The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 185



Chapter 185 – Receiving – 4

“Ugh, ahhh… … !”

As soon as the branches extended from the light window, an excruciating pain surged through her entire body. Aria let out a groan and barely managed to stabilize her body as it was being pushed back.

As I wrapped myself in whatever defensive magic I could think of, only then did my skin, which had been burning, start to feel a little better. I squinted my eyes. I saw the flow of time that had stopped.

‘How did this happen?’

Aria was confused.

It had to be that way. Even when Laura was mentally destroyed, and even when the world was later restored by procuring new parts, the regression never failed.

But now, that absolute belief was being shattered before her eyes. Aria stared blankly at the light window that stretched out everywhere like a spider web, holding onto time itself.

It was magnificent. No matter how much it had hurt him and was hindering him, it was difficult to give it a negative evaluation.

‘That’s ridiculous… … ‘

When I realized that it had stopped the time that was being rewound, I got goosebumps. What on earth was that thing, what kind of potential did it have that could even interfere with time?

‘I’ve never seen anything like that in fragments… … .’

It was a sight that had not been confirmed even in the fragments of a broken world. I thought that the awakening was over when Mira-san slaughtered humans and the light from the light spear emitted, but that wasn’t the case.

Even at this moment, the light was growing more and more intense. The sky was trembling with light. Soon, the world stopped regressing and settled into complete silence. Time no longer passed.

In both forward and reverse directions.

‘What, what should I do… … .’

Aria bit her fingernails nervously. She hadn’t expected this scenario. It was a simple matter of absorbing the power, completing her final revenge, and resetting the world with Mira.

Unfortunately, the ‘main character’ Aria, who had always had everything go her way after absorbing the fragments of the world, had no experience dealing with this situation.

“Mi, Mira… … .”

It was then. A voice I never wanted to hear again was heard. The blue eyes that had been blankly staring at the light came into focus. In those pupils, things that had been screaming in panic just a moment ago were captured.

They gathered around Mira with faces that had regained their composure. Unlike Aria, they were gathering. As soon as they gathered, the light from the window began to shine even brighter, and Aria’s eyes lit up.

It was a flame called jealousy.

Now, Aria and those were essentially no different. No, even if those four attacked at once, Aria was confident that she could take them out with a single wave of her hand, so it could be said that she was superior.

‘Miss Mira… … Why… … .’

But why is it that the golden light is protecting those and not Aria? Fate must have been on this side.

‘Those ones are a must… … ?’

Anger burned with jealousy as fuel, and jealousy burned with anger as fuel. Something was detected in Aria’s aura that was growing more and more murderous.

Aria, who had a hard time confirming the identity of the movement through the pouring light, froze in place.

‘uh……?’

“It really… has stopped. The regression.”

Rosaria muttered absentmindedly and touched the light of the light window. The rewinding time stopped and the sacred light spread, and the other three who had come to their senses gathered around as if possessed.

“How did you do it?”

“My memory came back.”

I remembered all the monsters I had faced in the first world, and how fiercely I had fought them. Now that I think about it, it really was a crazy world.

If just one of them appeared here, wouldn’t it be enough to bring the world to the brink of destruction all by itself? Regardless of whether they are demons or humans.

“… … Old memories, are you okay?”

Priscilla asked cautiously. He nodded.

“Now. I told you before. If it were me in the past, I would have been buried in the past, but not anymore. If it were me, I wouldn’t have been able to even start the final stage.”

The condition for awakening from the beginning was to have faith in oneself, so in the past when self-loathing and even Gwangchang were considered a bundle of trauma, it was something that I would not have even dreamed of.

Of course, the final stage wouldn’t even have started.

“And… … Even if it’s not really okay, you’re here. I thought about that too. I heard this not to kill something, but to protect it. So it’s okay. As long as we stick together.”

Even if it feels a little strange, it’s true.

Just as the four people were able to stop regressing when they met me, I was able to stop suffering from recalling past memories when I came here.

“mummy…….”

“Ahem, heh, heh heh! What, why are you saying such embarrassing things! It’s something that’s normal between us!”

Priscilla clasped her hands together in front of her chest, tears welling up in her eyes. Rosaria blushed and kept fanning herself.

“It’s a relief to see you smile so sincerely.”

“… … Thank you for saying that… … No, thank you… … .”

Elisier smiled brightly, as if the panic she had been in just a moment ago was a lie, and Laura quietly shed tears. They were tears with a slightly different meaning than Priscilla’s.

While reading the net, I took a step forward, holding the light window. It was nice to be touched, but dealing with Aria was the priority. I didn’t know what she would do next.

“… … ?”

But, something was strange.

Just a moment ago, it looked like it was gritting its teeth while looking this way, but now it was muttering something with a blank expression on its face. I thought it didn’t attack, and that was the reason.

Anyway, I thought it was my chance and tried to grab Aria, but I stopped along with her. It was because I felt another movement in the Holy Window, apart from the six here. There were three in total.

‘… … There’s someone else moving besides us? That can’t be possible.’

What Seongchang did was almost like forcibly holding back time that was trying to return. Naturally, the people of this world had no choice but to stand still. But it was ridiculous to feel movement.

