Ubermensch – Chapter 116

Chapter 116

The Ghost Dragon’s telepathy was etched into everyone’s minds. However, most of them ignored his words.

What did it matter what was coming, and what did it matter who the Destroyer was?

Only one person, Mason, froze in place.

“Stop! Cease fire!”

He shouted so loudly that heaven and earth trembled.

Chong Daolong and Steve Queen wore puzzled expressions.

“Park-hyung…?”

“Mason?”

The Ghost Dragon, a monster specializing in civilian massacres, was the monster Mason hated most. But to call for a ceasefire?

They were startled not by the Ghost Dragon’s words, but by Mason’s, and they looked at him.

“Park-hyung. What’s going on?”

“We need to hear what he has to say.”

“But if we miss this opportunity…”

“If we don’t have this conversation, we might regret it even more.”

Mason’s words were filled with the desperation of someone cornered between life and death.

“…”

After a moment of silence, Chong Daolong spoke.

“I’ll trust you, Park-hyung.”

Chong Daolong ordered a ceasefire, and Steve also stopped the fight, as there was no point in fighting amongst themselves.

“You’ll have to explain this later.”

“I will.”

Mason walked towards the Ghost Dragon. The battered Ghost Dragon was staggering, but if he wanted to fight, he could still put up at least minimal resistance.

However, the Ghost Dragon retracted his claws and let his wings droop. He was ready to talk.

Mason and the Ghost Dragon stared at each other.

Mason growled, his hammer gripped tightly.

“I loathe you, Ghost Dragon.”

The Ghost Dragon also growled.

“I despise you all as well, so you need not worry about earning my favor, mortal!”

Mason gritted his teeth.

“I won’t guarantee anything. Except for a conversation. If necessary, I’ll crush your skull the moment we’re done.”

“You don’t understand, mortal.”

The Ghost Dragon spoke in a voice laced with elegant disdain.

“I am merely telling you the truth because I believe it will be the greatest blow to you. Did you say after the conversation? I’ll see if you can even remain sane after that.”

The superhuman and the dragon looked at each other.

They shared only hatred and contempt, and only their desire for information and the need to buy time maintained their short and precarious truce.

The Ghost Dragon growled.

“I tried to save you, but you desperately rejected my mercy. Such foolishness is not even worth mocking!”

“Save? You call this saving?”

Mason was enraged.

“How many people have you killed, and you speak of salvation! If the salvation you offer is only completed through slaughter, then I refuse it, no matter the outcome!”

“Slaughter is not the process. The salvation I was trying to offer was to kill all of humanity.”

“What?”

“Only death was your chance to preserve your souls and memories!”

Mason sensed that the Ghost Dragon was telling the truth, and that was why he was horrified.

“What’s coming?”

“The Destroyer of all time and space is coming. A mad god of destruction who crushes planets to use as weapons, obliterates civilizations leaving no memory, and devours even souls. Yog-Sothoth!”

Steve Queen and Chong Daolong had dubious expressions.

However, Mason knew. He knew that what the Ghost Dragon said was true.

“Is there no way to fight him?”

“Would we have fled if there was?”

The Ghost Dragon scoffed.

“Did you say discuss a way to fight the Destroyer? If there was, would we have fled to another dimension? We are defeated soldiers and refugees. You… you were fighting defeated soldiers and refugees!”

People felt their blood run cold.

Defeated soldiers? Refugees?

“The monsters, the Five Great Demon Gods were mere defeated soldiers…?”

If beings with such power were merely defeated soldiers and refugees, just how powerful was the true Destroyer?

“Just how powerful is he?”

“Look at the sky!”

During the battle, the sun had set without them noticing. Stars were twinkling.

The Ghost Dragon looked at the sky and said,

“You must have thought those were stars. But… those are not stars. They are merely the remnants of what were once stars, now transformed into the Destroyer’s fortresses.”

“What does that mean?”

“The entire universe has already been harvested, and this galaxy is the last.”

People looked at the night sky in terror. The romance and mystery had long since vanished.

Cosmic horror was crushing them.

“God…”

Westerners murmured involuntarily. The Ghost Dragon mocked them.

“If I were you, I wouldn’t seek God. For the being that even gods fear is targeting you!”

Looking at the people in shock, the Ghost Dragon muttered.

“Only death can deceive his eyes. Making this star a dead star, deceiving him that it’s not even worth destroying. That’s the only way to save your souls and leave behind even a fragment of your civilization.”

The Ghost Dragon spoke enticingly.

“I am your salvation.”

“Shut your nonsense!”

Mason gritted his teeth.

“You or the Destroyer! I can’t just give up people’s lives, this Earth, without a fight!”

