Hey, are you sure?　The labyrinth, two of them have been captured. And in a fairly short period of time.
''.........It's true that hundreds of years have already passed since the establishment of the labyrinth, but it was the capture of the sixth labyrinth right after the first capture. The situation is not good.......I would like to say that the situation is not good......but we are already achieving our goal. There's no problem with you capturing the rest of the labyrinth.
''Hmm. Well, as long as they don't capture the seventh labyrinth, it won't be a problem.
Yes. Yes.


　One room, all white. A man and a woman were talking to each other there.

　The woman's appearance is pure white, semi-long hair and a large black robe. Her face is well-defined. The man also has short hair, but this one also has white hair. However, his face is not similar to the woman's. I don't think they're related by blood, but I have some connection...or so I felt.


　Rather, is this a dream?

　I was going to cross the ocean. We should have talked about it there and tried to get on the boat as soon as possible. And yet my consciousness is staring at this one room from a bird's eye view.


"?
What's going on?
No they are watching us.
What?　Because this place is....


　That's when my consciousness was puzzled. It was as if some kind of power had been intentionally turned off.


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　1245/1440


Hmm?　What is this place....


　The next time I woke up, I was in a different space. This time I have not only my consciousness but my body as well. It moves firmly as I want it to, but this isn't the real world. Such a feeling was somewhat there.


'Hey, it's been a while.'
You're....


　In the same room as before, this time there was a man sitting alone in a chair. I know this guy. I have met this man before when I was attacking the Sixth Maze. But I haven't told anyone about it. I'm sure this is just a dream. I thought it was just a dream, a daydream of sorts.


"Sit down.
Oh...


　At that prompting, I take a seat.

'Hey ... where am I and who are you?'
It's all well and good, but it's pointless.
What do you mean?
'What I mean is this. This place is xxxxxxxxx, and I'm xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
What?

　What. It's like the information was intentionally hidden or something.......only the important part was cut out. I had that feeling.

'God hasn't given you the right to do that yet, you know. I can't tell you what gets to the heart of the matter.
God...?
The God that the Phanaticus are so desperately searching for. But the irony is that those who claim to be the closest to God are the furthest away from Him... isn't it ludicrous?
....


　What are you talking about? I don't get it.

　And before that, what are the conditions for coming here?

　Can this guy really be trusted in the first place?

　A lot of questions are going through my head, but first we need to talk. I can't get any information without talking to this guy.


"Is there a God?
Yes.
Is it a conceptual entity?
No, there is a God. There is indeed a God who created this world. There is no concept, no religion, no god that can be considered as such. God, you see, is the embodiment of all those things.
"And that makes you guys close to God?
Yeah.
....

　I think about it. Does this mean that these guys and the Phanaticus are opposed to each other in their quest for a god or something?

What about the code?
You mean code theory?
Yeah. There are two sets of codes running through the organism.
Two?　I thought the code was singular...
Oh. I'm just getting there. But you'll get there.
Hey, you...
Oh, time to go. Bye.
Hey, I'm talking to you!


　The moment I shouted that out, the scene in front of me turned thin and white.



　◇


""Oh yeah....."


　Next thing you know, I was on board. That's right. I've been forced to get on the boat since then, and now I'm here. And all three of us, except me, had become wonderfully seasick.


"Oh no.....why do I get this sick just this one time....
I might be in a bit of trouble too...
'Gahaha!　You don't have enough training!　Oh yeah........


　What can I say, well that's a terrible sight. Or rather, I'm the only one who can fight in this situation, right?　Are you okay?


So, there it is, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!


　A sailor shouts out. And I catch sight of the demon in the distance. I know it. I've read about them in books, but that's a kraken. It is said to be a type of giant squid, but you can think of the Kraken as a demonized version of that. It's ferocious and grows by eating people. They don't have to eat people for anything, but for some reason they are said to have a habit of attacking people.

　However, there have been no sightings of these demons for the past few hundred years, and they were thought to be extinct. It is only natural that ships would stop when it enters the middle of the sea, a seaway often used for trade....


.........Hey, I'll do it alone, okay?
".........


　The three of us are so limp that we can no longer reply. Well, I didn't expect this, and I can't blame them.


''........Just one of them?''


　A few hundred meters away, a Kraken is flailing about with its big legs outstretched. Any closer and the ship will be in danger.


'I'm going. Please stop the ship here.
'Hey, how are you going to...?


