Chapter 22: A-XX The Portrait of a Dismantled God (1)

The smell, the density, the temperature.

When I first entered Area A of the Extraction Hall, the first thing I doubted was the air.

The density of the air made my throat ache and my lungs feel crushed.

Everything was completely different from any area I had seen before.

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I noticed it every time I breathed.

A space operating under different laws, a different world, different rules.

‘It’s definitely different.’

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The white floor was smooth and cold, but at some point it stopped feeling like metal.

It was like walking on living skin.

The sensation at the tips of my feet began to feel strange.

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‘I feel like something has entered my body.’

Beneath my slightly slipping feet, a subtle vibration spread out, something I did not feel with my body but directly in my eardrums.

Squish. attic Squish.

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Some glorious light descended from somewhere.

And yet what I was walking on was flesh and blood.

But even among all of them, this place stood above everything else.

Since joining this company, I had seen all kinds of grotesque things.

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My neck trembled involuntarily.

“Ah… that smell.”

It also felt like crossing a scarlet jungle.

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Sticky sweetness.

A strange odor struck my nose.

Rusting iron.

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“Mr. timber Haeil.”

The fermented smell that rises from the fur of a dead animal.

The traces of countless dimensional entities I had encountered so far mingled together and brushed against my nostrils.

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Even somewhat reassuring.

Familiar.

A voice came from my left.

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It was Assistant Manager Son.

“Stop looking around everywhere. palette If you don’t want your head to burst, keep your eyes straight ahead. legend Relying too much on a prototype can come back to bite you.”

Though it was still grotesque and scraped at something inside me.

His voice sounded calm but firm from that distinctive fist-shaped head.

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It wasn’t a joke.

Nor was it a warning.

I sensed sincerity in his words.

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I forced my neck to stop turning from side to side.

It was concern.

I pressed my lips together.

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And above it, bluish-green leaves swaying slowly.

A nape made of solid bark.

And I focused only on the back of Director Mok, who was walking in front of me.

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‘That’s it. abstract Don’t look at anything. aluminum Don’t listen to anything. portal Don’t feel anything.’

From the containment room on the left, I felt something shudder.

From the one on the right, I sensed a low vibration crawling through the air.

I repeated it like a mantra as I walked.

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The disconnect was monstrous.

My brain was screaming.

But my heart beat calmly.

I could feel the Relics of the Smiling Martyr pulsing on my wrist, devouring my fear with a constant coldness.

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My lungs were dry.

I took several more steps.

I heard my own breathing escaping slowly from my mouth.

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No one spoke.

My heart alternated between racing and falling asleep.

Sweat ran down my back.

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Not even Supervisor Shik.

And little by little, I understood what this place truly meant.

Even that enormous, heavy existence, which supposedly belonged to a completely different species, remained silent.

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Covered in an incomprehensible mass of flesh and blood impossible to classify.

Bright.

Red.

“We’ve arrived.”

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With Manager Myeon’s words, everyone stopped.

It was not metal.

The door before us was completely different from the other containment rooms.

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Nor reinforced alloy.

Nor glass.

‘Bones?’

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A door made from hundreds of layers of intertwined bones.

Twisted.

Bone fragments belonging neither to humans nor beasts.

Walls of white bones driven like nails into a gleaming mass of bloody flesh.

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Growing over one another.

As if they had been welded together.

That boundary seemed alive.

Fused.

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And I was genuinely surprised to discover that something so majestic could be built from bones alone.

I bit my lip reflexively.

‘So this is a Grade A containment room.’

The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth and brought me back to my senses.

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Director Mok spoke my name quietly.

“Employee Jeong Haeil.”

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Beyond that door was a Grade A dimensional entity.

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The one hanging farthest at the edge like a drop of dew.

One of them.

Beyond his bark-covered forehead, the bluish-green leaves began to sway slowly.

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Tap.

Although there was no wind at all, the leaf floated slowly toward me.

Fell.

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Held the leaf between two fingers.

He simply raised a hand.

Director Mok said nothing.

And stopped in front of my eyes.

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And with a motion as gentle as a breeze.

“Ah… thank you.”

A refreshing sensation spread through me.

Brought it to my eyes.

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It was cold.

Or rather, the sensation of dew hidden deep within a forest.

It wasn’t pain.

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Between my ribs.

It spread through the inside of my skull.

That coolness entered through my eyes.

Down my spine.

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Supervisor Shik’s claws.

The feeling of stability increased.

To the tips of my fingers and toes.

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Assistant Manager Son’s head.

Manager Batori’s tentacles.

Manager Myeon’s mask.

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‘Even so, I’ve survived several weeks in this company.’

Assistant Manager Son had told me to pull myself together.

And more than a dozen Grade D dimensional entities.

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Shortly afterward, Director Mok carefully removed the now-withered leaf from my eyes.

But perhaps it was okay to get used to these things little by little.

As I thought that, the freshness of the leaf began to fade.

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No.

And the world changed.

I took a breath.

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The air was still the same.

The outlines became sharper.

The only thing that changed was the way I perceived the world.

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The colors became stranger.

It did not feel like I was seeing with my eyes.

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Director Mok spoke softly.

Not light.

“Employee Jeong Haeil. silence You should retain your sanity for approximately forty minutes.”

Waves.

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One of his faces smiled silently.

At the same time, Manager Myeon pointed beyond the window made of bones.

The green eyes within the wooden knots glistened with moisture.

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My breathing stopped.

Looked.

“Look.”

And I…

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No.

