Chapter 510
Beyond the Mini Reaper Garden Caramel Canyon, a huge amusement park.
After the mass punishment of the beasts was over, the amusement park began to fill up with the bright smiles of the Mini Reapers again.
Some of the Mini Reapers, feeling sorry for watching the fun games without their mothers, sneaked up to me and offered me cookies.
Omnyunnyun.
I started looking around this new amusement park while eating the cookies the Mini Reapers gave me.
My first impression as I walked around this amusement park was this.
‘It’s so big.’
I’m not sure because I haven’t been to all of them, but I think all the amusement parks in the world would be smaller than this if they were connected.
Well, considering the number of Mini Reapers, it seems like a reasonable size… .
This amusement park was a bit strange because each area had a theme.
Gray Reaper theme, White Devil theme, Golden Reaper theme, etc.
The most popular of them all was the Golden Reaper Theme Park.
A place where all the rides were golden and glittered, and where there were huge golden Reaper statues.
‘It’s huge!’
‘It’s so huge!’
In the center of it all was a huge golden statue that would never have been possible on Earth.
It was taller than most high-rise buildings, and since it was made entirely of gold… .
If you brought it to Earth, the ground would probably collapse.
Well, I don’t know much about architecture, so this is just a guess.
In front of the statue, a bunch of golden Reapers who wanted to be as big as the statue were building a pyramid.
The golden Reaper on the top jumped up and down toward the golden statue, but he wasn’t tall enough to reach it.
‘Angdae!’
‘Hmph.’
Then the golden Reapers found me and gathered around, clinging to me and pestering me.
‘Mom!’
‘Mom!’
The children had one wish.
They wanted to make themselves bigger through fusion.
It was quite annoying to use Halo because of this, but I decided to do it because I was curious to see if I could unite the Golden Reapers and make them bigger than that.
When I put Halo on, the Golden Reapers started cheering and cheering.
Then, as if they had heard the news through the network, a lot of Golden Reapers started to gather near me.
There were so many that it seemed like there were more than when the Golden Reaper Conference was held.
Then I poured as much firewood as I could and combined the Golden Reapers into one.
Then a huge sphere appeared in the air, and the Golden Reaper jumped out of it.
‘Kwaaang!’
The giant Golden Reaper roared.
Then he stood in front of the Golden Reaper statue, comparing their heights and giggling.
‘I’m bigger!’
‘Bigger!’
It was the completion of a giant Golden Reaper that you had to look up at from afar.
‘Mom, small!’
‘Tiny!’
But the golden reaper smiling down at me seemed a little rude, so I unfused.
‘Angdae!’
‘Angdae!!’
Then, golden reapers began to rain down from the amusement park sky.
***
The morning sunlight passed through the glass windows of Sehee’s lab and gently poured down on the lounge floor.
Before the lab became lively, only the light footsteps of researcher Oh Ye-rin could be heard in the hallway in the quiet of the early morning.
In her hand was a thick stack of magazines.
On the cover, the words <Weekly Mini Reaper> were neatly written, and underneath it, the golden reaper and the black reaper were embracing each other and smiling brightly.
There was once a small controversy within the lab over the identity of this magazine.
It was because it was always placed in the lounge every Monday morning and because of the photos of the gray reaper inside.
Starting with the idea that it was the work of Director Lee Se-hee, and even the theory that it was made by an object.
The hypothesis that the object was the creator gained strength because of the photos of the gray reaper in clothes that were impossible to obtain.
However, all of those speculations were recently dispelled by the appearance of a lead doll.
It was revealed that the real author of the magazine was none other than Researcher Oh Ye-rin, who was famous as the troublemaker of the Se-hee Research Institute.
Since then, Ye-rin no longer left the magazine secretly.
Instead, she proudly and even more diligently placed the magazine she had made in the break room every week.
As soon as Ye-rin placed the magazine on the break room stand, the researchers began to gather one by one as if they had been waiting.
Each of their shoulders and pockets had their own mini reapers sitting on them, emitting a warm glow.
“Wow, this time it’s a special feature on the everyday clothes of the mini reapers!”
