Chapter 59
Chapter 59
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 59
Chapter Title: A Being Who Transcends Time (2)
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Three Transcendents said to have created the world.
[Space's Transcendent – Cresia]
[Life's Transcendent – Delatros]
[Time's Transcendent – Diavela]
Cresia created the world, the beginning of all things.
Delatros brought life to inhabit that world.
Diavela created time, ensuring the world would change.
The world they forged was the primordial world.
That realm existed before Delatros's fall split it apart—a place where all races lived together in one space.
Diavela, who created time here, made the greatest contribution to the evolution of the world's inhabitants.
Truth be told, he didn't accomplish much else, but his feat was just as vital as those of the other two Transcendents.
Without him, this world would have remained in its primordial state forever.
That's an undeniable fact.
……But at the same time, it was the root of all tragedy.
His actions led to his murder at Delatros's hands, and ultimately forced Space's Transcendent Cresia to vanish of her own accord.
Of course, being able to see the future, he already knew all this tragedy would unfold.
Yet he acted on his convictions anyway.
He believed his vision was worth more than all that tragedy—and his own life.
And honestly, he was right.
There was a reason he created time despite enduring all that.
【Time's Transcendent - Diavela】 ▶“This world is beautiful, but boring. It's monotonous, and there are far too few lifeforms compared to the vastness of space.” A world of emptiness.
The primordial world crafted by Space's Transcendent Cresia was beautiful yet hollow.
There was space to hold anything, but nothing to fill it, leaving it empty.
Cresia couldn't create life.
No matter how many lifeless sculptures she made, they lacked souls or hearts.
So Delatros stepped in to create living beings.
Delatros could craft beings that breathed and possessed souls, like the Transcendents themselves. Together with Cresia, he made even more diverse lifeforms.
These creatures had all sorts of unique traits—some lived on land, others in water, each adapted to their environments.
Some soared through the skies or burrowed underground.
A few were even enormously huge.
But soon, Delatros's limitations became clear…
The lifeforms he created were primitive and savage. No matter how much variety he infused, they couldn't evolve beyond their initial states.
In short, they had no future.
Without change, they lived the same lives eternally.
【Time's Transcendent - Diavela】 ▶“This world needs change!” Diavela, watching this, cried out.
Such a boring, repetitive cycle would only diminish the world's value over time.
And so, Time's Transcendent Diavela used his power to introduce the concept of 'time' to the world and its lifeforms.
Time began to flow, bringing changes. Lifeforms grew smarter day by day, even developing language.
All this started once time existed.
From that moment, lifeforms began to evolve.
【Time's Transcendent - Diavela】 ▶“Now the world will change. Lifeforms will grow smarter and more beautiful in form.” However, Delatros—the creator of those lifeforms—viewed time negatively.
【Life's Transcendent - Delatros】 ▶“Time is unnecessary in this world. It makes lifeforms age—and even die.” The reason? After time's introduction, all lifeforms gained the weakness of 'aging.'
Aging lifeforms saw their physical abilities decline over time.
Excessively aged ones ceased activity forever.
With time came death for lifeforms.
Delatros begged Diavela to remove time—the cause of his creations' demise—but Diavela refused, preferring generational evolution over eternal stasis.
Even world-creator Cresia approved of time, leaving Delatros no choice but to watch his lifeforms die.
……
This is the lore revealed in Novel Online's 'Cataclysm' patch, redefining the creation gods as three Transcendents.
It came the week after Maou Silmarion's first clear and the black curtain's reveal.
This story shifted from a simple hero-vs.-maou tale to a world where heroes battle the creators themselves—the first step in expanding the worldview.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 1.
I silently stared at the blond man before me.
His brown skin, muscular build, and roguish face matched the Time's Transcendent I knew.
Truthfully, I'd never met him in person.
This is from the game, but I'd seen his design in the external setting materials.
The materials described him as:
'A mix of Forest Elf, Dark Elf, and Frost Elf features…'
He looked exactly like that description.
Forest Elf blond hair, Dark Elf brown skin, and the sturdy Frost Elf physique confirmed it.
After all, elves were modeled after him.
“I'm not your damn plaything. Look at me like that one more time… and I'll kill you.”
“Scary stuff. Though I do like tough women. There's something special about breaking them and seeing their reactions afterward.”
He was also the one who created those Grand Sages.
“Looks like you wanna die right now.”
“Whoa, whoa, calm down. It was just talk.”
The Grand Sages are apostles serving Time's Transcendent.
They split the ability to peer into past and future.
So maybe younger sister Alena takes after him.
If my memory's right, Alena admired and even loved him more than her sister, possibly twisting her personality.
Erena treated him as a benefactor, but Alena saw him as a man.
Considering what happened to Alena next… it's plausible his influence warped her.
“Hmm, looking closer… you're not one of the tribute girls, are you? Though you are my type…”
“Yeah, spot on. Keep talking and get punched.”
Anyway, that's beside the point. I need to focus on something else now.
-Thwack!
“Gah?! W-wait! Punching the solar plexus is cheating!”
First things first: before handling business, I had to neutralize him so he couldn't try anything funny.
If he's like those Grand Sages, simply tying him up won't cut it—I need to crush any foolish thoughts beforehand…
I won't fall for it twice.
