Shadows in Separate Dimensions Chapter 219

In another world.


Light and darkness existed in an age where nothing else yet existed.


The Absolute Being split the light and created the Emissaries of God. As for the darkness, it was split to create eight Sovereigns.


Heeding the command issued during their birth, the Sovereigns born to destroy worlds and the Emissaries born to maintain the worlds began killing each other’s soldiers over and over again.


At the end of the lengthy war.


Fatigued by the constant and unending war, the most bright Fragment of the Brilliant Light asked the Absolute Being.


‘Oh, our Absolute Ruler.


Why does thee not aid thy most faithful subjects fighting in thy honour?


Why does thee ignore thy subjects’ pain?


Doth thee really not hear the screams of countless soldiers dying for thy honour?


Aid us.


Lend us the strength to extinguish our opponents. We shall cut off their heads and offer them as the tribute to thy glory.’


However, the Absolute Being didn’t reply back to the Fragment.


It was at that moment the Fragments came to a realisation. And that would be the truth of the battle between themselves and the Sovereigns being nothing more than a form of entertainment to the Absolute Being. And that their Ruler didn’t wish for the battles to end.


Now knowing that the war would never end as long as the Absolute Being continued to exist, the Fragments fell into despair. The despair they felt transformed into rage, and rage soon morphed into hatred.


To end this meaningless war, they unsheathed their blades.


It was the start of the rebellion.


Jin-Woo witnessed the endless march of the soldiers spanning the cosmos itself.


“Oh, my god….”


However, a group of soldiers suddenly appeared from the distance and blocked the march. The Shadow Sovereign next to Jin-Woo pointed at the Fragment of the Brilliant Light with six wings, standing in front of the blocking group.


[That was the me of the distant past.]


He was the sole Emissary of God who stood up against the rebellion of the other Emissaries. In the end, though, the pitiful number of soldiers he led powerlessly fell before the united armies of the Emissaries.


The Fragment of the Brilliant Light never lost his absolute loyalty until the end. He died watching his brave subordinates get swept away by their enemies.


He thought that this was the end.


But when he reopened his eyes within the embrace of the darkness, he came to realise that the Absolute Being had hidden a certain power inside of him.


For that eventuality when everything went wrong, the Absolute Being had hidden a truly fiendish power capable of ending everything, inside its most loyal slave.


And so, floating within this endless abyss of darkness, the Sovereign of Death had finally opened his eyes towards his power. He tore off the remaining traces of his wings, all burnt away from the battle, and crafted brand new armour out of the surrounding darkness.


[ARISE-!!]


Souls sleeping within this abyss heard the call and swore eternal allegiance to their new king.


He led his brand new army and made his return. But when he finally came back, everything was already over.


The remaining Fragments of Brilliant Light had killed the Absolute Being and called themselves the new gods, thus assuming the position of the ‘Rulers’. And using various tools containing the might of the Absolute Being, they hunted down the Sovereigns.


When the King of Giants, the Sovereign of the Beginning, Reghia, was captured, the balance between the two sides collapsed and the remaining Sovereigns realised the severity of the situation.


It was at that moment that the Shadow Sovereign extended his hands to them. To combat their common enemy, every existing Sovereign combined their forces.


And in this manner, the war between seven ‘Rulers’ and nine ‘Sovereigns’ continued on, forever.


The longer this war continued on, however, the greater the army of the Shadow Sovereign grew. Time was on his side.


Thanks to his brilliant achievements, it seemed as if the victors of this long, long war would be the Sovereigns.


However, it wasn’t only the Rulers fearing the might of the Shadow Army that had grown, unbeknownst to all, to equal the Army of Destruction led by the King of Berserk Dragons.


Two Sovereigns feared the Shadow Sovereign. The Two of them were the Sovereign of White Flames and the Sovereign of Beastly Fangs. They aimed for the back of the former Emissary just as the war was drawing to a close.


It was at this point that Jin-Woo got to witness again the scenes he saw within the ‘saved data’ back in the dual dungeon. The armies of demons and beasts joined hands with the armies of the Rulers and pounced on the Shadow Sovereign and his army.


And that resulted in him being driven to near-annihilation.


But then, the King of Beasts, the Sovereign of Beastly Fangs ran away to save its own life, while forsaking its own soldiers. Meanwhile, the King of Demons, the Sovereign of White Flames, Baran, had to pay the ultimate price.


The words Jin-Woo couldn’t understand; when he heard the words of the dying Baran, his eyes shook around really hard back then.