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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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Chapter 452: Episode 85: The Final Wall (4)

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That gaze, that killing intent.

It resembled the Archangel I knew, yet it was different.

That was the real Uriel.

A cold and cruel judge.

A being who burned every enemy caught in the Flame of Karma for the sake of justice.

「That Uriel had reached her own conclusion, and...」

[The Star Stream observes the appearance of a new Outer God.]

[The Star Stream assesses the target's Plausibility!]

「She had come all this way to kill Secretive Plotter.」

【Ooooooooooh!】

【KingtwoKingtwoKingtwoKingtwo】

The Outer Gods panicked at the appearance of an Outer God with Status comparable to Secretive Plotter.

[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman is shocked by the existence of an Outer God!]

[The Constellation Bald Army General watches the battlefield, forgetting even to wipe his head.]

[The Constellation Lily Blooming in Aquarius stares wide-eyed!]

The Constellations seemed just as shocked.

This should have been an area where broadcasting was impossible.

The channel barrier had been removed as the forest burned.

[The Administration Bureau is watching Eungai's Forest.]

The Flame of Karma moved in Uriel's hand. As the sword strike that had melted the entire forest descended from the sky, Secretive Plotter casually turned his head. The strike grazed him, blasting away half the hall as flames surged up.

【Gaaaaaaaaah!】

The Outer Gods screamed at the savage destruction.

The Flame of Karma moved once more. This time, it held enough power to destroy the entire hall.

Every hair on my body stood on end. Even Surya of the 265th round, who had destroyed Earth in the original, wasn't that formidable.

Kwaaaang!

A colossal meteor fell from the tip of the Flame of Karma. It had enough power to destroy the entire forest, perhaps even erase this zone itself.

I drew up the power dwelling in my soul form. Still, I had no proper Incarnation body. There was no way I could block an attack like that. To stop something like this in the first place...

[The Great Fable Pilgrim of the Lonely Apocalypse begins its story!]

In the end, Secretive Plotter stepped forward. Black energy shot from the tip of the Splitting the Sky Sword he swung. The power of a Great Fable. Black Status spread like a wall and took the meteor's impact head-on. A fierce gale swept across the forest floor, uprooting trees and hurling them into the air. A vortex of flames was annihilating everything around it.

It had been a long time since I'd seen a battle like this. Even when Hades and Poseidon fought in Gigantomachia, it hadn't been this intense.

[Great nebulae are focusing on the battle between the two beings.]

Sparks grew thicker at the center where their Statuses collided.

The Splitting the Sky Sword in Secretive Plotter's hand trembled. Secretive Plotter was being pushed back. His Status had diminished because of his battle with Junghyeok and me.

This was the power of Uriel, who had seen the conclusion.

At this rate, Secretive Plotter and I would vanish from the Star Stream along with Eungai's Forest.

[Your soul form is temporarily bound to Secretive Plotter.]

[20 hours, 31 minutes, and 20 seconds remain until your soul form returns.]

More than twenty hours remained before my soul form returned. Stalling for time wouldn't solve this. Secretive Plotter didn't look like he could hold out for long.

[Exclusive Skill The Fourth Wall has activated!]

I had to stay calm at a time like this. First, I needed to understand the situation.

"Hey! Why is that Uriel attacking you?"

What worldline had that Uriel even come from?

And why was she attacking Secretive Plotter?

[The 999th-round Yu Junghyeok looks at Living Flame with sorrowful eyes.]

My mind went blank for a moment.

Could it be?

My favorite round.

The most perfect round except for one thing, and one that had also come within reach of the conclusion.

Uriel spoke.

【Outer God, you haven't forgotten what happened in the 999th round, have you?】

【I remember.】

【That's good.】

Uriel's furious sword strike contained the fable she had built up.

[The Great Fable Eternal Flame begins its story!]

Uriel's Great Fable burned fiercely.

There was a story there I had never seen before.

「"Master, we're almost there. Just a little farther."」

Jihye's voice. The printed characters were telling a story.

「"Junghyeok-ssi, please hold on a little longer. We're almost there!"」

Yu Junghyeok of the 999th round was there, having lost his left arm, right leg, and both eyes. Junghyeok, who had lived only for his Allies.

In his world dyed in darkness, there was a voice like a ray of light.

「[Supreme King, get a hold of yourself.]」

That's right. Uriel had been in the 999th round.

She had been Junghyeok's Companion. An Archangel who had willingly stood at his side for the sake of Junghyeok, who had thrown everything away to fight.

「[The ending of this world is right before us.]」

Even looking back on it, the 999th round had been a miracle.

No matter how lucky they had been, coming so close to the ending in only 999 rounds was unbelievable.

Yet it hadn't been luck alone.

「Yu Junghyeok of the 999th round made a contract with an Outer God.」

The reason I hadn't obtained the Absolute Throne, and why I had avoided making an Otherworld Covenant if possible, was because I knew the ending of the 999th round.

「A Mysterious Ruler whose name was unknown. In the end, the Otherworld Covenant made with that ruler claimed Junghyeok's life.」

The original never described who that Outer God was.

A being that had given Junghyeok of the 999th round terrifying power and opportunities, even at the cost of Plausibility.

Goosebumps rose along the back of my neck.

―Demon King of Salvation. I, too, made the same mistake as you.

―Foolishly, I tried to change a fixed past.

That Outer God was Secretive Plotter.

―Now you understand. This is the price of twisting the worldline.

He had already intervened in a past worldline in the original and twisted Plausibility. As a result, Uriel, who had seen the ending of the 999th round, had come here.

