Chapter 126.6

First World, the Final Day - Part 6

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“Welcome to the 「Asteria」, Dragon...”

The Supreme One spoke anxiously.

“Never did I expect to see you in such a place. How did you get...”

Behind the Dragon stood the Nameless One.

“Hm.”

The Supreme One understood what was going on.

“You want to force us to cooperate, right?”

The dragon, who took a humanoid form, nodded.

“Yes, I want you two to cooperate. I want you two to stop being enemies.”

“Hm,” the Nameless One took a seat opposite the Supreme One.

This place has no matter but that’s not a problem for the Nameless One. He created a seat for himself from the energy.

“Sure.”

Why can I not question you? Two of the oldest beings thought at once.

Why is it they are unable to ask him about who he is? Why should they listen to him? Why are they not hostile towards one another? And why are they agreeing with his proposal?

“Let’s talk, children.”

The Dragon sat on the floor, folding his legs.

Although he had no face, they could feel that he was smiling.

“About what you should do from now on.”

The Nameless One glanced at the Supreme One in a confused manner.

“You had a duty.”

The Dragon turned his face towards the Nameless One, who looked back at him, but was extremely confused.

“Both of you did. But you failed… Well, mostly. You succeeded in achieving the final goal, but I am rather disappointed in your progress.”

He held his index finger at the Nameless One.

“So, you will have to make up for it against a certain enemy.”

Click.

Next to them, a tall green-haired man appeared.

“Aiht, the Negative God.”

The Dragon sounded disappointed.

“Sit.”

The place turned into a square room.

The Nameless One sat at the right side, while the Supreme One was sitting at the left side. The dragon pointed to the empty side, which was opposite him.

“A day will come when this universe will need you. All three of you.”

They wanted to ask more, but they could not.

“You need to battle the great evil besides your greatest creations. She is coming. The Queen is coming. And when she does, you will need to stop her.”

Usually, the Nameless One would have chuckled and left this place. But today was different. He couldn’t do that.

“Until that day, stay here and watch over your creation. Help them instead of standing against them. Help your creations. Nurture them. And have their back.”

Two red eyes flared on the face of the Dragon.

“Because when the time comes, they will need it. They will need you.”

“This is for you, Aiht--”

“I am listening.”

The Dragon paused.

Unlike the other two, he was speaking just fine with the Dragon even though they were under the same restrictions.

“I see.”

He sounded impressed.

“In any case, Nazar will need you,” he glanced at the other two. “All of you.”

“Nazar… huh?” Aiht narrowed his green eyes.

The last thing he remembers is being killed by Nazar.

“Why should I help him?”

The Dragon pressed his back to the wall and breathed out a sigh.

“Yes, you all need to work together. You must work together if you want everything to survive.”

Aiht chuckled.

“And I should help because…?”

He crossed his legs together.

“I think you are mistaken, I wanted to DESTROY it. I won’t save it.”

“Aiht...”

The Dragon spread his arm forward.

He held it at Aiht.

“You are a failure...”

The Dragon spoke in a cold voice.

“Son.”

“....Huh?”

Aiht’s eyes opened wide, so wide he felt like his eyeballs would jump out of its sockets.

Old people tend to call younger people ‘child’ or ‘son’, sometimes as a sign of goodwill but other times, it means they are looking down on this person.

This, however, is different.

Inside his mind, he received new information.

He never cared about his origin, but right now, it seemed the Dragon was his father.

Is this information even correct? Aiht wondered anxiously.

He doesn’t care, but this changes everything for him.

If he really is the son of the Dragon, then he is interested in knowing who this person is and what his true potential is.

Furthermore!

Aiht, the man who can copy any energy he sees and can make it his own, saw the energies of the Dragon and tried to make it his own.

However!

It did not work.

Uneasily, Aiht looked down as he thought.

It has happened once before and that was when he battled Nazar.

This man… He does not seem too powerful. Neither did that human. So, why is it that I cannot copy them?

If he cannot copy their powers, then perhaps he has many limits.

Wait!

Aiht looked up with a confused look on his face.

“What do you mean, you are my father?”

“I created you.”

“...”

His mouth was half-open, he was not sure what to do or say.

“Do you know what 「Absolute Wish」 is?”

Aiht shook his head, but the Nameless One nodded.

“It is the mightest ability, held by a human.”

The Nameless One smiled a proud smile.

However, the moment he noticed that he was smiling, he raised his hand and covered his mouth.

“Only one person in existence can wield that ability and originally, I placed it with you.”

Aiht gulped.

“But you failed. You were not compatible. However, it was a success when I placed it within Nazar… And it worked.”

He glanced at the Nameless One and then the Supreme One, nodding to them.

“I thank you two for experimenting on that human. I was successful because of you two.”

They were confused, but then the Supreme One spoke.

“Now, I understand.”

He sounded defeated.

“I always questioned: why do I want more power? I am the supreme in this so-called existence… But why did I want more power? It did not make sense. It did not make sense why I wanted to reach a greater stage when I was already at the top. But now I understand.”

“Precisely,” the Dragon confirmed.

“Since the day of my creation, I wanted nothing but power… However, the question is; why?”

The Supreme One looked at the Nameless One.

“Did you not feel it before?”

He looked down as he thought.

He was always considered the second, but he really wasn’t. He was on equal terms with the Supreme One.

So why?

“It’s simple; you forced us into this existence,” the Supreme One pointed at the Dragon with his index finger. “You made us so we could create more power-hungry people… but why?”

The Dragon shrugged.

He did not have a face, but all three of them knew one thing; he was smiling smugly.

