Am I glowing?
Shin'un lowered his head and realized that his body had become semi-transparent, like a ghost floating in the air.
The light emanated from the translucent surface of his own body.
"How strange..."
At this thought, Shin'un could no longer hold on, and his consciousness gradually faded.
After an unknown amount of time—perhaps minutes, perhaps thousands of years— Shin'un opened his eyes again.
This time, in a daze, he felt himself floating at a considerable speed.
That's strange.
Even though it was completely dark around him and there were no landmarks, Shin'un had an intuitive feeling that he was floating forward.
He continued to drift in the darkness until he bumped into something in front of him.
In the darkness, Shin'un stretched out his hand with difficulty, groping forward.
Although he saw nothing but emptiness in front of him, the tangible sensation in his palm told him that a barrier had appeared before him.
Driven by some unknown force, Shin'un's body kept moving forward, causing it to continuously crash into the barrier.
Perhaps a few minutes passed, and Shin'un could no longer hold on, his consciousness fading away.
Eyes open, impact, unconsciousness.
Eyes open, impact, unconsciousness.
Eyes open, impact, unconsciousness...
Maybe it's the seventeenth time, maybe it's the eighteenth.
Shin'un opened his eyes, and the situation had changed.
Is it just my imagination?
Shin'un was somewhat puzzled, looking down at his glowing body.
"Why does it seem a little dimmer than when it first appeared?"
Shaking his head, Shin'un decided not to delve into the matter further.
Everything here was unknown to him, and he couldn't find the answers.
Shen Kumogakure heard a "pop" sound, though he didn't know how many times he had been hit while he was conscious.
The barrier remained intact, yet his body passed right through it.
The moment his gaze broke free from the barrier, the unchanging darkness and nothingness began to change.
Countless translucent spheres, both infinitely large and infinitely small, appeared before my eyes, as endless as water droplets in the ocean.
Above the endless ocean of translucent spheres, countless wisps of colorless mist drifted and moved between the spheres.
At the very top of this ocean composed of translucent spheres is an exceptionally large solid sphere, whose light illuminates the entire spherical ocean.
Turning his head, Shin'un looked behind him.
Sure enough, what I broke free from was also a semi-transparent sphere...
Opening his eyes, Shin'un was surprised to find his body moving towards a solidified sphere above the spherical ocean.
This time, as the distance to the solidified sphere above decreased, Shin'un discovered other details.
This spherical ocean is unstable; every now and then, a stream of light will emerge from one of the spheres and rush towards other spheres in the ocean, while some streams of light will rush towards the solidified sphere above.
Shin'un strained to open his eyes wide, trying to see what the stream of light was.
Among the dozens of streaks of light that flashed by, Shin'un could make out a few of them.
One of them was a hockey mask that looked somewhat familiar.
One is thousands of ragged, disemboweled humans who are still active.
One of them is a giant robot that is transforming from a truck into a humanoid form.
"These are all..."
Seeing these familiar things enveloped in the flowing light, Shin'un raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Before he could think about it further, he suddenly noticed something in the corner of his eye.
His body was approaching a wisp of colorless mist.
Having realized this, Shin'un had no intention of stopping his movement, nor could he stop.
Soon, under Shin'un's vigilant gaze, his body came into contact with this colorless mist.
In nothingness
The moment the colored mist touched him, Shin'un saw his body suddenly burst into a bright light.
Then.
"Bite!"
Suddenly, the sound of the skill panel rang in his ears. Shin'un's eyes widened. He felt like he was hallucinating.
Incredulous, Shin'un tried to bring up the skill editing panel.
The next moment, the familiar panel appeared, floating in front of Shin'un.
"This... it actually..."
Suppressing his inner elation, Shin'un thought of the voice he had just heard.
My gaze moved, quickly sweeping across the entire panel.
Skill Name: [Input Field]
Skill effect: [Input bar]
Equipped skills: [ Extreme Reaction ], [ Lightning Release Mastery ], [ Qi Sea ], [ Diligent Study ]. (Click on the skill name to view details.)
Loading: [ Bloodline Essence ] (Progress: 100%) (Click the skill name to load.)
"Hundred percent!"
Staring in astonishment at the progress bar for [ Bloodline Essence ], Shin'un was deeply shaken.
He remembered clearly that when he checked the progress bar yesterday, it had only loaded to eight percent.
Turning his head, Shin'un looked at the colorless mist slowly drifting beside him and understood something.
"When I first got the Skill Editor Skill Editor, I thought carefully about what kind of energy it used to generate skills."
"Could it be the power source for the Skill Editor?"
"And what is it?"
With some uncertainty in his mind, Shin'un turned to stare at the skill editing panel in front of him.
"Whether it's true or not, editing another skill will make it clear."
Looking at the input field on the panel, Shin'un had a thought and immediately began editing.
Skill Name: [ Eternally Indestructible ]
Skill effect: [Grants creatures permanent life.]
Regardless of the circumstances, the soul is immortal and remains conscious; even if the physical body is lost, it can regenerate through the soul.
After completing the skill he had come up with on the spot, Shin'un reviewed it again and then resolutely pressed the start loading button through his mind.
"Hmm? No response?" Z. br>
After pressing the "Start Loading" button, the panel did not display a message indicating that loading had begun.
Upon seeing this, Shin'un was taken aback. After a moment's thought, he looked at the panel again and seemed to vaguely discover the reason.
Loading: [ Bloodline Essence ] (Progress: 100%) (Click the skill name to install.)
"Could it be because [ Bloodline Essence ] hasn't been loaded yet, so it's still occupying the only progress bar?"
Thinking of this, Shin'un frowned in thought, but did not immediately load the skill.
Now, even if he were to guess, he could roughly figure out what the situation was.
First of all, he is probably already dead. The virus killed him and turned him, like everyone else, from a normal person into a monster that resembles a zombie.
He awoke in complete darkness after his death, seemingly existing as a spirit.
Then, after an unknown amount of time drifting, they encountered a barrier, and after an unknown amount of time colliding with the barrier, they found themselves here.
And he was different from those streams of light emerging from the translucent spheres.
The various streams of light emerging from the translucent spheres travel at extremely high speeds, able to emerge from one sphere and enter another in just a few seconds.
Unlike him, who leisurely floated towards the solidified sphere above the spherical ocean.
That's a summary of the information. While it may not be entirely accurate, Shin'un has roughly pieced together the situation in his mind.
"Those translucent spheres are stories, worlds."
Looking up, Shin'un gazed at the only solidified sphere above his head and said;
"And that one solid sphere is the world I came from before I transmigrated to—the real world!"