I Became the Youngest Prince in the Novel-279 - The End and a New Beginning
TL/Editor: raei
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When a question's power disappears, the power it granted should also vanish.
This was natural.
Without cause, there could be no effect.
But Zion was different.
Black Star Force had existed within him in complete form from the start, so its power couldn't vanish just because the question's ability disappeared.
Moreover, when Zion temporarily reached divinity, he had used the Authority of Return to Void to completely erase all remaining seals on Black Star Force, allowing him to maintain 9 stars.
This was possible because it was power he had possessed from the beginning.
He had only pretended to lose his power when the question's ability ended, both to send back the 'restriction' and to prepare for a situation like this.
"How is this possible..."
Luminus and the other gods' eyes filled with shock.
The moment they saw the nine stars rising in his eyes, they knew.
The Emperor hadn't lost his power since his battle with the Demon King.
Including this end of the world.
The entire world was sinking around this Emperor.
The world's brightness dimming.
Void revealing itself.
Even fate twisting.
Things impossible unless the Emperor before them had reached mythical status.
"How... how did you maintain this level?"
Zion grinned at the God of Light's trembling question.
"That's not important. What matters is that you're all about to hand over every bit of causality you possess."
His voice was languid.
But unlike his tone, the level emanating from Zion soared endlessly higher.
'We cannot win.'
The thought arose simultaneously in Luminus and Loki's minds.
They would lose.
Absolutely lose.
They didn't need to fight to know.
If battle broke out now, their defeat would come swiftly.
'Is something like this... truly possible?'
Luminus and Loki were high-ranking divine beings.
Existences a step above mid-ranking divinities who typically presided over individual worlds.
Yet even they were completely overwhelmed by mere echoes of the level flowing from this Emperor.
They couldn't comprehend it.
How could high-ranking gods be paralyzed before a being who had just reached divinity, unable to move a finger - even if he was from the 'Outside'?
'He wasn't this strong even when facing the Demon King...'
This level matched or exceeded even the highest-ranking divine beings.
Warning bells rang relentlessly in their minds.
Though they kept trying to draw power from their traits-derived authorities to escape this situation, it was useless.
As if everything in this world had already fallen into the Emperor's grasp.
'But... we still can't just hand over causality.'
The Emperor already showed such power - they couldn't even imagine what calamity he might become if he obtained their causality too.
Moreover, this had already been decided by the 'Fate's Constellation,' the council of highest-ranking divine beings.
They absolutely could not back down.
"GRRR!"
WHOOSH!
Final authorities burst from Luminus and Loki's bodies like death throes, managing to push back Zion's 'Return to Void' ever so slightly.
"Good choice."
The smile on Zion's lips deepened as he watched.
Just as the battle between Emperor and gods was about to begin-
"How about we stop here?"
A voice reached their ears.
How long had he been there?
As Zion turned toward the voice, he saw a man watching them with unreadable eyes.
A man with unremarkable features except for black hair and black eyes.
But-
'Who is he?'
Zion's eyes shone with deep intrigue as he watched the man.
Even with his perception at 9 stars of Black Star Force, he hadn't noticed the man's presence at all until he spoke.
Moreover, though he sensed no particular power from the man, Zion's senses were more alert than ever.
As if facing an apex predator.
Unlike Zion-
"B-Battle God!!!"
The other gods' faces had gone beyond shock to pure white.
This was natural.
Battle God Yeon.
The man before them was one of the two strongest beings in the entire universe, standing above even the highest-ranking divine beings.
Moreover, he was a 'Judge' who possessed the power of conclusion that could close this universe - truly a transcendent existence even among divine beings.
"I got a bit lost since this is my first time in this world, but seems I arrived just in time."
The Battle God spoke to Zion, unconcerned with the gods' reactions.
"Are you the one from the 'Outside'?"
"..."
The Battle God smiled slightly at Zion, who watched him with calm eyes without answering.
"I roughly understand the situation. These ones broke their contract, right? I'll apologize on their behalf."
