Everyone
by Afuhfuihgs
A strike filled with the will to end everything. The sacred sword of Roel, emitting light with the best timing to exploit the moment when the shaken origin couldn’t respond, advanced towards the God of Chaos.
―――!
However, with a flash of insight, Roel’s sacred sword stopped just before reaching the defenseless nape of his neck. The sacred sword, imbued with the power to split even the world in two, stopped dead in its tracks, as if blocked by something, right before it could sever the enemy’s neck.
“…!”
Without even thinking about straightening his knees and waist, which he had bent to put strength into the sword, Roel stared at the enemy before him with wide eyes.
“Surprised? Heh heh, still, it was an interesting variable. I was honestly caught off guard.”
Roel quickly pulled his body back and rapidly assessed the situation. The God of Chaos hadn’t blocked the sacred sword. He hadn’t pulled back his body, nor had he used the power of chaos to spread a shockwave.
He simply, simply―――.
Barely flicked his fingers, almost imperceptibly.
With just that… the opponent lightly blocked the trap that the God and the Saintess had prepared for a very long time. Roel, who had thought that it would at least buy them some time, was taken aback.
“Synchronization rate, huh… So, this is the trap the Saintess prepared? Heh heh, I thought that since I had been descending upon Ross, who became the leader of the Chaos Church every time, descending upon another Ross wouldn’t be any different. Indeed, targeting that point… a splendid trap.”
Watching the God of Chaos, who was genuinely delighted and showering praise for designing such an exquisite trap, Roel gripped the sacred sword even more tightly. The opponent isn’t afraid of death. Rather, he’s the type to look forward with a face full of excitement to what variable will cause him to die. He is [Chaos] itself, who likes his expectations to be wrong and wants the flow to be twisted.
The God of Chaos shrugged his shoulders and proudly explained how he avoided the trap.
“Having instantly grasped the structure of Ross’s synchronization rate, I found Ross’s soul, which was on the verge of complete annihilation, and stopped the annihilation by using another soul in my body. Even with the power of a god, I only bought an hour… but an hour is more than enough time to destroy this world.”
The kindness of explaining the reason why he was able to trample on the opponent’s hope. Driving the opponent to the edge of a cliff and forcing them to choose whether to rush at him or to fall straight to the bottom without being able to stop backing away… the God of Chaos liked to force the opponent to choose and clearly show them the despair that choice brought.
That’s why the God of Chaos was very much looking forward to watching Roel, who had chosen to continue fighting countless battles, quietly fade away in despair that he could never defeat him. How much boredom he had endured to see that sight.
With a smile, the God of Chaos made his voice heard to everyone so that everyone could place their hope on Roel. Because there must be hope in order to despair.
“Now, it’s one hour. If you can withstand me for just one hour, the synchronization rate will be completely 0%. Then this body will face the world’s negation. That will be the only victory you can gain against me.”
How much will Roel strive for the only way to defeat him? What will he give up again, lose, and endlessly destroy himself? Just thinking about it made the God of Chaos’s lower abdomen feel heavy, and he snapped his fingers to create an hourglass in the air for everyone to see.
“If you can kill me even if it’s not Roel, you can fight together. Because if the sand in this hourglass runs out completely, you’ll all die anyway. Throwing away your pathetic lives so that Roel can wield his sword… might be of some help, even if only a little.”
The God of Chaos laughed gleefully as he watched the people already making despairing faces.
***
Luna, who had moved to a city near the capital where the portal was still connected, was heading to the capital by carriage. Numerous people and carriages were moving away from the capital alongside Luna’s carriage. They either sneered at the carriage heading towards the capital where the disaster had struck, as the Emperor had said, or gave warnings.
However, Illeyd, who volunteered to be the coachman, didn’t turn the carriage around despite the warnings. After going on for a while, the carriage eventually stopped. The horse refused to go any further. The fear of death couldn’t be dulled even by Illeyd’s whip. In the end, they all got out of the carriage and decided to walk towards the capital.
“What’s that…?”
Illeyd was the first to discover the darkness enveloping the capital. He could instinctively tell that there was immense danger hidden in the abyss-like darkness. Just by looking at it, cold sweat instantly poured down his back, and he could feel everything in him reacting against approaching that darkness.
“It’s dangerous. It’s too dangerous.”
Illeyd muttered that and turned to look at Luna.
“There’s no way to get to the capital through that darkness. Approaching that darkness any further is suicide.”
