chapter 176
175. Three Ways to Prevent the End
#175. Three Ways to Prevent the End
“You’re making Berget a foreigner? Are you crazy?”
Heron looked at Han Seong-jin with twinkles in her eyes. Heron’s expression was telling of her psychological state.
‘What method did you adopt instead of sending the twisted causality to the second dimension by tying it to the end? To create a foreign news?’
She felt her stomach boil.
That’s understandable. He kicked away the method he had prepared with great effort, and as a result, he was ‘beaten like a dog by Cynthia’, and the alternative he came up with was ‘Let’s make a foreign news outlet?’
“To be exact, we’re talking about helping Berget.”
“… Okay. Let’s hear it out. So what do we get?”
Heron wanted to know what advantages Berget would have if he became a foreign correspondent, rather than whether he could become one.
“Berget is a disaster. He was ‘chosen’ by the Watcher. It is an absolute spell. No one can unseal it.”
“No. It’s not that no one can solve it, it’s that no one can solve it unless they are of equal status.”
“Isn’t that it?”
“Your head is not as sharp as it looks.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“… … .”
Heron kept his mouth shut at Cynthia and Han Seong-jin’s attacks.
“The story of how Berget could exist as a disaster is when he did not gain the status of a foreigner.”
“…ah?”
“I guess I wasn’t thinking properly because of the pressure of being called a foreigner. Well, I can understand. From the perspective of a transcendent being, a foreigner is a very distant existence. However, the premise of this operation was based on the assumption from the beginning that Berget had become a foreigner. I would like you to focus on the story. And don’t look at it only from a negative perspective.”
Heron nodded awkwardly.
“The moment Berget becomes a foreigner, the power of the Watcher will be lost. It means the complete annihilation of the disaster. The secret that has already been granted to him will be entirely his, and will not be divided into other places.”
“That alone is not enough. Even if the first disaster is completely eliminated, the second, the third… and so on. Disasters will continue to come.”
The disasters are endless.
It is because of the enormous causality that the end has.
“You’re not planning on picking a fight with Belzet, who’s become a foreign correspondent or anything like that, are you?”
“Of course not.”
Even if they become foreign gods, there is a difference in rank between Berget and the observer. It is only natural that there is a difference in power between someone who has just become foreign and someone who has existed as a foreign god from the beginning.
“And maybe even if Berget becomes an outsider, he can still be subordinate to the Watcher.”
“… That’s too dangerous.”
“That’s why I made a plan. To anticipate such situations and prevent them in advance.”
Before explaining the method, Han Seong-jin mentioned one thing to be careful of.
“Of course, even if we prevent Berget from being subordinate to the Watcher, the plan to make Berget a foreigner is extremely dangerous. Also, it’s not a very good idea because the fate of the Earth could change depending on his will.”
This method was risky.
Instead, any other method was far too difficult to achieve. They all had their pros and cons.
“Please tell me the end. I will listen and then decide.”
Han Seong-jin nodded at Cynthia’s words.
“Here’s the general outline. First, help Berget in the depths of the void. I’ll explain how to help him later. It’s not that difficult.”
“What next?”
“I will use the power of the Guardian to restrain Berget and at the same time release the Watcher’s binding. There is a possibility that Berget will release the binding himself, but this is more certain. I ran a simulation… The divine power that you, Sia, possess should be sufficient.”
“yes.”
“And… I declare the Earth and the surrounding area as Berget’s sanctuary.”
“A sanctuary…?”
“Yes. It’s similar to the sanctuary that was made of illusions. The aura of the Watcher also couldn’t invade Irina’s sanctuary, right? The people inside were in a state that was no different from death.”
Cynthia nodded.
“That’s because Irina is an ‘Apostle.’ If you create a sanctuary with the full power of an outsider, the Watcher will not be able to influence Earth no matter what method he uses.”
“Earth? Other planets?”
Heron asked with a frown.
