Ubermensch – Chapter 189

Chapter 189

The Destroyer strode forward.

He climbed atop the Lord of Time, who had collapsed on the floor, and pummeled him with his fists.

Thud! Thud! Crack!

“Ugh! Argh! Gah!”

Each blow crushed and mangled the Lord of Time. The Lord of Time reversed time on his broken parts, restoring himself from the damage, but before the regeneration could fully complete, a blood-stained fist smashed into his intellectual face once more.

It was a rational, if brutal, attack method.

There weren’t many things that could injure the body of a Greater God that transcended the laws of physics. Similarly, the fist of a Greater God was one of the most reasonable weapons.

“Uggghhh…”

However, it was a gruesome and savage display of violence.

It was all the more horrifying because the one with the face of his most beloved nephew was inflicting it upon the one who bore the appearance of his most respected uncle.

“Stop it!”

Mason roared.

“Destroyer! Stop it!”

The Destroyer merely chuckled without looking back.

He stomped on the Lord of Time’s head with his foot, and the Lord of Time grabbed his foot.

“A futile struggle.”

The Destroyer had the upper hand in both divine power and physical ability.

It was nothing more than clinging on.

The Destroyer kicked the Lord of Time as if he were kicking a soccer ball.

Roll…

The Destroyer’s body rolled across the floor and crashed into the wall.

But at that moment, in that fleeting instant when he was free from the Destroyer, the Lord of Time reached out his hand.

“Oztalon!”

Clank! Clank! Clank!

The chains that bound Oztalon’s body retracted, and the Cursed Sword Red Girl, which had fallen to the floor, returned to Mason’s hand.

The Lord of Time had reversed the flow of time around Mason.

“Planning a surprise attack?”

The Destroyer scoffed.

“Such a trivial trick…”

Even if he gave Mason the cursed sword, it would be meaningless if he couldn’t stab him with it. And considering the difference in strength and divine power between Mason and the Destroyer, stabbing him with the cursed sword was virtually impossible.

Even when the Destroyer was at his most unguarded, there was only a 50% chance of success. And now, reversing their time was pointless if the Destroyer was aware of it.

The Destroyer strode over and lifted the Lord of Time by the neck.

“Grrr…”

The Destroyer looked at Mason instead of the Lord of Time.

He said with a sneer.

“I’m tired of waiting. Come quickly and throw your lives away.”

But at that moment, the Destroyer was startled.

It wasn’t because Mason was charging at him. On the contrary, it was because Mason’s body was disappearing.

The Destroyer looked back at the Lord of Time.

He was still forming hand seals. He was still exerting his power.

That’s right. The Lord of Time didn’t reverse Mason’s time to give him a chance to launch a surprise attack.

“Are you making him escape?”

Bam!

The Destroyer’s fist shattered the Lord of Time’s ribs.

“Ugh…”

But instead of reversing time to regenerate his body, the Lord of Time was still manipulating time around Mason.

“Lord of Time!”

“Don’t forget…”

The Lord of Time looked at Mason.

He said, froth forming at the corner of his mouth.

“The Destroyer… no one can kill him… You must not forget that…”

“Uncle!”

Flash!

Mason and the Cursed Sword Red Girl vanished.

“Where did you send him?”

“To a place… you will never find…”

The Destroyer closed his eyes for a moment. But as the Lord of Time had said, he couldn’t locate Mason and Red Girl.

Perhaps the Lord of Time had made them untraceable with his power.

“Doing all sorts of things while getting beaten up…”

“He is… hope. My hope, and… the hope of the entire universe!”

“What a pathetic hope…”

The Destroyer looked at the Lord of Time and scoffed.

“Well then… let’s consider that your last words.”

Grab! Grab!

The Destroyer grabbed the Lord of Time’s shoulders and head.

Rip!

The Destroyer tore off the Lord of Time’s head.

With a blood-soaked sneer.

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When Mason opened his eyes, he was holding the broken cursed sword in his hand.

“…Red Girl.”

She was sitting next to him.

“…I felt it from the moment I first saw the Destroyer.”

She was sitting with a gloomy face and a frustrated look in her eyes.

“He… is a superior being to me. A superhuman from the future. A being capable of becoming a savior.”

She was muttering. As if she was telling Mason, or as if she was talking to herself.

“Even if I tried my best, my limit was serving my Queen. I was struggling just to keep up with her, let alone saving her. But he… that bastard was someone who could become a savior from the very beginning. He was already in a place I could never reach, even after a lifetime of effort.”

