Death
For the past hour and a half, Sung had been begging for it just to escape the pain he was going through.
While he had known that it was going to hurt even before he started the whole process, not even in his wildest dreams could he have properly estimated the sheer amount of pain he was going to go through.
But despite this, he endured it all for the sake of his mother and revenge.
And he could feel that he was getting closer; he could feel his previously weak soul getting stronger from all the life force he was absorbing.
And now, in just a few seconds, he could tell that he'll take the first step towards accomplishing his dream.
His system had promised him that once all this was over, he'd be reborn with the legendary Tier V divine aspect.
Throughout history, there has only been one other divine aspect, and he has become the most famous and well-known god.
Well, that was assuming you excluded the two other new divine aspects born in the last decade.
Sung didn't know just what could have possibly caused the birth of two divine aspect users when there hadn't been one in multiple millenials now.
But he didn't really care; once he was done with his revenge, he planned to kill both of them.
After all, how can there be three potential gods at the same time in the mortal world?
But he was getting ahead of himself; he knew that his party was probably going to become a life force for him to absorb.
He felt bad for them, but he quickly got rid of the guilt once he remembered everything he would gain from this.
'You guys would die for a good cause,' he thought.
He wasn't sure about what was going on outside, but the system assured him that he'd be protected during the process, and all he needed to do was go through the agonising pain for a few more minutes, and his life would completely change.
Sung was sure that the world was on his side and that nothing would go wrong.
**
"It's finally time to pay for your sins," William muttered as he stared at the man lying on an altar while being protected by a barrier.
The more William stared at him, the more he started losing his sense of reasoning as an understandable rage started consuming him.
It was reminding him about everything he had gone through because of Sung.
He had almost died.
How his whole party that he promised to protect almost died.
How the miners he said he would protect died.
All because of one man's stupidity, just because he had been tricked by an evil god.
And he was now assisting in the descension of the said god.
William didn't even think for a second that if the evil God managed to descend, anyone could stop him.
His personal grudge aside, the whole world was being threatened here.
William was sure that Sung was probably just desperate and thought this was his moment to turn his life around, but in reality, all he was doing was sacrificing his soul to destroy the whole world.
In hindsight, for a sane man, it should be obvious that no actual God would randomly change the aspect of a nobody without any nefarious intentions or some other agenda.
But Sung was probably blinded by desperation and acted rashly by accepting the offer.
It was funny to William how he wanted to make fun of Sung for his stupidity, and yet he too was similar to him in his past life as Naoya when his parents died.
If that version of him were placed in Sung's position, he probably would have done the same thing.
But thinking about what ifs was useless, and the only thing that mattered was reality, and even after considering all of that, it didn't change the fact that William was no longer the man he once was and that him and his party almost got killed due to Sung's betrayal and stupidity.
He made a mistake and had to repent by dying.
Speaking of which, his spell was ready.
In his palm now rested a marble-sized, spinning blue ball of fire.
This was a spell William had been working on for months now but had only completed after gaining [Master of Fire].
This spell was called (Condensed Infernal Doom) Read new chapters at m_v-l'e|m,p| y- r
Unlike most other fire spells, which were very inefficient in terms of mana and total destructive potential due to their nature of them spreading too much,.
This spell was extremely efficient in terms of mana, and despite this, William overloaded it with mana, and it was extremely condensed into a single marble-sized ball.
And the whole spinning motion added extreme armour and barrier-piercing capabilities to the spell.
An easy way to understand the spell would be to call it a grenade in the form of a bullet meant to kill whoever William aimed it at, regardless of whatever defence they had or used.
William was sure that the evil God must have spared no effort to create the strongest barrier possible for his descent. Searᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
Which is why William was also not pulling any punches and used his strongest lethal spell.
William made a finger-gun motion with his hands, and the spinning ball of fire rested near his finger tips.
And after readying his aim, he finally launched it as he muttered.
"Bang"
**
I know I might have made Volume 2 a bit too long for some of you guys when you only really care about the neutral continent and the Academy arc.
But don't worry, it was all important for the plot and future events. I just hope you guys enjoyed it.
And fear not, volume two will be ending very soon, and after that, we just need to do a few things on the neutral continent, and we can finally have the long-awaited academy arc.
And don't worry, I promise to try my best to make the arc worth all the buildup and hype, so just keep reading, please.