Chapter 1804 – [Cyberpunk: Dimension Runner]

Before going to the other world, we also took care of various things to prepare. In fact, most things can be obtained from over there without any preparation, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something to take care of.

In particular, Shion took care of various things for me because I was going to the cyberpunk world. That all-purpose hacking tool I mentioned before.

“And my daughter, be prepared. The ordinary dishes there are full of synthetic ingredients, so Jjambap is one of the delicious ones.”

“No!!!! How bad is it!!!!”

“Ah, that’s true… When my dad was born in that world, the food was so fucking delicious that he seriously thought about committing suicide and moving on to the next episode.”

“Oh my God, the Absolute Creator of Creation!!!!”

Why are you bringing up that guy’s name?

First, it is not Horizon that is being dragged, but Cherubim. Still, since it is a dimensional navigation ship, no matter how advanced the technology is at the level of cyberpunk, I think it is excessive as just one ship is enough to destroy the civilization there.

Like the Horizon, the Cherubim is not a combat ship. A real combat dimensional navigation ship… Let’s not talk about it.

Anyway, after completing the preparations, we put out a notice for our summer vacation and went there for a trip and vacation. Since the coordinates of the other world have already been determined, all you have to do is go.

“It’s a bit far away, so it will take a long time to get there.”

“Uncle Phantom’s power has come to allow me to visit regularly even in that dimension.”

“If it is the power of the Absolute, it falls into the realm of nonsense even by Lord’s standards. If you don’t mention it when talking about the Transcendent, it is not the default to leave out the Absolute.”

“When did you become absolute?”

“I haven’t mastered the Lord properly yet, so the question is what kind of absolute person I will become.”

There is no harm in becoming stronger, but I still have a long way to go. First, you will be able to surpass the Absolute only after you have sufficiently trained yourself as a Winter Lord and then ascended to the position of Overlord.

The Overlord’s output and power as a Lord are infinitely close to the absolute. Of course, there are limits because it is not absolute, but it is at a level that can overwhelm a certain load.

Even though I can fight with an absolute brag and inflict fatal wounds, my odds of winning are 50/50 when I fight with an overlord… No, in this case, even though I’m still a small lord, I can compete with the overlord, isn’t it a boast that I’m so damn strong?

“Dad, you’re so fucking hot.”

[I guess there aren’t many people on the road who can beat him.]

“But the problem is that I’m just strong. Among the Lords, when it comes to using powers or applying them, I’m the lowest Lord.”

[Overwhelming violence is okay because it can ignore intelligence to some extent.]

As I had some time and thought about that story, I decided to do some training.

Once you get to the level of the road, physical training is meaningless, so what you do is technical training, mainly about power. One of the powers that takes up a large portion of my hand is the power of murder, which unconditionally kills those who are inferior to me, so I am not envious of others if I have one power that I have developed well.

In this case, as the Winter Lord, I have the power to handle trials. While helping Eden with her two-dimensional restaurant, I saw and learned a lot, so I need to organize it.

“I am in charge of the concept of trials, but it is vague…”

“Words are trials, but in reality, can’t everything be seen as a trial? At the very least, tripping over a stone while walking down the street can also be seen as a trial.”

“That’s true, but it seems like I have one firm standard.”

One of the absolute standards of my ordeal is death.

As long as we live, everyone has no choice but to die, and the final ordeal we face is death. So, for most people I see, the life curve ends at the lower limit of death.

There was one exception: the undead lich wizard Kristoff. Because he was beyond the lower limit of death in the life curve I saw, the life curve was continuing at that negative number.

I knew that death was not the end for me as a reincarnated person, but the fact that it was the standard meant that I considered the concept of death itself to be important. How can a guy who is good at killing people ignore death?

“… If I use this well, wouldn’t it be possible to create a reincarnated person?”

“What does it mean for a reincarnated father to create a reincarnated person? A victim who became a perpetrator?”

“That’s right. In most cases, it’s better to just live once and die. Even if I die thinking strongly about something like a new game, what if the next time is an era of space war where humans die like trash?”

