The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2

Chapter 671: [End]

Crackle...

As he walked forward, intense flashes of light burst forth.

Feeling the strong resistance from within, Seong Jihan thought,

'I'll need to summon all of Nothingness.'

He felt the need to use his full power.

As a hundred swords rose and flew forward,

Crackle. Crackle...

Sparks flew from the mass of light ahead,

And space began to open.

Seeing Seong Jihan opening a path and entering, Mitra's illusion tried to block him, but,

"I came here to ruin your plans anyway."

Slash!

Seong Jihan cut down Mitra's illusion blocking him and entered.

What appeared was the same world of light.

However,

'This feeling is...'

Since entering here, Seong Jihan felt, as if he had become omnipotent.

Just like how Mitra's illusion had instantly revived the people of Server 2101 and the previous humanity,

In here,

He felt he could wield the power of the Transcendent Being.

Did this mean that with just a flick of a finger, he could recreate heaven and earth, resurrect the dead and reorganize all things in the world?

Realizing this was possible, numerous thoughts came to him, but,

'...No, I'll stick to the plan.'

Seong Jihan, composing himself, spread his palm.

Then,

Swish...

The Nothingness he had summoned earlier,

Beyond a hundred swords,

Grew to thousands, tens of thousands.

As the swords clearly showed their presence in the world of light,

'The omnipotent power has weakened.'

Seong Jihan instinctively felt the Transcendent Being's power diminish.

Nothingness, which couldn't be analyzed by the BattleNet system.

Especially with Ashoka's mixed defiled world power added, it showed the effect of blocking the authority of light.

Mass-producing Nothingness with the Transcendent Being's authority was no different from using the opponent's power to restrict them.

'Well then, shall we make more?'

As Seong Jihan continued to focus solely on drawing out Nothingness without being distracted,

Swish swish...

Before long, the world began to be covered in the dark blue energy flowing from Nothingness.

As shadows began to form from the inside in the world that had been full of the Transcendent Being's light,

Crackle...!

Mitra's illusion clung to the outside of the mixed defiled world realm.

[No, why are you using the authority of creation like that! Don't do that and create what you truly desire!]

"This is what I want."

[What...? You're saying that just drawing out swords is what you want?]

To Mitra's reaction of 'What nonsense are you talking about?',

"Yes."

Seong Jihan smiled slightly and continued to create swords.

The authority of manifestation.

It was certainly a tempting power.

Especially when he had settled inside the Transcendent Being,

He was confident that using this authority wouldn't cause him much strain.

However,

'Once I use it, I feel like I won't be able to turn back.'

There must be a reason why Mitra kept urging him to use it.

Ignoring Mitra's clamoring from outside, Seong Jihan continued to create swords.

As Nothingness continued to appear and the realm of mixed defiled world expanded,

[Don't do that... Create...!]

As Mitra's illusion was pushed out of the realm, his voice began to weaken.

'I just need to keep pushing him out like this.'

Thinking this, Seong Jihan continued to create Nothingness, but,

When the swords had piled up like mountains,

Ziiing.

[Unidentified data 'Nothingness' is abnormally occupying data.]

[Cannot materialize more 'Nothingness'.]

"So this is the limit for Nothingness."

He thought if he kept drawing out swords, the Transcendent Being would collapse, but, it wouldn't let that happen.

Seong Jihan looked around with regretful eyes.

The realm of the Transcendent Being, which had been a world of light, had long since become a sword storage, but,

The power of the Transcendent Being was still sufficient, so creation was still possible here.

'Hmm... What should I do now?'

Seong Jihan crossed his arms and fell into thought.

It would be nice if there was a brilliant move to overcome the current situation.

Nothing came to mind immediately.

As he pondered like this,

'Ah. Right. They said I could create anything here.'

He realized there was no need to think alone.

He had tried to avoid touching the realm of creation as much as possible, but,

This one time, he had to do it.

"Can you create an entity to answer questions about the Transcendent Being?"

As Seong Jihan expressed his intention and implemented manifestation,

Ziiing...

A mass of light gathered before his eyes and tried to form a shape.

But as the light tried to form a human figure,

Seong Jihan frowned.

"Hey. Don't come out in Urd's form. Just come out as a system window."

He was going to develop a neurosis if he kept seeing Urd's form.

In response to Seong Jihan's answer,

Ziiing...

A message window appeared before his eyes.

[Please state your inquiry.]

As such words appeared in the message window,

"Yes. How can the Transcendent Being be eliminated?"

