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A young man with messy bck hair looked at the se in front of him. A formerly rge castle structed by the Giant Spirit Bees was noile of ruins; there wasn’t even a single bee left.
“What?! What happened here?”
Even as he desperately searched for what he was looking for, he was uo find it. His face was full of disbelief and frustration.
“This wasn’t supposed to happen... Who did this?!” He screamed. “Without the Spirit Bee Queen’s Royal Jelly, I ’t synthesize the pill properly!”
He had po obtain a precious item from the Queen of this castle, a deliciously sweet royal jelly capable of creating a powerful elixir that would boost his body’s strength even further.
Yet it was o be seen now.
Someone had clearly e here, killed all the bees and the boss, and the!
“But who…? This didn’t happen back then.” He muttered to himself. “Who did this? Have I already created a butterfly effect?”
Although he started to remember that woman who had kicked him, he quickly decided to calm himself down and move to another location.
He had no time to waste!
…
At the peak of the Snow Mountain on the first floor, the young man screamed in frustration. He had hunted a bunch of Frost Spiders just now, but these were monsters he didn’t particurly care about.
“Where is the Frost Wyvern King?!”
The Frost Wyvern King, another S-Rank Monster of the first floor, was a mighty foe no Pyers dared to hunt.
“Noill I get the Winter Bringer?”
His scales, bones, cws, and fangs could fe an incredible on with his synthesis abilities, known as the Winter Bringer, an almighty bde capable of freezing and cutting foes.
Yet… He was uo find the wyvern, even wheered its ir. There weren’t even the younger wyver, the entire flock was sin!
“This is just a ce, right? Yeah… Maybe they moved somewhere else.”
He kept looking forward; he couldn’t give up on his goals as the only Regressor.
After all, the responsibility of savih was weighing on his shoulders.
He moved ahead relentlessly.
…
A smile surged on the young man’s handsome face as he looked into the boiling volo. There were some giant, red-skinned ogre-type foes there.
“Finally! At least the Bzing Ogres are here!”
With a wicked smile full of bloodlust, he rushed to hunt down the group of S-Rank Monsters
“As long as I hunt these guys and gather their bodies, I at least make myself det armor!”
As he rushed downwards, he suddenly came to a halt once he frohe red-skinned ogre-like “monsters” walking around.
His “foes” screamed in fear and ran away from the se, dropping the bags full of ores they had been mining here.
“Huh? Wait!”
He looked towards their group, realizing there were at least thirty or forty people. Yes, people, these weren’t humanoid monsters.
“Devils?”
With a trembling voice, the rgest of the devils pointed a sword at him.
“W-What do you want?! Who are you?!”
“No, wait…! I… Ah.”
The regressor sheathed his bck sword and then sighed. Keeping his own anger in check, he felt incredibly frustrated to realize the ir of the Bzing Ogres was now being occupied by a small tribe of Fire Devils, people that inate from higher floors iower.
“Didn’t Bzing Ogres live here before?”
“Bzing Ogres?!”
“Why are you calling us like that?"
“We are not Bzing Ogres!”
“Did someone call us like that?”
“Su insult…”
Amongst the many races of the Tower, Devils often suffered the worst cases of racism, often pared to ogre-type monsters such as Trolls, Ogres, and Hobgoblins.
Calling them Bzing Ogres was a great insult!
“Leave this pce at once! You e out of nowhere, sg the children who were trying to mine some resources, and now call us bzing ogres?! Get off!”
The chief of the tribe, a muscur man wielding a bzing spear, pointed his on at the Regressor.
“I’m… I’m sorry.”
He quickly left, pletely disappointed and disheartened.
“What the hell is happening? Why are all the things I want gone?”
As he looked into the distance, he decided to move back to the Nexus City he had only visited briefly, without even cheg anything or speaking with anybody.
As a Regressor, he believed he couldn’t waste time with “NPd had to save Earth at all costs, so speaking with people or g about the situation on the first floor wasn’t his business.
Yet.
“Huh? What… What do you mean the church of light is gone?!”
He had ged his Css after awakening his Regressor abilities; therefore, he had never visited the Church of Light to obtain a Css before.
Now, after finally ing to visit it after his Regression, he found out the pce where it formerly was located had now been occupied by a group of food stalls.
The rubble or other things left behind by the church beiroyed were gohe streets were made , and the noble in charge of the city decided to leave the area free for any food stall to sit there.
So i week, it has bee a well-known spot for adventurers or other people to e enjoy the delicious food on the first floor at cheap prices.
“I’m sorry to say this... But are you okay in the head, young man?” Wondered a dwarf who was selli skewers with a very spicy sauce. “The church of light was demolished by a very strong pyer some time ago! It was pletely destroyed by every try oire ti. I also heard the Goddess of Light died. There’s a new God around.”
“Huh? WHAT?!”
Seth fell to his knees as he looked down at the floor.
Everything was going wrong!
All his opportunities were snatched away.
The church of light was gone; without it, he wouldn’t be able to obtain divine relics by ext the pope or the priests.
And even less, obtaining a small blessing from the goddess of light would have given him the necessary ability to properly explore the sed-floor ruins he wao find.
But above all, the goddess herself.
Was gone!
“This has to be a joke…”
He hadn’t bee iower when it happened, unfortunately.
“There’s a new god now? Who… Who is it?”
"Look, man, I am not going to give more information to a beggar like you.”
“Please just tell me! I’ll give you as much money as you want!”
Seth threw the dwarf a sack of s.
“Hmph.”
The dwarf quickly pocketed the sack of s and nodded.
“Well… If yoing to be so si is Leviathan, a serpent god of creation or something; I don’t know. Everyone loves him because he used his Miracles to give everyone a bountiful harvest.” The dwarf spoke.
