Chapter 76
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Episode 16 - Fragnt from Gate of mory [3]
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〖■■■■ sent a ssage〗
〖Do you wish to open the ssage?〗
〖Yes/No〗
I didn’t know how to react to the notifications that appeared in my mind.
However, I slowly focused on them, and before I realized it, my mind responded with "yes."
The screen changed instantly.
〖You have accepted the ssage from ■■■■〗
〖The Fragnt of ■■■■’s mory Gate resonates with the player’s mories〗
〖Story of ■■■■, Chapter ■■■■〗
〖Scene: "Ambush"〗
〖Sending the player’s consciousness to another space〗
In an instant, the world around ceased to exist.
My senses shut down, my perception of the world vanished, and the white lines that outlined the world faded away.
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"Ugh... what the hell!"
I muttered as I raised a hand to my head, rubbing it after feeling a sharp pain.
"..."
’Wait a mont... pain, and also... my voice.’
I suddenly opened my eyes. The dizziness hit imdiately, and I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my head.
As if hundreds of burning needles were piercing it.
I frowned, unable to understand what was happening. When I fully opened my eyes, I looked around and finally examined my body.
"...."
At that mont, I froze, unable to believe what I was seeing.
My body was completely different. It wasn’t Adel’s trained body.
No, this body was fairly well-trained, but not like that of a swordsman.
It looked more like the body of soone who trained for self-defense rather than to beco strong.
But putting that aside, I lowered my gaze toward my chest and frowned, though my expression froze instantly.
’These are... breasts... female breasts, wait a second.’
I looked at my body once more—I an, the body of whoever I was possessing right now.
’I’m inside... a woman’s body. Well, my voice alone already says it all, but still, this is...’
I couldn’t find the words to describe my situation, but then I rembered the system ssages.
’That Fragnt resonated with my mories, and then my consciousness was sent sowhere else.’
This was definitely a mory Gate or, in this case, a fragnt of one.
And I knew whose fragnt it was.
My eyes widened, and a thought crossed my mind.
’Don’t tell ... I’m... inside the body of the Lady of the Beasts, right?’
Either that, or I was inside soone else’s body.
Inside mory Gates, there were two ways to experience the story of the person who left behind their experiences.
One of them, the most common, was to let your consciousness enter without possessing any body or anything similar.
You simply entered with your consciousness and materialized as your usual self. That was all.
As if it were so kind of avatar.
The second was body possession, which was what was happening right now.
Body possession depended heavily on the situation. At best, it was random.
’But if you’re a descendant of the person whose story you’re experiencing, body possession usually places you inside soone close to the protagonist of that story.’
’Does that an I’m inside the body of soone close to the Lady of the Beasts? But that shouldn’t be possible.’
Unless I was inside the body of so Progenitor, but... was that really the case?
At that very mont, my mouth opened against my will.
"What the hell was that... a fucking ambush."
My head turned toward a specific place.
And now that I thought about it, everything around was dark.
The sky held an endless darkness, and the lands around were devastated.
It was as if the place had been destroyed by so colossal force.
I didn’t know what was happening right now, but I stopped thinking about it anyway and focused on what was happening.
By the way, it seems I have no control over the body I’m in. I’m simply a third-person observer.
Which was strange.
Soon, my eyes locked onto a figure floating in the sky.
It radiated an intense white light, held a spear made of light, and wore shining golden armor.
And its face...
Well, that was the strangest part.
It was like looking at corrupted data or static on the screen of a damaged PC.
A distorted veil filled with interference covered the face of the floating figure.
Then, suddenly, my lips moved as I shouted.
"You damned firefly, you can’t defeat us alone or even with those other bastards, so you resort to ambushes, huh, you son of a bitch?"
The figure floating in the sky turned and looked in my direction.
Because of the interference, I could barely make out their mouth opening as they said:
"Sealing them is the most important thing. This world belongs to us now."
Just as I opened my mouth to respond, footsteps suddenly echoed behind .
