Chapter 192
It was a legendary story but at the same time, there was no special function . Nevertheless, the existence of the story itself was enough to attract the attention of the wenny man .
“This story…?”
“How about it? Do you like it?”
The wenny man stared at the story with eyes full of disbelief . His eyes trembled as if such a story wasn’t possible . The long fingertips touched the window and the contents of the story started to play .
Peok! Peok! Peeeok!
The intermediate dokkaebi Paul was being pounded by my fists . Every time the face of the dokkaebi was battered, an expression of shock crossed the wenny man’s face .
The story ‘One Who Showed Contempt for a Streamer . ’
Even if this story was given, I had five stories above the legendary level and my status wouldn’t be jeopardized . Naturally, it was a story that the wenny man was bound to love . They were those who like to swear at the dokkaebi and was bound to like stories beating the dokkaebi up .
“Kuk, kukuk… kuhahahat!”
The wenny man soon let out a burst of laughter . I waited until he had fully enjoyed it .
“Good, I’ll take this . It is a very pleasant story . ”
“Then do we have a deal?”
“It is still lacking . The story you gave is rare but it has almost no functional value .
…I figured this would come out . I quickly added, “Then I’ll give you Silla Allied Forces as well . ”
“…It is still insufficient . If you want to continue the transaction, you have to change the contents of the deal . ”
“Change it? How?”
“As I said earlier, you asked for two things . One is to return to the scenario and the other is to get a new ‘incarnation body . '”
I thought for a moment before asking, “Is this story enough to only cover one of them?”
“That’s right . To be exact, I can only help you get an incarnation body . ”
Gaining an incarnation body . This was naturally important . However…
“Why can’t you return me to the scenario? Can’t you originally help with this much?”
“You talk like you know something . ”
“I’ve heard some things . ”
Rather, I had read about it . Cheok Jungyeong was excluded from the scenario and I remembered what the nebula Hongik paid .
The wenny man stared into my eyes and said, “Hmm… normally this price would be enough but the current situation is a bit special . ”
“Special?”
“The bureau and nebulae are nervous due to everything you have done . ”
I somehow understood what he was talking about . The wenny man kept speaking . “Returning an exile to the scenario is a lot more expensive than you think . It is one of the most intensive consumption of probability in the entire Star Stream . Still, as you know, I have a close relationship with the ‘eyes’ of the probability .
“In a situation like this where many eyes are watching, you will have to pay too much probability . ”
“Yes . Furthermore, I don’t know the reason but the branch manager of the bureau, Baram has come out and all existing transaction windows are blocked . At present, the straight route of return to the scenario is almost completely blocked . I can’t afford it, even if you pay a bigger price . ”
I couldn’t go straight back to Earth…
The situation wasn’t as smooth as I thought . The wenny man looked at me and asked, “Do you just want an incarnation body? This is a legendary story so I can give you a decent body . There are a number of healthy incarnation bodies that I have recovered from the Murim side . ”
Incarnation bodies from Murim . It was an enticing proposition . However, I shook my head . No matter how good the body, it would be futile if I couldn’t return to the scenario .
A new incarnation body could stop the collapse for a while but if I didn’t return to the scenario, the collapse would still persist .
The wenny man was making such a suggestion because he knew this . Once my new incarnation body was broken down from the exile penalty, he would try to take my other stories with a new deal .
I decided to push harder . “I have to go back to the scenario . By any means . It is more important than getting an incarnation body . ”
“Hrmm… it is difficult . ”
“Earth isn’t possible then is it okay to go to other scenarios?”
This was how Cheok Jungyeong escaped from the Korean Peninsula scenario . There was no reason I couldn’t do it .
However, the wenny man shook his head . “There are a few places to search but it isn’t good . Moving to an escape scenario requires a greater probability . ”
“…Is it really like this? Are you being greedy?”
I deliberately waved the story window through the air . The sight of the intermediate dokkaebi Paul being punched shook slightly .
“It is a rarer story than you think . What type of incarnation would strike a dokkaebi in a world controlled by them?”
“Hmm…”
“Imagine if you put this in your lump and boast about it to your friends . ”
The wenny man agonized over it for a long time . He thought and thought about it .
[Your existence is at stake . ]
[Acquire a new incarnation body or return to the scenario . ]
[Your existence will soon collapse . ]
Finally, the wenny man opened his mouth . “There is one place that you can go . ”
“Where?”
At this moment, an eerie light appeared around the wenny man’s mouth .
“The Demon World . ”
His tone sounded as if he was saying something terrible . The wenny man saw my expression and laughed .
“You don’t have to be so scared . The Demon World is also a place where people live . Besides, there is enough demonic energy in your body that it won’t be noticeable if you go there . ”
“There are different areas of the Demon World . Where are you going to send me?”
“The 73rd Demon Realm . It is a place without a ruler . It is also a place where the losers of the scenario have gathered since a long time ago . ”
The 73rd Demon Realm . If I remembered correctly, it was one of the scenario areas that overlapped with the Earth scenario . I nodded .
“Well… it isn’t bad . ”
“Instead, I won’t be able to supply you with an incarnation body if I send you there . ”
“However, I will return to the scenario?”
Entering the scenario area didn’t mean I could return to the scenario . It was because I had already finished the scenario . In other words, I had to get help to enter the scenario .
Then the wenny man shook his head . “It is too unreasonable . I can only send you to the 73rd Demon Realm . ”
“What nonsense is this?”
“I will give you some information instead . You will need a lot of luck and effort but if you use this information, you will be able to get an incarnation body and return to the scenario . ”
“It looks like a losing deal for me . ”
“Still, it is all I can offer . ”
I pretended to think for a moment before slowly nodding . Now I had no other option .
