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To be honest, I thought there was no way I could become stronger. Because, even on the continent recognized by the goddess, she gained the power of Kulika, one of the strongest.
It may be a bit disappointing when it ends there, but there is even the ability to stop time given by the Goddess of Time.
In fact, I thought there was no place to climb any further within the continent.
‘Did they say there is another stomach on top?’
Feeling the mana gushing through my body, I felt the possibility of further growth.
In fact, I know that too much is not good either. Just as witches in the past were driven to the forest of the demon realm by incurring the wrath of the gods.
I, too, could come up with the idea that the gods work together to subdue Daniel MacLean as dangerous.
‘Strangely, he’s confident.’
Even so, a strange confidence swept through his body.
Look at the army of the apocalypse that the Goddess of Death, who belongs to the higher ranks among the gods, is pouring out without any effort and is swept away.
The human armies have already withdrawn from there. Even though I was the only one who could stand against the pouring army of death.
There was no fear or trembling at all.
As if in a previous life, Kulika went to fight alone with the sword of rest.
“It will be very different this time.”
Did you hear my voice?
I felt the darkness surrounding the forest of the demon realm trembled and trembled.
I immediately grabbed the sword and tried to hit it forward, but the green wind blowing from behind wraps around my shoulder as if snatching it from me. Maybe it’s because his sense of smell has become more sensitive, and Eris’s characteristic forest smell tickles his nose.
She rode the wind and landed next to me, then raised Artemis’ bow.
“Are you going inside?”
“…do you want to go with me?”
I tried to say it was dangerous, but Eris’s eyes suddenly glared at me, so I couldn’t say more.
“Whoa, there are so many things I want to ask.”
The army that had been dissolved in the acidic liquid of the silver slime was slowly resurrected. Not only them, but even the slimes were sucking in their bodily fluids and regaining their gigantic appearance.
“Ask me, I think you better answer now.”
In a state where it remains like a lump in the chest for no reason, it may come to mind while continuing the battle, and only regret may remain.
I also prepared an answer, so Eris calmly opened her mouth.
“Do you still like me?”
The voice itself asking the question was calm. I wondered if I could ask a question comfortably without trembling like this.
Since I had been in a relationship with her since my previous life, I knew the elf who lived a hard life and skillfully deceived her true feelings.
I could feel how much fear was hidden in those quietly spoken words.
That’s why I didn’t want to answer that. Knowing that silence should not be chosen here, even for Eris’ sake.
I never knew the day would come when I would say this.
“no.”
The hand holding the sword is full of strength. As if squeezing it out, I moved my tongue and continued speaking.
Because this was the only consideration I could give to Eris in this world.
“I don’t love ‘you’.”
“……”
“As you said, the one I loved was another Eris.”
Eris’s gaze fell. I couldn’t close my eyes because her blonde hair, overflowing with rainwater, seemed to represent her feelings.
There was a slight tinge of water in her calm voice.
“okay.”
what can i say here Because I know that no excuses or apologies are of any help to her.
Silence was chosen, and Eris’ answer came earlier than expected.
“Do you like the child inside me?”
Eris pointing to the rolling darkness in the depths of the forest of the demon realm. I don’t really want an answer like this, but I answered honestly.
“……I don’t know.”
I know that I am being shaken by Rin. She was my first love, and she didn’t hide that she liked me at all and always appealed to me.
‘Do you hate me?’
I think of her face as she trembled with fear on the school roof.
Then I replied that I didn’t hate her.
‘I also really liked you from when I was little until now. And in the future.’
Literally.
She didn’t have a single shake in her heart. Quite the opposite for me.
‘Daniel, I… I’m so scared. I’m so scared…’
A night in Yggdrasil, where he learned that his chest was engraved with the imprint of the Goddess of Death. She held me in my arms and cried.
Being swayed by power, I fear that I will become something other than Rin. And I’m afraid you’ll threaten me.
‘I want to sleep with you.’
Betel, the city that solved the murder hotel. Late at night, hiding in the dark, she came to my room and made unreasonable demands.
‘If you think I’ll hurt you or make you sick, just kill me.’
And that night.
We talked a lot in bed. It was Rin who wanted to be a doctor. If he becomes a monster devoured by his abilities, he just asked to be killed.
‘I’ll protect Daniel too.’
When I said that I would protect Rin, she also hugged me and promised me. I didn’t say much at the time, but I was comforted by his words more than I thought.
“You really don’t know?”
Brilliant blonde hair blows in the wind. Eris raised her bow with a question not to dodge and drew the bowstring.
“Then go and check it out.”
The blue light that comes from a bow that has nothing on it.
Artemis’ imprint was engraved on Eris’ eyes, and soon after.
