Chapter 28 "Good with out evil is like light with out darkness, Which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.”

A huge sound and explosion shook the Dungeon room.

Like a storm, lightning and a fiery hurricane burned Wallace who screamed in pain.

Even though his body was injured and the young man's attack was still not over, Wallace with his strong determination was still able to stand his ground.

"YOU IGNORANT BASTARDS! HOW DO YOU THINK YOU ALL LIVE SO EASILY AND HAPPILY IN THIS WORLD! IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF MY EFFORTS! MY HARD WORK! YOU IGNORANT SINNERS!!!" Wallace snapped inside the storm.

Then the blue flames burst into flames again inside the storm.

"BOOOOM!!!"

The storm attack created by the young man was destroyed instantly as a result of the explosion of blue flames that emerged from within the storm.

"Grrr...."

In the puff of blue flame that had just exploded, Wallace stood back in his new form.

Now the slash wounds that had previously been given by Cecilia on his back were emitting smoldering blue flames.

His pair of horns burned and smoldered like bluish embers.

Inside his mouth was smoke and blue flames that burned along with his breath.

Looking at what was in front of him, the young man's body suddenly collapsed in exhaustion.

His breathing was labored, sweat was pouring down his body, and even his lungs felt so constricted that it seemed as if they would not allow him to breathe.

"Khak! Hah! Hah... Khk... Hah..."

The young man could now only lie down with his pitiful body condition.

"Sorry Cecilia... It looks like I can only make it this far." The young man whispered.

Suddenly Cecilia appeared at the side of the lying young man.

"Good job, I'm proud to have a student like you. Now get some rest, I assure you that the world you want will come true." Cecilia said while patting the young man's head.

"Heh!" The young man responded with a small smile.

Cecilia then stood up and pointed one katana at Wallace.

"Cecilia." Called Wallace.

"What?" Cecilia replied.

"Cecilia..."

"What?"

"Cecilia... CECILIA! CECILIA! CECILIA!!!"

Wallace then immediately darted ferociously towards Cecilia.

Cecilia who had been watching Wallace just sighed and said...

"You've gone crazy with your own power Wallace."

Answering his challenge, Cecilia also lunged towards Wallace.

Wallace who was currently like a beast shot out so many claws of blue flame that the young man had previously stopped.

But unlike the young man, Cecilia with her speed and agility jumped and avoided all the slashes like a swallow passing through hundreds of nets.

In just a short time Cecilia was now in front of Wallace and prepared to slash her red lightning katana.

"CECILIA!"

Suddenly Wallace spouted blue flames like a dragon towards Cecilia who was standing in front of him.

In surprise, Cecilia immediately jumped to the right and ran behind Wallace.

But as if he already knew that, Wallace suddenly shot blue flames from all the wounds on his back.

Cecilia immediately protected herself and jumped back, but unfortunately Wallace immediately chased and hit Cecilia so hard that Cecilia was knocked off to the wall of the dungeon.

"Damn! So now he can attack from all sides huh? Troublesome." Cecilia grumbled.

In the distance, the young man whose condition gradually recovered, saw the battle of the two strongest creatures in this world.

Despite having just been hit, Cecilia stood back up and began to attack the now crazed Wallace.

With his back, his mouth, and both palms burning with blue flames, Wallace now truly symbolized the personification of a monster that was carrying disaster in both of his hands.

"Wallace... You're really strong." The young man muttered.

While trying to sit down and stand by his katana, the young man was thoughtfully looking at the battle between Wallace and Cecilia.

"Three elements, even though it was the first time I did it but I don't seem to want to try to do it again."

While watching his own body condition, the young man then swallowed his saliva.

"Because the side effects are not worth the results I get."

"If Cecilia hadn't shown up to save me, Wallace probably would have crushed and destroyed me right away, even if this body was his own."

"........"

"....."

"..."

".... Looks like Wallace has indeed lost his mind." The young man muttered while watching the movements of Wallace who was now fighting chaotically.

"But even if Wallace has lost his mind, our position is still unfavorable. And if all this continues, Cecilia will surely become exhausted over time."

"That's why I must quickly find a way to defeat Wallace..."

"Without killing him."

On the other hand, while the young man was still thinking of hundreds of ways to defeat Wallace, Cecilia until now had continued to fight and avoid all of Wallace's relentless rain of attacks.

"TRAANG!"

The bellied katana that Cecilia had previously grasped firmly in her left hand slipped out of her grasp due to Wallace's scratch attack.

