## Chapter 860 – 860. A Tyrant For You
Having stepped on the moon, I smiled at the white temple before me.
“I’ve come to the right place.”
I walked towards the temple.
I expected something to try and stop me, but there was nothing.
Just before entering the temple, I drew Arondight and held it in my hand. I thought there would be some kind of barrier to block me, but there wasn’t even a barrier.
Step, step.
I walked through the vast temple. The only sound was my footsteps.
And finally, I reached the Celestial God.
The Celestial God was sitting.
He was a handsome man with golden hair and red eyes. He wore only a single white cloth.
“You’ve finally come, my child.”
He looked down at me with languid eyes. His voice was calm as well.
“I don’t like it. I’ve come to kill you.”
“I suppose so. You don’t like being beneath anyone. You must dislike the fact that I am above you.”
I frowned. The Celestial God’s demeanor was not that of someone about to fight.
“Get up. I like your chair, so I’ll kill you and take it. I can’t forgive your blood staining it in the process.”
“I can give you my seat anytime.”
The Celestial God said. I didn’t understand his words. So, I just threw my sword in a fit of temper. Arondight flew and pierced the Celestial God’s shoulder.
“That hurts.”
The Celestial God frowned.
“…What are you plotting?”
I asked.
The Celestial God was a great god. He was the one who regressed the male protagonist of the original story. The reason the Celestial God regressed the male protagonist was because he favored humans. I thought there was one reason he hadn’t intervened. Because he favored humans.
So, I thought he wanted the human empire to unify the continent.
‘…If he knew everything I’ve done, it wouldn’t be strange for him to have intervened a long time ago.’
More humans died by my orders than in the wars with other nations.
After a silence, the Celestial God opened his mouth.
“I am different from the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother has almost no ego. She is as close to a plant as her appearance suggests. But I am different. I think and feel emotions like a human. I have a heart. That heart is now so worn that it barely maintains its shape… I desire annihilation.”
“If you want annihilation, why don’t you just kill yourself?”
“If I kill myself, the world will be affected whether it likes it or not. Just as the land gradually declines as the Earth Mother dies.”
“…So, you’re going to die and have me clean up the mess?”
“That’s right. Originally, I was going to wait until after you died. To let you enjoy your human life. But, you insisted on coming to find me like this. The seat of a god and the power of a god. I’ll give it to you. You can handle it. You are qualified.”
I looked at the Celestial God with distrust.
“Just tell me what you’re plotting.”
“However, there is a condition.”
“I knew it.”
He must have wanted something to come out like this. I nodded to tell him to speak.
“Protect this world. If you use my accumulated power, the world will not perish even without the Earth Mother.”
“Oh? Really? If you’re going to come out so obediently… that’s not bad. Give me the power of a god.”
If I received the power of a god, I would use it as I pleased. I didn’t care if this world perished. After all, my real world wasn’t here. This was just a quest world.
“Swear on everything you have.”
“Swearing is easy.”
I could just swear falsely. There was no one watching here anyway.
But the Celestial God was not as easy as I thought.
A dazzling light flowed from his hand and bound me.
“…What are you doing?”
“As the overseer of the oath, I will stake this world. If you do not keep your oath, this world will perish. You will not be able to enjoy the power of a god.”
I distorted my face.
“Now, swear.”
“I refuse. I was going to go easy… but that’s enough. I’ll kill you and take that power.”
I broke the light that bound me and approached the Celestial God.
“I see.”
I raised my sword and swung it. The Celestial God’s body was cut. Bright red blood gushed out and soaked my body. But the Celestial God’s wound healed immediately.
“I can’t give you the power of a god without any conditions. You will surely use this power to bring the world to ruin.”
“Damn it. I said I’d kill you and take that power.”
I cut off the Celestial God’s head. The Celestial God’s head was about to fall to the floor, but then time seemed to rewind and it was back on his neck.
“I’ve thought of another way. Then, let’s give everyone else a chance instead.”
“What nonsense are you spouting?”
“I know you. You moved not to destroy the world, but to rule it. Even if you did some rather incomprehensible things, in the end, you were an emperor.”
Thud.
I stabbed my sword into the Celestial God’s chest. The Celestial God was calm even as he bled from his mouth.
‘How can I kill this bastard? Aura Blade isn’t working… it’s not that it’s not working. It’s just that his power is so vast that he recovers immediately.’
