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Helios.

Today, in a place with an exceptionally overcast sky, Adeline was stuck in her office with a sullen face.

“Bored···.”

Normally, I would have gone to another dimension to see the sea by now.

After being caught by Yujin Kang not too long ago for having something to do, he has been living in the office like this.

That too while maintaining a 24-hour sympathetic nervous system.

“Do you want to eat this?”

“thanks···.”

Still, she was not alone, for several people were in the office, including Cynthia and Ancia.

Adeline looked at the office while munching on the cookies Cynthia had brought her.

In the empty office without Kang Yu-jin, there were a total of three other people besides her.

Cynthia serving refreshments, Encia sleeping on the sofa, and Estelle sitting in a nearby rocking chair reading a book.

All three of Yujin Kang’s students were gathered in his office.

‘It’s a bit surprising that Estelle came.’

Now, I could understand the two of them, who had the same teaching assistant status, but it was definitely unexpected that they had come to Estelle, who had no contact except for being a disciple.

She was the first person to visit the office shortly after Adeline was brought here, and after learning Kang Yu-jin was gone, she stayed here all day like that.

“Hey, Estelle. Is it okay if you don’t go home?”

“it’s okay.”

“What’s not going on in Altair?”

“Nobody can say anything to me.”

“·······.”

Altair’s sole heir also had an extraordinary answer.

The reason Estelle came here was that she had something to talk about with Yujin Kang, but seeing that she didn’t even go home and waited, it seemed like a pretty important story.

It’s already been a week since Kang Yoo-jin left on a business trip.

“Ah. These people are fighting again.”

I could feel the consciousness of the four people accessing the sympathetic nervous system.

Because the distance is too far, doctors cannot communicate, but as a host that maintains the network, it is possible to know whether or not they are connected.

In other words, those four are still safe.

“How long can we stay like this?”

“Until Kang Yu-jin returns.”

Cynthia seemed a little worried about Karina waiting at home, but she couldn’t go back as an assistant.

This is because while maintaining the sympathetic nervous system, Adeline’s range of motion was limited, and she naturally needed someone to help her.

It was a confidential task, so why not leave it to someone else? In the end, the assistants, Cynthia and Ensia, had to take charge.

“By the way, the current situation is bleak, so I don’t know if this business trip was a good choice.”

“Eul-ssiyeon… is it?”

“It’s a war.”

Adeline tapped a nearby crystal ball to display the latest military report.

It was one of the few military secrets Kang Yoo-jin said was acceptable.

“They say the front lines are expanding. That means the war is intensifying. In a little while, Helios might be affected as well.”

“To Helios…?”

“Eh. If that happens, there will probably be a massive school closure order?”

You can’t go to school during the war.

Even if it wasn’t so, Helios was one of the top targets that the monsters were aiming for, so there was a high probability that the school would be closed to avoid casualties.

“That’s right…then we too then—”

“for a moment.”

At that time, Estelle, who had been quietly reading a book, jumped up from her seat.

Then he strode closer, past the bewildered two, and headed for the window behind the desk.

A cloudy gray sky.

Estelle’s eyes looking beyond it were serious.

“what’s the matter?”

“…something’s coming this way.”

The gaze cast into the gloomy sky is sharp.

She looked back at the two with a serious face.

“It’s too fast. I have a bad feeling about it.”

“Isn’t it just the people of the allied forces…?”

“They don’t openly come around like that.”

If you are a member of the Allied Forces, you don’t do anything that flies across dimensions.

There was no need to go back a long way after leaving a comfortable warp gate.

If so, the energy I felt from across the sky at least meant that it wasn’t the Allied Forces.

Since it was Estelle who could spread the widest sensory network through her holy power here, she could feel that something approaching her was unusual.

And.

eee

Alarm sirens began to sound all over Helios.

“What, what?”

Adeline is perplexed.

Her sensory net was weakened due to maintaining her sympathetic nervous system, and she seemed very embarrassed by the current situation.

“Baepsae. Wake up the magpie first.”

“Ugh, ugh.”

“And the dodo.”

Estelle looked at Adeline and said.

“Dodo? Me?”

“Is there anyone else besides you?”

“Why am I a dodo?”

“You think of a way to contact your professors.”

“No, why am I a dodo?”

Adeline, who had been asking with a series of question marks, grumbled, but Estelle didn’t care.

Her eyes were gazing at the sky, which was turning reddish before I knew it.

*

Pandemonium.

A tearing explosion echoes through the ruins spread under the black sky.

Bullets and magic, fists and light.

Using all available means, the four professors of Helios were engaged in a fierce battle over the Emperor.

“Keah!”

“Professor Roshua!”

“Next attack! Defense… kyaaak!”

No, maybe the expression fierce battle is not appropriate.

They were obviously doing their best, but the emperor hadn’t moved one step from his place since the battle began.

“I’m starting to get bored, but that’s all I have.”

There was a lot of sarcastic tone in the voice that was full of boredom.

