Chapter Chapter 107: 12. It’s not over til it’s over (5) (1/2)

RATH 107

TL: Eevee

12. It’s not over til it’s over (5)

#9 Their story: Risen de Roa’s story.

“Mhmmf…”

I felt myself come back to the world of the living.

It’s cold. I can feel the wind blowing from somewhere.

Where is this place?

-What do you mean, where is this place. It’s the top of a flagpole. And right now, you’re a flag that can’t even flap in the wind.

Ahh. That’s right.

I bullshat that Lady Aris had fallen for Nerkia and I got caught by a very angry Lady Aris, got beaten up and fainted, right?

But still, Lady Aris.

Did you have to tie me to a flagpole!

“First sin. Betraying the academy.”

Just then, I heard Reedan’s voice nearby.

“Hm…”

When I turned my head around, what I saw was were countless red, blue green and brown lights, and even some yellow and white lights added in the mix as well.

“Elementals.”

That meant that the summoners that used Elemental Roar had all come inside the castle.

“And the sinner they’re talking about.”

There could only be one person. Nerkia.

“Heh heh, serves you right, Nerkia.”

You dare have a whopping five girlfriends?

There is no way this Risen de Roa would ever allow that, now is there?

Just for you, I only picked out the names of some very important people as your so-called lovers?

Even though the idea that they would be is absolutely ludicrous, but there’s no way they’d believe you even if you denied it here?

And the trial that began…

Ended completely outside my expectations.

“If those are my sins… if being the lover of those girls is a sin! Then the price for that sin, I will pay it, and gladly!”

-Kahh. Hey, contractor. Do you have the gift of prophecy or something? I don’t have an ability like that. By any chance, you haven’t contracted some other god without telling me, have you?

I heard Loki’s amazed comments.

I heard him, but I did not understand.

Nerkia, what manner of bullshit was he spouting now.

All I did was name the most famous beauties of the Four Academies that I knew.

Moreover I even pulled in the daughter of a margrave, that wasn’t even attending any of the academies yet.

And it was all true?

All five of those girls were his lovers?

“Lies…”

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Yeah, it had to be a lie.

There was no way that could be true.

He already had five lovers.

But all of them were from good families, all of them were talented in their own right… and they were all beautiful as well?

You… are you some legendary hero or something?

Are you a harem novel protagonist!

-Loki.

-Wiing? What’s up, contractor?

“Come.”

I watched Nerkia brazenly declare war against a swordsmaster and a hundred elementalists.

…How unsightly.

-You said you made that bamboo spear to kill that god that wouldn’t die or whatever, right?

-Hm? It’s not a bamboo spear because it’s not made out of bamboo… but yeah, more or less.

-I can totally understand your feelings as to why you did it… so I want to kill that disgusting asshole too.

-Ahaa~ but wouldn’t it be a touch too impossible? I know for a fact because we had heroes in our world as well, and right now if you stuck him next to one of the folk we called heroes, he’d fit right in?

Really, now?

-I heard that a lot of heroes died because they angered the gods?

-They did. There were a lot of them that were children of gods themselves, and there were also those that were worshipped like a god. We had a lot of them mistake themselves as gods themselves.

-Well, then… doesn’t that asshole deserve divine punishment as well, then?

-Haa? But you’re human, aren’t you? You’re not asking me for help by any chance, right?

Indeed, this is my anger.

Not Loki’s anger, but the anger of myself who had never had a lover in my entire life.

-In that case… I reject my humanity, Loki!

-Urk? My power?!

I drew upon Loki’s power under my own will.

Descension, a technique of accepting a god into yourself to borrow their strength.

This anger would not sate itself with just that.

In that case, I simply need to become a god myself to unleash divine wrath.

A way for humans to become gods.

Although she wasn’t exactly human, we had an elven teacher show us how, didn’t we?

As a student of Yugrasia.

I simply had to use the technique we learned from the teachers, Ascension. (化神)

-A, are you mad?

-I am mad! Do I look like I’m sane to you?

-I confess. In all my divine life, I have never, ever seen a madman to surpass you! Kahahahahaha!

Loki had moved on from snickering to outright hysterical laughter, and he said to me happily.

-Alright then, do it! Use my power as much as you desire, and unleash your wrath!

A dominating power began to flow into me.

Not just Loki’s power, but ones even beyond him!

-What is this?

-I’m not all that strong among the gods. But… my children are strong enough to defeat the strongest gods of them all. This is the power of my children. Contractor. Can you withstand it?

I remembered hearing Professor Nicerwin’s tales.

Loki’s children,

Vanargand Fenrir.

The World Snake Jörmungandr.

And the Goddess of the Underworld, Hel(1).

Each one of them were all monsters on the same level as an archdevil.

Did Loki’s Ascension mean I had to be able to take on their power as well?

In that case.

-Of course I can!

I will take in that power. The aftermath?

I felt like if I could execute that motherfucker Nerkia then I could even make a contract with the silver devil.

And so, after a moment that felt like an eternity.

-You madlad, you actually accepted it.

I, became a god.

“Shadows.”

I cut the ropes that bound me with shadows.

Even after the ropes that stopped me from plummeting through the air was cut, I did not fall to the ground.

I could use the shadows as a medium to draw on the power of Loki’s children.

“Very well, I will kill you.”

“Risen…”

My eyes met Nerkia’s.

“Nerkia!”

The moment they did, my thread of reason snapped.

“I’ll kill you, you little bastard!”

“Show me your anger that you’ve held in for so long!”

I transformed my shadow into Fenrir and swallowed the Spirit King’s lightning bolts.

“Die. Die. Die. Die!”

And as Fenrir’s shadow was destroyed by lightning, numerous small wolves that were Fenrir’s clones were summoned around it.

As over ten wolves suddenly jumped onto Nerkia, he easily defended against them with his elementals.

“Death God’s Scythe.”

A higher rank scythe than Loki’s.