Ubermensch – Chapter 188

Chapter 188

Mason stood up and looked back.

“Red Girl.”

“Oztalon.”

“I have many questions for you.”

“Do as you please.”

“But there is something I must ask first.”

Red Girl said with an expressionless face.

“Are you talking about how to save the world?”

“Yes.”

“Only by defeating the Destroyer.”

“I’m asking how.”

“What I mean is, you are the way.”

Red Girl took a step forward. At the same time, her body transformed into a person wearing heavy armor as red as blood.

It was a form Mason knew well.

“Red Knight…!”

“I am the Red Knight from the world where the Destroyer was born. He destroyed his surroundings before destroying the entire universe, and among those destroyed by him was my lord, His Majesty the Heavenly King. From that moment on, I have been doing everything in my power to defeat Mason, the Destroyer.”

“It seems you failed.”

“Yes.”

Red Knight said with an impassive expression.

“I attempted poisoning. I failed. I attempted bombing. I failed. I attempted strangulation. I failed. I failed. I failed. I failed…”

Red Knight returned to the form of Red Girl and said.

“He abandoned his human heart, and soon he will become a god and transcend the category of living beings. Therefore, it has become impossible to kill him. Unless a god wielding a weapon that can kill a god appears.”

“Are you saying that was me?”

“Yes.”

Red Girl reached out her hand.

On top of her hand, a drop of blood floated.

“You are a clone of the Destroyer. A replica of flesh and blood, even soul and karma.”

“…A clone?”

The fact that he was someone’s clone itself didn’t make much of an impression. After all, Mason was a clone of his father, Winston Park.

But a clone of the Destroyer?

That was enough to shock Mason.

Not the act of cloning, but the shock of the source of the original.

“Yes. You are the opposite of the Destroyer.”

Red Girl said in a calm voice.

“To be precise, you would be a Karmic Weapon. You were born from the possibility of the Destroyer and tempered by the Destroyer’s evil deeds. You are the embodiment of the retribution, the karma for the slaughter caused by the Destroyer’s actions.”

“…I don’t care about that.”

Mason gritted his teeth.

“Is there a way to defeat the Destroyer?”

Red Girl twirled the broken greatsword she was holding. She held the blade and offered the hilt to Mason.

“Take it.”

Mason grasped the greatsword.

At that moment, he felt a curse poison so potent that even a powerful god with countless followers would flinch.

It was resentment. It was hatred. It was rage. All the evil emotions were condensed within it, to the point where even a god would feel disgust.

“I have always been by the Destroyer’s side. And I have scraped together the karma of the Destroyer’s deeds. Along with my own curse, I have woven and tempered the curses of those he killed.”

He could feel it through the greatsword. That this was Red Girl’s true form.

“This is… you?”

“Yes. I am the curse contained within the sword. A cursed sword forged through human sacrifice.”

And that she was the first in the entire universe to hate the Destroyer.

“A sword tempered to defeat the Destroyer.”

When the Destroyer was human. When he was the superhuman Mason from the future, he killed a woman. Yekaterina. Red Knight’s benefactor, lord, and… the one she loved.

A sword tempered for eons since that moment. The Cursed Sword Red Girl.

That sword, honed solely with curses against the Destroyer, was a sword capable of even defeating the Destroyer.

“I have been waiting. For someone to use me. Someone to defeat the Destroyer. But even after waiting for an eternity, that person did not appear, so I created that person. The one who will use me. The god born and raised as the Destroyer’s nemesis. You, Oztalon.”

Mason realized.

If faith creates a god, then curses create a demon.

And that this Red Girl was a being worthy of being called a demon.

“Can you kill the Destroyer?”

“Do you doubt my power, my curse?”

Red Girl said with a calm expression.

“Rest assured. The curse you felt is just a fragment directed towards ‘the Destroyer’s clone’. My true curse power will activate when facing the Destroyer.”

“…”

“Is my answer insufficient?”

“Yes.”

Mason looked at Red Girl.

“You haven’t told me how to save the world yet.”

“I told you how to kill the Destroyer.”

Mason shook his head.

“Look at this world.”

Too many deaths were flooding over the dimensional walls. The screams of the universe disappearing echoed through the void, and the afterimages of the dead swept across the wasteland.

“Can you call it saving the world just because the Destroyer dies?”

“It would stop further deaths.”

“We need more than that.”

“That’s greed.”

“If saving the world is greed, then so be it.”

Mason and Red Girl.

The gaze of the one who wanted to protect people and the one who wanted to kill the Destroyer crossed in the void.

There was a moment of silence. A silence as if the entire universe had frozen.

In the end, it was Red Girl who spoke.

“What do you want.”

“We have to resurrect the Lord of Time.”

Mason said, narrowing his eyes.

“Or… make it so he never died.”

“Are you going to create a time paradox with your own hands?”

