Chapter 301: Friend (6)

Translator: Dreamscribe

A god had descended.

Your god had descended, exactly as the prophecy foretold.

Behold!

The great form of the god!

Jinwoo spread both arms wide and looked over Jafar and the followers, who were steeped in emotion and weeping streams of tears. Terrorists though they were, they were genuinely convinced that they were going to heaven. Without sparing a single thought for what they themselves had done, they believed everything would come to pass just as prophesied.

'Filthy.'

He could see the evil karma packed into their souls, so thick it was sickening.

Jafar and the executives did not believe in any god. Religion was nothing more than a tool they used to fill their own desires. Innocent people who might have become Heroes had died at their hands.

FWOOOOSH!

When Jinwoo stretched out his hand, flames surged up and every Evil Person who believed in the Church of Fire was summoned to this place. He did not forget to show them the end of the world with Illusion Magic before summoning them.

Only with this kind of attention to detail could something be called good staging.

"Oh, ohh!"

"G-God!"

"Thank you!"

Gathered together like this, their numbers were considerable.

Jinwoo walked up in front of Jafar.

Jafar stared at Jinwoo, then threw himself flat and pressed his forehead against the ground.

"F-Father! Y-You have come!"

The cult leader had gathered all those followers by posing as the son of God. Naturally, he knew perfectly well that he was no son of God, only an ordinary human. But now that a god had descended in person like this, a thought began to creep in.

'Maybe I really am the son of God?'

He started swelling with anticipation at the thought.

"You have done well, my son."

Jinwoo played faithfully along with that expectation.

The taste of raising someone's hopes as high as they would go and then dropping them into the abyss was simply too good to pass up.

Jafar trembled all over, overcome.

"Th-th-thank you!"

Watching him drown in ecstasy with tears and snot running down his face was nothing short of hilarious.

"Rise. My children."

Jinwoo spoke in a voice brimming with affection. At that, Jafar and every one of the followers hesitantly got to their feet.

They gazed at the beautiful form of the god, then caught sight of the Gate of Heaven behind him and went blank.

The scenery reflected beyond the slightly parted Gate of Heaven was heaven itself.

A blue sky, a broad meadow, and a beautiful lake. Gold and silver treasure heaped up like mountains, heavenly food that would never run out, pleasure that continued without end.

All of it was there.

Jinwoo could see the eyes of Jafar and the followers filling with desire.

"Behold! The place granted to you lies beyond that gate."

At Jinwoo's cry, every one of them shuddered.

Pleasure, rapture, and joy came flooding in!

"Go forth to the place where you rightly belong."

When Jinwoo pointed at the Gate of Heaven, they all let out a cheer. Jafar threw both hands into the air and looked around at the followers.

"The Father has granted it! Chosen ones! Let us go! To heaven!"

"WOOOOAAAAH!"

Jafar and the followers began sprinting toward the Gate of Heaven, laughing like demons. Once every last one of them was inside, Jinwoo shut the Gate of Heaven.

He snapped his fingers, and everything around him returned to the way it had been.

Bio-Golems identical in appearance to Jafar and the followers lined up in front of Jinwoo. As egos suited to each of their roles settled into the Bio-Golems, their eyes grew clear and focused.

"Let us purify the world with light!"

"Let us do good works!"

"Save the weak!"

"WOOOOAAAH!"

The Church of Fire vanished and was reborn as the Church of Light.

From now on it would be a religion that served the marginalized.

The ones who had walked through the Gate of Heaven were all neatly stored away in his Subspace. Jinwoo nodded, returned to Arsilan, and then moved to the final stage of Episode 6.

"Now, shall we get to the punishment?"

The corners of Jinwoo's mouth stretched into a long, wide grin.

The countless Evil People he had farmed from Earth pleased him enormously. Scoring good loot always felt good.

Jinwoo moved to the core of the planet he had built for Episode 6, then used Illusion Magic to shape the surroundings into scenery resembling the heaven the Church of Fire believed in. Then he brought out Jafar and the followers.

"Oh, ohh!"

"Is this heaven? Wow!"

"Aaah!"

Far in the distance stood a mountain of gold and silver treasure, and lakes brimming with honey and milk. Beautiful angels spread their arms wide to welcome them.

"Hahaha!"

Jafar broke into a beaming grin and ran toward the mountain of treasure.

"Guh?!"

THUD!

Then he clutched his head and dropped to the ground.

