Loser's redo: Transmigration in a novel

'...He can't state a lie, so it's most probably the truth. But still, things are getting more and more complicated.'

There were so many suspicious things around the dragon lord, Zick was feeling uncomfortable. He did not like things with uncertainty like this.

Zick took his hand off the giant's head and turned around, losing interest in Kururu, who was just a puppet in the end, the gods just used him and threw him away the moment their work ended. In many ways, he was just pitiful through and through.

"Let's go," Zick ordered Yuriel emotionlessly.

Without any sound, Kururu's body split into two and blood floated into space. He did not break the bind as he had ordered Yuriel to kill Kururu before he even came here, and the bind only said that 'Zick' would let Kururu go.

Feeling disappointed internally, Zick made his way to the Igmorous world. He wanted to take Philine, who had a very rare talent, and other people like Seveleen and Varine with him, but he was not sure if they were alive.

'Collecting them isn't much help, but I think they would be good assets for the dream world, after all, they were all talented even without blessings. Philine is still the main objective, she is just too immutable.'

Philine was all that mattered, other things were just secondary. Though the chances of her being left behind were truly low.

No god would leave Philine if they found her existence.

Zick felt Arianell grad his sleeves, then his vision turned white for a second.

With a flash, what appeared before Zick was another world.

Without hesitating, Zick spread his senses throughout the world, not missing even the smallest object.

Desolateness spread throughout the world, houses had moss all over them, but even that was slowly vanishing in thin air. The ocean level fell more than fifty percent and nothing but drought covered the lands. Clearly indicating that no rain occurred in years.

Truly, The Igmorous world was slowly rotting away internally.

But there were still some left that survived in this harsh environment.

Like the whale tribe who were still holding on somehow.

Zick's brow rose, 'No one took them away? Aren't the whale tribe very good at arrays and rune magic, particularly in making water runes?'

If the water dragons are not present, the whale race would undoubtedly be the ruler of the ocean.

'Not just that, the sky tree, Mhydrasvil seems unharmed too. Were they not interested in these things? Impossible. They could have just sold them in that case.'

Zick felt everything moving distant as he kept thinking. Just what was happening?

Then, Zick found the cat, who seemed to be in a strange state too.

A black domain covered a large area, and within it, were people whom Zick found familiar.

They were — Philine, Seveleen, Varine, Anastasia, and Leona!

But noticing their presence, Zick's expression grew rigid.

He hurriedly transmitted to the three: "You three! Go to the....!"

It was at that moment.

A transparent wave spread all over the area, covering Zick's surroundings instantly.

'...It's an ambush, thankfully I was still able to at least send a message to the dragon clan through the device they gave.' Sweat began gathering on Zick's face.

"Haha, twerp, this will be your ending!" A crackling voice reached him, Without any warning, a punch headed toward Zick's face.

A huge force landed on Zick's head, it was like he was hit on the head by a planet.

Zick's figure flew like a canon bolt, crashing into the moon at the corner.

"Sir Zick!"

Everyone was startled by the sudden turns of events. They had thought this trip to be an easy task, but it was turning into the most dangerous one out of all the events they went through.

All of them moved away from their opponent first, they were not stupid enough to stay frozen in one place. Arianell transported everyone as far as she could, the barrier made it impossible for her to teleport out of its area.

The person who hit Zick revealed herself, it was a woman with a luscious body, she wore clothes made of a certain monster mane and had compact muscles all over her body.

Zick slowly got up, he felt his head spin from that punch. But he recovered in no time thanks to his regenerative power. He was not even able to bring out his dragon scales, so that punch directly impacted his skull. He could only resist the impact using his divinity at that moment.

'.....Peak god rank, to think such an opponent was waiting in ambush for me. I see, so my action was predictable, huh?'

The sun god seems to have already deduced Zick's arrival in this world, many years ago. He ordered one of his top subordinates to keep an eye on it. He did not even put his hand on Philine, instead using her as bait resolutely.

But, Zick was not someone who was moved by his greed. He had only moved now, after sending the sun and death God to their death.

Philine could not predict the god's future, however, it was still wasteful to throw such a being away. He only had to improve her talent somewhat, though he had no idea how to because she was a diviner.

'For him to not bring this god into the battle, he must have known I would do this after or not...It doesn't add up.'

Zick looked up, because he clashed with the moon, half of it was blown off.

The woman was surprised to see Zick still alive, she had used a lot of her strength in that punch. And more importantly, Zick appeared to have suffered no harm too.

Zick's voice transmitted into the air: " You, you betrayed the sun god didn't you?"

Twitch.

The woman's brow twitched by itself hearing Zick, her eyes became more fierce as she looked at Zick.

"Haha, for you to betray him! He kept you as a reserved force, but you backstabbed him at the end by running away! Do you know how he must have felt?!" Zick mocked her with droopy eyes.

"Shut up!" Pissed off, the woman's body broke through material limits and headed toward Zick like a meteor.

It was a rational decision to betray the sun god, no matter how she looked at it, he would be defeated in that battle. But, she still felt guilty as she was raised by the sun god for a long time, it was like she had backstabbed her parents.

'It couldn't be helped! I don't want to die like that....' The woman suppressed the rampant emotions within her.

It was coincident she found Zick here, she was only planning on taking the resources of this world to sell them off.

Zick bent down in a ready position, 'She fell for it!'

Zick's eyes turned cold as he saw the woman heading where he was. Black scales covered Zick immediately.

Zick's body shot upwards, moving like a black ray.

Seeing such an impudent attitude from a lower-ranked god from her, the woman's face contorted visibly. Killing intent poured from her body like an unending river, drowning Zick in it.

"Die!" The woman swung the huge broad sword in her hands, it aimed directly at Zick, trying to finish him off in one move. Her body plunged forward even faster, as she activated her core skill.

And as she expected, Zick was not able to react to her overwhelming speed. Zick's bewildered face was visible clearly in her bloodthirsty eyes.

The broad sword pierced right through Zick's chest at that moment, and before even blood could flow, crimson divinity erupted from the sword, going into Zick.

A red explosion occurred, sending shockwaves to a large distance. The moon not far away, blew away to smithereens, not being able to take the pressure in the least.

'Hmph! Pest is supposed to act like pests....?!!' A burning pain seared through the woman's chest. There a black sword could be seen, stuck into her from behind.

"Stupid barbarian." Zick, who did not even have a single scratch on him, stood behind the women with leisure.

"No way....!!" Before the woman could finish speaking, the sword embedded into her gave a sharp cry, and a black orb formed and blew away instantly.

As the explosion subsided, Zick checked for a last time and moved towards the three in the corner of the barrier.

What he just used to defeat this peak god-rank woman was something to the dream world. It was a method that can affect the mind of the person used temporarily.

Desirescape, this technique could be used to show a person what they imagined in their head perfectly. It was the best result Zick was able to gain from that world, only a lot of material was needed to make it. It was burdensome even for Zick.

'As I thought, the best outcome is for me to make someone from that world into the dream god. He must be very loyal to me too, then I will have another useful pawn.'

Either way, Zick had used the desirescape on the women and then moved out of her trajectory immediately. For a second he was unsure if it would be effective against a peak god, but it ended as a useless worry.

'With the number of materials I have, I can only perform this technique for another two times.' Feeling it to be a disappointment, Zick began breaking the barrier rapidly. It took quite a while to fully dismantle it, even with his chaotic divinity.

Zick could have defeated the women if he fought with everything he had, but he found it to be a waste of time. If the battle was prolonged, some other god might join in.