They will surely get lost. No, there won’t even be a road. It’s not just simple darkness. It’s a place where the abyss itself is reproduced. An environment where taking lives feels natural.
Navier and Eunice, seeing Illeyd warning them with trembling hands, also looked at the capital with serious faces and exhaled with bloodless faces. They had also realized it. Even their organs, which had no will, were afraid of approaching that darkness and were twisting on their own.
“…Luna.”
With a face full of anxiety and regret, Navier tried to comfort Luna. However, Luna passed them without saying a word and moved forward. As if she couldn’t see the darkness before her eyes.
“Wa, wait…!”
Illeyd hurriedly raised his hand to block Luna, but after looking into Luna’s transparent blue eyes, Illeyd didn’t even realize that his hand was slowly lowering. He instinctively realized that no darkness could ever stop her from walking.
“Luna, it’s dangerous ahead!”
Eunice, who was ordered to protect Luna, shouted urgently. However, Eunice, who turned and met Luna’s gaze, also realized that no matter what she said, she couldn’t stop Luna.
Luna bowed to everyone and raised her head, saying to everyone with a faint smile.
“…Thank you all for being with me this far.”
With those words, Luna turned around and headed straight towards the darkness of the abyss without any hesitation.
Holding tightly to the old compass with the acorn engraved on it.
***
“Keok…!”
“Kkyaaaaak!”
Corpses piled up, creating a hill made of people. It was a hill made by those who had not given up hope against the god trying to destroy the world among the people who were driven into one place by the darkness. Ian and Amber were among them.
“…Fl, Flavia.”
Rosalyn, who had breasts bigger than her head, was rolling on the floor with a large hole in the middle of her torso. She was still holding a reagent in her hand.
“Sob, you idiot! You’re always hiding behind Roel like a coward, what could you do by stepping up!”
Looking at Flavia, who was bursting into tears and pouring magic power to somehow save Rosalyn, Rosalyn struggled to hold out the reagent she was holding.
“I had to check… even for a moment, if my reagent suppresses chaos… Heok, heok… Hieu….”
Rosalyn, who was spitting out blood, hurriedly handed the reagent to Flavia. Rosalyn, whose throat was blocked by blood and couldn’t even breathe her last breath comfortably, left a faint smile and closed her eyes.
“I’ll kill you, I’ll fucking kill you!!!”
Flavia, who unleashed infinite magic power and stood up next to Rosalyn, ran towards the God of Chaos with the bottle containing the reagent in her hand. The God of Chaos, who had crushed Ilia’s arm with a shockwave, smiled faintly and reached out to Flavia, who was rushing towards him.
“Come to think of it, you always have the same ending.”
Peoeok―――!
“Dying with people you thought were inferior to you. No matter how I think about it, I like this the most. After all, it can also give the lesson that everyone becomes equal when they die.”
The space itself condensed into a small point, and Flavia’s body, which was rushing in, burst as it was. Flavia’s flesh and blood scattered over the numerous corpses and mixed into the place that was already forming a pool of blood.
However, the reagent that Flavia threw forward, sensing her death, was able to safely reach Ilia.
“…Gasp!”
Ilia, who deflected the reagent flying towards the God of Chaos with the flat of her sword, swung her sword towards the God of Chaos along with the reagent. As the reagent burst, the chaos that was enveloping the God of Chaos scattered for a moment as if pushed away by the wind. Ilia unleashed the strongest strike she could towards the God of Chaos, whose solid defense had disappeared.
Kwaaaaaang―――!
“Heueuk……?!”
Ilia’s breath leaked out for a moment. The sensation transmitted from the tip of the sword conveyed the failure of the attack. Before Ilia could take her next action, her vision was already falling towards the floor. The beloved Northern Grand Duchess’s head and body were separated.
“Hiiiik…!”
“It’s over. It’s over!”
Even Ilia, who had fought the God of Chaos most bravely, died, and the cowards who had only watched the fight without joining in let out heartfelt screams. They had realized that their death was right in front of them. Even so, they cleverly didn’t let go of the last thread of hope.
Everyone’s gaze turned to Roel, the last hope. The hero who had just stood by and watched his lover die, an incomprehensible hero.
“Less than half of the sand remains. How strange, everyone threw their lives away for you, the only hope, but you’re not moving at all and just watching me… Has your body frozen with fear? Or are you not moving because you’re disappointed that their futile deaths didn’t create even a moment of opening for me?”
To the question that was close to mockery.
That hero, Roel….
“I clearly said it… that it was ‘everyone’ who fought for this moment.”
He was clearly smiling.
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