“Leviathan?!” Seth muttered. “But isn’t that just a Divine Monster?! That thing from the sea is a god now? You’ve got to be kidding me…”
He still remembered battling that monster in the previous timeline and sying it after joining hands with the many avatars of the Gods of the first floor and a hundred more Pyers.
It was an incredible raid that everyone did to save the fate of the first floor from being flooded!
But now that damned eel has bee the first floor’s only god?!
“Who… Who did this? Who is doing this?!” He asked the dwarf desperately.
“If you’re asking who destroyed the tower, everyone knows her at this point.” The dwarf shrugged. “An incredibly strong Pyer, a woman with no limits. Some specute she even killed the gods. Her name’s Bing Xue; she es from Earth.”
“B-Bing Xue…”
Seth smiled, ughing.
“Hah… Hahah… Of course… Of course, it's HER!”
With a scream full of frustratioh smashed the floor and almost broke it.
“Oi, be careful! So are you buying or not?”
“…”
Seth remained in silence for a brief moment.
“Hey?” The dwarf asked.
“…Please give me two skewers with extra spicy sauce.” Seth sighed.
“Okay, I’ll give you some beer too; you seem to be going through some hard times, son.” The gentle dwarf helped Seth have a meal.
However, as he ehe food and the banter, he sighed.
“What the hell do I do now?”
The Regressor had no idea what to do now!
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(Bing Xue POV)
Ding!
[You have activated the [Undead God Summon (SSS)]!]
[You have summohe [Tod]: {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]
[The God has been summoned with most of their Memories Intad with 40% of their former Stats and Abilities.]
[Summoning Duration: 2 Hours.]
[You have summohe [Tod]: {The Brilliant Mother Of Light}!]
[The God has been summoned with most of their Memories Intad with 40% of their former Stats and Abilities.]
[Summoning Duration: 2 Hours.]
Both Gods stood in front of me now. It seemed that because they only had forty pert of their former stats and abilities, they came out in a much smaller and, if I dare say, adorable form.
“What’s happening now?! Why am I a baby?” The Goddess cried, looking at her oearance. “Where’s my beauty? My light! I dislike this appearance! You! Didn’t you kill me?! You want to kill me twiow?!”
“Sis… Sister, calm down…” The God muttered timidly, trying to extend his skeletal hand towards her shoulder.
“Ugh, don’t touch me with your hands! They’re so cold and creepy!” The girl cried angrily, pushing the god away and making him fall to the floor.
“Agh…!” He groaned. “S-Sister… Sorry…”
I see they don’t get along. Or well, he tries to get along with her, but she's really not sociable, huh? What an annoying little brat! Even after reviving her, she’s still treating everyone like shit.
“I’ve summoned you with a Skill I obtained.” I sighed. “It seems this is now a thing. You only stay for two hours, apparently. No wait, you stay indefinitely as long as I i you with Primordial Essence, which I have in endless amounts.”
Ding!
[You have begun iing fn energies into the links with the two summoned Gods.]
[The energy is fueling their maions.]
[+1 Hour of Summoning Time]
[+6 Hour of Summoning Time]
[+3 Hour of Summoning Time]
[+2 Hour of Summoning Time]
[+10 Hour of Summoning Time]
[…]
[You keep the Gods summoned indefinitely as long as you share your fn energies with their Divine Links.]
Well, this makes things easier.
“Why… How is this possible? Didn’t you pletely kill me?” The goddess asked me. “Is this some wicked game for you? Are you going to torture us now?”
“Not such a thing. I’ve summoned you to experiment with my new Skill.” I said. “This has firmed a few things. One of them is that you keep your memories, even the ones before your deaths. Sed, your power has decreased signifitly, and your appearance has ged into child-like forms. Third, I seem to possess the ability to order you to do things, like a puppeteer trolling their puppets.”
“What? S-So we are your sves now?!” The goddess panicked.
“I mean, we died…” The god muttered. “It isn’t as if we had any other option. And… It isn’t as if we died without a good reasohought our as… Would never have repercussions. B-but we killed a lot of people… A-And someoually came to avehem…”
“What? I…!” The goddess remained silent after that, as if she were thinking something. “Ugh… I… Well, I-I guess… Maybe. Ugh, but even then, I didn’t want to die, you know? I was sorry, but… maybe too te?”
“Now it is not too te, I suppose,” I said. “I’ve sin you two, yes. You’ve beehroned, and your former selves no longer exist. But you’ve been given a sed ce; let’s call this reination, maybe. You’ve paid for your sins, but now you redeem yourselves by w to protect the people you once sughtered.”
“That’s insane! Why would I want to proteYBODY!” Said the goddess. “I might feel sorry, but I already died; that was enough payment!”
“I-I would like to help, if possible.” The god, iher case, seemed willing to ge. “You taught me a valuable lesson as we fought. I experiehe thrill of living and fighting for my life, and I finally uood how those people I tormented felt as well. I want to ge, to help somehow. This is an opportunity I don’t want to let go.”
“Good, you’re ging, I see.” I smiled, nodding. “Perhaps I could make you my disciple, Lord of Deep Darkness—no, you need a new name, I believe. Umbra, how about it?”
“Ooh, I’ll take it, thank you.” He bowed his head. “A-And disciple… I hadn’t sidered such a thing. Perhaps this could help me. It could help me uand life much better.”
“You are eager to learn.” I smiled, extending my hand towards him and helping him stand back up. “Now, you. Goddess.”
“I am the Moddess, and I am not taking any name from you!” She said it angrily. “Hmph!”
“S-Sister… Please be more respectful." The god sighed.
“Shut it!” The goddess barked back.
Their dynamic was not healthy at all…
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