Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 67



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067

Jinseong didn’t say anything.

Time Lords don’t call humans just anything.

Even when Jinseong was playing the game Dungeon & Fighter as a user, it would not be an exaggeration to say that there was only one NPC that he could talk to, that is, a ‘human of Arad’ by Jinseong’s current standards: Siran.

‘There are cases where users who are adventurers are recognized and given various missions or called upon to solve problems-.’

The reason Jinseong himself was called to this space now is definitely not because of that.

First of all, there is also a story that Clippa said the moment she saw Jinseong a little while ago.

‘You spoke as if you were the one causing the rift. Hey, you’re not even a student called to the principal’s office! These days, even students don’t get scolded like this!’

In the end, Jinseong must have kept his mouth shut because he could roughly figure out the reason.

“……You seem to know me. I thought there was something strange about that body from the beginning.”

Clipha said.

Jinseong was just looking at Clippa.

A being the size of Jinseong’s own face, with a mechanical texture resembling a feline.

If we hadn’t met in this place and this way, I would have thought she was cute, but Jinseong didn’t even have the luxury of that now.

“You human beings without Mehmet’s involvement, do you know that there are only a handful of beings capable of such a thing?”

“……I know……right.”

Jinseong nodded his head with a small movement.

Clipha, and the Mehmet, Baston, etc. that he mentioned are all Time Lords in charge of the time of Plain: Arad.

Jinseong also knew that each person’s responsibilities were different within a certain time frame.

‘And even the manager who manages time by staying in the gap of space and time… … .’

Compared to a transcendent being like Nemer, his abilities and power are far lacking.

Clippa also seemed to be aware of it and said:

“I don’t think you can answer who that being is. However, since you’ve come here, it should be clear which being has given you a mission and what you’re trying to accomplish.”

Jinseong’s mouth moved for a moment, but that was it.

Is it necessary to tell Clippa about Nemer’s existence and the she received now?

‘… … The reason why Nemer cannot intervene properly is because of their existence. The ability itself is far superior to Nemer and the Transcendent Ones, but in any case, there is something that only they can handle, should we say the authority to manage the Plain. That is why it is no exaggeration to say that Nemer sent me without intervening directly. In that case-.’

There is no need to say.

Rather, it may just make you hate it.

Of course, it’s better to keep your mouth shut.

And this decision should have been made sooner.

“Even though we matched ‘her’ power and timing, from the moment we twisted the dimension with the power of time, we Time Lords were watching, and finally we saw. We dragged a future that had not yet happened, a past that did not exist, into this place, into reality.”

Before the problem explodes.

As soon as Jinseong heard Clippa’s words, he immediately waved his hand.

“Uh, no, no! Rather than that, what should I say? What… Um, do you know about the ? There’s a place called the ‘Castle of the Dead’ in the Heavenly Realm that’s connected to the Demon Realm, right? There’s something that an apostle named Luke created and spread there. Those… Those who are affected become enraged and move while being enveloped in negative energy, that kind of thing? What I’m saying is! It’s not like I did anything! It’s just that Skasa was influenced by the … and lost his taste. It’s kind of like that?”

The argument was that it was not Jinseong himself who had the influence, but rather that Skasa ended up becoming angry because of .

The problem, of course, was that there was so much background information needed to make that argument that it was difficult to speak fluently.

“…….”

[… … Hehe… … You write novels that aren’t even funny.]

“Gulp… ”

Even Clippa, Black Goo, and Taco shook their heads.

Jinseong quickly cleared his throat and spoke again.

“Anyway! The Black Nightmare. The Black Nightmare that the Ninth Apostle, the Builder Luke, created and spread was the cause. It wasn’t something I did.”

“But the topic of conversation was clear. The Neymar of the future did not happen, but it is something that happens. The Baston of the past existed, but it is something that did not exist. If the debaucherous Messi had been liquidated, he would certainly not have left the man who messed up time alone.”

