NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 1017
<1017 – Eastern Experience Chronicle (16)>
Always leisurely peeking into and manipulating the hearts of others while wearing a haughty smile, the Dark Shadow Girl was surprisingly feeling a deep frustration.
“You seriously… out of all the things, why must you eat mine?”
“Yours looked bigger and tastier!”
A member of the Mini Noddy Sisters, who feeds on the emotions of others based on a contract, just had to eat the summoning portal of the Strength All-in Marine.
Because the door was damaged, the summoning couldn’t be properly achieved, and Sadi’s brilliant trump card was sealed away.
“Hehe. Haha! How unfortunate, Dark Sorcerer of the Western World. To have your secret trick crushed before it had the chance to fully manifest and put you on edge!”
“Well, considering the aftermath, this might be better for me anyway. Now it doesn’t count as ‘my fault.’”
Despite thinking that Sadi would have been disheartened, the sight of her smiling as if it was a good thing instead made the Gold Dragon Sorcerer feel ominous.
What’s going on?
Is the despair so overwhelming that she’s gone mad?
If only that were the case…
Sadi was not crazy.
In fact, the thing she was about to do was what could be considered madness.
Now that this insane act was sealed, she felt an exhilaration.
“Mini Noddy.”
“Yes, sister?”
“I’ll live my whole life grateful for this favor.”
“Favor? Aren’t you going to scold me?”
“Why would I scold you? You sacrificed yourself for me.”
Sacrifice yourself? Me? For my sister?
Mini Noddy was clueless.
Her small spirit body trembled greatly.
The vibrations from the little spirit began to exponentially unleash waves of energy.
“Sister… I feel strange…”
“It’s because you ate the door.”
“I… I have a terrible stomachache…”
Of course, it’s no surprise her stomach would hurt.
Sadi knew that a door sealing a powerful being could never be normal.
It was absurd to eat even a corner of such a door.
If it were a physical door, there would be no worry about getting sick from eating it.
Mini Noddy bit down on the door that had opened into the surreal world.
A sealing door that contained the end of a world must be robust enough to prevent the flood of catastrophe.
“The power that annihilates everything can only be resisted by a like force. You just devoured something like that.”
Such an enormous force can also bring fear to itself.
What the purple Mini Noddy had consumed was the deeply-rooted fear of Oknodie’s subconscious.
A manic obsession close to the madness that such a build should never be unleashed upon the world.
What was consumed was fear, but also something extra.
Though not a physical end like that of a Strength Marine, it was energy equally indistinguishable from one.
“I’ll hold a ritual often. You can depart in peace.”
“Aaah!”
Unable to withstand the surging energy, Mini Noddy exploded.
The aftermath suddenly passed through the space where Sadi’s spirit body was and sequentially collapsed the minds of the Gold Dragon Sorcerer and the others like dominoes.
The energy surged to the point of overflowing, bursting one mind just as it burst Mini Noddy.
The bursting mind caused the prey tied to the web to explode in a chain reaction.
Since it manifested as a collective phenomenon, the number of Easterners falling due to this impact was terrifying.
Explosion.
And another explosion.
Even though the door wasn’t opened, countless prey crumbled to near annihilation just from the aftermath.
The Gold Dragon Sorcerer could hardly believe it.
To have borrowed the power of so many prey and still not endure even the backlash of the spirit who devoured the corner of the door…
everything he achieved was being wiped away.
“No. That’s merely a fragment of the power. If I stand a great number of prey in front, I could surely defend myself.”
Ten million? No, if necessary, I’ll sacrifice hundreds of millions.
I’m willing to accept even greater losses.
Even if 1.3 billion becomes 130 million, it doesn’t matter.
She is a wizard with the secrets of eternal life.
In a land tainted by curses, she has increased humanity to that number.
“Just hold on. Just hold on…!”
In the next millennium, no, even a decade later, the final victor will still be Gold Dragon Sorcerer herself.
As if responding to such fervent hope, the forms of the dying prey soared high into the sky.
And as they split apart, the path toward the Gold Dragon Sorcerer was opened.
“How can this be?! How can things originating from you defy you?!”
“Hehe. Shouldn’t you have kept things in moderation?”
The voice of Sadi, whom he had thought would become ash long ago, reverberated somewhere in the surreal world.
Heaven!
As the Gold Dragon Sorcerer looked up, he saw Sadi perched at the gap in the moon that had split in half.
