900 Episode 50 The World After The End (3)

The main episode 'Fear Realm' has been cleared. The strange thing is that even though the scenario has been cleared, the scenario number has not been unlocked.

Well, considering what happened inside, the Management Bureau must have had a hard time assigning scenario numbers.

Considering that giant nebulae and mythical constellations appeared and natural disaster-level fears ran rampant, it wouldn't have been strange if the scenario difficulty had been around 70 or higher.

Not 100%, but 300%.

I invaded the 'Fear Realm's' final region, joined the 'Transcendent Alliance', and even faced and fought the 'King of Fear'.

If you don't give me proper recognition, I'll be the one who feels bad.

The constellations didn't seem to recognize me right away. Right now, I was wearing the hood I received when I crossed over from the 1,863rd round’s train. It was something Han Sooyoung had given me.

In fact, in the air, there was a guy who had been curious about my identity for a while, sending me an indirect message.

'Master of Baekrokdam'.

A nebula came to mind.

But why was that 'nebula's' constellation on the temporary channel?

The question didn't last long. That was why the message from the Management Bureau that followed filled my head.

Are you saying you don’t want to give me a reward?

Since the scenario wasn’t even numbered, there was a possibility that I would receive a poor reward with some ridiculous excuse.

However, the <Star Stream> knows what happened that day, and the constellations remember it.

A great number of constellations participated, comparable to the 'Giant Tale Scenario', and just as many constellations fell.

I barely made it out of that terrible scenario.

If my contribution is not acknowledged here, it will not only damage the prestige of the Management Bureau, but also the probability of the <Star Stream> as a whole.

As expected. Then, let's start with the reward...

I looked up into the air with a slightly embarrassed heart. Not another scenario, but the 'Returner Scenario' was postponed?

The main story's development flowed through my head. Even Kim Dokja, who had been there 1,863 times, had not experienced something like this.

'Dokkaebi in Charge' dispatched.

I was momentarily silent, but soon I thought it was better. Rather than receiving a mediocre reward, it might have been better to request a private meeting with that dokkaebi in charge and receive a proper reward.

More than anything, there is the 'Demon King of Salvation' here, so there is no need to be pushed back.

Sub-scenario 'Familiar Sky'.

This was a sub-scenario that incarnations who temporarily visited other dimensions often received.

It seemed to mean that they were to perform this or that until the 'dokkaebi in charge' was dispatched… But I saw one thing that bothered me. It was something that was listed as a reward.

…D-coin?

That was when the man who had been walking with me at the entrance to the Fear Realm spoke.

"I, Eun-gong."

"Yes."

"My name is Nam-gung-myeong."

Come to think of it, we hadn't even properly introduced ourselves while walking together.

I answered with an embarrassed smile.

"Ah, you're from Nam-gung-se-ga."

Looking back, I had a small connection with 'Namgung-se-ga'.

When the 'Fear Realm Expedition' was called, I had participated in the expedition with the help of Namgung-se-ga's head, Je-wang-geom Namgung Jincheon.

Namgung-myeong nodded vigorously as if he had gained strength from my answer.

"Yes, the head of the Namgung Se family at that time. Now it is just a name in name only."

The head of the Namgung Se family. When I heard that, things came to mind.

"Father! Please save me! Father!"

A young man from a prestigious family who was contaminated by the tales of the other world and cried out for his father.

Although his face was much older than I remembered, the man in front of me seemed to be the same martial artist from back then.

In other words, the man in front of me was the son of the King Sword Namgung Jincheon.

"Is the King Sword okay?"

"Do you know my father?"

I know. A greedy old man who advertised a dumpling franchise by selling the story of Breaking the Sky Sword Saint.

"I met him once before."

Still, the King Sword called me a god and I was able to repair my incarnation body. It was part of business, but I wasn't completely ungrateful.

I thought I should buy him dumplings when we met this time.

"My father passed away a few years ago."

Unfortunately, those dumplings were no longer edible.

"I, I'm sorry."

"No. It’s nice to see someone who remembers my father after a long time.”

A faint longing appeared in Namgung Myung’s eyes and disappeared. He quickly collected his emotions and added with a smile.

"I have received the grace of the Great Swordsman this time. May I ask your name?"

I was about to answer, 'Kim Dokja', as usual, but stopped.

Come to think of it, the name 'Kim Dokja' was already well-known even before I entered the Fear Realm.

Since I’ve decided to hide my identity, I think it would be better to just watch the situation unfold here for a while.

“Actually, I don’t remember. It seems that I lost some of my memories while staying in the 'Fear Realm'."

Namgung Myung looked surprised, but soon seemed to believe me.

