The Paladin Owns the Relic

189 – End and beginning

Mercedes reached out. I caught my breath.

Now the only thing I can fight is…

Bring out the demonic sword Surt even at the risk of death…!

Kwachang!

All the space around it suddenly shattered. Time, which had stopped, has begun to return.

The pressure on my shoulders was lifted. I immediately rolled back and got out.

“Ugh… Ugh…!”

“Catch your breath. Apostle of Ra.”

Those clad in white priestly clothes stood in front of me. Intersecting holy powers covered the entire area.

“You endured well. Thanks to her, I was able to hold her in the ‘her seal’ she had prepared.”

Mercedes raised his head expressionlessly. She swung her hand toward the blue light swords that fell from the sky.

Kwachaaang!!!

Some were destroyed. However, some still remained and burrowed into Mercedes’ body.

There was no eerie sound of flesh being pierced. The sword of light passed through Mercedes’ body and disappeared.

“……?”

She nodded her head and stretched out her feet.

But the next moment, a blue light burst from her body.

“Did you think you could break through the world’s restraints so easily? Contaminants.”

“……”

“Ugly things that creep into human emotions. Put down that body and go back to where you were right now.”

Mercedes snapped her hand. She silently looked down at the blue light sword.

“…It wasn’t made overnight. Quite an effort. It wasn’t in Zahard’s memory… Who are you?”

“Insurance arranged by ‘Lu’, god of the moon and sister of the sun god, knowing that destruction would surely come.”

The priest standing next to me took off his hood. Her blue hair was blowing in the wind.

“This is Lu’s apostle ‘Lucia’.”

I got up. Mercedes, bathed in blue light, loosened her body.

“The law of compulsion…Limitation of power…The power of watchers is also mixed in. Is this a structure to seal me?”

“Exactly. So stop running amok and go back to where you left off. It is not yet time to perish. Life that lives and breathes still deserves to be blessed.”

“A blessing?”

Mercedes whispered.

“That…why didn’t I have it?”

Kwadeuk.

The sword of blue light is cracked. The Moon Paladins flew sideways for a moment.

Quaaa!!!

An imperfect power blows up the entire city. Purple light mixed with black.

A number of ominously rumbling stars floated around her. Mercedes wiggled her hand.

“The output is strange… And I can’t aim properly. This must be difficult.”

“The more you use your strength, the more your body will gnaw away. It’s not a seal that can be broken that easily. It is a seal created by the gathering of the seven Watchers and the five Gods.”

“…Did Ra also participate?”

“Everything was done in secret. Only those who were not involved with ‘Zahard’, the apostle of the sun god, who was the protagonist of everything, could participate in this plan.”

“Why?”

“The sun god…”

The world is changing rapidly.

“I am no longer the manager of this world. That seat is taken over by ‘Lu’, whom we serve.”

The knowledge you knew suddenly changes.

“Lou ordered that the turning point of destruction would surely arrive here. If it’s a turning point of destruction that will appear anyway… You said it would be right to cut off the bud right here.”

“……”

“There is no hope for you. We are in control of this place. Mercedes. You imperfect god. Go back to where you were. There is no place for you here.”

“Then where should I be? The other side of the abyss where there is nothing?”

Mercedes whispered.

“That is too much. Why should only you be blessed? I, who have repeatedly died and died…Why did I have to be abandoned in the end?”

“You are just fascinated by what has flowed from ‘the other side’! Wake up and decide yourself!”

“Wrong. An apostle of Lu.”

Mercedes’ body was covered in blue light.

“I am him…He is me.”

Lucia gritted her teeth. Her hurled spear pierced the air.

A flying javelin. I tried to tear through the air and dig into Mercedes’ arms, but…

Kwajik.

It didn’t have to burrow into Mercedes’ body.

“The rats were hiding.”

The space was torn open and five men appeared.

“But damn Lou didn’t expect this?”

“…You… Are…?”

The dust cleared. The man holding the window grinned.

“For God, the believer must follow the law.”

“Apostle of Ra! Fabian!”

Lucia gnashed her teeth.

“Why are you helping her?! She will destroy everything!”

“Everybody has their own reasons. In my case… I promised her she would crush my boredom.”

From noble mtl dot com

The spear in Fabian’s hand shattered and returned to the light.

“But…The situation is not so good. I never thought my god would have stepped on sh*t.”

“Get out of the way. Fabian.”

“Oops. As you commanded.”

Mercedes walked out. As she held out her hand, a black star floating around her landed on the ground.

“Lucia.”

The fallen black star soared into the sky.

“It’s a return for what you received.”

The silence of the stars covers everything.

A black star that gets bigger as you go up. As if declaring the end, even the red sky was covered.

It is large enough to cover an entire city. Its enormous size was like a god.