"Wow, despite losing his mind, he's showing no sign of losing his stamina! And it seems like the longer Wallace goes on the more he'll be able to read and catch up with my movements! If this goes on for too long I'll be the one who gets pushed back and falls early in this fight... But that can't be allowed to happen!" Muttered Cecilia who immediately used her left hand to pull out her one remaining bellless katana.

"BOOOM!"

Before Cecilia could draw out her katana, suddenly like a volcanic explosion a blow with a huge blue flame explosion destroyed and scorched everything in front of him hitting Cecilia's slender body and sending her once again to the wall which was still smoldering with his blue flame.

"Gahkkk!!! Damn it!" Cecilia snapped while swinging the katana in her right hand for a moment and then tossing it.

"So fast! How is that possible!? How can he read my movements so quickly!? Isn't he still crazy!?" Snapped Cecilia who immediately pulled out her one remaining katana and jumped off the smoldering wall and extinguished some of the flames that were burning her clothes.

"KHEHEHE? Khehehe? Kihihihi?" A laugh escaped from the gap in Wallace's row of fangs.

"That..."

Cecilia and the young man both looked at Wallace who had just laughed with a very strange laughing tone.

"No way! Only in such a short time!?" The young man thought.

"Damn it! He's almost regained his sanity!" Snapped Cecilia who sat exhausted while enduring the pain spreading across her back and both her hands.

"Cecilia! There's no more time! Stand up! I've got the way! And this is our only chance! Don't let Wallace regain his sanity! Come on, get up!" Snapped the young man who immediately stood up and ran towards Wallace.

Biting her lip and enduring the pain, Cecilia stood up and darted towards Wallace while chanting a healing spell for her body.

"Lure him and wait for my signal! We will defeat him! without killing him!" The young man ordered.

Hearing the young man's order, Wallace immediately turned his face towards the young man.

While roaring like a lion, Wallace ran fast and charged towards the young man.

Seeing this, the young man immediately stuck his katana into the ground and began to chant.

"O earth! Be shattered!"

Immediately the ground between the young man and Wallace cracked and shattered into a pool filled with boulders that then crumbled into sand.

But even so Wallace still continued to run towards the young man although his movements were now slowing down.

"O water! Fill it up!"

Suddenly water emerged from the ground and filled the sand pool in front of the young man.

In no time at all, the sand pool had turned into a pool of mud that slowly engulfed Wallace up to his waist.

"I'll finish it! O thunderbolt! Gahk! Uhuk-uhuk!" Suddenly the young man coughed and spat out red blood from his mouth

"Damn it! I've reached my limit! Cecilia!" The young man snapped.

With lightning speed, Cecilia, who had been hiding and healing her wounds, immediately darted towards Wallace.

Although all her wounds had not healed completely and the pain was still creeping into her hands, Cecilia with her sharp eyes and red lightning bolts shot confidently towards Wallace.

"His hands! Cut off both of his hands!" The young man ordered.

While preparing to cut off both of Wallace's arms, suddenly in just a moment she saw a small smile on Wallace's lips.

"This is... A trap!" Cecilia thought.

Wallace immediately pointed his mouth towards Cecilia and spouted blue flames that pushed and burned Cecilia's body.

"Aaaaaaa!!!"

Like a moth with its wings on fire, Cecilia was blown away from Wallace's position.

"Cecilia! Damn you!" The young man snapped.

Seeing that Wallace was still in the middle of the mud pool he had made, the young man spat out all the blood in his mouth and then wiped his lips.

"Wallace!" Called the young man while pointing his katana at Wallace.

"I will drown this world's corrupt idealists along with you!" The young man shouted.

"O earth! Be destroyed!" The young man screamed.

Suddenly Wallace's body sank deeper into the mud pool.

"O water! Fill it up!"

Not enough to increase the depth of the mud pool, the young man once again added water to the pool.

Wallace struggled to get out of the pool of mud that kept trying to swallow him.

He jumped, he swam, he ran, but all to no avail.

And finally, just as the young man had said, Wallace the Hero of Prophecy was now drowned with the now extinguished blue flames engulfed in this disgusting black mud.

"Uhuk... Uhuk... With this... Everything is finished." Said the young man who finally collapsed.

"Cecilia... I hope she's okay. It seems like I failed this time because I let Wallace drown and die in that mud pool. But what can I do, because Wallace is very strong." The young man muttered as he looked up at the roof of the Dungeon, which was brightened by Wallace's blue flames that were still burning around him.

"BOOOM!"

Suddenly a huge blast of blue flame exploded from inside the mud pool and made all the black mud inside explode everywhere.

"KHUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" The sound of hoarse, soul-piercing laughter returned from inside the now-empty pool.

