Jayr POV - Tortus, Holy Prects - 2013

  The roars of the five heavenly dragons shook the air, as they coil in the air with Ehit at the ter, whose figure looks really like a divine angel in the legends.

  The heavenly dragons that were turned into a monster while having a half-magic body left the trol of the caster and aim their ferocity at their prey indepely, me.

  After a few seds of posi lightly says, "Now then, Irregur. We have to begin the game once more any time now. During that time, let's reminisce a bit about the past. Yoing tle as long as you right? It has been really a long time since I got to talk about myself. Eain me~."

  And as he says this, one of the heavenly dragons, the lightning one, ges into a streak of lightning and moves with, well, lightning speed, 'Of course, being made of lightning magic, it is obvious that it moves at the speed of lightning...'.

  And while I calmly keep my senses locked on the lightning drago starts his history lesson, "My former world was a world where magic was the foundation. I'm not boasting, but I remember that the development there was remarkable. There was an abundant variety of artifacts, people flew freely in the sky, they could get in touch with a farace, they moved using teleportation, and even their lifespan could be prolonged by a few hundred years more using magical treatment. Magid teology that were based from that made that world abundant."

  At the same time, the Lightning Dragon appears in front of me, but I'm ready for it, and as soon as it stands in front of me, I simply throunch at it, this time without holding back using the full power of my physique and energy, and the result looks like something out of One Punch Man, as the lightning dragon with its open jaw disappears, pletely disied.

  Meanwhile, indifferent to the fate of one of his new creatio tinues his monologue, "But, what is waiting for the world that is overdeveloped is only their end. Our world too wasn't an exception to that. Something like a war of the end that happened because of exhausted resources, or a sense of values, or possibly because of eis or different political ideas, those weren't the cause. The reason was something more, something that couldn't be helped. Do you know what it was, Irregur?"

  At the same time, the storm and ice dragon make their moves, trying to take me out in a pitack.

  I keep my senses ohen looking at Ehit, I answer, "Probably what humanity does best... They fuck themselves and the world they live over until it 't ha anymore..."

  Then with a full-power spinning kick, I obliterate the Storm and Ice Dragons that got close enough leaving behind only the Azure Fme Dragon, and the Earth Dragon.

  Meanwhile, hearing my reply, Ehit nods and says, "Right! They arrived at the truth. The Magic teology was developed thhly until the people of my world could interfere with the information of the world itself, to the material, to life, to the star, to time, to the enviro. And then, no matter the era, researchers are always uo restrain their curiosity. They fumbled with the teology that interferes with the truth spreading in the world like pying with a toy…and that became the cause that destroyed the world. Our world was killed by the curiosity of the people who handled magic."

  While he is tellihis, the Earth Dragon tries to attack me from below, but I dodge it and curb stomp it into oblivion, as Ehit tinues, "The truth crumbled and the world was rapidly crumbling… the situation at that time was exactly like a picture of pandemonium in hell. There was nothing that could be do all. Mankind had no other path other tharu along with the p. With the exception of a part of 'the arrived'!"

  The remaining heavenly dragon, the Azure Fme one, seeing the result of its rades' attacks, decides to ge strategy and start to attack me from the distah its fire breath, and I quickly dodge the hellish azure fire homing toward me while still listening to Ehit, "... 'The arrived', these were the people who were able to individually operate the essence of what all of you called as the Age of Gods magic. They, only they were able to discover the method to be saved. That method was to escape to another world. Fufu-, isn't that ughable? After all only the ringleaders who destroyed the world were able to escape from ruin"

  Saying this he starts to ugh out loud as if amused by the irony of that situation.

  And amidst the reverberation of Ehit's ugh that was filled with irony, I tio move my body to dodge the Azure Fme Dragon's scorg breaths while thinking, 'This is a good time to try that...'

