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I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched (Web Novel) - Chapter 312: Promises to the Dying Victors, Endings to the Living Losers
Chapter 312: Promises to the Dying Victors, Endings to the Living Losers
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“Black Knight-sama!? Hey, hurry with the healing magic!”“To Ed-san too! Hurry up!”
The Black Knight and I both fell heavily to the ground. Visually, I looked more tattered, but since there were no fatal injuries, the wounds were healing rapidly due to the effects of [Regenerate].
But the Black Knight was…
“What in the world is this!? Black Knight-sama’s body…!?”
The Black Knight’s body began to turn white from the area pierced by the spear. What came to my mind upon seeing that scene was the final state of the Hero Zeed that I once heard from the Black Knight.
“Black,Knight…”
“Ed! No, don’t move yet…”
“My apologies, Tia, lend me your shoulder…”
“Ah, geez!”
I asked Tia, who came to me as we fell, and I went to the Black Knight. His abdomen had already turned completely white, and there were small cracks appearing in it.
“Yo, Black Knight. You’ve been quite showy, huh… How are you feeling?”
“You, huh… Hmph, you can see, can’t you? I’m still fine.”
“Haha, that’s good then.”
I grimaced and smiled in pain at the Black Knight’s light banter. It was very like me to act tough unnecessarily at a time like this… But there was something more important I had to ask now.
“…Why? Why did you protect me? At that moment, if you had attacked the defenseless Winged who had thrown his weapon, it would have been your victory, wouldn’t it?”
“Hehehe, isn’t that arrogance? I didn’t protect you. It was the humans behind you.”
“You, the Demon King, protected humans?”
“Of course. Everything in this world exists for me to rule over. Therefore, even the humans living there are mine. Do I need a reason to protect what’s mine?”
“…I see, you are—”
“Cough, cough… More importantly, my main body. There’s something I want to ask you.”
“What is it?”
The whitening had already reached his chest, and blood was spilling from the neck of the Black Knight’s helmet. Someone tried to remove the helmet, but I stopped them with my hand, waiting for the Black Knight’s next words.
“I’m just a fragment of your power. Do you think there’s something in me that can be called a soul?”
“It’s there.”
At that question, I confidently affirmed without hesitation.
“You are you, Black Knight. Even if you were born as a piece of my power that God carved out, the time you lived is your own. I am convinced that there is a soul in it… In fact, I know a few other Demon Kings who have established their ego.”
“Is that so? That’s… Hehe, that’s nice…”
The Black Knight’s arm reached out to me. The whitening had progressed to his armpit and stopped his arm’s movement, but I reached out my hand and grabbed the Black Knight’s hand.
“I’ll return all the power I have to you. Take it. But leave my soul as it is… If you do that…”
“I understand. I’ll charge you one percent interest everyday. But since the soul has no value… you can take it wherever you like.”
“That’s quite sly. As expected of my main body… Cough, but if there’s a soul, I’ll be there too… Heh, let’s settle this once and for all…”
The Black Knight’s voice, now whitened up to his neck, was trembling. It sounded like he was crying… but no one could really know. The only good-looking man who could see that face was no longer in this world.
“I fought with that man… Take care of this world, main body.”
“Leave it to me.”
Finally, the Black Knight’s body turned completely white and broke with a snap. At the same time, all the power the Black Knight possessed flowed into me.
Ah, I see. So that’s what it was. That’s why I couldn’t find the hero…
“Ed?”
“Tia… I’m alright now.”
I released my arm from Tia and stood on the ground with my own feet. Although my appearance was still covered in blood and mud, my wounds were already fully healed. And what filled my body was the power of the Demon King and the Hero’s strength…. They were negating each other, which is why I couldn’t accurately detect them with my [Akashic Compass].
“Ha ha, that’s right… Protecting and guiding the people, fighting the destroyers from outside to save the world… If that’s not what a Hero is, then what is it! Ahhahahahaha!”
[Offer it.]
As I laughed, holding my stomach, a small Winged descended above my head. Its hand was already holding the returned white spear, and it threw it at me…
“Ha, what’s this thing?”
With a light clinking sound, the spear fell to the ground without even scratching me. It immediately disappeared and returned to Winged’s hand, throwing it at me again and again, but the outcome never changed.
[Offer it.]
“Strange? Just by gaining the power of the one who lost to you, becoming much stronger than you is indeed weird… but this is only natural!”
[Offer it.]
“That guy… the Black Knight was indeed a fragment of the Demon King, my power, but he was a genuine man with a soul. Sure, he might have done wrong, and carried heaps of resentment and bitterness… but he lived and died with all his heart. In contrast, what about you? You’re probably not the main body of a god, just a fragment of a god’s power too, right? But all you do is repeat the same thing like a fool’s errand. A single man and a puppet… there’s no way they’re the same existence!”
I nimbly kicked the ground and jumped, kicking the Winged’s body. It was blown away helplessly, crashing into a wild part of the land slightly away from the sacred place.
[O-offer…]
“Hey, you’re still alive? Well, I did hold back after all.”
By the time the staggering Winged got up, I was already standing right in front of it. With my current state, I could easily move at high speed without relying on skills like [Hermes Dash].
[For the order ordained by the God, Giii]
“What order? You scattered fragments of my power into another world because you couldn’t do anything yourself, and now you want to destroy the whole world? Where’s the order in that?”
I grabbed the Winged’s face, and its mouth twisted, making a strange cry. Yes, that’s all it is, a cry. Words without intent are even inferior to the sound of an insect’s wings.
“Well, it doesn’t matter. Even if I said something to you, it wouldn’t reach the main body of the god, right? But don’t worry; I know how to convey it.”
I casually threw the Winged and readied my sword, concentrating my power. I inherited the Hero’s power from the Black Knight, and now that it protected me, I could fully exert the power of the Endroll, Demon King Of The End…!
“Offer…”
“The end of everything is mine to determine! Your end, here and now! In the name of the Demon King Of The End, Endroll… carve it! ‘Nothing Lies Beyond Here, The End’!”
“O-offer…”
A black flash cleaved the Winged in two. Then, its body fell to the ground with a clatter. It seemed its torso was hollow, just like a puppet.
And from that state, the Winged didn’t change. It didn’t turn into particles of light and disappear, nor did it resurrect as a new Winged, or return to the main body of the god. There’s no change for something that has met a complete end.
“…I kept my promise.”
I raised my sword towards the now-red sky and muttered quietly. Until Tia and the people from the base came rushing over, I continued to send a victorious smile towards the Demon King, who I was sure to meet again in the distant beyond.
