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[The Cosmic Throne {Mechanical Librarian} says that it will not stop until you’re completely and absolutely dead.]

“A Constellation, huh?”

SLAAASH!

He moved faster than the Constellation descended into the robot’s reformed body, slicing through the descending cosmic avatar, something that should be utterly impossible for non-Constellations.

But that the crow-faced bastard did without even blinking.

BOOOMMM!!!

“GRUUAAAGH?!”

The Constellation screamed, its entire Cosmic Soul was almost cleaved into two halves, flying away from its avatar and unable to possess it.

“Did you think I was stupid enough to let you do that?”

The Heavenly Demon’s body was slowly regenerating.

One of the effects of his Cursed Seals was slow regeneration over time.

The more the power of Agony and Suffering he used, the more he would recover his wounds too.

It also allowed him to remain alive despite suffering deadly wounds that should be completely lethal against him, in exchange for Ki proportional to the damage being constantly taken by the body.

“Y-YOU DARE…!”

[The Cosmic Throne {Mechanical Librarian} groans furiously, unbefittingly of its title.]

“I can tell you’re groaning furiously; no need to repeat the damn message.”

The Heavenly Demon could see what was in front of him, something that existed between two Dimensional Layers.

Because the Constellation was denied access to its Avatar, but didn’t go back to its original position right away, it had manifested as a “Cosmic Ghost”.

It was a form Constellations took very rarely due to its vulnerability, which was only taken when they were left trapped between the Higher Dimension and the Lower Dimension.

Usually, no person can even see them…

But he could.

“GIVE ME BACK MY AVATAR!”

The Constellation Ghost screamed, its entire form twisting and distorting, with gigantic jaws screaming and many blue and golden eyes glaring at him from every angle.

It was bizarre, as if his own perception of reality was being warped while facing this thing.

“Oh? You mean this?”

The Heavenly Demon smiled; his gigantic black and red axe was swung down, vertically and horizontally, within mere seconds.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

The robot that had just regenerated in front of him was immediately sliced into pieces, exploding and leaving nothing but ashes.

BOOOM!

“Yeah, it was tough, but a piece of junk, even with all the upgrades, is still just a piece of junk at the end.”

“YOU LOWLY BEING!”

The Constellation grew furious, raising its arms into the sky and opening a gigantic portal, where massive mechanical cannons manifested, firing gigantic beams of blue cosmic lasers at the Heavenly Demon.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Heavenly Demon rushed forward, swinging his axe while encompassing himself with Pain.

Yes, pure Pain.

The Pain of his suffering gathered, becoming a tangible red and black mass, wrapping around his body.

His eyes flashed with bright red light as he tried to remember what Anna did before.

“To give form to my Pain like she did… I must also abandon part of my own self-taught doctrine.”

He gritted his teeth.

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“Should I do it?”

The bitter and cold Demon remembered his disciple.

And his adoptive daughter.

Her eyes, full of brightness and hope, of ingenuity and intelligence.

Despite being so different from him, for some reason, he couldn’t help but find a part of him within her.

Was it his former innocence when he was a child, which he recalls even now?

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Or perhaps simply her endless perseverance, which never wavers even before imminent destruction?

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The cosmic laser beams continued chasing him around; he flew around the skies, swinging his axe as he split them apart.

However, each time he did that, his axe gained more cracks; even his Imperial Armament couldn’t hold for too long against direct confrontation with a Constellation.

Until he went beyond his own powers.

His Skills activated, all of them at once.

FLUOSH!

His wings fired countless black feathers, piercing through the mechanical cannons and destroying them, tearing them to shreds.

However, more emerged across the entire sky, emerging from portals that never ceased to appear.

“I won’t let you live!”

The Constellation was set to kill him no matter what.

“For fuck’s sake.”

As he faced hundreds of beams from every angle, he smiled.

“Anna…”

Images of Anna flashed through his mind.

That unruly girl that showed up out of nowhere.

And he fulfilled one of his dreams: to have a disciple that could properly learn his techniques.

The disciple that would one day surpass him.

And also the daughter he never thought he wanted.

“Hue Xian…”

The love of his life, the only woman that ever loved him.

He could recall her face so well, her beautiful body, and her soft, white feathers.

Her smile.

That smile that made him change as a person forever.

“Song…”

His son, the fruit of the love between Hue Xian and him.

A boy so innocent and pure, blessed by heaven.

He oftentimes wondered if he was even someone worthy of such a son.

His brightness and innocence overwhelmed him.

It was as if he felt guilty about everything he had ever done, because now he had a son, a son that would one day learn from his atrocities.

Not even with Hue Xian’s love…

It was because of his son that he began to…

To Regret.

The Path of a Demon is to never walk back, to never Regret.

Yet right now, because Life blessed him with Happiness, he could only Regret.

“I regret.”

He looked at the skies, tears of blood falling from his eyes as the beams hit him.

“I repent.”

BOOOMMM!!!

A demon that walked the monstrous path was engulfed by darkness.

