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At first, they were just particles much smaller than dust, but like shadows gathering together, they slowly turned into black particles.

Originally, these particles belonged to the same entity. It was the one who devoured the earth, burned the sky, and dragged the stars to the earth, the Lord of the Abyss, the ancient demons, the ancient scourge that monopolized all wisdom.

Even if it is reduced to ashes, it cannot be killed by grinding to the point of powder, and it will not be extinguished to the same existence. In order to banish such beings forever, destroy them to the extreme, and then blow them to the whole world with a violent wind. The winds that swept through the world took countless years to disperse it between heaven and earth.

For him, the world is a cage.

Even so, the monster is still alive, just asleep.

The wind is flowing all the time. Even if they are infinitely far apart, separated by infinite centuries, these particles will one day come together. Across countless starfrosts, the clumps of particles began to take shape, and the shadow's tentacles groped around until a corpse was found.

Those who have just died, only the bodies of empty shells remain.

The shadow devoured the corpse, reconnecting its flesh and nerves, and eventually regaining consciousness. Just like that, a man woke up in the rubble.

That's where the story begins.

Fate, miracle or chance, no one can explain why he will be resurrected there.

Leaning against the crumbling walls, the dried blood stained a large area of his body black. The man who was supposed to be dead fumbled and stood up against the wall. With a splitting headache, the man opened his eyes to see broken ruins everywhere. All sorts of crumbling walls blocked his view of what was once a part of the city.

The body he relied on, the memories of his past as a living person, flooded into his mind.

Lyel Ralhoth, a seventeen-year-old human youth, is an adventurer who moved here with his party a few days ago. Because of the failure of the mission, the entire team suffered a total annihilation.

"I want to think about it...... The task is...... Investigate the body of the monster on the outskirts of the city, and then be killed by the vampire you encounter. Hmph, is it a shoddy imitation...... Speaking of which, that guy is...... The biggest regret before he died was not being able to touch the vampire's chest. Ha, it's a boring life, and it's the greatest relief to end your life in regret and pain. ”

Lyle, the monster with the human form snorted boredly, to be precise. While greedily devouring its memories to gain knowledge, he pondered what he should do next

Because of this incomplete resurrection, most of his memories have been lost. All that can be remembered is the name, like a famous painting that has been destroyed, and the vivid painting is full of all kinds of black spots, and only the outline of memory and the scales and claws can be glimpsed. The man then shook his head, even though his memory was lost, there was still something to record it all about.

The means of retrieving memories records everything in the world and connects the system of God's wisdom.

"Connection—."

In an instant, the whole world became clear. The world stretches out in front of our eyes, the origin and the end, the past, the present and the future, and the fate of all things in the world are presented in front of us and clearly visible.

-- A dream in which everything is clear.

A voice sounded in my head. Crisp and at the same time seductively intoxicating sound.

- The spine of the god is revealed, the spirit pattern is confirmed, and the registrant has been confirmed, Ignit Bang Janus Athos Adabavo.

"What should we investigate first......" the monster muttered.

"Search for all articles related to me, the Ancestor."

- Understood, searching.

In this way, the fragments of the vacant memory can be filled, and it is clear who he really is and what happened to him.

-- Your visit was denied.

"Huh?!"

I didn't expect this to happen. The monster opened its mouth but couldn't spit out any words, and an expression of disbelief appeared on its face.

-- Confirm that the logged-in person has illegal permissions, freeze the permissions, and assess the degree of danger...... The core directory is accessed, and the first-level area is compromised, with a risk of III.

-- Emergency response measures were activated, and the fifth-level counterattack technique was launched.

-- Initiated.

A crimson aura covered the entire canopy. Large, formless magic that seemed to possess entities was oppressing the air. In this crazy whirlpool of magic, the middle is like an inverted funnel, connecting heaven and earth.

“…… The divine flame of heavenly punishment is really amazing. ”

The flames, which can burn everything tangible to ashes, will surely turn a large area of land with itself as the center into a state that even particles cannot sustain. He's an immortal monster, and even turning it to ashes just puts him to sleep. After that, he will be blown away by the high pressure - the wind blows him away, and he does not know how many years it will take to resurrect him again.

In other words, he will be buried in this trap and sent to the distant future.

Instant is eternal, even if it is a short moment for ordinary people, but for this monster, it is a long time to think. He closed his eyes, his hands hanging limply, and sighed deeply as if he had given up.

"Well, it's not a bad choice to fall into the sweetness of eternal sleep again."

There was loneliness in his voice, he said so, and the monster really thought so for a while. But in the next split second, the atmosphere changed.

The monster opened its eyes again, burning with a deep-seated hatred and unquenchable anger.

"Don't be kidding, if you want to be redeemed, if you want to put me to sleep, you have to pay the corresponding price,...... A trap, a curse, a heavenly strike! ”

It was pitch black, and countless wild qi gushed out from his body. He grinned angrily, panting like a beast. The vision was red, and finally his gaze was fixed on a broken sword not far from the ground.

Only half of the sword remained, and his memory told him that it was the weapon that the host had cut off by the vampire's nails during the desperate struggle last night. No matter how trivial this is, the man picked up the broken sword and plunged it decisively into his lower skull. The cross-section of the broken sword pierced the flesh and pierced through the jaw to the cerebral pulp. In an instant, his vision went dark, and consciousness was interrupted - he had committed suicide.

