Insanely-Talented Player

Episode 161

The player's mission is to conquer the tower and protect the human world.

Tier 15 future top.

The mask and puppet dance began simultaneously, and the soldiers of the peacekeeping force clashed with the king of heroes.

Lord of men and Lord of heroes.

Amid the fight between the two monarchs, Saint Mary did not hesitate.

‘Oh, I see.'

I was confident that I was willing to face the humans without the slightest hesitation or hesitation. In the sea of blood flowing beneath my feet, I saw a monster wearing a crimson suit, spattering blood and darkness.

The bloody saint was there.

Sigh!

Blood-colored skewers rose from the endless sea of blood beneath my feet. A scene of cruel carnage befitting the notoriety of Vlad the Impaler, the Lord of Thorns, unfolded.

Blood-red blades cruelly wrapped around the bodies of the soldiers who were supposed to protect the peace, and the cruelty committed by Maria*) did not stop there.

The Lord of Heroes, Yooseong, was no exception.

And that was right then.

thud!

The scenery of the world stopped as if the hands of a clock had stopped. The peacekeepers all stopped their movements, and Yoosung and Maria there were no exception.

“Myself…

And in the still landscape, a soldier opened his mouth. Without heeding any laws or rules that bound that space.

“Do you know what decision you are making?”

[“Then you know very well.”]

[The Lord of Heroes replies.]

‘Lord...!’

In the still landscape, a message blocked Maria's view. It was a message from the Transcendent Lord, who was looking down on this game from high above.

At the same time, it was a monarch with a very familiar name. Also, the voice that resonates with the message.

“Are you going to give up your duty as a hero, abandon the desires of humans, and become a traitor to humanity?”

“Why am I going to destroy humanity?”

In the scenery of the world that had stopped, Yooseong calmly adjusted his sword of the winter night and answered.

“Then why don’t you prove your hero’s loyalty in front of us?”

[“—Why do you claim to be the hero of heroes rather than the hero of humans?”]

asked the monarch of humans and the monarch above monarchs.

“It is up to me to decide ‘whose hero’ I will be,”

answered the Lord of Heroes.

[“Good, you hero who abandoned the desires of humans.”]

The human monarch and the humans there all opened their mouths.

[“Now we declare that the Hero has betrayed our longing and has become a monster.”] [

The Lord of Men declares in the name of the ‘Overlord.’]

[The Overlord deprives the Lord of Heroes of the name of Hero! ]

At the same time, an intangible whirlpool swirled and swallowed up the king and the saint of heroes present.

We gave up humans for humans, and because we gave up humans, the reason to be for humans disappears.

In this way, the hero becomes a monster... and

shameless humans will long for a hero who will fight monsters again.

[Players who entered the Tier 15 Tower of the Future

have given up on the strategy...!]

The player's mission is to conquer the tower and protect the human world.

However, the ending of the two players who announced in front of everyone that they were going to conquer the 15th tier tower was something that no one on earth could have expected.

give up.

On five occasions, the King of Heroes protected the world of humans. I believed it would continue to be like that in the future. Even in despair, where everyone believed it was the end, they did not give up until the end and won the game to show off.

“This is something I cannot believe even after seeing it. A system message has just been displayed saying that Kang Yu-seong, the King of Heroes, and Saint Mary Jaeger have all given up on conquering the tower

! ”

What happens to Tower Break!”

“Calm down! There is still a chance to ‘try again’ before the tower break occurs!”

“That’s right! Even in season 2, when the advance team failed to conquer the top of Tier 12, the King of Heroes tried again and conquered it!”

“Mr. Kang Yu-seong! Why did you give up on conquering the tier 15 tower?! Operational retreat or something...

“I guess you’re all planning to reorganize your lines and enter! The first rush was aimed at exploration...

Reporters were rushing to raise their voices. It was not an action born of journalistic spirit or professional ethics. It was simply a reprimand filled with indescribable anxiety and fear.

“If a tier 15 tower causes a tower break, the aftermath will be...!”

That's why the reporters there became the representatives of humans and were clamoring for Yoosung and Maria.

mn......

Yoosung did not answer amidst the reporters' pouring questions. All I could do was remain silent. Because I just don't know what to say.

“Mr. Yoosung…

It was at that moment that Maria’s voice faded silently next to Yoosung.

“She’s a hero...!”

Not just a reporter, but a human being raised their voice.

“That’s right! “Isn’t the mission of a female hero to protect humans?”

“Player Kang Yoo-seong deserves to be the king of heroes...”

