Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

174. Finally (3)

#174. Finally (3)

Light flowed out from the seven holes.

Along with the strange phenomenon, I felt a sense of awakening. I felt as if I had become omniscient, and a great deal of information and knowledge flowed into my head.

There was no overload.

It was strange. Even in the Akashic Records, when a small amount of information was input, the brain was overloaded, but now, when a larger amount of information was input, the brain was not overloaded.

‘…What is going on?’

I kept my sanity amid the torrent of knowledge.

A pure white light was protecting me from losing consciousness.

‘I felt a strong desire to eat, so I swallowed the key… and then an incomprehensible amount of information flowed in.’

I don’t know if this was Cynthia’s intention or not, but judging by the current situation, it didn’t seem like a bad situation.

Before I knew it, the light had dimmed, and only a tiny amount of knowledge was slowly entering my head. And then.

“Ah. You absorbed it!”

Without a sound, a voice came from behind. It was Cynthia’s familiar voice. I turned around. There were two women standing behind me. One was Cynthia, of course, and the other was… .

“…Who is it?”

“Ah. That’s right. This is my first time seeing you, oppa. This is a transcendent being from the Pantheon who is busy moving to prevent the end of the Earth. Her transcendent name is the Goddess of Dawn and Radiance. Her name is Heron. She’s not that great, so you don’t have to be nervous.”

“The Pantheon. Among them, if there is someone named Heron… … he is a high-ranking transcendent being of the highest rank in the universe, right?”

I realized that the person in front of me was the god who had tried to use me as a ritual sacrifice. Of course, I could not have not known since I had read the information from the Akashic Records. Even without that, I had heard the story from Cynthia several times. There was no need to introduce it in such detail.

“It’s a bit exaggerated!”

“… Hmm. I see.”

I nodded at Cynthia’s words. Heron, who was next to me, seemed to have a lot to say, but he seemed to be keeping his mouth shut because of Cynthia.

Soon, when Cynthia turned her head to look at Heron, Heron immediately lowered his head, clearly showing the hierarchical relationship between the two.

“What was it that you conveyed to me through Illien? It was something that looked like a key. I couldn’t quite grasp its essence.”

“Oh, that? It’s part of my identity.”

“… Did I hear that wrong?”

“No? You heard correctly. The foundation of the new beings.”

“… … You did something outrageous, Sia.”

As I spoke with a deep sigh, Cynthia waved her hand in embarrassment.

“No, no, that. What should I say… I did it in a situation where there wasn’t much danger to begin with. I even prevented the accident in advance by using the power of illusion, which is an external power.”

“… … .”

“…I’m sorry for worrying you.”

“Okay. If something like this happens again, at least tell me in advance. It’s best not to do it.”

“yes.”

“Anyway… Could you explain your identity a bit?”

The story of splitting one’s identity and sharing it with another being was not found in the Akashic Records, nor in the knowledge that flowed naturally into one’s head.

“The world is a tough place these days, isn’t it?”

“yes?”

“It’s a preparation for that.”

“…? Is that the end?”

“Yes. If my divine powers, which are intertwined with many things, are absorbed by you, then I won’t be harmed by most beings.”

“Then… why did information and knowledge suddenly come into your head?”

“Oh, that…?”

There was something strange about Cynthia’s nodding as if she knew something.

“… You. Don’t know.”

“… … That’s right. What is that? T-But there shouldn’t be anything wrong with you, Oppa! I ran the simulation over and over again. If there was a problem, I set it up so that your identity would self-destruct!”

“There’s no problem. I just asked out of curiosity. You don’t know anything about the knowledge flowing in.”

“…Is that a bad thing?”

“It’s not bad. It’s actually good. If you have the information you’re looking for in your head, you don’t need to access the Akashic Records. It’s incomparably efficient in terms of searching for information and making plans.”

“Then isn’t that your power, oppa?”

“warrant?”

