Chapter 152: One Hundred Million Corpses

The silken glow of magic spreading across the surroundings reached every corner of the battlefield far in the distance. Wounded were healed. The dead were reborn, their bodies restored.

One soldier, who had just lost his life, slowly opened his eyes.

He didn’t understand what had happened. He glanced around, dazed. The same scene played out across every inch of the battlefield.

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[United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland]

"Emergency! Captain Matthew, reports are coming in—people who should’ve been dead on the battlefield are waking up one after another!"

"What?! What the hell is going on?!"

"We don’t know! The scene’s chaotic!"

More reports poured in from every direction—dead people coming back to life.

Since the battle began, hundreds of thousands had died. To hear that most of them had been revived? Matthew couldn’t believe it.

"What the hell is happening here?"

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Seems to have worked out well. At first I thought enemies would rise too, but it looks like only our side is coming back.

Light particles gathered in Leo’s left hand. The severed arm regenerated, whole again. The wound on the man Leo had been supporting healed in an instant.

"Gojo… was that your magic?"

"Yeah. Everyone else should be waking up too. Let’s go!"

Back at the group’s location, Leo rejoined the others—Wang, Freyja, Noah, Emily, Luca, and the rest, all standing up, blinking in confusion.

"Everyone!"

Leo rushed over, hugging his comrades as they rose to their feet. After Leo explained what had happened, he pointed right at me.

Their faces lit up with joy. All of them sprinted toward me.

"Gojo!"

"Teacher!!"

Wang (Wan) arrived first—his fist flying straight at me.

"Late, Gojo! Come faster!!"

"Ah, ah, sorry, Wang!"

Noah and Emily rushed over, hugging me while crying. I hugged the kids back, apologizing for being so late to save them.

"Gojo! Did you heal everyone!? There were people who died, right…?"

Lucas asked, excited.

"Magic that can only be used once, but… at least it worked. Good."

"What now, Gojo?"

Leo's words made the others fall silent.

"There's gotta be a boss somewhere. Gonna go smash him. Everyone, evacuate as fast as you can."

"So he's really there… Got it. Leave the rest to you. Count on you, Gojo."

"Teacher! Come back safe, no matter what!"

"Gojo, if you die, I won't forgive you!"

"Win for sure, Gojo!"

I promised them all I'd come back safe, hearing Noah, Wang, and Freyja's voices, and then parted from the group. Watching my friends walk away, I prayed they’d all get to safety.

Then I looked up.

A castle floating miles ahead in the sky, radiating an overwhelming, terrifying presence. One of them is Agalirept.

And someone else is fighting him—on equal footing, or better. No doubt about it.

"You're there… Demon God King."

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On the floating fortress in the sky, a fierce battle raged.

Uranos deflected Agalirept’s slash, and Agalirept barely dodged Uranos’s dark magic attack by a hair.

"Hey! What's the point if you don't even hit me?!"

"Man, tough one, huh."

Uranos froze time. Agalirept hung motionless in midair. Uranos stepped closer—but couldn't cast magic while time was frozen.

Positioning the flesh mass like a cannon barrel against my body. The instant time resumed—

『DRAGON BLAST!!!』

Light pierces the enemy’s form—but just in time, they dodge at the last second. Even Uranos, fighting them, was impressed by that reflex speed.

『Shit—!!』

『…So, a genius, huh? Damn, you could’ve been my right hand… too bad your personality’s a mess.』

『Who the hell wants to be your damn limb? I’m the one who should’ve been called Demon God King!』

Uranos smirked, triumphant.

Before I knew it, cracks split through space—out from them, cannon barrels emerged. Agalirept dodged instinctively—

『Gah!?』

Agalirept’s shoulder gets sliced clean off by the Dragon Blast.

『Damn it! Cheating bastard!』

The cracks weren’t just one. There were countless of them. Looking closer—countless tendrils stretched from Uranos’s back, each diving into a crack, transforming into hands… or cannon barrels.

『I can manipulate space itself. Think you can dodge attacks from every direction?』

Just as Uranos said—dark magic, Dragon Blasts, fired from every side, chipping away at Agalirept’s body.

『…Guess I’ve got no choice—time for my ace!』

Reaching forward, fingers pointed straight at Uranos. Black sparks fly from the tips. A dense, dark sphere appears.

It’s a “pseudo-black hole”—a massive energy mass.

Everything nearby, even Dragon Blasts and black magic, gets sucked into the swirling darkness. The sphere grows larger, threatening to pull even the Demon God King in.

『Tch!』

I froze time—but gravity kept pulling Uranos in, relentless.

Even if Uranos could move within stopped time, he couldn’t escape the pull of an energy as inherent as gravity.

