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Last Embryo Volume 7 Interlude 2 Part 1

Interlude

The sky that he saw at that moment was a clear and blue as the sea.

(… I see. So I have lost.)

With such thoughts in his mind, 「The Youngest Child of Gaia」– Demon Lord Typhon fell onto the ground with his entire body burning.

The divine lightning that did this to him roared so loudly that it could tear down the walls dividing the worlds, conquering even this strongest body of his that has been entrusted with the crown of the microcosm located at the center of the stars.

The thunder of God accepted and wrapped itself around everything that it came into contact with, including his own rage that he believed would be enough to reduce the entire world to cinders and the sorrow of his mother.

As he was falling down, he could see his hated nemesis desperately screaming something on the other side of the light. He deeply regretted that he was unable to tell exactly what kind of face he was making due to all of the dazzling lightning, because he really wanted to see to what this man and woman loving scumbag got reduced to when he was screaming those words at him.

But sadly, that wish of his has never came true.

After what seemed like an eternity of nothing but falling, his body finally pierced the atmosphere and the clouds as he was falling directly towards the crater of a volcano. His body, which was larger than a continent, the slowly dissolved into particles of light and got absorbed into the crater.

The words that the man above him spoke were a new kind of promise not only for Greek Mythology, but for all human beings and Divine Spirits alike. The Chief God’s Declaration… its power, which brought the light of boundless possibilities to the past, present and the future alike elevated Zeus, the Chief God to the position of one of the strongest Divine Spirits not only in Greek Mythology, but across all the other mythologies as well. And with the forging of that new pact between Humans, Divine Spirits and Celestial Spirits, the second Star God War, Gigantomachia, was finally brought to an end.

(Ahh, my only regret… is that I was unable to wipe away my mother’s tears right until the end…)

Right at the end of the war, the end that befell Earth’s Mother Goddess Gaia was tragic beyond words. And her tears would later become a fierce flame that would act as a catalyst for the war of hatred that would last beyond mythology and the world itself.

In fact, starting with this Star God War, it is said that a total of five mythical wars broke out in Little Garden.

With the defeat of Gaia, the Half Celestial Spirit of the Blue Star and the Earth’s Mother Goddess, the Half Celestial Spirits who acted as a wedge with the material world began to move all at once. For you see, when it comes to Earth’s Mother Goddesses, they share a sister-like bond that transcends mythologies. It was probably that they simply couldn’t stay silent anymore when Gaia, one of their fellow wedges, was defeated.
There were no words of gratitude that Demon Lord Typhon could say to the Gods and Spirits of different mythologies for emphasizing with his mother’s suffering and standing up for her.

An unexpected result of Gigantomachia was that all the Gods, Spirits and Shuras of all major religion began to question the future that was still before them. It can be said that the current values of Little Garden, where many races and mythologies live together, were cultivated due to the clashes that occurred around that time.

That is why it can also be said that this war, during which much blood has been spilled, was not in vein. And that is also why he waited all the more impatiently for the day when the promised time would finally arrive…

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(…. Have I… fallen asleep for a while?)

He slowly opened his eyes and realized that he was sitting on the throne.

He put some strength into his fingertips and checked the sensation in all of his limbs one after another. He thought that it was over for him the moment he was cut by the Climax Holy Sword, but it looks like he managed to escape from that crisis with this body of his still in one piece.

When he fully awakened, the first thing that he did was to go into a violent coughing fit. Demon Lord Typhon coughed so hard that he ended up coughing blood, upon the sight of which he bit his teeth into his molars.
(Curse you, Tubal-Kain. Thanks to your false information, you were almost cut off from my incarnation.)

The holy sword that cuts heroes, demons and Gods from their lore, capable even of cleaving the world itself in half. Those who are slashed by this sword that possesses the 「Star’s Perspective」end up having their belt of history, the thing that binds the lore, the body and soul that make up their spirits separated from them.

Now as a result of encountering that sword he decided to go to sleep at the bottom of the underworld.

It would not be an understatement to say that for someone like him, who uses the body of a human as his substitute, that weapon was his worst possible enemy…

(…No, depending on how the situation develops, I might just be able to save myself or my incarnation from it. Since the heart of my incarnation has died, he needs this kind of rough treatment.)

He slowly raised his hand and placed it upon his heart. Usually when he was doing that, he could talk to the person with whom he was sharing this body as an incarnation, his voice should be able to reach him every single time. However, no matter how much he was trying to talk to him now, there was no response. That was understandable to him, because no matter how long you share your body with someone, as long as their heart has died, your voice won’t be able to reach them no matter how hard you’ll try to talk to them.

With a deep sigh, Typhon rested against the back of the throne and shook his head.
(As I thought, even now that I decided to make amends for all those days of me living as an unreasonable monster even though I have forgotten most of these events that have sunk into the darkness of my heart, there’s no way that people won’t still hold a grudge against me for it.)

He looked up at the sky while the giant body behind the throne gazed at the dome that surrounded Little Garden while it continued to be pumped with the poisonous power that was being transferred to it through the series of roots that were entwining around its limbs.

His corpse returned to the earth after his defeat, and the blood that has been coursing through his veins once became the source of nourishment for it.

This giant Star Fruit Tree is a relic from that distant past of his.

After he was tricked into eating the fruit od the Star Tree, Demon Lord Typhon has been deprived of the power granted to him by his mother Gaia, and became greatly weakened as a result. Unless this tree is removed from his body, the revival in the truest sense of the word shall forever stay beyond his reach, because it uses a resonance-type B.D.A created by a researcher named Tubal-Kain for the purpose of restraining his power.

Thanks to that, the current him was a far cry from how he used to be in his prime.

It doesn’t matter how strong he used to be as a two-digit being, right now, challenging Little Garden with a frail human body would be nothing short of reckless, even more so now in comparison to the early days when he has so many restrictions placed upon him.

The conclusion of his battle against the Gods has been postponed until the Outer World is going to be saved from the crisis that it is currently facing. If he were to break that restriction, he would end up making enemies from pretty much every divine being from every mythology that ever existed.

Good and evil, love and hate, everyone and everything would unite against him without discrimination. No one would ever hesitate from truly calling him 「The Enemy of the World」.

「Is the connection with my old body finally at a level where I can fight properly? It would seem that all of the Players are still alive as well…. Hm?」

He furrowed his brows while sitting on the throne, and then he moved his gaze towards the dimly lit corridor.

「Vidar, are you there? Why don’t you come out instead of hiding in the shadows?」