Chapter 477: Last System Error (3)

All of a sudden, they didn’t feel estranged from each other anymore.

“One way or another this game or this hell will end tonight.”

Sungwoo looked at the camera and smiled. He made a relaxed laugh.

“Kyungsoo, let’s go.”

Sungwoo and Kyungsoo walked forward naturally without feeling nervous.

“Alright! Everyone, get ready to go back!”

“Pack the aerial weapons and take care of the wounded!”

Everyone started to follow Sungwoo as if it was natural.

As if nothing had happened, they started preparing to go home.

“Wow! It’s finally over!”

“I want to go to sleep quickly.”

All of them chose Sungwoo’s choice.

‘Of course, I can’t end like this. But the system gave me the worst route I didn’t want.’

Sungwoo thought that he gave the best punch to the creature that he could not defeat.

‘It doesn’t matter what happens now.’

If no one chooses, nothing happens. And the game doesn’t work without anyone playing.

Whooooo-

The Messenger lowered its attitude toward the vacant lot where Sungwoo and Kyungsoo were standing. There were familiar faces on the deck such as Jisu and Hanho.

“Sungwoo? Is it a real party, isn’t it? You are not paying lip service, right? I look forward to it! ”

Sungwoo nodded at Hanho’s shouting. He was serious about throwing a party.

“Ugh? What’s this?”

But then, strange letters began to appear in everyone’s eyes.

– $%#@ !%67#

It wasn’t the system’s fault.

“Can you see this?”

The message was unfamiliar to everyone else but familiar to Sungwoo.

– 꾉꿹%%%&@긝!(%67#)

-쉙누ㅐㄺ빍!%$$##%!!&*

– The client-server connection is terminated due to a fatal error. (ERROR CODE:0014231532)

A system error has occurred.

The Messenger’s power was turned off and stopped in mid-air. Everything generated by the game stopped working.

As if he was waiting for this moment, Sungwoo took out the ‘Imoogi’s Scale’ from his pocket. It was hot.

“Are you finally here?”

An ‘unidentified helper’, which had no presence, finally decided to intervene.

“It’s all over now. I don’t think you’re just trying to give me a useless hint this time, are you? As promised, tell me how to destroy this game,” Sungwoo said sharply as if he was fighting.

Then something amazing happened.

“It’s time to bring the system down.”

The voice of the one who caused the system error was heard.

***

What is the essence of this game?

Everyone has questioned it at some point.

Who caused this, and why?

Why should we have to go through this?

But they had to hold back such questions because they were busy surviving day to day.

Survivors explored ‘how do I kill monsters’ rather than questioning ‘where did they come from?’, and focused on ‘how they could obtain’ rather than ‘how they worked.’

It was natural. So, they became a ‘player’.

“Is it almost over now?”

But now they couldn’t help but ask.

“Given that they are appearing like this, right?”

The last chance has come. If they didn’t know now, they would never know.

Sungwoo raised his head and looked into the air. He couldn’t see anything, but he could see that something was there.

“What was that voice just now?”

“What else is showing up?”

Other players also raised their heads and looked around.

“What the heck is the system error?”

“The relaxation magic is not working!”

They could hear the voice that said it was time to bring the system down.

Soon the voice was heard again.

<You guys have been waiting for this for a long time.>

The voice of a woman was echoing through the air. Unlike any passive intervention until now, she has revealed herself in person. Even though she knew the system was watching her, she appeared openly, blindfolding the system.

The players began to whisper here and there. It was a strange situation for them.

While everyone was looking at Sungwoo, he asked, “Now? What is different now?”

<This is the time when security is most vulnerable. The eyes to watch over you and the hands to interfere with me, called “Sentinels,” have significantly disappeared. As the game is coming to an end, a lot of manpower has been moved to another game.”

Another game? Sentinel? Manpower? Move to another game?

If this is the case…

Sungwoo immediately realized that after all, the ‘system’ was not a miracle that a transcendent being could use in a way that one could understand.

“It is an organization that is operated by a large number of people.”

In other words, this is entirely artificial.

‘That’s why it can be stopped with an error like this, or it can be destroyed somehow’

In other words, it meant that those who operated this system and enjoyed the game were not at least “absolute beings”.

“So who are you?”

A being who could answer that fundamental question has appeared, so Sungwoo did not hesitate to ask the question he had been holding for a long time.

“And why are you doing all this to us?”

But she didn’t get the answer he wanted.

<I’m sorry. I know you’re angry and you’re looking for the truth. But, I don’t have time. Since “Sentinels” have decreased, I can control more time, but they will deal with it. So you should move.”

“As expected…”

Sungwoo giggled at that, but he got a little bit annoyed.

“I knew you would say that too.”

Until now she controlled Sungwoo as if she was his helper, but she didn’t answer his questions. She was the same even now. She was making unilateral demands, citing lack of time as an excuse.

Sungwoo got annoyed. Just like the system, she was trying to control him almost by force.

<I’ve no time. You know that trusting me is the only way for you to survive, right? It’s all for you.>

As soon as he heard her words, he realized right away that this was not the rhetoric of some great being. A human-like being was trying to persuade him with his emotions. And such beings didn’t do good for free.

‘She isn’t doing this for pure goodwill. She will gain some benefits by helping us.’

Sungwoo leaned against the dragon with his arms crossed as if he wanted to show he was not in a hurry. So, he was going to make the demands on his terms first and last.

“Great. Putting out the fire first is a priority. But even so, shouldn’t you at least tell me who you are and your nickname?”

Sungwoo thought that at least for the last moment, he wouldn’t be a chess piece on the game board.

“Before I can cooperate with you, we need to know each other’s position, right? Please tell me briefly. Why are you trying to destroy the system?”

<Every explanation takes time.>

“Then, try to make me understand even for a short moment. As someone who is good enough to create such a huge game, you know how to summarize your point, right?”

Sungwoo was determined not to cooperate with her if she could not say what he wanted to hear.

<Good. I am also the same race as the GM of this game. But…> She hesitated. <Among our people there are some who oppose enjoying this kind of game and stop it. And we have been fighting GM for a very long time. It is an ideological and political confrontation, but above all else it is a struggle for the ultimate justice.>

She was now making the case for justice just like so many brazen humans.

Sungwoo felt again that they were not absolute beings.

“Then, are you something like a civic group that fights for human rights or the environment?”

<That’s right.>

Now Sungwoo solved the mystery. They were a ‘race’ no different from humans, living in a complex society.

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