“With the web burning and the prey released, no one wants to stay by your side. The conditions are the same, so why does everyone rely on me?”
“You little rascal! You were stealing her prey all along!”
“Oh my. Stealing? I’d call it entrusting. Once they become mine, they can grow stronger, fulfill their dreams, and die as they wish, so isn’t it obvious the prey would choose to become a terminal?”
In terms of scale, the Gold Dragon Sorcerer certainly had the upper hand.
However, in front of the massive end that one truly cannot oppose, the last hope of the people was not the Gold Dragon Sorcerer, who held the rights over life and death and thrust them into despair, but rather Sadi Chocolate, who through gaslighting and trickery made people think that they were respected and obtaining what they desired.
Saaaaaaah
While countless souls surged toward the sky following Sadi, escaping through the crack in the moon, Gold Dragon Sorcerer was swallowed alone by calamity and sank.
“Sing, you can close it.”
“…Sia, right?”
With a strike that calls the origin space, the crack inscribed in the surreal world was once again sealed.
[Sing and Sadi Chocolate have annihilated the Rank 2 Wizard Gold Dragon Sorcerer of the Alliance of Necromancers.]
[You have defeated an opponent with a substantial difference in skill. The experience points of the two comrades have skyrocketed dramatically.]
Sadi felt it.
Her ability to command the number of terminals she could dominate had surged exponentially.
Sing felt it.
The cracks that his sword could cleave were now tougher and able to withstand longer.
And all these peculiarities were also felt by Oknodie, who was returning after filming a Spirit Herb eating show.
“Gah! My Mini Noddy!”
The terrified Oknodie conjured up a gigantic fluorescent jellyfish, driving it to an extreme rage, and soared with five levels of acceleration, leaving the surrounding plains in ruins as Oknodie landed.
Sadi and Sing desperately used their terminals to stave off the shockwave created by Oknodie’s earth-shattering landing they had only seen in their mind’s eye.
Despite distributing the damage among the terminals, the impact they weren’t able to completely mitigate caused a tremendous blow to Sadi’s spirit.
Crash!
Sing only made it worse, as the sword’s blade vanished completely, leaving even the sword energy in an abysmal state.
“Gah!”
Having just barely stopped Oknodie’s landing from annihilating the entrance of the cave, the two collapsed to the ground, bleeding from their mouths.
Terrified Oknodie rushed over, forcing the highest-grade health potion into their mouths.
“What happened? How could Sadi temporarily lose control of the terminal and Sia lose her sword? Did the Dark Tentacle Bird target us as prey?”
“…”
“…”
It’s because of the shockwave from your ridiculous landing acceleration, you know.
The two, filled with resentment for having received damage a hundredfold beyond what they took from Gold Dragon Sorcerer, glared at Oknodie with scornful faces.
Cough.
Due to their bodies being so wrecked that they couldn’t even produce a voice mixed with complaints, tears brimming from their eyes, they ended up spitting out the health potion due to it mistakenly going down the wrong pipe.
“Oh my, to think this is how serious my wounds are that I can’t even drink a potion without vomiting blood!”
It’s all your fault!
As Sing, with trembling eyes, glared at Oknodie, signs of anger began to rise deep within him, and he eventually collapsed.
It was with sorrow that Sadi, who felt Sing was about to lose his composure in a ridiculous manner, hastily blocked his consciousness.
“You wicked Dark Tentacle Bird! I entrusted you with plenty of prey for protection, yet you attacked Sadi and Sing, turning them into this state? I can’t forgive you!”
Kieeeek!
The earth-shattering cry filled with power from the Dark Tentacle Bird could be heard, shaking the spirit.
Sadi realized the injustice contained in the cry of the Dark Tentacle Bird.
“To think I can make a high-ranking demon-grade monster that surpasses the 8th level and threatens the 9th level feel wronged… If that’s a talent, then it’s a talent indeed.”
Though she desperately wanted to complain twice as much for Sing, her soul could no longer endure.
Most importantly, if she continued watching Oknodie’s brazen display, her own spirit might evaporate into the void from the confusion.
Sadi fainted before her spirit could shatter from overexertion.
“Gah! Sadi even fainted! This wicked chirpy little thing, I can’t endure this any longer. I’ll teach you a lesson!”
The vile Princess of the Weird, Oknodie, who avenged the grudge against the Gold Dragon Sorcerer, started to threaten the unjustly frizzled Dark Tentacle Bird!