#1022. Prove it.
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[….]
The merciful Guardian of Resurrection was speechless.
At the cost of enormous damage, he was dragged down to the source of the star and sentenced to destruction.
I was absolutely certain that this time I would be able to destroy the Earth and destroy humanity.
Of course, that confidence was broken.
The fact that even the vortex of starlight has disappeared completely and the fate of destruction has been reversed.
This reality was unbelievable even to the constellations who had lived for such a long time.
This is especially true in the sense that humanity’s fate has become so strong that even the origin of the stars cannot destroy the Earth at will.
“I should have told you.”
[….]
“Don’t look down on humanity.”
That was why.
The reason why the sight of a man calmly accepting such an absurd thing as if it were completely natural felt even more foreign.
Even though he is immortal, he has only lived for a moment compared to himself, who is truly immortal.
Nevertheless, after being silent as I looked at this incomprehensible mortal that I could not possibly understand.
The guardian opened his mouth heavily.
[…I admit that I underestimated the power of humanity.]
If you ask me if I underestimated it.
I dared to say it.
I never let my guard down.
Of course, I have seen many times how humanity, which should have been extinct long ago, stubbornly endures and miraculously overcomes crises.
Especially what an absurd monster the Sword Master is.
I got to know him very well as I witnessed his fight with the Sword Demon right up front.
Therefore, revealing the source of the star, which can be said to be a true constellation, was their final move.
Going to great lengths to catch just one bedbug… no, it was as outrageous as burning an entire country.
The Guardian viewed humanity’s potential as high enough to endure such waste.
nevertheless.
The Guardian had to admit.
In the end, he said that he still underestimated the potential of humanity and the power of the Sword Master.
[But that doesn’t change anything.]
“….”
[No matter how strong you are and how deep the potential of humanity is, it is absolutely impossible to defeat us.]
That’s why.
The reason why the guardian’s eyes shined brightly.
Long ago, before he was immortal, he overcame all kinds of hardships, adversity, and despair, survived until the end, and rose to the pinnacle of the stars.
Because the option of being frustrated over something like this didn’t even exist in the first place.
“okay?”
Eat and drink.
After laughing.
Limon put his hands on his waist.
Then, he looked directly at the guardian with cold, sunken eyes and spoke softly.
“Then prove it.”
Ugh.
A dragon sword held in the left hand.
A strong magic sword held in the right hand.
Thus, the River Magic Dragon Sword lying in both hands resonates with his dragon psionics, creating a storm of terrifying energy.
The moment when the benevolent Guardian of Resurrection spread his wings and exploded starlight from the star’s source.
Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
The star explodes.
The universe is shaking.
The final battle that will decide the fate of the entire world has begun.
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Sigh!
The moment I turned my body over.
A sword light cuts through the air.
Faster than light and farther than the sky.
As soon as the blade transcended time and space, it crossed the distance of several planets and cut down the target.
Even the Starlight Angel, which was surrounded by several layers of defense, was cut to pieces in an instant, putting to shame its reputation as a monarch-level constellation.
But right after that.
Limon hurriedly swung his sword.
This is because the feathers shot from the wings of the dismembered angel poured down on him like rain.
When Limon blocked the barrage of feathers flying across space with the power to blow away an entire continent with just one stroke.
The angel’s body made of starlight came back in perfect condition as if it had been cut into pieces.
Even angels weren’t the only opponents Limon had to deal with.
Kaaaang!
The starlight is twinkling.
The crow’s blade whip aimed at the neck.
A sword swung like lightning cuts the blade like paper, but the eight million curses that come out from the blade’s whip rush back.
What rushes in together is a vicious devil from another world that is as small as dust, but the moment it burrows into the body, it swells up like a whale and explodes the parasitic target.
There are monsters larger than planets, demons that perform exquisite martial arts, one-eyed monsters that perform all kinds of magic, battleships that pour out all kinds of fire, etc.
Limon had to move frantically to block and avoid those numerous attacks.
cut it down
Cut down, cut down.
Cut down, cut down, cut down, cut down.
Flows, distances, boundaries, shapes, processes, reality, contradictions, cause and effect, space, the mystery of the future.
Fast, slow, heavy, light, and at the same time, one after another, gently and forcefully.
After swinging his sword like a storm, Limon finally cut down the crow that was spitting out curses and the boy who had turned into an insect.
But…
the constellations are immortal.
Immortals don’t die.
So all attacks are useless.
Slurp.
The starlight is twinkling.
The crow and the boy that were cut down are reconstructed again.
It was not a new thing.
This has happened countless times since the fight against the benevolent Guardian of Resurrection began and the Star Source unleashed its power.
Against hundreds of monarch-level constellations.
“Monsters and servants are not enough, now you are manufacturing yourselves like factory parts. “It’s really amazing.”
It was like that.
Right now at this moment.
The constellation fighting him was not real.
No, to put it bluntly, it was real.
It’s just that the soul is infinitely close to a puppet, with no memory or ego, and only fights according to the power, experience, and knowledge given to it by the source of the stars.
