300 – The end
I looked down at my left hand, which turned white and shattered. It meant that her soul, which had lost its mission, was rapidly weakening. That’s why even the body collapses together.
If the soul that couldn’t bear death had been destroyed, it would have turned into an immortal body that only moves its shell like other immortals, but that’s not the case anymore.
My mark of immortality disappeared after I completed my mission to defeat the World Eater.
‘…… That guess was real.’
As for the end of the Undead that completed its mission, users eagerly collected information from the game and made guesses.
Among them, the hypothesis that received the most support was the hypothesis that they could not endure the death they had experienced and would break down, but I didn’t know that it would fit exactly.
“Cure? Huh? Can’t I use healing magic?”
“…… The soul is incurable…… You know…….”
The words became more and more dull. At least my precious people came to visit me, so I could endure this hardship even longer, and it was clear that I wouldn’t have had a chance to do this even if it was a little late.
However, there was a limit to enduring.
The vision in front of my eyes became more and more blurry, and my left arm, up to the elbow, began to whiten and scatter white powder. I stared blankly at the part that had once been my arm, which had turned to white powder and scattered.
“I…… I can fix it, you. Please bear with me.”
Similar to the popes, Eclipse, who was about to cry, hurriedly approached him, swallowing his cries. In every gesture, the feeling of restlessness, fearing that I might be wrong, was fully revealed.
“Really, Goddess?!”
Nyx asked urgently. Eclipse nodded through his teary eyes. A golden light emanated from the goddess’ right hand and a silver light from her left.
The color filled with divine power permeated directly into the soul. My soul felt a little clearer, and the disintegration of my body, which had been slowly rising along my arm, stopped abruptly.
After confirming that, I struggled to open my mouth.
“The human soul…… Didn’t you say you couldn’t recover? … Goddess…….”
“At that time, he had taken away most of my strength. Otherwise, the human soul can be easily repaired. I am the one who created the life of this world. Your soul is so badly damaged that it will take a while…….”
I think so.
Even though it looked like that, Eclipse was clearly the creator of this world. He made those countless souls himself, and there was no way he couldn’t cure a single human soul.
“For now, the treatment we are providing is only temporary. It’s still recovering its strength, but it takes a little while to recover all of it because there are so many things that were taken away. If you continue to receive treatment, you will not die.”
Sighs of relief were sighed from everywhere. Floretta and Luna wiped the tears from their eyes. Rize also smiled broadly, holding back her tears.
I was also able to relieve my worries. At least it won’t happen here to make other people sad by dying.
“After buying time like this, after getting all my strength back—”
ㅡAnything.
Before Eclipse could finish speaking, a very ominous sound came from somewhere. The eyes that were fixed on me turned to the sky.
With Rize’s help, he lifted his head.
“The sky…….”
The sky was tearing.
A space where nothing exists was revealed beyond the torn sky. I instinctively recognized that fact. Beyond that, it would literally be a space of nothingness.
The space of emptiness grew bigger and bigger, and finally cut out part of the sky entirely. Quadruped! With a sound, the space itself was shattered and disappeared into nothingness.
“Oh, what happened, Goddess?!”
Nyx asked in a voice dripping with bewilderment. After closing her eyes for a moment and clearing her mind, Eclipse opened her eyes with a slightly pale face.
“…… My forces trapped in it are released all at once, and the space that can’t stand that power is breaking. Somehow, the power coming in was very small, so I never thought that something like that would happen…….”
“How to stop it? Are you sure you didn’t say no?”
“There is a way. It’s the power that was in me, so I can take it back. If you go to the source of power and have them gather around me instead of spreading indiscriminately like that, that’s it.”
“Then you have to go quickly—”
Rize, who was trying to urge the goddess, shut her mouth. It was because he saw the two-colored divine power flowing from Eclipse’s body permeating somewhere.
I was at the end. I knelt on the floor, breathing heavily while desperately supporting my broken body.
Eclipse’s expression quickly darkened.
“…… The power is still coming back, but the amount is minuscule. I must go directly to the source of the power release.”
