Ch.107Ep.107 D-1

“You asked me at first. Couldn’t you just store the Divine Order somewhere and pass it on?”

“Is that not possible?”

“It’s not that it’s impossible, it’s a matter of efficiency. Your current power is beyond even my ability to handle.”

“What? That powerful?”

“…I suppose it’s time to show you the truth.”

With those words, Larga grabbed at the empty air and pulled forcefully.

The space visibly distorted, transforming into a void where nothing existed.

“This is your true inner world.”

“Whoa…”

“Looks pretty empty, doesn’t it? I was trapped in a place like this for an eternity.”

“Why are you suddenly showing me this?”

“Among the reincarnated beings, there was one who could manipulate time. Do you understand?”

Radios nodded at Larga’s words.

Indeed, becoming this powerful in just a few days was beyond comprehension.

Especially crossing the threshold of Ascended Order less than 5 days after awakening his Divine Order—that was crossing a line.

Even Radios himself couldn’t understand his growth rate, but now he learned it was all manipulated.

“So… how many days have actually passed?”

“Are you sure you won’t be shocked?”

“I’m sure, so tell me. Showing me this now means you don’t plan to use any more tricks, right?”

“It took about 189 years. To draw out all your latent power.”

“…What nonsense is this?”

Radios’s face hardened at the absurd number.

Even 10 years would have been unbelievable, but 189 years?

No matter how he thought about it, Radios only perceived that about 6 days had passed here.

It was an unimaginable amount of time. 189 years.

His body should have noticed if 189 years had truly passed.

Larga had all the answers to Radios’s questions.

“The Divine Orders possessed by the hundred beings are each unique. You didn’t think there wouldn’t be a Divine Order that could scatter your perception, did you?”

“…You’re saying 189 years really passed?”

“Yes.”

“Then what about my memories? I clearly…”

He remembered having conversations with Larga for a few hours, then blocking the endless barrage of god-slaying light swords.

Afterward, he resolved the embedded sword of judgment and gained enlightenment, approaching the threshold of Ascended Order.

But he was repelled due to lack of power and fought with the hundred reincarnated beings.

It was difficult at first, but somehow Radios grew stronger.

As a result, he subdued all hundred reincarnated beings and his power crossed the threshold of Ascended Order—

“Huh?”

This wasn’t right.

Something was strange.

He could clearly recall important scenes, but the memories in between were hazy, almost non-existent.

The conversation with Larga ended quickly. But why did his memories jump directly from that conversation to training to block the god-slaying light swords?

That wasn’t all. The time spent deflecting the god-slaying light swords.

Did it really only take a few hours? He felt like years had passed.

But it didn’t actually take long. There was no sense of dissonance about time passing.

“Could it be…”

“You didn’t just feel it—you actually experienced it properly. In a way, we manipulated your time.”

“..!”

Radios couldn’t contain his anger and grabbed Larga by the collar.

He couldn’t suppress his fury upon realizing that 189 years had passed.

“What have you done! If 189 years have passed, the outside world..! It must all be over by now!!”

Save the world from Azathoth and Chaos?

Don’t be ridiculous.

That wasn’t what Radios wanted.

He wanted to protect his loved ones and live peacefully with them.

Revenge against Azathoth for backstabbing him, stopping their schemes.

All the hardships he endured in the inner world to become this strong.

Everything.

“It was all to achieve my goal! What right do you have to interfere with my life! Just because of past lives?!”

“1,763.”

“What?”

“That’s how many times you’ve died and been reborn in this world. If you had gone to Azathoth like this? Your soul would have been completely stripped away.”

For someone being held by the collar, Larga answered with a calm face.

Radios felt his anger rising at Larga’s nonchalant expression.

“Hey!”

“Calm down, Radios Magnum! I’m not interfering because of past lives, but because we’ve invested everything in you to break this damned cycle once and for all!”

Larga placed his hand on the collar Radios was gripping, emphasizing that their fight here wasn’t for themselves but for everyone.

