Chapter 75: The end of the ********

Chapter 75: The end of the ********

Taking a deep breath I placed my hands clad in gauntlets against the giant stone door, and pushed forward.

they didn't budge.

Of fucking course they would'nt John, did you really forget that you absorbed all of the lordsouls into yourself like a goddam fatty? Alright, it was time to test the methods.

First, my favorite: Brute force.

'Transformation: Full Beast!'

I wasn't half-assing this as I pulled out all of the stops. My body grew over 3 meters tall, fur and scales started growing around my body according to the aspects I had collected. 2 sets of horns, one resembling antlers and one that resembled dragons. A long tail with bonelike protrusions, jagged beastlike teeth, 2 pairs of eyes, powerful rippling pitch-black muscles.

This was my "complete" form, mixing both the aspects I had from my dragon transformation as well as my being as the primeval human. Which resulted in this absolute monstrous form. Which was around a dozen times stronger than my "human" form. The caveat is my lack of ability to wield proper weapons and cast actual magic.

Regardless, this was the absolute peak of my brute force. But man did it hurt to maintain this for when my body is fucked up like this. Turning my pain into anger I used every ounce of strength in my monstrous form to push against the door.

Zilch.

Coughing up a glob of blood I reverted back to my human form, that was at least several hours off of my already far too limited life span. Time for option 2.

Breaking that shit down.

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Nope. Didn't work. That was a whole ass full charge armageddon blade and the thing still didn't break. Which was also another hour or several off of my life expectancy.

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I tried all I could think of, I pushed, pulled, tried to use a crowbar, used a pickaxe didn't work. I tried the Lord Vessel. I rubbed it, spat on it, pissed in it, poured my blood into it yet the damn oversized plate didn't do jack.

But then it clicked into place. The lordvessel opens the door to the kiln once it feels the presence of the 3 lord souls and then uses them as fuel. Then I just needed to mirror their presence and put enough power into the plate at the same time.

And thankfully it worked when I used armageddon blade, sunlight blade, and gravelord sword at the same time while sacrificing 99 million souls. A hefty price but not hefty enough for me. As I did so the doors opened to reveal a corridor of blinding light which I stepped onto.

Knights of the past walked by me as phantoms, I was stepping into somewhere simply beyond the confines of space and time, the epicenter of this twisted world. With calm steps, I walked down the stairs. This wasn't enough to overwhelm me.

It was my right.

Eventually, I reached the end of the corridor of light. What greeted my eyes was a world covered in ash and soot. Buildings were dilapidated. They were shaped strangely like they were melted by an explosion and then re-solidified, making jagged arches. No doubt caused by Gwyn lighting the flame. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

In the middle was a giant tower that reached up to the heavens and then burnt down to the ground. Black, charred, in ruins yet it looked still majestic. This whole place was no doubt once a majestic piece of architecture built over a thousand years to worship the flame that started everything.

Now, after Gwyn tried to relight it, it was black, charred, ruined, nearly forgotten. Isn't it ironic that in the middle is a tower?

The tower of babel.

In their hubris humanity tried building a tower to the sky to reach heaven and god. And in response, it was struck down by lightning and burnt down.

In their cowardice the gods tried to replicate the first flame, burning down the entirety of Izalith and turning many into demons. In that same cowardice, Gwyn tried lighting the flame again. And this was the result immediately after.

A giant altar built to the flame of the beginning now stood at the end of time. An omen to the end amid the yellow dying sky.

*Sigh* What the fuck am I on about, it isn't the time for philosophy. It is time to kick gum and chew ass.

And I am all out of ass.

My silent walk turned into a confident stride as I firmly approached the kiln of the first flame itself. As I did so some foolish black knights tried to stop me. But before they could even get within ten meters of me they all got turned into crushed tin cans from gravity being multiplied to 100 fold. And those unfortunate enough to not get their height vastly readjusted got turned into little less than smithereens by a wave of force.

I didn't even put conscious effort into killing them, I was mostly focused on the scenery. With my powers currently, Black Knights were barely a little more threatening than the average jerky fellow. Disregarding them I strode forward.

It is like a completely different world. A yellow sky obscured by ash. Physically impossible structures. Storms of ash sweep up.

Time and space were completely irregular here. This was the end of the world where time and space starts collapsing. The death of the world and its coffin.

Shut up philosopher, it is time to turn Gwyn into Gwyn'nt.

I walked down flights and flights of stairs as I slowly crept toward to dilapidated tower in the middle of all of this. In front of the entrance of the kiln was a giant wall of fog. One that I had become intimately familiar with over my time in lordran. Closing my eyes I brought one hand up to the fog and dispersed it.

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Before I could question everything the normal screen of the system and the message shown before me made me do something inconceivable even in this situation. Something I hadn't been able to do in a long long time.

"Ha, ha."

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"Hahahahah."

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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHA!"

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Tutorial Complete!

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But before my hysteria could ensue the message was interrupted.

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ERROR: CAN'T COMPLETE TUTORIAL

CRITICAL CONDITION DETECTED.

SEARCHING FOR SOLUTION...

FIX: TEMPORARILY SEALING ************

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Suddenly I felt like my entire soul was sucked out of me. All of my senses started to shut down. Yet my sheer indignation allowed me to see the last message before passing out.

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INITIATING EMERGENCY WORLD TRAVEL

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"You motherfu-"

Before I could get the words out of my mouth.

Everything went black.

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