Return of the Frozen Player 547
late blooming flowers (2)
‘… … Do you speak?’
Gilberto’s eyes narrowed.
It was strange that he understood what he was saying.
‘That giant did not speak the language of the Earth.’
However, the giant’s words were clearly understood.
As if the conversation was delivered directly to the brain, not the ears.
“It was right. If you are good at handling the Force, this much is easy.”
‘… … Mind reading!?’
The moment Gilberto’s vigilance is about to rise to the ceiling.
Kurrureung!
The giant suddenly sat comfortably on the floor.
“Can you lower your weapon? Are you feeling it anyway? I can fly with a toy like that
How can you not?”
After thinking for a while, Gilberto slowly lowered the bell.
Certainly, it didn’t seem like I could kill the giant in front of me made of gray rocks with a gun.
he asked.
“Who are you?”
“My name is Stoney. As you can see… … It is a monster.”
The face made of stone gave a bitter smile.
“Well, I wasn’t a monster from the start. Although it’s all because of the emperor.”
“If you’re the emperor, are you talking about transcendence?”
Stoney snorted at Arthur’s question.
“under! Transcendent Emperor (Super Super Emperor). Isn’t it funny? A subject that has not really transcended anything.”
“What kind of small grain is that?”
“You don’t know? The transcendent body, including the emperor, has yet to transcend anything.”
“That’s strange.”
Gilberto shook his head and opened his mouth.
“They know that they are beings who live eternal life. is not it?”
“no.”
Stoney cut it off and replied.
“Just because you borrowed a few gold coins from the top, doesn’t it mean you have transcended money for the rest of your life?”
“… … Does that mean that the Ascendants borrowed even their lives?”
“similar. First of all, eternal life is possible
This is only possible if you are a transcendental person or a god.”
Confused by that statement, Arthur retorted.
“But the Ascendants have already been living for over a thousand years? Aren’t you like that too?”
“okay. At the cost of millions of lives.”
“The sacrifice of millions of people… … ?”
“The current emperor is a genius. Not a maniac at the same time. He believes that those who are not superior do not even deserve to breathe.”
“… … Wait, what do you mean by that?”
Gilberto trembled.
Stoney’s hollow eyes turned to him.
“Your guess is correct. He is a scary person.”
jjiing.
A momentary vertigo shook Gilberto’s head.
Stoney, I think I’ve found out the disgusting truth of this world he’s talking about.
“What kind of guess do you want?”
“… … It is a failure.”
Gilberto cures the nausea
he replied.
“Failures are not the product of a coincidence caused by the failure of the Transcendence Project.”
“Like you said. They are the intended result.”
Stoney nodded.
“The Emperor, who was revered as the greatest genius in history, created the Force and carried out the transcendence project.”
In the process, he decided to ‘dispose of’ all mankind that he judged to be useless.
“I made them a flop and imprisoned them in this vast prison.”
“The failures gathered in the Exiled Forest were not all.”
“They kicked out a few guys just for show. All the real failures are trapped in this space.”
Gilberto and Arthur recalled the tall wall they had climbed over yesterday.
I wondered why they blocked the jungle without anything, but I never thought there would be such a secret.
But there was something I didn’t understand.
“Why are you still keeping a failed work alive? If the back is so sluggish, then the murderous deer would be the best, right?”
“The loan story I talked about earlier. Did you forget to eat it?”
Stoney picked up the crocodile Transcendent Body he hunted.
“… … Take a good look.”
With those words, the body of the dying crocodile Ascendant shrank like a mummy.
Whoa.
A heavy breath flowed from Stoney’s mouth.
“Well, he must have had a shorter lifespan than I thought. Now, this has extended my life by about 17 years.”
Gilberto’s and Arthur’s eyes widened beyond their ability to grow.
it has been understood meaning of what he said.
“You understand now? Why does this huge prison exist?”
“The lifespan of failed works… … Is it for the Ascendants to use?”
“The emperor thinks that our lifespan should go to those with a better life. He visits here from time to time to hunt failures, and distributes the lifespan obtained in this way to other transcendent bodies.”
That was the reason the Ascendants were able to live intact for over a thousand years.
“How is this possible?”
“It is because of the holy relic.”
“A relic?”
“Holy Ghost, Petra. It is famous as a sacred object of the sun god that contains the power of rest.”
Kurur.
Stoney raised his hand and pointed to one side.
“If you go all the way there, you will come across a temple where the holy relics are kept. It is now called the Kronos Lab. In other words, the emperor is doing this nonsense by using the power of the holy things he usurped from the gods.”
“It’s really nonsense.”
Arthur bit his lip in anger.
“Who are you to define the value of others?”
“You said it. A lunatic.”
It is a being that has decided to determine its value by itself.
He even has the power to act to carry out that ridiculous plan.
“… … indeed. Is it because they have not transcended?”
Having calmed down, Gilberto nodded.
“Certainly not eternal life.”
