Hero of Darkness

Chapter 4: The Task

Silence. Total utter silence. It felt as if even a man's heart could not beat at this moment.

Elric's response left both God of Darkness & Kravel speechless. It struck them like an arrow in the throat and both of them seemed to lose their ability to speak & think at the same time.

A few seconds passed away, God of Darkness stared at Elric with a gaze so deep and full of wrath, enough to kill anyone just by looking at them. Suddenly, an extremely horrifying aura exuded out of both God of Darkness & Kravel's bodies.

BANG!

Unimaginably horrendous killing intent filled the surrounding atmosphere and covered a radius of few dozen kilometers. Even diamonds would be reduced to nothing but small granules under this pressure. Elric, the one being who was actually at the receiving end of it all shuddered & his soul form flickered again and again as if his current form was simply getting wiped out of existence and brought back to life. To Elric, it felt like he had gone through thousands of deaths. This pressure he was enduring had destroyed his current form & rebuilt him again in a nanosecond, only to carry out the process indefinitely.

After a minute of such heart wretching scenario, God of Darkness & Kravel finally stopped excluding their killing intent and looked at Elric who was barely keeping up his screams in.. He just didn't get time to open his mouth & scream or wail. To be precise, he had indeed died few thousand times again in that one minute. But an unknown force kept bringing him back to his previous state. Elric had a hint of exactly what this was.. It was the God of Darkness using his powers on Elric after his extremely rude & disrespectful response.

God of Darkness retracted his gaze from Elric, it appeared to become extremely dim compared to before. G.O.D ruled over Death & Infinite Abyss. He was a True God who controlled an aspect of reality.

Then G.O.D gazed at Elric with a look of disappointment and spoke again, "Never had I ever seen such an extremely impetuous human before. Even the other Gods do not dare to talk to me in such a vile & disrespectful manner. Tell me, mortal. What makes you think I really won't wipe you out of existence or torture you for the end of time ?" G.O.D. questioned Elric.

Elric, who had finally gained control over his consciousness looked back at G.O.D and responded, "Then why don't you do it? What makes you think I want to be alive? Just finish the job and end me already!"

submission by making him experience death over few thousand times turned him into a fool? Or

G.O.D. looked at his master as if he

you haven't

startled at this point and refused

I don't want to spend another second

of them looked at Elric as if he just

were suddenly throwing rude comments at him for calling them 'ugly' like little girls? Why was this happening? He

second however, G.O.D. decided to end the

do you not want to live again? Is it because of your past life

a second chance at life just to get used up by someone else again? I mean whatever you want me to do comes with a price which definitely won't be beneficial to me at all. And why

Mortal? Do you not understand the opportunity my Liege

Pick someone else. Why do you even need

can't." G.O.D. finally spoke up. He shook his head

control death & things that have no place in existence. I am a being born out of that very aspect of reality in our world. At most, I can summon the dead souls from other worlds like yours inside this World Boundary and only keep just one of such Souls

at a liar. Not satisfied with his answer at all. But then he looked at Kravel who was standing beside

me to do? You'll at

both G.O.D. & Kravel

"Why?" Elric asked