Chapter 215:

Chapter 215:

With a thunderous crash, Elil’s sword met Isaac’s precisely.

No matter how skilled Elil was, no ordinary sword could withstand such a blow.

From the already broken and rusted blade in Elil’s hand, a radiant light burst forth.

For that moment, the shattered, worn sword took on the ideal form of all swords.

More than a holy sword, it was the most perfect weapon imaginable.

And it was wielded by the most perfect knight in history.

“Well done.”

In that fleeting moment, Isaac heard Elil whispering in his ear.

Elil spoke to Isaac with Urbansus’s time held still. As the eternal moment resumed its flow, Elil’s words echoed.

“...You are worthy to witness my sword.”

It was a dazzling light.

In that brilliance, Isaac could see what was happening thanks to Elil’s consideration. Elil’s sword aura accelerated as it transcended a limit.

The displaced air collided, releasing intense heat. Plasma bubbles formed as the atomic nuclei collided with the blade, bursting into blinding light.

At this point, the composition of the blade was no different from the air molecules. It was fusing and beginning to explode, disintegrating and consuming everything around it, including the blade itself. The shockwave, moving faster than sound, instantly consumed and vaporized Rougeberg.

It happened in a literal instant.

An honest, horizontal slash performed in a moment that couldn’t be divided into milliseconds.

This was Elil’s sword aura and his swordsmanship.

***

*Rumble...*

Lying on the ground, Isaac looked up at the cloudy sky.

The desolate wasteland around him was unrecognizable from where Rougeberg had stood moments before. Rocks sizzled as they melted, and some had turned to glass, glinting in the aftermath.

Suddenly, rain clouds gathered, and a torrential downpour began. The intense heat had created convection currents, meeting the vapor to produce the deluge.

‘Elil’s strength is overwhelming, but isn’t this a bit much?’

Isaac understood the principles of nuclear explosions and knew that achieving the speed of light required infinite energy. Therefore, nothing could reach the speed of light.

Elil had disregarded those fundamental principles entirely. No wonder the Codex of Light, the god of physics, would cry over such feats.

Isaac realized anew that he was indeed in another world.

In life, Elil could trigger a nuclear explosion with a mere sword picked up off the ground.

And the gods who fought and defeated him were equally insane. If altering history had been impossible, one might wonder if they could have ever beaten him.

Isaac stood up.

He had survived this explosion solely because Elil had frozen his time. Being detached from time, Isaac was unaffected by the events occurring around him.

Elil sat on a melted rock fragment. Despite his unbelievable feat, the sight of him drenched in the rain had a strangely fitting and melancholic air.

As Isaac approached, Elil spoke.

“I lost.”

‘Only someone like Elil could say something so absurd with a straight face.’

Elil had the opportunity to kill Isaac five times, and with his sword aura, he could have killed him a hundred times over if he wished.

But Isaac was equally proud and unashamed.

“Then it seems I have won.”

Elil was the one who imposed restrictions on himself. So it made sense for him to acknowledge his defeat, given that he broke those restrictions.

A satisfied smile appeared on Elil’s face.

“As a reward for your victory, I will tell you the secret of this world.”

He then began to whisper the secrets of the world, life, and will.

***

Imagine you desire something deeply and passionately. You do everything in your power to achieve it, thinking about it constantly, showing passionate love and belief in it.

In the world Isaac originally came from, such effort doesn’t guarantee success.

But in this world, there is a force that responds to sincere desires.

In this world, if you wish for something hard enough, there is a power that answers.

This force has been called many names throughout history, but now it is known by one name.

Divine power.

“And in the early days, when intelligent beings were still primitive and struggled to foresee even a day or two ahead, there were those who first recognized and began to harness this power.”

When an individual desires something passionately, the power may only affect that individual. But if ten, twenty, or even hundreds and thousands of people focus their divine power on one person?

That person becomes a monster embodying the power of thousands or millions.

“These beings are known as the ancient gods, born in the earliest times.”

Whether it was the desire to escape suffering from disease, the greed for more, the awe of vast and terrifying nature, or the fear of an uncertain future... gods drew worship from all these things.

Gods became entities that allowed intelligent beings to escape from fear and dread. Now, with the power of the gods, they could be free from their fears. If they were sick, they could pray to the god of plague; if they wanted a good harvest, they could pray to the god of prosperity.

They didn’t realize that this power came from themselves and relied on the gods they created.

The most powerful desire was the wish for the continuity of today into tomorrow, the desire for safety.

The hope that the sun would rise again, that spring would follow winter, that seeds would sprout into plants, a desire for order.

This seemingly simple hope for order was actually the most powerful.

Even the ancient gods wished for this ‘order,’ creating the strongest god.

However, because this faith was ‘obvious,’ it was vague and had few followers. It was a humble faith believed only by desert shepherds until the prophet Luadin was born, giving it the name of the Codex of Light.

“And Luadin, through the wisdom whispered by the Codex of Light, illuminated a world that had been hidden in darkness. The power to wish for the continuity of tomorrow, the desire for everything to remain intact even after death... this is Urbansus.”

All life is born with the desire to live. And even after death, they wish for the world to continue and be eternal.

This desire created the afterlife known as Urbansus, which Luadin discovered.

“Everything done in the name of faith is actually done by people. People are infinite power and change. Gods are merely old thieves exploiting that power. I am no different.”

Elil spoke cynically, but Isaac felt calling them thieves was too harsh.

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A person alone has limited capability. No matter how strong Elil was, uniting the continent alone was impossible.

But if one could gather enough human power, even a monster like Elil could be born, and a place like Urbansus could be created. Although people have forgotten their origins, gods are ultimately the historical product of human passion and determination.

“But among intelligent beings, there are those with particularly strong desires.”

Imagine one person harboring the desire of ten, twenty, or more people.

Beyond that, possessing the belief and power that allows them to cut down armies, slay monsters, and even defeat angels because they believe it’s ‘only natural.’

“Such individuals are granted ‘miracles’ within their reach.”

The power to make oneself a god through self-faith.

“That is sword aura.”

–TL Notes–

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