"Kill!"
At that moment.
The Seventy-One Great Nightmare Demons' eyes blazed with murderous intent. Empowered by that vast calamity, they bore down on him in a savage hunt.
The dozens of Pillars of Finality standing throughout the void rumbled and reverberated, as though tolling the bells of the apocalypse. Here at the End of Time, their power had also grown enormously.
Lynn held his black blade, his eyes still fixed on the figure upon the Throne.
Those bygone days.
Those memories.
The scenes of reincarnation unfolded before his eyes, one after another.
In truth, it was just as that God King had said. They had always been one person; only fate and forgetting had set the three of them on entirely different paths.
They formed an unbroken chain from the distant past to the present...
Seeking what they could never obtain.
Struggling again and again.
Humm-
He advanced step by step, drawing closer to that figure with every stride.
One step, one kill. The Nightmare Demons he had once been powerless against were now little more than mayflies on the ground before him. Every swing of his blade brought howls of bone-deep agony.
One Nightmare Demon after another fell at his feet and turned to ashes, while his gaze never once strayed from that figure.
At that moment.
In the terror of their final moments, it seemed that what they faced was no longer that Raven.
Instead, it was that ancient figure who stood amid endless time and reincarnation, an insurmountable presence.
He walked a hundred steps.
He crossed the short distance separating him from that figure.
And behind him.
Ashes and corpses littered the ground.
As he sheathed his blade, he raised his head and met the other's gaze across the distance.
"Now, only you and I remain."
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