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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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The Eye of Heaven that opened to the Middle World, [Heavenly Eye], was still open.
The highest ranks of Heaven, including the Lord of Heaven, were all watching the battle between Yuma and Barbatos.
From beginning to end.
Immediately after the battle ended, they hurriedly closed the Heavenly Eye fearing that Yuma might come toward them next.
Celestial Lord Aruten, who had snow-white hair and the appearance of a boy, was trembling with his lips.
“…Who was I trying to capture and bring back?”
In response to Lord Aruten’s muttering, the Valkyrie Brenhilt who stood beside him opened her mouth.
“It seems that not disturbing that human, Yuma, would be beneficial for Heaven.”
Like Aruten, she had snow-white long hair.
If she were to untie her ponytail, her hair would be long enough to reach her ankles.
“Yes… Brenhilt, you think so too? That one, I think it’s better not to mess with him.”
Aruten recalled the battle between Yuma and Barbatos that he had just witnessed.
The battle that took place above the Divine realm deployed by Barbatos.
Barbatos, who had mercilessly killed five celestials, including those with divine-level powers.
And the human, Yuma, who killed that Barbatos.
Aruten let out a sigh.
If Brenhilt was Aruten’s right arm, then there was also a left arm.
The massive Apostle Archangel Garenmon was Aruten’s left arm.
Garenmon’s voice was heavy, unlike Lord Aruten who spoke in a rather light tone.
“It seems he also obtained the ability to reverse his body’s time right before death from somewhere. There must have been a limit to how many times he could use it in succession. But it seems he made him use up all of those chances and finally killed him.”
Garenmon immediately grasped the principle of Barbatos’s [Time Reversal] ability.
The ability that the now-dead War God had possessed.
Lord Aruten looked back and forth at the two speaking to him from either side and muttered.
“Will, will that guy stay put? Hm? He won’t try to wipe us all out for trying to kidnap him, right?”
Garenmon looked at his master, Aruten, who seemed terrified, and opened his mouth again.
“That person. Yuma has now eliminated two Evil Gods from this world. Once might be coincidence, but killing two Evil Gods twice is absolutely impossible. First, we must acknowledge that he is someone who can defeat Evil Gods. That is, he has power equal to the gods.”
At Garenmon’s words, the Lord of Heaven nodded his head several times.
“Yes, yes. We must acknowledge it. That human, Yuma… is truly a human who can stand against gods.”
At the Lord of Heaven’s murmuring, most of the thousand or so high-ranking apostles kneeling before Aruten opened their eyes wide in surprise and gulped.
The fact that the Lord of Heaven acknowledged the existence of a human who could kill gods had great significance.
Until now, the Lord of Heaven’s notion had been that humans could never kill gods.
He always said that not only humans, but also elves or any other race can at most reach the level of demigods, and that reaching the realm of gods was impossible.
Therefore, the only race that could kill Evil Gods was their celestial race.
Lord Aruten had always said so.
For thousands of years.
But now, he had completely twisted that notion.
Garenmon nodded with relief at the Lord’s attitude of fully believing what he had seen with his own eyes this time.
“Yes, that’s right. I think we need to acknowledge it. And I believe we need to clearly convey to that Yuma that we acknowledge him. We are beings that have a common enemy with you – the Evil Gods… He should be made to feel that way.”
The Lord of Heaven nodded again vigorously at Garenmon’s advice.
“Yes… I think that would be good. I should send an apostle to clearly convey our intentions. To form an alliance. Since that human must be completely overwhelmed right now… Sending someone in about 3 days would be good, right?”
Garenmon, inwardly impressed by the Lord’s tremendous change in attitude that suddenly went so far as to consider a human’s mental state, replied.
“Yes, I think that would work.”
Not a single celestial present objected to the Lord’s will.
Because they had all seen it through the Heavenly Eye.
The sight of a single human erasing the powerful War God Barbatos from the world.
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Thud Yuma walked forward.
He could see his companions approaching him.
At the forefront was the Emperor of Asteus, Brigitte.
How was Brigitte at the front?
Whoosh
It was because she was flying on the griffin Edan.
Behind Brigitte, who was riding Edan, was Bell.
Behind Bell was Cloney.
On the back of the cat-tribe warrior Hestia, who could not ride the griffin as it was full, was the former saint Ermel.
“Hold tight!”
Ermel’s eyes grew round, having never been carried on someone’s back before.
“Eeeek, y-yes!”
Thus, everyone frantically headed toward Yuma, who was slowly returning.
The griffin gradually reduced its speed and angle.
Tap!
The Empress with long snow-white hair, Brigitte, hurried toward Yuma.
Bell and Cloney followed closely behind.
Brigitte quickly examined Yuma’s entire body.
