Chapter 1 I Finally Understand!

Suren's eyes revealed a look of sudden realization.

He had absorbed a large amount of demonic energy like a whale in the previous battle, and his Death Law had also risen accordingly. During these few days of hibernation, his body had completely absorbed the different kinds of energy he had absorbed.

Now awakened, Suren had a very clear feeling that his Death Law was higher than what he had seen from Izanami before!

And Izanami, as the ruler of the Yomi (Land of the Dead), represented the upper limit of the world's laws.

It was because he had broken through that "upper limit" that the feeling of looking at flowers in the fog, which Suren had felt before, was swept away, and everything became completely clear.

"Wrong, wrong... it turns out that from the very beginning, my thinking was wrong. The 'god' of the novel world is not Izanami, nor is it any other character, but the 'author' of this story. He created this story, this 'world'!"

Suren took out his notes and, seeing the clues he had written down, understood everything.

He quickly flipped through the contents of his notes. What he couldn't understand before suddenly became clear from a different perspective: "I completely ignored the most important premise before, which is that I am now trapped in a cursed world constructed from a novel. In other words... I may have been dimensionally reduced! In this world, I think of myself as a 'person,' but in reality, I may just be a special existence described by a passage of text."

Obscured by a leaf!

Like being in a maze where your vision is always blocked by walls.

Only when your vision and awareness are higher than the walls can you see the correct way to navigate the maze, instead of blindly stumbling around according to its set logic.

"Before, my thinking logic, world cognition, and judgment were completely limited to a closed loop like a maze. Unless I had the ability to exceed this 'upper limit,' I wouldn't be able to see the truth of this world. So, that's the difficulty of the 'T-level space'. Without touching the boundary of this law, everyone who comes here will die!"

Suren also instantly understood why they hadn't noticed the hostility of the ghosts when they first arrived in this Yomi world.

Under normal circumstances, this would never have happened.

Not to mention the Ghost King, why didn't they sense the hostility of those little ghosts with their perception?

But in the logic of the book, this was perfectly understandable.

The logic of the story doesn't need you to discover (this plot), then you won't discover it!

Dimensionality limits your imagination and forces you to think along its logic.

Like ants, they can't understand what the highway being built next to their nest is all about.

In the minds of those creatures, perhaps, it's the end of the world.

Two-dimensional beings also cannot understand the concept of three-dimensional space!

But are they not living things?

No, they are!

Now, looking back, there were actually many flaws in the things they encountered.

But they had never noticed.

Imagination made real, trapping people in a perfect closed-loop logic.

This is the biggest difficulty of this cursed space.

Having figured everything out, Suren's eyes sparkled.

"The All-Knowing Eye had already identified the way out and had tried very hard to express the answer. It's just that after entering the space, my cognition was limited, and I couldn't think of the 'author.' So, I didn't realize the truth of breaking the game."

Suren couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

It seemed like a simple logic, but he was trapped in a logical closed loop.

In one world, that world restricts your imagination.

You will not doubt any "unreasonableness" in this world.

Because, in this world, as long as it exists, it is reasonable.

Oh heavens, it's incredible.

Suren felt like he had touched some high-level "world insights."

......

In the end, he knew how to get out.

Thinking of this, Suren breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, the excitement after deciphering only lasted for a moment, and his face returned to calm.

It seemed he knew too late.

Chihiro and Mikoto were both dead, and his own state was "half-human, half-ghost."

Since the author of the [Death Novel] is the "only true god" of an unfinished story, could he rewrite the ending?

Thinking of this, a glimmer of hope appeared in Suren's eyes again.

If he could, he would be willing to pay any price to save them both.

But he wasn't sure.

Because his own state was very strange, being in the book but also transcending the story.

Then,

The previous story was a foregone conclusion. If the previous ending changed, would there still be the present?

This seemed contradictory again.

Suren pondered for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

He wrote this thought down in his notebook, wanting to find that "author" first.

That was the decisive factor.

.......

The battlefield was a mess, filled with death.

Suren summoned the black crow again, flew into the sky, and found a road back towards the ghost city.

But as he walked, he suddenly felt something unusual about his body.

He looked at the data panel and said in surprise, "My physical strength has actually become stronger? And it's still getting stronger..."

