The Extra's Odyssey

"Was it you all along?"

A powerful, commanding voice reverberated through the world.

"It was necessary."

An answer came.

The first figure closed his eyes in response. Moments later, he reopened them. However, he wasn't the same anymore.

He was enraged.

The ground began splitting, fissures formed, the earth upturned and destruction spread. The ruined world was being driven to annihilation.

My body froze from fear as I witnessed the end of the world.

In front of his pressure, Huntress' pressure seemed like child's play. His anger alone was enough to drive a world to annihilation.

Just when it seemed that this was the end, a different pressure erupted, the pressure of the second figure that had answered earlier.

As their pressure clashed, the sky turned dark, tornadoes formed, and the land split.

Cracks started forming on the ground, magma spewed from the earth, and oceans dried up.

The first figure summoned thousands of weapons, each having a lightning attribute, and wreaked havoc.

By the time he used his last weapon, only silence remained.

However, moments later, the air started howling and a colossal giant rose at the far end of the world.

The behemoth stood imposingly, allowing the world to prostrate before its majestic figure.

Inside the transparent behemoth, at the center of its chest, the second figure was floating.

With the wings behind its back and its regal appearance, the colossal giant looked like the warriors from legends.

It raised its hand, and a sword began materializing.

At the same time, the first figure also moved. Combining hundreds of lightning weapons, he created a gigantic lightning arrow.

"No, that's a… spear."

The spear was bigger than the tear in the space through which the first figure entered this world.

Swosh-

Both the figures attacked.

The scene felt eerily familiar to me.

I was trying to recall where I had seen this when the figures finally clashed.

BOOOM-!

Intense shockwaves erupted from the point of collision that generated massive winds.

The entire town where I was standing was uprooted and blown away.

BOOOM-!

The figures kept clashing, but I could no longer watch them fight.

I was being flung further from their battlefield by the winds each time they clashed.

BOOOM-!

Finally, after what felt like hours, I reached a place unaffected by the ongoing battle.

The battle continued on the horizon, its scale only increasing.

With each attack, the space was being torn apart.

The first figure levitated mountains and flung them at the second figure.

The second figure wielded his sword without any flashy move. Nevertheless, he was tearing the very fabric of reality with each swing.

Standing up, I turned around and tried to get away. They will also destroy shortly this place if they continued to battle at that intensity.

Thud-!

My feet, however, were tangled, and I tripped.

I stood up in a hurry and spared a glance to see what the cause of tripping me was.

"W-what!?"

My eyes widened in horror.

It was a corpse.

I found the first corpse in this ruined world.

BOOOM-!

The shockwaves finally reached this place, prompting me to cover my eyes and start moving.

But I didn't move.

I couldn't.

My feet refused to budge as I witnessed the scene in front of me.

The number of corpses increased with each clash.

Each time those two behemoths clashed, the number of corpses grew. By now, I was standing in the middle of mountains of corpses.

Nevertheless, this alone wasn't what shook me.

It was the identity of the corpses.

A few of them had their faces burned, some were missing half of their bodies. Dust covered their visage, making it difficult to discern their identities.

Yet, I knew them.

It was a face I saw every day.

It was my face.

BOOOM-!

The first figure crashed through the mountain of corpses and struck the ground.

Flying down, the second figure came out of the giant and looked down at his bloodied enemy.

"Why won't you give up? You can't defeat me."

In response, a burst of deafening laughter echoed.

"Hahahaha… give up? Do you think we can give up? WHY DON'T YOU ASK YOURSELF WHY WE CAN'T GIVE UP?!"

The second figure looked at the mountain of corpses.

"No matter how many times you try, you can never win. Stop your pointless struggle. Come with me. If it's together, we can save everything. We can create the Utopia."

The first figure stood up. However, he no longer seemed invincible.

He was bleeding, his body was battered, and he couldn't even muster enough strength to move.

Yet, his eyes shone fiercely.

"Everyone else can be damned! We can only achieve our goal after killing you."

The second figure closed his eyes in regret.

"So, be it."

Schwing-!

Puchi-!

With a flash, he plunged the sword into the first figure's heart.

The first figure was dying, yet he started laughing.

"Doesn't it get boring? In the end, it's always only the two of us. Why don't we try something new, something different?"

The second figure's brows furrowed at those ominous words.

"What do you mean by that?"

Seeing the anxiety in his eyes, the first figure's laughter only increased.

Suddenly, the corpses around us also began laughing.

-Hahahaha

-Kukukuku

-Kekeke

-HAHAHAHA

Before the second figure could ask again, the corpses and the first figure spoke in unison.

"OH HERO, LET THE NEXT ROUND BEGIN!"

Boom-!

An explosion erupted and blew away the mountain corpses.

Schwing-!

The second figure swung his sword and cleared the dust.

The explosion had destroyed everything in the vicinity. The only thing still standing were the second figure and me.

Looking around, his gaze stopped at me.

"When will you stop? How many times do I have to defeat you for you to understand?"

His figure blurred, and he reappeared before me.

Without giving me a chance to understand what was happening, he grabbed me by my neck.

"No matter what, you cannot defe-"

Abruptly, he stopped speaking and stared at me, wide-eyed.

"You, who are you?"