In the nothingness, Averon slowly opened his eyes as endless darkness stretched in every direction around him.
For a few monts, he stood without moving.
This silence was familiar to him.
His gaze slowly lowered toward his palm, where a faint black-gold crown mark flickered softly against his blue sli body.
The King's Mark.
Averon quietly examined himself.
His body had returned to the sa small blue sli form as always.
But the mark remained.
Averon watched the crown symbol carefully, and after a mont, he understood the reason.
"The mark stayed with my soul." He muttered.
The King's Mark was not bound to the body. Its power had followed the soul itself through death and rebirth.
That ant one thing.
He would carry that power into every loop.
Averon remained silent for a long ti and recalled the last events from the previous loop.
The ambush.
The endless enemies.
The overwhelming battle that crushed his army.
And Lily.
Her final smile appeared clearly in his mind. 'Live… Averon.'
He sighed heavily.
After a few monts, he simply raised his palm and looked at the crown mark again.
With a small grin, he said, "Begin a new tiline."
A panel flashed in his vision.
[ Ding! Beginning new tiline… ]
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Averon opened his eyes again and found himself wrapped in a soft jelly embrace.
"I'm your mama, child!" Mama Sli smiled, cuddling with him.
The familiar wooden fences of the sli farm surrounded them, and dozens of mindless slis bounced lazily across the grassy ground.
The sll of the field hit him like nostalgia.
For a mont, Averon remained quiet in Mama Sli's arms, observing the farm carefully.
The wooden gate creaked open.
Heavy footsteps approached. Thud! Thud!
The sli farm owner and the sli farm lady stepped in.
"So many new slis," the lady grinned.
"I'll na them," the sli farm owner said as his lips curved up.
Averon calmly watched him.
Then the crown mark ignited.
The King's Mark erupted with overwhelming energy as a black crown ford above Averon's small sli body.
The ground beneath the farm cracked violently as invisible pressure spread through the air.
The sli farm owner froze.
His expression twisted in confusion and fear.
"What… what is this—"
Averon simply looked at him.
That single glance carried the power of a king.
He and the sli farm lady collapsed instantly.
His body hit the ground with a Thud!
Dead.
The sli farm owner's son rushed into the enclosure after hearing the noise, but he only managed to take one step before Averon's gaze moved toward him.
The man's body stiffened.
Then he dropped lifelessly beside the first farr.
The entire sli farm fell silent.
Mama Sli blinked in confusion while the other slis continued wobbling around without understanding anything.
Elder Sli's mouth opened wide.
"Let's leave this place," Averon waved at Old Sli and Mama Sli.
But all of a sudden, the sky tore open.
A black void manifested.
Space split apart like fragile paper as a massive crack spread across the sky above the farm.
Sothing erged from the tear.
A huge ten-ter-long, silver-white hourglass floated in the air.
'It's alive,' Averon swallowed as he noticed the red pulsing veins within the hourglass.
Hundreds of tiny orange eyes were embedded within its surface, blinking constantly as they scanned the world below.
The mont it appeared, the sli farm collapsed under its presence.
Mama Sli fainted instantly.
Every sli froze in place.
Even the air beca heavy and suffocating.
The creature stared at Averon.
The young sli's core thumped hard, almost breaking out of his body.
He glanced around—the world had stopped moving.
Every being was frozen.
The hourglass's countless eyes blinked slowly.
"You… How did you find him?" A familiar voice scread from the void.
'That voice… He helped during Vael's strike.' Averon figured out the identity of the voice. It was the Ti God.
"You are too late," the hourglass said in a chilly, alien voice.
Its voice shifted from male to female and back again.
The hourglass shone with silver light.
The light spread all around the world.
Averon could not move.
"No…" He scread internally.
The light fell on him. In his last monts, he glimpsed another figure rushing out of the void.
But Averon died instantly.
His body disappeared.
His soul was destroyed.
Even the fused soul of Vael vanished together with him.
Everything ended.
Averon had truly died. Even the loops could not save him anymore.
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In the nothingness.
Except that one thing had returned.
A faint purple glow appeared inside the void.
The glow pulsed quietly like a hidden heartbeat.
It was the Authority hidden within Averon's soul.
The purple light expanded slowly, forming sothing new.
The blue sli was remanifested into existence.
'I'm alive,' he patted himself all around.
He sensed his soul. It was healed and in perfect shape, with his willpower barrier returned.
"Vael… He is dead," he grinned. "Hahah."
Tears flowed from his eyes.
"I wanted to kill him myself," he muttered.
"What now?" he asked himself.
'That hourglass would easily find .' He sensed that the hourglass eldritch had ti powers.
So a new tiline would follow the sa result.
"Wait—how did I survive in the first place?" He raised his eyes.
And that's when a purple-colored panel flashed in his vision.
[ Ding! You have acquired the Authority of Eternity! ]
[ Ding! You have acquired Mastery of Eternity Tier 1! ]
"Eternity," the young sli whispered.
Then another notification appeared.
