The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 296



297 – Attack

Thanks to Jin Xian leaving traces of the world in my mind, I was able to create a passage to the world a few years later. Although I wasn’t able to say my final goodbyes, I could be forgiven for keeping the high-level information under my pillow. With that in mind, I entered the passage and couldn’t help but be taken aback by the completely different view from what I was used to seeing in the passage.

The passage to another world felt like the passage of an aquarium with space as the background. But what I now saw in front of me was a place that looked like a maze with countless overlapping passages. I was embarrassed by the countless, complicated passages, but since I was already inside the passage, I couldn’t turn back and go back out.

I had no choice but to walk forward, but in an instant, I felt like gravity had changed and I was standing upside down in an overturned passageway, as if I had entered a portal. The field of view is upside down, but gravity is normal. While I was wondering what the hell was going on, I saw someone running down the aisle in the distance.

By the time my eyes followed the person running down the aisle, he had already moved to another place and disappeared. However, it was confirmed that the person running was a large man and had blonde hair. There was something about the back that was familiar yet unfamiliar that strangely bothered me. The feeling of being bitten by a mosquito in a place that is difficult to reach.

But soon the itchiness was resolved. Someone started running down the aisle again. This time, I was able to see his face as he ran straight ahead from the aisle directly below me. The person running down the aisle was not Roel. It was me. Since he rarely looks at his own back, it felt both familiar and unfamiliar.

As I was running down the aisle, I disappeared somewhere again. Could it be that Ross from another world was using the passage? As I waited and thought for a moment, I saw myself running down the aisle from afar. As if they couldn’t see me from over there, their eyes were looking straight ahead. I tried to scream loudly, but I couldn’t stop running.

Scratching my cheek, I ran down the aisle. When it reached the end of the passage, it seemed to be moving somewhere, so I did it with the idea that even if by chance, the passages would overlap or I could be chased after. I was running down the aisle for a while, feeling as if gravity was changing at will and my body was stretching enormously. Then, I felt a strange feeling, so I stopped and looked at the aisle again.

The number of times I ran down the aisle increased. I saw a lot of me running through the countless passageways. I feel something is out of place. At first, I thought it was Ross from another world running down the aisle… I realized that all the faces of Ross running down the aisle looked exactly like me.

Ross, who looks exactly like me, is running down the aisle repeatedly, as if infinitely copied in a mirror. Just looking at it made me feel nauseous. My mind was confused by the sudden situation. The urge to keep running makes my heart pound.

As I was about to run towards the passage again, another passage above me suddenly collapsed. Before I could understand what was going on, Jin Xian’s voice rang in my head.

[ What you see is fake. That guy has already read the causality of the universe! Get out of the trap right now! ]

“What is that… ?”

Another passage was seen collapsing again. You don’t collapse alone. A huge hand appeared from nowhere and was destroying the passage. It’s a strangely shaped hand. It looked like a human hand, but there were two eyes between the fingers and what looked like human lips were visible on the back of the hand.

“… !”

The eyes between the fingers met each other. But for some reason, I didn’t think it was dangerous. A strangely familiar feeling. At that time, the mouth on the back of her hand moved and Jin Xian’s voice came into her head.

[I will destroy the fake passage, so find the real passage! ]

Could it be that the person controlling those hands is Jin Xian? If Jin Xian had reached the level of a great wizard, it might be possible. As Jin Xian’s hand moved, several passages broke.

As I fall down the broken passageway, my body is crushed like an insect crushed by a finger. Even if I looked around hard, there was no way to figure out what the real passage Jin Xian was talking about was. It looked like they all copied and pasted the same passage.

As I was looking at Jin Xian’s hand, which was diligently destroying another passage, I found a passage that was not running far away but was stopped as if it was looking at me. I raised my hand just in case, and the person on the other side also raised my hand as if following suit.

“I found it!”

I feel like I found a real mirror among many fake mirrors. When I realized that the passage was real, the passage that had previously been nothing suddenly expanded as if it were a continuous road. Realizing that this was the path leading to the real passage, I started running forward.

The passage I was running along suddenly twisted in a strange direction. Just as in old amusement park games, the paths were modified to move guests in the desired direction, the passages have been changed to move away from the passages perceived as real.

“The road has changed!”