‘Can’t be helped.’

He extended flesh from his back, shaping it into four炮门. His hands transformed too—became cannons.

He manipulated time, firing “Dragon Blast” straight toward the pseudo-black hole. Light brighter than when he’d defeated the Hydra swallowed the hole whole.

Uranos managed to erase it—just barely—yet…

‘Been waiting for this moment, huh!’

Agarialepto’s single slash cleaved through Uranos’s body, severing even his left arm, which had just barely raised to block.

Blood gushed down. The fact that it wasn’t vanishing—no sign of fading—wasn’t even a surprise anymore.

‘Dragon Blast… and rewinding time… must’ve taken a huge toll on your body. I figured you couldn’t do it again so soon.’

‘You really get a kick out of hurting me, huh?’

Uranos’s body began regenerating at lightning speed. Blood stopped flowing. His severed left arm reattached itself, whole.

‘No matter what you do, the outcome stays the same.’

‘Talk all you want!’

The battle between Uranos and Agarialepto intensified. Every clash of blades echoed through the distance, air exploding in all directions.

Uranos’s dark magic sword chipped away at Agarialepto’s crimson mist—but couldn’t land a fatal blow.

And then, suddenly, something changed.

Tiny particles of light began leaking from Agarialepto’s body.

‘Huh? What the hell is this!? Now? Just when things were getting good!’

‘That… you didn’t seriously summon something, did you?’

Staring at Agarialepto’s silent glare, Uranos felt laughter rising in his throat.

"Hahaha, what a masterpiece. A demon who’d rather die than stay locked up... pathetic, Agarialepto."

"Shut up, you damn bastard! I’d be happy just killing you!"

"You still couldn’t beat me, even after all that. That light? That’s the summoning’s time limit. It’s over."

"...Too bad. I couldn’t kill you myself."

"A dream impossible for all eternity. Find the one who tamed you, kill them, and you vanish. Goodbye, Agarialepto."

"Man, that’s really a shame... You’re gonna die today, ha-ha-ha. It’s heartbreaking I can’t fight you again."

"...What are you talking about?"

"Can’t you get it? Today, the one who beats you... will kill you."

With that, Agarialepto dissolved into the light and rose into the sky.

"...Too bad... really... so... much..."

Uranos stared at the spot where Agarialepto had vanished completely.

"Last words... not just bitter loser’s whining... you’ve fallen so low, Agarialepto... a pitiful demon..."

Uranos glanced upward, then looked down at the ground again. Several "Prophet Beasts" still roamed wildly.

He gathered light and lightning into his right hand, weaving a complex spell.

"Gay Borg—!!"

A plasma mass split into countless beams, raining down upon the earth. One beam pierced Lavana’s body, two others tore through Sprigan and Giga’s forms.

All exploded apart, vanishing instantly.

The light struck the two beasts next—but—

"Hmm..."

The "Crimson Ape" and the "Silver Lion" dodged effortlessly, charging straight toward Avalon.

"Trying to dodge that... huh. Whatever."

Uranos said that, then pulled a mass of flesh from his back. It was an enormous amount—flesh spilling from the floating castle, cascading down to the ground.

The flesh hit the earth like a flowing river, spreading and growing ever larger, creeping across the land like a devouring tide.

Crawling forward like an ameba, it moved across the ground.

The two beasts charging toward it instantly recognized the flesh as an enemy.

『I can absorb the corpses of demons and humans into my body. The absorbed corpses become mindless puppets that move on their own.』

A tidal wave of flesh surged toward the two beasts.

Moving at terrifying speed, the flesh poured in from all directions, sealing off every escape route. The beasts attacked—but it was like hitting air. No effect.

The flesh wrapped around them like a crushing embrace, crushing them flat.

Uranos smiled, satisfied, watching the two beasts vanish into light particles, utterly powerless against such overwhelming numbers.

『There are over a hundred million corpses stored inside my body. If they go rogue, no one can stop them.』

The flesh kept spreading, absorbing the corpses of the demon army, growing even larger.

『It’s your fault. Most humans I meant to spare—but if you insist on wasting my time with this pointless resistance, I have no choice but to wipe you out. Once unleashed, those hundred million corpses won’t stop until every enemy is dead.』

Uranos knew full well that, if the flesh went wild, it would consume every living thing on this planet in less than a week.

Ahead, moving at impossible speed, multiplying as it went, stood a single man.

Uranos looked at him once—and instantly knew who he was.

『That man… the one who defeated Agarialiapt?』

The distance between them was considerable, but Gojo still caught Uranos in his line of sight.

"That's the Demon God King...?"