And only death was nice enough to embrace him, after everything.

“No…”

The Heavenly Empress glanced from afar, her foe in shambles before her might, yet it was resilient as well, cosmic powers surging from within it.

“It’s over.”

Her opponent, a small robot with a head resembling the planet Saturn, spoke with the voice of a child mocking her.

Its bronze body glowed brightly beneath the sun.

An aura of bronze colors absorbed all light within its surroundings, weakening her.

Yet she still gave herself the moment to see him.

His end.

“Why did you…?”

She cried, even as she battled.

“You stupid… moron…”

She gritted her teeth, swinging her golden sword.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

“Just why did you…?!”

Yet…

“H-He’s dead… I cannot sense his lifeforce anymore; his soul is also—ugh?!”

The Constellation Ghost in the distance suddenly felt something weird as it glanced at its own ethereal, cosmic body.

There was a massive black hole there, in the middle of it all.

“W-Wha…?!”

The Constellation suddenly felt a dreadful sensation.

Fear.

“When did he…?!”

His eyes widened even more, noticing something shocking.

Yes, a being beyond the dimension, a Constellation, was shocked beyond belief.

A being that has lived hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions of years.

There was now someone, something within that hole.

A black crow, as black as the night.

He had died, yet…

Why was he there?

His body was fully healed, wrapped around with white clothes.

He was no longer holding an axe but a long white staff.

His crimson eyes were calm…

Serene.

His Aura was strange.

White.

It wasn’t even golden, just white.

Pure white.

“Through the path of a demon I repent. And I will continue to do so because I now love, because I now have those I care for… Because I don’t hate the world anymore. They let me see the light. The light of life, the beauty of the world. And I no longer despise it. I will embrace it instead.”

His eyes shone with bright red light as the white aura wrapped around him, his wings spread out, as black as the night, yet wrapped in the gentlest white color.

Even his crown was gone, leaving him very humble looking.

Yet there was something majestic about him.

His staff moved, embodying his Regret.

His immense Regret.

A white void pierced through the Constellation again.

BOOOM!

“GUH?! STOP!”

The Mechanical Librarian summoned his Library, trying to trap the Heavenly Demon inside.

FLAAASH!

All the Heavenly Demon could see were gigantic books made of metal, storing endless data.

Yet his eyes weren’t surprised.

He seemed unfocused on his surroundings.

“PERISH!”

The Mechanical Library summoned hundreds of these “metallic books” around the Heavenly Demon, each one of them firing beams composed of trillions of Terabytes of Data.

Yet…

“I know that I will never make a difference, but I must tell the heavens…”

His eyes blazed with determination.

“That I repent.”

His staff shone brightly.

“{Divine Venerable Imperial Armament}: {Heavenly White Void Staff Of Repentance}!”

TRUUM! TRUUM! TRUUM! TRUUM!

Countless holes appeared through all the “metallic books” as they exploded into pieces one after another.

“W-Wha…?!”

The Constellation was shocked to the core.

“DIE…! JUST DIE!”

He kept attacking him, yet the black crow wrapped in silky white robes continued moving forward.

“The people I killed…”

His footsteps became stronger; his surroundings shattered.

“Those I made suffer…”

He continued moving forward, his path never-ending.

“And those I love…”

His crimson eyes turned white as he faced a Constellation on his own.

He moved his staff dexterously, pointing it at the dimensional being in front of him.

TRUUUM!

The pressure of the staff made even the Constellation’s Domain flicker and grow weaker.

“I-I have to get out of here! It’s not worth it to waste my time and energy anymore!”

The Mechanical Librarian wasn’t foolish; he decided to instantly step out of this.

He tried to fly away, to return to his Dimension!

FLUOSH!

Yet…

“I am sorry.”

BOOOMMM!!!

The staff pierced through the Constellation’s Soul, leaving a gigantic hole through it.

“G-Guuggh?!”

Its countless cosmic eyes glared at the black crown in front of it in utter disbelief and bewilderment!

“I-Impo… ssible…!”

His hands glanced at his soul shattering apart and falling.

“May you rest in peace.”

The Heavenly Demon closed his eyes, clapping once and praying.

“I pray for your forgiveness… You left me no choice.”

“Y-You hypocritical… bastard…!”

The Constellation began falling into pieces, his Story, his entire being, ending in that moment.

“You say you’re sorry? I don’t… believe you…”

FLASH!

The entire Domain dissipated, as the Heavenly Demon was bathed in the fragments of a Constellation, his coronation was finished as a white crown appeared above his black feathered head.

“I truly believed I would die…” He sighed. “The Heavenly Dao, after regretting my past actions, I’ve finally truly understood it.”

His transformation, and everything he went through, was all because of that Enlightenment he achieved by Regretting.

Something he had never considered that he swore he would never do…

He broke that promise and therefore destroyed the “deal” with his Demonic Past.

And opened the path towards a New Future.

“I will continue to carry the Title of the Heavenly Demon, not because of pride, but because it is the responsibility and the blame I must carry to the grave.”

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