Transformation or Death - Chapter 305



305 – Dragon’s Tail (1)

The snake that eats the world.

Anyone who has seen the monster in the constellation Hydra describes it that way. This is because the title, borrowed from a mythological expression, describes the sea serpent more accurately than any other word.

Snakes eat mountains and fields, buildings and roads, people and animals, the sea and the sky. Since it literally puts everything in the world into its mouth, it could naturally be seen that the animal eats the world.

However, if you look at it more accurately, it is nothing more than expressing the snake from a third person’s perspective.

Just as a whale swallows a lot of water at once to eat a small shrimp, a snake also swallows the world to eat the small things in the world.

Snakes eat fate.

We eat a predetermined fate and a consequential world. It eats the irreversible consequences that are prevalent in the world.

In some sense, it can be seen as eating karma. Karma resulting from actions. Karma is the inevitable result of that karma. Since it was a determined outcome, karma was also one of the things the beast had to feast on.

The reason snakes prey on them is simple.

Because he wanted to resist fate, he ate it to elevate himself to a global fate.

It became a world in itself, and he wanted to decide the name of that world.

To create a world without magic, without miracles, and without starlight.

That was the snake’s purpose.

Before he became a snake, he was a human. He was a man among men. He was a man with a stocky body and a beautiful face who looked perfect, lacking in anything.

However, no matter how good their appearance was or how much skeletal muscle mass they had, they could not compare to those with starlight. The man was an ordinary person who did not receive starlight.

It wasn’t something that was particularly unfair. Rather than comparing herself to someone else and blaming her for her own shortcomings. She was someone who knew how to truly acknowledge those who were better than her.

However, there was something a little sad about it. It wasn’t that great. I was dissatisfied that a monster could defeat a magical girl, even if they were beings of the same starlight. Why do humans always have to lose?

The biggest reason for such concern was because the man had a magical girl among his relatives, and that magical girl was killed by a monster.

One day, the man heard from a magical girl he met by chance that one day the world would be destroyed by monsters. Even the fact that it is fate and an inevitable end.

The man thought.

Didn’t all these tragedies happen in the first place because of the miracle called starlight? The stars gave life a miracle, will became strength, and someone’s desire and desire to achieve that dream caused a tragedy.

If there were no stars, no one would have suffered.

If it is a world where people must die and die, if it is a world where people suffer because there are miracles, if it is a world where karma must return, if it is a world where the end is predestined.

Let’s run away. To a place where there are no stars, no magic, and no destruction.

Just like that, the man became a snake.

It became a beast without arms or legs, only crawling through chaos.

The man turned into a snake and wandered through the universe. And she gradually became more aware of stars, miracles, and destruction.

No universe could avoid destruction, and the lives of relatives in the first universe could not be saved.

The snake gradually learned that fate exists in this world.

I knew the ending would not change. Just as rocks break, trees wither, and corpses rot, the stars gave us an unchanging fate in return for using miracles.

Destiny is determined by the flow of cause and effect, the cycle.

When magical girls become stronger, monsters become stronger. The opposite is also true. When there was a galactic monster, the magical girl also gained the power to transcend the galaxy, and vice versa.

The will and desire that became stronger to overcome each other soon reached a level that the world could not handle. Eventually destruction occurs.

If starlight exists in this world, destruction is inevitable. Every world will come to an end.

The moment it learned this, the snake stopped running and began its journey. The snake set out on a journey to become a god. He crawled through the universe to have the power to create even the world.

The snake wants to have divinity.

A being who will control the world.

To become omnipotent and omnipotent and make fate disappear.

In order to escape from the star, the snake paradoxically had to become closer to the star. He had to become a new star and shine his light on the world.

No other stars can reach, only his light…

Paradoxically, what the snake that destroyed the most worlds wanted was a world that would not be destroyed.

I wanted a world without magic, without miracles.

Although memories may wear out over the long period of time spent wandering through countless worlds, the purpose does not disappear.

The snake was cunning, hiding its appearance, its power, and its purpose.

The snake’s ultimate goal, which no one knew about, is to escape fate.

Becoming a star yourself and creating a world without starlight.

**

Funnily enough, the divinity of the snake was damaged by the miracle, karma, and star that it was trying to eliminate.

The monster, who was destined to die by accumulating sins, decided in what form he would face his predestined death. That decision caused a huge mess for the snake.

To put it in Amundsen’s way, it was ‘the result of properly demonstrating what a fantastic butt show is’. Naturally, the struggle that threatened even death became an attack with a distinctly different will.

