novel[13th Round] Operator vs. Developer
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"This rainbow slime is no ordinary being."
"Naturally!"
He was the greatest creation who made me who I was now!
"Well, he's not that great. Ahem. In general, he's known as Mollan. A friend gave him to me as a pet when I was a child. He looks like a slime, but he can create anything."
"Oh..."
I assumed so.
Thanks to Master Mollan, I was able to improve my body, so I wasn't surprised by that.
But that was beyond my expectations.
Was he able to create anything?
"Yes. Mollan can be considered a living philosopher's stone, but he hardly uses this power. If he is in danger, he doesn't try to cope independently but simply calls powerful friends. I don't know if you'd believe me or not, but many monstrous people have died because they mocked him."
"But most people ignore him anyway."
The teaching staff and dummies constantly ignored my teacher's strength.
"Just as your knowledge is limited to Earth and Fantasy, the teaching staff knows little about the world outside the school. Or I guess we can say they just don't care. Few people also know that they'll be paying for their life in exchange for bullying Mollan. He's basically like a supercomputer. Isn't that right, Mollan?"
"Mollan-Mollan!"
Master Mollan, nestling comfortably in Ssosia's chest, answered happily. I hated to admit it, but it seemed he liked it there.
"Well, Ssosia, are you going to use Master Mollan to destroy the Fantasy World?"𝘧r𝚎𝗲w𝘦𝚋𝗻o𝘷𝘦𝚕 - 🅽🅽novel
"There is nothing but chaos and destruction in your head... I just explained everything! He can create anything, but he requires blueprints of patterns for it."
"Do you have them?"
"No, " Ssosia shrugged.
"Are you joking now?"
"I'm not. My aunt took everything away from me. However, if Mollan has already made it, he can do it again from memory. You can do it, can't you, Mollan?"
"Mollan? Mollan-Mollan!"
Master Mollan muttered something from the evil demon's chest, and he really created something out of his body.
"A key?"
It was golden and could seemingly fit into any jewelry stash. Although it was small, its design was so clever that I could immediately tell it was unique and important.
She turned the key in front of me.
"Well, shall we begin?"
Before I could even blink, the environment around us changed.
***
"I'm glad to see you again, Creator-Goddess of Fantasy."
We were in the women's room.
And the alleged hostess, wearing only pajamas, greeted Ssosia with a smile on her face.
Black hair, black eyes, mean chest, cowardly face...
She looked like the demoness's younger version.
"You're right. I created her based on myself from my youth. I'm glad to see you again, Fantasy."
So her name was Fantasy.
That meant...
"Is she the Goddess known as the system's personification?"
"Yes. I am the "God of the Fantasy World, " whom you berate more than ten times a day." The girl answered.
I took a look at her status.
? Race: Space Demon
? Level: 999+
? Job: Supreme Judge (Creation = Law ↑)
? Skills: Divinity GGG, Dark Energy GGG, Creation GGG, Intelligence GGG, Immortality GGG...
? Status: Affiliation, Chronic Illness
She really was the real Goddess.
She had a lot of GGG-rank skills. Skills alone would never be enough to defeat her.
"Why do you only have warfare in your head, my dear husband? Players naturally can't defeat administrators. Ah! It would be best for you not to waste your time thinking that you can defeat her with something other than skills. She is the Goddess of this dimension, created by combining the powers of my father and my aunt. Her skills are limited to GGG simply because that's the system's limit."
"Hmm..."
I had been feeling a little sluggish in recent days, so I decided to call a truce for now.
"I told you to surrender... Anyway, I assumed no significant changes had been made since my aunt's betrayal, but I didn't expect the system wouldn't be updated at all."
"Look at my condition, Mistress. The being who dethroned you is nothing but a dreamer who happens to be in power. All she can do is give impractical orders, " She said without any emotion on her face, which made her look even more inhospitable.
"Where is she now?"
"She has set up a committee to prevent the war and spends almost every day in meetings with the higher-ups of the faculty. You're lucky. Because of cadet Kang Han Soo's inappropriate behavior, the teaching staff gave up and entrusted him to a trainee without any experience or knowledge. Otherwise, such a transfer of rights to the system wouldn't have been possible.
"Thank you, but I became a slave to this guy because of that."
"I'm really sorry, Mistress Fantasy, but there was no other way out."
The two continued to discuss me.
There were definitely problems in their educational program since they still didn't recognize a diligent student like me. Hadn't history already proved it?
Half of the representatives of the Five Great Disasters were the work of the First Hero.
All he did was sh*t and run away.
"We must act quickly while my aunt is still oblivious to this..."
"Please."
Ssosia put her hand on the system's forehead like a mother checking her baby's temperature.
"It's more serious than I thought. A lot of programs are malfunctioning now because of her mistakes. And it looks like... My dad's efforts? Oh! Yes, my foolish father is even better than my aunt! Or is this just because the system's a demon? He doesn't have any right to do so, but he messes around with this anyway. The dates are all fresh, too. Look here, my cowardly husband. What kind of deal did you make with my father?
"What deal?"
I had nothing to do with my father-in-law.
"According to the data, dad got into the system the same day he met you."
"Ah, at that time..."
That was when I was maxed out.