With these words, the Battle God slightly bowed his head toward Zion.
"...!"
Luminus and Loki's shock deepened further.
As far as they knew, the Battle God had never bowed or apologized to anyone before.
"So can you let this pass? We're short on high-ranking gods right now. And we'll need them in the future, even if their judgment is poor."
Zion didn't miss the faint light that appeared and vanished in the Battle God's eyes when he said 'in the future.'
"Of course, I'm not asking you to just let it go. Along with the causality these ones were supposed to give you..."
The Battle God produced two strangely shaped flowers.
"I'll give you these. They might not seem reliable since they were bloomed by someone who just became a 'Creator,' but the causality they contain should be genuine, probably."
"U-Udumbara!"
The gods' expressions went from shock to deathly pale.
Space-Rising Flower Udumbara.
Known in legend as a flower that blooms once every 3,000 years, it actually bloomed far less frequently and was a divine flower containing enough causality to elevate a mortal being to divinity.
"No! Battle God! If you give him both our causality and those flowers, a being surpassing even existing universal calamities might be born. Not giving causality was already decided by 'Fate's Constellation'..."
"That changed."
The Battle God cut off Luminus's cry.
"All the gods at 'Fate's Constellation' agreed to hand over causality."
"What do you mean..."
The God of Light's eyes turned blank.
Just recently, the highest-ranking divine beings had been adamantly opposed.
How had they all changed their minds in such a short time?
External force must have intervened.
And the only beings who could pressure highest-ranking divine beings who presided over the entire universe were...
'The Battle God before us, and... the Creator.'
Most likely both had moved.
The question was why they had made this decision.
Whether aware of the gods' complex thoughts or not, the Battle God quietly waited for Zion's decision.
After some time passed-
"Alright."
A short answer flowed from Zion's lips.
From his perspective, it was an offer with no downsides.
He would gain far more causality than he had planned to steal.
'I was a bit annoyed about having to kill them right now anyway.'
With this thought, Zion glanced at Luminus and Loki.
While Loki didn't matter, destroying Luminus, who was essentially this world's main god, without preparation might send the world he had saved back toward destruction.
"Thank you for accepting."
As the Battle God handed over the Udumbara, he seemed to remember something and spoke again.
"Ah, and I have a proposal."
"Proposal?"
"Yes, would you be interested in participating in the war that's coming?"
Zion's eyes filled with questions.
"War with whom?"
If someone who seemed so special even among divine beings was talking about it, this surely wasn't an ordinary war.
"Outside."
A word with strange resonance flowed from the Battle God's lips.
"Outside? You mean... my essence?"
"No, that has a different meaning."
Before the Battle God appeared a pitch-black darkness containing a small glowing sphere, and another sphere slowly approaching it.
"The 'Outside' I'm talking about isn't the 'Outer Domain' surrounding our universe, but another universe approaching us now."
The Battle God's finger pointed at the moving sphere.
"Until recently, our universe was dying, abandoned by its Creator. It would have perished long ago without the 'Scar of Birth' managed by the Phoenix and the 'Cycle of Reincarnation' created by Buddha - a universe where nothing new existed anymore."
The Battle God continued while turning his gaze to the stationary sphere.
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"Though it's recovering now that a new 'Creator' has appeared... it's still weak and unstable. The 'other universe' probably knows and is targeting this state of ours."
"So this war means a clash between our universe and this 'other universe.'"
"Correct."
"And you're proposing I participate in this war."
"That's also correct."
Watching the Battle God answer, Zion understood why he had so readily offered causality.
It must have been to make this proposal from the start.
If they were short on high-ranking gods, they couldn't let someone stronger than them slip away.
"Of course, if you participate, you'll be well compensated."
The Battle God grinned at Zion.
He knew.
That the gray-eyed man before him would accept his proposal.
Even without compensation.
From their first meeting, the Battle God had sensed Zion was similar to himself.
A being possessing power whose limits even he couldn't fully grasp.
