Stab.
In one clean hit, the child's heart was pierced and she died.
"What did you just do?!" Kim Dokja panicked.
Yoo Joonghyuk was also frozen.
"I solved the scenario, as you can see," Han Sooyoung retorted.
"I had a plan!"
"Do you think I enjoy killing children?"
She glared.
"Now, the Disaster of Floods will—"
A beam of light pierced her avatar.
There, a furious Disaster of Floods stood.
Something even her Predictive Plagiarism hadn't expected.
"How…?"
Kim Dokja was also shocked.
According to Ways of Survival, once her past self had died, the future Shin Yoosoung would die too.
Then why?
Why hadn't she disappeared?
The scenario hadn't even ended yet.
***
His danger intuition was ringing alarms in his mind.
Klein opened his eyes.
Above him, a worried Yoo Sangah was leaning toward him.
"Are you awake?"
Gehrman tried to recall what had happened.
He had pushed aside Shin Yoosoung, and…
"I gave you first aid for now." She hesitated. "But…"
The sounds of fighting reached his ears. Gehrman finally noticed that the battle was still ongoing.
His danger intuition screamed louder.
Yoo Sangah looked behind her and Gehrman followed her gaze.
They were losing. Seoul would soon be destroyed and they would all die.
Moreover, the future Shin Yoosoung fighting in the distance seemed different.
"What happened?"
Yoo Sangah summarized the situation.
Kim Dokja had tried to convince the future Shin Yoosoung to surrender and had nearly succeeded when the dokkaebis intervened and forcibly converted the disaster to 'evil'.
However, the woman's hands were faintly shaking, as if she had omitted something in her explanation. It gave Klein a bad feeling.
As he finalized the control of future Shin Yoosoung's Spirit Body Threads, the disaster seemed to not notice it this time. Her mind was already engulfed in rage and madness.
As Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja were about to die, they suddenly saw future Shin Yoosoung pause.
"…Huh?"
Gehrman had turned her into a marionette.
Then, future Shin Yoosoung emotionlessly dispelled her attacks.
[The fifth main scenario has ended!]
[The compensation settlement is being prepared.]
Kim Dokja was bewildered.
All of a sudden?
What happened?
"How…"
The woman was still standing there, her eyes blank, yet the scenario had ended.
The people present struggled to comprehend the situation.
Gehrman got up.
"Don't move, your injuries…!"
He bypassed Yoo Sangah and looked around.
Then, he paused and turned back to Yoo Sangah.
"Shin Yoosoung."
Yoo Sangah held her breath.
It was obvious who he was referring to.
"Where is she?"
A simple question.
Only someone looking for another's location, not thinking that something could have happened to the child.
Yoo Sangah's expression turned complicated.
Seeing the woman trying to hold back her tears gave him the answer.
Something was wrong.
Pushing aside the ominous thought that came to mind, Klein turned to another person who might be able to answer him.
Lee Hyunsung flinched and avoided his gaze, instinctively looking somewhere in the distance.
Klein also turned toward it.
Something was lying there.
「The scent of blood.」
He took a step in that direction.
「It had briefly crossed his mind.」
Maintaining his cold mask as Gehrman Sparrow.
「Another step.」
A corpse could be seen in the distance.
「Whose corpse?」
A corpse?
「Another step.」
He had a bad feeling.
「Another step.」
He stopped in front of it, his expression shadowed by his hair.
"Gehrman…"
He didn't hear the voice behind him.
Opening his Spirit Vision, no signs of life could be seen.
He threw a coin to make a divination.
Klein stood frozen in place.
Belatedly, he noticed a message in the corner of his eye.
[Your incarnation is dead.]
He stared at the familiar face of the child lying on the ground.
Sobs resounded behind him.
Shin Yoosoung was dead.
「Shin Yoosoung was dead.」
It was only then that he fully realized it.
***
Gehrman didn't utter a word after that.
After the fight, Han Sooyoung had disappeared. They held a funeral for the child, but the madman refused to bury the body. They didn't know what he intended to do with it. However, Kim Dokja didn't dare to ask.
Since everyone received the 'Ellain Forest's Vital Energy' as compensation for the fifth scenario, Gehrman could also recover from his injuries.
Yoo Sangah told him that Shin Yoosoung had been killed by Han Sooyoung who was with them before.
Then, not long after, they parted ways.
Gehrman simply left without saying goodbye.
Yoo Sangah kept a guilty expression on her face.
"It's not your fault," Kim Dokja reassured her.
"If only I had stopped her… Shin Yoosoung could have lived."
