HBWnovel Chapter 62
Chapter 62
Chapter 62
Pour...
Karen calmly accepted her delayed fate. However, that only served to send a chill through Seol’s heart.
‘We were somehow... able to come out of this alive.’
It was a miracle.
Final Comeback’s effects only ended thanks to Galifa’s Corpse Night and Karuna and Jamad buying time.
‘No, she could have killed Karuna if she just felt like it. She simply spared us.’
Rather than surviving, Seol was simply shown mercy.
Obviously, if Karen went all out, Seol could have used other methods too, but in the end, neither party used all their powers.
‘Regardless, she is still incredibly powerful.’
Jamad and Karuna would have been considered immensely powerful if it were any other Adventure, but they were helpless before Karen. It was due to the difference in their stats, but even so...
Step...
Karuna, who had taken the full brunt of Karen’s Red Lotus Slash, wobbled over to her.
“Karen...”
Pour...
Karen, who looked like a demon when she burned down the surrounding forest, suddenly put away her sword.
Seol wasn’t surprised by this, though. He believed that Karen had an ending that she desired.
“...What are you doing? Why did you let go of your weapon?”
Karen responded like it was nothing, with a hint of laughter in her voice.
“Because I don’t have time left. I don’t want to do this anymore.”
“Hmph! You’re only starting to talk now because you’re at the disadvanta—”
“Jamad! Stop provoking her.”
“I got it, I got it. Sigh... The uninvited guest will leave now.”
Jamad, realizing that the situation was over, returned to Seol’s side.
Since Karen was accepting her death, Seol decided to just watch.
Pour...
Flash!
Karen looked at Karuna while being hit by the pouring rain.
“Karuna, my brother.”
“Sister.”
“During the time that I have left... I... want to hear your story...”
“...As much as you want.”
In this high-stakes situation where Seol could die at any moment, the situation took an unexpected turn.
First, Karen tried to receive an answer from Karuna.
“I’m still stuck on that day... What about you?”
“Karen.”
“What happened? No, let me change the question... I don’t have much time...”
Karen’s body was decaying away.
Not only had she fought, but she was also an undead without a master. The small amount of time she spent revived ruined her body.
“That day... Did you really come back?”
“I was headed there.”
“I see... I knew there was no way that you would intentionally break a promise. Yeah, right...”
“I’m sorry, Karen. I’m sorry I couldn’t keep my promise that day.”
Karuna stepped closer to Karen.
She was no longer able to maintain her decaying body.
Thud...
Karuna grabbed her back and carefully laid her down in a gentle, natural manner.
“But why... how did you become a shadow?”
“It’s because I died.”
“Haha... You died? That’s ridiculous.”
“Someone sealed my powers. I don’t know the details either, though.”
“Yeah, that makes sense then.... You were invincible, Karuna. You were even stronger than me.”
Crumble...
Half of Karen’s face had rotted at this point.
The two continued their conversation, though, ignoring it entirely.
“Why are you serving that uncouth human, though? Is... your memory of Jin gone too now?”
The human she was referring to was Seol.
Karuna shook his head.
“Jin is still my emperor. But now... I serve someone else.”
“He looks like he’s lacking a lot compared to Jin– krgh... though...”
“He’s a good person.”
“...Really? So you’re saying that he’s not a good king then.”
“Through following him and traveling with him, I was able to meet you again.”
“Hahaha... If you put it that way, he’s a-an excellent master.”
Karen’s body trembled.
The life that she had regained was about to be extinguished once more.
“By the way, what was... what was the outside world like?”
“Do you mean the world outside of the Empire?”
“Yeah, the world you stubbornly sought after.”
Karuna closed his eyes, like he was recalling something.
“There was the sea,” said Karuna.
“The sea? You mean that place that’s bigger and filled with more water than— urgh... a lake?”
“Yeah, I saw the sea. It really existed.”
“Haha... So... You went that far, is that right? How was it? Do ‘waves’ really exist?”
“Of course. The water ebbed and flowed. The people there also ate fishy sardines to the point they got sick of them and smoked tobacco.”
“That sounds like such a boring life. Really... But even so... I want to see it.”
“Master...?”
Seol pulled out food that was roughly the size of a small bean and tossed it into his mouth without hesitation.
And after that, black energy surged out from within him.
Frsss...
[You had an excellent meal.]
[Jelly From a Cloudy Day’s Bonus Effect activates.]
[You are able to use 'Miracle of a Cloudy Day', a volatile skill, for an hour.]
The skill fit perfectly with the drizzling rain.
Gather...
Seol slowly gathered black energy into his hand. The energy, which looked like a rain cloud, completely filled up his hand.
Though weak and young, he was still someone’s king.
“Serve me!” shouted Seol.
Flash!
A lightning bolt struck somewhere in the Great Forest.
At the same time, Seol’s final means were activated.
[Snowman used the volatile skill Miracle of a Cloudy Day.]
[You forcibly use Shadow Summon on Karen, the Red Lotus Knight.]
Crackle... Crackle...
Black lightning wrapped around her body.
Even at a glance, Seol could tell that the black lightning had immense power.
However, the message that Seol was waiting for hadn’t shown up yet.
Seol, with a composed expression, observed the lightning’s movements.
And then, after a while...
A clear change had occurred.
Bzzzzzzt!
[Miracle of a Cloudy Day is successful.]
[Karen’s consciousness is being awakened.]
Clench.
Seol clenched his fists as tight as he could.
The viewers, watching this, were all in shock.
- This is insane... Maybe...?
- This can’t be real right? Someone tell me it isn’t...
- It is.
- He really saw this far into the future?
- This is crazy... I thought the game balance was destroyed because of her but it was destroyed because of him?
- What the hell?! How did things end up like this?
Black lightning wrapped around Karen’s body as it started to float up.
Kang Seol.
He had rolled many different types of dice over the past 17 years.
And he believed that the most difficult die to handle was the six-sided die. The same die that most other people considered the standard, ordinary die.
It was because the difference between each of the numbers was very large.
Between 1 and 2.
Between 3 and 4.
Between 5 and 6.
These numbers look similar at a glance.
But, through his experience with The World of Eternity, Seol quickly realized that he was mistaken.
Rolling a 4 on the travel dice simply made good things happen every once in a while. Rolling a 3 on the travel dice, however, gave random odds of both good and bad things happening.
And 2 was an unlucky roll. It was awful to the point that it sometimes even directly influenced the difficulty of the Adventure itself.
As such, there were some people who quickly left the area as fast as they could if they rolled below a 3.
But here, there was also someone like Seol who ignored the rolls.
The person who defeated the Red Lotus Knight, an extremely powerful existence, has been fighting for a long time with the dice.
To turn a 3 into a 6.
To turn a 2 into a 6.
To turn a 1 into a 6.
He fought.
He always fought to create the best result.
And he always prepared with the worst in mind. Through that, he was able to achieve something like this.
He was someone who overcame the six-sided die.
“Serve me, Karen!”
He overcame the dice, he was someone who took seven steps.
[You have earned the special achievement 'Dice are Merely Numbers'.]
[You have earned the special title 'Outlaw'.]
Flash!
A bolt of black lightning struck again, wrapping around her.
And then, there was another change.
Crackle!
“Argh... Ahhhhhhhh!”
“Karuna?”
The lightning that surrounded Karen suddenly expanded and devoured Karuna.
“No! Karuna!”
“M... ast... er...”
Karuna’s voice disappeared with the lightning, leaving Seol alone.
Pour...
The only thing next to Seol now was the sound of rain.
Along with one message.
[Karen’s Connected Soul activates.]