Having reached the peak, everything must be boring, always searching for new stimulation.
In such a situation, how could he refuse this proposal?
"War with another universe..."
It was certainly an intriguing proposal for Zion.
Participating would let him face entirely different enemies and gain new experiences.
He wanted to accept right away.
He also wanted to fight the Battle God before him.
"I accept."
A quiet voice flowed from Zion's lips.
Though the Battle God's lips curved in an 'I knew it' smile at this answer, that smile quickly vanished.
The next words were unexpected.
"But not right now."
The other universe would take time to reach them anyway.
"...What?"
Meeting the Battle God's questioning eyes-
"I have something to do first."
The Emperor of Black Stars grinned.
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On the endless vast plains.
Where the final battle between humanity and monsters had once taken place, countless armies now gathered.
The Agnes Empire - the world's only nation and reportedly the strongest country in history.
All its military forces had assembled on the plains.
An infinite army impossible to capture in a single view.
And at the very front-
"Preparations are complete."
Emperor Zion stood there.
At Thierry's report from beside him, Zion turned to look at his endless armies.
The Witch of the End, Liushina Bloodwalker.
The Eye of the Moon's leader Aileen, Evelyn, Rubrious, Diana, and other royal members of House Agnes who were once rivals but now his supporters.
War hero Liam Rainer and the Border Corps, Great Magician Ahmad Ozlima and other Seven Heavens and Five Great Family heads.
Lucas and the Twilight Sword, the Order of Light and Giant Colony, the Leaves of the Fairy Forest and the beast-kin of the Beast Sea led by Wolhaun.
The floating city's mayor Ackendelt, Celphia Woodhart, various ancient dragons.
The Frost Queen Sephir.
And.
Hero Claire Flosimar and her companions.
Everyone he had formed bonds with, great and small, now stood watching him.
'It wasn't that long.'
No, it was actually quite short.
Less than four years.
But the density of that time was incomparably higher than normal.
In that brief time, Zion had formed countless bonds comparable to his past life and achieved countless feats.
So much had happened.
And now that everything was concluded-
It was time to move toward something new.
Slowly.
Meeting the eyes of each person he had bonded with, the Emperor spoke:
"Beyond here lies another world."
His voice remained quiet and infinitely languid.
But it rang clearly in the ears of every soldier gathered on the plains.
"Unlike here, it's a world that was defeated by monsters and awaits only its end."
A world Zion had eyed since his time as Eternal Emperor Aurelion.
"Its destruction has progressed extremely far, so its monsters are far stronger than those we faced before, and their numbers are incomparable."
The Emperor of the world paused, surveying his armies with supremely arrogant, languid eyes.
"But there's no need to fear."
His words continued like a declaration.
"We are the Agnes Empire that devoured even the world's destruction."
The crimson-eyed witch Liushina smiled at her master with clear anticipation.
"So it's not us who should be afraid, but the enemies beyond."
Hero Flosimar's eyes shone with determination as she watched Zion.
"Under the name of Agnes, defeat does not exist."
The empire gazed at their Emperor with infinite reverence.
"I, Zion Khan Agnes, Emperor of Agnes, command you."
With these words, Zion turned, gripping in his right hand a sword that endlessly poured forth darkness blacker than night.
Eclaxia - now the Emperor's symbol.
"From this world beyond, the empire shall-"
Without hesitation, Zion swung the Light-Extinguishing Sword.
CRACK!
Beyond the space split by his sword-
SCREECH!
A new world corrupted by demons and destruction revealed itself.
The Emperor smiled at that world and spoke with his most joyful voice yet:
"Devour all other worlds."
The Chronicles of Flosimar ends here.
And now.
It was time to write a new chronicle.
The End
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raei: and that's everything guys! You may have noticed I took over again after Rungir's school started ramping up. Sorry if I mis-tl'd anything. But finally finished! Hope you all enjoyed the novel and how it ended. Time to look for more to tl, pce pce!
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