Chapter 161 – Why Won’t He Die (1)

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The exposure of soul linkers that began on YouTube.

The video with the highest number of views was one that looked as though it had been filmed secretly.

The face of Emperor Alex Caesar appeared, with awakening markings drawn thickly on his face.

But when he took off the ring on his finger,

seureureuk,

the markings disappeared.

And when he put it on again,

swiik,

the markings appeared.

└ Wow! Chills, Emperor Caesar is close to two hundred years old, so then since when has he been a soul linker?

└ This is why conspiracy theories aren’t always baseless.

└ Why did he keep acting like an awakened all this time?

└ Wouldn’t that help establish authority? Before soul linkers were revealed, Earth was the world of the awakened.

└ In any case, we’ll have to be careful around awakened now. If you act cocky just because they don’t have awakening markings and then meet a soul linker one day…

└ There’s already one such person. In the Samhan Empire.

└ Ah…, Chairman?

Talk about Tae-ju also began to spread here and there.

Who else could be the most likely soul linker at the present point in time?

There was also a video of Emperor Alex Caesar himself coming out and speaking with someone.

This too had the feeling of a hidden camera.

The contents were like this.

“What sort of being is the soul Your Majesty linked to?”

– Why, an Emperor, of course. The Emperor of another world, Trillian Lancer of the Avalan Empire.

“Ah! As it happens, he was also an Emperor.”

– Because it is the same soul. So a mission has been given to me as well.

“May I ask what that mission is?”

– What is the thing an Emperor must do? To govern the nation wisely and make it a peaceful and prosperous empire.

“So that is why you wanted to unify Europe.”

– Exactly. The European Empire, and beyond that, I will aim for the world. So if you also trust me and follow me without entertaining other thoughts…

The video cut off there.

There was no way to know what the rest of what he said had been, but even so it was a passage that let one know the Emperor’s true feelings.

One final video was uploaded.

It was drone footage.

The Emperor and the Imperial elite awakened courageously entering central Moscow.

The Emperor stood at the vanguard.

And then the final decisive battle with the undead demonic beasts began.

The horrifying attacks of the undead demonic beasts, and the mana blades of the master awakened flashed.

But then the appearance of the necromancer considered the chief culprit of the war.

“Corrupt! Decay! Rot and fall apart!”

And yet the Emperor bravely advanced.

At the moment he got almost close enough to touch!

Paaaaaaaat!

With an explosive sound, the screen went dark.

└ My chest swells.

└ That necromancer was cornered and then self-destructed together with His Majesty the Emperor.

└ So he really was a hero. He left us too early.

└ Heaven is always jealous of heroes.

└ Damn that demon bastard, if it weren’t for him.

└ That necromancer must have been a soul linker too, right?

└ So not all soul linkers are good.

Alex Caesar, who fulfilled his wish by dying.

At least in Europe, he was treated as a hero.

Tae-ju, too, watched the final video of Moscow from his house.

‘A lot got cut out.’

The appearance of the mirror, the emergence of the same soul, the two merging and then exploding.

That bastard Vincent Moretti would have edited out all the key content and uploaded it.

‘He doesn’t know even in his dreams that I watched the whole thing, does he?’

The invisibility talisman had only come undone after the explosion occurred.

‘The Emperor, or the necromancer.’

To Tae-ju, there was no difference between the two.

Honestly, among the soul linkers he had experienced so far, there had not been a single decent bastard.

The Heavenly Demon had been like that, Drek Karax too, Emperor Alex Caesar too, and even Vincent Moretti, who was suspected of being a soul linker as well.

‘Still, what on earth is that bastard Vincent thinking…’

He had to be the one behind the exposure as well.

Tae-ju had a guess.

Vincent was the director of the Royal Crystal Research Institute.

In other words, a scientist.

They had already been suspecting that the magically enchanted weapons that appeared in the Moscow war had been made by him.

Was that all?

The magic items released onto the market had likely all been made by that bastard Vincent too.

If Alex Caesar’s death was an experiment?

If the appearance of the mirror, the combining with the same soul, and the great explosion were all things that bastard had intended?

‘He’s trying to connect them directly. Not soul and soul, but matter and matter, or world and world.’

Then he would need more test subjects, wouldn’t he?

Other soul linkers, that is.

In any case, after the existence of soul linkers was revealed, Tae-ju too found it extremely troublesome.

Even now, reporters were camped outside the house.

Even personal-broadcast streamers had gathered.

What they were all shouting.

Were you really a soul linker, and if so, then who from which world were you?

He did not even know how many days it had already been.

It had been like this continuously ever since the first revelation came out.

To the point that he could not even go outside.

And he could not use the invisibility talisman to avoid the reporters, either.

It was not something happening only in the Samhan Empire.

All over the world, perfectly innocent people were being suspected of being soul linkers.

– This person is highly likely.

– There’s evidence too.

– This is a complete lock.

Especially ordinary people with power and authority, without exception.

Of course, among them there were indeed cases where it felt like, This one is real.

Wasn’t it an incredibly exciting issue?

Even Baek Hong-pyo and Baek Seo-yeon had come and slyly asked him, after all.

There had also been an enormous number of phone calls.

The Emperor, Geum Su-ho, Chairman Jeong Uk-cheol, Igor of the Leaders Club, and so on.

Of course, he had not answered any of them.

‘Let’s make medicine.’

Until things calmed down, that was.

By the way, did Drek Karax get delivered safely?

* * *

In the Immortal Realm.

In a few days, the upper-realm representatives meeting was scheduled to be held.

Since he had decided to attend the meeting in place of the Supreme Elder Lord, he had to make some simple preparations.

