Volume 6, Chapter 41 – True Growth

Death.

The power of a Throne-tier was beyond imagination.

Compared to how even a Legendary could easily sway the course of a war, the role a Throne-tier played in war… could be said to decide the final victory or defeat of the entire conflict.

In the past, the Undead Grand Duke Sargus had stood against seven foes alone and still preserved the majority of the Graveyard’s strength. Just that alone made it easy to see what kind of position a Throne-tier held in war.

And now, facing a million-strong army that had no Throne-tier at all… that did not even have a single Legendary-tier among them.

As a Throne-tier, Tianyin was practically carrying out a slaughter.

Quantity led to qualitative change. Yet once the gap between the two sides became immeasurably vast, then no matter how numerous the weaker side was, they still could not change the fact of their defeat and destruction.

Strike after strike, the ground that had turned into a deep pit was smashed out of all shape by Tianyin.

Under Tianyin’s sword, countless screams, countless streaks of white light, all scattered and vanished into the sky of this world.

Demons, Minotaurs, Dark Elves.

Whether beautiful or repulsive, as long as those existences still appeared within Tianyin’s perception, as long as they appeared within her line of sight, they would all receive Tianyin’s merciless attacks.

Tianyin’s hands were now truly stained with the blood of countless lives that had passed away.

The cruelty of the world was laid bare in front of Tianyin’s eyes.

Yes, weakness itself was the Original Sin. Only the strong were qualified to hold the right to speak over life.

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As for the weak, once they met the death dealt out by the strong, then as the weak all they could do was await the arrival of death in despair, and even a final dying wish became a luxury.

All things returned to ruin, and everything disappeared completely under Tianyin’s sword.

NPCs in the game world could not leave behind corpses when they died. Apart from the Graveyard’s special ability to transform them into undead at the moment before death, if an NPC was killed… then it was a truly merciless death where even the traces of their existence would vanish.

Dust returned to dust, earth returned to earth. So it turned out that everything in this world was something she could bury.

Silently watching the deep pit below that had already turned into a land of death, Tianyin still stood in the sky, her gaze calm.

The knight’s sword in her small hand was put away, and with a turn of her palm, the shattered earth began to twist under Tianyin’s power, then at an astonishing speed began to “revert” to its original appearance.

Of course, while Tianyin could recreate the flat terrain, the patches of green life that had once grown on that plain were beyond her ability to restore.

『Samael… these people really all died by my hand…』

Tianyin’s voice had not turned cold just because she had killed a million beings. In the eyes of the world, that little girl high above and floating alone in the air had nothing but chilling killing intent between her brows.

But who else could be like Samael, clearly sensing the uneasy trembling in the little girl’s heart?

「Xiaoyin… you really can’t push yourself this hard… I know you want to be able to stand on your own as soon as possible, but… you can’t carry so much all by yourself…」

『It’s fine, Samael.』

Her face was a little pale. Tianyin bit her lip, her gaze beginning to unconsciously look into the distance.

『I’ve just burned through a bit too much. I just need to rest a little and I’ll be fine… and also… also this million-strong army was only part of the enemy’s forces.』

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『So Samael, right now… I’m the only one who can stop the enemy’s advance, and I’m the only one who can protect all of Dawn.』

Tianyin’s voice became strangely firm. After killing this entire million-strong army, her body had rarely shown signs of fatigue… yet Tianyin still intended to grit her teeth and hold on.

「Xiaoyin… rest for a bit, okay, let me take over next, I can help you too, Xiaoyin… you should just have a good rest…」

Even though Tianyin’s words were so stubborn, Samael still felt an intense ache in her heart.

After all, before wiping out this million-strong army, Tianyin had already gone a whole day and night without closing her eyes once.

It could be said that Tianyin’s body really was exhausted, but her spirit was in even worse condition than her body.

Unable to change Tianyin’s desire to keep fighting, Samael could only take a roundabout approach, planning to use another method to get Tianyin to rest.

『No, Samael.』

Shaking her head, Tianyin slowly tucked the silver-white tips of her hair that the wind had blown across her face back behind her ear.

『This is between me and Seles, it has nothing to do with you, Samael.』

『I already said it. I have to kill Seles with my own hands. And that isn’t just to avenge Julius, Orgum, and the others, it’s also to stop the unnecessary wars that would come next.』

As she said this, Tianyin’s voice in her mind slowly lowered.

『Samael… too many people have already died…』

Tianyin’s words made Samael pause slightly.

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Yes, too many people had already died.

Even if Tianyin had killed a million with her own strength, there were still the sacrifices of others behind it.

Julius and Orgum were already dead.

It was not only these people who mattered deeply to Tianyin. Within Dawn, there were countless others with lives of their own who had died in this utterly meaningless war.

From the Undead invasion to the war with the Strongholds.

From the war with the Black Dragon King to this current war with Seles.

It was not only Tianyin. Even just from what Samael had seen, the number of dead had long since grown beyond counting.

Too many had died. Even if Tianyin hardened her heart and killed a million people, she was still that same Tianyin, the Tianyin whose heart was actually very straightforward and very pure, and at the same time very fragile.

The cruelty of the world had made Tianyin realize she could not stay naive anymore. Yet on the other hand, Tianyin still could not bear to abandon that softness in her heart.

She did not want to see more people die.

This was what Tianyin wanted to convey to Samael.

『Samael… this time, let me end this war with my own hands, okay?』

Tianyin closed her eyes, and through the power of the Seven Original Sins she could clearly sense, in some faraway direction, that aura very similar to her own power of Original Sin.

「But Xiaoyin… I really…」

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『I know everything you want to say, Samael. I know you’re worried about me.』

『But Samael, please don’t look at me the way you used to anymore~』

As she said this, the silver-haired girl slowly, slowly opened her purple eyes.

『I’ve already understood the nature of the power of Original Sin, and I also understand why Gluttony suddenly rampaged yesterday.』

『Samael, I’ve already seen where Seles is, very soon… very soon I’ll end this meaningless war with my own hands.』

『So… please believe in me, Samael.』

In the end, Samael could only let out a helpless sigh.

「Xiaoyin… I believe you.」

Translator Note

Aaaaaa!! I didn’t know reading the OP protagonist killing countless enemies could be this sad… TvT