<672 – Irresponsible Pleasure (20)>
I came to the Executive Meeting thinking only about passing off the Rune of Misfortune, but while I was at it, I shopped around the executives’ realms and scored a great one.
[Training Area]
[Training Domain]
[Detection Effect: Personal strength is multiplied based on training time.]
Thanks to this one area, I’ll receive an incredible multiplier in future battle situations.
If the player’s power increases over the vast years spent in the game, it gets an even better time correction effect than living for thousands of years as a dragon.
‘With the body of Oknodie, rather than [All-in Power Class], I might be able to wield a power similar to an all-in power without any vows or oaths!’
In the end, I think I did well by attending the Executive Meeting.
Can we really call it an Executive Meeting when all the executives are dying?
Hmm… If I’m the only surviving executive, can’t I just hold the meeting by myself?
“What the hell did we do wrong to the Dark Princess to deserve this…?”
“Dark Princess!! As the heir of the Foundation, what grudge do you hold against us, Foundation executives, that you would persecute us!”
One female executive, completely blind in one eye, was bleeding from her eyes, and the Magician Executive was in a pitiful state from excessive mana use, having exhausted his magical power.
Oknodie’s head tilted at the cries of the two surviving executives filled with injustice.
“Huh? Not really anything?”
“…”
Seriously, after killing my kids like that, why is she so brazen?
I was left speechless by the outrageous shamelessness.
“So, you’re saying all this slaughter… was just for fun…?”
“Fun? Hmm. It wasn’t not fun, but if you ask me if it was super entertaining, I wouldn’t say so? I’d say it was more of a sampling!”
“Sampling…? Are you really talking about sampling in the context of this slaughter fest?”
With a blank look, the female executive asked, and Oknodie replied in a voice that sharply contrasted with the previous wicked slaughter.
“Something like that! You know how when you see new food, you’re curious about what it tastes like? You kind of guess, but you want to try one and see if your imagination matches up.”
Dramatic music plays in the background
Only fear was felt.
The value of human life.
The value of existence.
If that is defined by just one thing: ‘newness.’
How would she perceive ‘everything that isn’t new’?
Nonexistence.
Worthless.
A concept that wouldn’t matter if it disappeared.
“Are… are you really the Director’s Daughter?”
The Magician Executive could not hide his terrified voice as he asked.
“A being who allows the existence of the world just for the sake of fun. We already know such a being…”
“Really?”
“The Principal of the Gift Academy!”
That’s right.
The one who allowed the existence of the Millennium Empire.
The one who birthed the Demon King and recognized the birth of the Warrior.
The strongest sage and ruler of the Middle Realm.
The only reason even the 24 Major Gods and spirit kings of the hidden realm cannot invade or conquer the Middle Realm.
A being that exists for the continued existence of the Middle Realm, beyond the so-called Three Great Evils.
The guardian of the world.
The enemy of the world.
A being that is essentially the Middle Realm itself.
Evil Dragon Omoshiroi.
He is the
And now.
As they faced the enemy of the hidden realm, the executives of the Foundation, who had deeply recognized the Principal’s uniqueness and danger, naturally awakened to the reality.
Dark Princess Oknodie.
She was no different from the Dragon Principal.
Still not fully grown.
Merely a child.
And thus, the fear of her future growth loomed even larger.
A possibility that should never come.
A being that could become
“Open it up. I don’t care what means you use. We cannot let her hinder the Butler of Foundation…!”
Before the Magician Executive’s shout had even finished, the thought process of the female executive who lost one eye accelerated to hyper-speed.
[Concentration]
[Sudden Surge]
As the acceleration kicked in, the female executive fervently prayed.
“Please let there be a chance for a final resistance!”
Her one remaining eye was fixed on the Dark Princess.
As if unable to tear her gaze away from a predator.
It was not meaningless fear.
Oknodie was already looking at her.
[Extreme Focus]
[Speed of Thought]
Even in the accelerating thought process, Oknodie’s gaze never left her.
Her charming appearance felt like the looted beauty built on the countless deaths of many handsome men and women, only a chilling fear prevailed.
The smile slowly rising on the child’s lips struck nothing but suffocating terror into her heart.
[Mental Disturbance]
[Isolation of Darkness]
However, she succeeded in penetrating.
The Dark Princess permitted her resistance.
[Whatever it is, just go for it!]
At the voice echoing in her head, she gritted her teeth.
The female executive’s magical formation dramatically swelled, replicating her mana wave.