  At the same time, Ehit resumes his story with a distant look in reminisce, "Like that 'the arrived' including me arrived in this world. At that time we were surprised. After all, this world was so primitive that it shouldn't even be pared with our world. Mighty creatures with special power were running rampant, while mankind was hiding in shadows like caves or holes in the ground while living barely scraping by."

  Then he waves his hand, and I once again feel my body bound by the space around me, giving a ce to the remaining heavenly dragon to hit me with his bzing breath.

  But as the fme breath gets closer, I break free with a burst of my energy, then I will the two tear-shaped shields behio move in front of me, and at the same time, I use Creation Magi them te and ge their shape, transf the shields into a blue bow with ors and grab it with my left hand.

  Then without hesitation, I gather my energy around my right hand, geing a clear blue water-like orb, and quickly take my stand start to pull the string of the bow, turning the energy around my right hand into a clear blue transparent arrow, and aim at the dragon hidden behind the approag azure fmes.

  , I release the arrow and shout, "Diviidal Arrow!!" as soon as the arrow left the bow, millions of trated deyed impacts be seen pushing the arrow to move faster and with even more power with each impact, so much that the arrow disappears from my sight as it moves faster than the speed of light.

  And faster than a blink of ahe approag fmes are blown away, and the Azure Fme Dragon's upper half is basically disied, even the space behind it is torn apart by the force of the arrow.

  As the remains of the st heavenly dragon crumble apart, I nod and think, 'Yup, I still got it! Even if I had my fun with the Tactical Arms and all its forms... I have to admit that I find the cssic bow and arrow way more natural to use. Well, among all the ons I trained with it is the one I liked the most, then add the fact that I dohe Sagittarius Gold Cloth which has stored all the experiences of the previous Sagittarius Saints and used them to teach me the way of the bow... Basically, my mastery of the on has reached a very high level.'

  Meanwhile, Ehit ighe death of his creations and tinues, "In that kind of world, we 'the arrived' decided to cultivate it. We extermihe mohat had lived sint times and granted wisdom to the native people. The small vilge turned into a town before long and then became a city, and then before we realized it had bee a try. At that period we had already been revered as gods. We used the secret teique of the truth and verted the religious faith into power, we attempted to reinford sublimate our soul was also around that period."

  I will my bow to return to its previous shield form, then as they once again slowly rotate behind me, I look at Ehit as he reaches the ending part of his story, " A few thousand years ter after that, this world became greatly developed. But, as though in inverse proportion, one of 'the arrived', and the one more person lost their will to live, regardless of how they had transded the truth of death they eheir own life. I was uo uand that but…the st person who stopped prolonging his life said this: "It's already enough." In the end, the remaining 'arrived' became only me."

  Then I calmly wait for Ehit to finish his story, simply because I'm curious sihis isn't something that I knew as I didn't finish to read Arifureta, "I became the st one, sihen how many months and years had psed then…was it a thousand or five thousand years…I don't remember anymore but, day by day I watched the humans e to me lifting up prayer and , and then one day, suddenly I thought. Let's destroy them."

  I look at Ehit and think, 'So that's it, his attitude is the result of thousands of years of boredom and loneliness... Well, that doesn't make him a victim, just human, a human with way too much power and very evil tendencies, after all, not all bored and lonely people find joy in making others suffer... Some do choose to give in to their worse impulse, like hurting others or themselves, others choose to ge and improve or accept it, and some even choose to simply leave things as they are too afraid of ge... It is all about the individual...'

  While I was thinking that, Ehit shows aatic expression and says, "You uand right? Just like how a man wants to defile a woman, just like how someone wants to step on fresh snow, beautiful things, those precious things that you desperately piled up, give off their true beauty when they are broken. The pleasure you obtained from that is something that is really difficult to be substituted for anything. That time when I trampled everything that I had protected the whole time for several thousand years let me taste unimaginable sweetness. The people screaming, the shriek that asked for help from me…even now, that's the only thing that I remember clearly. Yes, everything is my toy, Irregur!"

