Chapter 284 – Chapter 284 ― Now Loading (1)
Chapter 284 ― Now Loading (1)
It was a familiar feeling.
I couldn’t say that it was necessarily good.
Some hoped for it, while others struggled with it.
I was born from that desire.
The greed of others was my driving force.
Ever since I realized that fact, I have continued to look through a small hole in the dark.
“It’s like an overkill.”
Sigh. He seemed to be smiling.
Although there is no one to watch.
I was engrossed in looking through the hole again.
The gap through which one could look beyond was very small at first. As I looked into it, I found comfort and strength in their actions.
An existence called life that does not exist here.
One of their strong instincts was desire.
The desire to possess, the desire to destroy, the desire to live, the desire to eat, the desire to control, the desire to violate, such desires.
The desire that comes from instinct or from the head made life move violently.
Curiously, the action did not produce only pure results. Like impurities, thick and savage traces were left behind.
It was so powerful.
The presence that I didn’t know what to do at first grew more and more. I tried to widen the hole. Succeded.
I lent my powers to some life beyond. They called it magic.
The life seen only through the rift seemed to have infinite possibilities, but when I actually met it, it was very weak and had a short lifespan. The power given to them was quite helpful to them. A world of magic has opened.
What they wanted was different.
It was quite a pleasure to look through them one by one.
Lend them their strength, and ingest the resulting darkness that they cannot create on their own.
It was a day that got stronger every day.
Now it has become a gap that can even be called a hole. There are more and more people living in harmony with life. As a result, the energy of the world became cloudy. I was able to become stronger, and the wishes I could grant for them became more diverse and powerful.
It was a cycle.
When I was alone, I did not know what I was, but as I blended with other life forms, I was able to satisfy my needs.
You can get infinite power.
“How far are you going to control us! Countless people have gone extinct because of you!”
“It is absolutely necessary to preserve even the remaining life.”
“Haha, even if we fall down here, I will hold on to your crotch!”
It grew so large that powerful beings occasionally came to interfere. Most of them were able to defeat them without difficulty, but they gradually sent stronger ones.
In the end, he was defeated.
I was trapped again in the darkness where I was originally.
Still, the point of laughter is that among the people I met at the end, there was a person who signed a contract with me.
Without knowing it, they were fighting with each other’s backs.
There is no life form that can defy ‘greed’.
Now I know that
So this time I was able to relax and eat my heart out.
Clearly, the gathered power was weakened, but it was clear that instead of a short lifespan, life would continue to prosper leaving offspring, and long memories would be forgotten in the meantime.
Then, it was just a matter of going back then and slowly expanding our forces.
A dark place that smells of sand,
He lived on the desire coming through the eye of a needle.
It’s been a long time, maybe.
Neither time nor space is specific here, so there is no way to know exactly.
Then I discovered something interesting.
“… Whoa.”
The stale air of the city, the loud noise of cars, the unkind glances, the unpleasant smell in the back alleys, the distrust of each other.
An incomparable speed, a metal civilization, and a group of living beings of one species advancing while infinitely burning other lives.
It was unfamiliar.
It was familiar.
‘… Uh?’
I was puzzled.
‘Why do I know that?’
I thought for a while.
In the meantime, however, observation continued.
“Hey, it looks delicious.”
I started to look inside it as if I was being sucked into the eye of a needle.
It wasn’t until I heard the voice that I realized that it wasn’t my voice, that it wasn’t me that I thought was me.
‘It’s ‘greed.’
I remembered what that object was.
And I realized who I am.
‘I was a human who lived as Kim Yong-cheol and entered Roan’s body.’
Roan wanted to shake his head, but he also knew he had no body. He mentally shrugged his shoulders and looked around more closely.
‘It must have been something the devil went through.’
It was all dark, so he couldn’t see anything, but with the memory of ‘greed’, Roan now knew exactly where he had fought the goddess and was sealed away.
It was about a week’s ride from Birektum, the largest city in the east where life now lives.
‘It’s not that far.’
Roan knew that there was a ruin about 4 days away from Virectum.
I don’t know why, but it was because I was able to share the knowledge, experience, and observation of ‘greed’.
Map of where the ruins are in the land of Evirzio,
And where are the few holes that shine like needles in this darkness, what artifacts, what contracts.
I knew everything.
‘That’s how it looked.’
Roan found a beautiful dragon that was far superior to the memory of ‘greed’ that passed by like chatter. It was Wiltz, the head of the dragon that created the artifact.
Roan could also see the human woman that Wiltz had loved so much. She had once imagined that she would be a stunning beauty, but she wasn’t particularly like that.
