Chapter 400: The Breakout [Part 3]

Chapter 400: The Breakout [Part 3]



Northern could have sworn he was already following the pathway and was sure that the murals were the last journey of the Chaos Prince.

Although he didn't quite see the end, he assumed that whatever end the Chaos Prince met was at that temple, escorted by those maidens.

The reason for that assumption was because that was where the Vestige of the Chaos Prince was found.

Moreover, an entire statue of him was built in the place.

'I thought that was the last timeline... was I wrong?'

The Tower didn't exclusively record anything pertaining to the Chaos Prince's death.

It just mentioned his magnificent deed of seeking out the Void. After the Chaos Prince merged with Void, his downfall started.

Fagnur had written that the Chaos Prince began to change.

But nothing was there about his death and what led to it.

Northern, having read the mural, thought that the Chaos Prince died after splitting the sun. He was killed by the Sun God, or in this case, whatever Origin was attributed to the sun.

But what Koll was explaining to him now scattered all he knew and pointed in another direction.

Moreover, Northern could understand the gravity of a Tyrant becoming an Origin.

'It's like a demon becoming an angel...'

That was the closest description he could find for it. But it wasn't exactly the same thing.

These were concepts of beings that were worlds apart from each other. However, he used this explanation for his own easy understanding.

'He mentioned Sura, they must all be interconnected. It sounds like he had done a very delicate and meticulous job planning and getting to this point. And all of us humans were just being used as his pawns...'

Something else occurred to him.

'He said someone tampered with the rift. I didn't want to think that four rifts appearing simultaneously just happened to be a coincidence. If indeed the rifts were tampered with, then I believed the person that tampered with it was none other than Rughsbourgh himself. And the Luinngard Empire has something to do with it.'

He ground his teeth furiously. 'Seriously, what is really going on here?'

These series of events only made his anger for Rughsbourgh burn fiercer.

'That crappy thing for a human.'

Kid Koll continued, "I have done you a duly good, explaining things to you. Now, how about we end things here so I can be there to escort my master back to the world."

Northern stayed silent after Koll spoke. Then, after a couple of beats, he washed his hand over his face and said:

"I'm very sorry, Koll. I think what you are trying to do is a noble thing. Nothing concerns me with your master. If anything, I really do hope that you actually rescue your master. Even though I don't really follow the part where he swallowed his own son. But hey, who am I to judge anyone? Even I have done bad things to the government at a time, and I got served my punishment.

"However, the sad thing about all of this is the part where it involves some certain people. Not all of these people do I even care about. But there are some of them whom I feel genuinely care about me, and I don't have a lot of friends like that. So...."

He paused and looked at Kid Koll seriously.

"I'm very sorry, Koll, but it seems I will have to stop you. I can't lose my people. No hard feelings, alright."

The boy frowned first, his eyes went out of focus, then he said with a little grunt,

"If you want to stop me, then go ahead and do it. Why the hell are you giving me your human friendship speech about it?"

Northern shrugged and smiled widely, closing his eyes.

"I just wanted to make sure there's no hard feelings. I might not have been able to take you on alone before, but I tell you, things have changed a thousand times since that time."