Chapter 267 : Chapter 267

Chapter 267

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Words ‍​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍Cronis had told her when she came to visit one day.

Silvana ‍​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍had not considered them important.

[The ‍​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍laws of the world...... There can only be a handful of gods who live while caring about something like that.]

[You ‍​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍underestimate our brothers’ awareness too much.]

[What ‍​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍creatures promised eternal life do is boring.]

At most, they mixed among lesser creatures or experimented on them with divine power.

[Though, in that respect, I am no different.]

At some point, she had taken the form of a fairy and shut herself in a forest, merely passing time.

[It is not a bad course of action. It will be advantageous under the changing laws.]

[There you go again, prattling on about laws. Everyone knows water flows from high places to low ones.]

The laws of the world were the ‘rules of existence,’ encompassing physical, magical, and divine concepts.

‘Time’ and ‘space’ could not be separated.

Living beings needed energy.

Using energy led to consumption.

And.

[Gods live eternally and stand apart from such laws.]

[Yes, that is why we who possess divine natures have reigned over the world until now.]

And it was the mutated human named Adamas who shattered that.

A divine nature acquired later in life.

After he killed a god, the existing laws began to change.

Lesser creatures who awakened to the possibility called mana were born with the destiny to rise from the weakest to the strongest.

[Since things have come to this, why not eradicate the lesser creatures’ seeds even now?]

Then the gods’ lives would not differ from before. They would still reign while maintaining their tedious, boring lives.

It did not matter to her either way.

[Did I not tell you? That cannot avert our fall.]

Words Cronis had come and said before, too.

‘Wait.’

Were they certainly words Cronis had come and said before?

For some reason, her memory was hazy.

For a memory capable of containing vast spans of time to become uncertain.

‘Is this, too, a change that began when the laws changed?’

That mutated human bastard, troublesome despite being a lesser creature.

Her mouth itched to hurl a string of curses.

But it was not something to do before the god called the Lord’s right hand.

[Cronis, seeing the future is a troublesome matter.]

[Do not react as though it has nothing to do with you merely because you are a higher god. Even higher gods will have difficulty guaranteeing survival in the future if they do not prepare.]

Cronis added that she wanted to say more, but telling her everything would change the future.

[Let us leave it at this for today.]

[Where is the Lord?]

The first god, a being like every brother’s parent.

Since they were always together, Silvana asked, thinking Cronis would know.

[He has already begun to move.]

‘Time’ vanished after speaking only cryptic words.

***

Domain clashed against domain.

Tzzzzzz.

Silvana enhanced her green eyes with mana.

The technique humans called Direction.

Thousands of mana lines, tangled chaotically throughout the area, entered her vision.

‘That bastard Adamas, when did he reach this level......’

Thousands of mana lines formed one Carpe Illusion.

And now, three Carpe Illusions were overlapped, with more than ten thousand mana lines tangling and intertwining among themselves to strengthen the domain.

A completely different level of presence from when he had fought her before.

‘Adamas.’

No.

‘This must be the presence Killian Eurasia achieved as a knight.’

It was a truly cruel fate.

She could tell because she was using a human body as a medium.

An ordinary human could use only one Carpe Illusion.

Killian Eurasia could handle three Carpe Illusions because of his former life.

‘They called him the Master of Mana.’

RUMBLE.

Haki fused with mana surged forth.

Having lost to him and come to reside in ‘green mana,’ she too was affected; the presence that reached her was 8-Star.

A realm only a few steps from the limits of mortals.

‘He lives up to the name godslayer.’

He had been allowed to wield the realm of 8-Star freely without devouring another’s body.

It was power she would have snorted at in the past, but to a fallen god, even that felt extraordinary.

She looked at the Monster Lord, who was enduring their domains alone.

‘Even this power cannot be much help? Where did a monster like that come from......’

The amount of demonic energy flowing from the mountain range was already nearing a lower god’s divine power.

“Curse of Reenactment.”

[......]

“The Anomaly’s curse that forms the present Monster Lord.”

It reenacted a moment from the past and imitated its presence.

“We have no chance in a direct fight. This is unfavorable.”

Killian spoke as he met the Monster Lord’s eyes.

Even at this moment, a contest of moves to erode one another’s domains was underway.

[Your expression and your words do not match.]

Despite saying it was unfavorable, his face was certain of victory.

She had seen those eyes before.

In the era now called ancient by humanity.

“I have faced situations like this in your time as well.”

They were the eyes Godslayer Adamas had worn when he faced the gods.

At the time, she had cursed him out for being arrogant despite being a lesser creature.

[That is fortunate. I have no desire to vanish at the hands of an arrogant mortal.]

“Silvana, you still remain in Serena’s body, do you not?”

[......]

Her silence seemed to be an answer.

Glance.

Killian looked her over and clicked his tongue.

‘If I leave this as it is, she will not merely influence the Mind Image World; she may actually take Serena’s body.’

Even as a god reduced to fragments, she was a dangerous being for a human who had only just become superhuman to endure.

But.

‘Merely containing her will achieve immense possibility.’

If Serena could use rather than submit to a god’s power, she could be reborn as a being beyond common sense.

Like Siren, who had become the queen of a newborn species through Neptune’s power.

Perhaps Serena would also come to wield divine power.

‘For now, growth comes first.’

Beings close not only to superhumanity but to the limits of mortals were appearing.

For Eurasia, which had to meet them as enemies, they needed as many superhumans as possible.

