Chapter 372

Chapter 372

C372

More time passed.

As those who had moved to obtain the Administrator's Power began to suspect...

Could it be that they were deceived? Perhaps the Administrator's Power was not something they could obtain?

When those doubts began to grow...

Crack-

The crack extended once again.

And then, finally...

"Am I seeing this wrong?"

"What?"

"No, over there..."

"There? Where? On the wall...?"

"A crack has appeared?"

People who found the crack that appeared on the wall began to appear one by one.

A curiosity that started to spread rapidly. Originally, it would have been something to be anxious about, but their eyes were already blind.

"Is this what I think it is?"

"The Administrator's Power?"

"The Administrators came from outside the Tower?"

"So their power comes from outside, and they only reserved the power for themselves."

"Wow, this is completely..."

The Players were astonished and angry.

They felt betrayed by the idea that the Administrators had built a wall and imprisoned them to monopolize power.

It seemed like their suspicions were correct.

After all, those Administrators were enemies of the Players.

But...

[The 'Golden Cinder Eyes' are watching the world]

Above their heads, a fierce gaze was revealed.

"Golden Cinder Eyes?"

"The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal?"

"Or maybe..."

The fact that the system displayed a message meant that the effect of an ability was starting to directly influence the Players.

The Players gathered near the wall turned their heads one by one, searching for the person using the Golden Cinder Eyes.

Then...

"If you don't want to die, make sure to protect your lives from now on."

Step-

A man wearing a hat deeply pulled down over his head walked among the Players.

He approached the wall that was starting to crack.

"What will come out of there won't be as kind as you think."

"Who is this guy?"

"Could it be that this guy is using the Golden Cinder Eyes...?"

"Then, maybe...?"

Whooosh-

In an instant, a strong wind blew.

It wasn't natural; someone intentionally used an ability to remove the hat from the man's head.

At that moment, the hat flew into the sky.

And the moment the face was uncovered...

"Cursed!"

"It's Kim YuWon!"

"So, is that guy also after the Administrator's Power?"

"Still, compared to The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal..."

Unwavering determination.

They intended to fight.

They thought YuWon was trying to monopolize the Administrator's Power for himself.

'This is total chaos.'

Although there were many, the Players gathered at the scene were not of a very high level.

Due to the concentration of those who were closer to the lower floors, the number of Rankers was notably low.

And among them...

"Mr. Kim YuWon?"

A familiar accent resonated.

"My name is Kim InGyu, I come from Korea just like you."

Black hair, dark beard, and tattered clothes, which were not common in the Tower.

A man who seemed to be in his mid-twenties, around the same age as YuWon.

The phrase "just like you" seemed to carry a special meaning. Kim InGyu approached YuWon and spoke.

"I've always wanted to meet you. Although I never had the chance..."

"Are you from my home country?"

"Yes."

"I understand. Nice to meet you. Take care."

"What...?"

Eyes widened.

He leaned back, bewildered.

"Oh, no, it's not that! I mean, you're still strong enough and living well, shouldn't you share a bit?"

As YuWon looked at him from afar, Chronos felt a strange sensation.

The pupils of a giant monkey.

In front of those two fiery eyes, Chronos felt like his entire body was naked and exposed.

"He's staring at me."

The moment their gazes met, he knew.

He was seeing his true form. False appearances or disguises didn't work in front of the Golden Cinder Eyes.

Thump, thump.

He felt a shiver.

A sensation he had never experienced with Zeus or Odin.

A feeling as if he were a small herbivorous prey standing in front of a fierce predator ran down Chronos' spine.

Paf.

YuWon and Chronos began to walk towards each other.

Although Poseidon's arrival had stirred the crowd, no one dared to stand between the two approaching Rankers.

In fact, instead, they began to slowly move apart, perhaps to avoid any potential conflict.

Zeus also watched in silence, observing the scene.

Thus, YuWon and Chronos faced each other, and when they were close enough...

"It's you."

It was Chronos who opened his mouth first.

"Kim YuWon."

YuWon's eyebrows twitched at those words.

Although he had his doubts, in the end...

He didn't remember anything.

'I thought it would be like this.'

The man he knew wouldn't have done something like this.

How he had come to this point remained a mystery.

The Chronos YuWon knew had been at the forefront of the battle against the Outer Gods. In his final moments, he had consumed much of his life, his back had hunched, and his face was wrinkled with hundreds of wrinkles of old age.

The man in front of him, with only a few wrinkles on his face, was completely different from the Chronos he knew.

"What you desire-"

YuWon paused his greeting for that.

It made no sense to waste time on unnecessary stories if the person didn't recognize him anyway.

"Was it that?"

Crack.

The speed at which the cracks appeared was accelerating.

Now it was so clear that even the inexperienced could see it at a glance.

The corner of YuWon's lips curved upward.

"You've probably used enough Points the last time. Did you choose a more complicated path this time instead of the easy one?"

Twist~

Chronos' eyebrows twisted.

However, he didn't seem to show outward signs of discomfort. He quickly regained his usual expression and asked:

"What are you talking about?"

"Killing the Administrator, gathering the Rankers in a chaotic situation, making them fight each other. Earning Points again that way..."

He had planned it all very well.

What would have happened if he hadn't discovered it in time?

The hope of being able to overcome the Administrators would have become a spark that would have turned the entire Tower into a sea of flames, and the wall would have collapsed much faster and caused an even larger rift than planned.

"Exploiting the weakness of the wall due to the absence of the Administrator. The exploitation of that gap. Although for that to be possible, you would have had to kill the Administrator. You've planned this out very well in this short time."

Chronos showed no change in his expression.

At some point, he had given up on being surprised, closed his eyes with a sigh, and then, upon opening them again, spoke while looking at YuWon.

"Undoubtedly, you are the most dangerous."

Odin. Zeus.

And even Satan, who arrived late and watched from a distance.

In addition to that, several High-Rankers had arrived here like meteors.

Despite that, Chronos felt it.

More than some High-Rankers, more than any Ranker, right in front of him, YuWon was the most dangerous enemy.

"To whom do you owe this?"

The reason YuWon was here was because of the Clock Movement that Chronos had created.

Because he had sacrificed himself for everyone.

He could be in this place because he had been forgotten and discarded in everyone's memory.

"Well, it doesn't matter."

Crack, crunch!

The wall began to crumble rapidly, with cracks emerging and falling.

Looking at the black wall behind YuWon, Chronos spoke.

"Anyway, the results wouldn't have been very different."

Given the size of the world, it was just a small defect. (세계의 크기를 생각하면 그것은 아주 작은 흠에 지나지 않았다.)

But even with that small defect...

Crack, crack.

The Tower began to shake violently.

['The Wall of the World' is collapsing]

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