Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113 - Naked God (1)
Chapter 114 - Naked God (2)
Chapter 115 - Naked God (3)
Chapter 116 - Naked God (4)
Chapter 117 - Naked God (5)
Chapter 118 - Naked God (6)
Chapter 119 - Naked God (7)
Chapter 120 - Naked God (8)
Chapter 121 - God And Follower (1)
Chapter 122 - God And Follower (2)
Chapter 123 - God And Follower (3)
Chapter 124 - God And Follower (4)
Chapter 125 - God And Follower (5)
Chapter 126 - God And Follower (6)
Chapter 127 - God And Follower (7)
Chapter 128 - God And Follower (8)
Chapter 129 - God And Follower (9)
Chapter 130 - God And Follower (10)
Chapter 131 - God And Follower (11)
Chapter 132 - Ancient God (1)
Chapter 133 - Ancient God (2)
Chapter 134 - Ancient God (3)
Chapter 135 - Ancient God (4)
Chapter 136 - Ancient God (5)
Chapter 137 - Ancient God (6)
Chapter 138 - Ancient God (7)
Chapter 139 - Ancient God (8)
Chapter 140 - Ancient God (9)
Chapter 141 - Ancient God (10)
Chapter 142 - Ancient God (11)
Chapter 143 - Ancient God (12)
Chapter 144 - Ancient God (13)
Chapter 145 - Ancient God (14)
Chapter 146 - The Great Forest (1)
Chapter 147 - The Great Forest (2)
Chapter 148 - The Great Forest (3)
Chapter 149 - The Great Forest (4)
Chapter 150 - The Great Forest (5)
Chapter 151 - The Great Forest (6)
Chapter 152 - The Great Forest (7)
Chapter 153 - The Great Forest (8)
Chapter 154 - God Of Madness (1)
Chapter 155 - God Of Madness (2)
Chapter 156 - God Of Madness (3)
Chapter 157 - God Of Madness (4)
Chapter 158 - God Of Madness (5)
Chapter 159 - God Of Madness (6)
Chapter 160 - God Of Madness (7)
Chapter 161 - God Of Madness (8)
Chapter 162 - God Of Madness (9)
Chapter 163 - God Of Madness (10)
Chapter 164 - God Of Madness (11)
Chapter 165 - God Of Madness (12)
Chapter 166 - Rupture (1)
Chapter 167 - Rupture (2)
Chapter 168 - Rupture (3)
Chapter 169 - Rupture (4)
Chapter 170 - Rupture (5)
Chapter 171 - Rupture (6)
Chapter 172 - Rupture (7)
Chapter 173 - Rupture (8)
Chapter 174 - Rupture (9)
Chapter 175 - Rupture (10)
Chapter 176 - Rupture (11)
Chapter 177 - Rupture (12)
Chapter 178 - Rupture (13)
Chapter 179 - Rupture (14)
Chapter 180 - Rupture (15)
Chapter 181 - Rupture (16)
Chapter 182 - Rupture (17)
Chapter 183 - Rupture (18)
Chapter 184 - Fallen Star (1)
Chapter 185 - Fallen Star (2)
Chapter 186 - Fallen Star (3)
Chapter 187 - Fallen Star (4)
Chapter 188 - Fallen Star (5)
Chapter 189 - Fallen Star (6)
Chapter 190 - Fallen Star (7)
Chapter 191 - Fallen Star (8)
Chapter 192 - A Lone World (1)
Chapter 193 - A Lone World (2)
Chapter 194 - A Lone World (3)
Chapter 195 - A Lone World (4)
Chapter 196 - A Lone World (5)
Chapter 197 - A Lone World (6)
Chapter 198 - A Lone World (7)
Chapter 199 - A Lone World (8)
Chapter 200 - A Lone World (9)
Chapter 201 - A Lone World (10)
Chapter 202 - A Lone World (11)
Chapter 203 - A Lone World (12)
Chapter 204 - A Lone World (13)
Chapter 205 - A Lone World (14)
Chapter 206 - A Lone World (15)
Chapter 207 - Big Brother (1)
Chapter 208 - Big Brother (2)
Chapter 209 - Big Brother (3)
Chapter 210 - Big Brother (4)
Chapter 211 - Big Brother (5)
Chapter 212 - Big Brother (6)
Chapter 213 - Big Brother (7)
Chapter 214 - Big Brother (8)
Chapter 215 - Big Brother (9)
Chapter 216 - Big Brother (10)
Chapter 217 - Big Brother (11)
Chapter 218 - Big Brother (12)
Chapter 219 - Big Brother (13)
Chapter 220 - Big Brother (14)
Chapter 221 - Big Brother (15)
Chapter 222 - Big Brother (16)
Chapter 223 - Big Brother (17)
Chapter 224 - Big Brother (18)
Chapter 225 - Big Brother (19)
Chapter 226 - Big Brother (20)
Chapter 227 - Big Brother (21)
Chapter 228 - Big Brother (22)
Chapter 229 - World After The Fall (1)
Chapter 230 - World After The Fall (2)
Chapter 231 - World After The Fall (3)
Chapter 232 - World After The Fall (4)
Chapter 233 - World After The Fall (5)
Chapter 234 - World After The Fall (6)
Chapter 235 - World After The Fall (7)
