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Last's words remained calm. "Although I would like to talk to you for a few more words, it seems that Noah Laoden's incarnation is even more powerful than I imagined. It seems that he is about to suppress the deformation of his flesh and blood."

"So, to allow me to put the finishing touches on it."

"Your Excellency the former God of Death...it's almost time for you to prepare to die."

Hearing the young man's calm words, the remnant of death in the world of mind was suddenly confused.

Then, He heard the roar of gears meshing.

The wall of the mental world, the dark sky, the cracks that were originally broken and corroded by the remnant thoughts of the god of death quietly healed and closed.

then.

boom--

The fierce wind pressure cuts the earth.

It was a blade forged from the soul, rushing towards us along with the gust of wind that blew across the wilderness.

As the prey targeted by the gods and the vessel chosen by the remnants of the old gods, the human boy now forged his soul and all his mental images into a tempered blade, and swung it down towards the remnants of the old gods.

Death suddenly understood.

A so-called qualified hunter always appears as a prey.

Not only did He regard Last as his prey, but from the very beginning, Last had also been plotting against this remnant of the god of death.

The Star Grail and the Holy Grail were returned to Axia and disappeared from this world...

And having lost the support of the power of the god of death, Rast, whose main body was only at the fourth or fifth level... faced Noah, who had escaped from the troubles of the deformed flesh and blood, and had broken free, he had no means of restraining himself.

Therefore, Rast must devour his own remaining soul, because only in this way can he regain control of the power of the underworld and turn the entire underworld and the entire body of the god of death into his home.

And with the help of the power of the entire underworld, he could fight back and restrain Noah who had escaped from the trap.

The cracks in Last's mental barrier were not eroded and broken through by himself... but were restrictions he voluntarily released, a trap that lured him into a trap.

The purpose is to lure the residual soul of the god of death to actively enter one's own spiritual world and one's own mental image.

Not only did he cut off the retreat route of the God of Death, he also cut off his own retreat route.

This is a decision that cuts off one's own retreat and is also the most dangerous gamble.

They are trapped beasts in a cage, with no way out and no room for regret.

No matter which side they were on, all they could do was fight, swing their swords at each other, and use all means to kill their opponents until they broke their throats.

The winner will get everything from both sides, while the loser will become the residue in the winner's mouth, without even a corpse left.

The War Between Man and God...

It has always been a fight to the death.

Chapter 159: Fall into the Abyss with Me (Two in One)

At the end of the tower, the boy stood in the frozen dusk, his silhouette like a stone sculpture against the black background.

The illusory underworld turned into a tide, crashing against the towering tower and shattered into dim waves.

Click, click——

It was indeed the crisp sound of rock cracking, coming from inside Rast's body and echoing throughout the empty tower top.

His body surface cracked one after another with dim yellow cracks, making his body look shattered, but then those cracks quietly healed and cracked again...

In just a few minutes, this cycle of cracking and healing repeated hundreds and thousands of times.

Rast's body is not like Axia's, which already flows with the blood of the god of death... The same blood of the god allows her to perfectly contain all the authority and power of the ancient god without any side effects.

He is just an ordinary human being, and the cracks that keep appearing on Rast's body... are the backlash he must bear for carrying the supreme will of the ancient gods with his humble human body. Every break and healing is a process of transformation.

It's like a broken piece of porcelain, which breaks again and again because it exceeds the limit of its capacity, but is forcibly gathered and healed by some magnificent force, restoring it to a complete human form.

All that remained was the cracks on the broken porcelain, which looked like they had been forcibly stitched together with inferior glue.

Just like his memories that faded away with time in the Deep Blue Harbor, and the ideal of the "Shore Keeper" that was dilapidated but still existed in the mental world of the red wilderness.

At the same time, those broken dim halos also reflected the process of the souls of mortals and ancient gods devouring and killing each other in Rast's spiritual world.

Before the dusk halo completely occupied this body, no one knew the outcome of this war in the spiritual world.

……

Although an extremely fierce and dangerous battle of souls was erupting in the mental world, at this moment, a brief silence fell on the tower in the real world.

All that remained was the sound of lush branches and leaves twisting and growing wildly, and the crackling sound of stone sculptures constantly opening cracks... mixed in with the wild wind and tide, it became the main theme of this world.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of the fertile plants growing finally stopped quietly.

All the plants that had taken root and sprouted, their lush branches and leaves like a small forest, gathered together in an instant and then completely became one.

The deformation of flesh and blood, the chain of infinite cell division were forcibly severed... Only the gardener-like old man who walked out of the prosperous forest remained.

Noah's face, the embodiment of abundance, looked noticeably paler.

The previous deformation and chain reaction of flesh and blood caused by radiation... Even with his vision as a gravekeeper, he had never seen anything like it.

In the end, he had no choice but to forcibly remove all of his abundant magic that had been distorted and contaminated, that is, infected by "cancer cells", just like a cancer patient removing a tumor.

In this way, the out-of-control cell division chain was forcibly curbed.

Noah also paid a huge price for this. The remaining power of this incarnation of abundance is less than half.

But even so——

Even though huge amounts of energy were consumed to suppress the distorted pollution, only a small portion of the power of abundance remained, and it was even difficult to maintain the legendary status.

However, it was enough to kill Rast, whose spirit was also corroded by the remnants of the old god of death and who had previously suffered severe damage from the flower of flesh and blood...

The lush branches and leaves are surging, and the green and vibrant fertile land is quietly expanding.

Noah stepped forward.

Until he reached the end of the tower and looked at the black-haired boy in front of him, who was frozen in the dusk and whose body surface was constantly breaking and cracking.

"Last."

