The Lord Who Levels Up by Devouring - Chapter 238

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Chapter 238. Success Rate 0% (2)
Hidden Quest, [Success Rate 0%].
I had to draw 0.5 from between 0 and 1.
This quest truly had a success rate of 0%, just as the title suggested.
Of course, 0.5 existed somewhere within this hexahedron.
But drawing exactly 0.5 was an entirely different matter.
The numbers between 0 and 1 are infinite.
And that infinity was greater than aleph-null.
Uncountable infinity.
In other words, an infinity that could not be enumerated.
“What did Iliana say again?”
-Beth 1 (ℶ₁), she called it.
…I think that was it.
Simply put, there are more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are natural numbers.
Therefore, the probability was 1 / ∞
0%.
“Hmm.”
But surely that couldn’t be right.
There was no way I’d been given a quest with a true success rate of 0%.
I drew numbers from the hexahedron randomly and haphazardly.
【0.7541512516121242…12412】
【0.99815798105713292…2】
【0.135013205132095…924】
【0.673921838531…2909】
.
.
.
…Not a single one came close.
I clenched my teeth.
As I continued drawing numbers, the hexahedron continued spewing out new ones.
【0.28495301250129491…593】
【0.4122919252912009】
【0.00000175212…218】
.
.
.
Still far from 0.5.
The numbers continued endlessly.
And drawing exactly 0.5 was impossible.
But was it truly impossible? Well, that was debatable.
“So this is what the infinite monkey theorem was about.”
[If a monkey randomly struck magical rune tablets for an infinitely long time, could it eventually create perfect duplicates of every book in the Langritd Magic Tower?]
That was essentially the hypothesis.
And the question it posed was this:
[If something is repeated infinitely, can even the impossible become reality?]
Iliana’s answer to this hypothesis was:
-It’s possible.
It was possible.
-As long as the condition of infinity is met, eventually it will absolutely be possible to create perfect duplicates of every book in the Langritd Magic Tower.
However.
-No one can know when that will happen.
It was something that would occur only after infinite time had passed—literally.
It was no different from being practically impossible.
But even if something seems absolutely impossible, if there exists even the slightest possibility, that thing will inevitably be realized.
“Don’t tell me they actually gave me a Quest with 0% probability.”
Believing there had to be some trick, I continued drawing numbers between 0 and 1 from within the hexahedron.
* * *
How many had I drawn?
By my reckoning, several days had passed.
But I couldn’t be certain.
I barely felt the passage of time, and time flowed strangely in this place anyway.
In any case, by my measure, several days had elapsed.
During that long period, the quantity of numbers I’d drawn was staggering.
In the process, I discovered several patterns.
First, the initial pattern:
“The numbers I draw don’t return into the hexahedron.”
The number of possibilities decreased by however much I drew.
“But what does that even mean?”
…It didn’t really mean anything.
The count of numbers between 0 and 1 was Beth-one (ℶ₁).
Infinite.
Whether I subtracted 1,
or 1,000,
or hundreds of quintillion, or any other astronomical number,
the count of numbers between 0 and 1 remained Beth-one (ℶ₁).
In other words, still infinite.
Therefore, the probability remained 1 / ∞
Unchangingly 0%.
I sighed and continued drawing numbers from within the hexahedron.
Then, suddenly.
【0.50000000000000…】
Numbers materialized before my eyes.
An endless string of zeros.
No other digit intruded among them.
“As expected.”
There was no way Mungu would have given me a Quest with a 0% success rate.
I braced myself firmly for the commotion that would soon erupt from him.
But then.
“Why isn’t there any reaction?”
I checked the number again and again.
【0.50000000…000…000…】
The zeros still stretched on infinitely.
No other digit had intruded.
0.5 was definitely correct.
Yet nothing was happening at all.
“Could it be…?”
A thought struck me in that instant.
I immediately activated Weakness Hunting [M].
Fortunately, Ian’s abilities and skills functioned normally even here.
◆Fusion Skill, Weakness Hunting [M] activated!
In that moment.
The number before my eyes began to appear entirely different.
Between one decimal place and another.
A gap that shouldn’t exist became visible.
【0.5 + ϵ】
An infinitesimal difference.
That minuscule number had existed.
“…This is maddening.”
Yet that was no different from 0.5.
No, it’s more than just no different.
It’s simply 0.5.
But mercilessly, the Quest remained uncleared.
==[Success Probability 0%]==
[Objective] – Draw the number 【0.5】
[Reward] – Inventory Function Enhancement and Escape from Valley of Kardun
[Rejection] – ※Error※
“So I need to draw exactly 0.5.”
In that sense, it was merely a finite limit.
In other words, from my perspective, it was merely indistinguishable from 0.5.
But from the perspective of infinitesimals?
It wasn’t exactly 0.5.
It was merely one of the numbers close to 0.5.
Therefore, the second rule.
Infinitesimals exist in this place.
Which meant that even a difference of one infinitesimal from 0.5 wouldn’t work.
“…This is driving me insane, truly.”
