“Wait?”
“In the end, it’s not about lacking lifespan, meow.”
“That’s right.”
“It’s too much to take from the people. And even if we tried to get it naturally, we can’t keep doing just that forever. There’s only one option left, meow.”
Even if countless lifespans disappear, it wouldn’t be too much of a blow for such an existence.
There are exactly five beings like that in Jangmugye.
“Are you saying we should get it from other archlords?”
“Exactly, meow. Weren’t we going to raise our levels to fight anyway?”
“……”
[LOL]
[Right?]
[Huh?]
[This might be easier than I thought.]
[Just asking each for 20,000 should do, right?]
[Is Yena a genius?]
[Hahahahahahaha]
[Can’t we snag it from Gyeoryu?]
The lifespan of a Display Case Practitioner is at least 300,000.
The minimum required for promoting a Display Case is over 80,000, so if we get 20,000 from each archlord at the meeting, we’ll have more than enough.
What Ascension Lord Won-gyeom said is true, and the former Lord Jeokmu-hyang was also afraid of other archlords’ schemes and tried to boost their powers.
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It’s almost a confirmed deal that they’ll scheme against me, so there’s no reason for me to just sit still.
‘However.’
“Well…”
“What, meow?”
“I’ve thought about it. The archlords are all Display Case Practitioners and have plenty of lifespans. There might be some resistance, but it shouldn’t be impossible to get.”
“Then why, meow?”
“…It wouldn’t be a normal lifespan.”
The Axis of Life isn’t only used for promoting to Display Case.
It continues to be required even after becoming a Display Case, and a lot of lifespans are necessary right up until just before reaching the Marriage Device.
There’s a reason the former Lord Jeokmu-hyang attempted to absorb all of Jeokmu-hyang when the situation became urgent.
“In the end, if we can secure the Axis of Life, everything that comes after will progress to some extent. So, if we try to obtain lifespans from them…”
“We’d be getting lifespans that harmed others, meow.”
“That’s right.”
Promoting to Display Case is no ordinary task.
Records indicate that almost 95% of ascetics took the lives of other ascetics to rise to Display Cases, and archlords were especially notorious for it.
Ultimately, being the ‘master’ of a faction puts one in the most efficient position to take lifespans.
“If we’re getting them, we should at least aim to acquire their ‘original’ lifespans, but… I really doubt they’ll accept that.”
“Meow…”
“I’d refuse if I were them. It’s only natural.”
The capital is akin to the realization of the self.
It’s an act of solidifying one’s ‘subjectivity’ and imprinting it onto the world.
However, the suggestion to demand not stolen lifespans but one’s true lifespan would never be accepted.
“Especially if it’s to hit on the new archlord.”
When I said that, Miss Yena rested her chin on the table, looking troubled.
[Let’s just take it by force]
[Hmm…]
[Do we really ask for a true lifespan?]
[It’s a bit ambiguous]
[As expected of Lily]
[But is there a difference?]
[In the end, we have to take them all down anyway]
“Above all, it’s uncertain whether I’d actually try to hit on them. They might end up being friendly, you know?”
“Hmm… then how about asking that guy Junseon? He seems kind to Lily, at least.”
“The Gyeoryu is a being with almost no remaining lifespan…”
Once one reaches Junseon, the constraints on lifespan are virtually lifted.
The limits on life are shattered, and one’s subjectivity is at its strongest.
In other words, asking Gyeoryu for life is not much different from asking for a part of the soul.
“I really doubt that would be accepted.”
“What a pity. If Junseon helps, we could easily get the display case.”
“Simple power comes with great risk.”
“……”
“As Miss Yena said, I suppose we should at least meet the archlords and have a deep ‘conversation.’ I don’t know how it will turn out though.”
“……”
“But we have to try until it’s possible. Besides this method… Miss Yena?”
Miss Yena’s gaze was fixed on the void.
Given the height of her gaze, she must be looking at the system window.
“…Looking closely, it doesn’t seem too difficult, right?”
“Difficulty?”
“Exactly. It feels like an episode quest that’s too tough for a mere ‘user’ to clear.”
“That does seem true.”
The ultimate goal of the multi-dimensional main temple is as follows.
[World – Path of Transformation (EP.3)]
Objective – Ascend to the Immortal (仙). Or kill the Immortal (仙).
Reward – ?, Title – Immortal of the Main Temple (Transcendence), Feather Transformation (1/3).
Ascend to the Immortal or kill the Immortal.
Here, the Immortal (仙) refers to a being at least of the Marriage Device level, which is not a realm that an ordinary user can reach.
“Junseon is on par with the main body of Lasty.”
