Chapter 180: Completing Promises
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Directly accepting that there was nothing further that I could do to prevent others from finding the teleportation beacon, I decided to leave. I’d just have to hope the teleportation beacon isn’t found and disturbed.

Since Rin had gone, I had plenty of time.

My first thought was to return to the valley and check on the little basilisk.

Bringing the meat from a variety of monster discovered along the way. I opened up the valley and removed the barrier surrounding it.

Now that I’d returned and didn’t plan to go elsewhere, the barrier was naturally a mute point. If the basilisk was stupid enough to head out alone when I was providing it with constant food, it deserves its fate.

The baby basilisk was currently healthy, sleeping by the pond of the valley without a care in the world. I didn’t know whether to envy or insult it for the laziness.

Yawning, I dropped a pile of the treated meats beside the basilisk and entered the heritage site to sleep. Naturally Rin had looted the heritage site and taken the fox-necklace within. That means we have a matching pair of necklaces.

At the same time, it causes me to laugh.

Prophesized one… Whoever created this inheritance wanted them to collect it, but they should simply be making a joke.

After all, can there be multiple proposed ones? I accepted the heritage in my timeline and Rin accepted it in this one. It’s obviously that anybody can accept this heritage and the restrictions are loose at best.

To be honest, I wouldn’t have allowed Rin to risk accepting this heritage. The idea of Rin accepting this heritage is too dangerous after learning it was from the mad craftsman.

The heritage implants a book inside the soul… that’s simply asking for trouble.

Sadly, I never got the chance to tell her to not accept it. Rin accepted the heritage before I arrived in this zone.

There didn’t seem to be any important to do and the sun already fallen over the horizon, so I laid out a bedding and prepared to sleep for the night in the heritage site.

When I awoke, my motivation to do anything had all but disappeared.

There didn’t seem much point. There was a high likelihood that Rin would reload and all my current situation would disappear.

Sighing to myself, I decided to spend the next period of time was spent in a rather lazy fashion. Mostly staying near the forest to let my strength continue to grow whilst lazily sitting around.

I’d taken to diving into the illusionary realm to provide entertainment and to fulfill my promise to hunt down the monsters within.

At the same time, I came to a realization that many factors of the illusionary realm could be influenced or controlled through an administrative command line in the wristband. The spawn rate of monsters could be increased or decreased, along with the likelihood of new weapons of power appearing.

In fact, almost anything within can be controlled to a degree. I could make it eternally night with the illusionary realm or change the climate at will.

Although these administrator privileges cannot directly increase my strength within the illusionary realm, they could help bring up a map to track down specific people. Utilizing the administrative privileges was rather complicated in some cases. Specifically, it was complicated to utilize and specific commands could only be found by looking through an almost infinitely long command list.

When I entered into the illusionary realm, I managed to set up a way to track down all monsters of the panther type and began hunting them down systematically. The starting forest wasn’t that large and if I killed all the panther type monsters within, theoretically that panther should also die.

The reason I decided to kill all the panther-type beasts within because I barely remembered the beast... my revenge was naturally had to be indiscriminate to prevent accidentally keeping that panther-type monster alive. In the end, my actions were genocidal to all monsters of the panther type within that area.

That was the only way to be confident that the evil beast died.

Although the time flow in the illusionary realm was completely disconnected from the normal universe, I didn’t particularly enjoy spending long periods of time inside. It felt like I would forget my life out here and the real world if I got too caught up in it.

Gradually, the weeks… then months went by.

Sometimes during the days, I gathered materials to recreate my forge and the necessary devices for creating artifacts and other times I simply lazed about in the forest. When it turned dark, I continued my revenge on the panther-type monsters.

When I finally finished my revenge on the panther species and had indiscriminately killed all those within the forest, I turned my gaze to the other monster that harmed me.

During that the death vision ability, I promised to take revenge on those monsters that betrayed me. There were an uncountable amount nearly thousands of monsters.

Honestly, I still felt reluctant to personally hunt down them.

No way… There were simply too many monsters that took part in that siege. It would take way too long to hunt them down manually and the difficulty of finding them would be high.

Instead of doing worthless work that might take me a lifetime, I began messing around in the administrative commands. Since I’d discovered I could affect the spawn rate of the weapons of power and monsters…

I directly changed the spawn rate of monsters to zero.

