You Will Be Blessed If You Do Good Deeds¿-Chapter 188

Theo Yovanovich, who was called "older sister," raised the corners of her mouth in a smile.

"You are as weak as ever."

Her appearance and voice were completely different, but that tone was all too familiar.

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"Lucy."

The tone she used while calling my name, pretending to be kind.

Without waiting any longer, I raised my hand.

Boom!

The magic surged, gathering at my command.

‘I'll finish this in one blow.’

From the moment I entered the dungeon, I had succeeded in seizing control over all the mana in this area.

So, there was no harm in making the first move.

After all, we were no longer in a position to talk.

The magic shaped itself as I willed it.

A wizard is someone who defies the laws of physics with their own language, creating new rules. But sometimes...

There are times when no words are needed, when everything is clear.

Sharp, bloodthirsty energy formed in the air, taking the shape of hundreds, even thousands, of arrows.

Yes, bloodthirsty energy.

Right now, I was feeling an overwhelming desire to kill Theo Yovanovich... No, Orbis.

‘Die.’

The mana, taking the form of rage, swirled violently around me.

My hands trembled from the excessive flow of magic, but I let it be.

‘Die.’

I didn’t even know I still had this much anger inside me.

In truth, I thought I had forgotten everything about my past life.

Even when I saw the soul of the reincarnated hero or met Margarita, who had pushed me off the cliff, I hadn’t felt this angry.

But now...

"Orbis...!"

Now, seeing her again in front of my eyes, I realized.

I hadn’t forgotten my past life...

It was just that all of my anger had been focused on her, so there was no energy left to be angry at anyone else.

Boom boom boom!

The mana that enveloped my body exploded like lava.

Without hesitation, I poured all of that hostility toward Theo.

Bang! Bang!

A tremendous dust cloud rose.

I had already seized control over all the mana in this area.

So, Orbis should have been defenseless, unable to use even a single shield spell, turning into a hedgehog.

"...Hah."

However, nothing went as planned.

After the dust cleared, what appeared before my eyes was a translucent shield protecting Orbis.

"...This is ridiculous."

And that shield wasn’t made with magic.

I looked toward the system.

"What the hell is this nonsense?"

The thing protecting Orbis' body right now... was the system itself.

A hateful system message appeared before me.

The system prioritizes the survival of humanity.Kill intent detected from the user, ‘Jeong Da-on.’The quest ‘You will be blessed if you do good deeds?’ is ongoing.Attacking an ordinary person is an unethical act.

Seeing the system message, I was dumbfounded.

"Who the hell is an ‘ordinary person’? Wake up, you dumb cluster intelligence! This right here is the enemy of humanity!"

The one standing right in front of me—this was the "enemy of humanity" the system had been searching for «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» all this time, wasn’t it?

Killing this person would benefit the system, and even humanity itself.

Yet here it was, protecting them.

"What the hell is your game?"

The system is confused.The system does not understand the user, ‘Jeong Da-on’s’ intentions.

Despite my words, the system did not change.

The shield around Orbis remained intact.

The system didn’t even recognize the "enemy of humanity" right in front of me.

"..."

No matter how I thought about it, this was strange.

I gritted my teeth and raised my magic once again.

Once. Twice.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

But no matter how many times I poured my magic into it, the result was the same.

The ground cracked, and grass and trees were uprooted, but the shield protecting Orbis remained unharmed.

It made sense, though. The opponent wasn’t a wizard; it was a cluster intelligence system.

In the end, since I was also the user 'Jeong Da-on,' the system’s will to protect another user could not be defied.

Yeah, I knew.

It was pointless to attack like this.

Boom!

"Ugh, gah..."

Finally, I stopped my attack as my mana circuits burned so much that I felt like I might collapse.

Damn.

Wiping the cold sweat from my forehead, I glared at Orbis.

At that moment, the system message window appeared once again, warning me.

The system warns the user, ‘Jeong Da-on.’The quest ‘You will be blessed if you do good deeds?’ is ongoing.Attacking an ordinary person is an unethical act.

