<732 - Who Did That (3)>
Isajang Papa was either a clone of someone or the original who was betrayed by his clone.
Grandpa of the Okashii-ne’s story hinted at a shocking truth.
However, thinking about it coldly, it didn’t matter to me.
“I didn’t really want to know this information! Now just die!”
“Oh dear. My desire for a bit more fun has stirred my instincts.”
Smash!
Hit it, and it cracks; burn it, and it vaporizes; freeze it, and it melts away — I couldn’t catch it at all.
A being I can’t handle with brute force.
An immortal that won’t die even if you kill it.
I couldn’t take revenge on Grandpa of the Okashii-ne, who soured my mood by thinking I could fight this blindly.
So, I came up with it.
A special ‘prank’ to surprise my opponent.
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Call of Affection: This summoning technique allows the player to summon a being they have held affection for over 100 hours. The duration of the summon is proportional to the time of affection, and this time can increase even during the summon.
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I love new events.
Especially events that haven’t been fully explored or analyzed yet.
If there are still攻略 elements left among the characters, and if they are related to the one in question, that’s even better.
For me, the ‘Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne’ was someone who could easily reach that 100 hours.
But even beyond that, there was someone I held both curiosity and affection for for over 100 hours.
[You have held affection for [Parents of Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne] for 132 hours and 37 minutes.]
No matter what outrageous trigger it might be, there must be parents for a Jibsa who independently survived from the sky.
So, aren’t you curious about what kind of people those parents are and how they look?
Now, the opportunity to resolve that long-held curiosity has arrived.
[[Parents of Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne] are being summoned.]
In that moment, I felt a moment of panic.
When accidentally breaking a vase displayed in the hallway.
When I accidentally bit Isabel’s hand with the food while giving a snack.
When I thought it was a bad ending route only for it to end with some psycho act.
Just like those moments, I felt a momentary anxiety that I had made a huge mistake.
But that panic melted away upon seeing Grandpa of the Okashii-ne’s horrified face.
“Summoning magic to call upon a god?! What on earth are you doing…!”
With a massive scale of territory invasion phenomenon where the world force supporting the dimensions flowed out and the world was eroded, the [World Domain] unfolded.
WHOOSH!
An immense pressure, as if sinking into the ocean of mana, crushed the entire city.
Buildings twisted and warped as if gripped by a giant’s hand.
The domain unfolded by Seonhwang Papa and Golden Dancer Riske barely held up the crumbling city.
WHOOSH!
An unknown god.
An unknown dimension.
An unknown being expressed curiosity as it ‘looked down’ on such a city.
“Wait, did Grandpa of the Okashii-ne just… vanish?!”
Grandpa of the Okashii-ne, who hid in the spatial gaps like a superior god technique of Jiang or the original form area of Sing.
The enormous gaze looking down on the city felt as though it was aiming at that grandpa hiding somewhere in the air.
The mana response embedded in the regenerating body of Grandpa of the Okashii-ne spoke.
It’s an exact match.
The hiding space of Grandpa of the Okashii-ne and the space ‘that’ was looking at.
“No, the hundred-dimensional gate hasn’t closed yet. The chance for a new descent into the vacant territory isn’t far off! Why are you oppressing me? This is clearly a contract violation before the Day of Revelation!!”
Noticing that hiding was futile, Grandpa of the Okashii-ne protested angrily from the spatial crack.
‘That’ did not permit the protest.
With a feeling of ‘unfolding’ something, Grandpa of the Okashii-ne’s figure hidden in the spatial cracks revealed itself.
At the moment when I felt another ‘unfolding,’ Grandpa of the Okashii-ne’s body unfolded into [Unholy Clay].
At the next moment, when I felt even more ‘unfolding,’ the being previously called Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne no longer remained ‘here.’
‘Surpassing the duality of 2000 function experience points, a demigod in the range of 5000, and a divine class surpassing that, the level of substitutes!’
That was a being who had endlessly engaged in ‘unfolding’ for countless years, raised to an incomprehensible level.
Grandpa of the Okashii-ne could not keep his existence from being unfolded to the other side of dimensions.
[[Invader of the World ???] sent Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne flying out of the dimensional expansion into the outer awareness dimension.]
[[Invader of the World ???] is looking down on you.]
[[Invader of the World ???] is deep in thought.]
Even the domain expansions of Golden Dancer Riske and Seonhwang Papa felt unsure how long they could withstand ‘that’s’ unfolding.
If such a powerful being unleashed its full force, it would be instantaneous for everyone, including Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne, to fly into the other side of the dimension.
At least, it wouldn’t be one of those cheerful dimensions for us.
“Don’t touch our Papa! If you’re going to scold your child, you should just scold your own child. You can’t blame us for something we didn’t do!”
“…”
I felt the astonishment of ‘that’ which didn’t even show its form in response to my bold shout.
For the first time, it was focusing on me.
With the might of a powerful god, comparable to the final boss [The One God Sofemia] that I would face in the hundred-dimensional clash after the principal’s demise, it unleashed its ‘unfolding’ towards me.
The hidden boss I called had to be sent back.
As much as I wanted to keep it, there was nothing I could do.
