Chapter 349:

Chapter 349:

When Kwon Jia opened her eyes, she realized that she had returned to her training days and was shocked.

She had clearly died after surviving on the doomed earth and passing the 100th trial, swept away by an unstoppable calamity.

She should have died, but she had gone back to the past.

It was the start of her second life, which she had never expected, but Kwon Jia calmly assessed the situation. She had survived the apocalypse and shed her weak past self. She could change things now.

A new life. A new opportunity.

Kwon Jia vowed not to live like before.

She would live for herself, and not be pushed around like a fool.

‘That man told me to try it. Yeah. I wondered why he knew everything and was so strong, but it was because he was a returnee.’

Now that power had passed to her.

‘I won’t fail like you did.’

Kwon Jia didn’t want to waste her chance.

She immediately made a name for herself. In her first life, she couldn’t even keep up with the basics of the training center, but now it was different.

Everything was easy. With her memories, knowledge, and experience from before the return, she graduated from the training center with an overwhelming gap as the top student.

After that, countless clans and managements sent her love calls.

Kwon Jia joined the one with the best vision. There, she received support and swept up all kinds of fantasy bodies and fates in the Mental Realm.

She earned a fortune that others couldn’t touch and rode on fame and reputation.

Everything was too easy. She realized for the first time how easy it was to achieve success, which she had longed for in the past.

Then five years passed.

And disaster struck the earth.

‘It’s the same as before. Has the future not changed?’

She lost everything she had in one night.

No, not everything. The power she had accumulated over the past five years. She used it to lead the survivors and form a team to fight against the apocalypse.

But the trials of the apocalypse were hard to overcome even with knowledge.

Someone died every time she made a mistake. She almost died several times too. Unlike her past life where she struggled with all her might, maybe she was a bit careless in her second life.

She died at the 65th trial.

‘I barely got this opportunity, and I died like this.’

Kwon Jia had no choice but to close her eyes with resentment.

Then she opened her eyes again.

‘Huh?’

Her third life began.

‘Again?’

Another chance. Kwon Jia decided to accept it well.

In her third life, she worked harder than before. She suppressed her complacency of knowing everything and became stronger with determination not to be pushed around like before.

In her third life, she became much stronger and more famous than in her second life. But Kwon Jia didn’t settle for that. She did her best to survive the destruction that would happen in five years.

She wondered if she had ever worked so hard in her life.

After preparing for five years, she faced the apocalypse again and died at the 80th trial.

She thought she had prepared thoroughly, but she missed some small things that tripped her up. She realized for the first time how much a small thing could come back as a big boomerang later.

She tried hard. But she failed in the end.

Kwon Jia reached the end of her life cycle and started her fourth life.

‘Again...?’

Kwon Jia realized then that there was no end to this return cycle that she inherited.

She prepared for five years again. This time, she didn’t miss any small things and vowed to prepare thoroughly.

She cut off anyone who showed signs of greeting or interfering with her.

For five years, she worked hard on the groundwork. She eliminated those who would become dangerous in the apocalypse and recruited those who would help her.

Then the apocalypse came. She passed each trial one by one.

She killed anyone who interfered with her mercilessly. She didn’t need sympathy or compassion for them. She killed them if they interfered, and if they seemed to bother her later, she killed them too.

She killed and killed and killed again.

She killed more than ten times as many people as she saved. People pointed fingers at her for having no blood or tears, but she didn’t care. It was wrong to expect humanity in this world anyway.

That’s how Kwon Jia easily passed the 90th trial, or so she thought.

Thud.

‘Why? Why did you do this?’

She died from her colleague’s betrayal.

She was truly shocked. The colleague who had been with her in the second and third rounds had pointed a knife at her in the fourth round.

What’s more, the emotion in his eyes when he killed her was nothing but hatred for her.

That’s how she met the end of the fourth round.

And she started the fifth round, which she didn’t want.

‘Yeah. I trusted people too much. Trusting someone was such a foolish thing to do.’

She decided to do everything on her own and not move with anyone in the fifth round.

But she couldn’t die. She had to die, but she lived.

Then she should give up this power, but she didn’t know how.

Soon, hatred for the man surged in her. Why did he pass this thing on to me? Why do I have to suffer like this?

It was useless to cry out like that. She had experienced this lament hundreds of times already. She had no energy to be angry anymore. Nothing would change the future, and the outcome would be the same.

Her tears had dried up long ago.

Kwon Jia finished the graduation ceremony at the training center and walked with a limp.

The world had lost its color. In that world, Kwon Jia was a living doll who couldn’t die, only breathing.

Someone, please end this hell.

“Excuse me!”

Then someone called her. There was never anyone who spoke to her as she walked this road.

No. There was, but she might have erased them from her mind because they weren’t worth remembering.

She stared at the man who stopped her with a heavy gaze.

“Hello? Nice to meet you. My name is Kang Yu-hyun. What’s your name...?”

“Get lost.”

That was the first encounter that changed her life.

***

Kwon Jia opened her eyes.

She looked around with a nervous gaze, wondering if another episode had started.

The first thing she saw was the throne that bound her body. She was at the top of a huge altar. Far below the altar, Yu-hyun was fighting the knight of the apocalypse.

‘What the hell happened? I was fighting Unleashed...’

Her memory after that was vague, as if it had been cut off.

As she pieced together the fragments of memory that came to her mind, she realized what was going on.

Everything that was happening around her was all because of her.

Everything that spread across the four corners of the earth were the products of disaster that sprang from her nightmare.

She sealed her own memory and tried to stop it, but she failed in the end.

‘Again... Is it? Did I fail again?’

Throb.

Her chest hurt. She felt a pain as if her heart was being squeezed.

The emotions she thought she had given up came back to life and tormented her endlessly.

She thought she had run out of tears by now.

It was all because of Yu-hyun.

“Yu-hyun.”

She called his name with a trembling voice, and Yu-hyun’s eyes turned to her as he faced the knight.

“Jia!”

“Me...”

Kwon Jia looked at Yu-hyun with tearful eyes.

“Please... kill me.”

“...”

She didn’t want to feel this pain anymore. She wished she hadn’t known from the start, then it wouldn’t have been like this.

She knew the joy of having someone precious, so she thought of the sorrow of losing them.

She knew the expectation of success, so she thought of the despair of failure.

Rather.

Rather than that.

If only she didn’t know.

If only she lived like before, like a soulless doll.

It wouldn’t have been so painful and miserable.

“I don’t want to.”

But Yu-hyun’s answer was too harsh.

“I won’t kill you, Jia. And I won’t die here either.”

“You...”

Kwon Jia couldn’t finish her sentence.

You’re not giving up even in this situation, are you?

His strength, his dazzling appearance, something she had never seen before.

Kwon Jia felt an emotion rising from somewhere in her heart and shed tears.

“Watch. Our story is not over yet.”

Facing the transcendent death,

Yu-hyun raised his weapon.