"None of us noticed it before it was too late."
After separating from them, Klein sent the child Shin Yoosoung's body above Sefirah Castle.
Sitting at the long table, he laughed.
"Haha…"
He held his head.
"Hahahahaha…"
With a distorted smile, like a clown.
"Hahahaha!"
She was his incarnation, yet he was so useless.
If only there was a way to resurrect her.
However, he could only resurrect himself, not others.
He was too weak.
If only he had been stronger…
「Resurrection from the dead is a miracle.」
Klein finally stopped laughing.
Now that he had separated from the group, he could change his identity and focus on digesting his potions—no, on acting to 'level up his skills'.
He made a promise to himself.
「I will find a way to resurrect Shin Yoosoung.」
In this world where mythical figures had become reality—maybe it would be possible in this 'Star Stream'.
Klein blankly looked into the fog.
It was unfair.
Whether it was returning to his hometown or saving his colleagues.
「He was always stopped because it was 'impossible'.」
***
No matter how hard he searched, Evan Martinez didn't find any teleporting item nor space-related skills in the dungeons he visited.
"…"
It was as if there were no such things in Seoul at all.
Or maybe they were already taken?
[The main scenario 'Abandoned World' has begun.]
Instead, he suddenly ended up transported to a strange place.
+
[Main Scenario #6 – ????]
Category: Main
Difficulty: ???
Clear Conditions: ???
Time Limit: ???
Compensation: ???
Failure: ―
+
It seemed he had gotten involved in the main scenario by accident.
Moreover, neither the difficulty level nor the clear conditions were shown.
[The 7th grade monster 'steel wolf' has appeared.]
Lenoch blasted away the monster and calmly walked forward.
The trees were barely taller than his head, and through his mana senses, he could feel the presences of very small people in the distance.
It was as if the world had been shrunk in size.
Or was it him who was taller?
From afar, he then noticed a familiar person.
'The talking head—no, Han Sooyoung?'
In an instant, he changed his face to Van's, putting his black coat back on and holding a silver cane, and approached her.
Han Sooyoung saw him and shrieked. She stepped back in fear.
'Do I seem so scary?'
Then, she realized her mistake and covered her mouth.
"They appeared! It really is a scenario!" Someone shouted at them.
Han Sooyoung clicked her tongue.
They had noticed her presence.
Van stared, dumbfounded, as hundreds of troops of soldiers the size of their fists filled the vast plains. There were dozens of cavalry and hundreds of archers. In addition, there were hundreds of infantry. Enough people for a war had gathered.
"Everybody prepare their skills!"
"Prepare to advance!"
Numerous people pointed spears and lances at them.
Van questioned Han Sooyoung, "Did you do something wrong to them?"
Why were they suddenly trying to kill them?
"I didn't do anything!" she exclaimed.
"Attack―!"
"Waaaaahhhhh!"
He still had doubts.
[You have met with the people of this world. Check the scenario contents.]
[Many of the constellations are hungry for violence and blood.]
[A significant number of constellations are urging you to make a bold choice.]
[The main scenario is activated.]
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[Main Scenario # 6 – Abandoned World]
Category: Main
Difficulty: S
Clear Conditions: Wipe out all dominant species on the No. 9871 planetary system, the planet called Peace Land.
Time Limit: 40 days
Compensation: 200,000 coins, ???
Failure: ―
+
Van started to understand.
Was it like the previous 'Disaster' scenario but their roles were exchanged?
[You have become a disaster of the planet Peace Land.]
Remembering the sentence about a planetary system that also appeared in the first scenario, he realized that the scenarios weren't only happening on Earth.
Han Sooyoung pulled him aside.
"There's no time for this. We have to escape."
They started to move away from the small soldiers.
"Why are you so slow?!"
However, Van walking with his cane was extremely slow.
"Didn't you fight that Outer God? Shouldn't your physical stats be better?" Han Sooyoung complained.
"…"
Even the small soldiers had time to catch up.
"What are you doing?!"
Seeing Van turn back, she stopped.
He wasn't going to kill the inhabitants of Peace Land, was he?
(Considering Han Sooyoung's personality so far, Lenoch was more surprised that she chose to run instead of attacking them until now.)
Resigning himself, Van covered both of them with an illusion spell, turning them invisible from the small people.
"Huh? Where did they go?"
"Teleportation?"
Putting up a soundproof spell, the mage addressed the writer.
"What did you plan?"
Since she decided to not follow the easy scenario contents, she must have had something in mind.
Lenoch didn't really want to decimate an innocent population either.