240 – Brightest Darkness – 5
The goddess flew towards me in golden light, but before she could reach me, she was covered in a strange red aura and was stopped.
“All, you…… No no… ….”
Looking at it with blurry eyes, the goddess was on the verge of crying. His expression was distorted, and thick water droplets formed around his eyes.
Our bodies flew right in front of him. The world eater who brought the goddess and me together delivered a thought full of ridicule.
ㅡ A false god…… This is the hope you believed in…… It’s all your fault…… It happened because of you…… Tell me…… Everything I believed in…… The feeling of going back in vain…….
“Because of me…… Whoa…… Because of me… ….”
Finally, tears began to flow from her eyes. One drop became two drops, two drops became three drops, and soon it became an unbroken cascade that ran down the cheeks to the chin.
ㅡ Human…… So are you…… Me…… Did you think you could win…….
“That mouth…… Cool, shut up…… Because I feel so dirty…….”
I don’t know if it would have been better to fight with all my might from the start and lose, but I felt doubly dirty because I hid my strength and played with us and won. Her mouth itched because she wanted to pour out a double curse.
ㅡ Weak and…… Pathetic… ….
Even after that, he continued to put down the goddess and me. They said that it was impossible for us to win from the beginning, and that we shouldn’t have accepted salvation and given up.
Since the goddess is mentally shattered and I am half dying, dealing with us should be easier than breathing for her.
But he didn’t. Perhaps they were trying to kill me with excessive blood loss, and they mocked us heartily, exploding the arrogance and conceit they had built up through successive victories.
His hands were getting weaker. I’m still barely missing my weapon, but that’s all. It seemed that he couldn’t even lift his arm, let alone wield a weapon.
ㅡ A false god…… Look carefully…….
When I finally finished talking, he pulled me over.
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ㅡThe human who believed in hope…… Seeing you die…….
The goddess did not move with her head bowed. She looked completely out of her mind. Even if she tried to move, she couldn’t because of the red aura that wrapped around her body.
Her head was forced to turn. There was a vertical red pupil right in front of him. Seeing it up close was even more disgusting.
ㅡYour memories…… Absorb all…… I will save souls…… Although she did not serve the truth…… Salvation will be equal for all…….
“Salvation is f*cking… ….”
I cursed in a dying voice. The world eater who lightly ignored my words like this made his pupils shine brightly. The entire body was covered with red aura.
“Huh, huh?!”
My first impression was that I just shut up and was sick like crazy.
It wasn’t to the extent that I could simply express it with the word pain. It is said that burning pain is the most painful of all the pains in the world, and it felt like burning every single cell carefully.
From fingertips to toes, there was no area that was not painful. The body, which had been stretched out in a dying state, forgot even the excessive bleeding and began to struggle, but it didn’t seem like it could escape the restraints.
Soon after, she felt a sensation of something being ‘read’ in her head. She seemed to know what it was.
It was my memories.
“Turn off, ugh…… !”
Whether or not I struggled with the excruciating pain, it sucked my memories indiscriminately. It felt like everything in my head had been turned into a mess.
I continued to struggle. If he moved violently with a huge knife stuck in his stomach, his upper and lower bodies could be separated and he could die instantly, and he couldn’t escape, so it was just a meaningless action.
However, the pain that covered his entire body paralyzed his rational thinking. It was hard to endure with sober mind without even struggling.
“… ….”
The time of suffering did not last long. As I lost consciousness, the struggle gradually subsided. The whole body was drained of strength.
I had an intuition that if I fell asleep now, I would never wake up. I thought about it in my head, but it was hard to hold back the drowsiness that came over me. The eyelids slowly began to come down.
Finally, I closed my eyes, feeling that something blocking the corner of my head was shattering.
ㅡWhat do you think requiem means, you who suppressed the curse?
‘…… This?’
I heard a voice from somewhere. I don’t remember hearing it, but it sounded familiar.
Even though I tried to recall the memory, I didn’t have the strength to do so, so I just listened limply.
ㅡIt is not simply a soul-crushing process. It’s a much broader concept.
ㅡThink about it. If the requiem only breaks human souls, why would the immortal centipede die too? They are simply monstrosities that use humans as hosts. If the host dies, it just needs to find another host.
‘…… I know?’
It was strange when I heard it. The immortal centipede is literally immortal to any attack except for a specific weapon, so why is it that if you use the requiem, you are killed along with the human dwelling in it?
ㅡRequiem is not simply the process of breaking the soul of the dead to find rest. It is a process of cutting off everything that is in contact with its essence.
ㅡSo, the immortal centipede that merged with the essence, too, could not stand it and collapsed. Even after death, the remembrance of the soul that was forcibly caught in the present world has such a meaning. You who suppressed the curse.
‘… ….’
