Hoarding in Hell Novel

"I'm the ninth?"

Was it also Lee Ji-tae, chosen instead of Red Butterfly?

Hyunmoo asked, looking embarrassed.

It was in the name of his father's memento that he received the hearthstone.

A memento of his father, whom he has never spoken to or seen since he was born.

He didn't even hear of this information when he interrogated the alliance's attorney, Robert Lee, who had handed over the hearthstone.

“Even so, Lee Ji-tae is a red butterfly?”

Naked Butterfly was only one of the pupils of the 'teacher' who had a dull impression.

Adam stared at Hyunmoo without a word.

"How about a red butterfly?"

“Lee Tae-ya is one of the strongest in the whole human race, in name and reality, and he has an impeccable personality, but Red Butterfly… he had talent, but his career was as short as mine?”

"Now you have the answer. Difficulty: You entered Hell, but your previous experience or level seemed to be important? You have grown to the point where you can see the stars equally in just one year?"

“……”

Adam was right.

Difficulty: Level, experience, equipment, skills, items, etc. were not important at all until they entered Hell.

Because it's all inferior to what's given in Difficulty: Hell.

There is only one thing that matters.

Can you survive in Hell or not?

Rather, you should have asked why Lee Ji-tae was nominated.

"And she was the enemy butterfly, and she was one of the heroes who fought for humanity to the end. She died at a young age before she was a Leviathan, but if she hadn't sacrificed her, humanity would have been wiped out sooner."

It was a fight that raised the enemy butterfly high, but did not think that her ending would be different. The time she went through must have been overwhelming.

“…the other eight are dead or crazy?”

"Yeah, but I don't know who came and went. It's all recorded on the hearthstone."

"Who was supposed to be here?"

Adam opened his mouth as if to explain, then shut it again.

Tiredness flashed across her face, but she soon let out her long sigh, she said.

"I guess I'll have to go back a little bit to explain this."

"Can't you just tell me?"

"Then you'll ask me why I made that choice again. I'll explain it in reverse chronological order. Then you and I will be confused. It would be better to just explain the flow of events in order."

Adam Fort said he had no choice but to show an blatant annoyance.

Adam Fort of this world seemed quite kind despite his bizarre appearance.

Difficulty: If it was a normal Adam Fort, it was clear that he would have come out with a unilateral response, saying, 'Why do I have to explain everything like that?'

It was not known whether her loneliness had changed her, or whether the things she had done with countless others during her apocalypse had changed her.

She said, 'I thought she was the pet that Maria Keller used to follow.'

Hyunmoo thought about it all of a sudden, but as he went crazy, he remembered the story Montstrille had told him.

As the situation turned desperate, Maria Keller left Chrome. And Adam Fort was left in a wasteland with only the command to 'protect mankind'.

Although her body was distorted and degenerated, she was still carrying out that order.

So where did Maria Keller go?

"I'll have to tell you about the person who made that hearthstone first."

"Who made the hearthstone?""Yes. The one who made the Hearthstone, and the creator of the Promise. The most intelligent man of mankind who decided to throw away an obsolete beast and adopt a new one. The one who broke the rules and established new rules on top of them."

Adam Fort let out a long sigh and said the name of a man.

"The Broken Star, Gaul's agent. That's Professor Maria Keller."

***

After a moment of silence, Adam opened his mouth.

"Before that, I know you were protecting the Whispering Star. Perhaps she cleverly mixed lies and truth. I don't like Whispering Stars, either, but I think they're better than others. She protects many human beings, Because I wanted to be loved by them."

"Ghaul said Montstril made the Star of the End."

"that's right."

Adam quietly stared at Hyunmoo and nodded his head.

"That's unforgivable, but it's not something I can blame. Difficulty: It was about the second half of the difficulty. The Leviathan turned 60% of the sea into a salt desert, and nuclear war broke out. Already at that point. Since then, Professor Keller's plan to 'repress the war with great force so that it does not start' has been completely unsuccessful."

Adam looked down at his hand and said.

Adam was the 'strong deterrence of war' developed by Maria Keller. However, her power was insufficient to deter the war, and she failed repeatedly.

What her failed weapon might think of herself, Hyunmoo didn't know.

"Professor Keller felt that a different approach was needed. A clever way to turn things around completely. She left Chrome because she found it difficult to implement such a plan while protecting people in Chrome. But... Professor. But I didn't think of it that way."

Chrome, abandoned by Maria Keller.

But there were too many talented and talented people to perish helplessly just because Maria Keller left.

And there was enough madness and desperation.

"At that time, people were using all possible means to turn the situation around. There were a lot of crazy things. There was even a plan to train me as a clone. At that time, the whispering star... So Seo-yeon Lee learned new information."

Adam Fort clenched his hand and spread his hand out.

