saw you. I heard that you defeated Indra.]

"I was lucky."

[That fool Indra is sometimes treated like everyone's punching bag, but he isn't someone you can defeat through luck alone.]

Perhaps because he had left Veda, Surya didn't seem particularly upset even while speaking about Indra.

He examined the fragments of the Seeker of the End he had destroyed.

[I thought the state of the Great Fable was strange. It seems the Seekers of the End have already made it this far.]

"Do you know them?"

[They infiltrated Veda as well.]

They had infiltrated Veda too?

Come to think of it, I had heard there had been internal strife within Veda. Perhaps the Seekers of the End had caused that as well.

Tsst, tsst.

The sparks flashing all over the battlefield were rapidly dying down.

It seemed the other companions had safely and successfully suppressed the situation as well.

"It looks like things have mostly been taken care of. There don't seem to have been many infiltrators after all."

It was an anticlimactic ending for the appearance of the Seekers of the End.

Then...

[Members of the same faction have clashed!]

[Current chaos score: 88]

...What?

I hurriedly searched the battlefield, but there wasn't a single place where sparks were flying.

There was no fighting at all, whether between the same faction or opposing factions.

[Members of the same faction have clashed!]

[Current chaos score: 89]

Yet the chaos score kept rising.

A chill ran down my spine.

Wait. Don't tell me...

[It isn't down here.]

At Surya's words, I instinctively looked up.

A gray sphere floated in the sky. The sphere the Archangels and Demon Kings had entered for their conference was shaking as it emitted enormous sparks.

The Seekers of the End were in there?

[Members of the same faction have clashed!]

[Current chaos score: 90]

The chaos score only increased when those of the same faction fought each other.

For that to happen inside...

[The climate of the Grand Battlefield has begun to change!]

The clouds gathered in the sky began forming a massive vortex.

[The aura of calamity has begun to awaken in the hottest place in hell!]

Damn it.

Rumble!

Surya's expression hardened as well.

[Perhaps today is the day I find my grave.]