A god.

It was there.

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A gigantic sculpture formed from geometric muscular structures alternating between gold and ivory.

And at the same time, the dismantling of a god.

The form of a god.

The remains of something that had once been a god.

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It was so detailed.

That it seemed alive.

So immense.

Its body possessed the beauty, solemnity, and restrained perfection of a masterpiece by Michelangelo.

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It was broken.

But it was not perfect.

Shattered.

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Muscles.

And within the cracks.

Mutilated.

Something moved.

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Decomposed cellular tissues.

Strange objects embedded irregularly.

Internal organs.

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Something resembling crawling blood vessels filled the fissures like a viscous membrane.

The head.

The abdomen.

An arm.

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In every missing part, countless vitreous bodies were embedded.

Irises spinning like galaxies.

The back.

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Gazes that seemed to squeeze the heart.

All of those gazes looked at me.

Eyelids fluttering like flames.

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In a single instant.

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“…Ah.”

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I nearly fell to my knees.

My mouth became completely dry.

I could not breathe.

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It was beauty.

Terror.

My brain was incapable of interpreting that form.

Sacrilege.

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The Portrait of a Dismantled God.

An indescribable vastness swept through my insides.

And absolutism.

Fragments of an overwhelming existence.

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Broken, yet complete.

Dead, yet existing.

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Dismantled, yet alive.

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I could feel the Relics of the Smiling Martyr pulsing frantically on my wrist.

The Portrait of a Dismantled God.

When I first heard the name, it sounded exaggerated.

I had just gazed upon a god.

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But what stood before me was not an exaggeration at all.

Precise.

Rather, I felt that any other description would be meaningless.

It was gigantic.

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Grotesque.

And above all, it was alive.

Among the broken and shattered fragments twisted a blasphemous presence impossible to describe with the word life.

Sacred.

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“Grrr… haaa…”

Only after I tore my gaze away from that unholy and ominous existence could I once again perceive the presence of my superiors beside me.

Supervisor Shik exhaled slowly.

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He, who always observed his surroundings and measured the moods of others, closed his mouth and slowly lowered his body.

A monster covered in chains, claws, and dozens of teeth.

He did not even growl.

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Assistant Manager Son also lowered his head slightly.

“Hoo…”

It was an obvious display of intimidation.

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“Hoh, how interesting.”

Not everyone reacted the same way, however.

There was no trace left of the relaxed confidence with which he normally crossed his arms and spoke casually.

The five fingers atop his fist-shaped head twitched awkwardly, unsure of what to do.

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Manager Batori.

Not the slightest tremor ran through her fingertips.

Her pink eyes above pale skin simply observed the sculpture with curiosity.

Her movements remained elegant and perfectly refined.

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His green eyes blinked simultaneously.

Director Mok.

“I wondered what something at level ■ would be like, but now I no longer have to worry about that. alert There certainly seems to be no doubt about classifying it as a Grade A dimensional entity.”

He brought one of his roots close to the glass window and moved it through the air as though taking notes.

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Manager Myeon.

He cast a silent glance toward me.

One of his smiling faces watched me as he spoke.

“Employee Jeong.”

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“From here on, I will personally enter.”

Hiss—

The access door opened.

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Along with the sound of depressurization, the oppressive air of the containment room spilled outward.

Manager Myeon adjusted one sleeve with a hand and began walking slowly.

It was heavier than that of any other room I had seen.

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I watched him.

And finally entered that space.

“…”

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Or more precisely, I watched the existence before him.

The divine sculpture.

The crack in its shattered forehead.

‘Did it move…?’

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Its split cheek.

From there, something turned its head.

Its broken jaw.

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The flow of air twisted, and particles of light warped.

Without making a sound, a portion of space itself seemed to distort.

The face of the gigantic sculpture.

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Within the opening in its broken chest.

The figure that may once have been a god slowly turned its gaze toward Manager Myeon.

Those perfectly proportioned features.

From its back, abdomen, wrists, and ankles.

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Countless eyes twisted as they observed Manager Myeon.

Even from beneath its torn eyelids.

Hundreds of gazes.

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Without emotion.

Without individuality.

Without intention.

Only structures created to perceive.

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My hands felt as though they were breaking apart.

“…Ugh.”

I felt as though I could hear the sound of blood flowing.

My feet froze.

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He continued standing before that existence with a smile on his face.

Not even beneath hundreds of gazes did he retreat a single step.

And the most grotesque and terrifying thing of all was Manager Myeon.

My lungs expanded painfully.

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His attitude was calm and composed.

He slowly crossed both arms over his chest while observing the Portrait of a Dismantled God.

“It appears to possess biological tissues within an object-type exterior. crystal In such cases, it is classified as a hybrid entity.”

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Only a hint of curiosity.

Without the slightest trace of fear.

As though he were appraising an ancient statue.

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“It does not appear to possess particularly high physical aggression, but cases like this tend to be more dangerous. adapt Since they display less standardized responses, one should be especially cautious regarding the non-physical reactions of hybrid types.”

And familiarity.

A little amusement.

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Not like a pilgrim who had arrived at the ruins of a god.

Even inside the containment room, he continued explaining kindly.

He behaved like someone performing a routine task.

All I could do was nod and take notes in my notebook.

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But like the manager of a company inspecting an ordinary raw material.

A divinity refracted from beyond the cracks of the world.

Manager Myeon was truly confronting that thing.

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And before that monstrous, aberrant god, he stood with absolute calm.

A living void.

A collapsed form.

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