Play 'Tere liye (lofi)' (recomnded)
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The air was thick with the remnants of divine power. Infernal flas crackled softly in the distance, their embers dancing like dying stars in the endless abyss. Yet, despite the raging firestorm around her, Eterna felt nothing but cold.
She collapsed to her knees.
Her golden irises, once radiant with the unyielding authority of life and death, now trembled as they stared into the empty void where her sister had once stood.
Nyxara was gone.
A silence unlike any she had ever known pressed against her soul. It was not the silence of death. It was sothing worse. Sothing cruel. A void where existence had been, where mories had ford, where bonds had broken.
For the first ti in eons, the weight of her actions settled on her divine essence. She had wielded the power of destruction to its fullest, and now, she was alone.
And then—
A tear slipped from her eye.
A single, shimring droplet.
It glowed with an eerie radiance, pulsating with the celestial essence of creation and annihilation—two opposing forces entwined in delicate balance. It was not just a tear. It was a fragnt of divine will, a condensed spark of the fundantal laws that governed existence itself.
And it was falling.
A sudden voice rang in Zar's mind, sharp and urgent.
[Oi, Zar! Eterna's tears contain apocalyptic energy! If it touches the ground, entire universes will face destruction!]
Zar's heart skipped a beat.
He didn't hesitate.
A pulse of unseen power. A flicker of space.
And in the next instant, he was before her.
Ti itself had barely registered his movent. The world had not yet caught up with his sheer speed. His body knelt in front of Eterna, one hand gently brushing against her tear-streaked cheek.
His other hand—
Caught the tear.
A cosmic silence filled the space between them.
Eterna's tear shimred in his palm, its power fluctuating between infinite creation and irreversible destruction. He could feel it—the weight of a thousand galaxies compressed within a single droplet. Even as soone who now wielded unfathomable power, it was staggering.
Eterna's teary gaze lifted to et his.
For a mont, she said nothing.
For a mont, everything stood still.
Then—
She moved.
Not to attack. Not to lash out. Not to reclaim her divine dignity.
But to embrace him.
Zar froze.
It wasn't just a simple hug. It wasn't a gesture of comfort or gratitude.
It was sothing deeper. Sothing raw.
Eterna clung to him with a desperation he had never seen before, as though he was the only thing tethering her to reality. Her trembling fingers dug slightly into the fabric of his coat, and her divine aura—usually so composed, so absolute—flickered unsteadily.
"...Nyxara..." her voice broke, barely a whisper.
Zar's mind went blank.
Not because of the hug.
Not because of the sheer absurdity of the situation.
But because—
This was the first ti a woman had ever hugged him.
Not just any woman.
A goddess.
The Goddess of Life and Death.
His life before arriving in this world had been mundane—just a day ago, he was a re author, a normal guy preparing to release his novel. And now, he was in the arms of a being who had existed for countless millennia, a being who had shaped the cycle of existence itself.
And she was trembling.
Zar didn't know what to do.
Should he return the hug? Should he push her away? Should he say sothing cool?
His arms hovered awkwardly at his sides, his brain running simulations at speeds that could rival the system itself.
This wasn't in the script.
This was more terrifying than any battle.
A strange warmth spread through him, foreign yet not unpleasant. Slowly, hesitantly, he raised his hand—
Then—
A soft, yet familiar voice echoed from behind them.
"Sister...?"
Eterna's entire body stiffened.
At first, she dismissed it.
A cruel illusion, a final trick of her fractured mind. But then—
The voice called again.
Eterna's breath hitched.
She turned, almost afraid to hope.
And then she saw her.
Nyxara stood there, looking as she had before her fall to corruption. Her once-dark eyes were no longer tainted by rage, no longer filled with hatred. Her presence lacked the monstrous aura of Polyx—the twisted entity that had consud her soul.
She was—
Whole.
Eterna's breath caught in her throat.
For so long, she had wished for this mont. She had dread of it, longed for it. And now, it was real.
But then—
She realized sothing.
She was still hugging her master.
Like a crying child.
Heat rushed to her face as divine embarrassnt struck her like a celestial calamity.
She imdiately jumped back, her divine aura flickering erratically. "I-I wasn't—!" she stamred, frantically trying to compose herself.
But the redness on her cheeks refused to fade.
Zar, on the other hand, seed completely unfazed.
He rely stood up, brushing off his coat casually. "You should talk to your sister," he said, his voice far too relaxed for soone who had just been embraced by a literal goddess, "while I take a walk around this realm."
A casual tone.
Eterna's mind snapped.
Her master had never spoken to her like that before. Always commanding. Always absolute. But now, he had spoken so casually, as if they were nothing more than old friends.
