Ch.316Side Story. A World with Too Many Heroes (2)

The state of the two heroes, a man and a woman who appeared with the magician, was truly miserable beyond words.

While their equipment was quite splendid and of good quality, befitting heroes, the two heroes wearing that equipment… though called heroes, they looked no different from slaves.

Below their equipment, they were practically naked, and their exposed skin showed countless traces of abuse. Their hair and skin were in terrible condition, as if they hadn’t even maintained minimal self-care.

Moreover, their dull eyes showed not even the slightest sign of vitality, and from this and other aspects of their appearance, the man realized they had been thoroughly treated as disposable…

“…!!”

The man, no, Bjorn Wolfson, with just a simple glance, released all the constraints and bindings placed on the two heroes. From that moment, life gradually returned to their previously dull expressions, and emotions appeared on their faces.

“…Ah.”

It was an almost infinite hatred for everything in this world that had forcibly brought them here and exploited them, and the overwhelming desire for revenge that stemmed from it.

Although they had the cheat key of status windows, these heroes had been forced to overcome life-and-death situations on the battlefield numerous times. Because of this, their automatically strengthened mental fortitude still maintained a clear sense of self even after enduring hardships that would have broken ordinary people.

“DIIIIEEEE!!!”

“《Torture Wheel of Hell》!! 《Torture Wheel of Hell》!! 《Torture Wheel of Hell》!! 《Torture Wheel of Hell》!! 《Torture Wheel of Hell》!!”

Naturally, the two immediately assessed the situation and began attacking everyone around them with magic and swordsmanship, shedding tears of blood.

The woman appeared to be a warrior using a blade glowing red with heat. She deliberately used that blade to slice people’s limbs bit by bit, ensuring they wouldn’t die but would have their limbs severed.

Meanwhile, the man who seemed to be a magician holding a staff immediately began hurling torture wheels summoned by magic. These wheels, covered in blades and thorns, trapped nearby servants and magicians inside, slowly grinding them to pieces.

Watching the two with mixed feelings, Bjorn soon offered a prayer in a low voice.

“God of Vengeance, if you are watching, please respond.”

《…I have seen.》

The God of Vengeance, answering Bjorn’s words in what seemed like an enraged voice he was hearing for the first time, then commanded Bjorn in a resolute and cold tone.

《Apostle of Vengeance, I have never desired the unproductive act of destroying the world. I did not want my children to become objects of revenge. I wanted this world to be filled only with those who seek just revenge. I had a slight expectation that at least minimal discipline would be maintained.》

《But they betrayed my feeble expectations. They dared to stand upon the corpses of their gods, yet far from revering them, they desecrated those remains. They betrayed their ancestors, their gods, and furthermore, all of them. They exploited and persecuted the innocent, stole the power of gods, and committed countless unforgivable acts against souls.》

《The last chance for forgiveness or atonement given to them has long passed. If they commit sins yet do not consider them sins, and continue to perpetrate heinous evil deeds, I shall bring them doom and destruction!》

Bjorn seemed to crumble unconsciously at the God of Vengeance’s sincere anger, which he was hearing for the first time. Regardless, the god continued to speak resolutely to Bjorn.

《So now I shall make them pay the just price. From the royal palaces of this world and continent to the slums where the most wretched dwell, from the edges of the continent to the empty celestial realms. In this world where all gods have died, I shall bring calamity.》

《Destroy the once-greatest kingdom and free the pitiful ones from their bondage. Let the liberated exercise their rightful rights, their revenge, and cast down the flattering dignity of those oppressors to the bottom so that they may never feel happiness again.》

《There are no innocents in this world, so there is no need to hesitate. None here are without sin. Extract the price for their atrocities. Drain their blood to the last drop, and make them directly receive all that they have inflicted. Whatever the cost, I will surely see this world suffer endlessly in infinite revenge!》

《Not even a shred of redemptive value remains in this world, Bjorn. I command you, burn this world completely. There shall be no mercy for them. No compassion. No pity. The only thing to remain, the only feeling to harbor is—revenge alone.》

This divine voice, at some point, began to resound not only to Bjorn but to everyone.

It spread beyond the royal palace of the Wallon Kingdom, beyond the capital, beyond the borders, throughout the entire continent.

The voice simultaneously released all control devices placed on the “heroes.”

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To control the summoned… or rather, kidnapped “heroes,” the people of this world had placed control devices on them. Among these, the most representative was the restriction related to command authority.

Initially, it would cause instant death by exploding their heads if they didn’t follow orders, but as the intensity of abuse increased and more heroes thought death would be better, this was modified into complete domination that ignored their sense of self.

And now, as the control devices placed on all “heroes” who had been treated worse than slaves regardless of their own will were released…

As heroes across the world began torturing and killing all visible beings, the world was instantly plunged into destruction and chaos.

Relying solely on control devices, they hadn’t created any other methods to handle heroes, nor had they cultivated separate armies in this world where the equation “military power = hero’s strength” held true.

Moreover, since the vast majority of heroes found leveling quite easy, naturally reaching at least 7th grade effortlessly with intermediate levels being common, it was fair to say there was no one in this world who could oppose them.

With the momentum to unleash everything they had endured until now, the heroes ran wild.

There was an assassin hero who immersed those who had despised him in oil vats and fried them while simultaneously casting healing magic, and leisurely turned the slave trader who had abused him into raw meat.

The battlefield heroes stopped fighting, then captured self-proclaimed officers who had been arrogant despite not fighting, impaled them with large, beautiful lances through their rectums and out their mouths, and occasionally cast healing magic to keep them from dying in that state.

In research facilities that had conducted human experiments on heroes, half-mechanized heroes escaped and then placed the researchers who had experimented on them into punitive torture machines.

After venting their anger on people with the momentum to release all the grudges they had accumulated, they now sought revenge on those responsible for all this—the summoners themselves.

“Hang them! Hang them!”

“Hook them up!!”

“They absolutely must not die! They must be kept alive to taste the pain!!”

“Healer, please keep healing!!”

Especially the royalty and nobility who had led the abuse of heroes were hung on poles and repeatedly torn to pieces and healed, and soon the intensity of revenge against them only grew stronger and stronger.

Eventually, the heroes began to work together to systematically take revenge on the humans of the world.

They fed the Phoenix Potion—created by alchemist heroes, which causes one to burn completely and resurrect with terrible burning pain upon death—to the privileged class and all who had oppressed them, then tortured them with all their might.

They held competitions to see who could kill most creatively, returned exactly what had been done to them, and sometimes pushed people into extreme situations, inducing them to devour each other.

While they were deeply engrossed in revenge, unleashing everything they had endured, the evil god of vengeance who had granted them liberation finally appeared in the world—

—CRACK!!

That world filled with revenge was swallowed whole by the skeletal head that appeared in the void.