I wandered through a pure white space. It felt like I wandered endlessly.
"I’m still weak. I have a long way to go. Still... I can’t do anything on my own."
I smiled bitterly. But then I recalled Goddess, and gradually recalled the heroines one by one.
"No, who says I have to do everything on my own? I live together with the people I love. That’s what life is about."
I nodded. Everyone works hard for that, don’t they?
Suddenly, a corner of the wall shattered. The fragments seemed to converge towards the center, then instantly transformed into a passage made of light.
"Is it time?!"
A door had finally appeared. I swallowed dryly and prepared to throw myself in.
I looked back for a moment.
I saw a figure standing and waving. It might have been my imagination, but at least I felt a certain familiarity from that figure.
"Yeah, I’ll definitely win. Watch me."
I threw myself towards the passage.
My consciousness seemed to sink heavily, then I suddenly snapped awake.
"Ah...!"
When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was Aunt, pregnant and full-term. She was crying. Whether they were tears of joy or tears of sorrow.
"Son...! Heeuk."
Next, I saw Angela, collapsing as she looked at me. What, Angela was back.
"It can’t be, it can’t be! Why, whyyyy?!"
I also saw Adolf, struggling alone. Of course, I realized that he was Grant.
"The aura I felt from Grant was now coming from Adolf. Too bad, Adolf. Haa."
[The original owner gains control over the body!]
[Usage restriction due to binding is lifted!]
I instinctively gripped Dawn. The black Dawn shattered, then I saw it transform into a shining Dawn.
Immediately, Adolf drew his greatsword. Kahlum swirled around his greatsword.
"These useless nobodies... How dare they do such a thing!"
"Huh, what a funny bastard. You started it, didn’t you? Grant."
"I’ve already adapted anyway! I’ll kill you and destroy the world!"
"Prove it. I also have something left to prove to you. Show and Prove!"
It seems he intends to go all the way. Fine, I’ll go all the way too.
I gripped Dawn tightly and charged at him. Grant, too, gritted his teeth and rushed at me.
After clashing swords once, Grant took a side step. As I tried to follow his movement, he suddenly swung his greatsword horizontally.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Reverse Flow]
I countered with Reverse Flow, and thrust my sword towards his exposed chest.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Nameless Thrust]
Grant, stabbed in the chest. It was clearly a fatal wound, but he merely laughed.
"Let’s kill each other...!"
Grant, who had pushed me back with a front kick, clicked his tongue. I retreated and watched his movements.
Grant, handling the greatsword as smoothly as a one-handed sword. As I tried to deflect and counter, Grant spun around and unleashed a powerful sword strike.
"Keuk, is it a trick? It won’t work!"
I closed the distance. Grant got a step ahead of me, and unleashed a sword strike I had never seen before.
[Galahir-style Penetrating Strike - Downpour]
Grant, continuously thrusting his greatsword like a rapier. My surprise at his almost divine sword strike was only for a moment.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Pruning]
I barely managed to parry it with Pruning. Honestly, I was surprised.
He’s using a completely different sword style, isn’t he?
This time, Grant got to my flank, and powerfully swung his sword.
[Round Table Sword Style Strongest Flow - Lake Cleaver]
A blue aura settled on the black greatsword, then it rushed towards me in an instant. I gritted my teeth and gripped Dawn with both hands.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Sacred Strike]
As soon as our swords clashed, Grant’s stance changed as if by magic.
[Round Table Sword Style Strongest Flow - Lake Thrust]
A thrust this time?
I took a step back, and thrust my sword with all my might.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Nameless Thrust]
I barely managed to parry it. No, it was almost embarrassing to call it a parry.
My arm ached as if it would break at any moment. It was trembling precariously.
The impact traveled down to my legs, making it hard to even keep my balance.
"To handle that greatsword so elegantly, just what...!"
Grant sneered faintly.
"What? Surprised I’m suddenly using different sword strikes? This is why mortals are...!"
"I was surprised. That I could deal with it so well. Am I really a genius?"
"You worm...!"
Grant, gritting his teeth and imbuing his greatsword with Kahlum. Soon, he split the greatsword into two swords.
Seeing that, I pointed out.
"Hey, that might not be such a good idea."
"Shut up!"
[Lightning Aura]
Grant unleashed his Lightning Aura and charged. I, too, activated Lightning Aura and my own aura, and charged to meet him.
