
A few hours have passed, I continue to linger in grief. I'm trying to get together a friend of mine I knew while in the labyrinth. They have turned into soul cores, even the piles of corpses I made before, are now piles of soul cores so it is impossible for me to tell which one belongs to my friend and not.
"I can't find Anastasia and the others. However, at least I've grasped the core of your soul, Priscilla."
Rigel said, smiling sadly.
Priscilla's soul core is beautiful. The color is different from the core of the soul in general. His is easy red, although it is perfectly sized to be a necklace, but I can feel a huge amount of magic energy coming from him.
"I'll keep this relic of yours no matter what. Then, it's just now dealing with the son of a bitch who made all this happen."
I stared at the direction where Azartooth and Satan were watching from a distance. They looked back at me, Azartooth had a gentle smile on his lips. However, for now, her smile was just a provocation to me.
"Shhh~ huuhh~."
I take a breath and breathe it out slowly. Then, my body was seen flashing and as if teleporting to where Azartooth was. I stretched out my right hand and used Void to attack this god fucker.
Azartooth was only silent when my attack came because Satan made his body a living shield.
"This kid!"
Satan's outstretched arm was crushed by my attack, he clicked his tongue in annoyance. I immediately retreated and took a few meters away from him.
"You motherfucker! You said they weren't human!"
Rigel said furiously.
"I didn't fool you. They are souls, not human beings. They can have such a form because the soul core acts as a support to accommodate the existence of the soul itself."
Azartooth said, a smile disappearing from his lips.
"Then why, why are you—"
Azartooth cuts before I can finish my word.
"You delivered them from the bondage that bound them. To be free from the labyrinth, they did not have to conquer the 100 Floors, they only needed to break away from the soul core that was holding them back. Later on, that soul core would only take away the power from the soul occupying the soul core."
Azartooth.
"So, our goal of conquering the labyrinth and being free is just nonsense?!"
Rigel said furiously.
"It's not a lie."
Satan cut.
"When people reach the 100th floor and confront me, I will gladly lift their souls from the soul core that binds them. We just want that soul core to strengthen the key we keep. We don't need their souls."
Satan.
"We purposely made you fight with them to free their souls, take a good look up there."
Azartooth said as he pointed to the sky.
I reflexively followed the direction in which he pointed and as I watched him, my tears that should have dried up started to fall again.
"Priscilla, Mirai, Anastasia and Braund! You guys okay?!"
Ask Rigel while crying.
"Yeah, I thought you were a strong man at first. But you're just a whiny boke."
Braund.
Everyone was above the heavens, perhaps more precisely their souls. In fact, the first soul I took when I came to the labyrinth was there.
"Thank you for keeping your promise to take me to the 100th floor, Rigel."
Dandan.
"Is it really painful to be left behind by a beautiful girl like me, Rigel?"
Priscilla said with a mocking smile.
I didn't reply to his words. I just bowed my head and wiped my tears and slowly I looked again at them, my family, the Region guild. I mustered all I could for no tears in our Last farewell, perhaps for eternity.
"No, I'm just frustrated because the loli boy made me feel his smelly jigong."
Said Rigel with a big smile.
"Huh?! Was my previous kiss disgusting?!"
Priscilla said angrily.
He quickly turned his expression into a smile. Beside her Mirai and Anastasia also smiled gently at me.
"Thank you, Rigel. For having freed us from the bondage that binds us."
Anastasia.
"Then it's farewell, yes. I would love to have a one-on-one duel with you."
Mirai said while sighing.
"Just calm. We will do that one day, somewhere in the future. Until that day comes, I will create a world of peace, where you will reincarnate and walk your feet again in the world."
Rigel.
Everyone smiles at my words. Relax Rigel, no tears, this will be the last time you see them!
"Yes! Create a world full of beautiful girls, boys. So, when I reincarnate, I can make a harem with a lot of pretty girls in it, Hahahaha."
Braund said with a laugh.
"Yes. I wish you weren't born ugly, Braund."
Rigel said, his voice began to tremble.
"You said you really hurt me just because you're a little handsome, kid."
Braund said with a smile.
"Yes, yeah. I'm sorry, Leywin."
Rigel.
"Finally you want to call me by my real name."
Braund.
Come on, in a minute, Rigel. Don't let the dam of water you've created just spill! Don't decorate this parting with tears.
As I continued to strengthen myself to hold back the rebellious tears to come out, Priscilla came down to me, she was currently in her beautiful and charming adult form. Then, Priscilla hugged me but I could feel nothing but the coldness of a soul's transparent body.
"Thank you for releasing us Rigel. Remember this, Rigel. We will always be behind you to push yourself forward and support you. Don't you ever think that you're alone, we'll always be there for you. No matter what path you choose, as long as you achieve the results you want then it's fine. Me, we will always be with you. I'm. Love you, Rigel. Well, then, this is the end,"
Slowly, the figure of Priscilla and the person who came from the labyrinth began to fly away and her body started to disappear.
"Don't forget what I said just now, then don't ever forget me, the girl who gave you her first kiss and you refused her love. See you in the next life, I hope to be your wife in the new."
Priscilla.
His smiling figure began to disappear as if it had never existed. His soul core that was within my grasp began to blink as if he was telling me that I would be fine.
"We will meet again."
Rigel murmured, his tears began to drip again.
