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Chapter 458

‘I bet he cast it on her first because she’s weaker than me,’ Lessefim thought.

After casting Absolute Barrier on both Lessefim and Mole Woman, Jin-Hyeok strode toward the Spirit Gate. Even though the one usually leading the way in a party was the Navigator, no one found this strange.

Jin-Hyeok walked through the flames. When he entered the Spirit Gate, he saw a space with nothing else except flames.

‘Oh, it’s quite warm here,’ he thought.

He had reached the Fire Spirit Realm without much difficulty.

Lessefim, who had been extremely tense, started to relax a little.

‘The flames don’t have any effect on me...’ she thought. Absolute Barrier was perfectly protecting her. ‘I didn’t know the barrier was this amazing.’

She knew how powerful Absolute Barrier was, but experiencing it firsthand was different. As an excellent Navigator, she could sense how dangerous the flames outside the barrier were.

“It’s a bit hot, moly,” Mole Woman took off her jacket. This jacket was an artifact imbued with strong fire resistance, but that didn’t matter to her. The moment she took it off, she would be reborn as a Navigator more suitable for provocative livestreaming!

‘It’s okay to be a little exposed to the fire, moly!’

As always, Mole Woman was wearing leather tights that accentuated her physique. It was certainly provocative, as evidenced by the explosive increase in Chul-Soo’s viewer count. Lessefim couldn’t shake the feeling that her preparations weren’t quite as thorough.

‘You wicked Navigator...’ she telepathically said to Mole Woman.

‘Hmph, I’m the more competitive Navigator, moly!’ Mole Woman answered her telepathically.

‘Can you even call that competitiveness?’

‘Says the one who got the Look Pretty Potion from the Carvington Family!’

‘H-How did you know about that?’

‘What? I was just bluffing! It was true?’

Amid their subtle rivalry, Jin-Hyeok became a bit tense. “The Fire Spirit Realm is more dangerous than I thought.”

The energy of this world wasn’t very friendly to strangers. A few drops of sweat trickled down his forehead; he hadn’t broken a sweat even when facing the Fire Dragon and Thunder Dragon.

“Lessefim, Mole Woman. This is not the time for you two to fight. Find a place where the fire energy is weaker and create a path. Mole Woman, put your fire-resistant artifact back on.”

The green Absolute Barrier surrounding Mole Woman and Lessefim was slowly melting away.

***

This wasn’t a crisis that he had deliberately created; it was a real one. At that moment, Jin-Hyeok was surprised to find that he wasn’t particularly happy about it.

‘This is definitely good for my channel. I should switch to a first-person perspective to convey this thrilling tension to the viewers...’ Yet, Jin-Hyeok couldn’t easily do it. He was too concerned about the two Navigators behind him. ‘I need to secure their safety first.’

Jin-Hyeok took a deep breath and used Omnipotent Director. He took complete control of the surrounding space, creating a new ash-colored area.

“Huh? It’s not so hot anymore!” Mole Woman said.

She still hadn’t put her fire-resistant jacket back on. Sweat had seeped out all over her body, making her look as if someone had drenched her in water.

“Mole Woman, I told you to put on your jacket,” Jin-Hyeok said.

“But I look good! It looks like I’m having fun in a water park, moly!”

“...”

“I feel like I can hear the sound of the view count rising, moly!”

“It’s too dangerous.”

“Why are you talking like that dimwit Lessefim, moly? Are you insulting my dedication, moly?”

Jin-Hyeok frowned and raised his voice slightly. “I said to put it on.”

Pursuing intense Play, Mole Woman kept stubbornly refusing him until she saw him raise Miri. She then quickly put on the jacket.

Lessefim looked around with a serious expression. “I didn’t expect the Fire Spirit Realm to be this intense.”

“Lessefim, have you found a path yet?” Jin-Hyeok asked.

“No, I can’t seem to find one. The flames here are too hostile toward us.”

