Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 292 A Moment of Brilliance
Born from the heroic spirit of the ages, the demigod giant took a step forward and threw a punch at the monster.

"Roar!!!!!!"

The giant serpent roared and charged at the giant, biting down on the giant's arm. Its massive jaws snapped shut, severing the giant's arm completely.

"Humph……"

The giant, possessing divine power, felt pain but let out a muffled groan. His other large hand, encircling the Milky Way, reached out to grab the serpent, attempting to crush the monster.

However, the skeletal serpent, hundreds of millions of miles long, coiled up the giant's arm, like a giant python, tightly binding the giant's body, intending to strangle it.

He raised his head, his scarlet pupils looking down at the giant beneath him.

"The power of a god? Even a god would die here. These man-made insects, whose lifespan is but a breath, what power could possibly stop me!"

This giant is indeed powerful, possessing the heart of a god and the faith of the entire universe, even capable of wrestling with the Great Serpent. But so what? It is merely a man-made insect. Not to mention, it was destined to have enormous flaws from its very birth; such power cannot be sustained for long, its lifespan as fleeting as a mayfly's.

What is the significance of such a fleeting moment of brilliance?

The monster's body was tightly wrapped around the giant, binding the giant's movements and tightening continuously. It could even feel that the giant's body was about to be broken by its immense strength.

The tiny mayfly should just die peacefully.

Numerous universes still surround the giant and the serpent. Under human control, the distortion and changes of these universes are tearing the serpent's body apart, but the serpent doesn't care, because it can clearly sense that this giant, on whom the insects have placed their hopes, is about to die.

Whether it's vitality or lifespan, this giant is almost exhausted.

It was so fleeting, so fleeting that there wasn't even a chance to properly see the world, so fleeting that there wasn't even a chance to say a few more words. Compared to immortal monsters, giants, though powerful, were only demigods, possessing divine power but lacking divine lifespan.

"So... you still don't understand, you heartless beast..."

But at that moment, the giant spoke.

The giant's arm constricted the serpent's body, and it struggled, its immense divine power surprising even the serpent.

"Hehe... Little guy from the future, you've inherited my power, don't let me down."

In my ears, I could almost still hear the laughter of that psionic emperor.

“Kill it, kill that heartless monster who strangled my daughter’s life with its own hands.”

"Although I don't know how my wisdom can help you, the most intelligent scholar in the entire universe will definitely not let you down, ahahahahaha..."

"...I really regret not firing a few more shots back then. Now I'm pinning my hopes on you."

"..."

Whether it's blessings or encouragement, although the deceased are gone and only memories remain, their spirit seems to still be alive, speaking to the giant through those vivid memories.

The giant's gaze was profound; though it had only just been born, its heart, which held the memories of countless people, made it seem as if it had lived for a very long time.

In these memories, the giant understood something that the monster could never understand.

"Even if my brilliance lasts only this moment..."

The giant laughed loudly, and with his remaining arm, he gradually exerted his strength. The serpent felt a strain; even the monster with seemingly inexhaustible power was now feeling exhausted.

"It is far better than your immortality."

Despite being on the verge of death, the giant unleashed an incredible power.

The arm was so powerful that it tightened so much that the monster's bones began to crack.

No, no, something's not right about this force...

In pain, the giant serpent tried to struggle, but the giant was trapped in a deadly situation. Wasn't the giant serpent also torn apart by the universe, leaving only its skeletal body?

"Mortal, let me go!"

The enraged serpent struggled, trying to break free from the giant's arm, unleashing a savage force that even the giant's immense divine strength couldn't overcome. However, the arm that had been bitten off regenerated through the writhing of flesh and blood.

He grabbed the skeletal snake's body with one hand and held its white skeletal skull tightly with the other.

The raging monster's pupils shot out intense beams of light, which, in its struggle, shot out into the void, or into the universe, or into the giant's body. Wherever the beams of light reached, nothing was destroyed and turned into nothingness.

