The Grand Mage who transcends by returning Chapter 368
In an instant, I became Asar.
That’s what it means to follow his arrangement.
Whether you want it or not, you share some of his feelings and memories.
– Asar What is that?
– It’s human.
Asar replied simply.
– They think and grow like us. decided to make it that way. If there is land, surely there must be something on it.
– ‘Yes’ Are you a creature?
– No, they are ‘us’ creatures.
Asar corrected his words.
‘we’ not ‘me’.
Asar recognized the first humans as a joint venture between the two.
That’s how mankind was born.
It wasn’t bad at first.
It is thanks to the fact that it was quite pleasant to see the things that Asar gave birth to worship them in the process of growing and cultivating a group.
They craved faith.
Moved by the grace he gave, he shed tears and cried out for God’s grace throughout the day.
what to say
In terms of humanity, it feels like seeing a pet with a lot of aegyo.
Asar saw such a demon.
And he thought that his other half also agreed with his will.
It was a mistake.
The two’s views on humanity were not and could not be the same from the beginning.
【After all, it is nothing more than a creature! This means that no matter what we do, we cannot be equal to or surpass us!]
With those words, the demon rushed at us.
The appearance of the demon god, which had maintained its past form until just now, was broken and became a shadow again.
Numerous possibilities were glimpsed between the broken spaces.
However, the demon’s gaze was focused only on me.
It seems like nothing else matters.
【The possibilities Asar said were about that, but in the end it couldn’t solve the loneliness!】
“It’s probably you, not us.”
I said that and put the fragments of the broken space together.
Things that had great power in themselves expanded into an indescribably great power when combined.
threw it at the same time.
It was different from the mana bombs commonly circulated among mankind.
No, even if some magician risked all his abilities to create an explosion, he would not be able to reach it.
The man who saw it was shaken.
【Have you already lost your strength in that short period of time?】
He stretched out his hand.
Then the explosion that seemed to wipe out everything disappeared in an instant.
【But it’s not enough.】
Her red eyes were staring at me, burning fiercely.
Kwadeuk!
【Look! I could kill you anytime. Even now!]
With those words, the demon approached me in an instant. Then he grabbed my head and threw me to the floor.
Wow!
“Cheuk!”
pain.
In an instant, the intense pain I felt in my back went straight to my head.
The battle with God and the pain that arises in the process.
I was new to all of that.
He said while holding my head in a growl.
【But it didn’t. Admit it. It was because of my indecisiveness that I didn’t want to lose anything.]
“Indecisiveness?”
I was dumbfounded and grabbed the arm of the guy holding my head.
“No, you have to be honest. You never thought about it.”
[You.]
I said, somehow removing his hand from mine.
“I never gave up once. Not even once so far.”
When Asar existed, he tried to convince the Demon God countless times.
I tried to accommodate his thoughts as much as possible and actually changed a lot.
But what did you choose
Did you honor Asar’s will and take care of humanity with him?
it’s not
“I rather denied it.”
Even in the worst way.
【I should have just said it. All of Asar’s actions can’t fill the ‘loneliness’… …!】
“It was your idea to fill the feeling of loneliness.”
【…!]
Yes, it was all your thoughts.
It was Asar’s effort or his own selfish thoughts that did not give any thought to his position.
[No, no!]
He shouted furiously as if in a fit of fuss.
Soon, he grabbed my face again with his other hand and hit me.
The excruciating pain continues, and at the same time, the floor we were standing on collapses.
Clink!
The past, present and future were intertwined in front of my eyes. To begin with, this is such an ‘ambiguous’ space.
Nothing has a clear reality.
A precarious space where everything changes from time to time under the thoughts and choices of ‘God’.
‘It’s not good to go down there.’
This place can be seen as a kind of library where Harmageddon and Asar’s ‘memories’ are mixed.
To fall is to sink into the deep past, and to that extent, it also means that this ‘down’ is a favorable memory for it.
And after falling for a while, we fell to the floor before we knew it.
Right after that, the impact of the fall sent a sharp pain running through his whole body. It’s not just the shock of a fall.
After falling endlessly in this bizarre space where memories and emotions are mixed, they hit the floor.
‘Damn it.’
I groaned and tried to concentrate somehow.
“Mikhail are you okay?!”
“…are you okay.”
It’s not like I can’t move though. I struggled to get myself up.
This must be the bottom of the demon’s memories.
“This….”
Weiss muttered as he blankly watched the scene.
– I will prove him wrong. Those creatures are defective products with clear limits.
there was a drunk
His eyes were burning with all sorts of miasma.
The determination to prove Asar wrong.
With just that, he roughly ripped out a part of me. Unlike Asar, he is a special creature with only his own existence.
I know this ending.
“I wondered what kind of memory it was, but did you come to this time?”
“…Yes it was.”
Weiss muttered in a subdued voice as she sat on my shoulder.
“I was a creature made out of my father’s inferiority complex.”
The idea that you are right than Asar and that you can create a creature ‘superior’ to him.
I would have been really sure.
That is until Solomon sided with Asar, not himself.
That moment.
【stop…!]
The demon burst into anger and shattered the view of the ‘past’.
Taking advantage of that gap, he summoned Longinus and aimed at him.
Kwajik!
The eyes of the guy whose right shoulder had been pierced were distorted for a moment.
But that’s for a while.
The current guy has regained the strength he had when he fought against Asar.
He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to do anything with just that much of an injury.
【You’re trying to distract me with an odd number!】
“No, I didn’t mean to.”
Once, he and I got tangled up.
An endless battle ensued between him and me.
Crushed, crushed, and ruined.
The body of a god doesn’t take any damage.
