Book 1 Chapter 817

817.

'Now is the chance.'

Nyx watched the battle between Kyle and Erebus, trying to quickly escape the battlefield.

Extinction must be avoided.

Somehow, she must continue her existence and achieve her ultimate desire.

The moment Nyx thought that.

Flash- Kwa-ga-ga-ga-gang-!

Beams of light poured down from the sky like spears.

Nyx's face hardened as she saw the spears of light impaling themselves around her, as if to surround her.

Thump- Thump-

And she looked towards where the sound of footsteps was coming from.

Footsteps that sounded unusually loud.

For a moment, the surroundings seemed to be engulfed in silence.

A beautiful appearance that transcends a goddess.

A presence that seems to overwhelm the world.

"What are you?"

"The King of Wisdom, Licinas."

"Ah! So you are the dragon whom the gods bestowed the title of King of the World upon."

Nyx smiled broadly.

"Did you come to help your ally? If so, wouldn't blocking me be wrong?"

"No."

Licinas shook her head.

"I came to subjugate you."

Nyx's eyes twitched.

"The most threatening thing here right now isn't me, but that abomination, isn't it?"

"So I brought someone suitable to handle it, didn't I? The sole natural enemy of the evil god."

"Ha. To think the gods call you the King of Wisdom… Truly utterly foolish and stupid."

Nyx made a dumbfounded expression.

"What could that half-corpse possibly do?"

A sneer appeared on Nyx's face.

Half-corpse.

It was true.

"It seems your illusion also made him forget the pain. That Hero of the Beginning will soon reveal his limits. He won't last long."

Kyle, who had descended in this era, was Kyle at the end of the final chapter, right after subjugating Erebus.

At the end of that desperate battle, Kyle subjugated Erebus.

But as a price, Kyle lost his life.

He didn't just die because the injuries to his body reached their extreme.

It was because he had sustained injuries beyond the point of recovery.

The unquenchable flame of calamity.

That flame still burned Kyle's body.

Licinas's healing magic could not cure it.

'No, there's probably no one in this world who can heal those wounds.'

The most Licinas could do was continuously restore Kyle's dwindling stamina and alleviate his pain with illusion magic.

It was not a perfect recovery.

It was merely a shallow trick to help him endure.

But…

"So what?"

"What did you say?"

"Who are you to judge Kyle's limits?"

Licinas's eyes flashed.

"He won't last long? Nonsense!"

She knew better than anyone.

That man would never give up.

She believed more than anyone.

He would perform a miracle that would turn the impossible into possible.

Because…

"Kyle is the Beginning!"

Overcoming the End is that man's destiny.

So what she had to do was set.

"I will stop you."

"Ha! To think such a foolish being is revered as the world's savior! Erebus will burn everything and turn it to ashes without a trace, but I'm different! An eternally lasting world! Why don't you understand that the flame of calamity is more harmful than I am? My priority isn't…"

"I don't care about a world that's already ended!"

Gooooo-

Black mana flowed from Licinas's body.

The black mana that had seeped into Licinas's shadow stretched out in tendrils and bound Nyx.

"What I… what we wanted was a world with infinite possibilities! A living world!"

For that ultimate desire, Kyle confronted Erebus, and he still was.

"The future you wish for is no different from the ashes destroyed by Erebus to me. You, too, are an existence that should never be tolerated."

Licinas pointed a finger at Nyx.

"Therefore. I will erase your existence from this world."

"Foolish lizard!"

Nyx's eyes gleamed with malice.

"Was that supposed to be a provocation? Loser?"

Licinas sneered and snapped her fingers.

Click-!

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-gak! Kwa-deuk-!

The shadow entwined around Nyx tore the evil god's body to shreds.

At the same time, particles of light that appeared from all directions swirled, tearing into Nyx's body.

"You insignificant mortal-aaaaaaah!"

Nyx's voice, filled with rage and hatred, echoed.

Suddenly, Nyx met Licinas's gaze.

A gaze so cold that even Nyx, known as the Death Frost, felt a chill.

Seeing Nyx shiver with goosebumps, Licinas spread her palm.

Sliiiip-

Nyx, whose mouth was even covered, struggled.

Thud-!

Crack-!

As Licinas clenched her fist, Nyx's body shattered into pieces.

"I'll thoroughly destroy you to the point where you'd rather be annihilated."

***

Erebus's eyes coldly assessed Kyle's full power.

'It's the Hero of the Beginning from the final moment.'

It was clearly the hero who had defeated him and was dying at that time.

However…

'He's not omnipotent.'

In the final battle, Kyle was a monster almost omnipotent.

A power that even overwhelmed himself, who had devoured all evil gods and burned the world to become the most powerful flame.

That power, which made even himself, the worst existence, tremble, was not Kyle's pure strength.

'It was just borrowed power.'