I wiped all my tears and calmed myself down again. It didn't take me long to do it. Azartooth and Satan just smiled and somehow they looked very sorry to me.
"So, what should I do next?"
Ask Rigel.
"none. Your training has finished here. You're way beyond my expectations, the key you're using is actually the power of nothing."
Azartooth.
So I remember what he said that I would only receive his power if I deserved it. So whether or not it refers to a key that chose me.
Ask Rigel.
"Yes, I'll bring you back soon. However, I advise you not to rely too much on the strength in your right arm. In the world of life, you will feel side effects that are even more terrible than when you use a series of curses. Use that power only when circumstances almost kill you."
Azartooth said seriously.
I nodded in response. Finally, the day I will return. I have not forgotten what you have done to me, Takatsumi. You ended my life and you tried to take Tirith away from me.
Then, I will manifest my word that I will rise from the land of death and beat you up!
"Finally, the time has come."
"I've been waiting a long time for this, you know."
"Yo, long time no see you all."
The three people I had once expected appeared from the sky and approached us. Beelzeebub, Azazel, and Astaroth.
"You guys, what are you doing here?"
My toot.
Oh yea. I just saw Astaroth this time because he sacrificed his own soul core and ran away from his job of guarding the key.
"Of course to perform your resurrection ritual."
Azazel.
The five of them formed a circle with me in the middle. The blue-colored and magic-circle-shaped light peaked as they emitted a sound similar to singing.
"Eventually everyone has gathered. Now, my friend the figure who will bring about great change has been chosen. So sing your hope! The realm of life would shake because of this, due to the singing of the gods, God Requiem!"
On EarthLand, thunderstorms, hurricanes and earthquakes occur all over the world. Lightning raged in the sky and made everyone curious.
"What the hell is going on?"
Takumi.
Not only Takumi, the other heroes are also as good as Takumi.
"Here, nature looks like it's celebrating something."
Yuri.
"Glow the stone of prophecy, shine the abyss of darkness, shine the world! Today and now too. Make the whole world tremble to the nirvana of the gods. Make everything in the world vibrate because of the birth of someone who will bring about great change."
Said Azartooth, chanting a spell.
In the demon kingdom, the demon pillars were gathered in one place. It was a rare sight to find the scattered demon pillars able to meet like this.
"What'sthis? Is the world doomsday?"
Leviathan.
"Where could that be stupid. If not wrong this—"
Diablo was cut off by the strongest demon pillar.
"This is a song of hope from the gods, God Requiem."
Zenos.
All the demon pillars looked towards Zenos simultaneously due to reflexes.
"It is rare that you will leave the door where Lucifer fell asleep, Zenos."
Dante.
"Yes. I felt a strange turmoil with nature and apparently because of this. You prepare, lest the same fate as the Behemoth befall you. Something big is about to start."
Zenos.
"When you come back to life, gather as many troops as you can, Rigel. You're gonna need it because Ragnarok is a war on a large scale, not an individual."
Satan.
"You also must not be satisfied with your present strength, you must continue to grow stronger if you want to protect the people you love."
Azazel.
I just nodded silently and planted their words inside my head.
"With this, all traces we leave behind will be wiped out. We'll always be watching you, hero."
Astaroth.
"Don't die right away after your hard-earned life is revived huh."
Beelzeebub.
I still want to beat up this brat of no manners!
Then, as the chants of the gods became more and more clear to me, my body began to shine because of the awakening light I had never seen before. I tightly grasped Priscilla's soul core in my hand.
"I'll let you have that elf's soul core. However, every soul core that is in your infertory and this place will be used for your resurrection."
Azartooth.
"Thank you, Dad."
Rigel.
Azartooth said that his son's soul was in my soul as well. Maybe this is the word that his son's soul wants to say in my soul. Well, it wouldn't hurt for me to say that as a thank you for helping me become strong and bring me back to life.
"Yes, be careful of my son, Antares."
Azartooth said in tears.
Then, Azartooth and the four other princes muttered the resurrection spell simultaneously as the chanting of the gods, God Requiem ended.
"Resurrection!"
"Finally, I'll see my wife, Athena."
Azartooth.
"Then I'm gone!"
Rigel.
A blue light descended from the sky and rained down on my body and brought my soul back to where my physical body was, a boundless abyss.
My physical body floated out from the bottomless abyss. My head, legs and hands were waving as if only my chest was moving up. Static streams of electricity flowed into my still lifeless body, then
Bang out!
A loud blow from the blue-colored light rained down on my dead, breathing-free physical body. Slowly, my black hair began to whiten like gray hair but not because of old age, the wounds that had previously been on my body had been restored. The muscle muscles in my body began to form and in my left hand, there was a fake metal arm that I had brought from the realm of death.
My body that was lying down floated up started to turn around and stand up. Then, as my bare feet stepped on the cold, hard ground that I had not felt for a long time, I opened my right eye that was shining blue in the midst of a chaotic realm.
"I have returned from the dead and I will use this world."
Rigel.
I only wear pants that cover my body. Ahh, now I can clearly distinguish the feeling of having a physical body by not.
I checked my infertory and checked whether the monster soul core I had was still there or not.
"Even Arch Licht's soul core and Dandan's are also missing."
Rigel.
However, there is one pink soul core left in my infertory, it is Priscilla's soul core. I'm grateful this thing isn't missing.
"Well, now let's find out what's been going on for the past year."
I walked into the forest to go to a distant place, Britannia.