[Chapter 227]
[Relife (5)]
Black dungeon 30th floor.
It was a world that seemed to imitate the universe.
The world where up and down couldn't be distinguished was covered in pitch black, with starlight-like lights twinkling here and there.
The sizes of the stars varied, and the light they contained also differed.
The world was immeasurably vast, and the stars densely filling that world seemed to exist as many as the number of people.
[It seems you were having pleasant dreams.]
In the center of that world.
The dungeon's master and guide were there.
They looked up at the stars floating above their heads, raising their heads from the universe.
Stars twinkling with red light began to fall.
They were those who had set foot in the black dungeon.
The moment they opened the door to cross to the 30th floor, they fell into dreams.
[Despair is the greatest enemy. But because they didn't despair until the end, we needed to make them realize how terrifying beings we are.]
The dungeon guide giggled.
If they had despaired and trembled in fear while coming down the black dungeon, it wouldn't have shown them dreams like this.
It would have just killed them as they were.
But they far exceeded the black dungeon's expectations.
Even though it must have been incredibly arduous to come down here, they didn't let go of hope until the end.
So it showed them dreams, illusions.
[It doesn't matter if they realize they're dreaming midway. No, that's even better. Because they'll acutely feel that while the dream is this happy, reality is cruel.]
Reality is cruel and brutal.
Life is a continuous struggle.
Even if they didn't despair, they must have harbored at least a handful of anxiety while coming down here.
They must have been inwardly tired too.
Nevertheless, they whipped their tired bodies and advanced towards the goal of the 30th floor.
They mustn't stop midway.
Because they knew the moment they stopped, they would never be able to move forward again.
But they led their tired bodies forward and encountered dreams.
Rest and peace they couldn't comfortably enjoy while in the black dungeon.
Also, a world reflecting some wish contained in the foundation of their psyche.
But can they really wake up from the dream and come out to cruel reality?
Even if they realize they're dreaming, can they really deny the dream?
[They can't, absolutely.]
The dungeon guide asserted.
They can't deny it.
Rather, they will deny reality.
Like that, they who realize the gap between dream and reality will despair at reality.
They will choose to die in the dream, and the black dungeon will recycle their despair and emotions as nourishment.
[It's disappointing. If possible, I wanted to kill them directly with our hands. Well, let's just tell them to die in the dream.]
Look at those falling stars.
Stars emitting red light are meeting death in the dream while oxidizing.
Starting with one star, tens, hundreds of stars fall following behind.
And those stars─
[────Huh!?]
The dungeon guide, the totality of will constituting the black dungeon.
The fairy's words were no different from representing the black dungeon's will.
The fairy inside the sphere of light was flustered by the completely unexpected situation.
The stars were falling towards the dungeon's master and guide.
[This is... I can't understand. Why on earth are they desperately trying to crawl out to reality?]
Hundreds of stars land before their eyes.
The dungeon guide showed dismay seeing the stars falling ahead.
Red light was surging.
Whoosh!
Crackle!
From inside the starlight.
One man walks out.
Wearing a cloak of crimson flames.
The man with blue chains wrapped around his body was just the beginning.
Thud
From inside the starlight that fell behind him, countless people walked out too.
With solemn expressions after waking from false hope called dreams.
Faces with no trace of regret.
They chose reality over dreams by their own will.
By this point, the dungeon guide could only purely admire.
[Amazing, really. I'll express admiration for your will to give up dreams and face the abyss after all. But you will regret that choice.]
"Do you fight with your mouth? Come at me."
[...I'll definitely make you regret.]
☆
Sea of stars, universe.
Eun-ha was standing on the universe leading the conquest team members.
Fighting spirit was conveyed from behind his back.
"Did everyone have good dreams?"
The conquest team members responded.
Eun-ha raised the corners of his mouth.
The morale of the conquest team members who chose to wake from dreams by their own will could be said to have reached its peak.
Eun-ha was the same.
Blood boiled in his body.
His heart pounded.