"Unethical act? The real problem is your ridiculous intelligence that thinks of him as an ‘ordinary person.’"

I stopped myself.

Up until now, I had been so engulfed in anger that I hadn’t properly understood the meaning of that message...

Wait, hold on.

Could it be...?

When I closed my mouth, Orbis smiled faintly.

"Oh, Lucy. You still haven’t fixed your habit of speaking out when things don’t go your way, huh?"

"Shut up."

Though my reasoning was almost paralyzed by rage...

I managed to pull myself together.

Getting angry wouldn’t help.

What mattered now...

Was figuring out why the system was protecting Orbis and finding a way to break it.

No, more importantly... Why was Orbis being recognized as an ‘ordinary person’ and not the ‘destroyer of humanity’?

Until now, even when new concepts like Soul Cores, which the system hadn’t detected, appeared, it at least accepted hints if I gave them...

Why couldn’t the system recognize Orbis’ soul, which was clearly in front of me?

"..."

"Hmm, looks like you figured it out."

"Could it be... you?"

And...

Upon thinking about it, the answer was quite obvious.

I just didn’t want to believe it.

"Have you not awakened?"

Orbis, Theo Yovanovich’s body, truly was... an ordinary person who had not awakened, not possessing any magical circuits.

The system expresses frustration.

"Yes, that’s right."

Orbis shrugged and smiled.

"I’m an ordinary person who can’t use magic. That’s why the system can’t recognize me."

"...Hah."

I let out a hollow laugh.

Logically...

It made sense. It was actually obvious.

The way Orbis avoided the system’s surveillance.

In fact, it was the same method I had used until I turned 20.

Simply put, all you had to do was not awaken.

Currently, the human race on Earth first accesses the system by awakening and becoming a ‘user.’

So ordinary people never even see the system messages. Without awakening the mana circuits, they cannot connect to the system.

To connect to the cluster intelligence that is the system, the human device must have a power source—mana.

So, all of this...

Pointed to the fact that Orbis was an unawakened ordinary person.

The system protecting Orbis, the ‘destroyer of humanity,’ and not recognizing his soul right in front of me...

"That doesn’t make sense."

But, at the same time, it was contradictory.

Orbis was clearly ‘the enemy of humanity.’

And looking at everything Orbis had done...

It didn’t make sense that he was an unawakened ordinary person.

Even if he reincarnated in Theo Yovanovich’s body.

The Soul Core items that were circulating in the market—those were items that Orbis himself had to create.

If Orbis was really an ordinary person, this would have been impossible.

"You can’t have not awakened."

"Don’t jump to conclusions."

"Stop beating around the bush. Tell me, how did you blind the cluster intelligence’s eyes?"

"Oh, Lucy."

Orbis tapped his lips and chuckled.

His sparkling blonde hair, green eyes, and delicate features seemed like a perfect embodiment of ideal beauty.

But to me now, it was nothing but repulsive.

"You’re still seeking my guidance? Answers to your curiosity must be found by yourself. That way, you’ll truly learn something. And besides, the answer... you already know."

"Stop babbling like that."

"Oh, you used to say I should speak, and now you tell me not to? Which beat should I follow?"

"..."

I clenched my fists.

His tone, still treating me like a little sister, reading me bedtime stories while I sat on his lap...

It was unbearably annoying.

Even though our relationship could never return to what it once was.

Hrrr...

At that moment, Leo, who had been standing by my side, lowered his body and growled threateningly.

He crouched low, his fur standing on end.

Grra... grrr...

Leo muttered in a low frequency like a curse.

I’m going to kill you right now, I won’t forgive you!

Of course, Leo was a retainer I created by tearing apart the anger I felt for Orbis, so it wasn’t surprising he was angry at him.

But now, since Orbis was being protected by the system...

Even though Leo was furious...

"..."

I suddenly turned to look at Orbis.

Orbis, still smiling faintly, crossed his arms and stared at me.

Then, a thought crossed my mind.

A rather dreadful thought, but one that was not impossible.

