The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2-Chapter 718

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Side Story 47

"Well then, now."

After finishing his bow, Seong Jihan turned around.

Then,

Fwoosh...!

Light flashed on the statue of the Witch of the Void.

"Huh...?"

As the void cleared in an instant, Seong Jiah returned to her original form.

"My, my body..."

"There's no need to stay as a statue anymore, right?"

"Mom...!"

As Yoon Seah approached Seong Jiah with a joyful face,

Zing...

[Congratulations! You have completed Infinite!]

A system message appeared before Seong Jihan's eyes.

[You have cleared the mission by defeating the Martial God!]

[As the purpose has been achieved, this world will be discarded. Return to reality and break Jiang Shang's Infinite! Then, the world will close in 10 seconds...]

[The problem of the Martial God's Tower will of course be solved!]

Upon defeating Dongbang Sak, a message saying the mission was cleared,

And that this world would end.

The urgency was palpable even just reading the text.

"I'm not going to discard it. So stay put."

[I refuse. Get out quickly.]

Fwoosh...!

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The world began to crumble in an instant.

This felt similar to when Seong Jihan first came to this world and raised his Stat Blue.

Back then, he thought it was because Blue had the power to reverse distortions.

'Now I see, it wasn't because of Blue... This guy just made it look that way.'

Was Mitra playing along to prevent Seong Jihan from raising his power all at once?

Seong Jihan grinned and raised his sword.

"Master. Please watch over my family for a moment."

"I'll protect them until you return. Don't worry and go."

"Thank you."

Seong Jihan looked back at Yoon Seah and Seong Jiah once more,

Then began to move in earnest.

Swoosh...!

As he leaped up from underground,

He saw the world completely cracking and crumbling.

[Master. Why don't you just return to reality...?]

[What if you touch the Transcendent and become a slave to light?]

Zing...

System messages urgently popped up.

In them, Mitra was very concerned about Seong Jihan.

"Weren't you the one who wanted me to become a slave to light?"

Snicker.

As Seong Jihan raised the corner of his mouth,

[That was then, and now you're my master... Of course your well-being is important.]

Mitra urged Seong Jihan to log out while saying implausible things.

[I'll send Yoon Seah, Seong Jiah, and even Dongbang Sak back alive. So why don't you stop here?]

While presenting what he considered a compromise proposal.

Seong Jihan smiled deeply as he looked at the message window popping up more urgently than ever.

"Why are you so scared?"

[Scared...?]

"Isn't that right? Great Mitra. I might go and succumb to the Transcendent, so what are you so worried about that you're doing things you don't usually do?"

[...There's always a possibility, no matter how small.]

Zing.

Zing...

Countless screens popped up.

In them, scenes of Seong Jihan touching the light,

And then disappearing as he himself became a beam of light, kept playing.

'Is he telling me not to come because this could happen?'

Well, this felt like a scared dog barking.

Seong Jihan leisurely appreciated those screens while,

Swoosh...!

In the destroyed world,

He advanced towards the sun, the only shining point.

[Don't come.]

Then,

Mitra, who had been politely refusing his approach at first,

[Don't come.]

[I said don't come...!]

Gradually, his words became shorter.

[Only I should subdue the Transcendent.]

[Of course. Of course, you'll be defeated...]

[There shouldn't even be a sliver of possibility.]

[Get out! Didn't I say I'd send you back?! You don't need to take this risk, do you?!]

Looking at the Infinite containing light,

Did he instinctively feel that it could control the Transcendent?

Mitra tried to prevent Seong Jihan's approach by any means.

"No, I need to take this risk. I made a promise to the Lost Souls."

[What...?]

"I said I'd implement all the Lost Souls' worlds. So I need the power of the Transcendent."

[Are you crazy...? How can you implement all that! You'd have to use almost all of the Transcendent's power to actually do it!]

"Really? That's great."

Taking away the Transcendent's power and keeping the promise to the Taiji's Lost Souls.

He could proceed without worry then.

As Seong Jihan increased his speed and got closer to the sun,

[Look at them. How long do you think Dongbang Sak will last!]

Zing...

Showing Dongbang Sak, Yoon Seah, and Seong Jiah precariously holding on in the underground of the Abyss,

Mitra tried to persuade Seong Jihan once again, but,

"I just need to take you out before that."

Seong Jihan's resolve was already firm.

And as he ignored all the countless message windows popping up,

And arrived at the source of light,

Fwoosh...!

[Don't come any closer...!]

Complex and intricate codes began to appear densely before Seong Jihan's eyes.

* * *

"...What are you doing?"

[To touch the Transcendent, you must recognize my code...!]

So this was Mitra's code.

The densely arranged code sequence was incredibly complex at a glance, but,

'It's set to memorize itself automatically.'

His code was automatically recognized in the mind once seen.

It would stay in a corner of the memory,

Intending to manifest the code and revive himself when needed.

But.

[Only about half of the code is manifested now. So turn back. If you approach like this, you'll completely recognize my code.]

Mitra said that the current code was only about half,

And again told him to turn back if he didn't want to remember it completely.

Well, well.

This was almost begging now.

One.

"It's okay to know now."

Seong Jihan calmly replied.