Harboring a fragment of a god that remained in one’s body and sought an opportunity to take the host was a double-edged sword.

Killian hoped that her sword would turn not toward herself, but toward Eurasia’s enemies.

“If you do not harm her, I will not restrain you.”

[A welcome consideration.]

“For now, you have to match my method.”

[I am doing my best. You cannot be unaware of that.]

“It is too early to say that is your best.”

[What......]

“You played the role of bait very well a moment ago, did you not?”

[......!!]

“I will overlook the matter of Serena.”

Just as Silvana was about to pour out a string of curses.

Fwoooooosh.

Her forest began to be eroded by the mountain range’s demonic energy.

The same was true of the other domains Killian controlled. Only the Violet Magic Tower appeared able to respond with infinite mana.

[Edan Eurasia, you have become pathetic.]

The Monster Lord stepped forward.

[With such a pathetic presence, you cannot bring me to Transcendence. Draw your Magic Sword.]

“I do not want to.”

[Unexpected from the one who relied on a Magic Sword when he challenged me. Without that sword, is it not difficult even to endure my domain?]

He took another step forward as he spoke.

[If you do not draw it, I will cause Waves in every mountain range and dye with blood everything you cherish.]

Killian deliberately did not correct his misunderstanding.

‘It must be because the Anomaly’s memories made an error while containing you.’

The Monster Lord.

The Anomaly.

Neptune.

Those three had certainly made contact.

‘I do not know what they are plotting, but I must finish this before they make contact again.’

It seemed difficult to expect help from Murus’s side.

‘There is no chance if we clash power against power.’

At that moment, Silvana moved.

She stepped out of the eroded domain and showed the boldness to enter the mountain range instead.

CLANG!

Aether was stopped by the Monster Lord’s claws.

[To bare your fangs so ineptly......]

At that moment.

Fwoosh.

The mana enveloping Serena’s body went out, and radiance took its place.

The Monster Lord’s eyes shook.

Fwoosh.

Radiance burst from his body, which had been made of demonic energy, in answer.

‘Their nature of merging into one takes priority.’

Just as Silvana, who had lost to Killian, existed as a stray thought in the Mind Image World, the Curse of Search must have been the same.

Until now, Silvana had merely been suppressing it with the mana Killian allowed her.

He had thought they would recognize one another once she came into contact with the Anomaly that had transformed into the Monster Lord.

He had not been wrong; the two radiances blended as though recognizing each other.

Then.

GRAB.

Silvana seized both of the Anomaly’s arms and sent mana into a frenzy.

WHOOOOOOSH.

Stagger.

The Monster Lord’s body, which had been about to absorb the Fragment of the Anomaly, received a meaningful blow for the first time.

[Petty tricks......]

[The bastard being struck by petty tricks...... Ngh......]

CRUNCH.

Silvana could not finish speaking from the impact.

Killian’s sword piercing her back continued straight into the Monster Lord.

“You did well, Silvana.”

He thanked her for her willing sacrifice, saying that without her, he could not have pierced the Monster Lord’s tough skin.

[Fuck...... Keep your promise.]

Fwoosh.

Her figure changed into green mana and vanished. She could not endure the blow dealt to her mental body.

And the same was true of the Monster Lord.

[You are not Edan Eurasia.]

The Monster Lord stared straight at Killian.

“Have you come to your senses now?”

He looked down at the body he had allowed Anima to enter.

Three streams of mana flowed into the mana crystal that could be called his heart.

They were destroying him from within.

[Pathetic. You cannot move your body even from a blow like this?]

He said it was an attack his original self would never have permitted.

“That is right.”

If it had been the Monster Lord in the complete state that Edan faced, Killian’s limbs would have melted just from approaching him.

The Monster Lord who had stood just before Transcendence.

Edan, who had had to give up Transcendence and cut down the Anomaly.

And Killian, who had watched their battle.

“They are only the past.”

[Yes...... You were using my body.]

Where the displeasure had vanished, ridicule settled.

“Vanish with the dungeon.”

Grin.

His mouth split.

[Fool, you should have killed me in one blow.]

The Monster Lord released demonic energy as though resisting.

CRUNCH.

But beneath the twisted sword, his tough body began losing strength.

[We will meet again.]

His body crumbled.

[You who imitate Edan.]

Soon, all that remained was a single strand of radiance that had lost the being that protected it.

“......”

He had cut the Fragment of the Anomaly that was the Core, but the dungeon was not cleared.

[Adamas!]

Murus’s voice came from somewhere.

“Sir Killian!”

Charles’s voice came from nearby.

When he turned his head, radiance stood before them, their expressions urgent.

Two radiances.

Two Mind Image Worlds.

‘The Mind Image Worlds......’

Spaces that had been separate were drawing one another in and merging into one.

Before even a few seconds passed, Killian entered the same space as them.

Then suddenly.

CRUNCH!

[Kah......]

A compressed droplet of water pierced one of Murus’s Hollyhearts.

[......!!]

[Hey! Wake up!!]

Hot-tempered Murus shouted and poured in divine power, but that was all.

[Am I...... finally dying......]

FWOOSH!!

The mouth that belonged to Depressed Murus vanished from among the features.

The divine nature of Murus that formed the golem began to waver.

[Two remain.]

Neptune, who had reconstructed a body from radiance, stood where the voice came from.

[No.]

WHOOOOSH.

Droplets of divine power surged along with radiance.

Neptune raised a hand toward Charles.

[Now there is one.]