The monsters stationed around him didn’t move at all, and he didn’t lose his composure even though he was handling four attacks at the same time.

Like playing with children.

The strange smile on his face did not change even a single expression.

‘weird.’

Kang Yu-jin’s acquaintance with the emperor was not so strong.

One day, the power of the emperor whom I had last faced with Estelle was strong, but it was at a level that could somehow deal a blow.

But now, no matter how much I use the dragon, I can’t reach the emperor.

As if a person had completely changed during that time, his power had grown beyond imagination.

‘Because it’s close to Pandaemonium? No… that’s not it.’

If it’s a power that depends on the place, there’s no way the emperor would be so conceited.

It’s not like he’s someone who has the power to be found out soon and uses force.

Yujin Kang put her head to the test and soon came to a conclusion.

If the place is not the cause, the person itself is the problem.

‘Is it the main body…’

The emperors I’ve dealt with so far have always taken the form of alter egos.

I don’t know if there was some reason why he couldn’t come out, but the emperor Kang Yu-jin had always dealt with was a relatively weak alter ego.

The alter ego was worth fighting for somehow, but if not for now.

There is only one conclusion.

The emperor in front of him was nothing but the ‘body’ itself.

‘I have to put down a stop sign first…’

I had to call people in first.

There’s no point in fighting right now.

However, their ordeal did not end there.

“Everyone… from j… he broke away…”

The state of the sympathetic nervous system was not serious.

The exchange of consciousness was interrupted as if there was noise.

When there was a problem with smooth communication, consciousness sharing did not work properly, and in the end Kang Yu-jin had no choice but to make his first voice since the battle began.

“Stop fighting. Back off.”

At the leader’s command, the other three gathered beside him.

Everyone hadn’t shown any signs of hardship yet, but the look of frustration in their eyes was something they hadn’t expected the emperor’s power to be to this extent.

“What is it? Is it all over now? It’s trivial.”

The emperor clicked his tongue as he watched those who retreated.

The emperor, who had been taunting them by wielding an enormous demonic energy with one finger, was still full of composure and had not even shed a single drop of sweat.

“…was the emperor that strong?”

Skadi asked in boredom.

Kang Yu-jin shook his head in response to the voice full of despair.

“It wasn’t like that before.”

“Then what… have you been training all this time?”

“Perhaps it’s because he’s the main body.”

It was also known to them while writing the report that the emperor who had appeared in the meantime was an alter ego.

So, they were also dealing with him according to the formula of emperor = alter ego, but it seemed that the formula was broken this time.

“The body? Are you sure?”

“Probably right.”

Otherwise, that force is inexplicable.

According to Kang Yu-jin’s calculation, if the power of the main body is calculated based on the output of the power emitted by the alter ego, a composition similar to the current one will appear.

The problem is, why did it suddenly appear as the main body?

‘I couldn’t move, but now I can move…’

There is only one possibility that can be predicted.

As they remained silent, the Emperor crossed his arms and affirmed his thoughts as if he had been mind-reading.

“It seems that it is soon expected that I am not an alter ego.”

“·······.”

“Yes. My body is correct. It’s been a long time since I came out of the Black Sky Corridor with this body.”

He stomped his feet lightly.

It should have just hit the ground powerlessly, but soon swallowed up all four directions with a huge vibration that shook the earth’s axis.

Cracks extending along the ground he stepped on covered all sides, and the soaring Magi raked their lungs, which had endured even the environment of Pandaemonium, like saw blades.

“·······.”

That’s enough for just one step.

The expressions of the three professors, excluding Kang Yoo-jin, were slightly fed up at the absurd total amount of power.

“Even though you have that much power, why don’t you attack?”

“I don’t like needless killing.”

“Killing us is unnecessary killing?”

“Now, yes.”

His voice was pleasant.

At the same time, Yujin Kang had a suspicion.

‘There’s no reason for this.’

If his disposition is similar to that of the Emperor, he is by no means a great man to do such a thing for no reason.

Due to his characteristic of always being thorough and meticulous in his operations, his motto is to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible if he is in front of his eyes.

Because of that, I couldn’t help but think that there was something wrong with his actions.

‘···no way.’

Suddenly, an ominous feeling crossed my mind.

The sympathetic nervous system, which was interrupted by noise.

What if it’s not a communication failure, but a problem on the other side?

If something happened that made it impossible for Adeline to maintain the network normally…

And if it was induced by the emperor.

This behavior was fully understandable.

He’s not playing with them right now, it’s probably ‘pulling’ the time.

“It seems that the problem has grown a bit.”

“Yes? All of a sudden?”

“We’ve been beaten.”

His face was stained with embarrassment.

It seemed that I now understood his intentions.

“That bastard was planning on calling us this way in the first place.”

“···Yeah?”

“What do you mean?”

“·······.”

In the return question, he thought.

That guy who is still smiling.

And the strategies we have seen so far that the original emperor would not have established.

I’ve always wondered why he made plans that didn’t work, something he would never do.

And, that confidence stood right now.