I turned my head, and my eyes locked onto a figure walking forward with a sword in hand.
He wore silver scale armor. His slightly long hair fell to his shoulders, and just like the figure in the sky, this person’s face was also distorted.
"Seal us? First, you’re the reason all of this happened, the destruction of my ho. Then you co here and casually say this world belongs to you. After that, you tried to kill us, but we were stronger, so now you resort to ambushes. Ha, how ridiculous."
The man stopped in front of , then extended his hand, and my body moved its own hand to take his.
He helped stand up, and my lips parted as I said:
"Evan, it’s better if we escape. Those bastards managed to seal most of my Summoning powers, and the others were probably ambushed as well by now. We should regroup with the others and..."
The man in front of placed his hand on my head, and the person who was most likely the Lady of the Beasts, the one whose perspective I was seeing everything through, fell silent and looked at the man nad Evan.
’Could he be... the creator of the Swordsman Specialty?’
His sword alone said everything. Standing before was one of the Progenitors.
Honestly, I didn’t understand at all what was happening.
I was confused, but even so, I focused on everything they were saying.
"We’ll et up with the others. Besides, I can handle this guy."
Evan raised his sword and pointed it at the figure floating in the sky.
"We’ve never fought each other before. How about we see which is better, the sword or the spear?"
The figure floating in the sky laughed.
"Ha, that’s interesting. I am the origin of all weapons and of light. Just look around you, nothing remains, and I am the salvation of this world. You are nothing but impostors."
Evan clicked his tongue and said, shaking his head:
"No, no, my good friend. You don’t belong here and, no matter the cost, you will die sooner or later. Even if you seal us in the Abyss, we’ll crawl our way back out no matter what."
The figure in the sky did not respond. It simply stared at Evan in silence, and then...
"It’s not ti yet."
A pillar of light that split the heavens descended upon where the Lady of the Beasts and Evan stood.
Without even raising his sword, Evan simply looked at the pillar of light that had torn through the darkness of the sky, leaving behind a massive hole.
And then, without warning...
A thin line appeared and sliced through the pillar of light as if it were butter.
That enormous thing, capable of tearing a hole through the sky, was cut apart with nothing more than a glance.
The next second, the pillar of light shattered into pieces, and the figure that had once been floating there had disappeared.
"He always runs away whenever I appear. He’s really afraid of , huh."
Evan muttered as he turned toward the Lady of the Beasts and said:
"Are you alright? Right now, you only have the pitiful strength of a 10-Star."
The Lady of the Beasts waved her hand.
"Yes, I’m fine. Besides, you were here the whole ti, right? Right?"
"..."
"Yeah, well... I was worried sothing might happen, and in the end, sothing really did happen. Anyway, let’s go et up with the others. They were probably ambushed too, just like you said."
The Lady of the Beasts nodded, and then Evan suddenly stopped halfway and looked directly into her eyes.
"Is sothing wrong, Evan?"
Evan said nothing and simply stared straight into her eyes, into my own eyes.
For a brief mont, my breath caught in my throat, thinking he was looking at .
But that was impossible... or maybe not, but still...
"Nothing. It’s just that I think the humans of the future will make good use of the mory Gates, and probably my plan..."
He suddenly stopped and shook his head.
"Never mind."
The Lady of the Beasts puffed out her cheeks and said:
"Co on, what were you going to say, older brother?"
"Tsk, don’t call that. You only do it when you want to ss with ."
"Alright, alright. Anyway, let’s head back."
As I watched this, a screen suddenly appeared in front of without warning.
〖Ti has run out〗
〖Because the mory Gate is incomplete, it is not possible to maintain the player’s consciousness any longer〗
〖Expelling the player from the story of ■■■■〗
In an instant, everything before disappeared. Darkness struck , and the world around faded away.
Everything I had been seeing just monts ago was replaced, and my senses and vision returned.
And once again, I could see nothing but darkness and white lines.
No color, no scenery, nothing else. I had returned to my original body, with a lingering thought remaining in my mind.
’What was all that?’
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