The Fake Hero Is Too Strong

Chapter 229

Originally, they believed they had been sent back in time to save humanity.

But the truth was the complete opposite.

They had been sent back in time so that humanity could be ‘perfectly’ annihilated.

A new sentence appeared.

“It’s been a while.”

“Shall we get to the point? There is only one thing left for us to discuss.”

His tone turned cold.

“Get lost.”

“Hmph. You feel emotions like that?”

Mide’s voice grew cynical.

“At first, I thought the one who sent us back was a ‘law’. Half joking, but if something can do all this, calling it a law wouldn’t be too strange.”

<…….>

“But it seems I was wrong. You are no law. From what I can tell, you are probably some civilization or species that competed with humanity.”

In truth, Mide didn’t care what its identity was.

What mattered was destroying the hero system.

So that humanity could stand on its own strength.

“No matter what you say, I’m getting rid of the hero system. Meaning I need to contact Bion, who is struggling on the surface.”

<…….>

“So get lost, will you? I made the Eye of Omniscience in the first place, so stop meddling with it.”

In that moment, Mide felt something ominous.

Serein suddenly shouted in shock.

“The lab’s negative energy is disappearing!”

The lab had originally started with around 40 billion units of negative energy 230,000 years ago.

It was the source that allowed them to manage the world in various ways, and at the same time, the energy that kept the lab itself running.

“It’s disappearing extremely fast too. At this rate, we won’t last even a year.”

“What did you do!”

His message practically smirked.

“…….”

The next line pointed at Mide.

“…….”

“…….”

It finished with a sneer.

The screen disappeared after leaving those words.

One year.

Even for ordinary people, it wasn’t long.

For those who had lived 230,000 years, it was no more than a fleeting moment.

They were already thinking about the last words they would leave behind.

Even Mide was so shocked he couldn’t come up with a solution.

Then Neril spoke.

“Everyone relax your faces.”

“……Yeah. I guess we should meet the end with a smile.”

“Are you insane? You are just going to give up like this?”

“Neril. It’s one year. One year. One year isn’t even enough time to sit down and eat a proper meal. That’s how it feels.”

“That’s a very you-like comparison, but you are wrong about one thing. We don’t have one year.”

Everyone widened their eyes.

Neril looked at Mide and spoke.

“It’s obvious, but how do you think we have managed to stay alive for 230,000 years?”

“……No way.”

“Yeah. My eyes, arms, legs, everything moving right now is running on the negative energy. That thing made us like this ever since it sent us back.”

“Wait. Just wait.”

“I’m going to return that energy to the lab. That should buy us some time.”

Mide could already guess what she was going to say next.

“And you are saying you will be the one to sacrifice yourself?”

“……Yeah.”

“No.”

A firm refusal.

But Neril replied even more firmly.

“I’m not talking about dying. I’m just returning my physical body as an energy source. My soul, Adwin can send it to the world.”

“That’s the same thing. Once your body is converted into energy, you can never go back. You will never have immortality like this again.”

Neril stayed silent.

Xenia hurriedly spoke.

“She is right. I will go instead. That would be better.”

“No. I’m the oldest.”

“You are four years older! After living 230,000 years, does that even matter?”

“And I’m not saying farewell forever.”

She looked back at Mide.

“I will buy you time. In that time, find a way. A way to defeat that thing’s interference and get rid of the hero system. Contact Trail like you originally planned, or do something else…. anything.”

“And if I find it?”

“Then destroy it immediately. That was the plan from the start. We have to escape that thing’s manipulation.”

“And after that?”

“After that…….”

She spoke with a slightly earnest expression.

“Let’s meet again in the world. Mide. All of you.”

“…….”

“There is one thing I agreed with from what that thing said.”

Her voice carried a faint sadness.

“We have lived too long.”

“…….”

“I will retire first. You all finish what’s left, and then retire too.”

Finish everything, and retire like the other researchers did.

Retire, and be born as ordinary humans in Mide’s world.

And then we meet again there.

Mide answered in a voice filled with emotion.

“I don’t know how long it will take. For us, a hundred years is an extremely short moment, but you will live out your whole life in that time.”

“I will try my best to live long somehow.”

“Even if all of us retire, I don’t know if we can meet again in the world. We will lose all our memories.”

“Figure something out. I really want to meet again.”

Mide let out a deep sigh.

He knew his wife well.

Once she made up her mind, no one could break her stubbornness.

