Chapter 790

Chapter 790

[Gaaa!! You... You bastard!]

For some reason, the medium that transmitted power to Destruction on Earth began to falter. Davey wondered if Rinne had taken care of them all. Or maybe that Goddess Freyja had stepped forward.

According to Destruction, Rinne alone couldn't destroy them all. Davey thought about it, but then realized the answer was simple.

‘A hero... was summoned down to Earth,’ he thought.

And that hero destroyed the source that had allowed Destruction to endure for so long.

Other heroes who had appeared so far had disappeared after about ten seconds at most, but Davey figured that the hero on Earth now must be different. In any case, the first of the three gods who had been interfering with his life plan for ten thousand years was going to disappear.

[Grrr... Grrr...]

Davey made eye contact with Destruction, who looked up at him while making blood-boiling sounds with an eerie, red gaze.

“Let’s go, it won’t take long.”

The black slime-like fragments were shaking with fleeting life and tried to climb up Davey's hand, but then were repeatedly pushed back by an intangible force.

This was a battle that had lasted for ten thousand years—since ancient times. Neltarid, despite becoming a god, was consumed by the power of destruction and had fallen into madness.

Thanatos, once a symbol of sleep and dreams, was in charge of the twilight of the Goddess Freyja and ruled the new world while she rested. But she was abandoned by the Goddess Freyja, and in her extreme hatred and anger, she created the Abyss—a distorted space born of her rage.

And finally, there was the Origin's Covenant—the origin of it all. Freyja was a being of order—the absolute law that governed the world.

The creatures had been affected by the war of the inherently unkillable gods, and they still continued to fight amidst the war. Now, one of those three gods would finally disappear once and for all.

At the same time, the pitch-black sword that had pierced Davey's body slowly dispersed and dissipated. All the influence and power of the Neltarid side of destruction began to disappear.

God's Twilight.

Davey was witnessing it with his own eyes.

As Destruction disappeared, leaving only their original human body behind, they widened their eyes. Then they pulled Davey while holding on to their sword.

[The body... is destroyed. It's your victory.]

Surprisingly, Destruction didn’t struggle in its final moments and stopped resisting. However...

[But don't forget. Your fate that I saw before I fell...]

He looked up at Davey with a sad expression.

[There was no such thing as harmony.]

“...”

[Hehehehe, you pitiful creature. Did you think you were different from us? In the end, you’re abandoned just like the rest of us.]

What they meant by “the same” was simple.

They were all getting stabbed in the back. After they were used, they would be discarded.

Neltarid and Thanatos were both created by Goddess Freyja, but she had abandoned them, leaving them to this fate. The reason Neltarid and Thanatos started the war in the first place was because Goddess Freyja wanted to eliminate them for some unknown reason.

[Freyja will erase you after she’s done with Thanatos and I who have been rebelling against her. Hehehe... Don’t you know already? Haven’t you noticed that the ones who’ve helped you grow are already disappearing?]

Davey remained silent at their words.

Dokgo Jun the Heavenly Destroyer. Demon God Odin. The other heroes who he presumed to be on Earth right now. He realized that many heroes were disappearing before he knew it. They were disappearing one by one under the pretext of helping him. However, if this whole situation was caused by her cleaning as Destruction was saying, Goddess Freyja’s final target would be him.

Even though Goddess Freyja couldn’t easily eliminate other beings, Davey was someone that she could erase if she put her mind to it. In fact, she had even attempted to get rid of him using some form of divine punishment at one point. If all of that was just an act... Davey had nothing left to say.

Even the curse of the Death Lord, which had saved him from countless dangers, as well as the rejection of fate, only made this more believable.

In the end, Goddess Freyja created beings to help her then planned to erase them once they had served their purpose. The problem was that the god, driven by a desire for life, rejected death and rebelled against her plans. Since it wasn’t easy to erase a god of the beginning or those who became gods, Davey figured she would be having a headache. So, she chose beings that she could erase at any time—making Davey an obvious choice.

“I suppose that’s plausible.”

Just as Neltarid said, Thanatos was ultimately a creation of the Goddess Freyja as well. She, who was basically their creator, could not destroy Thanatos.

Or perhaps, she wasn’t trying to.

- I will protect you as much as I can so that Goddess Freyja can’t do anything to you. But before that... we need to find someone who can heal your body. You were given a divine punishment. Even though it came from a half-being, they left poison in your body.

"So? What... sigh... are you planning to do?”

Davey knew he would recover over time anyway, but it seemed like they didn't want to waste a single second in such a dire situation.

- I'll show you a miracle. Have a nice dream.

As he sat on the ground, trying to recover, he heard a mysterious rustling noise. Before he knew it, someone was hurriedly running up to him while shouting.

[!!]

It seemed like they were shouting something, but his hearing was off, possibly damaged, and the sound had only just slowly begun to come back. He couldn't comprehend the words clearly.

Davey then noticed a girl in a black suit standing in front of him. He lifted his head, his expression blank. His vision was much blurrier than he had expected; he couldn't even tell who was in front of him.

[Oh goodness!! Your condition is even more severe than I thought!!]

‘What do you mean ‘severe?’ I just need to wait it out,’ Davey thought.

But Davey couldn’t help but chuckle at the familiar voice that was making such a fuss.

[Descendant, there’s no time! Connect with him! I will infuse the mana myself!]

"Really? Then wouldn’t you disappear?!”

[That’s what I thought too, but I don’t think that’s the case!]

Hearing the man's urgent words, the blonde girl quickly hugged Davey. The wet blood from his body got on her black suit, but she didn't care.

His vision began to clear. The person who hugged him was no other than Illyna, a girl who shouldn’t even be on Earth.

‘Am I seeing things?’ Davey thought.

He was surprised at the sight of the possessed figure floating behind her. The ghostly figure was Perserque's father, the original owner of Caldeiras—Sword God Ares.

‘This must be a dream,’ Davey thought to himself in a daze, feeling somewhat whimsical.

Illyna here hugging him with tears streaming down her face, Aeres quickly giving him strength through her—this duo didn't make sense.

Neltarid said they would show him a miracle, and it seemed like they were talking about this dream.

‘This must be a dream... but how do I wake up from it?’

Davey slowly moved his weakened hands.

And then,

Crack! Crack!

“Kyaaa!!??”

He suddenly massaged her whole body, as he always had. As expected, Illyna de Palan—even in dreams—felt nice...

"Y-You?!”

Illyna, taken aback, glared at him with a face full of tears.

“Is that all you can think of when you see me, even when you’re on the verge of death?! Huh?! Alright, I’m also going to do what I feel like then!”

As his vision gradually cleared, Davey reached out to massage her shoulders, trying to ease her tension, but then he froze. Suddenly, she rushed toward him, hugged him, and eventually even kissed him. Along with the familiar yet strange sensation, a surge of mana began to flow into him through her lips.

‘What... is this...?’