"FUCK! FUCK! WHAT THE HELL!? why did he still survive all that!? Fuck!" The young man snapped while trying to stand up with his trembling legs and hands.

"BOOOM!"

With just one jump Wallace was back on the surface.

"Kuhuhuhu, good! I thank you stranger! With this now the divine power of this world has truly bowed to me." Wallace said with a large, beautiful white-furred body and blue flames burning on his back and claws.

"A... What have you done!? How did you survive all that!? Who the hell are you!" The young man snapped.

"Khuhuhuhu... Did you forget? I am the Hero of Prophecy, of course I can do everything, because I... am the one who will save this world." Wallace replied.

"I don't care about that! I'm asking how did you manage to control that power!? Didn't you lose your sanity earlier because of that divine power!?" The young man snapped.

"Huh, well as a payment for you helping my evolution I will answer, the answer is simple, I just expel the soul, just like when we want sheep we throw away the shepherd, just like we want to control property we expel the owner, and just like if we want an egg we take it from the hen, that's how it's done." Wallace replied.

"You... Expel the soul of a god in order to take away its power? Don't joke around! There's no way a human could do that!" The young man snapped.

"Khuhuhu... Do you still want to turn your face away from this truth before you? This is what we humans are! Seizing, adapting, and then laughing at all the obstacles we have overcome! This is who we are! The creatures destined to rule over all!" Said Wallace who then laughed so loudly that the roof of his mouth was visible.

The young man was gaping and stunned, he was no longer sure what was right and what was wrong.

If Cecilia was right that this world should be returned to its gods, why did the two of them have to lose and fail like this?

And if Wallace was wrong, then why did his side continue to be given victories like this?

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This is not fair.

"Khuhuhu... Hehehe... Hahahaha! Khuhahahahaha!!!!! Feel your weakness! Feel your despair! And feel my vengeance! Wahahaha! For this is the time when the curtain of victory for mankind has been lifted!"

Wallace's hoarse laughter shook the entire floor and room in the Dungeon hall that was still burning with his blue flames.

Its heat, light, and perfect power had gradually broken the young man's fighting spirit.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! For what have I been training if I've never achieved a victory at all! Is there really no other way to defeat him!?" The young man snapped while banging on the hard Dungeon hall floor.

"Defeat me? Don't make me laugh, even though you have my body, you don't have my power and mind! And that's why I will once again make a very favorable offer for you, how about it? Do you still want to hear it?" Wallace asked with a smile that showed his fangs and his teeth.

"An offer?" Asked the young man.

"Yes, an offer similar to the previous one, an offer for me to send you back to your true world." Wallace said with a grin on his face.

"Ghk... Don't listen to him! He... He just wants to trick you!" Cecilia shouted from a distance.

Her armor, her clothes, and her bellless katana, were now all damaged and burnt...

Her red hair that had now been burnt was shortened and no longer fluttered beautifully as before...

While clutching her one katana that had now been eroded and broken in her right hand, Cecilia stood up and shouted with all her might.

"Don't listen to him! Look at me! Just by using my magic to bring you here I have now lost both of my senses of sight! Therefore you should never trust him, because there is no way he will be willing to sacrifice one of his senses!" Cecilia shouted from a distance.

Hearing Cecilia's shout, the young man then stood back up with his body trembling and pointed his katana at Wallace who had been standing straight in front of him.

"Haha... Hahahaha! Do you think I'm as stupid as you!? Look at the current condition of my body! I have now mastered the power of this damned demon god of yours! Let alone returning it! Even now I can also bring this entire country to rule that Stranger's world! Because right now I am a human who has conquered the power of a god!" Wallace shouted.

Upon hearing Wallace's words, the young man immediately lowered his sword.

"What does he mean!? This can't be... With his power he can now also conquer my world?" The young man asked.

Wallace gently touched the young man's cheek with one of his claws and stroked it soulfully.

"Of course I can, if I can master the power of a god then what is the difficulty in mastering that foreign world of yours, stranger." Wallace whispered in the young man's ear.

"ZRAAAAT!"

Suddenly Cecilia with red lightning enveloping her body shot up and kicked Wallace in the head.

With surprise Wallace looked at Cecilia who was in front of him and immediately launched his punch, but unfortunately Cecilia was no longer in front of him.

"Don't give up! This is our only chance! He hasn't figured out how to get to your world yet! Calm yourself!" Cecilia shouted to the young man in her arms.

Wallace turned his face towards the origin of the voice and found that Cecilia and the young man had now moved away and were behind him.

