Requiem Of A Failed Hero

[I have been conducting a lot of researches based on your past relationship with the abyss]

[I must say, you are one hell of an oddball]

Her monotonous voice sounded a bit lively than usual.

"Eh? Why did you say that."

[Just as you suspected. The dark sea was a corruption left by the abyss]

[After I finished my analysis. I came to this conclusion]

A slight frown creased on Raith's face as sage's monotonous voice continued.

[The dark sea must be destroyed]

[However, if not done right this could cause overwhelming damages to your soul]

[If care is not taken. Perhaps you could die]

"So what do you think I should do in order to increase the chances of this not failing"

[Our best shot is using the error code of greed]

"That? Isn't it something that was just supposed to help me negate the influence of the abyss to a certain extent… now that I remember it didn't do shit. It was all a lie. That darned abyss"

[The error code can be used to interfere with fundamental laws of nature. The degree of interference however is based on one's authority of sin. Also your sphere of influence is greatly determined by the sin you rule]

"Oh oh… this is sounding interesting"contemporary romance

Raith rubbed his chin as he acknowledged.

"So, in order to break this place I have to use the error code."

He raised his head.

"You probably know what my next question is…"

[The error code should be the easiest thing for a ruler to use. Don't ask me that!]

Raith almost felt offended by her response. She sounded irritated of some sort. Letting out a helpless sigh, he straightened and took in the still expanse.

"What about them?"

He intoned, looking at the red and blue birds that were nervously peeking at him from behind the rock.

[They will be fine…]

[...whatever it is that will happen. I think it is important that they become part of it]

Raith sighed and closed his eyes. He stretched one hand forward and opened them slowly.

His eyes glimmered with an ethereal glow. On the surface of his eyeballs an error code was written succinctly.

Following that, from behind him, a flood of white tore into the veil of the darkness, shrouding everything in a subtle glow. The water gently reflected the tear in its dark skies. At first that was what it looked like.

A minute later, a large tsunami suddenly rose in protest of the impending destruction. It stretched into the sky, almost colluding with it and rolled forward like a colossal wheel of demolition.

Raith was taken aback, his eyes frozen before the overwhelming visage of turmoil approoaching him. Was this the reason why Sage had mentioned that it could destroy my soul?

The walls of blackness here and there began to shudder, losing its thickness and rippling like properties of water.

Raith frowned and clenched his fist. For the first time he could feel it like he was feeling his eyes, his hand, his legs. He could vividly touch the power of greed.

It made him want to have everything for himself, it made him want to destroy this plane leaving not a trace of the tremendous power it emitted to escape.

Raith grinned widely.

"I recognize it. Bastard abyss… bet you never knew that I would get to this point"

Raith stretched forth his two arms, was he was trying to stop the coming waves of liquidated destruction with his bare hands?

The glow on his eyes began to get brighter by every fraction of second. Raith's focus was scary, his eyes did not shake… despite the fact that the wave of water rolled towards him like a wraith that has been driven into the very core of madness and fear.

As the waves closed in on him, Raith suddenly clawed his hand. He plunged it into the water and pulled it out half a second after. The raging wave froze and dissolved.

Flood of ethereal light easily bathed everywhere, submerging Raith's soul in a radiant glow of change. Slowly, Raith's soul began to reveal its true form.

But Raith was not focused on what was happening around him. He slowly opened his hand with a deep frowned. He had managed to pluck something out of the waves…

…it was... black ...and oval?

Raith had a suspicion of what it was. It looked exactly like the seed of greed, but far darker and larger.

"This bastard planted its seed in me?"

The abyss never planned on leaving him alone. If Raith had not discovered the seed and continued to foster the dark sea, without his knowledge the seed would have been growing, using his own strength as a means. Then it would sprout and the abyss would return.

Maybe with an even stronger influence than before.

The thought of it made him shudder. This primordial is the worst. Seriously, he was going to kill it, he would not rest until he did. With how much he had suffered? Nah, I'm not letting that bastard off the hook. Now, that he had vanquished the seed of the abyss…

"What do I do with it…"

Raith suddenly heard a slurping sound.

He squinted his eyes for a couple of seconds, staying silent to be sure he heard right.

The sound came again… from behind him. Raith hopped to the front in a scare, hands folded to a fist and ready to pummel a blow into what it was.

To his surprise… it didn't seem harmful.

This thing in front of him. Strangely, this was the first time both of them were meeting but he knew it so well. On the first glance, he undoubtedly knew what it was.

It was a small mass of darkness two red hollow glow burning in its center. For one, it seemed unstable but alive. Another thing Raith noticed was a set fine white teeth and tongue, both feature very humanlike.

His eyes was calmly focused on the mass of darkness.

Raith cautiously looked at the mass of darkness. The thing's attention was undoubtedly fixed on what was in his hand. It was voraciously staring at it while floating.

"Greed?"

It's burning red eyes shifted course, so did its whole body. They were now looking at Raith.

'Damn… it actually is greed. What is the seed doing here, why is it like this?'

This was the seed he spent so much effort trying plant in his soul. The seed of greed. Because of what it was, there was an explicit familiarity between the two of them.

Did it finally sprout? Come to think of it... while he was expunging the dark see, it rather felt like he was feeding it to something else.

Did the seed gain enough growth energy from the expunged darkness… and now it's hungry for more?

Raith looked at the thing in his hand. He didn't have a use for it anyway. He stretched it forward and ….

The mass of darkness swiped it off his hand immediately, gulping it down its cloudy mouth. Strange, it didn't fall off.

'Where did it go?' Raith wondered, looking under the thing.

Greed let off a satisfying belge as it digested the black seed. A second later the mass of darkness began to shiver, the red hollow blaze that served as its eyes dimmed and was almost giving out.

But slowly, its cloudy body thinking into a glossy darkness witn white stripes running over it. It's eyes was now red with a definite form like ruby. It's teeth even whiter and tongue maroon.

"....okay… what is happening here?"

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