The Lone SF Transmigrator in the Otherworld Forum
Chapter 172: Secret Domain

“It’s been a while! Big bro!”

“Keke. You couldn’t help but call for me.”

“…”

A dragon that became a cyborg and a rattling Lich King.

If truth be told, Karlstein was unsure if these two were really necessary for this journey. He only called them because it was written in Volume 53 of the CGH that he took them along.

As someone with a bit of a rebellious streak, he wanted to ignore it and go alone, but…

I have to endure. This time, things need to flow exactly as written there.

That way, while solving the incident of Märchen’s power that just erupted, he could also get clues on how to tackle the highest-ranking Single Numbers.

Even now, he prided himself on being able to subjugate the lesser numbered entities alone. But for No.1 and No.2, even if he obtained the powers of all the rest, he had difficulty imagining successfully defeating them.

That’s why I must get my hands on that treasure that can nullify a Kaiju’s transcendent powers.

Karlstein spoke while checking his suit.

“You’ve heard about this mission, right?”

“Yes! I’ve fully understood it!”

Yongyong stood at attention, while the Lich King…

“Keke.”

Whack-

“Ugh! H-how?!”

Karlstein lightly flicked the Lich King’s skull.

Did he think he wouldn’t feel pain because he’s a skeleton?

“Don’t get cheeky.”

“Y-yes…”

Meanwhile, a wooden puppet dropped from Karlstein’s belt and began to speak.

[Brat. Why are you bringing these riffraff along?]

It was the Puppet Demonic Warlord that had been neglected for a long time.

“Wha?! Big bro! Such an insolent piece of wood should be burned! Calling you a brat! Unforgivable!”

[Hmph. I’m different from the likes of you.]

In truth, Karlstein thought the Puppet Demonic Warlord, Yongyong, and the Lich were all the same, but he did not say it out loud.

“Keke. What a crude puppet. Trash that couldn’t even become a lich…”

[In my prime, the likes of you wouldn’t even dare to meet my eyes!]

“Should I teach you the greatness of dragons to make you come to your senses?”

“If you prostrate yourself, I’ll personally make you into a skeleton.”

It got noisy.

Hmm. Will it really work out with these guys?

“Big bro!”

“Great Emperor!”

[Brat!]

Karlstein ignored their desperate gazes and checked Platty’s condition.

“You’re all too noisy.”

Still, seeing how a single sentence from him silenced them all, it seemed they understood properly.

“I trust you all memorized everything I previously spoke of?”

“Yes! I memorized every single word without missing anything, big bro!”

[This is no different from rumors circulating in the marketplace…]

“It was truly interesting information even for this Lich King. Keke.”

They each said something while watching for his reaction, but they all clearly showed signs of expectation.

I’ll be helpful to big bro!

Laws of order? Time reversal? Interesting…

[Hmm. It might be good to look for a treasure to transfer my body to this time. And since it’s the Celestial Palace’s vault…]

Karlstein finished his preparations and looked around at them.

“This platinum egg will transfer us.”

[Oh ho.]

“How fascinating.”

“!!”

The floating platinum egg bounced around like a person puffing out their chest.

“But we can’t predict the place and time of arrival. Meaning, a battle might start immediately.”

“Then…”

[Don’t worry, brat! I have the power to protect myself!]

“Kekeke.”

He equipped Yongyong in human form, the wooden puppet Puppet Demonic Warlord, and Lich King Raymond with enhancement suits and subspace backpacks containing supplies.

Since many parts of CGH Volume 53 were ineligible due to broken text, he prepared as much as possible.

Clatter-

“Keke. This healing factor seems useless to me, but I’ll take it for resear—“

“Big bro! Is this attached thing an emergency weapon? It looks better than what’s attached to my body.”

Karlstein paid special attention to this mission, which was why the supply equipment was also top-notch.

“I’ll give you whatever you want later, so focus now.”

“…Yes sir!”

“Oh!”

[Such greedy fellows.]

“Then, we’re departing.”

Karlstein gave a signal to Platty.

Flaaaaash-

Everyone’s consciousness was cut off following an intense light.

***

Yongyong opened his eyes, holding his throbbing head.

Huh? Is it supposed to be like this?

Realizing he had lost consciousness, Yongyong hurriedly got up and looked around.

[…Big bro?]