Noah spoke calmly, revealing the name of the person in front of him.

This was the first time he addressed the human boy in such a tone, not from the lofty perspective of a legend looking down on ordinary transcendents, but in a relatively equal manner.

"I have to admit that what you did was beyond my expectations."

"With a mere fourth-level human body... you were able to simultaneously plot against me and the remnant of the former Death God, forcing even this legendary half of mine into such a precarious situation."

"I must take back my previous assessment of you—"

"Cesare chose you as his successor and passed the flame to you... This was not a foolish decision."

"Your character and ability to act are worthy of the title of his successor."

"only--"

Noah paused slightly.

"You are still too arrogant, just like your predecessor Cecil and all the previous shore keepers."

"As the weakest of the three parties in this chess game, you should have acted cautiously and wisely, but you acted with the utmost arrogance, declaring war on both me and the Old God of Death."

"If you choose to play coy with any of us... and first provoke a fight between me and the remnant of the old Death God, then try to survive in the cracks and reap the benefits—"

"Then perhaps the direction of the entire chess game, and even the final outcome, will be rewritten."

Noah looked at the boy's body, which was frozen like a stone statue, constantly cracking and healing, and slowly reached out his hand.

Emerald green light condensed at his fingertips.

Then, Noah pointed his finger at Last's left chest, intending to pierce his broken heart completely.

but--

Noah's finger movements froze in mid-air.

boom--

The dim halo that had been in a stagnant state suddenly went wild at this moment.

A giant hand of dusk materialized in the void, tightly grasping Noah's finger.

Under the high cliff, the dark abyss, which had calmed down a little, suddenly began to boil.

An illusory curtain of water rose into the sky, like the dark River Styx, hanging upside down from the end of the ceiling.

However, in the face of such a sudden change, Noah's expression remained calm.

"He regained control of his own body and was able to briefly call upon the power of the entire Netherworld, harnessing the remaining divine power from the remains of the Grim Reaper."

"That is to say——"

"In the fight against the remnant of the God of Death, you also had the upper hand."

Noah's words sounded flatly.

"The soul and will condensed from a human's mere few hundred years of life experience... can, even while being eroded into one's own mental world, surpass the remnants of the ancient gods who have survived since the Age of Gods."

"I have to say, you've surprised me once again."

If the remnant of the old god of death invades the mental world, a desperate fight will break out where neither side has a way out and the only way to win is to devour the other's soul.

Even Noah himself was not sure of winning.

Even though his body was damaged by time and long sleep, he was still a true ancient god after all... and although Noah, as a gravekeeper, had a god-like perspective overlooking the world, he did not dare to be sure that his soul was 100% free of any weaknesses and flaws that could be broken through by the remnant of the god of death.

However, the more so.

Noah became more and more curious about the ultimate purpose of Last's behavior.

He chose to challenge the gravekeeper and the old god of death at the same time, and took the initiative to put his weakest self in the most dangerous and unfavorable situation.

This is undoubtedly a foolish choice, even if the shore keeper's position is destined to be incompatible with the grave keeper - but the shore keeper has no fundamental conflict with the old god of death, so there is no need to tear each other apart so bluntly so early.

Previously, he thought that this was simply Lust's stupid stubbornness, but it was impossible for a purely stupid person to force this legendary half into such an embarrassing situation.

There must be a reason why Rast did this...but after thinking about it, Noah couldn't understand the motive behind Rast's behavior.

All living things have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. This instinct is born from the history of life evolution and is a gene engraved in the bones of every living thing. Whether it is an inconspicuous grass on the roadside or a high and mighty god, there is no difference in "seeking benefits and avoiding harm".

But Rast violated this law. Without seeing any actual benefits, he gave up the originally safe path to becoming a god... and instead put himself in a dangerous situation by offending two parties at the same time.

"So, what did you get in the end?"

"Does this kind of behavior really have any meaning to you?"

The old words were floating in the air. These were just Noah's whispers to himself. He did not expect Last, who was still battling the remnants of death in the mental world, to answer this question.

But, unexpectedly, his question was answered.

"Of course it makes sense... Your Majesty Noah."

The broken syllables echoed from the top of the tower.

Those were Last's words, but compared to his clear voice in the past, his voice was now extremely hoarse... mixed with the sound of the wind and the tide on the high cliffs, like the roar of a ghost returning from the underworld.

"Temporarily feigning complicity with the God of Death, or even making concessions and negotiating, is undoubtedly a safer option... but doing so also means that everything the God of Death has left behind, whether it's Paradise or the Underworld, will continue to exist."

"Even if I prevent the resurrection of the God of Death during this ascension ceremony, as long as the things left behind by the God of Death still exist in this world, then in a few years, or even in the next era... there will always be a second and third wave of people coveting the throne of the God of Death."

"By then, everything that happened today will happen again."

"And Axia will inevitably fall into a new cycle of reincarnation, either serving as one of the keys necessary for ascension to godhood, or existing as the husk of a resurrected human-god hybrid—she will never be able to escape her fate as a 'vessel'."

Last's originally handsome face was now extremely pale, like weathered ceramic, covered with spider-web-like cracks.

Every time he opened his mouth, pieces of flesh would peel off his face, leaving behind pale dust like embers.

"And the purpose of what I do is to completely bury the remnant of the God of Death, and everything he left behind... whether it's the underworld, paradise, or the countless dead."

"Because, only in this way can Axia break free from the cycle of fate and no longer serve as the 'perfect vessel of the god of death', the 'final key to ascending to the throne of God'..."

"Instead, live as a normal, ordinary human girl."

……

"Just for... such a ridiculous reason?"

"For a woman who isn't even your lover...you put yourself in such danger?"