Izuka - Chapter 172

Into the black hole, Narukami barely perceived anything. Even after pouring spiritual energy into his eyes, his surroundings were still dark. It did not take long for Narukami to notice that something was strange going on.

Even further, he was sure he was falling yet he did not feel the wind crashing him or the sensation of falling. Instead, it was as though he was floating.

If he could, Narukami would have narrowed his eyes. In the next moment, panel scenes appeared around him. It was in the air and looked holographic. It was not looked at, it was a holographic scene.

Narukami looked at the white scene for a few seconds straight. When he thought nothing interesting was going to happen as he shifted his eyes away, the scene let out static noises.

It immediately got Narukami’s attention as he retracted his eyes to it.

The static slowly but surely faded away as it was replaced by a clear image. An image of where Narukami found a book that revealed everything about All Beyond. An organization that meets more than the eye.

“My memory?” Narukami pondered under his breath. Then, the screen panel changed to the content of the book. It revealed everything that should have not happened to the outside world!

“Hey! Stop peeking in my mind! That’s illegal!” Said Narukami as he punched the holographic scene which turned out useless as his fist went past it like it had no physical material.

“All Beyond is originally an organization that focused on researching another dimension. One day, they made a breakthrough in their research and hurriedly put the theories into practice without telling the public. Their first experiment went smoothly but for the second one, it was a complete failure.

“This caused unstable space fluctuation in their Lab. This unstable space is connected to a destroyed dimension with enormous amounts of strange particles. “These particles entered our dimension and spread throughout the world within months.”

A woman’s voice explained. Narukami had no idea where she came from and why would she say what’s on the screen out loud, either way. He had to stop this voice from saying any further!

Take in mind this was somewhere that Saiko chose to teleport him over. A high chance was that he tried to dig up everything Narukami knew about by using strange yet efficient tricks, like this one.

Either because their Level was like heavens and earth or the technique was quite hard to know the principle. Narukami could not stop this technique from reading his mind.

“Damn it! This is like an adult bullying a child!” Said Narukami as he began to run out of options. He had no way of stopping it.

“These particles are called Foul energy. Foul energy is essentially harmless when humans breathe in these particles but it changes when it comes into contact with negative emotions.

When it comes to contact with negative emotions from humans, it went through a certain change and became alive. However, it only became a single living cell akin to bacteria. That is why our body exudes it without us knowing. When it meets with its kin, its reaction is to devour it and become bigger. So and so until it became a monster we called Anomaly.”

“I know, you don’t have to repeat it for me,” Said Narukami with a calm look.

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“As expected, he knew the truth,” said Saiko under his breath after he just dodged Narukami’s ancestor attack and landed on the ground.

“What are you blabbering about!” She exclaimed as she leaped into the air and slash down her gigantic sword.

Saiko retracted his attention and instantly leaped backward. Her attack missed and hit the ground.

Bam!

The impact caused a loud noise like an explosion. It also caused the surface to submit down and rubbles went into the air as they scattered and landed on the ground with a bounce.

Dust filled the air but it did not last long as it faded away in the next instant.

“Why do you keep dodging? What happens with attacking? Are you a tank or something?” Narukami’s ancestor pondered as she was slightly disappointed. Here she thought it was an exciting fight yet it was a boring one.

“Hey, can I ask you something?” Saiko asked.

“Sure,” she replied as she rushed forward and sent in a bunch of slashes which Saiko had no hard time keeping up with and dodged.

As he was dodging, he asked, “Why don’t you become a deity? You’re already at the end of the phase of godhood. One more step and you’ll be a deity, a goddess.”

“Do you think I’ll answer for an outsider like you?” She asked instead of answering.

“Fair enough but if you did become a deity. You can lead your race more efficiently. No race is happier than being led by a deity. I bet conflicts between races are almost nonexistent and there would be harmony.”

“Such things only exist in a fairy tale. I do believe it will be like that but it will not last long. No matter what the race is, they will always bring destruction and chaos to this world. All because of one thing, desire.”

Saiko nodded, “But desire is not always bad. Desire to protect, desire to fight for what they care for, desire to reach their dreams.”

“Like everything in this world. There are bad and goods. That’s the only thing that will never change,” she said as she put an end to the conversation.

She aimed the tip of her gigantic blade at Saiko, “I’ve been curious, why did I feel familiar to you?”

“Great question, it will be answered soon enough,” said Saiko as he smiled and looked the other way.

“Tsk, I guess Fated Point is to be called that way because it is fate, cannot be changed.” He sighed. Without waiting for the other party’s response, he hurriedly asked. “How many times have you killed your kin?”

“More than numbers I could imagine. What’s with the sudden question?” She frowned

“Then a plus one is no different. Why don’t you kill your favorite descendant, Narukami? He had the potential to turn his fangs on you. When that happens, it will be late.”

“I know him quite well. Don’t you dare talk about him that way as though you know him. I’ll cut your throat so that you take back your words.” Her voice was solemn and deep.

“No need, everything will come to an end. Soon enough,” said Saiko as he replied as he shook his head and bitterly smiled.

She frowned upon this and reflexively wore a perplexed expression.

“What are you on about?” She blurted out.

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“. . . This is boring, how long have I been falling?” Pondered Narukami as he looked down. Complete darkness. The only thing accompanying him was the sound of a lady who was still reading out loud the book. Which was mostly about a boring explanation of how Anomaly eating people despite it could survive without eating them. As long as Foul energy was in the air, they would live.

The answer was what the majority of people thought. It was like wolves sent to an island full of rabbits to control the chain food and ecosystem there.

Here, humans were pitiful rabbits.

“Yeah, yeah. I got it. We deserve it for destroying the world by polluting our own and the only planet so can you shut up? I know what’s in that book. More the reason you can shut your mouth.” Complained Narukami with a flat tone. As expected, the voice paid no heed and continued reading out loud.

Then, the scene flashed to black and the voice stopped rather abruptly.

“Finally,” said Narukami flatly as he was delighted inside.

But the next thing that happened was not as good as he ought to be. Things just turned from not bad to very, very bad.

Many floating, holographic blank scenes appeared and surrounded him. Narukami looked around. He was circled by monitors.

Narukami was a bit shocked and confused.

What’s going on? He thought to himself. In the next moment, the scenes turned on and showed Ryu.

Narukami reflexively raised his brows. Later, a person came into the scene and it was Narukami. However, this Narukami was different.

His expression told others like he just went through a living hell, agony beyond words and an aura of a warrior who had just survived many battles.

His body was soaked in blood and injuries all over his body. He lost an arm, an eye freshly plucked out of his eye socket as blood flowed down his cheek. This Narukami seemed to have just gone through a tough battle.

Soon, realization dawned upon Narukami. This was him from another timeline. Why did Saiko show me this? Also, aren’t I chasing Ryu?

As if replying to his words, the Ryu on the screen moved forward at Narukami and stabbed his blade into his abdomen! Narukami on the screen was shocked as he slowly asked, “Why?”

That question was like someone getting betrayed.. It was painfully bitter, disbelief, and shock.