Emperor! Can You See Stats!?

Chapter 192: The True Enemy

“Conditions?”

For a moment, Eurius tried to look at the Emperor’s stat window.

[???]

[??? – Access Denied.]

But nothing was displayed. 

And as if piercing through his mind, the Emperor opened his mouth.

“Do you find it strange that you can’t see my stats?”

‘You know about my ability to see stats?’

Eurius’s face became more wary. 

Seeing his expression, the Emperor sighed.

“You should know. I was the one who gave you that ability and sent you to the past.”

“What?”

Eurius’s face twisted in shock. 

He couldn’t process the shocking truth.

“Is that true?”

“Ah! To be precise, I don’t have that power myself. It was done by the being who is cooperating with me.”

‘The Emperor from two hundred years ago, and the being who is cooperating with him?’

Eurius barely regained his composure. But he needed time to sort out his thoughts.

First of all, the one who sent him back to the past after he died was the Emperor Sharnos from two hundred years ago. Judging by the fact that he also gave him the ability to see stats, it was unlikely that he was lying.

And secondly, the Emperor was the leader of the Cult, or the Demon Church, who had been Eurius’s enemy all this time. But why did he do such a thing?

Eurius calmly opened his mouth. Unlike before, his tone was slightly polite.

“If what you say is true, then I should thank you.”

He had been a dead body in his previous life. 

After starting his second life, Eurius changed many things. Giving him such an opportunity was a great favor.

“But you mentioned conditions earlier. You revived me and gave me the ability to see stats for some purpose, right?”

“That’s right. You seem to have figured it out to some extent.”

The Emperor also put away his playful expression and nodded.

“I gave you the quest to come to this continent. Most of the things you experienced after your return were influenced by me.”

“…”

The Emperor slowly opened his mouth to Eurius, who remained silent.

“I want to go back to the world where I came from. And I need your help to do that. This is the condition I’m offering you.”

“…!?”

Eurius asked back with a bewildered expression.

“By the way, why are you still here? Didn’t all three players leave? Weren’t they gone two hundred years ago?”

He had seen in his flashback that the three players, including the Emperor, received a quest. 

He didn’t know the outcome, but at least in history, all the players disappeared two hundred years ago and peace returned to the continent.

Then they should have gone back to their original world as the reward ‘Return’ said.

“Huh…”

The Emperor sighed as if he wanted the ground to swallow him up.

“I couldn’t go back. So I’ve been trapped here for two hundred years.”

“Why?”

The Emperor gritted his teeth at Eurius’s question.

“Because of that wicked old man.”

“Old man?”

Eurius tilted his head in confusion. But the Emperor didn’t answer that question and switched to another topic.

“Don’t you think it’s strange? This is not a virtual space created by our world. It’s a complete and independent different world. I’m what you call a dimensional traveler.”

“Dimensional travel!”

Eurius also knew that word through the player’s knowledge. 

So this world was not a virtual space created by humans.

“But then how did I get the player’s ability?”

The ability to see stats was clearly an ability that only existed in games. 

How did the Emperor give him such an ability?

He answered clearly.

“It’s because my soul came into this world through the capsule.”

According to the Emperor, his coming to this world was nothing short of an accident.

The function of the virtual reality capsule that transferred consciousness, and the unheard-of ability of soul transference combined and sent his soul to a different world.

“And as I said before, I didn’t send you back to the past or give you stats. It wasn’t my power.”

“…!?”

Come to think of it, the Emperor said he had another collaborator. 

As if answering him, a black light began to spread from behind the Emperor’s back.

Pop!

The light seeped into the statue of the Emperor in the center of the temple. 

And then next moment, a voice identical to but thicker and kinder than the Emperor’s came out of the statue.

[I am Heimdall. The true god of this world.]

“God?”

[Greetings, Lord God!]

“Huh?”

Eurius looked at his waist with a puzzled expression. 

The golden dragon bowed to the statue with a golden light.

[Hurry up and show your respect to Lord God.]

“…”

The golden dragon was trembling with fear, clinging to Eurius. But Eurius looked at the statue and the Emperor with a blank expression and opened his mouth.

“How did this happen? A god?”

As far as he knew, there were only three cults in the continent that could use divine power. 

They were the three major cults of the Holy Kingdom. He had never heard of any other gods.

The statue answered right away.

[They are not gods.]

‘Not gods?’

“That’s right. The gods that the Holy Kingdom worships are not exactly gods. They are more like bugs that came along with the system.”

The Emperor supplemented the explanation. 

His system, which was linked to his consciousness, caused another problem when he flew into this world.

Odin, Medit, Mars

These three were not names of gods, but names of artificial intelligences that formed the core of the seventh-generation virtual machine. 

As his soul flew into this world, the artificial intelligences recognized this world as a kind of game and started to operate.

[At first, I thought they were just some peculiar beings.]

The statue spoke again. 

The three dimensional travelers were quite interesting beings even from the perspective of a god.

Moreover, the system that came along with them looked like a very convenient tool for him, who was a god from another world.

[So I created beings called players.]

So Heimdall, the original god who ruled this world, decided to give humans the ability to be players, imitating them.

[The human world was too noisy anyway.]

So Heimdall decided to use the humans from another world rather than expel them.

[Bring the humans from another world to the temple.]

Eurius finally realized what kind of place the temple where the three people gathered in his flashback was.

“So you gave the three players from another world a quest to pacify the troubled times?”

[That’s right.]

Heimdall’s intention hit the mark and the players were able to quickly calm down the chaotic continent.

In other words, except for the three people who came from another world, the other players were ordinary humans who were given the game system by the god’s power. 

Eurius, who had received the ability to see stats, was also clearly one of them.

“Hmm?”

Eurius had a question in his mind after thinking for a while. 

If the gods of the Holy Kingdom were fake and this Heimdall was the real god, why did he create an evil organization like the Demon Church or Cult?

And why did the current continent abandon the true god and worship the fake gods of the Holy Kingdom?

“Huh?”

Eurius found a slight contradiction and opened his mouth.

“Are you sure you gave me the quest?”

[Of course.]

[You have completed the main quest ‘The Dark Cloud over the Imperial Family’.]

[You have completed the quest ‘The Cult of the Forgotten God’.]

[Your achievement increases greatly.]

[Current achievement progress: 90%]

As Heimdall’s voice sounded, two quests that had been incomplete until now were completed at once.

“Huh?”

But Eurius looked at that message and became more puzzled.

[What’s wrong?]

“There’s one more quest left.”

[That can’t be.]

“No, it definitely exists.”

Eurius checked his stat window. 

He still had one quest left.

[Urgent Quest – The Call of the Holy Kingdom]

[The Call of the Holy Kingdom (Urgent) – Go to the Holy Kingdom. There are beings who are calling you. Time left: 23 days]