Unless there are other icebreakers besides us.

It seemed that I had to find out what was going on. I sent out a kind of will toward the people who were curiously touching the light that was spreading out from the Holy Window.

The Holy Spear, responding to my will, began to embrace those people and bring them to me. They were not enemies. If they had any hostile intentions, they would have been purified and disappeared as soon as they were enveloped in light.

“… … !!!!!!”

When the people wrapped in light appeared nearby again, I, the four people behind me, and the people who had come here could not help but be shocked. I muttered quietly.

“Nika… … Chairman… … Leona… … ?”

Nika was frozen in place with her lips pursed, Director Erestica had a confused expression, and Leona was also frozen in a daze. Everyone was flustered and hesitant in this completely unexpected situation.

“My, my lord. What happened? Was this divine power yours? Why did everyone stop? Huh, huh? My lord. Before you went to the Demon Realm… … Before… … Huh… …?”

Nika’s eyes widened as she stopped spouting words like a machine gun. That would make sense. The power she felt compared to before she went to the Demon World had changed dramatically.

“I’m the one who wants to ask. How can you move? And only you guys can do that.”

I was equally bewildered. Of course, these four people are possessed, and it goes without saying that I am, and Aria is the same.

But these three people had no justification or reason for doing so. I really wondered if they were possessed by someone they didn’t even know about.

“I don’t know… … I just thought something flashed and when I came to my senses, I was like this… … .”

Leona was still covered only by the coat I had given her. When she stood up, the length was a bit too short, so she had to pull on the hem with her hands. Even then, the lower part of her buttocks was slightly exposed.

“I’m the same way. I was returning after hearing that something unusual had happened at the Academy, and when I came to, I saw a light before my eyes.”

In the end, it means that none of the three know.

While we were just blinking at each other, a mad laugh came out from somewhere. I turned my head. Aria was shaking her shoulders and laughing.

“That child… … isn’t that Aria? What on earth is going on?”

“It’s a long explanation. It’s a lot.”

At least when explaining to Priscilla, Rosaria, Laura, and Elisier, there was some knowledge that was shared between the possessed, but I had no idea how long it would take to explain the current situation to the chairman.

“Hehehehehehe… … .”

Aria, who had been bursting out in laughter, slowly raised her head.

“Miss Mira. Are you curious as to why those three were able to move?”

“… … .”

“It’s because I got involved with Mira. It’s because of Mira. Because I got involved with Mira, because I was with Mira… … That’s why I was able to move.”

Aria’s eyes were half dead as she said those words.

“I… … I lived alone for over a thousand years, and only after Mira-san escaped and ate the remaining fragments was I finally able to do something. But I… … It’s unfair that I awakened to my ego in a time that stopped just because we spent a little over a semester together. This is just too much, Mira-san.”

I don’t know if it’s because of me, but it wasn’t a fair comparison. If you’re going to make a comparison, you should compare it to when Aria first awakened her ego, not after absorbing the world.

So, it’s still a mystery why Aria was able to move, but there’s no way to find out anyway.

‘Come to think of it, what about Beatrice?’

If we only consider those who were close to me, Beatrice was overwhelmingly in first place. I checked the Holy Window just in case. Nothing else could be detected.

“… … This is unfair.”

Those words were a signal flare.

-Wow, wow, wow, wow!

“Hey, what is that?!”

From a distance, a huge monster rose up, completely tearing apart the earth.

The lower half of its body resembled a snake, and the upper half resembled a lizard, with six long necks. Each body had three heads, and four pairs of wings flapped behind its back.

That wasn’t all. There was also a monster that looked like a combination of a shark’s body and an octopus’s exterior, but swam in the sky instead of the water, and a giant frog-like creature that flicked its tongue made of lava.

“… … .”

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Laura’s face turned pale, then white again.

That would make sense. Those are all monsters that were depicted in the first world.

“Everyone, step back.”

I sent the five people behind me, except for Rosaria and Laura, who were preparing to fight, to stop them. They all looked at me with expressions of wondering why I was doing this, but they also retreated obediently.

There was no way around it. The monsters of the other world grew infinitely larger the longer they lived, so once they grew larger than a house, it was almost impossible for an ordinary soldier to deal with them.

But the things that were appearing now were not even the size of a house, but were comparable to a castle. The first monster that appeared was about the size of a small hill or a little bigger.

Honestly, I’d be lucky if I didn’t just die in one hit rather than fight back.

“I’ll deal with those.”

I grabbed the spear. The spear responded to my will and fell away, leaving behind a part that anchored the world. I took a stance. A sixteen-headed dragon was glaring at me.

A delicate energy gathered from his mouth. He held the holy spear and cast magic on it. It was the magic he had used once when he captured Mahbat. The only difference was that the power was much stronger now.

Eighteen heads fired beams simultaneously. Monsters hundreds of meters away melted away just from the aftereffects of the shots. The purple beam flew straight ahead.

I shifted my weight to my right foot. I pulled my left shoulder back and then pushed it forward with force. My left hand suddenly became lighter and threw the light that had been gathered in my palm.

-!!!!!!

In an instant, daylight came to a world where time had stopped.