strictlysupreme Chapter 590
Chapter 590
Drip—
Darkness.
In his heart, he felt only pure darkness.
A middle-aged man wrapped in gray and wax sat cross-legged like an old monk in a vast, silent darkness.
His appearance was not that of the handsome young Kanzaki Rei.
It was a middle-aged Asian man with a slightly weary expression.
Kanzaki Rei.
It was Kanzaki Rei from before the "transmigration."
At this moment, Kanzaki Rei sat motionless, feeling neither joy nor sorrow. He simply gazed quietly into the plain darkness as all thoughts returned to calm.
His doubts seemed to have finally received their ultimate answer.
The filthy source nest... so this was himself.
The sum of all spirituality, the perfect vessel for the filthy source nest’s contamination.
All of it had combined to form him.
And the self was not the self.
Who exactly was he?
Ever since coming to this world, Kanzaki Rei had been seeking the answer to this question.
And time and again, he had received fragmentary answers.
The closer he drew to the truth,
the more Kanzaki Rei realized that he was not himself.
He was something pieced together from many things.
But at least, his humanity had remained.
He still felt like a person.
His previous pursuits had not been forgotten. Living this way had been fine.
Yet deep in his heart,
Kanzaki Rei had often wondered whether he was still human.
With a "monster"-type vessel body and spirituality forced into him, what connection did he truly have to the human race?
Still, he had lived as a human all this time.
Continuing to live this way
had indeed been correct.
As for other pursuits...
As long as he did not die, that was enough. As long as he kept growing stronger—strong enough to defeat all the Moons and live a safe life—that was his greatest hope.
Unlike Kumironi, who held such grand aspirations.
Eradicating death entirely.
Making the world free of suffering and death was too grand. Kanzaki Rei could not concern himself with so many unrelated matters.
He asked himself at most to be an ordinary, kind person—helping those in need when he encountered them, never standing by while others died. Nothing more.
That was who he had been before.
But...
The flowers of all evil thoughts instantly bloomed gracefully upon the branches and leaves of spirituality!
What was thought?
Thought was the collection of all past experiences, the reflection of one’s mind sea. As a "human" being, his life had amounted to merely thirty-odd years.
Even adding the repeated spacetimes,
it still did not exceed a hundred years no matter how one calculated.
But... if it was as the filthy source nest,
all the sensations and habits since the world’s creation flooded into his mind. It was a feeling of awakening, as if he had been dreaming—a dream in which he had become human.
The dream had ended.
Everything had been fleeting, even blurred like things in a dream.
As for this brief experience of being human,
it seemed... unimportant.
...
Whoosh—
Above the Secret Sea, a miserable white wind howled. If one asked whether any living beings still existed in this completely destroyed place, the answer was yes.
Life was always inexplicably tenacious.
Upon the gray-white ruins of total destruction, every few hundred light-years, a few intelligent beings could still be found exploring.
Among them were some of Kanzaki Rei’s believers.
Yet at this moment,
the sky took on a golden-green hue. Brilliant light descended from above, and a gentle breeze brushed across the devastated sea.
A graceful, golden-haired woman descended elegantly down golden-green stairs.
"In less than a month of separation,"
"You have already become like this? Lucky one." Yakathicta smiled as she looked down at Kanzaki Rei below.
Kanzaki Rei raised his head. His voice carried a hoarse resonance. "Yakathicta."
"We meet again."
"Our last meeting should have been ten thousand years ago."
The events of ten thousand years ago.
The one speaking was clearly no longer Kanzaki Rei as a human, but Kanzaki Rei as the filthy source nest.
"No."
"It was one month ago, when you came to me to take the forbidden magic of Fate."
Yakathicta lightly raised her hand and pointed a finger toward Kanzaki Rei.
Click—
Almost at the same time, Kanzaki Rei stopped time.
He also raised the scepter in his hand.
One could almost feel all the luck in the world gathering toward a single point—the place where Kanzaki Rei and Yakathicta stood.
Aside from these two,
everything else in the world had been stripped of luck. All things existed within misfortune.
Everything was developing toward collapse and destruction.
Yet within the stopped time, Yakathicta was still moving.
Clang!
In an instant, Kanzaki Rei appeared before Yakathicta!
Splurt!
Almost simultaneously, the entire world, within stopped time... suddenly erupted with world-burning flames!
Boom!
The shadows of ten thousand warhorses thundered across heaven and earth!
A piece of information also transmitted into the minds of everyone in the world!
The October Moon had fallen!
Immediately afterward came another message!
The October Moon had been born!
An existence named Liora, the Moon of Wealth and Trade, had reached that supreme realm and become the October Moon!
In that instant, Kanzaki Rei saw that half of the luck gathered here
had vanished.
What appeared across the Secret Sea was money filling the world!
Clatter clatter clatter!
Gold coins poured down like rain! And every single coin carried thick killing intent! They were bloodstained gold coins!
Whoosh!
All these coins shot toward Yakathicta at the same time!
Everything happened simultaneously!
Besides Kanzaki Rei, other Moons had also launched attacks against Yakathicta!
"Yakathicta! Did you really think that with only luck, you could do whatever you wanted?"
A sneering voice drifted through the air.
Buzz!
This should have been stopped time, a time when no one could move. Yet at this moment, within this stopped time, four existences moved freely at once!
A short-haired golden girl, a gray mist whose face could not be seen, an elegant golden-haired woman, and a man with pitch-black eyes and pupils writhing like sperm!
The four acted almost simultaneously, attacking together!
Accompanying the world’s upheaval,
it seemed as if the world’s torrent of fate had converged at a single point!
Facing the three attackers, Yakathicta crossed her hands and made intricate gestures.
"Divine Kingdom."
Ding!
A symphonic sound rang between heaven and earth, like the opening fanfare of a circus.
"Great Absurd World."
Whoosh!
With Yakathicta at the center, bizarre and grotesque scenes erupted like a kaleidoscope!
Tap!
The stopped time was instantly canceled.
Loti, Chisei, Yang Ming, Obades, and the others all regained their ability to move. The sword Kanzaki Rei had slashed out suddenly bent at a right angle just before reaching Yakathicta’s head and smashed strangely into the back of Kanzaki Rei’s own skull!
A light, joyful smile appeared on Yakathicta’s face. "Oh~ Everyone’s here? This is much more interesting."
"I hate nothing more than boring developments."
At this moment, three Moons
had appeared directly in the world, seemingly ignoring the constraints of their vows.
The Great Absurd World that Yakathicta had unfolded completely covered the entire world.