Chapter 762

Chapter 762

Davey saw a little girl as his consciousness faded. She had quite a young appearance, but he knew she was far older than how she looked.

A hero of the Hall of Heroes.

She was called the God of Wizards in Atrellia and was believed to be the second oldest after Hercules. Considering Hercules' estimated age of ten thousand years, Odin would only be half as old.

“How pathetic,” she said, looking at Davey pitifully as she lifted the Transcendence’s Demise in her hand.

‘Wait, that’s mine. Give me back my staff,’ Davey thought.

Wack!

Without hesitation, she struck him on the head.

“Hrmph?!”

He snapped back to reality from his dazed state.

“Come to your senses. Have you forgotten who you learned magic from? Have you already forgotten everything, you stupid? Do you want me to burn you with Hellfire?”

Despite her sharp words, the one hit from her had brought Davey back to his senses.

“Ha... I can't believe you ended up like this when I sent you down to have a good life...” she mumbled bitterly as she approached him. She then hugged him with her petite figure.

“...”

“It’s alright... Everything will be alright, our youngest Davey.”

Davey couldn’t find anything to say at the warmth he felt through her words.

“What’s the big deal about Transcendence's Will? Are they some god or something?”

She then began to disappear.

"Remember. You are the greatest genius and disciple we have ever raised. Don’t you ever forget that.”

Davey felt strange and completely unfamiliar with Odin, who rarely spoke kind words to him, comforting him so calmly. Then, her body began to disappear.

“W-Wait a second!! Odin!”

“Enough. What good would it be to talk now?”

“Grand... Grandma!!”

“...”

She reappeared and approached Davey with long strides. He reflexively took a step back.

Wham!!!

“If you call me grandma one more time, I will throw you into a fire pit to burn for eternity.”

Davey nodded reflexively at her dark warning.

“Good. I saw that you also have a pretty wife, though I noticed something strange planted in her body. All I can do is give you a chance—it’s up to you to save her.”

With those words, she turned into light again and began to disappear.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute.”

Davey extended his hand toward her. She just looked at him.

“You’re not...?”

He wanted to ask how things had come to this, why she was here. There were many questions he wanted to ask, but the one that troubled Davey the most was the uneasy feeling that had crept into his mind.

“You're not going away for good, right?”

She didn’t answer him immediately. She just looked at him blankly, then said with a grin, “A dead person must stay dead.”

“Please talk in a way that makes sense. Damn it! Please tell me you're not going away for good. Say it!”

It wasn’t like Davey’s life was over. He wanted the chance to at least brag about how and what he did to survive in that damn place, and what he did to the bastards that got in his way. He wanted her to tell the folks who gave him cold looks when they found out he was a child who had no accomplishments. Actually, he used to have nothing..

She stroked his head after he crawled toward her, “Davey.”

“Please... Don’t say anything. Please.”

She giggled at his muttering.

“Why are you making a fuss now? I remember you smiling when leaving the Hall of Heroes.”

People eventually died—their souls always eventually entered the cycle of reincarnation. But even if one knew this fact and accepted it, it was still a painful truth to bear.

“All in the Hall of Heroes know that, no matter what life you live or what happens to you... all of them will think of you as their own son and younger brother. That all of them will cherish and love you.”

Aeria, only just now noticing that he had woken up, came in and grabbed his arms to stop him from suddenly leaving.

“Calm down please! The injuries all over your body are serious!”

“Could you answer me first?” he asked, holding his head. She flinched and then quietly spoke while avoiding eye contact.

“Let’s check on your physical condition first. I’ll tell you afterward.”

He asked another question. “How long have I been in bed?”

“About three days,” she replied.

She didn't say anything more until they were finished and he calmed down.

***

It had been three days since Davey had passed out. His plan to completely eradicate the Abyss had failed. When he was cornered, on the brink of death, something strange happened—an absolute wizard considered Atrellia’s God of Wizards, Odin, had appeared.

She had waved her hands at his questions, saying she only had ten seconds. In that short period, she managed to unleash massive magic that overturned the rules of the planet, changing everything. Eclipse, who had absorbed Thanatos, was swallowed up by a huge rift and disappeared. Odin had also vanished.

Of course, before she disappeared she still cast some magic on Perserque, whom Davey wanted to protect so much.

“Only helping a student on the path to discover their own solutions—that is the basis of teaching.”

As Davey stood on Asgard’s bridge in silence, Rinne came up and looked at him. Her body was full of wounds.

“Rinne.”

“Master Davey—Rinne determines that Master Davey is the only one who can fix Rinne’s body. Rinne determines that it is impossible to properly carry out missions with her current state. Rinne deems this unacceptable.”

“Who did this to you?”

She didn't say anything in response to his question. Instead, she quietly looked up at him and pointed at a display depicting a huge forest.

“Lady Perserque.”

Her words made his heart sink. When enacting such a grand plan, there was naturally an accordingly high risk of failure. This had been his first failure, and the consequences were certainly severe.

The mana output device she was pointing to displayed a large forest materialized in three-dimensional form.

In the midst of the half-destroyed forest, a silver-haired girl could be seen sleeping against a large tree. The horns sprouting from her head further highlighted her presence. Her outfit was very out of place, creating a strange atmosphere. Red eyes resembling peacock patterns hovered around her as if watching her surroundings, but it was impossible to not recognize her as Perserque.

‘Wait... So she did this to Rinne?’

“Lady Per went berserk. Rinne confirms that she was attacked when she got close. Rinne determines that if it weren’t for the recent help of the Mythical Beast King Megalodria, Rinne’s mechanical heart would have stopped working once again.”

“...”

“Additional information: In the case of the ancient dragon Eclipse, Rinne determines she was caught up in unidentified energy activity. It is impossible to analyze where she had disappeared to. However, Rinne determines she is not dead.”

“...”

“Also, an additional two hundred million people on Earth will disappear. A large-scale natural disaster will occur.”

“...”

“The Princess of the Abyss. In the case of Verdandi...”

Bang!!

The fault underneath all of this. His eyes were full of ghastly maliciousness as soon as he heard her name.

“Where is that bitch?”

Strangely enough, the lack of a way to vent his anger ended up clearing his mind.

“Currently not resisting, detained in a storage room under the bridge of Asgard.”

“...”

Davey immediately tried to leave to meet her, but Rinne grabbed his arm.

“Rinne, let go.”

“Message. An anomaly she paid to create.”

“What?”

“The person who saved you has left a message for you.”

Davey knew it had to be Odin. She was a foul-tempered, petty wizard who always seemed ready to chew him out—yet someone like her had left a message for him.

“What was the message?”

“‘Please show mercy.’”