The number of failures is limited, and they cannot produce children.
In other words, the life of the transcendent bodies is also a limited resource.
“That’s why the population of the Ascendants has been steadily declining.”
Very few of those who took their own lives because their lives were really boring.
Most of them were killed by accidents or were faked to commit suicide.
“… … Why are you still?”
Gilberto asked with an incomprehensible face.
No matter how strong the Emperor is, no matter how strong the Overmind is.
I couldn’t understand why the failures with a much larger number of people followed them so obediently.
“It’s because once you’ve mastered the force he spread, you can’t escape his control.”
Stoney smiled bitterly.
Rather, it was to the extent that the emperor could occupy the body and mind of the subject at any time, if he wanted to.
Gilberto muttered.
“… … A perfect dictatorship.”
The Babylonian Empire is the
was the dictatorship utopia that the dictator dreamed of.
Because no one can disobey the Emperor.
“That’s why I was so surprised when I saw you.”
Stoney’s voice became extremely serious.
He looked down at the two men, much smaller than himself, and said.
“Because I wondered if you, if you were still untainted human beings, would grant ‘us’ wishes.”
We didn’t ask who we were.
Because they will be all the failures who died unjustly in this prison.
Gilberto asked cautiously.
“What is that wish?”
“Death of the Emperor.”
Stoney’s short reply was filled with deep, dark anger.
He put down the crocodile transcendental body he was holding on the floor.
“I wanted to die every moment, but I couldn’t bear it. Emperor, if you don’t see his death with your own eyes… … Because I have no face to see my family and friends who left first.”
Gilberto’s eyes deepened.
Because he knew his heart better than anyone else.
So it was even more sad.
“I know your heart and will, but… … sorry.”
“what? Why!”
cooung
Stoney shouted, banging his fist on the floor.
“Haven’t you seen it with your own two eyes? If you hadn’t come in time, we would have been killed by that crocodile.”
he is weak
After coming up to the 7th floor, that thought became more and more firm.
If it wasn’t for a surprise sniping with all your might, you couldn’t even clean up an ordinary transcendent body by yourself.
“Killing the Emperor… … It is beyond our ability.”
Stoney looked down at him without saying anything, then smiled.
“You sound interesting. I can’t help but ask the human to kill the emperor.
Would it have been dull?”
“What are you talking about?”
“A thousand years have passed since I was imprisoned here.”
According to the providence of nature, the weakest failures first died.
However, it was not that the surviving failures were comfortable.
“It survives by killing those who were once human beings and who are in the same situation. It’s a worm’s life.”
Stoney with a self-deprecating smile opened his mouth.
“But we barely survived. And Emperor, I started research to kill him.”
It was only possible because the emperor was arrogant.
If he had even the slightest interest in the flop, it would have been ruined.
However, in his standard, failures were low and inferior beings who did not deserve to survive.
“We tried to somehow change the nature of the force in order to get out of the emperor’s shadow.”
It was very difficult.
Thousands and tens of thousands of failures put their heads together, but they couldn’t break the spell created by a single genius.
“What awaited us was despair and frustration.”
“It’s funny, but there were times when the emperor could be understood. If you are a genius enough to create such a formula, then you will feel that we are inferior.”
“I couldn’t give up. The mountain of corpses piled up behind us stirred our spirits.”
A thousand years passed like that.
Arthur asked in a trembling voice.
“success… … did you?”
Stoney nodded slowly.
“We succeeded. But, it was half-success.”
The theory was perfect.
However, they couldn’t use that method.
“Force is the study of the mind and heart. But we haven’t used the emperor’s force for too long. That concept is imprinted on the soul and replaced with a new concept
It was completely impossible.”
The failures were hopeless.
The fact that the perfect theory that took a thousand years to create cannot even be used.
“We needed a new soul.”
not yet asked.
A soul that has never been used, purer and purer than anyone else.
“That is what humans are.”
Gilberto’s eyes twitched slightly.
he asked.
“In other words, aren’t you telling me to learn the newly created force?”
“right.”
“But, isn’t that something no one has tested yet? There must be a problem with stability.”
“that… …
Stoney was speechless.
Because that was true.
The failed works considered the theory to be perfect, but it was literally ‘in theory’.
No one knew how the concept would work when it burst into the world.
“Human, you are right. In fact, it is not a study made with humans in mind.”
Originally, it was made to be used by failed works.
Realizing that it was impossible and despairing, only a human appeared in front of my eyes.
“I ask you one thing. Could I die?”
Sometimes silence can answer.
Gilberto put a cigarette in his mouth, which he had given up for a while.
profit.
When the nicotine came in, my head instantly cleared.
“Whoa.”
Gilberto, who exhaled acrid smoke, burned the cigarette without a trace with his magical powers.
I feel uneasy eyes pierced behind my back.
“I accept the offer.”
“father!”
The sound was so loud that it blew away the deaf ears.
