The Final Boss Has Returned Chapter 108
‘Unstable?’
A dimensional gate is just a gate, so what the hell is an unstable gate supposed to mean!
In the very moment I was thinking that.
Rip!
The air began to tear, and soon a pitch-black fissure revealed itself.
[The Unstable Dimensional Gate activates.]
The moment I checked that ominous notification that popped up again, the Unstable Dimensional Gate began to exert tremendous suction.
A terrifying suction, like a vacuum cleaner—no, like a black hole!
In the sudden situation, I struggled with all my might to keep my feet on the ground, but it was a meaningless struggle, like dust being sucked into a cordless vacuum.
[Wait, what?]
[Awkward;;]
[No lol what? What is this?]
[What the hell is happening right now?]
[I don't know either lol]
The chat window, where the mood turned sour in an instant!
But the chat wasn't important right now.
“What is this!”
I flailed desperately to avoid being sucked into the fissure, but a single line of notification that popped up before my eyes made me give up.
[You cannot resist the suction of the Unstable Dimensional Gate.]
Cannot resist!
Looking at that scene where the notification window officially stated that resistance was impossible, I stopped struggling and surrendered my body to the flow.
Whoosh.
My body floated up, and soon I saw the ominous dimensional gate dyed in black.
I turned my gaze.
Beside me was Yujin.
“Lord Drakan, what in the world is going on?”
Yujin!
The guy called a Top Ranker seemed unable to resist the suction of the Unstable Dimensional Gate either.
There was something funny about the sight of him, so I let out a hollow laugh and spoke.
“I think it’s because of a quest I received…….”
[OMG a quest?]
[Was Drakan doing another quest?]
[What? Is this gonna be fun?]
[No lol I thought the stream was ending and was about to turn it off, ah lol now I have no choice but to keep watching lol]
[This is exciting lol twist after twist lol]
The moment I threw the bait called ‘quest,’ the users in the chat window bit down on it hard.
“Did you say a quest?”
Of course, it wasn’t just the viewers who bit the bait.
Yujin also took my bait and questioned my words about a quest.
In that very moment.
The Unstable Dimensional Gate greedily devoured Yujin, me, and my summons—the Vampire King and Lich Dice.
* * *
Unstable Dimensional Gate!
The sensation of passing through the tunnel beyond that gate was more dizzying than terrible.
Free fall!
It felt like endlessly falling from a great height.
The surrounding scenery was bizarre.
Beyond the tunnel walls where semi-transparent energy swirled, stars embedded in a dark blue space twinkled faintly.
It was space.
That’s right. Space. The universe, that kind of space.
Out of nowhere, space!
I was utterly dumbfounded.
[OMG look at that scenery, insane lol]
[Wow we’re going to space lol universe lol]
[No but how far are we going lol]
[I came here because I heard this stream was hot.]
[Welcome. Yujin and Drakan are currently holding hands like besties and flying into space. Please take note.]
[I heard about it and came to see, and they’re really flying into space. Crazy lol this stream is out of this world lol]
The number of livestream viewers was literally exploding exponentially.
Yujin!
Because strange rumors had quickly spread that he and I had finished a dungeon raid, only to be suddenly sucked into a gate and flying through space.
Thanks to that, the viewer count kept increasing, and donations kept pouring in.
[‘SpaceIsUniverseInEnglish’ has donated 1,000,000 KRW.]
[‘space_odyssey’ has donated 30,000 USD.]
[‘Planetus’ has donated 700,000 KRW.]
[‘LordDrakanIsGoingToSpace’ has donated 300,000 KRW.]
Donations endlessly exploding at a sight never seen before!
But I couldn’t purely rejoice at those donations.
‘Damn it.’
I already knew that I was currently moving to another dimension, another world—not Ard World.
Seeing as this gate had opened because the quest item, the Corrupted Moonlight Stone Necklace, had reacted, it was clear that what awaited at the end of this tunnel was the other world where the Lycanthrope clan had fled to.
But to think the quest would forcefully send me to another world like this without so much as a word!
It really couldn’t be anything other than a shitty quest.
‘If I were going to an unknown other world after thorough preparation, that would be one thing, but this isn’t even that!’
Above all, information was lacking.
According to my original plan, I should have gathered prior information about the other world, and after all preparations were perfectly complete, headed to the other world with Jeil E&M’s named users including Ignis, who listens to me well, and Shin Hayeon.
But to think the quest line would be like this. I couldn’t have imagined it.
For someone like me who preferred clearing quests through thorough preparation rather than adventure, this was truly nothing short of a bolt from the blue!
‘The only fortunate thing is that I’m going with my summons and Yujin……’
I looked at Yujin, the Vampire King, and Dice, who were passing through the tunnel beside me.
That bastard Yujin was my enemy, but ironically, he was also the strongest user in Ard Saga Second, a Top Ranker acknowledged by all.
