Transformation or Death - Chapter 302



302 – Snake’s Head (11)

Even more than the earth was in turmoil, the sky was in great chaos. The snake radiated like a little sun’s devotion. The heat of that beast could easily melt even iron like sugar.

The place where the snake passed became distorted and chaotic.

The sky was hotter than lava, and there were dark clouds, thunderstorms, and gusty winds. The material that creates the heavy rain is not water droplets but pieces of flame, a mass of chaos.

Is it the creation or destruction of the world? Due to the snake’s rampage, the Earth instantly returned to its primordial state.

“This is crazy….”

Odette fell from the snake’s body, which was shining like the sun, and swallowed a sigh of relief.

Every spark that flew as the snake moved was threatening. It felt like my body would melt just by being close to it, but of course those pieces of debris were dangerous.

“There was a power that I haven’t shown yet…?”

I thought I had found out all the information about the snakes after returning countless times, but I never thought they were still hiding their powers. To what extent is he willing to disparage his own efforts? Jo A-yoon became upset for a moment and chewed her lip.

“No, Ayun, you’ve been good enough.”

The Watcher scolded Odette. It wasn’t an empty remark, it was sincere.

“It was a power that was kept hidden for so long. I wouldn’t have even thought about bringing it up in the first place if it weren’t for you. “We were all almost deceived.”

Besides, it had already been predicted that the snake’s power would not be this much.

I heard from Jo Ayun that among the snake’s heads, there is a head that eats starlight and a head that can spit out the eaten starlight.

Considering that it uses a lion’s flame, the snake must have had a history of eating even a lion.

In other words, it is safe to say that the snake has the power to defeat the lion. It doesn’t matter whether the method was a surprise attack or not. It is a snake that has eaten countless parallel worlds so far. Naturally, the power he has accumulated will be on a different level from that of other monsters. Not metaphorically, but literally.

I thought I could become stronger than I am now.

I thought there might be a secret weapon, but I never thought it would be like this…

The Watcher was astonished by the power that easily surpassed imagination.

The current snake looked more like a star in the form of a snake than a living creature.

A star that crawls through the world, wriggling long like a snake.

To be exact, a primordial mass of plasma before it became a star.

Its size was no different from that of the snake before it was defeated. It was said to be comparable in size to the mountain ranges that connect the continents.

Seeing such a being crawling across the sky made me feel psychologically intimidated.

but.

“Still, it’s not to the point where I can’t fight.”

It’s not like you can feel defeat without even fighting.

The little universe inside my heart was beating. The celestial bodies within it rotated, and the nebula exploded. The Milky Way swirls,

Jaejoong Han observed the universe inside me.

The essence of the universe, the nature of order that denies chaos.

An astronomical amount of starlight flashed. The light flowed through the Watcher’s body. The starlight flowing through the central pipe circulated and made the entire body luminous.

He too became like a snake. Light that takes the form of a living thing.

The Watcher, sparkling with a blue and mysterious light, opened its mouth, pointing at the snake.

“Have you ever seen stars?”

The snake’s head was glaring at him. The snake grinned and then lunged at him.

Kwaaang-!!! Two huge forces collided, scattering shock waves. The sparks that the snake had created were also blown away by the shock wave and scattered helplessly.

“of course. “Yes.”

The snake answered by opening its huge mouth. To be precise, the tongue in the mouth answered. There was still something in the shape of a person wearing a mask at the tip of his tongue. The snake that the mouth created by spitting out its mouth is now inside again.

The Watcher frowned at the strange sight.

“So have you ever seen stars? “That cruel light.”

Suddenly, the snake’s head grew again from the snake’s neck. In an instant, it became the same size as the other head and rushed at him before the Watcher had time to react.

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thud-! The Watcher was slightly pushed away. The shock wave reached the ground and devastated the surrounding area.

“Oppa!”

“No, Ayun, don’t come!”

Odette, who was watching, tried to fly to his side, but the Watcher stopped her. Odette tried to manipulate the butterfly to move him back to her side, but soon gave up.

