283 – Death has arrived
“This is ridiculous!”
“Oh my god, this can’t be happening!”
“What kind of strange harmony is this? “Suddenly the world became quiet…”
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That day, it felt as if the world stopped. Everyone who looked back on that day later expressed such sentiments. Something happened that clearly went beyond common sense. The earth, which had been angry and fussing alone, let go of its anger and became calm again.
The huge things that made the earth angry stopped in place and became statues. As if it were a pillar holding up the sky, it just stopped in place without the slightest movement.
Everyone who saw this scene could not help but express words of admiration and gratitude. The parents hugged their children, and the husband hugged his wife. If you didn’t have children or a spouse, you embraced even your neighbors. All the people in the world were suddenly overcome with crazy joy, as if they had become philanthropists.
“I survived, I lived! “You really survived…”
The sound of people shedding tears of joy and screaming like children filled the entire system. For the first time in a while, this imperial palace also became somewhat noisy. Regardless of class or status, anyone who saw this miraculous event could not help but cause an uproar. Deep inside the imperial palace, a commotion could be heard even among those who were holding a meeting with no answer.
“The end times have come and everyone has gone crazy. “Why on earth are you people cheering so happily?”
As Harmael pointed out, the loud noises people made were just noise to them. Because so many people were talking in so many places, you could hear the noise, but you couldn’t hear what they were saying.
Still, there was no need to call someone and ask what was going on. Soon the palace chamberlain opened the door and rushed in.
Everyone’s eyes turned to that person, and they all had puzzled expressions as if they had made a promise. It wasn’t a good look to see a grown man out of breath with a red face.
“Your Majesty, hehehehe, hehehehe, your Majesty. Congratulations, congratulations. “I congratulate you!”
This chubby man, who ate well and lived well, had a bulging belly, and even in these times, he did not lose weight. On the contrary, it seemed like it had gotten even thicker. This is because I gorged on every meal with the intention that if the world was going to end anyway, I would eat as much delicious food as I could before I died.
Thanks to him, he was able to come this far, running with a body that was so enlarged that it couldn’t fit in his small size, and he was out of breath and barely able to speak. Everyone who saw sweat dripping down and soaking the floor looked away. Why should I keep looking at that because it is such a nice sight to see? Even the emperor almost felt that way for a moment.
“Chamberlain, tell me. What on earth is going on? No, no. “First, sit down and take a breather.”
The chamberlain’s clothes were so tight that his navel was visible, which was definitely not something I wanted to see in times like these. His heart was pounding, but he couldn’t speak, so he pounded his chest with his fist in frustration. In the end, he succeeded in spitting out a few words while struggling to breathe.
“Your Majesty, your Majesty. I lived. A miracle, a miracle happened. The huge mountains that were approaching the island no longer move. The ground stopped shaking!”
“Is that true? “Did that really happen?”
The emperor suddenly stood up, roaring like a tiger. People who had turned their heads to look away from the Chamberlain suddenly focused their attention on him.
The chamberlain was confident despite the intense attention that was flocking towards him. He told the truth, so he had nothing to be afraid of, and he had nothing to fear.
“I address your Majesty. This is undoubtedly true. It happened right outside. If you just go out and look, you will know right away. “Would I ever tell such an easily exposed lie?”
“Then let’s go. “I’ll have to check it out with my own eyes.”
I wonder where the strength came from in his decrepit body, the emperor ran toward the door at an incredible speed for an old man. But no one stopped him or advised him to keep his body. Instead, he all jumped up and ran out after the emperor. The chief chamberlain, who was left alone, gasped as he looked at the people running behind him, and then sat down.
Right now, there was no need to worry about losing weight or respect. It’s so hard to run all the way here, but are you telling me to run again after those people over there? Then, my heart will explode and I will die without any reward for saving the world. Even the slowest emperor among them was faster than him.
In fact, except for the emperor, all of the people present were imperial knights, masters, or high-ranking members of the church who trained their bodies with divine power. These are people who cannot be bad unless their physical strength is poor.
There is a stereotype that wizards have weak physical strength, but even Oldman Tower of Magic Tower, whose hobby is mountaineering, was a person who recognized people for their physical strength. This person is the person who climbed the Kalkamir Mountains, the highest mountain range on the continent. There is no such thing as shame if they run slower than the emperor who is busy sitting on the throne and taking care of government affairs on an empty day.