If I could make good use of him, perhaps I could clear the quest easily.
I turned my vision.
A bright light source that looked like an exit far in the distance came into view.
[The Dark Demon God %$%$@#%$#$324]
[@#$%@$^%@$@#$@$$$#@$.]
A notification message sent by the Dark Demon God distorting before my eyes was captured.
Having played Ard Saga for a long time, this was the first time I had seen a status window or notification window spew out errors.
‘It must be because the other world is getting closer.’
Watching that scene, I instinctively realized.
The other world!
That the unknown world was approaching.
The Transcendents of the Myriad God War and Demon Subjugation War were surely great, but they were existences based in the world called ‘Ard World’ after all!
I figured that since their influence couldn’t reach another world, the notification messages were being presented distorting like this.
‘Anyway, it really is an unnecessarily detailed game. To this extent……?’
I grumbled at the Ard Saga development team while keeping my eyes on the front.
In that very moment.
The light that had been twinkling in the distance seemed to approach in an instant, and soon, along with a sensation of my whole body churning, the exit swallowed me.
* * *
[You have discovered Broken World.]
[First Discovery Bonus!]
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
[All stats have increased by 450.]
[Fame has increased by 1,342,330.]
[Broken World is a fallen and corrupted world ruled by Hive Mind, the Lord of Conquest, one of the four lords who are faithful subordinates of the Overlord, ruler of Gehenna.]
[Broken World was originally a world overflowing with life force, but it was occupied by Hive Mind, who carried out an invasion under the orders of the Overlord—ruler of Gehenna, master of the Four Great Lords, and lord among lords.]
[A world that lost its life force was dyed entirely in dreary gray, countless creatures died, and the world was contaminated by Hive Mind’s erosion.]
[His army led by the Lord of Conquest is at the vanguard of Gehenna, invading countless worlds, and Ard World is also one of such worlds.]
[Ard Saga Second Phase 1 ‘Return of the Outsider’ has ended.]
[Ard Saga Second Phase 2 ‘Broken World’ begins.]
At the end of passing through the tunnel, the place where I, Yujin, and my summons arrived was the other world called Broken World.
True to the description of being desolate, the ground was cracked open, the surroundings were wasteland, and the sky was covered thickly with dark clouds.
Rumble!
From the dark clouds thick enough to obscure the sky, thunder echoed emptily.
But what was important now wasn’t such an environment.
[Wow space lol we passed through lol]
[What? We came to another world?]
[Seems like it, another world lol]
[Wait, phase? What is this? It just said Phase 2 started?]
[Broken World?]
[OMG what? Is this real? There were phases?]
[What’s going on right now?]
To the extent that the chat window, which had been jokingly laughing until now, changed tone completely, what I had just opened was enormous.
It wasn’t on the level of simply unlocking a new race or new class.
The main story!
At that, I had advanced a whole chapter of Ard Saga Second’s entire main story.
‘Phase.’
This was a system never seen even in the previous game.
And even now, two years after Second’s release, I had discovered a hidden piece that no one had known about.
And through my long experience as a veteran gamer, I inferred the meaning that Phase held.
It didn’t simply mean that Ard Saga Second’s main story had taken a step forward.
‘Does this mean…… an ending exists in Ard Saga Second?’
An ending!
I had already come across, through the news and such, the fact that there had been such a thing in the previous game.
And I also remembered very well that Yujin had received an astronomical amount of money—ten billion won—as a prize for seeing the previous game’s ending, because my stomach had hurt especially when I came across that news.
And now that the existence of Phases had been revealed, the possibility that an ‘ending’ also existed in Second had skyrocketed exponentially.
‘An ending……’
Whether there was an ending, like in the previous game, had been a topic of conflicting opinions even among Ard Saga Second players.
Some claimed there would be no ending, and others claimed there would be.
But with the appearance of Phases, the ending controversy would be settled.
That was only natural, as it was virtually an official acknowledgment that a ‘main story’ piercing through the entire game existed, even more blatantly than in the previous game!
The important information wasn’t just that.
The truth behind the Great Upheaval!
Their identities had finally been revealed in Broken World’s information description.
‘Gehenna.’
Gehenna.
It was now certain that this unidentified force, using a word that metaphorically means hell as its name, was the mastermind behind the Great Upheaval.
And this other world we were in, Broken World, was a world ruled by the one called ‘Lord of Conquest’ among those Gehenna bastards.
‘Unclean Ones, so those tentacle monsters must be subordinates of that Lord of Conquest.’
I began quickly organizing the information I had gathered so far in my head.
“Lord Drakan.”
Right at that moment.
Yujin spoke to me.
“What is it?”
“Enemies are coming from over there.”
Yujin said so and pointed east with his finger, and I turned my gaze toward where Yujin’s finger pointed.
And there, monsters were flooding in with such tremendous numbers that they appeared pitch-black.