Chapter 418: My dream was to... Part-2.

Chapter 418: My dream was to... Part-2.



A stormy night.

"Hey, where is Neo? There's a massive storm going on outside the fortress, and he isn't in the fortress..."

With a worried look on his face, Ashtel questioned the fellow soldiers, but none of them knew where Neo was.

In search of Neo, Ashtel reached the rooftop again, but Neo was nowhere to be found.

"Where the heck did he go? tch such a pain in the a*s, our squad will have to go on patrol early in the morning tomorrow, and he's gone missing-"

"Hmm? What's that..."

Suddenly Ashtel noticed a familiar figure on the training grounds.

"D-don't tell me, he's training so late in night?"

Ashtel rushed down to the training ground, and sure enough, Neo was there; he was training.

"Oi! Neo! We have to get up early in the morning! Why are you still here in the training grounds?"

Neo gritted his teeth after hearing Ashtel's voice and replied in an irritated tone,

"It has nothing to do with you! I am training! I am training to become stronger! I won't be outdone by the likes of you, Ashtel!"

Lately, Ashtel had started to show his talents; after just a few months of becoming an awakener, Ashtel won people's admiration with his strength.

Although he was still an idiot who never knew how to make proper plans for combat and always liked to charge head-on into enemy groups, he was still winning various battles.

Ashtel had already started to become better than Neo.

Neo's intuition told him that if he doesn't work hard now, Ashtel will leave him behind in dust, and his dream of becoming completely free from the shackles of the world will not come true.

"Oh! So you are training to become better no matter if there's a storm or rain? Y-you are quite the hard worker, Neo..."

Neo got irritated by those words and shouted at Ashtel,

"If you are done staring, then p*ss off from here!"

Ashtel did leave the training grounds at those words, but at some point, a look of

determination had appeared in his eyes.

'Neo is training so late in the night; he's working so hard to achieve his dreams; he wants to become strong, end the battles, and make everyone free from this pointless war...'

'I should also try my best...'

Neo wanted to become better than Ashtel; thus, he was training day and night for it, but he didn't know that his actions had a complete opposite effect.

Ashtel used to admire Neo from the very start.

Ashtel liked the fact that Neo was such a confident and smart person; he liked the fact that Neo could stand up to others for his dreams and how he works hard to achieve his dreams.

In truth, Neo was the biggest source of inspiration for the future strongest man.

Neo and Ashtel were in the same squad, and Neo was working super hard to become strong; thus, Ashtel didn't slack off either.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He learned to be confident from Neo; he learned to fight for his dreams and his existence from Neo.

In truth, it had all started with Neo.

Neo was indeed a selfish and arrogant person, but his never-wavering thirst to achieve his dream was a great source of motivation for those around him.

'Sigh... I remember it all... From the start, my dream was to be like you, Neo Aldif...'

The smile on Ashtel's face was filled with sadness.

Neo was the person who taught Ashtel how important a dream is in your life. He was the person who taught Ashtel that he needed to fight for his dreams.

'My dream was to create peace for humanity; I wanted to free everyone from wars...'

'So that no other children will have to be separated from his parents and no other innocent kid will have to sacrifice their youth like us anymore for the sake of war...'

'I know, I know, I was naïve... I am still so useless and such an idiot... Even with all that power, what have I ever achieved in life, I have no friends; I couldn't protect my wife either...'

'Demi-god? I am just a pathetic useless sh*t, just like you said, Neo...'

Ashtel glanced at Neo, who was laughing like a manic.

"You have noticed it, right, Neo? For the past few hours, I was already running out of mana...

And with you keeping an eye, I can't use a mana recovery potion either..."

"So yeah... I had to make a plan in the end... Thank you, Neo Aldif... You have taught me a lot of things in life, and at the end of it all, you also taught me how to make plans too..."

"You really are my greatest benefactor..."

From the start of the battle to now, Neo had complete control over mana, so it was impossible

that any of Ashtel's attacks could ever land on him.

Moreover, even if any of the attacks landed, Neo was blessed with immense amounts of mana; he can easily use the 'Healing Element' and heal himself to full health again. Ashtel, on the other hand, was under several disadvantages; not only was he was running out

of mana at an extremely fast speed.

Using the blessing of the world and the world authority both at the same time again and again was putting immense burden on his mind.

Although he's indeed strong, he doesn't have a legendary technique after all. There were just too many odds stacked against him.

But Ashtel isn't called the strongest just because of his techniques and world authorities.

He's become the strongest because he kept charging head-on into battles that were disadvantageous for him and still made it out alive as a victor by adapting to every plan the

enemy used against him.

Overcoming hurdles that seem impossible from others's perspectives, shining a torch of light

in darkness, and creating hope for others when everything's in despair.

That's what it means to be the 'Strongest'.

Ashtel raised his finger and pointed it towards the sky. A smirk appeared on his face as all the shards of his world's blessing's shiel started to shine at his words.

As if time had stopped in that instant, everything became completely still.

A sensation of absolute dread and terror spread in every direction, and even the void started

to tremble as if it were also in fear of what was about to happen.

[Strings of Life and Strings of Fatality!]

[Null, Vold, and beyond Totality!] [Beyond the realm of Existence and Reality!]

With a look of sadness on his face, Ashtel did what no one had done before; with his final

attack, he achieved the pinnacle and proved his existence as the greatest and strongest.

"Farewell, my friend... and my dream..." [Ultimate Technique: Absolute Singularity!]