Eun-ha who overcame the desire called dreams and decided to seize his ideals by himself felt like he could do anything now.
Whoosh! Crackle!
The black dungeon had made a mistake.
By letting them rest in dreams, it eliminated their fatigue.
Eun-ha drew out mana into the world together with the conquest team members.
Crimson flames blaze.
Blue lightning flashes.
Eun-ha who was wrapped in powers of different colors released that power in one breath.
He revealed all the mana in his heart, covering the sea of starlight.
"Seo-na."
"Yeah, just say it. I can do it anytime."
"Then convey this. There's no strategy." "...Really?"
"None. If there is one, it's to kill that thing with all our might."
[...I convey the lord's message. Everyone, prepare for battle. The target is the black dungeon's boss. As it's the final battle, annihilate the boss with all your might. That is all.]
Jin Seo-na conveyed the telepathy with a face saying "how reliable."
The conquest team members shouted battle cries.
The clan members burst into laughter.
"I don't know when we became Blaze Clan. But I agree. We should kill it with all our might."
Mok Min-ho stepped forward holding his sword.
The jet-black sword in his hand was imbued with light, preparing to unleash the principle of cutting anything.
Other people also prepared to attack.
Their devices emitted light.
Myth Manifestation
Revival
And finally.
Eun-ha created another world in the sea of starlight.
Crimson flames blaze fiercely.
His hair turns crimson red, and flames flicker in his pupils.
The reddish-brown cloak on his shoulders burns and transforms into a cloak of flames.
The change also occurred in the conquest team members, spreading quickly like sparks across a field.
"Now! As it's the final battle, I'll command with full power! Rara, can you lend me your power?"
"Rara ra♪"
Fairy Ring
Rosy Muse
Jo A-ra borrows Rara's power.
She who is wearing clothes reminiscent of a rose flower spreads fairy wings and flies, assisting the conquest team's magic.
"Everyone don't let your guard down just because it's the last! Be careful not to get hurt!" "Whew, we can't die after coming this far."
Angel's Necklace
Hermes' Steps
Following behind her.
Cha Eun-woo who spread mechanical angel wings and Kaede who wore shoes with wings sprouting flew up.
Cha Eun-woo uses her gift to maximize myth, and Kaede aims at the dungeon's master far away.
Now everyone, let us offer prayers.
There is nothing for us to fear anymore.
Everything according to the Lord's will.
There was movement below them too.
Iriya fluttered her cloak of flames supporting the conquest team members.
Other people also exerted their powers and took battle stances.
They showed their will to attack anytime once the signal dropped.
Eventually the attack signal dropped.
Ignis Cross
Flames and lightning enveloping the world gathered in Eun-ha's swords.
The two swords roared fiercely.
He burst the magic he had compressed to the limit.
The conquest team members also instantly released the power they had gathered towards the boss monster.
─────!!
An explosion that swallowed the universe occurred.
All sorts of powers exploded, incinerating the entire universe where it was standing.
The light didn't go out.
By the time the light went out, new light swept through the space again.
The conquest team quietly watched the area enveloped in light.
They knew too.
There's no way that thing died.
Sure enough, giggling was soon heard from inside the light.
[It's useless! You can't defeat us with your power!]
The light cleared.
It had just moved its arm.
With that alone, the attack the conquest team poured out disappeared in vain.
""""...."""
The conquest team looked at it.
Its body was growing larger.
The giant wrapped in darkness was looking down at them at some point.
There was only one feature to distinguish its appearance.
That its eyes were red.
A gaze that instilled fear just by facing it was fixed on the conquest team.
They instinctively shrank back.
Right at that moment─
"─First with fists."
The youngest player.
On the other hand, the tallest player stepped forward muttering those words.
Pandora Clan Guardian, Avenir.
The boy, no, the man with fluttering blonde hair clenched his iron fist.
He who spread his legs wide and lowered his upper body preparing an attack stance quickly threw an uppercut.
Throw The Heavens
The moment he twisted his leg stretched back.
