CHAPTER 396: 396 THE LAST BATTLE

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In the Great Plains... a sudden explosion of divine energy threw the white sword commanding general far, far away from the dark centre that he was inside, along with his companion.

-OOOOOOOOOOONG!

The place that was covered in a dark, murky energy just a moment ago was now completely covered in a bright, blinding light that seemed like a star’s presence on the ground.

It was strange how there was a bright light on the ground, however, the even stranger thing was the sky of this entire world that had now turned into a glimmering gold.

[ *Someone has fulfilled their mortal purpose and has achieved all the qualifications of ascending to the higher realms.* ]

A unique voice that not many people would have ever heard in their lifetimes spoke to every single being that was part of the same world as the emperor.

[ *He who was an emperor, a greedy ruler that possessed but one desire— preservation of his own self, and the place that he ruled over.* ]

The unique voice that, just like the special voice of this world, was now audible to all beings of this world, belonged to the great Worldline’s 21st offspring: The Voice.

Being one of the most important parts of the Worldline, this voice was something very special and important not just to the people that ever had the chance to hear it, but also to the people of the worlds that birthed divine mortals.

Every occasion that was described by the Voice was a special event throughout the Worldline, and if someone were to stream this voice throughout the Worldline, a sudden boost in viewership was an obvious thing.

[ "Wow... the hell? Why is he ascending?" ]

El was confused since she couldn’t understand what was going on here.

None of this was part of their plan and nothing that was happening was within her expectations.

This was in fact the first time something like this was happening.

[ "The chances of this happening must have been small, but he’s the emperor, you know? That bastard somehow made it." ]

[ "No shit he did!" ]

Escaping the bounds of a corruption fragment after being devoured to that point, being able to defeat his ultimate dark self with mere divine power and aided Sanctity, and even the act of reclaiming what belonged to him... was something so absurd that even the emperor had only a minuscule possibility of achiving it.

According to her calculations, it was so small that logically, there was no need to think about a possibility where the emperor will overcome this grate adversity, get pass the rest of the obstacles, and obtain something that was practically impossible.

[ "Fucker... do you even know what kind of shit I’m going through thanks to your great shitty stunt?!" ]

The sudden increase in viewership as well as the deep curiosity of the higher spectators was enough to crash many site’s servers.

If they weren’t using the main terminal of the Worldline itself that connected with nearly all the other major platform channels, it would have been impossible to handle all these hundreds of thousands of spectators.

The fact that they were donating after hearing the Voice, something very famous among some certain ’cults’ of the Worldline, was a good thing.

But the curse and the verity of viewers that they had right now was so high that it was impossible for her to manage the audience, particularly the audience from opposing factions.

[ "I’m fighting a worse battle up here bastard! One even worse than a physical fight!" ]

Her work wasn’t limited to responding to the comments, she was practically the stream operator, which meant she was the person that actually showed everything that was happening on the screen to the audience.

She also handled the conflicts between high profile factions and resolved any kind of drama that was happening in her comment sections.

Additionally, she also used many tools to edit that live stream that was being played at a delay of only a few seconds.

She had to hide his appearance in that little time, do some edits, change some of the things, and highlight parts that would be more interesting to the audience.

It was a tiring experience... she was already on the verge of collapse from all her work, but thanks to that bastard, she also had to deal with all these issues.

She did not like anything that was happening with her right now... but the only thing she could do was to complain to him, who was also struggling on the ground.

[ *In the last moments of his life, with the help of the white sword wielding general, he was able to cleanse his being completely, and reach the stage of ascension with all the achievements he had built until now.* ]

He was strong and he was able to overcome what not many could.

Though he still wanted to live in this world, there was no way for him to do so anymore.

Things had ended with his ascension and he would have to give up his role as the emperor and embrace the life of a typical nobody in the higher world... something he never wished for.

He was the emperor and he was content with just that much, being the ruler of this world would not be that bad either but what he wanted was his title as the emperor and for that, he had done everything within his power until this point.

However...

[{( Because of you... I lost everything. )}]

On the ground, Lucy, with his face still covered in a mask, faced the complete energy body of the divine emperor who was now ready to move on to the higher world.

He was given a little moment to look back at the world that he had been part of, but instead of cherishing his time in this world, he was looking down at the person who had caused all this with a deep rage in his eyes...

-Ooooooooooooooong!

"The price of every victory, every moment of your rule was your existence in its entirety, emperor.

Do you still remember, why you started obsessing over your role as the Emperor?"

Lucy asked him a question while dodging the energy attack fired at him.

[{( It was on the day I was crowned the Emperor, the day I got out of the confines of the great castle and saw the sorrow and misery the normal people go through... it was at that moment that I decided to hold on to the throne, to the title of the emperor, to what was mine and mine alone so that I do not get reduced to their state.

Their miserable, pitiful state. )}]

Now that he had completed his divinity, the voice that he produced was in fact the divine voice or the true voice of the divine being.

It was not something just any mortal could listen to. Even for Lucy, it was not easy listening to those words.

Without his walls and crown, he would have already fainted on the ground with his ears ruptured.

The true voice was something Otherworldly that belonged to the higher realms. Not this physical mortal world where the weak like then resided.

"You pity them. And yet you used them as tools to fulfil your own desires... probably, that’s why the unique title you received was not something noble or praiseworthy.

But something heinous like Emperor of tyrannical greed."

He was not a good person to begin with.

He just justified his actions— actually, he did not even justify his actions if one thought about how he had always ruled with complete domination.

There had been no one to question him before the current crown prince and there had been no one to fight back against him like him.

He was the emperor so, holding the highest position in this land, he just did what he wanted without caring about anyone but himself.

Surely he looked after his people, developed his lands, advanced forward and expanded his nation like a proper emperor should, but he did that on the corpses of his own people.

On the corpses of the people that he should have protected with his great powers and authorities.

He was the only one they knew to be capable of producing something that they would want to look after.

He was their hope, but... he betrayed the ones who saw him as the ray of light.

In his last moments, he even betrayed his closest and most trusted allies and children that he had raised with his own hands.

He was a power hungry bastard that should have gone to hell a long time ago, but it was only after nearly dying and overcoming a great adversity that he was getting the pass to enter the higher realms.

He did not deserve it.

Even in his last moments, he had initiated the last battle against the one who caused him all these difficulties and became the sole reason for his misery.

He wanted to kill him for all that he had done.

Even though he helped him in the end and protected him from the worst and most miserable end to any human being, he was still angry at him and was attacking him.

-OOOOOOOOOOOOOONG...!

His place was not in heaven but in hell, and the system will conclude that when it assigns the initial higher realm to him as well.

The two of them knew what would happen to him and this Worldline if he were to succeed in his ascension.

That’s why they needed to stop it at any cost.

He did not deserve hell either so... he must die right on this battlefield.