Crowds had gathered in the central plaza in front of M??bius HQ.
Hegrian’s speech was underway.
Murmur, murmur.
Despite the buzz of the crowd, Hegrian’s deep, resonant voice pierced through.
Hegrian’s gaze turned toward the massive lot in front of the headquarters.
Too vast to call a parking lot.
The vehicles that had once occupied it were all cleared out. Even the crowd had not been allowed into that open space.
Boom! Boom!
The ground began to shake.
As citizens began to panic, not understanding what was happening, Hegrian’s voice cut in again.
The entire lot began to shift and rise.
And from the opposite side, sothing erged.
It was an airship—so massive it defied imagination.
To call it a ship was almost an insult. It more closely resembled a floating island.
Hegrian’s cloak billowed.
Unlike Pick
Up, which was public and glorified, this was the reveal of a secret, massive parallel plan.
Hegrian officially announced the Ark Project.
This sleek, titanic airship—known as the Ark—carried with it the history, culture, and heritage of M??bius’s dinsions.
It even housed genetic material from rare species, research data, and magic systems, all painstakingly preserved.
Hegrian cried, radiating the aura of a seasoned leader.
Shhhhhh!
Steam erupted from various ports across the Ark.
“Wooooooaaahhh!!”
A deafening cheer burst from the crowd.
“It really is Lord Hegrian!”
“There was a backup plan all along! All along!”
“We don’t need to cling to that weird ga anymore!”
A flawless performance—declaring the failure of Pick
Up while imdiately unveiling the Ark Project as a grand alternative.
He had transford despair into euphoria with masterful rhetoric.
With this, most of Eden’s populace would surely join the plan.
Hegrian smiled with deep satisfaction.
Pick
Up.
What, bring the ga to Earth, generate interference power, and use it to revive a dead universe?
A senile old man’s joke. A foolish goddess’s fantasy.
That ridiculous plan ends today.
This is the right answer.
Find a new universe. Begin again.
No one knew how long the journey would take, but it was far better than being buried here.
Within the colossal Ark was the full essence of Hegrian’s faction and M??bius’s legacy. With it, a new mythos could rise in a hollow cosmos.
I am God.
God.
One who transcends law and order.
Not even the death of the universe could stop him.
Finally, the massive rear doors of the Ark began to part.
Its multi-tiered interior had room to accommodate nearly half of Eden’s citizens comfortably.
In fact, this works out perfectly.
He would be beyond the reach of that old man and those twin goddesses.
He could reign supre—undisturbed—as the highest god.
“Hahahahahaha!”
Behold.
M??bius may die, but I, the god, shall live on.
Hegrian erupted into triumphant laughter.
Flashes burst from the countless caras around him.
This day would go down in history, recorded in books to co.
And the main character of that history—was him.
“You fools, Tell and Icar! This is what happens when you cling to the dead! Pitiful! Pitiful! If only you had let go of your pride, you could have achieved immortality—!”
Thunk.
Before he could finish speaking, Hegrian felt sothing strange.
His throat... it itched.
Flash! Flash-flash!
The flurry of cara flashes intensified.
“...?”
Hegrian’s head flew into the air.
Thud.
His body, now headless, collapsed onto the platform.
From the cleanly severed neck, a fountain of blood erupted.
Drip, drip...
Blood flowed like a river, drowning the stage.
“Ah-hah, ah-hah, ahahaha...”
Tell stood with her head lowered, laughing.
In her hand—an enormous scythe.
“No, no, this isn’t enough. He can’t die from just that, right? Not a god.”
Drip. Drip-drip.
With one hand, Tell hoisted up the headless corpse.
Then—
Her other hand pierced straight into his chest.
“Ihihihi, it’s coming in.”
Veins bulged along Tell’s thin arm.
She was absorbing him.
Sothing—so thing—was flowing from Hegrian’s body into hers.
“...!”
It wasn’t blood.
It was sothing more fundantal.
The essence of godhood and spirit.
Tell was absorbing Hegrian’s very existence.
“Ufufu... ufufufufu...”
Swelling.
Parts of her body began to bulge grotesquely.
Bloated like a balloon about to burst—then barely settling again.
This was an act that should never be permitted.
To absorb another’s existence was the gravest taboo.
Not for the victim’s sake—
But because—
“Hahahaha!”
Tell’s skin tore under the pressure.
The blood that oozed out was thick, like tar.
Absorbing a being’s essence—
It ant mixing one’s data with another’s.
And that brought contamination.
A fatal side effect.
But Tell didn’t care.
She devoured Hegrian, to the last drop.
“It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m okay. I’m pure. Truly pure! No matter how much I mix—I’ll remain myself. Ihihihihi.”