And one of the reporters fell silent before he could continue.

The freezing cold was swirling around the area as if it were engulfing it.

“Oh, you can still say it.”

In the swirling cold, the King of Heroes raised his head.

And I was finally able to realize it.

When he decided to become the hero of heroes there, ‘Kang Yu-seong', the lord of heroes, was no longer the hero of humans.

The decisions made in the ‘Tower of the Future' will turn the meteors of this world into traitors to humanity.

——At this very moment, where the future and the past overlap and exist under the name of the present.

That fact was unbearably funny.

That's why laughter came out. Just like when you hear a funny joke and can't hold back your laughter.

At first it was just a small laugh. But soon, Yoosung bent down and began to laugh uncontrollably behind the mask of all things covered on his face.

In addition, he realized that the sound of the laugh was very similar to the laugh of the ‘clown monarch' he knew.

At the same time, I felt the presence of an unfamiliar mask over his smiling face.

It was neither a smiling clown nor a non-smiling clown mask. I wasn't crying or laughing, I was crying and laughing at the same time.

It was a clown's mask that intersected joy, anger, sadness, joy, and immeasurable comedy and tragedy.

You and I, we... ... have always been like that.

The hero's imitator, the shadow of lies that will eventually return to being a part of me.

You really are repeating stupid things endlessly.

Everything made sense. Not even the true weight of despair that the buffoon overlord must have once felt.

“Ah, I’m really going crazy.”]

[The Clown Lord bursts out laughing!]

This is how the Clown Lord, a monster who lost the name of a hero and a traitor to humanity, was born.

Right here, at this moment.

In this way, the hero will become a monster, and a new hero will be born again to defeat the monster.

I just raised my head. Countless human beings were there, their representatives.

“Is there any reason why I should save you guys?”

“...

That's why the shooting star asked the humans. Silence fell. But the silence did not last long.

“betrayer!”

“monster!”

Noisy shouting, pointing, and endless cries began to echo. It was like a mess, reminiscent of a press conference by a corrupt politician.

It no longer mattered who created this game and for what purpose. In the end, there were only two actors and the audience left on this stage.

Heroes and humans.

And clowns and humans.

‘I was not understood by anyone, and no one recognized that fact....

‘I swore that I would sacrifice myself to protect the world and repeat the same thing endlessly.'

“Why did you bark as much as you wanted? “No matter what you say, the world won’t change anyway.”

The clown monarch, who had been robbed of his hero's name, stood up. He doesn't care about people pointing fingers at him.

“Before I get to the top of Tier 15 again and crash the game and cause a tower break, why don’t you at least give your parents a call to tell them you love them?”

There was a king of heroes who was no different from any other time, and there was a saintly woman who could not hide her astonishment.

“Let’s go, saintess.”

And Yooseong spoke to Maria.

“Where are you going?”

“I’ll have to go try it for the second time.”

“Yes, but Mr. Yoosung is no longer...

—— a hero.

The Overlord, the Lord of Men, deprived the Lord of Heroes of his heroic name. He was no longer a human hero.

“Who decided that?”

However, before Maria could finish speaking, Yoosung interrupted her. And at those words, Maria took a deep breath.

“You can be a hero or a villain. I decide what happens on stage. “Not humans.”

Yoosung said and Maria quietly burst into laughter.

* * *

‘Aid you want to be a hero?'

* * *

[Re-entering the Tower of the Future....]

When I looked up, the humans were there. They were soldiers wearing the uniform of a multinational peacekeeping force directly under the UN.

“Why did you come back?”

A soldier armed with a gun opened his mouth.

“You cannot attack this tower unless you prove the hero’s loyalty to the humans. “You monster who abandoned humanity’s longing.”

It was undoubtedly a human voice.

I was able to realize it at the same time. The ‘overlord' who thought he was silent was never silent. He did not hide his identity at the top of the throne and go into seclusion.

A human monarch.

The monarch was everywhere and chattered endlessly.

Sometimes they were reporters, and sometimes they were people in power who were hostile to Yoosung.

“Hmm, I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

That's why Yoosung burst out laughing and then snapped his fingers.

“I haven’t abandoned humans yet.” Early on.] Spreading the power that ‘The Clown Lord’ gave to player Kang Yoo-seong.

Gaho 一《Putting up the stage》

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- Effect

. You can temporarily start broadcasting live to people around the world.

“Whether you are worth saving or not... or even if you are not worth saving.”

You can be a hero or a villain. It was only his decision what to do on stage.

And player Kang Yoo-seong still hoped to become a hero.