"It's all because I came to this weird world! Just because I came here I put my own world at risk!" The young man snapped.

"So give me back my body! And at the same time, I will also let you return to your world! Do you really want to be responsible for the attack we're going to make on your world!? If you still won't return my body then I'll gladly slaughter you and turn your world into like that village of sinners!" Wallace snapped.

"My... My world... Why!? Why do you want to target my world! Our fight has nothing to do with that world!" The young man snapped.

"Nothing to do? So what? Just your being here is enough to say that your world has also interfered in the affairs of my world!" Wallace snapped.

The young man was shocked, never once had the young man thought that his affairs in this world would become the affairs of his previous world.

What if Wallace would really bring disaster to the young man's world?

What if the humans in his world died because they could not overcome the invasion of this world?

What if the humans in his previous world found out that it was all due to his foolishness in wanting to change this strange world?

"I..."

"SHUT UP!"

Cecilia suddenly snapped and stopped the young man's speech.

"Cecilia?" Asked the young man who was still lying limp in Cecilia's arms.

"SHUT UP! Think back to what you stood and fought beside me for! For what you bled! For what you are wounded! And why do you still continue to move forward in this wrong world! This all happened as a result of your choices! So look forward! Keep fighting because now your life is your choice! Your steps, your words, your deeds, will all change the course of this world's destiny! Because you are our last hope!" Cecilia snapped.

"I am your last hope?" The young man muttered.

"Yes, that's right."

Suddenly a very strange and unfamiliar female voice echoed from all sides of the Dungeon hall.

From her words alone everyone who heard her would definitely feel sad for her, her soul-wrenching voice, her breath full of despair, and her intentions that sounded as bright as sunlight, made the young man realize that the voice came from a woman who had been tormented for a very long time.

"Who?" Cecilia muttered.

"Grrr... This voice... The same as the voice that made me lose control before! This is the voice of the stupid priestess who never understood our feelings and fears!" Wallace snapped.

"O strangers from a strange and distant world! As my descendants have said! We both have now decided to choose you!" Said the strange female voice.

Suddenly the entire room shook violently along with a divine roar that sounded like a beast trapped under the tower.

While the ground and everything was shaking, suddenly a woman dressed in white and clean appeared before Cecilia and the young man.

"You... who?" Asked the young man.

"My name is Viviane and I am a priestess who always accompanies and escorts Cernunos, the being you call a god. With this your test is now complete, we have both seen your true self and decided to save you from the fate that would burden you. Now stand up, for He will rise through your destiny." The woman said as she extended her right hand and helped the young man to stand up and fight once more.

"You! Damn Priestess! Why did you show up if you only want to cause me trouble! Is this how you'll repay us after we've forgiven you for all your sins and betrayals against humanity?" Wallace snapped.

But the woman ignored Wallace and then looked at Cecilia who could only sit on her knees while leaning on one of her katanas.

"O Cecilia... My descendants who have suffered the most." The woman said.

"Shut up! I don't care what a weakling like you has to say! Shut up and watch, because right now I will prove that without the help of many humans I can free and correct this world with him!" Cecilia said while facing the woman.

"Yes, of course we both believe in your words." Answered the woman who then pulled Cecilia's arm to help her stand up.

After Cecilia and the young man stood back up, the woman then delivered her sentence to Wallace in a loud voice.

"O you shameless leader of the knights! How much more do you want to use our god for your benefit! You deceived him, you weakened him, and you also took away all his power! Are you not ashamed of your repayment after his kindness!?" Asked the woman in white.

"Ashame? For our sake? Don't be stupid! If in exchange mankind can live without fear and gain unlimited power, then we would be happy to... No, I'll be happy to make it happen!" Wallace replied.

The woman in white then sighed and with a sad look in her eyes continued.

"If that's the case then fine, from today onwards there is no forgiveness for all of you. Both of you! Stand up and fight! Because your footsteps will determine the future of this world!" Said the woman who then produced a very bright white light from all over her body.

In a few moments, a white light suddenly burst out of the woman's body with great force and produced a burst of bright light that greatly dazzled the sight of Wallace and the young man who were nearby.

"Wha... What happened!?" The young man asked while covering his eyes with his left arm.

"O young man from a faraway world, please accept this power and hope... For we believe that a person like you will surely be worthy of being the messenger of his grief and sorrow." Said the white-clothed woman.

Suddenly an enormous energy possessed the young man's body and soul.

"This is..."

"That is his power and hope for the people of this world. Now go on! Deliver our message to all of them! We'll leave the rest to you... O our hope." Said the woman who then disappeared along with the blinding white light.

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