Chapter 404

The king’s head flew in the air.
The flow of time is back to normal.
The eight wings stopped moving and began to stiffen.
The Headless Colossus has fallen below the clouds.
“No—!”
“O King!”
The giants marveled.
The movement of the herd has become chaotic.
There were quite a few guys who crashed into each other and then suddenly crashed by themselves.
It reminded me of a bee attacked by a bear.
“Looks good.”
It must have been because they were facing extinction.
I felt the weight of death once again.
The fear of the end of life was too much for even the most noble of races to overcome.
Now all that was left was to destroy the source.
The aggregate of power and souls remained in the half of the temple the king guarded, glowing.
“It’s like a burglary.
Whistling leisurely, I headed to the source.
The panicked bald heads were a constant reminder.
I must have stepped on my bare scalp twenty times.
I was able to reach the pulsating source above the ruins.
“—That’s it.”
Abel was opposed to destroying the source until the very end.
They tried to convince me that it would help repair the world.
Actually, he wasn’t wrong.
The power of the Bald Race’s essence would find a use once it was captured.
Depending on how you use it, it could turn us into space predators like them.
But that’s not what I wanted.
“You gotta give back what you steal.
The source of its power, after all, was life stolen from other stars.
Even stealing for a living can leave you with a guilty conscience, but stealing someone’s soul and using it to fuel your own was just not something a person would do.
It wasn’t worth the trouble.
It was the moment I raised my sword for judgment.
Kaaaah!
Suddenly, a giant hand shot out from beneath the temple and grabbed the source.
“What the fuck?!”
“He—u—kaaah—!”
It was a flash.
A headless body appeared out of nowhere.
It was surely the king of the giants I had slain.
As soon as I realized that, I started swearing.
“You son of a bitch!”
It’s not the same as it was in the original world.
The king was beheaded, but he was still alive.
The severed head was clutched in his left hand.
He was a jerk, even though it wasn’t going to last long anyway.
“I want to be ridiculous.”
That didn’t work out too well.
I sliced it up again and that was it.
The car was just about to spray a barrage.
Pow!
An intense flash of light leaked from between the fingers that clutched the source.
“Ugh.”
The sky has turned white.
I flinched reflexively.
When I opened my eyes again, light was coursing through the veins of the king’s forearm like tree roots.
The head in his left hand was resting on his neck and he was moaning in pain.
“That—kgaaak—!”
“What the hell—.”
It didn’t feel right.
The wounds on the king’s body were healing rapidly.
The cuts and stab wounds healed, and the blood from his eyes stopped pouring.
Even the cut side of the neck was bubbling and showing signs of regeneration.
“Crack!”
Suddenly, the king shouted and threw up his fist.
It was much faster than before.
I managed to dodge with a single lettuce leaf.
Everything in the path of the regime has been wiped out.
No temple walls, no pale clouds, and hundreds of bald men roaming everywhere.
Purrrrrrrrr!
There was a resounding crash.
“Huh.”
I laughed out loud at the absurdity of it all.
I immediately twisted my body to dodge the barrage of attacks.
Transparent tunnels crisscrossed the sky with the regime once again in power.
He was also much stronger than before his head was cut off.
“Kaaaah! Grrrr, kaaaah!”
“——dirty to the end.”
However, the recovery didn’t seem to come without a price.
The sky was shaking with each of the king’s agonized screams.
Blue smoke was rising from his thick skin.
Blood vessels throughout his body were dilated to the point of bursting, flashing with the same white light as the source.
The eight paralyzed wings were also making awkward, puppet-like movements that weren’t normal.
I knew it the moment I saw it.
This is not a serious attempt at resurrection, but rather a last-ditch effort to exploit the source.
My hand tightened on the hilt of my sword.
“Onya, I’ll kill you again and again.”
I no longer had a foothold, but I didn’t care.
I kicked the pavement and jumped up.
The king’s fist smashed the temple.
He tried to grab me somehow, but in vain.
Snap!
Draw a wide half-moon with a sword sliding out of its scabbard.
The right four of the eight wings were clipped off in a single blow.
I accelerated with a blast of sword energy at my feet and drove my sword into his sternum.
“Grrrrr!”
“Let’s die.”
The fall has begun.
Beyond the howling winds, the screams of giants could be heard.
We were tearing through the clouds in a flash.
Once we broke through the thick layer of clouds, we found ourselves in an open space.
It was a gap in the sea of clouds where the cities of the giants resided.
“Fuck you, asshole!”
“Grrrr! Grrrr!”
The king raged, but he could not shake me off.
In order to leave no trace, it needed to be completely dismantled.
With each thrust or swing of the sword, glowing blood sprayed into the air.
The blood, which looked more like mercury than blood, evaporated and disintegrated, eventually dissolving into a white gas.
In other words, by being a soul.
“I’m going to be in trouble if I leave this alone.
It was proof that the king’s body was uniting with the Source.
Not a drop of his blood, but the souls of tens of thousands of people.
I swung my sword diligently, trying to draw as much blood as possible.
The blood itself came out smoothly, but the wound was healing quickly, so progress was slow.
