“I respect my father very much, and I admire him very much... but this respect comes from being a dragon.”
"What are you trying to say? You need to understand that this is not something you can decide on your own!"
"I want... a duel!!" Thor said calmly.
"Even more foolish!" The Emperor of the End sneered, "...Even if you cultivate for another ten thousand years, you still can't surpass your father!!"
“How will you know if you don’t try?” Thor said. “...If I defeat my father, let me protect Kobayashi until the day she passes away! If I lose, I will go back with you without any complaints.”
"Hmph, how presumptuous! I'll show you... the difference between us!!" The Emperor of the End was enveloped in black light, transforming into a giant dragon.
"Father... I'm sorry." Under a burst of emerald light, Thor also returned to his true dragon form.
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【Ta42 World Peace Begins Tomorrow (Part 2)】
Two giant dragons clashed fiercely in an alternate dimension using magic and their powerful bodies. The collision of magical powers caused a burst of flames, and the towering flames illuminated much of the sky. Every time the dragons spread their wings and took to the air to collide head-on, they stirred up a terrifying torrent of sand and gravel, forming a dark tornado that surged endlessly through the alternate dimension.
The continuous bursts of fire and explosions, along with the dark, swirling tornadoes, turned the area within tens of kilometers of the dragons' battleground into a calamity where no living being could set foot.
Clearly, at the beginning, the Emperor of the End held an absolute advantage. His stronger dragon body, more profound magic, and vast magical power exerted immense pressure on Thor.
But as time went on, Thor endured the most difficult initial period through sheer willpower. Although he was covered in wounds and his magic was nearly depleted, he fought with increasing courage and strength.
...Or rather, the Emperor of the End's offensive was weakening at an alarming rate.
The curse bullet took effect inside its body.
The Curse-Slaying Bullet, whose full power can annihilate gods, is not threatened by its strong life force because its attributes are the same as those of the Chaos Dragon, and because the End Emperor is far more powerful than ordinary gods. Even with its current full effect, the Curse-Slaying effect cannot threaten its strong life force.
But it was more than enough to inflict serious injury! Moreover, the End Emperor had to spare some power to suppress the curse, and with this shift in power, its chances of defeating Thor had unknowingly turned completely the opposite.
Damn it... when was this curse planted?!
The Emperor of the End vaguely recalled that he had been shot in the abdomen by the human girl. He didn't think that an 'alchemy bullet' could cause him much damage, so he didn't take it seriously at the time... but he never expected it to lead to the current situation.
Thor launched another attack. Even though he was her father, he wouldn't miss the chance to beat the drowning dragon at a time like this... and just then.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!!"
In the distance, a white dragon, smaller than Thor but still enormous, stretched out its elegant white wings and approached, carrying a human on its head.
"Kanna! Kobayashi!!" Thor recognized them from afar, feeling both surprised and helpless, because he was finally about to win!
"Why are you two killing each other!" Kobayashi quickly stopped Kanna as she landed on the ground.
"Humans, step back!" the End Dragon roared.
"Kobayashi, I'm sorry, could you please leave for a moment?" Thor turned to Kobayashi and said.
"Why are all dragons like this?" Kobayashi scratched his head, looking rather helpless, his gaze shifting between the Emperor of the End and Thor. "How can things progress without a heart-to-heart talk?"
"What do you want to say?" The End Emperor chose to listen. In truth, it was powerless against Thor and had no other choice... It was waiting for a way out.
"Your Dragon City is too extreme, I really can't understand it."
"Of course, humans and we simply cannot understand it!"
“That’s not what I meant…” As Kanna Dragon lowered her head to the ground, Kobayashi rolled off her dragon's body and said as she walked towards the Emperor of the End:
"Understanding the differences is just the beginning. As you identify those differences, you go through repeated closeness and distance, and then you start to like certain things about the other person, and you might even develop a sense of respect for them..."
"Respect?" Emperor of the End asked.
Kobayashi nodded slightly, paused, and looked up at the Emperor of the End from a distance that was neither too close nor too far, saying, "It can also generate trust and bond!"
A magic circle condensed in front of the green dragon's head, and the dragon rapidly shrank in the green light, transforming into the human Thor—she clasped her hands together in front of her chest, her eyes trembling as she looked at Kobayashi.
"You bastard, do you really want to coexist with her...?" The Emperor of the End asked the final question.
"It's not that I wanted to!" Kobayashi immediately retorted, then pushed up his glasses, which he had just finished attaching to the temples, and added, "It's that we've already done it..."
His raised gaze met the End Dragon's: "The only question is whether or not to believe that this time can continue. I believe..."
Kobayashi roared loudly.
"Do you believe it?!"
"...Why don't you trust your own daughter for once?!"
In that instant, even the desolate winds of the other world carried a clamorous fervor, and a ray of radiant light pierced down from the dark clouds in the sky.
The Emperor of the End and Kobayashi locked eyes for a long time, their gazes pure, resolute, fearless, and undaunted by anything—the eyes of humanity.
