Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha

# 314

314. Remnants of fire (4)

The world does not go according to one’s own thoughts.

Siris Argentheim knew that all too well.

In the past, he rushed at the enemy to avenge his father, but was unable to inflict a single wound.

This is Siris’ first failure. If you pull out your sword with just the simple desire to do it, you will fall from the horse in nine out of ten.

‘There must be a proper plan.’

Just like Niflheim’s Master Loki did.

Final goal and feasibility It was necessary to thoroughly verify the means.

After the meeting in the garden, the 13th floor members decided to take a break.

Party 1 hasn’t come together for a long time.

I had to recover the old sense and help the new member adapt to the party.

While Yurnet was looking for information and writing plans, Siris was busy going back and forth between the training ground and office.

One evening after a week like that.

Siris was heading to the tactics center after tidying up her clothes.

The basic plan and tactical guidelines were to be decided today at the tactical post.

A sketch was drawn to save the master.

clap.

Siris grabbed Levatein’s scabbard.

The main gate of the tactics center with a black sheep engraved on it was in front of me.

Since it was a private meeting, other executives except for the 1st party members were not invited.

“You’re here. You’re late.”

As she entered, Lydigion, who was sitting to the right of the Round Table, smiled at her.

The members of the 1st party had already gathered in the tactical center. From Eunet and Lidigion Nihaku to Aaron, who will succeed Muden.

“Everyone is gathered.”

Siris walked to the center.

The tactical post used to be used by Loki when deciding on a strategy before starting a mission.

Kind of like a briefing room. In the middle of the large room, there was a round table to explain the outline of the operation.

“The preparations are complete.”

Yurnet bowed her head to Siris.

Siris sat in the seat of honor with a calm mind.

“For a week, we must have spent meaningful time with each other. Trust me we didn’t waste it in vain.”

“Of course.”

“yep!”

“The preparations… are complete.”

Then, Siris’ gaze reached Yurnet.

Yurnet cleared her throat a couple of times before opening her mouth.

“First, let’s make our goals clear. I don’t think it’s necessary to say this.”

“Isn’t it to save your brother?”

“Hyung-nim. To us, he must be the Master. Anyway, that’s right. The ultimate goal of this operation… is to save the Master.”

Yurnet continued.

“First of all, the primary goal is to recover the Master’s memories.”

Yurnet waved her right hand, and a hologram picture appeared on the round table.

In the picture, a man wearing a fur cape was walking down a modern street.

It was a picture of Loki taken on Server 1’s CCTV.

“The Master has suffered personality damage and amnesia as a side effect of oversynthesis. At this point in his symptoms, he won’t even recognize us. He’ll be fighting fragments without any sense of self within the confines.”

“Have you no self-consciousness?”

Ridigion tapped the round table with his right hand.

“This is Earth terminology, but a master is now similar to a ‘program’. It’s more like a machine that only works according to its programmed settings. It indiscriminately removes and absorbs nearby enemies. It won’t sleep, eat, or think.”

“Is it a thoughtless machine?”

“Yes. That’s the Master’s current situation. If he encounters us, he will most likely judge us as an enemy and attack us.”

Yurnet bit her lip in resentment.

However, the feeling quickly subsided and she regained her usual cool.

“There are three major requirements for the operation. First, how to get to the Master. Second, how to regain the Master’s humanity. Third, how to get rid of the burden the Master is carrying. As you all know, it’s not easy at all. .”

“I don’t know about the second and third, but isn’t it easy to go to the master?

“The road to get there is not that easy.”

Yurnet shook her head at Nihaku.

Subsequently, a wave of magic power occurred on the round table, creating a small miniature hologram.

Tall buildings and various buildings.

‘…here is.’

Siris frowned.

I’ve seen it before when I met Alpha Zero.

Eden, the city that is the center of Server 1 and where Mobius headquarters is located.

Illusion magic imitated the scenery of the city.

“What about Server 1? Is there a problem?”

“There are significant problems.”

Yurnet moved her hand once more.

Fog enveloped the miniature city and the landscape began to change.

What appeared before long was…

a ‘destroyed city.’

