Ch.93The Day of the End

# The Headquarters of the Order

Once known as the land of the Laugiel Empire, it was a human empire that perished after disturbing the elves.

There, a freckled woman was swinging her sword.

“Huh?”

“Hero, is something wrong?”

Hero.

The hope of humanity and the only hope to prevent the end of the world.

The hope of humanity sent by Uldur, the god in whom the Order of Light believes.

“Well… I have a bad feeling…”

A bad feeling.

Since the intuition of the Hero chosen by Uldur was not to be taken lightly, Peres, her instructor who was formerly the leader of the Divine Knights and known as the Sword of Light, frowned.

“A bad feeling… Could you perhaps tell this old body what kind of feeling it is?”

“Hmm… it’s like… an extremely bad feeling… like… a feeling that precious people might die? I guess that’s how I’d describe it…”

At those words, Peres realized what the bad feeling was about.

Anger.

Those who had left on a holy war to prevent Uldur’s revelation from becoming reality.

‘I pray earnestly to Uldur that everyone returns safely…’

Neigh—

“Ah, that tickles! Stop it, Jerome! I’m fine. Peres, shall we start again?”

“Yes. Let’s continue with energy!”

Peres prayed fervently to Uldur for everyone’s safe return, then resumed training the Hero with renewed vigor.

* * * * *

“Kyaaaah——!!!”

“Evacuate! Evacuate! Leave the village immediately and get as far away as possible!”

A village was in chaos.

People were hastily leaving with just a few belongings and preserved food.

Abandoning their homes was almost like death itself, but with real death approaching, they had no choice.

“Mom… what is that?”

“Shh, Eldir. Please be quiet now…”

A child pointed behind them, but the mother simply held her child tightly and continued to evacuate.

“Damn it… damn it…”

“What on earth is that…”

Others gritted their teeth as they fled, but they had no choice.

A monster several kilometers tall had suddenly appeared behind their village mountain.

They had no choice but to evacuate.

And the same was true for everyone within a 10-kilometer radius.

* * * * *

“That is… the true Anger that Uldur foresaw…”

The Saintess trembled at the sight of Anger, whose face was now hidden by clouds, now in the form of the Beast of Apocalypse.

The thought that the being Uldur had prophesied had truly appeared.

And the thought that she was the only one who could stop it made her grip the rosary around her neck tightly.

With only a few hundred people remaining from those who had joined the holy war, and morale at rock bottom among the survivors, she felt she needed to show something. She distanced herself, knelt down, and began to pray.

“Great Uldur… your daughter begs of you…”

The sky, which had been blocked by Envy’s power, gradually began to open, and light broke through the dark clouds summoned by the Beast of Apocalypse, illuminating her.

The Beast of Apocalypse should have reacted to such bright light…

But it paid no attention to the light shining on the Saintess and moved its arm toward another direction.

Boom…

Despite being a living creature in motion, the sound “boom…” echoed across the battlefield, which made no sense, yet it was real.

Boom…

When its fist, like a massive boulder, clenched, the survivors panicked at the noise.

“Dodge! Dodge! Get away from Anger as much as possible!”

“Dodge…? Where can we possibly dodge to…?”

“You fool! If you can live, you should try to live! Are you giving up already?”

Smack!

A hammer corps member struck a holy knight who had already given up on life, but the knight who had abandoned hope showed no reaction and just stared blankly at the Beast of Apocalypse.

Though they carried the knight away… the beast had already completed all preparations.

Grooowl—

Boom…

The Beast of Apocalypse, with its fist tightly clenched, pulled its arm back as if preparing to throw a straight punch.

Graaaah—!!

Boom—!!

“Kyaaaah——!!!”

“Aaaah——!!!”

With a battle cry, the fist swung down.

The air couldn’t withstand the punch, creating a shockwave that blew everything away.

Despite the fist being swung kilometers above, the survivors on the ground were swept away by the wind pressure, and those trying to escape fell into cracks that formed in the ground.

Crash—!!

And the direction in which the swung fist was heading was toward where the green flame had come from just moments ago.

[Participant William Grace’s death confirmed.]

* *

“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”

Envy, a skeleton who had fired the green flame spear and used up his last resurrection, was now pounding the ground in rage.

What he saw was Anger, grown so large it pierced through the clouds.

