Became the Patron of Villains Chapter 605: Direction (7)

A blue star rose.

It was different from Alon’s star.

It was smaller than his.

However, its shape formed a perfect sphere.

And more than anything, it was bright.

Even brighter than Alon’s star.

Woooong—!

And the next moment, the single star that had risen—

Tut—

—went out.

As though a candle flame had been extinguished, in a single instant.

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation was momentarily flustered and bewildered by the situation that had happened far too suddenly.

However, Alon soon realized it.

“!”

That had not vanished.

That was—

‘True Vacuum Line Wave......?’

The instant he thought that, the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation vanished.

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What was heard was the sound of something shattering and being ground apart.

What was seen was the sight of a massive highway forming through the scenery of Peach Blossom Spring that had regenerated once again.

“Penia—?”

For a brief moment, he stared blankly at that sight.

Then Alon soon looked at Penia.

Her appearance was still not much different from when she had emerged from the lotus.

Unlike when she had entered the lotus, her hair had grown so long it reached the floor, and it was still dragging across the ground.

And the Milky Way contained within her eyes, giving off a strange ominousness just like when looking at the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation, still adorned her eyes.

“.......”

......And looking at that Penia, Alon grew tense without realizing it.

Because of the strange ominousness flowing from those eyes.

‘I told you, didn’t I? She isn’t dying. She’ll simply be born again. As a cultivator, that is.’

‘Strength? She’ll already be born as a cultivator and become dozens of times stronger than she is now. On top of that, through Immortal Cultivation, she’ll be able to grow several times faster than a human can.’

‘Lifespan? Even that will increase to a degree humans would find ridiculous. So shouldn’t you be happy instead? Mm—of course, she won’t remember you, and she’ll become a little more violent.’

‘Still, compared to what she gains, it’s a cheap price, isn’t it?’

Recalling the words he had heard from the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation earlier, Alon was about to assume the worst and bring his hand into his clothes.

At that moment, Penia seemed to glance smoothly at Alon with the same expressionless face she had worn when she emerged from the lotus.

“I told you, didn’t I?”

She opened her mouth.

With her voice.

No.

With a voice that was somewhat lively.

And playful as well.

“Not to worry.”

She opened her mouth with a smile.

“......!”

And the moment Alon’s eyes opened wide—

[This makes no sense.]

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation, who had just been helplessly blown away by Penia’s attack, was frowning violently.

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation was looking at Penia with limitless hostility.

[You—what exactly did you do?]

A question burst from her mouth.

No matter how one looked at it, the situation before her eyes itself was strange.

‘She definitely became a cultivator.......’

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation checked Penia again and again.

And as a result, Penia had certainly become a cultivator.

She had not used some shortcut even the Karma seat herself did not know about.

Nor had she forced the lotus open and emerged without fully obtaining the power of Immortal Cultivation.

She had become a cultivator perfectly.

She had obtained the power the lotus was supposed to pass to her.

She had emerged from a human into a cultivator and stood before her.

Resolving in just a few dozen minutes what had taken even the Karma seat herself five days.

[.......]

No, that was not it.

It was not a few dozen minutes.

In actuality, she must have spent longer than a few minutes inside that lotus.

The time inside the lotus was different from the time outside the lotus.

One day inside the lotus was distorted by fifty times compared to the current time.

In other words, one day in reality was fifty days inside the lotus.

And it had taken the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation three days to emerge from inside the lotus.

Inside it, the time it had taken her to accept the power of a cultivator with all her effort and build the basic knowledge needed to receive the transfer of power was one hundred fifty days.

And yet the woman before her eyes had learned and emerged after doing everything that had taken the Karma seat one hundred fifty days.

In only a few days.

......Perfectly.

[Ha.]

A twisted, empty laugh burst from the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation.

It was an absurd talent.

A genius.

No.

A calamity.

When seen as talent for a cultivator, that was the kind of talent she possessed.

However, even so, the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation’s expression showed no sign of relaxing.

In truth, the purpose she possessed had not changed.

To make the Star Eater into a cultivator.

The Karma seat’s goal was to make him, who was sickeningly different from herself, into a cultivator and ultimately watch him twist.

But even so, the Karma seat’s great objective itself had not particularly changed.

In the end, her essential goal was to obtain a “successor.”

A successor who would inherit her ability.

In other words, failing to make the Star Eater into a cultivator was a sorrowful matter, but now that Penia had shown that level of potential, there was no reason for the Karma seat to be enraged.

Yes, if Penia had entered the cultivator’s control as planned.

‘Control isn’t working.’

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation had tried to control Penia from the moment the blue star rose.

The fact that she had emerged from the lotus was something worth being flustered over, but what had to be done had to be done.

But the control did not work.

Even though she had received her power.

Even though, in practical terms, she could be called her “disciple.”

Control did not work.

That was not all.

‘How are her memories and personality intact?’

That was what the Karma seat found most strange.

The moment one entered the lotus, the memories of the one who entered all became fruit.

The moment one entered the lotus, the personality of the one who entered all became a stream.

They became food and water that allowed one to endure inside the lotus.

And yet she was maintaining her memories.

And further, her personality.

[......This is absurd, truly.]

The gaze of the Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation grew cold.

[And it’s pissing me off, too.]

Her hand trembled.

It had been a single step.

A single instant until everything she wanted would be created.

However, in the end, she had failed to obtain what she wanted.

