The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

148 The true end of an evil god and the squirming Fifteen Evil-breaking Swords

About fifty thousand years ago, Farmaun Gold, a heroic god, had appeared outside the barrier that protected the region enclosed by the Boundary Mountain Range.

Godwin was so astonished upon hearing this that he almost looked up. "What?! Xerx, I've never heard anything about that!"

"Of course you haven't, Godwin. This is something that happened long before you were born," said Xerx.

Seeing Farmaun for the first time since the war between Vida and Alda that had taken place a hundred thousand years ago, the gods who had secluded themselves within the Boundary Mountain Range felt disgust at seeing that he had become a god.

To the gods who served Vida, Farmaun was a comrade in arms who had fought the Demon King Guduranis by their side, but at the same time, an enemy who had started the war alongside Alda, the god of law and fate, and his champion Bellwood. And Farmaun was no ordinary enemy. It was no exaggeration to say that he was a sworn nemesis; no matter how much hatred the gods had for him, it was still not enough.

During the war suddenly started by Alda and his champions, their master Vida had been wounded deeply, the Undead Zakkart defeated and their child, the True Ancestor of the Vampires, also lost his life.

Several gods had been defeated and sealed, and numerous Pure-breed Vampires and ancestors of Vida's other races had been killed as well.

Farmaun himself had mainly been fighting Zantark, so the number of lives that he had actually taken was less than the other champions and Alda himself. But if it weren't for him, Zantark, a powerful fighter, would have been free to move and hold back the other champions. If Farmaun had not appeared as an enemy... If he had been an ally, it might have even been possible to turn the tables on Alda and win the war.

Even if the war couldn't be won, the losses suffered would have been drastically less.

Thus, the gods had felt fear when Farmaun appeared outside the barrier, but at the same time, anger and hatred rose up within them as well. As he hadn't brought any of the other heroic gods or subordinate gods with him, they had even considered deliberately letting him inside the barrier and then focusing all of their effort into defeating him and sealing him away.

But it could be assumed that this was exactly what Farmaun had been hoping for, and the moment the barrier was opened even a little, his hidden allies lying in wait would appear and flood in like an avalanche.

That was why the gods had mustered as much strength as they could and temporarily strengthened the barrier, choosing to devote themselves to defensive action.

"He is a champion who, as a mortal, more than held his own ground against Zantark-sama, the war-god of fire and destruction, in single combat – a tremendous feat, even if you consider that Zantark-sama had just fused with evil gods and could not fully wield his power. By becoming a heroic god, Farmaun's power would possibly have increased, but there was no chance that it had decreased at all," said Xerx, the god of battle flags.

"At the time, the population of every race had increased drastically from the time when we fought against Alda and his servants," said Zanalpadna, the evil god of carapaces and compound eyes, continuing where Xerx had stopped. "But the recovery of us gods from our exhaustion was even more incomplete than it is now. We were in no state to fight him."

"And we couldn't ignore the existence of Bellwood and Nineroad, who were nowhere to be seen... Back then, if we had known that Bellwood had apparently vanished and those on Alda's side were exhausted as well, we might have made a different decision, however," said Rishare.