“Okay, I will accept that deal . ”
I had decided so there was no need to waste any more time . I immediately pulled out the story and gave it to him .
[You have paid the story ‘One Who Showed Contempt for a Streamer’ . ]
The wenny man nodded . “The price has been received . ”
The wenny man swallowed the story that he had received from me . Then his lump shone blue . He smiled with satisfaction and took a deep breath .
It was as if he was sucking all the air around him . I looked closer and realized he wasn’t just swallowing air .
The time and space around him was being sucked inside . The lump swelled by several times before there was a loud roar . Along with the roar, a space poured out of the wenny man’s mouth .
The space that came pouring out created a long, elliptical passage . Beyond this passage, the landscape of a different world was shining .
“Quickly enter . It has a very short duration, unlike a portal . ”
I jumped into the passage without hesitation .
[You have been transferred to a new time and space . ]
It felt like he was jumping through the universe . Stars passed like countless meteor showers .
I was flying through the night sky of the Star Stream . Numerous scenario areas that had become fragments of the story flew around me .
[The Star Stream has noticed your presence . ]
For a moment, there was a gaze on me .
[The Star Stream has accepted your presence . ]
Then the gaze disappeared . A small current seized my body but that was all . Perhaps the necessary probability was paid by the wenny man . After a short space journey, I felt the gravity of a powerful story pulling at me .
[You have reached an area adjacent to the scenario!]
I rolled across a dust covered ground with a groan . The impact affected my body as the areas touching the ground started to crack little by little .
[Your existence is collapsing . ]
[Your stories are damaged . ]
[You need a new incarnation body!]
Damn . I hurriedly got up from the ground but the hell had already begun .
“Kuheook…”
Letters started to flow from the cracks in my body . The most dangerous area was my heart .
[Your birth story is leaking out . ]
If I didn’t seal the wounds and save my body, all my stories would collapse and I would die .
I hurriedly looked around .
That guy said he would send me to a place where I could save my body . There must be something here that could make up the incarnation body .
The moment I looked around, my expression hardened .
“This place…?”
There was a huge pile of garbage around me . Then as if he had been waiting, I heard the voice of the wenny man .
-Perhaps by now, you have arrived in the 73rd Demon Realm and you are facing the horizon of the scenario .
The horizon of the scenario . I knew this name . It was a place where the wastes excluded from the scenario, like me, were forcibly thrown by the scenario cleaners .
I shouted as I looked at the debris rolling around . “No, wait a minute! This is a dumpster!”
-You will be able to obtain an incarnation body that can be used from there . Of course, you have to find useful components . Well, I don’t know if you can get them .
“Dammit…
The wenny man wasn’t planning a fair deal with me from the beginning . If I was to die, he would come here and retrieve my stories .
-I hope you can find something good from the horizon .
I hesitantly sat down . Letters kept falling from my heart . If this continued, I would die in less than 5 minutes .
「 After a moment, Kim Dokja’s expression started to change . 」
I slowly looked around . It was for certain . I couldn’t feel the eyes of the wenny man at all .
「 The confused eyes became calm and the mouth, that was open like a fool, slowly closed . Soon, Kim Dokja restored his clothes and muttered . 」
“It’s hard . ”
「Kim Dok ja’s act ing is wro ng . 」
“…Did you notice?”
I slowly looked down . It was pretty annoying but I had to act to avoid the wenny man’s doubts .
「 His purpose was to come here in the first place . If he wants to get what he wants while hiding as much as possible, he has to act this much . 」
I listened to the Fourth Wall as I searched the surrounding area .
“…I think I came to the right place . ”
As the Fourth Wall said, I planned to come here from the beginning . It was why I put on a death show in front of the constellations .
I climbed the garbage pile and started to look around .
“Kuek, it hurts…”
However, it wasn’t easy to maintain my sanity due to the piercing pain in my heart .
[Your birth story is collapsing . ]
Everything else was clearly acting but this pain wasn’t false . I desperately held onto my consciousness while thinking of sentences from Ways of Survival .
「 It was Yoo Jonghyuk’s 111th regression . Yoo Jonghyuk was expelled from the scenario and reached a place where he could build up his power . 」
「 The 73rd Demon Realm, the horizon of the scenario . 」
「 At the dumpster, Yoo Jonghyuk got his new ‘body . ’ 」
Nevertheless, no matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t find a story that could be the materials for a new body .
In the first place, the horizon of the scenario was a place where broken stories converged . There was no way I could find a usable body in this place . At least, through a normal method .
“Activate an attribute effect . ”
[The effect of the Lamarck Kirin attribute has been activated . ]
Lamarck Kirin was an evolutionary attribute that I purchased for 300,000 coins . It was an attribute left behind in Bihyung’s item box . Finally, the time had come for the consumption of coins to be worth it .
[The privilege ‘Evolution Factor Search’ has begun!]
[Searching for story fragments that you can absorb!]
I slowly closed and opened my eyes as different things started to become noticeable around the garbage dump .
[Story fragments have been detected!]
The fragments were shining with a white light . At least for me, this place wasn’t a ‘dumpster . ’
「 The right arm of the poor sword master who was stabbed in the back by a colleague . 」
「 The terribly damaged frontal lobe of a grand wizard . 」
「 The heart of a young gold dragon who was torn to death by an outer god . 」
According to the setting of Ways of Survival, the privilege of Lamarck Kirin was to construct the body by absorbing broken stories .
“…Then I am starting . ”
I slowly reached out towards a red heart fragment .
TL: Rainbow Turtle
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