"...Could it be?"

"Yes, exactly."

Orbis shrugged his shoulders.

"The answer is right next to you."

I let out a hollow laugh.

Of course, if I only considered the possibility...

It could be.

But I had already ruled it out, thinking it was impossible...

"You... separated your soul, didn’t you?"

That was the only answer.

Leo, Robo, and Rai were all entities I created by separating pieces of my soul.

But, though they were part of my soul, they were considered separate beings with individual wills in the system.

And... Orbis had done the same thing with his soul.

It wasn’t strange.

After all, I had shared my research on souls with Orbis.

But...

"You did a crazy thing. You really have gone mad."

But even knowing it was possible, I had thought Orbis wouldn’t do something like that, and there was only one reason for that.

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If the Theo Yovanovich standing before me now was a part of Orbis’ soul that had been separated...

"Creating a new human being is completely different from making an animal-shaped retainer. What the hell did you do?"

The human mind and body are intricately linked.

For my animal-shaped retainers, I created their bodies by synthesizing materials I obtained from various minerals and monsters.

But creating a human body artificially was a whole different problem.

A human soul is incredibly complex and constantly changing, making it nearly impossible to create an artificial vessel to contain it.

Even I had failed to understand the essence of that soul.

No matter how much of a great wizard I was, if I tried to mold a human body from clay, it would simply be a golem.

The only thing that can replace human flesh is another human flesh.

That was the conclusion I reached when researching immortality.

And using a decayed corpse wasn’t possible either.

Once the soul has left, the body starts to rot and can’t last long.

Orbis listened to my words, tilted his head a few times, then shrugged his shoulders.

And, as expected, he spoke.

"Theo was a very loyal servant. Thanks to him, I didn’t have to go through the trouble of finding a suitable body. It’s a pity he was born a man, though..."

Yes, there was no choice but to place a part of the soul into a fetus.

At least, that was what I knew.

"..."

I looked into my observation window and examined the soul of Orbis in front of me.

When I first saw it, I was too full of rage to take a closer look, but now...

I realized there was something strange about it.

Orbis’ soul seemed fine at first glance.

But, actually, that couldn’t be the case.

My retainers, being parts of my soul, could only think simply because emotions had been stripped away.

But the Theo Yovanovich, who was a part of Orbis’ soul, was thinking and speaking just like a normal human.

In order to create such a human, simply tearing away part of the soul wouldn’t be enough.

Orbis must have torn apart his own soul, broke it into pieces...

And perhaps had to endure pain so intense that even the essence of his soul was near destruction.

‘Mad bastard.’

I cursed under my breath.

After committing such a dirty act, Orbis was smiling with a clean face as if he knew nothing about it.

"It was something I had to do. There were things I needed to do that were beyond my own strength."

"..."

"So, I came here to meet you personally. Why are you always getting in the way of what I’m trying to do, Lucy?"

"...What?"

I doubted my ears.

Who was getting in the way of whom?

"As soon as I awakened, who was it that tried to kill me? I’ve already been caught in a dungeon break several times..."

"Yes, but you didn’t die, did you?"

"What?"

"I only pushed you into a dimensional rift. I didn’t intend to kill you. You really think you’d die from something so trivial?"

"..."

"You already know my goal, don’t you?"

As Orbis spread his arms wide, he spoke.

"I just wanted to use your soul to expand the passage to this world. After all, this place used to be your world."

The moment the dungeon break happened.

Of course, because of our existence, Orbis and I... were pushed into this world from our past lives.

The clear air.

The thick foliage and the endless horizon.

A desolate landscape, where it was hard to imagine any humans ever lived.

Looking at the destroyed world with no traces left, Orbis smiled bitterly.

"I’m the king of this world."

Ah, I know.

What Orbis will say.

No matter how much he changes.

Even if he tears his soul into thousands, no, tens of thousands of pieces, Orbis will still say the same thing.

I still don’t understand the essence of the soul.

But I know the essence of that soul.

"I have a duty to restore this world."