Thus the Boy Runs Through the Labyrinth ~The Story of an Ordinary Boy Who Ended Up Punching Heroes, Demon Lords, and Even Gods~ – Chapter 713

Under a sky that felt like it could shatter at any moment.

Upon the Ark, a ship of salvation that had protected humanity for a thousand years.

The Ash King and the God of Creation clashed, staking the fate of the world’s end and beginning.

“Don’t… get in my WAYEEEE!!!” Israelia Granstar roared, filled with rage. He unleashed his power, freely manipulating the cursed magic power that spilled from his eyes. This was the power of a man who had created a world. Even compared to when the Giant God was still alive, his power intensified, and the shockwaves alone were enough to shatter his countless angels.

“Father!”

“Who do you call Old Humanity?!”

However, Ul did not yield an inch against his power.

He ran across the path that had been laid out. Devouring the countless prayers and curses entrusted to him and that had gathered, he pressed onward. He pierced through the Vortex of Destruction unleashed by the Creator and charged straight at the god.

“My name is Ul, Israelia!!!”

Power exploded. With the sound of an immense magic power barrier shattering, his spear embedded itself in Israelia’s body. Not flesh and blood, but light spilled out. Ul couldn’t tell if it was damaging him, but it didn’t matter.

There was no time to confirm the effectiveness of his attacks.

If they wouldn’t work, he would simply unleash all of them!

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!”

Naturally, his opponent was not defenseless.

He forcefully pushed back the Dragon Slayer that was biting into his arm, digging into it, with sheer strength alone. Then, raising his other palm, he aimed it at Ul. A pillar of light and heat struck Ul.

“Gah!?”

It was an emission of energy, a pure concentration of destructive power, far from the precise sorcery he had wielded moments before. It was akin to a dragon’s roar, but its might was on an entirely different level. Both the nullification of Ash Flame and the frenzy of Lust were no match for it, and Ul was knocked away…

“Silver Thread!”

Just before that, he was caught by a net of silver thread.

“Lord Ul!”

But there was no time to thank her as the follow-up of light relentlessly poured down. Ul gritted his teeth and escaped. He ran across the mechanical shells again, but the pillars of light continued to descend without mercy.

“Don’t aim for Ul!”

Eschel deployed a dark dragon, as if to protect him, and consumed the attack. Ul felt a sense of reliance on its great voracity, which could even overcome a god. However…

“Guh!?”

Light spilled from the belly of the dark dragon that had consumed the light. Breaking through, a light like a swarm of insects that Eschel had previously devoured emerged. Ul scowled.

“He’s already started countering the Usurpation…! Eschel, get away—Ugh!”

Just as he was about to tell her to get away because it was dangerous, a tackle blasted into his stomach. He saw Eschel, looking utterly indignant, glaring at him with all her might.

“Ugh—!”

“Alright, I was completely in the wrong! Protect me! Strike it back before it devours me!”

“Roger!”

Even as he spoke, attacks came flying. Ul desperately moved his legs, continuing to run across the mechanical shells with Eschel in his arms, while Eschel ceaselessly repelled the light descending from above. As Israelia’s posture wavered slightly in response to her counterattack, a golden figure leaped.

“Magic Sever—guh!”

A black sword flash that could kill even a god.

A supreme technique that had continued to cleave through calamities countless times up to this day. Yet, even that could not reach him, a Creator. Countless magic barriers precisely reshaped themselves, halting its advance without touching the blade.

“At this point! With something like THAT!!”

His eye, a Waste Vent, widened and glared at Diz, who was unable to move. A blinding light was about to be unleashed.

“Diz!!!”

Before that, a scarlet spirit leaped from the silver threads spun by Shizuku, becoming a blade to protect Diz. It decayed the released light with the power of Scarlet End, protecting Diz. However, even so, the power continued unabated, burning and blowing them both away.

“Noah!!!”

“Building…!”

As if to catch them, a Path was deployed. Along with layers of mechanical shells, it absorbed and nullified the impact, simultaneously deploying an accelerator that amplified their power.

“Use it, Diz!!”
“Yeah! Akane!!”
“Alright!!”

The golden figure charged again. But this time, it was far sharper, faster, like a shooting star. And wielding her partner, the scarlet spirit, as a sword, she swung it.

“Divine Severance·Scarlet End!!!”

“Guh Aah!?”

The blade cleaved through the barrier, and this time, it tore into the god’s flesh. Light, like blood, spilled out again, but Diz wore a bitter expression.

“Even this is still tough…!”
“Disappearrrr!!”

Still, the god did not crumble. Diz was knocked down again by the returning blade.

