# 258
258. Requiem (4)
I looked at the director.
Short hair interspersed with gray hair and a confused expression. I can’t find reason in the eyes.
Is this guy really the developer in charge of Pick Me Up? If it hadn’t been for a place like this, I would have beaten him in the back of the head right away to stop blaming him.
“Siris-jang…”
“Are you doing that on purpose?”
I put my hand on my temple.
Siselle cleared her throat.
“It’s not your intention. You’re not in good health.”
“What happens when you’re not feeling well?”
“Of course… there are other reasons as well.”
Sizel looked at the director with pitiful eyes.
“To avoid the surveillance of the man, it had to be this way. Poor theater doesn’t work. I had to go really crazy. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to invite you here.”
invite.
I narrowed my eyes.
Sizel put her hand on the director’s shoulder and said.
“There will be a small room at the back of the office. You can watch Dorado’s ending there.”
Looking back, I noticed an unadorned metal door.
“I’ll set aside some time with the director after he gets back. If you take the special medicine, you’ll be able to have a proper conversation for about 10 minutes.”
Siselle leaned on me, dragged the wheelchair, and disappeared somewhere.
‘As expected, there was another intention.’
What would have happened if I hadn’t come here?
I don’t know.
I shrugged and opened the door and went inside.
cold air.
I took a deep breath.
In a small room that was less than 5 pyeong, there were countless monitors installed.
to walls and ceilings on all sides. Hundreds of large and small monitors were broadcasting different noises.
“…” and
an old videotape
on a small table in the middle of the room .
I picked up the videotape and looked at it.
On the sticker on the outside of the tape, the words ‘#EL CID DORADO’ were written.
El Cid.
The former Ranking 1st and the only Master who cleared all stages of Pick Me Up.
And a user himself who is also a hero.
After clearing all the missions, El Cid suddenly changed and ate all the nearby heroes and climbed over the wall of the server. Muryeon, who was ranked second, was also one of the victims, and Niflheim could have been part of the list of victims if the situation was a little bad.
It had only one purpose.
1 to go to the server.
‘What’s on Server 1?’
I’ve heard that Server 1 is home to Mobius’ headquarters.
You’ll see what I was trying to do there by watching the video.
I took a deep breath and put the videotape into the player.
Chick. Jijik.
Noise disappeared from all monitors at once.
After that, the video started playing one after another from the monitors on the outskirts.
Dorado’s low-level mission.
I’ve seen these scenes in the Book of Reversal Heaven.
I looked away. On the large monitor at the front of the room, major scenes were being played.
A series of awakenings and fierce fights between major missions and parting with colleagues.
He lost countless comrades and was in danger of dying himself several times, but in the end, El Cid was victorious.
He defeated monsters invading the city, defeated large monsters like mountains, and defeated heroes of the past who had turned into monsters. Afterwards, he entered the 80th floor with the NPC allied forces and continued a fierce battle with enemies coming from all over the continent.
[Fragment of Chaos Lv.113]
[Fragment of Despair Lv.108]
[Fragment of Resentment Lv.121]
So-called Fragment Series.
It was an unidentified non-attribute monster that appeared regularly from the 80th floor onwards.
Physical and magic attributes did not work at all, and there were no set characteristics, so the strategy had to be rewritten for each mission. Countless rankers were frustrated here.
‘It has no form.’
Sometimes in the form of a goblin.
Sometimes in the form of a large dragon.
Sometimes in the form of flowing bubbles.
‘I don’t even have feelings.’
Mental attacks don’t work on these guys.
There are no status changes such as fear or confusion courage and exaltation.
It just devours and gorge on all the life around it.
I looked ahead
Large screen in front.
In the video, the heroes of Dorado were struggling with the fragments.
[Floor 80.]
The 80th floor stage.
Thousands of splinter corps attacked, but this time, El Cid eventually won.
The next mission will be the same. The result has already been determined.
I shifted my gaze to the big screen.
The small monitors that were transmitting the video of the low-level mission began to turn off gradually.
On the screen in the middle, images from the 80th floor onwards were continuously played.
81st floor.
82nd floor.
83rd floor.
The number of floors gradually increases.
In the ruins of Dorado, El Cid and his allies fought relentlessly against the debris.
84th floor.
85th floor.
86th floor.
99% of the civilian NPCs belonging to Dorado were killed.
Still, the heroes fought on.
Fragments still appeared constantly.
87th floor.
It was the number of floors reached in Niflheim.
Dorado’s mission this time was similar to Niflheim.
Dealing with debris coming in from all directions.
The number goes well over a thousand units.
El Cid lost half of his troops and penetrated the 87th floor.
Every time they went through a mission, they were covered with scars, but they did not stop and moved on to the next floor.
88th floor.
89th floor.
And…
flash!
A dazzling light from the large screen engulfed my body.
Without even time to deal with it, I was sucked into the video.
