Chapter 257
The Game Difficulty Is Insane
Glenn and Tris were quietly heading toward the reception room of the Wordsworth mansion.
Normally, the siblings would have exchanged all kinds of conversations.
But right now, only silence filled the hallway.
Step, step-
A sudden visitor.
And a younger brother who had something to do with that woman.
Tris had many things she wanted to ask, but as she watched Glenn's serious expression, she couldn't bring herself to speak.
“……”
She simply kept her mouth shut and continued walking.
“She is waiting inside.”
In the silence filled with a strange tension, the two siblings arrived at the reception room.
Fred, the butler, opened the door and stepped aside.
Glenn took a large step forward and looked at the visitor inside the reception room.
His brows soon furrowed.
“Was I mistaken…?”
At first, when he heard that a woman with an unusual appearance had come to see him, Glenn seemed to have someone in mind.
However, when he actually saw the woman beyond the reception room door, his expression changed as if she wasn't the person he had been thinking of all along.
But the woman was different.
She suddenly stood up.
The beautiful woman with silver-gray hair and eyes was wearing a unique, flowing outfit.
And she clearly recognized Glenn.
“Ah…”
Her silver-gray pupils trembled violently.
When her eyes met Glenn's, the woman hesitated for a moment.
Then she began walking toward him.
At first, she moved cautiously.
But as if gradually gaining courage, her steps became faster.
Eventually, she threw herself into the arms of the motionless Glenn.
“Glenn?!”
“H-Huh…?”
The woman's sudden embrace caught Glenn off guard as well.
“I'm sorry… I'm really sorry…!”
“Hmm?”
That was all the woman said.
The question in Glenn and Tris's eyes only deepened.
Tris looked at Glenn, but Glenn also wore an expression that said he had no idea what was going on.
“You don't… know her, do you?”
“No.
I've never seen her before…”
At that moment, Glenn looked at the tearful woman in his arms.
Then he noticed the golden ring drawn inside her silver-gray pupils.
His expression changed.
“You…”
Glenn sat across from the silver-gray-haired woman in the reception room of the Wordsworth mansion.
He had sent out all the servants, Butler Fred, and even Tris.
Therefore, only the two of them remained in the reception room.
“I'm sorry… I suddenly hugged you and said that.
I must have surprised you.”
“It would be even more surprising if you were a god.”
Glenn spoke while looking at the golden ring in her pupils, the symbol of a god's eyes.
‘As I thought… there is only one.’
The eyes of a god that could see through the essence of things normally contained two golden concentric circles.
The gods Mors and Mirmias whom Glenn had met in the past had possessed the same eyes.
But the reason there was only one golden circle in the goddess's eyes before him wasn't because she wasn't a god.
‘It's because Symposion has fallen to the mortal world, causing her to lose half of her power.’
The Paradise War.
The biggest change caused by the final event of the original scenario was the shutdown of the Laws of Heaven, which granted power and authority to the heavenly gods.
In the setting, this was probably the game company's intention to place restrictions on gods who were otherwise far too powerful for players to defeat.
In fact, there had once been an incredible incident where a player used a bug to enter Symposion, only for their character and save data to disappear there.
Considering that, it was likely intentional.
Now that the Paradise War had begun, every god who appeared throughout the mortal world would be about half as strong as they had been in Heaven.
Of course, even with half their power gone, they were still powerful enough to easily crush most nine-star beings.
Anyway.
“So… what business does a goddess who has fallen to the mortal world have with me, that you came here in such a hurry?”
Glenn looked at the goddess.
Honestly, when he heard that the Paradise War had begun and a strangely dressed woman had come to his mansion, he had thought she was Minis.
But the one who had come to see him was an unfamiliar god whom he had never even seen in the original story.
“……Before that, I should introduce myself.
My name is Silperinne.
I wield the power of the Unknown and Variables.”
“You probably don't know much about me…
Because I don't exist in Gray Eden.”
At that moment, Glenn's pupils widened.
A completely unexpected word had come out while she was introducing herself.
“W-Wait… What did you say?!”
Gray Eden.
The goddess Silperinne had clearly said it.
But shouldn't someone from this world have absolutely no knowledge of the word Gray Eden?
‘People don't call the world they live in Gray Eden…’
The continent where humans and demons constantly fought, and where various other races lived, was called Crisuus.
The gods of Symposion simply called the mortal world the mortal world, distinguishing it from Heaven, where they lived.
Therefore, as far as Glenn knew, there was only one kind of existence that could describe this world as Gray Eden.
A player.
“You… you… what…”
“……”
Silperinne fell silent.
Then she lowered her eyes with a bitter expression.
In those few seconds, Glenn's thoughts accelerated more than ever.
“I have so much to tell you.
But I think the least I can do is say this first…
I'm sorry for coming to you so late, Saint725.”
Glenn's heart sank.
For a moment, it felt as if time had stopped.
Saint725.
That had been the account name Seong Yo-hwan used on the Gray Eden community site.
The moment he heard that long-forgotten username, the chaotic thoughts in his mind suddenly became organized.
『Saint725.
You're getting tired of Gray Eden by now, aren't you?
Would you like to try a mission?』
Fragments of memories filled his mind.
『There's a way to play Gray Eden in a more fun and difficult way.
Would you like to try it?』
『If you clear it, I'll grant you any wish you want.』
『All you have to do is press the "Enter" button below.』
『It's an honor to have you with us, Player Saint725.
Have a wonderful time.』
‘No way…
That message back then…!’