The moment when I felt ‘that’ unfolding grabbing the space I belonged to, I pressed down the space trying to transition into ‘collection.’
[The hidden function [Collection], accumulated through long entries, is officially opened.]
[Collection Experience +18250]
The demigod benchmark was 5000.
The divine benchmark was 10000.
With a staggering value of ‘collection rate’ far exceeding the maximum attainable through a single function, the collection function’s value exploded.
If there was just a bit more time, if I could finish collecting, I could have even targeted 20,000 for advanced gods or even 50,000 for substitute gods; however, my growth has halted.
But such efforts I put into saving up were still worth it.
As soon as I broke open the savings, ‘that’ could not unfold my dimensional space.
Because it was too heavy.
My ‘collection’ surpassed the ‘unholy clay,’ which held no weight at all.
WHOOSH!
‘It’ acknowledged it.
I could not unfold to the other side of the dimension.
Instead, it unfolded something else.
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Experiencer of the Apocalypse: You have witnessed numerous end-of-world moments in a world headed for destruction.
– Title Equip Effect: Complete Resistance to World-Level Domains
– Title Retention Effect: Partial Resistance to World-Level Domains
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“EEEKK?!”
Looking at my system window.
Referring to the list of titles I hold.
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Experienced near death: To you, healing is not something you receive when in pain but when resurrected after wandering on the brink of death?
– Retention Effect: 10% Increase in Instant Death Immunity
– Equip Effect: Activates Instant Death Immunity once a day
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Living Nightmare Survivor: You survived unscathed from nightmares where people die like ants.
– Title Equip Effect: Increased Fear Resistance by 100
– Title Retention Effect: Increased Fear Resistance by 10
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Guide of Salvation: As a result of repeatedly saving a world headed for destruction, you have become the hope of that world.
– Title Equip Effect: Activates Blessing [Endless Respect]
– Title Retention Effect: Basic Favorability toward all beings increased by 10
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Resisting the World Domain, securing instant death immunity, possessing fear resistance, and retaining basic favorability toward all beings to a certain extent.
As I gazed at such title retention effects, the enormous will looking down on me quickly lost interest.
WHOOSH!
It felt disappointment upon realizing that my single act of endurance had support from the ‘system.’
The force inflated to the point of tearing through the world flow, as the World Domain itself retracted, returned through the dimension door opened by [Call of Affection].
CREAK–
THUD!
The door closed.
[[Parents of Jibsa Jang Okashii-ne] have been resealed.]
[The title Call of Affection has been subjected to a cooldown of 3650 days due to a summon of too powerful a being.]
[Some god is wailing about what kind of actions I’m committing through a door made for summoning.]
In a city where chaos had erupted as if struck by an earthquake, Seonhwang Papa staggered and rose.
“My youngest daughter. What on earth have you done?”
“I-I don’t know…”
What on earth was that?
I’ve never seen anything like that before.
After a moment of surprise, understanding came naturally.
After the principal’s demise.
With the hundred-dimensional continuous invasions and repelling.
The original game ended there, but in reality, obviously, the next phase comes.
The world wouldn’t just stop because it reaches an ending!
There are dimensions beyond the hundred dimensions we don’t know, dimensions far from the middle realm.
‘That’ belongs to such a distant dimension.
When all the hundred dimensions adjacent to the middle realm were emptied without owners, an outer-dimensional substitute might come looking for it.
“I don’t know much, but I performed the summoning magic for Grandpa of the Okashii-ne’s parents, and then Grandpa of the Okashii-ne vanished!”
“Hooh.”
Seonhwang Papa sighed.
“That old monster, who has lived longer than the Demon King, is a being capable of expelling that kind of existence. The threat we face as these weak humans in this little middle realm is far too great.”
“Yet it didn’t touch us and just left, so isn’t that alright?”
Thinking to brush it off as a good thing, Seonhwang Papa’s enormous hand gripped my head tightly.
“Ow, it hurts!”
“I gripped it to make it hurt. If you had been just one more minute late, the dimension would have expanded, and a new [Supermassive Kingdom] comparable to [Northern Demon Realm] would have been about to be born. Are you aware of that?”
“Ugh! I didn’t think it’d come to this!”
“Whew. The world has been flipped upside down by the folly of a foolish child. I’ll take care of the city’s reconstruction. Enough with the other things; hurry back to the academy.”
“Why?”
“Do you think the [Principal] would not have sensed this massive invasive phenomenon from another dimension?”
Gasp.
Oh no!
“If you don’t hurry, many 4th years and graduates, and maybe even professors will be dispatched to investigate the cause of the erosion. Your playground will probably be turned into a wasteland.”
How would the principal perceive this situation?
Right after Darknodi burst into tears and dashed out of the academy, a catastrophic event shaking the world was unleashed.
Fortunately, the world erosion was halted, and safety was restored, but with an unexplained situation occurring, it wouldn’t be the principal to just sit back and fold their arms saying, “Guess we were lucky.”
As Seonhwang Papa said, they would surely dispatch an investigation team.
Last month, even one Weird Professor made them that tense, and if a bunch of professors storm into the city like heroes assembling, what would happen?
The cozy city I carefully built for Darknodi would turn into a grave site.
“I’ll be back right now!”
I will protect my city that I worked hard to build!