He concentrates the power spread throughout his body into one, loading the totality of power into his fist.
As if piercing the heavens.
The uppercut Avenir threw towards the sky directly hit it.
────!!
Its jaw tilts back and it staggers.
The red eyes disappear for a moment, disrupting people's anxiety.
Eun-ha didn't miss that moment.
Whoosh!
His world completely erased the conquest team members' fear.
Also, they were connected by myth and sharing each other's will.
The will spreading from Noh Eun-ha's will made them feel conviction.
As long as Noh Eun-ha doesn't crumble, they absolutely won't crumble.
They showed no hesitation.
[No matter how strong you are, it's useless against us. Why? Because as long as we're in the dungeon, we become twice as strong as you. Yet you say you'll defeat us? You can't.]
Meanwhile the dungeon guide sneered.
The master of the <Dungeon of the Abyss> is special.
Unlike other dungeon boss monsters, it possessed the principle of becoming twice as strong as those facing it.
So no matter how strong they become, they can't defeat the boss monster.
Because the boss monster will also become twice as strong and overwhelm them.
[We are fear and despair. Also the limit of humans. No matter how much you struggle, you will never be able to reach us!]
The conquest team members didn't react.
They weren't afraid anymore.
They weren't intimidated by fear.
In other words, their will remained unchanged.
Rather, the stronger the enemy, the more their will blazed.
They tried to overcome fear.
They tried to overcome despair.
They tried to surpass limits.
That will strengthened them again and was conveyed to Noh Eun-ha at the center of will.
[Then we'll attack now too. Take exactly twice the attack you just did!]
At that moment it moved.
Just it taking a step made the world vibrate with sound.
Then it slashed the air with its hand.
The sea of starlight was torn horizontally, and light flashed from inside.
────!!!
The attack the conquest team members inflicted just before.
Light twice that attack pounced on the conquest team members.
It tears through Eun-ha's world.
They can't block it.
They were swallowed by the light just like that.
Nevertheless─
─Myth Manifestation
Revival
They didn't die.
Eun-ha's myth didn't crumble.
The myth of revival revived even in death, resurrecting the conquest team members.
And they gained even stronger power than before.
[Tch, how annoying... But how long do you think you can use that power? You'll run out of mana eventually!]
Not even funny.
Eun-ha snorted.
They had only exchanged attacks once each so far.
He pointed the Dawn Sword at it.
"All forces charge."
[All forces charge.]
The full-scale battle began.
Eun-ha spread wings of flame.
As he quickly flew towards it, the conquest team members shouted battle cries and all spread wings of flame following behind.
Familiar Transformation
Liger Blaster
Eun-ha flew right in front of its face.
He who stopped flying aimed the blaster equipped on his left hand at its eyes.
The red eyes that had become his fear.
He faced those eyes proudly and fired the energy gathered in the blaster.
Now is different from back then.
Blue lightning covers its eyes.
Eun-ha sneered.
Meanwhile the conquest team members also attacked it with all their might.
[It's useless I tell you! Take twice as much!]
It didn't budge at all.
It who received the conquest team members' attacks kicked the air.
People on the ground were launched into the air as if hit by an invisible attack.
Right after that, when it flashed its red eyes, magic circles appeared in the sea of starlight.
Tens, hundreds, thousands, perhaps billions.
There were no blind spots in the sea of starlight.
Attacks twice as much as the conquest team's attack just before poured down.
Attacks that ignore defense.
They were swept away so helplessly before the enormous being.
Myth Manifestation
Revival
Yet they don't die.
People who died are revived.
The conquest team who became even stronger than before opposes it.
And it became stronger again as much as they became stronger.
[Hah, truly like bugs. What changes by doing this? In the end you can only die, die, and die! And now even that dying ends! How much mana do you think you have to maintain the world?]
"I don't."
[See! Next time you die it's really...]
"I don't have it now."
[Wait, you just...]
The dungeon guide flinched.
Only then did it notice the change occurring in Eun-ha's body.
