Chapter 14. Majesty From Another World (3)
[Divine-Grade Artifact activated: Tablet of Genesis 11.]
[The languages of all creation will be synchronized into 'one language.']
[Targets: Humans, Artifacts, Majesties, animals, and all living beings.]
The entire city shook.
The streets were in complete chaos.
People who had been fighting screamed at the same time.
“AAAAAH!”
Even animals changed.
Dogs and cats ran through the streets, crying out.
But now...
Their voices were understandable.
“Scared...”
“I'm scared...!”
There was no need for translation.
This was absolute synchronization.
[Divine-Grade Artifact activated: Tablet of Genesis 11.]
[The language of the world has been reorganized into 'one language.']
Golden waves spread beyond this worldline.
In distant dimensions...
Other Majesties simultaneously raised their heads.
Deep beneath a dark ocean...
Someone laughed quietly.
“A universal translator?”
The figure smiled.
“That'll be troublesome if you people can use it.”
Elsewhere...
Above a crimson desert...
A Majesty wearing a black veil tapped the Artifact inside their pocket.
“A tablet...”
“Genesis?”
They muttered.
“All I have to do is overwrite the record.”
Countless Majesties reacted.
And near the triumphal arch...
Mars O'Connell exploded.
“WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!”
The triumphal arch and the Genesis Tablet began humming violently against each other.
The citizens started speaking freely again.
Mars's face twisted.
“My control was broken?!”
Jooheon shouted.
“Now!”
“The translation issue is solved!”
“Don't waste this chance!”
The team looked toward the sky.
[Collision Risk: 30 seconds.]
Everyone watched tensely.
Then...
[Collision risk avoided.]
[Unified language has allowed the danger to be resolved.]
“Good.”
Jooheon grinned and placed a hand on Majesty Jaeha's shoulder.
“You made something pretty decent.”
Jaeha slapped his hand away and stepped back.
The waves of language spreading from the tablet could no longer be reversed.
“...I think we created something way too big.”
Not only humans...
Every living creature could now understand one another.
Was that really a good thing?
Jooheon laughed.
“Don't chicken out, bastard.”
He grinned.
“The best Artifacts are always made when you're greedy enough.”
“That's not the problem.”
“Then what is?”
“The Artifact is too powerful.”
Jaeha looked unsettled.
“It became an Artifact that works across other worldlines too.”
That was why he was shocked.
I've never created anything like this before.
All he had done was apply the story Seo Jooheon gave him.
Yet it had produced an Artifact with this kind of power.
He couldn't help looking at Seo Jooheon strangely.
What the hell is this bastard?
He had expected Jooheon to be exceptional from the beginning.
But this had surpassed his predictions.
Meanwhile...
“Damn it!”
Mars O'Connell's face twisted.
“Why isn't my Artifact working?!”
Standing on top of the triumphal arch, he activated his conqueror's declaration.
“All conquered people shall bow their heads!”
“Obey the will of the conqueror—”
Nothing happened.
His command disappeared into the air.
The citizens...
The team...
Everyone simply tilted their heads.
“...What's going on?”
Mars's eyes shook.
Then Jooheon stepped forward.
His smile was cold.
“History is written by the victors.”
“...What?”
“Conquerors and conquered people are what give conquest meaning.”
Jooheon continued.
“Language is the same.”
“Language has hierarchy too.”
“But...”
He tapped the stone tablet.
“What happens if everyone becomes equal through the exact same language?”
The tablet shone.
[The languages of all creation are synchronized into one language.]
[All beings become equal.]
The sky rumbled.
The earth shook.
Citizens began shouting.
“We are equal.”
“Equal.”
“Equal.”
At that moment...
The triumphal arch screamed.
BOOM!
Cracks tore through the massive red arch.
Jooheon smiled.
“As expected from a Hero-Grade Artifact.”
“It doesn't just have its basic ability.”
“It has additional characteristics.”
The red arch shook in pain.
Even the words carved into its surface...
'Won.'
'Conquered.'
'Subjugated.'
...fell to the ground like bloody tears and disappeared.
Jooheon smiled among the crumbling stones.
“Conquest feeds on differences.”
“Upper and lower.”
“Ruler and ruled.”
“There must be hierarchy for conquest to have meaning.”
He tapped the tablet again.
Light spread throughout the city.
