Pick Me Up Infinite Gacha! Novel - Chapter 307
Pick me Up – Chapter 307 – Ragnarok (12)
The collapse had begun.
Boom!
The entire city shook as if it was about to crumble.
And then, countless fragments started pouring out of the black hole.
[Chaos Fragment Lv.113] X 13253
[Despair Fragment Lv.108] X 17643
[Grudge Fragment Lv.121] X 12289
Kiaaaak!
A scream that shattered the minds of those who heard it.
The Reapers covered the sky and descended upon Eden.
<Fire! Open fire!>
The defense forces also began to counterattack.
Large weapons installed on various buildings spat fire.
Thousands of fragments in the vanguard evaporated instantly. But dozens of times more fragments filled the void.
“I told you to run away.”
They said they could hold out for an hour, but it was a complete lie.
The fragments kept pouring endlessly from the hole.
[Chaos Fragment Lv.113] X 113253
[Despair Fragment Lv.108] X 117643
[Grudge Fragment Lv.121] X 112289
There were already hundreds of thousands.
The night lights were darkened by their shadows.
“These are just a part.”
They cannot be counted in hundreds of thousands, nor in millions, nor in tens of millions.
These are my true enemies. An army of the apocalypse that could cover the entire universe.
“Are you ready to flee?”
<Most of the citizens are already on the evacuation ships. But opening the server door takes time…>
I looked back.
On the outskirts of Eden, a large airship of hundreds of meters awaited departure.
“Don’t worry. I will open the door.”
I snapped my fingers.
From the edge of the sky, a golden power surged, and an enormous dimensional gate opened.
“Enter through that door. You can escape to server 2. Flee before the door closes.”
<…Understood.>
“Can you promise it? That you will restore the world once again.”
<With my soul, I swear…>
“Good.”
The fragments collided with the city’s first line of defense.
All sorts of missiles, machine guns, and ray weapons were fired, but only for a moment; the fragments annihilated several kilometers in an instant. Like a plague of locusts devouring a cornfield.
“There are so many.”
I looked up at the sky.
[Chaos Fragment Lv.113] X 763253
[Despair Fragment Lv.108] X 587643
[Grudge Fragment Lv.121] X 492289
The hole was no longer visible.
Now, human senses couldn’t comprehend it.
[Chaos Crystal Lv.322] X 5843
[Despair Crystal Lv.315] X 3111
[Grudge Crystal Lv.311] X 4289
The city, once called server 1, was disappearing from the front.
[Loki, I brought the new ones!]
In the middle of the road.
A manhole cover opened, and a small girl ran out.
Freya, the fairy in charge of Taonier.
Soon, a pillar of light sprang from the manhole.
It was a congregation of many fairies.
“And the treasure?”
[I found it. It was full of gems. I’ll deliver them to Sijel.]
Gems.
They were the interference crystals made by looting players’ wallets.
They will be the essential fuel to restore the world.
[Nyaa!]
Tens of thousands of Iselles floated for a moment and then headed to the evacuation ships.
[Is this the end…?]
“Yes. It’s over.”
Tel was dead and the company collapsed.
Another war had come to an end.
[Now, we will fight the fragments.]
Freya smiled sweetly.
And fluttering her wings, she flew toward me.
[Loki, from now on as well… together…]
“No.”
I extended my right hand.
The dimensional sword appeared in my hand.
It drew a line along the ground behind me.
Woooong!
A golden barrier rose between Freya and me.
[Huh?]
“You have done a lot, Freya. Now find your life. Sijel will help you.”
[What does that mean? Loki, Loki!]
Freya flew quickly and spread her wings, but soon crashed into the barrier.
[Open this! You said you wouldn’t abandon me!]
“…”
[Is this a joke? You said you would give me a real body. You said you wouldn’t abandon me. Loki! Loki! Don’t do this to me! I am useful. With you, I, with you…]
I gripped the dimensional sword tightly.
The golden blade turned black.
[Please…]
“I’m sorry.”
[Aaaaaah!]
Freya collapsed to the ground and began to cry.
“What a fool.”
I deceived you.
I slashed once more with the dimensional sword, which emitted a black glow.
The golden barrier turned black.
The landscape behind me disappeared.
The dimension was completely separated.
Gooong!
The fragments tried to break through the barrier to advance, but they only spun in place.
Of course. No one can get out of here without killing me first.
Kiiiaaak!
The fragments, which almost devoured the city, began to spin in the sky like a whirlwind.
“270 million years.”
That was the time it would take to get rid of the fragments.
Actually, that was…
“A lie.”
It doesn’t make sense.
It can’t be that little time.
2700 million years?
27000 million years?
No. I don’t think so.
I closed my eyes.
I remembered Tel’s voice whispering in my ear.
— In infinite time, you will continue the eternal battle.
Until the universe ends.
— No one will remember you.
Forgotten.
Without feeling anything.
Faded like a specter.
“Is this… the end I wanted?”
I don’t know.
I could no longer know.
I couldn’t remember what thoughts led me to plan something so absurd.
The panorama of my life was almost empty.
Like a burned album, most of my memories had disappeared.
“Loki.”
My name.
I think I had another name.
I forgot it.
“The one who transcended.”
I looked to the side.
From an alley, a staggering old man walked out.
“Alpha Zero?”
“That title no longer makes sense. Call me Rkadis.”
He had aged a lot.
When I first saw him, he was a middle-aged man. Now he seemed about to die.
“I told you to flee. Why did you stay?”
“I have lived enough. Why prolong a pathetic life?”
Cough!
The old man coughed.
Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
“Now that I think about it, I used to stutter.”
Although his body was weak, his gaze was clearer than ever.
