NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 1016
<1016 – Eastern Chronicles (15)>
As the Gold Dragon Sorcerer’s will pressed down on her, Sadi showed signs of wanting to escape using the terminal she had taken over.
[Don’t you still get it?]
[Every human in the East is my ‘prey.’]
[Once you’ve laid hands on what originated in this land, you can’t escape from me.]
Sadi’s escape through the terminal was easily thwarted.
In the past, Sadi would’ve panicked at this point.
But she was different now, having experienced Oknodie.
“Heh, run away? You’ve made a ridiculously deluded assumption.”
[If it’s not an escape, then how arrogant. You think you can win against continental-level power?]
“Of course I do. I know a will more remarkable than yours, no, far superior!”
Sadi specializes in mimicking others’ techniques and passing them on to enhance her terminals’ powers.
She possesses the most heinous will in the world.
An avatar of the Outsider from another realm.
Exactly the will from Oknodie!
The Gold Dragon Sorcerer intruded upon the terminals Sadi had drawn in.
By the time she realized the anomaly, the will of Oknodie that Sadi conjured began to clash with the Gold Dragon Sorcerer’s will.
“Delightfully arrogant. To think that this being, akin to the mother of Eastern humanity, would face me in the form of death.”
An uncontainable joy appeared in the Gold Dragon Sorcerer’s eyes.
“Let’s compare. Can the forms of death piled by Eastern humanity surpass the death built by your Western Dark Sorcerers?”
They likely lost.
Sadi wasn’t arrogant.
Death amassed by Dark Sorcerers?
How much could an individual stir things up?
There are many strong individuals in the Western world.
And many nobles who command those strong individuals.
Above the nobles are the royal families.
Above the royal families is the Empire.
The terrifying ‘Seonhwang’ stands there.
And it’s not just Seonhwang alone.
Colossal evildoers who opposed empires in every era, the Three Great Evils.
Professors locked up in the Academy who carry a danger level comparable to that of great evils.
Among those professors, the worst existence, the Dragon Principal, rules atop.
When Dark Sorcerers gather power through death in such a hell, it’s not just these who will realize it.
The organization that had been thwarting the rise of evil powers and blocking intrusions from other realms.
The grand Wahyhiemhai Foundation that devours such organizations.
Clumsy Dark Sorcerers step over the line and get marked by the Foundation to die.
All the Dark Sorcerers who survived in such a harsh world know the lines they must not cross.
An opponent they can’t dare challenge.
An existence beyond reason.
To Sadi, Oknodie represented that.
No matter how hard she tries, there’s a gap she can never bridge.
But what if she used that gap as a weapon?
The darkness of Oknodie executed revolutionaries.
Buried the Director of the Foundation.
Made Seonhwang choose death for himself.
Subjugated the old wise men of the Academy, who possessed countless research dimensions, beneath her feet.
Gods opposing her twisted their natures and fell from divinity, even elevating her former mentors to gods, receiving their protection.
The master of such a grand journey, Oknodie, bears memories and experiences wandering countless dimensions, even borrowing the power of those Outsiders.
Now, she had no choice but to acknowledge it.
Oknodie’s darkness may very well begin to look toward the next level beyond the past Director or Seonhwang, even below the principal.
An advanced god beyond the being of sages.
Sadi had directly experienced the will formed from memories of achievements that could only be described as divine.
That place was truly hell.
And now.
The hell of the past began to flood into her terminal world from Sadi’s memories.
– You complain that your house is cold? Then break it down. Now, are you unhappy anymore?
– Are the visitors at the amusement park staying too long? Then, we’ll open a course to ‘make them go missing’ in the Underground World.
– This world is too dull. Guess the ‘annihilation route’ sounds better.
Fragments of a world dominated and controlled by inhuman beings collapsing.
These were akin to the remnants of destruction the Gold Dragon Sorcerer caught a glimpse of from Mini Noddy.
“Impressive. Truly impressive! Even the largest fragments of destruction can’t grow this immense. You’ve seen it, the countless possibilities of demise rising like chaos!”
Wizards are beings who actually manifest unknown threats through their rituals.
The larger the sacrifice, the greater the possibility of power and achievement gained.
The will Sadi showcased reached possibilities beyond just taking one Mini Noddy.
“What more could one need? You. If I seize you, I can adequately fulfill my long-held ambitions!”
Above the Gold Dragon Sorcerer, forms of death leapt up like a sheer cliff, colliding with the snowstorm of hell.
– Aaaah!
– It’s, it’s too cold!
– Run awayyy!
It was astonishing.
Having already met a dreadful death, souls stained by fear changed their forms of demise, manifesting as shades of their own demise.
Extreme cold.
The terror of the utmost chill dwelled within the calamity Sadi had manifested.
The specific and distinct imagery of death caused even the deceased, who had died once, to fear an end worse than what they’d experienced and succumb to Sadi’s disaster.
The cliffs of the dead shrieked as they touched the oncoming white wave, trying to turn back and flee but were frozen.
Crunch! Crack crack crack!
