The Only Ending for the Evil Count Pig Is Destruction

412 – Scene 412# World Tree

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Why?

This is where the source of magical power that exists in this world is located. The person who welcomed me here was the person who took my younger brother hostage and turned me into Tristan… He was Park Joon-hyuk, CEO of Stellar.

“Why are you… “Is it here?”

“Before answering that question, I would like to first congratulate you.”

“Congratulations?”

“That’s right. You are the first NPC to come here. “It is something worthy of congratulations.”

Representative Park Jun-hyuk pretended to applaud. I couldn’t tell if he was sly, carefree, or insensitive, but his attitude irritated me.

“Park Junhyuk… You are truly an incompatible human being. Do you have no idea what you did?”

“Haha. This is so… I thought you would understand me.”

“Understanding? “Don’t be funny.”

Laughs flowed out.

“It wasn’t enough to trample on the character of innocent people with Project Lemina, so they approached my younger brother with the promise of healing him and used him as a test lamb. What about you… “You want me to understand?”

I did not hide my hostility. When I saw his face, ‘anger’ boiled inside me. Because to me, he was my inestimable enemy and shadow.

Faced with my hostility, CEO Park Jun-hyuk smiled bitterly.

“Haha… “Looking at the way he speaks, it seems like he’s completely Tristan.”

“Don’t change your mind. Junhyuk Park. “Don’t you know that you and I are not meant to have a leisurely conversation?”

“It’s no wonder you think so. From your perspective, am I not evil? You want to save this world from me and the players… However, it may be hard for you to believe, but just as you love this world created by Jeong So-ra, I also love this world.”

“What… ?”

I say I love you? Park Joon-hyuk didn’t just attract the players, he stood by and stood by even as they destroyed the world. He loves this world?

“Look at this. “Isn’t it so beautiful?”

Leaving me speechless, Park Jun-hyuk looked up at the huge tree and muttered.

It was a tree that was best described as the world tree. I was sure that no other building on Earth would be this huge. The tree boasting magnificent leaves had countless branches, and on the branches, beads that opened like fruit were shining in their own way. It even looked like a brightly shining Christmas tree.

“No matter how much human civilization develops, it will never be able to create something like this. Isn’t it amazing? “Compared to this, what I made is nothing but shabby.”

“… ?”

“Ah, now that I think about it, I guess you’ve never seen it before. The body of Milky Way I made is similar to this. Of course, it is so much smaller that it cannot be compared to this.”

I was wondering what he meant, but then I remembered. Park Se-hee is probably talking about the main body of Milky Way, which she saw in the company’s underground facility before coming to this world. At the same time, I had one question.

“Then did you create the Milky Way after seeing this tree?”

“No way! The order has changed. This tree appeared after I created Milky Way, so it would be more correct to say that ‘she’ created it under the influence of my work.”

Her eyes widened when she said that. Because there was only one person that her Park Jun-hyuk could refer to as her.

“Did you notice? This tree is the work of your younger sister, Jeong So-ra… No, you could say she is herself.”

“He’s my little brother…” ” ” ?”

“That’s right. This tree is your sister’s consciousness itself.”

She silently swallowed her breath. I had some idea that this tree was something related to conches. As I came to the place where this tree was, I saw the memories of the conch that had formed on the trunk. However, I did not expect that this tree itself was a conch. I thought my younger brother was sleeping somewhere in this world to conserve his strength.

But this tree is a conch itself…

“Isn’t it amazing? Such size and such detail and delicacy… If this is the case, even I have no choice but to admit it. This tree far surpassed my work. As expected, your sister is amazing. He’s like the ‘designer’ I’ve been looking for.”

“What does that mean?”

“That’s literally it. The reason I chose your sister as the’designer of this world’was purely because of her endless imagination. The world exists only as much as you imagine. In that respect, the world created by Jeong So-ra can be seen as almost infinite. “I hate to admit it, but I have a poor imagination. Maybe it would have been better if I was talented in art or had a lot of inspiration, but compared to the world your brother created, the worlds I created… It was a narrow and extremely narrow-minded world.”

This world created by Sora is almost comparable in size to Earth. Considering that the original novel is still unfinished, it could be seen as a world that is close to infinite, as Park Jun-hyuk said.

Also, the world that Park Jun-hyuk created was probably a series of experiments, including the Remina Project, before he found a designer named Sora. Worlds created over and over again through Milky Way. He may have torn down the worlds he created because he didn’t like them.

That fact felt very unpleasant to me.

“Park Junhyuk. You…”

“Hmm?”