The various physical data displayed on the panel had soared, strength, agility, nerve reaction speed, toughness... It could be said that there was an all-round improvement, about two or three percent.

Only when he injected the "X Serum" to transform his bloodline had there been such a large increase.

Originally, it was a good phenomenon.

However, Suren frowned now.

Because this increase was beyond his control.

It was unpredictable how long it would last and in which direction it would grow.

Any uncontrolled physical mutation can be called "distortion."

In other words, he was now "physically distorted."

The reason was naturally that he had absorbed too much "demonic energy" and "Yomi energy," and his body had been contaminated.

But because of certain factors, he had not completely mutated into a monster.

Suren looked at the panel and guessed that his own "X Serum" was resisting that uncontrolled change. The [Fallen Angel] was a genuine divine bloodline. They were gods from birth. This was completely incomparable to lower creatures.

He had just suppressed the hidden danger of "mental distortion," but now such a new problem had appeared. Suren also frowned a little.

However, he was not very concerned about his own state now.

Carrying the lives of two important friends to survive, this kind of remaining life didn't seem to be worth any anticipation.

......

Suren walked unhurriedly on the mountain road.

Looking at the exaggerated battle traces, he thought of the scenes of fighting alongside Chihiro, and he was filled with emotions: "Chihiro-nee's combat power is really exaggerated. I didn't expect her to break through to the third stage of [Rakshasa]..."

The world in his eyes was now very special, like watching a realistic virtual reality film, he could immerse himself in it, like the real world; he could also observe everything from an outsider's perspective and see some other things.

But thinking of talent, Suren suddenly thought that his Death Law had also instantly increased several times.

Although he hadn't broken through any three-stage state, there was a big difference.

A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Suren.

Eh...

Could it be that I have a sealed item that requires the control of the Death Law?

The [Black Scythe of Nyx], this powerful weapon, had been with him since the outer city of Old Lingdun, helping him through one deadly crisis after another.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it cuts out spatial cracks, it is actually driven by the Death Law. (Power, elements, can create spatial cracks if they are strong enough)

The replicated weapon of the Grim Reaper is naturally the Death Law.

Because the use of this sealed item has a very dangerous curse backlash, it could only be controlled by the living dead to transfer the backlash force.

But now, as soon as Suren held it, he immediately felt a feeling of lightness, as if there was an inexplicable "smoothness."

Could it be that he could control it?

After carefully identifying it again, he finally confirmed that he had reached the usage threshold of this sealed item!

"In other words... I can use this black scythe at will in the future without considering the curse backlash?"

Suren suddenly felt a sense of unexpected joy.

This was completely unintentional.

Although he was now extremely skilled at controlling the living dead to use the black scythe, the living dead's endurance was limited.

A living dead body can only make up to five cuts, and the arc of the cut must be controlled.

It's easy to use, but it costs corpses, and extra movements are easily noticed by the opponent.

But now, he can just grab it himself and chop as he pleases!

Ten cuts, a hundred cuts, a thousand cuts...

Until the target is chopped to pieces.

Suren held the black scythe and gently swung it, and a stone not far away was suddenly cut in half by a spatial crack.

He carefully sensed the feeling of using it, clearly capturing the entire process of the Death Law surging from the scythe, activating the alchemical matrix and the runes emitting energy fluctuations, and pondered in his heart: "Hmm... it's not a complete avoidance of the curse backlash. Large tangent cuts will still have it. However, normal cutting needs can be fully met."

The scythe was finally smooth to use.

Moreover... another difference was that in the past, using the black scythe was completely taking advantage of its own characteristics.

Now, he infused it with the Death Law, and the tearing degree of the spatial crack can be controlled!

Like a sharp sword, it is a completely different weapon in the hands of a swordsman and a layman.

Suren felt like he had become stronger.

But he also sighed.

If he had been stronger before, perhaps he could have changed something.

......

Suren wrapped the black scythe in a burlap bag and carried it on his back.

He walked into the ghost city again.

The author of this [Cursed Novel] is Fujiwara Hayato, and Suren knew that he was the key to breaking the cursed space.

Suren had harvested many miscellaneous skills before. Although he was not a literary master, he also knew some of the common sense of novelists' creation.

