Chapter 189
The Judgment of the Ego
Arthur sighed quietly, his eyes wandering across the trembling faces before him.
Fear was obvious.
Heavy.
It filled the hall like suffocating fog.
Meanwhile, the Human King tried to speak.
"I…"
He fell silent for a moment and gave no answer.
Arthur spoke in a calm tone carrying a silent threat beneath it:
"Damn it... Dwarf King, what is your judgment?"
The Dwarf King stood up, swallowed hard, and said in a rigid voice that barely concealed his fear:
"Your death. That is my judgment."
A small smile appeared on Arthur's face, devoid of warmth.
"A good judgment.
And what about the elves?"
The Elven King stepped forward, his voice considerably steadier.
"We disagree with that judgment.
What you did was right. You saved our children, and not only that—you eliminated the enemy as well."
"Good... Human King."
The Human King cleared his throat, hesitation plainly visible in his eyes.
"I agree with the Elven King...
But at the same time, I agree with the dwarves."
Arthur tilted his head slightly.
"Tell me how."
"You didn't merely kill the attacker. You tortured him, killed those who took up arms, and then eradicated Lucas's entire family.
In my personal opinion...
That was an inefficient use of power."
Silence filled the room.
"Good... so you're saying I rushed my judgment?"
"Yes."
Arthur's voice grew colder.
"Then tell me, Human King...
Should I have arrived before or after Lucas killed your children?
Should I have sat there with my hands tied, waiting until he seized your innocent children with those hands stained by the blood of the elven girl?"
Then he suddenly turned toward the Dwarf King, his eyes blazing with open contempt.
"And you, Dwarf King...
Are you an idiot or something?
A bastard dwarf like you wants to kill me—the one who saved everyone?"
His voice rose slightly, not from anger, but from disdain.
"Yes, I destroyed Lucas's family from the roots, and I find that beautiful.
Because they were planning to kill whoever killed their son, and they wouldn't have cared how it was done.
Even if it required killing everyone."
He paused briefly before continuing with absolute coldness.
"I don't care about your opinions...
But because I wanted peace, I came to consult you bastards.
And it seems that decision was a mistake from the very beginning."
Arthur raised his hand.
In a single instant, the Human King and the Dwarf King fell dead before anyone could even scream.
Complete silence descended.
Then Arthur turned toward the Elven King.
"You are the new ruler of the continent."
A faint smile appeared on his face.
Then he vanished.
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Arthur moved across the continent with unbelievable speed.
He killed anyone who posed a threat or danger:
Humans.
Monsters.
Bastards.
Tyrants.
Without exception.
He relied on old and secret information obtained from the Floating Council Fortress.
Using that knowledge, he cleansed the entire planet of the evils hidden within its shadows.
It became a day that would be written into the history of the world.
The Day of the Final Purge.
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While Arthur floated in the air, gazing at the clear earth and sky before him, he spoke calmly.
"I have a truly wonderful idea."
|What are you planning to do? You've done enough already, Arthur... please stop.|
"As you know, I killed the wicked...
But perhaps there is still a little pig hiding somewhere."
A cold smile formed on his lips.
"And that pig is always a greedy and powerful bastard...
So—"
He began gathering power from all around him.
The sky shook violently.
The earth trembled beneath it.
|Arthur... you're planning to—|
"Yes.
I'm going to erase this world's power."
What Arthur intended to do was reduce everyone to the level of ordinary humans.
No matter their race.
No matter how powerful they had once been.
Everyone would become equal in terms of strength.
Monsters and powerful creatures would still remain stronger than humans...
But only by a small margin.
(A dragon, for example, would possess no more power than a lion compared to a human.)
Energy gathered around Arthur's body with overwhelming intensity.
"First Manipulation."
The moment those words left his mouth, the world literally trembled.
The heavens began screaming in furious rage.
Arthur ignored everything and continued drawing the power of the entire world into himself.
Volcanoes erupted.
The oceans exploded into monstrous tsunamis.
Massive mountains collapsed.
Dark clouds spread across the highest reaches of the sky throughout the entire world.
