Punishment.A power the leader of a station can use to control his group members.[“Punishment” is affected by flag grade.][Your current flag grade is “Purple.”]The higher the flag’s grade, the stronger the power becomes.Perhaps the Leader had known # Nоvеlight # this would happen and handed me the flag in advance.Right now, the only weapon I have that can oppose them is the “system.”Tsssssht!The moment Punishment activated, white lightning whipped across the Dragon-Headed Leader (Cheonga)’s body that stood before me.“G-g-guh…?”The Dragon-Headed Leader (Cheonga) opened his eyes wide and trembled in pain. A metallic sound came from his forced-open mouth.“Sa! Gyeol!”At the same time, the four beggars standing beside him drew their cudgels.But I felt neither surprise nor panic.“You’re mistaken about something.”[You use “Punishment.”]“They’re my ‘retainers’ now.”As the lightning roared, the Sa Gyeol who had charged at me dropped to their knees. Some of them were in such agony they even let go of their cudgels and moaned.“G-g-uh, ah, ah.”For now the Leader still glared at me without kneeling.I inhaled lightly and used Punishment again.[Increasing the intensity of “Punishment”!]My Purple Flag absorbed my magic and a far more powerful bolt scorched the Leader’s whole body.At last the Leader’s knees buckled.[Constellation, “God of the Seas,” admires your initiative!]Of course.This world was never a place favorable to the Otherworldly Divinities.They were, after all, beings abandoned by the scenario—and this place is a scenario world.A world with a fixed story and assigned roles, with a protagonist.Like a discarded extra, this world did not want those Otherworldly Divinities.[Constellation, “Martial King Heungmu,” orders you to strike an even stronger Punishment.][Constellation, “Bald Militia Commander,” shouts that no way the otherworldly scum can be allowed to rampage.][Constellation, “The Reclining Dragon,” says those bastards need to taste bitterness.][Constellation, “Abyssal Black Flame Dragon,” puckers its lips.]I winced at their reactions.When a truly terrifying Otherworldly Divinity descended on the Dark Star or the Demon Realm, none of those constellations had helped Kim Dokja.That meant the Otherworldly Divinity before me now was not a top-tier entity like the Nameless Mist.When one of the ancient beings, the Dream-Eater, descended in the Old World, it nearly obliterated the entire Dark Star. But this one did not exhibit the overwhelming aura to sweep an entire region.It was probably a lower-tier offshoot comparable to the “Nameless Ones,” one whose rank was similar to—or lower than—a Constellation. Even at that, it was a major threat to me.I spoke to the divinity lodged in the Leader’s vessel.“What are you? Why have you come here?”Usually, Otherworldly Divinities were impossible to converse with.The moment a mortal heard their voice, madness and terror consumed them and reason fled.But this one was different.Because a Constellation’s spirit coexisted inside the human body, it could speak and listen in a human voice.The creature opened its mouth.“W-e a-r-e—”A retching sound burst from the Leader’s throat as vomit spattered out. Black veins stood out across his skin.I pressed for an answer.“You called me ‘the world’s recorder’ earlier. What do you mean by that?”The thing lifted its head and enunciated each syllable slowly.“R-e-c-o-r-d-e-r.”Its lips and face threaded with veins, it spat the words out with effort.“Recorders of fear.”A chill crawled up my arm.Recorders of fear.There had certainly been such a designation in the Old World.“Recorders of fear. The first humans to meet Otherworldly Divinities, and the writers who spread their existence.”But what exactly they were had not been documented.“They’re like them.”“Explain more. What exactly are these ‘recorders of fear’?”The creature did not answer; it only stared at me.Somewhere a small bird chattered incessantly.“Save us, save us, save us, save us.”“We are innocent, we are innocent, we are innocent.”“Don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget.”Voices from the far reaches beyond the Great Hall of the cosmos.With pleading eyes, the Leader spoke again.“R-e-c-o-r-d-e-r s.”“Wri-te i-t, wri-te i-t, wri-te i-t, wri-te i-t.”“P-a-r-d-o-n u-s.”The tone, as if begging forgiveness, made me flinch for a moment. Perhaps the cries of the myths echoed in my head; for an instant my resolve weakened and I lowered the intensity of Punishment.