There is a saying about the final glow before death.
He seemed to be using his last strength.
“Tel ended up like that because of me.”
The old man sat on a broken bench.
With a voice full of remorse, the old man spoke.
“I am the former representative of the Ten Thousand Gods Squadron. After witnessing the end of the universe, I passed the responsibility to those girls. They were very pure girls. They loved their lives more than anyone.”
“…”
“My twisted desire… caused this tragedy.”
Rkadis closed his eyes.
I smiled weakly.
“So, what do you plan to do? Try to reverse it?”
“Once something happens, it cannot be reversed. That is the law of the universe.”
His wrinkled eyes looked at me.
“But it seems that you are trying to challenge that flow.”
The old man looked up at the sky.
Where the fragments swirled.
“The more you try to challenge the flow, the stronger they will become. They are like an insurmountable waterfall. Even we, the gods, resisted with all our might, but we failed miserably. They are… truly infinite.”
“…”
“Our Mobius and your Earth, along with many other universes, share a common law. In the past, I was extremely foolish. I tried to challenge that flow.”
The old man lowered his gaze.
“When I created the system, I wanted to overcome it. I poured all my knowledge, known as the Wise God. But what was the result? As you can see, it ended in such a miserable way.”
A bitter smile appeared on the old man’s lips.
“As long as Mobius exists, they will keep coming infinitely.”
“Infinite, you say.”
“No matter how great your power is…”
“If they are infinite.”
I tightened my cloak and looked at the chaos enveloping the sky.
“If they really are infinite… it will be an interesting fight.”
I wanted to test it.
My hands itched with the impatience to act immediately.
“Someone told me I am the infinite chalice. So, what about those guys? The spear that pierces any shield against the impenetrable shield. Aren’t you curious to know what the outcome will be?”
“But those years…”
“There is an end.”
I extended my right hand.
“There is a victory and a defeat.”
Shooo.
The dragon scales unfolded and took the form of a sword.
“I don’t fight in battles without chances.”
“…”
“Destiny? God? Infinity? Don’t talk nonsense. I don’t believe in those trivial things. What I believe in is…”
The sword in my hand.
And,
An unyielding will.
“If you lost against them, shut up and step aside. Don’t get in the way of the fight.”
“You…”
“Who said it can’t be reversed?”
“…”
“Are you telling me to give up? Because it won’t work anyway, because I can’t win, are you telling me to give up?”
I have no regrets.
I have no regrets about being here.
In all the time I have fought and all the time I will continue to fight.
“Let them come. I don’t avoid the battles that come.”
Gooong!
The scream of the fragments echoed.
Their eyes caught me.
‘Look closely.’
Here is your enemy.
‘Remember this clearly.’
I will destroy your rules.
The established laws throughout the universe? I don’t care.
I do it because I want to.
“This battle… could affect the existence of other universes.”
“So?”
“The universe related to Mobius could waver. To them, you will be the ‘evil’.”
“That’s fine. I don’t like being cheered on.”
To protect one from Taonier, I would kill tens of thousands in another world.
It doesn’t matter.
Someone might hate and despise me.
It doesn’t matter either.
“Haha… Haha…”
Rkadis burst into laughter.
And the old man’s body began to fade into light.
“The one who transcended.”
“…”
“Will you really try to overcome this?”
“It’s not about overcoming.”
I continued speaking.
“It’s about winning.”
This is my war with them.
Someday there will be an outcome.
I can secure that victory.
‘The one who will win…’
Is me.
I will win.
Whether they are billions of fragments, tens of millions of crystals.
Those bastards and the mysterious entities hiding behind them.
Without exception, I will annihilate them all.
Until not one remains.
Boom!
The ground began to crack.
The skyscrapers collapsed and disappeared into the chaos.
The city completely lost its form.
<The one who transcended.>
Rkadis, who had lost his body, became a crystal of light.
<I will watch your path of destruction.>
Finally, that light was absorbed into my heart.
The crystal of the Wise God.
<Before I go, there is something I want to tell you.>
“What is it?”
<On your… path of destruction…>
I paid attention to Rkadis’ trembling voice.
<…Siris-chan…>
With a final word, Alpha Zero vanished.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
He seemed to have lost his mind in the end.
‘Siris?’
The name sounded familiar, but I didn’t remember it.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
In this fight, there is no distinction between day and night.
There is no need to eat, sleep, or rest.
There was no reason to keep using human skin.
Gooong!
The fragments screamed so loudly that it seemed like the sky would fall.
They searched for their prey.
Shoo.
I released the Dragon Scale Sword.
I climbed the wall of a half-collapsed building.
Kiiaaak!
Tens of thousands of fragments rushed towards me.
‘Until I die.’
No one can get out of here.
No accident like what happened with Ikar will occur.
Here, in the ‘border’ where I stand, the fragments will not appear anywhere in Mobius.
I made my cloak flutter.
Golden waves spread through the folds of the cloak.
‘In this place…’
I extended my left hand.
The golden light covered the city below.
‘At a speed hundreds of thousands of times faster than outside.’
Time will flow.
At some point, due to the distorted space-time, the dimensions will be out of phase.
No one will be able to escape, and no one will be able to enter.
This place will be completely isolated from Mobius and will be treated as a separate space.
A boundary in the dimensional plane, existing but not existing.
“Remember.”
Swish.
I pointed my Dragon Scale Sword at the enemy.
Gods or whatever, wherever they are, they will be watching me.
“My name.”
This is a declaration of war.
It is my gift to you.
‘Let’s begin.’
Boom!
I kicked the edge of the building.
The Dragon Scale Sword in my right hand extended.