As long as the soul is intact, it has no meaning.
That’s why we constantly break each other. Rather than an attempt to incapacitate the opponent… ….
just trying to prove it.
that you are right
“In the first place, what I saw now is your past. It’s just something you remembered and the world arbitrarily called out the time you were most obsessed with.”
【No way…!]
“I don’t know, but I drank.”
I said glaring at him.
“This was the starting point.”
My existence, after all, comes from Solomon, who was created by the devil.
If he hadn’t made Solomon out of an inferiority complex, I wouldn’t have existed either.
In a way, I am a being born out of his inferiority complex.
“You still don’t know, Father?”
As if feeling sorry for her, Wise said to the devil.
“Everything you did to deny Asar ended up like this.”
【….]
He didn’t answer that.
His gaze turned to his past self.
Even if you say the past, it’s just fragments that simply play back the record… ….
【Ha ha… ….]
He laughed as if it was meaningless.
【So give up?】
“Why are you so stubborn, even though you’ve been trapped in obscurity for so many years?”
A little has changed, said Wise.
At those words, the movement of the demon god that was about to attack me again stopped.
But it was only a moment.
【It has changed. I admit it.]
He saw me.
【I can’t understand humanity. I don’t even expect those lower things to reach me. Mikhail, who has reached me, isn’t you also a being born with a part of me after all?]
“….”
【Nothing makes me… ….】
“Do you think that I was the only one who hurt you?”
I slowly got up.
While talking for a while, my soul was restored to a considerable extent.
Besides, I’m getting a little carried away now.
Apart from that, the fact that I was a ‘humanity’ gradually faded away.
Only the first promise remains and somehow keeps ‘Mikhail’ alive.
but nonetheless.
“All the warriors protected the world by burning everything from you.”
【that….]
“What was the reason I was able to break your right arm at that time? How could I buy time?”
I don’t know the details.
However, the blow that the first hero sacrificed himself somehow gave me an opportunity.
“…It did.”
Hekau’s eyes trembled.
She closed her eyes for a moment, perhaps recalling memories with her child.
Wasn’t it all meaningless?
can it be
There is no way that there is no meaning in that long lasting and accumulated history.
That’s what Asar hoped for.
“What about the ‘devils’, your creatures, whom you boasted so much about? In the end, I was stopped by my comrades and humanity.”
【….]
It’s not that I didn’t do anything.
Obviously, unlike before the return, the situation has changed because I intervened.
But other than that, even in areas I don’t know, humans did their best to protect themselves.
I affirm such humanity.
【I can’t do that.】
But he said firmly.
【I wanted to change a lot of things. That’s why I made suggestions, and they also denied everything I’ve done so far.]
“Yes, it was unconventional.”
It was an offer that came from someone who drank to the point of surprise. To the point where I thought it wasn’t bad for a moment.
But the important thing is the demon’s fundamental thoughts.
Unless it changes, everything just repeats itself endlessly.
that’s why i kill him
【Isn’t your attachment to humanity so great now? Why the hell are you doing this… ….】
“I told you, you have no standards.”
The god I think of is not a being who is swayed by emotions and replaces his creation at will.
Birth is responsible.
At least I think so.
【…Why is he trying to deny me so much?]
With those words, he raised his hand. At that moment, an unprecedented energy began to rage.
【Then let’s see where to kill her.】
The guy’s mood changed.
A different energy from before began to press on his shoulders.
It was a resumption of the battle.
* * *
Kwaaang!
Numerous stars circled around the Demon God. It was part of the gnome and at the same time a weapon.
Among them was the power of the Void, which endlessly absorbs everything and turns it into nothingness.
Some escaped, some did not.
Kwajik!
Compared to him, I was still inexperienced in handling the power of a god, so I allowed the attack.
“Keugh!”
An excruciating pain that occurred once continues continuously.
That’s why I cut off the ‘pain’ and ‘spirit’.
At least at this point, I knew that shrinking from pain would be a loss to me.
’10 circles.’
The topic that I constantly threw at myself immediately after returning.
Am I in the 10th circle now?
Humanity has collapsed and he is gradually realizing the power of God.
A lot of information was constantly pouring into me.
They filled my head without ever disappearing, and such an advanced consciousness grew my soul.
Then am I in the 10th circle?
In the first place, I considered the level of the 10th circle to be the rank of a god.
Actually it will.
It would be difficult to say that even now, when he is already competing with the Demon God on an equal footing, he has fully reached the ’10th Circle’.
I felt it while dealing with the demon.
lack.
Even though I cut off his arms and legs and tried to deal with him somehow in the best possible environment, something was lacking.
We need something a little more certain.
have to reach
the soul wears out
At this rate, my side will collapse before the demon.
I tried hard to suppress that impatience.
But at that moment.
Kwajik!
Somehow, the balance of the ongoing battle was broken. A jet-black spear pierces my shoulder.
【’Destruction’ created by forging the first stars. No matter how much you do, you won’t be able to fully endure this.]
The pain continues.
“Ka ha ha… ….”
My soul was trembling.
It continues to tremble anxiously as if it would collapse at any moment.
something….
Something needs to be done.
With that thought in mind, I stretched out my hand toward the front as if desperate.
Anything is good.
Anything that can be a means of getting out of this situation.
And that outstretched hand.
“are you okay.”
something caught
A warm feeling was felt.
I slowly raised my head.
I struggled to figure out the identity somehow in the blurry vision. Before I knew it, I was in a completely different space from before.
Neither the god who drank nor the space that exploded.
There was nothing around.
What I see in front of me right now is the familiar landscape of the family garden in my long memory… ….
“Welcome.”
It was me when I was young with a smile infinitely similar to mine.
