Chapter 162 161. Who He Is (4).

"Gaze of the Divine!" Isha roared hurriedly.

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<Name: Eshwar ???>

<Age: 33>

<Race: ???>

<Skills: Horizontal slash, Vertical slash, Stab, Mana regeneration, Mana control, Aura, Devilization, Taboo, Cold resistance, Regeneration, Mana manipulation (NEW), Clock of fate (NEW).>

<Attribute: Frost (NEW).>

<Physic level: ???.>

<Stats: Strength level (?), Agility level (?), Endurance level (?), Mana level (?), Dexterity level (?), Intelligence level (?), Perception level (?)>

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"!!" Isha opened her eyes wide and stared at the white status window in front of her daze, especially the age.

His age was still the same as it was before he returned to the past! Mana manipulation was something Frostine had taught him, while the 'Clock of Fate' was something he got after he returned, and...

"What are these stats? What's going on? Why?" Then she suddenly realized something....

"How did we meet? How did, no, where did he come from?" Isha muttered as she started to think back to the time they had met. There was only a strange magical ripple that cautioned her, and when she went to see what it was, she found him inside a massive crater that made him look like an ant. That was how they met! That could mean he fell out of the sky (?).

"Huh? Where am I? Is this my life flashing before my eyes before I die?" Eshwar mumbled in daze as he too recognized that spot.

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"Cough!?" He slapped his cheek in full force and coughed out a mouthful of blood with several broken teeth, which grew back instantly.

"..... This isn't the dream? Then I regressed?" He mumbled with a lost look on his face.

"Aren't I a total cheat main character?" He grinned and jumped back to his numb feet before falling face first on the snow.

"What's going on?" Isha mumbled as she suddenly started to feel anxious.

"Something is wrong...." She mumbled.

"Eight years! I have 8 years!!" Eshwar's mumbled snapped Isha out of her trance.

"No! Eshwar! Something is wrong!!" Isha zoomed in front of him and held his shoulders, or at least she tried to; she wanted to warn him, but it was just a futile thought.

He got back up on his feet and dashed towards the location of his parents, where he found them last time, with the thought of a 'maybe.' Maybe, just maybe, they were alive at the time.

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"Ha! What did I even expect?" He mumbled as he stared at the translucent light blue crystal that held his entire family, and this time he began to carve them out more skilfully as he remained as strong as he had become in the past.

"...." Isha simply stared at him as he carved out his family members from the crystal with a nonchalant expression on his face, but he was in extreme heart-wrenching pain, which only Isha knew.

"Sniffle....uck... haa...." He stopped carving, leaned forward on the crystal, cried, and stayed like that for a while before he buried them again, and then he went to find Frostine because he wanted to thank her and yell at her to never do that again.

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He visited Frostine and managed to explain the situation before challenging her again. After the fight, he went to find the cave where he lived in the past, refined all of his techniques, and vowed that this time he would protect her. But the same future repeated itself again, but they died differently. This time too, somehow Frostine protected Eshwar again.

He went crazy and killed all of humanity very slowly and as painfully as he could. Isha, who watched everything, felt a bit bad for the humans who were getting tortured by Eshwar because he didn't use his 'Frost Devil' form and was still alive, which he felt was unfortunate. Isha wanted to beat him up for thinking like that, but because she couldn't do so yet, she continued to stare at him and watch him work harder day by day and master himself.

He would push himself to the limits and train until he would fall unconscious; this passed by for years, but even though he had grown mentally by hundreds of years, his body age had stopped after 10 years; in Isha's 'Gaze of the Divine,' his body age was...

<Age: 44>

Then he trained, fought monsters, ate them, and did it all over again until he couldn't take it any longer and killed himself with an ice axe forged with Frost magic. He threw it high into the air and dashed as he watched it fall back down, and when it reached the correct height, he stood below and let the axe strike him. He was split in half, and the earth had a huge vertical cut in it as lava was falling to the depths.

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"...." He simply stared at sky with lifeless eyes as he woke up in same spot he woke up in his previous lives.

"Eshwar...." Isha called out with tears streaming down her face. She felt a lump stuck in her throat when she called his name, but there was one change this time.

Eshwar saw a flash of a golden clock right before he opened his eyes in this life.

"Well, I guess, I'll get to torture some humans again...." Eshwar mumbled and continued to stare the bright blue sky with lifeless eyes.

"Hic....hic...." Isha was crying as she stared at the state he was in; she wanted to hug him and try to comfort him, but she couldn't. She felt helpless and useless when she couldn't do anything but stare at him dying inside.

'He never talked about any of this...' Isha thought and cried harder because 'all' the pain she thought was large seemed too insignificant compared to what he had gone through in just two lives. Even though she didn't know what was going to happen next, she 'felt' that this wouldn't be the last.

She too was lonely and had abandoned herself to isolation because she didn't like the 'gazes' she was receiving, but now as she stared at him, she thought it would have been too much if she was alone; even though she didn't like it, there were tons of people who could help her, but he...

Didn't have any.

He slowly stood back up, took a step forward, and appeared at the place his parents were. He carved them out and buried them again, but this time he turned the other way around and dashed towards the spot where the humans had built the city. There weren't any cities there yet, so he waited there for years, and as soon as he felt the same numbers of humans in the city as his past, he slaughtered them all and then rushed towards Frostine.

"Ah...." He let out a strange voice at the sight in front of him.

There was a huge dragon's skeleton there, with blood splattered all over the mountain the cave was on, and he stared at the scene with an indifferent expression, but the pain in his heart was still there, though it seemed to have lessened a little because Frostine died fighting this time, rather than protecting.

He still killed every single monster on Earth in his 'Frost Devil' form. He killed the monsters before a year because he was stronger in that form than in his human form.

"I'll be spending more time with her...next time...." He mumbled, jumped high into the sky, above the clouds, and dove down with his head facing the ground.

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