"A critical error."
Snicker.
Seong Jihan raised the corner of his mouth.
Although the data capacity shown on the central machinery was still far from saturation,
'Is the system taking preemptive action before that?'
Flash. Flash...!
Seong Jihan crossed his arms as he watched the message windows popping up frantically before his eyes.
If a critical error was detected, the system would naturally respond to it.
And the way to deal with errors...
'I've figured it out to some extent.'Swoosh.
Seong Jihan briefly turned his gaze to the central machinery.
While creating 100 Nothingness swords, he had minimized contact with the devices.
But he had gathered information about data capacity and system-related matters from there.
And among that information, there was also the method by which the system responds to this 'critical error'.
As he lowered his eyes and recalled his future plans,
[Do you want to update the data for 'Nothingness' in the BattleNet system?]
This time, message windows asking to update the data for Nothingness appeared from all directions.
The number of message windows that appeared was 100 in total.
And at the bottom line,
[This is the final recommendation.]
Unlike usual, content that seemed to carry emotion appeared.
The system messages that had been appearing mechanically until now, somehow, seemed to convey personal emotions.
"Oh really?"
Seeing that, Seong Jihan smiled and raised his hand.
Swoosh!
All hundred Nothingness swords stuck in the center of the Ark flew towards the message windows.
Slash...!
As all the floating message windows were pierced through, the 100 message windows disappeared simultaneously.
After all the messages disappeared,
Ziiing...
In front of Seong Jihan's eyes,
A huge white message appeared.
[The opponent has rejected the final ultimatum.]
[Initiating emergency measures.]
Then,
Paaaat...!
Intense light spread from the Transcendent Being's side, which had been still until now.
Flash!
The walls and floor of the Ark began to be immersed in light.
As the pure white light intensified,
Swish...
Throughout the Ark, which had been recognized as code except for the machinery, the letters disappeared in an instant.
The Ark entered an unknown realm from the system-analyzed area.
And,
On the helmet rolling on the floor in the center of the Ark,
Paaaat...!
Light began to gather.
"Hmm... It seems they won't leave us alone now. Seeing the light entering the black helmet that had disappeared."
"Yes. It seems the time to act has come."
"I see..."
Jiang Shang, with lowered eyes, looked at the changes in the Ark, then fixed his gaze on one spot.
What he was looking at was the server connection device containing the Black Administrator.
"Can I finally destroy that now?"
"Yes. Please remove it."
As soon as Seong Jihan's words fell,
Swoosh!
The Infinite Sword left Jiang Shang's hand and flew in a straight line.
And just as the sword seemed to touch the server connection device,
Swish...
The server connection device containing the Black Administrator's armor completely vanished.
And as the connection device disappeared,
Crackle. Crackle...!
The black armor inside flashed with pure white light, trying to resist the Infinite Sword.
But,
"I've been waiting for this moment continuously."
Slash!
The sword mercilessly cut through it, easily ending the armor's struggle.
A death too anticlimactic to be the end of the Black Administrator.
The Infinite Sword didn't stop there, cutting and annihilating even the Black Administrator's helmet.
The mask that Mitra had worn disappeared so easily, but,
"..."
Jiang Shang, who had cut down the armor, still watched the area where the armor had disappeared with sharp eyes.
A gaze that seemed certain it wouldn't die just like this.
And soon,
Rumble...!
The floor and walls of the Ark shook and the structures forming the walls and floor began to be torn away.
And they soon gathered together,
Thud thud thud...
Making the sound of metal clashing, they transformed into the Black Administrator's armor.
The opponent, changed into a huge purple full plate mail,
Flash!
Pure white light flickered from inside the helmet.
The spheres of light moving like two eyes,
Swoosh.
Looked at the two people alternately before fixing on Seong Jihan.
[I am truly disappointed.]
* * *
Mitra, who had torn apart the Ark and formed a complete 'armor' shape.
He showed clear disappointment towards Seong Jihan.
[You... the being who inherited my authority better than anyone else. You could have become like me. I thought you could become my mate in the end and raise the Mitra divine race...]
"You come out and it's the mate talk again?"
Really, that Mitra divine race, he was desperately trying to increase it somehow.
As Seong Jihan frowned,
Flash...!
