Chapter 272 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 272

In the 689th cycle, shortly after the defeat of the Mastermind, Oh Dok-seo approaches the Undertaker (Go Yuir) with a serious concern, initially joking about taking a hiatus from her writing before revealing she has been experiencing strange dreams. She describes a recurring vision where she acts as the Saintess in a frozen world, calling out to the Undertaker who stands immobile on a rooftop. Recognizing the specificity of this dream—which corresponds to the frozen time event from the 267th cycle—the Undertaker identifies it as 'Side Story Creation,' a powerful ability awakened by Dok-seo after the Mastermind's defeat. They discuss the dangers of this phenomenon, noting that the Infinite Metagame, which absorbed remnants of the Mastermind's power, is likely using Dok-seo as a conduit to investigate the Undertaker’s hidden past. Over the subsequent cycles, Dok-seo’s condition deteriorates from vague hallucinations of past voices to hyper-realistic visions of events she never witnessed, such as Seo Gyu’s death or the final moments of Dang Seo-rin. She begins struggling to distinguish these phantom memories from her present reality, even conversing with illusions of the Undertaker and Sim Ah-ryeon. The Saintess (Jeong Ye-ji) is consulted via telepathy; she theorizes that the Infinite Metagame’s ingestion of the Mastermind’s essence is forcing the system to simulate and expose the Undertaker’s past through Dok-seo. Although the Saintess advises caution regarding reliance on Outer Gods, she reveals that Dok-seo is now writing a novel that details the frozen 267th cycle from the Saintess’s own perspective—events the Undertaker never shared. The chapter concludes with the shocking realization that Dok-seo has successfully accessed a 'side story' of a past cycle entirely unknown to the narrator, confirming the Infinite Metagame’s ability to bypass his omniscience by extracting narrative data from its Miko.

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