Chapter 128. Samsara War for Supremacy: Beasts Take Over, Humans Were Born Kings!
[Kaguya slightly narrowed her mischievous eyes, her fair hand lifted up, and two small gray wheels of samsara with mysterious patterns separated from the large Wheel of Samsara behind her back.]
[Dense darkness covered the red sky across ten thousand miles, then transformed into two streams of light entering samsara.]
[Although this was a game of equally matched wits with her, giving Raku Sou a slightly higher difficulty was still something she could do.]
[She smiled faintly; the gray Wheel of Samsara within the Womb Realm spun faster like gears, countless threads of karma were pulled taut, even the souls previously absorbed simultaneously awakened within the same world.]
[Beginning with the death of both parents was only the lowest level of difficulty, the real challenge had just begun. When the whole world began to target him, oppose him, and grind down his will — then no matter how tenacious one's resolve may be, how long can they endure?]
[One must know, just seven years is enough to completely change a person's personality.]
[Some, when young, are willing to die for their nation, draw their sword without regret in their youth — but entering middle age, they begin to cling to life, fear death, pursue fame and gain… By the end of life, they wish they could tear apart the country and people they once felt proud of, pack them up and sell them all.]
[If half a life can end up like that, what about a full one?]
[If one lifetime can't make him fall, then ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes — a hundred cycles of samsara still can't break his heart…]
[Then — a thousand lifetimes, ten thousand lifetimes!!]
["Onii-chan, give up. I'll let you rest in intoxicated surrender."]
[Endless blood-red light surrounded him, the tall and slender figure calmly looked down upon the desolate wasteland, where silver lightning constantly flashed, endless mercury swords continually erupted, splashing onto the Bodhisattva statue beneath her feet.]
[Boom boom boom!!]
[Humans trembled, and so did souls.]
[In just a blink, hundreds, thousands of grand collisions burst forth like Big Bang explosions. Pillars of brilliant blue energy surged continuously, piercing through the troposphere, causing the world-level barrier to buzz and quake.]
[A colossal Buddha statue of Six Continents level kept shattering and then condensing again and again.]
[Before completely defeating Kaguya within samsara, Raku Sou in reality absolutely must not lose!!]
…
Reality.
Italy.
Inside the Black God Faction.
"——If only samsara was in the hands of humankind, how great that would be."
An old tycoon sighed, drooling over the world-class Womb Realm. Though it was merely Kaguya's massive memory construct, creating an illusory samsara, each Kaguya acting as an NPC to filter talents—
It nonetheless truly created a world, a real world.
It only lacked physical substance to become an actual planet.
For someone who had reached the end of life, changed hearts seven times in a row, replaced all blood in his body, and was filled with a decaying aura like him — this meant everything.
If only memories could be preserved within the endless world of samsara…
Rebirth again and again.
In a certain sense, isn't this also a form of immortality?
"It's a pity that memories can't be preserved. What a chicken rib — something that seems useful but is actually useless. Wasteful to discard, but dull to consume…"
Someone sighed. Falling into endless samsara, going through birth, aging, sickness, and death in the mortal world, sorrow and distress, hateful reunions, loving separations, and the suffering of unfulfilled desires…
Isn't that also a kind of erosion?
Even if one's original personality does not change — in the end, is that person still truly themselves?
"Perhaps memories can be preserved… but that Demon Bodhisattva refuses to allow it."
A young man faintly smiled, white robes fluttering, completely unconcerned.
What joy is there in living? What sorrow in dying? Living a full life with the most intense emotions — that is enough.
The next life?
Hmph, let's talk about that later!
...
Relaxing BGM played softly, and the magnificent grand samsara unfolded once more!
[In the next life, countless souls descended into an another world where rivers of blood flowed, gods and demons fought for dominance, and various races battled each other fiercely, endlessly slaughtering for the sake of obtaining the Holy Grail of Omnipotence.]
[No one remembered when the war had started, only that it had lasted from ancient times until now, nearly destroying the entire planet.]
[The sky was forever gray.]
[In the eyes of the gods, the weak did not exist. They were the supreme authorities, the overlords of the land, the Demon Kings, ruling the earth with their own intense desires, pushing forward the war for the Holy Grail of Omnipotence.]
[In the endless divine war, even the immortal elements forming the foundation of the world — the Elf — fell into irreversible extinction!]
[The corpse remnants of the Elf, upon death, carried a curse and turned into drifting snow, falling for over 20,000 years.]
[Fairy-kind, Flügel-kind, EX-Machina-kind, Dragonia-kind… all these mighty races rampaged, killed each other, warred against one another, wantonly displaying their domination — some even once shot down gods!!]
[And in those long, dragging years, a weak, pitiful, powerless race was born.]
[Human.]