Amundsen’s attack, which originally could not have done any significant damage to the snake, became an extremely fatal blow.

That’s not all.

The snake revealed its true form and used some of the power it had accumulated, entering a state similar to that of a god, similar to a star.

Even excluding military power, he gained strength that was on a level different from that of ordinary monsters.

One of those powers is a state of pseudo-immortality.

If there is even a single spark left of the snake that has become a star-like flame, it can regenerate from it and return to its original state in a matter of seconds.

Even compared to other monsters, it has an outstanding regenerative ability. It was literally a power that could burn forever.

However, with Amundsen’s final blow, the regeneration disappeared.

What Amundsen killed was not just the snake’s ninth head, but the snake’s power itself to grow its head again.

He created the future.

The snake, which was impossible to defeat, was brought down to a being that could be defeated.

We have succeeded in opening up the future so that other people’s challenges are not worthless, and even if they fail, they are not laughed at or meaningless.

We have paved the way so you don’t have to be afraid to move forward.

But, what does that mean?

There is still room in reserves. I didn’t release all my strength. If your hair doesn’t grow, you just need to become strong enough to tolerate cutting it off.

It’s just that success has now emerged from a challenge that had no success. The level of difficulty is still considerable. There would be no point in trying.

It doesn’t matter if there is one woman who can transfer memories to the past.

Anyway, this is the last world. There is a universe before your eyes. If you can put this world, the universe, the two supernovas, all of it in your mouth and digest it, you will be victorious. If I were to take the destiny and power accumulated there for myself, reaching the stars would not be a dream.

At the end of this world, you will become a god. The snake laughed. His many heads laughed together.

First of all, we had to deal with this monster first.

“Now this is the limit.”

“Hehe… that’s something you have to try to know.”

The monster before my eyes, the Watcher, laughed with bravado.

His body is an ordinary human. Even if he took on the body of a monster, there was no way he would be fine in the world of space. Extreme temperatures, chaotic weightlessness, pressure and lack of oxygen. It was simply not a place where people could live safely.

In addition, the poison flowing out of the snake’s mouth every moment, seeped deep into the lungs and caused pain. Han Jaejoong is fighting while carrying around pain in his body that would not be awkward even if he lost consciousness right away.

Plus reduced stamina and starlight.

If time passes like this, victory will naturally fall to the snake.

Time was on the snake’s side. As always, all you have to do is leisurely wait for the food to run out.

But I didn’t really want to waste that time. Perhaps a variable like Amundsen’s may arise again below.

Here, it ends.

Coo coo coo coo!

The snake’s light became even stronger. The body became even larger, and the heat was enough to melt the cold of space. The temperature of the Earth has increased further. The world has become brighter. There seemed to be nothing stopping him.

Predation occurred simply by passing by. Embers consumed the world. Each time that happened, the snake grew bigger. Now the snake has become the size of a planet.

bang-! The snake pushed the Watcher even further. In the dark world of space, bright lines were drawn in layers, creating an afterimage like a neon sign in a back alley.

The line eventually continued all the way to the moon. The Watcher was placed on the surface of the moon.

“Whoops…!”

A human-shaped pit appeared on the moon. The Watcher that hit the moon let out a groan of pain. The red blood droplet floated in the air for a while due to the light gravity and then went down.

The snake said.

“Fighting spirit with all your might? What’s wrong with that? I am a star. “A star beyond, no matter how much I stretch out, I can’t reach it!”

“Did you think that death would change anything for me? The odds of winning can only be used when you can kill me. “You can never defeat me.”

“I speak as a star that decides fate and gives miracles. “Your defeat is certain.”

Damn it! Damn it! The cracks on the moon’s surface became longer and the holes deeper. The moon, unable to withstand the pressure of the snake, falls apart. There was nothing to say about the Watcher.

“…Thank you for saying that.”

Watcher hasn’t lost his smile yet. His voice was full of difficulty. But he was still lively. That vitality moved his body.

“The more you say that, the more I don’t want to do what you want.”

The Watcher threw himself into the snake’s mouth. It wasn’t a suicidal act.

The predatory behavior of snakes, which only imitate life and are already outside the category of life, is not limited to the oral cavity. When his spark turns something into ashes and stores it in his body, that is an act of predation.

In a sense, the entire body is like a mouth.

“If you are a star, I am an observer. An observer who tells you where the stars are.”

