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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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Chapter 634: Episode 16: The Fifth Scenario (3)

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I made it clear that if he didn't immediately give me what I wanted, I would call my master and make a scene.

At my clear declaration, I heard the stars in the sky chattering among themselves.

[The Constellation Bald Army General smiles at your competitive spirit.]

[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman nods as if intrigued.]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon asks who that bastard's master is.]

[One Constellation who has yet to reveal their modifier looks intrigued.]

[One Constellation sensitive to trends in the Martial World is aghast at the return of the White Purity Sect.]

Of course, every word I said was nonsense.

I wasn't really a disciple of the White Purity Sect, and naturally, I wasn't Kyrios's Disciple either.

However, I had used [Incitement] to present myself as Kim Dokja, Kyrios's Disciple, so I was confident I could evade any [lie detection].

As long as the Ark Master used [lie detection] on me, I could definitely fool him.

Yet the Ark Master didn't use [lie detection].

"Are you threatening me?"

"I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you the truth."

"If I don't hand over an elixir, you'll call Paradoxical White Purity?"

"It seems you didn't hear me properly, so I'll say it again."

I answered shamelessly.

"One summoning-pill-grade elixir and the flag. Give me both."

"......"

"You've enjoyed the early Scenarios enough, haven't you? Give the stage back to the Incarnations and quietly return to the audience."

"......"

"The era of the Nine Sects and One Gang is already over. This isn't the stage you lived on."

I fired off one line after another, yet there wasn't a trace of emotion on the Beggar's Sect Ark Master's face.

Honestly, I was a little surprised.

Was that what made a Constellation a Constellation?

A being who had defeated countless rivals, endured distant Scenarios, and accumulated fables.

The four beggars glaring at me behind the Ark Master were the ones angered on his behalf.

It seemed they knew the history between Kyrios and the Beggar's Sect, too.

There were exactly four beggars guarding the Dragon-Head Ark Master.

A line suddenly came to mind.

「The elders known as the Four Beggars were always at the side of Dragon-Head Ark Master Cheon Gae.」

Could they be the Four Beggars recorded in TWSA?

"Disciple of the White Purity Sect."

The Beggar's Sect Ark Master, who had remained silent until then, finally spoke.

"I know my era has ended as well. The Martial World I remember no longer exists anywhere. Your distinguished master personally destroyed the Beggar's Sect at its most glorious."

Unexpectedly, he readily acknowledged his circumstances.

"Even now, I fear your master. No matter how many times I died and returned to life, I could never reach the realm he attained."

I thought of Kyrios Lordgrime, the Paradoxical White Purity and head of the White Purity Sect.

「Born a mortal, he attained great Status through unceasing cultivation. A man who refused the Seat of a Constellation and achieved transcendence by standing against the heavens.」

Just recalling that line let me feel a little of the despair the Ark Master must have faced.

For a moment, the hope circuit in my head began to run.

Could I really get both the elixir and the flag with this one lie?

"But that is why your threat won't work. Paradoxical White Purity can never come here."

Damn it, of course.

"Why do you think that?"

The Beggar's Sect Ark Master smiled. It was a gloomy smile that crept over the surroundings like foul algae.

"Because he is too strong."

Kyrios was too strong.

No one was unaware of that.

Because of his inherent strength, Kyrios hadn't been able to protect peace land in the sixth Scenario and had been forced to watch his planet perish.

"All beings with great Status possess powerful fables. Yet to intervene in this Scenario, they must cast aside the fables they have lived. No being in the world would dare make such a choice. Except for me."

Only then did I think I understood why that Historical Constellation could maintain Possession in an Incarnation.

To come here, he had offered up the fables he had accumulated as a Sacrifice.

Just as Yu Junghyeok had chosen Regression, the Ark Master had cast away his entire history to begin the Scenario once more.

[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman clicks his tongue.]

[The Constellation Bald Army General asks what a senile star like him thinks he is doing in a place where children play.]

[The Constellation Naval Warfare God shakes his head.]

Beyond the open ceiling of Seoul Station, the stars glittered fiercely.

Despite the Constellations' harsh criticism raining down on him, the Beggar's Sect Ark Master remained unperturbed.

"How laughable. Do stars who merely remain where they are, too afraid to let go of their fables and too lacking in confidence to create new ones, dare criticize me?"

[Some Historical Constellations criticize the attitude of Last Ark!]

[Few Historical Constellations click their tongues at the way of thinking of Last Ark!]

"If you are dissatisfied, then come down here yourselves. That is, if you have the courage to cast aside everything you possess and begin again from the gutters of the Scenario."

[The Constellation Two-Faced Expert laughs that someone who never had many fables to begin with sure talks well.]

[The Constellation Rice Cake-Eating Tiger points out that this is practically reincarnation, isn't it?]

[The Constellation Reclining Dragon commends the courage but declares that Last Ark shouldn't expect coin sponsorship.]