Despite Jinseong’s heated argument, Clipha spoke in a firm voice.

Both the Time Lord who looks to the future and the Time Lord who protects the past acknowledged that the content of Jinsung’s statement, intended to confuse Skasa, was true.

Jinseong had to bite his lower lip.

‘It can’t be helped… … What I said is something that adventurers will have to go through in the future. If things were as they were, the Time Lords wouldn’t have known about it. There should have been a series of events intertwined.’

It was also true that Jinseong had a feeling that too many things might have been messed up because of his own remarks.

The only thought that comes to mind right away is this.

“…Did a time rift or a dimensional distortion occur because of me?”

Could there have been a distortion?

Clipha answered.

“A gap has been created. If a bigger distortion, a bigger crack occurs… someone who tries to turn back time may emerge through that gap. It’s possible that all of this is happening because of that current crack.”

“……Hmm? Wait a minute- Yes?”

It was an answer that made Jinseong’s eyes widen.

Because as soon as he heard Clippa’s words, one thought came to his mind.

“Because of what I said, a gap was created… and if that gap gets bigger – someone who tries to go back in time and utilize that dimension will appear… Shiroko?”

What made Sirocco’s thoughts go back to the past?

What if it was because Jinseong himself had been rambling about a changed past, a future that hadn’t even happened yet, just a little while ago, in order to provoke Skasa?

“……I don’t understand what you’re saying, but I don’t think so. The gap you created has already been filled in by the Time Lords.”

Fortunately, it is not to the extent that Jinseong is worried.

It would be natural to breathe a sigh of relief without realizing it, hearing that the gap of distortion caused by Jinseong has already been corrected.

“But you have to be careful. If the balance is tilted further, if you create more gaps and make the cracks bigger, your future will be non-existent.”

Clipha warned, watching Jinseong let out a long breath.

Jinseong could also understand the hidden meaning of those words.

‘The Arbiter of Balance won’t stay still. I could become a monster like ‘Guys in a Jar’ and be unable to escape forever… after all, he’s one of the Transcendents.’

A being on par with the transcendent Nemer.

Aider, the arbiter of balance, the transcendent one.

A transcendent being who is on the same level as someone who has lightly transcended the world of the game Dungeon & Fighter, and in some ways can be seen as more powerful than Nemer.

At least for Jinseong, it is a being whose purpose and nature are even more unclear than Nemer.

Watching Jinseong swallow his saliva, did Clippa think that the warning had been sufficiently effective?

“The warning is over. There will be no more warnings, so from now on-.”

“Excuse me! Just a moment.”

Now, Clippa was about to send Jinseong away, but Jinseong did not back down easily.

Rather, his expression had changed. It had become somewhat stiff.

“Do you know about the ? He is the one who contaminates the ‘Dimensional Rift’ and even the Apostles. If you are a Time Lord, do you happen to know about him……”

Jinseong said.

Clippa tilted her head.

“… … I don’t know. I don’t feel any such existence. < The cause of the pollution-.”
“That’s right. I’m not the one causing the rift right now. On your side, there’s someone who even the ‘Time Lords’ don’t understand, and he keeps causing trouble! Shouldn’t I be seen as someone I’m dealing with?”
“Wh, what… … What are you saying-.”
“At first, I thought it was my fault, so I just listened, but after thinking about it, I feel like I deserve the gratitude.”
In the midst of all this, there is a will to receive compensation from the Time Lords, the managers of time and those who reside in space and time.
[Kkulkul… … If the ‘me’ inside the dimensional rift saw this, I would have been very satisfied. Who would have thought that he would behave like this in front of the existence of the manager of space-time.]
Black Goo said as he saw that even Clippa was too embarrassed to speak.
Jinseong tried to push forward as if those words were encouragement.
“Anyway, the cracks and gaps weren’t created by me, strictly speaking, they were created during the action, so next time, Time Lords, instead of just blaming me, please help me out a bit-.”
But I couldn't finish speaking.
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A sudden flash of light took away Jinseong's vision.
"Huh?!"
Jinseong turned his head and frowned.
I tried to block the light with my raised arm reflexively, but it took some time for my blurred vision to recover.
So I was confused.
Even though he couldn't see for about ten seconds, he opened his eyes again because of what he saw.
"……What is this?"
[Keep kek kek… … Isn’t that Time Lord trying to kill you?]
The space had already changed.
The clipper wasn't even visible.
But it wasn't Mount Sharnak, the Magician's Guild, or even the Gate of Time where he had been with Clipha.
"Oh, no! That's not it-."
[We'll have to prove that it's not true by taking down the guys in front of us, Jinseong.]
"Gulp… "
"-That, that's right. That's true, but…."
Jinseong immediately activated .