[So weak they didn't exist in anyone's eyes. So weak that behind the word "human" — there wasn't even the word "kind."]
...
A lonely, sorrowful, powerless aura spread as the sky opened up in reality.
It was unbelievable.
Human!
The overlords of heaven and earth!
Domineering, selfish, savage, cruel, vicious — all the labels once applied to Demon Kings in imagination were in fact reflections of humanity itself...
And all those labels shared one brand.
Powerful!!
They conquered oceans, highlands, great mansions, the sky… even stepped into outer space, leaving their traces among the boundless sea of stars.
They were the most deserving overlords of this planet.
They even once made Gaia — the will of the planet — tremble in fear, calling upon the wills of other planets —— the nine Ultimate Ones of the solar system to come aid, personally confirming that the inevitable fate would be the destruction of everything by mankind.
This was the ultimate end of humanity and the world… Land of Steel!
And yet now, you're telling me that in some unknown world, humanity is at the bottom?
No...
Not even the bottom — I'm not even recognized as a living species?
"What kind of fucking joke is this…"
Someone widened their eyes, unable to accept it.
With the pride of mankind, he absolutely couldn't accept such a thing. Even though he had imagined it a hundred times in fantasy dreams, in reality… he never believed there could be any race stronger than humans.
If there was, it would only be humans with a more advanced civilization.
But the scene before his eyes clearly wasn't that.
"That's nothing but…"
"Complete wild beasts…"
In the scene, the myriad races trampled the land freely, slaughtering without restraint using their innate power.
The greatness of humanity lies in suppressing instinct, maintaining intellect.
Otherwise, they're just thinking beasts.
But…
Too powerful.
Flügel, Dragonia, etc.… truly resembled living Heroic Spirits.
Each one could rival a top-tier Heroic Spirit!
Perhaps it was because they were too powerful that their social development was limited.
Some reflected: perhaps due to the existence of these powerful races, humans struggled to gain any initial development space. After all, humans in this world seemed completely powerless in the supernatural, and early-stage technological civilization was far too fragile.
If only they were humans from the other world…
Gasp!
Many people shivered, utterly despairing, all paths completely blocked.
All signs were shouting one word:
Death!!!!
"Maybe Raku Sou didn't reincarnate as a human…"
Someone murmured.
Bullshit!
The others rolled their eyes at him. What kind of joke is that — perhaps this was precisely designed to make Raku Sou's mind fall into darkness, so Kaguya intentionally crafted such a hell, a deathtrap created especially for humanity in this samsara round.
As expected.
...
[Among the people hiding underground like rats, along with the cries of a newborn baby.]
[Raku Sou was born.]
[Born on the hopeless land of humanity.]
[Grew up amid the wretched avoidance like ants, gradually becoming silent through continuous loss, until each and every leader fell one by one, and he — only fourteen years old — had to shoulder the lives of hundreds of people in the community.]
[During a disaster caused by the rampage of Dragonia and EX-Machina, he picked up Kaguya, then just a small shrunken creature, and for the first time, felt what it meant to possess something.]
[Quietly weaving a hood to cover her pale pink horn, in that moment, Raku Sou had gained a "family."]
[However, compared to the weakness of humanity, Kaguya — belonging to an unidentified race — grew at a divine speed, like a mountain rising, like an eagle soaring.]
[If only… if only Kaguya could become "human", then perhaps the existence of humanity would no longer be just a bubble dream?]
[From then on, Raku Sou always brought Kaguya along, taught her compassion, taught her love, led her to understand the pain of humanity — just a slight aftershock of a battle between higher races had already killed over a thousand innocent people on the spot.]
[Five years passed.]
[Under the guidance of Raku Sou, Kaguya was filled with a sense of belonging to humanity, and at the same time harbored deep hatred toward other races.]
[She said, once she became the strongest in the world, she would purge them all.]
[Raku Sou was content, hoping that he — as an ordinary human — could live to see that day in this lifetime.]
[However, when Kaguya was born, the scene of lightning shaking the heavens and earth had caught the attention of the ruler of Flügel — War God Artosh — who then spent many years tracking her whereabouts.]
[After a one-sided overwhelming battle, Kaguya was defeated.]
[Many in the tribe fell into despair.]
[Was humanity… about to go extinct?]
[But unexpectedly, the War God Artosh only took Kaguya.]
[He also took away… the hope and future of humanity.]
[Raku Sou was somewhat devastated, but quickly regained his spirit, and continued searching for a new path for humanity.]
[Ten years later.]
[The Omnipotence Grail was about to appear, and the races launched a brutal war like never before, from Dragonia to Flügel, all went mad slaughtering each other, the flames of war spreading across the entire world…]
[The Kaguya of the past, had now become the strongest warrior of Flügel-kind, even one of the three Dragon Kings — "The Armageddon Dragon", who had nearly touched the realm of the divine — was slain by her.]