Demon Lord Pedonar was acting kind of strange back then.
He taught me, the Righteous Hero, the essence of Dark Energy, but didn't kill me. Instead, he committed hara-kiri.
So there was no deal between us.
"How is that possible? Don't lie to me!"
"About what?"
"Are you actually stupid? The Demon Lord's level is proportional to the Hero's level! That feature of his job was invented by my aunt, who didn't want him to be too strong or too weak.
"That seems to be the case, yes."
If I knew about that, I wouldn't have wasted ten years on the 1st round.
"Has my dad's level increased so much that he was able to influence the system... How did you do that?"
"Are you completely stupid? I killed the demons, just like what a hero should do."
I did it all by myself, too.
"Why alone?"
"Because I can."
I, the Hero, massacred their race alone, removing the need to sacrifice my companions or the possibility of civilian casualties.
The levels I gained were just a by-product.
"Now I understand why he called you his perfect son-in-law at every meeting. We need to act faster. Otherwise, he'll run away from Fantasy."
"So you really are a negligent daughter."
Was she going to catch her father on his way out of prison?
Even I was compassionate of my father-in-law, who gave me Dark Energy and experience points.
"Listen. If the center of this system, my father, escapes from this world, this entire dimension would collapse. It wouldn't crumble right away, but allocating one class per student using parallel dimensions will become difficult. Imagine that the size of our educational institution is 100% right now. If he leaves, it'll be less than 0. 01%. Regression itself will become impossible..."
"Well..."
I never liked that feature anyway.
Even at this very moment, my nurse was suffering from being killed endlessly.
While the heroes were looking at their fake-sweetheart Lanuvel's ass, the fallen nation's princess was captured and tortured by their enemy knights.
Over, and over, and over again...
Every time a hero returned due to regression, that was repeated.
"Um... That problem will be solved if I upgrade the system, so listen carefully. If my dad escapes from the Fantasy World, then a large-scale war will begin. Most of the graduates won't be able to resist his orders because of his status and skills. They'll be forced to join the Demon Lord's army.
"My senior will deal with this."
I already know because I died instead of the Demon Lord.
The First Hero was ready for the Demon Lord's escape.
It had already happened once.
History repeated itself.
"It would be great if that idiot can stop him, but there's nothing wrong with taking preventive and precautionary measures ahead of time. Okay! I've taken control of over 19% of the system. Dad only has 1% right now."
"Can't you take more?"
"I've already taken everything I could."
Someday we would know what he would do with that 1%.
But right now, I was interested in Ssosia's 19%.
"So, what can you do with it?"
"Anything except those involving meeting with my aunt or the faculty members. However, I advise you to be patient unless what's on your mind is something important. Taking all the rights will take time. Also, you better not get caught by my aunt."
Basically, there was nothing she could do.
"That's not true. Thank you so much for freeing me, Fantasy. Shall we go back?"
"I would like to apologize once more for entrusting your future to such a rude man."
"Everything is fine. I got used to him already."
"Mistress Fantasy ..."
"Stop looking at me like that already. I'm really fine."
They spoke of me as if I was just some bastard.
I didn't like this Goddess. They both kept getting on my nerves.
"Drug Hero, don't hate my niece so much. She's just ashamed of your excessive love."
"That is not true, auntie!"
"Heeheehee!"
The girl, who lost the "Chronic Illness" status, gracefully grabbed the hems of her pajamas and said goodbye.
"MAX-Class Brute Hero, please make Mistress Fantasy happy.
"You better watch your behavior."
"I'm just obeying the school rules."
We returned to the Dwarven Kingdom again as if nothing had happened.
***
"We're back—"
I had been in this dark and dreary place once before.
In the room, like mannequins, stood naked beautiful men and women. All of them had a collar around their necks that had their names, jobs, and ages. Towering over them was a guy sitting on a throne.
Glancing at us haughtily, he spoke.
"Welcome, my junior and my dear Ssosia."
It was the First Hero who wanted to start a war all to erase his dark past.
To be honest, it was somehow unusual that he invited us.
"What's this all about?"
"Do you really not know? While I watched the distortion of history take place, I discovered something interesting, and I couldn't leave it alone."
He seemed to be talking about Ssosia taking over some of the system's rights.
He said he wasn't going to pry anymore. Damned liar.
"Okay, let's skip that part. Honestly, I'm all for my close friend regaining all of her rights, but I'm worried about the Demon Lord's 1%. Ssosia, if there is a way to take that from him, then I will help."
"He's not there, " Ssosia replied simply.
"That's a shame. Then let's move on to the next matter at hand."
The elder rose from his throne. No, as soon as I thought that he had risen, he was already in front of me.
He was so fast that I didn't have time to react.
At that moment...
"Mollan."
His fist stopped before punching me in the stomach.
Frowning, he looked at Ssosia's vile chest in surprise.
"I definitely didn't call Mollan."
After that, Ssosia took Master Mollan out and embraced him with both arms.
"I knew you'd do that, so I took him with me."
"Mollan-Mollan!"
Master Mollan addressed the ruler of the entire galaxy as if instructing him that he should stop his insolence.
I no longer knew the limits of Master Mollan's capabilities either.
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