Sister of the Ranking 1st - Chapter 56

The fact that I am nothing in this world.

Thus, to adapt to reality and live on, I must discard my delusions, my past, everything I left behind in the other world.

And so, suppressing my entire self, I grew up and came to live on this land.

A gentle sense of liberation spreads from my fingertips. What lies before me is a bastard who has fallen helplessly without doing anything.

“Why, how……”

The 102nd gritted his teeth as if frustrated.

The alien sensation that had briefly dominated me disappeared.

I could quickly grasp the situation.

Honestly, I didn’t expect this either. Maybe because my stats are too biased, I thought close-range combat would be disadvantageous.

“Aren’t you just too weak?”

“How dare you, one who doesn’t even understand the great will of destruction…!”

The one who fell with just one swing of the staff has a lot to say. An extremely angry voice rang out again.

“Aaargh! How dare, how dare you…!”

“What do you mean ‘how dare’.”

I kindly struck the back of his head once more to help him faint.

“Hmm.”

Now what should I do? As I was pondering, I heard a small voice from somewhere.

“Hey, hey! 102nd! What’s going on!”

He even has a communication device of sorts. I pulled out the device from his ear and stepped on it.

I should head to the closest place for now. Checking the map, there happened to be a crystal being captured over there.

“Don’t move!”

“Wh-what? There’s no one around here…!”

“No one? The owner is right here, you bastards!”

I swung my staff wide. Enemies fell one after another as I swung. I think I could change class to a strength mage at this rate.

The crystal they were capturing returned to my side.

Ah, this…

I could probably sweep them all away by myself?

I stealthily stripped off the robes and masks the bastards were wearing.

“Hehehe…”

I felt excited for no reason.

I hurriedly put on the mask and robe, then ran to each place marked on the map to sweep away the enemies.

“Who are you!”

“It’s an ambush! Everyone, regroup forma- Ack!”

“21st, there’s a traitor right now…!”

“Who are you to forget our oath! How dare you, how dare you follow destruction with such a careless heart!”

“Dodge! He’s a mage!”

To be honest, it was really fun.

I didn’t feel guilty since I was catching thieves who broke into an empty house. I was also controlling my strength to just knock them out anyway.

As expected, S-rank is S-rank for a reason.

“Let’s see, then. The remaining places are……”

The nearby crystals have been recaptured… Should I go to the rooftop?

“Answer! What on earth is happening there!”

An urgent voice was heard while I was pondering what to do next. I was about to crush the transmitter again, but decided to give a kind warning first.

“Yeah, these thieves talk too much. I’ll be there soon. Wait.”

“There shouldn’t have been any strong ones left… Was the information wrong…?”

I wasn’t particularly interested in hearing the answer, so I quickly destroyed the transmitter.

‘At this point, they should have received a system alert even if it’s an error…’

As long as I properly guard the one on the rooftop, there shouldn’t be a problem.

I got on the elevator heading to the rooftop.

The open sky greeted me dazzlingly. The blue crystal, still uncaptured and sparkling, emitted a mysterious light.

The sound of wind could be heard on the unusually quiet rooftop. I was excited while doing the job, but now that it’s come to this, I started to regret it a little.

Maybe I should have just waited. It’s better than waiting for the capture to finish, but… Did I overdo it? Cheon Shin Woo would probably be angry, and so on.

So I didn’t notice the alien presence quickly enough.

“Now’s the time, strike the traitor-!”

The voice I had heard over the transmitter rang out loudly. At the same time, a shower of countless bullets came flying.

“Ouch!”

These bastards are even using guns now!

Just over ten people were all holding guns. After firing several shots, they started to back away hesitantly when they saw that only scratches were appearing on my body.

“Ugh, this really stings……”

I didn’t know it would end with just scratches from bullets when my physical defense was trash.

The mask is blocking my vision so I can’t do anything. I was considering taking off the mask and throwing it away when I calmly asked.

“Isn’t using guns a bit much? Firearms should be prohibited in South Korea.”

“To think firearms are still prohibited even when the world has come to this, truly an impressive country. Hmph, if it weren’t for you, traitor, we would have succeeded with our operation long ago.”

“Well, that aside, what are you doing here?”

“You……”

The robed and masked figure who seemed to be the commander raised his hand. The other 9 people backed away.

“Not ‘we’?”

He caught on quickly. I just shrugged my shoulders in response.

“If by ‘we’ you mean that ‘Ragnarok’ or whatever, then no. I’m not. Destruction, fragments… You’re spouting all sorts of weird things, are you some kind of cult?”

“How insolent. There’s no value in exchanging words with an ignorant fool who doesn’t understand the great will.”

You’ve got some nerve to talk big after being completely beaten by this ignorant fool. I shrugged my shoulders and grabbed my staff.