“Damn it, cut it out.”
It was pointless if I couldn’t break it once and for all.
We fell, and eventually broke through the sea of clouds below.
Ouch!
The ground was revealed to be nothing but white.
In the distance, jagged mountain ranges rose like spines.
The stars were big, and the mountains were dirty high.
I can’t, but I think one is over ten thousand meters.
I was in the midst of a mad scramble and a knife fight.
Suddenly, the light returned to the king’s eyes.
“Crikey–you, how dare you!”
“What?”
Failed to respond.
When I looked up, his fist was already in front of my nose.
It was too late to avoid it.
I laid down my sword and parried the attack.
Kwazik!!!
His eyes went white and he jumped back with a jolt.
“Kaboom!”
“You dare to touch the divine source—! On the honor of the Sun King and the clan, I will extinguish you!”
A booming voice rang out.
The upside-down orientation is back to normal.
When I finally opened my eyes, I saw that the King of Giants was descending vertically with his four wings fully folded.
I felt like the speed was about to reach me.
“Ew, shit.”
I tasted blood in my mouth.
It felt like a tooth or two had been knocked out.
I didn’t expect to come to my senses after absorbing that.
Being the king, he was also the king of survivability.
His fist, outstretched and clenched, was bathed in a glow reminiscent of a blizzard.
“—You’re going to show me your power?”
If it took a hit like that, it would disintegrate without a trace.
Having absorbed the source in a spillover, the king’s power was growing at a terrifying rate as time passed.
His body, which seemed to be disintegrating at any moment, was stabilizing, and the soul that had been leaking through his skin was noticeably less.
Reminds me of.
I’ve seen something like that in the original world.
Abel absorbed the power of the Source.
I was my own worst enemy.
“Yikes–nothing is ever easy.”
It was a desperate situation, but for some reason it made me laugh.
If you miss it, it’s a nostalgic sensation.
It’s been a while since we’ve been this crowded.
“Okay. Let’s finish.”
I fixed the hilt of the sword with both hands.
Then I aimed at him from a lying down position.
This was the only thing I could think of off the top of my head.
You can probably think about it for a long time and it won’t change.
Paaaaaaaaah—!
The sunset glowed off the sword.
It was my auror pulling the opponent in.
The coat fluttering to either side of my field of vision looked like black flames.
The maternal sky where bald men live.
The slowly approaching mountain range became more defined.
“Hmph.”
I gripped the hilt as hard as I could.
The auror that had been lingering on the inside of the blade burst forward at once.
The King of the Giants was engulfed by the sunset.
With such a large weight difference, Aurors affect both sides.
The king is drawn to me.
At the same time, my falling body shot up toward him.
“Bam—!”
I gritted my teeth.
It was a level of acceleration that was incomparable to a sword blast.
For a moment, we were faster than light, hurtling toward each other.
He didn’t recognize me, but I could see his fists pumping in anger.
Very close.
Just enough to reach when you swing your sword.
The king’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out when he recognized me.
“What—!”
Here I get goosebumps once again.
His senses were far more developed than they had been before he absorbed the Source.
He wants to give me a scalp massage out of the kindness of his heart, but I don’t answer.
There was no reason or room for it.
“——.”
Lower the sword vertically and bend it.
A scarlet, searing blade plunges into his face.
They’re moving toward each other, so there’s no need to force them.
The sword bisects the neck, then slashes through the rib cage, spine, and eventually the pelvis.
As we cross, the sun sets.
The king’s body, split lengthwise, crashed to the ground on either side of me.
『——!』
There were no beeps.
No will was left.
A glowing liquid bursts out of the two clear cuts.
Kaaaaaaaah!!!
An unfathomable beam of light shot up into the sky.
Each one was a trapped soul.
It’s as if the heart has been ripped out and the source destroyed along with it.
“Kaaaahhh!”
“Cattle, perish—!”
Then a pitiful wail rang out from overhead.
As I shifted my gaze, I saw millions of giants descending from the clouds.
The bodies of those who had come to join the king were dispersing into white particles.
It’s not pleasant.
I chuckled and gave a thumbs up.
“Goodbye, assholes.”
And then I jerked my thumb down.
A few threw spears of light at me, but even they were short-lived and scattered.
When I closed my eyes for a moment and opened them, there was nothing left in the sky.
The defeat of the giant race.
And it was a sight that signaled the complete success of the operation.
The only problem was that my body was now starting to fall apart.
“You’re screwed.”
Nothing came to mind.
I glanced down.
We were close, but still thousands of meters away.
A horrible future flashes through my mind.
My shredded flesh will stain the mountains red.
All the while, the ground was getting closer and closer.
Lean was vibrating like crazy, sending out warnings.
Pow!
Something invisible grabbed my body.
“There, I got you, Mr. Orsay, I got you!”
[Shut up, I saw that!
At the same time, a loud voice rang out.
It’s very familiar.
I looked up from my lying position in the sky.
I saw a black dragon flying toward me, carrying a familiar face.
The tension is gone.
One corner of his rigid mouth twitched upward.
“It’s coming soon.”