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Episode 205 God of Death (6)

1 year and 2 months. A blow containing the power, experience, and realization accumulated during that time cleaves the Darkness.

Clang!!

The sound of cutting a hard object echoes. Evan’s sword couldn’t easily cut through the Darkness.

Contrary to her fragile appearance, the Saintess’s body is at the master level. With the power of Darkness mixed in, it was natural that attacks wouldn’t easily work.

At that moment, I drew my sword and swung it. The part the sword tip aimed for was the gap where the sword and body met.

Swoosh-!

The sword that desires the destruction of God accurately cuts that area. In an instant, the divine power of Darkness disappeared, and Estella’s body was directly hit by Evan’s attack. Her right arm and shoulder were cut off.

“Kugh!”

This must be the first time feeling pain with a human body. The distorted expression of Darkness was quite a sight to see.

While Darkness was contorting its face, Evan and I exchanged glances and swung our swords simultaneously.

However, Darkness didn’t accept the following attacks. The guy drew up divine power, transformed into mist, and avoided our swords.

“Tch.”

I clicked my tongue at that scene. In that state, no laws apply to Darkness. In other words, it’s an invincible state.

“Hoo, that’s too bad.”

As Evan said, it was a chance created by deliberately showing a weakness. If the subsequent attack had worked, Darkness’s power would have been greatly reduced. If that had happened, we would have continued the battle much more comfortably.

I picked up Estella’s severed body and said.

“Attack as soon as she returns to normal.”

“Yes, brother.”

That form consumes a lot of power and cannot be maintained indefinitely. Only about 5 seconds. It may seem short, but for the standards of gods, a second is a very long time. The results of gods’ fights are often determined in an instant.

We chased the Darkness’s mist as it retreated. And the moment it returned to Estella’s body, we kicked off the ground again and rushed in.

It was then.

Thud thud thud!!

The ground began to rumble madly. The earthquake prevented us from approaching further. Then, something began to pop out from the ground.

Pure white bones. Bones boasting a quantity that was impossible to count appeared.

To govern death means to handle death. In other words, byproducts related to death were also under the God of Death. So, it was not strange that he handled bones, which are representative of death.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The bones summoned by Darkness crashed down on us like a wave.

“Brother, even for us, that is….”

Evan was sweating profusely.

The bone wave, moving like a single organism, looked solid at a glance. Even I wasn’t confident in breaking through that without any damage.

However, it wasn’t as if there was no way.

“Run. I’ll block it.”

“Are you sure?”

“Who’s worrying about who? Just run without talking back.”

Evan nodded and immediately ran forward. Watching Evan face the bone wave head-on, trusting in me, I took out some of the power I had gathered beforehand.

Red energy covering my whole body. Red, the divinity of the God of Struggle.

Feeling the power of Red, I drew mana from my dantian. No, in fact, there was no need to do that. From the moment I showed my will, my body reacted on its own.

As I said before, Kyle Ardeen’s body is very unique. The more I used my body, the more optimized it became for that action. I called this a growth-type metamorphosis.

In the midst of that, I experienced a real metamorphosis. As a result of similar forces combining, Kyle Ardeen’s body evolved in a different direction. Into a body that automatically reacts to actions simply by injecting will.

It may be difficult to understand when expressed in words, but simply put, it is automation.

Originally, I had to directly perform the process of taking out mana from the dantian, moving it along the meridians, and releasing it with the sword. Now, in that process, the body automatically performs the action if I press the button called will.

It’s not just that, but it also assists in everything in carrying out the action. Including all things like mana control and power control.

Some may question. Whether that is really a big help.

But it’s really a big help. Because you can concentrate on other things that much more. In a fight with a master, that’s a really big difference.

I raised Karsa high and drew it from top to bottom. Red divine power permeated the entire space and crushed the bone wave.

The source of Red is struggle, and struggle is power. Therefore, the divinity of Red was the concept of power itself. Even if Darkness was a powerful god, the phenomenon manifested by divinity could not be ignored.

Crunch, crack!!

Everything is compressed along the direction of the swing. Pressed and pressed like a death by crushing, the bone wave, which was over 100m, was reduced to the level of a single sheet of paper.

Darkness appeared where the bones disappeared. At the same time, black mist covered Evan. It was Darkness’s authority.

One, two… seven, eight. The mana in the dantian rotates along the meridians like that of the circle. Then, I cast a spell with the mana squeezed out from my fingertips, and the compressed bone plate was carved into tens of thousands of needles.

