The Return of the Legendary All-Master
Chapter 356

[Translator - Kiteretsu]

[Proofreader - Kyros]

Chapter 356 (Part II Start)

The new Master of a Dimension.

This may not be the correct choice.

But even if it’s not the correct one, I know it’s the best one.

[You have been chosen as the Master of the Dimension.]

[Would you like to delete the Great Rift?]

‘I’ll delete it.’

[The Great Rift is being deleted.]

[Error occurred!]

[All currently connected dungeons will vanish.]

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* * *

With the deletion of the Great Rift, Earth regained peace.

The relentless destruction ceased, and penalties dropped to zero.

Moreover, as reality stabilized, the fallen civilization quickly began to recover, and people mistakenly believed peace had truly returned.

It was inevitable, considering collapsed buildings were restored in an instant, and the communication networks reverted to their pre-disruption state, enabling a swift return to daily life.

[Wow, the internet's back, f***]

LOL my house was completely destroyed, why is it restored? Did someone use magic?

└Same here LOL

└Ah, f*** I'm pissed, I was just about to hit level 1,000

└All the dungeons are gone. Not a single monster left

└Is the game over? But why are our levels still the same?

Not long after the internet was restored, many returned home and revived the online communities.

Through these communities, they began sharing post-reality events and quickly gathered information.

[Bring out everything you know before it gets cut off again]

Gathering intel is priority. Who knows what trick the New World psychos will pull

└Seriously, I’m already feeling anxious;;

└Still, there should be some kind of warning signs, right?

└The fact that a game became reality is nonsense in the first place. In a nonsense situation, anything can happen and it wouldn't be weird.

Unlike usual, there were more reasonable posts than strange ones, likely because opinions were aligning.

[But who the hell was the hacker?]

If it weren’t for that hacker, we’d all be dead

└That’s true. I wasn’t even level 200, but thanks to the hacker, I reached 800. Now I feel ready to take on any monster

└Bet it’s the same for everyone. I sucked at leveling but even I got to mid-700s

└Didn’t the hacker delete the game too? LOL

└Sounds plausible LOL You’d need that kind of power to erase the game

└If the hacker puts up another announcement like last time, I’d have no regrets

└Seriously, if that happens, I’d finally be at peace.

Talk of the hacker was a blazing hot topic.

It was practically thanks to that hacker that the entire world was saved.

Because of that, most people were curious about the hacker’s identity.

“Wow… I never thought I’d be able to live a normal life again.”

As soon as recovery was completed, Jang Dae-Hwi returned home and checked the internet, shouting in joy.

The return of the internet also meant YouTube could be used again.

And that assumption turned out to be correct.

Although the speed was nothing like the platform's most active days, the frozen view count on HoneyTube began to rise again.

“But why does this feel suspicious…?”

The despair caused by dungeons and monsters becoming massively more powerful after the renewal.

The hope that came from the hacker.

And now, the sudden disappearance of all dungeons and the restoration of civilization.

To Jang Dae-Hwi, the one who resolved all that seemed to overlap with someone he knew.

Jeong-hoon.

“No way, that can’t be it.”

But he quickly laughed it off and erased the thought.

No matter how amazing Hoon was, that kind of feat was impossible unless one had transcended humanity.

* * *

“……”

Logos stood still with his eyes closed, not moving an inch.

‘He’s seriously angry.’

‘Can’t blame him. The Great Rift was suddenly deleted.’

The Seven Heavenly Lords kept silent, carefully watching his expression.

None of those who had disturbed his mood had ever gotten away unharmed.

They absolutely could not incur his wrath.

“Logos.”

At that moment, a woman slowly revealed herself before him.

‘P–Psyche.’

‘Why is she suddenly here…?’

The Heavenly Lords’ eyes shook.

A goddess who governs fate and sits on equal footing with Logos.

That was Psyche.

“What is this.”

At her call, Logos slowly opened his eyes.

“It just looked like something interesting was going on, that’s all.”

At her bewitching voice, Logos scowled.

‘Damn woman. She’s figured everything out and came to test me.’

Otherwise, there would be no reason for Psyche to show up here.

“Are you provoking me right now?”

“Provoking? I merely came to hear what countermeasures you’ve prepared.”

“……”

The Great Rift had been deleted.

In other words, someone had stolen the Master’s authority and forcibly erased it.

‘How was it even done? Tenebris should have lost most of his power just before being sealed…’

It was understandable that he tampered with the code using a small amount of Creation Energy.

The code handed over to Escanon was something that could be modified even with a minimal amount of Creation Energy.

Considering that he couldn't interfere with the code that hadn’t been granted to him, it was clear that Tenebris’s power hadn’t been fully restored.

That’s why he tried to erase the dimension with the Great Rift this time.

Next, he intended to find and eliminate the human who defeated Escanon, thereby completely ruining Tenebris’s plans.

‘There’s definitely something… This kind of thing couldn’t have happened otherwise.’

Logos gazed at Earth through the mirror.

With the Great Rift gone, Earth had returned to its state before destruction.

The created beings rejoiced greatly, believing that peace had been restored.

As he silently stared at Earth, Psyche stood with her arms crossed and lightly tapped her fingers.

“Do you need time to think?”

A massive amount of code had been destroyed when the Master’s authority was stolen.

The code needed urgent restoration, but intervention wasn’t even possible in the current state.

In the end, external force would be required to interfere with Earth.

“I’ll tighten the noose and make them come crawling to beg.”

Logos spoke with a composed demeanor.

