Hate me, Miss Witch

Chapter 240 Let the Age of Mythology End Here (8k)

Feel the illusory and vague connection coming from the endless starry sky.

In Char's eyes, the light of the stars became brighter and brighter.

"Come to think of it, the last time I acted so recklessly, unrestrained and freely displayed my pure destructive power... I think it was in the Esgania fantasy zone."

“It’s been many years.”

"It is only at this moment that I can truly feel how fast time passes."

He expressed his emotion softly.

Compared to that time in the Fantasy Zone, I am still some distance away from the legendary level.

Today's Char has undoubtedly made a tremendous leap in both strength and status.

However, the higher you stand, the more things you need to consider.

Still at the second or third level, and still an ordinary senior student at Saint Laurent Academy, Char can fight without restraint.

Anyway, as long as he successfully completes the task, the Empire's administrative bureau or the military will help him deal with the subsequent impact and aftermath.

Even if one day he caused a mess that even the Control Bureau and the military couldn't solve... if it really didn't work, Char could always shout "Hathaway" three times and ask his powerful and mysterious gold elf master to come out and help him out.

Therefore, although Char at that time was weak and restricted in many ways, he actually lived a very comfortable and carefree life.

He could freely and wantonly give full play to his talents in the fields of beastmaster and wizard, and turn the magnificent fantasies in his mind into reality.

However, after becoming a legend, Char could no longer do as he pleased.

An angry legend is enough to destroy an entire prosperous city, and every word and action of every legend is likely to affect the situation on the entire Western Continent.

It is said that a speck of dust in the times, when it falls on anyone's head, becomes a mountain.

But for ordinary people, the word "legend" is equivalent to the era itself, and it is the supreme will of heaven.

If this is the case for legends, what’s more, the throne and demigods above legends are even more so.

Today it is today.

There was no longer anyone behind Char who could take responsibility for the mess he had recklessly created.

The young boy who had to grow up under the wings of his teacher at that time has now become a support for many people.

Therefore, he had to learn to be cautious, think twice before acting, leave a way out for himself, and choose more stable options, instead of taking risks as he did when he was young and taking high risks to gain higher returns.

This is the chain called responsibility, which shackles the young man who is willful, frivolous and squanders his talent.

But it is also the driving force that drives him forward, making Xia Ya enjoy it at this moment.

Not just living for himself, but also for the people he cares about.

"When I was little, I always thought that after I became a legend and avenged Ceylon for you, Xiao Ai, I could finally rest in peace."

“I started to put myself above the law by saying ‘I don’t eat beef’ and was able to enjoy life.”

"But now it seems that it is just a fantasy after all... After becoming a legend, there will be more things to think about than before."

Char chuckled.

"But at least in the First Age."

"In this strange world where mythical creatures walk the earth and the Age of Gods still exists."

"I think there will be fewer things I have to worry about."

As the words fall.

In Xiayana’s vast spiritual world——

One after another, bright stars shine up one after another.

The starlight dances above the spiritual ocean, like a dreamy and brilliant sea of ​​stars.

……

Ascetics

This term is not limited to religious believers.

In any profession or field, there are always people who are constantly seeking new things.

In the pursuit of the ultimate, every day is sweet and painful.

A musician who ignores trends and packaging and pursues the ultimate beauty; a painter who ignores business and the environment and pursues perfect works; a swordsman who ignores the secular world and disputes and practices the ultimate swordsmanship...

And Char is no exception.

He was always eager to turn the magnificent fantasies that emerged in his mind into reality.

That’s why there are “Amaterasu” and “Tsukuyomi”.

This is how the mechanical life form "Yui" that had never existed before, the mecha "Black Knight" and the birth of nuclear explosion magic came into being.

but--

No matter what kind of seeker you are, there will come a time when you need to test yourself.

Music is meant to be listened to, and paintings are meant to be seen.

Just like the brave warriors described by the bards, they killed monsters along the way to increase their levels, honed their sword skills, recruited powerful teammates one after another, and collected all kinds of restraining equipment, all in order to defeat the evil dragon.

And what if, at the end of the journey, there was no evil dragon that had kidnapped the princess and was waiting on the hill of gold and silver treasures?

Then the sword skills that you have painstakingly honed and the levels you have improved, the teammates you have recruited, and the various restraining props you have collected will lose their meaning.

The same is true for Char.

Although Char always considers himself a lazy guy, in fact, his ability to defeat the strong with the weak, his talent for researching magic weapons, and his ambition and desire for battle... are all engraved in Char's soul from birth.