“Yes. When you become a Transcendent, you are granted power. Since you became a Transcendent through illegal means, you weren’t granted power before, right?”

“That could be a possibility.”

“Wait, wait, wait… I can’t follow the story.”

While I was continuing my conversation with Cynthia, Herron interrupted.

“What do you mean, you became a transcendent being through illegal means…? No, I feel like you are a transcendent being. How? Is this possible? A mortal being able to attain the status of transcendence in such a short period of time without any training… Isn’t that against the law of cause and effect?”

“That’s a narrow-minded way of thinking, Heron.”

“… That’s a normal way of thinking.”

“You’ve limited your thoughts to the frame of normality, so that’s narrow-minded thinking. Anyway, my brother became a transcendent being with the power of the guardian. That’s why it’s called a shortcut. Don’t treat me carelessly just because I haven’t reached a higher level.”

“… Of course. What do you think of me?”

“A goddess with a broken character who treats mortals like pawns and looks down on fellow transcendent beings?”

“… … .”

Heron seemed speechless at Cynthia’s sharp assessment. I separated them before she could think of anything else and continued speaking.

“Okay. I know there’s a reason we’re all gathered here, but let’s have a little more constructive conversation from now on. Everyone.”

As I opened the door to having a constructive conversation, Cynthia clapped her hands and turned to me and asked,

“Have you figured out a way to prevent a catastrophe on Earth, sir?”

Cynthia asked me with a serious yet playful expression on her face, one that showed her determination to always be cheerful.

“I have a method in mind. A few. The conditions are a bit tricky though.”

After reading countless pieces of information from the Akashic Records, I realized that there was a way to banish the catastrophe and completely end the current situation without having to tie my existence with the apocalypse, which is a ‘twisted causality’ in my current situation.

“Just tell me. I’ll do something about it. If it’s up to you to come up with a plan, then it’s up to me and Heron here to figure out the rest.”

“…I?”

“Why not?”

“No, that’s… true.”

“That’s what they say!”

***

“First, I found the place where Berget is presumed to be.”

“Is that where Berget is hiding?”

“okay.”

Berget, who received the dark energy that was poured out for the disaster, ran away somewhere. Cynthia tried hard to find him, but could not find him. The dark energy that was spread all over the Earth was covering him, so it was impossible to search for him.

“The guy will be in the empty space.”

“If it’s Heo Cha-won… Is it the place that Oppa went to last time?”

Cynthia recalled Han Seong-jin’s previous explanation of his experience in Heo Cha-won and asked again.

“That’s right. That place. To be exact, it’s in the depths of the space called the Void among the empty dimensions. It’s the space with the most similar environment to outer space, and where dark energy is amplified.”

“… I know that the closer you get to the depths of the void, the more the dark energy increases. That’s why I’m curious. Han Seong-jin, why do you think Berget hid there?”

Heron frowned and asked Han Seong-jin. I spoke to her casually without using honorifics.

“Of course, there is a purpose to be achieved there. It was a simple problem to begin with, right? Berget wants to go beyond the level, and to do that, he needs to memorize it. Oh, if you lack knowledge about foreign news, you might not know.”

“I know.”

“okay.”

Han Seong-jin nodded and continued speaking.

“The dark energy is a power related to the source of the external being, the observer. Berget feels it, assimilates it, understands the nature of the external being, and tries to imitate it.”

“… Is that a possible act?”

“If it were impossible, I wouldn’t have done this. I just thought about how to best utilize it when I gained control of the secret weapon and came to that conclusion. The purpose of Berget and how to use the secret weapon. The point where those two things coincide is the fusion of the secret weapon.”

“… So you volunteered to go deep into the void to feel as much darkness as possible.”

“that’s right.”

That’s all for the story about Berget, and from now on, the real story begins. His position and situation are just one story related to the end.

“I told you earlier, there are several ways to prevent the apocalypse. This is the first way. It’s to help Berget.”

Han Seong-jin’s first plan.

It was to make Berget a foreigner.