The Evil God Beyond the Smartphone

＜ 46 : Subjugation of Kueberg (1) ＞

It is often said that a person’s life rolls around like a treadmill.

People who live a life with a lot of ups and downs may be a little different, but I think most of them will show almost the same pattern.

So do I.

Every morning, I face the same routine as usual.

I wake up in the morning, take a shower with sleepy eyes, and get dressed and head outside.

Then he gets on the subway and leads his weary body towards the company.

On some days, he is anxious that he will be scolded for even a small mistake, and on other days he is full of anticipation and waits for the time to leave work.

On other days, to relieve the stress accumulated during the day, I buy a can of beer and go home alone.

So when I go home and the next day comes, another day like yesterday begins.

No matter how much you move forward, life will only come back to where it was.

As you live such a life, you may fall into the illusion that you have suddenly become a cog in society.

In reality, even if I fall for just one person, society will not stop.

“Huh… I had a good day today.”

Nevertheless, the reason people live in anticipation of the next day is probably because each person has a reason to live.

family or friends. or lover.

If not, something precious to yourself.

For me, the game was one of the small fragments that made up such a reason for living.

A world beyond smartphones that allows you to break free from the yoke of boring life for a while.

There, adventures and challenges are not intimidating, and they are not afraid to fail.

This one crude game was like an escape from everyday life to me.

“I should cook ramen after playing a game for a while.”

That was the reason why I returned home and threw away my luggage and started playing the game.

Of course, there will come a moment when the game gets boring and you may stop playing the game you love.

You may also be rebuking yourself for wasting time and money on the game.

Still, for this moment, I was just happy to be holding on to the game.

It’s because I really like the world beyond this cramped smartphone screen.

“How much karma is coming in today?”

Kwok.

When the screen of the smartphone was touched, the main screen disappeared and the game was loaded.

The first thing to check after running the game was the accumulated karma level.

The most important asset in this idle game was karma, no matter what anyone said.

You need to collect karma to raise the player level, and you need to consume karma to create a new character.

Above all, one of the goals of the game was to reach 1 million karma.

– Each time the following conditions are met, the progress of ＜Advance＞ will increase by one level.

– Available Karma: 715 / 999999 (Unfinished)

– ??? : 0 / 1 (unfinished)

– ??? : 0 / 1 (unfinished)

– ??? : 0 / 1 (unfinished)

– ???? (unfinished)

The total amount of karma accumulated so far is 715.

It fell far short of the target of the ＜Adescent＞ skill, but there was not much left until the figure to make the next apostle.

It was thanks to a large increase in the supply and demand of karma in recent years.

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Most of the newly acquired karma was created by Kueberg and Estasia.

At this pace, it may be possible to create a new apostle in the near future.

If you are satisfied with seeing the increase in karma day by day, messages start to appear one after another from the bottom of the screen.

“Uh… what? Level up?”

I looked down and read the new messages.

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Most of the messages printed were Kueberg’s karma acquisition messages.

Even at this time, it seemed that Kueberg was busy creating karma.

And under that message from Kueberg, a level-up message came to mind after a long time.

After accumulating a lot of karma, the level was finally raised.

– You have reached level 8.

– ＜Eye of the Spectator (Lv.7)＞ grows.

– It has become ＜Eye of the Spectator (Lv.8)＞. You will be able to observe the continents with a clearer eye than before.

Of course, most of the messages output as the level rises were not much different from before.

The growth of the ＜Viewer’s Eye＞ skill. increase in magic power.

And a warning message from ＜Karma’s Balance＞.

The output was the same as always, with one exception.

– Warning: Karma that is too biased in one direction is more likely to cause ＜Causality Correction＞.

– ＜Balance of Karma＞ is tilted.

– A low level of ＜causality correction＞ occurred.

– Causality correction progress: 4%

As a large amount of karma was acquired by Kueberg, the causality correction of ＜Karma’s Balance＞ exceeded 4%.

Of course, that was also the result of Estasia’s continuous reduction of the causality correction value.

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My calculation was that the causality correction would have reached 6% by now if it was originally.

As such, Kueberg was actively engaged in hunting.

He hates to see his face, but his heart is the hope of the denomination more reliable than anyone else.

– New conditions for ＜Descent (Lv.0)＞ have been revealed.

And there was only one message that was printed with a different content than usual.

It was the content that the next condition of the ＜Adescent＞ skill was revealed.

The conditions for the evolution of ＜Descent＞ skill were what I accepted as the end content of the game.

It was because the conditions that were first opened were very difficult.

I have to collect close to 1 million unused karma.

How can a person collect a million without using karma?

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Moreover, it was impossible to estimate how long it would take to collect 1 million karma.

It was a harsh condition for me.

“Still, I’ll have to check the new quest contents.”

That said, I did not intend to leave the ＜Adescent＞ skill alone forever.

After all, isn’t that a goal that will be cleared someday?

If there is an easy goal, I thought it would be okay to achieve it step by step.

With that in mind, when I checked the contents of the ＜Adescent＞ skill again, a hidden evolution condition was newly revealed.

– [Holy Relic: Ergus’s Stake]: 0 / 1 (Unfinished)

The new evolution condition for the ＜Descent＞ skill was the acquisition of a designated item.

The name of the item is [Holy Relic: Ergus’s Stake].