[ Ding! Eternity requests to create a hidden tiline! ]
"Hidden tiline," Averon exclaid as he recalled the Creation Goddess's words.
She had ntioned he was capable of hiding tilines.
With this authority, a tiline completely invisible to the Ti Eldritch could be created.
He clicked Y on the panel.
[ Ding! Creating Hidden Tiline 1! ]
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"I'm your mama, child," Mama Sli cuddled with him.
Averon unleashed the King's Mark and slaughtered the sli farm owners.
Taking the gang from the sli farm, he departed for the Demon King's palace.
He used the power of the Demon King, allowing everyone to reach the target in just one minute.
He explained everything to Elder Sli using the sa thod—a trait of returning to his birth.
He then attempted the Demon King's heir trial just to check if he could travel to the past.
But the magic array collapsed the mont it sensed the King's Mark.
With a heavy sigh, he began practicing ti magic.
[ Ding! Ti Magic Rune Mastery acquired! ]
[ Ding! Ti Mastery acquired! ]
He then used his traits and ti spells to gain proficiency in masteries at an insane speed.
'Eternity is also ti-related,' he noted as his Ti Mastery proficiency shot up like a rocket.
He didn't care about building the kingdom this ti.
As long as enemies remain, he cannot build a safe place for his family.
He unsealed Lily, and using his Authority of Eternity, he healed her.
Within just ten years, his Ti Mastery hit Tier 5.
With Tier 5 Ti Mastery, he could slow ti to an unimaginable length.
At re Ti Mastery Tier 1, he could make ti slow down to 10 days for every actual 1 day.
Though energy consumption was unbelievable.
With the passage of ti—
[ Ding! You have acquired Ti Mastery Tier 7 {Max}! ]
[ Ding! You have acquired Eternity Mastery Tier 7 {Max}! ]
A flood of energy swept through his body.
[ Ding! You have beco a God King! ]
'I'm now a… God King,' he mused with a wide smile. 'Not the throne of God King, rather the power level.'
His status had changed enormously—from Tier 5 to God, and then God King. He was Level 300 now, the maximum.
He had changed from once a small blue jelly to now a purple sli, with bright galaxies rotating within his body.
He then raised his palm and, using the Authority of Eternity, struck the black sun.
The Spider Eldritch fell to the ground. Dead.
And the Moon Eldritch next.
"I'll be back," he said to the gang as he took off.
He then joined the war against the eldritch.
Within a few years, he killed every eldritch.
The Hourglass roared, "No!" as it fell.
"So every eldritch is dead," Averon took a breath as all the gods stood by him.
"We won," the Creation Goddess declared.
Averon then used the Authority of Eternity to travel to every tiline and resurrected all who had died because of him.
His goal of reviving Mama sli and others was fulfilled.
He then left a clone of himself in every tiline.
He was shocked to find that his future self was missing. After a few monts, he realized that when one becos a God King, every version of himself fuses into one.
He had been able to kill every eldritch and end the war because he was the only God King.
The Creation Goddess, the Ti God, and the Goddess of Power were only semi-God Kings—they each had only one true self, though many clones existed, just like him.
He then married Lily and sent every earthling back to their lives, wiping their mories clean.
His past life family remained with him as he watched over the entire reality from the Dinsion of Eternity.
He had built a safe place for his family as he wanted.
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The End.
Author's Note
The journey of Averon has ended.
Yes… The ending was rushed.
I rushed it because I didn't want to abandon the novel. Many authors would have dropped the story completely, but I wanted to at least give it a proper ending.
Unfortunately, the novel simply wasn't performing well.
To be honest, from the beginning until the end, there wasn't even a single gift from readers. Not even a 10-coin cola. The few gifts you see are actually from my friends, and they aren't even readers of the book.
I waited for four months, hoping the story would slowly pick up.
But it didn't.
Sotis reality doesn't go as we wish.
This month was also difficult. It was the last month of MGS, and I would have continued writing if the numbers were stable. However, for the past 13 days, the daily subs were below 20. In fact, the lowest day was only 1.
That was when I decided it was ti to end the story.
Originally, I had very different plans.
Volu 2 was ant to focus on kingdom building and recruiting the Fourteen Demon Generals. Averon would have returned to Oakfield Village to check on the villagers, and his fury would have followed.
Volu 3 was planned to introduce a Necromancer arc. I had also created many dinsions for this world... the Underworld, Hell, Heaven, and several others. There were even plans for multiple tilines.
I also had backstories prepared for Mama Sli and Elder Sli.
But the results of the novel made realize that it probably wouldn't grow further.
If you didn't notice, the novel was even placed in Cheering Reads for the past three days. Yet even then, no new readers unlocked chapters.
That made the decision clear.
So the last four chapters were rushed... very rushed. I wrote them without much motivation.
I could have dropped the story entirely.
But I didn't want to do that.
I wanted to give Averon... the young sli who suffered so much... a happy ending.
Thank you to the few readers who stayed until the end.
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