Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 421 - 44: Slaying the Starship, Ascending the Celestial Vault! (Final)
Everything around turned into the dead silent Realm of Annihilation.
After the fusion of the Annihilation Plane, which Duncan held like a figurine, the avatar of the Steel Angel entered His domain together.
The form of Human Form No. 1 changed once again, appearing less human and more like a half-dragon, half-giant figure, with prominent head and horns, a draconic visage, with even parts of the skin seeming to be faintly covered in fine dragon scales.
A gigantic magic vortex stirred the magic power across the entire Annihilation Plane. Although the Immortal presented a Berserker-like stance, the Mana Pool he possessed was no weaker than that of a Legendary Wizard.
"Dragon?"
"Infernal Plane?"
The silhouette of the Steel Angel slowly emerged from the crumbling mountain peak. His voice was not a cold mechanical sound but more like that of a ruthless warrior who had crawled out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He gazed at Duncan before him and slowly said, "Demon God from another world, why have you involved yourself in the conflicts of this place?"
This was His first time speaking; He hadn’t spoken even when confronting the Balancer of All Things - Panosis earlier, which indicated that the true consciousness of the Steel Angel had come online.
"Why?"
Duncan’s expression was indifferent, calmly saying, "Perhaps for power, for a divine position, or to fulfill the commission of the world’s will."
"Besides, you’ve turned the world into this mess."
"I truly don’t like it."
The Steel Angel heard this and was silent for a moment. The plasma lightsaber in His hand gradually took form, and the blade wings behind Him knocked away countless boulders lifted by the raging wind. He said in a deep voice, "This is merely a price that must be paid for promotion!..." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
Price?
What price?
Duncan laughed, with sarcasm, "Who pays the price? The entire planet? All living things? Countless mortals?"
"Why can’t it be you paying the price?"
"What burdens have you borne? What have you sacrificed?"
"Have you carried the world’s evil? Or endured the backlash of all spirits?"
"I see your avatars, quite noble and righteous!"
"It seems like this world has been turned into such a mess, and you guardian angels don’t bear a bit of responsibility, each avatar blazing with brilliant light!"
"Tsk tsk."
"I’ve been to quite a few places."
"Never before have I seen someone turn the whole world into an apocalypse, yet still manage to gather such a gloriously grand avatar image!"
Wasn’t there a saying in a past life?
Something like, ’consumed by luxury, disassociated from global warming’s blame.’
The world’s causality of sin is attributed to the Mechanical Divine Sect, yet it seems they somehow evaded the Law of Cause and Effect, shifting the world’s evil onto countless living beings. In any case, these guardian angels’ avatars are all shining with white spiritual light, and yet Duncan’s body is enveloped in a blood-red spiritual light, looking utterly evil.
This is because they defined the order of the world; they decide who the evil is.
The spiritual light, this stuff, somewhat resembles good and evil camps.
Steel Angel has a glowing, brilliant white spiritual light, synonymous with the Order Camp, and also the Good Camp, while Duncan is covered in blood light, unmistakably the Evil Camp, the classic look of an Evil God.
They have defined the order of good and evil.
So if they say someone is an evil god, that’s what it is.
The Steel Angel’s expression grew increasingly grave upon hearing this, realizing the enemy could indeed glimpse the world’s causal laws and the root laws after altering order; he was more powerful than imagined.
This wasn’t just any ordinary evil god; it required a heavy hand!
"If I’m not mistaken."
"You’ve locked the path to promotion for mortals and altered the root laws of order and good and evil."
Duncan’s expression grew more indifferent, with even a hint of mockery, playfully stating, "In a normal world, whoever causes an apocalypse bears the burden of the world’s evil by the Law of Cause and Effect."
"The all-conscious spirits would curse you!"
"But there’s not a bit of it on you."
"So then."
"Where is the world’s evil? It can’t all be on the God of Machinery, can it?"
The living beings cannot bear such a large burden of blame!
Even if there are billions of mortals, they cannot bear such evil!
In the old days, many divine spirits were twisted into Ancient Hatred, but only one existence could bear such an immense evil.
Chances are it was the God of Ten Thousand Machines who died an inexplicable death!
A Cup of Blood emerged in Duncan’s palm, filled not only with the original magic power but also with murky dark red liquid, like semi-coagulated blood, infused with the scent of sin.
He was the King of Kings, Emperor of the Empire, one of the framers of worldly order, who personally ushered the Enlightenment Era, letting the ignorant Dark Ages pass away. Such an Immortal should not have just arrived to then become part of the Evil God Camp, and what Duncan had done should not be considered truly of an evil god nature.
But now, he indeed was an evil god.
Even the concentrated sin of the million deaths in Nest City fell upon him.
— "The world’s evil (Cup of Blood) (Law of Cause and Effect): The root law of the Third World has been altered and distorted, forcibly placing the world’s sin onto other entities like divine-like power and living beings. The altered Law of Cause and Effect assigns your advent as the source of all evil, with billions of lives’ deaths deemed yours to bear causality."
(You transform into the Crowned Berserker Tier!)
(Unyielding Frenzy significantly enhanced!)
Wasn’t the person not killed by me?
From the beginning of the tens of thousands of deaths in Area F46, the world’s evil inexplicably shifted onto Duncan.
Those old gods probably bore so much sin upon themselves already, that adding another two hardly felt burdensome, being akin to how some say debt doesn’t weigh heavily when there’s a lot of it.