"Oh, you were consumed by fear."

"I think so."

"Well, it's the 'Fear Realm', not anywhere else... Among my friends, there is a guy who faints at the sight of a white ladder because he is consumed by fear.”

A white ladder? Did he see an 'alien traffic light'?

"That fear is scary."

"As expected, even Eun-gong knows about the dangers of 'disaster-level fear'."

"Hmm, yes."

What kind of expression would Namgung-myeong make if he found out that I could control that traffic light?

"If you’re suffering from memory loss, even Eun-gong must have been trapped in a 'disaster-level' or higher fear for a long time."

Disaster-level…

I smiled and replied.

"Yes, similar."

"Then you don’t know much about what happened inside the Fear Realm?"

"I know that the Fear Realm has fallen, but…"

"Do you also know that the King of Fear is dead?"

"Yes. I know that."

Then, as if it were easy to explain, Namgung Myung nodded.

"Right now, the outside is suffering because of that."

"It happened inside the Fear Realm, but did it have any influence on the outside?"

"To be exact, it was a riot caused by the 'ruin' he left behind."

The 'ruin' left behind by the King of Fear.

Somehow, I felt like I knew how the situation was going.

"Are there fights over the tales of the dead Outer Gods?"

"That's right."

"But most of his tales must have disappeared with the fall of the Fear Realm."

"Ah, Your Majesty, you felt it too. As Your Majesty said, the 'Great King of Fear's' great ruins were reportedly stolen by Outer Gods of the level of myths on the day the 'Fear Realm' fell..."

So that's how the events of that day became known.

Suddenly, I became a myth-grade Outer God.

"The other small fragments of the ruins were scattered all over the Fear Realm. Since that day, traces of the 'King of Fear' have been found in the appendix of the 'Nameless Things' and 'Divine Beings of the Other World' that appear in the Fear Realm."

"Could it be that Namgung Sohyeop entered the Fear Realm because...?"

"Yes. That's right. I am collecting the 'crumbs' of the ruins under the orders of the corporation."

Corporation?

"What is a 'corporation'? Did something like that exist in the 'First Murim'?"

"Ah, Your Majesty, you may not know. I'm at a loss as to where to begin explaining this. May I ask when you first entered the Fear Realm?"

"Um, I don't have a good sense of time either."

"That could be possible. Then do you remember which expedition you participated in?"

I tried to recall my memories for a moment.

"I think it was the 191st expedition."

"The 191st? Oh my. Your Majesty, you were a survivor of 'that day'."

I recalled the scene of 'that day' that Namgung Myung had spoken of.

The day the Great Hall opened and 'Tooth Fin' appeared in the Blue Dragon Castle of the 'First Murim'.

At that time, I dragged him into the 'Fear Realm' to prevent the destruction of the 'First Murim'.

"Then you can't help but not know. First, let me tell you the conclusion."

Namgung Myung sighed with a worried expression on his face, as if he was worried that I might be shocked, and added the following.

"The 'First Murim' that Eungong knows about was destroyed eight years ago."

The destruction of the 'First Murim' was an episode that was covered several times in 'Ways of Survival'. It was destroyed by the invasion of a giant nebula or an invasion by Outer Gods, was consumed as a lower scenario area of ​​<Emperor>, and there was a bloody disaster caused by a rebellion of a lower Murim.

Not to mention, in the main story, it almost was destroyed by the invasion of the 'Divine Being of the Other World'.

So the problem was not the destruction of Murim itself.

"How many years?"

Namgung Myung answered with a trembling face as I asked him with a dumbfounded expression.

"Eight years."

Eight years.

For the constellations, the divine beings of the other world, and the transcendent beings of the 'Time Fault', it was almost a moment.

However, in the 'main story', if the 'main scenario' is the standard, the story is different.

I felt dizzy.

Even in the past, there were times when Kim Dokja would deviate from the main scenarios for three years, but he had never disappeared for eight years.

My heart was beating dangerously.

If there was even one person who thought of me right now, I could connect with them.

However, even though I activated [Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint], there was no one I could contact. It meant that no one was thinking of me.

Eight years was that kind of time.

It felt as if my existence had been taken out of the center of the story and thrown into the middle of nowhere.

It was the moment when my first goal after returning was naturally set.

The problem was that 'goal' could not be achieved.

I thought with my lips tightly shut. It wasn’t time to make such ominous predictions yet.

It’s okay if no one thinks of me. Even if [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint] doesn’t activate, there’s a way to connect directly to at least one person.

I once connected a direct line to 'Midday Tryst' with Yoo Joonghyuk. If he’s alive, the line will definitely respond.

After a while, a message appeared before my eyes.

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