Should I play at being a chairman once?

Tang Gun-ak went to meet Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Ahh!

A being who made money while playing.

The clones did all the dirty work, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s main body loafed around and did nothing but imitate a hip-hopper.

“Your life has really opened up, hasn’t it?”

“Eii, it’s not easy controlling clones.”

“As if that were true.”

The clones made from the hairs he had sent Tae-ju and the clones Great Sage Equal to Heaven made personally were on completely different dimensions.

They did not disappear even if left alone, they could talk, and they carried out even complicated tasks without any trouble.

“But what is the matter?”

“I was wondering whether clones can also drive automobiles.”

“We would have to teach them to know for sure…”

“If they can only drive, I’ll hire them as chauffeurs. As regular employees, of course.”

“I’ll do it at once. Training starts today.”

What an enviable ability it was.

Just as they said, the bear performs the feat and Son-seobang earns the money.

Could he not learn clone techniques?

If he learned it and taught it to Tae-ju, that would be nice.

At that moment!

Jjirir,

‘It must already be time for the delivery to come.’

Tang Gun-ak opened the Infinite Space and checked the shared storage.

First were ten boxes containing a hundred dedicated smartphones each.

‘He sent a lot.’

He only ever felt sorry for Tae-ju’s endless devotion for the Immortal Realm.

There were many people waiting endlessly for smartphones to arrive.

Especially the new heavenly people who had recently been flowing into the Immortal Realm.

He had been saddened because he had brought sacks full of flowers but had had no smartphone stock, forcing him to send them back empty-handed.

At that moment!

“Hm?”

Something strange was visible in the shared storage.

“What’s this?”

Was it a mannequin?

For now, he moved it aside.

There was a letter too.

Tang Gun-ak read it in detail.

It began with the war that had broken out in Europe.

The undead overflow, the war with human armies, the necromancer, and even the part saying that Myriad Heavens Flower Rain and Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s clones had helped.

“Heoheo.”

He knew what Tae-ju had sent.

Human, but not human.

Alive, but not a living thing.

“Such a hideous monstrosity…”

It dared trouble Tae-ju?

Seuseut,

Tang Gun-ak came out of the multiplex and took Drek Karax out into the front yard.

Drek Karax came out again.

“Hm? This place is…”

He was bewildered by the changed environment.

That strange space he had entered because of that bastard Kim Tae-ju.

He had not been able to move his body there, and even his consciousness had been faint.

He had thought he had come out now, but where was this place this time?

“You’re the one called Drek, are you?”

“…Huh?”

Who was this?

‘…Kim Tae-ju?’

It looked like him, maybe,

but how much time had passed for him to get that old?

“Let’s see whether you come back to life here too.”

“W-wait! Let’s talk first…”

Chijijijijik!

The Poison Immortal’s Poison Qi Emission.

He melted and ran like cotton candy.

A moment later.

Uuuung!

The body that had melted started gathering again.

“Oh-ho?”

“Huff, huff, l-let’s at least talk!!!”

He revived back into his original form.

“What a fascinating fellow.”

So this was why Tae-ju had sent him here.

If melting him did not work either, then how was one supposed to kill this thing?

At that moment!

Budadadadadak! Pudak, pudak!

Sword Immortal arrived today not in a sports car but on a Harley bike.

“Greetings. Poison Immortal, the timing is good. My bike’s fuel…, hm?”

Sword Immortal looked at Drek Karax.

“What is this? What is this stinking breed?”

“That is…”

Tang Gun-ak explained everything step by step.

At that, Sword Immortal’s eyes sparkled.

“So he’s the master of the seductive woman I met in my dream. A soul linker, like Hero Tae-ju.”

“That’s right.”

“And it is definitely true that he came here through the shared storage?”

“You’re looking right at it.”

“Euhm…”

Then,

“Put me in.”

“…What? This bastard?”

“No, me. Let me go in once too.”

“Line up.”

“So it’s one hundred thousand coins, right?”

“Let’s do this quickly. If it doesn’t work, give up.”

“You get exactly one chance.”

Drek Karax simply gave up on everything.

Revival was not a blessing but a curse.

He himself wanted to die forever too.

Just how many times did he have to die before it ended?

A long line.

Immortals chirping and chattering as if it were some fun game.

But that aside.

“Delivery for five cans of cold beer and peanut snacks.”

“Over here, monkey!”

“Please leave five stars and a review as well. Here’s a service item.”

“Aight!”

“When is my jjajang ramen coming?”

“It just left.”

“It’s been more than ten minutes since you said that!”

“What is Tea Immortal doing? He isn’t even making coffee, and the delivery isn’t coming!”

“It’s break time.”

Just what kind of world was this?

Was this really the Immortal Realm?

Immortals holding smartphones, of all things.

Drek Karax died, revived, died again, and revived again.

At this point,

“Why won’t he die? He’s a weak and sickly thing.”

“It seems he cannot even die of his own will.”

“It looks as though he possesses a kind of qi completely different from what we know.”

“Perhaps he has obtained some grade of immortality.”

“Tsk tsk, it seems he’s some sort of monster king like the Chaotic-World Demon King.”

If he had the abilities of a monster king, sealing him was best.

‘What do we do?’

It would be cleanest to kill him if possible.

Tang Gun-ak pondered for a moment, then made a decision.

“We should ask Yama.”

“Oh! Good idea.”

“Let’s go.”

After putting Drek Karax into the Infinite Space,

Tang Gun-ak passed through the gate that was always open to the Yellow Springs Realm.

The immortals followed behind in a crowd.