I know you reincarnated people will be just as good, but there is no way. Once you are reincarnated, there will be a lot of mental pain and other agony, and even if you don’t care about it, you can be reincarnated in a world with a shitty balance like I just said.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Absolute Destiny took care of me in the beginning, I wouldn’t have survived.

Do you know that overwhelming feeling of having to move on to the next episode alone even when the people you love die? I’m devastated now that I have Zion… Because I’m a reincarnated person, I don’t know the reassurance of knowing that among the things that change every time I die and are born, the person I love doesn’t change unless I experience it.

“I can’t practice this even if I want to, and I have no intention of doing it, so I’m putting it on hold.”

“Then?”

“First, I’m going to practice my powers in a way that I can use for combat. No, now that I think about it, it’s hard to practice even this.”

Trials are something that is inevitably given to people. I needed someone like that to practice the power of trials and the curve of life.

No matter how bad I am, I don’t want to use people as experiments just for my own benefit. I thought about whether there was another way… And then I suddenly remembered that animals and plants are growing in Cherubim by building an ecosystem.

“It would be best to do it with a human, but if it were a living creature, wouldn’t it be possible to see the life curve?”

“Isn’t that not life, but an animal life curve?”

“Don’t worry about the little things.”

Eden and I moved to Cherubim’s plant area. A dimensional navigation ship comparable to Horizon, and the plant area, which accounts for the largest portion of the dimensional navigation ship, had all the natural environments such as mountains, fields, and the sea built.

The ecosystem, which is managed by Eve using the power of Kether and the computing resources of Cherubim, is maintained by circulating resources, so it does not take much effort to maintain it. Thanks to this, the ingredients produced here are farmed but also natural.

It’s a chef’s dream. It’s great to eat wild fish like freshwater fish, but things you have to worry about parasites can be eaten with the taste of natural fish and the cleanliness and safety of farmed fish.

“I wonder what would be better… Ah, I guess I should use that rabbit.”

“Rabbit…”

“Why? Because I feel pity?”

“No, I thought rabbit meat would be delicious.”

“For us Eden, the standard for animals is taste.”

I found a group of rabbits while looking around leisurely. They are spending their time leisurely eating grass.

And I looked at the rabbit’s life curve. Among the dogs, I looked for the rabbit that would die the soonest and decided on that one as my target.

The rabbit, which is only a few hours away from death, is grazing on the grass without knowing its fate. After choosing a target, I searched for the person who was connected to the rabbit.

The opponent of the rabbit’s ordeal was a wolf not far away. Just as predators are needed to build an ecosystem, one of the wolves that is somewhat of a predator in the plant area and is sometimes raised as a delicacy, like bear paws, was wandering around searching for prey. Probably sooner or later they will spot a group of rabbits and eat the target rabbit.

I stretched out the rabbit’s life curve. As a result, the rabbit’s lifespan became longer, and the wolf that was tracking the rabbit by smelling it encountered a river and lost its scent, making it impossible for it to track the rabbit.

“Hmm.”

And this time, the rabbit’s life curve is shortened again. That too has been shortened even further than before, to the point where one dies within tens of minutes, let alone several hours.

Then, the wolf, who had lost track of the rabbit, pricked up his ears to see if he had found the scent again and got his bearings. As the wind was blowing in that direction, the wolf was able to determine the rabbit’s location and ran quickly to close the distance.

Soon the rabbit and the wolf met. Among a large group of rabbits, the wolf targets only one rabbit and attacks. The other rabbits that were startled ran away, and the only one left was the target rabbit.

It only lasted a few seconds at most, but I thought quickly. In my slowed down sense, I have a few seconds to think about it and think of creating variables for the current situation.

What would happen if we changed the rabbit’s life curve again?

The crisis of death, visible on the life curve, has already arrived. We tried again to stretch the rabbit’s life curve and make it longer, but the life curve does not easily change for things that have already happened. You can change it if you want… But the force required was relatively large.

“Crrrr!?!!!”

“Beep!!!!”