He knew that Anger, having the same Seven Deadly Sins trait as his own Envy, would be strong, but he hadn’t expected it to become this powerful.

That was beyond the level of what could be called a single living being.

“Damn it! What the hell? The fairy? That tiny thing must have died… Wait, did it deploy a shield and survive in that brief moment? No… the Saintess? Damn… Whatever happened, facing that enormous thing is impossible… I need to retreat and assess the situation…”

The green flame spear he had fired, the Spear of Annihilation, was his original skill that concentrated his former ultimate move, Extinction Ray, into a single spear.

The Extinction Ray, which spread life-annihilating energy over a wide area, couldn’t even scratch Anger, so after 8 months of struggle, he had created his own original skill.

The first test subject for this skill had been a Cyclops, known as a descendant of giants.

The result matched the name “Spear of Annihilation” in its destructive power.

The Cyclops hit by the Spear of Annihilation had disappeared in less than a second.

That’s why he had waited with extreme caution for an opening before using it…

He wondered if Anger would have died if he had used it from a distance without revealing himself.

Crash—!!

“What!?”

As Envy was controlling his body with magic and preparing to retreat to find another opportunity, something came flying at him.

No, not something.

“Argh——!!”

What engulfed him was a powerful wind.

The wind, which could be considered a natural disaster, swept through Envy’s body, completely destroying the lower part of his core. If he had been even slightly slower, he would have died completely.

The powerful wind didn’t stop at sweeping through Envy’s body but continued through the mountain.

“What… What the hell…!!”

Looking in the direction the wind had come from, he saw Anger with its fist extended.

“A punch…!? Just one punch… Just one punch nearly killed me!”

Just one punch.

That alone had nearly killed him from kilometers away, which seemed impossible, and yet it had happened.

He had created skills specifically to kill that creature, created subordinates, and killed three participants.

But because of a being that had simply obtained a good trait, his comrade had died, and now he—who had worked tirelessly for 8 months and 11 days without a single day of rest—was about to die.

Was he supposed to die like this?

“No, that’s absolutely impossible!”

Thinking that he absolutely could not die like this, Envy decided to sacrifice everything.

“Envy! Consume my body—!”

Boom…!

But it was too late.

If he had fired the Spear of Annihilation when Anger was fighting the Divine Knights…

If he hadn’t just observed when Anger was affected by the Hydra’s poison, but had used all his skills to push the Saintess and Flock…

If he had moved elsewhere and fired the Spear of Annihilation when Anger was fighting Transform…

Everything was hypothetical, and whether it would have worked could only be known if he had tried.

But without even getting the chance to attempt sacrificing everything, Envy evaporated along with the entire mountain where he had hidden, struck by Anger’s powerful lightning.

* * * * *

“Mary… Mary…”

In a dark room, there was a very small Minotaur, Khan.

Khan kept muttering the name of a being with great sadness.

Though they hadn’t been together for a long time, she was someone he had resolved to protect even if it meant sacrificing his own existence.

She had given her life to protect him.

Even if he had been consumed by anger, he should have controlled it!

What had he trained for, and what had he become stronger for?

His goal was to annihilate the participants and fulfill his wish, but in this harsh world, he also wanted to protect Mary, who could be called his friend and family!

Having lost one of his purposes, Khan could only dwell on the sorrow of losing her in this dark space.

Crash—!

“Geez, really! Our bull is tough on the outside but soft on the inside! Come on, snap out of it!”

“Ma…ry?”

In the dark space where he thought he was alone, a voice he longed for and missed.

Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw glass breaking in the dark space, and with bright light, the figure of a small fairy appeared.

“Khan, I understand you’re sad about Mary’s death… but what should Khan be doing right now?”

“What I… should be doing…”

What he should be doing. What should he, who failed to protect Mary, be doing?

“Sigh, you need to survive in the gods’ battlefield and make a wish! If you make a wish, Khan can meet her again.”

“I can… meet Mary again…?”

The being enveloped in light, only visible as a fairy’s form, nodded.

“That’s right. The gods are omnipotent, and bringing back one dead creation is simple for them. So, now.”

The light disappeared, and green fire engulfed the fairy.

“No… No…!! Mary…!!! Mary…!!!”

Now, let’s kill all these humans and participants who created this situation, shall we?

With the final image of the fairy disappearing in green flames, Khan’s consciousness sank deeper into the abyss.