Chapter 299 The Second Leaf.
The human lifespan was obviously not enough to sustain a thousand years.
She was now the vessel of the Evil God.
The human-demon war had produced a large number of casualties. The power brought by such immense negative emotions was the best fertile ground for the revival of the Evil God.
There had to be a container to hold these, and the Saintess was undoubtedly the chosen one.
As Reji approached, the Emperor had a strong reaction. It was not Freya\'s, but the will of the Evil God hidden within the Saintess\'s body.
As if sensing a strong threat, the Emperor opened her arms, and the condensed power of corruption behind her turned into black mud, gathering into one black mud monster after another in the hall.
Their forms varied, like a patchwork of many different species. They were the races that had once been occupied and corrupted by the Evil God.
Now reduced to the Evil God\'s offspring, they roared and charged at Reji, trying to drown him like a tidal wave.
However, there was no need for Reji to take action. The demon race army behind him immediately retaliated to protect their king.
The Great Demon Hektor took the lead. His powerful demon hooves trampled the floor, emitting a muffled thunder-like roar.
His burly body shot into the monster horde like a cannonball. Not a single Evil God offspring could withstand the Great Demon\'s charge. Hektor\'s ferocious demon claws easily tore them apart.
Following closely behind the Great Demon were the Sword Demon and the Decay Demon.
The former used his sharp blades to clear a path for Reji, severing any mud monsters that dared to obstruct the King, while the latter\'s seemingly petite and sickly girl\'s body suddenly opened a bloody maw like an abyss and began to devour these Evil God offspring in turn.
The actions of the three apostles shattered the Emperor\'s offensive.
In the hall leading to the throne, even though new corrupted offspring were constantly being spawned, Reji still walked as if on flat ground, continuously approaching.
At this sight, the will of the Evil God actually chose to flee.
Seeing that it was difficult to stop Reji\'s steps, it shrank back. It attempted to escape and leave this place.
But just as the Emperor hastily recalled the corrupted mud, wrapping this power around its body and activating the teleportation spell, another invisible barrier, like a cage, trapped it first.
The Sorcery Demon Dian, wearing a crow mask, raised his staff high. Layers of barriers enveloped the Emperor from all directions, sealing off the magic power and making the will of the Evil God inside unable to retreat or escape.
The Emperor fiercely pounded on Dian\'s cage, constantly roaring in Reji\'s direction, as if threatening him.
In response, another apostle behind Reji frowned, and with a raise of her hand, countless shadows surged from the darkness, turning into black hands that coiled around the Emperor.
The shadow chains condensed by the Shadow Apostle Shermen were like the sturdiest shackles, completely binding the still frenzied Emperor in the cage. No matter how much it struggled, it could only be tightened by the chains, unable to move.
How could the mighty Evil God be so fragile?
In fact, the answer was already very obvious.
When Reji approached the Emperor up close, he could clearly feel that its body was trembling with fear. It was as if it saw an even more terrifying existence and was shivering in dread.
Reji reached out his hand and touched Freya\'s body. In an instant, accompanied by the "Emperor\'s" scream, the layers of corrupted power shrouding the Saintess began to be frantically extracted.
Reji was like a bottomless vortex, erupting with a powerful suction. The Emperor, with the will of the Evil God, was like a fragile little boat on top, completely powerless to resist. It could only watch helplessly as it was devoured and absorbed by Reji.
That\'s right.
This was not an external power.
It was more like something that originally belonged to him.
After absorbing this so-called "will of the Evil God", Reji felt that some of his "missing" memories also came back with it.
It was the experience of playing games over and over again – Fallen Chronicles, Abyssal Chronicles, destroying one ancient empire after another, enslaving soldiers to participate in cruel wars, purging heretics, monopolizing markets, bio-power generation, battle royale...
This was also the source of his hundreds of millions of evil points.
Now, with the completeness of his memories, Reji realized that perhaps these were not... games at all.
Or rather.
That\'s right.
In this universe, there indeed existed such a heinous Evil God, and that deity was him.
The Evil God, Reji.
It\'s just that there seemed to be a small accident in the middle.
A certain part of the "will" was stripped away from him.