Because of the cultivator standing over there.

The cultivator who would not even obey control.

[I’ll kill you.]

The cultivator’s fan was swung.

Dark clouds gathered, covering the night sky, and cherry blossoms scattered from the Original that was still being maintained.

Tsst—

Cherry blossom petals that cut everything.

[And I’ll just do it again.]

The scenery was cut away.

The trees.

The soil.

The sky.

They were cut away simply by touching the cherry blossoms.

Watching that sight, the Karma seat struggled to maintain her composure.

‘I can just do it again.’

Yes, she could just do it again.

The Karma seat recalled the other subordinate of the Star Eater, the one that idiot had taken away.

If the Star Eater’s subordinate was alive as expected, she could just use that one and attempt it again. While she was thinking that—

[.......]

She felt something strange.

She could not hear the sound of the thunderstorm.

She could not see the scenery of the cherry blossoms cutting everything away.

And she saw it.

“How unfortunate. Thanks to the power you gave me.”

Penia, smiling.

“I can do something similar in this world, too.”

Driving away the thunderstorm and the cherry blossoms.

“Well, it seems I can’t do the Original, though.”

[......You bitch—]

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation’s face twisted like an evil spirit.

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At the same time, the fight began.

[You bitch, I’ll simply kill you.]

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As though the force she had shown until now had been a joke, the world changed as the Karma seat swung her fan.

The earth rose up and blocked Alon’s attack.

The sky spread out and covered her.

The trees vibrated and attacked Alon and Penia.

As if the whole world were helping her, it moved, and between all of it, the monsters of Peach Blossom Spring rushed in endlessly to kill them.

Bang—! Kwa-rururung, bang!

Even if they evaded all of that, the thunderstorm falling from the sky targeted Alon and Penia.

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Lightning of such tremendous size that a single strike was enough to create an enormous crater.

However, even though the Karma seat was clearly giving it her all—

[-!]

The Karma seat of Immortal Cultivation could not overwhelm Alon and Penia.

That was—

Woooong—!

Because of Penia.

The earth that had been about to rise stopped at a gesture from Penia.

The sky that had been covering the Karma seat vanished with a single look from her.

The vibration of the trees fell silent with one light stomp of Penia’s foot.

Because of that, the battle was drawing a parallel line.

It was.

But.

Alon knew.

That this alone was not enough.

‘A way—’

His head, which was not even functioning properly, forced itself to turn and spun in complexity.

Plans to somehow end this situation were drawn and erased again and again.

And just as he was about to reach a conclusion.

“Lord Alon!”

At Penia’s voice, which suddenly reached him, Alon turned his gaze.

There was Penia.

Penia, staring fixedly at Alon.

And the moment he confirmed that.

......The moment he confirmed her intent with only the look in her eyes.

“Reverse Heavens.”

Alon murmured that.

Wooooong—!

Once again, a star rose.

And seeing that.

“Phew—”

Penia let out a breath.

‘Think a little more deeply about the range of the Origin.’

What rose in her mind was Heinkel’s advice.

‘The range of the Origin, deeply.’

Penia’s Origin had a nature different from the original concept.

An Origin basically possessed one’s own independence and originality.

It had no choice but to.

An Origin was the conclusion built up by an individual mage, and without that individual conclusion, an Origin could not be completed.

However, strangely enough, her Origin was “Assimilation.”

Rather than possessing originality, it was something created to imitate something.

Because of that, at first, Penia had not understood Heinkel’s advice.

There was no such thing as depth to an Origin.

An Origin was magic that was independent and original in itself.

Even if that was Assimilation, that did not change.

But only now did she know.

After entering the lotus and emerging.

Ridiculously, at the moment she had devoured her own memories and personality.

She had realized it.

Heinkel.

What she had been talking about was not magic.

It was about the “target.”

The target Penia wanted to imitate.

About “Alon.”

Her Origin was imitation.

However, it was not for imitating someone else.

Her Origin had been created to imitate only one person.

The one she held dear.

The one she loved.

The one she followed.

One single person.

The Star Eater.

It was magic for imitating Alon.

Woooong—!

Beside the white star, a blue star rose.

“.......”

An Origin was the conclusion of a single mage, meant only for that mage.

For that reason, Penia had thought her own Origin was not special.

But that was not true.

Because the endpoint of the originality she possessed in the first place—

Woooooong—!

Had been directed toward Alon.

The blue star multiplied.

One to two.

Two to four.

Four to eight.

Eight to sixteen.

Endlessly.

Continuously.

They multiplied, covering the dark storm clouds.

And.

At last, when the blue stars and the white stars brightly illuminated this world.

“Heavenly Mandate.”

“Heavenly Mandate.”

The phrase was recited in the same voice.

“Hit.”

“Hit.”

The Karma seat, who realized it and opened both eyes wide, covered her body as though it was already too late to block.

“Karmic Retribution.”

“Karmic Retribution.”

The sky covered her flesh.

The earth covered her body.

The monsters of all heaven and earth piled up in layers to block for her, forming a mountain.

And at the final moment.

““Yearning of Return.””

The Karma seat, who opened both eyes wide for a moment while looking at Penia and Alon smiling as though they had been waiting for this, realized.

That their magic was not aimed at her—

[Nooooooooooooooooo────────────!!!!]

—but at the Original.

Third-tier magic.

The original form of Air Buster.

True Vacuum Line Wave.

And,

───the world stopped.