Strongest Hammer God novel Chapter 1080

Kyle remained silent for a while.

'Or am I just coping?'

'What if Swamp Dragon promised the Overseer something in exchange for our lives? What if he placed some kind of dummy body in another Elemental that looks like me?'

'I wouldn't put it past Swamp Dragon to also sacrifice himself if it means that the plan succeeds.'

Silence.

'I don't know. Are they all still alive or are they all dead?'

Kyle didn't even know what he was feeling anymore.

Hope, hopelessness, betrayal, hatred...

He looked at the countless tiny Karmic Lines and focused on their color.

Their colors were mixed and weak.

Yet, two Karmic Lines had stronger colors than all the others. The colors of these two lines represented goodwill.

Two people out there wished Kyle all the best. In order to feel such goodwill for someone, one had to know the other person.

'Everyone is connected by Karma. When a line is cut, a new one is formed, but the new one will be far weaker than the old one.'

'These two lines must be the new Karmic Lines connecting me with Sebastian and Fierce Breaker.'

'They are most likely still alive.'

Yet, Kyle couldn't be completely sure. The world had recovered by now. What if two people had heard about him and somehow felt intense emotions for the image they had painted of him in their minds?

'If this is a ploy, why has Swamp Dragon also cut his own Karmic Line? He should know that I would become suspicious. If he had left his Karmic Line intact, I wouldn't even have thought of the possibility that Sebastian and Fierce Breaker might have cut their Karmic Lines.'

'Is it a message? Does he want to force me to choose? Does he want me to willingly follow his schemes?'

Kyle felt intense refusal when he thought about doing what Swamp Dragon wanted him to do.

'But this wave of Energy can't be faked. Swamp Dragon can't launch such a powerful wave of Energy. I've seen its effects. I've seen it destroy over a hundred Major Elementals. Not even a Three-Infused Ascendant can launch such a devastating wave of Energy. Even more, the Elemental Energies are still in chaos, which means the destruction stretches further than I can sense.'

'Either the Overseer has really killed Sebastian or...'

'She's working with the others.'

A dark feeling of isolation rose in Kyle's chest.

'It went from us against her to them against me.'

'If that's so...'

'I'm truly alone.'

Kyle looked at the two Karmic Lines. If he hadn't known the Law of Karmic Causality, he might have believed that even the colors of these Karmic Lines were fake.

Yet, he knew the Law of Karmic Causality, and he knew how difficult it was to fake these colors. One would need to brainwash oneself to genuinely feel these feelings, and that was far easier said than done.

'What's your plan? What's your true goal? What did you actually do?'

'Are they dead? Are they alive? Are some of them dead?'

'If you had spared your own Karmic Line, I would have fallen into the depths of hatred and despair. The Gate of Death would have appeared.'

'Why risk your plan failing?'

'Or did it actually fail, and the Overseer just killed you accidentally?'

'The more time passes, the more certain I am that everyone's still alive. After all, I'm still alive. If I were the Overseer, and if I wanted to destroy anyone hiding in the Elemental Dimension, I wouldn't overlook a singular Major Elemental that just so happened to survive my attack.'

'This confirms it. They're working together.'

A dark and foreboding feeling rose in Kyle's chest.

'Now, I can see your angle. You've promised the Major Law of Death to the Overseer. However, you wouldn't give it to her directly but by using me as a proxy. You told her that I would enter, and she cooperated.'

'But what if I refuse?'

'In that case...'

'The Overseer would kill all of you, and I would lose all of you for real. If the fake death doesn't work, maybe a real one will.'

Kyle gritted his teeth.

'Swamp Dragon!'

'Follow you, or everyone I value will die! Is that it?!'

'You've pushed the choice onto me! If I refuse to follow your plan, I will be killing Sebastian and Fierce Breaker! I have the power to save them! I could save them!'

'I just have to do what you want me to do!'

'But that's not a choice but an ultimatum!'

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