A vast meadow stretched out ahead of him, and yet he could not move forward, as though something hard were blocking the way.

"Ugh!?"

"Huh?"

It was the same for the other followers. They walked forward, smacked their faces straight into it, and blood came pouring from their noses.

Jafar reached a hand out in front of him.

He felt a wall.

TSSSSSS!

"A-Agh! Hot!"

Searing heat washed over his skin.

Hot enough to burn him on contact.

Jafar clutched his hand and looked up at the sky. The god and the angels floating there were still gazing down at him with benevolent expressions. Beautiful smiles hung on the angels' lips.

The angels' smiles grew deeper and deeper.

From beautiful smiles into wide, blooming laughter.

And it did not stop there.

The corners of the angels' mouths stretched past their cheekbones, up to their eyes, all the way to their foreheads.

Fooled you, didn't we?

The angels said this as they tore their own faces off with their hands.

SHUDDER!

His skin crawled.

Jafar sank to the ground at the horrific sight, and the followers shrieked.

The heaven spread out around them came crashing down.

The meadow burst into flame and the lake evaporated. The mountain of treasure melted down into magma. What the shattering illusion revealed was a colossal, red-hot machine.

"G-God!"

"Wh-where is this place?"

"We were in heaven, I know we were!"

The followers were still calling out for their god.

Jinwoo appeared before them in the form of the god.

His face gone deathly pale, Jafar trembled as he looked up at Jinwoo.

"Wh-what, what on earth is happening?"

Jinwoo regarded him with a benevolent expression, then shifted into a form the man would recognize. Jafar and the followers were horrified at the sight.

"L-Lee Jinwoo…."

The most famous man on Earth, the president of FS Games, Lee Jinwoo, was standing right in front of Jafar.

"Unfortunately for you, you were wrong."

A perfect wrong answer.

"I'm the god of Earth."

No god existed on Earth other than Jinwoo.

They had chosen the wrong god. And they had committed countless atrocities while selling that god's name.

Jafar, shattered by the impossible truth, dropped straight to his knees. The other followers seemed to have broken as well, freezing where they stood.

"I'll send you to that heaven you wanted so badly."

The place they were bound for was a heaven of fire overflowing with agony and despair. As it happened, the stage of Episode 6 needed high-density Dimensional Energy. He could have pulled it in through the Soul Gate, but producing it directly was more stable.

Behind Jinwoo stood an enormous power plant.

It was a plant capable of supplying energy to the entire stage of Episode 6. It was round, like the core of a planet, and it hung in midair.

It also looked rather like a red-hot iron ball.

CREEEEEAK!

As the plant's door opened, the interior came into view, packed full of blue flames. The pressure was so tremendous that even particles of Mana were collapsing under it.

"D-don't tell me…."

"N-no. It can't be. It can't be."

"No!"

Once inside there, they would never get out again.

Jafar and the followers sensed their fate.

"You're going to burn in there for eternity. A heaven that suits your church perfectly, don't you think?"

Jinwoo kindly walked them through what was about to happen. The very notion of burning people alive and still expecting to end up in a blissful heaven was idiotic in itself.

That wasn't fair, so Jinwoo had gone ahead and applied a balance patch.

"AAAARGH!"

"KYAAA! No!"

The followers screamed and tried to run. But scorching walls blocked them on every side, and there was nowhere left to go.

Jafar wailed, tears and snot pouring down his face.

"I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry! P-please, please, have mercy…, I repent! A-all of my sins…!"

"Mm, sure."

When Jinwoo nodded, hope rose on Jafar's face.

"Remorse is remorse, but punishment is punishment."

"A-aah! N-no! AAAAAAAGH!"

Jafar screamed and took off running like a madman.

When he reached the blocking wall, he beat on it wildly with both hands. He was pounding away in desperation, as if begging anyone who might be outside to pull him out of there.

"Save me! Save me! Please! Aaagh!"

Who exactly was he asking to save him?

Some god who might exist besides Jinwoo?

But even if such a god did exist, there was no reason to save a creature like him.

When Jinwoo stretched out his hand, the bodies of Jafar and every follower went rigid. Their bodies began moving like robots, heading into the plant.

Only their faces had been left free of control, which made for quite a nice view.

They thrashed in terror, or begged and pleaded, or sobbed aloud. When a staircase leading into the plant formed, Jafar was the very first to climb it.

The closer they got, the more tremendous the heat became.

