Ubermensch – Chapter 186

Chapter 186

The Destroyer was sitting in a chair.

And the holograms floating around him were conveying the status of the war in each region.

Oztalon was rescuing survivors from each dimension and fleeing.

But apart from that, the dimensions were being erased.

One by one, the universe was being destroyed.

“It’s a matter of time.”

Nodens’ domain. The Dreamland dimension was currently gathering refugees pouring in from all over the universe. It was now a fortress for the Elder Gods and a logistics base for supplying the faith of survivors.

“Someday we will win.”

However, the minds of the survivors were mixed with fear of the Destroyer. As much as the Elder Gods gained respect and faith, the fear of the Destroyer was conveyed to the Destroyer.

In that sense, Nodens and Oztalon could only maintain the status quo.

“We will win, but…”

Someday, the Lord of Time would fall, and someday they would fight. A fight they were sure to win.

“Oztalon might do something again.”

Oztalon was always exceeding the Destroyer’s expectations. He was only a mid-level god, so he wouldn’t be able to show enough control to change the overall situation, but he was subtly twisting the plans the Destroyer had made.

Oztalon was a variable.

And the thing the Destroyer hated most was a variable.

How easy would his task be if all the foreign substances in the universe died quietly without resistance?

How efficiently could he slaughter if the plan didn’t go awry?

Having to chase down and kill survivors of the dimensions he had already destroyed was a real nuisance.

“So… shall we make it certain?”

The Destroyer opened the communication line.

“Azathoth.”

A distorted and seething voice unpleasantly scratched his mind. Literally, it was a voice of madness. But the Destroyer was not bewitched.

Because his divinity and will were not inferior to the God of Chaos.

The Destroyer spoke in a leisurely voice.

“Wouldn’t you like to go for a walk?”

“Dreamland.”

The Destroyer smiled a twisted smile.

“It’s time to end this tiresome war.”

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The first to grasp the situation was, of course, Nodens, the master of the dimension.

He, who was immersed in himself, creating Fighters, immediately noticed the intruder from outside.

“Elder Gods. Gather!”

Nodens summoned all the Elder Gods.

“Azathoth and the Destroyer are coming!”

The bewildered Elder Gods gathered in unison.

Oztalon asked in a bewildered voice.

“Are you sure?”

“It is certain. The Destroyer’s main force and the Azathoth dimension are trying to invade Dreamland.”

“Are they out of their minds?”

Dreamland was the home of the Elder Gods. It was literally the bastion of the good gods, where Nodens, the strongest being in the universe, stood.

To think they would dare to attack that bastion head-on?

“No. They must have thought it was a fight worth trying.”

But the problem was that Nodens’ power was halved. Nodens had to stop Azathoth, and eventually the rest of the Elder Gods had to deal with the Destroyer.

It wasn’t an easy task. Never.

“Gather your forces and prepare for battle.”

Nodens ordered the Nightgaunts residing in his body.

“Nightgaunts! Evacuate the residents. My main body will enter combat mode. The residents must not stay.”

“Yes! Father of All Things!”

The Nightgaunts led the residents to the divine statues.

“Residents of the Libra constellation must move to the B1 star system! To the 3rd planet of the B1 star system!”

“Those of you from the Scorpio constellation are D3! Don’t get the coordinates mixed up!”

Those residing in Nodens’ body had designated evacuation locations in case of an emergency. People quickly prayed to the divine statues and teleported.

“Evacuation rate 25%! All evacuation will be completed within 10 hours!”

“Thank you. Nightgaunts.”

As the ordinary people who resided in Nodens’ body gradually decreased, Nodens, who was crouching, slowly stretched his body.

His limbs were as wide and long as the Milky Way, and his body was as gigantic and magnificent as a galaxy cluster. Inside his body, stars were born, grew, cooled, and died, chained like cells living and dying.

All things were Nodens, and Nodens was all things.

His movements generated terrifying gravitational waves, destroying everything within a certain radius.

“…”

Nodens looked at the surrounding universe with regretful eyes. Nodens had been crouching for fear that his movements would break the universe, but as the enemies were coming, it was a sacrifice he had to make.

“Ah… after a long time, Nodens stretches.”

Nodens, who had fully stretched his body, was in the form of his usual incarnation, the same as the First Mason.

The difference was the size!

The other Elder Gods also took their largest possible forms, but even Mason, the second largest among the Elder Gods, as huge as a mountain, was smaller than a strand of Nodens’ hair.

Mason, riding Nymphassil like a surfboard, approached Nodens’ face.

“Nodens. What should we do?”

“Take care of the Destroyer’s forces. His army is made up of a swarm of Battlestars, so you should be able to stall for time by defeating them individually. I will deal with the Destroyer as soon as I repel Azathoth, so just buying time is enough!”

“Okay!”

Mason returned to the ranks of the Elder Gods.

Time was passing.

In the anxiously flowing time, the dimensional boundary finally began to break.

“They’re coming!”

The first strike was an astronomical number of beam cannons.

A simultaneous fire from the Battlestars, each with enough destructive power to destroy a star system!

“How dare you!”

However, Nodens covered the dimensional rift with his palm and blocked the Battlestars’ beams with his hand.

Firepower that would tear the universe apart from an ordinary person’s perspective. However, to Nodens, it was only a blow that slightly peeled the skin of his palm.

At that moment, as the dimensional boundary collapsed, chaos began to flood in. If Nodens was a solid, Azathoth was a gas. Although their mass and divine power were similar, Azathoth’s volume was dozens of times wider.

Azathoth wrapped around Nodens and tried to strangle him to death.

Nodens chuckled.

“Now I am the true history!”

If chaos was the opposite of order, order was also the opposite of chaos.