But that alone was enough to make Limon struggle.
Among the transcendental constellations, each and every one of the monarch-level constellations is comparable to that of the Sword Master.
Even for Limon, it was not easy to deal with them endlessly as they resurrected each time they died.
Still, if only that were it.
Limon must have cut down all those constellations dozens or even hundreds of times while sneering.
The problem was that the real enemy threatening him now was not a monarch-level constellation.
The Sword Master is mortal.
Mortals have limits.
So the Sword Master is defeated.
Phew!
“Tsk!”
The starlight is twinkling.
The moment when the laws of the world changed.
Limon groaned as his side was pierced by a beam of light that he was unable to dodge due to his strength being suddenly suppressed.
And it seems like he was taking advantage of that gap.
The moment he gritted his teeth and swung his two swords as he saw the stars attacking at once.
『Yam Dragon King’s Sword, Il-ui
(斬魔龍龍王劍 一義)
The King’s Sword that rules over
dragons (龍王之劍)』
Rumbling!
The whole heaven and earth are shaking.
The laws of the world collapsed and
constellations exploded one after another.
A sword created by combining dragon psionics and swordsmanship based on 72 groups and 13 swords.
The greatest sword in the world, which even defeated the Sword Demon, crushed even the constellations that had the power to destroy a dozen worlds like insects.
That is truly absolute power.
It was a sword that had reached the ultimate level, something that no one could dare to reach even if they collected hundreds or thousands of strong swords.
The problem was the result.
Will is the mind.
The mind is not reality.
The sword cannot cut down the world.
Although I was cut by an absolute sword.
After the starlight fell again.
Without a single exception, the many constellations were regenerated by combining starlight.
It is the height of irrationality.
It was a result that was even more difficult to believe, not only for the Absolute, but also for the Sword Master… no, because he was the Sword Master who knew how scary the sword just before was.
However, Limon, the person who should have been most surprised, was not really that shaken.
I just brought up the dragon psionics to heal the wound on my side.
From the time he took the seven princesses as his brides, he possessed enormous dragon psionics that surpassed even the seven dragons.
Thanks to the vast psionic manipulation of life, he had already become a being almost immortal, with a body as strong as that of a swordsman and powerful regenerative power.
But…
blood is life.
The more you shed, the weaker you become.
Consumption does not recover.
No matter how severe the injury.
Regeneration, which had been occurring at an alarming speed until now, is rapidly slowing down as the laws of the world change.
The almost infinitely powerful dragon psionics, as if defying even the laws of the world, slowly recovered from its wounds.
However, no matter how many times he died, the attacks of the resurrected constellations created large and small wounds on his body several times faster than the recovery speed.
And that was only the beginning.
Humans are living creatures.
The power of living things is finite.
You cannot go against the environment.
The law, which is so obvious but has become stronger, seals off the mystery and makes it difficult to breathe.
Stars constantly impose new laws.
Space is relative.
But it is also absolute.
So space cannot be twisted.
It becomes difficult to jump through space.
There is a limit to telekinesis.
Precognition and premonition become dull.
Stamina runs out quickly.
The body gradually becomes weaker.
gradually.
Just little by little.
Like a bottomless swamp.
As the laws of the world were overwritten, the speed at which he cut the star slowed down, and conversely, the wounds on his body became bigger and deeper.
My wings are pierced by the arrow of power that flies faster than light.
The constellation that threw its own life is pierced by a sword and its forehead is torn by a punch.
The reward for blocking a planet-sized mace is broken bones.
nevertheless.
Limon did not give up.
He just continued to swing his sword without a moment’s rest, resisting the laws that the stars rewrite.
It’s truly amazing.
Just as an egg breaks a rock, splits the sea, and pierces the sky.
It was a sight that even an enemy fighting against the entire world, cutting down hundreds of transcendental beings, could not help but marvel at.
But whatever.
There is an end to the world.
It was the same no matter how much it was Limon.
“Cough!”
How many hundreds of times?
Or maybe a few thousand times?
Even while the source of the stars is changing the laws and providence of the fate of the entire universe in real time.
After annihilating countless constellations and cutting down the source of the stars.
In the end, the constellations surround him as he vomits blood with his entire body in tatters.
An angel of starlight who, unlike other constellations, preserved his ego and wielded the power of the stars simply because he was most aware of the dangers of the Sword Master.
The merciful Guardian of Resurrection spoke calmly.
[That’s why I told you. It is absolutely impossible for you to defeat us.]
“….”
And Limon glared at the guardian with cold eyes, but was unable to refute those words.
That’s because I learned it from the fights we’ve had so far.
Just as it is impossible for even the strongest beast to trample on all the endless swarms of ants in the world.
Even Grado, who has reached the ultimate level by fusing dragon psionics and swordsmanship…
no, other sword masters, as well as sword emperors and sword demons.
…The fact that even if all 13 Sword Masters in history joined forces, they would not be able to defeat the Star Source in the end.
