188 - Journey of the End 6

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"Huh... You're still alive?.. Hahah, good luck beating Zet. Now that you have my origin classes... It'll be much easier. I even killed the [Witch] for you to get stronger..."(Emily, demon lord)

"Tch..., every single one of you. Ughh, stop lying there and fight me. I know you're just lying there for sure, stop sleeping. You're a monster through and through like me, so I know if the copies don't blow up, you'll never die with your passive health regen. "(???)

"... Why... I gave you an easy way out and you don't want to take it?! "(Emily, Demon lord)

" There wouldn't be much meaning... No... I'm just pissed off and I would want to kill you even if I die... This time. I may have died countless times, come back like a cheat, and came back up again... But what you said... About us only being this strong due to a remnant of a dead Zet... It undermines the whole meaning of our existences and hardwork- "(???)

Great animosity filled the purple transparent eyes, a new fresh wave of pressure emanated from gaze alone. I don't have any more luxuries, nor do I have any more meaning. I've lost everything, so I'll have to prove myself here and take everything back... I'll have to prove everything by beating the demon lord on my own with no help other than what I already have. I've lost my 2 authorities and the sin item of gluttony, though this time, I felt greater than ever.

It was as if a weight had been taken off my shoulders, I finally had any possible memory I might have been missing, the obstacles have mostly cleared up. The one last step was to kill this demon lord... For being in my way... For my own sake... For revenge. Would that be the most selfish desire ever? Yet I had wanted most of all was for Fez to return.

There was no way I could bring her back if the [Witch] class was with her. I needed to kill her, she was the last obstacle standing in my way... Bavner and Cress died to her, that was plenty enough reason for animosity and hate. But what pissed me off the most... Was that I lost in a battle against them.

My memories melded together into a straight line, everything I've worked hard in up to this day had never been clearer than before. If there was no meaning in my actions, there wasn't meaning in anything... I am whoever I wish to be?... Don't give me that bullsh*t. It was clear what filled my flesh, my actions, my idealogy, my will way before any of this happened. Something shared with no other Emily in the other universes, I was Shuudan Sei, before anything else, I was that pathetic ass salary man with absolutely no ambition, leading the most mediocre life in existence. So here I stood, with all my will, life and experience, to take back everything that was mine and be the opposite of Sei.

"Hahahahah ah ha hahahahah!!?! I can't believe I was that dumb, in the end I could never escape the weakness of that Old man... I see now... It was surely odd, identity destroying and crisis bringing to have those memories back, but I think I finally understood Amelia's words. "(Emily von Lilith)

I choose Emily von Lilith. I had no idea how I got named Lilith, it was possibly to bring no attention to me at all when I was living at the orphanage. But now that I have returned, it was no longer useful to hide my name. In the end I still remembered the most free, the most chaotic part of my 2nd life. I named myself Emily von Lilith then, to assert the fact that I was free to do as I please.

Maybe I wanted freedom and to stop this journey of death, maybe I wanted for all of it to end so I could live a peaceful and normal life. Whatever it was... It no longer mattered.

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"Fine, I'll grace you with my true form. You'll regret... Dying. But it seems I have no choice. Did our ideologies clash? Did you just dislike your own face? Well, it seems we have to fight now anyway." (Emily, Demon lord)

Her pale greyish skin cracked apart before peeling off in layers like a shell. Eventually the layers turned to ash, revealing a more natural skin colour underneath. Her beige skin shone under the sunlight, our battle had just taken that long.

Lines of [Death] stretched out, releasing out of her body into the surroundings. It was akin to an ever growing spider web that spread forth. Just a touch and I vanish, as such the other clones didn't make it in time. I had barely escaped by retreating. In the web of [Death], there were sizable gaps for movement, of course the threads affected herself as well, so she needed space for movement. Entering the zone of [Death], watching every corner was a prerequisite of just traversing this god-awful environment.

A dance had just begun, the movements were a little rough around the edges, but the 2 individuals smoothly maneuvered around as if they had been borned on the web of death. It was almost second nature as the elegant choreography was reaching the end. Exchanging fists and kicks as if it was the most natural, they had an array of powers but both chose this route. Nothing was useful here anyway, the threads of [death] will just cancel them out. There was also the possibility that the demon lord had been immune, however that didn't matter to ms. Lilith.

Harnessing all of her experience in the dungeons in both lives and her own first-hand drive in with [demonic energy] threads, she traversed the area as if they weren't there. Swinging a kick, Emily retreated back, inching forward with a punch, Emily barely dodges to the side. Twisting her body to the max, Ms. Lilith stretched and ducked around through the threads, all the while she firing off her own [Demonic energy] threads. Her body was made of , she was effectively made of infinite [demonic energy] and could move at infinite speed if she wanted, though that will burn away her own life force, and Amelia wouldn't be able to save her.

Emily had effeciently trapped herself in, whether the threads of [death] could actually hurt her was still unknown, though it was unlikely. Thus it would be better to end it while she was still playing around.

" [Demonic energy] " (Emily von Lilith/ms. Lilith)

[Illusion] and [stealth] likely didn't work considering who they were. The field had been filled with threads of an identity colour, it was nearly impossible to discern to deduce which was which, considering both had pretty much the same effect. The [Demonic energy] threads would literally act like cancer, and multiply to destroy every particle of your body, while doing 7500% of your health's worth of damage. The twin threads were basically the same. It made the amount of risk the same for both individuals now. With 4 origin classes, she most likely had 'that' skill as well.

"[Fate lock], your doom to fall into a [death] thread now." (Emily) The only reason she hadn't used the auto-aim on the skill to finish Ms. Lilith off was that Ms. Lilith could outrun it with infinite speed and take the both of them down. It was not a favourable outcome. It would be similar to Zet's universal implosion, only that a big bang level explosion would decimate everything first.

" [Demonic energy] " (Emily von Lilith)

With an explosion larger than any other, the whole demon kingdom had been swallowed up by a torrent of destruction. The shock waves pushing herself away from the [death] threads, Emily, the demon lord had been swallowed completely.