The Last Two Lords
I was going to kill them soon. Just wait.
I had trampled the five Lords of Sin in the most brutal way imaginable, stuffed the fragments of their bodies into my leather cloak, and now I moved forward again. The mana swirling inside my heart had grown far beyond simple heat—it was now powerful enough to shake the entire earth. Just breathing quietly made the space around me ripple transparently and scream. My transcendent senses, which had long surpassed human limits, mapped out every single life sign within thousands of meters in a three-dimensional mental map.
Only two remained.
As I advanced, slicing through the pitch-black darkness, I suddenly detected a strangely urgent and servile wave of mana coming from beyond the rocky wasteland in the distance.
[Lust! Please open the gate! That monster… that filthy little vermin has torn Pride and Wrath to shreds and is coming this way! The bastard is actually insane! If we don’t join forces right now, we’ll end up as that fucker’s prey too!]
The bizarre telepathy flowed through the air. It was the ugly howl of the Lord of Envy, one of the seven primal sins this world had harbored since the beginning of time. The transcendent being who had envied and hated every other existence was now screaming pathetically, gripped by absolute terror toward a mere vermin like me.
Shockingly, the creature had taken the form of a pale, menhera-style beautiful girl with deathly white skin and eerily unfocused eyes. Tears streamed down her face, filled with twisted affection and crushing inferiority. She was crawling into the territory of Lust—the one she despised most—and begging miserably for help.
“The little rats are all gathered in one place. Makes hunting nice and easy.”
My lips tore upward in a savage grin. Without hesitation, I kicked off the ground and leaped. The mana that twisted space itself propelled my body forward like a shadow. Kwaaaaang—!
I landed with a deafening roar in the middle of Lust’s territory, a place filled with grotesque red mist and ominous currents. Stone dust exploded violently in every direction, obscuring my vision, but my cold, piercing gaze cut straight through to the two figures ahead.
There stood Envy in her menhera beautiful-girl form, clutching her hair and glaring at me with eyes full of jealousy. Behind her, lounging lazily on a lavish throne, was the Lord of Lust.
Lust was completely different from Envy. She possessed a voluptuous, glamorous adult woman’s body that barely contained her bursting curves beneath thin silk, radiating an irresistibly seductive aura.
The moment I suddenly dropped from the air, Envy flinched as if her heart had dropped to her stomach. She trembled violently and tried to hide behind Lust.
[Th-this monster bastard is already…! Lust! Kill him right now! We have to rip that fucker’s mana to shreds!]
Driven mad with frenzy, Envy charged at me first. She transformed the surrounding air currents into blades of envy, aiming to carve my entire neck into pieces in a lethal ambush. Razor-sharp mana that seemed to tear space itself apart closed in right before my eyes.
But I had no intention of dodging.
I was just about to compress the essences of the five Lords I had newly obtained into my right fist and crush her skull entirely—when it happened.
Spurt—!
A dull, horrifying tearing sound shattered the silence and violently shook Lust’s domain.
[……Huh? Kk, glurk…… kahak…….]
Envy’s movement froze mid-air. Her bloodshot eyes filled with shock as she slowly lowered her head to look at her own chest. The glamorous woman who had risen from the throne had already pierced straight through Envy’s ribcage all the way to the floor with her sharp nails.
Her enormous breasts heaving wildly, Lust mercilessly crushed the inside of Envy’s chest and ripped out the grotesquely pulsing giant heart with one hand.
Lust cruelly curled her lips and casually tossed the torn-out heart at my feet. Envy, now missing her heart, collapsed unconscious.
Thud.
After throwing Envy’s still-bleeding heart, Lust slowly walked toward me. The moment she reached right in front of me, she dropped to her knees powerlessly at my feet, as if she had thrown all the arrogance and pride of a transcendent being straight into the trash.
Completely prostrating her voluptuous body on the ground, she looked up at me with eyes filled with thick, deranged obsession. Utterly captivated by my raw power and murderous aura, she began to beg and plead as if screaming in ecstasy.
Her voice, striking directly into my mind, trembled violently against my ear. As if offering all her essence and authority to me, she opened her internal mana to its limit and poured it at my feet.
But her madness didn’t end there.