Israelia’s condition was also unstable. He was clearly in an abnormal state, pushing himself beyond his limits, yet he was still maintaining his condition. Ul and the others were keenly aware of what a monster the man who had once reigned alone within the Ark and created a world was.

“Path operational limit… approaching!”
“Me too, I guess!”

They had repeated this life-or-death struggle, as if the world were flipping over, two, three, four times. Their limits had long been surpassed, and there wasn’t a single part of their bodies that didn’t hurt. If only they could close their eyes and sleep right now!

And of course, it wasn’t just him and Noah. Shizuku, Diz, everyone here was the same.

Their limits had been surpassed long ago.

Yet, not a single one of them stopped. Not a single one gave up.

They continued to run and shout, resisting before the God of Creation who had created the world.

“Why…?”

Israelia asked. Light spilled from all over his body instead of blood as he glared straight ahead. More than pain, his expression showed a profound sense of incomprehension.

“Why do you fight… to this extent?”

Even as he shouted this, more attacks came. The angels scattered around gathered and prepared to assault Ul all at once, but Sua and the others held them back. Spirits emitting various kinds of radiance were struck down and burned by the god-like angels. Still, their brilliance never faded.

While the spirits suppressed them, Gronzon and J-Star pierced, shattered, and tore through the angels.

“What are you protecting in this flawed world?!”

The remaining angels gathered and formed a ring. They dissolved their forms to create a massive sorcery. The Genesis Sorcery, previously created by the Giant God, was generated in multitudes, unleashing light one after another.

Eshel caught all of them and devoured them one by one, returning them. Simultaneously, a distant roar of white and blue from Uuga utterly annihilated the remaining angels.

“We’re not trying to ‘protect’ anything with arrogance…!”

Ul ran and shouted, seizing the opening his companions had created. Even breathing hurt his entire body now. It was a chore to even speak.

But he felt he had to say it.

“We’re just blessed to have people who walk with us…!!”

He ran through, piercing and shattering angels wielding golden swords, and thrust his spear into the shining heart of the god. Gritting his teeth against the incredibly strong magic barrier, Ul appealed as he shouted.

“You were like that too, weren’t you?!”

It was a conviction.

Even after a thousand years, Zain and the others were trying to fulfill their promise with Israelia.

And not only that. All the power present here was the result of various prayers and curses extending from a thousand years ago to today.

He was convinced that this was what had propelled them this far.

The Creator, this world’s father, who acted as if he didn’t notice, was simply too pathetic.

“Silence.”

At Ul’s shout, Israelia’s anger flared. His face contorted, and he roared.

“Waste Vent… Congealed Part Open…!”

“Wha!?”

The next moment, his eye’s pupil widened. An enormous amount of black magic power spilled out, and Ul was blown away. Creating distance, he looked forward as black magic flowed from the Waste Vent into Israelia. It was the accumulated faith in negative emotions, previously concentrated in the Moon God, but that was merely a brush with magic power before it was discarded into the Waste Vent. Deeper still, a portion of the true, solidified negative emotions was loosened and poured in. The incredibly malicious magic power was released, and while glowing black, it transformed and enhanced the Creator’s body.

“OOOOOOOOH…!!!”

It was too distorted, too ugly, and too precarious.

The cracks in his body, already injured from the battle so far, deepened further. He was barely maintaining a human form. Filled with an intent to erase them, without regard for his own existence, he condensed power of equal or greater magnitude.

“Father!!!!”

Seeing this, Noah, from within his ring, cried out in a voice on the verge of tears. It was sadness, pain, and unbearable anguish. Such a child’s cry filled the space, but he still did not stop.

“Don’t worry, Noah.”

However, Ul was not in a hurry. Even if he were, he had no means to stop it now. Everyone else had already exhausted their stamina and could no longer act nimbly.

Except for one.

“I’m counting on you.”

The next moment, the azure-haired girl leaped down in front of Ul.

Amidst the fierce battle, only Yuri understood her role, endured, and conserved her remaining sliver of strength. Then, she tilted her head slightly towards Ul and whispered pleadingly.

“Don’t look away.”
“Naturally.”

After that brief exchange, Yuri ran along the deployed path. Ul, without taking his eyes off her, drew power from within himself.

“Wish, yearn, star of desire.”

From the Dragon King’s body, power overflowed.

Just as Lust and Wrath had done, a dragon manifested. The weakest, most terrifying, and most formidableamong the Seven Dragons, the Dragon of Greed, clung to the Ash King and spoke.

“Quite a big job right after waking up, aren’t you?”
“It’s no problem for you, is it?”