The power to blow up an entire area with just one gesture.

Lucia’s eyes widened. Her hand trembled as she gripped the blue light spear.

“…Surely…Sealed…?”

“Although I am an imperfect god, I am a god. I saw the turning point of destruction too funny. Roo. This much is possible if you do a little overdoing it. Anyway… I guess I’ll have to hide until I take it off, so there’s nothing wrong with using it.”

The blue spear that I hurriedly grabbed held the moonlight. Shining more brilliantly than before, the blue light flew up as if facing the end.

Blue light hit the black star. However, the blue light was simply sucked in and showed nothing else.

The growing black star didn’t even move. Rather, it increased its size.

“What is this…?!”

The wind blew. Fragments of shattered buildings floated in the air, clouds of dust swirled.

Everything that was ripped from the ground was sucked into the black star that rose above the sky. I opened my eyes wide at the power of lightly sucking in people.

A power that is different from what I have accumulated.

Something beyond the abyss that announces the end of the planet.

Mercedes’ eyes turned to me.

“Zahard.”

A small voice reached me through a long distance.

“Don’t worry about dying. I’ll bring you back somehow As my puppet.”

“Mercedes…!”

I planted my feet firmly on the ground. In the raging wind, I pushed Lucia away who tried to dissuade me.

“Ah, my body is still…!”

“Get out of the way!”

Stand upright. I caught my breath. The load on his body was still there. It was rattling as if it would collapse at any moment.

But I looked straight ahead. It is now. Can’t see it now

I saw a Mercedes. She laughed hard to break the expressionlessness on her face.

As she always smiled.

I reached out.

“…I…”

I said my name.

“I am Zahard.”

“……?”

“Then wait there. Mercedes.”

The previous relationship was cut off.

But it still continues.

To a new relationship.

“It has to be a good ending…”

With your back against the wind, with destruction falling overhead.

I was only looking at her.

“Everything is over. Yes?”

Mercedes’ eyes widened. Her slightly open mouth broke her expression for the first time.

“……”

Moving her mouth as if to say something, she disappeared into the dusty wind.

When she was completely gone, no one else was there.

But it was fine.

Because I clearly conveyed my will.

“No, I missed it!”

“The traces are completely gone!”

“What kind of sophistication of this magic…?!”

“There was a dragon-class mage hiding among the opponents!”

“Why did the Watcher’s blood and blood betray…?!”

Amidst the outpouring of words, I looked up. Black star. The growing piece of destruction was about to devour a city.

You can run away. I’ll be able to get away like this

But…

“…Zahard.”

“I know.”

The surroundings were noisy. I slowly reached out my hand into the air.

I grabbed it as it was.

I closed my eyes.

Erased the sounds one by one.

「I like helping people around me.」

The voices of the Apostle of the Moon disappeared.

「Isn’t it enough if I’m satisfied?」

Arpina’s voice as she looked up at the sky and clenched her teeth disappeared.

「Do you really need a reason?」

Even the sound of the falling stars has disappeared.

Tokyo.

What is that?

Can I become real… Just by admiring someone?

My heart was on fire. Lower than that.

The sincerity that had been hidden all along was burned.

– Zahard…!

Erased Ra’s whispering voice.

– Zahard…

Erased the whispering naga’s voice.

-…You.

I heard the voice of the demon sword Surt.

-You yourself now… No way…

I always made a reason and acted. Even though she admired Seoah Han, she was actually afraid to become that way.

I have seen how good people are trampled on. I saw that he was being crushed while caring for others without taking care of his own things..

I was afraid of that.

I couldn’t forget the moment I looked into the dead eyes of Han Seo-ah, whom I met that day.

I saw how futile it was…It disappeared without meaning.

…But.

「Thank you. Junior.”

You saved Irene, an apprentice priest.

「Thank you. Brother.”

He helped Heretic Questioner Radatoque.

「Thank you. Zahard.”

He helped heretic judge Dimona.

「President. Thank you.”

You saved Maya, the slave of the clock tower.

「…I love you. Zahard.”

He helped Amar, the demon of love.

「Thank you… Zahard.」

I saved Monica, the prison guard.

“…Master.”

Beatrice clung to my shoulder. My Master incarnate saw me.

A resonating heart. Under the gradually disappearing holy power of Ra, even the shadow holy power was hiding its traces.

Everything was coming together.

Under the power of the demonic sword Surt, the two opposing energies are blending and forming a complete union.

– This greedy man…!

Let Surt’s voice flow. I turned to Beatrice who was clinging to my shoulder.

With his back to the perishing star, he smiled lightly.

“It feels strange. To face something that has been neglected all this time.”

“…Yes.”

Beatrice smiled broadly.

“That alone makes me a proud disciple.”

“…I was afraid. Master.”

