TOMWDET Chapter 221

Final Chapter (13)

Su Li was supported by Bartholomew and stood steadily upright.

Unlike Matilda who had actively rushed forward, many of the monster beasts and humans now showed expressions of lingering fear.

They were afraid that Su Li would die right here.

Different from the hostile remarks they had spoken against Him, the reality was even more extreme than those extreme emotions.

Few humans and monster beasts could accept Su Li’s death.

Even someone like Egbert had once thought that if Su Li died here, it would be better to let this world be destroyed directly.

The heavy rain continued to fall, and the fog-filled environment made everything before their eyes hazy.

Though it was clearly the period gradually turning toward summer, the continuous rainfall made people feel a chill that penetrated deep into their bones.

Su Li casually wiped away the rainwater from his face, and the raindrops falling from his sleeves also silently merged into the ground.

In the distance, Matilda, who was clearly outmatched, had sustained numerous wounds from the world consciousness’s attacks that appeared dull and insensitive but were actually sharp enough to tear flesh, leaving her in a wretched state.

Since having memories, whether during her human phase or after becoming a transformed monster beast, Matilda had never been this wretched.

Utterly powerless.

The world consciousness was like a dying monster’s final counterattack. Facing the opponent who had suddenly appeared before it, every move and technique was lethal.

The thick smell of blood emanated from her body, and Matilda felt darkness creeping over her vision.

Would she die?

Before she could think of an answer to this question, Matilda first saw water droplets appearing behind the world consciousness.

Those droplets, different from elementally-created water yet indistinguishable from rainwater, swayed behind Him.

What had happened?

Or rather, what would happen?

This question still had no answer. When Su Li stood firm and others confirmed he was safe without obvious injuries, all their various emotions transformed into aggression toward the world consciousness.

The Ji Xings were completely taken over by Castor leading those humans who controlled the mobile elemental cannons.

And the world consciousness directly faced various people and monster beasts who had strong opinions against Him.

An opponent who already had weaknesses.

And behind them stood Su Li, whom they cared for and believed in.

This battle absolutely would not be lost!

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Unable to look away.

Su Li watched those people and monster beasts who showed no signs of retreat, unable to even focus his attention on the world consciousness.

It had nothing to do with the sheltered’s admiration for their protector.

Su Li suddenly felt that this world had always been very real.

Matilda had fallen, and the wound on the world consciousness’s chest continued to expand due to the excessive elemental power output during battle.

Bartholomew took over.

From what Su Li knew, the unicorn had recently been elected as the new king of the Beast Tribe.

Bartholomew had said before that humans actually could not accept the existence of transformed monster beasts.

So transformed monster beasts would eventually be a race that would perish in the tide of time.

Bartholomew had no particular sense of responsibility toward the Beast Tribe, but he still hoped that those other Beast Tribe members who lived lost in the death rules established by the death-craving Clemens could embrace themselves again.

The unicorn wanted to abolish the various unreasonable rules that Clemens had once established.

He had also envisioned that after ending this battle, he could still negotiate with humans as a monster beast.

At least he wanted to obtain from humans the opportunity for Beast Tribe monster beasts to become human again.

Monster beasts, no matter how similar they were to humans in Su Li’s broad definition, were no longer human.

To survive, to make imagined possibilities reality.

Bartholomew wanted to make Beast Tribe monster beasts like Ido become so-called humans with partial monster beast characteristics and long lifespans.

But…

It was so difficult.

Every elemental attack was blocked.

Every move seemed to be physically seen through.

Even when attacks hit, they could not cause obvious damage.

The only hope was that the wound at His chest was growing larger.

But what had caused that wound?

And would that continuously deepening injury affect Su Li, who had created such a wound?

They didn’t know.

The more they fought, the more remote the possibility of victory seemed.

Those post-war plans also echoed in their minds like flags destined to fall.

Until he also saw that power merging into the rainwater…

What were elements?

Water, fire, wind, light, darkness.

They were also what constituted this world.

If there was anything abnormal about this world, the only exception was Su Li.

He was like a bug.

His soul was fundamentally incompatible with this world, yet had been forcibly stuffed into an “NPC’s” body. This caused his soul to exist in this world while continuously rejecting the world’s essence – the so-called elements.

This rejection was crystal clear.

But crystal clear, regardless of its meaning, essentially meant the potential difference between the Jing River and Wei River wouldn’t be too great.

Otherwise, one side would always be broken through, leading to forced fusion.

Su Li had never integrated into this world, but he had always influenced the people of this world.

There was no need to discuss any lofty ideological arguments – the scene before them of humans and monster beasts jointly opposing the world consciousness was already completely different from this world’s essence.

Admittedly, in broad terms, the world consciousness was merely a “human” who had lived longer and possessed greater power.

