episode_0180

Go back in time, Akasha’s perspective.

“Ugh….”

After receiving a blow from Viola, Akasha suffered serious injuries. At the same time, my self-esteem suffered a huge crack.

“Damn… I never thought there would still be a gap of this magnitude…”

Of course, contrary to what he said verbally, the thought that losing was inevitable took root in his mind.

Akasha’s strength came from her desire for Arjen’s father, Hyers.

Research that began with the desire to form a relationship with nature, even if it means going against it. Because that meant the same thing as becoming a god.

However, the true face of the gods that he was able to see through repeated efforts was very different from what he had imagined.

He tried to defy providence by becoming an almighty god, but in reality, gods are not omnipotent and are beings that use providence to wield their power.

In the end, he decided that he could not achieve his ambition. Of course, his desire has withered, and his strength has also stagnated.

“K…Kk…! Hehehe!!!”

Akasha, who returned to one of her many retreats, laughed with joy.

I saw Arjen alive and well. That kid who resembles Hyers.

His desire was restarted, and he was motivated to become strong again.

“Okay… I’ll play with it again. So that you realize that you can never escape me…!”

His eyes turned red. There was no suitable qualifier other than to say it was pure madness.

“It would be an interesting picture if the whole family were killed by me.”

The person who killed Hyers was Aron, her younger sister and Arjen’s biological mother, but Akasha herself also felt guilty about Hyers’ death.

This is because I sincerely believed that if Hyers had been captured at all costs while he was alive, the tragedy of his death would not have occurred.

“…library of knowledge.”

As Akasha muttered, the bookshelves of the library filled his vision without any sign.

It was an application of the Corridor of Memory, and unlike the Corridor of Memory, which linked each other’s memories, it was an ability that could be used alone.

A memory corridor that is virtually used by oneself. Naturally, that ability is to look back on one’s memories.

Thanks to this ability, Akasha was able to vividly recall what he had seen or experienced, and it became the basis for the endless expansion of his knowledge and power.

Akasha took out the most recently written book, the fight between herself and Arjen that had just occurred, and opened it.

‘I cannot defeat black-haired Arjen with my strength.’

Eyes that look at themselves objectively. Akasha acknowledged it and sought another way.

‘In the end, new power is needed, not brute force or magical power.’

That new power was also a problem that did not need to go far. Akasha opened a booklet about the gods she had discovered.

‘Faith… a medium that turns the majority’s beliefs into real power. The foundation of this world….’

In order to realize this single line of knowledge, Akasha had to invest countless amounts of time, capital, and effort.

Akasha, who couldn’t help but laugh at the hardship, took out the book right next to her.

‘I can’t build faith.’

The biggest problem. Anyone can build faith, but the reason why not everyone can build faith.

That’s because he is already accepted as ‘the most feared dragon, Akasha’ by most creatures existing in the underworld.

This perception, once ingrained in an unspecified number of people, is very fatal to building faith.

But Akasha knows another way to build faith. I have never tested it myself and have no related records, but in theory it is a method that is close to 100%.

That is to kill God.

If you kill a god and take his faith, you can gain some of his faith without the faith of others.

And in order to do that, there was the biggest wall Akasha had to overcome.

‘Okay… Stella. ‘You are the biggest problem.’

A god believed in by the vast majority of humanity. The god with the most faith.

Every time he tried to kill any other god, she appeared and interfered.

And Stella’s power was not a matter of faith.

Akasha picked up a book that had been left lying around in a corner. Humiliating memories. It was my memory of being scolded by Stella.

‘The power to create and explode stars… that energy is truly terrifying.’

When Akasha first escaped the underworld and saw the universe where the gods lived, she was disappointed.

This is because he saw them being far removed from the God he thought of and realized that his dream could never come true.

One dragon that started running wild drew the scorn of all the gods, and soon forced Stella, who was immobile in most things, to step forward.

Akasha, who was subdued in this way, was never able to reach the divine world in the same way again.

Of course, Akasha ascended to the place where the gods lived several times in various ways in order to completely pour out her anger on the gods.

Each time, he was stopped by Stella and returned to the underworld.

There were only a handful of times during Akasha’s long years where she almost died, but most of those moments were created by Stella.

‘Prinia is a problem, but… that ability can be countered with magic if you put in a little more effort.’

In the end, Akasha’s biggest obstacle was Stella. Therefore, most of Akasha’s research was about dealing with Stella.

The fact that holy swords and other divine powers did not work was also a product of that research.

Of course, that alone was a dazzlingly great achievement for a creature from the underworld to take off, but it was not of much help to Akasha.

In the end, Stella’s power was due to her natural abilities, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission, rather than divine power.

‘Two things need to be resolved.’

One is the power of Stella. If you don’t have the means to deal with her, all you have to do is weaken her.

All of God’s power comes from faith. Even whether it exists or not.

This also meant that Stella could be eliminated by completely eliminating the faith in her.

The other is the appearance of a helper. He could not be sure that there was no powerful god that Akasha himself did not know about.

It is impossible to find out what kind of power that third party has and who it receives its power from and what kind of power it uses, but since it is a god anyway, it will not be able to use its power without faith.

And a new book appeared before Akasha’s eyes. In this way, new thoughts accumulate in the library of knowledge.

‘We must inflict as much cruel suffering as possible so that people do not dare to believe in God.’

‘And we should think of a mediating magic that can spread such individual experiences to all living things.’

‘That will be easy. There is also a way to apply the corridor of my memories.’

‘If I eliminate all faith in all gods, the faith I gain through killing gods may not be enough.’

‘In that case, we will focus on Stella as much as possible… starting with humans.’

‘In addition, I should collect the blood of the bitches who inherited the bitch’s power and use it as a magical catalyst to suppress the bitch.’

‘Let’s use other humans for that. All you have to do is lock your brain so that you don’t spill unnecessary words, and collect the blood of idiots instead of people who have officially joined the church.’

‘It will take an awful lot of time, but there is plenty of time anyway. ‘The most important thing is not to let anyone know about this.’

It wasn’t difficult to use humans.

Anyway, all creatures in the underworld are greedy and crooked, and they always pop out.

Among them, if we lure out those who are living unfortunate and miserable lives, we can save those who will work.

Akasha did not stop at thinking but took action immediately. The library disappeared before his eyes in an instant, and the cold, dark scene of the hideout came into his field of vision.

First, he created an object by mobilizing all his knowledge accumulated over a long period of time.

It was a sword that absorbed the blood containing Stella’s divine power.

Then, he lured out people one by one who met his standards.

Since the dragon himself took action and planned such a trivial matter, it progressed very secretly yet quickly.

In other words, taking Stella’s sacred power means that even if it is slightly out of line, it is a dangerous task that can be discovered by the Stella Church or Stella herself.

Accordingly, Akasha received the sword and instructed, restricted and plotted the actions of those participating in the work one by one.

The problem was the task of eliminating belief in the gods. I shouldn’t have done this myself.

This is because only by directly killing humans in the most horrible and painful way in the world, humans killing humans, elves killing elves, and dwarves killing dwarves, can shake their very faith.

Due to its nature, the large framework and plan came from Akasha’s head, but since humans had to do the work themselves, Akasha could not engrave the sealing technique on their heads.

In other words, a hole has appeared in security. Of course, it was a very minor loophole, and unless it was something serious, this wouldn’t have been discovered.

Yes, except for the absurd possibility that the god himself, who has faith at all, is wandering around in the underworld and accidentally finds the site.

But it actually happened.