Chapter 305
Reed raised an arm to cover his eyes.
“Ha, haha……”
A hollow laugh precariously echoed through the damp air. All this time, he had avoided looking at Aillet.
In the blind spot created by his averted gaze, Aillet moved quietly.
Her hand swept through subspace, retrieving two objects.
One was the Holy Ground Construction she had secured during the battle, and the other was the Synthesis Mystery Box.
She placed the flag-shaped artifact into the empty gift box.
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There was no need to reach out into the air to receive anything. This reward was not a physical object.
A golden orb rose above Aillet’s head. It looked like a small sun rising, but in reality, it was a celestial sphere crafted from light.
A system message appeared.
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“Yes.”
She knew best what her wish was, so there was no hesitation.
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“Tesillid Argent’s regression point.”
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“100th iteration, Tesillid Argent.”
His true name was uttered twice in succession through the low, echoing voices. At this point, Reed also lowered his arm, emerging from the darkness he had created.
“Aillet Rodelain……?”
His call and gaze, filled with the question of what she was doing, were fixed entirely on Aillet’s face.
In his eyes, the artifact ‘Genesis’, a celestial sphere radiating brilliant light and rotating, was not visible.
The system faithfully continued to report the progress.
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“Cough……!”
A trickle of blood from his lips informed him that the end of this timeline was approaching.
Reed had never really known how to resent Aillet. The fact that time was running out rapidly melted away even that brief resentment.
Resigning himself to his fate, he spoke plaintively.
“Yes……. If it’s a punishment from you, I must accept it and endure it. I must……”
“……”
“Punish me as you please. Do as you wish with me.”
“……”
He had abandoned himself defenselessly.
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As the system’s countdown began, Aillet’s expression as she looked down at Reed gradually crumbled.
She was a Holy Saint, granted immense 9th Divine Power Tier.
Just one healing spell.
Just one healing spell could hold his scattering soul within his body now.
It was an incredibly easy and simple task for her.
Thus, it was difficult to suppress the urge to revive him and let him live.
Aillet endured and endured.
Putting strength into her fingertips until the knuckles on the back of her hand stood out white, and biting her lips until they bled.
She killed the desire to save him.
And by doing so, she killed him.
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And at this moment, Reed might have read Aillet’s mind.
He intuitively realized what action could imprint this moment on her forever.
There was no reason to refuse the chance to live eternally in her memory. So, he acted without hesitation.
“……!”
Aillet’s green eyes widened.
Reed gathered his remaining strength and raised one hand.
His trembling fingertips reached for Aillet’s face. Her cheek, where a thin red line was drawn.
Where his thumb brushed, the wound was wiped away along with the blood. Instead, the line of blood transferred to his own cheek.
Guardian of Belonging.
A skill they had learned together long ago.
With it, he healed Aillet Rodelain. The one thing she couldn’t do, he could.
He parted his bloodless lips. No sound emerged, so the shape of his lips conveyed the words.
Goodbye.
“……”
“……”
It was a remarkably simple, truly him-like farewell.
Slowly…….
Reed’s appearance began to change. His hair, which had seemed to be carved from jet-black darkness, gradually faded. Whiter and whiter, like silver threads.
A long breeze blew from the south. An invisible hand gently caressed his moonlight-like silver hair before passing by.
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Pop-!
The golden light illuminating Aillet’s head condensed into a single point, and the celestial sphere vanished instantly.
Now, all that remained was…….
“Reed?”
“……”
“Reed.”
“……”
“Tesillid.”
“……”
Only she remained, clutching the handsome man’s body that offered no reply.
“Ah……”
The direction of the wind sweeping across the field changed. Instead of the warm southern breeze, a cold northern gale lashed across the field, decapitating unnamed wildflowers as it raged.
“Ahhh……”
It was over.
It was finished.
He, the 100th iteration Tesillid Argent, had departed.
“Ah, ahh. Ahhh.”
She sensed her limit.
She could no longer suppress the hot sensation welling up from deep within her chest.
Clutching the husk from which his soul had permanently departed, she collapsed face down as if prostrating herself.
Her pathetically hunched back convulsed violently. It remained so long after the fierce gale had subsided.
In a beautiful landscape, like a painted scene, with a sky so piercingly blue, wildflowers blooming brightly, and mountain birds chirping.
Willingly taking the place of this heartless world and timeline that offered no mourning for him, her sorrowful wails echoed across the entire field.
For a long, long time.
“……”
How much time had passed like that?