A magical formation is for the development of magic.
Step by step, marking each component that makes up the magic, just like building a tower to complete a spell.
But what happens if that formation replicates [Living Mana Wave]?
An insufficient replication would create [Distraction of Aura].
A proper replication would lead to [Clone Creation].
If she were to take one step further?
It would become an improvement that surpasses replication.
Not a clone, but the real deal.
She would dismantle herself into a formation, applying modification values instantaneously.
Transformation of existence through a formation.
The precondition allowing such transformation.
A secret that converts a variable into a long-term variable rather than a temporary enhancement.
That’s [Oath and Vow].
Using four-tiered domain marking to engrave will into reality, adding or removing conditions to redefine existence.
The other form of domain manifestation created by executing abilities toward oneself rather than an enemy is [Existence Transformation].
This is also a technique dealing with realms, so if another’s domain intrudes or forces expenditure of power, it becomes easy to structure a domain mark.
Only if her will demonstrates defense stronger than a castle wall, based on an impactful experience that protects her from any external attacks, most awakenings end in personal death, failed awakenings, or self-destruction.
In other words.
If she avoids all those dangerous elements.
If she achieves sufficient [Awakening] to protect herself.
She can then enter the phase of existence transformation.
“All I wish for is this: The Dark Princess must not be allowed to approach the Butler of Foundation. How I achieve that, what conditions I gain my strength to achieve the goal, is something I must decide for myself!”
The female executive made her judgment.
Against the Dark Princess, who could kill the Martial Arts Executive in one strike at the Training Area, there was no point in brute force.
What she needed now was a special-type ability.
She didn’t even dare to think about taking her out.
Simply sealing the Dark Princess to prevent her from causing harm to the Butler would be more than enough.
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – What are the chances of sealing the Dark Princess by sacrificing my remaining eye?]
A moment of foresight whispered to her.
<100%>
An astonishingly high probability appeared, far surpassing her expectations.
The female executive could not rejoice.
If it had shown a probability of 0.01%, she might have sacrificed everything to try and seal her.
But this…
Was different.
Even she thought that sacrificing her one eye didn’t hold enough value to seal the Dark Princess who could easily kill an executive of the same rank with a blow.
Yet if it became 100%, there could be only one reason.
The subject accepted the
Curiosity is satisfied after experiencing it once.
What would happen after that was something the female executive easily anticipated.
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – How long will the seal remain under the above conditions?]
The jewel hanging around her neck lost its light, revealing the foresight result.
<10 seconds>
“…!”
Short.
With just that little time, nothing could change.
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – If I add my arms and legs as a sacrifice, how much will the sealing time extend? ]
The jewel lost its light again, calculating the value of her limbs.
<0 seconds>
“!!”
Not even a meaningful second differed.
Tears were about to overflow from her one eye.
The seal formed at the cost of her weak body merely stimulated the Dark Princess’s
The foresight result implied it held no value as a seal whatsoever.
She realized she had to sacrifice even more.
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – If I sacrifice all my possessions?]
<0 seconds>
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – If I sacrifice my life?]
<0 seconds>
[Future Sight]
[Conditional Foresight – If I sacrifice my soul?]
<0 seconds>
Her spirit crumbled.
In the hyper-accelerated speed of thought, she confirmed that nothing she possessed held even a value of 0.1 seconds, and she despaired.
The stress born from extreme despair caused the depletion of vitamin C within her body.
The depletion of vitamin C inhibited adrenaline production, and the absence of adrenaline caused her heart rate to cease, and blood pressure to drop.
In short, the female executive was crushed under despair and suddenly died.
“I… I didn’t even lift a finger, and she’s dead.”
“Is that the power of the Dark Princess?!”
“N-no! Next, it’s our turn…!”
The modified legion, whose morale had already been shattered by the Elven Dark Bomb, naturally lost all will to fight and desperately wished for Darknodi to order a retreat.
“Ha. I couldn’t even be a stumbling block.”
With a click of her tongue, Darknodi reached out her hand.
Then, Oknodied’s powerful blood magic forcibly drew blood from the body of the Foundation’s Magician Executive, who had fallen into mana exhaustion.
The sight of the executive, bleeding to death from a high vantage point, left the modified legion even more shaken.
“A pitiful executive that can’t even be a stumbling block only serves as a sacrifice for blood magic.”
They had to fear not only Oknodie.
Darknodi was just as terrifying.