It was because I knew deep down why he stopped me from helping him. Odette’s durability cannot withstand the shock wave after that collision.

“are you okay. Trust me. “I’m not dying.”

The Watcher, who had grown further away, shouted loudly at her. The snake heard that cry and laughed slyly.

“Yes, you are right. I admit it. you are strong I can’t beat you. Even though I filled the ship with countless parallel universes and made them my own, I could not become a universe like yours. But, the same goes for you.”

“Just as I can’t be you, you can’t be me either.”

“You may win the battle with me, but you will not be able to win the war with me.”

After the snake finished speaking, a new head grew from its neck. The head lunged at the Watcher, as did the other heads.

thud! thud! thud-!!! The snake kept repeating the task. Before I knew it, the Watcher had moved a long distance compared to its initial location.

Watcher wasn’t the only one suffering. Some of the grown heads died by his hands. But there was no end to killing or killing.

However, it was impossible to move to another place to avoid the snake’s head. The grown snake heads were aiming for only one thing. If he went somewhere else, the surrounding area would be devastated in the aftermath.

It would be better for me to deal with the hair that had grown like this on my own. This is because some of these heads may be aimed at targets other than the Watcher.

‘ah,’

At that moment, Han Jaejoong’s complexion inside the helmet turned blue. I figured out what the snake was aiming for.

Even if I lose the battle, I will win the war.

I understood that.

“No matter how strong you are, you are ultimately an individual.”

As long as you are an individual, there is a limit to what you can save.

“But I gave up my body and became a being of light. Yes, a being like a star.”

A spark flew out from the snake’s body. The ember gradually grew bigger and bigger, like a meteorite. A layer of frictional heat formed around the embers that split the air. The shape of the tip of the ember was not that of a flame, but that of a snake.

One of the heads was turned down.

“I am an individual, but I am not an individual. Every spark that lives and breathes in my body is me. Even if this body is torn to pieces, if just one spark remains alive, I will burn brightly again. “I am the unquenchable flame, legion.”

It was only one of dozens of growing heads, but it had great meaning. This is because the snake was able to destroy the earth with just one head.

“No matter how many of my heads are cut off by you, if I can finally put the world in my mouth, it will be my victory.”

The Watcher’s body gradually rose higher into the sky. Pushed by the snake, he has already reached a place well beyond the stratosphere.

Instead of the blue sky around me, the dark colors of space began to appear.

The snake gradually pushed the Watcher beyond space.

“Were you under the illusion that your power was the universe and that you were the universe as well? “You are an individual after all.”

The Watcher tried to head down, but the snake’s heads blocked its path.

When he put up a wall with his body and stopped his movements for a moment, other snakes rushed around him and released their breath.

“One person who has gained strength that is unbelievable for his small body.”

It couldn’t kill the Watcher, but it was enough to corner it and cause a delay.

“Do you know how much effort she put in and how much she suffered to save you? I don’t know. Because you are strong. “I don’t know the sorrow of the weak.”

“That’s the way it is in the end. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t reach you. “No matter how hard you try, you fundamentally cannot save that woman and you cannot understand her.”

“Your strength is yours and yours alone. Not even one other person can borrow that power, let alone all people. “If you don’t reach out, you can’t protect it.”

“They are too many and too big, and you are too small and insignificant to hold them all in your arms.”

“In the end, you can only save yourself.”

Numerous snake heads surrounded him.

What the beast was strangling was not his breathing, but the breathing of the world.

**

A sky distorted by chaos. The pieces of chaos fell violently in the sky that burned brighter than the flames.

It was the beginning of the return of the father.

The area hit by the falling embers exploded like popcorn. The building collapsed, and people were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building. The embers fell again on the necrotic body and melted it without a trace.

It felt like I had been bombed. Many people were blown up, crushed, burned, suffocated by smoke, and died without even having a chance to escape.

“hurry! Evacuate quickly! “There’s still room in the underground shelter!”

“Hurry up while we’re blocking it! “We will help the injured!”

The magical girls who resisted death became humanity’s tiny pores. However, the air that enters those tiny pores is limited. They couldn’t protect everyone.