"About the Star of the End."

Hyunmoo bowed her head and listened. The sound of stones crumbling around Adam Fort was like the sound of a burning wood fire."It was a story that there was still a powerful star that had never been seen before. A star strong enough to swallow up and wipe out other stars. A star that surpassed Adam Folt, surpassed Adam Fult."

She smirked and rolled her eyes down.

"I was educated and raised as a weapon. If I could make another such powerful weapon, my burden would be greatly reduced, and I thought that Professor Keller's plan might succeed. Of course I would be useless, but I hope that Professor Keller's plan will be recognized and successful. I thought it wouldn't matter."

So she agreed to the birth of an apocalyptic star.

Seo-yeon Lee didn't say where she got the information or how she found out about it.

She simply carried out her plans with persistence and consistency.

They choose one person from their group and drive them into the most depressing and miserable situation.

"...but I can't positively describe what she did, even if I try to think positively. Those were things I didn't want to go into in detail. I didn't want to intervene, and Seoyeon Lee said it was enough to just ignore me."

"Hmm."

"The Whispering Star is not the only emotion elicited by love and affection. It can elicit hate, melancholy and all sorts of dark emotions. But, despite her efforts, few have sprouted. Usually, when she falls into that despair, she commits suicide. Either that or I gave up and entrusted myself to another star. But…”

Adam Fort looked at Hyunmoo and said.

"Only one person had the potential to become the doomsday star. It was Kang Hyunmoo."

Hyunmoo grinned.

It was the first time I had heard definitively that Kang Hyunmoo of this world was the star of the end. However, it felt more strange to speak in front of the other person as if referring to a third person.

Even though those three were subjected to harsh emotional and physical experiments.

"Actually, this result was surprising. Seo-yeon Lee had no intention of making Kang Hyunmoo the star of the end. Actually, Kang Hyunmoo was a person who had nothing to do with her experiments. I don't know what drove Kang Hyunmoo. As far as I can see, we have no choice but to continue the experiment. But, as you know…”

Adam Fort looked up at the sky.

terribly red sky. A swarm of insects filled the sky and unidentified beasts beyond the horizon.

A poisonous atmosphere and maddening monsters that non-humans cannot survive.

Now this world was showing the results of that experiment.

"...we created a beast that was too strong. Countless starlights were extinguished by that beast. It was then that Professor Keller returned. She too was amazed at the results we had created. Professor Keller, who returned as an agent of the losing star, killed Seo-yeon Lee as soon as he returned. No, I thought so."

Adam Fort licked dry lips and opened them.

"At that time, it was already a Difficulty: Nightmare. We were preparing to die in the hell we had created. But Professor Keller suggested a solution that she came up with while acting as a proxy, rather than being destroyed. to all agents, apostles, and households with

A piece of stone floated in the air. The stone shards were precisely cut in two and then crumbled.

"Before the human race perishes, we must separate this world."

"separation?"

At Hyunmoo's question, Adam nodded his head.

"Yeah. The rotted parts have to be cut off before they can moth out the rest. Of course, this was a whole different story, but that's why Maria Keller left Chrome in the first place. Returning to a world that was still intact at a certain time. "

It was the so-called regression.

"Is that possible?"

"At least it was impossible with the power of a breaking star. It required a lot of strength, a lot of sacrifice, and a lot of tears. But Professor Keller's method not only reclaims this world, but also saves the many people who have died so far and restores their original lives. It gave people hope that they might be able to regain."

Time reversal is a deceptive method used in many creations.

It is a very effective method used by creators who have pushed the story to a terrible situation without an answer to bring out a happy ending without much thought.

Of course, for the villains who have fought hard for destruction up to that point, it is not enough to say that it is very lethal.

Anyway, if possible, it had to be the only hope for mankind.

"At the sacrifice, effort, or tacit consent of many stars, Professor Keller eventually succeeded. Unlike the artificially created apocalyptic stars, artificially created stars of hope. He created the only star that could save mankind."

Adam Fort said, lifting Hyunmoo's hearthstone again.

"The name of this hearthstone is 'The Star Who Turned Back'."

She turned and looked into Hyunmoo's eyes.

"Professor Keller has created the star itself, which has been created by blending the powers of numerous agents and apostles, and condensing all the powers to the extreme."

***

After a long silence, Hyunmoo spoke again.

"There are a few things I still don't understand, but I don't think it will be enough even after 24 hours of asking them all. So, let me ask you one important point. So, if Maria Keller made this hearthstone... was it Maria Keller who used it? ?"

"No. It chose one of us. A strong person who has no flaws in his personality and who can steadily devote himself to his goal even if he returns to the past."

"Well, maybe me..."

"It was Lee Ji-tae from this world. Do your best to be blatant."

Before Hyunmoo could even speak, Adam cut off his horse and went in.