  Then his gaze finally returns back from the past as he says, "Even though I have fotten pletely how long I have lived, only the pleasure I felt at that time whehing crumbled is unfettable. Therefore, I decided. That this world is my toy." and hearing that, I think, '...And that firms it... Now I holy say in clear sce that he is rotten to the core... And since I have given a full field test to the Crateris God Cloth to the point that I evehat piece of shit hit me to test the Cloth's defenses, I ow finally remove the padded gloves a serious...'

  Ehit lifts his hand before dropping it quietly pointing at me, and immediately, light swells up explosively from behind him and tless light stars are shot out from the halos like missiles moving in an arch with light trailing behind.

  Seeing that, I simply shake my head and charge forward, and while easily dodging all of Ehit's attacks with minimal movement, I hear Ehit's voie from behind me as he asks in amusement, "What do you think the devil and demi-human are?"

  I quickly take a side step without turning around to dodge Ehit's hand as he tries to touch me.

  I was already prepared for this, as I sensed him telep from his previous position leaving behind two of the three halos as they keep shooting light missiles which are blocked by my shields, leaving only the first one behind his back.

  Then I sense him telep again, and this time, I turn around without hesitation and throunch at the empty space beside me with all my power behind it, and the insta's figure appears at that spot and soon I feel the sensation of my fist hitting the flesh of Ehit's abdomen and say, "I have grown bored of your history lesson..." and with a grin, I look at his shocked expression that quickly twists into one of pain as he is blown aitting a mouthful of blood.

  Ehit quickly regains his footing and I instantly notice that the damage I inflicted is already healed, 'Yue's Automatic Regeion, huh... Of course, if he could create his own perfect body it is natural that he would put that ability into it...'

  At the same time, Ehit teleports once again, and just like before, I'm already starting my terattack before Ehit could start his own attack.

  I take a side step and gather my energy in my left hand and slowly reach with it to grab something, at the same time, Ehit appears and swings down his arm making a sword of light attack me following the trajectory of that arm.

  But before the sword of light could be fully unleashed, my left hand grab it and start freezing it rending it totally harmless, this shocks Ehit once more as teleports back to his previous position to put some distaween us and yells, "H-how is this possible!? How you react so fast to my teleportation!? Besides, this is the Divine Sword, a magic sword that freely trad expand, it also jump through space to attack, and it pee your defense..."

  And with a grin I reply, "It is quite simple... if I know what yoing to do beforehand together with my speed is quite easy to react to it. And the Crateris God Cloth is quite good at predig the future... By the way, didn't you notiything strange going on?"

  Ehit seems a little uled by my previous dispy and fused by my question as he asks, "...What?" with my gaze locked on his figure, my grin grows bigger as I say, "Until now, I mostly stayed on defense aed to your attacks, I ruly itted on attag you..." and as I say this, I enjoy the se of Ehit's eyes opening wide in realization before I finally make my move.

  I fully unleash my speed and move in front of Ehit, and before he could react, I punch him iomach making him spit another mouthful of blood as he leans over in pain, then I say "Let me remind you... You are a no God. Rather, even, pared to the people living in this world, you're weak." in respo tries to teleport away, but I lock the space around us with my energy.

  Realizing this, he yells enraged, "You!? How dare you?" and once agairies to attack me with his Divine Sword but I easily dodge it.

  Then I knee him in the fad tinue, "Yes, your strength, is astonishing pared to most of those you call mortals, in fact, I holy say that you are the stro in this world... But, that's all!"

  And saying this, I start to tinuously hit him as he is uo defend himself, of course, such attacks are mostly useless because his Automatic Regeion keeps healing his wounds, but that doesn't stop them from making him feel pain

  And so as I break, tear, and crush every bone, muscle, nerve, an in his body with my blows with ical precision t as much pain as possible, I tinue, "Inside you, there is no will at all... No will to live, to best others, to kill. There is nothing in you. You are empty. Surely, sihe time the things you have piled up together with your rades were destroyed, you have beey."