Her blue eyes moved rapidly along with her head.
And those eyes stopped abruptly at Yuma’s right arm.
The right arm part of his black coat had become rags, and red blood was streaming down his right arm.
An arm that looked serious at a glance.
“Yuma…! Are you alright?”
Yuma slowly shook his head at Brigitte’s worried gaze.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine now.”
Despite Yuma’s words, Brigitte carefully held Yuma’s right arm and maintained a worried expression.
“F-fine? This is clearly blood…!”
As soon as Brigitte finished speaking, Bell and Cloney rushed to cling to Yuma’s body one after another.
Bell’s pink eyes opened wide.
“Blood, blood! What should we do…!”
Bell said with trembling lips.
Yuma patted Bell’s shoulder and said.
“I told you I’m fine.”
Bell thrust her face close to Yuma’s.
“A-are you really okay?”
“I’m fine. Now.”
“Is it not your blood?”
“No, it is my blood.”
Bell looked at Cloney beside her with a tearful expression.
“Uwaah! C-Cloney! He says it’s his blood! What do we do!”
Even Cloney approached with a stiff face.
“It is my blood. But I’ve already recovered with a holy relic item. I’m fine.”
The complete explanation was finally finished.
The group sighed in relief, finally calming down.
“Now, Yuma. Get on Edan!”
Bell even supported Yuma as they moved to Edan’s side.
“Alright.”
There was no particular reason for Yuma to refuse.
After all, it was quite far from this place to the Imperial Palace.
Even if he had no wounds, it didn’t mean his mind and body weren’t tired.
“Haak! Hek! You’re fine, Yuma-Yuma.”
Hestia, with her distinctive scarlet cat ears, was satisfied having confirmed that Yuma was fine.
Ermel, who was on Hestia’s back, also let out a sigh of relief.
The griffin couldn’t carry the same members as before.
Three people was the maximum capacity.
“I-I’ll go on foot!”
This time, it was Bell who decided not to ride Edan.
After all, she would be the fastest among them returning without riding.
Yuma handed the [Magic Gauntlet] that he held in his left hand to Bell.
“Use this, it has built-in flying magic. You should be able to operate it easily.”
Bell’s eyes widened.
“O-okay!”
And she accepted the [Magic Gauntlet].
Swish Yuma stroked Edan’s back.
“Let’s go, Edan.”
Grrrrrr!
Edan let out a growl as he kicked off the ground.
Then he spread his wings wide and flew up into the sky.
Thus, the group returned to the Imperial Palace.
Whoosh – Thud.
Edan landed gently inside, beyond the castle walls.
Thump— Thump—!
The Imperial Guard forces who had not evacuated all knelt down at once.
They naturally couldn’t think that what Yuma had defeated was a God.
But even if they couldn’t dare to guess it was a god, anyone could see that Barbatos, who had moved freely through, was a being with transcendent power.
And the domineering and ominous energy that Barbatos had emitted was sufficiently felt even from these walls.
He had eliminated a being that would only be an enemy to the Empire, never a benefit.
As the Imperial Guard forces, it was inevitable to feel reverence for Yuma.
Yuma’s arm was still in a state where the blood had not been wiped off.
Seeing Yuma walking proudly as if shedding such blood was nothing, the knights and soldiers bowed their heads deeply.
“Don’t do unnecessary things and stand up.”
Saying so, Yuma moved forward through the forces.
Thud
The knights and soldiers remained kneeling until Yuma had passed them all.
The world’s time was now approaching noon.
Yuma went to sleep a little early that night.
His body was filled with fatigue.
After falling into deep sleep, he woke up at dawn.
Yuma frowned slightly while lying down.
Six Evil Gods remained.
There was still a long way to go.
Still.
When he defeated Leviathan in the sea of the Mullen Clan, he had reached level 100, and at that time also he had received a notification
that all possible status increases from achievement had been completed.
And indeed, after that, no matter how strong the powerful beings he defeated were, he did not receive any status rewards.
The remaining time until [Vulcan-Dehit’s Dragon Heart] was completely digested and activated was about 3 weeks.
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3 days later.
Realm of Gods.
The Atrocious God of Fortress Building, Malphas opened the door to the Pantheon.
There were only 6 chairs at the huge round table, and three of them were empty.
The three who were already seated turned their heads at the appearance of the massive crow.
“…Two didn’t come. As expected.”
The crow, Malphas, opened his mouth.
“Thank you for coming. The reason I called you… you saw him too, right? That guy.”
Clap!
Malphas clapped his hands.
Crackle…
A flickering screen appeared in front of the wall, and what was displayed on that screen was Barbatos and Yuma in the divine realm.
“This human, Yuma… I’ve gathered you to discuss what to do about him.”
