Chapter 49: Consequences of Ones Choices and Actions (5) (1/2)
Chapter 49: Consequences of One’s Choices and Actions (5)
“It’s about the forces behind the two types of beings”
Zelit scowled He didn’t expect to hear this from the leader of the fifth recruits; the words ‘forces’ and ‘two types of beings’ in particular piqued his attention
“By two types of beings…do you one mad and the broken ones?”
The hero nodded
“There were different forces pulling the strings behind the scene?”
“Yes,” the hero said while gasping for air “What do you think is the reason why the mutation happened in the first place?”
Zelit paused, stopping hi the hero’s state his thoughts, Zelit asked, “Are you insinuating that the mutations were artificially fostered rather than a natural occurrence?”
So about thesethe cursed ones and the broken ones respectively
“Why? For what reason?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” the hero said in a low voice “To expand their army”
“So that they can keep us in check?” Ru Hiana asked, and the hero laughed a terribly self-deprecating laugh
“Of course not,” he stated firs co to this world with such tres like us? We don’t even have the right to stand on this World’s battle stage, nor do arrant a lick of their attention That’s the reality” In other words, even if all the recruits froether, anyone would be hard-pressed to call them a formidable force in comparison to the other players here
“How much do you know about the situation on Liber?”
The fifth recruits were different from the sixth and seventh They were transmitted to the central base set up by Choi Chi-Hyun They had traversed far and overco at this camp, so they must know more about the situation outside
“It’s a co Goddess Elephthalia went mad, the unprotected World fell into ruins, and was soon invaded by a wandering alien force And that wasn’t all As the boundaries existing in the World broke down, the de on the other side took their chances to ambush the round at the beginning of Liber’s creation according to legends, began to craards
The situation deteriorated to the point that even different kinds of monsters felt the threat of extinction and formed a coalition There was no need to detail the events that followed—the hu over the Middle World of Liber for a long tinificant, and thus the rapid decline of iant powers then ai over the Middle World There was only one possible way for things to unfold A war to deterht for territories they had alanted as their own
“Those who captured us wanted us to join them”
“What?”
“It would be more accurate to say that they wanted to absorb us”
The first thing the broken beings did to the recruits was to corrupt thes and exposed to its iht However, the heroes were extre-willed and wouldn’t break easily Thus, the broken beings changed tactics, opting to slowly erode the heroes’ ruesoer and hatred left in their eful spirits
Chi-Woo couldn’t hide his shock If the hero was telling the truth, the broken beings had attempted to use the recruits for yeomae Yeomae was a type of enchant the Joseon dynasty
“During the process…I felt their thoughts keenly” While enduring the nonstop torture and corruption, the hero had felt a strong intent Although he hadn’t heard directly fro andbehind their actions “I can’t pinpoint exactly which force it is, but…those beings…they were using the broken beings to block…another force froh the their own nu that
“Perhaps,” Ru A silence, “The fact that cursed beings appeared after broken beings beca”
Sis, the broken beings had absorbed parts of the cursed beings they infested Not only did this unders, but it simultaneously bolstered their effort in experis rather than the heroes since the cursed beings had already lost their minds
At the end of the explanation, Zelit’s face hite as a sheet Connecting all that he had heard before to this newfound knowledge, it dawned on him just how severe the situation was To summarize, Force A captured and corrupted individuals into the cursed ones for the purpose of expanding their aroal and used the broken ones to hinder theht, an unexpected variable came down to this world from the Celestial Realm
Force B was curious and tried to use this variable to their advantage However, things didn’t go as they had expected; not only did things unfold in a way they didn’t expect, their plan was also completely ruined Therefore, both forces were coly
Force A would want to find out why the plan they had put so much time and effort into had derailed, while Force B would take actions that would most likely impact the recruits The heroes and the natives were completely cornered
While everyone re the White Horse General had told him
[…It ran away]
[One of theh possibility that’s the culprit]
Everything see that had escaped was a aze silently pleading for Chi-Woo to tell hi the hero said was nonsense, that he had been spouting lies because he was bewitched However, Chi-Woo shook his head Chi-Woo had searched the hero carefully beforehand and made sure that the hero wasn’t bewitched; he couldn’t have been more clear-headed
Zelit dropped his face into his hands and wiped it a couple of times After a forceful rub, he asked, “Is that why you told us to run away? Why didn’t you guys do so?”
“We didn’t have a choice,” the hero replied
“You caone back there”
“That’s not such a si the central base was a gaed to …”
“As soon as we crossed the country’s border, we lost half of our recruitsWe lost another half on our way to this base camp” And once they arrived at this ca half The hero looked bitter “Moreover…even if we had returned to the central base…all we could do ait until we died It’s pointless”