That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 254

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Chapter 254

‘It’s time to fight.’

Time to beat Coriko to a pulp just like Mother did!

I was slapping my cheeks, trying to snap back to my senses, naturally expecting to return to my fully grown body…

[System] You who will face the most difficult and treacherous battle among all successors of Beta Crucis throughout history!

New options are provided to you facing the highest difficulty!

1. Return directly to the Grand Temple as you are. (10% chance of winning the battle)

2. Spend 999,999,999 coins to stay for 1 more hour. (50% chance of winning the battle)

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[System] What will you choose?

I was waiting for more options to appear, but was dumbfounded when it ended just like that, my eyes widening in shock.

‘Is… is this highway robbery?’

Taking that many coins and the probability is only 50%?

Are you kidding me?

If I didn’t have infinite coins, I would have had to return to the Real World with only a 10% chance and fight those lunatics?

I shouted for now.

‘Number 2!’

[System] You have selected option 2.

[System] During the additional 1 hour stay, ‘The Reason They Risk Their Lives for You’ will be played.

[System] 999,999,999 coins will be consumed!

‘So they wanted me to stay 1 more hour because that’s how long the playback takes.’

Even so, the number of coins being consumed was dizzying beyond belief. Even with infinite coins, it was the same.

Just as I was trembling with clenched fists.

Beep!

A warning sound filling my ears.

I was startled. Though I’d had countless exchanges with the System Window, this was the first time it made a direct warning sound.

Was it because I was currently in soul form? Or.

Had something serious happened?

[System] An error is occurring in the system!

[System] An error is occurring in the system!

[System] An error is occurring in the system!

Bright red text filled my vision. The beeping warning sound didn’t stop either.

‘What is this. What’s going on.’

I stared wide-eyed, not knowing what to do like someone aboard a spaceship about to crash.

[System] The System Window is being attacked by the Fanatics’ magic!

[System] Under attack!

[System] Under attack! Being attacked being attacked attack! Attack attack attack! Attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack being attacked under attack!

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[System] The Fanatics’ attack is causing errors in the System Window.

The text that had been full of errors gradually returned to normal and displayed something absurd.

[System] 3 Male Protagonists will die randomly.

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“Gasp!”

I shuddered and bolted upright. But my surroundings were desolately empty.

‘Prison…’

Why a prison? Still?

I reflexively looked down at my hands, but this time they weren’t baby hands.

However, they weren’t Lady’s long slender hands either. They were much rougher and above all, younger…

‘Ten years old? About nine?’

“And I can speak too…”

When I was in soul form, no matter what I did, my voice wouldn’t come out.

Where exactly is this place.

What about the System Window?

I quickly raised my head. Fortunately, Kim Ddongbyeol was floating leisurely above my head.

Finally feeling relieved, the moment I looked around.

“…Benjamin?”

How panicked must I have been. I hadn’t even noticed that young Benjamin was trembling beside me.

Benjamin’s face, smaller and thinner than my current self, was covered in wounds. His skin was pale as lead, as if he hadn’t seen sunlight for a long time.

“Tulia, are you okay? Tulia…”

He barely managed to embrace me. I could feel Benjamin’s thin body completely.

‘It’s the past. This is also the past.’

However, it was a past from a different time than before.

‘But what does showing me this past have to do with winning probability? This crazy System Window, idiot, stupid dog, fool, moron…’

As if it couldn’t stand me cursing internally.

[System] ‘The Reason They Risk Their Lives for You’ is now playing!

The System Window displayed text in the air as if telling me to shut up.

I was afraid it might be full of errors like before, but fortunately this time it was normal rainbow colors.

[System] The Divine Power of the Entire Continent is already in a depleted state.

[System] The High Priests learned that their god had weakened.

[System] Fearing they would no longer be revered by Believers, the High Priests began researching Brainwashing Magic.

[System] The result of that research is the System Window.

‘…What?’

The System Window was Brainwashing Magic?

Created by the Grand Temple?

I frowned.

‘This is also the first time I’m hearing that the Divine Power of the Entire Continent was depleted. No one ever said such a thing.’

Of course, the Grand Temple must have intentionally hidden it.

‘Could it be….’

A sudden thought came to mind.

‘Ferdinand too, for that reason?’

It was famous that Empress Olivia had spent an enormous amount of money pouring divine power to save Ferdinand in her womb.

