Taking control of the body of another person and controlling it like your own. Normally, it would be impossible to possess and control the body of a disaster, but Keikoku Amane was the type of overpowered character that heavily relied on his abilities to the point that he didn't improve his other skills.
I manipulated my spirit form and flew towards Keikoku Amane at once. It was an eerie feeling like that of a ghost.
[You have entered a foreign body. Body Possession will occur...]
[Full possession failed due to stats difference. Partial possession will occur...]
[Your 'Astral Body' has protected your Soul from destruction!]
"Ack!"
As my soul entered Keikoku's body, I received a strong backslash. This was the result of trying to invade the body of a disaster.
Damnit. I thought his mental barrier was low, but it was at this level.
The Astral Body was the innermost contained of the Soul which protects against outside influence. If It wasn't for that, my soul would have likely been destroyed instantly.
At the same time...
[Exclusive skill, Omniscient Wall stage 2 has activated!]
... Memories that were not my own slowly flowed into my mind one by one.
「 ... How much longer must I endure living like this? 」
「 How many worlds must I destory? How many lives have I ruined? 」
「 The people I know are gone. Nobody remembers me. 」
「 What's the use of continuing living as a disaster? 」
「 I should just end it all. 」
There were memories of the person known as the Disaster of Storms. It was more than two hundred years worth of stories filled with suffering and tragedies.
Keikoku Amane was originally a resident of this worldline. At sixteen, he gained the qualifications to become a hero in another world. However, due to his own mistakes, he failed and became a disaster, leading to the destruction of the very world he was meant to protect.
For fifty years, he journeyed through countless worlds, desperately searching for a way to escape his fate. Yet, no matter how tirelessly he searched, he found nothing. Time stopped affecting him, and though decades passed, he still appeared as a young man of twenty-two.
Ten years later, he encountered a 'witch' who deceived him, binding herself to him as his star constellation. For the next 150 years, he roamed thousands of worlds and destroyed them as the Disaster of Storms. Such a long period would break any person and erode their sense of self. By then, Keikoku Amane's humanity had already begun to fade.
What remained was an empty shell containing a single goal to escape his fate, and a deep resentment towards those stories.
I saw everything through his eyes, I felt everything through his skin, I smelt with his nose, I heard his thoughts and I killed with his hands— the right hand of suffering and the left hand of poison.
I was Keikoku Amane. I wasn't just watching everything, I experienced those memories as if they were my own.
[Your processing speed has increased significantly due to deep immersion.]
[Magic Power Lv. 40 —> Magic Power Lv. 45]
[You can process information at a faster rate.]
For a moment, my vision blurred. The mind couldn't process two centuries of memories all at once. At best, it could handle around a hundred years' worth, if things like semantic memories and procedural memories were considered.
Fortunately, my intelligence stats was high enough to process the enormous amount of information I was receiving.
(N/B: Intelligence stats are the same as Magic Power stats.)
Damnit...
By the time I regained my senses, Keikoku had already destoryed Park Joonhyuk's clones and reached him at once. He swung his Antimatter Wings towards him at once.
I knew if I didn't do anything, Park Joonhyuk along with Angelica was going to be crushed.
Therefore...
"!!"
I felt a tremendous pain as I slightly changed the trajectory of his attack. Instead of Park Joonhyuk, the wing slammed into the ground.
The change was so small that Keikoku Amane didn't notice and Park Joonhyuk was propelled forward by the shockwave.
Before I could question it further, a stream of system notifications appeared infront of me.
[The privilege of <The Joker> has been completed.]
[One life has been consumed as a cost of overturning death.]
[All body waste has been completed removed due to resurrection.]
[All physical attributes has been increased by 2+ points.]
[Your new body has gained resistance to Antimatter.]
[The constellations are shocked by your sudden resurrection.] Read the continuation at m-vl-em,pyr
[The constellations are asking how you were able to resurrect.]
In no time, I was able to move my fingers and stood up from the ground. Fortunately, there wasn't any disorder with my body and the consumption for using overturning death arrived as expected.
I looked at my body and noticed I was wearing my old set of clothes. It was also fortunate that none of my items disappeared.
It would've been nice if the Def. Antimatter suit had repaired itself as well, but that was probably asking for too much.
[The constellation, Grand Duke of the East is looking at you.]
[The constellation, Architect of Destruction is studying the strange phenomenon.]
[A great number of constellations are questioning the nature of your resurrection.]
[You have received 5,000 coins from the constellations.]
It was a misunderstanding.
The Joker completely reset my death, meaning I never truly died. Simply put, it cast a grand illusion over the world and twisted the truth so my death never occurred. Everyone knew Kim Jakga had died, but to the world, it was an entirely different story.
So, was "resurrection" really the right word to use?
Looking around, I noticed that the environment had been reduced to a wasteland.
There was nothing in sight—no buildings, cars, or any vehicles. The roads was completely ruined, and the landscape had changed beyond recognition.
If I didn't know better, I wouldn't have thought this was Gangdong-gu.
Boom!
The sound of an explosion was heard and around hundred black 'somethings' shot into the sky, reaching above hundred metres long.
Damn. Was the situation this bad?
With a sense of urgency, I ran towards the direction of those wings.
When I arrived, I saw Angelica, Park Joonhyuk, and Soo Jinyoung standing against Keikoku Amane, who had transformed into something akin to a monster from the abyss.
What the hell? Was that the reason my soul was attacked? More importantly, how was this even possible?
[The character 'Keikoku Amane' is currently undergoing the awakening process...]
Fuck! It was even worse than I thought. A bastard like Keikoku Amane was awakening? What the hell triggered such a phenomenon?! If someone like Keikoku Amane awakens, it would be akin to facing an Outer God.
[Exclusive skill, Omniscient Wall has activated.]
All negative thoughts was erased and I began to think more calmly. I didn't like that my emotions were being suppressed against my will, but it was this mental barrier that helped me realize something important.
Just because he's awakening doesn't mean he can't be stopped. In fact, this is the best opportunity to kill him. Since I have his memories, I also know the weaknesses of his Diffusion Field.
There was someone else apart from Angelica and Soo Jinyoung that managed to bypass Keikoku's defence. And just like Angelica, that person used a holy relic to cut the disaster.
I pulled out the Evil Breaking Sword and the Hermit's cloak from the dimensional storage ring.
South Korea was trapped in an Evernight scenario, meaning I could use the Hermit Cloak, which was perfect for assassination, for a surprise attack and there was the Evil Breaking Sword.
The Evil Breaking Sword was useless apart from repelling demons and evil spirits. But wasn't Keikoku Amane more akin to a demon than a human being?
Without hesitation, I charged towards the laughing Keikoku Amane and stabbed him in the chest.