episode_0165

Before you know it, the darkness gradually changes from dark blue to light blue and the sunlight enters your head.

As I was leaving the blonde boy in front of the table, someone came in, slightly hesitant, holding something in both hands.

“Breakfast has been prepared, Li Jiyuan.”

On a small plate, there was greasy toast, grilled sausages, scrambled eggs, and even dead vegetables that were thrown in as a salad to match the assortment.

The letters SPD written on the helmet of the man who brought the American style breakfast.

I instinctively realized that it meant anti-monster special forces.

“Thank you.”

“Yes, then.”

When I glanced at the soldier’s face as he returned after briefly thanking me, his eyes were blue with fear as he looked at a monster beyond common sense.

It seemed like the fact that they overpowered the police forces in such a sudden situation was still strongly imprinted on them.

Even though I said I had to solve it, the memory of what happened to me without me even being able to do anything would be strongly embedded in my mind.

“Well, if it’s as you said.”

I stabbed a slightly burnt sausage with a burst shell with a plastic fork and spoke to the blond boy in front of me.

“Yes, great being.”

“Stop talking about that great being. I am Northmund.”

“Okay, Northmund.”

Although it was food that I hadn’t eaten in a long time, it was so greasy and tasteless that I frowned a little and saw the boy in front of me putting down the utensils he was eating in shock.

I waved my hand at the guy who was hesitating, looking anxious, and started to reflect on what he had said.

“So, as a result of what I did, the ego returned to the remaining monsters that remained in the world. And then they began to blend into this world. Is that correct?”

“Yes. A great John like me… No, there may be some who went looking for Mr. Northmund, but the majority of guardians have other minds.”

The boy said that and lowered his head.

Even though it wasn’t his fault, the boy looked as if he was overcome by a strange sense of guilt.

These are the guys who were abandoned by their God and lived as puppets without any sense of self. Even if their egos have returned for some reason, they cannot become blind followers like before.

And it seemed like they were using it to blend into human society and carry out some kind of operation.

“In the past, although our egos were blurred, we were still aware that we were following Alexstras. Since they were exterminated by humans, there are many brothers who have antipathy towards humans.”

“So are they still hostile to humanity?”

“But they will definitely come back once they know that Northmund has inherited the great being. Well, you don’t have to worry about that.”

As the boy spoke in a somewhat subdued voice, I looked at him in silence as if I was looking at something pitiful.

The boy in front of me spoke urgently, but for some reason I got a slightly negative vibe from him.

It seemed like he knew it too. That I did not perfectly inherit the god of the corner of the room.

“How about it?”

“Huh, yes?”

The moment he heard those words, the boy’s eyes became very shaken. Well, it wasn’t a self-talk specifically telling him to be agitated, but he seemed to have felt it too, as the boy was biting his lip slightly.

Alexstras was destroyed by my expedition, ending the primary threat. However, there are still police officers roaming the streets heavily, citizens become surveillance cameras and report anything suspicious, and heavily armed police or the military are dispatched.

Looking at that, it seemed like the threat from the monsters that had returned was not normal. This is the extent to which humanity feels threatened.

“Well, there are still many brothers waiting for the return of the great being. Even if I had a bad feeling for a while… For sure… .”

When I saw that, I smiled slightly, placed my hand lightly on the boy’s head, and said,

“I understand. But it looks like my work in this world is not finished yet.”

“Yes?”

A tension pulling in my head.

A short metallic sound that sounds as if something is bouncing up.

I quickly turned my gaze in the direction the sound indicated.

The sound of propellers breaking in the sky began to fill the area. Following that sound, we hear a megaphone sound that appears to be from a military official, clearly referring to us.

“Listen to the monster claiming to be Li Jiyuan, who has taken over the book. Give up resistance immediately and accept arrest. If not, we will suppress it by force.”

At the sound of the loudspeaker coming from the helicopter, the boy in front of me jumps up from his seat with an expressionless face. And it was the next moment.

“How dare a human being rebel against Northmund? These bastards!”

There was no gunshot, but as soon as the boy finished speaking, a spark flew out of him.

The words that came out of him were incredibly harsh, not fitting for his expressionless expression, but he just stood there with his cold expression and without any agitation.

As I looked at it, a little dazed by the sudden sudden acceleration, one wall of the police station was completely shattered, and the helicopter that had been sending warnings to us had been crushed into iron scraps, as if it had been run over by a large press machine in a junkyard.

And it was the very next moment.

Wood clatter!

“Kwaaa!!”

Fatal screams that could foreshadow death echoed through the streets. The sun was rising over the horizon, and the unique, strong sunlight of Africa was illuminating Pivora, making it seem as if it was not of this world.

