Chapter 107 - What Happens If The Main Character Dies?
[9th Round] What Happens If The Main Character Dies?
âMr Hero. Shall we bury Sieg like this?â The First Spirit asked me with a smile on her face .
Sieg wasnât dead yet. But it wouldnât have been a problem if I killed him, similar to when alumnus A provoked Ice Princess and ended up being frozen in the past. The world kept going on, just as it was before.
Hero and the Demon King.
To check if the world of Fantasia would keep on going even though this structure was broken, even âHero Kang Han Sooâ should disappear neatly. It was also hard to check in the past. Whether the world where Iâm dead keeps existing or gets destroyed, whatâs the point?
But now?
There was a way to check without dying.
I activated Blackbox.
Hero â Demon King (Heroâ levelâ)
Ever since the time I became the Demon King on earth, it was set so that my job changed from Hero to Demon King if I turned on Blackbox. And it changed back to Hero if I turned off Blackbox. This way I could experiment without having to die.
Except,
Pajijijijik-!
Divinity Z and Demonic Energy Z, the two transcendental skills couldnât help but collide. Friction happened as I was no longer the species âChaos Humanâ, which helped me master all elements. My body would be damaged if I allowed this to go on.
âThen I have to take action.â
I received ânatureâs protectionâ as a species characteristic. So I could use the law of nature as much as I wanted.
Divinity and Demonic Energy.
After thinking that I was condensing the two conflicting powers like a pair of round balls in an imaginary space, I put a central axis, which was âmeâ, between them.
The two conflicting powers had tried to tug me towards them, that was why they kept butting heads. But it was different this time as Divinity and Demonic Energy were in equilibrium since they offset each other, just like how stars and planets in the universe maintained a constant distance with the balance of centrifugal force and gravity.
But it wasnât enough with just this.
Because by balancing each other it meant that they got weakened by the resulting power neutralization, so I added another variable.
Wasnât it too empty now with only two planets around âmeâ, acting as the sun?
Elements, assemble!
Land, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart!
They were smaller than the two transcendental powers, but these things played a role in intervening with the collision of light (Divinity) and darkness (Demonic Energy), like a sponge or spring absorbing the impacts.
âThis looks kinda cool.â
A microcosm was formed in my body. Land, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart, Light, Darkness. The 7 elements were in harmony and balance.
I didnât know how I would grow or evolve in the future, but it would progress slowly like a real universe if nothing major happened.
Anyways, Iâve taken care of the most urgent problem. The real experiment started now.
âLetâs find out the connection between species and job~â
This would be an important guideline for my future activities.
There were 3 hypotheses I thought of after seeing the amount of EXP that I got as I fully absorbed Sylviaâs EXP and knocked down Siegâs elite unit.
Hypothesis 1) 5+95=100
Addition operation.
The hypothesis was that if we assumed the common EXP obtaining rate was 1% of total available exp, the Heroâs privilege was getting 5% of the total exp, and the natural human characteristic preserved and absorbed the rest 95% to make up 100% in total.
Then I wouldnât have to stick to being a hero.
On the other side,
Hypothesis 2) 5*20=100
What if it was a multiplication operation?
Heroâs privilege boosted ordinary EXP to be 5 times higher. This was a calculation method where the natural human species characteristic boosted the absorbed exp by 20 times to result in getting 100 times higher exp than a normal job.
If that was the case, I couldnât give up being a hero.
The last one,
Hypothesis 3) (100 exp out of 100 exp) âȘ (5 exp out of 100 exp)=100 exp
A union.
The total amount of EXP the target had couldnât exceed 100%. Therefore, this was a hypothesis that the hero privilege wouldnât be able to have an effect at all because of the natural human species characteristic which absorbed all of the 100%.
If this was the case, then the job Hero was just trash for me. Except when fighting against the Demon King.
âI just wish itâs not a multiplication operation.â
There wasnât any big difference between 95% in hypothesis 1 and 100% in hypothesis 3. If any of the two hypotheses was right I could boldly throw away Hero.
And there was a way to check this right away.
By receiving EXP.
âSieg! Iâll invite you to a great experiment!â
Because my level went up, the small amount of exp from low level creatures was unnoticeable.
So I decided to get the friend from my home planet who was sprawled out on the ground to join me.
Friends should live while helping each other!
âKoorghk-?! Ka, Kang Han Soo -!! N-NOO-âŠâ
The Holy Sword Nucleon slipped out of my hand accidentally and got coincidentally stuck into Hero Siegâs heart.
Sieg stopped breathing with an expression as if a great injustice had been done to him.
So what if you also donât like happy endings?
âItâs too bad that Sieg died. I was thinking of locking him under the ground and making him pay for ruining nature. I wanted to engrave it on his soul; how humans are nothing in front of the great and magnificent nature.â The First Spirit smacked her lips.
The other spirits also nodded as if they were agreeing.
But they didnât blame me for killing Sieg peacefully.
Why?
Because I was loved by the spirits.
It would be âviciously violentâ when somebody else hit the spirits, but if I did it, it would become an âexpression of loveâ.
1052 level â 1778 level
Siegâs exp had been absorbed by me.
I couldnât measure exactly if I absorbed it fully since he was above 999 level, but it was way over the amount of EXP that I could get as a pure âHeroâ.
I was confident that this was a growth that could never be achieved with five times higher EXP from hypothesis 2. I could be confident about the exp required as I had lived in this world for 8 times so far.
From now on, wouldnât levels be like a numbers play of addition and subtraction for me?