If not for this, Isadela, the second princess at the time, would not have determined that Char was the swordsman she was looking for the first time she saw him.

As early as the fourth ring, Char was able to use "Divine Evasion" to unexpectedly kill the Borgia family's butler, Silver Fox Liel, with a single sword strike.

And when he himself had not yet set foot in the legend, he could rely on the "Black Knight" mecha that used a pseudo-solar furnace as its power source to fight for a long time with Isadella, who was holding a holy sword and had the home court blessing of being the king of the fantasy belt.

At this moment, ten years in the Garden of Eden and five hundred years of sleeping at the bottom of the abyss have passed since the end of Esgania's fantasy belt.

During this period of time, every minute and every second, within Char's spiritual ocean, there was a vast amount of mental power carrying out deductions and calculations, improving and optimizing those war weapons that only existed in his imagination in his mind, and finally materializing them into reality.

Even Char himself was not quite sure how far he had come.

And those magnificent fantasies that only exist in the mind can never find an object for experimentation.

For Char today, the Western Continent seems a little too fragile... Even when Isadella ascended the throne and several evil gods descended upon the imperial capital in the divine war, Char actually restrained his power on purpose and only tried it out briefly.

"Flowing blade like fire, everything in the universe is reduced to ashes" is far from the strongest skill that Char possesses.

And now——

In this strange end of the Age of Gods, there are not so many people and things worth Char's care.

Those war weapons have been perfected, improved, and optimized day after day and year after year in Char's spiritual ocean.

Finally, the moment of realization has arrived.

"So, let me test it."

"Now I am——"

"If we go all out, what can we achieve?"

As the last words fell.

In Char's dark eyes, all light and shadow disappeared.

The ripples of thoughts were calmed, and not only the words but also the emotions were completely blocked.

However, corresponding to it.

It is the data flow that is like a flood, rushing through the spiritual ocean, and the fantasies that arise.

"Permission to refine ultra-high-risk magical constructs, confirmed."

"Secret key verification completed, first-level data security lock released."

"The model of the magic construct has been confirmed. Refining has begun."

"The current code name of the constructed structure: Meteor."

Yui's pleasant yet crisp mechanical sound slowly echoed in Char's spiritual world.

These are the safety locks that Char had set up in his spiritual world because he was worried that too much destructive power would cause harm to the real world and civilians. At this moment, they are being unlocked one by one by Char.

As an artificial intelligence connected to Char's soul, which is now fully assisting Char's mental power in calculations, ripples of starlight are also rippling on Yui's virtual image of a mini fairy.

It is no longer a metal fairy, but rather like an elf born from among the stars.

The vast data flow, enough to be counted with the grains of sand in the Ganges, washed over Char's spiritual ocean like a tide.

Then, it pointed to the only target.

Char slowly reached out his hand.

next moment.

Wow.

In an instant, thousands of jet-black liquid metal particles spread out from between Char's fingers.

These were all the immortal metals that Char used when he forged the mecha "Black Knight". Although the Black Knight mecha was blown up in the battle between Esgania and Isadela, the immortality of the immortal metal was also forcibly erased by Isadela using the higher mystery of the holy sword, resulting in a lot of loss.

But after Char returned and hooked up with a rich woman, he had already made up for the loss of Undead Metal. Now the reserves of Undead Metal were several times more than when he was in Esgania.

and--

This time, the undead metal is no longer used to refine the mecha named Black Knight.

Rather, it is a war weapon that is more terrifying than the Black Knight Mecha and was conceived with gods as the imaginary enemies.

……

pat.

Xia snapped his fingers lightly.

next moment.

Above the ocean, under the starry sky.

The myriad pitch-black undead metals suddenly boiled with the sound of the finger snap, and began to gather and reorganize like flowing mercury.

Following Yui's database, the model of the magical structure that was marked as extremely high-risk and required multiple levels of authorization authentication every time it was enabled to be viewed was sketched out stroke by stroke into reality.

When the amorphous black liquid disappears——

Instead, there was a huge silver-white sniper rifle.

Considering its specifications and size, it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a giant cannon.

The slender scarlet barrel has a streamlined shape, with hideous textures swirling around it that look like blood vessels.

The support behind the gun barrel is made of star iron. Its sharp lines and eerie color seem to engulf all light.

A huge silver-white sniper rifle hung high in front of Char, in the sky above the ocean.

