The Main Characters That Only I Know

‘Everything is going too well.’

Baekryeon couldn’t regain his sanity in the chaotic situation where all kinds of natural disasters were happening in reality and his memories were slowly coming back to his.

He couldn’t tell if what he was seeing was real or a manifestation of his awakening memories.

His dreams and reality were the same, which made him head more confused.

Why? How could his past memories and future events overlap?

Unless he knew what would happen in the future.

But he was a mythical weapon created by the Salio Empire, which had been destroyed long ago.

The artificial intelligence embedded in it couldn’t possibly read the future.

If it had such a function, it should have been activated long before, not now.

Baekryeon tried desperately to sort out his reality and past with his malfunctioning mind.

While Yu-hyun was fighting fiercely, Baekryeon was also fighting her own battle and almost finished the process.

The situation was going well.

Yu-hyun had defeated Deolraka, one of the Salio Empire’s executioners, and the tide of war had changed dramatically.

Yes, objectively speaking, this situation was a boon for the alliance.

‘But it’s strange. It’s too good to be true. I feel like I’ve seen something similar in my memories.’

From the bubbles of memory that slowly rose from the depths of the abyss, a vague image of a huge war flashed like a projector.

It was the same then.

The tide of war was going well. Everyone was celebrating their victory as the enemies retreated.

And then.

‘And then, what happened?’

The memory after that was cut off as if it had been sliced by scissors.

Baekryeon realized that this was the source of his anxiety that he had been feeling for a while.

He had to know this.

He had to figure this out to uncover the truth behind this whole situation.

Meanwhile, the war began to turn upside down.

“Deolraka is down, it’s over now.”

“Is the Book Pile lord still alive? Is he a monster?”

The first ones to lose their will to fight were the transcenders who had witnessed Yu-hyun’s fight up close.

The Salio Empire’s lords still tried to act strong for their dignity, but the transcenders were different.

To begin with, Yu-hyun and Deolraka’s fight wasn’t fair at all. Deolraka did everything he could to defeat Yu-hyun.

He used all kinds of magic tools and even received support from the magic corps.

But the result was different.

Yu-hyun overcame all those barriers with his own power and knocked down Deolraka.

He didn’t stop there.

He took advantage of the weakened enemy lord and subdued him in an instant, and even showed off his ability to use Deolraka’s technique.

Did he steal his technique? Is that possible? Then, isn’t that monster getting stronger every time he fights?

“We can’t win.”

“We have to lose?”

“Everyone, snap out of it!”

Nemarta, the only remaining executioner on their side, shouted with all his strength, but he couldn’t wake up the despair of those who had lost their will.

Nemarta clenched his teeth.

While he was fighting with Wilford, one of the alliance’s executioners, the situation had reached an irreversible point.

‘I never thought Deolraka would lose.’

Deolraka was called the sword of the empire.

Nemarta was called the spear of the empire, and he was a strong man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Deolraka. But Deolraka was no longer here.

He didn’t just lose.

He lost after doing everything he could.

Anyone who didn’t know what that meant wouldn’t be here.

‘Just when I thought things were getting better!’

Wilford was cunning and couldn’t settle the fight properly, but the natural disasters caused by Yu-hyun breaking three natural stones were gradually losing their effect and almost over.

The number of troops on their side was still overwhelming.

So if only this weather that favored them subsided, they could regroup and sweep them all at once.

But it all fell apart because of Yu-hyun alone.

‘What do we do now?’

The number of executioners was originally two on their side and one on theirs, but now it was reversed.

The number of lords and transcenders was still higher on their side.

They both suffered casualties in that fierce fight, but that didn’t change their advantage.

The problem was Yu-hyun’s overwhelming presence that could overturn all these situations.

They had to suppress him somehow.

“Main unit. Can you hear me?”

[Nemarta sir?]

“If you can hear me, answer me.”

[Yes, yes! I can hear you well.]

The storm caused by the natural stones had subsided and the dark clouds were gradually thinning, so the airships that had risen high in the sky were lowering their altitude.

Three of the late-moving airships were caught in the storm of the clouds, but seven of them were still intact.

“Pour out all the firepower you have and annihilate the enemies. Don’t care about the means and methods, just do it!”

[What? But…]

“That’s an order!”

If they wanted to drag the situation into a melee, they could do the same.

If they couldn’t do it with transcenders and lords, they could use the bombardment of the airships, the soldiers of the empire, and the power of the magic golems that were still intact.

The damage that would result from that would surely be huge. Everyone knew why the lower-level fighters didn’t interfere in the fight of the lords.

It would cause too much damage. But Nemarta knew that if he didn’t do this, he wouldn’t have a future, so he had no choice but to make an extreme choice.