The entire street around the police station was filled with screams, and countless twisted, distorted black fibers were oxidizing and spraying red blood mist. I was able to roughly guess their identity by looking at the letters SPD written in Latin letters on the chest of the clothes.

As if this entire space was being squeezed by some invisible, huge force, everything at a certain distance from us was being crushed, broken, and shattered.

“What, nya?”

I said, widening my eyes at such a sudden sight. The voice shook with embarrassment.

Then, as I was looking at the cause, the boy who had come up next to me lightly grabbed me and whispered.

“I won’t let you lay a finger on Northmund.”

“What… .”

“Until now, we have only set out on a journey to find great beings, and we have no reason to be hostile towards humans, so we have not resisted them, but not anymore. How dare you try to harm Heir Northmund!”

“No, wait a minute!”

It was the very next scene.

“This… This fucking nonsense!”

A soldier hiding on the roof of a six-story building about 50 meters away, who seemed to have forgotten to conceal himself, was shouting insults.

“What the fuck! This is ridiculous! Hey, at this level, it’s an Omega level monster! Fuck you! I’ve never even heard of a guy like this!”

The man let out dry breath with a dazed expression, as if he were brushing his teeth and spitting foam into the sink, and shouted, shaking the gun in his hand.

He was holding a gun that appeared to be an anti-materiel sniper rifle, and judging from the sense of magical energy, it also seemed to be a magic bullet gun developed for anti-monster use.

And having it was his crime.

“I will kill you.”

In the line of sight of the cold boy, the building where the man holding the anti-material sniper rifle was located exploded with a flash of light. Unlike the explosion, the building was thrown inward and shattered as if a huge hand had grabbed it, and a man’s desperate scream seemed to be heard along with it.

At the same time, a cruel and dull metallic sound filled the air from the helicopters in the sky. Standing at the target of the steel rain of machine guns and surface-to-air rockets, the boy spoke as if he had no interest at all.

“Even dying is not enough. You trash!”

The boy took a step forward from his spot, his golden hair swaying in the blowing wind.

To the eye, it was just one step of a weak and dirty boy from the slums, but the gaze beyond the windshield of the helicopter that was looking at him was as if he was trembling with fear as if he was looking at a monster beyond common sense.

The boy waved his arm while looking at them indifferently.

Boom, kwagwagwagwang!

The rockets flying towards the boy exploded in the air, creating a scene like a scene from a movie, but I lost my temper and bit my lip.

“Die, you bastards!”

And when he tried to swing his other hand, I urgently stopped him.

“Stop! Stop it!”

“Mr. Northmund? These are people who tried to harm you.”

It was a voice that seemed like it couldn’t understand me suddenly blocking it. Thinking about that voice, I spoke urgently.

Less than ten seconds had passed since the boy suddenly took off at the sound of the loudspeaker coming from the helicopter. There was so much slaughter.

“But you can’t just act like that!”

The boy urgently grabbed the arm he was trying to swing and stopped him, but as if a certain amount of force had been applied, five or six helicopters in the air lost their balance, spun around, and began to fall to the ground.

“Qu!”

And then he instinctively caught it and fixed it in the air before it hit the floor.

It was not a manifestation of magical power, but a manipulation of reality that was literally manifested through my will alone.

Perplexity and doubt appear on the faces of the soldiers fixed in the air just a few meters above the ground. Some people peed their pants, perhaps because they were so nervous in anticipation of death.

However, is it fortunate that the urine did not stick and flow to the floor and wet their faces?

‘What is this guy? ‘It’s not like I can compete with Alexstras or Dimostra.’

The boy tilts his head slightly, as if questioning the surprise in my gaze.

“You… How does it have such power? That power seems to be comparable to that of the devil who was your leader.”

I squeezed the boy’s shoulder and shook him, narrowing my eyes at him. The boy looked at me with a questioning expression, but then a small smile appeared.

I couldn’t immediately understand his smile, so I frowned.

“Why are you smiling?”

“You are literally the successor to a great being. Now, Northmund, the divine power of the great being that you feel is proving him. From the looks of it, it seems like he hasn’t learned how to properly handle that divine power yet.”

“What do you mean?”

“Literally, divine power is the power that embraces all possibilities. It is divine power that allows you to realize that possibility as you wish. The one who holds the source of such divine power is God.”

“Um.”

“And we Guardians are your army. Likewise, you can handle the divine powers granted to you. They are warriors who were active in past interdimensional wars. So this is basic.”

“… .”

“It is this power that gave this world a new power called magical power and allowed humans with magical power to transform into superior beings. You can implement it all as you wish. You may not be familiar with it yet, but you will gradually get used to it. Didn’t those humans’ metal weapons become stuck in the air just now in response to your will?”

Then he smiled slightly again.

