Hero Creator: The Last Hero
Ch. 118 — Void Stage Five
A bout of endurance occurs between Rigel and Lucifer. Both showed no indication of giving up. Staring at each other spitefully and smiling madly, the breath feels tight and burns the lungs that want oxygen.
Right-handed Rigel, Void for the first time was thrust all the way to the stage of his rune fading and throbbing. Not because his strength is exhausted or disappearing but Rigel's body is no longer able to accept more loads than this.
“Death ... Luci, fer-!” Rigel cursed yet it was more like a groan.
Lucifer did not speak, he swung his leg and kicked Rigel in an attempt to let him off his guard and succumb to the pain.
If it's just pain then it's a weak way to bluff. It had been a long time since Rigel had artificially received pain. Betrayed, killed his partner with his own two hands, and what will happen next. There was enough pain he had received, this was enough.
“It's enough .. let's end—” Rigel breaks his power, initially he just focused on using Void but this time he will use something else.
A power that is neither Void, nor Necromancer nor Poseidon Power.
Rigel's hand that gripped Lucifer's neck glowed golden. Lucifer begins to choose the unpleasant premonition that comes from the discomfort of his neck.
“What to try ... you do?!” Lucifer is now kicking stronger as his premonition worsens, before long he gives up strangling Rigel and tries to release Rigel's left hand.
Rigel coughed up blood and immediately smiled to Lucifer, “Do you, that Creator is not a force that makes great things, unlimited magic, powerful weapons ... Creator is—”
The hand that gripped his neck started to wound him as if there was a crushing energy from within. Lucifer realizes that if he does not remove Rigel's hand from his neck he will die.
“Stop this ... bastard!” Lucifer again cursed, for a moment he wanted to cut off Rigel's hand, the hand that strangled him grew stronger and raised his body.
Lucifer could barely breathe and lost his strength. Rigel's hand not only hurt me but also absorbed Lucifer's power.
“Creator is ... the power that creates THE FUTURE!!”
Rigel's hand detonates an energy ball that decapitates Lucifer's head, a huge explosion occurs. A huge wave that shattered the ground and stockpiled many corpses underneath.
The Devils were astonished because the Demon Pillars and their master, Lucifer had fallen in the battlefield. There are a variety of things that cannot be explained, including the full extent of the Seraphim.
The human troops stared dumbfoundedly, they were about to shout triumphantly and haruously, but they should not forget one urgent matter.
“DON'T BE HAPPY FIRST, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Not from the devil who said that, angels are also impossible to convey it. The words full of anger and trembling came from humans.
Everyone focused on the speaker. Altucray who shouted, although sounding angry but he cried like a child until the water came out of his nose.
“War is not over until we obliterate the remnants of them!” Altucray shouted back
“The fight is not over!” Asoka asserted with the same cry.
They are happy, who is unhappy? The end of something they had been waiting for a long time. The culmination of this war is over. Everything will be complete when the rest of the army disappears.
The Heroes approached Rigel cheerfully and with tears, they rejoiced at the victory.
“Finally this long story ... will end?” Takumi could not hold back his tears.
“His sacrifice is not small ..The lives of those lost are not in vain!” Hazama wept with a corpse wrapped in white cloth.
Death is not a little. Rigel knew very well that this victory could not be called victory with so many lives lost.
Rigel silently looked up at the sky and said, “Finally ... peace ..”
Before long Rigel felt something approaching, he was surprised by what he saw.
“What you do ... Priscilla?” Rigel didn't expect the girl to come see him.
There should be no place for a man named "Amatsumi Rigel" in his memory. Rigel has been convinced of erasing his memories along with the inhabitants of the fairy forest. Priscilla's appearance here is clearly awkward.
Priscilla was panting, she was silent and looked at each other with Rigel. Seeing the man calling out to him, then it was true what became his unrest.
“So it's true ... You know me .. why did you erase my memory?”
Priscilla thought about it from the beginning, the awkwardness about her memory seemed to diminish. Memory loss is common, but it is impossible for a person to forget a memory that is very valuable to him.
“Deleting ... memory? What does that mean, Rigel?” Takumi was surprised instead of playing, he broke away from Yuri and walked up to Rigel, “What do you intend ... made us forget you?”
“ ... .”
“Jawab I ... Rigel.” Takumi continued to step closer to Rigel who was still petrified.
“I ..”
When Rigel was about to convey something, Takumi widened his eyes as a fire demon figure with huge horns appeared.
The left hand of the demon was preparing to stab Rigel, Takumi was about to scream and save Rigel but he would not be able to. A strong wind then passed by, quickly the figure pushed Rigel and replaced him.
“Pris, cilla?” Rigel doesn't understand what just happened.
He saw Priscilla smiling at him, blood coming out of his mouth as his hollow chest pierced Lucifer's left hand.
“Death to you ... Rigel!!” The figure of Lucifer burning with fire appeared and was intending to approach.
Rigel panted and threw out the Void power to eliminate him once in attack. He walked slowly, then grabbed Priscilla who had lost her blood.
With a touch between the two, some of Priscilla's memories will return. Rigel laid Priscilla in his arms as she fell to her knees.
“... Why ... why do you do it?”
“... That's because ... I don't want to .. you die ..”
“Then should you exchange my life for yours?! Even if I get stabbed, I won't die!” Rigel shouted angrily, it was sad but there were no tears.
Rigel tries to close the hole in Priscilla's body and heals it despite knowing it will be of no use.
“Well, remember you ... this is exactly the same as that time.”
Rigel knew what Priscilla meant. It was when they were in the Hell's Labyrinth, when the final stages of his training Rigel massacred all the inhabitants and his comrades. It's an old memory he wants to forget but can't because it's been a curse to him.
“Do not talk again .. please do not make this the second time ..” Rigel pleaded sadly, he wanted to cry but what a force, tears would not show him.
“Ha ha ha .. forgive me for giving you unpleasant memories ... second time .. therefore, forgive me. Me ..—”
—love you. Farewell is spoken smoothly in a world that is no longer sincere. Rigel placed Priscilla's cooling body on the ground and closed his eyes.
Staring at Takumi and the others in silence, his vision began to blur slowly. At that moment Rigel found the figure of a person who stood far behind the Heroes. The one who shouldn't be here.
Therefore, for the last time, Rigel activated his power, “Void Stage Five—”
Void runes began to spread throughout his body, four rune lines spread rapidly while there was one additional rune that was completely new.
Takumi and the others were shocked by Rigel's actions that they didn't understand at all.
“What you will do ... Rigel?” Takumi asked in a lonely voice but Rigel only smiled with sadness.
Even without a word, Takumi feels that he will never meet again, as if Rigel will disappear from this world.
Rigel reached out his right hand and pointed his palm to the ground, once again he recited, “Void Stage Five—”
“Do not go, Rig—”
With his trembling voice, Rigel hoped to finish his last sentence correctly, “—World-Destruction!”
Blue light enveloped the world quickly. All the clashing sounds of magic, swords, the shouts of the warriors and the shouts of death disappeared. The world has turned into a quiet place. The thing Rigel saw was a world of emptiness. With a faint bluish light on the foot, and the black sky did not shine, just decorated with a small, dim light.
In front of Rigel who was bowed down miserably and swallowed bitterly the reality, stood a man who was wearing a robe to cover his body and face. The man removed the hood that covered half of his face in silence.
“In the end it all ends as you wish ... Azartooth.”
The figure that was never expected would appear again, the God who gave it power.