The civilization at that time was closer to the ‘Bronze Age’ or the Stone Age in terms of the human world, which produced crude metals, as Fiora and Amelie said in the past.
The human leader was more like a strong hunter, like a shaman with wisdom. Because of her powerful charisma, her humans followed her in awe. Could that have caught the dragon’s eye?
Memories flashed past me.
The lights that filled the darkness disappeared one by one. As time passed, life began to forget old contracts and artifacts.
The great incident that happened to ‘greed’, who was killing time in the dark, was the ‘niche’.
Roan turned his attention back to the hole he had just seen, to be more precise, to ‘greed’ who had found the new world.
“Hiyaa, great, great, great!”
‘Greed’ was admired with continuous applause.
This narrow gap existed in the past, but the goddess who became a goddess later covered the hole with a forest.
Actually, Roan was surprised.
It was covered with forest, so it was only that the power did not come in,
In fact, there were a lot of holes in the Dark Forest that could be ‘niches’. Amelie didn’t tell Roan, but Roan found out that there were actually several such holes.
Even where they were located.
Then, as the years passed,
A ‘gap’ began to form, beginning to break away from the forest’s protective magic.
The desire that flowed from it was so thick and thick that ‘greed’ could not pass by without knowing this hole. The moment the power of the goddess faded, ‘greed’ knew that fact right away.
‘Greed’ greedily plugged the hole and sucked in the great desires flowing from it.
For a long time, the means to obtain the ‘desire’ of others were only faint traces of contracts that were gradually being forgotten. ‘Greed’, which had been struggling to survive while fed up with tasteless and faint desires, was excited.
‘Was it about that?’
Roan could understand the pleasure that ‘greed’ felt. The civilization in Yongcheol’s world was built on the traces of life.
Thousands and tens of thousands of layers of desire and curiosity accumulated within it were like a sacrament to ‘greed’.
“I like it, I like it… , … Huh?”
‘Greed’, who had been smirking at length, managed to take his eyes off the ‘gap’.
It was because, in other places, little by little, strength began to seep in again.
“Hoohhh?”
‘Greed’ turned his head toward it in joy. There was still one contract she had forgotten about and had disappeared.
A wizard accidentally found an artifact of ‘greed’ in an antique shop. This is because he had the ability of ‘eyes’ to recognize strength.
The first artifact the mixed-race old wizard acquired was a staff. Roan recognized the wand.
It was something he usually carried, with a jewel embedded in his head.
Found artifacts,
The old wizard, who had mediocre power until just before that, suddenly received the power of ‘greed’ and began to demonstrate tremendous abilities.
Bondi’s skill is to grasp the essence of the target, dig into its weakness, and shake it. It met with the relic of ‘greed’ and showed synergy.
The wizard was on a winning streak.
Enough to finally get into the royal family.
“You are doing well. I don’t have much power right now, but there’s no problem with sharing it with him. He’s a guy who works even harder than that.”
‘Greed’ muttered contentedly.
In the past, it was a little annoying, but now, even that one was precious. ‘Greed’ responded wholeheartedly to the voice coming from beyond.
Beyond the hole, the sorcerer was struggling to catch the eye of ‘greed’.
“That’s why you said that bitch takes care of life. Cute.”
It was a long time ago that he sympathized with the person who had harassed him. In terms of life, the old wizard is said to have mixed human and demon blood, so he has lived a life of being rejected by either side.
Race, in fact, was not important to ‘Greed’, but because he knew that a lot of delicious emotions were created for ‘Greed’ in the division made like that, ‘Greed’ listened to the old wizard’s appeal while nodding his head.
He held nothing in his hands, but he knew twice as much. For he was old, intelligent, and knew both races.
So his greed was hypertrophied. And the negative emotions that would be given to ‘greed’ were also emitted tremendously.
Even entering the palace, the power he gathered increased exponentially. Because the ‘greed’ of everyone who came and went to the palace was on a different level from that of ordinary people in this world.
‘Greed’ was so happy.
Blessed are those who wait!
“Hee hee, do your best, little fellow!”
‘Greed’ knew how to cheer for such people.
Even though it’s unfortunate now, if you share the power you have in your hands in moderation, those guys will become even more loyal and try to gather that doubled power.
This is much more convenient and faster than fulfilling hundreds or thousands of needs.
And the sorcerer’s craft reached its peak.
A war broke out between humans and demons.
“Awesome! It was the right decision!”
‘Greed’ danced for joy.
Until right before the wizard is captured by the demons.
“… Reel?”
‘Greed’ was nervously stuck in the hole. Trouble when his precious little wizard dies!
However, the wizard’s response was excellent.
