[Mission Complete: Defeat your first demon]
[Reward: Level up, 10,000 SP, Temporary Status of Demon Slayer] x10
[You have killed a demon, 500,000 EXP, 250,000 SP,] x10
[Level up, 5000 free stat points] x10
[Level up, 5000 free stat points] x10
Several messages followed after he killed the demon, but he was not bothered by them for now. His eyes were on the chasm that he had caused.
Such an attack would most definitely pull the attention of some of the demons toward them. He knew they had to move fast, very fast, and make it out of here.
Though he had seen that he had the power to take out demons, he didn’t want to be invited into a large number of them at a time.
Silva turned around and saw his people all looking at him with eyes that said, “What the hell?” They could not imagine how Silva managed to take out a demon like that.
When he had created the domain, they were also inside the domain, so they had seen everything that happened.
Everything that Silva had done already looked impossible—the clones, the jokers, everything.
“I know that’s a lot to take in, but the summary of the situation is that I have been holding back all this time, and what you saw was me using close to my full power,” Silva gave a quick explanation.
“That explanation doesn’t cover anything. What do you mean you were holding back all this time?” Aris said.
“Sigh, I’ll make this as fast as possible. I have always never really had a limit to strength. I could make clones to an infinite amount, as long as I had the mana to supply.
I have spells that bend the fabric of reality in my arsenal, and I could get new ones whenever I wanted. In summary, I have no limit to my strength. For a while now, it has been like that,” Silva said and started walking toward them. His clones and their clones transformed back to normal, but they didn’t get unsummoned because Silva could not be too careful now.
“Then what about your fight with White Fang? It seemed like he was dominating you,” Lily said.
“Lily, you should understand that I held myself back then. It was evident. I was trying to see what I could do with my base strength, but I could barely hold against a hero in that state, though,” Silva said.
“The heroes were always an issue at some point.”
Silva suddenly heard a voice that he remembered. He turned around and saw a figure standing there, dressed in all black. He had white hair and blue eyes like Silva.
Everyone immediately recognized the similarities. It was like a grown-up version of Silva standing there. Immediately, Silva saw this, he knew who this was.
“So you are a variant of me,” Silva spoke, facing the man.
“Wrong. We are all variants of the first Dark Dragon. You are the last variant thrown into the despicable world that is Argon,” the man said.
“What’s your name?” Silva asked.
“I have thrown away all names now. I go by ‘The Seventh’ because I am from the seventh continent, the one that came before yours,” Seventh said.
“Silva, what’s going on? Who is that?” Lily asked.
“Lily, don’t come close. You should stay where you are. Unlike the demons, I have no chance of protecting you if this person decides to kill you,” Silva said.
“You should listen to Silva, Lily, or should I say Anny? I know everything Silva is capable of, and he knows that as well,” Seventh said.
“You called me Anny. What is that?” Lily asked.
“Well, that’s you—the first of you, that is. There have been seven of you before, but I’ll not tell much, because then Void would come here and wipe out your memory, or this time, even kill you.
And I don’t want you all dying so easily. I want Silva here to try his best in this continent and fight for its survival like we all did.
He needs to watch it slowly collapse before his eyes—everything that he fought so hard for—as he stands upon your graves and loses himself to the rage.
Only then, only then will he be truly able to see the truth. You’ll finally know why we have decided that Argon must be destroyed,” Seventh said.
“I don’t care what it is that you all believe in, but I am going to fight for this continent. I already know the truth, and I know what I have to do,” Silva said.
“You see, that’s the issue. You are still taking information from that fucked-up goddess. You fail to see that all this is her selfish intention.
She wants to use you and dump you, the same way she used the first and tried to use the rest of us as well. We didn’t deserve this. We didn’t want this. All this was forced on us.
Have you never wondered, is it true that we all died in our own timelines? No, some of us were not meant to die, Silva. But to foster her agenda, she made us all die,” Seventh said.
The reality of that thought hit Silva, but he didn’t want to bother with that now. He would think about it later.
“All that doesn’t matter. I have people here that I want to save in this world, and I will fight for them. I’ll go through hell and back to keep them safe.
Even if it means fighting against the demons and the celestials,” Silva said.
“Even as you possess the power to fight against the demons and win, you will not be able to protect them. You have seen Lily’s visions, right? They will come to pass, you know.
We all tried to change it. We all tried to fight it. But at the end of the day, no matter what we did, nothing changed,” Seventh said. He turned around and started walking away.
“Silva, you know that our real parents are still on Earth, mourning their sons, right?” Seventh asked, and then vanished.