Void Gate and Myriad Worlds

The monotonous dream had finally changed.

Then—

The black billiard ball rolled on its own, straight toward the nearest pocket.

'Thud.'

The black billiard ball dropped into the pocket, leaving the billiard table at the center of the dream.

Suddenly—

Chu Yunyi calmed down. He realized that he could freely control this black billiard ball!

Under Chu Yunyi's control, the entirely black billiard ball, devoid of any markings, was lifted by an Invisible Force and brought before him.

Then—

As he approached the black billiard ball, a stream of information appeared in Chu Yunyi's mind.

[NO.001: [Void Gate]]

[Level: Black]

[Description: With this ability, whenever you turn the handle of any door, you can open a special passage leading to the [Void Gate]. The [Void Gate] connects to countless worlds, as well as every door in this world.]

[Note: The [Void Gate] can understand your intentions. State your request, and the [Void Gate] will do its best to fulfill it.]

[Warning: Remember to close the door...]

After receiving this information, Chu Yunyi's mind cleared, and he immediately felt as though he was about to wake up.

"!" Chu Yunyi's eyes snapped open as he looked at the scene before him.

The first thing he saw—

Was the bloated corpse of the Gluttony patient, still blocking the doorway.

The view outside the window had not changed. It seemed that Chu Yunyi had only passed out for a few seconds.

But—

Chu Yunyi no longer regarded that monochromatic Round Table Space as a simple dream.

The apocalypse had already broken out. Even if a blue robotic cat appeared before Chu Yunyi and told him it had come from the future to ask him to save the world, he would probably believe it.

Not to mention everything in the Round Table Dreamscape.

With that thought—

Chu Yunyi dragged and kicked until he finally shoved the Gluttony patient's corpse outside.

'Bang.'

The door quietly shut.

Gripping the doorknob, the tension in Chu Yunyi's heart flared up again. He had not felt this way in a long time.

When he was little, he believed that he was the only true protagonist in the world. If he died, the world would cease to exist.

As a teenager, he believed that one day he would awaken supernatural powers and save the world.

As a young man, he thought it was already good enough to have a full meal every day...

But now—

All those old hopes surged into his heart.

'Gulp...' Swallowing hard, Chu Yunyi slowly opened the door.

The instant he saw what lay beyond it, light filled Chu Yunyi's eyes.

"What the fuuuck...!"

What a bizarre sight lay outside the door.

The sky was a shade of azure, while beneath his feet stretched a boundless, tranquil expanse of water.

Countless doors stood arranged nearby, each with its own distinctive appearance.

Chu Yunyi stared blankly for a moment, then unconsciously stepped inside.

He entered this special space known as the [Void Gate].

'Bang.'

The door behind him slowly closed. Chu Yunyi glanced back at the old wooden door painted bright red.

Then he looked to his right.

The most eye-catching one was a grotesque door constructed from machinery and flesh.

Looking again—

A door entwined with green plants was equally conspicuous.

Chu Yunyi looked around.

A white stone door, an azure translucent door, a door formed from yellow arcs of electricity, a door made of moving eyeballs...

There were too many. Far too many.

Chu Yunyi could not take them all in.

And—

These doors seemed endless. Whenever Chu Yunyi walked a few more steps, several brand-new doors would appear out of thin air at the edge of his vision.

Chu Yunyi understood.

These doors appeared only within a certain range of his vision.

Otherwise, if all the doors appeared at once, no matter where he looked, he would see nothing but vast shadows formed by overlapping doors, unable to see anything else.

For now—

Chu Yunyi did not dare touch any doors that looked too bizarre, so he chose a relatively ordinary one.

It was a brown wooden door, with a cross-shaped wooden carving in its center.

"It looks so ordinary. What's behind it should be a little more normal, right?"

Thinking that, Chu Yunyi slowly opened it.

The moment he looked inside—

A ruined landscape rushed into view. Walls had collapsed, rubble lay scattered everywhere, and distant skyscrapers had already toppled over.

Then he listened—

Roars like those of wild beasts came from within, yet they sounded like the heart-rending cries of old men.

Looking again—

Not far away, a gaunt figure covered in blood vessels staggered toward Chu Yunyi.

Beside it stood dozens more people who looked much the same.

Like sharks scenting blood, they all turned toward the door Chu Yunyi had opened and began walking over.

Chu Yunyi had even been about to greet them.

But upon taking a closer look, he saw that their faces were colorless. Some even had their eyeballs bulging halfway out, while their mouths were filled with blood and decay.

"Fuck, they really are zombies!"

Chu Yunyi slammed the Brown Cross Door shut.

He was certain!

This door connected to a world full of zombies!

He had just dismissed the danger of zombies before. Well... that had come back to bite him, hadn't it?

At that moment, Chu Yunyi still found his ability hard to believe. Everything felt dreamlike and unreal.

He had merely killed a Gluttony patient.

Yet his Round Table Dreamscape had changed, and he had even gained this absurdly powerful ability known as the [Void Gate].

The feeling was no different from casually buying a lottery ticket and winning one hundred seventy million after taxes.

It was too surreal. Chu Yunyi needed a moment...

But as the old saying went:

—Since he was already here.

Chu Yunyi quickened his pace and arrived before the Mechanical and Flesh Door. He thought:

The ordinary-looking door led to a zombie world. Maybe this terrifying door leads to an ordinary world?

With that thought, Chu Yunyi opened the door.

'Bang!'

'Bang!'

The door had barely opened before he slammed it shut again.

He had only taken one glance, yet it felt as though ten thousand years had passed!

Beyond the door—

A gigantic Flesh Planet floated in the sky, while the ground below was a sea of crimson, as if it had been stained red with blood.

The instant Chu Yunyi opened the door, the massive Flesh Planet in the sky moved.

Its flesh, stretching for thousands of kilometers, split apart in an instant, and a terrifying pupil snapped open.

That horrifying Flesh Eye—

It was countless times larger than the moon, and it immediately locked onto Chu Yunyi, the one who had opened the door!

After looking for only an instant, Chu Yunyi shut the door almost on instinct.

And now—

'Thump.'

'Thump...'

'Thump...!'

As though belatedly catching up, Chu Yunyi's heart began hammering violently.

"What the hell was that?!" Chu Yunyi exclaimed in shock.

Looking at the countless doors around him, Chu Yunyi no longer felt even a trace of curiosity. He had absolutely no desire to open another door.

This was getting a little too terrifying.

Behind the most ordinary door was a world teeming with zombies.

Behind the Mechanical and Flesh Door he had just opened hung a bizarre fleshy eye in the sky, countless times larger than the moon.

For the time being, Chu Yunyi did not want to open any of the other doors.

He returned to the red-painted wooden door and was just about to slowly open it.

Then—

Chu Yunyi did not immediately turn the doorknob.

He remembered that the [Void Gate] seemed to connect to every door in the world.

That meant...

"I want to go to America's national treasury!"

The next moment—

The doorknob turned, just like Doraemon's Anywhere Door.

The door opened.