Chapter 429 – Part 2 – Elsis’s Functions

The hesitating Choi Seong-min finally answered.

[Of course it’s okay. I’ll save you.]

[Really?]

Dayna’s voice became noticeably brighter.

Without Choi Seong-min’s help, Dayna would have no choice but to remain trapped forever.

Naturally, she couldn’t help but be happy about the helping hand.

[Thank you, Min Do-jun!]

[Don’t mention it. Now that I’ve become a transcendent, we should help each other.]

Of course, Choi Seong-min didn’t offer to save her without any thought.

‘This isn’t a bad proposal for me at all.’

No, it was actually a necessary proposal.

To oppose Derkius, it would be impossible with his power alone.

‘Like Dayna, I also have no real method by myself. I desperately need anyone’s help.’

Now that he knew Derkius was the root of evil, he couldn’t just sit back and take it.

‘I need to drive out Derkius to protect my family.’

Having decided to cooperate with Dayna, Choi Seong-min spoke once more.

[Let me confirm this once more. My job is to open the door of the prison in the underworld, right?]

[That’s right.]

[If I just open the door, you can come out immediately?]

[Yes. It’s a system that can only be opened from the outside, so self-escape is impossible. Only you, as a transcendent, can save me.]

[If I save you, we’ll definitely go after Derkius together, right?]

[Of course! I want to take revenge right away!]

Her desire for revenge against Derkius seemed genuine.

‘People who move with revenge can be trusted.’

Though strictly speaking, she wasn’t a person.

[If I save you, we’ve promised to cooperate?]

[Don’t worry. I never break promises.]

Though Dayna spoke confidently as if she could be trusted, the suspicious Choi Seong-min couldn’t completely let his guard down.

After all, wasn’t everything Derkius said complete lies?

‘This is really annoying. To think he tried to persuade me by lying about being a god. Was he that blinded by Divine Force?’

In a way, he had been deceived and used by sweet words.

‘I can’t trust the promise that he won’t annihilate us even if we complete the mission.’

No matter how he thought about it, there was no method other than joining hands with Dayna.

‘I should thank Dayna. Thanks to becoming a transcendent, I got a chance to fight back.’

If he had just completed the mission and ascended to the underworld, he might have been annihilated without question.

Not just himself, but his family too.

[Dayna, thank you. Thanks to you, I also got a chance to oppose Derkius.]

[That’s right. Let’s join forces and show that guy what’s what!]

Perhaps because of the thought of being able to take revenge, Dayna’s voice was full of enthusiasm.

[Speaking of which, when will you come up to the underworld?]

[I can’t right now. I still have things to do.]

[You mean dealing with the Great Heroes in the specimen world?]

[You know about it?]

[When I was making the Hunter Slayer trait, I asked Derkius. What would he do if Min Do-jun succeeded in the original world? When I asked if it wouldn’t be a waste to annihilate you, he said he planned to deploy you to the specimen world too. Saying he had to use everything he could…]

‘Ha… He planned to work me like a hunting dog from the beginning.’

Choi Seong-min was dumbfounded.

When he proposed to be used, Derkius had shown a contemplative appearance.

‘He never intended to let me go easily from the start. Yet he pretended to contemplate and accept my proposal.’

He swallowed his anger, thinking there were cunning aspects to him.

The time to explode his anger would be after meeting Derkius.

But suddenly he became curious.

[Can I ask you something?]

[Go ahead.]

[You’re trapped in prison and can’t look down at the human world, right?]

[Yes. The prison is designed so Divine Force can’t be used.]

[Then how can you talk with me? Doesn’t communicating with me also consume Divine Force?]

[Usually, yes. But it’s different in safe mode.]

[Safe mode?]

[I set it up so that when Min Do-jun became a transcendent, it would enter safe mode from the start. I allowed access permission for myself.]

[Then there’s no chance our conversation will leak? Derkius isn’t watching, is he?]

[Absolutely not. Safe mode also blocks external access. Naturally, no third party can hear our conversation.]

[One more thing. If you can’t see the world, how did you find out about the Great Heroes? As far as I know, Great Heroes only appeared 10 years ago, but the Hunter Slayer trait was created over 130 years ago.]

[Ah… Derkius probably didn’t tell you about this part.]

[About what?]

[Originally, the specimen world and original world have different flows of time. Like how different rivers have different current speeds.]

[Ah…]

Just hearing about the flow of time, Choi Seong-min understood immediately.

[There’s roughly a ten-fold difference. Even if 100 years pass in the original world, only 10 years pass in the specimen world.]

[I see. I understand what you mean.]

[Are all your questions resolved?]

[Yes.]

[Then when do you plan to finish killing all the Great Heroes…]

[I’ve already completed the mission. I just need to wrap things up before leaving.]

[Understood. I’ll wait patiently.]

After promising to oppose Derkius together in the underworld, they ended communication.

[Administrator has left the user’s system.]

Confirming Dayna’s disconnection, Choi Seong-min looked at his body.

‘Have I really become a transcendent?’

Though there were no physical changes, he felt distinctly different from before.

‘How should I put it? I feel human but not human?’

Since 99.9% of his soul was filled with Divine Force, it was inevitable.

‘By the way, Dayna left without teaching me how to use Elsis.’

He didn’t know whether she knew but didn’t tell him, or forgot due to being flustered…

‘It doesn’t matter anyway. I’ve already somewhat grasped the usage.’

At times like this, the Insight trait was really convenient.

Even with objects he was touching for the first time, he could grasp their principles after manipulating them a few times.

