Chaos Rise (2)
Instead of the radio, I hear the sound of the turned on TV.
Wow Jang Chang-!
Dishes on the table fell to the floor.
“···sh*t! Suddenly, what is this…!”
I barely grabbed the table with my struggling hands and leaned against it, clenching my teeth.
The neat living room floor had become a mess before I knew it, but now was not the time to pay attention to such trifles.
The sudden mental erosion of the abyss.
Hans, who became the Immortal King, had resistance to the level of immunity to mental attacks without doing anything else, but the current erosion was not an external attack, so such a defense was not particularly helpful.
‘From the moment I met his eyes, in Hans’ heart… The abyss was sympathetic from the inside. This level of reaction is more than when the debris is absorbed.’
Of course, it wasn’t a big deal even if its own mental defenses became useless.
If you add the resources that can be drawn from other avatars to his mental abilities that he has grown by investing a huge amount of karma, he has a transcendent mental power that is strange to have problems.
There would be no problem if it moderately suppressed the rampaging erosion and turned the direction so that it did not flow back toward the main body.
Wasn’t it possible that Hans was able to use the dangerous Immortal King’s power at will because of this fraudulent trait?
“Kuk, of course now!”
…If that was normal.
His mental resources are overflowing, but Hans’ inner self is too precarious and unstable to fully utilize them.
‘Damn it, I can’t contain it. After all, right after the mental world is damaged!’
From the inside, all kinds of negative elements burst out like an explosion.
The negative emotions that I had already experienced several times and had been constantly blocking since then were amplified several times in an instant and pushed up to the limit of 「Mind Hub」.
‘If I go on like this, I will flow backwards…!’
In an instant, numerous thoughts ran through my head.
Cancel the summons?
No, that’s the act of putting off the problem.
Since the bomb was already inside Hans, the same thing would happen again as soon as he was summoned again.
And at that time, ‘Hans with a problem’ will exist right next to the defenseless main body.
‘It’s a bonus that your location is exposed everywhere because you can’t suppress your energy properly! Unless we’re going to seal Hans away forever, that’s the worst choice.’
No matter how much barriers were installed in the house, considering the energy radiating from Hans’ body right now, it wouldn’t be this much.
As expected, it was best to solve this problem now that Auterica was in immortality.
‘But if my mind is polluted, it’s going to be a total mess, so I have to stop it somehow.’
The erosion, which had already crossed the limit, was knocking on the boundaries of 「Mind Hub」.
I stopped all of the avatars’ movements at once and focused my mind exclusively on Hans.
He wrapped the mental world damaged by the ruler to prevent further damage.
It gave strength to 「Myeonggyeongjisu」, which swayed here and there like a sailboat meeting a storm.
While controlling “Persona”, The security of “Mind Hub” Was further strengthened.
In the process, I realized that there was some information in the backflowing abyss, but I couldn’t afford to distract myself from it now.
‘This is really dangerous. Some kind of workaround…’
However, such resistance was, at best, just to buy time.
The situation was still bleak.
When you’re doing your best to find a breakthrough.
‘Wait, what is that?’
Suddenly, the marble left by the ruler was detected in Hans’ inner consciousness.
The surroundings were in the middle of a cataclysm, but it was just calmly holding its place as if it didn’t care about the surrounding abnormalities.
‘Amplification of mental abilities. I don’t know if that will help with things like this… But it’s still better than nothing.’
In fact, isn’t it all because of that thing?
There was no time to cover up anything as long as it helped to settle the current situation.
‘Uh? Could this be better than I thought?’
However, the object, which was used with the mindset of catching even a straw, performed better than expected.
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It wasn’t a dramatic effect, probably because it wasn’t the right way to use it, but at least it was enough to help prevent backflow and block the gap between them.
‘It will be later to sort out the swollen abyss inside Hans. First of all, the priority is to prevent backflow by solidifying the boundary. If I just finish this…!’
After that, a tiresome struggle with Abyss continued for a while.
How long has it been since you responded to erosion like that?
Actually, it wasn’t that long in reality, but it felt like a long time had passed, perhaps because of the hard struggle in the mental world.