I saw the ground where our feet touched being pushed aside and gouged.
We thrust our swords at each other.
Grant subtly twisted his angle. I completely slid sideways and slashed at his lower body.
[Hardened Body]
The layer of Kahlum covering Grant’s body peeled off. At the same time, Grant approached as swiftly as a snake and swung his curved sword diagonally.
After raising my shield to block, I was about to stand up, but changed my mind, put my hand on the ground, and kicked him in the jaw.
As I stood up, he retreated, and laughed menacingly.
"Your enemies aren’t just me. All the connections I’ve made... all of them!"
Space shimmered behind Grant. Suddenly, people started leaping out.
Each of them exuded an absurd amount of energy and aura.
Strangely, the people who appeared were displayed in a status window.
[Decarto]
Alias/Love and Peace
Description: A named-class champ made of Chaos Memes. A genius of barriers.
[Lord]
Alias/Leader of the Thirteen Demon Moons
Description: The leader of the Thirteen Demon Moons, who revere the Shadow King. Possesses heroic strength, gaining 100 to all Stats when the sun sets.
[Désastre]
Alias/Master of Wrath
Description: An S-rank hunter of French nationality. Owner of the Demon King’s Orb ’Wrath’, a super-regenerator.
[Yoo Hye-sung]
Alias/Fallen Protagonist
Description: The protagonist of ’My Player Academia’, currently fallen. A strong individual who has reached the Heavenly Demonic Heart Realm.
[Ultiga]
Alias/Perfect Monarch
Description: The crown prince of the Heterogeneous race and an Insecter hybrid. Currently in a state of perfect awakening.
[King]
Alias/World Stopper
Description: The representative and boss of the secret society Triumph. Executes world-scale time stoppage.
"Huh, fuck."
It was incredibly grand and flashy to an absurd degree. But I wanted to diss them.
"Your personality never changes, does it? They all look evil. And it’s even a men’s bathhouse, isn’t it?"
"Deal with him."
As Grant spoke, as if giving an order, the figures who emerged from the rift charged at me.
King put his index finger to his lips and smiled. Instantly, the world’s time stopped.
"So what?"
Unfortunately, I was invincible. I immediately rushed at that guy, King, intending to slit his throat.
But then, that guy Ultiga launched a flying kick from the side.
When I blocked it with my shield, Yoo Hye-sung and Désastre appeared from the opposite flank and behind me.
"Tch...!"
I spun around and unleashed a flurry of sword strikes. Then, as they retreated, Lord appeared and delivered a high kick.
It didn’t hurt, but I was slammed into the ground. He then struck my face again, sending me flying into the air.
In that opening, that guy Decarto shouted at me.
"Love and Peace!"
Then, he spun around, and slammed his elbow into my chest.
Overwhelming energy spread in all directions, and I crashed to the ground.
"Fuck, ganging up is so damn cheap. Just like a villain."
"Villain? I am justice."
Grant considered himself justice. It was practically true madness.
Just as he was about to issue another attack command, dark energy suddenly surged from behind me.
"Eh? What is it?"
[Primordial Dark Magic - Hell Descent]
I looked back, and a barrage of beam-shaped attacks was unleashed towards Grant’s group.
[Crystallization]
The ground crystallized and enveloped them. Grant’s group immediately retreated. In the meantime, Lumina rushed in and sent Ultiga flying backward.
Besides them, everyone else I knew appeared, fully armed.
Additionally, Jawoon brought the guards and shouted with all his might.
"All forces, support the Heroes!"
It was truly the final battle. I was so moved that words came out on their own.
"Everyone...!"
The women smiled contentedly.
"Nephew, you haven’t forgotten your aunt, have you? Huhu, it’s so good to see you again♥"
"Oh my, how long was I unconscious for? How embarrassing!"
"Heheng, let’s spar. You insect bastard!"
Raising our morale, we charged towards Grant’s group. Grant rushed forward like light and clashed swords with me. A shockwave spread around us.
"Mortal...!"
"Alright, let’s have some time just for the two of us. No complaints, right?"
"Anytime!"
I clashed with Grant again. I intentionally clashed swords with him, luring him outside the territory.
"It’ll be troublesome if the territory gets destroyed!"
I lured him until we reached the vicinity of a flowing river. I then began to truly unleash my sword on Grant.
After blocking my attack, Grant clicked his tongue.