So it is the same no matter where it goes into the mouth. If you are confident that you will not be melted by the snake’s flame, you can tear its body as much as you want.

Actually, the Watcher hasn’t melted yet.

And, the weapon embedded in the snake’s body as well.

“If you see, you know the way, and if you know the way, you can walk. “Snake, you know the explorer who reached you and sent you to death, and you speak arrogantly again.”

The Watcher pulled out a rod that looked like an elongated spear from inside his body. The arrow shaft that Amundsen threw for the last time still remained.

Also next to it was a belt that looked like an iron ball and a key that looked like a glass plate that had been given to him in the past.

“Now, it’s time to see the explorer once again.”

After the Watcher escaped the snake’s body, he tied the belt and key to the arrow shaft. Then he took the javelin stance and threw it.

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“Those who will rise from the lowest to the highest and shine.”

The powerfully thrown spear fell with a trail of light like a shooting star.

The will that rose upward continues to flow downward again.

**

A shooting star fell right in front of Jason. The night was still bright, but the snake’s body did not approach like before.

Amundsen had clearly done his job and disappeared.

“…comrades.”

His belongings were neatly gathered in the fallen shooting star. He knew it had been sent by someone beyond the sky. Perhaps another comrade is fighting the snake beyond the sky.

“Why did you have to go like that?”

Jason does not know the excitement of challenge and adventure. We cannot understand the thoughts of Amundsen, who sacrificed his life for proof, or the thoughts of his brothers, the Argo family, who sacrificed their lives for a challenge.

When I thought about it, it was obvious.

The only thing that is similar to a monster is their race, way of thinking, speech, strength, and appearance. Everything was different. Laws are different even among people of the same race, so how different can people be?

Humans and ourselves are different. The monster and himself are different. You are different from others.

Because everything is different, because we are strangers, we cannot understand.

“But, comrade. “My comrade and I were definitely comrades.”

I couldn’t understand it, but it was a comrade. I don’t know why. There was a sense of kinship.

“Why is that? Why did you call me comrade on a day when I had no dreams? The same goes for you out there in space. I’m a monster, so why don’t you hate me? “Aren’t you the enemy of humans?”

If it is natural that we cannot understand each other, then what is the identity of this sense of homogeneity?

Why do you feel identified with them and try to connect with them?

What is this heart connected under the name of hell? What was the excitement he felt while riding a boat at that time?

The comrade I called and called for so long, the comrade I searched for, for what purpose?

Can’t humans and monsters understand each other? Are others and self incomprehensible in the first place? Are we just going to be blocked by an invisible line and criticize each other for the rest of our lives?

Can’t they care for each other and treat each other with respect?

“indeed.”

Can beings who deserve to hate each other shake off their hatred?

“This is what I want to find.”

Can people who can never understand each other become friends?

Jason asked.

“I don’t know yet.”

There was no answer. Jason gathered up his belongings. He lifted himself up by hitting the ground with his spear.

“So, I will find out the way my comrades do.”

He tried to acquire the whole world, but what he really wanted was not even a handful of gold, but just one friend.

I wanted a friend who was like gold, a friend I could be with even though I didn’t understand anything.

In his hand was a belt and a key.

“Keuuu…!”

Jason removed the buckle from his waist with his hand. Even if it looks like a belt buckle, it is no different from a part of one’s own body. Of course, there was pain and suffering in that act.

“Kaaah…!!!”

But in the end, I forcefully removed the buckle. The pear-shaped buckle has disappeared. An iron ball-shaped belt was attached to the tattered skin around the navel.

Wow. His iron rope protruded from the buckle and wrapped around his waist, fastening his belt tightly to his body.

“Now, I think we’re a little closer.”

Jason inserted a key and a glass plate shaped like a prism into the belt.

“Yes… my comrades certainly said this.”

Chop rock. The buckle unfolded, revealing the luminous plate in the center.

“Transformation.”

Brilliant light flowed from the belt and enveloped the body. That light drew a constellation.

[PYXIS.]

His constellation did not end with just one. A new constellation is created and continues.

[CARINA.]

[VELA.]

[PUPPIS.]

A wind rose behind Jason. Sea breeze. A sticky, romantic wind with a salty smell. The compass in the center of his chest rotated, and the wind soon became waves. A ship made of light appeared along with the waves.

A compass to find your way,

The keel, sails, and stern come together and a ship is formed.

Now, it’s time to set sail.

[Argo Navis.]

A journey to find treasure.