Her pupils spun wildly in both directions.
Hegrian had been a god on par with Tell Icar.
The wave of interference power raging through her form shredded her being from the inside.
It’s okay.
I can do this.
Because I’m pure.
Truly—clean.
“Wh-what the hell?!”
“Restrain her! Now—restrain her!”
Nearby subordinates scrambled in panic.
Tell adjusted her grip on the massive scythe.
Slice!
With one sweeping slash, multiple heads floated into the air.
Their bodies dropped in unison.
“Ah, so easy. I should’ve just done this from the start.”
Fwoosh!
A pair of wings unfurled behind her.
From the chests of the fallen, bubbles began to rise.
Each one—a source of existence.
They tried to drift away, to flee.
“Uhehehehe...”
You can’t escape.
You can’t run.
She clenched her fist—and the essence-bubbles were sucked into her chest like a vacuum.
Not physical death—spiritual annihilation.
“Uwaaaaagh!”
“What is this?! What’s happening?!”
“Lady Tell? Lady Tell!”
Chaos erupted among the crowd.
“Stop her! Soone stop her! Call for—”
Pop!
A man, just about to call for backup via radio, had a hole punched clean through his skull.
A silenced sniper shot.
“Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate.”
Pop! Pop! Pop!
One by one, the soldiers guarding the platform dropped like puppets with their strings cut.
They had no idea where the shots were coming from—only that they were dying.
“Assimilate, assimilate, assimilate.”
She devoured the bubbles.
Tell could feel her existence swelling.
Larger. Ever larger.
“Still not enough.”
Far too little to save M??bius.
She had to devour more.
She needed more prey.
Her crazed, spiraling eyes locked onto the crowd.
They were all trying to flee down the opposite street.
“...!”
But they couldn’t.
A crimson energy barrier had appeared at so point, blocking the street.
Tell spoke.
The voice of a god, carried on waves of raw power, rang clearly across the square.
Step.
With a single step forward, a surge of energy rippled out from Tell, covering the entire city.
The airship at the center of the landing field began to ascend.
An ergency takeoff.
Tell raised a hand.
Crunch!
With a grasping motion, the massive rear thrusters crumpled like tin cans.
Boom!
The Ark, halfway into the air, dropped like a stone.
Tell crouched.
The blade of her scythe stretched out—longer, longer—
And then, a clean slice.
A ridiculous end.
The colossal airship Ark, constructed with untold capital, technology, and ti—split cleanly in two.
Yet it didn’t explode.
Though fires broke out all over its body, it still held its shape.
Behind Tell, her waiting forces stord forward.
“Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate.”
Tell muttered.
Her troops, ard with specialized assault rifles and body armor, opened fire without hesitation on the survivors inside.
Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Gunfire and screams echoed in all directions.
Dissipated essence hung in the air like mist.
“Mmm, tasty.”
Every ti her wings fluttered, essence was sucked into Tell.
A voice rang out—laced with interference power.
One of the gods aligned with Hegrian.
Whip—
A long, whip-like appendage extended from Tell’s hand.
It wrapped around the man’s neck.
Crack!
His limbs shattered.
“Please! Lady Tell! Lady Tell!”
“We were wrong! We were wrong!”
“We weren’t trying to betray you! We were just curious what you’d say!”
“S-Stop! Please!”
“The Pick
Up Project isn’t over yet!”
“We—we—!”
“rcy!”
“Please—!”
“Stop—!”
So noisy.
So, so noisy.
“Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate.”
Click!
The automated cannons stationed on the rooftops ca online.
Originally designed as the city’s final defense against disasters—
Now, their barrels turned on the citizens.
“Fire.”
TATATATATATATA!
The rotary cannons, spitting hundreds of rounds per second, unleashed hell.
Flesh was no different from scraps of at before that kind of firepower.
No screams could even be heard.
Cannons installed across the city linked ?? NоvеIight ?? (Original source) together, forming a perfect kill zone. Broken asphalt flew into the air, along with chunks of bone and torn flesh that had once been people.
“The ones in hiding—kill them all.”
The units behind Tell began their sweep.
They were creations made to obey her commands without question.
No conscience. No guilt.
“AAAGHH!”
“Please! Please spare us!”
“Lady Tell! Lady Teeeell!”
Screams and wails rose from all corners of the city.
There was nowhere to run.
Every exit had already been sealed by formless barriers.
So survivors remained hidden, but it was only a matter of ti before they were found.
“How many are left?”
Tell tried to count.
She stopped at ten thousand.
“Ah, whatever.”
It didn’t matter.
Tat-tat-tat!
Tuutatatatata!
The roars of heavy guns and assault rifles filled the city like music.
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