The Warrior's Aura.

The divine blacksmith's flame.

The primordial power of the nebula.

The King of Wisdom's heart.

All those things, contained within the vessel of the Hero of the Beginning, were able to unleash such power.

But while the power of other great heroes was indeed contained within the vessel of Kyle, it had not become Kyle's own power.

It was a one-time power that disappeared after use.

And Kyle poured all of it into the final battle.

What remained now was only dregs.

The one before Erebus's eyes was.

Not the strongest hero, but merely a dying hero.

In terms of power alone, Erebus, who had regained half his strength, was overwhelmingly stronger.

Yet.

'…How can he fight like this?'

Kyle, holding onto his fading life and fighting forcibly, constantly met his limits and constantly surpassed them.

'Right, he was an incomprehensible being from the start.'

Erebus gave up on understanding the driving force behind Kyle's power.

'Is he even an existence I can understand now?'

5000 years ago.

Erebus had ultimately been defeated because he couldn't understand Kyle's terrifying power.

So, he gave up on understanding him now as well.

There was only one thing to do.

'Defeat the Hero of the Beginning.'

Whirl-whirl-whirl-!

Black flames formed at the tip of Erebus's sword.

Clang-!

Sword met sword.

Whoosh-!

As the black flames surged, Kyle bit his lip.

Vwooom-!

Golden aura erupted from Kyle's body.

But it was not a brilliantly shining aura.

As if it would extinguish any moment.

An unstable, faintly scattering golden aura.

'There's no more of Arion's power left in my body!'

Right before dying, he had been called by Licinas and came to the future.

But he had only transcended time and space.

The fact that he was a man who was dying after his battle with Erebus remained unchanged.

The vessel of the Hero of the Beginning, Kyle, was empty.

Kyle raised his gray aura.

With that, he began to be pushed back in strength.

Gooooo-

The black flame sword energy came crashing down.

To resist it, he tried to ignite Dweno's flame, but it merely scattered as if about to go out.

The word 'limit' shook his head.

'Yes. It's the limit.'

It was miraculous that he was even alive and breathing.

But Kyle didn't care.

CRUNCH-!

The sword in Kyle's hand broke.

'I'll be like this soon too.'

But… not now.

"You're persistent for a fake!"

Kyle sneered at Erebus's shout.

"You really have no learning ability. To not know I was persistent after being cut into six pieces!"

Kyle mocked, putting distance between himself and Erebus.

'Weapon… I need a weapon.'

This was a battlefield.

A place where weapons were plentiful.

But what he needed now was not just any plentiful weapon.

He needed a weapon that could withstand Erebus's attacks.

As Kyle felt anxious.

Whoosh-!

He heard something whizzing past his ear.

Kyle flinched and reached out his hand.

Clack-!

Something familiar to the touch was caught in his hand.

'Posteritas?'

Dweno's masterpiece given to him.

The sword that had reached the end of its lifespan with him in the battle against Erebus.

Kyle, who looked slightly surprised to see the sword returned to its original state, smiled bitterly.

'Right, are you a fake too?'

This too was merely a replica that existed in the hero's world.

'A fake.'

When he thought about it, was there any meaning to this battle?

He had already been reincarnated.

What was here now was a fake created based on past records.

His whole body burned.

A pain that felt like his brain was boiling assailed him.

Was there a reason to endure this pain?

'Yes, there is.'

Swallowing the blood surging up his throat, Kyle gritted his teeth.

Whether he was a fake or not, it didn't matter.

What mattered was that this was a moment to fight.

'Besides, I also got a second life.'

Kyle felt relieved after seeing the memories Licinas showed him.

Hope seen in a world he thought was left with nothing but endless despair.

He had been reincarnated.

'So I'll endure!'

His future self would not give up.

Vwooom-!

Gray magical power flowed through Kyle's entire body.

'Fake or not… I'll do what I can!'

As Kyle strengthened his resolve.

He saw three mages in his sight.

'Two humans and… one elf?'

As Kyle was bewildered by the appearance of the three people high in the sky.

-Is that Sir Kyle?!

The elf mage, Lunia, urgently spoke to him with magic.

-Could you perhaps blast Erebus this way?

"Do you have a plan?"

-Yes!

"I'll give it a try."

Kyle lowered his stance.

All his strength concentrated in his toes.

CRUNCH-!

Pushing off the ground, Kyle's body shot forward.

Kyle, who charged towards Erebus, gritted his teeth and focused his strength on the tip of his sword.

The moment he reached Erebus's nose.

Kyle, with all his might, launched Erebus into the air.

Bang!

Erebus was sent flying at an incredible speed.

"Hmm… useless struggling…"

Erebus, who was curling up the corners of his mouth, paused.

'This power…?'

Erebus's eyes widened as if tearing.

'No way?!'