Chapter 575: "What the God of the Apocalypse Wanted" (1/2)

A certain being appeared out of nowhere in one of the many worlds. At first, it did not take any action, continuously staring at the world…… before without rhyme nor reason, it brought the world to its end.

The information about this being was passed on to the creators of many worlds by a god with the power called omniscient…… but at that time, it was not perceived as a threat.

Because for most of the creators of worlds, erasing a single world is not an impossible task. For those who exist outside the scope of logic…… there is nothing noteworthy about omnipotent beings, beings that exceed omnipotence, being that cannot even be described by the word infinite, and beings that can freely create higher dimensions.

They could easily deal with her…… at that time…… that was what they thought.

Omnipotent beings, beings that exceed omnipotence, beings that cannot even be described by the word infinite, and even those beings that can create higher dimensions at will…… Their worlds were brought to an end and they disappeared.

When more than a thousand worlds have been brought to an end by this being, traveling from one world to another and moving after looking at that world for a certain period of time, that being was then recognized as a threat.

This is why the creators of the worlds did everything in their power to eliminate this being the moment it appeared in their world.

However, the beings that should have killed it, the beings that should have sealed it, the beings that should have created an ability to protect them from this being’s power, the beings that should have erased it from existing with the law of causality, and the beings that should have run from it…… All of them were brought to their ends.

And then, when the number of worlds that ended exceeded 10000…… This being became the object of despair that the creator of worlds feared.

It’s not that their attacks won’t connect…… but even when they connect, all of it is meaningless.

It’s not that they can’t run away…… but running away is meaningless.

It’s not that they can’t kill or seal it…… but all of that is meaningless.

As soon as that being appeared, the story of their world has already entered its final chapter. That’s why, no matter how hard they tried, they met their ends.

It was unknown when, where or who started calling it with that name, nor which world’s language was used to call her with such a name, but what they do know is that…… at some point, that being came to be known as “Destruction God of the Apocalypse, Shallow Vernal”.

And that she held the ultimate power to bring an end to everything, “Epilogue”……

The creators of the world desperately prayed that Shallow Vernal would not appear in their world. They knew that if she showed up, there was nothing they could do about it.

When the world that Shallow Vernal brought to its end “exceeded billions”…… The creators were deeply relieved when they learned that Shallow Vernal had stopped ending worlds and had begun to create a world for herself, and they vowed to never interfere with that world.

Just as Shallow Vernal had said, the first emotion she felt…… was uncertainty. In the first place, she was a being that held no thoughts.

She had never even thought about why she was ending so many worlds, or why she was gazing at all of them before ending their worlds.

Eden’s comment about her being “a system called Shallow Vernal” was actually accurate.

Shallow Vernal will end the world. That’s all she should have been, a being that holds no meaning nor purpose…… or so it should have been.

However, one day, as if she had woken up from sleep, Shallow Vernal suddenly had a question. The creators of the world, the supernatural beings who have ended it so far have had more or less the same purpose. Even if they had no purpose, nor something that could be called a heart, they all had something that called a will.

“If that’s the case, doesn’t such a thing exist in her as well?”, she pondered.

It originally should have been obvious that Shallow Vernal had a will of her own when she questioned it, but Shallow Vernal didn’t know that.

Something that was born inside her that is difficult for her to express…… She wanted to know what it is. That’s why, when she happened to visit a creator of a world…… Eden, she informed him this question she had in mind.

As a result, Eden did not make a mistake in her response, and Shallow Vernal decided to create a world for herself.

If, hypothetically, Eden had made a mistake in her response there…… Shallow Vernal could have dismissed the questions she had as unnecessary and she would have returned back to being a system that only ends worlds again.

Since then, Shallow Vernal began to create a world, conversing with Eden and receiving advice from her.

At this moment, Eden is the most familiar with the being called Shallow Vernal. In fact, many of the assumptions Eden told Alice were correct.

But of course, some of them were wrong. No, there were some that even Shallow Vernal herself didn’t know about, so it’s not surprising how Eden guessed some things wrong.

Eden predicted that “Shallow Vernal might have wanted to bring an end to herself”, but in reality, “even if Kuromueina the power of Epilogue and brought Shallow Vernal to her end, such a thing wouldn’t have happened”.

It is true that Epilogue was “one of the true essences” of the being called Shallow Vernal. However, there is another power that resides in her, a power that can be called absolute.

If one had to name it, it would be “The Last Story”…… The being called Shallow Vernal is the end of the story itself, but at the same time, she was also the final story.

Shallow Vernal “will not disappear as long as other stories exist”. She can only end her own story after she has brought all the stories to their ends.

Therefore, there is no magic technique that could kill Shallow Vernal. Shallow Vernal is a phenomenon that can only be ended by the actions of the Shallow Vernal herself……

That’s probably why she had ended so many worlds when she was just born. She instinctively understood that the end of her existence could only come after she brought the end of all worlds……

What would have happened if Kuromueina had used the power given to her by Shallow Vernal in the battle between the Demon Realm and the God Realm?

The answer is simple. Both Kuromueina and Shallow Vernal will disappear, and only Shallow Vernal would have reappeared.

If that had happened, Shallow Vernal would never have realized her own heart and she would have ended the world she had created.

However, that didn’t happen. Kuromueina obstinately spoke to Shallow Vernal, and Shallow Vernal clearly saw the presence of her own heart.

……What was told so far was the stories of the past. The events before the being called Shallow Vernal got a heart.

……From here on out is the story leading to the future. The actions Shallow Vernal took after gaining a heart.

……The story of the being called the Incarnation of Apocalypse…… and “the first wish she held in her heart”.

It has been 100 years since the battle with Kuromueina. Standing atop the Sanctuary, the highest peak of the God Realm, Shallow Vernal gaze towards the world. As she was gazing at the changing world, a routine she had been doing since she realized she had a heart, Shallow Vernal muttered to herself.

[……”Again” huh.]