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Chapter 246
Theia collided with Earth.
When Krugen was treated like a toy and abandoned by Theia’s god,
Krugen naturally thought he was going to die.
The collision of two planets.
Even with the Absolute Barrier maintained, it was uncertain whether it could withstand such an enormous shockwave.
With a body pieced together like this, what could he possibly do?
One thing.
—Live…….
—For the sake of the clan…….
From the fragnts of his clan that clung to Krugen’s body, an unexpected surge of dark mana arose, supporting him.
Along with it, the Dark Star that had been built inside the solar power plant absorbed Krugen’s body.
—Krugen.
As he entered the interior of the Dark Star, the voice of the Theia Clan’s King was heard.
It was the final testant, squeezed out from the fragnt of the King attached to Krugen’s face.
—Our Theia made the wrong choice of god.
“……That’s right.”
Theia’s god.
Although he was already an Absolute God ruling over one planet, he was not satisfied and endlessly pursued greater heights.
He ruled Theia.
But he desired to rule Earth, a planet even larger than this one.
Driven by such greed, he conceived the idea of crashing Theia, where countless of his own children and descendants lived, into Earth.
—He is a god that should never have existed. Fortunately, he…… was never truly a god to begin with.
And the King of the Theia Clan, who was praised as the wisest of all, devised a plan from the beginning to stop the god’s madness.
“Then……”
—Before Theia’s god could ascend, we must kill him.
“......”
—The Dark Star contains a chanism prepared for this. Krugen.
The King’s voice gradually weakened. His body, shattered by the god, just being able to convey his will this far was a miracle in itself.
—I’m sorry for entrusting you with such a heavy burden……
“It’s fine, my King. I will surely revive our clan.”
—I’m counting on you……
After that, Krugen miraculously survived.
During the collision and rging of Earth and Theia, he overca countless deadly crises.
By luck, when a fragnt of Theia broke off, he managed to separate along with it.
‘Fortunately, sunlight reaches this satellite too.’
Then, by using all the knowledge he had as the forr solar power plant director, Krugen began producing sunstones one by one, and steadily built up his strength.
In order to complete the King’s chanism prepared inside the Dark Star.
‘……It’s completed.’
And after countless years had passed, Krugen was finally able to complete it.
The ultimate grand magic circle created by the King of Theia — the Ti Reversal Magic Circle.
‘Travel back to the distant past... and kill Theia’s god before he becos a god.’
The god who destroyed Theia to beco stronger.
In truth, Krugen and the King of Theia were no different from the god’s descendants, with the god’s blood deeply rooted within them.
But for the sake of their clan and planet, they resolved to return to the past and kill the god.
Thus, the foundation laid by the King and completed by Krugen—who ruled over the Moon—was the Ti Reversal Magic Circle.
‘……There’s still sothing missing.’
The original coordinates of the planet Theia, and the Divine Language used by Theia’s god.
These had to be accurately grasped.
Especially since they had no way of knowing exactly which era they would land in.
They needed a sure counterasure against the Divine Language that bound the entire Theia Clan.
‘For that……’
Only then did Krugen turn his gaze toward Earth.
Earth, where Theia’s god had been defeated and sealed away.
It was ti to draw out the god trapped within.
‘Everything was going smoothly.’
He tore off a massive fragnt of the Moon and dropped it onto Earth, splitting it into the Heavenly Realm and the Demon Realm.
Proclaiming himself a Celestial God, he fought the Water God to seize control over Earth.
The god of Earth was powerful, but his perception beyond Earth was narrow.
The Celestial God lost every ti, yet he revived each ti by drawing energy from the Moon’s sunstones.
‘Eventually, the Water God transford into the Dragon God to kill .
And the Earth God’s seal gradually began to weaken……’
Everything was progressing according to the Celestial God's plan.
Except for one thing.
A slight nuisance remained.
‘Kaylen.’
At first, he was such a trivial being that he wasn’t even worth noticing.
His true body, Ernstine, had already beco the Dragon God.
The fragnt of what used to be human was left behind, turned into an undead by the Celestial God, to prepare for the battle against the Dragon God.
What made up Kaylen, after all, was just the Sixfold Sword Path carrying Ernstine’s mories.
Right.
Nothing but a sword.
‘What is a sword, after all?’
It is rely a weapon crafted by the lowly race known as humans from tal.
Humans went to ridiculous lengths trying to imbue it with mana.
But from the Celestial God's perspective, all of it was aningless folly.
A sword was nothing more than a trivial ans of a trivial race.
And yet—
“A re sword managed to co this far……”
The Celestial Demon God raised his killing intent as he looked at Kaylen before him.
That one, whose true nature was no more than a sword, had co all the way into the Ti Reversal Magic Circle to interfere.
He was truly an insufferable nuisance.
‘Now that he’s co this far, I must put an end to him.’
Perhaps because the sword that pierced through all things consud an enormous amount of mana, Kaylen’s condition didn’t look very good either.
‘Inside this Ti Reversal Magic Circle, I can definitely kill him.’
He considered ignoring Kaylen and simply activating the Ti Reversal Magic Circle properly.
But the Celestial Demon God dismissed that idea.
If sothing went wrong and that nuisance got dragged along, it would be the worst possible outco.
‘Now that this place has been discovered.’
To eliminate any variables,
even if he had to gather mana again, he would kill Kaylen here.