[Power is recovering!?]
The dungeon guide was shocked.
Noh Eun-ha's power was recovering.
A person who should have exhausted all his power reviving hundreds of people was completely recovering.
It's not that someone healed him.
It's impossible with human healing magic.
No, it's not recovery.
The dungeon guide realized what the change happening to him was.
[...He's going back?]
To before the battle started.
Noh Eun-ha's body was going back.
Eun-ha just giggled at the dungeon guide's question.
"It's strange to tell you this now, but I'm a regressor."
""""We know.""""
At the edge of the abyss.
Eun-ha was able to find the identity to truly define himself.
I am a regressor.
His resonance spreads through the world.
Like that it's deeply engraved in the world.
The myth advances one step and is completed.
Myth Manifestation
Relife
[Chapter 227]
[Relife (6)]
His myth was incomplete.
Even Eun-ha, who had heard those words from Baek Seo-jin early on, inwardly acknowledged it.
After defeating the myth of Armageddon.
Even after inheriting Baek Seo-jin's myth.
He felt that he was somehow incomplete.
My myth is not yet complete.
Revival is not a complete ideology that can define me.
An ideology reflecting myth.
The ideology reflecting <Sword Empress> Hwang Jin-hee's myth was rewarding good and punishing evil, punishment of evil.
Also, the ideology reflecting Armageddon's myth was the soul, and <Dark King> Baek Seo-jin's ideology was control.
They had found an ideology that could completely define themselves over decades.
Then what is the complete ideology that can express himself?
Eun-ha pondered endlessly, and finally had to admit.
I am a regressor.
Looking back, he had already found the answer.
Nevertheless, he had only tried to thoroughly hide that answer.
He was forcibly trying not to unconsciously include it in the ideology that should express himself.
How foolish of me.
Because I tried so hard not to tell others about the past before regression.
He was afraid.
He was afraid of being feared by his people, not the boss monster in front of him.
But by now that anxiety had completely disappeared.
The process of Noh Eun-ah disappearing from this world and reaching the deepest part of the black dungeon made him honest.
And that's not all.
"I keep receiving help from you until the end."
In the dream.
Eun-ha met Lee Yu-jeong.
What did she say then?
'No matter what you say now, no one will be afraid of you anymore. So don't be afraid.'
He just needed to take one step.
Yet Eun-ha couldn't take it.
If Lee Yu-jeong hadn't told him then, Eun-ha wouldn't have been able to be honest.
Because she pushed his back.
Eun-ha was able to fully manifest his incomplete myth.
Myth Manifestation
Relife
Regression, the ideology defining himself.
Eun-ha's myth that finally gave the answer found its true form.
[The dungeon is reacting!?]
Eun-ha could hear the dungeon guide speaking in shock.
It's understandable to be surprised.
Originally, myths don't function properly except in the region they're based on.
Especially in dungeons with different world lines, myths become somewhat incomplete.
Because dungeons don't recognize the achievements forming that myth.
But Eun-ha's myth was different.
[How is this... It should be impossible without building achievements in the dungeon...]
Relife was functioning completely in the black dungeon.
Even without Eun-ha deliberately raising the output, it was growing to a rank equal to the black dungeon.
Of course it was.
"I told you, I regressed."
[Don't tell me, you...]
"Yes, it's as you think."
[It wasn't the first time. You had already set foot in this dungeon once!]
The achievement that forms the basis of Relife.
The cause of Eun-ha's regression.
That place was right here.
The deepest part of the <Dungeon of the Abyss>.
Before regression, Eun-ha gained the myth of regression and revival while dying here.
I could use myth from the start.
Not knowing that, I thought I gained myth while defeating Ye-gyeong.
Eun-ha gave a bitter smile.
The myth was close by from the beginning.
He discovered it only now.
He realized about the abyss only when facing the abyss.
"Then shall we go properly now."
Eun-ha infused power into the myth.
Flames swell in strength.
Lightning writhes violently.