It’s a realm that most users, struggling just against low-level Celestials and Demon Races, could never hope to reach even after a lifetime of effort.
At best, they might manage to get a Transition Device.
Only a top-tier high-ranker within the top ten, like Yena, with talent, skills, and equipped with suitable equipment, could hope to reach the Avatar Phase.
You need to be a ‘high ranker’ to reach the Avatar Phase.
And even someone like Yena finding a place in the Display Case is impossible.
“This isn’t a level you can reach. No matter how hard the user tries, the Transition Device or Avatar Phase is about the limit. And the raccoons managing Deoen know this too.”
Even the raccoons in charge know not to mess with those who have reached the Immortal level.
“Of course, it would be a different story if they borrowed some strength.”
Even a god revered in one world is no different from a frog in a well when facing raccoons who’ve borrowed power.
[Is that so?]
[What an imbalance, LOL]
[Was Teshiniria that easy?]
[It’s pretty crazy difficult, though]
[Isn’t it basically becoming as strong as the Kraken?]
[For ‘Great Lily’]
[How strong is Lily really? LOL]
[Teshiniria’s difficulty is on another level]
[Is it possible to capture the Marriage Device?]
[Is it a later quest?]
Yena nodded suspiciously.
“It seems like Teshiniria was much easier.”
“Rather than easy… well, I’d say it was appropriately difficult.”
Joining a sect, training techniques, finding hidden ancestors within the sect, and collecting all ‘Seven Pieces’ known as Dragon Fragments.
While it appears quite difficult in writing, it’s not as tough as the Main Temple.
The episode itself was at a level where a high-ranker user could definitely clear it.
Many users like Yena, Leo, and the Grim Reaper have actually cleared their personal episodes.
But it was just that bringing all the pieces collected by those users together and reaching the final destination, the corpse of ‘Seriphed’, was tough.
If the Grim Reaper hadn’t stirred things up, gathering the pieces would probably have taken a very long time.
“…and that Grim Reaper had collaborators.”
“Collaborators?”
“Because there were collaborators, he could gather the piece owners or heirs with similar powers. If it were just the Grim Reaper alone, it would have been impossible.”
“So, you mean…?”
“That something similar will exist here.”
As mentioned before, it’s impossible for a user to reach the Marriage Device.
The Record Phase. Even if we lower our standards drastically, we could understand reaching the Display Case, but for an ordinary user to reach the Marriage Device is impossible.
However, the clearing condition for the Main Temple wasn’t just about reaching the Marriage Device.
“The Grim Reaper tried to gather all the pieces, but when that didn’t go well, he shifted to another method.”
“!”
Perhaps the simplest method.
Just kill an Immortal.
Kill the仙.
‘But how do you kill someone that strong?’
‘I don’t know either.’
‘?’
‘We don’t know yet. That being could be in a weakened state, or maybe they could get help from someone like the Grim Reaper…’
After meeting Yena, I arrived at Unryusan, located between Red Thunder God’s Gate and Uncheong Blue Gate, while recalling our conversation.
Yena followed Hayoung into the library for the homework I assigned.
Although Yena wanted to come along immediately, it was more important for her to have a solid understanding of the Avatar Phase first.
She had advanced to the Avatar Phase, but since it wasn’t in the Mid World, her knowledge and information were severely lacking.
[Where did you come?]
[Unryusan?]
[Are you not with Yena?]
[Isn’t this that place?]
[Isn’t Yena coming?]
“Miss Yena will join us later. I just need to check something for now.”
The only Junseon from Jangmugye, Master of Marriage Device Gyeoryu, said this.
‘I didn’t give such a thing.’
A strange ‘eye’ appeared just below the highest level of Lord Jeokmuhyang.
That eye did not originate from the power birthed by Gyeoryu.
It was another Junseon or possibly an existence beyond that, which Gyeoryu hadn’t even noticed.
At the moment Lord Jeokmuhyang died, there was no way to find out, but I could learn other things.
“I recently heard news that there was a practitioner who knew the plans of Lord Jeokmuhyang. It was someone like a secretary who fled as soon as the incident happened…”
The secretary left Jeokmuhyang before anyone else when the Spirit Separation appeared in the sky.
Afterward, when the incredible chaos occurred—with the activation of the spirit and the change of Lord Jeokmuhyang—nobody knew his whereabouts.
To be precise, he used a magic technique to exclude himself from the practitioners’ awareness.
So, practitioners, including Hayoung, didn’t know where he went, but as time passed and the effect of the magic technique faded, they recognized his existence again.
“After investigating the secretary’s traces… I found this place.”
Just below the peak of Unryusan, which is one of the three most abundant places for Cosmic Spirits in Jeokmuhyang.
The missing secretary is here.
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