The Nameless

How did ‘I’ turn back time?

Someone’s unique ability? Or [End]’s ability?

Or did I kill the Nameless One?

After the battle with ‘I,’ questions that couldn’t be answered kept springing up in my head.

I boasted that I would save her, but I couldn’t find an answer, so my head was complicated.

…But it wasn’t like I said it without any basis. ‘I’ turned back time, so shouldn’t I be able to do it too? That’s what I was thinking when I said it.

So, I was thinking of asking about the method… but Rubia’s story suddenly came up, and I forgot all about it.

Then.

When the Nameless One’s body exploded.

When the Nameless One regenerated his body.

I felt something out of place.

An unknown power beyond the concept of healing.

A figure that seemed to turn back time.

With the thought, ‘Could it be?’ I decided to watch the Nameless One’s attack, the flow of that power, as much as possible.

But it passed by so quickly, and I couldn’t feel it properly even with my [Ki sense], so there was no way to confirm it properly.

But if I kept killing him, he might really die before I could figure out the secret of that power, so I couldn’t kill him carelessly.

Of course, the Nameless One said with his own mouth that he would never die. There was a clear conviction in it.

Thanks to that, I was a little relieved, but I was confident that I could kill him. I had thought of a way to do it too.

So, I acted cautiously, thinking, ‘What if I fail to control my power and kill him?’

But.

I tried to hold back.

I tried to be careful.

“Hmm, I thought he was a swordsman who had cut through the world, so I thought there would be some special trick in it. But that’s not the case.”

That bad guy, while mocking that Lucci was weak… scratched at me.

“Is it because he’s just human after all?”

Yes. Thinking about it now, Lucci wasn’t strong at the time.

But… if Lucci had lived until now, he would have become strong enough to easily deal with the Masters.

No, that’s all secondary.

Just.

“Pathetically weak.”

The Nameless One shouldn’t have said that Lucci was weak.

“So, I added a little more of my power. Has it changed a little?”

Lucci’s Sword. I know it’s fake, but he shouldn’t have treated it so carelessly.

“As expected, he’s weak. This sword, and the human named Lucci. To be satisfied and die after swinging such a sword once. As expected, humans are such weak beings. But that’s why they’re good.”

He shouldn’t have denied Lucci’s life in front of me.

Therefore.

“…Lucci isn’t weak.”

The anger I had barely suppressed overflowed.

“You’re the one who’s weak.”

So, I did it.

“[Heaven-Defying].”

Swish― With a clear and refreshing sound, the Nameless One’s body was divided left and right. Along with that, the [Divine Realm] that the Nameless One boasted about also cracked.

I was startled to see that, but the crack was quickly repaired. The same was true for the Nameless One’s body.

I breathed a sigh of relief and immediately kicked off from my spot.

I ran towards the Nameless One to feel the regenerating body in more detail.

I ran really fast, but I couldn’t see it.

The recovery speed was too fast.

So, I swung my greatsword to break the Nameless One’s body again.

This time, a little weaker, so that the body wouldn’t be shattered into pieces. Then.

Tu Kwa Ang―!

The Nameless One’s wings covered his whole body and blocked my greatsword.

Did I swing it too weakly?

But if I swing it strongly, it will explode without a trace, so I won’t be able to see it properly.

How can I find out the secret of this power? While I was wondering, ―Jjeong! Something unknown struck my body.

An attack that suddenly surged while I was thinking about other things.

As a result, I, who had no defense, rolled on the floor and was pushed back.

“Hueup… Tuehee…”

I raised my body, which was lying on the floor, and spat out the pooled blood. I couldn’t see it with my eyes. I couldn’t even draw it with my [Ki sense]. Only, at the moment when the attack touched my body, my intuition screamed.

An intangible power that appeared without any warning, as if it had been there from the beginning.

As if after stopping time―

Tingle.

I put aside my thoughts and threw my body to the side.

Wooddeuk―! The ground I was standing on soared up. Again, my intuition screamed. Above. I raised my greatsword. ―Kaang! A shock, as if a huge object had fallen, pressed down on my whole body.

Again, my intuition screams.

“Heu, eup…!”

I twisted my trembling legs to the side. I twisted my waist and pushed away the intangible power that had landed on the greatsword. At the same time, I swung my greatsword.

Kwa Ga Ga Gag―!

Invisible blades were swept away by the greatsword.

Is he really stopping time and attacking?

If not, then what is it that I can’t see or feel?

I don’t know. It’s quite annoying to deal with.

It’s not impossible or difficult.

It’s just annoying.

I could ignore everything right now and run over and blow his head off.

But I didn’t.

I wanted to find out more about this attack, about the Nameless One’s power… no, about Lilith’s real power. I had to.

That way, when ‘we’ meet again in the distant future, I can confidently step forward.

“Ahahaha!”

The Nameless One’s hateful laughter.