Arthur absorbed the magical energy of the whole world and stored it within a preservation vial.
Using the power of a Ruler, he erased magical energy in all its forms from this world.
Something that did not naturally exist in this world to begin with.
And at that exact moment...
He felt an overwhelming pressure descending from the heavens.
|I warned you.|
The sky began crushing Arthur's body with thunderous force.
"What's happening?"
He looked upward.
Only moments ago, the heavens had been clear and blue.
Now they had become pitch black.
|It is Heaven's Punishment.
Did you think the heavens would allow someone with the power of a Ruler to wander around, killing and manipulating the world however he pleased?
Your very existence contradicts this world.|
Arthur sighed quietly.
A small mocking smile appeared on his face.
"So it isn't only humans who are bastards...
It seems the heavens are as well."
He looked upward.
"Are you telling me the heavens oppose killing evil people?"
|You didn't only kill evil people...
You erased everyone.
You killed people who could have become good.
You destroyed countless destinies.
There were people who would have married, people who would have helped others...
But you killed them all without exception.|
|And that wasn't enough.
You erased power from this world and turned it into a purely human world.
You just used 'First Manipulation' with the power of a Ruler,
and there is no Ruler in this world.|
"So the heavens want to punish me because I killed them?
Good...
Very good."
Arthur released the power of the Ruler from his body and looked toward the dark sky.
He raised his hand and punched the air with unbelievable force.
The punch pierced the heavens and tore apart the gathered power.
Arthur thought he had won.
But the power gathered once more, faster and more violently than before, and rushed toward him.
At the first touch...
The entire right side of his body vanished.
Arthur retreated rapidly and looked at his side.
It was gone.
Destroyed.
His body began regenerating through the Eternal Immortality Body...
But not before the heavens struck again, this time obliterating the left side of his body.
Then his legs.
Arthur's body shattered under agony beyond description.
"Is that all you've got?!"
Arthur roared loudly, a mixture of enjoyment and fury in his voice as blood poured from every part of his body, as though his very flesh were bleeding out the wrath of the cosmos.
At that moment, he felt his power being stripped away entirely.
Everything within him—
Energy.
Strength.
Even his life force.
All of it was being absorbed by the heavens like an endless void.
If this continued, the Eternal Immortality Body would not save him.
Even Arthur's immortal body itself would disappear, because the very essence of his human soul was being taken away.
"No... that won't happen!"
Arthur roared.
Then he activated the Blood Devil Technique and began absorbing his own power and storing it within the preservation vial.
But not before all of his strength vanished completely.
Now Arthur's body was nothing more than an immortal body.
No power.
No magic.
Nothing.
A purely human body.
He remained superior to ordinary humans in strength and speed, but the core that gathered power inside him had been destroyed by the absorption process, causing his energy channels to shatter.
That destruction dealt severe damage even to the Eternal Immortality Body itself.
"Damn you!"
Arthur shouted, his eyes blazing as he directed his fury toward the dark heavens above.
|You erased this world's power, and now the world has erased yours.
That is balance, I suppose.|
Arthur's body began regenerating.
But at an unbelievably slow pace.
As if one were watching a plant grow in an extremely slow-motion recording.
The slowness was astonishing.
The reason:
The destruction of his power core.
The shattering of his energy channels.
And the damage inflicted upon the Eternal Immortality Body itself.
The regeneration was pitifully weak.
A miserable level of healing.
His body had become close to that of a human.
Though it still possessed the properties of immortality, it was now fragile and weak compared to what it once was.
|Do you remember what I said about a soul moving from one place to another?
If a soul transfers from one body to another too quickly, without a period of rest, it suffers tremendous damage.
Now imagine what happens when a soul travels from one world to another.
All this time, I tried to protect you.
But now, damn you, you brainless bastard.
I'm starting the transfer.|
"No...
Let me fight that bastard...
No!"
Arthur shouted with all his strength.
But his body was already beginning to fade away little by little, dissolving once more into the Path of the Cosmos.
He vanished from that world.
And set off toward his next journey.
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