186 - Journey of the End 4

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"Missing something? If you've lost your meaning, then why are you looking to fight me. Can't you go help the others kill their Zet or something?"

"...Yeah, you lack something incredibly vital, though I won't tell you. Anyway, I'm looking for it. She said so... That I should just look for it if I'm missing something... She had such hope in me and gave me wisdom only her mortal mind could think of... That's why I'm not stopping here... Not until I take your power and kill all the Zet's. You'll never win for you lack. Die. [Dea- "(Emily)

" Like hell I will. [DIAMOND SPEED ENHANCEMENT EX - 5 QUINTILLION LAYERS] [DEMONIC ENERGY]" The first sentence, barely a whisper. Resolve filled up every nook and cranny, this was not the end.

Around 7 layers already had the effect of glitching out the status board, causing the Agility value to be '???' instead of an actual number. It had caused the value to go beyond 100 digits, which had supposedly been the limit of organisms before. At this moment I was no longer human, yet my Greed and selfishness carried my will forward, making me the most human in the world. Only someone as foolish as one,... could get this far!!!!!

My perception of time slowed as usual as my final technique kicked in. was everything that had once been and could possibly come, a culmination of my life's effort and bloodshed, everything I've been doing, accomplishing, executing, taking, giving, receiving, creating, destroying, the collective of all of myself in every moment in time gathered here to bust a hole through this obstacle. Never again, would I need to fear, never again would I have to run! I have... To keep moving forward... And grasped victory WITH MY OWN HANDS!!!!

It was nothing special. Energy bursted forth through every fibre of my being, causing my mental and physical state to soar ever forward nearly infinitely. Flying forward bending gravity on the way, my fist proceeded forward with all its strength, almost making contact with the opponent's face. Wrapped in infinite [Demonic energy], this was the true potential of the ability, it was a skill aimed at killing God after all. In the end, if what Emily said was true, the strange feelings I've been receiving up until now... Since the days at the orphanage all the way till now... Was the urge to kill god. It pushed me ever forward towards my one true goal,... To fight!

" Nice try. Doing a suicide attack, the mana overuse will kill you, you know? I've checked your stats, there's definitely not enough. Anyway, I'll end your suffering before this fist could connect to my face. It was a trivial matter to surpass you in speed using [One that overcomes all], erasing your resistance to my movement restrictions with [One that destroys all], aiding my movement restriction with [One that moves all], and finally taking your speed using [One that takes all] .

You had somehow... Surpass my incapacitating time stop by harnessing infinite energy... Well, anyway this attack is applied in an instant and nothing you have could stop it. You can't run from it as it'll activate faster than your neurons can transmit a warning. [Death], no tricks. All of your illusions and you will die. "(Emily)

The demon king had been right, multiple copies of myself were immediately scattered throughout the field. At this point, my earlier rush forward decimated the surroundings by merely jumping. The castle was long gone, only with the 2 of us in open air. She had definitely killed Cress, as shown by her gaining the Witch's trump card. It was basically impossible, myself with 2 measly authorities that barely attack and defend, against her 4 unblockable conceptual attacks. The only way to mitigate her attack was to dodge it, which was pretty pointless if she herself was aware of the attack's auto-aim feature. The brings one final solution, to get something to take the hit.

Too bad, she had used the auto-aim by stating the target. Teleport action would be useless, she had destroyed the very concept of "obstacle" allowing all attacks to hit. It was used earlier to impale Cress, nothing could be done. I was done, this was the end. And I couldn't accomplish my one goal, to look for a goal... My vision blurred in the slowed down perception of time, a pale arm reaches out into the sky, it was my own arm but I could have sword it was Emily's...

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Lilith ceased to exist.

Plowing through Emily's flesh, a gauntlet in shining dark purple shone an ominous glow as dark as the night sky. Unbelievably enough, it was Lilith, or something looked like her. Everything was the same, except this one... Felt like a shell instead, the personality inside already one with the void. A mere robotic familiar that responded to the order to kill, it was equipped with the final form of [Demonic energy], which granted it the ability to surpass time stop and any restriction. The concept of "obstacle" had been erased earlier, so spatial barriers didn't work either.

There were multiple Lilith's all over the battlefield, they had been scattered throughout. Earlier, the [Demonic energy] attack had summoned these lifeless dolls of Lilith. Since the opponent's skill was targeted at the illusion and the actual self, these copies of dense [demonic energy] weren't affected.

They were imbued with so much energy, they were basically as real as the original, only that they had no will. Coupled with the demon king's tumble of being fooled for a moment, all of them took advantage of the opening. Countless attacks filling up Emily's torso, blood throttled forth from every inch of her flesh, before being ejected out from her throat. Her suberb peristalsis crafting a surreal scenery.

Wiping the blood of her lips she smirked at her own foolishness.

"Haha... In the end I did the same as you, I've taken the life of another Emily, though this time it was not in pursuit of killing Zet... Just because we are the same person... Doesn't mean it's okay... Damn it... I'm a hypocrite... I can't believe you killed me after your death... Even though you lacked something vital... The care for your ownself... Maybe you should have run... Ughh"(Emily)

The Demon Lord tumbled onto the ground, a puddle of crimson slowly growing.

"You were... So weak... Yet you won... With your past self's... Power... I've also won. This world is meaningless... Zet will blow up soon like a time limit... The same as every other world... Shit... I've screwed up another one of myselfs...." (Emily)

Reminded of her own mortality by the lack of her nemesis' presence, she grimaced in horror. She had both won and loss the battle, did it have meaning in the end? Not really.

" You idiot... You should love yourself more... Be selfish... And lastly cherish your friends... But your dead anyway..." (Emily)

Her words no longer flowed out of her throat, her enunciation had actually ended up more like "ou... Io... Ooosel mo...". Barely whispers, her thoughts had trailed off marking the end of her journey. Even [Mankind] could not save someoe from existence erasure, nevermind the fact that Iyori was nowhere near as she guarded the kingdom from the demon army's onslaught.

"... It's... Not over yet... Stop lying around... And fight me..." (?)