It was an item that was classified as a relic category, such as a magic sword or a divine weapon.

I couldn’t help but immerse myself in deep contemplation in the category of relics I had never seen before.

“Relics? What else is this?”

It didn’t seem like an item that could be obtained from a gacha.

I thought that maybe even such a thing would not have been put into the mission to unlock the skill.

If so, maybe it’s an item related to the gods that exist in the game.

While I was thinking about it, the image of Evan, who was a paladin, suddenly flashed through my mind.

Evan was a faithful paladin who served the goddess until he became my apostle.

I thought that if it was Evan, he might know about [Holy Relic: Ergus’s Stake].

“Shall I ask Evan?”

The characters in this game were able to communicate with the player at a certain level.

If you ask a question using the communication function, it will be possible to get an answer from Evan.

If Evan knew the details of the relics, he might have been able to instruct Evan and the other apostles to retrieve the relics.

If a decision was made, there was no reason to delay the conversation.

I immediately found Evan in the city and pressed the button on the speech bubble that popped up on Evan’s head.

– Enter the message to be sent.

The Second Apostle, Evan Alamere.

A conversation with the apostle, whom we had been sharing for a long time, began.

* * * * * *

– Goo.

A strange cry of Kueberg resounded on the mountain road where the trees had fallen.

thud. thud. thud. thud.

Whenever Kueberg’s giant moved, forests were collapsing and landslides were taking place.

The lord of the abyss, Kueberg.

Coming to Earth from the depths of the abyss, he was a predator from birth.

Born and raised in an abyss where there is no light, he devoured everything that stood in his way.

Invaders from the outside world. noisy kin.

And even the beasts of the abyss who roam to eat Kueberg.

There wasn’t a single thing that he couldn’t put in Kueberg’s mouth.

– Goo-oh.

The reason that Kueberg had grown to such a bizarre size was because he had absorbed the power of the prey he had swallowed up until now.

After consuming the countless creatures of the abyss and absorbing their power, Kueberg became the lord of the abyss with powerful power.

All of his people followed Queberg, and all kinds of monsters from the abyss fled from him.

There were no more than ten beasts who could oppose him in the entire abyss.

Kueberg’s response to the call of a being greater than himself was also because he felt bored with living in such an abyss.

– “I’ve become very weak, too.”

However, Kueberg, who was born from the abyss, was not able to fully unleash his power even on earth.

Kueberg was a creature born and raised in the abyss.

Kueberg’s body structure was not suitable for movement on the ground.

Streets that would normally have been passed in an instant had to be moved for several days on the ground.

In addition, due to their oversized body, they had to feel quite tired when they moved for a long time.

He was still a formidable predator, but his majesty in the abyss was long gone.

– “I have to eat a lot of things quickly and grow up.”

This did not mean that Kueberg had completely given up growing on the ground.

He felt more possibilities on earth than before.

On Earth, there are many living things that have not been seen in the abyss.

In addition, the creature called human responded to animals stronger than themselves with the power of knowledge.

By eating them, learning and learning, Kueberg will become more powerful than ever before.

And the great one who sent Kueberg down will also be delighted to see him.

That was the reason why Kueberg was busily moving to overcome the limits of the Abyss Magician.

– Harvest life.

A familiar voice echoed in Kueberg’s head as he moved his tentacles and walked forward.

It was the voice of a great being who lifted Kueberg from the abyss to the earth.

The voice of the great being has been repeated since the first day he arrived on earth.

The great being continued to hope that Kueberg would take his life.

Kueberg wanted it too, so there was no reason for either side to fuss.

thud. thud. thud. thud.

Kueberg, who escaped the mountains at high speed, finally entered the vast plains.

– “Are they humans?”

And in Kueberg’s gaze, I could see the human figures gathered together.

Thousands of humans were standing in front of a huge structure made of stacked stones with their backs.

Through his learning, Kueberg knew the name of the structure on which humans had their backs.

acropolis.

It was a structure to defend humans from external attacks.

Of course, it was an act that had no meaning against a huge being like Kueberg.

Perhaps the humans also knew that fact, and some of the humans were holding their weapons with their backs to the fortress.

“The monster is coming!”

A human who spotted Kueberg shouted to the people around him to burst his throat.

Woo woo woo woo!

A magnificent trumpet sounded, and the humans began to move in unison.

Such human movements were also what Kueberg had already learned.

Humans were often seen mimicking a single giant creature while moving in groups.

Occasionally, even higher species superior to humans were hunted, so the movements of those humans were quite efficient.

– “You foolish people are gathered in one place.”

However, the fact that they were gathered was very foolish from Kueberg’s point of view.

When the bugs gather together, in front of Kueberg, they are nothing but bugs.

As a predator, Kueberg would have to bite and devour worm-like humans.

Rather, they were grouped together to make them easier to swallow, saving Kueberg from the trouble of moving.

As long as you find the humans gathered there, there is no need to leave it there and head to another place.

Kueberg did not refuse the coveted prey in front of him.

– Goo.

Kueberg’s vicious cry resounded, and soon the Kueberg began to charge towards the humans.

thud. thud. thud. thud.

Whenever Kueberg’s giant body moved, the earth’s axis shook and dust rose up.

Humans, who were heavily armed with all kinds of equipment, also raised their weapons to face him.

The moment they began to recognize each other as enemies.

The battle between Kueberg and humans has begun.