Twin Reincarnation: Epics Of The Worldline-Chapter 381 As the sun of battle rises

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Divided by the paths, united by the admiration of their leaders.

This barren battlefield where two armies stood, facing one another at the moment of dawn...

On one side were barrage solders, devoted to the one that they admired more than the gods of this world themslevs.

The one that was praised as an absolute, the one that had been the master of the throne of the west, the one that even at this moment stood among them.

He who had been around even before the forefathers of most of these Barack solders were born, he who was around even before the foundations of their homes were built and he who forged the paths to the peaceful lives for his citizens was the deity that did not need be present in the heavens to be an model of warship.

He was a divine being and one of the masters present in this world who had refused the lord hood and stayed among his people to guide them towards the brighter path of the mortality with his own hands.

He was a divine being himself, the master that had triumphed over the firmament and rid their lands of the evil plaguing this eternal lands of the primordial forefathers that had onced ruled over the entirety of this world...

He who is and had been the representative of the west and he who, despite the tremendous strengths he possessed, was humble and looked over his people, was right now standing among them.

Facing his own child who betrayed everything, even the life that was offered to him by their great master.

...

They once looked up to the great and bright child that was more special than any other princes of the empire.

The one that had always been on top of the topics of discussion in the castle, as well as in the capital city.

He was a bright child that had helped the emperor with his unique knowledge many times, and there had been times when he had even received prise from the emperor for his great work.

And, he was the only one among the royal family members who had dined with them emperor personally on many occasions.

The emperor cherished him more than he did to the other princes and princesses.

He was a generous person that did not hold back anything to support the brightest star of this era, the one who would have most definitely led the empire to the greater heights had he worked under the guidance of sun, the emperor, the supreme holder of the throne.

Only by following him had he been able to achieve his full potential and work for the betterment of the empire, his own people, the one that his great father cherished.

They knew his mother, not as the solders of the empire, but as the ones who had once fought alongside her on the battlefields.

She was an amazing person who loved the emperor till her last breaths and he had been with her until her last breaths, doing everything within his power to save her from the unbreakable rules of this world.

Yet... before destiny’s eternal confinements, not even the beings of the heavens could not do anything.

Even if he possessed powers incomparable to anything or anyone in this realm, there he was still a mortal who could not defy the laws of the universe.

...

Her death was natural and she departed with a smile on her face. Everyone knew this, everyone knew this lie and believed it more than the truth that only one person, the one standing against their great master, knew, remembered, and could not forget.

That night of the festivities... he was not going to forget that day even after forgetting everything else that he knew about this world, this realm, this part of the Worldline, and the Worldline itself.

He was not going to forget that, but... no one aside from the emperor himself knew this truth.

He was the one that killed his beloved mother, he was the beast, the bastard that resulted in the most miserable death that someone as great as her never deserved.

He was there on that afternoon.

He saw everything, and he remembered everything.

...

Even as he stood on the other side, on the side facing against the emperor, the divine supreme possessing an army of hundreds of thousands of men, as well as weapons of war that were not supposed to be used in any of the wars in this decade of peace.

"Looking back, nothing we have achieved until now would have been possible without you two."

"The time to praise us in that tone has not come yet, Rex."

If the side of the supreme emperor possessed forces unequal to any other force of the continents, the side they were going to face against possessed a force incomparable to the forces present in the worlds around theirs.

"Hah. I don’t feel as much rage as I would have after seeing all this, lord Lucifer."

"Is that so?"

Undeads stronger than the undeads the other side’s necromancers will ever able to produce, golems incomparable to what the current master alchemists of the empire had ever seen, war weapons that no one in this world could reproduce even with all the materials and knowledge to do so.

Men clad in armour stronger than the armors their generals were wearing.

Weapons made by artisans of other worlds, purchased by the capital that the emperor could not invest in his forces.

Artificial forces that, just like the golem, were lifeforms with enough intelligence to destroy a big chunk of their armies.

There was enough fire power on their side that they could finish off the entire army of the empire within a single day six times.

And then, there was the island loaded with weapons of ancient times. Weapons that were incomprehensible to any men or supreme currently alive in this world.

"Well, Rex... do you regret this decision? That, you won’t be able to kill him with your own hands?"

With the sheer power of the island that they owned, they could destroy the entire empire a few times before they had to reorganise and recharge their weapons... and after that, they could just repeat it all over again.

"Regret...?"

As the two saw the sun rising on the horizon from the other side illuminating the army standing on the other side, they could not help but wonder at the turns that had led them to this point.

"Yes I regret it... not being able to kill him with my own hands. I regret it, and I know I will continue to regret it until I’m dead."

The crown prince and the ray of light that brought the forces- aside from the forces possessed by the masters of Fool’s gambit- together on this battlefield... he was smiling with tears flowing down his eyes as he looked at the golden sky of the anticipated dawn.

He knew better than anyone else what kind of person the one they called the supreme emperor of the west was.

He had seen him from close ever since he could remember.

He was close with him in his childhood as well, and there was not particularly anything he did not like about him in the past...

But then he witnessed one of the many heinous things the charismatic father of his was capable of.

He witnessed the death of the one he cherished the most in this world, and he could not do anything about it back then.

"Promise me you will give him as much pain as he deserves." He begged to the one standing beside him with unwavering eyes.

He was weak back then and he knew that he couldn’t do anything to deal with that bastard.

He was not someone that deserved to be on that throne after doing so many heinous things that one murder of his wife seemed nothing compared to all that he had done to remain on that throne.

He was a bastard obsessed with power and authority. With his throne and with this empire that he ruled over.

He had some kind of a god complex even though he was no god or wanted to be one.

He just wanted to be the emperor. He just wanted to be the one sitting on that high golden throne at whatever price he had to pay...

"I promise. From today to the point of his departure, the only thing he will experience... will be pain."

He was weak back then and he was weak even now. He knew that very well.

There was no way someone as weak as him could have ever been able to win against someone like him even with twice the forces that they had at the moment.

He was not the one that could win against him in a direct confrontation. He did not know if he could ever win against him in the first place...

"Alright then."

He was weak.

He knew he was so weak that even after gaining as much strength as the one beside him possessed, he would still not be strong enough to hold his own against that emperor.

He knew it.

So, he had no choice but to pass that task onto someone who could actually do what he might never have been able to.

"Please keep your promise." Giving a warm smile to the friend who had given him this invaluable opportunity, he bowed to him.

"The empire will forever be in your debt."

They had made an agreement that did not technically profit them much.

The two of them weren’t gaining anything directly as the one who would be the next master of that throne would be him, and not them.

And knowing them, they would most likely leave the management of the empire to someone that they trusted so that they don’t have to deal with mundane tasks like them.

The empire itself... was not their goal.

What they really wanted from this, in fact, was the battle with the emperor himself.

"We will await your command from now on, Lord Lucifer."

As the sun made its way above the first arch of its arrival point, the crown prince of the empire saluted to the masked person in the black clothing, and walked away towards their campsite.

"The third cycle..."

The day of the battle had arrived.

[ "Shall we start then?" ]

[ "We’ve been ready even before you were born, babygirl." ]

And with it, a precious trial had begun for both of them...