Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

137. Sanctuary (3)

#137. Sanctuary (3)

Cynthia is dead.

It was a blow that was too much for even Cynthia, who had created a body, to handle, as it pierced her heart.

She had not yet been able to abandon her human thoughts and mind, and because of this, her ‘heart’ and ‘brain’ were acting as huge weaknesses for her.

“Hiyayayak-!”

Cynthia screamed.

It was because of the pain I had just felt, and the feeling that death was approaching.

“Huh, huh…?”

But Cynthia didn’t die.

Even though his heart was pierced and the blood supply was cut off, he did not die.

“No, he’s dead.”

But as if to deny Cynthia’s thoughts, a voice was heard behind her.

Irina was the owner of this space.

“Cynthia. You just died from a pierced heart. The more accurate cause of death is ‘hemorrhage.’ I squeezed all the blood out of your body before you could even use my divine power to supply it. Since it was an illusion, even death was fake, but the pain you felt was just as real.”

“Hey, why are you suddenly doing this…?”

Cynthia felt an instinctive fear of Irina. It was natural to feel fear toward someone who stabbed her heart without any emotion.

If the target is someone you like and has helped you, the effect is even greater.

“I told you, I’ll help you.”

“What does that have to do with killing everyone out of the blue!”

“I’m doing this because it matters.”

Irina licked her bloody hand with her tongue and then smiled brightly.

“Well—then I should just keep dying? You said you’d do anything, right? Shouldn’t I go back and see the person I love?”

“… … Ha, I will. By the way. Are you sure I will get stronger?”

“Um. Well?”

“yes?”

“It’s up to you. I’ll just help. Okay. Number two.”

Quadduk-

Cynthia’s body was twisted.

Cynthia died a second time without even being able to put up a fight.

***

“Uh-oh!”

“It’s too slow?”

Kwajik- Irina struck down Cynthia with a thunderbolt, roasting her whole body. It was already her twelfth death.

‘It’s something that never feels good no matter when I do it.’

Many people came to her to awaken as higher transcendent beings. Irina would awaken them through this process each time.

What she does is create a ‘shortcut’ to the higher transcendent beings.

With Cynthia’s talent, she would eventually become a higher-level transcendentalist, but if she couldn’t overcome this difficulty now, it would be completely meaningless.

That’s why Irina had no choice but to use this method again.

It would be no pleasure for Irina to kill Cynthia, even if this was a fantasy world.

“Hahaha… I’ve already died fourteen times.”

While Irina was lost in thought, Cynthia met two more deaths.

Normally, after dying about 10 times, even ordinary Transcendents would start to lose their minds, but Cynthia showed no signs of that at all.

Except for the blank expression and smile, she was showing off her competitive spirit towards him with the same face she had when she first saw him.

Even as she faced death in the face of overwhelming force, Cynthia’s will showed no sign of wavering.

‘How many deaths will it take for your potential to blossom…?’

Death in a fantasy dream does not affect the actual body. Irina, who has the power to turn it into reality, will not do so, so Cynthia’s death was not a real death.

However, even if she doesn’t die, Cynthia’s mind and soul will gradually become dark.

The dark secrets derived from experiencing death will contaminate her mind and corrupt her soul.

And at that moment, when her mind and soul are subdued by the secret, she will be banished to the empty dimension and become a lost ghost.

This process was a shortcut, but it was a very rough road.

“Whoa-! I died again. Next time… Hmm. Is that too much? Then I’ll definitely hit you once before you die ten times!”

“Haha. That would be nice.”

Irina, who had been training with Cynthia with a serious expression, also became influenced by her.

I thought that maybe this kid could really save the world.

It’s still too early to think about it, but I had that thought.

***

[ The one who was given the trial has disappeared… ]

The viewer’s fragments noticed that Cynthia had disappeared from ‘Langurt’.

He ordered the apostles of the main body to find her, then headed to Area 101.

[ Is this the most likely location? ]

Pyeonrin arrived at the entrance to the ‘sanctuary’ that the apostle had found and looked around.

A paradise where the apocalypse seems to have passed.

That place was the space called the sanctuary.

[ Can’t reach? This energy is… . ]

Even though it was just a fragment, it was a space where even that part of foreign news was not accessible.

He gazed at the sanctuary for a long time and realized that it was a special place where the power of the ‘foreign god’ resided.

[ The power of the foreign god of the Order series is embedded in it. So that’s why even the apostles cannot approach it… ]

He knew that Cain had searched the entire Langrt for eons, yet he had not found a way to get there because it was ‘impossible’.

From the beginning, he wasted his time on meaningless things.

[ If we wait for the trialist… the balance of the trial will be disturbed. We will have to invade that place. ]

Pyeonrin, who had glimpsed the flow of causality, looked into how the past main body had destroyed this place.

[ The power of the foreign gods… is only rejecting death. Does that mean they can invade through other means? ]

Of course, just by having this barrier, Cain and the other administrators, as well as everyone in Langrt, cannot enter the sanctuary.

It’s the same with the observer’s perspective.

Because he descended to this place with the karma of death, he also contained a great amount of death energy.

But it wasn’t like there was no way at all.

Just breathe death called ‘dream’ into me. Just like that moment.

[ You can kill the trial person through a dream… but that goes against the law of causality. In order to have a fair trial, you have to take the trial person out of there. Then. ]

The viewer’s fragment made a decision. [ I guess we have no choice but to destroy that place. ]

Unlike the previous time when the main body, the foreign god, destroyed Langrut, the ‘barrier’ was much older and weaker. Nevertheless, since it was a foreign god’s barrier, it was impossible for the apostle Cain to break through it, but it was possible for him, a fragment of the god who had been granted causality due to the karma of death, to do so.

He decided to destroy the barrier and put Cynthia through another ordeal.

***

Died over 100 times and survived 101 times.

During this time, Cynthia also punched Irina and struck her in the torso.

But it wasn’t a very big achievement.

Because in order to deal a full blow to her, who freely manipulates illusions, something more than the power he currently has available was needed.

There was no point in simply dodging her attacks, enduring death, and then counterattacking.

“Keep-”

Death is still something I’m not used to.

No matter how many times I died and how many times I came back to life, the pain was still the same. I was still in pain and suffering, and I didn’t want to feel it. But I held on because this was the only way for me.

Because this is the only way to survive and return to Earth and see Han Seong-jin again.

Have to hold on.

We must survive.

And you have to realize that.

What is the meaning of this training?

What is it that you are dying for?

Cynthia rolled her head desperately as she died.

‘I have to find out…!’

As soon as possible, as soon as possible, as soon as possible.

Cynthia wanted to finish this training.

Time was running out, and there were still two more exercises to do.

This wasn’t the time to be wasting time like this in the first process.

Unlike her anxious mind, Cynthia’s head cooled down and slowly observed the situation. In the midst of the repeated deaths, Cynthia felt a flow. Gradually, reason took over her emotions, and she was able to see the situation from a broader perspective.

Although I was still in pain, I was able to properly observe and analyze the situation through the pain.

Okay then.

The trajectory of Irina’s attack was visible.

It wasn’t something I could predict by watching her actions, the movement of her muscles, or the movement of her divine powers.

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‘The flow of causality… that’s what I see.’

The most powerful law in the universe: causality.

The most essential ability to take the shortcut to becoming a higher transcendent being.

Cynthia gained the ability to read causality.

Pukwaak.

“Kya-!”

But I could still read, my body couldn’t keep up.