CHAPTER 275: THE HYPOCRISY OF THE MONSTER

Prime Nexus, which governed the trial, did not differentiate between any humans; for Prime, it was all the same, as long as they were human. It was a race of parasites that needed to be cleaned and slaughtered from this planet as a whole. But what was the actual reason behind it, Sophia did not know. She found herself walking through a vast expanse of land, littered with corpses of all whom she had ever killed, and bodies around her continued to pile up.

Every single inch of her body and clothes was covered in blood; blood was coming out of the corpses, and it continued to fill up the vast expanse of land at an impossible speed until her figure drowned completely. As she drifted underneath the bloody river, she began to think further.

Timeline-wise, she was now in the mid-to-late Middle Ages, having been a silent destroyer of humanity throughout the countless eras. But no matter how many she killed, she could never entirely accomplish that one goal Prime was pushing her towards, not like this. Even if she controlled multiple empires, some humans would always survive; it was simply not possible for her to search through every location on the planet.

No, in fact, she had never even come close to the goal of eliminating all the humans. She always failed. Despite the hatred she held against humanity, she knew, she knew more than anyone that nothing in this world was black and white; the blackest side of humanity was only a minority; the whole of humankind never deserved to be destroyed just because of that. And her own loved ones in every reincarnation are very proof of this. As such, she did not enjoy the slaughter of billions, but there was no choice; she had no choice but to exterminate humanity.

Because she was but a selfish bitch, she would kill all of humanity, just to get her one wish, for the sake of her happiness, she didn’t mind causing billions of tragedies. She laughed at the irony of the situation. Here she was harboring hatred against humanity for the countless tragedies over her many lives, but wasn’t she the worst of them all? She was willing to exterminate billions of humans to get a single wish granted from Prime Nexus. Yes, that’s right, she was the most disgusting of them all.

Compared to what she was about to do, all the evils of humanity looked utterly insignificant; she was perhaps the greatest evil of them all. Perhaps her parents were right from the start - she was not a human, but worse than even the most disgusting human: a monster. Maybe she always was one. However, the fact remained that she was unable to truly end humanity in these times, no matter what she did.

So, the only thing she could do was wait; she had to wait, wait for humanity to develop to the stage where everything in the world was connected. An era in which everything could also be ended with a simple push of a button. If not for that, no matter how powerful she grew, no matter how many of the forces she controlled from the shadows, she could never end humanity; her powers would never reach that level, even if she did kill them all.

Sophia’s eyes opened gently, and her face was utterly bloody, like a vicious monster. She let out a deep sigh. Despite the truth of the matter, despite her self-loathing, she did not have an ounce of regret in her bones.

As there was no trace of emotion in her two completely red eyes, the innocent little girl that once existed within her was long dead; she was beyond broken by the complicated situation she was in, and only her mission mattered; nothing else did. And the reason she was so determined to accomplish it was to secure the prize that came with it.

Since her knowledge of past lives and a significant part of her pre-accumulated experience had now been unlocked, she was able to harness the energy within the air, compress it, and utilize that to attack. Sophia wiped the blood from her face and turned around to look at the scene. Barely a few minutes had passed, and the same forcefully breeding continued to happen. None of them was paying attention to her. She brought out another dagger, infused it with white-colored energy —the type of energy she received with each one she killed.

Then she slashed out, as a white arc of energy shot out from the dagger, it cut the steel cages all in half, and went cleanly through the bodies of all of them, the male slaves who were forcing themselves on the women, and the women who were being violated. All were killed as their bodies were split disproportionally. No change of expression occurred in Sophia’s eyes or face; she walked out of the place calmly, blood overflowing within the breeding facility.

As she walked out, a trail of bloody footprints was left behind. The two female assassins outside noticed this and tensed imperceptibly. Sophia, without warning, slashed out again. The same white arc of energy flew out from her dagger, cutting the bodies of the two assassins in half horizontally, from waist to upwards. Their faces were filled with disbelief and terror; she didn’t even realize properly how they died.

Sophia suddenly stopped in her tracks, as she saw two of her most loyal followers drop dead just like that, she didn’t even realize herself why she had done it, maybe it was just a past instinct engraved on her memories, perhaps. To kill any humans. After all, she had killed too many. No, it was better like this; she didn’t want them following her around.

Just because it was not possible to make humanity extinct by orchestrating one kingdom or empire against another did not mean she would remain idle. She would still have to kill as many humans as possible in every single one of the reincarnations, so that she has more than enough power to make things turn in her favor with brute force when the time for the endgame finally comes.

She hid her face again, using the mask. Having access to the memories of more than 400 reincarnations spanning the last 100,000 years, she could now utilize a fraction of the harnessed white energy accumulated over the course of these reincarnations. But to access her full accumulated powers again, she would need to kill multiple billions in just one life. A specific condition, you could say, that stopped her from growing stronger at a fast pace; this is also something that made sure she could never, in fact, have enough power to truly wipe out humanity, at least not with her very own strength.

She shook her head and discarded those thoughts; she could use the white energy to contain her charm to a large extent and prevent it from affecting everyone else around her, as it was pretty inconvenient to a large extent. Her first destination was now the royal capital of the kingdom, a bustling place situated near the seashore, where trade and commerce flourished beautifully. The central hub of the whole kingdom.

Using her past knowledge, she sneaked inside the royal palace, disguising herself as an essential merchant without too much hassle. She managed to secure a brief meeting with the crown prince after a week of waiting, thanks to the silent influence of her information guild. Though if she hadn’t worn the mask, things could have been much less troublesome, but that was not an option. Her beauty was too great, and things would become more annoying once she revealed it.

Despite the royal family being the one responsible for her mother’s suffering in this life, she did not manage to bring out her fury towards them, knowing full well that she was much greater and more ruthless evil than any other human could ever be. Just as the crown prince, along with his guards, sat down in front of her in hopes of holding a trade-related discussion, she waved her hand gracefully, and the white energy cleanly split the body of the crown prince in half, as well as everyone else in the room.

She walked out and killed everyone from innocent maids to the guards who crossed her path, as she was now heading towards the throne chamber. The reason she waited for the meeting with the crown prince was that she wanted to complete the task in one go, as the crown prince had been outside the capital until the previous day. Of course, her continuous slaughter created countless screams throughout the palace. There were a few dozen assassins hidden throughout the palace, all of whom attacked her to take her life.

But she was a monster that defied human logic, even with the fraction of her strength she held at the moment, even an organized and fully prepared army of multiple thousands would barely be able to stop her. And if she managed to unlock her complete power, it would take more than a unified and trained army of half a million humans all willing to die to kill her, completely.