Chapter 258

# 258

258. Requiem (4)

I looked at the director.

Short hair interspersed with gray hair and a confused expression. I can’t find reason in the eyes.

Is this guy really the developer in charge of Pick Me Up? If it hadn’t been for a place like this, I would have beaten him in the back of the head right away to stop blaming him.

“Siris-jang...”

“Are you doing that on purpose?”

I put my hand on my temple.

Siselle cleared her throat.

“It’s not your intention. You’re not in good health.”

“What happens when you’re not feeling well?”

“Of course... there are other reasons as well.”

Sizel looked at the director with pitiful eyes.

“To avoid the surveillance of the man, it had to be this way. Poor theater doesn’t work. I had to go really crazy. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to invite you here.”

invite.

I narrowed my eyes.

Sizel put her hand on the director’s shoulder and said.

“There will be a small room at the back of the office. You can watch Dorado’s ending there.”

Looking back, I noticed an unadorned metal door.

“I’ll set aside some time with the director after he gets back. If you take the special medicine, you’ll be able to have a proper conversation for about 10 minutes.”

Siselle leaned on me, dragged the wheelchair, and disappeared somewhere.

‘As expected, there was another intention.’

What would have happened if I hadn’t come here?

I don’t know.

I shrugged and opened the door and went inside.

cold air.

I took a deep breath.

In a small room that was less than 5 pyeong, there were countless monitors installed.

to walls and ceilings on all sides. Hundreds of large and small monitors were broadcasting different noises.

“...” and

an old videotape

on a small table in the middle of the room .

I picked up the videotape and looked at it.

On the sticker on the outside of the tape, the words ‘#EL CID DORADO’ were written.

El Cid.

The former Ranking 1st and the only Master who cleared all stages of Pick Me Up.

And a user himself who is also a hero.

After clearing all the missions, El Cid suddenly changed and ate all the nearby heroes and climbed over the wall of the server. Muryeon, who was ranked second, was also one of the victims, and Niflheim could have been part of the list of victims if the situation was a little bad.

It had only one purpose.

1 to go to the server.

‘What’s on Server 1?’

I’ve heard that Server 1 is home to Mobius’ headquarters.

You’ll see what I was trying to do there by watching the video.

I took a deep breath and put the videotape into the player.

Chick. Jijik.

Noise disappeared from all monitors at once.

After that, the video started playing one after another from the monitors on the outskirts.

Dorado’s low-level mission.

I’ve seen these scenes in the Book of Reversal Heaven.

I looked away. On the large monitor at the front of the room, major scenes were being played.

A series of awakenings and fierce fights between major missions and parting with colleagues.

He lost countless comrades and was in danger of dying himself several times, but in the end, El Cid was victorious.

He defeated monsters invading the city, defeated large monsters like mountains, and defeated heroes of the past who had turned into monsters. Afterwards, he entered the 80th floor with the NPC allied forces and continued a fierce battle with enemies coming from all over the continent.

[Fragment of Chaos Lv.113]

[Fragment of Despair Lv.108]

[Fragment of Resentment Lv.121]

So-called Fragment Series.

It was an unidentified non-attribute monster that appeared regularly from the 80th floor onwards.

Physical and magic attributes did not work at all, and there were no set characteristics, so the strategy had to be rewritten for each mission. Countless rankers were frustrated here.

‘It has no form.’

Sometimes in the form of a goblin.

Sometimes in the form of a large dragon.

Sometimes in the form of flowing bubbles.

‘I don’t even have feelings.’

Mental attacks don’t work on these guys.

There are no status changes such as fear or confusion courage and exaltation.

It just devours and gorge on all the life around it.

I looked ahead

Large screen in front.

In the video, the heroes of Dorado were struggling with the fragments.

[Floor 80.]

The 80th floor stage.

Thousands of splinter corps attacked, but this time, El Cid eventually won.

The next mission will be the same. The result has already been determined.

I shifted my gaze to the big screen.

“Dorado is already destroyed. This is the last time,”

muttered the old Kirzak.

“You can’t see it. There is nothing. No people, no allies, no territory to set foot on. We made our way through the 80th floor to restore it, but looking back now, the higher the floor, the more Dorado is falling into the path of destruction.” Kung. Kirzak drove his greatsword into

the

ground

. “...L.”

Reltea looked back at El Cid.

He

stood there with his eyes closed.

“You think it’s over too?”

“....”

“It’s not over yet. . Our colleagues are waiting in the waiting room. You can go back and rearrange it. As long as you’re alive, you can organize a punitive force anytime.”

Leltea muttered.

“I promised in the last world. I will bring Dorado back to life no matter what. I made a contract with the goddess for that. Uncle is like that too. “But now I’m giving up?”

“I’m... tired,”

Kirzak sighed.

“For what are we to continue this endless fight? Is it really for Dorado? I don’t know.”

Kirzak’s gaze turned to the sky.

I followed that gaze.

There...

[Fragment of Chaos Lv.113] X ???

[Fragment of Despair Lv.108] X ?? ?

[Fragment of grudge Lv.121] X ???

It wasn’t just a number like a thousand or ten thousand.

Truly infinite. An unmeasurable number of fragments were swarming beyond the clouds

. ” Then

, what are we for...”

Leltea looked up at the sky.

“What were we fighting for?”

“Shouldn’t we ask the goddess herself? There’s been no response lately, heh heh heh.”

Reltea sat down.

“Stand up.”

A small murmur.

El Cid looked back at the two with a blood-soaked face.

“I swore as the King of the Golden Land. I promise to return you to your hometown. I won’t give up just this much.”

“But...”

“You can change it. As I have done many times before.”

El Cid smiled.

“When I first came here, I was just a timid and selfish bastard. But it has changed. You guys made it like this.”

El Cid raised his twin swords.

He lowered

them

slowly

.

Forcibly creating an escape route during a mission,

I let out a big laugh.

“Let’s go back. To our resting place.”

Reltea nodded and entered the vortex first.

“Really... Is that possible?”

Kirzak asked, and El Cid just laughed silently.

Eventually, Kirzak also exited.

“Whoa.”

Left alone ,

El Cid sighed lightly.

I looked back,

but I couldn’t see my reflection in those eyes.

“You must be looking here. Goddess or anyone else.”

“...”

“I will not give up. If the game ends like this, I will change whatever I do. That’s my oath.”

Kwajik.

El Cid raised his sword and cut it.

The vortex of dimensions turned into light and disappeared.

“Before that... I’ll have to finish the mission I couldn’t finish.”

Clink !

Only then did the fragments that were wandering around begin to fall to the ground.

El Cid

aimed his

twin swords at the sky.

” My

sword...”

A vibration occurred.

Particles of light erupted from the corpses of monsters and heroes and were sucked into El Cid.

“Conquer your destiny

.

”