Chapter 507
[tls123?]
The Dokkaebi King's expression as he murmured to himself looked rather strange . Bluish sparks were dancing on top of his lips that trembled as if he was suffering from some kind of lag .
I changed my question .
"I'm asking if that guy is the author of this world . "
The Dokkaebi King tilted his head before replying .
[Rather than an author, you could say that the 'Most Ancient Dream' is much closer to being a reader . It's not an existence that writes stories for someone else . It's lazy and can be quite greedy, you see . ]
The 'Most Ancient Dream' isn't 'tls123'?
If that's true, then who had been sending me the text files? The author responsible for writing the novel I had read for over ten years, just who . . .
[You seem to be quite curious about the beginning of everything . However, there is no meaning in trying to guess it . Doesn't matter how this world came about, if there is no one to look at it, then it's the same thing as this world not existing in the first place . ]
The 'Dokkaebi King' stared at the <star stream="">'s universe .
Blinding fragments of Fables rode on the stream of cosmos and flowed to somewhere . Wherever his gaze stopped, the fragments repeatedly created meanings only to lose them again .
I shifted my own gaze towards Yu Jung-Hyeok suspended in the air with chains wrapped around him . The empty <star stream="">'s universe could be seen behind him .
"There are things that exist without being seen . "
The darkness in the universe was simply too wide and expansive . Its vastness couldn't be crossed even with the speed of light . However, that light would eventually arrive at its destination . Unable to see it didn't mean nothing existed there . There were some things that emitted light where no one was around .
⸢Faint starlights could be spied within the deep darkness of the space . ⸥
Stars that rose up among the darkness . Stars that hadn't lost themselves yet . The light from those stars became Fables – became sentences .
As those sentences were lowered on top of the Final Wall, the already-closed story's door opened up again .
⸢The Abyssal Black Flame Dragon raised itself up as black blood trickled out from its whole body . ⸥
The moment I saw that sentence, I gasped out loud . The sentences soon became video footages . Not too long afterwards, I saw the Abyssal Black Flame Dragon raise its body up within the devastated battlefield .
Han Su-Yeong was right; although he had lost the powers of the 'Apocalypse Dragon' after the ⸢Stage Transformation⸥ came undone, he was still none other than the Black Flame Dragon .
⸢The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal floating in the skies of a different world opened his tired eyes, and . . . . ⸥
The Great Sage was still engaged in a bitter struggle against the surviving Constellations among the thunderclaps continuously going off .
⸢The final 'Great Good' was forging her way towards the end of the Good and Evil . ⸥
And Uriel, too; she was wielding her [Flames of Conflagration] to brighten the darkened night skies of <star stream=""> . . .
[No . They do not exist if no one is there to see them . ]
Along with that declaration, the Fable footage scattered away .
I unknowingly reached out towards the Fable scattering in vain .
The Dokkaebi King addressed me as if to mock my actions .
[There is nothing more futile than a story continuing on when no one's reading it . Everything is created the moment they are observed . That's how this universe has been constructed . If no one observes it, that Fable can't prove its existence . ]
" . . . . They definitely do exist . "
[You still wish to see what happens next?]
[<star stream=""> is waiting for your decision . ]
[The 'Final Wall' is waiting for your decision . ]
The whole world was waiting for my answer .
"I . . . . "
I hesitated with what to say . Han Su-Yeong was still struggling within the transparent walls .
⸢Will I be able to see what I wanted if this Fable continues on?⸥
The 'Dokkaebi King' chuckled as if he could understand my hesitation .
The 'Final Wall' viciously shuddered about . Sentences were flowing above the wall; as if it was providing a free service, the Fable was lazily being reproduced once more .
The Great Sage, Abyssal Black Flame Dragon, and Uriel began fighting again .
⸢[ . . . . Hey, Flame Dragon-ah . Don't you dare to cry because your noona is no longer here!]⸥
⸢[Keke . You're too quick to give up, Archangel! I still have one arm left that I haven't used yet . . . . !]⸥
⸢[But, it looks like that arm's been already sliced off, Black Flame Dragon . ]⸥
⸢[This body of mine is perfectly fine without an arm, you dumb monkey!]⸥
The Good and Evil Constellations, and one that was neither, had gathered together and were participating in the final battle .
While watching that spectacle, the Dokkaebi King addressed me .
[Your Fable was truly amazing . Even the greatest Great Fable <star stream=""> decided to side with you . Although many parts of your epic are still unfilled, it's more than enough to stand as the foundation for the 'beginning' of a new world . ]
"I didn't continue my story just to become something like that . "
Fables were shining brightly behind the Constellations .
[Great Fable, 'Torch that Swallowed the Myth', is continuing on with its storytelling!]
[Great Fable, 'Season of Light and Darkness', is continuing on with its storytelling!]
[Great Fable, 'Liberator of the Forgotten Ones', is continuing on with its storytelling!]
Those were our Great Fables .
Fables weren't <kim dok-ja="" company="">'s alone . Those that watched a certain story for a long time would eventually emit the same light as the story itself .
Constellations that had watched our story were now emitting the same light as us .
[That is the end of the story you have created . ]
⸢The Black Flame Dragon roared out viciously as its tail was cut off . ⸥
⸢Uriel's broken conflagration was scattering away like ash . ⸥
⸢The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal swung his broken Ruyi Jingu Bang towards the Emperor's Constellations . ⸥
The sentences written on the [Final Wall] were steadily losing their light . I reached out towards that light .
Tsu-chuchuchuchut!
[You don't have the qualification to interfere with the 'Final Wall' . ]
Pain rushed in from my fingertips . Sparks had scorched them pitch-black .
I gritted my teeth and shouted out . "I do have the right to control that story! I have already cleared the main scenario . "
The reward for the last scenario was the [Final Wall] .
The 'Dokkaebi King' smiled . [Indeed, you do have the right . However, you don't have the authority to change that story . Doing that will violate the 'Probability' . ]
I stared at the sentences floating up on the Final Wall in real-time and unleashed my true voice .
[… . Stop that story, right now . ]
All the Fables I had compiled until now were screeching out .
It wasn't too late . For Uriel, Black Flame Dragon, and the Great Sage, too . They were still alive .
⸢[Hades, our ■■ is here . ]⸥
It could be changed if it's right now . Those flowing sentences, they could be fixed . I could grab the ends of the unfinished sentences and write something else over them .
[Do you wish to save them?] The 'Dokkaebi King' asked . [I too was like you once upon a time . ]
The world he had been living in spread out from behind his back .
A planet I wasn't familiar with appeared . The scenario was underway on that planet .
[I too had experienced horrible misfortunes . Tragedies that no single existence could ever handle alone . . . By the time tragedies no longer felt like tragedies to me, I found myself arriving in this place . ]
Like a dam bursting open, a portion of the wall rained down on me . The enormous story held in the Final Wall's embrace began flooding in towards me .
Tsu-chuchuchuchuchuchu . . . !!
My mind felt like it was breaking down .
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