Over 200 eyes.
Countless eyes filled with blue fire gazed at me and Yena, and instinctively, I enveloped myself in holy light to block my vision.
Kugugugu!!
“Nyaa?!”
[???]
[What the hell?]
[What’s that?]
[So creepy.]
[What the hell are those eyes?]
[Wow, this is chilling! Hahahahahaha!]
“What, what’s going on?!”
“It feels exactly like reverse…”
It was similar to Kalhim, who had swallowed the Stone of Reversing, yet something was different.
While all the reverses had either extremely low or no rank at all, these eyes possessed a rank above the average.
Even if it was only around the intermediate level, the fact that they had managed to hold on was important.
‘Psychic attacks won’t work on them…’
“Miss Yena.”
“Whew, gross… Nyaa? Why are you acting like that?”
“My eyes might hurt a bit.”
“Huh? What do you—”
Kwahahaha!!!
I unleashed the holy power of destruction all over.
The space made of Black Dragon Seriphed’s darkness instantly turned white.
The more than 200 eyes were about to melt away under the holy light when their eyelids closed and disappeared somewhere.
“Nyaaah! My eyes!!”
Late to react, Yena grabbed her eyes and rolled on the floor.
Under my protection, she was safe from the destruction’s influence, but she wasn’t completely unscathed.
‘At worst, just temporary blindness?’
She might be a bit surprised, but with her strength and recovery ability, it shouldn’t be a big problem.
[Oh wow]
[Lololololol]
[Yena got eye-blasted! Hahaha!]
[That eye-blast is insane]
[Whoa]
[So real]
[Where did all the eyes go?]
“Nyaaah! Nyaaah!”
“Come on, it’s not that bad.”
“It hurts!”
“Get up. We need to start moving.”
“…It makes me want to cry.”
Huhhuh. Yena rubbed her eyes and stood up.
Even though it was a rather deep space, as I kept descending and experiencing a series of events, I eventually found myself back on the ground.
The effects of the holy light gradually subsided, and the thick darkness began to fill the space again.
Yena took a deep breath and surveyed her surroundings.
“…There’s some unpleasant energy. It feels a bit different from above…”
“Have you been here before?”
“This space itself is new to me. I thought I had been everywhere related to darkness, but I never knew a place like this existed.”
Thud! Thud!
Yena playfully moved her body and quickly darted around the area.
As deep as we descended, the space below was vast, and there were numerous things that seemed to be the corpses of reverses scattered about.
The space below was just as vast, with something resembling the corpses of the Reversing scattered everywhere.
All power had vanished, yet they were colossal beings of that size.
Upon closer inspection, they seemed to have withered away.
“Were they absorbed? To create that monster we saw earlier?”
But the eye monster didn’t really seem like a Reverse.
It retained the power of the Reverse, yet its essence was pretty similar to Kalhim’s.
Like…
“Like a ‘User’.”
“Meow?”
“The eyes we saw earlier. Those could be Users.”
“Users?”
Yena suddenly froze, her eyes wide in shock.
Users, huh?
Even a fool could tell it was a monster; are you saying it’s a User like us?
“Seriously? How could that be a User? Just because they swallowed a stone, they wouldn’t adopt such form and power…”
“What if it’s not just one?”
“?”
The total amount of energy and power.
And considering the size of the rank that’s felt, it seems impossible for just one or two Users.
“If my guess is correct…”
“I should think at least 100 people have fused together.”
“Ba, back to a hundred?!”
[???]
[Is that true?]
[100 Users?]
[What the heck?]
[Has it undergone fusion evolution?]
[Seriously]
[How did 100 people even enter Teshiniria]
Yena and the viewers murmured amongst themselves.
Even so, the idea that 100 Users fused to become a monster was absurd.
If this were somewhere normal on the continent, fine, but this place is the multi-dimensional Teshiniria only accessible to those above 121.
Though it wasn’t impossible to enter due to the Crack in Space, the thought of that many Users having come in when they aren’t even residents is hard to swallow.
In that moment, it seemed Yena came to her senses and shook her head fiercely in denial.
“No. No way. Ah. Okay, this is too much. Even if it is, 100 is a bit extreme. If that many people came together, there’s no way they could keep it a secret. This isn’t just some village backyard, you know?”
“Nyan?”
“…Moreover, with the Grim Reaper guild’s nature, it’s strange to think they’d bring along 100 people─”
“Nothing strange about it. With his status, he could easily bring that many. And you saw how they maintained secrecy, right?”