  Saying this I stop hitting him, giving time to his Automatic Regeion to restore him to his perfect dition, and soos us.

  But something ged i, now he is starting to look at me in fear, so much that when he meets my gaze, he unsciously takes a step back.

  I look at the still-stun and say, "Your words were loud and clear. In short, you don't learn anything from the past, you ot even endure loneliness, however, you are scared to evehe point is that you are just a spoiled brat right?"

  The snaps bad yells, "Irregur-", and once more, he attacks me with his Divine Sword, but I easily parry it with one of the shields and say, "You talk too much, small fry."

  At the same time, I gather my energy on my right fist which is quickly enveloped in a clear blue water-like orb, then with a pung motion, I shot the orb toward Ehit and yell, "Tidal unch!!" which hits Ehit right iomach making his body bend forward into a ">" shape as he is blown away in a straight line.

  At least until I mutter with a smile, "Boom..." and millions of deyed impacts e out of the water-like orb, orohan the previous one, maki's straight trajectory ge into a chaotic zig-zag one.

  But soo figure disappears as he teleports away from it, esg the tinuous impay teique.

  Because of all this, Ehit's face distreatly as he finally realizes what happened, and with a heart full of humiliation he yells enraged, "You-, your armor, that power-. You bastard, you didn't fight me at full strength!"

  Hearing that, I shrug my shoulder and say, "What kind of gullible fellow would believe his enemy's words? Of course, that was obviously an act... I said it many times... I have fought Gods before, the oh the capital "G" who lived for millions, maybe even billions of years... And you... You are not even close to their level!"

  I look at Ehit and notice that the humiliation of being fooled is clearly oozing out from his face as he finally asks, "Why, only now..." and I calmly reply with, "It was in order to fully test the Crateris God Cloth. After all, this is the first time I wear it... But also to give you a taste of your own medie, after all, when you were sure of your victory you did take your time pying with me, even going as far as calmly narrating your history while fighting..."

  The regains his footing from the shod his expression suddenly ges into one of amusement.

  And then, he instantly invokes a rge-scale space bsting that doesn't even spare himself from being dragged into it.

  The space creaks and the meteor shower that was sweeping over all around starts popping off, but even so, I remain calm in the middle of it, as the Crateris God Cloth protects me from this devastating attack that surprisingly reached the level of power almost equal to Saga or Kanon's Gaxian Explosion.

  Meanwhile, Ehit has returned once more to his throh the three yers of halos behind his back, it seems that he was injured by his own magic but he immediately recovered using Automatic Regeion.

  Ehit looks at me and decres, "Then, whether you are really not misuanding me or not, the might of this true god will ascertain that!"

  And right after that, a blinding light explodes from behind him as the halos are releasing light so intehat be mistaken for a sun, and then, each halo begins to rotate while shining brilliantly.

  Right after that, a very thick beam of light is fired from the halos, which looks exactly like I had imagined some kind of divine punishment would look like, at the same time, Ehit decres in a loud voice, "This ot be avoided you know, Irregur! This light of ruin will tio chase after you forever until you die!"

  And in response, I reply with a fident tone, "I simply don't o dodge it... I'll breakthrough frontally!"

  Then I will the two shields h on my baove in front of me and join together to form a big round shield, then I rush forward as the shield starts to rotate at high speed to divert the force of the ining beam, 'For a moment, I was tempted to use Creation Magic to ge the shield into a drill so that I rush through the beam yelling, "This is the drill that will pierce the Heavens!" and while somewhat fitting, I don't think that Ehit would uand the reference, so I'll just use a simple pin oversized iructible shield.'