“For the victory of the empire.”

[…Understood.]

As soon as the radio was cut off, the airships in the sky began to emit intense light again.

It was a signal that they were charging energy and a sign that a barrage of bombs would soon rain down on the ground.

‘I don’t care how big or small the damage is. Rather than losing, I’ll take a victory with scars!’

As soon as the airships were ready to unleash a massive bombardment.

Countless swords rained down from the sky like rain and pierced through the airships.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“What?!”

Nemarta widened his eyes.

The airships that were pierced by swords of various sizes and shapes lost their balance in the air and exploded with orange flames.

Nemarta had seen the swords that pierced the airships before.

There was only one person in the alliance who could handle so many swords at the same time.

“Executioner Choi Do-yoon!”

Nemarta called out his name with hatred.

His gaze was fixed on Choi Do-yoon, who was looking down at him from a giant eagle.

Wasn’t he recovering from his injuries?

Even if he healed quickly, how could he come here so soon?

“Did you… lie?”

That he was badly injured and needed a lot of time to recover.

If not, how could he be here now?

“Fooling the enemy is the most basic tactic in war.”

Choi Do-yoon jumped off the eagle and landed on the ground.

He answered in a blunt tone.

“Did you forget?”

“Did you know this would happen? And did you plan all this?”

“Somewhat.”

“You…”

Yu-hyun looked at Choi Do-yoon with disbelief.

The guy in his previous life didn’t care about strategy or anything, he just crushed everything with his strength. Because he could.

Gathering information or finding out the enemy’s weaknesses or tendencies was only Yu-hyun’s role.

Choi Do-yoon only fought.

And he defeated everyone with his overwhelming physicality.

But it was different in this life.

Choi Do-yoon deliberately spread rumors that he was badly injured after losing to Yu-hyun.

He was actually hurt, but not as serious as the rumors said.

That’s why he recovered enough after a few days of light treatment.

But the Salio Empire didn’t know that.

Neither did the alliance side.

He lied to everyone, even his own comrades.

In a way, this one-sided action was very Choi Do-yoon-like, but Yu-hyun didn’t expect him to draw such a big picture.

Yu-hyun tried to say something to him several times, but eventually sighed.

“If you’re going to come, come sooner.”

“I came as soon as I could. It took some time to heal all my wounds.”

“…Excuses.”

Yu-hyun couldn’t blame him more, since he had the biggest share in his injury.

He didn’t expect anything from him in the first place, so it was enough to be grateful that he showed up in this situation and cleaned up everything.

Of course, he wouldn’t say thank you to this guy even if his mouth tore, but anyway.

“So. What are we going to do now?”

Choi Do-yoon looked at Nemarta and asked in a cold voice.

The war was over now.

***

Huff. Huff.

Patrick ran with fear in his eyes.

He was running away.

From whom?

Those mysterious masked monsters in black.

From the moment they moved, Patrick couldn’t tell if this was a dream or reality.

The fight he knew was using his power and story to hit each other.

But the fight that Laplace and Descartes showed him completely denied Patrick’s common sense.

‘What was that?’

When his dreams and reality were distorted, and the world he believed in crumbled like a watercolor painting sprayed with water.

When the alpha team, which consisted of only the aces of the magic corps, died screaming without any resistance.

When he couldn’t resist anything with his father’s strongest magic tool, this powerlessness.

‘It can’t be.’

He was the only heir of the Salio Empire and the man who would lead the empire after his father.

How strong was the power of the empire?

They could dominate not only the alliance but also the entire mixed world.

Yes, they could have been the strongest organization in the mixed world.

So what should have been in front of him was nothing but a smooth road to success.

It should have been like that.

“It can’t be!”

There was no one to answer his desperate scream.

They all died.

There was no one alive among his loyal soldiers.

Patrick ran away and ran away again.

But he didn’t go outside of the underground base.

As if he was possessed by something, he moved toward the inside where the survivors of the underground base were.

Soon he reached the end of the corridor, the last door.

He opened it and found the people inside.

Among them were Kang Hye-rim, who he had tried to reach out to but got scolded, and Baek Seo-ryeon, who was the first on his list of people to kill.

‘How dare you rebel against the empire, you insolent bastards!’

Patrick drew his Salio Empire sword.

The empire’s finest sword, given to him by his father, revealed its white blade.

It was the strongest weapon that rivaled the weapons of the gods in the myths, if only by grade.

He could change its shape at will, or devour the stories of other weapons to become stronger, and he could also wield them freely.

He thought that with this, he was invincible, or almost.

“Prince Patrick? How did you…?”

Baek Seo-ryeon was confused by Patrick’s sudden appearance.