Hyunmoo looked surprised to hear that Lee Ji-tae had used a hearthstone.

Listening to the story so far, there is a high probability that the 'teacher' of the alliance was the user of the first hearthstone.

'If that's Difficulty: Hell's Lee Ji-tae, who was that skeleton in the gym?'

Both the form and the deeds of the record resembled Lee Ji-tae. But Adam's answer only confuses Hyunmoo.

"After Lee Ji-tae used the Hearthstone, the good news came. The apocalypse was not going any further."

Adam continued his speech calmly.

"The end of the apocalypse gave hope and gave the other stars a chance to honor their promises, because there was a fear that if they were broken, the apocalypse might begin again."

“Did Lee Ji-tae do a good job?”

"Well... one of Lee Ji-tae's missions was to train talented people to become saviors by training them in Difficulty: Hell. Because there may be talents with more potential than Lee Ji-tae who has already grown enough. Difficulty: Hell and Difficulty: Tutorial I believed that this hell could be saved if we went back and forth and collected star fragments."

The apocalypse has stopped, and if all other stars are conquered, it will be possible to create a paradise even on the remaining lands.

But it hasn't changed here.

It was only changed so that fast death came slowly.

“Is there anything else that Lee Ji-tae has changed?”

“No, but… when it was deemed impossible to continue his mission due to unavoidable reasons, he was supposed to select a successor and pass on the Hearthstone. Heir has changed eight times, including you, so it must not have been an easy task.”

“Wait, then all the previous owners said they either committed suicide or went crazy. So, didn’t Lee Ji-tae do that too?”"No. Lee Ji-tae is the manager of the hearthstone. Even if he goes crazy, he is not the type of person to commit suicide. Seeing that the hearthstone is being maintained consistently, it seems that someone who understands and knows the hearthstone is still looking for a successor. The only person who can do that is Lee Ji-tae. I can't remember. No, wait..."

Then Adam Fort pondered something.

"It's kind of strange. I think there's a problem with you, who wasn't even in the nominations according to the order of course."

"You said I wasn't even nominated?"

"Of course, the heir must be someone who has no flaws in his personality and has a strong will. But you are not one of them. I don't know if he has a strong will or a strong resentment."

"Then who is there?"

Then Adam slowly recited the list.

"Not to mention personality, those with too famous or important positions were excluded from the nominations as much as possible. Failure to do so could mean negating the possibility of the world's survival."

The list Adam mentioned included names that Hyunmoo knew and others he had never heard of.

There were even Yumin and Priest John. Surprisingly, there was no Adam Fort.

She didn't seem particularly proud of that fact.

However, as she went back, the names of famous powerful men were mentioned. Hyunmoo laughed lightly.

“No matter how considerate you are, it seems that salvation here is more desperate than that.”

Anyway, Hyunmoo heard these terms and thought of the alliance.

And he seemed to understand why the alliance was obsessed with the humanity of the 'saviour'.

It was not likely that all of the allies knew about the Hearthstone. But it was clear that he at least knew who the teacher was.

He was constantly weighing whether or not he was suitable as the heir to the hearthstone.

'I think I can understand why they always talk about the best future like their habit.'

After all, they are the ones who have been contaminated by Maria Keller's ideas.

Pruning the future.

"It's very interesting to know how the world has fallen."

"I see. It's fun."

Adam Fort laughed bitterly and muttered.

"There are a lot of things that we haven't talked about. There must be a lot of things that haven't been explained."

"It's not necessary."

In the end, the story ultimately needed for the future in Adam Fort's story is the identity of the presumed teacher.

And he was about the reason he created the hearthstone.

It was enough to write down small settings in a paranoid patient's notebook.

When Adam Fort finished her long story, she let out a long sigh of relief.

"I had no one to confide in with this story. It seems that a long mission has been completed. Now I have no humanity to protect or promises to keep... I think I will be able to sleep well after a long time."

"Are you sleeping?"

"Yeah. I can't even remember how many years ago I slept. Now..."

Adam quietly nodded his head and narrowed his eyes. This time, I thought I could rest for a long time.

But at that moment, Hyunmoo suddenly reached out. With a crackling sound, Adam's power engulfed Hyunmoo's arm and broke his arm in a mess.

Adam hurriedly gave up his strength as his spirit flashed.

"What are you doing! Do you want to die!"

"Who wants to sleep?"

Hyunmoo responded by rubbing his broken arm to shape it. Adam contorted his face and said.

"I've been on a long, long mission for a long time. I'm exhausted now. I've barely finished the mission, but I've made time for you. So I'm going to take a break now, do you still have any questions?"

"Not that."

Hyunmoo said with a smile.

"I am still human. I am the last human being. You are the dog that protects mankind. Dogs should obey their new masters like dogs?"

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