But in fact, He was still this world’s consciousness entity.

What He denied, what He could not understand, what He could not accept, would spontaneously be rejected and would spontaneously converge toward Su Li.

That unique “power” had always been gathering toward Su Li, who never merged with the elements.

The soul, a soul from another world, the deepest consciousness, was the unparalleled treasure.

Just as he denied “the correctness of the world consciousness’s existence,” just as he rejected “elements.”

The so-called world consciousness, on the consciousness level, was merely on the same tier as Su Li.

Perhaps even slightly lower—

“I deny the correctness of your slaughter of humans.”

Tangible water, drop by drop, suspended in mid-air. The platinum-haired youth’s lips were somewhat pale from the rain, but his spoken words were firm and powerful, without any ambiguity.

“I decline your attempt to drag me to die with you.”

The dark clouds in the sky changed rapidly. The thick cloud layer that had originally seemed to cover the entire world disappeared bit by bit, as if brushed away by an invisible giant hand.

Sunlight penetrated the not-yet-completely-dissipated clouds, and the scorching, eye-piercing sunlight shot down directly, making the countless water droplets suspended in the air shimmer.

Su Li stood there as if completely isolated from the entire battlefield. That beautiful platinum hair color was blindingly bright under the sunlight. The fighting people and monster beasts, and even those Ji Xings, though not completely disengaged from battle, couldn’t help but repeatedly glance at him.

Su Li stood upright there. The noon sunlight condensed a small shadow beneath him, his eyelashes cast shadows above his eyeballs, and the youth gazed at Him…

As if also gazing at another world unrelated to himself.

Su Li said calmly:

“I refuse your continued survival—“

Rainwater fell, and the distant figure that had created countless injuries also gradually collapsed, turning into fluorescent light.

The enlarged version of “Su Li” still seemed to have that expression of surprise close at hand.

The countless Ji Xings created to kill humans also became like data after a computer hard drive was completely damaged.

No wind stirred, no clouds surged.

Just in an instant…

Nothing remained.

No one should have seen a world’s destruction.

What Su Li could imagine of a world’s death was only the neither gentle nor cruel shutdown of a game server.

But when the consciousness representing a world died, what Su Li – who was in this world but not equivalent to being from this world – could see was not the entire world extinguishing along with it.

Instead—

The sun continued to shine as always, and several monster beasts who hadn’t yet reacted splashed muddy water when they stepped into small puddles on the ground.

Humans’ faces retained bewilderment and shock. Those who hadn’t used elements to regulate their body temperature even had unconsciously produced sweat on their foreheads.

“What… happened?” Egbert’s throat was blocked as if stuffed with a handful of sand.

The world consciousness’s disappearance only showed clear manifestation when Su Li’s words fell.

And after He completely disappeared, Su Li…

Was also disappearing.

“What happened! Where are you injured? What should I do? Do healing potions work on you! Or should you eat some food?! You…” Chaotic and anxious emotions instantly made Lan Zhe take out numerous items from his alchemy storage ring.

He rushed quickly to Su Li’s side but appeared at a complete loss.

Lan Zhe tried to reach out and gather those gradually fluorescing photons, but could only despairingly feel Su Li’s body dissipating even faster.

Leia, who had finally returned to the ground, also looked at the scene before him in disbelief.

“…What’s going on?”

“Probably because I rejected this world.” Su Li’s lips curved into a shallow arc.

“To deny that kind of fellow, to refuse Him, the prerequisite is to first deny your own existence… is that right?” Egbert’s eyes carried pleading, hoping desperately that Su Li could give a negative answer.

But the result he received was only the youth’s gentle nod.

Su Li and the Ji Xings – “Su Li” was the exclusive name belonging to Su Li as an individual, while Ji Xings were the unified designation for the body that Su Li used, like copy-and-paste duplicates.

When the Ji Xing group was destroyed, “Su Li” likewise could not continue to exist.

Although His so-called demand for Su Li to die together with him essentially wanted Su Li’s soul to perish with him.

But the body…

Su Li looked down at his gradually disappearing body, pondered for a while, and finally confirmed that he truly felt nothing.

He could even think quite composedly about whether this was what it felt like when a game account was deleted.

No danger.

Nor did he feel that ahead lay some irreversible, inescapable death.

What Su Li felt was only that kind of calm, peace, and warmth like clear skies after rain.

Besides that, perhaps there was also a trace of guilt.

Speaking with hindsight, it would probably be: if he had known early on that it would be like this, then he should…

Not get close to everyone?

No…

The correct answer was that if he had known the future very early on, Su Li would only have left his last words in advance.

For example—

Su Li tilted his head and, when his body had already disappeared up to his head, slowly said:

“—Actually, it’s not over yet. You can consider now as the epilogue before rebirth.”