ㅡ Meh, me and me!
The sky shattered again. The broken world was shattered and sucked into the space of nothingness.
The eroded space only got wider and wider. Now, not even the sky, but even the earth was being engulfed by the world of nothingness.
“If I stabilize the nihilistic world, I won’t be able to heal Delta’s soul. The soul will crumble irrevocably from the moment the light disappears. You won’t last even five minutes.”
“Can’t we just treat the soul quickly and go? Or even a way to heal the soul from a distance—”
“Neither is possible. The soul is almost at its limit. If you recklessly increase the healing speed or attempt treatment from a distance, there is a high probability that the soul itself will be destroyed without a trace.”
ㅡQuajijik…….
As if to add to the despair in Eclipse’s words, the space near the horizon was cut out again. There were now more non-existent spaces in the sky than existing ones.
“…… Goddess. Just in case…… I’m asking, I mean…… Continuing treatment here…… So that the world doesn’t break…… You can, the way…… Are you there?”
Eclipse with a desperate face shook his head.
“No. If you do, other forces will mix with the light that flows into your soul. Your soul won’t stand it.”
No, la. I thought as I looked at my forearm, which had barely stopped bleaching. Beyond the fact that the collapse had stopped, even the broken places were gradually recovering.
Does that mean that if Eclipse removes his hand from here, there will be no turning back immediately?
‘… ….’
There was nothing to do after worrying and sleeping. Whatever you have to do is decided.
My original mission was to save this world.
Ironically, when I made that decision, my stuffy head cleared up a bit. The blurred vision has been slightly restored. The mission of immortality was no longer left, but it was a strange thing.
I glanced around. Everyone was unable to do this or that, but for now, the atmosphere was converging to focus on my treatment.
I met eyes with Eclipse. Odd-eyes, each containing gold and silver, headed towards me.
“Goddess…… I am okay…… Therefore…… Do what you have to do…….”
“You…… !”
Recognizing the inner meaning of those words, Eclipse put on a face full of astonishment. So did others.
“Delta! It’s crazy?! Are you going to die now?!”
“If the world collapses, we will try to prevent it, so focus on treatment, child! This is not the time to say such things!”
Minerva opened her magical barrier with all her might. However, the magic barrier that the eternal mage spread with all his might melted like thin ice in late spring as soon as he touched the broken space.
A very rare blank expression appeared on his face.
Soon after, Floretta and Luna opened the sacred barrier, but the holy barrier used by the popes was no different. As soon as it touched the broken space, it was not able to withstand even 0.1 Second, let alone 1 second, and was smashed.
After that, Minerva, Aurora, Nyx, Floretta, and Luna repeatedly tried to block the approaching empty space, but all of them ended in vain.
“If we go on like this…… Everyone dies, Goddess…….”
“If I don’t continue treatment, you will die! I will never let you do that!”
Eclipse put on a determined expression and began to concentrate with all his might. The speed at which the soul was restored was accelerating.
In proportion to that, the speed at which the world broke was also getting faster. Most of the space as far as the eye can see has been dyed into a world where nothing exists. The situation was not very good.
“Goddess… ….”
“I hate to hear it. Won’t listen So please…… Please don’t tell me to leave you.”
A single tear ran down his reddish cheek. Eclipse blew light into me with a half-crying expression. Over his shoulder he could see the world shattering.
“Kyaaa!”
“Aurora!”
Minerva grabbed Aurora by the arm and pulled her tight. Laura, who escaped her space of nothingness due to the difference in her hair, fell flat on the floor. The blue light that shimmered in her hand disappeared.
Minerva and Nyx, Floretta and Luna, who were trying to stop the space erosion from afar, stepped back. The distance from the empty space was getting closer and closer. I really didn’t have time anymore.
“Not long left…… Goddess…… You have to make a decision, you have to…….”
“You’re not too far away! The first priority here is you! Please…… Yes?”
The world shattered again. Five people who tried to stop the space erosion came down to the floor with desperate expressions. Now, as far as the eye could see, nothing existed.