The body fell, blood staining the dirt all around it.

--The biological reaction disappears, and it is confirmed that in the spirit pattern, the spirit pattern reaction disappears.

- Confirm the death of the intruder, terminate the counterattack program, and activate the pursuit operation.

The voice no longer came to mind, and returned to silence.

Black magic shrouded the man's corpse, and the moment it came into contact with the black mist, both the weeds and the stones lost their original form in an instant and shattered into gravel.

It took a while for the monster's dormant heart to start beating again, regaining consciousness as the wound healed itself.

The undead monster has come back to life.

The monster gasped and opened its tired eyes. The body is as weak as if it has been hollowed out.

“…… The so-called immortality has always existed like this, but this body is much more fragile than imagined. ”

As he thought, even if he became so weak and his head was pierced by a blunt sword, he would not have any death if he was hit by a magic that could erase death itself. For him, death was only a temporary illusion.

"-Ahh

A high-pitched wail.

The monster's musings were interrupted by the roar of a beast in the distance, and the sound was answered by the long roar of many beasts. No, there was magic in the roar, and it should have been a crowd of beasts gathered by this sound. Before the question of what had happened took shape in the monster's mind, the vibration of the magic explosion was heard through the ground, accompanied by the sound of shouts and swords intersecting.

Everything seemed to be arranged for a long time, and the silent town turned into a battlefield in an instant.

This is a town that has long been abandoned, but it is still within the sphere of human influence, and it is clear that humans are fighting here.

Then their opponents are......

"The magical nature of this voice seems to be dependent, and it does exist in memory."

The monster tapped its head with the back of its fingers, contemplating the information it possessed from the body it was now relying on. As an adventurer, Lyle Raljoth is tasked with finding out the monster body hidden in this abandoned town.

"To scout the lair of monsters, if there is a powerful monster, you must gather a large number of people to crusade against the monsters. But anyway, the speed of this action is too fast, and it's clear that he doesn't know what a monster is, so he hired this unlucky ghost. Tsk, there's something wrong. ”

At this time, the adventurers who are gathering in this abandoned town to fight should be the adventurers who hunt monsters, so their opponents at this time are probably the vampires who killed them last night. But even though he knew what was going on now, there was still some indescribable sense of disobedience that was still suppressed in the monster's heart for a while.

"Even when you think about it in terms of the values and ethics that you have taken from this human being, it feels like something is missing."

Presumably, the counterattack is like a detonator, and its huge magic power animates the entire battlefield, so that both sides that were originally lurking start to act.

He looked coldly at the already rioted town.

Reconnecting doesn't work anymore, and while this time you can avoid the attack by committing suicide, there's no guarantee that it will work next time. The risk is too high and the reward is not proportional, at least for now, there is no value in trying again. In this way, all that can be used at hand is the identity of this body.

That is, do you need to go to war? Join this battle as a member of humanity and seek refuge. No, even if you don't have to, you have a way to blend in with human society, and there is no reason to take any risks. What's more, he is not yet familiar with this fragile body, and his strength is limited when his flesh and magic are not yet fully connected.

"Hmm...... In that case, let's get out of here. ”

Once the decision was made, the monster set off on the ground that had become muddy after the rain. The goal is to leave the town and take the shortest path towards the edge of the town. He tried to get away from this place of right and wrong, but suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground. Although he was not used to this body, he was a little surprised and embarrassed by the fact that he fell to the ground.

The monster who fell into the muddy water tried to wipe the muddy water on his face with his sleeve, but stopped moving when he looked at the thing in his hand.

The left hand touched an indescribable yellow-black object. It was slimy and had a hint of residual heat, and he couldn't tell what it was by touch, so he brought it to his nose.

The stench is unpleasant.

Just when he was confused and didn't know what it was, the corner of his brain calmly analyzed what it was through experience and impressions.

“――！！ Day after day! ”

Animal excrement, commonly known as feces.

The monster set out to cry without tears, and wiped its hands on the ground. It took a while for the monster to calm down and hold on to the wall to the side of the road.

“…… Humiliation, I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing again-uh, uh!! ”

Disasters always come one after another, and the so-called blessings are unparalleled, and disasters do not go alone.

What made the monster scream like a chicken being strangled was a black beast that appeared around the corner and in front of it. Taller than an adult human, it easily surpasses a massive body of three meters, and its whole body is covered with strong muscles that can be seen bulging high with the naked eye. The jaws glowed with metal—teeth made of steel, tools designed to crush prey, killing machines that could easily crush even steel and walls.

It's a dangerous monster to him now.

Without even a moment's hesitation, the monster immediately ran in the opposite direction.

Although it is pointless for him to die, he is a monster who does not die. Even if he was swallowed into the belly and torn to pieces by the beasts, he was still alive. But it becomes a meal for those beasts, into pieces of meat that are absorbed in the bodies of those beasts and then expelled...... Thank you very much.

There was only one thing he could do, and he took a deep breath.

"Help!!"

With a cry for help from his mouth, he ran desperately so that he would not become food for the beast.