Rivers of the Night-Chapter 869: He Knew Now

Capítulo 869: He Knew Now

Theron took a step forward and Ameridia’s cage seemed to dissolve. It was like space bent away from him, his push so violent that Ameridia lost control of her Space Mana entirely.

Her eyes widened. “You don’t understand. The state of the universe right now is similar to its inception. There’s a hotbed of energy everywhere, and every critical battle could change the tides of everything. We need to run.”

Ameridia already had a plan on how to get away from here; it was why she had been so calm and even smiling yesterday. But what she didn’t expect was for Theron to insist on fighting Macie. She didn’t understand.

“Messo!” Ameridia shouted out when Theron ignored her.

However, Messo didn’t move like Ameridia expected.

“Messo!” Ameridia looked over at her in surprise, but all she saw was her Timeless Fairy shaking her head slowly.

“She’s already grown so much in just two years. Could even you have predicted that she would be able to kill the Supreme Commander in such a short time? We weren’t even alerted.

“She’s an anomaly birthed by Existence to vent its fury toward my father… toward us. If she was built to defeat my father, then what chance do we have if we let her grow unchecked?”

“I will defeat your father one day by my own hand!” Ameridia roared, her emotions becoming agitated.

SHIIIIIIING.

The call of Theron’s blade echoed through the skies. He didn’t seem to be in a rush, but it was hard to tell if that was his choice or not. Every step just felt so very… heavy. As though the universe itself wanted him to turn back as well.

Part of Theron even wondered if this was the right thing to do. He didn’t know exactly what was going on, but Ameridia seemed to understand a lot more than he did. Maybe it would have been smarter for him to listen to her.

Yet, despite these thoughts, his steps kept moving forward. They kept getting heavier.

Messo looked toward his back, her gaze complicated.

“I know you want to break free of her,” Messo said softly. “But your actions are little different from your main body, Ameridia. We almost brought a little girl on the precipice of being too old into the Heaven’s Gate because of how desperate we were.”

Ameridia’s jaw clenched, but she didn’t reply.

“I think we need to admit that as we are now, we are not good enough. But he just might be. Even your main incarnation knew that she could not strike down my father’s name on her own. Why else do you think she needed Theron? Only he could do it.

“Only an anomaly also born of the Heavens could do this.”

Messo closed her eyes as though she finally understood.

“Your father… my father… their figures are too large and looming. Existence didn’t have the Karma left to birth a genius like them for a third time through novel means, so abnormal means had to be used.

“Theron is that person. Macie is another. Maybe there are even more out there.

“This is not our fight. If we want to step on this stage, we will need to gather Karma ourselves until we can match them.”

Messo looked toward Ameridia deeply. “If you want to defeat my father, you won’t do it by scheming, delaying, and hoping everything comes out perfect. You need the conviction in your heart to believe you will win in the future even if Theron falls here.”

In that moment, something about Messo seemed larger than life, a rippling aura radiating out from her.

Ameridia closed her eyes and then lowered her head. Then, she too looked toward Theron’s back, every one of his steps growing heavier, and then heavier still.

“It seems I’ve lost my way. Thank you, Messo.” Ameridia smiled lightly. “You’ve always been my guiding light.”

Messo smiled. “… I was no better when I was much younger. I tried to be my father, even to the point of pretending to be a man. I adopted his mannerisms, his arrogance. But in the end, I realized I could not be him. I was too inferior… for now.”

A sharp edge rang in her words.

“Let us watch this battle and sharpen ourselves. This is the standard we will need to reach in the future should we want to stand tall in this coming era.”

Ameridia gave Messo one final look before nodding and looking back toward Theron’s back.

“Yes.” Ameridia’s lip quirked. “Drake Tatsuya.”

Messo’s lip twitched, but she completely ignored Ameridia as though she hadn’t heard it at all.

…

Theron had long forgotten about the world around him. He didn’t even feel the army around Matriarch Macie. Every step he took grew heavier, and yet he seemed to grow heavier with every one.

“No,” Macie said to her commanders. “This is mine.”

Her voice echoed coldly as she pulled out her scythe. A purple glow filled the air and the air shook.

She stepped off of her ship and began to walk.

The stars in the skies fluctuated wildly as though each one might wink out at any moment now, a strong momentum pressing down on them.

And then the two vanished.

BOOM.

It felt like a supernova imploded at their contact point, the world roaring and whining.

“You are no match for me, Theron Galethunder,” Matriarch Macie said coldly, her grin having long vanished. “This world will be mine to conquer. Never again will I lose those that I love, and I will start by taking your head from your shoulders.”

The two suddenly separated and then a flurry of blows erupted between them, each one causing small black holes and star-like explosions to fill the skies.

Winds churned and the skies overturned.

Theron didn’t say a single word, but he knew then.

He started his life so peacefully, so calmly. Then he was filled with more rage than he could describe. The world kept throwing so much at him that he never really got to decide what he wanted to do, who he wanted to be.

But he had now.

Whatever this was…

He wanted to be the opposite of it.

This Martial World. He would fix it.

BOOM.

Macie was sent flying back, rocketing through her ship and splitting it in two.