“Yes.”

Red Girl frowned.

“What are you thinking?”

“I’m not against your plan. Just… I’m going to decide the time and place.”

“What exactly do you want?”

“The moment the Lord of Time dies.”

“Are you saying you will intervene at that moment and kill the Destroyer?”

“Yes.”

Red Girl fell into thought for a moment.

Because the Lord of Time died, all this chaos was happening. Then the solution was simple.

Wouldn’t it be enough to make sure the Lord of Time didn’t die?

“Alright. Fine.”

Red Girl nodded.

“If that’s when you want it, then let’s do it then.”

“Yes.”

“But I’m not a god. I can’t time travel.”

“Don’t worry.”

Mason said, grasping the hilt of the greatsword.

“Just remember the moment the Lord of Time dies. That’s enough to extract the coordinates, I’ll handle the time travel.”

“Good.”

Red Girl closed her eyes.

And the moment Mason took a step.

He arrived at a familiar place.

“Oh, Oztalon…”

The Lord of Time, battered and bruised, lay collapsed.

In front of him stood the Destroyer, his back turned.

Red Girl, still in Mason’s hand, said.

“Now.”

But at that moment, the Lord of Time looked at Mason and shouted.

“Run! It’s a trap!”

“…?!”

Clank!

Chains that appeared out of thin air began to wrap around Mason’s body.

“Ugh?!”

“Tsk…!”

Red Girl, seeing this, broke free from Mason’s grasp. The broken cursed sword flew on its own, aiming for the Destroyer’s neck.

However.

Thud!

The Destroyer, without even looking back, caught the hilt of the cursed sword with his silver arm.

“Ugh…”

With her neck caught, the Destroyer slowly turned around.

“Oztalon. Do you know? You are a very easy person to read.”

“…Destroyer.”

The Destroyer looked down at Mason with a sneer.

“You create the worst situation, and if you think of the best solution, you move accordingly. You really are… predictable.”

The Destroyer looked at Red Girl.

“And Red Girl, you too.”

“…You knew I was aiming for you?”

“Wouldn’t it be stupid not to know?”

Unlike when he looked at Mason, the Destroyer gave a good-natured smile.

“Whenever I see you, it reminds me of old times. When I was still human. When Yekaterina was giving me ‘lessons’.”

“…”

“Yekaterina kept Liza Kronen closest to her. Do you know why?”

“…Because Liza was the one who hated the Heavenly King the most.”

“Why do you think that was?”

“To remember what she had done…”

At that moment, Red Girl realized.

That she was the Destroyer’s Liza.

The Destroyer smiled and looked at Red Girl.

“Your hatred reminds me of the old days. So, I will forgive you this time as well. The more you hate me, the more you point your blade of revenge at me… the more fresh and vivid the pain I suffered becomes.”

“Destroyer…!”

“And it’s not something I like to say, but you need bait to catch fish, don’t you?”

The Destroyer sneered at Mason.

“There has to be at least one way to approach me for my enemies to jump into this obvious trap. Don’t you think?”

“…!”

Red Girl, grinding her teeth for a moment, lowered her head.

The Destroyer laughed and threw Red Girl away.

Clang!

Ignoring her as she fell to the floor, the Destroyer looked at Mason.

“She’s an amusing friend to have around. Don’t you think so, Oztalon?”

“Destroyer…!”

The Destroyer slowly walked over and stood before Mason.

Then, nanomachines from the air gathered and formed a chair, and the Destroyer sat on it.

“I admit it. You were the most troublesome enemy I’ve encountered lately. Until I understood your way of thinking. But… thanks to you, I had to think like I used to, and thanks to that, I was able to revive old feelings. Before I realized the truth of the world. Memories of when I still believed I could work miracles.”

The Destroyer sat like a barbarian king who had usurped the throne of a civilized king with violence and slaughter. He looked down at Mason with an arrogant posture.

“And that was… more enjoyable than I thought.”

The Destroyer gave a faint smile. Not at this moment, but at some point in the past.

“To face the trials that come, to strive and research, and finally achieve victory. It was a truly exhilarating moment…”

“What are you trying to say?”

“Don’t you understand even after hearing it? I’m mocking you.”

The Destroyer, seated on his throne of nanomachines, looked down at Mason.

“As long as there is faith, a god does not die. That means… to truly kill you, I must kill all your followers and make you a forgotten empty god.”

“…!”

“Watch from there. Watch as everyone who remembers you dies and disappears. And feel yourself slowly turning into a phantom.”

“Kill me!”

“Give you a chance to gather faith and resurrect? Why would I?”

The Destroyer slowly rose from his seat.

“Now then… since the audience has gathered, shall we continue what we were doing?”

The Destroyer looked at the Lord of Time and laughed.

A bloody, vicious…

“Uncle?”

…sneer.