In the end, Mide answered with tears.

“I will definitely come find you again.”

I stroked her face.

Neril fiddled with her hair for no reason as she spoke.

“You were a bit late, Mide.”

“Uh, yeah.”

“You were two hundred years late. If not for the Erenica family incident, we wouldn’t have met.”

“I really have no excuse.”

Then Bion cut in.

“It couldn’t be helped. The connection we barely managed to establish with Trail got cut off again.”

“That bastard made a move until the very end.”

“Yes. We didn’t have enough energy to restore it. What you sacrificed wasn’t nearly enough. In the end, we had to find another method.”

“Hmm.”

“But you two still managed to meet again somehow. At this point, I have nothing more to say. I guess the two of you really were destined.”

Neril tried her best to act calm.

But she couldn’t stop her cheeks from heating up.

Serein grumbled.

“Seriously, how are you still this lovesick after being lovers for 230,000 years.”

“Come to think of it, Serein, you really haven’t made much progress. You know, with the person right next to you…….”

“I told you not to say it.”

“Anyway, is there anything here you don’t understand?”

Everyone looked at each other.

Then they all shook their heads at the same time.

Bion smiled lightly and continued.

“Do we really need more explanation for what came after?”

“No. I can guess. The method I came up with must have been to descend directly into the world. And to handle the things Trail was originally supposed to handle.”

“Yes. Around that time, Xenia, Adwin, Offense, and Serein all converted their bodies into negative energy and followed you. It was a last resort anyway.”

“…….”

“And after nearly two hundred years, Neril’s remaining energy couldn’t sustain the lab anymore. So we drew lots and left only one person behind before descending into the world. Someone had to remain to maintain the Eye of Omniscience.”

I let out a small laugh.

“And you were the one picked?”

“Yes.”

“You are pretty lucky.”

“No. I actually drew the losing lot.”

Her face dimmed.

“Everyone thought so. They comforted me because I had to remain here alone.”

“……Sorry.”

“What are you apologizing for.”

I scratched my cheek and asked.

“But like Neril said, why did it take as long as two hundred years? The basic structure of the plan should have been the same as when you sent Trail down.”

“You were worried. Whether the law really wouldn’t interfere anymore.”

“…….”

“If I were the law, I would have one last ‘struggle’ left to use…… is what you said. We agreed with you and felt the plan needed reinforcement.”

True, even now, I don’t think the law would just sit back and watch.

It wouldn’t make sense for me, as the former lab director, not to have thought of this.

“What exactly did you reinforce in the plan?”

“…….”

“And what was that ‘last struggle’ I supposedly thought of? If I sensed it instinctively, it’s probably correct.”

“It is.”

Bion let out a small sigh.

“You said something came to mind for a moment. That in this era, at this time, wasn’t that guy about to be born…… is what you thought.”

“That guy?”

“You know, right?”

Ah.

No way.

“Kaeld.”

No one knew through which ancestors or lineage Kaeld had been born 230,000 years ago.

But after 230,000 years of the lab managing the world, the current world had become something completely different from the pre-regression one.

So no one could have predicted it.

No one would have even imagined it.

That he could be born again at the 230,000-year mark, the same moment Kaeld had been born before the regression.

Upon hearing Mide’s explanation, Serein commented:

“You must have been deep in thought after losing Neril. Mide.”

“She is not dead. She is living just fine in the world. Though it seems she has gone through a lot of hardship.”

“You checked on her here and there even while so busy.”

“As the Witch of Carnage, she was living quite a lonely life. I want to hurry down and meet her.”

“And the reason you can’t.”

“Yeah. Like I just said, if I were the law, I would use Kaeld as my ‘last struggle’.”

Offense spoke.

“Is that thing really going to be born again?”

“Without a doubt. If the thing tormenting us interferes, something like that wouldn’t be difficult.”

“Well, before the regression, it manipulated Kaeld into agitating humanity. After working together once, of course it would desperately hope he is born again.”

“Exactly. And this time, it will be easier. The hero system only spread humanity out, it didn’t elevate their consciousness at all.”

Xenia interjected.

“If that’s really the case, isn’t there no method? I hate to admit it, but 230,000 years ago we lost to Kaeld once. And if that thing also helps Kaeld, we will be even more disadvantaged.”

“There is a plan.”

“Please tell us.”

Mide answered calmly.

“We fail once. On purpose.”

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