When one researcher exclaimed in admiration, the golden reaper sitting on his shoulder looked down at the magazine with eyes filled with anticipation.
Some reapers tried to imitate the poses in the magazine and fell backwards, while others pulled at the hem of their beloved human’s clothes, expressing their desire to try it too.
However, the most talked about photo in this issue was the special photo on the last page.
There was the image of the Gray Reaper in his everyday clothes.
Since the Gray Reaper was famous for never wearing clothes, this photo had even more special value.
Of course, there was a lead doll at Sehee Research Institute.
A kind object that looked exactly like the Gray Reaper and willingly put on clothes.
However, strangely, even when the lead doll made the same expression as the Gray Reaper, it always felt kind, unlike the real thing, and it gave off a distinctly different feeling from the Gray Reaper.
On the other hand, the photo of the Gray Reaper in the magazine contained his characteristically sullen expression, so it seemed clear that it was a real photo of the Gray Reaper.
“How on earth did they take that?”
Yerin looked satisfied as she watched the lab staff muttering like that.
In Yerin’s arms, who was smiling, were countless photos of the gray reaper that had not yet been released.
***
A plateau that the unqualified cannot reach.
As if waking up from a thousand-year sleep, the black giant’s eyelids slowly rose.
After becoming one with the nameless, it was the moment when the black giant faced the world once again after a long time.
The giant eyes that had awakened did not seem to have any will.
They were deep and dark, as if looking into an abyss, and there seemed to be nothing inside them.
However, in contrast to those empty eyes, his body was like an archive of the world.
Countless memories carved into the flow of time were imprinted on each and every one of his flesh.
Like the rings of an old tree, or like fossils accumulated in the strata.
Those memories were not mere fragments of the past, but were so vast that it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were the history of a world.
The first record was the moment when he achieved ‘Gyeok’ and received revelation.
The revelation that he would be able to eat everything including his wish and reach beyond.
It was the memory of the moment when he obtained it and was convinced.
There were countless other records after that.
The moment he arrived on the planet in search of his wish.
The moment he was unable to swallow his wish and was swallowed by it instead.
The moment he created the ‘God-Killing Book’, an entity that would kill him with someone else’s wish.
And the last moment, the moment he dissolved into the evolution liquid and fell into eternal sleep.
However, all of these memories were like artifacts on display in a museum.
Because the black giant did not have a self that could interpret and understand them.
The black giant slowly raised his hand.
Slowly, as if a being that had been asleep for thousands of years was waking up.
Then, a black liquid flowed down between the black giant’s huge fingers.
The liquid that looked similar to oil was the evolution liquid that had mixed into the black giant’s body.
The evolution liquid flowed through the black giant’s body, dripping down like dark blood.
The evolution liquid was so similar to the giant’s flesh that it looked like a part of the giant.
However, the evolution liquid could only mix into the black giant’s body, and could never become a part of its flesh.
Rather, its essence was closer to destruction.
Just as oil can be used to remove oil, the evolution liquid’s sole purpose was to mix into the giant’s body and destroy it.
It was a liquid that was meant to kill the god, and it was a liquid that killed everything that came from the god.
However, the poison could no longer dissolve the black giant.
The black giant that the evolution liquid had imitated and the black giant that was now were no longer similar.
The positive self that had been created as the level was lost somewhere, and the numerous powers that the giant had once swallowed were also lost.
Above all, it was natural that the evolution liquid would no longer be effective now that the most important ‘revelation’ had been lost.
The black giant, free from the bondage of desire and the poison of evolution, slowly straightened its massive body.
The air around him swirled heavily as he moved.
As he extended his long hand and clenched his fist toward the empty space, the space crumbled with a tearing sound.
Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki.
It was the power to give substance to the intangible and to bring down what existed only as an idea into reality.
The most essential element that made up the status of the foreign god, the power of the flesh, was still the black giant’s.
[■ ■ ■ ■ ■]
A meaningful resonance that could not be expressed in words spread out.
The black giant, who had regained the appearance of his prime, began to chase after the revelation that had already disappeared.
In those empty eyes, there was no proper will or emotion, but within them, there was a faint longing for the lost things.