Only a quiet stillness greeted him.

[Big bro!]

He called for Karlstein several times, but there was no answer. And another thing he realized…

[I didn’t undo the polymorph…]

Strangely, his eye level was high and his limbs were short. He had returned to his main body with metal machine parts attached.

[Hmm…]

He was late to notice because the place where he opened his eyes was full of bushes and trees. Moreover, the trees were huge to the point of rivaling his own height, which had made it all the more confusing.

Phew… Calm down.

Yongyong calmed himself for a moment and recalled the information he had heard from Karlstein.

A place where time stops, a place where time reverses, a place where time is mixed up, a place where the flow of time is distorted?

Karlstein said he did not know exactly what kind of place it was because there were only rumors. However, he said it was very dangerous as it was a space full of chaos laws to seal the laws of order.

Still, I didn’t expect to be dropped alone like this…

Yongyong wanted to complain, but there was no one to listen.

[I should take a look around first…]

The first thing to do was to figure out where he was.

[Let’s see…]

Yongyong advanced far and long, clearing away the dense trees that blocked even the view of his true form.

-Guooooo!

-Kirik! Kirik!

Yongyong’s tail stood straight up. He sensed an immense, formidable power from the faint, distant roars.

W-what the…

Yongyong hurriedly returned to the form of a child with polymorph magic and began to carefully scout. It felt like he had become a little person dropped in a giant’s country, but this was better for survival.

-Kiaaaahk

As he advanced little by little, looking around…

Ah…

Cold sweat ran down Yongyong’s back.

A huge white tiger engulfed in blue flames. A giant monstrous bird with a seven-colored tail. A giant wolf large enough to cover the sky.

The forest was full of all kinds of giant spirit beasts(?).

-Kuoooo

Even a seemingly gentle monstrous rabbit was a huge beast reaching up to a dragon’s waist.

Moreover…

-Kieek?

The monstrous rabbit’s eyes turned red and it began to charge, emitting fluorescent light.

[H-hold on…!]

Yongyong hurriedly returned to dragon form and had to breathe fire towards the charging monstrous rabbit. He felt a threat to his life from the fierce momentum of the charge.

***

Lich King Raymond.

Unable to cross dimensions without his life vessel, he had to bring along a red jewel that looked like a heart.

Raymond could not help but be surprised as soon as he regained consciousness.

I lost consciousness?

He had not sensed anything magical…

“…”

A lich’s body had no problem going without eating or sleeping.

“Hm.”

Raymond lightly stroked his jaw with his fingers and looked around. There was no human presence in this place filled with dark black mist.

“Am I the only one who fell here?”

The situation could be described as bleak, yet it only made him all the more curious.

“A place so full of the energy of death…”

The evil energy covering this place was so thick that it seemed like it might be the essence of death itself.

Clatter-

Raymond tried to secure his vision by spreading a simple light magic.

Fizzle.

But the magic easily went out.

“…Then how about other magic?”

Fizzle. Fizz.

It was the same.

“…”

Raymond was genuinely perplexed.

A lich dropped in an unfamiliar place where magic did not work? That made him no different from any mere skeleton soldier.

Feeling the greatest threat of his life, Raymond slowly began to investigate his surroundings.

After looking around like that…

“Is it just a cave?”

A cave filled with black clouds.

Also.

“…This is.”

He was barely able to discover something.

“Bones…? A corpse?”

A corpse that had become a skeleton was left sitting in a lotus position.

“…”

The skeleton had a jade color and was clearly not ordinary at first glance. A book was placed in front of it. Yet even the book was unusual, flashing with a mystical light.

Raymond carefully picked up the book and began to turn the pages.

Rustle-

Rustle-

“…”

After reading for a while, Raymond was sure that this secret manual also contained something great.

However… he found himself in a slight pickle.

Raymond was one who defied death, the originator of black magic, a master of magic—

and a lich among liches.

For the Lich King to… practice bare-handed combat?

“Mm. This isn’t right.”

Clatter-

He had his pride as a lich.

Raymond threw the book away and started searching again.

However…

After thoroughly investigating every corner of the surroundings, he could see that the cave was a sealed space with no way out.

Clatter-

And he was currently a lich who could not use magic.

Ah…

The jade-colored skeleton and the secret manual caught Raymond’s eye.

***

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