She hadn’t heard the situation outside. But Patrick’s condition was strange.

He looked like he was ready for war, but his pale face and panting breath were like a coward who was scared.

Baek Seo-ryeon backed away cautiously.

“Hye-rim unni, back off. It’s dangerous.”

Patrick’s gaze turned to them.

There was a killing intent in his hollow eyes.

Baek Seo-ryeon hesitated.

She had already sent the people inside the base out through a secret passage.

She stayed behind as the leader out of responsibility.

She should have sent Kang Hye-rim away too, but Kang Hye-rim wanted to stay with Baek Seo-ryeon, so the only ones left were the two of them and Baek-hyo.

“Prince Patrick. I don’t know what you’re trying to do, but it’s over. Stop this reckless fight.”

“Reckless? Did you say reckless? How dare you! I’m the heir of the Salio Empire! And our empire never loses! How dare you mention recklessness when you rebelled against the empire! I, I will follow my father’s footsteps… and become the ruler of the empire… and take the world into our hands…”

‘He’s not making sense.’

Patrick was almost in a panic, not even aware of what he was saying.

Then, he clenched his mouth like a toy whose battery ran out, and put strength into his hand holding the sword.

“I have to kill them all. I have to. Only then…”

If he had to kill someone here, it would be Baek Seo-ryeon.

The moment Patrick made up his mind, he felt a hot pain in his abdomen.

“Huh?”

[Oh dear. You shouldn’t do that.]

He shivered at the nightmare-like voice behind him.

Laplace, who had wiped out the alpha team with Descartes, had finally chased Patrick here.

As the sword was pulled out, Patrick spat out blood and collapsed on the spot.

The Salio Empire sword he held fell to the ground.

“I am… the future emperor…”

That was his last words.

[Are you ladies okay?]

“Yes. Thank you for saving us.”

[We just followed our lord’s orders.]

Baek Seo-ryeon looked at Patrick’s corpse with a complicated expression.

When her eyes went to the Salio Empire sword that Patrick dropped, she saw Yu-hyun who had finished the fight.

Yu-hyun had entered the underground faster than anyone else through the Wonderland.

He sighed in relief when he saw the situation inside.

“Yu-hyun-ssi.”

“Seo-ryeon-ssi. Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. But since you’re here, does that mean the situation outside is…”

“Yes. We won.”

Yu-hyun’s words brought a bright smile to Baek Seo-ryeon’s face.

It was a completely different expression from her heavy one until now, or rather, it was like the one she often showed before Earth entered the mixed world five years ago.

Of course, the fight wasn’t completely over.

The Elder Control, the core of the empire, was still intact, and so was the emperor who was the source of all this.

But with two of the three executioners dead, and the lords and transcendents defeated and surrendered, how long could the Salio Empire last?

In the end, this fight was an important battle that decided everything.

And the alliance won it.

In a situation where they could toast without being premature, Baek Seo-ryeon sighed in relief.

Yu-hyun suddenly noticed the Salio Empire sword that fell next to Patrick’s corpse and wondered.

‘Isn’t that… exactly like Baekryeon?’

Could they have reached a level where they could replicate and recreate things from the past?

But then again, even the details were similar to Baekryeon.

As if that sword was Baekryeon itself…

[Yu-hyun!]

A scream-like warning from Baekryeon shook his mind.

‘Baekryeon?’

[It’s dangerous! Get out of here right now!]

‘What?’

Before Yu-hyun could be confused by Baekryeon’s unexpected warning,

Something fell from the sky.

It was something that even the alliance lords who were intoxicated by victory, or the Salio Empire lords who were captured by defeat, or even the remaining executioner didn’t notice.

──────!!!

A huge explosion that covered the sky and earth occurred and his vision turned white.

And when the light faded away, Yu-hyun saw a hole in the sky.

‘The sky?’

Wasn’t this a huge underground base buried 1km below the ground? But why was there a sky?

‘No. This is…’

Yu-hyun realized too late.

The surrounding strata of nearly 500m in radius had been neatly blown away by the explosion, as if a giant shovel had scooped them out.

And from the center of the deepest part of the underground base where Yu-hyun, Baek Seo-ryeon, and Kang Hye-rim were.

The thing that fell from the sky got up.

It looked huge even when it was crouching, but when it stood up completely, it seemed to be about 3m tall. But more than that, what was amazing was its presence.

It felt like looking at a mountain. No, something much bigger than that… the vast universe.

A giant man of 3m. He wore a lion skin on his head and his colorful muscles were exposed. His cold eyes scanned the surroundings lightly.

And then.

Spurt!

“Huh?”

A fist-sized hole opened in Baek Seo-ryeon’s abdomen.