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So this is how it ends.
Feeling a gentle force wrapping around his body and pulling him downward—a feeling closer to sinking into the Abyss utterly helplessly rather than a freefall plunge towards the ground—Ludwig focused his dim gaze toward the sky.
Naturally, he couldn’t accept such an ending… but it was also the ending he had long been prepared for.
He, who had betrayed both the disciple he had taught and the comrades he had fought beside, only to achieve nothing in the end, deserved such bitter emptiness. Accepting his end, he closed his eyes.
Thud!
He landed squarely on his tailbone.
“Agh!”
Ludwig’s eyes snapped open at the pain shooting up his spine. When the pain subsided, his eyes landed on the familiar Ring above him and then on the clouds spread out below.
“The Tower…?”
Wasn’t he supposed to die from that headfirst fall? How had he returned to the summit…? Staring blankly at the unexpected landing site, Ludwig was frozen in confusion until Se-Hoon came over and sat down beside him.
“When someone shines brilliantly in the sky but then falls, it makes it look like they lost. So I brought us back up.”
“I see…. It is something that you would do.”
With a faint chuckle, Ludwig tried to rise but was forced to realize that his body wasn’t working properly. Well, he knew the cause. Ludwig looked down.
“…”
A pure white wound ran across his chest, golden cracks spreading all over his body. Just as expected, his body, or more precisely the projection left behind, had reached its limit after enduring battle upon battle.
The reason I couldn’t feel any actual pain… is most likely because of this wound in my chest.
The golden cracks left by the Golden Ring were surging restlessly, trying to erase him. In contrast, the wound left in his chest by Se-Hoon’s sword remained utterly still… no. It was actively suppressing the Golden Ring’s power so that they had time for one final conversation.
“Is there something you’re curious about?”
“Hm?”
“If that isn’t the case, there is no reason for you to show me such mercy. I don’t know what you would like to ask, but ask whatever you like.”
Thinking it was probably a request for him to pass on everything—the method of controlling the Void, skills related to the Celestial Infinity Blade, even the secrets of the Celestial Infinity Blade—Ludwig waited for Se-Hoon’s last question.
“Even if you tell me that… there’s nothing I’m curious about…” Se-Hoon answered, looking away awkwardly.
“Nothing?”
“Yes.”
“You’re not curious about how to handle the Void or how to use the Celestial Infinity Blade?...
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