The World of Masks

You fulfilled your orders faithfully. In a way, it was true. The old man made those choices for the conservation of the world, which is an order.

"Did you kill him completely?"

I asked God a second time if the word "killed," and then asked for the results.

"Unfortunately."

The old man whispered. The old man blurs.

"In the proverbs of your country, do I really have to call it obedience? God is such a lazy, lustful god. I put all my strength into ambush, but I couldn't catch a single one. I lost them all."

"Then where are they now?"

It was thought that the old man could not hide in the world because it is the world itself. It's just a guess, of course. It could be that they are avoiding the search by divine diligence. However, the answer of the old man was completely unexpected.

"This place, the Earth."

"!!!!!"

You hear Eun-hee and Sophie breathing next to you. I was surprised at the lack of real work on this one.

"Earth?"

"Yes, on Earth. Wow, I never thought I'd get out of the way in such an emergency situation."

All you have to do is push it into a corner and swing your fist at it to attack it brutally. The opposing team throws itself out of the ring and flees.

"Twelve, not one, running away together. Where did God's Pride go?"

The old man mutters bitterly.

Even though they crossed the river that could not be returned now, God was like the parents of the old man. It didn't feel good to see my parents happy and miserable. Of course, I didn't pity them. Technically, it was a similar feeling to 'how I was born of such pathetic things.'

"Let's postpone the story of the gods and continue with the story of the world as we speak."

The old man paused the talk about the gods and began to talk afterwards.

After the gods were cast out, the world began to live up to its role again. The gods who have fled beyond dimensions are rapidly weakened, and in other dimensions they are also capable of restoring their strength. Even if it was possible to recover to a certain ship, it was impossible for the deities who had left a dimension called a Node to regain their full power. In other words, the world no longer had to fear the gods. I thought we were done with that.

"Did something go wrong?"

"Trouble. Big problem. I told you, didn't I? The gods have touched the source of the world. With the war with the gods in that state, the source is much weaker."

At first, I thought the world could fix that much. I was born for it. But when it came to full restoration, the world realized that its origins were so damaged that they could no longer be restored. It was a fatal mistake.

"You misjudged me. I've had a lot of experience repairing things here and there, but I didn't really know where they came from. Fallen. The next day the world won't fall apart, but it's already at the critical level. The only thing that can be fixed is the power to create the world, literally, from nothing. And unfortunately, that power is only given to Ueron among the Twelve. The end was certain."

I banished the gods for the preservation of the world, but I needed God's power to preserve the world. It was ironic.

"So now you're dying?"

"Yes. Life in the prime. Of course, I will outlive you mortals, but the fact that the fate of death is coming to me, which is supposed to be immortal, is very stressful."

I felt like the body I had saved was turned into sand and scattered. The unbearable emptiness surrounded the world.

But I couldn't die easily. The preservation of the world, that was the only purpose of the world. The world began to desperately find a way. The best and only way to create a new source in the world. But that was impossible. The world only had the power to match the gods, not the power equal to God.

"That's when I came up with the idea."

No matter how much I thought about it, it was a Nice idea. The old man shrugs.

If the source is broken, just fill in the source. To the origins of another world.

Speaking of which, I was able to notice the truth.

"So, the world on Earth belongs to this wretched world that you've chosen as a scapegoat to change its origins?"

"That's right. You're quick to understand."

The old man gladly claps his hands together.

"In other words, it wasn't chosen by accident. I've squeezed another hole in the dimension the gods put in me. In a way, it's inevitable. I can't break through to another world."

"If you do that, the world will perish." "

Jinseok distorted his face.

Then we're in trouble. No matter how much you love killing, destroying this world is a completely different thing. It means everything that's ever been done is gone. Moreover, if the world were to perish, where would you go? Do you want me to move the world? But Jin liked this world with relaxing contemporary texts, and there was no intention of moving on to the other side of medieval texts and ideas.

"Man, what a rush."

The old man tugs his tongue out. 'This is why young people nowadays,' I stared at the truth with puzzled eyes. It was absurd for a transcendent who had been banished from even a single world to roar 'young people these days.'

"Surely if we change the source, the world will slowly perish. But it's been a long time. It won't have much effect in the last millennia, and it will take thousands of years for the world to fully perish. You're not going to live as long as I do. Life ends after a hundred years of queek.That's enough to last."

"Well, in that case,"

Jinsuk accepted it so easily. Eun-hee and Sophie who were next to Jin are the same. Psychopaths lacking in morality and guilt were the kind of people who could abandon the future of humanity like a devoted couple if only they could live without influence.

"But I'm not in a good mood."

"Why, would you insist that you still have a conscience? Like that?"

When I met him to give him the tools of the old mask world, I thought of Jack with a conscience, and the old man chuckled. I scratched my cheeks with an insecure look to remind me of that time.

"If you think so, find Urn in this world and take his power. Then I'll help you. With that power, we can rebuild the source."

"Fight God? Okay, I'm just going to enjoy myself."

"What a young man to beat."

The old man's tongue is full.

Jinsuk frowned once. But I gave up and made an impression. Fighting with that old man was his loss.

"By the way, changing the source of the world, is that possible against any other world?"

If that were the case, I wouldn't have to go after the world that this Earth belongs to. But the old man denied it.

"No, it's usually too much for any world. But this side of the world is unique, so it's possible."

"What about specificity?"

"The singularity of no god."

A word popped out that struck all the believers on Earth with a muzzle of nightmares.

"Does God · · · · · · · · · · not ·?"

"Nothing."

The old man relaxed.

"Sometimes there's a world like this. A world of divinity that flowed from another dimension and was created by itself. If there was a God in this world, I wouldn't let you run around like that. No, I would have thrown them out or destroyed even the gods we passed on before. That's why our gods fled this way."

The parable is that of a tiger who invaded the realm of another tiger. I asked if I could compare God to an animal, but it was easy to understand. I only came back with a bruise that I didn't care about.

"A self-created, so-called neutral world like this one has no attributes whatsoever. It's nothing compared to a world full of God's signs created just like any other world. It's the only world the other world can eat. Well, since the gods are only interested in their own world, they don't usually seem interested in such a world unless it's as inevitable as I am."

Is it unfair to do this kind of work? The old man regained his appetite and created deep wrinkles on his forehead.

"Now I understand your predicament. Then why am I here?"

As the old man had roughly finished speaking, he immediately got to the point. Now he wouldn't have come to say he was bored of having to trade roots with this world at his own expense.

"I came to you for a favor."

Please? No matter how much power the Demon King has, what do you want from the humans? Jinsuk was curious and looked at the old man.

"Did I ask you if I was interested in world domination?"

"I did."

The old man said in a bold voice.

"I want you to invade Earth."