Chapter 50 Stagnation and Corruption, Rebirth and Destruction
With End’s actions, brilliant sword light erupted from the long sword, like a beam tearing through the sky, piercing through time and space like destructive radiance, as if frozen in the eternal river!
The Giant King, whose right leg had been severed, slowly raised his head in the frozen time. Ig lowered his pupils slightly and tilted the long sword in his hand, condensing eternal sword light and unleashing it towards the giant’s chest.
Ig did not believe that his sword strike was enough to destroy the Demon Race Monarch before him, who was still legendary and practically immortal with his endless life. Therefore, the swinging sword light still pointed towards the wound of the Sacred Sword sealed on his chest.
In an instant, the radiant sword light swept across all of time and space! Amplifying the sword’s power, it unleashed a devastating blow.
Anrijel, who had been heavily struck and thrown to the ground, propped herself up with her small hands, slightly lifting her head. She saw the sky covered by Ig’s End burst of sword light, and the Giant King frozen beneath the sword light. Her slender eyelashes gently closed, and a hint of pity appeared in her crystal clear eyes.
The eternal sword light descended through the gaps in time. The Giant King’s body trembled, his practically immortal physical body dissolving. The sword edge pointed directly at the Sacred Sword’s mark on his chest. The eternal sword light erased the immortal seal, the wisps of light rays wavered, touching the lingering traces of the sealed Sacred Sword.
It was as if a blazing golden eternal Sacred Sword was released within the Giant King’s body. The power of the Sacred Sword was re-activated, and radiant light descended. Even a partially released Sacred Sword’s power split and tore the Giant King’s body apart.
However, at this moment, the Giant King’s flesh and blood shattered. The extremely potent darkness contained within, akin to a collapsing star river, caused Ig’s pupils to contract. A beam of light, like a black hole, tore through the sword light and struck the eternally descending End.
The dense darkness almost extinguished the light in an instant!
“This is—”
Ig’s pupils widened in shock. Endless darkness obscured End, and he could barely control the “Eternity” he carried on his long sword.
He suddenly remembered that this one-eyed Giant King, with his single eye, also possessed the talent to see the future and discern the truth!
“Such a sword, to try and bear eternity with light… Human, you are quite good. Although, this is not true ‘Eternity.’ This is the closest moment to eternity I have ever witnessed in my life. Even His Majesty the Demon King does not compare to you.”
The Giant King’s shattered voice slowly resounded in the churning time. “It’s just a pity that your realm is not yet sufficient. If you truly reached the legendary realm and grasped the laws, my darkness alone would not be enough to extinguish your light.”
The sound shattered the sky. In an instant, the endless darkness churned, and the sword light that had frozen the entire time and space wavered uncontrollably, shattering inch by inch on the Giant King’s body!
Light extinguished, eternity shattered.
The awakened power of the Sacred Sword continued to destroy the Giant King Sum’s flesh and life force. However, under the destructive sword light, the dismembered body of the Giant King slowly stood up. On his face, his perpetually closed, tree-trunk thick eye finally opened completely.
What remained in the world was still the Giant King’s single eye belonging to the dark giant. However, what lingered in his eye was pure darkness, pure destruction!
“This, this…”
Anrijel, watching from the side, widened her eyes. Her tender little face was filled with panic. The moment the Giant King opened his single eye, she felt a presence she hadn’t felt in a hundred years, yet it seemed rooted in her bloodline.
—That was the aura of the Demon Realm!
But the dark Demon Realm presented before her eyes now seemed fractured, with unimaginable scenes of collapse and destruction appearing!
“Could this be the memory of the Demon Realm’s destruction that Sum saw and sealed in his eyes back then?”
Anrijel strained her eyes open wider. Her already pale little face, due to her injuries, turned even paler. Her little head couldn’t help but consider this possibility.
The girl propped herself up with her small hands, gripping the scythe of death, her teeth clenched tightly. She wanted to stand up, but just a ripple spreading into the real world struck her frail, young body, shattering her domain of death and throwing her slender form heavily to the ground.
In mid-air, the darkness shot from the Giant King’s single eye was like a beam, encompassing the eternally shattered Ig.
What appeared in Ig’s eyes was a realm of silent annihilation. Space decayed, laws withered here. Even if endless amounts of the same darkness rapidly deteriorated, collapsing planes were like the annihilation of the last spark of heat in the universe, followed by eternal cold and silence.
“Is this, the memory of the Demon Realm’s shattering?”
Ig also came to this conclusion. He tried to swing his long sword with all his might, but his demonic power and comprehension of laws were rapidly declining. End, in the crumbling space, drew out a burst of firelight, which was extinguished in a moment. The decay of a world’s destruction rapidly spread upwards.
After being severely wounded by the residual power of the Sacred Sword within him, the memory of the Demon Realm’s destruction sealed in the Giant King Sum’s single eye was his true trump card!
To be drawn into it was to truly experience the destruction of the Demon Realm. Even immortal beings like Sum himself and Meddanzo were reduced to mortals, let alone Ig at the moment.
The decay and destruction of the shattered world almost spread through his flesh and blood. In Ig’s heart, a verdant divine radiance lit up. Brilliant life divine power, like a seed falling into a sea of stars, instantly proliferated, growing into an ocean of life, resisting the encroaching darkness.
“Veer, did you leave this for me?”
Ig thought in his mind. He touched it slightly with his fingertips, able to feel the girl’s gentle concern. That was the purest origin of life, something extremely precious even to gods.
Even the aftermath of a shattered world, the corruption of a universe’s destruction, could not penetrate the essence of life. Furthermore, Ig knew that as long as he touched it, he could easily obtain the law of life. Verafia’s gift was enough for him to easily advance to the legendary realm, and even touch the domain of immortality!
As if seeing the girl’s cute and beautiful little face, Ig couldn’t help but smile. However, he did not accept it. He placed his hand on the origin of life, slowly moved it, and after losing the protection of life, the world’s dying decay poured into his body.
The origin of life held in his hand emitted bright light, striving to resist the decay that could annihilate a world for Ig. Even so, his life decayed at an unimaginable speed. His flesh and blood withered under the ripples of destruction, leaving only a flickering candle flame.
However, his eyes became brighter and brighter. In his True Eye, the silent darkness turned into a blazing white.
The End long sword was suddenly raised. The breath of decay lingered, but it was instantly ignited by the blazing flames.
“What is called eternity is merely a snapshot of a moment’s time… that should be called stagnation.”
“Stagnation breeds corruption. So-called gods, claiming immortality, even light and darkness, will end in destruction… How can this be true eternity?”
Ig gradually pulled out his sword. He was experiencing death, rebirth, decay, and destruction.
Finally, like the blazing flames ignited on his sword, light and shadow transformed, giving rise to destruction and rebirth.
Ig suddenly smiled. The vision in his True Eye shattered.
In the eternal silence, a resounding hum was born. The broken sword blade, with a single slash, the radiant light easily cut through the dark memory.