The beam of light pierced through numerous universes and through the body of a giant.

But no matter how broken the giant's body was, only his two large hands remained completely still.

"Die with me."

"Squeak..."

At the skull, where the immense force gripped, the white bones began to crack and fissure.

"Just a tiny insect..."

The skeleton's body, now only white bones, began to expand rapidly, but the giant hands remained unchanged; the expanding skeleton only caused the giant hands to sink even deeper into the bones.

No matter how much it struggled, those large hands held the monster firmly in their grasp, refusing to yield an inch.

"Bang bang..."

The bones broke apart, the skull cracked open, and countless universes plundered the shattered bones into their own universes, refusing to allow the bones to be reborn.

The skull shattered, and only the serpent's soul was compressed into a tiny dot, which could not be changed no matter how much the universe squeezed it.

An immortal monster, an eternal monster, beyond the measure of reason.

Just as before, this soul could not be worn away by the universe spanning trillions of light-years, nor could these smaller universes. God could not, the universe could not; destroying this soul was virtually impossible.

However, a large hand pinched the small dot.

The heart of God, the will of man, a giant who is half-human and half-god but greater than God, gazes upon this tiny soul, his enormous hand holding this seemingly indestructible soul.

"It's time for this to end."

The giant's deep voice rang out.

Squeeze down hard with your large hand.

"..."

Silently, the seemingly indestructible soul shattered and vanished without a trace.

"Just a tiny insect..."

In the universe, the monster's unwilling voice before its death could still be faintly heard, but the unwilling voice eventually dissipated.

The giant looked at the soul that had vanished from his fingertip and suddenly laughed.

Deep within its memory lies a memory, or rather, a past.

In prehistoric times, around 20,000 BC, a group of men raised their spears and stabbed at the god Huhulugu, but in the end, Huhulugu strangled and swallowed them all.

The original god-slayers lost.

Ten years later, the descendants of the god-slayer once again donned animal skins, raised their spears, and stabbed the powerful and arrogant serpent god to death. "Man is a reed, but he is a thinking reed."

For some reason, the giant remembered this sentence.

Man is but a reed, the most fragile thing in nature; yet he is a thinking reed. It does not take the whole universe to arm itself to destroy him; a breath of air, a drop of water, would be enough to kill him. However, even if the universe were to destroy him, man would still be far nobler than that which kills him; for he knows that he will die, and of the advantage the universe holds over him, which the universe knows nothing of…

The giant laughed loudly as his body disintegrated.

Possessing power comparable to that of a monster, yet destined to exist only for this moment, but the dazzling brilliance that bursts forth in that moment is enough.

Giant, death.

……

The entire universe fell into a rare silence.

In this strange space, many beings gathered together, and after a long while, someone whispered.

"we won?"

In all the test results, the monster, the ultimate enemy destined for all living beings, was utterly dead. After a grueling battle, its body and its soul were completely annihilated.

However, the more this is the case, the more unbelievable it becomes.

Did we really win?

No one dared to be so certain. The non-god, who seemed to be a young new human, stared at the spot where the monster had disappeared for a long time, finally took a deep breath, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Yes, we won...we finally won."

After a brief silence, the entire universe erupted in cheers.

Insects, plants, animals, monsters, macroscopic life forms... all living things cheered, embraced, wept with joy, and celebrated this great victory.

Throughout the long past, a monster has always stood in the way of all living beings and civilizations in the universe.

Despair, resentment, fear, escape... and now, the monster is finally dead.

In this strange space, a small fish in a tank was blowing bubbles, displaying a relaxed expression that felt almost human. It had been on the run for too long; finally, it didn't have to anymore. Meanwhile, the new god, having returned to its origin, stroked its body and smiled. It had accomplished what the old god had failed to do, and this gave it a feeling of pride.

The non-god lowered his head and looked at his own hands.

