SL:R

Chapter 99

Outer Gods.

Absolute beings who created countless universes since their existence.

ITHARIM

[… At one time, the ‘God‘ of our world was one of them.]

The conversation he had with Beru the other day passed through Suho‘s mind.

The god who created the world to which Earth belongs was also one of the Itharim.

However, there was one thing that even such an absolute existence could never avoid, and that was ‘death‘.

The end was truly devastating.

Rebellion of Angels
The angels who were born as God‘s apostles realized the truth one day that the God they served was neither good nor righteous, but rather, a cruel being who enjoyed creating and destroying.

Realizing that, the angels rebelled against God and succeeded.

[So God died in the end. That too, by the hands of the angels he created.]

The problem started.

A world without God.

Land without an owner.

The vast amount of mana remaining in the world would go to the one who picked it up first.

That was noticed by the outer beings and other Itharims scattered across the faraway dimension.

[From then on, outer beings began to turn their eyes to our world.]

At first, it was a first-come, first-served fight.

The key was who arrived first and planted a flag on that land, no matter who lived there… whatever the Itarim who died there had created.

It was a very simple running race where all you had to do was destroy and eat everyone.

But when they arrived, an unexpected variable awaited them.

That variable is…

[His Majesty, your father.]

The God of that land was dead, but there was a new king there who ruled over death himself.

A fragment of the greatest brilliance, Sung Jinwoo, the Shadow Monarch.

In other words, Suho‘s father led a large army and went out into space to stop Itharim‘s apostles.

… It was the beginning of the ‘War of Outer Gods‘.

[Our war was fiercer than ever, and it lasted without end. Even at this moment.]

No one could predict the outcome of that war.

Their side had an existence that endlessly repeated creation, and our side had an immortal army that would rise again no matter how many died.

No one knew how long that tight balance would last.

It was an endless fight.

[Then, Itharim tried another move to break the balance.]

They took a different approach.

The front line guarded by Sung Jinwoo was so hard that it was impossible to break through, so Itharim decided to turn around and attack the back line.

[… which was Earth.]

In fact, Earth was the most unpleasant area for Itharim.

Compared to other dimensions, the remaining mana power on Earth was too weak, so there was not much to eat.