“It’s okay. Everyone is afraid. No matter how strong you are, you will be shaken. No one is perfect in this world.”

“I saw how futile the end of the person I longed for was… I intentionally avoided going there all along.”

“Everybody breaks up. Our end may be futile. You can tell just by looking at me. I died lonely… Lonely. Fortunately, the spiritual body remains like this, but at the end of the first life, no one was around. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t mean anything.”

“If the goal of my future life is something I borrowed from someone… would that be wrong?”

“No way. People are always influenced by each other. Even if it changes, Zahard is Zahard. The reason people change…Is because they yearn for change that much.”

The union of forces comes to an end. The stigma on the raised right arm completely disappears.

[Partial body…]

The status window is cleared. Free from divine interference

A mass of holy power swirling within its body. The lost holy power is about to flow out of the body.

But hold on. The last remaining new status window floated in front of me.

[Controlling a new deity!%$In progress.]

[Do you want to go to the bottomless pit $@^0?]

Abyss.

I don’t know what that means. But I know something else.

How to stand.

How to hold a weapon.

Handling.

All of that was taught by Beatrice. And that was enough.

I quietly looked up at the end of the star. We quietly stared at the black end that we might face someday.

“…Before.”

I am.

“Actually… Master…”

…I am.

“Like Han Seo-ah…Reached out her hand to me…All the way…”

I look at you.

Looking at her who sacrificed endlessly for me…

What I really wanted to do.

“I wanted to help others…For no reason. Master.”

Beatrice’s eyes widened. And then small.

Laughed very lightly.

“Good. Zahard. Let’s go together.”

“…You have to get away. Master. I will sever all divinity of Ra. The same goes for Naga. I can’t trust them anymore. I can’t believe in the tribes of God. Even if it costs me to start from the bottom, I will be born anew.”

“I know. So let’s go together. After all, I gave my life for Ra…”

Beatrice laid her arm on my missing stigma.

“Even a proud disciple needs at least one guardian deity. Yes?”

“…The teacher said he was the disciple.”

“I will.”

Beatrice rubbed her head against my cheek.

“We are both fools.”

Beatrice’s voice was sucked into the place where the missing stigma had been. All remaining holy power was used to solidify the frame.

[New$!#$Ro%luck^^#10new%!%#@’S!@$…]

The status window that was broken is fixed again. It becomes something completely new, and God gives me eyes to see the world again.

Thanks to my Godhead who changes fate and sings, I create a world that only I can see.

Yes.

Life is a game.

Do what you want to do, and pay the price for it.

Work hard, win, and finally…

Everyone gets a happy ending…

Such.

From noble mtl dot com

Such a game.

[You have acquired the Incomplete Godhead (SSS).]

[All skills will be reorganized.]

[All levels are readjusted.]

[All perks will be readjusted.]

[All systems will be rebalanced.]

I took a step in the middle of the numerous status windows that flowed down.

A serpent of fire wrapped around a black star.

The life I had accumulated thus far became a new stigma and was engraved on my right arm.

Fall. All the sacred objects I have obtained fall from my body.

A holy relic that cannot be used without the power of Ra.

A holy relic that cannot be used without the power of naga.

Everyone falls and is thrown around. However, the new divinity I gained at the cost of throwing them away enveloped me.

A pillar, my vessel.

The only religion that will stand against the turning point of destruction descending on the world.

I made a choice.

May you become a new god to be born in this world.

-Where is the madman who uses a demonic sword as a vessel for God?!

“Here it is! Love you! Surt!”

-aaa!!! This crazy bastard aaa!!!

In my right hand, I had Beatrice, who used to be a fire saint, now take care of my vessel.

In my left hand was the demonic sword of destruction, but now Surt will serve as a vessel to contain the divinity instead of me.

Fireworks exploded from the air that I grabbed with both hands. An endless red flame. I’ll blow away all the darkness…

My own world.

“…You skipped the unique vocalization stage.”

In the face of the world, I whispered to the star of the end.

“But what I grabbed instead was the divinity… there will be no shortage.”

He kicked the floor. It trampled on the rising ground and flew up.

This is a declaration of war.

Her My blow represents her resolve to save her.

“Yes. Mercedes. Do you know why I liked the game?”

Kicks pieces of the ground.

Break the debris of the building.

Approaching.

Into the silence that the doomsday star spits out.

“…I am.”

I raised Surt, which had become both a demonic sword and a holy sword.

The blazing flame ate away the demonic sword. The darkness that enveloped the outside swirled.

There is light, but it is dim. There is darkness, but it does not color everything.

The red sky clears. A single ray of sunlight was blocked, and my overflowing new holy power consumed it all.

“I always wanted to be a hero.”

[You have acquired the unique Divine Twilight.]

It blooms.

Twilight time.