A single ray of intense light shines through the forest of the dark realm.
The blue light threw a huge hole right in the center of the silver slime that was recovering, and did not slow down as if it were going to reach the end of the forest.
Eris’ hand pointed at the arrow.
“It was an honor to open the way for you, Daniel MacLean.”
Eris put her hand on her chest and bowed in a different manner than usual. I knew it was a farewell to the elves.
I thanked Eris and headed deep into the forest following the path she had made.
Of course, it was dark inside the forest, but Eris’ arrow left a group of soft blue lights, so it was easy to catch the eye.
Inside the forest, the forces of the apocalypse were densely seated. From ordinary beasts to ancient beasts.
All of them came rushing to stop me from running towards their master, but they were nothing but bugs that crumble when one swings the sword of rest.
‘Lin…’
There were so many things I wanted to say.
Although the breakup time was not as long as I thought, I wanted to see them strangely.
The hope that I could now set the child free from the power of the goddess like a curse spread from the weight of the dagger inside me.
the tip of the arrow.
As in my previous life, Eris’s arrow, which hit the sword held by the earliest end, guided me to the end point.
The goddess sitting in Rin’s body swung her sword to parry Eris’ arrow that had suddenly flown in, then glared at me.
“Go away! Get out of here, you freak who doesn’t know God’s will at all!”
Then, in an instant, he entered the darkness, and it was a kind of struggle to avoid being directly hit by the dagger of the seal.
As if I knew there was nowhere to run, the darkness formed and attacked me.
“I’ll tell you clearly, Rin.”
With the sword of rest, I slashed and shattered all of them, and I made my decision.
“You can never hurt me or kill me.”
From the goddess’s point of view, it may sound like something out of the blue, but I believe it. My voice will definitely reach Rin inside.
“So.”
Mana surrounded by the sword of rest. I’m a beginner who just started using mana, so I don’t know how to use it difficult.
She puts her sword into the darkness where the goddess is hiding and spurts out an extreme amount of mana as it is. A goddess who appeared again, groaning in agony in the exploding darkness.
“Wow!”
“So I will never kill you.”
If you think it will hurt or make you sick, just kill me?
Do not be ridiculous.
Even with the power to destroy a continent, you can’t inflict any pain on me.
So.
“Don’t worry, I will definitely protect you.”
“Stop it…!”
Great!
At the same time as the last word, time stops. The end, which tried to block my approach somehow, tried to shout something by stretching out its hand, but it was still in the air as it was.
I took out the dagger of the seal from my bosom.
Insert the sword of rest into the floor, and while it was bursting out, pass between the still piles of dirt and walk as it is.
“It hasn’t been as long as I thought.”
To put it bluntly, only one year has passed since the time of the regression. It was a feat that prevented the apocalypse that would occur 10 years later in just one year.
‘Of course, I heard that the end is still left.’
According to Kulika, there are other apocalypse after the earliest, but that number is unlikely to be the majority.
Even though I felt exhausted that I had to keep fighting like this in the future, I was confident that if I recalled the strength that was left in me, I could overcome it.
A dagger of sealing was embedded in the engraving of the goddess spreading darkness.
Time begins to turn back again.
“Stop it!”
As time passed, the white dagger of the seal began to show its abilities.
It began to absorb all the darkness scattered outside again. Because I was holding him tightly from the shoulder to prevent him from running away, the end struggled in my arms and shouted.
“no! No way! If I fail this time, no more…!”
“Any god will fail.”
It was a kind of warning.
Since the goddess of death felt and experienced my power directly, I wanted to make the other gods feel this fear, even indirectly.
But the goddess twisted her whole body and shed tears and cried out.
“The continent has no choice but to perish! Daniel McLay! rather now! It would have been better for you to perish at my hands now! You still do not know what kind of tragedy awaits you!”
“……You gods have too long tongues.”
quack.
The dagger began to close the seal. The goddess completely lost control of the darkness, and only forced her weak hand to rest on my hand holding the dagger.
“Why… I’m sure it’s not on my list…!”
aaagh!
All the last remaining darkness disappears.
As if the dagger had done its job, the pure white blade turned black, then it turned into dust and flew away.
It was a pity that the other apocalypse to come could not be stopped with that dagger, but right now, the pleasure of victory flowed through my body.
The long and long battle that has been going on since my previous life has come to an end.
The earliest apocalypse was completely defeated and vanished.
“Daniel……”
“Lin!”
“Jeong, words… you protected me…”
Rin wakes up and opens her eyes faintly. I was worried that she might have been wrong, but luckily, she seemed to be conscious.
“Yeah, I did it.”
He tried to hug Rin with a light smile, but his hand stopped for a moment because of his claws.