It was widely known that the elements of the Spirit Realms were hostile to life forms from other dimensions (Servers), but Jin-Hyeok hadn’t expected the resistance to be this severe. The pure fire element of this Spirit Realm possessed too much destructive power. It was even destroying Jin-Hyeok’s Absolute Barrier.

“There must be some reason for this. It’s too extreme, even for a Spirit Realm. If we can understand the reason, we might see a solution,” Lessefim said.

“A solution, huh.” Jin-Hyeok couldn’t think of an immediate solution either.

If Han Sae-Rin, the Ruler, were here, it would be a different story, but unfortunately, she wasn’t present.

“The solution is too easy, moly. Chul-Soo can read the mind of the flames with Broadcaster’s Insight, moly,” Mole Woman said.

“Hey, do you think that’s possible? The flames are not living beings. It’s the fire itself, right, Chul-Soo?” Lessefim said.

Mole Woman snorted. “How stupid! You still don’t understand that if you have strong poison resistance, you also have strong curse resistance, moly! With Broadcaster’s Insight at its peak, reading the mind of the flames should be possible, moly!”

***

To Jin-Hyeok’s surprise, Mole Woman’s words were reasonable.

‘I haven’t been as intense lately,’ Jin-Hyeok thought. Mole Woman’s intensity had made him reflect on himself. As she said, he could indeed read the will of the flames.

[#Kill]

[#We need to kill that man.]

[#He’s the root of evil in the Spirit Realm.]

These flames viewed Jin-Hyeok as an enemy. Their will was burning intensely, igniting such hostile and powerful flames.

‘Why are they acting like this?’ he wondered.

Jin-Hyeok wanted to communicate with them through physical interactions, but that wasn’t feasible either. He had come here to meet Elly and did not want to show a violent side of him. Besides, if he lost focus while trying to communicate, Mole Woman and Lessefim could be in danger.

“It seems the flames hate me,” Jin-Hyeok said.

“Then it’s time for your infamous physical interaction, moly,” Mole Woman said.

“No, that’s not as easy as you think. You two try to find a safe path here. If we can reach Elly or Alkinas, we might be safe.”

Fortunately, unlike Absolute Barrier, the space under Omnipotent Director was safe.

“I need to have a chat with the flames,” Jin-Hyeok said.

“K-Kim Chul-Soo! Where are you going?!” Lessefim yelled.

Jin-Hyeok stepped out of Omnipotent Director’s space. He had been disappointed earlier that the Arvis rankers had lost their intensity due to the comfortable life, yet he now realized that he was the one who had forgotten it.

“Don’t move, Lessefim. I can’t protect you if you leave this space,” Jin-Hyeok said.

Lessefim knew that right now, she wasn’t particularly helpful. She bit her lip and said, “Mole Woman, let’s find a path together. We need to find a route where the flames are weak and which is the shortest path to where the Spirit King of Fire is.”

***

“What are you doing, Mole Woman!” Lessefim said.

“S-Sorry, moly. I keep worrying about Chul-Soo...”

“Do you like Chul-Soo too?”

“O-Of course, I’m a Chul-Soo Lander too.”

Despite her strong faith in Jin-Hyeok, Mole Woman was indeed worried about him. While she was confident enough to throw off her fire-resistant jacket for the livestream, she couldn’t help but worry about Jin-Hyeok walking into the flames.

Mole Woman’s eyes widened. ‘He didn’t even use Absolute Barrier on himself, moly!’

The reason he had done that was to maintain this space—the one created by Omnipotent Director. Both Mole Woman and Lessefim knew this well.

“Listen, Mole Woman. Chul-Soo is taking a gamble for us,” said Lessefim. If Chul-Soo had been alone, he would have used Absolute Barrier. He would have protected only himself in this situation. “We are not fulfilling our roles as Navigators right now. We need to focus.”

“Understood, moly.”

Finally, Jin-Hyeok completely left Omnipotent Director’s space. Mole Woman and Lessefim tilted their heads simultaneously.

