“What are you saying that you know?”


  “What I want is victory. What I enjoy is victory.”


  The “I” he was talking about was himself and therefore Sungjin.

  “I’ll try to make myself the best. That’s my life.” He spoke as if Sungjin himself was speaking.

  “That thirst won’t go away even if you earn a country or a continent. Rather, it wouldn’t have been enough.”


  “.……” Sungjin didn’t reply to the dark Sungjin. That was truly “himself.”


  “Your teammates’ power? Can they use it better than you can? No way.”


  That was also what Sungjin had thought. That was what his brain had already analyzed. Even if they had the same power, the truth was that he could use his “teammates’” power better than they could.

  That was why he earned the title of a commander of exchanging ‘power’ and ‘skill’.

  And the ascendance of his defeated allies’ powers.

  Even if they had the same power, it was a skill that suited him the most.

  “So why did you abandon the chance to become stronger by taking care of those weak beings?”


  “Don’t look down on my teammates.”


  “Humiliation? That’s only an analysis.”


  “Kuk.”


  “If you chose ‘women’ before ‘strength,’ I would have accepted that. It’s a part of celebrating, taking women as your pleasure.”


  “My teammates are not the prize of my victories. Don’t mock them!”


  “Ha, things like women? What I really can’t understand is……” The dark Sungjin aimed at Sungjin’s throat. “That your actions are not truly your ‘desire.’ You have the same greed as I do. If you have the same greed, then why don’t you get strength for the better good?”


  “This isn’t an act of a samaritan.”


  “Are you saying that you aren’t lying when you say your true desire is not what you earn? You are me. I know what you really want.”


  “Don’t talk without knowing anything!”


  At his strong words, the dark Sungjin laughed. “To think you would lose your rationality at this kind of provocation. Seems like I was right.”


  “Kuk.”


  “If you were honest, we would have become one already. But you, who cannot be honest to yourself, cannot possibly be my opponent.”


  With that, the dark Sungjin pierced Sungjin’s heart with his sword.

  Kuk, d*mn it……

  He didn’t even have two swords.

  Speed. Strength. Even the level was different. With those things, he could have fought even the most difficult of opponents. He could defeat others with his special brain and difference in specs, but against a person who had the same ability as him…… the sword in his chest told him everything.

  “Realize your place. Then I’ll absorb you.”


  Sungjin hadn’t attained the powers he could have gained. He did not sacrifice Ereka. He denied all opportunities to gain power. He protected his special ones. He protected others than himself.

  That was why…… the result was……

  “You’re weaker than I, who chose to be stronger.”


  The Dusk Bringer cut off Sungjin’s head.

  “The second fight has also ended in the victory of the Valhalla of darkness,” the two crows of Odin announced.

  “What is left is the last true fight. Everything begins from hereon.”


  “But the result has already been decided.”


  “The strong will win.”


  “The weak will fall.”


  “May a new god emerge from the merging of two souls.”


  And the two vanished into the skies.