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The Game Difficulty Is
Insane
The existence known as a god in this world was not an absolutely supreme being.
Although each god was responsible for governing a certain concept, they were not its owner.
Therefore, just as Mors had thought, gods were nothing more than administrators who managed concepts that already existed.
Minis governed light and the sun and could freely wield their powers, but she herself was neither light nor the sun.
In this world, the gods were nothing more and nothing less than overwhelmingly powerful beings who could control specific concepts.
But Yuellos was different.
He had become the very concepts of fate and causality that he governed.
“Fuck……”
Glenn bit his lip.
He knew why Yuellos had become like this.
It was probably because Glenn, an unknown existence, had continuously twisted causality, causing causality itself to try to suppress him with even greater power.
It had tried to eliminate Glenn through the Lunatic System, but instead, he overcame it and continued growing by using the power of the unknown.
So, causality had resorted to an extreme method.
‘Can I win?’
That was the only thought that came to Glenn’s mind as he looked at Yuellos, who was radiating overwhelming power.
Just yesterday, Glenn had been struggling simply to approach Nox, a High God.
Even if Nox was now on his side, could they defeat an existence that surpassed him?
Could they even survive against causality, which was modifying the world to create the result known as destruction and annihilation?
“Urgh……!”
Yuellos was a stronger enemy than Glenn had ever imagined.
No matter how much Glenn accelerated his thoughts and devised tactics, no answer appeared.
Instead, he could only feel that even the fact that Yuellos was standing before them and talking to them was an undeserved act of mercy.
But that mercy had lasted only for a moment.
“This is less entertaining than I expected.”
Yuellos twisted the corner of his mouth as if he had grown tired of watching the party’s reactions.
“Well, I suppose that is the natural reaction of those who have witnessed the absolute power of causality.”
His hand slowly rose and pointed toward the party behind Glenn.
“There is no need to watch any longer.”
“……!”
That small gesture made Glenn and Nox feel a sense of danger.
They hurriedly turned around and rushed toward the party members.
“This is bad!
It’s dangerous!”
“Hey!
Everyone, run……!”
“You may leave now.”
Yuellos’s emotionless voice fell.
“Glenn!”
Just as Romina desperately stretched out her hand toward the approaching Glenn—
Baaaaang!
“!”
A blue light flashed from the place where the party members, excluding Glenn and Nox, had been standing.
And no one remained there.
All that was left were tiny particles of blue light drifting through the air like dust.
“Ah……”
His companions had disappeared in an instant.
Glenn stopped there in a daze.
“Yuellos!”
Behind him, Nox roared and rushed toward Yuellos while releasing his demonic energy.
“Nox.
Do you think you will be any different?”
Once again, light flashed.
The moment Glenn felt Nox’s presence disappear, he swallowed hard.
“……Nox!”
He desperately turned his head.
But Nox was already gone.
“Ah……!”
“Hmm… what is this……?
Well, does it matter?”
Yuellos tilted his head and muttered something, but Glenn could not hear him.
He did not bother asking what Yuellos had done to them.
He could not think of anything else.
“In any case, at last, only the two of us remain.”
“You fucking bastard!!”
Boom!
The last thread of reason snapped.
Glenn charged toward Yuellos.
“……Tch.”
Yuellos clicked his tongue as he watched Glenn rapidly close the distance between them.
The golden concentric circles engraved in his brown eyes suddenly flashed.
Clang!
As if striking an invisible wall, Ainheria collided with something.
“Graaagh!”
“There is no point in trying to break it.
Unknown existence.
Even the unknown power you are so proud of is nothing more than a drop of water in the sea before the absolute power of causality.”
“Shut up!”
“……Fool.”
Killing intent appeared in Yuellos’s eyes.
At that moment, icy-blue particles gathered around Glenn from every direction.
Then they rushed toward him in an instant.
Clatter—!
Clank—!
“Urgh!”
The particles of light transformed into chains that bound Glenn’s arms and legs.
Eventually, Ainheria fell from Glenn’s restrained hand.
“Understand this.
The only reason I did not eliminate you immediately was because of the variables that your unknown power could create.
It was not because I feared your strength.”
Yuellos spoke coldly.
“Of course, do not misunderstand.
Once the world annihilation process is complete, I will make you disappear just like your companions.”
Yuellos turned around.
Blue particles gathered in front of him and formed a gigantic screen.
On the screen, blue particles could be seen spreading in every direction from the Abyss of Cassus.
“Therefore, watch from there.
Witness the greatness of causality as it adjusts everything so that the world meets its original fate, even if it happens earlier than scheduled.”
“Shut up!
Who… is going to let you… do that?!
Urgh… graaagh!”
“It is pointless, I already told you……”
Crack!
Suddenly, cracks appeared in the blue chains wrapped around Glenn.
A strange light flashed through Yuellos’s eyes.
“……”
“This… fucking bastard!”
Clang!
With a deafening sound, the chains restraining Glenn shattered.
But just as Glenn reached down to pick up Ainheria from the ground—
Clatter—!
Clank!
“Urk!”
The blue particles Yuellos had spread through the air gathered again like mist.
They transformed into chains and rushed toward Glenn.
“As expected… this is a troublesome power.”
Clatter—!
Clatterrr!
Clank!
Clank!
Clank!
The sound echoed from every direction.
Dozens of chains tightly seized Glenn’s limbs without leaving a single opening.
“It seems not killing you here was indeed the correct choice.
If your unknown power had suddenly exploded, it could have become a major variable.”
“Kh… urgh……!”
“Let us hurry.
I do not know what might happen if we leave that unattended.”
After confirming that the chains did not move despite Glenn’s resistance, Yuellos finally turned around and looked at the screen.
Everything before Glenn’s eyes was dark.
His cooling head felt dizzy.
His broken reason was slowly returning, allowing him to understand the situation more calmly, but his emotions were collapsing.
“……”
Yuellos had become an existence beyond anything Glenn had imagined.
His party members and Nox had been erased by him.
And the annihilation plan had begun.
“Ah……”
Yuellos becoming stronger and the annihilation plan beginning again were not what Glenn found unfair.
What was truly unbearable was that he had lost his party members and Nox without being able to do anything, and now he had been captured by that bastard.
Everything he had built through endless effort and desperate struggles to survive had collapsed in an instant.
“This is so fucking… pointless……”
The light had disappeared from his eyes.
His gaze slowly dropped.
“I… tried pretty hard……”
Where had things gone wrong?
Was it when he failed to protect Minis?
Was it when he killed Kalungod and caused Heaven’s intervention to happen much earlier than it originally should have?
Or was it when Wordsworth, which was supposed to be destroyed, was instead protected by him?
“……I don’t know.”
He had never wanted much.
All he had done was struggle desperately to survive and escape the fate of death.
He had simply done what he thought was best at every moment while surviving through one crisis after another.