As the front line of the dead froze to death, those in the back began fleeing in droves, lamenting their despair and breaking away from the wall of corpses like a swarm of rats.
The more the sound of the dead freezing and shattering reached their ears, the greater their fear became.
Crunch!
The moment fear exceeded a critical threshold, they found their feet frozen before they could touch the white wave.
Those who had stiffened reached out towards other deceased for help, but countless dead from the Eastern Empire couldn’t extend a hand to another.
Having lived in hell, where they couldn’t even care for their own bodies and had to turn away from the death of their families.
What they couldn’t do in life, they couldn’t do in death.
“Quite well. However, the fact that there are various forms of death also means that there exists death that is the exact opposite of the fear of frostbite. How will you block this?”
Crimson flames rose, clashing head-on with the advancing white wave.
The screams of those wanting to avoid the pain and perish by throwing themselves into the wave halted the white wave’s advance.
The scale was massive enough to envelop the world!
The number of souls burned to death in the Eastern Empire was enough to stymie a wave that heralded the end of a world, pushing the flames to invade.
– No, don’t scream!
– They’re coming. They’re coming!
– Horrible beasts, undead spirits, weird creatures are coming!
The fears of the dead were not confined to the shapes of calamities.
Forms of ruthless beings that viewed humans as prey, devouring them, using them as sacrifices to accumulate power, and tormenting them as playthings surged up.
The Gold Dragon Sorcerer mourned that the delightful entertainment had come to an end.
Typically, the size of a single world is not as colossal as the Middle Realm.
It needs to be of such a scale to act somewhat human.
The benchmarks people call those are often aligned with the top 20% or 10% rather than median income or national averages that got ranked in the fifth tier.
Positioned amid countless dimensions, the Middle Realm’s status rises even higher.
Top 0.01%.
Although the density of Nature Mana might be lower compared to the upper realms, the number of living beings that can be used as sacrifices is incomparably vast.
Countless strong entities from a hundred dimensions interfered, colliding their powers, allowing diversity to harmonize.
“Though I couldn’t fully realize the diversity of life, the diversity of death is right by my side. Fear towards the weird is the culmination of countless forms of death.”
That culmination takes shape, covering the sky.
No matter how great a Dark Sorcerer Sadi might be, she cannot surpass the sum of death and despair that has long ruled over a region.
This is no different from how demons ruling over larger territories overpower those ruling over smaller ones in the world of territorial rights.
A truth that transcends time and space, crossing the East and West.
What is commonly referred to as <Truth>.
“Fall. Ensure you utilize the possibilities of demise you have observed.”
Observation and experience are not the same.
There exists a gap between the density of death and the expression of fear itself.
A gap of unimaginable proportions.
The Gold Dragon Sorcerer was certain.
The total amount of energy generated from the experiences of his prey exceeds the total amount of energy produced by Sadi’s observations.
But Sadi had her own backers as well.
As the flames of destruction engulfed the scenes of demise surging forth, and beyond that, the weird creatures puffing up like smoke.
At this most distant moment of desolation, the most deeply-rooted despair that could stimulate memories.
Oknodie is currently manifesting, bringing forth the most feared possibility of demise.
“I thought you could surpass my darkness. This is the door that can be opened because of that. The inside sealed deep within the will of Oknodie I’ve never reached. The worst demise blocked by double sealing.”
Memories awaken in chains.
The memories of fear are no different.
Sadi had witnessed many deaths, pains, and despairs, yet she couldn’t remember every sight.
However, if she were to taste the immense terror presented by the Gold Dragon Sorcerer.
She might awaken the memory she had subconsciously pushed away and erased, unable to bear it.
The door that waits at the end of the double seal, belonging to the <Marine who Specializes in Strength All-in>.
Kukukukuku
Looking through the mist of the weird, a door gradually took shape.
“…What is that monstrosity?”
Cold sweat broke out over the Gold Dragon Sorcerer’s entire body.
Back when she was an inexperienced wizard, wanting to wield a large curse one must never touch, and felt the fear of death.
The feeling that arose now wasn’t different from that time.
The fear of death.
That she felt now, the sense of crisis and fear was alarmingly heightened to where it would evoke memories from the past.
Something was wrong.
That door.
That door must never be opened.
“It’s too late.”
With a wicked grin splitting her face like a demonic spirit, Sadi Chocolate smiled sinisterly.
As she spread her arms wide, the door trembled.
It opens.
Here, in this place.
The worst form of demise ever.
Clang.
Clang.
Just when the trembling door was about to swing wide open.
Crunch!
The corner of the door disappeared with a crisp sound.
Sadi and the Gold Dragon Sorcerer’s gazes turned to the one clinging to the door’s corner.
A disgruntled purple Mini Noddy, with one cheek stuffed from biting the door, glared at the two.
“You guys were bad! You set out a feast and didn’t say a word to eat. I’m gonna eat as I like!”
“No, if you eat that now…”
It won’t be able to manifest the door.
Sadi and the Gold Dragon Sorcerer found themselves at an intersection of exultation and despair.