  While thinking that, I rush into the deadly light beam of destru, and soon the shield crash into it geing huge ripples that makes the very space around us waver so much that appears on the verge of crag

  The force of this light of destru is truly astonishing, but even so, uhe prote of the shield and of the Crateris God Cloth I'm able to pass through it without receiving any damage, at the same time, I hear Ehit excims, "You are breaking through even this-." and soories to withdraw from that spot by telep.

  But, I quickly read once more seal the space around us, and seeing that, Ehit clicks his tongue in annoyand sees me getting closer, as I break through his st magic, then I see that he immediately ges his pn from "escape" to "intercept."

  He materializes his Divine Sword in one hand and swings it with God's Speed.

  The sword lihat were drawn within an instant easily surpass a hundred, he is seriously serious, this is the full strength of the swordpy of Ehit, but in the end, this also shows his fear as he is just filling the space to the brim with sword sshes to keep me away.

  But I use my faster-than-light speed and my seo the maximum to dodge and pass through this seemingly endless stream of sword sshes and arrive in front of a stun, then without hesitation, I lightly tap his body and use one of the magic I dislike the most, while also being one of my most effective ones, "Pain Overload!!" and look as his expression instantly morphs into one of horrific agony, "――!!" as he raises a soundless scream.

  Then I take advantage of this moment of weako unleash my stroeique, I gather the full power of my energy into my fists that start shining and a clear orb of dark golden water-like energy gathers around them.

  Then I yell, "Divine Maelstrom Punch!!" and faster than the speed of light I hit Ehit with a quick series of punches all over his body, and soon after, an almost infinite number of deyed impacts be seen happening at the same time makis' body bounce around tless times, moreover the power of the shockwaves and impact gets stronger each passing moment and soon I see that space around the body is breaking apart because of the increasing power and number of the shockwaves geed by my teique while the same is happening to his body.

  Then after a few seds of boung around like a crazy flipper ball, Ehit's body totally breaks apart, and a huge shockwave is geed s that for an instant I think that the whole Holy Prects would colpse.

  But luckily that doesn't happen, and soon after, I hear Ehit's enraged voice as a series of light bombardments e rushing toward me from above, "Kill-, kill-, kill-, I'm going to kill you-, Irregurrrr!"

  I look at the in and see Ehit in his Soul Form floating above me, clearly weakened by my st blow, as he is only using this weak magic to attack me despise his clear io kill me.

  Seeing that, I shake my head and say, "It's time to end this... This is the checkmate, small fry..."

  Quickly will the shields to move in front of me while once again transf them into a bow, then I focus my energy, gathering all the cold possible in the shape of a transparent clear ice arrow, that grows colder and colder until it reaches the absolute zero, but I don't stop and using my 8th seo the limit I go even beyond that, the ive Absolute Temperature and I instantly feel my surroundings being affected by it, it feels almost like time and space started to move slower.

  But I do not dwell on such happening and after taking aim, I release the ice arrow while yelling, "Divine Frozen Arrow!!" and look as the released arrow quickly moves toward Ehit, and at the same time, I notice that the arrow is freezing everything it passes by, the light beams, the cracks in the space, even some of the remaining shockwave from my previous attack.

  Soon I hear Ehit's shocked voice as he yells, "Ridiculous-!", as his soul body starts to slow down and freeze as the arrow gets closer, and soon he shrieks in despair "I am-, I am the god!! Irreguaaaaar!!!" and even though there is no face, but it be clearly felt in his tone.

  Ehit right now is showing an expression of terror, a, without a sound the arrow pierces his soul body, and in an instant, it bees a frozen sculpture that starts crumbling the moment.

  After that, I get ready to face what is about to e , but after a few seds of awkward silence, I mutter, "So... Where is the Divine Realm colpse that I was expeg...? Did I finally overe the cliche?"

  Then looking around, I notice the still frozen cracks in the spad realize what is going on, "Ohh...!! That means I have some time before this whole realm colpse... Oh well, let's just move with the up, I wanna go bae!"

  Odyin