[It's okay... to know?]

"Yeah. If I consider a situation where I'd revive you... It would be because I couldn't perfectly control the Transcendent and needed help."

[...]

"But now, I can control it without you."

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Swish.

As Seong Jihan pointed the tip of his sword towards the code sequence,

Crackle...

The letters began to break all at once.

"Mitra. You noticed too, didn't you?"

As Seong Jihan twisted his sword once,

Swoosh...!

The code shattered completely and the light entered the edges of the sword.

And,

The absorption of light didn't stop there.

The power of the Transcendent hidden under the sun,

Began to be sucked into the sword completely.

[Controlling White light with Infinite...?]

[And controlling Infinite with White light...]

Mitra, who had been urgently sending messages in disbelief,

[Ha... What the hell is this?! You haven't achieved anything! The power of White Light I completed and the Infinite Jiang Shang created... Isn't this just a fusion of those?!]

"Yeah. So I'll use it well. Thanks for your hard work."

Although he vented his frustration after grasping the essence of the Infinite containing white light, Seong Jihan calmly continued absorbing the Transcendent's power.

'It's working. Really.'

Although he had done many virtual simulations inside the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams,

It was uncertain whether it would work when actually contacting the Transcendent.

The sword was effortlessly extracting the Transcendent's power from the sun.

The Transcendent and Infinite coexisted while controlling each other.

As he continued to absorb power from the Transcendent like that,

Crack.

Crackle...

[...Let me ask one thing.]

The message window appearing before Seong Jihan's eyes,

Began to gradually fade.

This was a phenomenon that occurred as the power of light began to gather in Seong Jihan.

[How did you do it?]

[You should be just an ordinary person.]

"Yeah. Compared to you or Jiang Shang, I'm ordinary."

Seong Jihan immediately acknowledged his limitations to that message.

"So I did secluded training with a thousand of myself."

[A thousand... of myself?]

"I passed on everything I knew to the Lost Souls."

[Ha. Are you crazy? How could you trust... another you?]

"There was no other answer. And."

Grip!

As Seong Jihan grasped the message,

The message window began to crack instantly.

"At least they're more trustworthy than you."

[Foolish... You'll regret...]

"Let's not see each other anymore."

Fwoosh...!

The shattered message window,

Turned into light and was sucked into Seong Jihan's sword.

Then for a moment, an abnormal flow was detected at the edge of the sword, but,

'Even the death throes are intense.'

Swish...

As Infinite rippled,

The distortion of light soon disappeared.

That was Mitra's last moment.

'Well, now that Mitra is gone, let's absorb the rest.'

In front of the sun,

Seong Jihan raised his sword and continued to absorb the light,

And the white light forming the edge of Infinite became even more intense.

However, the light couldn't invade beyond the range of Infinite,

Their domains were completely separated.

And, after absorbing light for a while, Seong Jihan,

'This is the end.'

As the sun's form completely disappeared, he turned his back.

* * *

In the underground of the Abyss.

Dongbang Sak welcomed the returned Seong Jihan.

"Have you, finished it?"

"Yes. I've subdued the Transcendent. The power of light is contained in here."

Seong Jihan, holding the sword flashing with light,

Looked back at Yoon Seah and Seong Jiah.

"I want to restore this world right now, but I need to deal with Jiang Shang's Infinite first... So I hope you can wait a little."

Implementing the world in the mission was entirely possible using the Transcendent's power, but,

The most immediate problem now was Jiang Shang's Infinite.

As even Dongbang Sak said his Infinite wasn't perfectly implemented,

He needed to make thorough preparations to break Jiang Shang's sword.

It would be a disaster if he wasted the power of light here and couldn't subdue Infinite.

Seong Jihan prioritized breaking Jiang Shang's sword in the order of tasks.

"Then... Will we stay here?"

Seong Jiah asked, looking at the world where only the bottom of the Abyss remained.

"No. Come to our world for a moment. I'll implement everything again after I finish everything."

"...To your reality?"

"Yeah. I'll make sure you don't encounter your other selves there."

For both Yoon Seah and Seong Jiah,

Meeting their real-world selves wouldn't be a very positive experience.

As Seong Jihan said this,

"...Uncle."

"Yes?"

"Uncle... Did you miss this world? Or were you trying to save me?"

Yoon Seah stared intently at Seong Jihan as she said this.

"The previous world? Well... I didn't really miss it. I just wanted to save you, that's all."

He answered that question honestly.

This stage was set up to save the Yoon Seah from the first round.

He had never thought about wanting to implement this world.

And hearing that answer,

"I see..."

Yoon Seah's expression took on a strange heat.

"Then uncle. Am I, am I the real one?"

"Both you and the Seah in reality are real to me. Stop thinking about being fake."

"Ah... Yes."

While nodding at Seong Jihan's words,

Yoon Seah made a meaningful expression, and then slowly opened her mouth.

"Uncle. Then. Can I... Can I keep living in uncle's world?"

"There?"

"Yes. You don't have to implement it here..."

Swish.

As she said this, Yoon Seah,

"I want to live in uncle's world with mom."

She continued speaking while linking arms with Seong Jiah.

"...Forever."

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