Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 76 Bloodstained Twilight

"'End' and 'Slaughter'?" Badheir walked up to the Ironblood Greatsword, his body seemingly trembling.

A strange power even gave Badheer a terrifying feeling that his own existence was about to be erased.

"You possess my power; you may approach it." The Giant King urged Badhel to step forward and take the sword.

"Yes!" Badheel stepped forward heavily, and in the next instant, a blood-red eye seemed to open on the sword, staring intently at Badheel.

His "weakness" was completely exposed to this sword at this moment.

If this sword is considered a sealing artifact, then it must be one of the most dangerous sealing artifacts with the greatest side effects.

But the sword did not attack Him, perhaps because it was suppressed by the power of "Twilight".

Badheir stepped forward and grasped the hilt of the sword.

For a moment, Badhair even had the illusion that he held the fate of the universe in his hands. In his vision, everything became imperfect and had "weaknesses".

"Such powerful strength..." Badheer was even somewhat intoxicated.

But a stronger desire overcame this illusion and brought Him to his senses.

"Very well! Go find 'Misfortune' and disrupt His ascension ceremony!" The giant king's voice echoed in Badhall's ears.

"Yes!" Badheir held his sword with both hands and knelt on one knee.

The Giant King nodded in satisfaction. He was exhausted, and the twilight in his one eye was almost dissipating. He squinted, as if he were dozing like a human.

"Father God, I have another question." Badheir raised his head and looked directly at the Giant King.

"Ask away." Olmir didn't even open his one eye.

Why does the decaying forest carry an aura of guilt that has lingered for millennia?

"And who are the skeletons in that tomb?"

Badhair's voice had no magic, but those two sentences were a kind of awakening of Olmir's memories, causing Olmir, who was in a very poor mental state, to stiffen and his mind to become confused for a moment.

That was a past he didn't want to touch, but now it's been easily revealed.

"You..." An unimaginable tyranny and destructive desire surged within Olmir. Even His eldest son had never been allowed to enter the Decaying Forest!

laugh!

Olmir opened his single eye, and a blood-red "twilight" exploded, plunging the entire Giants' Court into unprecedented turmoil.

Dusk rolls on, and crimson spreads.

But the next moment, everything froze.

The twilight solidified like amber, trapping everything. The royal court became a cage, and the giants within were nothing more than insects.

The greatsword, a blend of blood and twilight, easily activated "The End," plunging directly into Olmir's chest.

This greatsword also possesses a living quality; after discerning Badhair's thoughts, it responded in its own way.

It was about to deliver the most fatal blow to the giant king who had oppressed and transformed it for hundreds of years.

"The End!"

This fatal blow, imbued with the meaning of decay and war, was something even the Giant King could not unleash, lest it cause terrible consequences.

But now, driven by the will of the greatsword itself, it has brought about the end of its creator.

"I'm different from you; I don't feel guilty."

Badheir's voice echoed through the palace at dusk.

……

Omibella barely escaped from the underworld and the gods' pursuit, and headed towards the giants' court.

He carried the crown of the giant king with him beforehand; otherwise, he would not have been able to escape from the underworld.

Because of her status as the Giant Queen, the gods of the underworld hunted her down like mad, leaving her in a terrible state and requiring her to return to the royal court immediately to stabilize herself.

"Where is the king?" Omibella asked the "Silver Knight" guarding the gate.

"The king has returned to the Twilight Palace, and the God of Dawn has gone to guard the palace," the two Silver Knights replied respectfully.

"Dawn..." A sudden unease rose in Omibella's heart, and many thoughts flashed through her mind.

For example, "Honor" and "Hand of God" both come from that stone tablet that was obtained at a huge cost and contains the recipe for the "Giant" pathway potion.

She didn't know when it started, but as a mother, she vaguely sensed that Badhall's thoughts had changed for the worse.

He was very worried about this and tried various methods to suppress a certain thought in Badhall.

but now……

Omibella's divine intuition pounded wildly as she rushed to the Twilight Palace at top speed.

"I'm different from you; I won't feel guilty."

Badheir's voice reached Omibella's ears, causing the life force in Omibella's single eye to fluctuate violently. She sensed the passing of a powerful life!

Omibella stormed into the Twilight Palace, where the barrier erected by Olmir was rendered useless, having lost all its power.

The blood-red greatsword pierced Olmir's chest, ending all his hopes of living.

"Badhail!" Omibella saw the two giants deep inside the palace, and an immense chill enveloped her. She had never felt such powerlessness, not even when facing death.

Omibella's intrusion seemed to have allowed Olmir's last spirit to linger for a while, preventing it from being directly annihilated by Badhall.

Badhall was caught off guard by the Mother Goddess’s return in such a short time, and was momentarily flustered, but he quickly regained his composure.

The Giant King is dead.

Olmir glanced at Omibella, then turned his gaze to Badhall, a complex emotion surging within his single eye.

Hatred, regret, or even more indescribable emotions.

Because of the "End," His characteristics had completely collapsed, and He could no longer sustain the madness of an ancient god.

This gave Olmir a fleeting sense of humanity, and this last remaining trace of his spirit seemed to possess a wealth of emotions.

"Don't you feel guilty?" Olmir looked at Badhair, not asking why, but simply whispering, "Don't you feel guilty..."

Bang!

Something exploded, and several bright yet decaying things collapsed from the Giant King's body, all flowing towards Badheil's body due to their aggregation properties.

The twilight that enveloped the entire Giant's Court underwent a strange transformation; it... lost its life.

Before the eyes of all the giants, even those who had passed the "Giant" pathway, was a scene of twilight suddenly dying, stained with a deep crimson.

Dusk is still dusk, but it has lost its vitality, it has lost its life.

Those gods, representing twilight and decay, have perished.

All those who have achieved extraordinary things through the path of giants have come to this realization, and the shock is indescribable.

hum!

The bright rays of twilight approached Bad Heil.

Materials flew out from His body and, together with a ray of light, formed a viscous twilight potion that flowed into Badhall's body.

"The Hand of God"... Badheir has always been Olmir's most trusted right-hand man, a role he has played for a thousand years.

As for the ceremony, Badhair had already secretly completed it.

(End of this chapter)