‘…’
I opened my eyes.
Noxious air like rotting lungs entered the airways.
[Floor ??.]
[Mission type – ???]
[Mission objective – ???]
[※Notice]
[This is the last mission for ‘Dorado’.]
I narrowed my eyes.
The scenery gradually came into view.
the endless wilderness.
Not a single blade of grass grew in the field.
A land cracked like a desert. There was not the slightest hint of vitality.
I shook my head and walked.
how long did it take
[Conqueror of the Golden Land]
[Laskanda El Cid Lv. 254]
In the middle of that plain, there was El Cid.
“…”
El Cid is breathing heavily with his two swords pierced into the ground.
The wolf fur cloak had been soaked with blood for a long time, and there was no scar on the body.
“Is this the last mission?”
I walked across the field.
It must be just an illusion, but the thick smell of blood tickled my nose.
As I walked, I looked around.
El Cid’s proud army of conquests.
The golden armor is gone. “Haha!”
I looked to the side.
[Crying
storm]
[Kirzak Delaher Lv. 99]
An old man wearing plate armor and wearing a greatsword was smiling emptyly.
The guy’s closest aide who appeared during the El Cid subjugation
was Kirzak, who was called ‘Crazy’.
“Is this the only ending? I don’t know what I’ve been running for all this time.”
“It’s not over yet.”
A dark-skinned woman standing next to her turned her dagger.
[Running thunderbolt]
[Lelthea de Gare Lv
. Thea.
The most important figure in the Book of Reversal and one of the main three people of Dorado. ‘
There is no
one else…’ There
are only three people
standing on the field: El Cid, Kirzac, and Leltea.
Originally, this place The cities and palaces built on it collapsed, and the citizens were all killed.
Numerous NPCs, fellow heroes, and the majestic Dorado’s airship fleet all returned to dust.
“We were deceived. The goddess… tricked us. Foolishly deluded.”
“You don’t know yet! Beat this mission to the end, up to the 100th floor…”
“Dorado is already destroyed. This is the last time,”
muttered the old Kirzak.
“You can’t see it. There is nothing. No people, no allies, no territory to set foot on. We made our way through the 80th floor to restore it, but looking back now, the higher the floor, the more Dorado is falling into the path of destruction.” Kung. Kirzak drove his greatsword into
the
ground
. “…L.”
Reltea looked back at El Cid.
He
stood there with his eyes closed.
“You think it’s over too?”
“….”
“It’s not over yet. . Our colleagues are waiting in the waiting room. You can go back and rearrange it. As long as you’re alive, you can organize a punitive force anytime.”
Leltea muttered.
“I promised in the last world. I will bring Dorado back to life no matter what. I made a contract with the goddess for that. Uncle is like that too. “But now I’m giving up?”
“I’m… tired,”
Kirzak sighed.
“For what are we to continue this endless fight? Is it really for Dorado? I don’t know.”
Kirzak’s gaze turned to the sky.
I followed that gaze.
There…
[Fragment of Chaos Lv.113] X ???
[Fragment of Despair Lv.108] X ?? ?
[Fragment of grudge Lv.121] X ???
It wasn’t just a number like a thousand or ten thousand.
Truly infinite. An unmeasurable number of fragments were swarming beyond the clouds
. ” Then
, what are we for…”
Leltea looked up at the sky.
“What were we fighting for?”
“Shouldn’t we ask the goddess herself? There’s been no response lately, heh heh heh.”
Reltea sat down.
“Stand up.”
A small murmur.
El Cid looked back at the two with a blood-soaked face.
“I swore as the King of the Golden Land. I promise to return you to your hometown. I won’t give up just this much.”
“But…”
“You can change it. As I have done many times before.”
El Cid smiled.
“When I first came here, I was just a timid and selfish bastard. But it has changed. You guys made it like this.”
El Cid raised his twin swords.
He lowered
them
slowly
.
Forcibly creating an escape route during a mission,
I let out a big laugh.
“Let’s go back. To our resting place.”
Reltea nodded and entered the vortex first.
“Really… Is that possible?”
Kirzak asked, and El Cid just laughed silently.
Eventually, Kirzak also exited.
“Whoa.”
Left alone ,
El Cid sighed lightly.
I looked back,
but I couldn’t see my reflection in those eyes.
“You must be looking here. Goddess or anyone else.”
“…”
“I will not give up. If the game ends like this, I will change whatever I do. That’s my oath.”
Kwajik.
El Cid raised his sword and cut it.
The vortex of dimensions turned into light and disappeared.
“Before that… I’ll have to finish the mission I couldn’t finish.”
Clink !
Only then did the fragments that were wandering around begin to fall to the ground.
El Cid
aimed his
twin swords at the sky.
” My
sword…”
A vibration occurred.
Particles of light erupted from the corpses of monsters and heroes and were sucked into El Cid.
“Conquer your destiny
.
”