CHAPTER 392: 392 AN ABSOLUTE’S STRENGTH

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The emperor looked down on the young boy with deep wounds all over his body and a sword directly passed through his heart.

"You should have just stayed back. Being greedy for the experance, wanting to deal with them all by yourself, it was a mistake."

He summoned another sword out of nowhere and shoved it right through his lunges.

"Yes, you might be strong and this epic might be about your actions, but you forgot the basic nature of this world."

Behind the emperor, there were corpses where his subordinates should have been fighting the people from their side.

Lucy was keeping a watch on them and knew that they were fighting those bastards subordinates of the emperor.

It was only a moment that he took his eyes away from them and was dealing with the big demon that was stronger than what he had expected.

It was a noble in the demon realm and it possessed the authority of a knight of the Worldline.

He was a strong being that was strong even after dealing with a divine messenger on his own. His subordinates were all also alredy defeated

So he was dealing with the remaining opponents on his own. And yet, when Lucy fought him, it became difficult for him to defeat it.

But he still succeeded and then this emperor bastard came out of nowhere.

"You... ahem! You... are a...piece of hip garbage."

The corpses that were present all the way back did not belong to his people. The members of spades were somewhere else dealing with the remaining demon bastards and, as he could see with his blood covered eyes, there was a stunned look in their eyes.

He had expected this already... but to think the emperor would actually kill his own people, the ones that he had raised himself and let the current energy that he had obtained by those sacrifices his own subjects, and make them into puppets of corruption was a crazy idea.

There was a black, dark and sinister energy circulating around him that was even worse than the demonic energy.

"Strength is everything in this world, young boy! The strong and the best people like me are the only ones who should possess the power to rule this world!"

The power of corruption that could corrode the souls and minds of the ones it takes over, the sinister power that he had once dealt with was now surrounding the emperor.

"Only I am the absolute!

You had no right to be a thorn in my perfect world!"

He summoned another sword and, this time, he shoved it in his abdomen.

"AUGH!"

He threw up blood, and gritted his teeth with an insurmountable hatred in his eyes.

"Die! Child!"

-Ooooooooooooong!

-Boooooooooom!

The power of corruption was a very dangerous thing that no mortal in this was able to control.

It first gave the owner of this power a kind of strength that they would not be able to hand themselves, then after corroding the souls and the minds of the victims, it completely changed them.

He had faced the demon who had succumbed to this power once, and he was barely able to defeat that being.

However, he was once again facing this power... and it was even more dangerous than the last time he had come across it.

"Ughahahahaha!"

The explosion that the emperor created blasted his wounded body far away into the battlefield.

There was no creature in his path anymore as many of the forces from all the sides were Alfred dealt with.

When his body shot up, the three swords that were dug into his body also got shot with him and when he crashed into the ground, the three sword pierced even deeper into his body.

"AUGH! AUGH!"

He was somehow able to protect himself from the impact a little and the shield that he created had absorbed the explosion’s impact.

If he was hit by it, he would have certainly met his demise, however, he somehow survived those attacks.

"You’re one tough nut, hun?"

The power that the emperor possessed at the moment was close to half of corruption and half of what one might understand as divinity.

He was already a possessor of a strong divine power and he used that divine power to counter the fragment of corruption that he had obtained by sacrificing all those people.

The ritual was done in a way that he was able to obtain the smallest fraction of this corrupt power. His great divinity was only strong enough to confine this fragment of corruption and utilise it to strengthen his existing abilities.

It was a gamble, something close to putting his life on the line.

Even a little mistake could have led to his complete fall and he would have succumbed to this dark power, however, he was able to confine it and channel its power with the help of his divinity.

"Well, this is your end..."

He had become incomprehensibly stronger than he was a few weeks ago. And the power of that fragmented corruption that he possessed was something that he used to corrupt his own people.

It was a death sentence to them with the worst punishment any living being of this Worldline could ever imagine. And, he put them through that kind of punishment just to deal with the nuscenses that could come in their way during this battle.

The six that he had obtained and raised with his own hands were now corrupted creatures that only deserved death.

There was no other outcome for these creatures. They would have to die, but as beings possessing the great powers, they were not going to be easy to deal with anymore.

Even for the team made to defeat enemies, kill people, and destroy things was going to face great difficulty when they go against it.

The emperor had lost all the forces that he had bought with his money, but, it was all worth it.

"With this."

He raised his hand, and summoned six dark arrows made with the corrupt power that now resided inside of him.

"This battle, and your little epic... both comes to an end."

The arrows were spinning mid air, retaining all the air around them. It was a great wind, they were locked down at the wounded person on the ground.

The mask covering his face was already cracked and the clothes that possessed life saving abilities were all torn down by the repeated battles that he had faced until now.

He was never close to the victory, but he was able to deafen all those creatures. He was a hero that almost brought salvation to this world, however, at the end... the evil gained the upper hand.

"Go to hell."

He moved his hand and commanded the arrows that were alredy aimed at him. And his opponent just looked back at him, his eyes still burning with an insurmountable rage.

He wanted to fight back against him, but there was no strength left in his body. He wanted to summon his own swords, move them with his abilities, deal with this bastard and kill him with his own hands.

He wanted do all the things by himself and finish this epic, but as his eyes looked back at the six arrows that soon moved in the blink of an eye, he could only close his eyes and curse his fate.

"You were foolish to think you had any chance of winning in the first place."

Of the six arrows of corrupt power, two pierced through his lungs, one was shot on his lower body, two dug through his eyes while one pierced right through his head.

The emperor had defeated the great threat.

The enemy that dealt such a significant blow to him and his world was now defeated.

The dark energy would soon completely destroy his existence and he would be erased from this world.

Things will be easy to clean up, the mess this time was a little too much.

It might even take more than one golden wish tickets to restore this world back to what he had made it.

Some more people will have to die to make up for the losses, and he will have to make a few more deals with the other forces, but, now that the general was defeated... the rest of the army will soon crumble down as well.

Now, just like how he dealt with this one, he will have to deal with the one who had been maintaining the great fortress.

"His death will not be something you would take lightly, you will bark back loudly, but there will be nothing you will be able to do."

There was a grin on his face.

He had achieved his victory.

He had to sacrifice a little few things, use his own great body as a gambling chip, but he won at the end...

He destroyed the one that destroyed everything that he had built with his own hands, with so much effort and dedication.

"No problem. I can make it again."

He had rebuilt his empire from scratch many times now.

This empire belonged to him, and everything within it belonged to him as well.

He was the only rightful, absolute ruler of this nation.

He was the only one that deserves the title of the emperor... he was the greatest of them all!

"MUHAHAHAHA!"

[ "By now, he must be thinking he has killed me." ]

Standing on the battlefield that will soon succumb to his might, he laughed like a maniac.

[ "Such is the power of corruption." ]

He was victorious against the enemy general. He had killed the worst enemy he might have ever encountered.

The ghost knight was almost dead as well so his corrupted subjects will deal with him as well.

Everything was perfect! He had achieved what was impossible!

[ "It shows them what they want to see, it makes them believe the thing they wanted the most has ’almost’ come to them. This damned power... even a fragment of it is more than enough to destroy a divinity." ]

[ "And he was just a mortal." ]

All the things that were happening, all that he had achieved, all this... was something only he could perceive.

The reality, the true story of this scenario, was being headed by the rest of their world at this very moment...

And, it was much more different than what this absolute’s eyes, mind, heart, soul, and ego were perceiving.