I exhaled a long sigh and placed my hand back into the hexahedron.
* * *
Several more days had passed.
Fortunately, the Valley of Kardun didn’t require me to eat.
It was a peculiar space where I could endure without sleeping.
As if the flow of time itself had been severed.
Neither hunger nor drowsiness came to visit.
Thanks to that, I could focus solely on drawing numbers from the hexahedron.
Again and again.
Hundreds of times, thousands of times, tens of thousands of times.
【0.27149825121…】
【0.93412125156993…】
【0.5000000000000…9】
【0.499999999999…3】
【0.9999999999999…】
.
.
.
“The success rate is truly 0%?”
I collapsed onto the ground in despair.
A success rate of 0%.
An event that doesn’t exist.
And a future that will never come to pass.
In other words, my escape probability was 0%.
“….”
I was left speechless.
I sat there listlessly, staring at the hexahedron.
“…Let me exercise instead.”
If I didn’t do something, my mind would shatter.
Of course, with the Successor’s Will [EX], I wouldn’t actually go mad.
I forced myself to stand up.
Ian’s abilities and skills were functioning normally.
While I didn’t need to eat, replenishing the nutrients necessary for training was a different matter.
“Fortunately, my inventory is working normally too.”
Replenishing nutrients posed no problem.
“It was wise to pack generously in preparation for situations like this.”
Still, I hadn’t brought an infinite supply.
These were finite resources that would eventually be depleted.
I couldn’t afford to waste them unnecessarily.
“Let me keep it light.”
I pressed my palms firmly against the ground and bent my arms.
A simple push-up.
One, two, three…
And before I could count four, a deep rumble echoed!
The gravity suddenly twisted.
As if the valley itself recognized that I was exercising, it responded in kind.
The crushing pressure doubled, tripled, and soon became so immense it threatened to grind my entire body into the earth.
“Ugh!!”
My bones screamed in protest.
My body was pinned flat against the ground.
My arms trembled, and the earth beneath my palms began to crack with a sharp sound.
“Grrgh…!!”
I gritted my teeth and endured.
Still, it was far more bearable than Srandel’s Gravity Training Ground.
I barely managed to push my body upward.
“Hah…! Hah…!”
My entire body felt shattered.
I caught my breath for a moment, allowing my body to settle.
That’s when it happened.
The torn muscles instantly reconstructed themselves.
“…I didn’t even use a regeneration skill?”
Yet the torn muscles reattached on their own.
That wasn’t all.
Even the ruptured blood vessels were completely restored.
The pain and fatigue rapidly vanished.
And my Strength stat climbed higher.
◆Your Strength stat increases by +41!
“…??”
My head tilted in confusion.
The growth efficiency here was several times better than Srandel’s Gravity Training Ground.
“The gravity multiplier itself was higher in the training ground, though?”
Yet the Strength gains here were far superior.
Moreover, I hadn’t even used Regeneration [B+].
And still, my body recovered on its own.
This defied all conventional logic.
“Though I suppose this place isn’t meant to be explained by conventional logic anyway.”
It was certain that something was operating here in multiple ways.
I examined my surroundings carefully.
And soon enough.
I could discern the reason.
“Ah, could it be…?”
This was the Valley of Kardun.
More specifically, Death’s Sanctuary.
And even more specifically, the very heart of the Sanctuary.
Using the Man’s expression from back then, it was ‘a place that had reached the essence of death’.
But there was one difference from that time.
“Is it the power of circulation?”
Death was currently being interpreted as circulation.
Accordingly, death bore the nature of ‘return’ rather than ‘finality’.
“It seems the power of death has been healing me.”
More precisely, it was the power of nature.
Death was originally part of nature, and the force flowing through this place now was a form that maximized death’s natural cyclical properties.
“So that’s why I didn’t need to eat or sleep.”
The power of nature was restoring my life force.
After a moment’s thought, I bent my finger.
The bone snapped.
A sharp pain flared instantly.
But it was repaired in a flash, as if nothing had happened.
“As expected.”
Death as circulation was rebirthing everything anew.
“Wait, if that’s the case…?”
I tensed my legs.
I kicked off the ground and began to sprint.
With each push against the earth, I was propelled several meters forward.
My stamina depleted rapidly.
My breathing quickened sharply.
And then.
With each breath, my lung capacity increased.
Oxygen absorption at the cellular level skyrocketed.
Blood vessels spread more densely throughout my body, and my heart pumped blood with greater force than before.
“…What is this?”
It wasn’t mere recovery.
Rather than fatigue and wounds being healed, they were being replaced with a stronger, more resilient form.
In other words, being reborn anew through death as nourishment—.
“Evolution?”
Evolution.
The process of natural selection repeated at an extreme velocity, and with each cycle, my body underwent evolution into an increasingly ‘optimized organism’.
Valley of Kardun.
A space where infinite death’s power was interpreted as nature’s cycle.
This place was an infinite training ground where calories were supplied without limit—
◆Your Stamina stat increases by +101!
…an ‘infinite evolution chamber’ that pushed even biological limits toward infinity.

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