Rumble—
The gears on the floor turned.
From between the gaps, hands of darkness stretched out in all directions.
Their only target: Kaylen.
Those hands lunged at him with ferocious force.
“This worthless trick.”
Kaylen sneered.
The Celestial Demon God, perhaps because he was busy orchestrating so many different plans,
showed little finesse when it ca to the use of mana in actual battle.
Even though he wielded massive dark magic and holy light magic,
his thods of using them were crude.
Six Sword Path
Six Swords — Eclipse
The Six Swords gathered, becoming a black sword that devoured the Moon’s dark magic.
Kaylen, holding a single sword, charged straight toward the Celestial Demon God.
Countless hands sprang up from the gears on the ground.
‘All of it will just beco my mana anyway.’
They were pulled into Kaylen’s Eclipse and failed to inflict any effective blow upon him.
Thus, nothing remained to block Kaylen’s advance.
“Guh......!”
Sizzle—!
The black sword slit the Celestial Demon God’s throat.
A hollow death for soone who had boasted that he would break the sword.
‘Leave not even a trace.’
Yet Kaylen’s sword did not rest.
How many tis had the Celestial Demon God feigned death only to revive again?
Each ti Kaylen’s sword struck, the Celestial Demon God’s body cracked like a spiderweb and shattered into pieces.
A rciless sword strike that allowed no regeneration.
When the sword slashed him seven tis,
the Celestial Demon God’s body vanished from that spot.
Not a trace of his mana could be felt anywhere.
‘Is it over……?’
Just as Kaylen briefly thought so—
Tick. Tick.
The second hand of the clock floating in the sky moved.
Clang!
One of the clocks suddenly exploded and dropped to the ground with a thud.
"You are truly an incomprehensible existence."
At the sa ti, the Celestial Demon God revealed himself, standing at the spot where Kaylen had been, as if he had never died.
"Unable to even create a body of your own, yet your sword alone surpasses the gods’ understanding.
Your black sword and my dark magic. Though my magic is vastly superior… how is it that you consu it?"
"I clearly killed you. How are you regenerating...?"
"You think you killed ? Huhu. This entire world is no different from myself. No matter how strong your sword is, it cannot defy the world itself."
Kaylen once again looked around.
A world filled with floating numbers and clocks covering the sky.
Strange, but the space itself wasn’t all that vast.
If he used the Six Sword Path, it was a size he could easily destroy.
"Then I'll just erase this world entirely."
Six Sword Path
Second Sword — Scorching Heavens
The Eclipse was released.
This ti, the Six Swords carried fire.
Though he said he would destroy the entire space, what bothered him most were the clocks in the sky.
Kaylen aid the Scorching Heavens at them.
Fwoooosh!
A massive surge of pure white flas roared, as if it would burn the entire sky.
The Celestial Demon God, watching the flas aiming for the clocks, uttered lightly, "Return."
Imdiately, the flas spreading in all directions were extinguished and gathered back into Kaylen’s sword.
The scene looked as though the activation of Scorching Heavens had been played in reverse.
Kaylen furrowed his brow.
‘What is this…?’
Before the flas could even fully blaze upon the sword, as he returned to the mont he first attempted to use Scorching Heavens, Kaylen cautiously inferred what had just happened.
‘Don’t tell . He's manipulating ti...’
If the flow of ti during the expansion of Scorching Heavens was reversed, it would certainly look like the scene he just witnessed.
The Celestial Demon God. In this space, could he control ti?
Was that how he had revived so flawlessly earlier?
‘…Still, there seem to be limitations.’
If he could truly manipulate ti at will,
he would never have allowed Kaylen to approach him in the first place.
Kaylen carefully speculated.
‘It doesn’t seem like he can affect my body.’
If he could, the Celestial Demon God’s neck wouldn’t have been severed earlier.
Assuming that the Celestial Demon God’s "Return" did not affect Kaylen himself.
'What about the sword?'
The Second Sword, Scorching Heavens, was a type of ranged attack that extended fire mana outward.
The result created by swordsmanship could be rewound by turning back ti to return it to its original state.
But could "Return" also affect the sword Kaylen was directly holding?
He decided to test it imdiately.
Six Sword Path
Fourth Sword — Giant Sword
Four golden swords gathered together.
Imdiately, mana surged, creating a massive steel sword.
The Giant Sword that had once split a royal castle.
It did not leave Kaylen’s hand.
It was a massive sword, capable of reaching up to the sky.
"Return."
At the Celestial Demon God’s short command, the steel sword soaring into the sky quickly shrank down.
'Even the Giant Sword...'
At the sa ti,
Bang! Bang!
Several clocks exploded in the sky.
A new domain of mana enveloped Kaylen’s entire body.
"O sword that has reached the domain of the gods. There is not much ti left now."
The second hands of the clocks fell from above.
The numbers that had been floating around Kaylen began to gather toward him.
"I will analyze you, rewind your ti, and return you to the insignificant state you once were."
Unable to win in a direct confrontation with the Six Sword Path, it seed the Celestial Demon God intended to regress Kaylen to a ti when his existence was still weak.
'If that happens… it will be my defeat.'
Kaylen sensed instinctively that he had very little ti left to act.
'I must use my final resort.'
Click. Click.
Kaylen’s skin peeled away.
From the body that had taken human form, tal was revealed.
[Translator - Kiteretsu]
[Proofreader - Kyros]
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