Chapter 555 - Aftermath
'Souta, I've got something to say.' Saya's voice echoed in his head. She appears to be concerned about something.
'What is it?' Souta asked while wondering why she was so serious.
"What's wrong, Souta?" Alice asked while supporting him.
Souta shook his head and said, "It's nothing." He then heard Saya's voice.
'The sound just now is definitely the breaking of rules. I mentioned before that you shouldn't take the souls carelessly as it is one of the rules. You will suffer consequences if you continued to prevent souls from going to reincarnation but right now that rule is broken...
'It means that you can plunder souls without worrying about the consequences. Other people would be able to break the limits in their bodies easily. Meaning that the chances of reaching god realm got easier but it was still hard. I personally think that only five or ten people will achieve god realm in each continent for the next five years.'
'This...' Souta was shocked inwardly. He finally understood why suddenly a burst of people reached god realm in the later version of the game. Yanagi, Isabella, and Randolf were some of those people. There were others too in the other continent and some people were from sub-worlds.
The whole universe will focus on Imperium. The rules that prevent some gods from using their true powers have disappeared. The treasures that were sealed by the cosmos will be free to take and the thrones will appear. It will become a battle for supremacy in the near future.
No matter what other people did, the administration will not interfere anymore. It will start from the bottom of power then it will go up until gods participated in chaos.
The Great Barrier that protected the seven continents of Imperium from going to each other will open soon.
So that's why all of that happened... He understood the reason why those versions were just getting worse and worse.
'From now on, people can go against the natural order of the universe without suffering the consequences. As long as one has enough power then they could do whatever they wanted.' Saya said to him. 'Gods will move frequently from now on. They will be able to freely wield the so-called Grid.'
Grid is the ability of Gods, Monster Lords, Demon Gods, and Spirit Gods that goes against the rules. Some gods called it Principles, some called it Laws, and some called it Aspects.
God-level beings weren't afraid of Administrators. They just simply respect the beings that maintained the cosmos but mostly it came from the benefits that they will receive just by listening to the Administrators.
Even if they killed the Administrators, those beings will simply spawn on the other part of the universe. They don't have emotions or will. They were programmed to maintain the universe and will warn any being that brings harm to it.
Just like a golem that had no soul.
But they were full of information. That's why some of the god-level beings enjoyed talking to them. The Administrators knew every type of spirit or mana fruits.
The rules were easy to follow. It wasn't something like "Do not kill" or "Do not plunder" things. It was something about sensitive matters like reincarnation or destruction of any small dimension. While the basic rules were like planets, galaxies, or anything outside Imperium.
Why most of the god-level beings avoid using Grid outside of Imperium is that they could shatter those basic rules. Once it was shattered, those planets wouldn't rotate nor move. It will simply float without direction and eventually collided with stars, asteroids, or other planets. A place without rules will not be usable for a long time. It will take time before the rules had recovered and once the rules had recovered the cosmos will spawn stars, asteroids, or dead planets. As for how long until one planet gained mana in the atmosphere was unknown.
'The basic rules are still here but Gods can simply break it easily now and replaced those rules with their own. Slowly, the people in sub-worlds will start to rely on gods to live. They would be helpless if the rules are completely gone.'
Souta couldn't help but sigh at her words. He was really lucky that he triggered Amanda's chain quest. He needed to earn various points as soon as possible to upgrade his skills and complete the legacy of the thirteenth zodiac.
With Rowan's death, all the witches that turned insane go back to normal. The battle had stopped too as they know that Rowan was only being controlled by someone.
Everyone was exhausted and tired. A lot of witches died and some from Souta's side died too. It was unavoidable as they were fighting with their lives on it.
Elder Guan looked down at the scene around him with a gloomy face. The entire island of the Witch Clan was demolished as the main battle happened in that place. He avoided battling in that place by going in the sky but the one controlling Rowan didn't care about it.
"We, the Witch Clan, need to start over."
He muttered as he looked at his fellow witches. No one had expected that this will happen in their clan today. At the very least, nothing was controlling their clan anymore. They freed their Clan Leader from the hands of those unknown vile people. The people that started the war in this world decades.
"It's finished..." Franklin said as he returned back to normal. He looked at the crazy witches and felt disappointed. "I'm still not done yet but whatever since the leader had stopped I had to stop too."
Wings formed on his back before he flew towards the Guardian Fortress in the sky.
The red dragon fell on the ground with a loud "Thud" sound. He just took the full power of the golden bell alone so he received considerable damage to his body. Stopping all those sound waves was tough.
He growled as he lifted up his gigantic head.
"I don't know why there's a battle here but it seems that it's complete now. The world is really huge. There are a lot of strong creatures."
Doranjan and Yuko stayed in their position for a while, waiting for their parasite to completely heal their wounds. Unlike the others, creatures with parasites don't need the healing potions of Isabella.
Eilish looked at the Witch Clan before she sigh. She didn't expect the outcome of this battle nor the information that she learned from this battle. She was lucky that she survive from this battle against the Clan Leader.
She realized that among the Extinction Realm masters, she was one of the weakest. Her lack of strength in fighting close-range combat will become her downfall in the future. She could match, no, she was stronger than Rowan in terms of firepower but that's it. In terms of speed, strength, and toughness Rowan was higher than her.
"It's really tiring but I've gained a lot of things in this battle. It's not that bad."
She muttered in a low voice.
Amanda held her uncle in her arms tightly. Tears were pouring down from her eyes.
Her uncle Rowan was a strong man. The person that controlled him managed to capture his mother, sister, wife, and son. Rowan didn't tell his brother about their mother, sister, and his family. Amanda's father, his brother, was the Clan Leader and he was focused on the war that was happening on the whole continent so he didn't notice it.
Rowan endured everything while those people were torturing his family. At first, his mother died, then his sister too. The enemy set up a situation where the Witch Clan wouldn't think that the two died in torture. Rowan was the only one that knew the truth and he hide it from his brother.
The enemy wanted for his brother, the Clan Leader, to go to their place to set up an ambush but Rowan didn't say anything to his brother. He knew that once his brother knew the situation, his brother would go alone to save his family. Even if his brother knew that it was a trap, he will still go because of his personality. However, Rowan understood that once the Clan Leader died the Witch Clan will lose its morale and they will suffer heavy casualties in the war.
Days had passed quickly and Rowan was filled in despair as the head of his wife was delivered to him. At that moment, his son was the only one alive. Not just that, the Clan mysteriously suffered heavy casualties on different battlefields. He realized that the people that captured his family were greater than he imagined. The whole war in the central continent was their playground. They had the power but they didn't do it because they simply wanted to have fun playing with them.
It was frustrating. He couldn't do anything.
In the end, he told his brother about it. Just like what he expected, his brother left to rescue his brother. Rowan didn't want his brother to die so he brought a group of elite Extinction Realm witches only to find that everything was within the enemy's expectations. They were annihilated and his son had died too.
It was pointless. He shouldn't have told his brother about his son. If he didn't tell him then his son was the only one that should have died just like how his wife had died. But what could he do? That was his son and he couldn't just ignore his own child.
His mother, sister, and wife died so he couldn't just let his son die. Even if he knew that it was futile, he still tried it but at what cost. Several Extinction Realm masters were annihilated. They were the foundation of the Witch Clan.
"AARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! UNCLEEEEE!!"
Amanda screamed.