As soon as Shekina read the contents of the system window, her vision went dark.
She couldn’t move her limbs, as if they were bound.
However, her mind remained clear, as if she was meant to only observe the vision unfolding before her eyes.
So, Shekina kept her eyes wide open, staring straight at the rapidly changing scenes of the vision.
The first scene was a war. At the forefront of the war was someone Shekina knew well—the Demon King. He was charging ahead, holding high the spear he had discovered in the dungeon not long ago. Someone was impaled on that spear, lifted high into the sky, bloodied. Shekina did not recognize the face, but she knew who it was.
‘Lucifer.’
And the being who had pushed Shekina into the abyss and trampled on her in her fifth life.
‘The Dark Mage.’
As soon as she realized this, the scene changed. It was Shekina’s first life, when she did not know it was a game world and lived according to the predetermined scenario, ending up as the lover of Dehan and dying.
Shekina looked down at her own dead body and at Dehan, who was hugging her corpse and crying bitterly, from a third-person perspective.
But she was not the only one observing from a third-person perspective. Lucifer, whom she had just seen in the previous scene, was standing nearby.
As soon as Lucifer confirmed her death, he smirked and approached Dehan, who seemed completely unaware of his presence.
Just as Lucifer’s hand reached out to Dehan, the world began to distort. It flickered like a disrupted signal, and the world twisted. The second scene ended with Lucifer’s furious face.
The third, fourth, and fifth scenes followed the same pattern. Shekina would die after reincarnating, Dehan would mourn, Lucifer would laugh, thinking he had finally succeeded, and then the world would collapse…
What is this vision trying to tell me?
What does it mean?
Shekina pondered over each scene.
At that moment.
[SYSTEM]
‘Lucifer Agato’ was defeated and killed in the Celestial Demon War. However, he was resurrected using ‘dark magic’.
[SYSTEM]
What is his ultimate goal after being resurrected? Why is he approaching Dehan Agato? What significance does your death hold in this world?
[SYSTEM]
(Hint: Lucifer Agato has taken over most of the world’s power.)
[SYSTEM]
To be continued!
And the vision ended.
***
“…Huh?”
Yurian noticed an unusual aura coming from the direction where Shekina had gone.
“Didi, did you hear something strange just now?”
He pricked up his ears and looked around. Didi, who was clinging to his arm, tilted her head.
“I didn’t hear anything! What did you feel?”
“It sounded like it came from Shekina’s direction…”
“Are you thinking about Shekina while I’m with you? Really? You’re abandoning me for Shekina?”
“No, no… That’s not what I mean.”
Yurian swallowed nervously at Didi’s fierce glare.
“Shekina is only three years old. She wouldn’t be able to handle a dangerous situation properly.”
At his words, Didi quickly composed her previously angry expression.
“You’re worried because she’s still young! Yurian, you’d be great at taking care of a baby! If we had a child, would you take care of it? How about having five?”
“……..”
Yurian took a step back from Didi, who was staring at him with wide eyes, and looked back.
“Let’s go check. It’s good if nothing is wrong, but if something is, it’s better for us to be there.”
“Yes, yes. Let’s go, daddy.”
“……..”
Have they already decided on a baby’s name?
Yurian shivered at Didi’s excessive obsession but quickened his pace, realizing this was not the time for such thoughts.
When they reached the ice wall, they were met with an unbelievable sight.
“What… is this?”
“Daddy, isn’t this a dangerous situation? Should we run away?”
The corpses of monsters were scattered around, and in the middle of it all, there was a hole like a sinkhole.
But it seemed to have been filled in, with rocks sunken in. Amidst all this, Shekina was nowhere to be seen. Yurian’s eyes shook.
“So many monsters came out?”
It was normal for many monsters to appear in the northern mountains.
“But, are you saying so many monsters appeared at once? Without any warning?”
Cold sweat ran down Yurian’s back. With this many monsters, Shekina might be…
“Dad, this is really dangerous.”
Yurian, snapped out of his thoughts by Didi’s words, quickly looked up. He saw monsters approaching from not far away.
At a glance, there were more than ten. Instinctively, Yurian hid Didi behind him.
“Run. There should be troops nearby, call them.”
“What? No! I can’t leave you, Dad!”
“You’re in the way.”
His usually kind face had completely transformed, showing a cold and hardened expression. Didi felt her heart being struck by this unfamiliar demeanor.
“Yurian… I don’t mind dying here…”
Didi, clutching her chest with tears welling up, went unnoticed by Yurian.
“Run, I said!”
Right now, the focus had to be on the monsters.
Can I handle them?
At most, I might manage two or three, but after that?
Will I be able to hold on until the others arrive?
And what about Shekina?
Is she dead?
Just like that?
Yurian clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.
There’s no time to think about that.
I have to kill the monsters, keep killing, and move forward. Even if it costs me my life. Thin gusts of wind began to flow from Yurian’s clenched fists.
“Yurian!”
Like an arrow being shot, Yurian sprang forward, and the monsters’ roars were directed at him.
But they didn’t collide. No, they couldn’t.
“Stoooop!”
A very familiar voice struck Yurian’s ears.
“…Shekina?”
Yurian stood still, dumbfounded, calling her name.
The scene in front of him was unbelievable.
More than ten monsters.
In the middle was a monster much larger than the others.
That enormous monster was holding Shekina protectively in its arms.
“What… is this…”
He was so dumbfounded and shocked that he couldn’t speak properly. But Yurian soon regained his composure.
Thanks to realizing that Shekina was a summoner.
“Hey! What are you? Can you control all these monsters? Did you summon them?”
Didi, who had followed, spoke. Shekina wiggled her fingers, and the monster gently set her down on the ground.
Shekina, with a bloated belly, grinned.
“Yeah. This powerful body has appeared!”
Monsters obey the strong.
Among the monsters in this snowy mountain, there was none stronger than the one Shekina had summoned.
So, even though she had summoned only one monster, she was able to control the others through it.
“These are all my minions! From Cookie No. 3 to No. 20!”
Yurian let out a chuckle at her confident attitude.
“Why did you summon monsters? What’s the problem?”
“It’s nothing much.”
Shekina wiggled her fingers again.
“I need to dig up this ground.”
“…What?”
“Yeah, I think I need to show this to the boss and talk.”
Earlier, when she saw the vision.
As soon as Shekina confirmed the ‘To be continued!’ message in the system window, she felt anger rising to the top of her head.
This damned system didn’t provide the most important information and delayed it. It seemed to want her to follow its will, dribbling out information bit by bit as she completed quests.
As a result, it had blocked the hole as soon as the vision ended and thrown Shekina back to the surface.
It felt like a silent pressure not to touch Lucifer’s corpse.
But Shekina had no intention of complying.
“Do you think I’ll do as you say?”
Shekina sneered and gestured to the monsters.
“Go, Cookies! Dig up the ground!”
The monsters, turned into excavators, started digging.
“Mwahahaha!”
A human using the enemy monsters?
That was Shekina.