Never three times.
-Bam!
“Keh!”
So right now, I'm beating him with everything I've got.
As a mage myself, I know how to handle them.
Mages wield devastating power to level mountains with words, but up close and personal like this, they have no time to chant.
-Thwack!
I smash his face with my fist, knee his jaw, and stomp him into the ground.
-Crunch!
“Gaaah! My bones! My bones are breaking! Stop!”
Like I'd stop because he asked?
No way. I push until he's on the brink of death and begs to meet my demands.
For example…
“Hup!”
“Hah, huff?! I-I surrender! I'll do whatever you say, so stop beating me out of nowhere! I'm gonna die!”
-Thwack!
“Kek!”
…Breaking every bone in his body oughta do it.
“…I'll stop here for now. If you'd touched me, Transcendent or not, I'd have crippled you.”
With one final punch to his face, I end the five-minute 'How to Subdue a Mage' session.
Mages like this can decapitate with a word if given a moment, so shattering the jaw to seal their spells is safest.
“Now remove the chains from my body. Refuse, and I'll erase you here.”
“Ugh… urk…”
He nods and reaches for the chains.
-Crackle!
'Good.'
It took time with his arm broken, but touching them turned the chains to dust.
'Can't keep lugging this annoyance around.'
Body's free now, so time to follow the Grand Sages' reason for sending me here.
Honestly, I don't want to stay long.
Who'd want to visit the netherworld alive?
《 ~Hidden Stage~ Netherworld, Razor-Edged Azure Realm 》 This is the netherworld—the realm of the dead.
But I'm not dead.
I can revive even if I die once a day, and true death would send only my soul here, not my body.
'Moving it isn't an issue, though.'
This body seems formed from my soul and mana. From the feel when hitting him, it's weaker than my real one.
Probably lost the Demon's Blessing stat boosts.
I hit him seriously, but only broke bones—no more. Fits.
-Step!
“D-dear husband…!”
“?”
Suddenly, women's voices came from behind me.
Dozens of them, not just one or two.
Humans, elves, even demons and angels—nearly every race I knew.
……No idea why they're all in their underwear.
“Are you okay?! How did you end up like this… I'll heal you right away! Just wait!”
-Crackle!
One must be a priestess.
'Tch, can't let him recover.'
Golden light enveloped him, slowly healing the damage I inflicted.
I'd targeted nerves to hinder recovery, but this ruined it.
Can't let them heal him unchecked.
If he recovers, who knows what he'll try? And I'm not at full strength, so no risks.
“Stop! If you heal him, you'll all—”
So I moved to subdue the priestess first, but…
“Hah… haa… Dear husband's arm…”
……Their behavior made me hesitate to get close.
They were rubbing thighs on his arms or hugging him tight.
-Smooch! Slurp!
Some even sucked his fingers devotedly.
So 'dear husband' means that. Why the hell is this real?
This made the hero and maou's sticky antics look tame.
Theirs embarrassed onlookers, but this was full-on clinging.
“Hng, hnn! Get up already. You have things to do…”
Race didn't matter.
“Ah, huu, ah…!”
That priestess was 'healing' by French-kissing him.
His underwear was soaked with sweat and worse, reeking oddly.
'What the hell is wrong with them?'
Angels who prize chastity like life itself, elves who never open for other races—they acted in heat.
'Damn, does this place mess with heads? What's causing it?'
No clue.
Best guess: his looks enchanted them like ghosts.
Fine, he's handsome by settings—I get the appeal.
But to me, he's just average.
Handsome guy? Same as seeing celebs on TV. No thrill.
Couldn't understand their obsession.
“……Haa, this is maddening.”
Can't watch anymore.
As one tried stripping her worthless underwear, I decided to end it here.
No enduring that forever.
“Kneel.”
-Boom!
⚡ SKILL ACTIVATED ⚡ Giga Graviton – Area Magic ※Attribute: Physical / Range: 100m / Max Targets: 1~1000
>▶Manipulates gravity in a set area, inflicting confusion, stun, restraint, etc. on targets within range.
“Kyaa?! Wh-what?!”
They all collapsed to the ground.
I'd amped gravity to immobilize them.
While they floundered in confusion, I slowly approached him.
Been a while since I used this. Still the best for crowd control.
Heavenly Demon arts have AoE too, but only with footholds…
'Magic's best for this.'
Easy to control power, too.
Subdue them first, drag him somewhere women-free, then talk.
Otherwise, I'd spend all day watching this nonsense.
-Step, step.
“Hey! You there! Wait your turn!”
Then a human woman yelled at me.
“Exactly! You must be new, but skip the line and we won't let it slide!”
They realized I caused it and raged wildly.
I'm the only unaffected one, so obvious culprit—but why assume that?
Does raw desire turn people that stupid?
Disgusting.
“Hey, demon bitch! Undo this or I'll yank your handle!”
“……Handle? What're you talking about?”
“Your horn, horn! What else would demons have horns for?!”
Horns as handles?
……Oh, right—Transform's off now.
No need here in the netherworld, but next blackout, check horns first.
'Not my real body, so Transform doesn't hold.'
Transform rarely drops, but can under certain conditions.
But how do you use horns as handles?
Have no idea what they plan…