SWNOVELS Chapter 28 (1)
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‘What on earth is this…?’
Ian hadn’t lost consciousness.
In fact, his awareness was clearer than ever before.
His ears suddenly felt stuffy.
A strange sensation, as if falling endlessly while simultaneously soaring upward, surged through him.
In the next moment, a sea of stars stretched out before his eyes.
Endless expanse of space.
As Ian plummeted through that vastness, he was also soaring upward.
Ian realized that his physical body no longer existed in the present moment.
Only his consciousness fell into the expanse of space, flowing at an incredible speed.
Planets drew near, only to become distant blurs in the next instant.
A captivating yet terrifying sight.
It wasn’t vastly different from what he had seen in documentaries or movies, but the sense of reality was incomparable.
‘Whatever this is, it’s pretty darn amazing.’
Ian couldn’t look away or close his eyes; he simply faced everything that lay before him.
Distant twinkling stars turned into lines of various colors, filling his field of view and rushing past.
Ian realized that he was accelerating more and more, seemingly boundlessly.
Straight lines turned into curves, and in an instant, he couldn’t even recognize what he was seeing.
Suddenly, all the lines disappeared.
In their place, a ring of light silently rippled and filled Ian’s vision.
An abyss engulfed in darkness, a massive ring of light.
Ian realized that it bore a striking resemblance to something he had seen in a movie before.
‘A black hole…?’
Could this truly be called such a simple name?
Without a moment to end his amazement, he reached the ring of the black hole.
Even Ian couldn’t remain calm in a moment like this.
He knew that not even light could escape from within it.
But there was nothing he could do.
His vision flashed, rippled, and darkened once again.
An endless abyss without an end in sight.
However, strangely enough, Ian felt that it was blindingly bright.
A world where all laws were reversed.
In the next moment, the light disappeared.
In its place, darkness descended.
A white darkness.
The pupil of some colossal entity.
Something his perception couldn’t quite grasp.
At that moment, the pupil looked at him.
‘…!’
A shiver. Followed by an immense fear beyond what he could bear.
An eternity-like moment.
Everything turned into points and receded into the distance.
His vision flipped once again.
“Ugh…!”
Ian, who had fallen to the ground as if struck, retched.
The purple mist that had enveloped him vanished without a trace, leaving nothing behind.
He had returned to reality, but Ian was still consumed by fear, unable to regain his composure.
All senses flowed together, muddled.
Amidst trembling convulsions, Ian opened the status window and rapidly increased his mental strength.
An instinctual reaction, verging on rebellion.
But it had an effect.
The convulsions subsided, and the fear gradually receded.
Sensations returned to their rightful places.
The pitch-black darkness remained as it was.
The spell circuit had ceased functioning, and the source of light had disappeared completely.
“Phew. Hoo, hoo…”
Ian gasped for breath, spitting out a mix of saliva and bile.
He noticed that his mental strength had risen by a whopping nine points.
It had consumed a considerable amount of points, but he didn’t feel it was wasted.
He would’ve gone insane if he hadn’t used them.
Besides, they were essential attributes anyway.contemporary romance
After closing the status window, Ian’s gaze was once again drawn to the darkness around him.
A new window had appeared in his mind.
‘What’s this…?’
It was a sub-quest he hadn’t seen before, let alone received.
Fragment of Chaos.
The content stated that he had sent a piece that had fallen from the Primordial Chaos back into the Void.
The reward was a Fragment of Chaos.
‘So that black hole was the Void?’
Ian quickly accepted the situation.
‘Then that entity… is an ancient god.’
He had no other choice but to think that way.
A wry smile tugged at the corner of Ian’s mouth.
Who would’ve thought he’d end up seeing one of the Void’s gods that the Fallen and the Cultists occasionally mentioned?
‘Would Conroud have seen this too? …Well, if he did, he wouldn’t be alive now.’
It was an experience he didn’t want to go through again, but at least there was a reward.
And it was within his body.
Since his composure returned, Ian had been feeling a sensation similar to when he first sensed magic.
A sensation as if a new sense organ had sprouted somewhere in his body.
He carefully observed this organ.
It was like a fist-sized lump that had taken root somewhere deep within him.
Inside, he felt an energy similar to the Fragment of Chaos.
It seemed both straightforward magic and divine power.
‘Chaos… Could this be Chaos Power?’
Ian’s brows involuntarily furrowed.
It was a plausible thought, but impossible at the same time.
Because Chaos Power was Void energy.
It had been a power used by a very small number of the Fallen and demons even in the game.
To acquire Chaos Power, a character had to be tainted.
‘…Just like during the Apostle Quest. All constraints are really gone.’
Ian quickly accepted the phenomenon.
Logic and evidence didn’t matter anymore.
What mattered was that he had obtained Chaos Power.
‘Well, that’s a good thing. My magic is lacking anyway. If I study it well and use it…’
Translator; ippo
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