Chapter 80: End; Death dancing in the Masquerade (8) (1/2)
The boss room was an astonishingly large place. The ceiling felt like a sky and the distant sculpture appeared like the pyramid in a desert.
Everything was of a dumbfounding scale. The surroundings were oddly quiet, which added to the strangeness of the size.
‘Dream Eater’
Noah raised his sword and pointed it at Yu Jitae.
“Had we met before?”
“…”
“Really is strange. It’s my first time seeing you, but you appear to be familiar with me.”
“…”
“Isn’t that the case? You apparently know how my senses travel through the ground and thus climbed up to a high place in order to avoid my gaze, and the reason for dodging my senses was to seal the door easily.”
Yu Jitae remained silent as Noah’s eyebrows twitched.
While he was inside the headquarters of undetectables, there was the story of X being told everywhere.
He is dangerous; we have to give up on gaining control over Lair; how about we revert our organisation back to small local groups.
No, we can catch him as long as a catastrophe-rank moves personally.
Just like that, there were contrasting opinions even inside undetectables, in a 5:5 ratio. That was how fine of a line X was walking on.
“How come you know so much about me? Your face says you would have been sucking on your mother’s breasts during the Great War.”
If X had appeared slightly more threatening, they would have disintegrated their groups in order to avoid being targeted by him.
However, X was menacing without crossing the bottom line.
He’s strong and secretive, but have we received enough damage to warrant us giving up on the Grand Schema that we had been planning dozens of years for? Were there any organisations that had been wiped out?
No, that wasn’t the case.
Thus, Noah had two theories regarding X. Starting off, it was certain that he was fairly strong.
1. He’s an extremely lucky bastard.
If that wasn’t the case, then…
2. He is an incredible bastard that has a tremendous understanding of cause and effect.
In the past, Noah had thought that X was the former because what the demon organisations showed on the outside was different from their true form.
There was no way that a human that fully understood their behavioural patterns could exist and it was impossible for there to be a traitor amongst the top executives who had been fully demonised.
That’s why Noah thought he was a lucky guy but after reaching this point, a bitter smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
“You see, I have just come up with a hypothesis.”
“…”
“About that ability of yours.”
Noah had encountered countless superhumans and had come across even more monsters. He had lived roughly 750 years in the other world, and another 50 years ever since he fell on Earth. The number of blessings, authorities, skills, magic, stigmas and curses he had seen reached tens of thousands.
Among those were also astonishing ones that allowed one to twist the dimension at will, or live on without an end.
However, there were still some abilities which undoubtedly didn’t and shouldn’t exist in his opinion.
“Even I am aware that it makes zero sense but…”
Noah gave out a hollow laugh, as if it was ridiculous.
Right, it was ridiculous.
There was no way it could exist.
His life was the history itself and he had never seen the likes of it throughout his history. However, all the incomprehensible things made sense if that was true.
“…Can you see the future?”
It was none other than the ability to see the upcoming future.
“…”
“Preparing a device that could destroy the dungeon’s fissure and privately moving a bigshot like BM – those should have required more than a day or two of preparation. How did you know this would occur; how did you prepare for it and how…”
How can you be this strong?
Until then, Yu Jitae had not said a single word and Noah gave a scornful smile.
“How arrogant are those eyes of yours. How dare you look down on the world in front of me…”
Yu Jitae did not reply back.
All the conversations that were to be had were already shared in the previous iterations. After reaching the seventh iteration, a communication through language became meaningless to him. Therefore, he was thinking back on something while Noah was blabbering by himself.
It was the memory of a past not so distant.
A very painful one, which had required him to discard countless things.
“…”
Only now did all those memories of the past vividly float back up to the surface. His hazy gaze became sharp and clear.
Slowly, he raised his body, placed his hand on his neck and twisted it. He then slowly carried his thumb to his mouth, before crunching on it and ripping the skin. Blood could be seen flowing out.
“Ha.”
Noah realised something from his movements and sneered. At the same time, the air of the enormous room started becoming heavier.
“Did you notice it or perhaps you were already aware of it, but it seems your future sight is only half useful.”
“…”
“How unfortunate. I am not an existence that can be overcome by having a sloppy prediction.”
With a tone as arrogant as an absolute being, Noah raised his sword in a straight line with his body. Demonic aura dispersed out from the ground and started creating a tornado with Noah in the centre.
[Ignite]
Artifacts that exceeded a certain standard needed to be sealed, in order to hide its destructive power in its unused state. The seal on Dream Eater began being lifted.
Kugugugugung…
The dimension of the ‘boss room’ which was vastly greater and stabler than other rooms – the ground, the walls and the ceiling started shaking from the influence of the ignition.
Before long, the middle portion of the greatsword was torn apart and the metals elongated themselves. They soon became eyes and the red eyes quickly glanced through the surroundings.
[Synchronisation]
The Third Lord of the Abyss, Ny-ar-la’s authority began flooding out of Noah’s body and the enormous room had already turned into achromatic colours before anyone could have realised it.
“You will die here.”
It was different from when he was fighting BM.
Somehow, it felt like the place had originally been of black and white, with the filter called ‘colour’ rightfully taken away. The only existence that retained its colour within that place was Noah and his sword.
“This is the world only for me, permitted by my lord–”
In response to his words, the eyes on Dream Eater began being tainted in crimson.
Then, the world turned upside down.
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– This is the 156th room. We can feel a demonic aura.
“Got it. Everyone, gather at the 156th room!”
– Yes!
After turning off the radio, Minamoto grumbled.
“They’re finally coming… these disgusting demon trash.”
When the original plan changed, Minamoto had received a new command from Yu Jitae.
– What? You want me to stop the oncoming demons? Are you telling me to just stand on the sidelines or what?
It was a place where bigshots like Ysayle Khalifa, Noah and Wei Yan would be showing themselves. Minamoto, who originally had intense hatred against demons, wasn’t content with Yu Jitae’s orders.
– I would rather just send two or three of my soldiers to that place.
But Yu Jitae shook his head.
– They won’t be able to handle it.
– …Huh? Are you looking down on our Special Forces right now?
– If you want to kill all your subordinates, then do what you want.
– Ridiculous. Do you know how strict of a test the superhumans under the Royal Family… go through… damn it…
Feeling a strange sense of anxiety from Yu Jitae’s gaze, Minamoto stopped her words. It felt like she was back to being a child, caught red-handed while lying to an adult.
Left with no other choice, Minamoto had to stand in the 156th room.