## Chapter 1420 – The Approaching Darkness

“Shit!”

A new human race? That’s fucking amazing!

It goes without saying, but the new humans have a very clear purpose. To drive out and burn all the barbaric old humans and create a new world consisting only of new humans! A very cruel purpose!

To annihilate the old humans…!
That’s just absurd!!!

But from the start, they’re the kind of bastards who would think that way, so they created the new humans. There’s no other purpose. The very foundation of the new humans is to slaughter the old humans! Destroy the old and the new victor takes everything! An act that old humans can never tolerate! It has to be that way no matter what!!!

“That’s it! That’s what it was!”

Destroying the existing world.

That’s exactly what that lich and those cultist bastards are aiming for. That’s what those bastards wanted! To completely destroy the world of the old humans…! Oh! What a terrible thing that is! Beyond judging human superiority by skin color, now they’re trying to divide people into new humans and old humans and fight! I don’t recognize you as new humans in the first place!

Such speculations swirled in my head, and the swirling speculations soon turned into conviction.

These are the only things those crazy bastards could think of.

A race of beings from beyond suddenly appeared. If we assume that these are new humans, everything is explained. That lich, that bastard, wants to burn the existing world and create a world made up of new humans.

But why?

Why is he trying to do such a thing? Because of his religious beliefs? No. No. A cult leader never believes his own words. He’s the kind of guy who makes up lies and gets other people to believe them, that’s the head of those cultists.

But is the lich really such a cult leader?

Putting on a crazy show to pursue personal glory. That’s strange too. Would a psycho like the lich do something on such a huge scale for just that reason?

He has some other transcendent and clear purpose. A purpose that must be achieved even by creating new humans.

It’s clear that he created the new humans, but reading his purpose is very tricky.

“Did you realize something?”
“Tell us quickly!”

Since I was extremely shocked by myself, Risha and Kadia urged me. I took a quick look at their faces and then decided to reveal this important fact.

“Risha. Kadia. Listen carefully. These bastards aren’t a hidden race. They’re new humans created by the lich!!!”
“Wh-what?!”
“Did you just say new humans…?”

I was already convinced of this. Frankly, the idea of a hidden race didn’t make much sense, and the idea of a race brought from another world had many errors.

As a necromancer who molds corpses to create something, he’s likely to have created new humans.

“That’s right! A race created based on humans! It’s clear that it’s a race directly created by the lich!”

Risha and Kadia, with wide eyes at those words, looked at each other. A moment of silence descends. I continued to explain.

“The reason why the lich created these new humans is none other than to wipe out all the existing humans and create a world for these new humans. That bastard is a necromancer. Making something like this would be a piece of cake, right?”

This was a speculation derived from my imagination, but it’s certain. There’s nothing else. That’s what new humans are.

“If you think about it that way, it fits perfectly. I don’t know much about the cultists, but they were plotting to destroy all the humans anyway. Isn’t that roughly what their doctrine is? A savior appears, burns this corrupt world, and leaves for a new utopia. The utopia they’re talking about here is the world of these new humans.”

Everything started to assemble in my head. The lich literally wanted a new world. Because he didn’t like the existing world? He’s crazy, so he could definitely do that. Of course, I still don’t know the exact reason.

Actually, it’s not that important what his purpose is now, but if I can know what he wants, I’ll have one more option on how to act, right?

So, gaining this conviction was quite encouraging.

“Hooh… That’s quite a persuasive argument.”
“Right?”
“But how can you be so sure?”

Risha grabbed the glass jar containing the cultist’s intestines, raised it to her eye level, and asked how I could be so sure. Conviction. This conviction comes from my imagination. But this is the most plausible here.

Crazy people are usually obsessed with creating new humans.

“This saintess doesn’t think she can quite accept that these pure white cultists are new humans. The lich creates a new race and makes them his subordinates… More than anything, suddenly new humans? It seems like a slightly unfamiliar word?”
“Right. If you suddenly say new humans, it might be a bit unfamiliar. But Risha. Think about it this way.”

ㅡChueok!

I point to the cultist’s corpse!

“A race not recorded in history! Cultists with white skin who suddenly appeared. And the lich is a guy who’s so good at making things like the undead. Those guys have strange religious views and want to burn this world!”
“Hmm…”
“They’re not just cultists with a sense of superiority! They’ve literally become a new human race. Not beings who distinguish themselves by faith, but a truly different race!!!”

That’s why they’re a different human race!!!

Self-proclaimed new humans!!!

Just because they’re newly created doesn’t mean we become old humans!!! Just because I make a clay doll right now and give it the name new human doesn’t mean it becomes a new human!!!

But for convenience, I’ll call them that. The lich will regard the new race he created as new humans. A new human race that deserves to be the master of the next world.

“It’s definitely a bizarre and far-fetched imagination! And it’s absurd! But if you think about it from the cultists’ point of view, it fits perfectly! Cultists don’t act normally!!!”
“I, is that so…? Certainly, if it’s a cultist…”

Risha nodded, looking back and forth between me and the cultist’s corpse at my speech, and Kadia expressed her agreement.

