My Measurement: The Villain Desires a Satisfying Payback

Chapter 176 - 176: 168: Omnipresence and an Unsurpassable Wall

In the far, far north, there lies a frozen wasteland, unfit for any form of life and constantly battered with permanent blizzards.

In the centre of that white hellscape, where the ruthless hail could rend an elephant to shreds in a matter of seconds, a glorious palace of ice sat.

And, the being who resided in that palace...

"Northern Star. I heard you are exceptional at magic, but does that include the means to travel worlds?"

There was no answer to my question, and the only response I received was the fact that the snowstorm seemed to grow a tad harsher.

Of course, I was completely unaffected by such a thing with Reality, and Kolo Tjahn was an Archwizard capable of more than I can imagine.

Even penetrating the Northern Star's magic barrier to teleport here was no big deal, though it unfortunately wasn't possible to teleport directly inside the palace itself.

"Are you not capable of it? If so, I shall leave."

Yet again, there was no sign of the Northern Star showing herself any time soon.

I wasn't a psychopath, and killing her if she wasn't able to do what I wanted was unnecessary, so I decided to just get Kolo Tjahn to take me elsewhere.

For now, I wanted to go to the Transcendents who I had been told were most likely to help me due to their humanity.

"Is it possible to locate the Vagabond Knight?"

A wandering knight who helps those he stumbles across make it through the monster-infested wilderness.

He was clearly a kind hearted soul, but I didn't think he was capable of casting magic at all, let alone crossing worlds.

Still, I thought it was worth a shot; it wouldn't take long, so if it ended up pointless, it wasn't a big deal anyway.

"It will take a while to

Recalling what all of them had said, the manner in which they spoke, and even thinking back to all the other people I had met since I came to the Otherworld.

I don't know if it's because I'm too intent on the matter of the highest existence and thinking too deeply into it, or if it's truly the case, but it is beginning to feel strange.

It probably was just me, but I can't help it.

Thinking that everything is going as the highest existence wills, it just makes me feel so immeasurably helpless.

The possibility that everything has been as it wished, ever since even before the beginning.

I don't know why I'm beginning to feel this way now, perhaps a combination of what was said in the Magic Tower as well as my increasing proficiency in using Reality, but that's just it...

It all just feels so... Scripted.

For some reason.

Too long had passed since I had been on Earth to accurately remember, but glimpsing at the thought that everything anyone had ever said to me there was also a mere line of dialogue wished up by the highest existence...

It felt like my heart was on the precipice of a limitlessly high cliff, ready to fall at any moment.

Although I knew that, logically, it couldn't be true―nor should it.

It just made me want to...

"Aren't you going to say something?" The Lord of the East asked, completely oblivious to my internal mental state.

"...Can you send me to another world?"

Fortunately, the Lord of the East didn't seem to enjoy beating around the bush.

"I do not possess such power. I once came from such a land, and in my pursuit of returning, I realised it was not possible for a lacking man such as myself. So, I now merely govern the land I call my new home."

"..."

It was a shallow story.

Since he couldn't fulfil my desire, I decided to leave promptly.

"Excuse me. Boy."

"?"

As I turned to Kolo Tjahn, the Lord abruptly called me. With the appearance of an ageing man and a life at least three dozen times as long, it wasn't surprising that he saw me as such.

Since he seemed to want nothing to do with a potentially dangerous outsider like me, I wondered what he had to say for a moment.

"If you are anything like me, you would have wished to go against greatness, to no avail."

"Yet, you will continue to oppose that greatness, even if failure is the only outcome."

"Once you meet face-to-face the wall that is unsurpassable, whether that has already occurred or will only occur in the future, you should think to yourself and understand."

"Is it worth it?"

"Ceaselessly bashing your head against the unsurpassable, unbreakable, immovable wall, will not result in success―it will only lead to a further diminishing of yourself and your being."

"So, if that ever happens, remember."

"It is fine to give in."

"It is fine to recognise that a wall is unsurpassable."

"It is fine to understand that some walls are not meant to be overcome."

The Lord of the East's words were of a much more profound and philosophical nature than I expected, but I listened until the end.

I couldn't deny that, for an ordinary person, what he said would stand a point.

However, for me, it wasn't so.

I didn't believe that something could be impossible for me; not anymore.

With Reality, if I encountered a wall, I could simply break it.

If that wall were unsurpassable, I would simply make it not so.

If it were unbreakable or immovable, I would just make it disappear.

So, whether the obstacle that was the highest existence was an unsurpassable wall or not, nothing could stand in my way.

"Ok."

And with that in mind.

"...Take me to the Necrotic Overlord."

I asked to visit the next Transcendent on the list.