The Emperor’s purpose was to bring them here from the start.

He led all these situations so that the sharpest knives protecting Helios would come out.

“To get us… out? Why would you…?”

“To do what they do best.”

A time-honored tactic of demon beasts that strikes at the empty back and crushes the buds of the future.

From Balthazar’s activation, to Singularity and Encounters, and Pandemonium’s anomaly.

All of them were just groundwork for now.

Knowing the singularity, knowing the constellations, and knowing Kang Yu-jin… he foresaw all these situations from the beginning and made the plan.

“The death god preparing…”

Kang Yoo-jin recited the nicknames the beasts had given him.

He was always good at strategy and tactics, and was a name given to him by fear and reverence by his beasts, who surpassed their expectations and destroyed them.

And if he had that ability, so would the emperor.

thoughts and actions of the whole world.

The resourcefulness of playing with the number of countless cases on the palm of your hand.

That, indeed, was a power that was not lacking in being called the ‘Emperor’.

“I see. It’s pretty quick to notice. I guess it’s Yujin Kang.”

“…even though we noticed, it’s pretty relaxed.”

“Because nothing really changes.”

From the moment they came here, the game was already over.

“You guys die here.”

Eliminate the biggest stumbling block in your future plans.

As if it’s not fun.

The demonic trembling from the bottom began to shake the earth and tear up the sky, revealing a gigantic presence.

“·······.”

“·······.”

Everyone’s eyes turned to Yujin Kang.

It’s a desperate situation.

Encountering the emperor wasn’t enough, I had his body in front of me.

There is no chance of winning, and escape is impossible.

No matter how omnipotent the mana of time and space is, it is impossible to escape unless the spell is completed.

And for that, the Emperor would not be able to wait.

“·······.”

Suddenly, I felt warmth in my hand.

Skadi’s tail was holding his hand.

Looking back, there was her face still smiling and facing him.

“I trust you.”

“·······.”

heard sometime

A handshake divided by the tail is said to be the strongest expression of trust among snow leopards.

She still believes in him at this moment.

And even if she were to die on the spot, she would not resent Kang Yoo-jin.

Because they were ‘colleagues’.

So he looked ahead.

Still looking straight ahead with undead eyes.

to find a way to win.

The Shinigami who prepares to ‘prepare’ for victory this time as well.

“Sure, he’s a great guy.”

admit the guy

As long as he lived for a long time, he deserved to be proud that his insight into the battlefield was ahead of anyone else in the world.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that his tactics were truly predictive of the future.

However, he is also ‘Kang Yoo-jin’.

A remnant of one’s own past.

If so, there would be no law telling me not to jump over myself.

The emperor and he are the same person, but at the same time they are ‘separate’ people.

“I will share the roles for the escape.”

He pointed at Roshua.

“Roshua. Take charge of the monsters gathered around you. If the emperor starts an attack in earnest, they will also target us.”

“All right.”

He silently nodded, gathering magic power into his fists.

“Laplese assists Roshua, and at the same time prepare for the warp leading to Helios.”

Then he threw one of his revolvers at her.

Accepting the heavy pistol, she tilted her head curiously.

“This···?”

“It’s a revolver imbued with the magic of time and space. If you have it, you will be able to use magic without being affected by magic.”

The magic of time and space.

Laflis knew well what it was, so a strange look appeared in her eyes.

Because good equipment is always the driving force that awakens the wizard’s passion.

“It will take some time with the help of Roshua, but please as soon as possible.”

“I know.”

“And Skadi.”

“Yeah. Why?”

Turning his head, Yujin Kang’s eyes stared into Skadi’s purple eyes.

Facing the beautiful eyes shining with faith, he said while holding the other revolver.

“You play emperor with me.”

she responded with a smile.

“Leave it to me.”

Roshua slides to the side and Lafless grabs a revolver instead of a wand.

And in front of them stood the black hunter and the white wizard.

“Is the will over?”

The Emperor’s momentum is overwhelming.

In a black storm that couldn’t see an inch ahead, the two people’s appearances were just small starlight that seemed to go out at any moment.

Even so, the eyes of the two looked straight into the abyss of the enemy without fear.

“Is there a way?”

“there is.”

It’s still risky, but there are gambles worth making.

Now there is no room for safety and prognosis, so there is no choice.

‘I was hoping for a better environment than this for my first use.’

Raising the power of mind control while holding a revolver.

The two sources were crossed and raised, and the output of the fiercely rotating circle was added there.

A powerful pulsation of magical power that makes the heart creak.

As he clutched it, his eyes glowed with a vivid red light.

‘Obviously you outdid me.’

Because he acknowledges his strength, he also acknowledges his current defeat.

‘But if you think I haven’t prepared anything.’

That’s why I don’t miss any vigilance you have.

‘That will be your defeat.’

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Just like all witches did.

Mind control boils over, reaching out to the end of the final stage.

Mind Control Level 5, 「Conquest」

A huge shaking consciousness surrounded Yujin Kang and Skadi.