‘It’s the same with situations. I can quickly grasp them and respond calmly.’

He thought it was truly a fraudulent trait, but that didn’t mean he had no questions.

‘From the situation, Dayna seemed unaware of Insight. What’s going on?’

Since she knew about the mission, she would have known about the Great Heroes’ traits too.

‘She should have known I had the Insight trait.’

Yet not knowing suggested two possibilities.

‘Either she’s pretending not to know, or she didn’t know the trait’s influence would extend to Elsis.’

Since there was no reason to pretend not to know, the latter was more likely, but it didn’t matter.

‘Dayna’s resentment is real. She truly wishes for Derkius’s downfall.’

Of course, Dayna might be lying like Derkius.

‘I can’t believe everything naively, but I can’t dismiss it all as lies either.’

Anyway, what was certain was that Choi Seong-min had become a transcendent and was given a chance to confront the god.

Though he turned out to be a fake god.

‘Let me check out this system called Elsis.’

Choi Seong-min spoke the command he had grasped through Insight.

‘Function window.’

Numerous Elsis functions appeared.

With over 100 functions, Choi Seong-min’s eyes moved busily.

[Function – Clairvoyance]

-Description: Can look down at the world from an omniscient perspective. X-ray vision is possible if desired.

-Consumes 1 Divine Force per second

[Function – Time Stop]

-Description: Can stop and examine the world’s time. Direct intervention is impossible.

-Consumes 2 Divine Force per second

[Function – Rewind]

-Description: Can look back at the past. Since it’s already passed time, intervention is impossible.

-Consumes 3 Divine Force per second

[Function – Soul Possession]

-Description: Can possess a specific soul into another body. Requires a body in comatose state. Possession into corpses is impossible.

-Consumes 20,000,000 Divine Force

[Function – Soul Regression]

-Description: Can regress a specific soul by turning back the time axis. The regressing soul retains memories.

-Consumes 30,000,000 Divine Force per year

There were various functions, but these were the ones that immediately caught his eye.

‘All functions require Divine Force.’

Though Dayna compared it to mana used in games, it wasn’t.

‘It’s more like currency than mana.’

While mana at least recovers naturally, Divine Force is gone once consumed.

It was no different from spending saved wealth.

‘Thinking of it that way, Derkius invested quite a lot in me.’

Compared to other functions, the Divine Force required for possession or regression was enormous.

‘Possession costs 20 million and regression costs 30 million per year…’

Especially regression would cost 300 million for 10 years.

‘Probably, Derkius poured almost his entire fortune into regressing me back then.’

At the time, Derkius had regressed himself, who was Min Do-jun, 10 years back.

Now he could see it was quite a gamble for Derkius.

‘If I had failed to stop Adam, he would have lost Divine Force and humanity would have perished.’

Though the risk seemed large, conversely, success meant humanity could be preserved.

‘Humanity’s preservation means the supply of souls continues uninterrupted.’

Eventually, he could regularly earn Divine Force and steadily fill his belly.

‘Moreover, if time is turned back through regression, the souls that had perished would return.’

If they were converted to Divine Force, some refund would be possible.

‘Thinking of it that way, the regression function wasn’t just expensive.’

It seemed like a function that was at least worth its price.

Choi Seong-min looked at other Elsis functions with interested eyes.

‘To think I can freely use all these functions if I just have Divine Force…’

The omnipotent and attractive functions captivated his eyes.

‘There was a reason Derkius was obsessed with Divine Force.’

There was no need to envy.

These functions were no longer limited to Derkius alone.

‘Anyone who’s a transcendent can use Elsis. I’m also a transcendent.’

Choi Seong-min was also a proper Elsis user.

Though he was bewildered at unintentionally becoming a transcendent, if he could use such abilities, he could gladly accept it.

‘Of course, I can only use them if I have Divine Force.’

Speaking of which, Choi Seong-min spoke a command.

‘My information.’

A small golden information window appeared.

-Name: Choi Seong-min (Min Do-jun)

-Existence: Transcendent

-Permission Level: User

-Divine Force Held: 0

At the simpler-than-expected information window, Choi Seong-min pressed his lips together.

‘Divine Force is 0…’

He had expected at least a few hundred.

He had absorbed the opponent’s Divine Force while raising synchronization rate.

But what was absorbed and what was held seemed different.

‘The Divine Force extracted from killing a thousand people was probably all used to reincarnate my soul’s rank into a transcendent.’

To think he couldn’t use functions even if he wanted to.

His disappointment was considerable.

‘Even with Elsis, I can’t use any functions after all?’

Then what meaning was there in obtaining the system?

Wouldn’t he just be used as a tool to save Dayna?

‘Now that I’m a transcendent, would Divine Force increase if I kill hunters?’

Even if it increased, it would be a pittance, but testing was necessary.

Then.

‘Huh?’

Something interesting caught Choi Seong-min’s eye.

[Awakener System Tool – by Dayna]

One icon was blinking on one side of the information window screen.

‘Is this the awakener system Dayna said she created?’

It looked like a program that helped modify and create detailed parts of the awakener system.

‘Probably Derkius used this to create items for me. Like traits.’

Choi Seong-min’s gaze turned to the icon.

‘I don’t know if I have access permission, but should I try entering?’

When he tried to examine it mentally, a message appeared.

[You are not an administrator. No access permission.]

‘Of course. There’s no way I could use something this important that allows easy item adjustment…’

But it was too early to be disappointed.

[After examining user information, missing data was found.]

[New version trait data can be loaded.]

[Load now? Y/N]

‘I can load previous traits?’

It was an unexpected, welcome message.