But instead, Rin squeezed out the strength she didn’t have and hugged me tightly.
The warmth of this child spread naturally, giving me a warm sense of relief.
“Thank you… Daniel. Thank you so much for saving me.”
“Rin, there are so many things I want to say to you.”
Where should I start talking?
About this feeling of mine, what kind of face will you make and what answer will you give after hearing it.
will you be happy?
I hope you are happy.
The battle ahead will be extremely arduous and fierce, but I hope that this child will just wait peacefully from a distance.
With such a heart, I opened my mouth.
The sun goes down.
This sight can only be described in words. A meteorite of huge flames poured down from the sky and began to trample the continent without mercy.
“Lin!”
I hugged Rin tightly, forgetting even the strong claws.
aaa
The explosions and explosions that covered the entire continent gradually subside.
A desolate land with nothing left.
The forest of the Demon Realm, where no one allowed any intrusion, became bare and revealed itself.
Burning trees and hot surfaces. All the surrounding earth was burning with flames. Is this the place of hell that some believers were talking about?
The sound of Rin’s painful breathing is heard in her arms.
It became a barrier to me who gained the power of Coolika and was barely able to hold on, but Rin seemed to find it difficult to breathe even for a moment in the pain as if his lungs were burning.
“Daniel… L…!”
I wanted to tell you it’s okay.
I tried to reach out my hand to trust him not to worry.
There were no hands.
It wasn’t just the hands. Starting from the right shoulder, the cross section was cut leaving a grotesque appearance as if something had hit it.
I can’t touch Rin.
I tried my best to get Rin, who is held in my left arm, away from the hot earth as far as possible, but it doesn’t go in properly.
If I made a mistake, I almost fell backwards.
Because of that, the sweat that drenched his whole body fell, and it was reddish in color.
I finally realized that the liquid covering my whole body, which I thought was sweat, was actually my own blood.
and to us like that.
A blonde man approached.
“The earliest apocalypse has failed. And so the ‘end that follows’ has come.”
The golden eyes were shining like the blazing sun. Our childhood friend had completely lost his mind and had his body stolen by God.
“Daniel MacLean.”
He called my name a little furiously.
The heat that makes it impossible to breathe just by approaching. I felt my dry tongue slowly curling inward.
“There is no next for you.”
The golden sword he was holding pierces his heart.
That was it.
I didn’t have the energy to stop time, I didn’t have the strength to run away.
The power given by the goddess was completely useless, and the power given by a close friend did not show its full power.
Daniel McLean, who was stretched out, did not let go of his childhood friend and the woman he loved until the end.
The girl also faced the same fate.
The setting sun is shining down.
The burning heat disappears as if it had been washed away, and a strangely cool breeze sweeps over the whole body to comfort it.
“Lin? what’s the matter?”
The boy who had just stabbed his heart with a sword approaches with a puzzled expression. Rin was embarrassed and took a step back.
I knew this landscape.
Aios Academy.
This was Aios Academy, and he was on his way home from school.
“what? Didn’t Ares do something?”
“no it’s not. Daniel could get expelled. I just asked Dina if he wrote a letter.”
Hare, who used to be a close friend in the past, but actually belonged to an organization called Dog Fighting, approached him.
“uh……?”
In an instant, a rage and a disgusting feeling of vomiting surged up in her chest, but unfortunately the girl didn’t have time for that.
because.
Because the memories he had never seen before were violently pouring into him.
It felt like her head was going to explode, but the girl could not resist and faced it defenselessly.
[Daniel MacLean has been expelled, but she collapses weeping from exhaustion while searching for him.]
[Aos Academy is closed due to various incidents.]
[Continued to find Daniel, but in the end, Lin failed and became a doctor taking care of children in her village.]
[After 10 years, he is killed by a visiting shaman.]
[And it becomes ‘the earliest end’.]
[He killed the shaman.]
[They also killed all the villagers.]
[Destroyed the human kingdom.]
[They ate up the kingdom of beasts.]
[Yggdrasil burned.]
[Yongin are dead.]
[The Dwarves struggled to hit it properly.]
[Enter the last remaining demonic forest.]
[He killed the tyrant and the king.]
[The elf, Eris Anen, pierced the heart of Seriller.]
[Killed Daniel McClain.]
“uh……?”
No, he has never been like this.
It can’t be.
“no! no! no! no! no no! Daniel! Daniel saved me! Don’t abandon me… keep being with me, promise me…”
[Daniel MacLean failed.]
“promise……”
[And it started again.]
“Daniel.”
Rin, who finally learned the whole story of the incident, knelt down and shed sad tears.
That no one in the world knew about the tragedy he had just suffered.
And that the boy I loved so much had just died.
she noticed
…WTF? What the hell is going on?