Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

114. Encounter (3)

#114. Encounter (3)

“Uhm-”

Arceli swallowed and looked at Cynthia in embarrassment.

“Ah- I see. I overlooked that problem. Haha.”

“Archeli…?”

Cynthia looked at Arceli with a puzzled expression.

I thought you were smart because you showed off your amazing skills and claimed to be a genius!

“But it won’t be a problem!”

“Really?”

“maybe?”

“… … .”

Cynthia’s trust in Arceli has declined.

Cynthia had the illusion that the girl’s appearance was projected onto Arcelius.

“Oh, yes… I hope there are no problems.”

“Even so, I’m lucky!”

“I see.”

Arceli coughed in vain at Cynthia’s soulless answer.

“Ahem ahem! Even if fate amplifies, I just need to stay there until then. You can really rest assured!”

Crunch- thump-!

“They say I came in the form of a clone, but I am a demon whose name is known throughout the universe. This level of fate is nothing special.”

“… But if you continue to interfere with destiny, won’t you face greater trials each time you interfere?”

“Don’t worry, I can block all of that. If that doesn’t work, I can just increase the clone’s output.”

Only after hearing the whole explanation did Cynthia’s face brighten.

“thank you!”

“He’s a meticulous newbie. He’s different from the guys I’ve seen so far.”

Arceli thought of the newbies before Cynthia.

Most of them seemed to have their brains filled with muscles and were filled with the thought of just fighting. Even when Arcelly came down to help them, there were some who rushed at Arcelly and said they wanted to fight without thinking.

One of them kept rushing at her, wanting to commit suicide even though she tried to save him, so she had no choice but to destroy him.

Maybe… that was Cynthia’s previous newbie.

‘This newbie has a nice personality. Hmm. I think I’ll be able to teach him for a while.’

It might be annoying, but isn’t raising a newbie annoying in the first place?

And such troubles were nothing to Arceli.

“Well… It seems like this ordeal is coming to an end, so should we prepare to move on to the next stage?”

“What’s the next checkpoint?”

Arcelina tempered Cynthia’s speculation.

Then, some of her vastly extended leaping energy was cut off, and her influence on the disaster was also reduced.

“When you reach a position like mine, you can see the flow of cause and effect only when you descend directly to the human world. Even so… it’s shallow compared to Heron’s future vision. Well, anyway. Based on what I’ve seen so far, this ordeal will end soon.”

Seeing the flow of cause and effect… Cynthia thought that maybe Arceli was not a stupid god but a great god.

“You’re a newbie with ungodly thoughts.”

“Huh?”

Cynthia froze stiffly.

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“I read the emotions entangled in your speculation. Well, I don’t care about such thoughts, so it doesn’t matter to you. Instead, I told you to be careful because other guys might be different. Well then… let’s go now.”

Cheeeeeeeing-

A blue door appeared in front of Cynthia and Arceli.

Due to the fairness of causality, a brief period of rest is provided during the ordeal.

“There’s nothing particularly difficult about it?”

“Yes. I used the throwing weapon sparingly and didn’t use my body either….”

“Then let’s go!”

Arceli’s clone grabbed Cynthia’s hand.

And then they just ran through the door together.

Paaa-

[ Face the future of regret . ]

Cynthia lost consciousness with voices in her head.

***

“Ugh… I’m dying. I’m really dying.”

I was dying, buried under a pile of paperwork.

“Can I help you?”

“No, it’s okay. If I don’t do this, I’ll keep thinking about it.”

I was deliberately burying myself in endless work, because otherwise I would keep thinking about Cynthia.

‘I believe he’s alive, but… it’s taking too long.’

A year has already passed since she went missing.

Even a week or so after the incident, many people were still hopeful.

But the numbers began to change after a week, and soon, within a month, everyone assumed she was dead.

The same goes for Cynthia’s family home, the Kwon Seong-shin family.

The funeral was not held because Shin Dong-baek did not let Cynthia go.

Because he also heard the story I told him.

-There is a chance that it was buried in the data pile and transferred to another gate.

When I first told him that story, Shin Dong-baek didn’t believe it.

Instead, he exploded in anger, saying, “Are you making fun of me?”

Of course, he nodded as if he understood when I brought him face to face with the designer who created the gate. I tried to stop him because he was trying to kill the gate designer… but that was in the past.

“When will you come back…?”

It’s been over a dozen years since I came to this world.

And it’s been just over a year and a half since I met Cynthia.

It’s only been half a year since I met her, and only a year since we broke up.

I felt so empty.

***

“Fortunately, causality isn’t trying to get in my way this time either! Hahahaha! It’s me after all!”