“It’s not just the Earth that’s his territory. After all, if you’re a foreign god, you can make one or two universes your sanctuary. The universe that ‘Langrut’, where Sia was, was swallowed up by the Watcher as a foreshadowing. Foreign gods are beings that are not bound by normal thinking.”
“…Then what is the means to force Berget’s actions?”
“The law of cause and effect.”
“Causality?”
“Even if he is an outsider, he is not completely free from causality. You can see it by looking at the way the current host is doing all kinds of crazy things to destroy the Earth. I plan to help him and implant in him the power of an outsider that Cynthia possesses, and grant him the ‘causality of the contract.’”
“What if he refuses?”
“I have to harass you until you accept it.”
Berget refuses this offer?
I was going to harass you until you accepted. Of course, that’s assuming you went ahead with the plan.
“What other way?”
“There’s another way to talk about it. What that is is… … .”
That day, three methods to prevent the apocalypse came out of Han Seong-jin’s mouth.
***
“The final decision has been made as to how to proceed.”
Three ways to prevent the apocalypse. The first of these is to make Berget a foreigner.
And the second way is to declare the entire universe, including the Earth, as the Guardian’s sanctuary.
The third method is to send Berget, who has the ‘causality of foreign news’, to another universe by linking him with the fate of the viewer.
The second method requires Cynthia to contact and talk to the Guardian, and is subject to the Guardian’s whims, but it is the method with the highest success rate. Since the mission Cynthia received is a mission, she will be given a huge causality. You can establish the Apostle’s Sanctuary, postpone the end, and then try to make it a sanctuary for the outside world. Of course, you can end up like Langrt.
And the third one is… overall, it’s hard.
This method targets Berget instead of me, who has a twisted causality, and has the lowest success rate of the three methods.
Assuming that Berget becomes a foreign correspondent, there aren’t many ways to force him to become a foreign correspondent and link him to the subject. It would be nice if he did it willingly, but the chances of that happening are very low.
While each had their own pros and cons, a conclusion was reached by majority vote.
“Is this the first time around?”
1st 2nd vote (Han Seong-jin, Cynthia)
2nd 1st vote (Heron)
3 times 0 votes
So in the end, number 1, he made Berget a foreigner and made Earth his sanctuary, and he won.
“You might try number 3 while you’re trying number 1 anyway, and if number 1 fails, you can go to number 2. Not bad.”
“…That’s true.”
Heron let out a long sigh and looked up at the sky. He felt like he was doing well right now. If he could catch Han Seong-jin right now, tie him to Ju-soo’s fate, and throw him into another universe…
“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”
“… It’s nothing. I just thought you might be having some impure thoughts.”
“…I didn’t think of that.”
Heron waved his hand and made an excuse to Cynthia.
Yeah, that method won’t work because of this guy in front of me.
‘I don’t know. I’ll figure it out somehow. When it’s time to die, I’ll die.’
Now that she was trapped on Earth, her fate was decided in one of two ways.
Either fall like Earth, or survive the apocalypse like Earth.
Because now that it’s a closed world, there’s no way to escape from Earth. It might be different if you gain the status of an apostle of a foreign god like Cynthia.
If not, then being a foreign correspondent would free you from the death of the subject… That would be really nonsense.
“So, when are you going to start planning? Is there anything I need to prepare?”
Heron asked Han Seong-jin with a feeling of despair. He had given up everything, so he had become freer.
“You can go to the empty space right now. I already know the coordinates of the depths of the void.”
“… You know everything. The coordinates of the depths of each dimension are classified as top secrets in the Akashic Records.”
“I found out thanks to Sia sharing her identity. I don’t know if this is my power or what.”
Because so many things were intertwined, I couldn’t really figure out what the power was. But what if I did this or that? If I go all the way, I just have to go to Seoul.
And all we have to do is prevent the apocalypse.
Even if it means making Berget a foreigner.