Darkness fills the bottom of the myth.
As he spreads three pairs of wings wide, the myth pulsates accordingly.
Fire that has grown as if to swallow the universe burns the world of the black dungeon.
"With this our ranks have become similar. You really are strong. You're probably stronger than the boss in the <Dungeon of the Deep Sea>."
To become twice as strong as the opponent.
Eun-ha clicked his tongue.
Although he knew the boss monster of the <Dungeon of the Abyss> was quite strong, he didn't expect it to be this strong.
It's probably the strongest among black dungeon bosses.
But even so─
"─No matter how strong a monster that's not even human is, in the end it will just be defeated by humans."
[Do you think you've become something great because your rank is similar to ours? I'm sorry but it's useless. It seems you couldn't kill us before regression either, so do you think you can win? It's impossible. You'll lose.]
"Impossible, huh..."
Hearing the dungeon guide's words.
Eun-ha couldn't help but laugh.
Impossible, you'll lose.
Those words─
"─I've heard countless times until now. And I've come this far."
Are words he has always denied.
And he will deny them this time too.
Even if he has to burn this life, definitely.
☆
Attacks pour down.
The master of the black dungeon returned twice the attacks it had received so far.
The conquest team members flew towards it stubbornly without avoiding the attacks.
Soon, all sorts of magic pounced on them.
"It's useless before my myth."
Eun-ha exerted the power of Relife.
Just by him waving his arm.
All incoming attacks disappear.
He turned back time.
All the magic it activated regressed in time and returned to the starting point.
And that's not all.
The attacks it received also returned to the starting point.
[Do you think you'll win by doing that!?]
In his myth.
Time and death are not free.
Time turns back as he wishes and death is denied without his permission.
No one gets hurt.
No one dies.
Eun-ha flew towards it.
Gehenna Blast
Bae Su-bin swings her red staff.
She opened the way.
Hundreds of flame wings create hundreds of trajectories in the black universe.
Eun-ha who passed through the trajectories they created narrowed the distance towards it.
[Even if you turn back time, it will end if just you die anyway!]
From this point on, it designated Eun-ha as the enemy that must be attacked with top priority.
Attacks the conquest team members inflicted on it flood in.
Eun-ha regressed the incoming magic, foiling its attacks.
[Eeeek! Then how about this! Can you turn back our power too!?]
Its movements changed.
For a moment red eyes flashed.
When it waved its hand, countless magic circles appeared behind its back.
Then it grasped the darkness drifting in the world and created two swords.
───!!
The black dungeon begins bombardment.
When it swings down the swords, a storm blows and disturbs the air currents.
Even myth can't block it.
He could only revive people caught in the attacks.
────!!!
Eun-ha gritted his teeth.
His vision blurs.
He who quickly moved his flame wings avoids the flooding magic.
The moment he takes a hit he activates myth to nullify the damage itself.
Even if pushed back by attacks he advances.
I must reach it somehow!!
The remaining distance felt far.
In reality the distance was increasing.
The world was expanding somehow by its tricks.
Eun-ha accelerated.
He tried to somehow avoid the pouring attacks and stab his sword into it.
His heart beat strongly.
Gift <Berserk>
The most necessary gift in this situation.
Eun-ha who activated <Berserk> had his senses sharpened terrifyingly.
The senses of his whole body perceived the world.
His instincts awakened several times over.
Dunning Blade
He blocks what can't be avoided and quickly reverts it with myth.
Or cuts and absorbs it with the Twilight Sword.
The two swords shine brilliantly.
The swords that remain intact even after blocking the black dungeon's bombardment draw lines in the sea of starlight.
Two streams of lines cross the universe and attack it.
Meanwhile Eun-ha broke through the bombardment and had reached it.
Gift <Brave>
He manifests myth to reset his body condition and quickly switches gifts.
The pass connects with comrades and his heart heats up his whole body.
Gift <Brave>
His comrades' gifts resonate.
Jeong Ha-yang's gift <Multitasking> connects other people's gifts.