“To put it simply, a powerful enemy is coming. The moment they reach their goal, you can expect everything to end. So, you must become powerful, more powerful than anyone else to save everything.”

“Why--”

The Dragon raised his hand, stopping the Supreme One from asking a question.

“The enemy is coming for the human named Nazar.”

The Nameless One widened his eyes.

To him, Nazar is nothing more than a weapon.

New feelings grew within him.

The 「Great Destroyer」 felt emotions he had never felt before.

Uneasiness. Uneasiness for the future of his creation.

And the will to protect. The will to protect his creation.

When he retrieved the memories from his older self, he had learned a secret. Nazar became the 「Ultimate Destroyer」.

The Nameless One wanted to destroy everything and stand at the top.

But since his creation - Nazar - reached that status, he doesn’t feel the need to continue with that quest of his anymore.

Nazar looks like him.

There is no need for me to reach that status. The Nameless looked down as he thought.

So!

I want to protect that status of yours. I want to protect you.

“I told him this earlier and I say it to you too… Things are going to get hard for him and all of you. Pain, suffering and destruction follow. So, I am entrusting the fate of everything in the hands of you three and that human.”

The Dragon told them that.

He told them the truth.

These three beings will work together for a long time but fail.

The second timeline will get destroyed.

Three of the most powerful beings will lose their memories of this meeting.

However, the Dragon made sure of one thing; get more powerful, no matter what and work together.

In every timeline, they will be brought together through a message which they wish to decipher.

But every time, they will fail.

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Outside of creation, the Dragon was flying towards a certain place at his fastest speed. He was so fast, he could travel to every corner of an infinitely big multiverse in an instant, faster than teleportation.

But suddenly, two red flaring eyes appeared in front of him, stopping his movement.

“Ohohoho. Look who it is?”

The white-haired and red-eyed man spoke in a teasing manner.

“I was not expecting to see the Dragon. Oh my, what a surprise.”

The Dragon clicked his tongue mentally.

He wanted to say, How can you not know where I am? How can you be surprised about anything?

But he kept his mouth shut.

“Arosus.”

The most powerful being in creation who holds Nazar’s omnipotent power.

“Did you hear everything I just told them?”

Arosus threw away his teasing look and narrowed his eyes.

“Are you going to keep the original history a secret?”

In return, the Dragon nodded.

“But of course.”

“Hmm.”

Arosus tied his hands behind his back.

“What if they question: why were we power-hungry in the original creation?”

Arosus walked around the Dragon in circles.

“Are you ready to tell them the truth about how much of a power-hungry bastard you were too? A power-hungry god, no? How you wanted to be omnipotent too?”

He ground his teeth in response to Arosus.

YOU AND YOUR LIMITLESS KNOWLEDGE!

Teasingly, Arosus smiled thinly.

“Ahhh, me and my limitless knowledge, I know.”

The Dragon clicked his tongue mentally.

This man is very troublesome, so he always tries to avoid him no matter what it costs him.

“Oh!”

With an excited look, he stood before the Dragon again.

“Will you tell Nazar about the original creation?”

“Will you?”

Arosus shook his head furiously.

“Of course, not.”

The Dragon nodded.

“Precisely, so why should I tell him?”

It was the right question to ask.

Why should the Dragon tell Nazar and not Arosus who is very close to Nazar?

“I don’t know,” Arosus shrugged while pouting his lips in a sulking manner, “I thought you had changed.”

“Hah,” the Dragon chuckled.

It is said, people change over time.

But that couldn’t be more false when it comes to these people.

Having lived for billions upon billions of years, yet they don’t change.

It is quite simple, there is no one else to tell him that they are wrong. And they consider themselves above the concept of right and wrong.

“The old creation is dead, let’s leave it at that. If he wants to learn the true history, then, by all means, he can.”

Arosus listened very seriously to the thin voice of the Dragon.

“But of course, he would need to take his place as the true God of this creation. If not...”

The Dragon paused for a moment as he recalled the events which transpired since Nazar became the omnipotent God.

“He perverted not only this new creation, but us too. He perverted the new creation to make himself a tragic hero and to allow his current self to have a more explainable power and origin. It is to let him have a better life.”

Arosus nodded in agreement.

He knows.

“He doesn’t deserve it, but after all he has been through, I guess I can let him be. I don’t think he needs to know about my involvement in his origin. For now, that is.”

“Oh?”

"Soon, he will know. Soon, I will tell him and..."

The Dragon’s tone turned sinister.

“It will be interesting to see his reaction, no?”

“But why did you leave a sliver of your seed inside his mind?”

The Dragon was taken back.

He was not expecting Arosus to know that.

But he had come too far. He can’t hide it anymore.

“It will grow into a beautiful personality which would want him to take his place again.”

“And?”

Arosus knew there was more.

He wanted the Dragon to admit to him for his own reasons.

The Dragon noticed that but he did not want to hide it.

“To mess with his life.”

“Ahhh.”

Arosus nodded.

“Mmm.”

Arosus thought and thought.

Should he save his creator? Or should he let the Dragon have his way?

“You are going to stop me?”

Arosus shook his head after a moment of thinking, “Of course, not.”

“Good,” the Dragon felt relaxed.

Arosus, however, was not so relaxed.

“You...”

Arosus paused for a moment.

He wondered if he should ask the question that has been bugging him for a long time.

“Ask, please.”

Arosus smiled forcefully.

“Your ultimate goal…”

He knows the answer already, but he wants to confirm it again.

“It is to die, no?”

The Dragon nodded without hesitation.

“Indeed.”

Arosus smiled bitterly.

“I see, I see...”

The Dragon continued.

“And I will achieve my goal soon.”

His voice was brimming with confidence.

“Very soon.”