【I will repay the grudge of my worldline here.】

She had come to avenge her companion on that Outer God.

【Just as you took something precious from me, I will do the same to you.】

At that constellation's declaration, marked with such utterly justified rage, all strength left my body.

I could understand Uriel's feelings. I, too, vividly remembered the moment Junghyeok of the 999th round died.

―Author, is it really over now? Junghyeok is too pitiful like this.

Junghyeok of the 999th round had sacrificed his life to lead his Companions to the ending. Yet in exchange, he himself couldn't see the ending of the world.

It was because of that damned Otherworld Covenant. Rampaging Plausibility had claimed his life.

―Can't you just bring him back? Through the underworld, or reincarnation. There are plenty of ways. No, what the hell even is an Outer God...?

I blamed the author, and I blamed the Outer God.

I despaired as I watched Junghyeok die with the ending right before him.

The shock had been so great that I had hesitated to read the next day's chapter.

I wondered.

Why had Secretive Plotter done something like that in the 999th round?

【I wanted to change it.】

What?

【I wanted to see a proper ending, even if it was in another worldline.】

Secretive Plotter spoke.

He had said that Plausibility had to be handled carefully. That a proper ending had to be created.

Yet even Secretive Plotter, who said those things, had wanted to change the past. Just as I wanted to change this round, Secretive Plotter had wanted the same.

Whether the result swallowed the cause or the Plausibility of the Star Stream collapsed, he had wanted, just once, to reach a proper ending. He had wanted to see an ending reached with all his Companions.

But it hadn't worked out.

【You must think it's pathetic, that I made the same mistake as you.】

Secretive Plotter's Status was crumbling. His body was growing smaller and smaller. Countless Yu Junghyeoks dormant within him screamed.

And as if speaking for those screams,

【I wanted to find the being that created all these tragedies.】

Secretive Plotter spoke.

【The being that created this world. The being that made me regress and repeat the Scenarios. My purpose is to kill the being beyond the Wall.】

That was Secretive Plotter's true purpose.

Stopping Regression.

Saving the Outer Gods.

Opening the Final Wall.

Everything existed for that purpose.

With a gesture from him, my soul form emerged from the Murim Dumplings.

I tensed up. I couldn't tell what he was planning. I quickly spoke.

―You can't stop that Uriel as you are now. But if I, if my Allies help...

Secretive Plotter looked at me.

【Do you know what you're saying?】

―I do.

I had said it on the spur of the moment, but I meant it.

I had heard his purpose. Now it was my turn to answer.

―A world that takes a lecherous gaze at and devours others' lives as it pleases is wrong.

The Star Stream was wrong. Junghyeok's Regression was wrong, and the story created by the Scenarios was absurd.

―So I won't leave it like this. I'll see the ending. You said I couldn't, but I'll see the ending. With my Companions, I'll cross the Wall you couldn't cross, and the being beyond it, I will...

Secretive Plotter waited for my final words.

―Kill it. I will end your Oldest Dream.

Uriel's Status grew stronger and stronger. The hall began to collapse. Eungai's Forest was vanishing as though an entire world were collapsing.

The Outer Gods clung even closer to Secretive Plotter, as if they sensed their end.

Secretive Plotter opened his mouth.

【You said you survived through my story.】

―...

【Then repay your debt.】

The moment I asked what he meant, Yu Junghyeok's fables flowed out.

[The Great Fable Pilgrim of the Lonely Apocalypse howls!]

[The Great Fable Eternal Hellscape begins its story!]

Secretive Plotter's memories, his fables, were entering me.

Memories I didn't know.

Information he had learned after living through the 1,863rd round flowed into me.

―You...!

A portal opened behind me. A portal forced open with the power of an Outer God. It slowly began pulling me in.

―No, wait. Hold on! What the hell are you doing...!

【It does not mean I am entrusting the ending of this world to you.】

At that moment, Secretive Plotter no longer looked like Secretive Plotter.

【I will regress.】

He looked like Yu Junghyeok.

【I will live my 1,864th round, my 1,865th round. I will live through those rounds, see the conclusion again, and become an Outer God once more.】

At last, the hall collapsed. Everything melted away in the brilliant light.

Uriel's sword, which had cut through the thick history of 1,863 rounds, rushed toward Secretive Plotter.

【I will return to see the ending of this worldline.】

Secretive Plotter was pierced powerlessly.

I watched helplessly.

Secretive Plotter's fables, cut by the Flame of Karma, scattered away.

[The Constellation Secretive Plotter has activated Stigma Regression Lv.???!]

Even after becoming an Outer God, he was still the regressor.

His Regression, unused for so long, would begin again. He would wake up once more in the subway of the 1,864th round, creating another terrible worldline.

「Kim Dokja thought, 'I can't let that happen.'」

Just as I was about to release the fables dwelling in my soul form, Uriel moved before I could.

【You cannot escape to the next round.】

Uriel's white hand seized Secretive Plotter by the neck. Black light extending from her hand stopped his fables from collapsing.

The spreading light soon began to cover Secretive Plotter's whole body. Before long, that light formed a small sphere.

I knew that sphere.

It was the Sealing Orb that had sealed the Apocalypse Dragon in the 1,863rd round.

Why hadn't I thought of it? If Uriel had become an Outer God, of course she would know about Junghyeok's and Secretive Plotter's abilities as well. She would know he was a being who could never die, eternally undergoing Regression.

Her grip tightened further. The black Sealing Orb soon took on a pale glow.

【You will be sealed for eternity.】

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