Her unrestrained cries finally dried up.
“Goodbye.”
“……”
“I’ll visit again.”
It was fortunate that it was a soft-looking grassy field, not cold ice and snow.
She laid him on the carpet-like green and placed a few flowers on his chest. It was the short funeral allowed to her.
Barely sealing her grief, she rose from her spot. Her green eyes, fixed forward, shone with determination.
It was time to quell her intense emotions and move forward with an unwavering heart.
For the mission of saving the world had not yet been completed.
‘Now, only the task of sealing the Chaos Evil God remains.’
But then.
Rumble!
A phenomenon occurred in the northeast.
<Aillet!>
“……!”
[‘Voice-Spirit that Constructs the World’ is astonished.]
[‘Scales that Judge Souls’ is astonished.]
[‘Heavens’ Secret Overseer’ is astonished.]
Darkness once again descended upon the sky, which had been cleared of the veil of night by Abyssinis’s subjugation.
It wasn’t merely the arrival of night. The entire sky was transforming into a viscous darkness, as if turning into an abyss.
And at the center of this phenomenon, demonic energy, like clouds, gathered to form a whirlpool.
The eye of the storm. It transformed into a Gate, opening its maw wide.
The gate of sorrow, despair, and destruction opened. And from within it…….
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“……My God.”
The Chaos Evil God’s true form was crawling out.✠
‘Was this what Abyssinis had been preparing?’
Tesillid’s gaze fixed on the terrifying eye of the storm located at the center of the night sky.
The Chaos Evil God, elevated to a Demon God after two bursts, opened the lid of hell and emerged.
<Ughhhh……>
The sight of myriad demonic entities clawing at each other, desperate to emerge first, was truly a dog-eat-dog struggle.
Only a portion of the Chaos Evil God had spilled into the mortal realm so far. What would happen when its entire being manifested in the world was unimaginable.
Even with only a part of it causing chaos and attempting to engulf the world, cracks were gradually appearing in the space-time of the mortal realm.
A surreal spectacle where the air, as if made of glass, fractured with thick cracks and shards rained down.
The interface between the Demon Realm and the mortal realm weakened, showing signs that the mortal realm itself would shatter.
Originally, neither Reed nor Abyssinis would have desired this extent of chaos.
They wouldn’t have intended to immediately destroy the world they planned to colonize.
Therefore, the current phenomenon was an unforeseen situation. And the reason this occurred was clear.
The nascent thoughts of the Chaos Evil God were too low in quality to handle the will elevated to a Demon God.
This was because Reed, a high-dimensional being who could act as a central hub through consciousness resonance, had disappeared.
This was both a joyful announcement of Aillet’s victory and a tragic harbinger of destruction.
Furthermore, the true form was now in a state of intense rage.
Hundreds of thousands of voices, male and female, young and old, mixed together, chillingly shook the mortal realm.
<My successor, whom I finally gained after waiting for ages……!>
<My vessel, carefully nurtured……!>
<Who dared to harm it……!>
<I will never forgive this!>
Having lost Reed, the Chaos Evil God showed signs of rampaging.
Destruction was approaching. Tesillid, standing on the foremost line of that apocalypse, muttered softly.
“In the end, Reed was necessary after all.”
He smiled weakly, as if there was nothing else to do.
From afar, people belatedly approached. It seemed that after Abyssinis fell, the demonic beings, who had rapidly lost strength, were all dealt with by their allies, who then joined up.
“Sir Tesillid!”
“Are you saf—, H-huh?!”
They stopped in their tracks as they approached. This was because Tesillid, standing before the black rift, had a very unfamiliar appearance.
“A black…… Demon Swordsman……?”
His long, flowing black hair and Holy Knight uniform created an extreme discord.
The situation, where no one dared to approach Tesillid, was convenient for him as well. He didn’t need to concern himself with his surroundings either.
He lowered his gaze from the sky where the Chaos Evil God writhed and looked straight ahead. Five steps in front of him was a massive rift.
Tesillid slowly took a step, leaving words that no one could hear.
“I told you, child. I will surely save the world you are in.”
Saving the world was what he did best.
And the easiest, most consistently used method of salvation for him was.
“……Goodbye.”
Thorough self-sacrifice.
“Sir Tesillid!”
“My God! Tesillid!”
The massive rift, like a monster’s torn maw, swallowed Tesillid’s figure.
The abyss of chaos willingly welcomed the sacrifice who offered himself as its master.
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