But Radios didn’t care about such grand causes.

“Grand cause? Sure… that’s nice… but I’ve been backstabbed twice while pursuing such causes!”

Once, he gave his heart to a trusted comrade, only to be abandoned by the god he served.

Once again, he gave his heart to a former companion, only to be abandoned by the god he served once more.

“You know it too! That miserable feeling of being betrayed by Azathoth’s schemes!”

“…”

“But you ruined everything! How could you waste 189 years… without even consulting me!”

For the sake of a grand cause, one person’s life must be ruined.

Others would choose the cause, but that one person would try to escape from it.

But without a choice, they would be forced to sacrifice their life for the cause.

That was exactly Radios’s situation.

Being forced to sacrifice for a cause he never wanted.

The guilt of not even being able to prevent his loved ones from dying.

How could this be healed?

“It’s… all over. Even if I go back, I won’t fight Azathoth.”

“You should listen until the end, you idiot. Outside, only about 6 days have passed.”

“…What?”

What nonsense is this now?

If that’s true, there was no reason for his outburst.

Radios gave Larga a look that conveyed both disbelief and hope that it might be true.

Larga sighed deeply and nodded in confirmation.

“I asked you to listen to the end, but I don’t understand why you’re having an anger management issue and getting mad on your own.”

“…”

“Haven’t you noticed that no one else is visible except me?”

“Ah..!”

“Everyone sacrificed for your training time. Those 189 years were created by gathering their last remaining strength.”

“..!”

As he spoke, Larga’s form began to fade gradually.

Despite Radios’s anger, they had been preventing the time difference from affecting the outside world.

Radios felt an indescribable emotion rising within him.

“Most of what I’ve told you is a lie.”

“…I know.”

“But I’ll tell you one thing. Your body now contains our Divine Orders.”

When Larga touched his shoulder with his right hand,

The locked memories of his 189-year struggle spread through Radios’s mind.

“These memories..!”

“You will certainly succeed on your own, Radios Magnum. We won’t see the end… but we’re entrusting everything to you.”

“Larga!”

With memories flooding in like a tide, Radios couldn’t help but shed tears.

Now he understood how much Larga had sacrificed for him during those 189 years.

Whoosh!

As his memories returned, golden light began to emanate from his entire body.

The Ascended Order awakening, which had been halted due to lack of power, resumed.

“See, I knew you could do it.”

“I’m sorry… I didn’t know…”

“Don’t apologize. It was my choice. I erased your memories only to eliminate your anxiety.”

Even if he intellectually understood that time flowed differently inside and outside,

Radios would have grown increasingly anxious as time passed.

Larga’s countermeasure was to scramble his sense of time.

Of course, acting accordingly was difficult.

“Win, Radios Magnum.”

“Larga D’Wheil!”

Larga left with a bright smile as his form completely disappeared.

Larga D’Wheil, who had been with him for 189 years, showing him the path he needed to take.

“Thank you… Master.”

Radios decided to regard him as his master.

Though he was his past life, Radios wanted to honor him for enduring this long, difficult time in the inner world.

He closed his eyes in silent prayer.

And… when he opened his eyes.

“Finally back to your senses?”

“…Veichel.”

“Let’s go. We really don’t have time now.”

Radios, back in reality, looked at Veichel who was reaching out her hand to him.

For some reason,

Perhaps because he had accepted the Divine Orders of his past lives, Veichel seemed to overlap with someone else.

But Veichel was Veichel.

He had no intention of being swept away by past lives.

There was no time.

“…Let’s go.”

From now on, it would be all-out war.

Radios rose, shaking off lingering attachments to the past, releasing his Ascended Order.

Behind him, Veichel activated the Last Dance spell.

And from the shadows, Namgung Ihyun, who had succeeded in awakening her Divine Order thanks to her master’s enlightenment, followed behind Veichel.

Now, truly,

It was time to raise the curtain on the final battle.