Your husband?
“Evane looked at the innocent beings standing in front of her in silence.
She could clearly see fear, despair, powerlessness, and agony on their faces, however, along with these expressions, she could also see hope.
Hope that arose the moment they saw her hesitation.
These beings may be weak, but they were perspective, even if they couldn’t hear what Nux and the others were talking about, they could still very well understand what Evane’s expression meant.
These beings continued to stare at Evane, their eyes misty, some even put their children in front of them, as if they were trying to show them off in front of Evane, trying to further appeal to her.
Evane’s eyes flickered.
Then, she slowly turned towards Nux and,
“We should kill them as painlessly as possible.”
It would have been different if it was possible to save them in one way or
another, but if the only way to let them live was to not devour their world…
Then it was a choice between Nux and his goals and saving people she didn’t even know.
The answer wasn’t difficult, especially for someone like Evane, who, when it came to Nux, wasn’t very different from her sisters.
Yes, even the usually kind and helpful elf had a very dark side to her, a side only Nux knew.
“Of course.”
Nux nodded.
He was no demon, he had no intention of torturing people without any reason.
“Their body wouldn’t be able to take the toll of their cultivation bridge collapsing and they would die that instant. Let alone feeling pain, they wouldn’t even realize what happened to them.”
Evane nodded back.
“They will make a last-ditch effort to save
their world and come at us, I wouldn’t be able to respond when that happens, so you all need to guard me.”
Nux spoke.
“The moment they come at you, they are
no longer ‘innocent beings’, they will be enemies.” Evane declared. Taking out her sword as she glanced at the people.
It was that moment when these beings
realized it.
Their last straw of hope had turned her
back on them as well.
Nux closed his eyes and a ridiculously
strong pressure descended onto the world.
“You should already know what to do,
Your fate is inevitable.”
Nux spoke.
He was talking to the World.
And just as he expected, soon, the World’s
Core appeared right in front of him.
The World had given up. It accepted its defeat, it already knew it wasn’t going to
win.
The Black Hole reacted just like it did before, and once again, Nux let it take over.
“The moment the Universe reacts, you all
will enter my shadow.
Shadow, I will leave this up to you, drag
them all inside, forcefully if you have to.”
“Of course! They would have no option! Trust me!”
Shadow Lane spoke with a cheerful smile
on her face.
Nux nodded and the next moment, Black Mist surrounded the World’s Core and,
*Thunder* *Thunder*
*Rumble* *Rumble*
The world trembled in fear.
“Attack them!! Give it your all! For our
children!!!”
“FOR OUR CHILDREN!!”
And just as Nux expected, the moment
these people realized their end was near,
even the weak mortals picked their weapons and rushed towards them.
Of course, all of that was pointless.
Felberta waved her hand, the Power of Genesis worked, creating countless walls in front of those people rushing at them.
Walls they couldn’t break with their meagre power.
“Feels like we are bullying the weak.”
Felberta commented.
“Well, we are doing just that,” Evane
replied.
“Not that it matters.” Felberta shrugged.
The women stood right in front of Nux, not
caring about anything. The Walls Felberta summoned were more than enough to take care of those people.
“So when’s the Universe going to attack?”
Felberta questioned with a curious look on her face.
She wasn’t present when Nux devoured the
previous world, so she didn’t know when exactly everything would happen. She expected Lane to answer her question,
however, when she turned towards the Shadow Demon, she saw her standing with
a deep frown on her face.
“Lane?”
Felberta called out.
“It should have reacted already.”
Lane answered.
“What?”
“Last time it reacted right after the World
did. Nux has already begun devouring the World, the Universe should be extremely
right now.”
“Then why…” Felberta’s frown deepened.
“I do not know.”
Lane shook her head.
“Heh.”
The women had grave expressions on their
faces, they didn’t like how the Universe wasn’t reacting according to their expectations. Shadow Lane, on the other hand, just laughed out loud.
Unlike others, she didn’t seem worried at
all.
“It knows that everything it does is useless,
so it must have given up.”
“What…?”
The women frowned.
“What? Why are you so confused? It
already tried to attack him before, didn’t it? Why would it try to do the same thing again if it didn’t work the first time? As for
trying something else, does it even have any other option?