The dark muzzle of the gun slowly adjusted its angle and direction based on the trajectory calculated by Char and Yui.

It was a sniper attack that crossed several world walls and headed towards the stars in the distant sky.

A slight deviation in the starting direction will turn into a huge error of tens of thousands of miles when it reaches the target point.

However, at this moment.

The calculation of the sniper trajectory was slowly completed through Char's spiritual ocean with human wisdom.

finally--

All errors and all possibilities of deviation are completely eliminated.

The blood-red muzzle of the gun slowly but unwaveringly pointed straight toward the vast and distant starry sky.

"The soul mark verification has passed, confirming that the current authority is the founder "Char.Egut" himself."

"Second level security lock released."

Then, the next moment.

"To the mythical weapon "Fantasy Collapse. Origin Bullet", launch."

One ten-thousandth of a second later.

The dark and deep death light that burst out from the red gun barrel swallowed up the light of the entire world.

Only Xia Ya's soft whispers were left floating in the evening breeze, and no one heard them except Ailora.

"Let the age of myths——"

“Let’s end it here.”

……

Astral world, the palace of the gods.

Almost all the gods fixed their eyes on the Mother Goddess of Fertility who was counting down.

however--

"zero".

When the countdown of the Mother Goddess of Fertility ended, nothing happened.

"Feng Rao, what on earth are you doing?"

"I know that compared to the Subordinate God of the Glorious Era, you must have made some progress in the millennium since the Great Cataclysm. Perhaps it is the power of faith that has brought you improvement."

"But if you and Life really think that after you break through with the power of faith, you can fight against the gods on your own..."

"If you regard us all as your prey, and want to hunt our divinity to ascend to the throne of the new era, then you can give it a try."

A violent roar like a volcanic eruption exploded in the bronze palace.

Surrounded by storms and thunder, the Storm God, whose dwarf body was covered with magnificent armor, raised the giant hammer in his hand and roared furiously at the Mother Goddess of Fertility.

Perhaps it was because of his power over storms and thunder and his divinity, or perhaps it was because of the dwarfs' hot-tempered nature, which had not been diminished even after being promoted to mythical creatures.

Among the many gods who are not half-crazy but still retain their rationality, the God of Storms is also the one with the most violent temperament.

Because of his temperament, his religious state in the western continent did not develop very well... But the power of storms and thunder, which had reached the extreme in destructive power, made this former dwarf king superior to most gods and angels in the field of battle.

Listening to the incomprehensible words of the Mother Goddess of Fertility at this moment, the God of Storms did not want to think, nor was he too lazy to think, so he directly mobilized his own storm power to start a war of gods.

The Storm God's furious behavior made the other gods present look at him in fear, but no god tried to stop him.

They don't have such a bad temper, or most of them who can survive from that barbaric era and ascend to the throne are all deep-minded gods who will do anything to become stronger. They can naturally guess that there must be a reason behind the abundance and life's so brazen behavior, and it should not be possible that they are really crazy as the God of Storm said.

However, the actions of the God of Storms are beneficial to them all, as they can help the gods explore the hidden card behind abundance and life that the gods fear.

And even if Fertility and Life really went mad and attacked Silver Moon without any trump card, then when Storm defeated the Mother Goddess of Fertility, he would also be able to get a share of the Mother Goddess of Fertility's authority and divinity.

For a moment, all eyes in the bronze hall were focused on the Mother Goddess of Fertility and the God of Storms.

Waiting for the outbreak of this war between gods, which may be the one with the highest level of participants after the great catastrophe.

however--

Among the gods present.

Only in the depths of the soul of the twilight giant, some inexplicable and unspeakable warning suddenly arose.

It started as a small sensation, but soon it began to grow.

The overwhelming sense of crisis instantly enveloped the entire soul of the God of War.

This feeling has not been felt by this most ancient god for a long time.

The last time I experienced this feeling was at the end of the Chaos Era, before the Glorious Era was opened up.

In the final battle of gods for the throne of the new era, it was time to face the sun god, who was also the creator of the future glorious era.

At that time, in the face of the unstoppable force and the huge fear of life and death, the God of War chose to surrender and became the servant of the Sun God, calling him Lord.

However, that era should have passed long ago.

In today's main material plane, who can make me feel this way?
Neither abundance nor life has the qualification to do so!

Following his premonition, the Dusk Giant's gaze was fixed rigidly on a place in the vast starry sky outside the bronze palace.

"what is that?"

He uttered a whisper of doubt.

It was a pure and transparent particle of light.