Swish, swish, swish!

A tremendous amount of bone needles pierced the black mist. More than 90% of them were corroded and disappeared by Darkness’s authority.

But that was enough. My purpose was to clear the way for Evan to reach Darkness. And so, Evan reached Darkness.

Whoosh, Evan draws out the power of the hero. White, the power delivered from the God of Light is contained in the pure white sword. Feeling that the power was unusual, Darkness’s face hardened.

Light and darkness are natural enemies to each other. Moreover, Evan’s power of the hero is a power created by gathering the purest light of White. Therefore, Evan was the most threatening being to Darkness in this place.

Swoosh!

Evan’s sword shone brightly and split Darkness. Then, a long line appeared in the center of Estella’s body, and soon after, the body was cut in half. Blood and organs flowed out from the cut.

Evan slumped down, looking at the scene.

“Huff, huff…!”

He was breathing roughly. His energy also seemed greatly reduced, so it seemed like he had used all his power. I rushed to Evan.

“Are you okay?”

“Haa, haa… Brother…. Yes, I’m okay….”

After catching his breath a few more times, Evan looked at Estella, who was cut in half, and said.

“Q, quickly, the resurrection magic….”

Evan clasped his hands together with a trembling voice. And he used the power of the hero. White light enveloped his hands. I stopped Evan.

“Don’t do it. You don’t have to.”

“Yes? B, but we have to save the Saintess….”

I shook my head and continued.

“There’s no need. After all….”

“The Saint is right. There’s no need.”

Then, a voice different from Estella’s voice intervened in our conversation. Afterward, Darkness, who was thought to be dead, stood up.

“H, how….”

“…….”

Evan’s eyes shook greatly, and I silently watched the scene.

The body cut in half stood up completely. A large amount of blood was still flowing from the cut.

That was only for a moment. The blood and organs spilled on the floor began to return to their original positions, and Estella’s fallen body also joined together.

Estella’s body returned to its original state. Darkness spoke through the Saintess’s mouth.

“White. I never thought you would hide such power. You are worthy of being my natural enemy.”

Acknowledging White, Darkness turned its head to Evan. The eyes looking at him were full of desire, just like it was with me.

Then Darkness asked.

“Why were you so surprised? Did you think I would die with just that?”

Immediately after saying that, Darkness reached out its hand. Then, divinity gathered in its hand. But that was not divinity that Darkness itself was emitting, but divinity flowing into this space from the outside.

“If you are the God of Death, you must know how to control your own death. Behold. This is my power. As long as the phenomenon of death on earth does not stop, power will continue to flow in. As long as this power is supplied, I will not die.”

The way it was boasting was so annoying. I mocked and said to Darkness.

“I knew it. That you wouldn’t die with just that.”

“You knew? You knew that and still attacked?”

“Yeah, I knew and attacked.”

Even though I often look down on gods, they are beings that I can never ignore. In particular, the god who governs absolute laws of the world such as death should be feared more. Because they are that strong.

Of course, the same goes for Red and Blue, who I faced yesterday. Neither of them were beings that could be confronted carelessly. Nevertheless, the reason I was able to win was because the two gods were not able to exert their full power.

However, Darkness was different from the two before. The guy was using 100% of its power with Estella’s body, and his divinity was constantly supplied, so his limit was infinite.

Immediately afterward, I released the divinity I had recovered from Red and Blue. I handled the two divinities and combined them into one.

“From the beginning, I had no intention of fighting you head-on.”

I didn’t even think that I could kill him with my and Evan’s power. That would be difficult unless it was my past body, and furthermore, I had to stop that source that keeps supplying divinity, but that was also impossible.

“Of course, I had no intention of sacrificing my life to fight.”

Nevertheless, the reason I deliberately fought was to deplete Darkness’s power. Because it hates its prey acting up. In fact, Darkness’s power was greatly consumed in the process of restoring Estella’s body.

At that time, the completed divine sphere. I connected it to the contract engraved on my soul and injected divinity. The contract ravenously devoured the divinity.

Crash-!!

Suddenly, Darkness’s domain was torn away. It transcended time and space and was engraved here.

Only a small part was revealed. Feeling ominous from it, Darkness raised its power and asked me.

“…What is that?”

I replied briefly to that question.

“True death for you.”

The world of the beginning where the dead gathered, the Underworld, revealed itself here.