155 - Serene

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It felt as though weight was piercing through my skull. The first conclusion was a hangover from too much alcohol, until I realised I was too young and didn't have interest in drinking anyway. Most of the damage had been repaired by Iyori's law defying skill, [Survivor's melancholy].

According to Fez, there were 3 types assigned to each different function of this skill. Type 1-repairs the surroundings and any damage incurred "in the middle of battle". Without this condition set, time would straight up reversed to the start of the big bang as "damage" didn't have a set definition. The advancement of time would be interpreted as a type of "damage" and a fragment of the big bang will erase the continent from that spot. That was the risk of using type 1, a battle has unpredictable variable, so it was much more suited to repair work than healing.

Type 2, it returns all the damage caused by the enemy to return back to them. In their whole entire life, all damage directly and indirectly caused by them, is reflected back from the inside of their body. Resulting in their brains and other internal organs being fried to perfection for an instant death. There was no set range for this move, everyone including the user is affected by this move. A basic apocalyptic move that spelled the end of humanity. The only limit was that this skill, accompanied by the [Mankind] origin class, could only be wielded by someone who loved humanity.

Type 3 was a basic mobility move, that allowed the user to teleport next to a person who has dealt damage to the person. Even if the person was a reincarnated individual who managed to damage her in their past life, Iyori is able to teleport up to them, cutting off escape.

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A year had past since then. The explosions, deaths and missing individuals have largely been investigated, and concluded on an unexplained note. This left many citizens to continue to theorise about the incidents of that day. Some witnesses report black tentacles spread across the streets, barely stopped by the doors guarding their abodes. Anomalous chunks of human meant can sometimes be found rotting in the middle of roads and pathways.

Some people were unfortunately killed by those spreading shadowy tentacles, no sound is actually generated, so it was a silent death that consisted of darkness passing through people as if it was thin air and leaving nothing but air behind. The nerves were immediately disintegrated like the rest of the body, so victims don't even notice that they are being killed. This resulted in pets and people disappearing, not even leaving behind any corpses to identify.

A random location in particular had a large number of inhabitants vanished. Upon further inspection, they were identified to have participated in underground illegal and cultish activities. Such were the results of using the capital's greatest detective's skills. They concluded it had been done by a single person powerful enough to erase countries, the Queen's disappearance had also struck the country hard.

To her most pious followers, the Queen seemed like a messenger of God. An all powerful warrior who had suddenly been borned and ascended to monarchy only a few years after her education, followed by astounding developments in the country unprecedented to history. Such was the weight she carried in the people's hearts, her disappearance causing a city wide chaos, before being calmed and controlled by her leftover administration.

A major turning point of human history, development of technology had not halted but somehow slowed down to an absurd degree. Researchers conclude that their hastened pace of new invention and advancements were enabled by one of the Queen's skills. For starters, Fez had filled me in on the specifics of origin classes. The advancement of technology must have been largely affected by the [witch] class, though it would make more sense for the [The Sage] class to be responsible for it.

Another dynamic of the origin classes were the [Hero] and [Demon lord] duo. It was practically a law whereby when one of them gains a new host, in other words the previous one dies, the other also dies. In other words, a complete new set of [Hero] and [Demon lord] is formed. The second to die doesn't cause this law to occur, so an infinite death loop between the 2 classes isn't caused. It is when one of them from a set are defeated in combat, when the law occurs. The cause of death isn't specified. It varied from anything that was possible. For example, the previous [Hero]'s death could be caused by the new [Demon lord] that had just formed in an ambush. Death by old age was also possible.

This was probably the most reliable reason why the [Hero], the previous King, Bavner is now gone. With the [Demon lord] disappearing somewhere forever, the King also lost his life from this law. There were more unpredictable variables like commandment armaments, sin items, and supreme authorities, lined up in this exact ascending order for scale of power. The authorities were said to be able to rival the origin classes, the fruits of an ancient civilisation that wished dearly to reach the realm of God.

There were able to produce 4 of such artifacts that accumulated power from their users, until they eventually reached the foot of the realm, gaining intangible forms. This was what authorities signified, unlike origin classes that were a natural law, they were artificial laws that broke through the system limit and granted SS-tier classes. The highest S-class was already a rare commodity of the military, the SS-classes went beyond that and were above some rules. Above humanity.

Sometimes the origin classes were also the messengers of the actual god governing this plane. Unless they had a clear will that opposes God, even if they were neutral in alignment they would fall under God's palms. An apparent rebellion against god held by the origin classes had failed miserably. It was expected after all, since God was the one who created the rules.

Life had proceeded on as per normal in this 1 year, the competition was postponed to a week later where [Diamond speed enhancement Ex] was abused to destroy the level limit of the barrier. With a booster skill, the barriers 300 level limit made no difference from the result. Every opponent had been utterly defeated if not surrendered.

Within a second, they would always get eliminated. It costed ludicrous amounts of energy that practically shaved off her life, however Lilith was different. She utilised her [demonic energy] skill and converted [demonic energy] into mana to fuel her activities.

Steadily, she built back up her relationship with Cress. After a couple months or so, they had returned to the era of Onee-chan and Imouto, living blissfully while attending school. Nevertheless, they effortlessly obliterated any test of skill proficiency in their respective classes. P

A slow pacing and relaxing life went on, the usual event devoid of challenge. To be honest, this peaceful life was much preferred. Yes, much preferred to this unnatural apocalypse caused by irritating invaders.