“Earth? Did you say Earth?”

The Ghost Dragon laughed.

“Khahaha… Kuhahahaha.”

It was an awkward and harsh laughter, like a monk who had forgotten how to laugh forcing himself to do so.

“Did you believe this was Earth?”

“…What?”

“There is only one Earthling in this universe. Only one! Our enemy, the Destroyer of the entire universe, Yog-Sothoth, is an Earthling!”

The Ghost Dragon sneered.

“This is not Earth, and you are not Earthlings! You are merely aliens who resemble the human race!”

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The Ghost Dragon’s words shattered people. Their worldview, their common sense, and… their will to fight.

The battle came to a standstill, and people relayed the story they had heard to their respective countries.

And Mason and the other leaders held a meeting.

There was much to discuss. Things that no one had the answers to.

Since Mason was the only one who could give answers that resembled the truth, people asked him.

“Mason, is that story true?”

“I can’t confirm it. But I believe it’s true.”

“Why?”

“I’ve been having similar dreams.”

Steve Queen tried to maintain a cynical attitude.

“You’re using a mere dream as evidence? That’s…”

“…And due to the Barbarian System, I enter complete sleep, so the function of dreaming during sleep isn’t installed. I thought what I saw was a dream, but… it probably wasn’t a dream, but rather a kind of revelation or telepathy.”

“…”

Even Steve Queen, who was trying to deny it, was speechless.

People chewed on the Ghost Dragon’s words with complex expressions.

“The monsters are defeated soldiers…”

It was the second most shocking thing the Ghost Dragon had said.

Actually, it wasn’t entirely unfamiliar. It had been confirmed that the Great Eater, one of the Five Great Demon Gods, was an alien escape vessel. They just didn’t know what the Great Eater was fleeing from. They had vaguely thought it was some kind of natural disaster or environmental change.

And now they knew.

What happened to those who sent the World Tree.

“And we… are not human?”

That was the most shocking thing the Ghost Dragon had said. People who were already different species, like Yekaterina, weren’t particularly shocked, but ordinary people were greatly shaken.

Their identity as humans had been damaged.

Jean Bosung looked at Mason.

“Did you know that, Raid Leader Mason?”

“No, I thought you were human.”

Mason looked directly at Jean Bosung and said,

“And I still think you are human.”

“…I wish I could say the same.”

It was a voice mixed with pain, defeat, and confusion. Jean Bosung’s devout faith was a spear piercing him.

A long silence fell over the conference room.

“…”

Knowing there was nothing more to say or hear, Mason left the conference room.

The Ghost Dragon, whose body had somewhat recovered, sat with a haughty posture. Mason approached him.

“Ghost Dragon.”

The Ghost Dragon looked down at Mason.

“What is it, mortal?”

“Your words… are they certain?”

“There’s no need to doubt. I inherited the knowledge necessary for my mission from my creator.”

Mason voiced his biggest worry.

“Does the Destroyer… resemble me?”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

The Ghost Dragon scoffed.

“Did you think we resisted successfully enough to see the Destroyer’s face? My creator’s civilization was also annihilated immediately after encountering the Destroyer’s vanguard. We never got close enough to see his face.”

“You seem to know a lot for someone who doesn’t know that.”

“Because fleeing races exchanged information.”

Mason looked into the Ghost Dragon’s empty eyes.

“You mentioned gods. Do you know about gods?”

“I know that there are divine beings who transcend mortals.”

“Can’t we ask them for help?”

“They were either destroyed or turned a blind eye to this situation.”

“How do you know that?”

“My creator was the god of a race. He fled after failing to protect his people.”

“The Lich?”

“Yes. He was the goddess of life and growth. He transformed himself that way only because only the dead could escape the Destroyer’s grasp.”

The Ghost Dragon sneered.

“You ‘raided’ him, you said? Did you think you won? You merely struck down a god who had lost his followers and fallen. A noble god who had already experienced what you will face and was trying to help you…”

The Ghost Dragon looked down at Mason.

“Forget the heartless gods. Don’t expect salvation that will never come. The only choice you have is whether you will be mourned or not, and even that time is running out!”

“Alright. Then… I’ll ask just one more thing.”

“Ask as much as you want. I’ll share it as long as knowledge torments you.”

“I found a Soldier. Probably the Destroyer’s vanguard.”

The Ghost Dragon nodded.

Because he also sensed that presence.

“And he was sealed.”

Mason looked at the Ghost Dragon and said,

“Who did that? Was it you or someone you know?”

The Ghost Dragon was silent for a moment before speaking.

“…I don’t know. I don’t know everything.”

“Then…”

Mason clenched his fists.

“That means there’s someone helping us against the Destroyer?”