Arcelius extinguished the natural disaster and moved on to the next ordeal of fate.

The third ordeal I faced like that.

Facing a future of regret.

Overcoming given challenges while facing situations in an uncertain time frame.

Those who are tested fall into illusion, but if they fail to overcome it, the illusion becomes reality and overwhelms the tester.

That reality meant ‘unfortunate death’.

In short, if you failed the ordeal, you would face a terrible death.

“Hmm! As expected, it’s nothing!”

but.

“There’s no way this body would fall into illusions.”

The illusion did not work on the mad warrior Arceli.

Because the causality imposed by the karma of death could not erode her spirit.

It would be the same even if the person here now were a clone.

No, even if she was a clone, her mental power was the same, so it was only natural that it wouldn’t work.

“By the way, the child… It seems like it’ll take a long time to overcome this ordeal. It’s difficult to even intervene in these kinds of fantasy ordeals. Hehehe. What should I do?”

This ordeal was easy for Arcelius, but not for Cynthia.

She is a semi-mortal who has not yet taken on a human shell.

He was a transcendent being with a young spirit who was connected to the fate and ties of humanity.

“After all, I think it would be better to just take Cynthia and move on to the next trial!”

Arceli, who had been thinking hard, quickly came to her senses and forcibly opened the space with Cynthia, who was floating in the air as if she had fainted.

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

A pitch-black space with black dots on all sides.

Arcelius opened up a space where death’s karma could not affect him and shouted into the air.

“Hey! Move on to the next trial! If you don’t move on, I’ll just throw you here?”

[ … … . ]

When there was no response despite Arceli’s shouting, she gently pushed Cynthia’s leg across the space.

“You still won’t let me go? Huh?”

That’s right, the test administrator.

He threatened the manager who had been corrupted by the karma of death.

“Even if it’s a trial and a disaster, you’re going to take this kid and run away after a thousand years?”

In fact, if you do such an act, the chaos karma will increase like crazy and even Arceli will be in danger, but it is actually a possible act.

So Arcelius takes Cynthia and threatens her.

[ … I will give you the next trial.]

The test administrator declared surrender.

“Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Wouldn’t it be fun if I could intervene a little bit! Huh? Who said not to give me a hard time? Just give me a good hard time and give me a good one, that’s all.”

Arceli nodded with satisfaction and continued speaking.

“I don’t mind giving you trials that you can overcome, but don’t give me these fucking boring trials!”

Arceli was more concerned with her own fun than Cynthia’s safety.

The thought of protecting the newbie who had just been born for a long time had flown far away in her mind.

So, once again the examiner creates a trial… .

“Huh? Where is this, Archelly?”

Cynthia, who had been going through trials in her fantasy, also woke up.

and….

“Yes, it’s me! Arceli! Anyway, now that you’re awake, let’s move on to the next trial! This is kind of like playing a game, it’s fun! Hmm! Okay, okay!”

Arceli was more excited than ever and was running wild.

In this way, he destroyed the 4th and 5th trials haphazardly, further increasing the difficulty of the trials, and together with Cynthia, he was annihilating the ‘karma of death’.

“Now, just one or two more trials and it will be over!”

“Wow! Thank you!”

Cynthia safely crossed the river of death aboard the ‘Archeli’.

As the trials progressed, the difficulty level became more and more ridiculous, but what do you think?

Archelly will take care of everything!

‘I’ll be back soon, oppa!’

Cynthia smiled broadly, anticipating her reunion with Han Seong-jin.

That was when.

“damage!”

The Sword of the Moon was fired at Arceli.

The sword that was clearly headed towards Cynthia suddenly turned around.

And then, Arceli pierced the clone that Cynthia had attached to her.

“Ah. The hell, you were targeting me…?”

Pukwaak-

The sword of the Moon pierced through the clone created by Arceli in one fell swoop.

Although it was weak, Arceli could see causality, but so could Mushin. She calculated all the time zones and actions she could avoid, and sent the Sword of the Moon flying at the exact location and time zone where she could not avoid it.

“Berget, you son of a b*tch…! How dare you!!”

The powerful divine power of Black Arceli began to scatter.

Then, Arceli’s clone collapsed helplessly, and the collapsed body gradually turned into light.

“Huh, huh? Lord Arceli!”

“Sorry… I think this is it.”

“Hey, if you stop here, what am I going to do?”

The difficulty of the trials has gone up like crazy.

If it was the first level of difficulty, I could have somehow endured it… but now it’s way beyond that level.

“Can’t it work out somehow?”

Arcel, now reduced to nothing but a head, smiled awkwardly at Cynthia and continued speaking.

“Yeah. Fighting!”

And then it disappeared.