Unlike before, Azathoth could not melt Nodens’ body. Rather, the opposite. Azathoth’s body was scattering.

Since the First Mason had decided to become Nodens, Nodens’ order was correcting Azathoth’s chaos.

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“Be corrected, being of chaos!”

Azathoth’s body was gradually evaporating. Nodens was sublimating Azathoth’s chaos into order, into matter.

However, while Nodens was entangled in a fight with Azathoth, the Destroyer’s forces began marching in from the dimensional rift.

“They’re coming!”

The Destroyer’s forces, which he had gathered while harvesting the entire universe, formed a swarm comparable in size to Nodens.

The Destroyer’s forces stretched out their two hands forward.

At the same time, all the bombardments wrapped around the two beam cannons, doubling their power.

It was firepower that seemed to evaporate the entire universe.

Firepower that even the Elder Gods could not withstand.

“Now!”

However, Mason raised his fist high.

“Space Whales!”

At that moment, the Space Whales, swimming through space and time, charged in formation towards the two beam cannons.

“Spread your protective barriers!”

The bodies of the Space Whales were enveloped in a brilliant light.

And so, the tide of beams and the tide of Space Whales clashed.

Bang!

Hundreds of Space Whales at the forefront died, but the cavalry of tens of millions of Space Whales began to close the distance without any hesitation.

The bewildered Destroyer’s forces fired another bombardment, but this time again, it only managed to kill a few hundred.

And the moment they were preparing for the third bombardment.

Rumble!

The tide of Space Whales crashed head-on into the Destroyer’s forces.

The formation that had taken the shape of a human was shattered, and the Battlestars, scattered like grains of sand, were rammed and bitten by the Space Whales in the melee.

“Let’s go too!”

Mason signaled to his fellow Elder Gods and their subordinates.

From the smallest Nightgaunts to the largest Spirit Dragons.

All the forces of the Elder Gods rushed towards the Destroyer’s forces that the Space Whales had divided.

“Move as we briefed!”

Mason shouted loudly.

“Due to the structure of the Battlestars, there must be heat exhaust vents and entry points! If you aim for those entry points, you can shoot down the Battlestars!”

“Yes!”

Mason himself tore off the armor plates of a Battlestar and threw punches at it.

Thud! Crash!

The Battlestar’s armor plates were distorted, and as soon as they lost their carefully calculated Dyson Sphere shape, they began to melt away in the heat of the star.

“Nymphassil. Fire the main cannon!”

Nymphassil’s main cannon could easily penetrate the Battlestars, and the Champion, utilizing the motion data Mason had entered beforehand, entered through the heat exhaust vent and shot down the Battlestars.

“Kyaaaack!”

However, if one were to choose the best ace from Oztalon’s Pantheon, it would be the Spirit Dragon.

The Spirit Dragon, which drew power from living beings, was more powerful than ever, and its overflowing firepower penetrated the maze-like heat exhaust vents with each shot, detonating the stars within the Battlestars.

The Battlestars were, so to speak, archers. A type of military unit that had sacrificed durability for firepower.

The charge of the Space Whales, the equivalent of a cavalry, divided and fragmented the Battlestars, dragging them into a melee. The battlefield of a melee was close combat. The Battlestars’ main cannons and long-range attack capabilities were inevitably halved.

“Destroyer. We’ve been thinking about you.”

Mason gritted his teeth.

“About how to break you!”

It was a feat that was too great to be dismissed as a mere success.

Borbados shouted.

“Warriors of the stars! Advance! Today is the day we will save the universe from the Destroyer’s violence!”

The forces of the Elder Gods pushed back the enemy with ease.

Deroa wore a triumphant expression.

“This is too easy, isn’t it?”

“What?”

Mason was startled at that moment.

“…What did you just say?”

“I said it’s too easy. Why?”

If the Elder Gods had been thinking about how to defeat the Destroyer, the Destroyer must have also been thinking about how to counter the Elder Gods.

The Destroyer was mad, but he was rationally mad. Unlike Azathoth, he was a person with plans and strategies.

But to think he would be defeated so easily?

Without even being able to fight back?

“…There’s none.”

Mason, staring blankly around, realized something.

“There’s… no resistance?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Damn it!”

Mason entered one of the Battlestars. He shrank himself to human size and accessed the Battlestar’s database.

As expected.

“This is on autopilot!”

“What?”

“The Destroyer isn’t controlling it! That’s why they’re being destroyed so pathetically!”

At that moment, Mason realized another fact.

The things that should always be next to the Battlestars were missing.

“Where did the Soldiers and Knights go? Why did he only send Battlestars?”

It was a trap. The question was, what was the trap set for?

‘Think. Think.’

Mason thought.

‘I can think like him. Just like he can think like me!’

At that moment, Mason realized one thing he had forgotten.

That the battlefield of the gods was not just one place.

“Oh, my God…”

“What’s wrong?”

“Time… time…”

That was the moment.

The destroyed Battlestars reassembled as if they were being rewound, and the scattered forces formed the giant’s shadow again.

Without a single scratch, just like when they first came to Dreamland…

“What is this…?”

“Time. It’s time. He turned back time.”

To the horrified Elder Gods, Mason muttered.

“He used a diversionary tactic on us. While we were fighting in Dreamland, the Destroyer…”

Mason gritted his teeth in defeat.

“Time… he conquered the Lord of Time.”

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The forces of Soldiers and Knights were pouring in.

The last Time Troopers, outnumbered, were being helplessly shot down.

“Ah, now I don’t have to be pressed for time.”

The Destroyer smiled a twisted smile.

“Don’t you think so, Uncle?”

As he lifted the head of the Lord of Time he had killed.