Seong Jihan asked his curious question straightforwardly.

[Do you want removal through rapid change? Or gradual removal?]

The message window replied, asking which method he preferred.

"Well... In a way that has minimal side effects on the current world."

Drrrr...

As Seong Jihan expressed his intention,

Methods to eliminate the Transcendent Being began to be listed.

"Hmm..."

Seong Jihan looked through the list that appeared in the message window, then,

"This one seems best."

He chose one of them.

* * *

'...He's putting his hand to creation.'

At the edge of the Transcendent Being's realm, Mitra, who had been pushed this far, hadn't lost his composure yet.

'In the end, you too will become a being like me.'

Possessing his authority and performing creation,

Mitra knew well what feeling it would bring.

All things in the world become lowered to less than insects,

Becoming trivial things that can be created and destroyed at will.

'You will eventually need me.'

For now, he was just temporarily wandering, unable to forget his memories as a human.

But eventually, he would act befitting the status of a transcendent being.

As Mitra firmly believed that time would solve everything,

[The data administrator has been changed to 'Seong Jihan'.]

[Traces of the 'Black Administrator' are being deleted.]

Ziiing...

Suddenly, messages appeared before Mitra's eyes.

Not content with taking the data administrator,

The system was even erasing traces of the Black Administrator.

This meant it would delete the current Mitra as well, but,

'You're using manifestation well.'

He wasn't greatly shaken.

Swish...

As the traces of the Black Administrator were deleted,

Mitra's consciousness began to be erased by the Transcendent Being in reverse, but,

'You will eventually resurrect me...'

Even as he was disappearing,

Mitra was rejoicing that Seong Jihan had used 'manifestation'.

After waiting for a thousand or ten thousand years,

Eventually, he too would resurrect him to create a suitable 'companion' for himself.

Mitra watched Seong Jihan's creation with such confidence, but,

[Data of the 'Mitra divine race' is being deleted.]

'...Well, it's fine. What's deleted can be restored.'

[The 'Tower of Martial Gods' content is being upgraded to its maximum limit.]

'What a waste... To use the Transcendent Being's power on such things. How regrettable.'

[The authority of light is being fragmented and stored in the tower.]

'...What?'

As system messages continued to appear,

Mitra's composure gradually began to disappear.

Why fragment the authority of light?

How could he, after creating a being like himself, Mitra...

If this scatters...!

[The authority of light is being completely sealed.]

'No. Wait...!'

At that message, Mitra was surprised and tried to respond, but,

Crackle...

The authority of the Transcendent Being,

Was now focused on eliminating the former data administrator, 'Mitra'.

Crackle...

His consciousness, instantly engulfed in light, was disappearing.

'Could it be...'

Mitra, who had firmly believed that Seong Jihan would someday resurrect him,

Only at the last moment,

Began to doubt his own thoughts, but,

'Ah, no. Surely not, like this...?'

Fwoosh...!

The light had consumed all traces of him.

And then,

Beep. Beep.

[All traces of the 'Black Administrator' have disappeared.]

A message appeared before Seong Jihan's eyes, stating that Mitra had been completely annihilated.

"Has he truly been annihilated?"

[Yes. All traces of the Black Administrator have been completely eliminated.]

"Good. Then, let's continue with the sealing."

[If all the authority of light is sealed, manifestation will no longer be possible. Is that alright?]

"Yes."

There was no need to use the authority of manifestation anymore.

At Seong Jihan's firm answer,

[Proceeding with the sealing.]

Flash...!

Light spread strongly from the Transcendent Being.

"Ah... Right. Before that, let's re-seal our world among the worlds Mitra created."

[Understood.]

While the people of the Murim Empire might as well be left alive since they were already living,

There was no need to have a world where Yoon Seah died coexist with the current world.

As Seong Jihan said this, the process proceeded step by step.

'This power... It's a bit regrettable.'

It was truly an overwhelming authority where everything happened as he said.

But he resolved not to have any lingering attachments and,

Opened his mouth.

"When it's done, return me to the original world."

[Understood.]

Ziiing...!

Light flashed.

And so, time passed.

* * *

Inside the Sword Palace.

Flash!

"...Have I returned?"

Seong Jihan blinked his eyes in his room.

'...My body feels definitely heavier.'

While in the Transcendent Being, he had been omnipotent.

But after giving that up and sealing the authority of light in the Tower of Martial Gods, which had been maximally upgraded,

He had returned to his former player state, without the authority of light.

Of course,

'My abilities remain the same.'