Still, the results were clear. The rabbit, which was originally destined to die, seemed to be a cornered rat, but with courage that I don’t know where it came from, it lunged at the wolf and bit the wolf’s neck. The wolf panics at the sudden surprise attack and shakes its body to get rid of the rabbit biting its neck.

If we leave it like this, the rabbit will survive. Either the wolf ran away or he ran away himself. Then, something else suddenly occurred to me, so I tried my hand at it a little.

The rabbit’s original cause of death was a wolf. That’s why I found the wolf that was connected to the lower limit of death and manipulated this and that, and here I am trying to see if I can change the cause of death.

At the point where I had already increased the rabbit’s life curve, the rabbit’s sign changed again and it was no longer a wolf. It’s something different, and I don’t know what it is, but I take the thread of that relationship and connect it to a suitable tree nearby and try to shorten the curve of life again.

Could a still tree be a sign? I thought so, but…

“Oh, the wolf is running away.”

“Maybe the liver is swollen, but the rabbit is chasing it, huh?”

The wolf, who had barely gotten rid of the rabbit, was frightened by the wolf’s counterattack and ran away. Since the hunt failed, and you were injured, retreating is the right decision to survive. But I don’t know if it was because the survival instinct exploded or because I changed the curve of my life, but the rabbit chased the running wolf.

There were no problems up to that point. Just then, the rabbit that was running away passed under the tree I had marked with a sign…

Ujikkeun!!!!

One thick branch broke and hit the rabbit. If that was all it was, I could have survived even if it broke somewhere, but since one branch is pointed and vertical, the weight of the branch + the feeling of an awl, ugh!!! And stabbed the rabbit to death. It pierced the neck and pierced an important blood vessel, causing the rabbit to die.

Eden screamed in surprise at the sight of the rabbit dying so horribly, not from a wolf, but from an unexpected accident.

“Rabbit… Housing!!!!!”

“Uh, um. I wasn’t planning on doing it to this extent.”

“Anyway, did you gain anything? Since animal testing was done on innocent rabbits, it would be meaningful to gain at least something.”

“Well… There is one for now.”

Once I can determine the cause of death, I can use it as a check in battle. If you turn everything you see around you into a sign of the enemy, your opponent will have to fight you in a situation where enemies have become enemies everywhere.

Of course, this method will not work properly if it is an equivalent Lord or Absolute. All you have to do is destroy everything around you or manipulate the causality itself to escape from that cause.

And when it’s loaded, its existence itself is a bunch of variables. It has some sort of resistance, so you can probably ignore it to some extent. Isn’t that a funny story when Rod gets fatally injured by a rock on the side of the road?

“Hmm, is it like Wonder of U?”

“I’m comparing it to a stand in case someone thinks it’s not JoJo. It’s definitely similar.”

On the other hand, I have this thought.

My blessing as the Great Demon King is the blessing of confirmation of death. It is a blessing that determines how the other person will die. I don’t think it’s a good idea to call it a blessing when dying, but I use it as a blessing because it determines a good cause of death for a relatively good person.

And if you use your authority as the Winter Lord, you can determine the cause of death in the same way. However, in this case, the blessing feels abstract and the power of the Winter Lord feels more concrete. To be honest, Blessing doesn’t know the process even if death is confirmed.

But if I could combine these two things well… Wouldn’t I be able to decide how the other person would die as I imagined? Of course, many other efforts will have to be made, but it is not impossible to twist the curve of life and manipulate death and cause of death. Rather, it would be more likely.

Manipulating a person’s life according to one’s own taste and deciding its end… Haven’t you seen something similar to this many times?

“It’s like the absolute destiny of fate.”

“Eden, no matter how much you thought it was the same, there are things you can say and things you can’t say.”

“Just as the Absolute Master of Creation considered me to be her successor, doesn’t the Lady of the Absolute Destiny consider her father to be her successor?”

“Don’t worry, I won’t give it to you. And I don’t think they will do that either.”

There is one thing that is the biggest blind spot and an issue that cannot be overcome when it comes to my ability and destiny.

I’m so fucking sick of being in charge of that!!!!!!!