[As the disciple of the War God, she had become one of the brightest stars in this great war!]
[However, these races were nothing more than pawns thrown out by the gods.]
[Just a test before the actual battle for the Omnipotence Grail began.]
[Humanity still lay buried at the lowest level.]
[Yet…]
[Taking advantage of EX-Machina's lack of emotions, humanity briefly gained a powerful ally.]
[A race capable of assembling all its forces — powerful enough to slay gods!]
[The war expanded in scale, and with the help of EX-Machina, Raku Sou succeeded in planning to seize the Omnipotence Grail… with even a success rate as high as 5%!]
[If they obtained the Omnipotence Grail, they could recreate the entire planet, so that every single human from then on could raise their heads high and live with pride.]
[Eventually, each god began slaughtering one another, the races revealed all their trump cards, and everything unleashed was capable of wounding the gods: armaments, rituals, each blinding cannon explosion erupting on the planet's surface turned the entire world into desolation.]
[How tragic it was…]
[Half a month later.]
[Each god fell, the corpses of countless races were suspended in midair, bodies piled across the ground — the entire planet turned into a strange, bloody hue.]
[The War God became the final victor, bearing the solitude of an undefeated being, standing amidst a sea of crimson bones, silently awaiting the appearance of the Omnipotence Grail.]
[However, as dawn broke and the sun rose, a new enemy appeared.]
[It stunned the War God momentarily, before he suddenly burst into hearty laughter.]
[The great war between gods and demons that engulfed the mortal realm erupted once again!]
[EX-Machina, with a total of about six thousand units, sacrificed 5,961 units to total annihilation, the rest severely damaged and entering hibernation — in exchange for slaying the strongest warrior — the War God Artosh, and simultaneously exterminating half of all Flügel-kind.]
[From then on, all twenty-four original races suffered heavy damage — the world was without gods!]
[Kaguya survived, in the stance of the strongest being, crushed countless races, becoming the true ruler of the world and dominator of the planet.]
[Raku Sou also successfully obtained the Omnipotence Grail.]
...
People were stunned; this cycle of reincarnation was entirely different from what they expected.
"What the hell is this? Everything's going so smoothly this time, did our Beast have a change of heart?"
"GM, this doesn't look good?"
"One has the Holy Grail, the other is the strongest in the world, and they're even siblings — the heavens and earth are both controlled by them, the protection umbrella for Human-kind this time is absurdly huge…"
"Good! Grudges shall be repaid, vengeance shall be served, let the other races fall at the feet of humanity!!"
"Even though the fellow humans in this reincarnation world suffered greatly, they finally made it through."
"I have a bad feeling about this…"
"Me too."
...
[However, in the upper atmosphere above the earth's crust, when Raku Sou touched the Omnipotence Grail before him — a radiant, transparent chalice glowing with nine-colored light — his pupils contracted violently, and his entire arm immediately vanished into nothingness, forcing him to retreat, gasping for breath.]
[He was the only race on the planet that lacked an Elf Corridor.]
[He — was unworthy to touch the Omnipotence Grail.]
[Though a bit regretful, Raku Sou sought out the countless corpses of EX-Machina, and with his one remaining arm, dug out their cores and threw them in a parabolic arc, burying the Omnipotence Grail in intense spiritual power.]
[So what if he couldn't become the owner of the Omnipotence Grail?]
[As long as Kaguya existed, she could protect Human-kind's survival on this planet.]
"Here we go again, setting up flags…"
In reality, Satou Kazuma shuddered, goosebumps rising — for some reason, a desperate development flashed through his mind…
...
[Two days later.]
[In the grand divine hall, envoys from all twenty-four races gathered in audience — even Human-kind, once considered unworthy of notice, silently attended.]
[Yet that tall, slender figure looked coldly down upon Human-kind below.]
[Those frigid eyes seemed to no longer see them as kin, but as a swarm of alien ants sullying today's celebration — even if those fellow humans were now respectfully and joyfully begging her to protect humanity.]
[It was all in vain.]
["Kill them. Give the corpses to Demon-kind to eat."]
[Amid the disbelieving eyes of countless races, the cold woman spoke indifferently.]
[Immediately after, a blade of wind sliced through — fresh blood dyed the grand hall red — a head with eyes wide open in disbelief flew high into the air.]
[The next day.]
[News returned underground, and the human tribes fell into a deathly silence. Raku Sou's heart turned to ice, but within him lingered a faint feeling… as if he had foreseen this.]
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Note: If you're wondering what world this is — it's No Game No Life. And honestly, I barely remember anything about NGNL other than the world where the game decides everything, the super cool opening, Shiro, the angel girl with the library... so the translation might not be correct.
This chapter reads like a Simulation fanfic.