I quickly realized how to kill him. I just had to make him use up all his power.
“I don’t dislike you.”
The Celestial God said. His voice was warmer. At the same time, I felt a powerful force from the Celestial God’s power. Instinctively, I knew. This was a bit dangerous.
Something was binding my existence.
‘Celestial Heart!’
When I used Celestial Heart, the binding things disappeared. The Celestial God looked surprised, but soon returned to his original expression.
“It was fun watching you. You were more stimulating than any human I’ve ever seen. But sometimes I regretted it. If I had intervened earlier, the world wouldn’t have suffered so much.”
“Damn it. What the hell are you planning to do?!”
“……”
The Celestial God didn’t answer. Instead, he raised his head. In the open ceiling of the temple, a beautiful blue star was visible.
“Farewell, world. It feels so refreshing to let go of everything like this. Well, even if I’m gone, the Earth Mother is still there, so there shouldn’t be any major problems.”
This is dangerous.
The Celestial God’s power filled the surroundings. No, not just the surroundings. That power was reaching out into the universe.
I gritted my teeth. I slashed at the Celestial God’s body with all my might. The Celestial God didn’t dodge.
“Emperor, you are the master of the world.”
A light flashed.
I reflexively raised my arm to cover my face. Something was binding my body. It was trying to take my power. But when I resisted with gritted teeth, it couldn’t take my power. It was probably thanks to Celestial Heart.
Whirl, whirl.
I felt the world swirling.
Was I going to die?
No, if I had died, a death resistance message should have appeared. I wasn’t dead.
‘…Is this also thanks to Celestial Heart?’
But I couldn’t just be optimistic. The effects of Celestial Heart would end soon. I had to find a way.
‘…Damn it. There’s no way.’
As soon as the effects of Celestial Heart ended, I lost consciousness in the vortex of the world.
•••
Flash!
I suddenly regained consciousness. I immediately got up. I was lying on a cheap bed.
“Hiccup!”
It was a maid with brown hair braided into pigtails. A protruding front tooth and an ugly face full of freckles. It was the maid from my memories.
The first maid I encountered when I came to this world. Miranda.
When I saw her, I roughly grasped the situation.
‘The Celestial God. That bastard. He turned back time. Just like he regressed the original protagonist, he regressed me. Did that crazy bastard… think I’d reflect if I regressed?’
I gritted my teeth at the rising annoyance. I wanted to go find the Celestial God and kill him right away. But before that, I checked the most important thing.
[Current Tyrant Score – 129,127,495]
Fortunately, the Tyrant Score was not reset. I could end the game and receive my reward right now.
‘Annoying. I’ll kill that Celestial God bastard.’
Next, I checked my power. The power was there. But it was about half of what it used to be.
‘…I can just get the power of the Holy Grail again. Then I can become stronger. This regression might be more helpful. I can get what I got before again.’
I got out of bed.
I had a feeling that today was the 13th Prince’s coming-of-age ceremony. Well, it didn’t matter if it wasn’t. Nothing would change.
Thud!
When I got up, Miranda collapsed to the floor.
“P-Please, spare me! Your Majesty! Please have mercy…”
I flicked my finger. A blue Aura Blade manifested from my fingertip and cut off Miranda’s head. I opened the closet and put on a black uniform. I summoned Stormbreaker in the form of a longsword in my hand. Unlike the first time, there was no need to make it into armor. No one in the empire could stop me.
I stopped as I was about to go outside.
‘…Just now, that woman. Didn’t she call me Your Majesty?’
I had become so used to the title that I just passed it by.
‘…Well, whatever.’
I walked down the hallway. I remembered encountering a few people at first. I killed them all without question back then. But now, no one was visible. I could sense a few hiding with my senses. I didn’t bother to find them and kill them.
I headed to the Great Hall. Seeing more royal knights than usual, it seemed that it was indeed the 13th Prince’s coming-of-age ceremony.
“Get out of the way.”
I said it as a formality. I knew they wouldn’t move anyway. But what happened next was different from what I expected.
The royal knights made a path to the Great Hall. And they knelt on one knee respectfully.
“We greet the great Emperor!”
The royal knights shouted loudly.
I walked down the path they had made.
“……Indeed.”
The Miranda I killed earlier called me Your Majesty, and these people also called me Your Majesty and submitted. It was impossible not to know if it had come this far.