　I hear a surprised voice behind me, but I was already running out over the ocean. No, technically speaking I'm running on the frozen surface of the sea. The ice rails are stretched out at the end of my run and I'm running on the ice. But there's not much friction on the ice, so it's slippery anyway. I'm doing this action while fixing my relative position on the ice with alchemy. If it were me before, this trick would be impossible. But since I rewrote my body in the Sixth Labyrinth, I was able to do this.


　I'm becoming more and more dehumanized, but that doesn't matter right now.


　All we have to do now is to get rid of this guy.





　When I heard that sound, I thought.


'Does a squid make that noise?'


　No, the squid would not make a sound. To begin with, there should be no organ that can vocalize. But if you're a demon you can understand exceptional events.


"...let's try freezing it first.


　And then I tried to put the surroundings on ice.........


''Aaaaaaahhhh!!!''


　Instantly, my attack is resisted. And a huge foot was about to be slammed right above itself.




　While avoiding it to the side, I go and freeze the surface of the sea for now to further increase my range of action.


''........Should we try it?　But....


　Is it against all alchemy to resist in the first place?　At what point in the process of resisting does that get thwarted?

　Understanding the current situation, I chose Phenomenal Alchemy.

　The four major alchemy attributes are ice, water, fire and electricity. However, there is a big difference in their activation. In detail, ice (solid), water (liquid), fire (phenomena), and electricity (phenomena) exist. Ice and water are materials and can be smelted relatively easily, but fire and electricity are not materials. These two are phenomena created by the use of matter. Therefore, unlike the material smelting, the phenomenon smelting is a high degree of difficulty. This is because there are many processes to follow.


　Among them, I chose electricity.


　The process of generating electricity involves smelting atoms and applying external stimuli (heat and light) to them. Then some electrons are ejected from the nucleus of an atom and become free electrons. The free electrons are then incorporated into another neutral atom, which becomes charged. This whole process is processed by alchemy, and the phenomenon of electricity is refined.

　It's easy once you get used to it, but until I was able to put all of this theory into my head and use it unconsciously, I had a lot of trouble with it too.


''Well ... get burned whole, huh?


　Activate. I synthesize the phenomenon of electricity and shoot it at the surface of the sea. Then the electric wave I fired goes through the sea surface and hits the Kraken.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!


　It purred louder than before. That definitely shows it's effective but for some reason I remembered that man's voice at that moment.


'How's the code?'
You mean code theory?
Yeah. There are two sets of codes running through the organism.
Two?　I thought the code was singular...
Oh. I'm just getting there. But you'll get there.
Hey, you...


　Code. That's right, they say living things have two codes. I activate my singular ability, Dunamis, the Absolute Realm, Sanctuary. And I read the opponent's first pledge, Primamateria.


　No, this is not enough. The current state is also activated to perceive my surroundings. But there is no point in using the Absolute Realm 《Sanctuary》. The choice here is to read it.


''..........Elemental Eye [Dicodding Sight].


　It's a newly created singular ability 《Dunamis》. I don't understand why he could do this all of a sudden. But for some reason, I was confident that I could do it. Maybe it was because of my conversation with that man.


　And I understand the biology of this Kraken creature. No, no. I understand what it is at its core.


This is the....


　The two codes can be named: the material code and the anti-material code. The root that supports matter and the code that exists in opposition to it.

　I instantly understand and raise my right hand in a flash.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!


　A moment later, the foot disappears. Strictly speaking ... that thing has returned to the world. It reduces matter to the First Material, the Primamateria. Well, this is what the double code theory is all about. It reverses the code that resides in living things. This is not only for living things. This is a technology that will return everything that exists in this world.





　I don't know if he thinks it's bad, he turns all his feet towards me but I understand completely. And I let a certain process run in my brain.


Anti-matter "anti-material" code: "Reverse

Substance "material" = anti-material code

Matter "Material": reverse, first charge "prima donna


....


　A large amount of golden light spread in his eyes. All this amount of mass is returned to the First Pledge of Quality 《Prima Terrier》. Seeing it pouring down like snow, I stand there in a daze.


''Elle, what the hell was that?''


　When I turned around, I saw that the three of them had followed me and were standing still behind me. But all three of them are staring at me with their eyes wide open.


''Ah........''


　I feel blood dripping from my eyeballs with a twang.

'Elrgh!'


　And my consciousness was cut off there with a puzzled look.


'There you go. I knew you'd do well.'


　I thought I heard a voice like that at the end........