Intense eye light burst from inside the black helmet.
[A hundred years have already passed. This is enough time to shed the period of youth and assimilate with me... But what have you been doing all this time?]
"Oh really? Has it already been 100 years?"
Until completing Nothingness and creating 100 of them, he thought some time had passed, but he didn't know it had been a hundred years.
As Seong Jihan responded so nonchalantly,
[...Despite obtaining the authority of creation, to waste power making only such toys.]
Swish swish swish...
Perhaps disliking Seong Jihan's composure, intense void began to rise from Mitra's body.
[Well, fine. Since I've been revived through 'emergency measures', I'll guide you directly from now on. If a child doesn't grow properly, it's a parent's duty to discipline properly...]
"How do you intend to educate?"
[First, I'll have to use the rod. Then I'll break what you cherish to make you put your hand to creation. Yes...]
Ziiing...
As a screen appeared next to Mitra, there, the figure of Yoon Seah, stopped in a frozen state, appeared.
Even though Seong Jihan had spent 100 years in the Ark, the outside was still in a stopped state.
The screen showed Seong Jihan's people one by one, including Yoon Seah,
Then,
Click...
It turned off in an instant.
[It seems you still have attachment to childhood toys. If I break these, you'll use manifestation, won't you?]
Swoosh.
Then Mitra looked towards Jiang Shang.
[Unlike how he didn't save your world... What do you think? Infinite Sword. Don't you want to see his choice?]
Seong Jihan, who hadn't materialized the data from Server 2101.
The Black Administrator tried to probe Jiang Shang, asking if he wasn't curious whether Seong Jihan would use manifestation if his family died, or not, but,
"That won't happen."
Jiang Shang, not even blinking at that provocation,
Swoosh!
Raised his sword and reached the black armor.
"Because you'll be annihilated here."
Slash...!
As the Infinite Sword touched, the armor instantly burst into flames.
However,
Swish swish swish...
Unlike just before, as void seemed to rise, the purple armor quickly regained its form.
[Your destructive power is still the same. But after all, you're just a mere weapon. You can't annihilate me.]
Mitra, who broke apart at the Infinite Sword's power but quickly recovered, faced Jiang Shang with a relaxed appearance.
An appearance confident that he absolutely won't die in this state.
However, Jiang Shang, as if he had expected this, looked at Seong Jihan with calm eyes.
"It's your turn."
And as soon as his words fell,
Whoosh...!
Dozens of translucent swords, Nothingness, stuck in the ground flew in.
[Huh... Do you think toys that haven't even reached Infinite will work on me?]
Seeing this, Mitra mocked Seong Jihan's attack, but as dozens of Nothingness touched him,
Ziiing...!
The translucent blade instantly turned a turbid blue color,
Swish...
The dark blue color began to spread instantly over the purple armor.
[Hmm? This is...]
As the surface color changed from purple to blue like that,
Thud...
The black armor that had been floating in the air with a strong momentum, leaking void energy, fell to the floor powerlessly.
[No, why, the power...!?]
Even when annihilated by the Infinite sword, the 'Black Administrator' form that could quickly recover by tearing apart the Ark's structures.
But from when the armor was dyed dark blue by Nothingness, it couldn't use any power at all.
As Mitra was flustered by the feeling of being cut off from external communication, from inside the helmet that had fallen to the floor,
Ziiing...
Light rotated and the floor color of the Ark entered his view.
Especially when the mixed defiled world where Seong Jihan had stayed was captured,
[Could it be, this. Is it Ashoka's authority...?]
Mitra noticed where the dark blue color covering the black armor originated from.
"That's right, Mitra. Do you think I, who obtained your authority too, only honed Nothingness for 100 years?"
[No, I didn't sense any sign of this at all...!]
"After the Red Administrator went like that, would I reveal everything?"
The Red Administrator who went crazy while handling the Ark's machinery.
After seeing his betrayal, Seong Jihan showed that he was honing 'Nothingness',
But he kept hidden to the end that he was mastering 'Mixed defiled world'.
'This took even longer than completing Nothingness...'
It was fortunate he brought Yoon Seah's Fusion Vessel.
Without it, even if 200 or 300 years passed instead of 100, it would have been difficult to make the mixed defiled world his own.
