Chapter 191 (2/2)

It was a vast void that couldn’t be built without magic. The structure held out without collapsing even though not a single pillar was present in the vast space.

And in the middle, there was a light source emitting a bloody hue.

‘Red Gate!’

The channel that led the residents of the void, the butchers that brutally murdered the mortals, into the material world.

‘Why is that here?’

It’s not just the location that was strange. The Red Gate was designed to disappear naturally after the monster of the void popped out. Yet the one in front of me stayed open like a normal dungeon Gate or a fixed passageway.

And looking at it, I felt like my cornea was going to burn due to its brightness. However, it wasn’t because of the red light of the Red Gate.

An explosive torrent of Mana…

The enormous flow I saw from the exterior of the palace was originating from that Gate.

‘Are they being supplied an enormous amount of Mana by the Red Gate? And they’re using it for war?’

The sight deviated from my complete common sense.

While I was baffled by what I was witnessing, the door I had sneaked into opened again, and a group of Adgons entered the vast underground square. They didn’t find me since I maintained perfect concealment. Awakened beings surrounded the old Adgon in the center as if they were protecting him.

The attire and the artifacts all over the body of the escorted person caught my attention.

I crosschecked it in my head, matching the information I obtained in advance.

‘He’s the “Revelator.”‘

Contrary to expectations, he wasn’t a great high-level Awakened.

They stood in front of the Red Gate with a calm mien. That was enough to tell me that its existence wasn’t out of the ordinary for them.

‘It doesn’t seem that the Gate has just opened recently. How long has it been in that state?’

The Revelator began to speak as he looked at the red glow.

“The audience is going to take quite a while this time. Come back to meet me tomorrow.”

The Adgon’s guards bowed deeply, expressing obedience. They then left the man alone and went outside as ordered.

After they all disappeared, the Revelator threw a heavy gaze into the Red Gate.

And then-

‘!’

‘Is he crazy?’

I almost couldn’t stop myself from blurting out those words.

The Revelator was moving toward the Red Gate- To a place full of monsters that hated mortals.

He took a step into the red wave and got sucked into it. The bloody-hued flash swallowed up his entire body.

I was once again left alone in the underground square.

‘What should I do?’

The contemplation didn’t last long.

‘An audience?’

Who would the pinnacle of the Adgon political System look up to?

Couldn’t it be the god-like entity that they worshipped?

Furthermore, as soon as the Revelator disappeared into the red Gate, the four gods connected to me began to convey their will as if they were pushing my back.

They wanted me to follow him, almost as if they had something that they wanted in there.

Feeling sacred power protecting my body, I also stepped inside the red door with a heavy echo.

*

When I first heard the word “void,” what I expected was an empty space.

No, it couldn’t be empty since it had to contain exiled gods and numerous monsters waiting to invade the material world.

However, what I saw when I actually came into it was nothing like what I expected.

‘What a mess!’

It was chaos.

I felt like I was in the stomach of a giant monster. A whirlpool of concepts and existence. Was that what the world before the material world, the mythical era, would have been like?

‘!’

The deity inside me denied such an idea.

That wasn’t it.

When the gods were complete, the mythical era was a dimension where materials and concepts weren’t separated, but it wasn’t such a cruel world filled with malice either.

I went along the path with movements that couldn’t be distinguished if I was swimming for flying. There was a clearly continuing track in the place where everything had collapsed.

The Revelator was moving along the straight line penetrating the space without noticing that I was tracking him from behind.

The path alone kept order amid the chaos.

I recognized the identity of it.

‘It’s like a virtual dimension.’

The closest thing I had ever experienced to it was…

‘Ah.’

… The dark space where the Awakened beings were summoned when they cleared the dungeon and chose additional rewards or faced the Ministry Spirit. It wasn’t an entirely whole dimension, but it’s an area that’s completely separated from the external dimension. It was similar to that place.

‘That’s why they don’t get eaten or mixed up in the void and instead can maintain their form. It’s due to the nature of the separation from the outside world.’

That allowed the Revelator to move in a certain direction without being swept away by the void.

Meanwhile, as I went deeper, I felt the darkness that composed the dimension grow stronger as well. The flow of Mana, which was being transmitted to the Adgon, also intensified.

Once again, something unexpected happened while I tried to figure out what the hell would be at the end of the path.

The characteristics of the void, where ideas and materials weren’t completely separated, affected everything around it. According to the dragons’ expression that Euclid told me at the Tower of Choice, it showed off its presence ‘with emotions flowing like mud and logic gaining mass.’

As I got closer to the destination, I saw a clear memory of the entity that was waiting there, rolling everywhere.

Despite isolating it in a virtual dimension, it seemed that it had been there for so long that it had been partially fused into the void.

Thanks to him, I witnessed a memory that wasn’t mine.

It belonged to a Spirit created long ago to manage the System.

‘I can’t understand this!’

My eyes opened wide. At that moment, my hypothesis that I doubted came true.

‘Why did the previous generation’s successors lock up the “Administrator” in here? In the dimension of exiled gods and monsters, no less!’

As if to answer my query, a memory began to unravel like a thread and seeped into my mind.