But this is not some kind of running race, and there is nothing rewarding about winning first place. So no one tried to overtake the emperor. Everyone followed behind the emperor, who was leading, and reached the outside.
“It was true! It was true! The empire did not fall on the throne…! That’s a relief, that’s a relief. When I die, I almost won’t be able to see my ancestors in the royal tomb. “It is truly a fortunate thing.”
The emperor, who looked around the system from the center of the system, was so moved that he muttered to himself without realizing it. The relief and joy that everyone in the system felt finally spread to him.
The people who came here after him also let out unfiltered cheers and joyful cheers that reached their throats. There were no exceptions, neither old nor young.
Only one person in the system.
Only Princess Ardain, whose eyes were swollen and bloodshot, could not join the joyful procession. Of course, it didn’t matter what she thought. Just as despair swept across the continent, relief quickly took its place. For today, the continent has become one in heart and mind.
The continent is.
The North Pole was not like that.
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-Kyaaa!
The nine mouths let out loud screams that are unbecoming of their size. Eighteen eyes look around in all directions, but nothing is visible. So it continued to sob in fear, not knowing what to do.
This monster that had nothing to fear in the world, Hydra, was now nothing more than a large piece of meat under the great sword of fate. Even though I looked everywhere, there were definitely no enemies.
It’s not like someone is holding a knife and trying to cut off the head, or shooting an arrow to hit it. So, even though I was in a state of panic and radiated the famous Hydra’s poisonous flames in all directions, nothing happened.
There is no pain.
It doesn’t hurt at all.
But something was clearly going wrong.
The body gradually hardens. The moving heads stop moving one by one.
The light shining in those eyes is gradually fading out. This monster didn’t know about his death and didn’t want to know. He tried to roar at the unknown enemy, but death was encroaching on him regardless.
Something clearly happened in the higher realms, and this monster had no ability to resist. No, he wasn’t even qualified to utter a single word of protest. A monster is ultimately a mass of cells from an ancient body. Although it is separate from the primeval body, it is ultimately a part of the primeval body.
It just seemed like something independent because it was separate from the main body,
In reality, he had never done that.
Unlike other cells that evolved into independent organisms through countless evolutions, they were no different from their original counterparts from the moment they were born. Just like those giant harvesters.
If the life activity of the ancient body stops and no signal comes, both the harvester and the monster meet the same fate. Just as a person is dead but cannot move his or her fingers, there is no choice other than to follow the main body.
Even if it is Hydra, the poisonous flame monster that terrorized the continent with its famous hydra poison, nothing changes. There is no choice but to watch with dumbfounded eyes as his own vital reactions stop.
But there is no need to walk the road to the underworld alone and lonely. Because its creator is also now facing the same fate.
“I never thought time would become something that would be strangling my neck.”
There was a person who enjoyed eternal life by changing his body into that of a monster. He looked back at the sky, then at the ground, and finally at himself, and smiled bitterly.
“No one can understand this. I don’t know how they did it, but they did it. “Stop my mother, save the world, and… take eternity from me.”
Do you regret turning yourself into a monster now? No. He had no choice from the beginning. Even if I had known something like this would happen in the future, I probably would have made the same decision.
If he had not become a monster by transplanting cells from a primordial body, he would not have lived until now and would have died long ago at the end of his life. Still, he was not unfair because he had enjoyed eternal life.
I wondered what it would be like when death approached, but it didn’t feel as special as I thought. Actually, I felt relieved to some extent. He had lived too long in human terms to struggle so ugly before death.
However, when I think about it now, there is only one thing that remains. Although it was closer to resentment than regret, there was one thing that I couldn’t bear to regret.
So this demon king who lost eternity decided to do something that might be meaningful before accepting death.
‘If that priest is the god he serves, can he answer my question?’
He probably won’t be able to see the sun rising tomorrow,
At least today it is still in your hands.
Time is a power that no one can compare to, and no matter how much power he has gathered, he cannot even bring him down on one knee. But if you can just hold on for a little while, you can do it.
It is enough to struggle with time, even if just for a moment. All you have to do is buy a little time by caressing the heart that is no longer beating with magic.
There was something I could do during that little time.