[You have become a Great Dokkaebi.]
[You can now participate in the Great Dokkaebi's 'Final Ballot'.]
Bihyung looked at the messages and slowly blinked. His appearance had changed a lot since meeting the Dokkaebi King. He was now in a complete humanoid figure like Baram, with the white tiger leather draped over his shoulders and three yellow horns emanating the powers of Fable on his head.
He had now become a full-on 'Great Dokkaebi'.
[I shall be on my way now, Baram-nim.]
[Are you planning to go to them?]
Bihyung didn't reply.
But Baram continued on, anyway. [All Dokkaebis must select their own final stories when the end of times draws near. Even if they could die telling that particular story.]
[The story you're about to select has very low odds of victory.]
[I'm aware.]
[Not only that, they have made enemies of the Bureau and quite a number of other Great Dokkaebis, too.]
[I'm also aware of that.]
There was no Dokkaebi alive who didn't know what it meant to become enemies with the Bureau in
[Even still, I'd like to see the end of this world with that story.]
Bihyung had chosen his last Fable.
“Dok-Jssi.”
“Have you come out to enjoy your vacation?”
“Don't be like that. I told you, it's not a vacation but a discharge.”
“A real discharge, then?”
“Yes.” Yi Hyeon-Seong smiled brightly. “I won't be a soldier anymore.”
I observed the silvery Fable leaking out from his entire figure. When reading the opening sentences of some novels, you'd get a certain sense of what they are like, and Fables were similar in that regard.
⸢That resolute silver hue. The unwavering will, tempered through a lengthy period of time.⸥
Back in the 'Isle of Reincarnators', the One Invincible Fist Yu Ho-Seong said this – in order to rule over certain Fables, you needed to understand it first. However, just like how it was impossible to fully understand another human being, it was also impossible to fully understand a Fable.
⸢What we can do instead, is to come up with an interpretation of our own.⸥
In that case, this was the answer Yi Hyeon-Seong had come up with.
[Fable, 'Ruler of Steel', has begun its storytelling!]
That was the core Fable possessed by the 'Master of Steel'. The fact that he could finally wield it meant that Yi Hyeon-Seong had reached the last phase in the [Steel Transformation].
“I didn't get to write a report, but I still understood why you asked me to read that book, Dok-Jssi,” said Yi Hyeon-Seong before reverting to a more cautious voice. “Was that perhaps the story from the 999th regression turn world-line?”
I was somewhat surprised. Didn't expect that he'd think that far ahead.
“I believe that might be the case.”
“But then, why was that story transformed into ⸢the Wizard of Oz⸥….?”
From my own knowledge base,
Not only that, to a story from the 999th turn, no less.
I wasn't sure what all this meant yet, but still, I could think of something. The meaning of altering the basis of a Fable was quite clear, after all.
[Sponsor of Incarnation 'Yi Hyeon-Seong' is now looking at you.]
I might have not noticed the faintly altered gaze if it was in the past. It was not the same aura of the 'Master of Steel' I knew of. I shifted my gaze towards the Emerald Tower where that altar was located at. And then, recalled the large steel sword I saw in the audience chamber.
“Hyeon-Seong ahjussi!”
Our companions preparing for the enemy's attacks below the tower rushed towards us.
“Hyeon-Seong ahjussi! Are you alright?”
Shin Yu-Seung and Yi Gil-Yeong jumping around grasped the tall, sturdy man's hands tightly.
Yu Jung-Hyeok arriving a step later muttered out. “Looks like you were safely discharged.”
Both Yu Sang-Ah and Han Su-Yeong decided to chime in, too.
“Congratulations on your discharge.”
“If you need your squad leader again, just give me a shout.”
The last person to rush in was Jeong Hui-Won, who was getting ready to fend off the enemy's attacks in the farthest location. She stopped about a dozen metres or so away, and while her lips twitched, she kept staring in this direction.
Yi Hyeon-Seong smiled at her. “Hui-Won-ssi.”
I began wondering if I should make my exit from here about now. But the person who solved that dilemma was a completely unexpected person.
“Hey, you lot! Do your emotional reunion later! It's not over yet, you know!”
Yi Ji-Hye shouted out as she summoned the [Turtle Dragon] in the air.
She was right. The Nebulas outside the planet hadn't withdrawn their battle line yet. No, rather than retreating, an even higher number of battleships were actually showing up now. Among them were dreadnoughts exclusively designed for destroying planets and inter-Nebula warfare.
[Your Status is 'Myth-grade'.]
A stupendous boom resounded out as Yu Jung-Hyeok's [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] cut Ra's sun down.
Chapter end
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