Cha Eun-woo's gift <Resonance>.
Han Chang-jin's gift <Access>.
Kang Si-hyeong's gift <Howling>.
Bae Su-bin's gift <Boost>.
Jo A-ra's gift <Quadruple>.
Kaede's gift <Environment Sensing>.
Son Ga-yeon's gift <Metabolism>.
And even Avenir's gift <Metallization> and Bong Gu-rae's gift <Double Penetration>.
9 gifts connected by <Multitasking> affect the world.
The myth grows rapidly.
[You... What exactly is your identity? No, how can gifts suddenly change...]
"Me? A regressor."
The myth expands.
The rank of the myth grows even larger.
Finally Eun-ha's myth became equal in rank to the black dungeon.
No, it far surpassed it.
[Impossible...]
The dungeon guide denies reality.
It's an impossible thing.
The limits of humans are set.
But Eun-ha, the people following him were becoming stronger at an unimaginably fast rate.
"Nothing is impossible in this world."
On the other hand, Eun-ha spoke with conviction.
There was nothing impossible for him.
He infused power into the Twilight Sword.
Gift
Mok Min-ho's gift is added.
The power to cut anything according to the holder's will.
Eun-ha swung the Twilight Sword at it flashing red eyes.
───────!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Light flashed.
A pure white trajectory split the universe.
Light emitted from the trajectory covers the universe once more.
Light that seems like it will blind one's vision swallows it.
──────!!!!!!!
The conquest team could hear its screams suffering as it was swallowed by light.
It is torn to pieces.
It disappears becoming mana particles.
We are fear.
We are despair.
Something incomprehensible.
But it didn't die.
It that disappeared becoming mana particles began to create a body again in the distant universe, galaxy.
[As long as mana exists in this world! We will never die! Because we are made of the dungeon's mana! Just give up already!]
Eun-ha didn't answer.
He had no intention of giving up.
No matter how many times it asked, the answer remained unchanged.
He will definitely defeat it, kill it.
Gift <Berserk>
It returns attacks twice over.
Eun-ha charged straight on.
He entrusts his body to <Berserk>'s instincts.
Dunning Blade
The two swords intersect.
Sword strikes swung down from above cut through and absorb its attacks.
But power not completely absorbed constricts him from all directions.
It feels like he'll be swallowed by energy if he lets his guard down even a little.
I can do it.
Eun-ha gritted his teeth.
He held onto his mind so it wouldn't fly away.
His conviction didn't waver.
He charges while deflecting the bombardment.
Finally he split through the bombardment.
The Milky Way was spread out before his eyes.
It was there.
Gift <Heroic>
[Crazy...!! You're avoiding that!?]
<Heroic> shows the future.
Eun-ha who avoided the incoming attacks immediately swung his sword following the world the future showed.
Then its attack from the side failed.
Now I understand.
Eun-ha was finally able to define what his gift was while switching to the third gift.
The corners of Eun-ha's mouth who avoided its attack rose.
A name encompassing the three gifts came to mind.
Gift <Endless>
Past, present, future.
Encompassing everything, it is himself.
The limits of humans are endless.
Therefore anything is possible.
<Berserk>, <Brave>, <Heroic>.
The three powers derived from himself made him realize that fact.
His gift is truly human life itself.
That's why he doesn't give up.
There is no giving up in his life.
Only victory exists.
Gift <Endless (Heroic)>
<Heroic> shows the future.
<Berserk> responds to attacks.
<Brave> gives strength.
Eun-ha coordinated myth and gift, finally reaching it.
With this, it's over.
He flies towards the red eyes.
The Dawn Sword emits fierce light as if it had been waiting for this moment.
Eventually his sword pierces through it.
[It's useless I tell you. No matter how many times I say it, you... Uh... Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!!!!!!!!???????]
Dawn Sword
Double sentence, Gift <White Silver>
Pure white light.
Finally drives away the universe.
I, won.
In the world turning white.
Eun-ha laughed refreshingly.
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