Chapter 472
The ominous light of the colorful universe flickered endlessly above them.
The stars, glowing in vivid colors, radiated beautiful yet dangerous light, like flowers bearing poison.
Beneath them, a bizarre forest sprawled, a mix of vast blue plants and jewels that shone in various hues.
And in the middle of this forest, Mingming and the cabbage woman were slowly making their way through the strange space, trying to find a way out.
“Ha… ha…”
The attachment human’s ragged breaths sliced through the silent air.
She was unable to move properly, as if something had happened to her body.
Even crawling a short distance, her breath quickly became shallow, and her face grew pale with a lack of color.
“Miing…”
Mingming, watching the suffering attachment human, let out a cry full of anxiety.
Her small, round eyes were filled with worry.
“I’m sorry… let’s rest a little… just a little…”
The cabbage woman’s voice was becoming fainter.
Mingming desperately tried to purify the air around them, supplying fresh oxygen, but the attachment human’s condition showed no signs of improving.
In fact, it was only getting worse.
The attachment human was breathing unnaturally, as if something was injuring her body.
Mingming pretended not to notice, but deep down, she had an inkling of the reason.
Using her ability to observe life, Mingming could see that the attachment human’s body was slowly warping under the influence of this space.
Just as the surrounding trees and rocks were transforming into colorful gemstones, her body too was slowly distorting.
“Miing…”
Mingming couldn’t stop this transformation with her small power.
Even if she poured an abundance of firewood into the process, it was only enough to suppress the change for a while.
No matter how much life force she infused, it couldn’t overcome the immense power of this space.
Regret began to fill Mingming’s heart.
“If it were the Blue Reaper, she could have healed with magic…”
“If it were the Golden Reaper, maybe they could have already escaped with a powerful overlap…”
“If I could handle a bunch of doll clothes like the Yellow Reaper…”
“If I had spatial abilities like the Purple Reaper…”
Endless regret and self-blame filled Mingming’s small mind.
“I’m sorry… because I’m the attachment Reaper…”
As if reading Mingming’s troubled thoughts, the cabbage woman slowly raised a trembling hand to cup Mingming’s face.
“It’s okay. We… we’ll be fine.”
Even though colorful gemstones covered one of her eyes, she still smiled warmly at Mingming.
But no matter how much life was infused, the change that had already begun couldn’t be healed.
Mingming could only helplessly watch the attachment human, slowly dying.
“Miing…”
Only a small, empty cry echoed through the air.
In the forest with the dome holding the colorful universe, I stopped walking and stared at the massive dome visible beyond the trees.
‘Foreign News…’
When the huge dome suddenly rose into my view, a sense of unease slowly began to rise within me.
Well, this is the domain of the foreign news, so it couldn’t be helped.
After pushing the anxiety to the back of my mind, I began to walk toward the dome.
Thud thud.
The dome was so large that no matter how much I walked, it never seemed to get any closer.
It was like James Tower, a high-rise building that could easily be seen from across a river, distorting perception due to its sheer size.
It felt like I’d need a week just to walk closer, so I used my ghostly ability.
Melting into the trees like a ghost, I moved swiftly in a straight line.
As I approached the dome, the surroundings began to change in a bizarre way.
The trees seemed to be affected by the colorful universe, slowly warping their forms as I drew closer.
But the changes were not consistent.
Some trees were withering and shriveling as if abandoned in a desert for a long time, while others grew unnaturally large and thick, as if absorbing the life force of the surrounding trees.
‘It’s as if the colorful universe is picking trees to survive and channeling life into them.’
Passing through this bizarre forest, I finally arrived at the dome, which was even more astonishing than I had expected.
Over the massive black dome, waves of rainbow-colored light rippled as if alive.
The colors, like oil spreading across water at various angles, were constantly shifting.
And above this dazzling sea of color, countless stars twinkled like those in the black night sky.
‘To think such a huge, glowing object was completely invisible from the restaurant area…’
The dome, seen up close, was so vast that it didn’t feel like a round dome but rather like a wall filling my entire field of vision.
‘Let’s go.’
With a calm expression, I braced myself for the confrontation with the foreign news, draping the circulation halo over my head.
I felt the familiar sensation of heat rising from my body and tore through the dome’s wall.
And as the space-cutting ability shredded the wall, a dreadful sound echoed.
Creek creek.
It sounded like the kind of noise made when the Black Reaper forcibly tears through physical immunity.
The colorful universe’s dome slowly began to tear apart, following the scratches left by my fingernails.
The rough, jagged scars etched into the fabric of space itself.
I immediately dashed toward the quickly regenerating gap.
When I entered the dome’s interior, it was a bit strange.
Instead of the sky, a colorful universe stretched overhead, and below it, a transparent slime filled the air.
Inside this slime, all materials were slowly transforming.
Inorganic substances like stone and dirt turned into clumps of red flesh.
The trees turned into unidentified masses of flesh with blood vessels creeping grotesquely from all directions.
The process by which these materials, left in this space, were transforming into red seaweed-like flesh was vividly visible.
It was a nightmarish scene, but strangely, there was something reassuring about it.
At least the cause and effect were still visible.
This place was certainly bizarre, but it wasn’t quite like the true domain of the foreign news.
There was still cause and effect here, and most importantly, I didn’t sense the presence of the foreign news.
‘There’s nothing here…’
For someone who had come expecting an intense battle, there was a strange sense of emptiness.
Additionally, the interior space was much smaller than I had anticipated.
From the outside, it looked like it could consume an entire city, but inside, it was less than a third of that size.
Perhaps it had something to do with the slowly expanding interior space?
Seeing no sign of the foreign news, I discarded the circulation halo.
Then, I scattered firewood throughout the interior and began burning everything.
The slime and seaweed turned golden as they burned.
Once the firewood consumed all the bizarre materials inside the dome, the dome suddenly vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
I stood where the dome had been, looking up at the now-blue sky.
‘Is it over…?’
The colorful universe had vanished, but strangely, the unease still lingered faintly.
As I returned to the restaurant area after destroying the dome, I found the Golden Reapers still lingering around, each holding a windmill.
‘?’
I was puzzled as to why they hadn’t left yet, but upon closer inspection, it seemed they were stuck, unable to go anywhere.
‘No way…’
‘We can’t go…’
The Golden Reapers wandered the forest like they were lost in a maze, only to return repeatedly to the restaurant area.
At first, I thought it was mental contamination or some kind of spatial distortion.
But something was odd.
Not all the Golden Reapers were lost.
A few were moving along the path they intended without any trouble.
‘What’s the difference?’
As I observed more carefully, the crucial difference became clear.
‘The antennae are glowing…’
The antennae of the Golden Reapers who were finding their way were glowing faintly.
I realized then.
‘Ah, the Black Reaper’s ability to find paths.’
The children who unconsciously used this ability could find their way, while those who couldn’t were lost in the forest.
Well, the solution was simple.
I summoned many White Reapers, the originals of this ability, from the Mini Reaper Garden.
Then, one by one, I placed the Golden Reapers, who looked confused, on the backs of the Mini Reapers.
The Golden Reapers quickly realized my intent and began giving orders to the White Reapers.
‘To the place with many humans!’
‘Let’s go!’
The White Reapers then began moving toward the direction the Golden Reapers wanted.
‘That’s interesting.’
I didn’t feel much difference, but seeing the Golden Reapers lost and the Earth’s changes, it was clear something had gone awry.
At that moment, a golden comet fell toward me at high speed.
Thud.
What appeared was the Golden Cloak Reaper and…
The Golden Reaper 1st Sword, unconscious, missing one arm.