It cannot even sense Nux’s presence, how
is it supposed to do anything?
It is completely helpless, just like the World
we are devouring.
Didn’t it show its Core without showing any resistance?
The Universe is the same, it is allowing Nux
to devour the World without showing any
resistance because it knows there is
nothing it can do.”
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The women silently glanced at each other. They all wanted to counter Shadow’s
words but no matter how hard they thought, they couldn’t come up with a way
to refute her words.
What Shadow said made complete sense.
An entire World gave in when it was helpless, so why would it be shocking if the Universe does the same?
Why bother using energy and causing
havoc all over the place, even to different, completely unrelated worlds, when it already knows nothing’s going to happen?
The World and the Universe’s Will may not be as intelligent as a complete living being, but they were definitely sentient, they knew how to make decisions, decisions. that would benefit them in the long run.
In this case, the benefit being that the Universe wouldn’t have to spend energy without any reason.
“Heh, my husband is so great that even the
Universe has no choice but to give in when standing against him.”
Shadow Lane declared with a big smile on
her face.
“Your husband?”
Felberta raised her eyebrow. “Hmm? Why are you looking at me like
that?”
Shadow Lane frowned in confusion. “When did Nux become your husband?”
“I am Lane, of course he is m-”
“You are Lane’s Shadow.” Felberta countered.
A counter that didn’t work against Shadow
Lane one bit.
“Yes, exactly. I am Lane’s Shadow. I am part
of Lane.
Every part of Lane belongs to her husband,
I, belong to her husband.
And just like that, her husband, belongs to
me.”
Shadow Lane spoke as if it was the most
obvious thing in the world and Felberta
turned silent.
Once again, she couldn’t refute the woman’s words.
Momentarily, the first wife turned towards
Lane, who was standing right next to Nux in silence.
‘Was Lane’s inner self this good at talking back?’
Felberta couldn’t help but wonder. Just what did this woman normally think
about while the rest of them always went at each other?
Of course, it was a question no one but
Lane would have an answer to.
“Be prepared.”
Suddenly, Lane, who had been silent all this
while, spoke. Felberta frowned, but then,
“AAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
Nux screamed in agony.
*Crack* *Crack*
At the same time, cracks appeared all over
the World Core and the ground itself.
“Enter his Shadow.”
Lane spoke as she entered Nux’s Shadow.
Felberta hesitated, seeing Nux screaming in agony, she didn’t wish to leave her side
but suddenly, she noticed a sort of tentacle coming out of Nux’s Shadow, pulling her
inside without giving her any moment to resist.
“That was easier than expected.”
Shadow Lane’s voice was heard.
Yes, the woman was already doing what
she was told, not giving anyone any chance
to resist.
The Shadow then glanced at Evane,
“I am sure you know what to do, correct?”
She smiled.
Evane nodded hurriedly and jumped into
Nux’s shadow. She had no wish to be
grabbed by those strange-looking ropes
and forcefully pushed in.
Once all the women were inside, Shadow
Lane followed.
*Crack* *Crack* *Crack*
The cracks widened and then, both, the
World and the World’s Core disappeared. Nux’s body, which was surrounded with
Universal Energy, now continued to float in
the Outer Space, unconscious.
Yes, once again, his brain was forced to
shut in because of the large amount of
information that just rushed in. Even now, his brain couldn’t register all of it and once
again, he, in his subconsciousness, saw the
same scene again.
This time, watching the predetermined
history of this new World he devoured and
how it was supposed to last much longer than this.
15 years passed by in an instant, Nux
opened his eyes, slowly adjusting to his body, which had strengthened once again.
As he looked around, he noticed that while
he continued to drift in space, his body had
come to this place covered with asteroids
of different sizes.
Nux raised his eyebrow, taken aback by
how beautiful this scenery was.
“Girls…”
He called them out.
One by one, the women came out.
Then suddenly, Nux’s instincts warned him
of the
danger.
However, it was already too late.
The moment Lane came out,
As the only being the Universe could sense,
And the only being who was always, always
together with the anomaly,
She was targeted.
“LANE!!!!”