While they protect somewhere, somewhere else dies. A scream echoed through her head, louder than the explosion. We desperately cried out to save us first.

It was terrible. All the lives that suffer before death and all the lives that become ugly due to that death. Lives that were working hard to live their daily lives ended in a moment of bad luck.

Death and life were divided entirely by luck.

Amundsen stared at the scene blankly.

“What are you doing, comrade? Shouldn’t we help too?! expiation! “Did you forget your promise to Comrade Jaejoong?”

Amundsen and Jason, who headed to the city with the arrival of the magical girls, began a rescue operation with them.

Because he was a monster, he was feared and sometimes almost attacked, but with Silver Luna’s approval, he was able to carry out his activities without any trouble.

“Uh, well, that should be it….”

Amundsen barely came to his senses again and rolled his eyes at Jason’s nagging. Even in a short shift of gaze, ten or as many as a dozen crisis situations were caught.

Amundsen had a sense of déjà vu in this chaotic situation. Although the scale was smaller than this time, it was a situation that occurred in a similar context.

Threats falling from the sky and people struggling to resist those threats. Survival under bombing.

That scene was brought about by none other than Amundsen himself. An attack that was committed simply for fun, with the purpose of testing Han Jaejoong.

Scenes from the past flickered beyond Amundsen’s vision.

56 dead and 82 injured.

The damage tally from that incident mentioned by Han Jaejoong came to mind.

The life I encountered in numbers and the life I actually encountered were very different in weight. I felt sick. Feeling like vomiting, Amundsen put down his bow and covered his mouth.

“Oh shit….”

Do you want me to atone by saving as much as I killed? Nonsense. Amundsen realized that the task Han Jae-joong gave him was a consolation and hope in its own way.

No matter how many lives are saved, the lives lost that day will not return. How can that be atonement? Should I ask the bereaved family to forgive me for saving so many people? Are you going to say that since you did something good, it’s not bad anymore?

This is nothing more than simple hypocrisy.

No matter how much good karma you accumulate, bad karma will not disappear.

Amundsen’s karma weighed heavily on him.

“comrades? What are you doing! Come to your senses, comrade!”

A spark fell on Amundsen’s head. Amundsen was unable to avoid the spark that he would normally have swatted away without any hesitation. He couldn’t avoid it because he didn’t dare to see it.

It felt like each and every spark was his own sin.

“this…!”

Jason placed his hand on the belt buckle on his waist and turned it vigorously. The buckle, which looked like a ship’s oar, rotated and distorted the space around Amundsen.

As soon as Amundsen’s figure disappeared, embers fell where he was. It was a narrow difference. The ground where the embers touched was extinguished and melted.

“comrades!”

puck! Jason hit Amundsen, who moved next to him, on the cheek with his fist. It was Jason’s hand that was broken.

“evil! Holy shit… comrade! What are you doing! Come to your senses!”

“Okay… I have to serve it. spirit. “I’m so sorry for wasting your starlight…”

“If you know, do the work! “One comrade’s effort can save one person!”

Jason grabbed Amundsen’s shoulder with his free hand and lifted him upright.

“If you have power, use it properly! How long do you want to live as a sinner?”

Sinner, that word struck Amundsen’s heart strongly.

“For how long… That’s….”

Of course, isn’t it a lifetime?

“Magical girls, those young women are working so hard, but if a strong comrade lets go…”

Jason stopped talking and looked up at the sky. Something huge was approaching from the sky. There was no shadow. Rather, the shadow disappeared.

A ball of light was approaching. A lump large enough to cover the entire land.

Will a meteorite like that approach when the Earth is destroyed? In fact, it was worse than that. That wasn’t a meteorite, it should have been called a meteor.

If it were a meteorite, you could shoot it down, but if a star, not a rock, is approaching, how can you fight back?

“…meteor?”

It literally looked like a shooting star, a flowing star.

It was so bright and large that it made you think that a shining star was falling from the sky.

The shape of the meteor was the head of a snake.

The head that would burn everything and swallow the ashes was approaching.