Half of the city, which was a clean circular city, suddenly disappeared.

The straight buildings and roads were rusting and collapsing, making it impossible to recognize their shapes, and all over the streets, things wriggling and floating in dark red fog were floating.

“what.”

“Shortly after the collapse of the headquarters and the reorganization of the borders, a great change occurred in Eden, where the inhabitants disappeared.”

Yurnet pointed with her baton in the middle of the road.

There was an unidentified black hole there.

“The Moebius experiment objects that were underground in the city, so-called ‘Fairy Land’, all at once came out to the ground and began to run amok.”

“What is a test subject?”

“They were researched by the company. Synthetic creatures of heroes and monsters. Clones of 7-star heroes. Legendary species from each world they were imprisoned in. It’s hard to list them all. They are far more ferocious and powerful than normal monsters. More than a thousand. Two or three times as many if you include the hidden ones.”

“The reason they ran out of control…”

“It’s a pollution cloud.”

Siris replied.

The city model floating on the round table was a false but realistic illusion.

Siris knew the identity of that cloud that was wrapping around the city. I’ve encountered it a few times on missions. There was also a time when I directly broke through when carrying out a mission of high difficulty.

“The reason the clouds were created is probably the effect of the barriers built nearby.”

Yurnet’s baton pointed towards the center of the city.

At the tip of the baton, a huge jet-black wall was built.

It was a barrier that the Master spread to block the boundary and Mobius.

“As a result of analyzing the wall’s data, the space-time inside the boundary was distorted to a degree that I couldn’t calculate. The aftermath rippled through the nearby server 1.”

“This means that the space on server 1 itself has been polluted.”

“That’s right.”

“It’s bothering me.”

Lydigion clicked his tongue in displeasure.

Siris also realized what this situation meant.

“A massive infiltration would be impossible.”

“Only a handful of heroes with resistance to contamination will be able to enter.”

Inability to properly use fleets or reinforcements.

Also, if Moebius’ test subjects ran rampant, they would never stand by and watch the stranger invading their territory. Siris nodded.

‘This is… the first reason Amkena is needed.’

If you use the master’s interference power, you can temporarily neutralize the clouds.

“This plan will be carried out with a small number of elites. A special airship capable of high-speed breakthrough and self-defence, Sleipnir, will be selected for the operation.”

“Speaking of a small number of elites… how many are there?”

“It’s just us. The other heroes aren’t resistant to contamination.”

Siris answered Aaron’s question.

“Five people.”

“Why, don’t you have confidence? Junior, little brother doesn’t slump like this!”

“No, just.”

Aaron smiled bitterly.

Nihaku had been calling Aaron ‘junior’ after he joined the party.

“Okay. Can we break through 1 server by ourselves and arrive at the place where my brother is?”

“As I said beforehand, it is impossible to break through the master’s dimensional barrier with physical or magical power. Your up attribute is indispensable to open the way.”

“…”

“Let’s go next.”

Yurnet changed the topic and continued her explanation.

“This is the second challenge. How do you get the master’s humanity back?”

be human

It was a word that was difficult to define.

‘The price for jumping over.’

With great power comes appropriate risks.

Loki lost all of his memories and self as a reaction to his mighty power.

‘Return the master to its original state.’

Even if you want to talk, it’s useless if you can’t communicate.

Above all, the Master in his current state is no different from a corpse.

What Siris feared had become a reality.

“This is probably the most important thing. Let’s say you go inside the boundary and meet the Master. How do you get the Master back?”

Lydegion said in a cool voice.

Yurnet took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

“Master…”

“Master?”

“You have to kill it once.”

“Kill.”

Lydigion’s eyes narrowed.

Yurnet flapped the hem of her robe and pulled out a dagger from her wide sleeve.

“The name of this dagger is Mistel. It is a magic vaccine that I made myself.”

“…”

“The Master has forgotten his memory, not lost. Because he accepted too much data, he put on a safety device to protect his personality. If you insert this dagger into the Master’s heart, the core of his data, then the locked Master ‘s personality can be summoned temporarily.”