Red Girl muttered.

“I hated him. The one who could have been a savior, but became the Destroyer. And as much as I hated him, I hated myself. For being powerless and ignorant… for not even being able to properly help the one I love.”

“Red Girl…”

“Answer me. You are Mason too, aren’t you? What should I have done?”

She was sobbing.

She failed to protect the lord she respected and loved.

She couldn’t even get revenge.

She could only hover around her enemy, treated like an antique or a souvenir.

Red Girl, the Red Knight, said in a mournful voice.

“Answer me, Mason. What should I have done? What should I do, a powerless being who can neither save the one I respect nor kill the one I hate?”

He couldn’t answer.

He shouldn’t answer.

It was a question that contained a lifetime of one person.

He shouldn’t face it lightly, nor answer it lightly.

Mason could only look at Red Girl with a bitter expression.

With a long silence…

“Right. I shouldn’t seek the answer to my problem from others…”

And seeing him, Red Girl made a bitter expression.

“Give me some time. Time to collect my thoughts.”

She looked at Mason with tear-filled eyes.

“You need time too, don’t you…”

“…”

It wasn’t just Red Girl who was struggling with a sense of defeat and frustration.

Mason was the same.

‘What have I been doing?’

Even after becoming a god, the gap between him and the Destroyer hadn’t narrowed.

He had merely picked up people from the Destroyer’s grasp.

‘A guardian deity?’

Mason clenched his fist.

‘What have I protected?’

He had never stopped the Destroyer.

Universes were destroyed.

He only saved a handful of people.

Cthulhu was eventually born.

He only repelled him temporarily.

Azathoth was eventually born too.

Nodens merely became the main body.

Mason had never stopped the Destroyer. He had only picked up crumbs from the Destroyer’s grasp.

And above all… the Lord of Time.

‘Uncle…’

He knew. The Lord of Time wasn’t his ‘uncle.’

But like his uncle, he was great, kind, and above all, he gave up his life to save Mason.

Nothing had changed.

Whether it was when he was running from monsters, or now, when he was running from the Destroyer.

He had worked so hard and become so strong, but nothing had changed…

The god and the demon, they ruminated on their frustration and defeat.

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The sun was setting.

Only then did the two of them notice.

Like the stars in the sky, there were lights on the ground.

Artificial lights.

And only then did the two of them look at the present, not the past.

“…Where are we?”

When Red Girl asked, Mason closed his eyes for a moment.

“This is Earth.”

Mason slowly looked back.

“The… Korean peninsula of Earth.”

At that moment, Mason spotted someone.

“Kacha…”

Yekaterina was looking at them with a surprised expression.

“Mason? And… Red Knight?”

“…”

A brief silence fell between the three.

“You are not the two I know. You are too great, too strong.”

Yekaterina was the first to speak.

“Did you come from another dimension? Or from the future?”

“Both.”

Mason said with a bitter expression.

“We came from the future of another dimension.”

“Why did you come?”

“This wasn’t our intended destination. We just… arrived here.”

Yekaterina smiled.

“Then, you two are guests.”

“…”

“Or are you enemies?”

Mason and Red Girl looked at each other.

They shook their heads.

“We’re not enemies.”

“Then I must offer you hospitality.”

Yekaterina said with a smile.

“Come in. I’ll make some tea.”

He realized now that they were standing in the backyard of Yekaterina’s villa.

Did the Lord of Time intentionally send them here?

Or was it a coincidence?

It didn’t matter. The two of them were exhausted. Not physically, but mentally and spiritually.

So they followed Yekaterina inside.

“Will coffee with lots of sugar be okay for the Mason from another dimension?”

“Yes.”

“And for the Red Knight from another dimension…”

Red Girl said.

“Red Knight.”

“Yes?”

“Red Knight is enough. Please, speak comfortably.”

Yekaterina was momentarily flustered, but she smiled and nodded.

“You don’t need anything to drink, do you?”

“No, Heavenly King.”

Red Girl’s eyes welled up. She was a sword, unable to consume any food or drink, but Yekaterina’s words were sweeter and more bitter than any nectar, soaking her heart.

Yekaterina served herself cheap coffee and Mason excessively sweet coffee.

“…A familiar taste.”

Mason made a bitter expression.

It was a taste that seeped into his heart. Even though he was a god who didn’t need to eat or drink.

“Now, then… may I ask?”

Yekaterina said with a gentle smile.

“What happened?”