Except for the White Light, all his original powers remained intact.

Now, in the BattleNet where other administrators had disappeared, only Jiang Shang could match him.

'With the analysis sealed, it's actually better...'

Swish.

Seong Jihan looked around the room.

The world that had appeared as code when analysis was active, now appeared as the actual scenery, like before.

As he was looking around, satisfied,

Bang!

"Uncle!!! You're finally back!"

His room door burst open.

Yoon Seah entered with a surprised expression.

"Back? Has some time passed?"

"Yes. It's been 6 months since you disappeared! But..."

Before Yoon Seah could finish speaking,

Whoosh!

Something flew past her back.

'...A sword?'

Why was a sword suddenly flying at home?

Seong Jihan frowned and stopped the sword in mid-air.

Then, immediately, a figure rushed from behind Yoon Seah.

"...What's this?"

He didn't expect such a welcome right after returning.

Seong Jihan smiled slightly and reached out his hand.

Pak!

He grabbed someone's neck where he had reached out.

"Kuh..."

Looking at the neck he grabbed, he saw a woman with short hair.

Despite being instantly subdued by Seong Jihan,

She was looking at him with strangely ecstatic eyes.

'What's this? A pervert?'

It's the first time he had seen someone happy about being grabbed by the neck.

But this person...

'She looks familiar...'

As Seong Jihan felt the woman who had ambushed him looked oddly familiar,

"Ah. Princess...!"

Yoon Seah called the woman Seong Jihan had grabbed 'Princess'.

'If she's a princess... Ah.'

He thought she looked familiar from somewhere.

Wasn't this the daughter of Jiang Shang, the Emperor of the Murim Empire?

Swish.

As Seong Jihan loosened his grip,

The woman who fell to the ground looked up at Seong Jihan with sparkling eyes.

"...Father's words were truly correct."

The princess spoke Korean fluently, having learned it who knows when,

Looking at that, Seong Jihan felt an inexplicable unease and asked her,

"What did the Emperor say?"

"He said you would subdue someone like me in an instant, my lord."

What?

Suddenly, what was with this 'my lord'?

Seong Jihan was bewildered by the woman who had barged in as soon as he returned, but,

"Let me introduce myself formally."

Swish.

Before he could say anything,

She had already bowed deeply.

"I am Kang Seol-young. Though I am inadequate, I will do my best to assist you from now on, my lord."

Seong Jihan just blinked his eyes.

No.

What was this situation right after returning?

"...Um. Uncle. I thought your wife would end up being Sophia or Sister Hayeon... I didn't expect it to be this person?"

"Hey. What wife? It's not like that."

"Really? But Princess, you've been here for 4 months already? I was so surprised when the Emperor said uncle was the person he had designated as your betrothed!"

Come to think of it, Yoon Seah was clearly trying to say something more earlier.

Was that interrupted by Kang Seol-young's ambush?

"Um, Princess."

"Please call me by my name comfortably, my lord."

"...Alright. Seol-young. There seems to be some misunderstanding about the betrothal..."

"Misunderstanding... you say?"

At those words, Kang Seol-young showed visible disappointment.

No, why was she disappointed when they just met today?

"...I understand. Father is coming, so I'll ask him directly."

"He's coming in person?"

"Yes. I just contacted him a moment ago."

No sooner had her words ended,

[Son-in-law! You've finally returned!]

From outside the building, Jiang Shang's roar was heard.

That man.

After realizing that the humanity of Server 2101 couldn't be resurrected, he stopped calling him son-in-law...

When did the title return?

[Let's finish the wedding ceremony today and hold the enthronement ceremony together!]

Seong Jihan, hearing Jiang Shang's excited roar from outside,

Sighed softly.

"...And I was hoping to rest a bit."

Well, still.

This much was a small happening compared to what happened in the Ark.

"Uncle... Won't it be a problem if that roaring continues?"

"Yeah. We'll get complaints."

"...I'm sorry."

"No, it's fine. Let's go meet the Emperor for now."

Seong Jihan moved towards the window.

-Ah, can we please be quiet!

-Who's shouting like this?

-It's really noisy, seriously...!

He heard people's irritated voices in his ears.

Well, well.

'How peaceful.'

He smiled slightly.

The original world was indeed better than inside the Transcendent Being.

'Earth really suits me best.'

He walked out the window with a light heart.

The sky no longer appeared as code,

But was the same blue as he had seen before.

"Oh ho. Son-in-law...!"

"Well, about that..."

Of course.

There was a small homework left to solve.

-The End-