Transformed into Cosmic Horror in a Sci-Fi Universe

Baek Hwi, the Heavenly Demon, pretending to be a weak woman to blend in with the merchant group and flow into the city.

And the various connections and sects she meets there.

Her gradually recovering inner power….

Well, from here on, it’s all predictable content.

Is there anything different about martial arts stories?

The only slightly different things are the happenings that occur because the Heavenly Demon is a woman.

Or wait, are even the happenings caused by TS ultimately just worn-out clichés?

Hmm, thinking about it that way, it’s all predictable content.

Just a change in genre.

Well, it’s strange that a nearly omniscient outer god can’t predict it, but still.

Maybe I’m getting a bit tired of creating worlds.

How about taking a short break?

Right, even in games, if you keep playing, you fall into mannerism due to repetitive quest-like tasks.

At times like that, the best solution is to just take a break from the game and come back later.

But then, in the case of online games, as time keeps flowing, I’d be at a disadvantage for the amount I didn’t play.

I really hate that kind of thing.

In other words, I don’t like the idea of time in the world I created flowing on its own while I’m away, with everything progressing neatly without my knowledge.

Well, there’s also the option of letting time continue to flow while doing other things and just checking occasionally.

After all, my computational power and memory are infinite.

Or I could rewind time later to check.

I used to do that originally.

But now, the worlds I’m watching have become too numerous.

It’s bothersome to rewind time for each one, so wouldn’t it be more convenient to just pause everything and restart all at once later?

Anyway, since there’s no concept of time in the gaps, if I just pause it, the universes’ time won’t flow again unless something major happens.

Well, to be honest, it’s also because it’s troublesome.

They say multitasking can cause dementia, you know.

Anyway, I don’t like it, so I decided to just stop it.

All universes stop.

Pause state.

It won’t be released until I release it.

[ Hmm? What’s the matter? ]

Idra, who had been watching intently, tilts her head and asks me.

Ah, come to think of it, this woman was here too.

[ I’m bored. I’m going to pause for a while and try something else. ]

[ Oh? Then what about me? I was enjoying watching our lovely elves. ]

Hmm… it’s hard to say there’s no contribution from this side, so…

Should I ask for Idra’s opinion on the sci-fi universe side?

But the main reason I’m pausing and leaving this time is because of the sci-fi universe.

[ Do you want to come along? ]

I do have some interesting things in mind right now.

How about just taking Idra along with me?

[ What are you going to do? ]

[ Well, to put it simply… experiencing a different job? ]

[ …? ]

Idra doesn’t seem to understand my words well.

But it doesn’t matter.

She’ll understand what I mean once we get there anyway.

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[ …So, you’re saying you want to enter the universe I created. ]

Nyarlathotep’s response comes back as if in disbelief.

Well, I suppose that’s understandable.

If you suddenly make such a proposal, that’s the only way to react.

What I want to do after pausing the universes is none other than entering the universal worldviews created by other outer gods.

They say that when you get bored with your original hobby, it’s best to try a different hobby, and when you get bored with a game, it’s best to try a different game.

So, I’m going to directly experience what the games created by other outer gods feel like.

During that time, mannerism might be resolved, and who knows, I might come up with ideas for a new worldview?

[ What?! If it’s about entering the universe of that barbaric being, I’ll have to decline! They only treat living beings as toys anyway! ]

[ Huh, you mean that woman too? This is absurd. ]

Nyarlathotep and Idra started glaring at each other, growling.

A giant mass of tentacles monster and a beautiful goddess with a fantastic appearance fighting each other.

It’s quite a transcendent sight, indeed.

Come to think of it, these two didn’t get along very well, did they?

To be precise, Idra is in the position of trying to persuade Nyarlathotep to stop what he’s doing, while Nyarlathotep considers Idra to be a very annoying existence.

…When you think about it that way, maybe they’re not on bad terms?

Well, anyway.