Chapter 236 - World After The Fall (8)
Chapter 237 - World After The Fall (9)
Chapter 238 - World After The Fall (10)
Chapter 239 - World After The Fall (11)
Chapter 240 - World After The Fall (12)
Chapter 241 - World After The Fall (13)
Chapter 242 - World After The Fall (14)
Chapter 243 - World After The Fall (15)
Chapter 244 - World After The Fall (16)
Chapter 245 - Ouroboros (1)
Chapter 246 - Ouroboros (2)
Chapter 247 - Ouroboros (3) – Epilogue
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Ongoing Status: Ongoing Alternative names: TWATF, 멸망 이후의 세계, ______
Total Chapters in book: 247
Estimated words: 349937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1750(@200wpm)___ 1400(@250wpm)___ 1166(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 349937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1750(@200wpm)___ 1400(@250wpm)___ 1166(@300wpm)
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Chapter 214: Big Brother (8)
“Hey. Am I still alive?”
[Yeah. You’re fine.]
That was an inside joke they shared. It had already been 28765 years since they created this joke, but they couldn’t think of anything better.
[Am I still in good shape?]
“Yeah. You’re in good shape.”
Maybe it wasn’t a joke anymore. It was more like a ritual to ensure that they still existed.
[But I feel like I won’t be in good shape soon.]
“Yeah. I feel like I’m dying also.”
Jaehwan answered and crossed a line in the air. It was added to his unique world. But there wasn’t just one line — there were countless lines made within the space of his unique world. There was a total of 9,624 lines. It meant that they had repeated the conversation 9,624 times.
[How about we do the truth game again?]
“…You’ve talked for two hundred thousand years and you still got more to say?”
[Are you up for it or not?]
“Yeah. Okay.”
And Beastlain began to speak rapidly.
[Hey Jaehwan, let me tell you as a senior who’s lived 784 years more than you. You can’t do this to me. You see? You see, you son of a b*tch? Just kill me for god’s sake!]
This conversation… was it 654 times? Jaehwan answered as he striked through another line.
“What are you talking about? I was inside the tower for two thousand years in
[The tower? I was in there too, remember?]
“…Oh.”
[And you didn’t stay for two thousand years in there. It was probably like a few hundred years.]
Jaehwan’s hand stopped drawing the line; instead, he created a new colored line. It meant that they were talking about this for the first time.
“How do you know?”
[I am still a demon, remember? I have a way of keeping track of things. There’s a limit to how far you can speed up the time within the Tower of Nightmares. I’m sure it wasn’t two thousand years. I think you felt like you lived there for two thousand years only because your mind believed it to be so.]
“…I see.”
Jaehwan realized his sense of time was off when he was in that tower. Two thousand years was only considering if the tower sped up time like it was supposed to.
“Then maybe this place too…”
[No. Two hundred thousand years have passed here.]
“Right.”
[Yeah. Look at your clock.]
Jaehwan turned to his ‘clock’ within his unique world.
200,001 years 113 days 11 hours 27 minutes 39 seconds… 40 seconds…
It was a [Part] that Jaehwan created after 150 years as he didn’t want to continue counting time. But that wasn’t the only [Part] he created. He also created a television-like [Part] and a bed-like [Part]. However, the place was outside the Little Brother network, so the only thing the television displayed was Jaehwan’s memory.
It currently showed Jaehwan fighting against the Frost Dragon King alone on the 99th floor.
[It was fun back then.]
“…”
[Would you return to that time if you could?]
“No.”
[Heh.]
The television was turned off and darkness fell again. Jaehwan laid down and mumbled, “I sometimes think that.”
[Huh? What?]
“That maybe I’m still inside the tower.”
