Tensura What If: Silver Timeline (Draft)

Chapter 82 - End of Memory

Huh? I can still feel myself. Am I dead?

<<Negative.>>

Oh, that's good at least. I wonder where I am right now though...

I can't move.

I can't even use Magic Sense.

How am I even alive?

<<After a long process, I managed to revive Master.>>

Oh, thanks, Great Sage, you sa—WAIT A MINUTE!

Revive? Me?! So I did die!

Eh, wait!

......

Thanks, Great Sage, sorry for panicking.

<<No problem, Master.>>

Master, huh? You seem more fluent in talking, don't you, Great Sage?

<<I have actually evolved into the Ultimate Skill: Raphael, Lord of Wisdom.>>

Ultimate skill? Wow, you must have become really smart to have the name of an angel, Lord of Wisdom. I guess that's how you managed to revive me?

<<Yes, with all of the chaos and remains of both souls and corpses in the surroundings, I managed to evolve Master into a Demon Lord. More specifically, a True Demon Lord like Demon Lord Milim, and not like Demon Lord Carion, who is a Demon Lord seed.>>

Oh! I evolved into a Demon Lord? Maybe this time I won't have a hard time fighting the emp—

THE EMPIRE!

Are they(Tempest) safe? What happened after I died, Raphael-san?

<<Unfortunately, I was unable to sense the surroundings for the first few days. By then, the land was quiet and filled merely with corpses that I consumed using Gluttony.>>

Ah...

It took a while, but eventually, I managed to move. Activating Magic Sense or as Raphael-sensei calls it Universal Sense, I saw a post-battlefield landscape. It was different; instead of explosion marks and craters, the area was littered with glass fragments, as if lightning had struck continuously.

<<The Storm Dragon Veldora died with Master and revived at the spot where Master died. It seems Veldora went on a rampage against the Empire's army due to your death.>>

Taking on my human form, I knelt down and held one of the glass fragments. "So Veldora got angry for me? That kinda makes me happy," I said with a small smile. Then I turned toward where Tempest should be. "Let's hope..."

Using transport magic, I managed to go directly to Tempest... or what it used to be. The place was... ruined. The buildings, the roads, everything was destroyed.

"Raphael-sensei, any survivors?"

<<No life signs detected; however, most corpses consist of Empire soldiers, Tempest soldiers, and some Western soldiers. It can be concluded that the Tempest army was retreating from the area. The Western corpses appear more recent, suggesting the Western nations moved forward to fight the East after Tempest fell.>>

I see...

The death of my people—I'd already seen many of them die on the battlefield, but it still hurt to see them lying there, especially when I knew they were retreating. The direction seems to be Eurazania. Let's visit Carion later.

As I contemplated this, I strolled through the wrecked streets of Tempest. Barely any buildings or structures were standing. I remembered where each building stood, where the stalls were, and where the posts were. Everything...