Therefore, he was not sure that Fujiwara Hayato would definitely be in this Yomi after his death, but he would definitely be able to find a "Fujiwara Hayato in the book."

In any novel, there must be a character in whom the "author's" shadow can be found.

That character is not the author, but he must be a part of the author's emotions, cognition, and values...

Usually, that is the protagonist of the novel.

But in this [Yomi], Suren didn't find anyone who was the protagonist.

Therefore, he was going to search in the ghost city.

Unlike the apprehensive mentality he had when he came to explore several times before, Suren now walked into the city with a calm heart.

As long as he didn't want to, the ghosts here seemed to be unable to see him.

He was an existence that had "transcended" this world.

The number of ghosts in the city was significantly less, especially the powerful auras were few and far between.

The previous battle had also damaged the ghost city.

Suren kept walking, walking, watching all kinds of ghosts and wandering souls, like watching a movie.

Suddenly, he passed a teahouse and heard a storyteller telling a "love story between a noble lady and a poor boy."

Suren stopped.

Because he was too eye-catching.

It was as if the whole world in his eyes was black and white, but that person was colorful.

Suren knew that he had found the person.

It was a youkai (monster) called [Storyteller].

It was said to be a down-and-out scholar with some talent, but he was not valued by people. After his death, he became a youkai out of resentment. He had been telling stories to people, hoping to gain people's recognition.

When that person saw Suren, he suddenly seemed to wake up from a dream, and the expression in his eyes immediately became clear.

He smiled slightly at Suren and said, "So, someone has finally come looking for me."

.......

Suren and that person sat by the window on the second floor of the teahouse, looking at this frustrated storyteller with complicated eyes.

He had clearly seen this guy several times, but he had never noticed that this youkai would be the key to getting out.

The clues were clearly in his stories, but without experiencing it, he couldn't hear the deep meaning in them.

Suren sighed and asked, "Should I call you Mr. Fujiwara, or Mr. Gustav?"

The middle-aged man said lightly, "Either is fine. Because they are all my names, but I am not him. I am just a story character with a bit of obsession."

Hearing this, Suren nodded.

After pondering for a moment, he directly asked, "Then Mr. Fujiwara, can you tell me, what exactly is going on with this Yomi?"

It was because of these days' encounters that he had seen this world clearly, and the more he saw it, the more incredible he felt it was.

Even now, it seemed to be a complete "world."

Fujiwara Hayato didn't seem surprised at all and smiled, "But I know what your doubts are."

After a pause, he said, "In fact, no matter how knowledgeable people are or how many laws they comprehend, they cannot construct a world without any flaws. Even some ancient gods I know cannot do it. So, I thought of a way to use external forces to help me complete this world. I refined the novel I wrote into a cursed object and used it to collect some wandering souls. Those wandering souls will live and cultivate in the 'Yomi'. Everything they experience is to perfect and deduce this world. And it will become more and more perfect over time..."

"..."

Hearing this, Suren's cognition was almost subverted.

This guy actually used this method to deduce and create a world?

What was the difference between this method and God?

Fujiwara Hayato said, "Don't be so surprised. And don't think that this behavior is heartless. The laws of the world are very magical. Especially in the eyes of us Mechanical Alchemists, all energy is in one 'pot'. It's just that the forms of existence are different, and there is not much difference in essence. Including you and me. This is not entirely what I came up with. I remember that it should be a divine secret technique that I discovered in an ancient ruin during an adventure..."

"..."

Suren was a little confused, understanding but not quite.

He was very interested in this world-creating method.

Fujiwara Hayato said half of it, but didn't continue, shaking his head and saying, "However, I can't explain it to you in too much detail... In order to ensure that I retain certain specific memories and don't forget the person I'm waiting for. So, some questions I can't answer you. Those truths, if you want to know, you can only verify them yourself."

Hearing this, Suren suddenly thought of Katyusha's great-grandmother that he had met before.

She bought so many of Fujiwara Hayato's novels, so naturally the two knew each other.

Although Suren was curious about the relationship between the two,

He was more concerned about another question.

He directly asked, "Mr. Fujiwara, I have another question to ask you. My companions died in the previous battle. Do you have a way to revive them?"

Fujiwara Hayato glanced at him with a smile that was not a smile, "Yes, but there is a price."