“Whoa—.”
My whole body is sluggish and sweaty.
Feeling this kind of feeling in itself must be proof that I can afford to turn my consciousness outside.
‘I did it…’
Yes, it worked in the end.
The task of blocking the contamination from the abyss and preventing it from crossing over by building an additional barrier on the edge of consciousness.
Jjiing—
However, before I even felt relieved about it.
Courage!
Staggering from the sudden shaking of my head, I rolled unseemly on the messy floor.
“Ugh, uh-geuk.”
Was it because of a sudden situation?
The contamination flowing back into the body was certainly able to be blocked, but there was no way to deal with the mental shock and fatigue inflicted in the process.
No matter how I tried to continue my thoughts, the flow in my head was cut off and the thoughts were not connected.
It was all hazy, like a dream, and only fragmentary thoughts swirled in my mind because I couldn’t concentrate properly.
《Inherent skill grows and potential blooms…》
But before the paragraphs even took shape.
I felt myself drifting farther away and plunged into the darkness as it was.
***
After a short time has passed since then.
Clap—
A person entered the messy living room with the sound of a doorknob turning.
He looked around lightly, then looked at the man who had collapsed on the floor and sighed deeply.
“Ha— I didn’t expect this.”
And when he entered the living room, ‘Hugo’ took Han Seong-hyun, who had the same face as himself, and laid him down in the bedroom to check his condition.
‘Since I only played avatars in a safe place, I never thought of a situation like this. It’s only natural that things like this happen when the mind is overworked.’
It was the first time that the body was shocked, so I was quite embarrassed.
Fortunately, looking at the details, it wasn’t that serious, I thought I would wake up right away if I rested for a few days like this…
‘No, isn’t this a problem?’
Suddenly, a cold sweat ran down his back.
Actually, the real problem started now.
‘Whoa, let’s calm down. Let’s sort things out for now.’
After being created not long ago, Hugo, who still has a weak personality, finished cleaning up and sat in the massage chair as usual, deep in thought.
Everyone, big or small, had a different side to them.
It changes depending on the situation or place, and it also depends on the opponent you are dealing with.
When I’m at work, when I’m with my family, when I’m doing my hobbies, when I’m meeting with friends…
A person who is fairer than anyone else in society can be a tyrant who gets angry at even trivial things in the family, and a villain who has murdered many people without blood or tears can be the head of a family who loves his children more than anyone else.
It is so natural that there is no need to divide it into a framework such as a double personality, with the feet of various and complex emotions that people naturally have.
‘And the individuality given to the avatars through 「Persona」 comes from the individual emotions of ‘Han Seong-hyun.’
Each avatar was one side of Sunghyun Han and a projection of his image.
Even though everyone seemed different, it was still the same person, and even after the main body passed out, they continued to share memories.
However, it’s just that each person’s personality is different from what they express.
In particular, his first avatar, Hans… Was nothing more than an emotional trash can, containing all the negative aspects he had.
The sadness of losing a family member, resentment toward the world, anger toward the perpetrator, and despair about the future.
Of course, it could be seen as a big problem if ordinary beings had only those emotions, but Hans, the avatar, was different.
‘In the first place, Undead had a good compatibility, and those negative emotions rather helped to control the ‘Heart of the Immortal King’.’
In addition, it was possible to objectively control the avatar’s personality through the “Mind Hub” Anyway, so there was no particular problem so far.
‘Until now, I mean.’
If Han Seong-hyun, the owner of 「Avatar」 and the subject of 「Mind Hub」, was alive and well.
And unless it was right after that Hans was contaminated by the erosion of the abyss.
hahahaha… This is true.”
Hugo, who was laughing awkwardly and scratching the back of his head, swallowed a gulp and then uttered a short sigh.
“It’s gone.”
That short impression was a thought common to all avatars except Hans.
***
‘Useless worries.’
Hans suppressed the abyss that had filled up inside him and murmured briefly inwardly.
No matter how much he struggled to focus on preventing the backflow, he was never satisfied with the level of mental strength that was intensively allocated to the individual named Hans.