“Leader. Pull yourself together. Will you let an Otherworldly thing steal your vessel?”If I kept amplifying Punishment, the Leader’s vessel might not hold. Then the freckled boy would lose his father.As if hearing me, the Leader’s eyes cleared for a moment and he said, “Punishment.”But he could not say more—whether he meant to strengthen or to weaken it was unclear. His pupils had gone utterly black; the Leader’s kneeling hands gripped the floor.A cold sensation crawled up my spine.I turned and shouted, “Everyone, plug your ears!”【MURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIMMURIM】At the same moment, the nearby beggars collapsed, spewing blood from their mouths in geysers.I staggered and dropped to my knees as well.[Exclusive skill, “Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World,” activates strongly!]If that annihilation technique hadn’t triggered at that moment, I would have ended up like them.Yu Joonghyuk knew there was only one way to escape the spiritual shock when encountering an Otherworldly Divinity.Only by believing in your own myth.I had no such legend.But there existed the tale of the annihilation method.“I’m a regressor; my time is infinite. I will grow infinitely strong, and the day I surpass it will surely come. A fixed future is a fact. Therefore I am already stronger than it.”Hearing Yu Joonghyuk’s strange reasoning was painful, but thanks to the annihilation method I kept my sanity.Fortunately, the divinity’s chant did not continue.Instead, the darkness spread across the floor began to exude an ominous energy.[“Worldview invasion” occurs.]Worldview invasion?[Aberrations from another world rise from the darkness.]Aberrant lifeforms were crawling up from the unarmed surface. My heart dropped.“If something like the Nameless Ones bursts out here, we’re finished.”Thankfully, the things emerging from the dark were not Nameless Ones.Nameless Ones roamed the late scenarios after the nineties. This planet was only at the fourth scenario.So what were these things?They smelled of old tomes laid around a duel stage and of grasses and earth from deep mountains.An idea flashed through my mind.After the fourth scenario—the Flag Seizure—when the fifth scenario opens, a worldview called Clonos begins its invasion.But these creatures didn’t look like Clonos lifeforms.[Rank 8 nonhuman type, “corpse revenant,” rises from the darkness.]“Ugh, aahhh!”The beggars screamed and swung their cudgels. Jeong Huiwon, Jeong Munho, and Sergeant Kim shouted to protect their comrades.I saw several revenants turn toward me.The situation was hard to grasp.I knew a worldview invasion had begun.But why did corpse revenants appear of all things?[Rank 7 nonhuman type, “steel revenant,” shows hostility toward you!]I dodged a dizzying attack from a steel revenant and recalled the information about worldview invasion.“The fifth scenario is a conflict between world and world. Humanity fights invading otherworlds. Just as Seoul is being eroded by Clonos, China will face the Third Murim World’s incursion, Japan the Hundred-Yokai Realm’s invasion.”The Third Murim World.Everything finally linked together.That’s why a Murim leader—the Dragon-Headed Leader (Cheonga)—had shown up here. Why the Gaebang had suddenly appeared in Korea. It all made sense.“The Third Murim World is the worldview the Dragon-Headed Leader Cheonga ran away from with the Gaebang.”So the meteorite before us was—“Originally, a meteorite meant to fall in China.”It all started from this meteorite.I sighed inwardly.Whoever the careless spirit-child was who mis-set the impact point—“Hey, you alive?”A voice like a goblin’s. A hastily breathing goblin in midair spoke.“Damn it, a low-level goblin mis-set the meteor’s drop point… can you handle that?”I understood the situation well enough.“No problem.”“Really?”I nodded.We’d come this far; if the Management Bureau suddenly intervened and took the rewards it would be worse.“Make sure the compensation is prepared properly.”This was an opportunity.Since the Leader had not given me a Summoner-grade Elixir, handling the divinity might earn an equivalent reward from the Bureau.Only one problem remained.“Ga-ga-ga-gak ga-ga ga-ga-ga…”To stop this catastrophe, I had to kill the Leader gone mad.