There wasn't much noise, nor were there many powerful energy fluctuations.

That is as it should be.

Although it took a lot of effort to launch, in fact, from the Garden of Eden to the Prime Material Plane, and then from the Prime Material Plane to the Astral Plane -

The world wall spans several dimensions. No matter how powerful the kinetic energy is when it is launched, its power will inevitably be greatly reduced after being attenuated and dissipated over such a long distance.

Just like in Char's previous life, after the huge asteroid penetrated the atmosphere and fell to the ground, the remaining meteorite debris was only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the original amount.

If Char had fired conventional bullets from that huge sniper rifle, it would have been an extremely stupid decision.

After all, no matter how powerful a sniper attack is, after crossing such a long distance, its power will still remain, and it can never threaten the combined forces of more than a dozen gods.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, what Char had tried so hard to send from the main material plane to the astral coordinates transmitted by the Mother Goddess of Fertility were nothing more than these small transparent particles of light.

Char called it the "Origin Bullet".

The "Origin Bullet" itself does not have any strong destructive power.

After crossing several world walls, let alone the almighty gods, even a stronger ordinary transcendent could easily stop it.

However, as its name "Origin Bullet" suggests.

This is a lead to the Hall of the Gods.

It also announced the end of the mythical era——

Memorial.

……

"what is that?"

The God of War's whisper was very soft, but it was clearly captured by the Mother Goddess of Fertility, who repeated it in her cold voice.

The Storm God's violent thunder hammer was clearly in front of her, but the Mother Goddess of Fertility seemed to ignore it.

She simply looked toward the giant at dusk and uttered a cold yet extremely fanatical whisper.

"That is the gift bestowed upon you by God the Father."

"Let you be cleansed of the sins that have stained you, and receive the blessing of a brand new life."

As she spoke, a gorgeous divine pattern between the fair eyebrows of the Mother Goddess of Fertility gradually became brighter.

Such a strong divine aura made all the gods around turn their eyes over.

At this moment, they also discovered the transparent light particle that was coming from the distant sky, from the direction of the Western Continent and the main material plane.

It was obvious that this inconspicuous transparent light particle with no energy fluctuations did not attract their attention. They did not have the status of the God of War to sense the vague warning sign.

They just watched the enchanting divine pattern on the white forehead of the Mother Goddess of Fertility become brighter and more dazzling.

next moment.

click-

That was the sound of the divine pattern being shattered.

Abundance gone mad?

This is the thought in the mind of every god present at this moment.

They are all mythical creatures, so of course they can see that the divine pattern on the forehead of the Mother Goddess of Fertility represents all the divinity she possesses as a deity.

At this moment, the divinity was shattered, which was tantamount to self-mutilation for the Mother Goddess of Fertility.

Even if it can be brought back, its status will certainly be greatly reduced.

However, no matter what the gods felt at this moment, they could not change what happened in the bronze palace.

Click.

Another sound of a divine pattern being shattered was heard.

The emerald green divine pattern between the brows of the Goddess of Life had been shattered, and even her long green hair had turned into a strange blood color.

The Goddess of Fertility and Life's voluntarily shattered divinity instantly spread throughout the bronze hall.

Almost all the gods had a flash of greed in their eyes at this moment.

That is a completely ownerless divinity.

For any mythical creature, devouring the ownerless divinity is equivalent to an opportunity to ascend to heaven in one step, which is worth the hard training of an entire era.

As for the possibility of consuming too much divinity and becoming out of control like the Creator of the Glorious Era, and eventually going crazy... most gods cannot take that into consideration at this moment.

That is a worry that one would have after ascending to the throne of heaven. For most gods, they don't even have the qualifications to compete for the throne of heaven, so how could they consider such long-term things?

However, before other gods could take action to seize the divinity.

next moment--

The overflowing divinity silently touched the end of the distant sky - the transparent origin bomb that seemed to pose no threat at all.

The next moment.

The light was extinguished.

It is nourished by the divinity and power that the Mother Goddess of Fertility and the Goddess of Life actively shattered.

The starting point is the "Origin Bullet" shot from a sniper rifle named "Meteor Ichijo" constructed by Char using undead metal.

First, an inconspicuous divine factor collapsed...

Then, Honkai began an unlimited chain.

From one to two, from two to four.

From four to eight, from eight to sixteen.

Loss of restraint, loss of limitations.

In just one second, the collapse reaction occurred tens of millions of times, until all the divinity around it was swept up in it.