As he quickly stopped running and shouted, Jin Xian’s hand reached out and broke the nearby passage. Then, as if it had never happened before, the twisted passage disappeared and returned to its original path. As I ran through the passage again, Jin Xian’s hand went forward first and broke the passage.

[Don’t stop and keep running! ]

As the end of the passage began to come into view, Jin Xian’s hand, which was approaching to destroy another passage, suddenly split in two and exploded. As I was staring blankly at the eyes flying somewhere in a parabola, I felt someone’s gaze on the passage that Jin Xian’s hand was trying to break.

Although the distance is far away, I feel Ross from the other aisle looking at me – no, he has the same blonde hair, but he is wearing different clothes. I couldn’t see his face because he was far away, but I was certain that it wasn’t me because what he was holding in his hand was a great sword and not a spear. I muttered in a vain voice.

“Roel… ?”

From a distance, I saw a greatsword raised above my shoulder. At that moment, a strong survival instinct awakened every nerve in my body. While embodying the spear of shadow in his hand, he also used his intangible breath and ran towards the end of the passage, fixing his gaze on Roel.

As soon as Roel’s shoulders lowered, a white flash appeared. The passages between Roel and me disappeared in a flash, leaving no trace, as if they had disappeared. There is not enough time to reach the end of the passage. In that case, I had no choice but to block it. With all his might, he grabbed the Spear of Shadow with both hands and tried to block Roel’s blow.

“Cough…” !”

[ Power – Combat continuation is activated. ]

[The Berserker effect is activated. ]

Although he did his best to gather his intangible breath and magical power, he was unable to completely block the blow that Roel simply swung his great sword. He managed to repel the attack, but the Spear of Shadow, unable to withstand his destructive power, shattered and eventually cut the left nape of his neck.

“Wow, big… Cool, cool… !”

Blood filled my throat. A continuation of the battle was activated, but the nape of the neck cut by Roel was empty, as if it had never existed in the first place. I reflexively moved my hand to the spot where the nape of my neck was, but I could feel the amount of bleeding so great that I could feel the vibration in my palm as the blood continued to pour out.

Once again, I ran towards the end of the passage as I saw Roel raising his great sword to his shoulder. This time he didn’t even look at Roel, but only looked at the end of the passage and ran, clutching the back of his neck. He finally reached the end of the passage just as a flash of light hit me.

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“Khuhuuu… Cluck, cluck!!!”

As soon as I got out of the passage, I vomited all the blood that had filled my throat onto the ground. The bleeding in the nape of my neck doesn’t stop. There was so much blood that it hurt my eyes. Something is preventing the wound from regenerating. I raised my hand with the intention of reducing the amount of bleeding, but realized it too late. Her left arm was missing.

“… “Fuck you.”

I quickly turned my head and checked my surroundings. It was dawn, with the moon rising, on the streets of the capital. As my consciousness gradually became more and more severed, I realized what I could do right away. Preventing wound regeneration was the unique magical ability of Roel’s holy sword. We need to get rid of it.

With his remaining arm, he took out the Spear of Destruction from the space warehouse. He brought up the power of destruction and brought it to the wound on her neck. I felt something invisible pushing the blade of a spear over the wound, like a magnet pushing like poles apart. However, the Spear of Destruction had the power to destroy magic and barriers.

When the magic existing above the wound was destroyed with the power of destruction, the skin on the nape of the neck rose in an instant. Likewise, the Spear of Destruction was applied to the remaining part of the severed left arm and the arm was regenerated. His continuation of the fight saved his life, but the penalty would come soon.

This world is a world that follows the flow of the original work. It was obvious that if he lost consciousness on the street with Ross’ face on, things would get complicated. As soon as I got up from my seat, a good idea occurred to me.

There is no time. Now that the battle is over, you never know when the penalty will come. After urgently putting the Spear of Destruction in the space warehouse, I ran to the potion shop where Modest’s secret hideout was located.

The owner, who was always dozing off, clung to the wall in shock when a bloodied figure came into the store in the middle of the night. Ignoring the owner’s reaction, I headed towards the back door and shouted urgently as soon as I reached the small room where Modist met.

“Estelle, help me-”

I couldn’t finish my sentence and lost consciousness. The penalty for continuing the battle was activated.