Chapter 415
The puppet of the most ancient dream .
Yu Jung-Hyeok frowned deeply, although this wouldn't be his first time hearing that term .
"It's that nonsense about a puppet again . What does it even mean?"
[You still haven't even figured that out yet, and that's why you're only the 3rd turn . ]
"Don't speak as if you're so amazing yourself . What do you know about this turn, anyway?"
[I know a lot more than you . ]
A burst of anger took over Yu Jung-Hyeok and the golden light suddenly dyed his right eye .
[Exclusive skill, 'Eye of Sage Lv . ???', is activating!]
The current Yu Jung-Hyeok was a Transcender, repeatedly experiencing the rapid rise of his Status and now strong enough to fight against Fable-grade Constellations . When considering the fact that the discernment level of the [Eye of Sage] depended on the user's Status, he should be able to read the fragmented information on a Constellation now .
Tsu-chuchuchut!
Only two people managed to perfectly shut out his [Eye of Sage] until now . One was the Prophet, Anna Croft, while the other, Kim Dok-Ja .
However, if his thoughts were correct, then there should be one more being that he couldn't read, as well .
[As befitting the 3rd turn, your judgement is also dull . ]
The right eye of the 'Secretive Plotter' also glowed in the brilliant golden hue, exactly the same as Yu Jung-Hyeok .
The vision in his right eye was dyed crimson momentarily, and the trickling blood wet Yu Jung-Hyeok's cheek .
[Exclusive skill, 'Eye of Sage' has been perfectly defended against by another 'Eye of Sage'!]
[Constellation, 'Secretive Plotter', is looking at the Incarnation, 'Yu Jung-Hyeok' . ]
"There's no way that a bastard like you are 'Yu Jung-Hyeok' . " He simply couldn't accept it . "No matter which regression turn 'Yu Jung-Hyeok' it is, he'd never use the scenario of the others as his entertainment . "
He was certain of this .
Even if he existed in other regression turns, regardless of how many lives he'd go through, he was completely certain of never changing his creed .
The eyes of the 'Secretive Plotter' quietly gleamed . [You're correct . I'm merely the 'Secretive Plotter' now . ]
He was merely the 'Secretive Plotter' – something this being continued to mention up until now .
He continued on . [The 'Yu Jung-Hyeok' from the 3rd turn only existed to destroy . ]
" . . . . So, you knew that . "
The 'Secretive Plotter' glanced at the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] crying out viciously and vigorously, and formed a faint smile . No, rather than calling that a smile, it'd be more correct to describe that as a 'slightly unsettling movement of lips', instead .
[When you destroy , every Constellation within it will fall . Which means this fool will die as well . ]
The ends of the Plotter's gaze fell on the slumped figure of Kim Dok-Ja . He wavered as if his breathing would come to an end at any second, causing Yu Jung-Hyeok to dash forward .
Claaaang!
The [Heaven Shaking Sword] and the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] clashed and blue sparks danced everywhere . Blood trickled down from the corner of Yu Jung-Hyeok's lips .
[Great Fable, 'Torch the Swallowed the Myth', is roaring out!]
He didn't even bother to wipe that off and swung the sword once more . That was an attack borne out of the need to get rid of all the unnecessary thoughts from his mind . An act of one last-ditch effort, to focus on the target right before eyes by simplifying his thought process . Unfortunately, his opponent knew already what he was trying to do here .
The 'Secretive Plotter' evaded the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] and threw a question as if to make fun of him . [Why are you trying to rescue Kim Dok-Ja? At the end of the day, isn't he just another Constellation you hate so much?]
The faintest hint of unrest briefly flickered on the attacking blade .
The Great Fable's Status emitted by Yu Jung-Hyeok wavered ever so slightly, but the 'Secretive Plotter' didn't miss that opening and took a stride forward .
[According to your creed, this fool should've died already . After all, there are no good Constellations in this world, are there?]
The Constellations . Beings that coveted the scenarios of , acted like voyeurs on the incarnations and their lives, and gluttonously devoured everything in this world as the subjects of Fables . Technically speaking, the 'Demon King of Salvation' was nothing more than a Constellation, just like them .
And the current Yu Jung-Hyeok's goal was to destroy all Constellations . However, he didn't kill Kim Dok-Ja after the latter had become one .
⸢But, why not?⸥
It was a question he couldn't readily answer . That was why, he also had been delaying facing it, too .
⸢Why did Yu Jung-Hyeok not kill Kim Dok-Ja?⸥
All those human connections surrounding Kim Dok-Ja briefly flitted in and out of Yu Jung-Hyeok's mind .