“…Ah?”
It seemed Yena had a moment of realization as her mouth dropped open.
What happened to Kalhim?
After encountering me, Kalhim tried to log out multiple times, but was unable due to cognitive interference magic.
Only after he coughed up the Stone of Reversing, the root cause of his rapidly diminishing mental strength and status, could he get out.
After managing to do it, I was finally able to go out.
“Could it be?”
“There are definitely enough ways to control this if the stone can be consumed. Even a user with a high level of freedom can have their hands and mouth tied down here.”
That’s why the Stone of Reversing is a very dangerous item.
It’s an extreme poison that can threaten a user’s fundamentally protected body, soul, and mind.
Even though you can’t really mess with the ‘soul,’ which is prioritized for protection, you can lightly toy with the mind.
“It’s high risk, high return, Miss Yena. Great power comes with a great cost.”
“…It’s a bit scary. Even if it feels realistic, it’s still… a game.”
“What are you so surprised about?”
Right now, there are very few, but the more people with ‘penalties’ from jobs, weapons, and powers increase, the more.
People will realize that this place is ‘not just a simple game.’
As a result, people’s attitudes will likely vary greatly, but that’s still a distant story.
[Wow, lololololololol]
[It’s super scary ㄷㄷㄷ]
[Combining robots are dope, haha]
[Not being able to log out is a bit;;]
[Kalhim with 100 people?]
[With that level of risk, it’s necessary, right? Ordinary users should be able to eat rankers for breakfast.]
[Agreed]
[For real, lol]
[Lily combining…? Whoa]
[?]
If you look at the chat window visible to my eyes right now.
“It’s nice that it’s consistent.”
At least in this chat window, I really hoped it would stay the same as it is now.
Yena was somewhat ambiguous, but her current form was closer to ‘User’ Yena than ‘Beastman’ Yena.
With the mindset and mentality of a broadcaster, she tried to capture as much of the scenery around her as possible while pointing somewhere.
“What’s over there?”
“Over there?”
“Yes. Over there~.”
Following the end of Yena’s gaze, dozens of forks in the road appeared.
The level of fork was reminiscent of an anthill, with a similar energy to Reverse seeping out from each one.
It felt a bit strange to search for something in the wide space behind us, so it seems I have to enter one of these forks.
I created dozens of Holy Spears and shot them into each fork.
There were a total of six forks that showed a reaction.
“The probability is 1/6. I think there’s something down one of these paths.”
“Can’t we just smash them all and see what pops out? If Lady Lily swings her hammer, everything will just… collapse!”
“Lady Lily swings the hammer once, and everything goes crash!”
“Well, that’s a bit much.”
It’s a good idea for quick progress, but this place is inside the Black Dragon Seriphed, or something equivalent.
Sure, a small battle or minor collapse might be fine, but smashing this entire space seemed a little extreme.
At the very least, if we’re going to smash it, it’s not too late to know exactly what kind of place this is and its state.
“Going around smashing things just because something’s bothering you isn’t such a great idea. Do you think we’d even know what happens if we break it?”
“…? Well, that’s true.”
“Right?”
Yena mumbled to herself, feeling like it was originally her line to say, but eventually nodded in agreement.
[Hahahahaha]
[Lily, lol]
[It’s like an inverse world]
[Great Lily]
[???]
[Why not smash?]
[Yena’s so violent, lol]
[What?]
[Hahahahahahaha]
“So, do we go one by one? Or split up?”
“Hmm… Let’s go separately. That eye from earlier shouldn’t be too daunting if Miss Yena doesn’t let her guard down. I’ll head that way.”
I pointed towards the fork in the road with the biggest entrance while Yena chose another fork above it.
The remaining four would be left for now, but if it took too long, I planned to use monsters like Lasty and the Pharaoh to progress.
“See you later.”
“Sure~”
“If anything happens, contact me.”
“Meow meow~”
Yena waved her hand and disappeared beyond the fork.
The fork is a separate space, one by one.
It wasn’t too surprising since the Black Dragon Seriphed was proficient in ‘space’ magic.
“Let’s go as well.”
[Yeah, yeah]
[Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go]
[Just break everything, goodbye]
[What will come out?]
[Let’s dive in~]
I headed toward the entrance of the fork and saw a familiar shape sitting inside.
A small female figure made of darkness, with whom I had a duel long ago.
The figure had fierce lamb horns and dark wings emitting a black aura unfolding behind her.
She smiled.
“Long time no see, White Human.”