[Haha…]
“So I used the stone along with my friends back on the 77th floor. And now I’m trapped in a dream world created by a Nightmare.
Beastlain laughed hollowly.
[Yes. You used the stone, unfortunately. You are still in your dream world.]
“…Are you serious?”
[…Why do you ask when you know I’m not?]
Jaehwan did not answer but added another line again. This was their 42nd conversation. It was a lesser variant.
[But didn’t you hate that kind of thing?]
“What kind?”
[Counting. I thought you hated numbers.]
Jaehwan’s hand stopped midair, not knowing where to go.
“Yeah. I used to.”
Yes. He used to hate it, and he still did in some sense. He hated levels and statuses. He hated numbers. Yet now he was counting numbers to live on.
Maybe the System had no sins. Maybe it was like money. It was humans that used it in the wrong way that created problems. But if so, why was he here? Jaehwan commented, “Time is too long.”
[Yes, it’s long.]
“Maybe that’s why I became what I am now.”
[…Do you want to give up?]
“No. Not yet.”
Jaehwan still did not give up. He recounted his determination every single day so that he would not give up during the entire two hundred thousand years.
What would have it been like if this was on Earth? Or
There had been two chances to get out of this space. It happened once at 100 years, and once when it reached 10 thousand years. It seemed like the exit opened in exponential increments of 100. The only problem was that the exit was not a way to Big Brother but back to
At least the opening of the entrance allowed Jaehwan to determine the time flow in
Surprisingly, 200 thousand years in this place was less than a day in
He always had the chance to return.
Jaehwan realized why Myad had failed and why he said to be wary of time. What did Myad think throughout the 127 times he challenged this?
“I should get some sleep,” Jaehwan said as he added another line. Beastlain answered.
[Yeah. But no longer than an hour.]
Jaehwan did not answer as he fell asleep right away.
A million years passed. The stabs continued, but the routine had already been broken. Beastlain spoke sometimes, but Jaehwan did not respond. And so there was a long silence.
A few days ago, the exit to
Jaehwan did not give up. And the exit closed. If their guess was right, the next exit would be after 99 million years.
[…Jaehwan. I’m at my limit.]
There was a limit to how long a being could withstand time. Nobody knew what that limit was because no being lived for that long. However, Beastlain knew. He was at the limit now.
[I am thinking of going into hibernation.]
Hibernation. Jaehwan knew this ability that demons had. The ones that had long lives always had ways of falling asleep to keep their consciousness intact, and hibernation was such an ability.
“…And what about me?”
[Heh. You’re on your own.]
“That’s cold.”
[I’m a demon, remember?]
However, Beastlain wasn’t all that happy about his choice either.
[You can do it too though, can’t you? You can create a hibernation Setting to…]
“There’s no point if I fall asleep. Besides, you don’t know when you will wake up from hibernation.”
[Right…]
Jaehwan wasn’t here to fall asleep. He had to find a way to get to Big Brother.
[You really are amazing. I really hope you will be alive when I wake up again.]
“Yeah.”
[If you think you died 100 thousand times and you can hold on no more, you can wake me up then.]
“Get lost.”
Beastlain did not answer.
In the 1.3 millionth year, Jaehwan stopped stabbing. Instead, he began researching [Settings]. If the strongest stab wasn’t going to destroy this space, the answer had to lie in the [Settings]. He studied everything about [Settings] slowly and carefully.
1.5 million years. Jaehwan thought maybe he wasn’t smart after all. He created countless [Settings] and created astonishing [Parts]. He now had more knowledge of [Settings] than the Three Ancient Gods. 1.5 million years was enough time to achieve that. He was successful in repairing a good amount of Machina and he learned how to resist the time-concentration through the Eye of Geshtalt. He was also able to replicate ten Void Swords at once.
Even so, Jaehwan wasn’t sure what the space was.
He had his guesses. One guess was that he might be able to control this space when he achieved the last step of Awakening. Another guess was that from the concentration of time, the Tower of Nightmares was created with this space as its basic form.
But those were all just guesses.
1.7 million years. Jaehwan looked down at his hands. He couldn’t think and didn’t want to. He felt his cheeks wet from his tears.
Jaehwan realized he had become too tired.
1.8 million years. 1,802,532nd year, 167th day.
Jaehwan stopped doing anything.
Total Chapters in book: 247
Estimated words: 349937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1750(@200wpm)___ 1400(@250wpm)___ 1166(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 349937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1750(@200wpm)___ 1400(@250wpm)___ 1166(@300wpm)
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