ㅡ Not sure? Of course. If I can do it right from the beginning, why would I be by your side? Fortunately, it is a practice partner that is widely spread in this world, so let’s start from the basics step by step.
Memories that had been suppressed and suppressed in a corner of my head burst out like a stream of water through a hole in a dam. The regurgitation, once started, showed no signs of stopping.
ㅡUntil your body gets used to it, remember this one thing.
—-Requiem means breaking its essence.
With those last words, the voice in my head disappeared. But the memories kept flowing in.
An old thing, an old thing, and an old thing. My past was so vast. There was no sign of stopping or ending.
Among the innumerable memories of the past that came to mind, a sentence he had repeated countless times passed through his mind.
‘Not yet.’
When I thought of those words again, my body miraculously reacted first. Grabbing something that was barely caught between my fingers, I reflexively put my strength into it.
I couldn’t confirm it with my eyes, but I knew what it was. It is a proof that I have not given up yet, and it is a collection of countless hours of hard work.
It shouldn’t stay like this. I forcibly pulled out the consciousness that was trying to sink into the depths of my heart. Can’t sit down here. I’m not dead yet
I still had a nasty big blade stuck in my stomach, my head was aching, and my body ached. But it was fine. Have you ever felt this sensation once or twice?
I ignored the pain. He pulled up what was barely hanging between his fingers. A familiar weight and a familiar feel came through.
I held a nightmare that lost its wings.
The twisted being questioned.
Despite reading all the memories of the person in front of me, new memories were constantly emerging. It was a figure that far exceeded the memory of one human being.
If this were all, I wouldn’t have questioned it. I knew the identity of that person a long time ago. The fact that he had several people’s memories was not at all awkward.
The reason I had doubts was that I couldn’t read the newly formed memories at all. Even though he is clearly aware of the world in which those memories were created.
This was my first experience. After saving countless lives in countless worlds for an infinite amount of time, there has never been a single case where that memory could not be absorbed or read.
Thus, the twisted being strengthened the red aura. After being manipulated by himself until the end, he squeezed with all his might the human who was dying in despair.
And nothing has changed.
Indecipherable memories still welled up like an inexhaustible spring, and humans were only dying, but still not dying.
It was around the time that the concept of questioning was firmly established. The life that was precarious like a candle in front of the wind and dim like a bottomed well began to pulsate little by little.
The twisted being couldn’t understand this either. Ordinary humans suffered wounds that would not be strange even if they died right away, and were even saved by absorbing memories.
After going through that process, how can you still be alive and moving? They only share a soul and memories, but have a completely different body from the past?
Before the new question had even gone, the human gripped the object in his hand tighter and moved. Strength went into the muscles of the whole body. He lifted his own head up.
The jet-black eyes contained determination.
It was not surprising since sometimes there were lives that refused to be saved in that way and tried to resist tenaciously. It was the first time I had survived this tough.
The small sword in the human hand was raised. The sword, which he deliberately made and returned with the same appearance, because he struggled to pick it up without even knowing its subject matter.
The sword, which symbolized meaningless outbursts and fading hope, was drawn vertically, and it didn’t take long to realize that the symbol was no longer meaningless.
–Suddenly.
With a very simple action of drawing the sword vertically, the essence of the twisted being was cut off. I felt a sense of being torn apart.
ㅡKuaaa!!!!!
A roar broke out. The roar of the twisted being’s full power shattered the nearby space like powder.
It was an excruciating pain. To the point where he couldn’t even think of the human who had done this to him, the question that had popped up just a moment ago, or the false god who should have been killed.
The only emotion comparable to this was the hunger I felt when the twisted being was first born.
No, it was much more than that. At least back then, I didn’t forget everything and go mad like I do now.
ㅡQuooooo!!!!!!
His body, like a mountain, twisted and rolled around, going mad. However, no matter how much I twisted my body, no matter how much knowledge I used, I couldn’t alleviate the current pain.
The red energy that enveloped the bodies of false gods and humans has disappeared. The huge blade that pierced the human body also disappeared.
The goddess slowly lifted her head and regained her sanity as her eyes widened at the unbelievable situation unfolding right in front of her, but she didn’t have the mind to care about that.
I was busy screaming and screaming while feeling the pain of being cut.
The twisted being instinctively chose to run away. It was only an infinite amount of time since he was first born into the world that he acted solely on his instincts without rational thinking.
A dying voice murmured in pain as the dragon opened the space nearby and hurriedly entered it.
“With this…… It’s 1v1…… You f*cking lizard…….”
A warm divine power wrapped around him. The sun and moon clung to each other as if escorting them. There was a hole in his abdomen wide enough to see the scenery behind him, but not a single drop of blood escaped.
Finally, the goddess who was staring at the fainting human with a tearful smile, kissed her on the forehead and let go of her hand.
Soon after, her body lost her support and fell.