This Eroge Won't Make Me Fall!

Chapter 454 Chapter 450: Parallel Junction (1)

[Unbelievable. Protector of this realm, I couldn't believe a word about you at first.]

I turned my gaze at the crack in the sky where the Outer God floated. It was using a proper flight spell. A tinge of madness was filling me over.

How long had it been? Was it when I fought the Crow's apostle in Dienin? Or maybe it was the battle against the amalgamation in the Deep Down Dive.

Pushing the sunglasses further in, I calmed my excited heart down.

"Isn't it foolish? Coming here alone?"

[Not at all, it is the most wise thing to do.]

My head tilted to the side. What was this guy on?

[You see, Protector. The reason we are destroying your worlds is for us to grow stronger and return to where we belong.]

"Too bad, you chose the wrong folks to mess with."

[I agree, I truly do.]

Hah.

This was getting ridiculous. I never thought my enemy would accept words like those.

The boost from Stage Four was still running strong. But even without the boost that my authority granted, stage four was quite powerful.

[So, you see, the others have gone away to destroy the rest of the worlds while I stay here with you. It may be suicidal, but I don't believe I can beat you.]

Others.

I had to admit. That wasn't a half-bad plan. They had sent the Arcade Gamer as a litmus to test my abilities and decide their next course of action themselves.

It was quite something.

My hand stretched to the side as Catene turned into a pure black axe. In the same motion, I twisted back and chopped off the head of the Arcade Gamer that appeared behind me.

[You see, I am quite confident in holding you down, at least]

More and more of the murdered Outer God came popping out of the ground. They seemed confused by their situation before turning toward me.

What was this? Clones? Some kind of resurrection?

That shouldn't be possible.

I had removed that Outer God from existence, these couldn't be related to it in any way.

Yet.

[Endless Reality!]

I coated the axe in my hand with Cataclysm and swung it down at the domes forming around me.

A crash resounded as the domes of Endless Reality broke apart into bits. I charged against the ground and shot forward the many forms of the Outer God. Some tall, some short, some skinnier, and some bulkier.

With each swing, my axe struck into their bodies and chopped them apart.

[I cannot believe this…] The voice of the Outer God watching over this eked out. [You were holding back even when you fought Arcade Gamer?]

"Holding back?"

With a single, strong swing, a whip-like extension of Cataclysm emerged from the axe and cut through all the forms of the Outer God around me.

"I hadn't even started."

[Haha… haha… I think I might be in trouble—OMPH!]

I jumped right up and dove my foot into the Outer God's sides.

The Outer god flew down to the ground, well past the destroyed mountains as he dragged a hole through the entire ground.

All of a sudden, the same Outer God was behind me again. No.

This guy's hair was slightly different.

"You think."

I drove a punch ahead, but the Outer God managed to block it with its hand, grinning widely.

A third of the same had appeared right next to me. An immense amount of Mana gathered around its palms as a destructive spell started to invoke.

Mana? Outer Gods using mana?

Plasma coated with lightning emerged from its hands and came straight for me at point-blank range.

The Axe in my hands changed shapes again and formed a spear. I twisted at speeds faster than both the Outer Gods could react to.

With a kick, the one holding my hand was dragged behind. Next, I coated the spear in Cataclysm and drove it into the being at the side.

The mass of plasma and lightning was crushed through as the spear drove straight into the stomach of the Outer God, killing it in a single go.

[Unbelievable…] a voice from behind called out again. This guy's vocabulary was nothing to write home about.

I stretched my neck as I fell back to the ground. Dragging his feet over the deep gash in the ground approached the Outer God from before.

The kick had completely wrecked most of its body, yet it laughed.

[I… am just a loyal vassal for our King. This much is nothing…]

"Your ability, all those Outer Gods. They didn't seem like illusions. All of them were real, weren't they?"

[That is correct, protector…]

The Outer God raised its hand in front of me.

[What do you think every time you make a choice? Whether to go on one path or another, whether to answer yes or no, from thinking of going on a trip to making a plan to take over the world, every small ideal holds the power to change everything]

"Is talking a way to delay me too?" I asked.

[That it is. Since my concept seems to hold no meaning to you.]

A grin left me, this guy truly was smart. But not just smart, he was also loyal. Even though a few minutes meant nothing, he was putting doing his best to make it all count.

"This ability of yours, does it let you bring the results of these… choices?"

The Outer God nodded.

[I am the Junction for all the Parallel possibilities. The Arcade Gamers you fought were from worlds where he had become much stronger than he was, the same was the case with my clones]

This guy had also told me something that confirmed Eugene's words.

All of them were just gatekeepers.

"Such a concept is too great for you."

[Indeed. The parallels I can summon are far too limited. Anything I can bring is useless in front of you. For example, the strength of the one that I have brought cannot exceed a certain limit, or it can't be too far from the future or the past, even the choices can't be very different.]

"No matter how many of yourself or your comrade you bring, it is all futile."

[Indeed. We, can never hope to scratch you.]

The Outer God smiled then.

[But. I am still confident in my ability to hold you back.]

My eyes widened slightly as another dome formed around me. I could have stopped it before it took effect, but decided not to.

[Concept Realization]

The world around me turned white. Everything had become similar to the place I had trained in for a thousand years, except where there was nothing but darkness, now here there was nothing but light.

And all around me, in the space full of light.

[Deadly Terminus!]

Were forms of myself and Catene.