Building A Human Empire By Creating A Clan [EN]: Chapter 180

Creating a Human Empire with Subordinates – Episode 182 (182/185)

The Last Representative System

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The end.

Yes, it’s over.

I killed Karkas. His soul is within me, being absorbed like a dissolving meal. My magic power is increasing. Thanks to accepting over a hundred ancient gods, my magic has become unprecedentedly vast.

They were a race called gods. Though not omnipotent, they were powerful beings, and now they have become one within me. Having killed all the gods and possessing all their power, what will I become?

“A god.”

I took another long breath.

Sss—

As my breath flowed out, the surrounding magic fluctuated. It was due to the immense magic I possessed. Even a trivial action had a significant impact. This was even after suppressing it to some extent.

‘I can’t go around in this form anymore.’

I recalled when I revealed myself on the peak.

What was the reaction of the Imperial soldiers who were there? Their souls tried to escape. As if finding their rightful place, they wanted to abandon their bodies and come to me.

If I hadn’t stopped them, the Imperial soldiers would have died on the spot. Even having stopped them, the wounds inflicted on their inner selves would be quite significant. To prevent the same tragedy, I must not reveal myself.

‘Etemos’s laboratory, is it.’

I looked at the city.

A 폐광 [abandoned mine] city was located several kilometers away. It was a city abandoned after the depletion of orichalcum deposits, and snow was swirling in the fierce wind.

Even though the city was too far away to see with the naked eye, I saw it. There was no need to connect my consciousness with a familiar. Simply by willing it, if I desired to see, I could see.

Krrr…

Monsters roamed the city.

They were monsters created and abandoned by the old god, Etemos. I knew this city was a place Etemos used as a laboratory. He always used this place as a base, so it was full of his discarded failures.

——!

—. ——!

———!

The monsters were fighting each other, and I looked down at the scene.

‘Karkas was trying to find a new body, wasn’t he.’

Swish.

I reached out and pointed to the outskirts of the city. I was a giant. My body was far away from the city, but my consciousness was looking down at it.

Spreading my arms, I emitted a vast consciousness as if the city could be held in my embrace. The beings in the city were too busy fighting to notice the giant’s gaze.

“Collapse.”

I scraped away at the outer walls. I moved my hand as if planting a flag on a sandcastle and digging around it.

Urrr—

The outer walls collapsed.

——?

—. ——?

The monsters stopped their commotion. Because a noise louder than their voices had erupted. They must have been bewildered by the sudden collapse of the walls. They were wondering why the walls were collapsing when it wasn’t an earthquake.

I moved my hand again.

Urrrr…

Now the city center began to collapse.

“Etemos’s monsters, you cannot leave the city.”

They screamed and ran away, but it was useless. I sealed off the city. Closing the gates and raising the walls high. The monsters stared in a daze as the walls grew taller like trees.

——!

———!

Only then did the monsters notice my presence. They realized the magic covering the city and my gaze. In their eyes, I was a giant, and the city was collapsing due to the giant’s playfulness.

“Disappear.”

I placed my hand in the center of the city and gathered magic. As the city compressed towards my hand, the monsters were crushed along with it.

Even though the city was abandoned, it had preserved its traces, but now no trace of its past remained. Only a giant sphere remained where the city once stood.

Thus, Etemos’s traces disappeared.

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I opened a gate and returned to the peak.

The peak was silent.

The land where the old gods and their creations had died remained silent even after I left. Because only my subordinates, the dwarves, and Tiamar remained after the battle.

My subordinates were waiting for me, and the dwarves had fled underground.

– ······.

Tiamar was in front of Lord’s corpse.

It was difficult to even call it a corpse. Because the artificial heart had exploded, and the body had exploded as well. It was literally bankrupt.

Only a 惨酷 [cruel] trace remained on the snowy ground. Tiamar stood in front of that trace, staring blankly. The wyvern group that had landed behind her sent glances, but she did not react.

“Tiamar.”

I approached her.

– Karkas?

“He will not return.”

She glanced at me and then turned her gaze back.

– You were right.

“What do you mean?”

– Nothing is eternal.

She raised her head and looked at the sky. It was clear. There wasn’t a single cloud, and the wind wasn’t blowing. It was the appearance of the old god’s magic having disappeared.

– My father and Karkas both had an end. Even the evil that had to be imprisoned for ten thousand years because it wouldn’t die, and the dragon that seemed like it would rule the world forever, have now become history.

I examined her appearance. She was a dragon, not a human, so I couldn’t read her expression. The only way to read her emotions was through telepathy.

Her telepathy contained resignation.

– What should I do now?

She had no spirit. Compared to when she first appeared before me, when she fought Karkas, the aura she emitted was calm. As if she had lost her purpose.

– Is this the end?

This was the first time I had seen her like this. She was always a powerful enemy. A ruthless enemy without even a conversation. But now, the her in front of me seemed strong, but also weak.

I shook my head.

“No.”

– No?

The elves and dwarves remain.

“There are still old gods left under the World Tree.”

– Ah, the World Tree.

She nodded. A gleam flickered in her eyes.

– Right. It doesn’t seem like it’s over yet. There’s still a little bit of work left to do.

Tiamar led the wyvern group and crossed over to the land of the elves. Just like when Karkas and I crossed over, the elves’ barrier was meaningless to them. No matter how high the wall was, it couldn’t block the sky.

The dragons destroyed the civilization of the elves.

‘Aleon’s karma, is it.’

It was to burn away the remnants of the old gods.

The race most affected by their influence was the elves. It was difficult to find an elf who had not received even a little of the old god’s magic. It was such a deep relationship.

With Aleon having defiled even the World Tree, how many elves would not be affected? The entire elf race had become corrupted. They aged and became grotesque, just like Aleon.

‘No one forced you. It was your choice.’

The old god’s magic is like a drug. Once you accept it, it’s hard to escape, and the more you take, the more you break down.

Skin peeling, horns growing, aging, being caught in hallucinations, the race that the gods had created was nowhere to be found. Aleon regretted it just before he died. He realized too late what he had done to his race.

“Burn the World Tree.”

Tiamar circled the World Tree, spewing breath. Following her, the wyvern group also breathed fire. The World Tree emitted magic to block and extinguish the flames, but it was only for a moment.

The sound of metal scraping was heard. It was the World Tree’s scream.

– You’re no different.

Tiamar sneered and took an even bigger breath.

The World Tree was a tree that Lord had grown. A gift he made to help him fight the old gods and for the elves. It became the foundation of prosperity for the elves, who had poor reproductive abilities.

However, due to Aleon’s foolish actions, the World Tree was contaminated. It no longer bore elves, but bore monsters called high elves.

‘Originally, the World Tree should purify the old god’s magic and bear fruit with the purified magic. But Aleon thought that amount was too small.’

I watched the World Tree burn and fall.

无数 [countless] many souls soared. They were the souls that the World Tree had been holding. Originally, when an elf was born, the soul that should have resided within them was released when the World Tree died.

Kwaaaaa——

A fierce whirlwind blew.

The souls swirled around the fallen World Tree. The souls of the old gods that had been sucked up as nutrients from the roots below were also mixed in the whirlwind.

– The place you need to go is there.

Tiamar tilted the whirlwind of souls towards me.

The souls of the elves and the old gods surrounded me and swirled, soon flowing into me. She watched the scene. She could have stopped it, but she waited until the end.

The elves also met their end like this.