Now that the Great Rift had been deleted and the dimension stolen, he was curious to see just how far that human would struggle.

The more humans flailed about, the more it alleviated the boredom of his immortal life.

Of course, in the end, he still planned to grant them a miserable death.

“Hm, and do you have a method?”

Perhaps not satisfied with his answer, her brows furrowed slightly.

Seeing that expression, Logos clenched his fist.

“What if I do?”

“You mean you’ll isolate them and starve them out?”

“Correct.”

She is the goddess who governs the fate of all dimensions.

That’s why she had already grasped everything—from the downfall of Earth’s lower dimension, the death of Escanon the ruler, to the failure of the plan to delete the dimension through the Great Rift.

Maybe that’s why she found Logos’s composed attitude extremely displeasing.

“To think that after having your entire dimension stolen, that’s all you’ve come up with… how disappointing.”

“What?”

Logos’s face turned cold in an instant.

Killing intent radiated from his body, filling the chamber, and the Heavenly Lords bowed their heads, not daring to look up.

“I trust you understand the reason I came here.”

Psyche stared at Logos with emotionless eyes as she spoke.

In the end, Logos withdrew his killing intent and suddenly gave a meaningful smile.

“Then I hope you’ll tell me something.”

“What?”

“You’ve been watching everything, haven’t you? So you must know where Tenebris is, too.”

“I couldn’t read it.”

“You couldn’t read it?”

“That’s right.”

Logos slowly nodded his head, as if he had expected it.

If she had fully grasped his identity, she wouldn’t have come all the way here.

He only asked to expose that Psyche was just as powerless.

Now that he’d received a satisfying answer, Logos returned to the main topic.

“Psyche, do you really believe that Tenebris, having lost most of his power, can do anything to us?”

“……”

“Even if he regains his strength, he still won’t be able to stand against us. This time, we simply need to erase him for good.”

“Hm, do you really think things will go the way you intend?”

“With you all around, what’s there to worry about?”

Logos gave her a suggestive smile as he looked her up and down.

“Don’t tell me you’re thinking of entrusting the Celestial Realm to us? Waiting for him to cross over so we can strike?”

As if that were the correct answer, Logos shrugged once.

“I won’t force you. But… I’d like you to remember that you also played a role in sealing him away.”

“……”

“So, your answer?”

As she gave no reply, Logos asked her again.

Psyche gave a chilling smile and issued a warning.

“If anything goes wrong, you know what that means, right?”

At her deadly warning, the Heavenly Lords didn’t dare lift their heads, and Logos simply grinned and nodded.

“Of course.”

* * *

With the deletion of the Great Rift, Earth returned to its pre-realization state.

<Looks like the code was damaged when the Great Rift was forcibly deleted.>

Code damage.

To restore the damaged code, the power of a Named One was needed.

However, with Jeong-hoon’s current strength, it was impossible to fix the damaged code.

[You do not have permission.]

Because he lacked the necessary authority.

And that wasn’t all.

Even after becoming the master of a dimension, Jeong-hoon still remained human.

Truly absurd.

‘When the Great Rift was deleted, there was that message filled with garbled characters.’

What was that trying to say?

As Jeong-hoon fell into thought, trying to figure it out, Tenebris scanned him up and down and spoke.

<You're halfway there.>

“…Halfway?”

<Yeah. To be precise, you’re half-human, half-divine.>

Half human, half transcendent?

“Am I supposed to be happy about this?”

As Jeong-hoon gave a dumbfounded chuckle, Tenebris widened its eyes and nodded.

<Of course. If you had fully shed your humanity, you wouldn’t be able to live as a human anymore. But since you’re still half-human, you can stay as you are now.>

“Something’s not right.”

<Something’s not right?>

“Yeah. Can we really say I’ve become the master of a dimension like this?”

Jeong-hoon pointed to himself as he asked.

Tenebris shook its head.

<Well, you did become the master. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to delete the Great Rift that Logos had set up. That alone defies logic.>

“You don’t know anything about the goddess statue that gave me the additional options?”

The statue of the goddess he encountered during the reward scenes after preventing the second and third destructions.

<…I don’t know.>

Tenebris hesitated for a moment, then shook its head.

“Yeah?”

Jeong-hoon didn’t press further.

For now, just being the master of a dimension and deleting the Great Rift was enough.

<Still, you should be able to function in the Celestial Realm without any issues.>

That, at least, was a relief.

He could still live as a human, and also cross into the Celestial Realm where the transcendent beings resided.

‘You could say the path to hunting Named Ones has opened.’

Of course, that path wouldn’t be an easy one.

In a state where he had to go all out just to barely subdue a Heavenly Lord, if he went up against a Named One, he’d be annihilated without even being able to resist.

For now, the priority was to keep his claws hidden and prepare the power needed to face them.

“I won’t be heading over right away.”

The third destruction.

With Escanon gone, the Named Ones would surely have noticed.

‘That Tenebris’s seal has been broken.’

If he were to enter the Celestial Realm right now, he’d inevitably run into a Named One.

<Then what will you do?>

“I’ll watch and see how they move.”

They had planned everything assuming Escanon would be removed.

And the plan’s end was the deletion of a dimension through the Great Rift.

But Jeong-hoon became the master and deleted the Great Rift.

‘By now, he’s probably furious.’

The one who sat at the top had his plans ruined by a human.

So without a doubt, he would begin to act in some way.

[Translator - Kiteretsu]

[Proofreader - Kyros]