Chapter 817: Needing an Answer Fast

Karwenz saw nothing but pale white in front of him after returning from death. He felt some ringing in his ears and also an uncomfortable and powerful urge to vomit due to the condition of this physical body.

It was expected that his vision wouldn’t recover immediately. It would take time getting used to eyes that hadn’t been used for quite a while. This physical body that Karwenz had prepared for himself had been sleeping for almost a month.

This body hadn’t eaten or drank anything for the past month. Plus, due to the special condition of this body, the mortal’s body had already reached its extreme limit.

If it wasn’t for this body originally belonging to an excellent swordsman, then “he” would likely have to first rest properly for half a year in order to recover.

“Bro, I’m going to play outside now.”

Karwenz spoke raspily through the dry lips of his new body, repeating the last words he just spoke earlier. This was a sign that his soul had synchronized with his new physical body.

“You’re not allowed to!”

Karwenz had just woken up from his body’s deep sleep and hadn’t even gotten accustomed to the changes of his new body when a low roar greeted him with rejection.

Karwenz wasn’t greeted with welcoming servants or the sight of a busy construction site as he expected. He couldn’t believe how this person filled with vicious intentions for him had arrived here.

“Roland?”

The demon elites that Karwenz personally selected were now nothing more than torn flesh and blood. A certain blonde-haired Holy Knight had his hands wrapped around the neck of a beautiful female devil.

“Hahahaha, as expected of Roland. I never expected that you would appear here.”

Karwenz paused in surprise for a moment, and then actually started laughing out loud.

Meanwhile, I was also rather surprised.

Karwenz had the same familiar blonde hair, familiar blue eyes, familiar face, but a completely different… gender.

“Karwenz? Leona?”

I couldn’t help but wonder out loud. Even though I could clearly sense that the person before me was that bastard younger twin brother of mine, and even though I had already expected this possibility, I was still quite shocked when it really happened in front of me.

“My foolish little brother… sister! Ahem, as I expected, Leona was your backup physical body from the very start!”

Karwenz had just reincarnated himself into the body of Leona, the saintess of the Church of Sword and Thunder!

This Chaos Girl had been able to avoid the slaughtering between the Chaos Girls and was instead bound to the altar for the door to the dimensional barrier, as if she was a sacrifice. It had all been for this moment.

The blonde-haired woman looked at me with disbelief. Her body was so weak that she was unable to stand up properly. It was quite noticeable that her pregnant belly was bulging. Still, from a certain standpoint, her pregnancy was the foundational reason why things had developed this way.

“For demons, descendants are a type of wealth as well. However, you really are insane for going as far as you did.”

Just as how Karwenz had previously possessed Reyne, any blood-related descendant of a Demon Noble or Demon Lord had the possibility of being possessed and controlled by one’s ancestor.

For any half-demon descendant, it wouldn’t be much to be summoned by their own bloodline to act as free labor. The most pitiful end was to become a backup physical body for one’s own ancestor.

The descendant’s consciousness and will would be deleted. Their knowledge and power would become food for the ancestor. Everything that the descendant had worked hard to obtain would all be devoured. Every bit of the descendant’s existence would be eliminated.

It was common for powerful Demon Gods and Demon Lords to revive in a descendant’s body after dying in battle. However, this would only be a final backup plan, as taking over the descendant’s body would mean losing all of their accumulation in their original body and having to start all over again.

The descendants would typically only receive a portion of the bloodline’s power. Their bloodline strength and upper potential would always be far weaker than the original Demon God or Demon Lord’s. It would be quite difficult to surpass the original’s strength, so no powerful demon would choose this method unless it was absolutely necessary.

However, Karwenz was different, incredibly different.

I had noticed since the very start that something was really odd about Leona’s demon baby in her womb.

“Such a powerful and pure high-level demon bloodline. This is an investment that can affect one’s foundational power level. This can’t possibly be an accident. Most critically of all, this baby won’t possibly have a soul.”

After I secretly performed a series of dissection experiments on Leona… er, I meant examinations, I discovered to my astonishment that my future “nephew” was actually a dead baby with no soul at all.

The baby was only a pure amalgamation of the power of Chaos. Although Leona was his mother, technically she was nothing more than a host. Karwenz had actually created him by separating off a significant portion of himself.