The Celestial God had regressed the world and given everyone the memories of before the regression.
And they knew that I had the memories and power from before the regression. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been so submissive and would have tried to kill me right away.
I approached the entrance of the Great Hall. Two royal knights bowed to me and opened the doors of the Great Hall.
“His Majesty the Emperor enters!!”
The doors opened and the scene inside came into view. All the nobles were kneeling and bowing their heads towards me. The royal family was no exception. Everyone I had killed couldn’t even dare to make eye contact and were kneeling, bowing their heads, and trembling.
After looking around once, I walked down the red carpet leading to the throne.
The court orchestra played a lively song that I liked, even though I hadn’t ordered them to. They had also regressed.
Two people were arguing on the throne. The former emperor and the captain of the royal knights.
“H-How dare you! Let go! He’s coming! The Holy Grail! He must eat the Holy Grail! If I only get the power of the Holy Grail…! That damned traitor will never ascend to the throne!”
“Your Majesty! The Holy Grail is His Majesty’s property! His Majesty is coming! Quickly kneel and bow! Beg His Majesty for mercy!”
“D-Don’t be ridiculous, Captain of the Royal Knights! I am different from you! He will kill me! Even if I submit, he won’t spare me!!”
The former emperor was trying to get the Holy Grail hidden in the throne, and the captain of the royal knights was desperately stopping him. The former emperor, who was weak, couldn’t break through the captain of the royal knights. No one, not even his wife and children, helped the former emperor.
And finally. I arrived at the throne.
“Heeeeeek! S-Son! I’ll give you the throne. So please. Please spare me…!”
“There is only one emperor in this country. I will begin the succession to the throne, Father.”
He was the one who dared to covet my Holy Grail.
And even if he hadn’t, I had no intention of sparing him at all.
I grabbed the former emperor’s shoulder and stabbed my sword into his chest.
“Kuh-eok!”
The dead former emperor’s body rolled off the throne and fell to the floor.
I took out the Holy Grail hidden in the throne. The Holy Grail was full of a sacred liquid.
Gulp, gulp.
I took the power of the Holy Grail.
The power of the second Holy Grail.
I could sense it. I was stronger now than before the regression.
I sat on the throne. I felt a familiar comfort.
“Morgana. Show yourself.”
“Hehehe.”
Morgana appeared next to the throne. I wasn’t surprised. I had known from the moment I entered the Great Hall. Wearing a black dress, she put her hand on my shoulder with a seductive smile.
“It’s nice to see you again like this?”
“Cut the crap and explain.”
“It’s as you see. The world has regressed. As you guessed, I have my memories from before the regression. And this time, as I regressed, other memories entered my head.”
“Other memories?”
“The Celestial God’s memories. The Celestial God’s memories of your actions. Everyone in this world knows what you did, what you ruled. You unified the continent, killed the Dragon Lord, violated the World Tree, and received the Celestial God’s recognition. Having received those memories, who would dare to rebel against you? Everyone is thinking of submitting to you.”
Morgana whispered in my ear.
After all, you are human. You will die someday.
That’s right.
I was still human. Even if I took the power of the Holy Grail, I would only live for about 200 years.
Someday I would die. And so, the others chose to submit. They decided to bow their heads only while I was alive. For them, my dying of natural causes was their only hope.
“……”
I was lost in thought while listening to the music. All the kneeling people were just watching my every move.
Then, the outside of the Great Hall became noisy.
I felt a huge presence.
“…Did they come to kill me.”
I took Stormbreaker and went outside the Great Hall.
There were generals, ministers, high priests, knights, and soldiers. As soon as they saw me, they knelt on the floor.
“We greet the great Emperor!”
It wasn’t just them.
The Dwarf King, the King of the Winged Ones, the King of the Giants, the Sultan, the King of Grand, and the Elf Queen. The leaders of each country knelt before me.
“We greet the great Emperor!!!”
“……”
I looked up at the sky. There were dragons. The ones who brought the leaders of each country must have been them.
Thud.
The dragons landed in front of the imperial palace. They fell in human form, and they all knelt and bowed their heads. Then, representing them, the Dragon Lord spoke.
“We greet the true master of this world, Your Majesty.”
I slowly looked around. Even Morgana was kneeling and bowing her head to me. The only person standing on two feet here was me.
“…Ha.”
I curled up the corners of my mouth.