"I absolutely disagree, that mere human beings..."
Feeling the rampage of the curse within its body and the depletion of its power, it knew it had to return to the Chaos Realm as soon as possible to suppress and eliminate the curse. So, the Final Dragon finally turned its massive body, its deep voice echoing in the emptiness:
"Humans who don't even have the lifespan to coexist..." The dragon slowly flapped its wings and rose.
Thor basically understood that her father had agreed. Overjoyed, she rushed forward and hugged Kobayashi tightly.
"I'm so sorry for saying so many impulsive things," Kobayashi said with a wry smile.
"I don't know how to repay you... Everything... I give you everything."
"I don't need that much," Kobayashi said with a light laugh, letting her hug him tightly.
The final dragon flying in the sky did not leave immediately, but turned its head to look at Thor again before finally saying:
“Thor… your foolish daughter, you had a wonderful human friend who would have done so much for you, but sadly… you couldn’t even see her one last time.”
Thor's golden vertical pupils shrank to their limit, and he suddenly froze, completely stunned.
The final dragon gave a cold snort and flew into the black hole above, disappearing from sight. The chaotic colors of the world faded away along with the disappearing black hole.
Fafnir and Alcoa, sensing the aura of the End Emperor, gathered together and rushed over, appearing behind Thor and the others without anyone noticing.
Although both of them were relieved to see a peaceful and happy ending, Fafnir's expression was full of doubt.
“The familiar power of cursed killing…” he said.
Ercoa's heterochromatic eyes possess extremely powerful and unpredictable strength. As the Feathered Serpent God, her power is not much weaker than that of the Emperor of the End. Using her heterochromatic eyes to perceive certain things is still quite easy for her.
Then, a deliberately meaningful remark from Ercoya completely astonished Thor—
"The shrapnel made of special materials is still not completely melted inside your father's dragon body... Interesting, the curse must have been fired through firearms from the human world, like the alchemists of our 'world'."
An alchemist...?!
A human girl who called herself that flashed through Thor's memory in an instant.
Kanna, now in human form, approached Thor and gently tugged at his clothes. Her large, azure eyes welled with tears, and she said in a choked voice, "Lord Thor, sob...actually...it was me who told Tina..."
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"I wonder if there will be any updates today, sob..."
"I've been checking for half an hour and there are still typos. Orz"
[Chapter Description]
This part does indeed have a lot of original material.
Sorry, that's how I intended to write it from the beginning. I didn't want to write something like the Emperor of the End suddenly dying or being unable to return, because I felt that kind of plot was too far-fetched.
I didn't even eat lunch, and yet I wrote such a poorly written piece with typos—it's really my fault.
I don't want to let down this achievement and everyone's support, I'm really sorry.
To make up for it, there will be another update tonight... and I can only shamelessly ask for your continued support.
Let's go eat first.
See you tonight
【Ta43 A Wordless Confession】
The duel between Thor and the Emperor of the End has come to a close, and Thor has emerged victorious.
Whether it was the bet made during the duel or the bond that Thor and Kobayashi had built, logically and emotionally, the Emperor of the End had no reason to stop Thor's choice.
Well, it'll only be a hundred years at most.
As the Emperor of the End said, Kobayashi belongs to the kind of humans who don't even have the lifespan to coexist. No matter how deep her feelings for Thor are, cruel time will take everything away. After Kobayashi dies, she can cross the Bridge of Helplessness without any regrets... but Thor cannot. Perhaps it will take thousands of years to suppress his longing and loneliness, or perhaps he will never forget her.
If you get used to being alone, you can get used to being alone forever.
But once you're poisoned by longing, you'll never learn how to get used to loneliness.
This is what the Emperor of the End is most worried about... it is also the story it personally experienced, buried deep in its heart, the most eternal story, which it can never forget even now.
My foolish daughter, repeating my mistakes...
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On the morning of that day, after the Emperor of the End returned to that world, all the reincarnators simultaneously received a message from their wristwatches.
[WARNING: Main quest failed. 12 years of lifespan will be deducted. All reincarnators will be sent back to the Reincarnation Capital in 24 hours!]
[WARNING: Main quest failed. 12 years of lifespan will be deducted. All reincarnators will be sent back to the Reincarnation Capital in 24 hours!]
Seeing the warning issued twice in a row, Ye Qiu, who was sitting in the maid cafe, had a drastic change in expression and showed an incredulous look!
Just yesterday, he happened to connect to the Reincarnator Forum through his wristwatch, changed his avatar to a woman's outfit, and asked the veterans for advice as a newbie. He finally learned that: [Unless you intentionally want to fail, it's almost impossible for a newbie to fail in the Reincarnation World; after all, it's a benefit for newcomers.]
EXM...!! Damn it, what happened to the promise that failure was impossible?!
He had clearly given Thor a sword strike, which should have helped the mission succeed.
Ye Qiu spat out his coffee immediately, while the middle-aged man Li Shichen opposite him was completely dumbfounded and at a loss, not even reacting when Ye Qiu spat coffee on himself.
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