Chapter 150 - Black Palace – 5 [End of Volume 6] (1/2)

Black Palace – 5 [End of Volume 6]

“This pocket watch was something Rain gave me. Did I leave this to him before I died?”

[If it is Satan’s most trusted subordinate, no doubt that is who you are talking about. Shall I speak his name now?]

I shook my head, no.

“If his name were to suddenly return, it would be embarrassing. Especially for them…no, not yet.” I felt a new sense of appreciation as I looked at the watch for a while. Looking up from it, I reached out to Batsago.

“Go underground with the Black Palace. You will be needed there.”

[I shall be waiting, my king.]

I activated the chain of Domination, extending dozens of mana chains from my heart to Batsago. The relationship that existed between us from before was reestablished. I could feel the strength returning to him as the Black Palace began to turn back into mana.

[Satan.]

Before stepping through the gate I made, Batsago turned to me.

[You must recover all seven parts of the Black Palace before the decisive battle against Heaven.]

“I know.” I had to go back to the Black palace in the mountains near Seongbuk-gu, but it still felt too soon for that. In the end, my sister and I remained outside the dungeon as the Black Palace disappeared without a trace. There were humans wielding swords and magic around us, but we weren’t concerned with them.

“Who are they?!”

“They popped out of that dungeon no one could touch. They’re monsters!”

“Kill them!”

The humans on the battlefield found it enough to call us monsters with just a single line of poor logic. Until recently, I would’ve killed them without hesitation, but now I didn’t want to see more deaths. I didn’t want to kill humans anymore. It wasn’t very pleasant to wield my power against them.

“Yeah!”

“Why…!” Even standing still, the humans couldn’t attack us. Those who hadn’t reached the higher system couldn’t surpass the power of Causal Control.

“We can’t win!” The humans quickly realized the difference between us and retreated despite being drunk on blood and death. The other humans quickly cut them down as they were distracted.

“Let’s go.”

“Huh…brother.” My sister’s mood didn’t look so good. No doubt because she felt I had an important secret I was keeping from her. ‘Can I tell her?’ The fact was that I wasn’t her real brother or even human. I even hurt countless humans in causing the Great Fusion and only thought of myself. At the very least, I couldn’t tell her now. I felt bitter as I stopped opening the gate. The muffler around my neck, the Echo, vibrated violently as if it were complaining about me.

‘Why?’ The moment I turned my head to think, I understood why. It was reacting to the humans dying on the battlefield. The remaining souls couldn’t return to where they were supposed to, but they had to head somewhere. At a ridiculous pace and in absurd amounts.

“Ah.” My jaw dropped as I saw it. The Elakatra were still hiding? They weren’t involved in the human war? That was a foolish idea. Maybe this had been their ultimate goal. They wanted to create a war that would engulf all of humanity from the start. Lucifer was now gathering human souls. Not just thousands of them, but millions. Perhaps he already had over a billion at this stage. He was attracting more souls to restore his strength. So he could defeat me and pursue Heaven.

“…How annoying.” I muttered quietly. It frustrated me to see the similarity between our actions. My sister, who could’ve seen the great movement of souls, was looking at me as if something was wrong, but I wasn’t worried about her gaze. I injected my power into the Echo and threw it into the air. Thousands of strands split out in an instant, swimming rapidly through the air.

“It’s awesome.” She was able to see the Echo, at least, exclaiming out loud at the sight of it. The long black threads emitted light as they swam through the air. But to my eyes, I saw something a little different. The souls of humans were swallowed by a huge torrent, the threads greedily consuming all nearby souls. It was too cruel to say it was beautiful.

“Brother, what are you doing?”

“I’m preventing the enemy from increasing their power?”

“Increasing their power…?”

“Yeah.” I smiled bitterly.