[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband watches the Historical Constellations' clash with interest.]

Like an audience member who stepped onto the stage only to become entertainment for the rest, the Beggar's Sect Ark Master had become prey for the other stars.

Even so, the Ark Master was smiling.

As if he were far more dignified on the ground than the stars in the sky.

"Criticize me as you wish. I will begin anew here. I will reclaim the Martial World of that time, the Beggar's Sect of that era. I am still the Last Ark, and my fable continues here."

The Ark Master's words gave me a strange feeling.

Maybe it was similar to abandoning the position of an omniscient Reader and becoming a Character.

Perhaps sensing my gaze, the Ark Master turned to look at me and tilted his head.

"You look as though you understand me."

[Your Exclusive Attribute has activated!]

[The Constellation Last Ark feels slight goodwill toward you.]

"Do you dare measure the years I have lived, young disciple of the Paradox?"

I hesitated, then nodded.

I knew I shouldn't use the word understanding lightly.

Still, I understood that fable, at least. I thought I understood, a little, the feeling of starting everything from the beginning.

"I understand that threats won't work on you. You returned here because you wanted to become that kind of person."

The Ark Master's eyes curved gently.

"That is correct."

"It won't be easy. Just because you've cast aside your Status doesn't mean everything that happened until now will truly disappear."

"What do you mean?"

"Even if you start everything again from the beginning, the history of losing to my master and the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint won't disappear."

Even if he created a new Beggar's Sect, the stars wouldn't forget the old one.

They would remember only the miserable Beggar's Sect that had lost to Kyrios and the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint, then been pushed to the fringes.

Dragon-Head Ark Master Cheon Gae frowned for the first time.

"Then I will change it. I will achieve great deeds here and draw the attention of more stars. I only need to create a fable that even Paradoxical White Purity cannot match."

Given the situation, he had reason to be confident.

He had already claimed the purple flag, and the new Beggar's Sect had steadily grown with Seoul Station as its base, becoming a powerful group.

But I knew.

His failure had already been recorded.

He wouldn't become a leading figure in the new world, and he would fail to take revenge.

He would be forgotten.

He would become a story no one read.

"You asked me at first if I knew the future."

That was why I,

[Exclusive Skill, Incitement Lv.6 has activated!]

decided to try doing what I did best.

"The reborn Beggar's Sect will sweep through the early Scenarios."

At this rate, the Beggar's Sect was finished.

The star that had fallen to the ground would eventually destroy itself while becoming the Constellations' laughingstock.

The beggars would lose their home, and the children who had learned to plunder and lie would be brutally killed by adults who could no longer be deceived.

"The Beggar's Sect will stand in a more advantageous position than the other groups, finish Capture the Flag, and you will become king and participate in the Absolute Throne Contest."

"Of course I will."

The Dragon-Head Ark Master nodded as if he had expected that.

But my story began there.

"Your luck ends there. Fighting through a Possession body, you will never defeat Incarnations who have blossomed the strength of other Patrons. You may seem ahead of the other Incarnations for now, but before the Absolute Throne Contest even ends, you and the Beggar's Sect will meet your downfall."

"That cannot be. The Constellations participating in this war are only Historical-"

"One of the participants in the throne war is the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint's disciple."

The Ark Master's eyes wavered.

"Is that true?"

"You will lose to that person. The Beggar's Sect will vanish, and the beggars will scatter in every direction. Then, after you fall, an unnamed Incarnation who had waited only for your downfall will behead you."

I imagined the Beggar's Sect that disappeared from TWSA without a trace, and the Berserk Butcher who might have been here.

"The Beggar's Sect will be wiped out forever."

"That cannot be. You are-"

"If you don't want to face that future, you have one choice."

Dragon-Head Ark Master Cheon Gae's beard trembled.

Even he, who had been so calm, looked uneasy at the prospect of his sect's annihilation.

"Do you mean I should bow my head to a disciple of the White Purity Sect?"

"No."

I grinned.

"Let's form an alliance."

"An alliance?"

"If you hand the flag over to me, we'll become one group."

Sparks flew in the Ark Master's eyes as he stared blankly at me.

"You dare say that to me, right now?"

The concourse began to tremble faintly.

Thin sparks jumped through the air.

Even after casting aside so much, he was still a Constellation of the heavens.

Before his anger could continue, I cut in.

"You said you wanted to build a great fable worthy of the new Beggar's Sect."

I knew what he truly wanted.

The Beggar's Sect's downfall had begun when it lost to Kyrios.

That was why he would find this temptation hard to refuse.

"If you hand over the Martial World's elixirs and flag you possess to me."

All I could offer him was nothing but a lie.

[Exclusive Skill, Incitement Lv.6 has activated to its limit!]

Even so, if he believed my words,

"The disciple of the Paradox who brought about your downfall will gladly lose to the Beggar's Sect here today."

This fable might truly be recorded as the truth.

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