章 78: Desperate Decision

Tofesh disappeared after that, and Yale's mind returned to his body. Then, he took the sword from the altar wielding it.

The barrier surrounding the altar disappeared when the sword was removed as the sword was the true core of the barrier.

Yale didn't wait for the shocked expressions of the others to fade. He rushed towards Heruk and attacked him with his recently acquired sword.

Heruk managed to evade Yale's attack, but he wasn't able to avoid having severe injuries like before. After all, Yale's sword was the best weapon created by the founder of the Tofesh Clan, who had a reputation that even reached other worlds.

Although the sword didn't manage to hit Heruk directly, he couldn't avoid being injured. A person just at the 3-star Mortal Rank wasn't able to fight against that kind of sword.

Even if Yale had never wielded a sword before, by using such a powerful weapon, he would still be able to beat Heruk. However, Yale didn't only wield that sword, but he was also at the expert stage in swordsmanship, so he turned into a fearsome existence.

Of course, that could only apply inside the Special Realm because Yale noticed that the sword needed the power of the Laws of Time and Space to be used in full power, and Yale was only able to control them inside the Special Realm due to their density. Yale didn't have affinity nor experience with the space element, but wielding the sword, he was able to barely use it, although he still relied mainly on the Time Law.

If everyone could freely use such powerful weapons, all the kids in the noble clans would have a top-rank weapon with them. Even though the current top-rank weapons from the Tofesh Clan couldn't compare to the best piece its founder made in his life, those weapons would be enough to boost the power of the kids a lot.

However, such weapons wouldn't be correctly used by the kids and could become more burden than help.

Furthermore, the best weapons had the right to choose their owners, and the chances of a normal noble kid being selected by a weapon were scarce.

When Yale had crossed the barrier and wielded the altar's sword, everyone thought that the sword had chosen Yale.

They didn't know that Yale's past life took part in the creation of the sword and that since the moment the sword was created, the only one capable of using it was Yale's soul. Anyone without Yale's soul would be unable to use the sword. It wouldn't cause only the loss of all the power the sword had, but it would also become incredibly heavy.

Soul-bounded weapons could only be used by those who bound it in the moment of their creation. Of course, as long it was the same soul, even after reincarnation, the weapon would remember its owner, and if the owner's soul dissipated, the weapon wouldn't have another master in all the eternity.

The crafter of the sword would be the only one aside from the owner capable of carrying the sword without suffering the rebound. That was the main reason Tofesh was the best person to take care of the sword. However, even for the one who created it, wielding that weapon would be impossible.

Tofesh had thought of killing himself with it despite not having enough resolution in the end, but he didn't need to wield the sword for that purpose. The weapon was mighty enough to kill someone even if no one was wielding it.

Evidently, that was only under the premise that the one who would be killed had stabbed himself without opposing resistance.

After Yale's previous attack, Heruk was utterly scared of him.

Before, Yale was already capable of threatening his life, but after obtaining the altar's sword, Yale seemed a Death God in Heruk's eyes.

At that moment, Heruk made a desperate decision. He decided to advance to the 4-star Mortal Rank despite being forbidden inside the Special Realm.

He had been at the peak of both paths for a long time, but he wanted to focus more on all his skills before advancing, so he could reach what he called the perfection of the level. However, in the face of certain death, he chose to advance his level disregarding everything else.

Just as Heruk advanced towards the 4-star Mortal Rank, the Special Realm started to tremble. It had already lost its core when Yale obtained the altar's sword, and after Heruk broke its rules, the Special Realm chose the roughest method of punishment. The Special Realm's self-destruction killing everyone who was inside.

The Special Realm's true objective was to pass back the altar's sword to Yale. All the other things in the Special Realm were only a cover to fool any third party that discovered it.

As the primary objective had been accomplished and an unwanted intruder dared to break the rules of the realm, there weren't more reasons for the Special Realm's existence, and self-destructing was the best method to ensure the intruders died.

Because Yale was wielding the Special Realm's core, he was able to sense that the self-destruction had started.

"System, is there a way to stop the Special Realm's self-destruction? Maybe by killing Heruk?"

His past life created the system, and his past life had a relationship with both the sword and the Special Realm. Since he was already sure of that, he also believed that the system should have a solution to the current problem.

[As the owner of the realm's core, the user won't be affected by the self-destruction, but there isn't any way to stop it until all the people inside the Special Realm considered intruders have been exterminated. Killing the one who has broken the rules will only slow the process of self-destructing.]

Yale didn't like that reply, he already felt that with the sword the realm stopped having any danger to him without the need of the system telling him, but he wanted a method to save his friends.

"Die!"

Heruk attacked Yale madly. He thought that after advancing, his power would be more than enough to deal with Yale with a sneak attack.

Yale sighed and swung his sword four times, cutting Heruk's four limbs in a second, that increase in level didn't mean anything to the vast difference of power they had after Yale recovered his past life's sword.

Heruk fell to the ground, powerless, crying due to the pain. His attempts to sneak attacking Yale to kill him had only resulted in his own defeat losing all his limbs.

"You are the most despicable person I met in my life. You can sacrifice your teammates without thinking, enjoying torturing your opponents, and scheming to kill those you dislike instead of battling with your own power. Now you have provoked the Special Realm's self-destruction due to being unable to respect the rules of this place. Your chances of surviving are zero even if I don't kill you, and anyone would be glad to kill you before the Special Realm did the work."

Yale's voice was infused with a cold murdering intent. Moreover, it was true that even Heruk's teammates wanted to kill him due to the disaster he provoked, no one felt pity when Yale cut all of his limbs.

"That's good! I will die, but you all will die with me! So, what if I die a little before you all? Less suffering to me!"

Heruk started to laugh like a madman. He really didn't mind about anyone who wasn't himself. Even dying, he still felt that his death would be better than the death of the others.

"You won't simply die. Your soul will be cursed for all the eternity. It will be suffering without end until your soul dissipated forever."

As Yale said those words, he cut Heruk's head, without waiting for the latter's reply.

Yale didn't like torturing his opponents personally. Enjoying the suffering of others wasn't part of his personality. Knowing the fate that Heruk's soul would have was enough revenge for him. That was the worst fate possible, Heruk wouldn't rest in peace until his soul was entirely erased.

Moreover, since killing Heruk would slow down the realm's self-destruction, he didn't want to lose more time and killed him quickly.

Yale could feel that the sword cursed Heruk, although he wasn't able to see anything. He only knew that the sword should also have some relation with the Life Law and Death Law due to its capabilities, but as those Laws weren't denser than in the outside world, so Yale wasn't able to sense them.

Although his past life had the idea of creating that sword, Yale's understanding of it was still too low. He didn't even know the sword's name.

Everyone saw how Yale killed Heruk as easy as killing a chicken. His allies were shocked but happy. However, those who chose to be his enemies were scared, but since they heard that the Special Realm was self-destructing and the rumbles only increased, they had lost their hopes. They regretted letting a bastard like Heruk join their group because, in the end, he doomed all of them.

After killing Heruk, Yale continued trying to obtain a method to solve the situation asking the system. Yale's life wasn't at risk, but his friends would die if he didn't find a way to save them.