The only place to step, breathe, and live was at best near Eclipse. Seeing that even in this situation, everyone was worried about me and not me, I gritted my teeth and shouted.
“Eclipse!”
Hearing my roar, Eclipse trembled. He looked straight into those eyes and said.
“Now that I’m done, do what I have to do as a goddess! Do you think I caught that damn lizard just to see it get sucked in and die?! Everything becomes meaningless if you are here!”
“… ….”
“…… Please, Goddess. My efforts…… Please don’t make it in vain…….”
I used honorifics again and caught my breath. Cool, a sticky cough came out. Eclipse looked at me like that, and finally burst out the tears I had been holding back.
Crying, Eclipse stood up and threw itself over the silver halo. Immediately, the twisting world stopped. The space where nothing existed disappeared, and the existing world filled its place.
In my eyes, the empty space encroached right up to Caicilia’s heels.
It was like that everywhere. No matter which way I looked, all I could see was a figure standing very close to the heels of the women wrapped around me.
If the decision was just a little too late, or if Eclipse’s actions were just a little too late, it would have been irreversible.
“…… Cool, cool!”
Apart from that, my body, which had been cut off from treatment, was also reaching its limit. As Eclipse said, when the light disappeared, the soul was destroyed at a much faster rate. I staggered and leaned against Rize.
“Delta! No! Please…… Hold on a little longer huh? Goddess will be back soon…… Even until then…….”
A golden light, a silver light, and a green light flashed one after another in a corner of my field of vision. It seemed that he was trying to somehow restore me by pouring healing magic and divine spells on me.
“Okay…… It’s not necessary, because…….”
I stuttered, stretching out my arm and lowering it down to find the source of the light. The light went out powerlessly. He struggled to find Nyx in the increasingly blurry field of view and raised his head.
“…… Flor. When I broke up with you…… The last immortal centipede…… I have to kill, I have to, I have to…… What you did…… Remember, I…… ?”
“…… Sniff huh.”
“Same thing, hey…… I, even in Brunet 1…… Even in Brunet 2…… Always at the expense of me…… Because I chose the path to protect the world…… Again…….”
Now that all my memories have returned, I can tell. It is said that the ‘true ending’ of the Brün series is the player sacrificing himself to save the world.
Because I chose that path.
Because I, the ‘protagonist’ of the Brightest Darkness series, sacrificed myself to save that world.
So this time again, it’s just a process of repeating what I’ve done three times so far. I coughed and laughed bitterly. I could feel the gritty texture of the powder in my mouth.
“Don’t die, Delta. If you die, we will grow old alone. I will miss you for the rest of my life and die lonely alone. So, never die. Didn’t you say you were responsible? Didn’t you say you would take responsibility for all of us? Was all that said a lie? Answer me, Delta!”
I heard Cecilia’s voice right next to me. It was a voice full of sadness and sorrow.
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After hearing her words, her spirit seemed to recover a little, but the speed of her collapse was more serious than that.
“Sorry, ha… ….”
I handed over an apology and let out a laugh that made me feel empty. I thought of something for the last time and squeezed myself.
With a simple expectation that it might be possible, he uttered the last words with the world’s laws in his words.
ㅡRecover.
At that moment, I felt something swirling inside my body and filling it up again. It was a fairly familiar sensation, but there was no time to think about what it was.
The most important thing is that the broken soul has not been restored. At this point, whether or not something else filled up was useless.
“… ….”
After the last attempt failed, the strength to endure any longer was completely gone. His head bent, and he staggered as it was before collapsing toward the ground.
My eyes are closed.
[The owner of the ‘Saving Throw’ has been confirmed dead.]
[You will have three chances to change your destiny.]
[The first fate is thrown.]
[Checking fate…….]
[Check number: 1]
[The second fate is cast.]
[Checking fate…….]
[Check number: 1]
[The final fate is cast.]
[Checking fate…….]
[Check number: 1]
[The trigger condition for ‘Saving Throw’ has been met.]
[Fate twists.]