Causing the incomplete him to be forced to manifest many past memories in the form of games.
Giving birth to the current brand new persona belonging to Reji.
Yes.
Persona, not godhood.
"Sorry Freya, for making you... wait so long."
After all the corruption on the Emperor\'s body was absorbed by Reji, the Saintess was also purified. That scarred and decayed body, with Reji\'s soft whisper, changed at an extremely fast speed.
Layers of holy light enveloped her. The immaculate and radiant Saintess from before was rapidly returning.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
When Freya opened her eyes again and saw Reji just inches away, the Saintess shook her head, indicating that she was fine and that Reji had never been late.
With Freya\'s return, on top of this layer of radiance, Reji looked up as if in some distant place, many "deities" similar to him also cast their gazes down.
Reji could feel that it was the power belonging to many different Fate Tracks.
The true masterminds behind this also surfaced.
He completely understood the outline of the whole matter.
In the previous universe, there was such a heinous Evil God. His Fate Track was so powerful that it polluted and destroyed countless worlds, not only making living beings tremble in fear but also affecting those deities corresponding to each Fate Track.
So, They chose to gather together and plan a elimination of the Evil God.
The elimination here was different from the traditional sense.
The Evil God\'s power was simply too great to be eliminated.
In a pure clash of power, although They could defeat the Evil God together, the risk was huge. Such a battle between deities was likely to bring about endless destruction, and even if they won, they would have to face the problem of how to deal with the Evil God\'s corpse.
After all, the power of pollution could still spread far and wide even after the Evil God\'s death, and even become more terrifyingly widespread.
Therefore, another new "elimination" plan was born.
To transform the concept belonging to the Evil God.
Or rather, to let the Evil God give birth to another, brand new will, no longer possessing such strong pollution. Although it would still kill, still cause destruction, and still have many, many evil acts, at least it would not escalate to the degree of evil corruption.
For example...
The Demon God.
So this battle launched by the deities of the many Fate Tracks who had suffered under the Evil God\'s oppression was named - Falling into Demonhood.
Now it seemed...
Those deities should be considered successful.
The self born through three playthroughs had already made the original will of the Evil God the one being devoured. From now on, there would no longer be the concept of the Evil God, only the brand new...
Demon God, Reji.
As well as his new god\'s kin - the demon race.
As for the so-called Descended before, that is, the successive Demon Kings, they were actually all from the hands of Those deities, serving as practice - on how to create a god.
Their painstaking efforts, even to the point of having the "Goddess of Light" personally take the stage and use the concept of Light to counter his Evil God\'s will, were all for this moment.
Reji couldn\'t say he was grateful to these deities. After all, they also got what they needed.
The deities needed the birth of Reji, and Reji also became the Demon God and had the demon race as his kin thanks to them.
Oh, of course.
And also gained a new wife.
Reji waved his hand, and the gazes of the many deities who still wanted to peek at this new god were all blocked.
After all, the following scene...
As Reji lowered his head and approached Freya\'s face, the Fate Track of Light and the Fate Track of the Demon King resonated with each other and began to intertwine. They glowed, and the universe outside seemed to flicker along with them.
This kiss, they had both waited too long for it.
This moment also symbolized a brand new beginning free from pollution for the countless worlds in the universe, or perhaps, the birth of a brand new Fate Track.
…
"Dear~, another leaf has been cleared of the Miasma Evil God by our little child," a blue-haired nun said sweetly to the man lying on the bed.
"Indeed, Thia. Our little Reji did a great job," the man replied.
Thia smiled mischievously. "Oh, is daddy Renji not going to celebrate his son\'s achievement?"
Renji pondered for a moment. "I was going to restore his memory and give him a visit, but I think he can enjoy the next thousand years as his reward before the dread comes."
He closed the system window that showed Reji, Freya, Eileen, Shermen, Ulala, Eris, and Vielsia in the bedchamber with his son Reji. Then, he turned his attention to the last system window, which displayed the final leaf of the World Tree where all the remaining miasma had gathered—the Abyssal World.
"I hope the situation on Yumo\'s side improves before the dread arrives, or her world will be..." Renji sighed as he closed the last system window.
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