“Did you have no love for the world you created?”

“Affection? Do you even have affection for ugly failures? “Affection is a word that can only be applied to successful works, but not to failures.”

“Like Michaela and Lucaela?”

Park Jun-hyuk looked a little surprised at those words, but then smiled slightly.

“That’s right. “They are my failures and my stains.”

Clinker. Blot.

“Then why? Why did you create them without affection?”

“Because I was foolish.”

A concise answer came back.

“At the time, I was a foolish person who didn’t want to admit that my daughters were dead. As of now, I have no choice but to say that. Because even if I think about it, I was too stupid to understand back then. With the desire to revive my dead daughters, I thought of recreating what my daughter looked like when she was alive using the AI program I was developing at the time.”

Park Jun-hyuk’s wife and daughters passed away in an unexpected accident. I was able to guess what Park Jun-hyuk must have felt at that time. The sense of loss and sadness of losing a loved one. A feeling that cannot be compensated for by anything else. Even if I couldn’t understand the person named Park Jun-hyuk, I could at least understand the sense of loss he must have felt.

But now Park Jun-hyuk was saying that he was a foolish person.

“The reason I created a program for my two dead daughters, not my dead wife, is because their memories were simpler and more concise than those of adults. I poured everything I had into it, and in about two years, I created something that looked exactly like my daughters… We succeeded in creating Michaela and Lucaella. But those weren’t my daughters. A program that closely resembles my daughters. FALSE. It was just a replica imitating the real thing. No matter how elaborately it is made, a program is a program… I realized that fact only too late. So I erased their memories. What… Except for the reason it was created, it was an excellent AI, so it was put into Milky Way’s system.”

A scene from the past that I saw on my way here a while ago. There, Michaela and Lucaella whined like little children. Completely forgetting who your parents are. Park Jun-hyuk modeled his daughters and abandoned them to this world. No, for Park Jun-hyuk, it would not have been abandonment. Programs called Michaela and Lucaela. To put it bluntly, it was just a tool with emotions.

“By the way. At some point, they stopped listening to my control at all. I obviously programmed them to be faithful to their role as gods, but unexpected things happened. For example, the ordeal Michaela gave you, or Luca Ella, who should have been sleeping in hell forever, waking up and becoming your helper.”

“Are you saying that was something they shouldn’t have done?”

“It’s not something you should do. It’s something you can’t do. A program can only do what it is programmed to do. Just like a cleaning robot can’t play the piano. And I didn’t make them capable of doing that.”

Even after learning about Michaela and Lucaella’s true identity, I didn’t have any doubts about their actions. Even though it was immature and emotional, I thought it was inevitable since it was a program modeled after children. Because it is a sophisticated AI program, it was thought to be indistinguishable from a human.

However, Park Jun-hyuk said he did not make them like that. He confessed that he erased his memory and made it into a tool that only played the role of God. So, why did Michaela and Lucaella end up like this? .

“It’s all your sister’s doing. This world was created through the Milky Way, but it was also created based on your sister’s imagination. She is greatly influenced by her imagination. Michaela and Lucaella, who were set as gods of this world, were no exception.”

Only then did I realize. In the memories I saw earlier, Sora took care of Michaela and Lucaela. He didn’t care about their identities and treated them as if they were living human beings, as if he had a real daughter.

‘Is it because Sora wanted it to be like that… ? .’

Sora accepted Michaela and Lucaela. She decided to accept it. Because they thought that way, they changed. They were able to settle down in this world from gods in name only to real gods who could intervene in the story. However, even if they became the real gods of this world, the fact that they were programs did not change, so they could not go out to the outside world…

Imagination.

This world has always been influenced by Sora’s imagination. In a way, it was natural. Because the beginning of this world was Sora’s novel

I looked at the World Tree standing tall. I felt a magical power so vast that it was difficult to estimate. If you could see magic with your own eyes, it would be like seeing the sun up close.

Then I vaguely understood why Sora was here in the form of the World Tree. The power to make the impossible possible. The magical power that allows the people of this world to use magic was flowing from the World Tree in front of me. The source of magical power that Myohail spoke of was none other than imagination. The roots of the World Tree, which grew through Sora’s imagination, were extending to the ground and supplying magical power.

The world tree was the conch itself.

“Do you want to save your little brother?”

As if reading my thoughts, Park Jun-hyuk asked that question.

“I will help you. I will free you and her sister. Instead…”

The dark man smiled softly at me and spoke.

“Give up this world. Jeong Ji-hwan.”