With eyes lost in rapture, Lust plunged her fingers into her own chest.
Spurt—!
[Aah…… ahhng……!]
With a bizarre moan, the glamorous woman tore open her own voluptuous breast and pulled out her pulsing heart. Even as blood poured endlessly from the wound, her red eyes were filled only with blind ecstasy directed at me.
She placed her own heart neatly beside Envy’s and pressed her forehead to the ground.
The last two of the seven sins—supposedly immortal conceptual beings—had crawled to the feet of a mere vermin who only wanted to escape, perfectly offering up their lives. It was a truly miserable sight.
“……This bitch is fucking crazy.”
I snatched up the hearts of both Envy and Lust that had been tossed to me and bared my teeth. I had planned to beat them half to death before ripping their hearts out if they wouldn’t die easily, but they had saved me the trouble of going out to hunt.
Crunch. Crack!
Without hesitation, I bit down on Envy’s heart and then Lust’s in turn, swallowing them whole. Along with the sticky, grotesque mucus filling my mouth, an intensely hot and dense essence of mana exploded down my throat. Volcanic heat rampaged through my organs as if my blood vessels would burst at any moment.
But I clenched my teeth and chewed their hearts down completely.
Kuuuooooong—!
The instant those final chunks slid into my stomach, the mana inside me began to rage wildly. Pride, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Wrath. And now the essence of Envy I had just swallowed, along with Lust’s life force that she had willingly torn from her own chest.
Finally, the power of all seven rulers of this world collided mercilessly inside the single core that was my heart.
The moment their energies violently mixed and fused, an unprecedented and bizarre change began deep within my body.
Crackle! Snap!
The red, heated mana that had flowed through my entire body instantly began to lose its color. What now filled my veins was an unknown, mysterious power that existed on a completely different level from anything I had used before.
“……What the hell is this?”
I looked down at my palm. The color of the power bursting through my skin was a black even deeper than pitch darkness. It wasn’t simply an absence of light. It was a bizarre, predatory hue that seemed to devour the surrounding air currents, space, and even the poisonous fog itself.
Moreover, its texture was entirely different. If my previous mana had been violently explosive like a volcano, this black energy born from the fusion of the seven Lords was sticky and heavy like the mud of a swamp. It didn’t simply flow through my veins—it clung thickly to my bones and organs, forcibly remodeling my entire body.
The unimaginably monstrous power that now filled my body flowed entirely into the dagger gripped in my right hand. The once plain bone dagger now screamed as it emitted black currents so dark they seemed to erase space itself. The weapon was no longer the weak thing it had once been. Through hunting transcendent beings, the dagger’s own rank had risen.
The ground around me could no longer withstand the oppressive weight of this sticky black power and began to collapse with a ku-gu-gu-gu sound. The rocks within dozens of meters of me turned into fine powder and scattered in every direction simply because I was standing there.
I looked down at Lust, who was still kneeling and breathing heavily. Before I dragged down that massive thing floating high above, there was one last thing I needed to confirm from these beings who had existed since the beginning of this world.
“That dogshit sky floating up there. Do you know what it really is?”
At my cold question, Lust clutched her bleeding chest and slowly lifted her head to look at me. Deep within her red eyes, along with blind obsession, a faint trace of unknown fear flickered past.
Lust laughed hollowly as she gazed up at the sky where black smoke was rising.
“……So even after beating all seven of you, nobody knows shit.”
I lightly kicked Lust’s head aside with my boot and looked up at the sky. The massive, dark ceiling. The continent-sized red eye of some colossal monster was still staring down at me from above.
If even the Lords who claimed to rule this world didn’t know its true identity, then there was even less reason to hesitate. Now that I had stolen all seven powers and obtained this sticky, overwhelmingly powerful black energy, my survival instinct pointed in only one direction.
The strength needed to break that bastard’s neck was already perfectly complete within my body.
There was nothing left but to rip it apart myself and ask directly.
“Wait for me, you bastard who rules this dogshit world. I’m going to tear you apart—and then I’m definitely going home.”
Crunch. Crack!
I tightened my grip on the dagger. Exploding the sticky black mana that could forcibly crush the entire space throughout my body, I finally leaped fiercely into the air, aiming to grab the collar of the master of that colossal sky.