Seong Jihan briefly recalled the days of secretly training without being noticed by Mitra, then,
Swoosh.
Looked at the black armor writhing on the floor.
"But you, you're weaker than I thought."
[No, what...?]
"Even though you realized the energy hidden in Nothingness is mixed defiled world, you can't respond much? Ah."
Tap. Tap.
As Seong Jihan sat down and tapped the floor with his finger,
Paaaat...!
The interior of the Ark began to be covered in dark blue color in an instant.
"Is it because the Ark is covered in mixed defiled world that you can't do anything?"
[When did... Ah. Could it be, the infiltration started from when Nothingness was stuck in?!]
"You have some sense."
Seong Jihan smirked and stood up again.
"Then, let's end this now."
Step. Step.
As he said that, where Seong Jihan actually moved his steps towards, was not where the black armor was, but where the machinery was gathered.
[...You said you'd end it, but where are you going?]
"Where? You're here, aren't you? Not that scrap metal armor."
Tap. Tap.
Seong Jihan tapped the machinery with his finger.
"Only this doesn't change color and endures well alone... Naturally, the real one is here, right?"
As he said, even though the mixed defiled world energy contained in Nothingness had completely infiltrated the Ark, the only places not infiltrated were the central part with the machinery and the Transcendent Being.
Among these, the Transcendent Being aside, how could the machinery controlling the functions of the Ark and server withstand mixed defiled world?
"As you said, even the black armor was infiltrated... but only that device is unaffected."
"That's right. So..."
Swoosh.
As Seong Jihan spread his fingers, 100 swords floated up and began to aim at the machinery.
Then,
Flash...!
Light spread from the machine, and Mitra's voice was heard.
[Wait! Alright... I'll take back what I said about being disappointed.]
Seong Jihan saw Mitra trying to continue speaking, and,
Snicker.
Raised the corner of his mouth.
"No. Why take it back?"
[...?]
"Just keep being disappointed."
As he said that and closed his fingers,
Stab...!
All 100 swords stabbed into the machinery and the dark blue color slowly began to spread.
[Even if the consciousness was young, I thought you knew how to use power...]
Seeing the machine's color changing, Mitra revealed his dejected feelings,
[Seong Jihan. Upload my code to the system.]
"Why?"
[When your childhood ends, revive me.]
He spoke proudly even as his main body was being infiltrated.
"...You, are you entrusting your life to me?"
[Huh huh. In this world, only I can understand you... You'll eventually need me as a companion.]
Crackle...
As the machinery turned into code, it was longer and more complex than any code Seong Jihan had seen.
Was that the code Mitra revealed himself?
The code he opened, confident that Seong Jihan would revive him someday.
"They say the loser should be silent... You're quite talkative to the end."
"Indeed. He should die quietly. He's being clingy to the end."
He didn't know he'd talk about mates and companions until he died.
Seong Jihan frowned and kicked the color-changed machinery hard.
Then, the code appeared smashed.
'I should completely delete this from memory.'
As Seong Jihan was stomping out Mitra's code like that, Jiang Shang turned his gaze elsewhere.
"We subdued this one easier than expected... but that's the problem."
As he said that, what he was pointing at was the Transcendent Being.
The Transcendent Being, which had been flashing light strongly and swelling up since the machinery was destroyed, clearly looked like something that needed to be dealt with.
"I'll finish that."
"Is there nothing I can help with?"
"Your Majesty..."
Swoosh.
Seong Jihan looked around the Ark.
Even though the Ark had been infiltrated by mixed defiled world and changed color, there was no need to leave it be.
"Please destroy the Ark. So that not a single remnant remains."
"Understood. Then... I wish you good fortune."
Swoosh.
As Jiang Shang left to destroy the Ark from the outskirts, Seong Jihan turned his gaze to the huge mass of light that looked like it would burst at any moment.
If he had faced that light before, he would have been instantly enthralled, but,
'...Now I can endure it.'
The current Seong Jihan, who had imbued mixed defiled world into Nothingness, had the power to confront the Transcendent Being.
'Let's go.'
Step. Step.
As he moved his steps towards the light of the Transcendent Being,
Soon,
Paaaat...!
A world full of light unfolded.
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