Shin Yu-Seung and Kim Dok-Ja; Yi Gil-Yeong and Kim Dok-Ja; Kim Dok-Ja fighting against other Constellations .
Kim Dok-Ja, who sacrificed his life for his comrades .
And Kim Dok-Ja, dying in such a wretched state like this in the end . . . .
"Kim Dok-Ja, he . . . . "
Fragments of Fables floated around Kim Dok-Ja told his tale as he lived as the 'Demon King of Salvation' . Yu Jung-Hyeok knew of those Fables, too .
They were the ones he also lived through, as well .
[Ba-aht . . . ]
Biyu's voice came from very far away; Yu Jung-Hyeok heard that voice, and slowly opened his lips . "He, the 'Demon King of Salvation', might be a Constellation, but . . . . "
There were no good Constellations in this world . That belief hadn't changed in Yu Jung-Hyeok's mind as he lived through the 0th turn all the way to the current 3rd turn, a total of four lives .
The only good star was a fallen one, a good Dokkaebi was a dead one, and there was no such thing as a 'good' scenario .
Even then, Yu Jung-Hyeok was betraying his own creed right now .
"That 'Kim Dok-Ja' . . . . He isn't a Constellation . No, he's simply a human . "
Even though he knew that made no sense .
Keu-reuk . . . .
Something cried from within its hiding place in the darkness . Keu-reuk, keu-reuk, keu-reuk . . . . It almost sounded as if the darkness itself was crying . No, it sounded perhaps more like laughter, instead .
Right in the middle of that darkness was the 'Secretive Plotter' .
[The puppet of the most ancient dream . You don't know anything about 'Kim Dok-Ja' . ]
The [Heaven Shaking Sword] gripped in the Plotter's hand let out a lonesome howl . That was the 'Sword Song', possessed only by a being who had endured a life no one could possibly understand . Yu Jung-Hyeok raised his own momentum, not wanting to be pushed back . "Do not speak as if you know something that others don't . "
Rather than a verbal answer, the 'Secretive Plotter' lightly tapped the unconscious Kim Dok-Ja . That caused Fables to tumble out of him like the tears of a child trying and failing to hold himself back .
⸢"I'm Yu Jung-Hyeok . "⸥
The young Kim Dok-Ja said those words repeatedly .
There he was, leaving the cousin's place to live alone and receiving wages for part-time work that was well below that of the minimum hourly wage .
⸢"I'm Yu Jung-Hyeok . "⸥
It was a humble and rather common story – poverty seen pretty much everywhere, a down-on-luck tale commonly found everywhere .
A story so common that it was not even worthy of a novelisation treatment .
And there he was, Kim Dok-Ja, living such a story .
⸢" . . . . I'm Yu Jung-Hyeok . "⸥
Here was the main character who moved through high school, university, the army, and the company while repeating those words .
While reading the web-novel, while empathising with its lead character, while being encouraged by the story, while being moved, enraged, and saddened .
⸢"I am . . . . "⸥
That's how Kim Dok-Ja had lived .
While reading Yu Jung-Hyeok's 'Fable', he survived a common and unremarkable life .
In place of his own misfortune, he substituted it for Yu Jung-Hyeok's, and rather than his own misfortune, he consumed Yu Jung-Hyeok's deaths instead; while writing comments, while meddling in with the story itself .
⸢"Dear author-nim, how about you do this in the next episode . . . . ?"⸥
[From his birth, Kim Dok-Ja has been a Constellation . ]
The Plotter's figure was getting more and more unstable . As if he was being influenced by the deep darkness, the ends of his white coat were scattering away into black pieces .
And just like that coat, Kim Dok-Ja's life was crumbling away as well .
[He's a Constellation who consumed another being's life to extend his own . ]
Yu Jung-Hyeok got to peer into such a life of Kim Dok-Ja . He had seen those Fables some time ago – he remembered seeing the fragments of those memories back when Yu Sang-Ah forcibly sucked him into that place called the 'Library' .
[ . . . . The 3rd turn . You don't remember anyth . . . . ]
"I do not care how Kim Dok-Ja of the past lived his life . "
The golden aura flooded out from Yu Jung-Hyeok's body, as if the only reason why he kept listening to the Plotter's story was just for this moment .
He slowly opened his eyes, his entire body now dyed in the clear-as-day golden light . Abundant Status flooded out from his core after he reached the fifth stage of Transcendence .
"What matters now is that we need him to see the end of this world . "
The Breaking the Sky Energy's flow on the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] was now going through a transformation .
"And if he needs to die, then I shall be the one to perform the deed . "
Yu Jung-Hyeok's [Air Step] crossed the space .
['The Ark' is calling out to the Incarnation 'Yu Jung-Hyeok'!]
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