Was that also why the High Priests had been treating Ferdinand well all this time?

The person who uniquely possessed a large amount of depleted divine power.

That was Ferdinand.

‘It’s possible. That crazy High Priest said Ferdinand being dragged to the Summer Continent was also thanks to the High Priests’ help, right?’

If they truly cared for Ferdinand, they could never have done such a thing.

So the High Priests must have cherished Ferdinand like a savings account containing their last deposit!

[System] The High Priests’ ultimate goal.

[System] That is to apply this system window to all people and receive their eternal obedience and submission.

[System] Also, to abandon the declining god and create a new god ‘Animus’ so they themselves can be directly respected as god’s representatives.

‘These bastards, this is just a cult!’

[System] What was needed for this brainwashing magic was children’s blood, and the power of the Star Sacred Tree Beta Crucis.

[System] The High Priests conspire with the heretic priests to create a saint who is a complete replica of the Sacred Tree Successor.

At the same time, past events were shown like a video.

The first thing I saw was none other than Coriko.

Coriko with her real face, not Han Ina or Tulia.

[System] That saint is precisely Coriko.

Coriko sat in the highest place with heretics beneath her feet. Strangely, she mercilessly scratched her own face with her fingernails.

Long nail marks remained and blood dripped from the wounds, but Coriko just smiled brightly as if she felt no pain at all.

That smile was Coriko’s beautiful smile that I could see no matter what happy ending I achieved in .

And.

‘That crazy human has me dead at her feet too….’

Since Tulia was always the villain who died in . Where her corpse went after she died was never shown.

I had never been curious about it either.

That corpse was ultimately offered to Coriko and served its purpose as a sacrifice like that….

[System] As regression repeated countless times, sometimes errors occurred where Tulia from outside this world was dragged in.

[System] Just like right now.

“Now.”

At the same time the video flowing in the ritual was cut off.

“It’s time to perform today’s ritual as well.”

The cold reality was laid out before my eyes again.

The heretic priests who had suddenly entered this prison where I was with Benjamin smiled cruelly.

Then my eyes widened. They were frantically beating Benjamin with cold leather whips.

“Benjamin!”

I was startled and tried to run to him, but other priests had already restrained me.

“What are you doing? Are you crazy?”

“…It’s always like this, but your mouth seems a bit rough today?”

‘Always like this?’

The priest giggled.

“That mistreated prince bastard kept drinking your blood and became able to use the Sacred Tree’s power, didn’t he? Look at that thin and useless protection barrier.”

As the priests said, a protection barrier as thin as butterfly wings was trembling and glowing around Benjamin’s body. But it was so fragile it couldn’t even properly defend against whips.

“This is all your fault. You should have just let him starve moderately. No matter how hungry that pathetic thing was, what’s the point of sharing your blood with him?”

“Tsk tsk. That prince’s mother was also a descendant of the Summer Continent’s most famous mage. We need to use him as a sacrifice, but because of your wishy-washy sympathy, he’s in a position to suffer even more.”

I looked at Benjamin who was dripping blood but curled up his body and didn’t scream even once.

“So, you’re going to beat Benjamin until that protection barrier tears?”

“That’s the only way we can partially tear your protection barrier. Ah. O successor of Beta Crucis. How strong the Sacred Tree’s protection barrier surrounding you is…. Only by offering sacrifices in turn like this can we weaken the protection barrier surrounding you.”

The priests with glazed eyes were like addicts intoxicated by the Sacred Tree’s power.

“Right. So you’re beating Benjamin because you need my blood, right now? Because you can’t extract my blood due to the protection barrier?”

“Beating, you say. It’s a sacred ritual…. Gah!”

Before he could finish speaking, the priest rolled around. The priests had only bound my arms, overlooking the fact that my two legs were free.

After kicking their stomachs, I immediately kicked the bastards beating Benjamin too.

I laughed in disbelief and gritted my teeth.

“You need the successor’s blood?”

So that’s why you beat Benjamin like that? That’s why you’ve been beating him for so long?

“There’s no need for that. I’ll give it to you directly.”

I quickly looked around, but none of them had blades.

So there was only one way to give blood.

“A woman should have spirit. Right.”

It’s my fate and my life anyway.

“Watch carefully, you dirty and despicable bastards.”

I charged straight at the iron bars and slammed my head against them.

Ring-.

My vision turned red.

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