[Rank 7 nonhuman type, “steel revenant,” roars at you!]A long claw sliced across my robe.With my current strength, I couldn’t fell many Rank 7s.But they were revenants, and I had just the holy artifact for them.I summoned the “Damaged Monk’s Death Staff” with a Thought, then immediately infused mana.[“Damaged Monk’s Death Staff” exerts a powerful anti-demon function!]This death staff is the peninsula’s strongest anti-demon relic.In other words, it was perfectly countered to revenants, a kind of fiend.[Rank 7 nonhuman type, “steel revenant,” feels fear and retreats!]I seized the opening and ran past the revenants.[Activate “Punishment” at maximum output!]Wraaaargh!The system’s power began to strike the Otherworldly Divinity. The area of worldview invasion that had gone black shrank in an instant.“Just die, you bastard!”I swung the death staff at the thing.Of course I had no intention of truly killing it.If this vessel died, the freckled boy’s father would die as well.What mattered was the gesture.At least a gesture showing I would finish it.[The entities that had inhabited the incarnation of Avatar, “Myeong Se-woon,” simultaneously unbind their possessions!]As expected.Just before the staff struck, the divinity became a grayish spirit and left the vessel. It circled the Seoul Station ceiling in an instant, then darted to find a new host.“I want it, I want it, I want it—”I knew exactly where it would go.“Write it down, write it down, write it down, write it down, write it down.”It was me.Tsssssht!The divinity’s aura struck my crown in an instant and the world went black.I had never experienced this before, but I knew how to describe the sensation.“It was like when Kim Dokja was swallowed by the Dream-Eater in the Dark Star.”When I opened my eyes slowly, I was a spirit.Around me spread a white, barren snowfield.【Dazed recorder.】This is my inner world.【Ga-ga-gak ga-ga-gak ga-ga-gak】I turned toward the strange laughter and saw the intruder that had penetrated my world.A cephalopod-shaped form ten meters long. That must be its true body.Smaller than the Dream-Eater Kim Dokja had faced, but since it had contracted with a Constellation, it was no ordinary thing.[Constellation, “God of the Seas,” asks what on earth is happening.][Constellation, “Greatest Sword of Goryeo,” says it seems a mutated Otherworldly specimen entered that avatar’s body.][Constellation, “Bald Militia Commander,” sponsors you 100 coins and asks if you’re okay.]Voices from the stars that couldn’t peer inside me buzzed.[Constellation, “Demonic Judge of Fire,” worries about your safety.][Constellation, “Prisoner of Gingoa,” urges the Management Bureau to stream the screen.]Pity I couldn’t show these constellations the scenery here.But perhaps one of them could see it.“Leader.”[Constellation, “The Last Leader,” watches your battle.]It made sense.Cheonga had contracted with that divinity, so he would probably be able to observe this story.“From now on I will show you the story you want.”This is a tale for a single spectator.[Exclusive skill, “Incitement Lv.6” activates!]In the outside reality I had disguised myself as Kyrgios with Incitement. But I lacked mana and martial mastery, so what the Leader and the Constellations had seen was a flimsy illusion dependent on their memories.Here, it would be different.[The penalty for the skill in this area is temporarily lifted!]In this place, bodily fatigue and plausibility’s influence hardly apply.[You enter the “snowfield.”][Describe your own actions.][Consume 5 plausibility points.]This space is immaculate white paper. The only power that governs it is imagination.“The writer Lee Hak-hyun began to write a sentence.”Just like when I fought Hansuyeong.[Constellation, “The Last Leader,” sighs and breathes out.]White Blue Aura filled my whole body. When I blinked slowly, the aura of Transfiguration bathed the surroundings in light.My hair, threaded with mana, dyed sky-blue and swayed in the wind.“The Paradox of White Blue. Kyrgios Rodgrime stood there.”Sensing something wrong, the Otherworldly Divinity hesitated and began to recoil, then fled.【Ga-ga-gak ga-ga-gak ga-ga-gak】White Blue. The word that fitted Kyrgios perfectly bloomed into a myth in my hands.Kyrgios’s signature weapon.“Paradox of Pure White.”I smiled, and pure white smiled back.“Get lost, you Otherworldly abomination.”At a speed the eye couldn’t follow, a wave of lightning spewed from the blade and cut the fleeing divinity in two, consuming it as it split.

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