Once this baby matured and grew up, even if he was unable to swiftly achieve Karwenz’s power level, it would only be a matter of time before he became a powerful God.

Karwenz paid such a large price naturally because he desired to obtain even more. Since Karwenz had invested so much that it would foundationally weaken his power level as a Main God, it was quite obvious what he had wanted to obtain.

Currently, Karwenz had possessed the unborn baby, and through the baby, he was also able to control the mother’s body. This was all something I had just personally witnessed.

“Karwenz, you gave up on being a Main God level existence all for the sake of going through that wall?”

Behind the altar was an endless pitch-black wall. Judging by how the wall was decorated with art depicting the Goddess of Chaos, I knew what this place was used for.

“…Only a Chaos Girl can become Cynthia. Only Cynthia can pass through this wall and reach the place where Cynthia’s physical body is sleeping…”

This was a setting from the Goddess of Chaos herself to have the ultimate protection on her own physical body. Normally, it wouldn’t be possible to pass through this wall with any means whatsoever, yet Karwenz had still managed to discover a method to cheat himself past this rule.

A baby being hosted inside a Chaos Girl’s body would naturally be able to pass this wall and obtain Cynthia’s physical body, power, and rights!

Cynthia’s physical body would then descend upon the world as she used her Goddess of Creation powers to open the door to the dimensional barrier. This was Karwenz’s final plan!

Karwenz wasn’t panicking one bit at all right now, since the altar was adjacent to the wall. There was a large door in the wall that was open only for him. Nobody else would be able to pass through this door.

“Ha, Roland, let’s chat later.”

“She” turned around and was about to walk into the wall when I coldly uttered an underhanded threat.

“Karwenz, you better turn back, unless you don’t want her to live anymore.”

I still had Ilmisya’s neck in my hands as I raised her. My small ice sword traced a red line on her slender neck.

“…You don’t seem like a person on the side of good at all. Haven’t you told me that antagonists who threaten hostages are all low-level villains who die off really quickly in the story?”

Karwenz paused for a moment before saying some of my own words that I didn’t even remember telling him. I originally thought that he would at least hesitate for a little, but then “Leona” turned her head to roll her eyes at me and laugh without a care.

“Go ahead and kill her if you want. Plenty of people have died already, so who cares if one more dies? Even more people will probably die once the door to the dimensional barrier is opened, hahaha.”

Even though Karwenz was talking about something that would destroy the world, his lighthearted tone of looking forward to this made him seem like a naughty child looking forward to his birthday.

The “major elimination of survival of the fittest” after the dimensional barrier was opened was a huge celebration that Karwenz had desired for so long already. All of the previous sacrifices and deaths before this were nothing more than a minor prelude for the big party afterwards.

At that moment, I understood. Ilmisya was completely meaningless to him. He didn’t care about her one bit. In fact, he didn’t even care what would happen to himself in the upcoming calamity.

Destruction? Evolution? None of that mattered to him. It was all fine as long as he had fun.

Still, I knew what he did care about.

And so, I took a deep breath and slowly moved my sword away from Ilmisya’s neck. I then transformed it into a dagger and aimed it directly at my own heart.

“Karwenz, you and I were born from the same soul. You won’t die as long as I’m alive, and I won’t die as long as you’re alive. However, perhaps it’s time for us to die together.”

My ice dagger itself was meaningless. It was simply a way for me to express my attitude and resolution.

Karwenz turned around once more. This time, he finally had his eyebrows furrowed.

“Elisa was correct. As expected, once you knew about the nature of our indestructibility, if I had a big advantage, you would use this strategy for us to die together. Honestly, it’s so disgusting for me to have to die for love together with another man…”

At that moment, I was disgusted as well…

“This is clearly a noble self-sacrifice. No matter how terrible this is, it counts as me acting out my responsibility as an older brother. Could you please not describe it in such a disgusting manner?”

Goosebumps were appearing on my skin. This was clearly a battlefield, and the entire world’s survival was at stake, so couldn’t Karwenz at least be a little more serious?

“Sacrifice? For the sake of the mortals who betrayed us? Or for the Holy Church who destroyed our family and country? Hey hey hey, could you stop acting like such a saint? Such people definitely won’t have a good ending and will definitely die quickly.”

I was the one who paused here, as I had no idea how to counter him because his words were so right. I really needed an answer fast…