She felt strange.
But at the sa ti...
She felt good.
Before she could fully process it, Zar had already vanished into the infernal landscape.
Zar walked through the Infernal Realm, his steps echoing against the scorched earth. The burning skies above swirled with molten embers, casting an eerie glow across the desolate landscape. Lava rivers flowed in chaotic streams, and distant howls of abyssal creatures echoed through the air.
His expression? Neutral.
His posture? Relaxed.
As if the hellish environnt surrounding him was nothing more than a mildly inconvenient sumr evening.
Then—
Without warning—
He collapsed.
The world spun. His vision blurred. His limbs turned weightless.
And in the depths of his consciousness—
He was dragged into the System Space.
System Space - Where the Real Suffering Begins
The first thing Zar did upon arriving?
Almost cry.
His ntal projection sank to the ground dramatically, gripping his chest as if he had barely survived so unspeakable calamity.
"System... thank you!"
He choked out. His voice carried so much raw emotion that it sounded like a war veteran finally being saved after years of endless battle.
The system interface flickered for a mont. Then—
[...You're welco.]
A pause.
Then—
[...You're really this grateful?]
Zar shot up, dramatically holding his hands to his heart. "Of course! If you had unsealed my realm from the start—I would've died from social death!"
His over-exaggerated suffering gave the entire scene a ridiculous undertone.
But let's rewind thirty minutes earlier.
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Thirty Minutes Ago
At that ti, Zar had been watching everything unfold through a live system broadcast.
When Eterna stord into the Demon Goddess's palace, her divine presence shaking the entire realm, he had leaned forward, intrigued.
Then, the system revealed their past.
Zar's eyes widened.
"Wait... they're sisters?!"
The realization struck him like a truck.
His head slowly turned toward the system, eyes narrowing.
"...You're not seriously expecting to fix their relationship, right?"
The system responded in the most deadpan tone possible.
[Are you an idiot?]
Zar exhaled through his nose, choosing to ignore the insult for the sake of his sanity.
Then—
A blue interface popped up before him.
He blinked. "System... since when did you start changing interface colors?"
[...]
Ignoring the silence, he read the notification.
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[Mission Updated]
1. Ensure Eterna nds her relationship with Nyxara.
2. Stop Eterna from burning her essence to erase Nyxara.
[Reward: Full resurrection of Nyxara—without any remnants of Polyx.]
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Zar's face went through several emotional stages in rapid succession.
First—shock.
Then—disbelief.
And finally...
"...Wait, why do I have to kill Nyxara?"
He was about to argue further, but then his eyes landed on the reward.
He stopped talking imdiately.
"..."
After a mont of silence, he turned to the system.
"...Hey, what's Polyx?"
The system's tone turned playful.
[As I've said before—you'll find out in the Nexus Academy.]
Zar sighed in pure frustration.
Then—
Sothing disturbing crossed his mind.
"How the hell am I supposed to erase a Main God's existence? I can beat them one-sidedly, sure, but I'm not able to actually erase them right now."
The system's next words sent a chill down his spine.
[Oh, don't worry—I'm unsealing a portion of your real realm.]
Zar's entire body stiffened.
"...How much?"
[Just 3%.]
An imdiate sense of dread settled over him.
Then—
He felt it.
A surge of power.
Sothing primal.
Sothing that had been buried for eternity.
And now—
It was waking up.
Zar clenched his fists. If he couldn't control his power—
The Wall of Dominion Incident would happen again.
Then—he ran.
Not walked. Not teleported.
He RAN.
And the multiverse regretted it instantly.
His body moved.
And the multiverse shook.
Not because of his strength.
Not because of his divine presence.
No.
Sothing worse.
The laws of the multiverse couldn't even process his speed.
Sothing impossible happened—
The entire multiverse itself began to evolve rapidly just to catch up with him.
Zar's expression shifted from determination to pure panic.
"Sh*t, sh*t, S*IT—"
The space around him didn't shatter.
The void didn't collapse.
No. It was sothing else.
It was as if reality itself couldn't keep up with him.
It had to adjust.
His re existence forced the fabric of the cosmos to change.
And he wasn't even at full power.
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Zar couldn't see properly.
Hurricane-force winds slamd into his face at speeds beyond comprehension.
The sheer force of his own movent made his eyes turn red.
And all this happened in a single second.
But for Zar—
That second felt like an eternity.
He had to stop.
He focused. Forced his power to compress.
And—
CRASH.
His body collided into the Infernal Realm's reality layer.
The mont he landed—
His power stabilized.
But for one fleeting second—
His form changed.
Sothing beyond divinity.
Sothing unfathomable.
And his eyes—
Began turning violet slowly but surely.
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