In the future, Monsters will no longer spawn within this illusionary realm.

The world is saved… Blah blah.

Monsters will go extinct, hunted by the humans within this illusionary realm. Revenge complete without the need for hunting the monsters personally.

Done and done.

Naturally, this would completely change the ecosystem within the illusionary realm. Potentially making the test of killing a thousand (or something) living things impossible to complete.

Since there was a possibility of Rin reloading and getting reset back to my ignorant-self when I arrived… then it would be best to make that starting trial possible to complete.

Reluctantly, I created a dungeon-like building at the spawn area for potential predecessors. The dungeon prevents monsters within from leaving via administrative cheats.

Spawning dungeon with a hundred floors that went deep into the ground, I directly set the local spawn rate of monsters within the dungeon to the maximum value.

Clapping my hands, I decided to be done with it.

Hmm? You’re asking if it’s possible to beat or survive in this dungeon?

How should I know? I’m not about to enter that deathtrap.

The maximum spawn rate for monsters isn’t a joke.

Monsters will be spawning inside this dungeon every seconds and the entire space is going to be crawling with monsters within the day. Soon monsters will run out of living space and be forced to constantly fight to the death to survive.

This dungeon is basically a complete deathtrap.

The bottom of the dungeon has a small waterfall that creates drinking water, the only source of water in the dungeon. That’s naturally done to encourage the stronger monsters to stay near the bottom of the dungeon…

…But that’s about the only convenience I provided.

Why should I care whether this dungeon is possible to beat? I’m not the one who is going to have to deal with it and attempt to clear it. That problem is for my future self. They’re lucky I even bothered to make this dungeon.

Huh? Are they’re any rewards for clearing the dungeon? Of course... not.

How could there be any rewards?

This dungeon was entirely created by the administrator commands. If I could create such rewards, I’d have decked myself out in the best weapons and gear available long ago.

Since I cannot create rewards, the dungeon is naturally completely barren of rewards. Only monsters exist within.

The only water in the dungeon is at the bottom, so the other monsters should theoretically be dying from thirst on a regular basis. This should keep them weak and allow people to hunt some monsters at the top floors.

With the dungeon set up and solved, I naturally felt that I had finished with the illusionary realm. Although my goal hadn’t yet been completed, my promise should be completed over time.

Naturally, there were still several problems with this idea. Namely that it doesn’t address the people that attempted to kill him while in the civilized world.

By eliminating monsters, he’d saved the civilized world… but that also meant that those responsible for his deaths in the civilized world got away with it. While he followed his promise and changed the spawn rate of monsters to achieve revenge on those monsters, there were a higher number of deaths caused by people than monsters in this illusionary realm.

He never specifically promised to deal with them, but it still felt like a good idea… Also, he didn’t really have much else to do at the moment.

Naturally, he needed to be careful in his actions. This illusionary realm was not the safest place, and his power was directly weakened by a large degree.

Dying might have unexpected consequences…

Memory loss being a particularly worrying potential consequence.

Although Tobias had little idea why he lost his memories upon death in the illusionary realm that didn’t prevent him from acting carefully to avoid that possibility. Who know whether these administrative privileges will save him from memory loss?

Maybe it will, but he certainly wasn’t willing to test it out.

Therefore, Tobias changed from the idea of attempting to complete his revenge in person to utilizing the administrative commands.

To be entirely truthful, it was simple to killing all the humans in the illusionary realm.

No way, who told him to have the ability to directly control the weather and climate? Although it was complicated to make a targeted strike on a specific individual through those administrator commands, it was quite simple to make the world into a frozen wasteland or scorching desert if he merely wanted to wipe out all life.

Tobias didn’t want to be responsible for the death of an entire civilization, though. As easy as it might be for him to type a few words and end their existence, Tobias didn’t want to involve the innocent in his dispute.

A portion of the population doesn’t necessarily represent the entirety of a civilization. Directly killing everybody because of the mistakes of a few is too evil.

Even with monsters, Tobias had decided to indirectly make them extinct by prevent new monsters from appearing. He didn’t create a virus to kill all the existing monsters or something equal horrendous.

Call it kindness or weakness… but Tobias felt that it was better to simply tilt the general trend of the world against the monsters than directly acting against them.

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