“Even temporarily?”

“It won’t last long. We’ll have to put an end to it.”

Yurnet stared at Siris.

“I’m going to make another contract with the master.”

Siris said.

“As you all know, the Master and the Hero are inextricably linked. The reason why we were summoned here, the reason why the waiting room was created, and why we were able to become stronger while carrying out our missions is because the Master played this game.”

He could also be called the creator.

If Master hadn’t installed the game, Siris wouldn’t have opened her eyes.

Master and Hero was also the reason why the game Pick Me Up was created.

‘We are connected.’

Just like the 13th floor members instinctively noticed when Loki fell into Mobius.

then.

“It makes a deeper connection.”

“…”

“The cost the Master is bearing is to be shared among the five of us.”

The three faces became blank.

‘It must be hard to understand.’

It was because Sizel described it as an absurd story.

‘Infinite cup.’

A special constitution that only Loki has.

It is to share the property of being able to continue synthesis indefinitely with your heroes.

It was possible for the current Master who had surpassed even the Divine Power.

“Whether the operation succeeds or fails, I will not return here. I will bury the bones with Master.”

“Did you say you were going to bury the bones?”

“We continue the fight by the master’s side. Until he is victorious.”

“That’s…”

“I also think these conditions are harsh. I don’t know when the war will end. Thousands, tens of thousands of years, maybe even more. But this is the only way to save the Master.”

To be by the Master’s side.

To constantly remind him of his existence so that he will never be forgotten.

‘Alone in a place where no one is.’

No one will be able to stand it. They

will eventually let themselves go.

But if there are two of them, if there are three, four, or five,

the

fear will be less than half

.

Siris couldn’t refute it,

since he wasn’t wrong.

“You can maintain your personality through a bond? Isn’t it a story that can only come out of a novel? Even if it were possible, I couldn’t keep going like that.”

“If we’re with the Master, our time will rot and overflow.”

Yurnet’s eyes sank.

“There must be another way. But it takes time. Until then, until we lose ourselves… I will find out. Even if I risk my all.”

“You mean to believe in you and throw yourself into the unknown?” ”

Yes.”

Siris did not hesitate.

Clap . Lidegion placed the attitude bag on the round table.

Let’s proceed.”

“I wonder if we all fight together with Master. That sounds like fun.”

Everyone’s eyes turned to one of them.

A young man with a hard expression, eyes

closed. Aaron Nidelk’s mouth opened.

“Sorry for going off topic, but can I add a comment?”

Aaron rolled his eyes . “You said earlier that you had to kill your brother once, but now you are…”

”

You mean incredibly strong?”

Siris answered

. My brother has already absorbed all of the divinity that was in Moebius. I can’t even imagine where it has reached now. I’m ready to fight, but I think the odds should come first.” ”

Certainly, the rookie’s words are not wrong.”

Ridigion nodded.

“The Master has surpassed the realm of divinity. Even if we all come together, I don’t know if we’ll stand a chance.”

“The level of contamination inside the border is beyond imagination. The only one who can survive inside is Siris, who has the imprint of Pama. Our role is to clear the way for Siris.”

“You mean you’re dealing with the Master alone?”

Everyone’s eyes focused on Siris.

Siris closed her eyes. She knew how Loki was now.

He absorbed dozens of gods and countless fragments and monsters.

By now, his power would have far exceeded its limits.

‘This is why Sizel said it was impossible.’

Siris opened her eyes,

“Do you have any other plans, Yurnet? More likely…”

“The strategy will not change. This is the only way to save the Master. I rush in alone and deal with the Master.”

“…Reckless.”

Ridigion’s eyes grew cold

.

Losing his ego, he doesn’t recognize Siris.

As soon as he encounters him, he will rush to kill him.

After defeating such a master, he must put a knife through his heart.

Incredibly difficult.

If it was before he left Niflheim.

Before Loki fell here. If it were her, she might have found another way.

‘But.’ She

wasn’t just playing around. She wandered

all

over Moebius and finally was able to fully inherit the myth that had been handed down in Niflheim.

“If you don’t have confidence

.

” didn’t either.”