As I fell in love with that smile, my mind began to pound. What is it? Why didn’t Alexstras, who I met in that strange space, give me this explanation? No, that was a ventriloquist dummy I made anyway.

A doll couldn’t tell me something I didn’t know.

“And you just mentioned Alexstras. At that time, I was in a state of no ego, so I don’t know to what extent I confronted Northmund. but… .”

“Won Alexstras is not that kind of being?”

“Yes. After the great being passed into the other side of time, the state of that person who lost his divine power would have been very weak compared to his prime. Is it the difference between an elephant and an ant? No, it would have been worse than that.”

The boy held out his hand towards me with a smiling face.

“So, Northmund, please become the true successor. Be great just as you are. Do not be concerned with insignificant creatures such as humans. It is a being that can always create something new and destroy it at will. Don’t be attached to something like dust in the wind. Our guardians will follow you forever.”

The boy is still holding out his hand to me, as if he had anticipated my answer in advance.

I bit my lip hard while looking at it. It seemed like he thought I would hold his hand.

I guess so. No matter who saw it, this was a huge opportunity and a condition that could not be refused.

but.

“Bullshit.”

There is no way I would give up on humans.

“Yes?”

No matter how strong he pretends to be, he is not a heartless person in the end. I can’t help but care about humanity.

There are days when I was raised as a vessel of God and did not inherit God, but rather was raised by being injected with human memories and lived as a human being.

But how can I abandon humanity?

“That’s not possible. All of my principles of action were for the good of this world and its people, not to become a god and abandon humanity. That is why it was not completely granted divinity in the first place.”

“… If so.”

“Yes, if you refuse it. You are my enemy.”

It wasn’t something I was saying to him. I was muttering to myself as if I was making a promise. And before the boy could respond to that, I continued muttering.

“If the divine power spread throughout this world becomes detrimental to this world, I can always use my remaining power to destroy that concept. If this world collapses because I am the heir of God, that is a problem not worth rethinking.”

When I said that and turned my attention to the boy, he was still smiling.

And his lips open and speak to me.

“If that is your will, we will just follow. Guardians are an army just for you.”

Only after I breathe a sigh of relief at those words do I begin to see what I have accomplished. As the helicopters fixed in the air are slowly lowered to the ground, the crew inside trembles and runs away.

I was a little worried about the problems they would cause in the future, but I couldn’t afford to worry about such trivial things right now.

“The monster that is currently hostile to humanity… Do all guardians have as much power as you?”

“That’s probably not true. Previously, I understand that humans called them mid-level monsters. I think my form was a round sphere with long bladed tentacles… .”

“… It was a divider.”

“Oh yes. I think humans probably called it by that name. Because he happened to be in a place outside of Northmund’s path of attack, he survived to this day.”

I ignored his words and was thinking about what to do next.

This is not the case for a quiet return. And beyond the gaze strengthened by divine power. Something drawing a line in the sky was flying this way.

They come this way, like comets, leaving behind only afterimages.

“Are they fighter planes?”

It seemed like only a few seconds had passed before I felt their presence, but they had grown so large that they could be seen with the naked eye.

And as soon as I saw it again,

Kwagwagwagwagwang!

As soon as we were able to escape our location through spatial transfer, the space we had just been in, the police station, exploded with a terrifying roar. The effect seems to have been outstanding compared to that simple roar.

Even though only a couple of missiles flew, the area was completely turned into a wasteland, as if it had been carpet bombed by strategic bombers.

There has been tremendous progress in just five years.

“How dare they!”

“Stay still. Don’t make it a big deal!”

The dispatch was faster than expected. As soon as they heard that it was the Omega class, I think they immediately launched a sortie from the nearby air force base. No, it’s not something that can be done in just a minute or two.

It wasn’t a 5-minute wait, so I guess they were already on board at this rate.

Anyway, at this rate, it would be a shame to go quietly. It would be better to move to the academy as quickly as possible.

“Oh, now that I think about it.”

I took out a card from my wallet and looked at the boy.

It was an identification card swiped from the pocket of a dead soldier earlier. A distinctive feature of this card, unlike regular ID cards, is that it has a special coating reminiscent of laminated coating.

When I held the card, the color of the card I was holding changed. It seemed like it was done to prevent monsters from killing soldiers, stealing their IDs, and disguising themselves as those people.

“What is your name? You don’t even know that yet.”

When I wrapped the card, aware of the manifestation of divine power, I noticed that the anti-counterfeiting coating that reacted to dark mana had lost its effect and turned into an ordinary card. I rolled my eyes and looked at the boy, and before I knew it, he was kneeling on one knee.

The boy said while posing as if he was pledging loyalty to his lord.

“My name is Eldarim. Mr. Northmund.”

“That’s right, Eldarim. Follow me.”

“Yes. Mr. Northmund.”