“Huh?”

“Hm?”

Jin-Hyeok, who had entered the flames without deploying Absolute Barrier, was unexpectedly fine. They had been prepared for the possibility of Omnipotent Director disappearing if Chul-Soo lost focus, but the outcome was anticlimactic.

“Lessefim, am I seeing this right, moly?”

“I want to ask the same thing, Mole Woman.”

They felt a sense of kinship for the first time in a while.

“He entered the flames without Absolute Barrier, right, moly?”

“That’s what it looks like to me too.”

Despite facing the flames head-on, Chul-Soo seemed unfazed. This was great news for the two Navigators.

“There is a distortion in mana—no, Spirit power centering around Chul-Soo,” Lessefim said.

“I see it too, moly. Gaps are appearing there. We should be able to forge a path centered on that area, moly.”

“Right. If we break through that path, even the Spirit King will sense that something’s wrong in the Spirit Realm. When Spirit King Alkinas arrives, the situation should improve.”

Mole Woman felt a slight sense of defeat. Lessefim could step out of this space for a moment to forge a path, but Mole Woman couldn’t. In terms of innate Navigator abilities, she still couldn’t compare to Lessefim. Mole Woman sat down without interfering with Lessefim and observed Jin-Hyeok. ‘All I can do now is observe and learn from IntenseMan!’

Mole Woman wondered how he could remain unaffected in this world of fire. She knew that he had been practicing harmonizing with the world a lot in the Dragon’s Nest recently and wondered if this was the result of that training.

‘No, that’s not it.’ Mole Woman had a realization. ‘It’s just because he’s physically strong, moly.’

The fire of this Realm could melt Absolute Barrier, but it seemed unable to harm Jin-Hyeok.

‘So, the answer was... his physical prowess, moly!’

***

Jin-Hyeok was surprised anew. ‘Was my fire resistance this strong?’

He realized that it was far more efficient to simply take on the fire than to block it using Absolute Barrier. Although he was sweating a bit, there was no greater crisis than that. Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn

[Resistance is futile.]

[Die.]

Feeling the will of the flames, Jin-Hyeok asked, “Why do you hate me so much?”

His words were directed at this world—the entire Spirit Realm and the flames themselves.

[Because of you, the prince cries every day.]

[The king has fallen into worry.]

[If only you were gone, the Spirit Realm would be peaceful.]

‘Prince? Did Spirit King Alkinas have a prince?’ Jin-Hyeok wondered.

[We will kill you.]

[Sing eternally in the fire paradise.]

Jin-Hyeok raised Miri. This world wasn’t ready for dialogue right now.

‘I’ve never tried something like this before, but...’

He thought that if talking to flames was possible, physical interaction was possible too.

-I can’t believe I’m about to hit the back of the Spirit Realm’s head! I’m truly a happy weapon!

Miri was ecstatic. It felt like it were hitting an illusion, but Jin-Hyeok summoned his strength. He was a bit excited, as he hadn’t swung Miri with all his might in a while.

“I want to talk with you,” Jin-Hyeok said to the flames.

[What nonsense.]

[Die, human!]

Jin-Hyeok swung Miri toward the world.

[You have activated the Skill ⌜Taming (Physical)⌟.]

Thwack!

The air split and the flames began to break apart.

[Hmph, foolish human.]

[As if such a trivial technique would wor—]

‘Oh, it’s working!’ Jin-Hyeok thought. Still, since this was a Spirit Realm, taming it seemed much harder than taming the Thunder Dragon. ‘I might be able to truly interact with the Spirit Realm!’

He began swinging Miri without holding back, unlike what he had done with the Thunder Dragon.

-I will smash the head of the Spirit Realm!

After a while, the presence of the flames around Jin-Hyeok changed. They were still burning intensely, but they no longer felt hot at all. Suddenly, a new notification appeared.

[You have achieved an omniverse-level Achievement.]

This was a type of notification that even Jin-Hyeok, a regressor, had never seen before.