Ul said with an exasperated tone, and Greed chuckled, seemingly delighted.

“You overestimate me. Well, I suppose I can accept it.”

Then, Greed melted back into the Ash King’s body, drawing out all of her authority and transferring it to him. The authority possessed by the Dragon of Greed was the weakest among the dragons, yet it was the most needed power at this moment.

“It’s fun standing on this side, too?”

Namely, the liberation of the Evil Eye’s power.

“Here we go, Yuri—Ana!”

Ul’s deep emerald Evil Eye, blessed by Greed, reached its extremity.

The emerald power that governed destiny swirled and took form.

For a fleeting moment, its brilliance gently embraced Ul as if with affection, and then it moved towards his sword as he ran along the Path. Ul smiled, a hint of happiness and sadness in his expression, and then… he looked only forward.

“Chaos. Guide my blade.”

His vision, his consciousness, everything was focused solely on her.

“I am the sword that severs all.”

With that power, Yuri ran.

The prayers and wishes of past Heavenly Swords, the power that had gathered, took form at their Master’s command. Gripping a sword where the clear blue light that governed the heavens and chaos overlapped, Yuri looked ahead.

“Waste Vent · Space Collapse.”

The darkness unleashed by the Creator, Israelia Granstar, the most precarious and malevolent condensation of humanity’s negative emotions in this world. A black light, as if resonating with Israelia’s own will to permit no existence, was unleashed silently. Even before a power that would make one tremble and shatter their heart just by looking at it, Yuri did not waver in the slightest. She remained unchanged. Having appointed herself as the sword, she merely poured what she could do into that sword.

“Termination · Azure Verdure.”

The verdure that captured chaos and the azure that cleaved it fulfilled their Master’s command and pierced the deepest darkness.

***

The two fulfilled their roles.

Before Ul could even witness it, he was already moving.

He had the conviction that they would undoubtedly succeed.

Ul ran along the Path that Yuri had opened, leading to Israelia.

“Path operational limit—”

However, the limit arrived not for Ul himself, but for the Path he was using as footing.

It was only natural.

It wasn’t fragile. Purely, it had been overused. It was originally the ultimate weapon for the two who had become gods. It was never designed to be pushed this far against a true god.

With loud noises and sparks, the propulsion system shattered.

“—!!”

Even understanding this, Ul stepped forward.

Even if the path crumbled and broke, his objective remained the same.

And as long as he didn’t stop moving—

“End Imitation / Death Sentinel King.”

—A new path was created.

Shizuku gave form to the feelings left in her soul. White and silver light took the form of Death Sentinels, and then transformed into a Path for Ul to run on.

Of course, it was merely a base with no sorcery inscribed on it, but—

“Rine!”

“—Very well.”

Rine, summoned by Eschel through Teleportation, connected.

“Path · Sorcery Design Reproduction.”

Rine quickly inscribed sorcery onto the reproduced Death Sentinel path. And then—

“May the Sun God be with Ash Flame!”
“May the Moon God be with Ash Flame!”

The two Heroes provided the power supporting the Ash King from both sides.

“May the path exist beyond the wilderness carved by our King!”

On the reconstructed path, the Ash King raced forward.

“Akane!!”
“Let’s go, brother!!”

The Dragon Fang Spear and the Dragon Slayer.

Crimson light bound the two different spears into one. A great spear, immense and malevolent, yet beautiful, cloaked in crimson and ash flames, which humanity could never wield, was gripped tightly by Ul.

“Scarlet End · Ash God Spear!”

The dragon spear imbued with Scarlet End, while burning away the countless attacks still being launched, charged straight forward.

“God Piercer!”

The world shattered again.

He shattered, one by one, the myriad of barriers that rejected everything, obstructing the space between Ul and IsraeliaGranstar. With each shattering, fierce light tore into Ul’s body. Yet, he did not hesitate, stepping forward one by one.

“I was wrong.”

Amidst all this, a voice was heard.

“I was wrong! They were! Humanity! The World! The Ark—I was!!!!”

It was a voice filled with utterly painful anger and sorrow. Like a crying child—

“I must be punished!!!!”

Ul responded to those words.

The sound and light were immense. The world itself seemed distorted by the shock.

“But if you regretted it with a voice as if you were dying—”

Ul continued to speak, even when he couldn’t see his own face or the other’s, unable to see or hear clearly.

To that soul, still seeking salvation after a thousand years—

“For goodness sake! Forgive yourself…!!”

—He shouted, not to condemn, not to cast away, but simply to accept. And then,

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

—

His spear pierced Israelia’s heart, the eye that defiled the world.

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