Even though it is almost impossible for a collective consciousness of the entire universe to experience emotional fluctuations, at this moment, this joy that permeates the entire universe still infected it.

We won.

The non-gods of gods repeat themselves.

From the long past, from the age of humankind to the age of new humans, and now to this age of universal civilization, civilization has finally won; civilization has finally defeated that monster.

"We won, we are the victors."

The non-god god took a deep breath and said with great spirit.

Looking at this universe that has completely erased gods and demons, the only absolute god in the universe now shines with brilliant light in his eyes.

The age of gods and demons has ended; now is the age of mortals, the age of civilization. The universe will usher in a new chapter.

But suddenly, the new god's expression changed slightly, and he looked horrified; and the little fish that had been happily blowing bubbles also suddenly stopped, and disbelief appeared in its eyes.

"How can it be……"

The little fish cried out in surprise.

Immediately afterwards, a violent and insane voice rang out.

"Who... allowed me to fall asleep?!?!"

In the universe, where the snake was destroyed, a distorted shape suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Immediately, a body emerged from the void.

Within that tiny singularity, a graceful body unfolds, a body larger than the stars, more magnificent than the fixed stars, and larger than anything that has ever been born in the world.

The magnificent monster, spanning billions of miles, opened its eyes. The vertical pupils were not the usual pitch black, nor the scarlet red of anger, but an unprecedented dark purple.

Purple is the most dangerous color for creatures in nature; monsters with this color are invariably demonstrating their danger.

Its dark purple body instilled a deep unease, and its purple, vertical pupils held an unprecedented madness—a madness born from unprecedented anger.

Instead of smoothly adhering to its body as usual, the scales exploded and stood upright, with billions of scales resembling swords standing on its body, revealing the extreme aggression of this already extremely magnificent body.

Staring in disbelief, Xiaoyu unconsciously shook her head.

"This is impossible……"

……

"Once upon a time, there was a giant who fell asleep one day. Where he slept, there was a group of ants. The ants couldn't understand why the giant was no longer moving, so they thought he was dead. After that, the ants multiplied and died generation after generation. A hundred years later, the sleeping giant awoke again. What happened in the eyes of the ants? They thought the giant had been resurrected."

Many years ago, a mad French general spoke to the oldest killer.

He opened his eyes wide, laughed loudly, and uttered what the world considered madness...

In the mysterious ages, even death itself vanishes.

Life dies, matter experiences heat death, and all things that die will eventually perish. And when all things that die have died, only those things that are eternally immortal remain.

Therefore, when only those eternally immortal things remain in the universe, nothing will die, and nothing will perish. Thus, even death itself dies.

In billions of years, trillions of years, at the end of time, in the dark and chaotic universe, only the indescribable things are playing a mad cacophony.

What is a monster?

Monsters are things that defy common sense.

People call things that are incomprehensible and contrary to common sense monsters. In ancient times, incomprehensible animals were monsters; later, incomprehensible phenomena were monsters; and finally, humans realized that there was nothing they could not understand, and so, monsters completely disappeared.

But... what if there's something that's always been a monster?
What if this monster is never truly understood?

When a person is killed, they die; once killed, they can no longer move. This is a normal, understandable thing, the most natural and self-evident truth. So what is abnormal, what goes against common sense?

Even if killed, they can still be resurrected and reborn.

Monsters never truly die; death is merely a long slumber. After a long slumber, the monster will awaken again, only to enter the next slumber.

Now, the monster has been fully awakened, and the mad monster no longer intends to remain asleep.

"Roar!!!!!!!!"

In the pitch-black, deathly silent universe, a huge, melodious monster roared.

The monster's needle-shaped pupils had completely lost their reason, filled only with unprecedented madness. It let out a high-pitched roar, its dark purple scales bursting open, and countless enormous beams of light shot out from its body, heading towards the void in all directions, towards the entire universe.

(End of this chapter)