A lightsaber with two black rays of light intertwined in a spiral structure to form a blade.

It was clear that they had to fight immediately as warned by Heukgu and Tako, but there was a reason why Jinseong was still focusing on his surroundings rather than the enemy.

“Kihihi, intruder.”

“Gyaha-! Let’s get rid of it, let’s get rid of it!”

The approaching enemies were all humanoid entities somewhat smaller than Jinseong himself.

Specifically, female entities with something resembling devil wings.

Of course, seeing weapons like scythes that were larger than their size did not make them cute, but the reason Jinseong was surprised was not because of their appearance.

‘… … They’re succubi. They’re succubus monsters.’

Because I know what kind of monsters they are and their true identity.

He knew the attack patterns of swinging the scythe and flying away, or coming close and slashing with a large movement, so Jinseong’s body reacted as soon as he saw a few of the succubi in the group pull back their scythes.

“, !”

With the set, she becomes stronger and faster, and even uses her movement skills to move a considerable distance, cutting down groups of succubi while keeping up with them.

“.”

The flow of Jinseong mercilessly dropping dark attribute energy within his radius to attack multiple enemies.

Combo patterns such as the following , , and , as well as moving short distances by utilizing the existing , , etc., were now connected like flowing water.

It didn’t take long to cut down the group of succubi, which numbered about a dozen.

What’s even more embarrassing is that Jinseong himself leveled up.

‘Did Clippa send me here? To talk about compensation?’

Jinseong took a moment to catch his breath and looked around.

However, no special creatures were seen other than the succubus group.

[Kklekkle… … I guess you must have really hated it. Jinseong who distorted the crack.]

“Shut up. Damn it… This makes it certain.”

So, what Jinseong looked at carefully was his surroundings.

If it was a space like space, it was a space, but it was different from any place Jinseong had ever experienced.

‘When I met Nemer, it was like a really dark space. There was only a subtle purple aurora or something… … It was somewhat similar when I was sucked into the dimensional rift with Direji. There was a lot of purple back then, too.’

The space in front of the door of time where I was with Clippa had an aura that was closer to purple than purple.

But now?

‘Red. It’s a reddish light, like a light source coming from a distant fire. And not just the light… … .’

Jinseong looked at the ground he was standing on.

A floor that looks like an endless series of hexagonal tiles.

Each individual tile seems to be split apart, and somehow a faint light seems to be leaking out from the gaps.

“You’re a kid.”

Suddenly, someone appeared in front of Jinseong and spoke.

As expected, it was close to a human silhouette, but the head above the neck was covered in fur, like an animal.

Not only that, but even parts of the arms and legs.

Jinseong was able to be certain as he saw the figure that was closer to an alien than a human, or if not a human, then an alien.

Where is this place and who are they?

“Epic Road? Why on earth am I here….”

Epic Road: Dimension Invasion, an event dungeon that once appeared in the game Dungeon & Fighter.

Jinseong found himself in the middle of it all.

“… … I told you that I should be grateful, and you sent me to a place like this… …? Is this the reward you’re giving me?”