During this process, all the gods in the bronze temple were part of the chain of destruction.

Faced with the deadly threat that erupted without warning, they subconsciously mobilized their divine power to resist.

However, the more they resisted and struggled.

The divine powers that the gods originally trusted the most and which formed the foundation of their power have now joined the chain of "illusion collapse" and have become the fuel and boost for the frenzy that devours everything.

Until the chain of collapse swept the entire bronze palace into it.

Then they gathered again.

The quality of divinity collapsed under the effect of that spell.

And the technique transformed the quality of the collapse into the purest light and heat, pure destructive power without reservation.

This is the final weapon that Char spent countless days and nights on, and went through countless deductions and simulations with Yui in the spiritual world, and finally perfected.

"Anti-Mythology Armament" with gods as imaginary enemies——

"Fantasy Collapse. Origin Bullet"

……

The sound disappeared.

Following the sound into nothingness is the color.

The world became silent, leaving only the gushing hot starlight.

The light is flowing.

The light roars.

The rushing light stirred up countless whirlpools, sweeping everything in the palace of the gods in the distant sky into it, and every factor was exposed to the scorching impact.

Whether it was the body of a god or a bronze temple... everything was penetrated and swallowed up, heading towards the distant other side of the starry sky.

Not all mythical creatures died out immediately.

After all, they are ancient gods who have existed since the last era. They are great beings that transcend flesh and blood and are immortal.

Even though their divinity was devoured and turned into fuel for the chain reaction of collapse, the power of faith that continuously flowed from the kingdom of God on earth could still allow them to survive for a while under the scorching impact.

The best among all the gods is the god of war.

Unlike other defenseless gods, the God of War became alert the moment the origin bomb landed.

The moment the "Illusionary Collapse" that involved all divinity broke out, He immediately took action...

Either he took action against the Mother Goddess of Fertility and the Goddess of Life, or he prevented the disaster from coming and protected other gods.

But escape.

In an instant, the God of War forgot his pride as the oldest god, and also forgot the majesty and glory that reigned over all the gods.

He seemed to have once again become that ordinary giant who was not the god of war, but just an inconspicuous tribal leader among the giants... trembling in fear before the might of the mythical creature.

At this moment, as a giant and as a living being, his instinct for survival overcame the supreme divinity, allowing him to make the most correct decision in a split second.

All the divine power was mobilized, not for killing, but simply for escape.

The god's speed was so powerful that in just a moment, the majestic body of the Dusk Giant arrived outside this magnificent bronze palace that was as big as a city.

As long as he takes a few more steps forward, the God of War can completely leave the range of the chain of destruction brought about by the "Origin Bomb" and get rid of the chain of destruction.

Even though the divinity and authority of the God of War had been largely shattered in the fantasy collapse specifically targeting gods, even if he escaped, his remaining strength would be less than half.

But as long as you survive, there is hope.

Not to mention, there are more than a dozen powerful ancient gods who are currently at the center of the fantasy collapse.

As long as he escaped, and waited until all the gods were annihilated in the collapse of fantasy, he would be able to swallow up all the divinity left behind after the fall of other gods.

The divinity of dozens of powerful gods...

As long as he could completely digest the divinity of those fallen gods and turn it into his own power, he could then gather all of their believers on the Western Continent and convert them into his own believers.

Then maybe it won’t be long.

You can ascend to the throne of heaven in the new era.

Such thoughts just occurred.

however.

next moment.

The bright silver moon suddenly shone before the eyes of the Dusk Giant.

A slender and beautiful figure appeared in front of the God of War, blocking all His ways.

The Moon Goddess, who was originally in a coma, woke up at some point.

The originally bright moon pattern on her smooth forehead had, for some reason, turned into a gorgeous scarlet color.

"Silver Moon! Are you crazy?"

The God of War let out a low, rapid roar.

"And abundance, life!"

"What good will this do you? Why are you doing this!"

"Have you ever thought that if you don't get away from here immediately, you will be buried with me soon!"

However, answer His.

But it was just Yin Yue's cold and indifferent words.

“To be able to sacrifice oneself for the Father.”

"This is what we are waiting for—"

“It’s a great honor.”

Looking at the Silver Moon God with fanaticism and piety on his pretty face, the Dusk Giant opened his mouth.

However, before He could actually speak the words.

The warning premonition suddenly burst out.

The pure white, shining light brought everything in the bronze palace to another world.

Afterwards, only the clear and beautiful starry sky remained.

(End of this chapter)