[ Don’t you need to take a closer look at what kind of experiment you’re trying so hard to stop? It was the same with my laboratory. You took a closer look and quite liked it, didn’t you? ]

[ W-well, I didn’t really like it that much…. ]

Despite saying that, she seemed to be contemplating a bit, perhaps because there was a precedent with me.

[ And I’m thinking of creating avatar bodies for her and me to experience it, rather than entering directly. There might be new ideas coming from a new perspective. ]

[ A new perspective… ]

Nyarlathotep also seemed to have become a bit interested in my words.

[ Well, that woman is annoying, but there’s nothing I can’t do if it’s your request. ]

[ If you insist that much, well… I have nothing else to do anyway, so shall we give it a try? ]

In the end, they both agreed to my opinion.

Heheh, I knew it.

[ Then, since there’s a universe I’m currently experimenting on, shall we enter there? ]

[ What kind of experiment is it? ]

To my question, Nyarlathotep spoke with a writhing that felt like a smile.

[ I’m creating a universe with only extreme environments where life forms created through my experiments can survive, and I’m observing the beings born there. What kind of life forms are born, and how they evolve. ]

He says he has already conducted experiments hundreds of millions of times and accumulated data.

He plans to do it a little more and then use the completed data for other experiments.

[ There are common points and points that keep changing. I found it fascinating how they evolve differently even in the same environment, so I’ve created a separate storage universe to keep various cases. ]

A preservation universe storing numerous evolution cases! I’d like to visit there too sometime.

But for now, I’m more curious about this extreme environment he mentioned, so we decided to enter there.

Extreme environments where life forms can survive.

Permafrost at absolute zero level, going below minus 240 degrees without a single starlight.

Ultra-high temperature stars reaching hundreds of millions of degrees.

Quark stars, further split from neutron stars, shrunk to the size of a ping pong ball.

The edge of black holes where even light is distorted and disappears beyond the event horizon.

Stars with extreme radiation that maintain supernova state indefinitely, and so on.

Many extreme environments possible in the category of ‘universe’ bound by the chains of physical laws appeared.

It was amazing just to think that life forms could live in such places.

Moreover, they’re not artificially created, but life forms that can be born naturally and evolve.

Basically, he says life is born once in every 10,000 universes.

In other words, despite experimenting hundreds of millions of times so far, life has only been born a few thousand times.

Moreover, there were rampant cases where life was born in some environments and not in others.

I couldn’t even fathom how long this experiment alone had been going on.

Well… the concept of time doesn’t mean much to us in the first place.

We can just snap our fingers and fast-forward a universe from birth to destruction in an instant.

Anyway, even that finger snap gets tiring after hundreds of millions of times.

The fact that he recorded and stored the common parts and differences amidst all that.

It was a part that showed how persistent his personality was.

Indeed, the king of curiosity.

Anyway, the place Idra and I are going to is a universe being newly tested this time.

Since it’s an extreme environment, he showed us samples of life forms that have appeared in experiments so far, so we can adapt there.

Microorganisms living in permanent frost, active even when their body temperature drops below zero.

Flatworms evolved from those microorganisms, with a base body temperature of minus 200 degrees.

Spirit-like life forms made of plasma living in ultra-high temperature stars.

Ultra-microorganisms the size of protons living in quark stars, unaffected by gravity, and so on.

I skimmed through a list of life forms that would be unimaginable in a normal universe.

Well, to be honest, this is just a part of the knowledge I already have.

In the infinitely repeating natural universes, of course, there are countless universes with environments like what Nyarlathotep created.

And there are countless universes where life forms are born in those places.

Naturally, Nyarlathotep would have that knowledge too.

But she is also like me.

She’s the type who thinks that just knowing something as knowledge and seeing it directly with her own eyes are clearly different.

That’s probably why she’s going through all this trouble to conduct these tests.

I knew there were life forms living in such environments, but I never thought I’d get to see their birth with my own eyes like this.

I was feeling a bit excited.

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