“I ‘permit’ it. Everyone, attack that person with full force!”

“2-21st…”

“Attack! What are you doing! Can you not hear me!”

“W-we can’t. Our bodies, our bodies won’t move……”

“What…!”

“Ah, I thought something was a bit off since earlier.”

No matter how high my awakening rank is, I’m still just a novice without proper training or experience. Even so, wasn’t the situation just now too one-sided?

“You guys are being treated as monsters, huh?”

To be precise, they’re something ambiguous between human and monster.

I briefly skimmed through the rewards I received for defeating them.

It’s pitiful how they can pounce on me, but because of that, they can’t display their true abilities and end up succumbing to my skills.

If they were villains, there should be a separate mark, but I didn’t see any marks symbolizing villains.

No, those people weren’t even awakened ones.

[Unregistered user.]

Not information that can’t be viewed, but an unregistered user.

Is that even possible?

“……”

The wind blew fiercely. It was easy to subdue everyone there.

However, there was something I was curious about.

“Let’s see, judging by how you’re the only one unaffected, you must be A-rank or higher… But you’re not an awakened one, yet not unrelated to the system…”

“…Changing the operation.”

“I’m not very smart, so I can’t draw conclusions all at once, you know.”

How could a human use such strange abilities without even wearing the system? Even returnees can only manifest their abilities through the system.

“I’ll let it slide that you’ve given up on being human.”

“32nd, implement Plan C.”

“I’ve seen it before, you know.”

Though faint, the power they used was darkness.

That pitch-black power, like an abyss.

“You guys.”

The voice that said it would destroy the world for my sake.

“What relationship do you have with Sin?”

They were clearly related to the one who called itself Park Ha Young.

[This is the timeline separator]

“Finally……”

In a space that sparkled magnificently as if a celestial projector had been turned on, a figure in a snow-white robe laughed.

There is something some call fate.

Something that can be changed, can be fixed, but can generally be observed.

However, there are times when there are things that cannot be changed.

One who will sacrifice themselves as they flow according to his desires, or according to prophecy, or to where they should originally be.

Silence laughed as he watched the figure of the ‘Bewitching Flower’.

“This time for sure.”

To grasp the desired fate at the end of the wheel of destiny that has begun to flow.

To reach the predetermined conclusion, without fail.

[This is the timeline separator]

“Have these things gone mad!”

Suddenly, 9 people who had lost their sense of self rushed in randomly. Their creaking movements and those motions devoid of even a speck of reason were almost similar to zombies.

The one called 21st cast a strange magic as soon as my question ended.

A huge black explosion occurred, and this is the result.

“Urgh, uuurgh. Destruction, destructiooon…!”

“Are you really zombies?!”

Don’t cling to me, it’s disgusting!

The movement itself wasn’t a big problem, but I felt the situation had changed. My skills don’t work on these things without reason.

Don’t tell me I’ll become like that if I get bitten? Tch, what should I do, really.

As I panicked and struck them down with my staff, I could see the one called 21st laughing through the eye holes of his mask in the distance.

“…!”

My vision flickered. I felt a strong impact around me.

My head rang from the impact, but not to the point where I couldn’t move. If it weren’t for the items, I would have been seriously injured.

When I opened my eyes again, what I saw was a miserable wreckage and beyond that, a man laughing.

“So it works. If I do it 8 more times, I can subdue you.”

“What…?”

An indescribable emotion boiled up. Even if they were enemies, this wasn’t right.

Losing their sense of self, using themselves as explosives to attack, it was all that bastard’s doing.

“Why… do such a thing……”

“For the greater cause.”

“Aren’t they your comrades?! Is it okay to use and discard them like this?!”

“How naive. We gathered here for the same purpose, and sacrificing our lives for it is nothing.”

“……”

If that’s the case, you could just come at me directly, but deliberately taking away other people’s wills and controlling them to self-destruct…

One of the remaining 8 people rushed at me.

As that person’s body exploded, once again everything around was dyed in darkness.

Amidst the ringing in my head, the voice I heard was a desperate wish.

“With this, the nuisance will disapp, disappea……”

[Skill used – Bewitching Illusion (S)]

“……”

But as soon as I used my skill, the darkness that was trying to devour me was consumed by light and faded away.

“Why, why…!”

The man screamed. I asked, lowering my voice with uncontrollable anger.

“Are you in your right mind?”

“How dare, how dare, how dare you…!”

He didn’t seem to have any intention of answering. Even so, to go as far as sacrificing comrades…

“Argh, aaaaargh-!”

I should have done this from the start.

Those who attempted to self-destruct but failed, and the one who was giving them orders.

I should have just invited them all into a dream.

[All targets in range are bewitched. May you have pleasant dreams.]

However, in this place, just one person will have a nightmare more terrifying than hell.