“That’s right. You can’t analyze the cultists’ ideology with ordinary logic. They seem to act madly and without context at first glance, but they clearly have a principle of action. If you apply that and think about it, those speculations are possible.”
“That’s right. That’s exactly it.”
“Well, more than anything, I felt that the speculation was quite plausible.”

ㅡChiiik.

Kadia took out a cigarette and lit it.

“But artificially created new humans. That’s a really blasphemous story. How can you make such a speculation? I always think, your imagination itself seems to be extraordinary. Our Cheonma.”

She blew out smoke and said that, sending me a look of wonder.

“Certainly, as you say, you seem to have a rich imagination.”
“Imagination… Well, this is also the influence of living in that world.”
“What?”
“The concept of new humans may be unfamiliar here, but it’s quite a popular concept there. Everyone knows it.”

According to a UN survey, about 70% or more of people in developed countries have had experience with creative works based on new humans. The concept of new humans is so popular and familiar. So familiar that even if the neighbor next door knocks on the door and comes in and confesses that he’s a new human, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

But.

“Wh-what…!”
“Did you say popular?!”

At that moment, Kadia and Risha reacted as if they were having a seizure.

Huh?

Why?

“What on earth does that mean…!”

Kadia looked at me with a very serious face and started shaking the hand holding the cigarette. Risha also swallowed her breath and covered her mouth with both hands, shaking her shoulders.

“Then, could it be! That in that world, there was a time when such artificially created new human races and existing humans were in conflict!”
“That’s really absurd!!!”
“No! It’s definitely possible! You said it’s a world with only humans! There’s a good chance that those who wanted change created new humans! And as a result, a war broke out between the existing humans and the new humans!!!”

The two women, who had gone on a rampage, started shouting and discussing among themselves.

Ah. This is it. Again, again, the two women who don’t know anything are starting to have big misunderstandings based only on their preconceptions about Earth.

The timing to stop them.

I have to catch it.

“War…! Ah! I’ve already heard that story! You said that a world war, a huge war that killed tens of millions of people, definitely broke out…!”

Risha swallowed her breath and said that with a shocked face. I only briefly mentioned the story about World War II when I was talking last time, but she made her own guesses and tied it up like this.

“I see. That war was a huge struggle for survival between new humans and old humans. I thought it was a far-fetched speculation, but that’s what it was. You thought that way because such a history had already taken place in that world.”

ㅡHoo.

Kadia, who had regained her composure, looked at my face and said that with a very cool expression.

“It must have been easy to imagine because you had already experienced it. Pala, no. My Cheonma. The knowledge from that world has begun to shine. It was an unfortunate history, but it has found its use like this.”

Unlike what Kadia and Risha thought, World War II was by no means a struggle for survival between old humans and new humans. It was an ideological war.

“No… There’s no such history…”
“What?”
“There isn’t. It’s not like that. World War II was just an ideological war. It’s familiar with new humans. There were a lot of… a lot of fictional stories like that in that world.”
“Fictional? Are you talking about novels?”
“Yeah.”
“…”

A moment of silence descended.

“Ugh, um… It seems that this saintess was too excited and made a wrong guess.”
“How can you have such a rich imagination? I think Kadia and Risha have a richer imagination than me.”
“…Let’s move on from this story.”
“Hehehe, is Kadia embarrassed?”
“…”

Kadia blushed as if she was embarrassed and turned her head slightly. Is it because Liz-noona reacted like she was having a seizure every time I told her about Earth? It seems like it rubbed off on her for a while.

“Whatever the case, it seems that such a terrible thing didn’t actually happen. This saintess thought that you were bringing up such a story, so I naturally thought that a new human revolt had broken out in that world.”

Just let Risha be a science fiction writer.

“Then Risha has to get her butt spanked?”
“Why are you saying that!!!”

Just because you’re cute.

Anyway, the story went off on a tangent for a while.
The elevated atmosphere calmed down.

“But if there are novels of that kind, I’d like to read them. My curiosity about that world has grown even more with the story just now. As expected of a world where cultists live by the billions, such absurd… new human novels are rampant, but this saintess will read them directly and criticize their cultural depravity.”

What on earth is this all about.

It seems like she wants to criticize and criticize something, but well, she can. Kadia is such an intellectual type that she originally likes to read and criticize.

I should recommend a few books to her when I go over there. Should I recommend science fiction?

“Come to think of it, this saintess is also interested. Certainly. The concept of new humans is so unfamiliar, but if we analyze the phenomenon of such books being published without hesitation, we might be able to find out something.”

I didn’t know where to start to refute Risha’s words.

“Not only that, but I also want to read other books from that world. Come to think of it, our Cheonma was quite fond of reading. Is there anything you read in that world that you were deeply impressed with? If I have the chance, I’ll read that first.”

Kadia asked me that with a curious expression.

“Ah! This saintess will do that too!”

She’s asking me to recommend a book that impressed me?

“A book that impressed me.”

What was there… Perfume?

No. The moment she sees this, she’ll say, “What kind of heretical book is this?” and run away. 1984? If she tastes Big Brother, she’ll definitely have a seizure. Or Brave New World… She’ll probably regard Aldous Huxley as some kind of cult leader.

“Let’s start by reading Animal Farm lightly.”