"Ha! So, you’re finally serious about fighting? Though you’ll lose everything!"
"I won’t lose anymore. Because I’ll protect it!"
My invincibility couldn’t be free from his Kahlum.
In that case, it’s evasion and attack.
If there’s no answer no matter how much I search, then a head-on breakthrough is the only answer!
We unleashed sword strikes at each other. I even used the Holy Relic’s ability to try and break Grant’s stance.
Dodging a laser beam, Grant appeared from the front, then immediately circled to my rear.
[Round Table Sword Style Strongest Flow - Singing Thunder]
A sword strike imbued with lightning, menacingly entered my opening.
"Another strange sword style... Then me too!"
I sheathed Dawn. I took a drawing stance and charged.
[Thunder Breathing First Form, Thunderclap and Flash!]
Both of us passed each other, canceling out our attacks. Then, kicking off the ground, we thrust our swords at each other with killing intent.
The battle intensified, and the fighting spread to where we were.
We exchanged dizzying blows at invisible speeds. Grant kicked off the surrounding trees, closing the distance.
"You’re quite the show-off."
I powerfully thrust my sword towards the approaching Grant. Grant blocked by crossing his two swords, then struck Dawn upwards.
Using that force, I retreated. His two swords, like a grim reaper’s scythe, moved towards my chest, then cut through the air. Regaining my balance, I launched another sword strike at Grant.
Grant, who dodged by bending his upper body, skillfully used his two swords in an off-beat rhythm. I blocked one sword with Dawn, and deflected the other with my shield.
As the sword strikes increased one by one, everything around us was indiscriminately shattered, and began to scatter as dust.
The guards who had gathered to assist, were seen watching in a daze.
"Is that a Knight Commander-level fight...?"
"It’s invisible to the eye. If we get caught in it, we’ll all die!"
"That is clearly a sword-trance that even an ordinary Hero cannot perceive."
We exchanged dizzying blows, then separated. Grant’s eyes bulged.
"This is the end."
He combined his swords back into one. The greatsword emitted a menacing light.
[Gortier True Sword Style - Spirit Sword: The King Exists for the People]
Grant brought down the sword he had powerfully raised. Even though it was clearly not within striking distance of me, he proceeded anyway.
Is he transferring the sword strike? No, that’s a technique beyond that!
"Goddess."
[The Goddess of All Things, ’Isis’, has undergone Divine Incarnation!]
[Union Time Limit: 2 minutes]
[Synchronization Rate 100%!]
The time limit had increased from before, and the synchronization rate started at 100%. I entered Divine Incarnation mode and charged at him.
"Grant’s final strike, ordinary people definitely wouldn’t be able to see it. But I can see it. Because it’s an attack that exists in the realm of transcendents, or even beyond. Like an ultimate deathblow."
A sword strike that only Grant and I could see, approached like a giant guillotine.
Even if I put up my shield, I couldn’t block it. Because it would pierce through the shield and come straight through, as if reversing causality.
Then there’s only one method left. To counter it with the same lineage.
"Final Ejaculation, Kyaaaaah!"
[Vane Severing Sword Style Ultimate - Sparrow Drop]
Sword strikes more intense than what I unleashed on Horuz that day unfolded. They split, and split further.
As if this wasn’t enough, they continued to split, attempting to cancel out Grant’s sword strike.
With a single strike from Grant, all my sword strikes vanished. Even so, I merely smiled.
"I believe. That I will win. Because I promised. Because I will fight for everyone!"
My heart pounded as if I would die at any moment. At the same time, I was excited.
An enemy incomparably stronger than before, was making me even more excited.
My sword strikes gradually canceled out Grant’s attack, then soon approached Grant. With a shocked expression still on his face, Grant began to shatter into pieces.
With an empty expression and wide eyes, he collapsed like that.
But that was only for a moment, as he soon rose with regeneration close to full recovery.
"I will never die, never!"
"No, you’re not. You’re already dead!"
I lightly kicked him between the legs with my toe. Grant’s very existence was turning into dust and disappearing.
"...What? H-how?"
"The original owner of that body cursed my parents before. His title is King, right? Plus, all the attacks until now, they’ve all accumulated damage on his soul, haven’t they? Have a good trip."
"This is a lie, it’s a lie!"
Grant was erased just as he screamed. I turned around and caught my breath.
"Show and Prove, bitch."
And so, silence fell.