At the same time, Jjijik. With a feeling that something was twisting, my body was moved to the front of the Nameless One. And ―Kkwajik. The Nameless One’s fist was embedded in my abdomen.

“Keu, hak!”

The breath I had been holding in burst out.

Following that, Kkwaaang―! Dozens of pairs of wings struck my body. A dizzying shock pounded my whole body, but I could bear it. I’ve experienced more pain than this, so it’s easy to endure.

So, I could continue thinking fully.

“How is it?”

In the infinitely long thoughts.

I recalled the memory of ‘I’ that I saw when I held Cartia’s sword in Cartia.

I remembered the scenes of the world collapsing and being rebuilt that I saw in Shirin’s memories.

“This is the real power of the Divine Power that Lilith had.”

I reviewed the battle with ‘I.’

I reviewed the battle with the Nameless One.

‘I’ did not use Divine Power in the battle.

The Nameless One used Divine Power in the battle.

Divine Power that has become more perfect after completing the myth, not the Divine Power that Rubia handled.

The real power of Divine Power.

Again, I rummaged through my memories and recalled the memory of ‘I’ that I saw when I held Cartia’s sword.

And I realized.

Divine Power.

Lilith’s power is definitely.

“The power to manipulate time.”

It must be the power to manipulate time.

Kwok. The Nameless One, who grabbed my hair, forcibly raised my head.

“How dare you, humans, no, mortals can’t even touch or look at the real divinity?”

“…As, I thought…”

Ah, I have to hide my laughter.

I couldn’t hide it.

But, do I need to hide it now?

“So, ‘I’ could… turn back ti,me.”

Now I know everything I need to know.

All I have to do is do what I have to do.

…What. I don’t have to hold back anymore.

Yeah. Let’s not hold back.

I broke the chains that bound my body with force.

I left the thorns that had sprouted there as they were. It would take too long to remove them one by one.

And.

Swish―

I swung my greatsword.

A little differently than before.

I swung my greatsword without hiding my power.

The Nameless One’s arm was cut off by the greatsword.

Thud. The Nameless One’s arm fell.

The cut surface emitting a subtle light.

How easy would it have been if I had done this from the beginning.

I know.

“You should have told me earlier…”

Why did you bring up Rubia’s story…

“It just… hurts…”

I stretched my stiff waist.

I shook my throbbing legs to remove the thorns and tapped my stiff shoulders.

Every time I did that, blood oozed out, but I didn’t care and moved my steps.

I can endure the pain.

It doesn’t interfere with my movement.

I’ve been hurt so much so far that this is normal. Besides, my body seems to have become stronger in the battle with ‘I,’ so the pain is less.

I’m not the clumsy Noah of the past who would collapse from bleeding a little.

Jijik- Tak-

Jijik- Tak-

Jijik- Tak.

“Wh-What… What are you doing…”

The Nameless One, who took a step back from his spot, had a voice that was a mess of mixed voices, not Rubia’s voice.

It was already hard to understand what he was saying, but it was shaking so violently that I couldn’t understand it at all.

But I felt good.

I instinctively listened because he kept talking in Rubia’s voice, but now that it’s a completely different voice, I don’t need to listen anymore.

Next.

I need to change that appearance.

I know it’s not Rubia.

I can kill him better because he imitated Rubia’s appearance.

But I don’t feel good about it.

How can I get him to abandon Rubia’s appearance and return to his original form?

While worrying about that, Jijik- Tak-

I walked towards the Nameless One.

“What the hell are you doing!!”

Then, the Nameless One, who screamed in a mixed voice, flapped his wings and unleashed Divine Power.

Along with that, my intuition screamed.

That the same intangible energy is rushing at me.

Even so, I moved forward.

Now, there’s no need to avoid it.

Jjeoeong―!

That attack can’t reach me.

“Wh-What…”

The Nameless One, who turned pale, stepped back. And he gnashed his teeth.

I wondered if I should explain it, but I held back my words.

If I talk too much, I’ll look weak like him.

So, while I was walking towards him with my mouth shut.

“…How did you, a mere mortal, attain divinity…?”

The Nameless One got the answer right.

So, I decided to show him something new.

The reason why his attacks can’t reach me.

The reason why his divinity, the fake divinity he absorbed, can’t reach me.

Sabak- Light steps. The moment those steps touched the ground.

A crimson power erupted from under my feet.

“This is… a [Divine Realm]…! I-It can’t be!”

The Nameless One’s [Divine Realm] screams.

A scream erupted from his mouth too.

“It can’t be! How dare you, a presumptuous, presumptuous human! How dare a weak human have a [Divine Realm]―”

Of course, that scream didn’t last long.

Pudeuk.

He can’t scream if his head is pulled off.

Of course, I didn’t kill him.

There are still many things to do.

And.

As he said.

And I have plenty of time.