It can’t be helped that this incident caused additional contamination of the Abyss, but since it had happened before, it didn’t change much.
‘This body is a ruler who transcends death and a righteous king. He will never play anyone’s way.’
Whether it is the abyss or whatever is hiding behind the giant.
As he was thinking about that, he heard Dwell’s voice beside him making a fuss.
[O king! Are you okay? Sorry! We should have sealed that cheeky giant better. I can’t imagine trying to play tricks on the king even in that state!]
When I looked around at those words, it seemed that not much time had passed, and the surroundings did not change much.
[It’s okay, so shut up, Dwell. This body has something to think about.]
[Hup! Ah… I understand, my king.]
Hans tossed a cold word at the chatterer next to him, then turned his head and looked at the giant’s head with a hole in his forehead.
A huge head that slowly crumbles in the aftermath of the nuclear destruction.
‘Under! Mission? Main? It sounds funny.’
He looked at it and laughed inwardly.
I haven’t analyzed all the information I’ve gotten this time yet, but I still seem to have a rough idea of the situation.
Apparently, ‘death’ and ‘madness’ were designed to move according to someone’s intention.
Perhaps the giant’s trick just now was also a procedure to restore the Immortal King, who was not moving according to his will.
If he hadn’t been an avatar, he might have really played the way he intended.
‘I don’t care what you do. Just get in the way of Hannibal Strauss and get in the way. Just like those swearing-in bastards.’
From the beginning, his purpose was only one.
He obtains a huge amount of karma through the ‘home theater’ and uses it to annihilate the earth’s Buncheon society.
He was moving only for that.
‘By the way, when I dealt with him in person, that Buncheonhoe wasn’t easy.’
While looking at the giant’s head, Hans’s thoughts naturally flowed there.
One conclusion naturally follows from there.
‘As expected, more karma is needed.’
Rather than being lukewarm like now, he had to harvest karma more reliably.
As he had recalled many times before, he was never a good being himself.
Han Seong-hyeon, who had already been ruined a long time ago, was a man who could slaughter countless people without blinking an eye if necessary.
‘Matter of course. How many people has this body killed so far in the first place?’
No matter how much the “Mind Herb” Filters, the fact that he killed a person doesn’t disappear.
However, even though the number of people he has already killed directly or indirectly is staggering, he has never been particularly shocked.
Wouldn’t that prove that it wasn’t normal from the start?
However, what I listened to to reduce the damage to the civilians until the end was just an excuse and self-satisfaction to rationalize myself.
He struggles to protect the very little humanity he has.
‘It’s funny.’
However.
Now, the shackles are lifted.
‘There must be a need to improve efficiency.’
The course he was now taking was utterly ineffective.
Home theater, good.
The enemy of the hero and the demon lord, wonderful.
Then, do you like the current scenario?
‘No, that can’t be!’
What do you mean now?
It’s not even playing house, it’s just playing pranks while sending little bits and pieces!
Even the demon king, who raises a warrior by throwing his subordinates step by step in an RPG game, did not take such a clumsy offensive.
Purple! The power currently piled up in immortality.
The immortal army that just piled up without going back and forth.
What kind of waste is this?
Also, I didn’t like the current method at all.
[Dwell McCain.]
[Yes! Immortal King! Dwell, here is the colonel!]
Did he sense that the king’s reaction was different from usual?
Dwell, who had been killing his presence as if he were by his side, cried out with his face down.
Hans stared at him prostrate on the floor for a moment, then spat out a short word.
[Call the officers.]
[Yes! I will fulfill your order immediately!]
Dwell disappears from his seat as soon as his words are finished, as if his military discipline is upright.
Hans, who was left alone in the laboratory, gazed at the giant’s head as it turned to ashes and disappeared, then turned his gaze to the ceiling.
There was only black stone, the basic interior of immortality.
He whispered softly, as if he were talking to someone.
[This body is Hannibal Strauss.]
Hans… No, Immortal King Hannibal Strauss.
[He is the one who will bring an end to this world.]
He began to extend his black hand toward the continent in earnest.