Their skin melted, their whole bodies burned, and as their flesh disappeared, their souls were laid bare. Those souls showed no change at all even under heat far greater than the sun's.

[KYAAAAAAAGH! Aagh! It's hot!]

[AAAAAAAAGH!]

All they could feel was pain without limit.

Since enormous amounts of Dimensional Energy would be produced within that pain, it was a very good thing indeed.

Jafar and the followers screamed as they slowly moved into the plant's interior. The tremendous pressure crushed their souls flat, and the pain they felt climbed higher and higher without end.

BOOOOM!

The plant's door, never to open again, shut and was firmly sealed.

WHOOOOSH!

A tremendous flood of Dimensional Energy poured out of the plant and was fed into the stage of Episode 6.

No matter how many times he thought it over, it really was a heaven that suited the Church of Fire perfectly.

Jinwoo went up to the surface.

He stepped into the large laboratory prepared up there and took out the Setting Document. The setting was that a mad scientist of the Kalsus Dimensional Empire was conducting cruel experiments on Dimensional People in this place.

He created a body based on the Concept Art the art team had drawn.

White hair, a scrawny, emaciated body, and tubes embedded grotesquely all over. When he input an ego matching the setting, a perfect mad scientist was born.

The mad scientist bowed his head toward Jinwoo.

Jinwoo created Elite Soldiers on the spot and assigned them to the mad scientist. They were soldiers with enough raw power that even Heroes would have a hard time taking them on.

"Make them like this."

When he handed over the Setting Document for the Test Subjects, the mad scientist's face turned rapturous.

"Tear and stitch and slice! Join and graft and bind! Heheheh! This looks like fun! This place is heaven!"

"Right?"

"Heheheheh!"

"Hahaha!"

When the mad scientist laughed, Jinwoo laughed right along with him.

"Ahem."

"Mm."

Then the mood turned awkward, so they stopped laughing and cleared their throats.

In the large central laboratory on the floor below, Jinwoo brought out the Evil People he had farmed into his Subspace.

The Evil People looked around with dumbfounded expressions. When Jinwoo snapped his fingers, their clothes changed into the garments Test Subjects wore.

The mad scientist picked up a microphone.

"Ahh, ahh!"

The mad scientist's voice rang out through the entire laboratory.

"Welcome to my laboratory. You are Test Subjects, lower than insects. So insignificant that even being made to suffer is a gift."

The Test Subjects could not grasp their situation.

"Fuck!"

"I-I'm leaving! S-send me home!"

"D-do you know who I am?"

A few of them resisted, and the Elite Soldiers walked over and beat them to a pulp. Their limbs were wrenched out of shape and their faces were caved in, and then the Elite Soldiers took out potions and poured them over. At that they recovered again in no time.

"He-heheheh! Now! Let the experiments begin!"

The Elite Soldiers began loading the Test Subjects into their designated laboratories. Now they would be reborn as monsters packed full of Experience Points.

Jinwoo stepped outside the laboratory and looked over the stage of Episode 6 from the air.

"Looks good."

Something had felt lacking before, but slotting in the Evil People had made it perfect. He wanted to show it to the Heroes as soon as possible.

[Master, the last dimension has been liberated.]

A message came from Tiris.

Right on cue, the last dimension in the southern region of the Dimensional Realm had been liberated.

Jinwoo brought up the Information Window and checked. The Heroes were celebrating together with the Dimensional People. Watching them made Jinwoo happy too.

[Dimensional Realm]The Counterattack Begins

You have liberated the whole of the southern region of the Dimensional Realm.

The Kalsus Dimensional Empire Army that once held the southern region has retreated to the Great Gate that links the Kalsus Dimensional Empire with the southern region of the Dimensional Realm.

But it is too early to rejoice. The Kalsus Dimensional Empire Army you faced was only a fraction of their strength. Elite legions may yet come pouring through the Great Gate.

If you can hold and seize the Great Gate, you will be able to march on the homeland of the Kalsus Dimensional Empire.

Heroes!

Let the counterattack begin!

The Quest Window popped up in front of the Heroes at once.

[Oh, ohh!]

[So if we take the Great Gate, we can cross into those fuckers' turf?]

[That's gonna be so damn fun.]

[LET'S GOOO!]

The Heroes' reaction was explosive.

The final stage of Episode 6 was perfectly prepared, so now let's put together some staging the Heroes will be satisfied with.

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