Legendary Architect of Apocalypse

"Do you think it's that simple? Even if we kill him, we won't get any points. And if we fail, we might die. I don't think he has shown us everything that he has." The girl shook her head in hesitation.

"But he tried to kill you. Can we let him go like that? Isn't it better to just remove a competition? After you kill him, you will become the first rank in class."

"I don't think he was trying to kill me. He wouldn't be foolish enough to not understand the strength of a Constellation when he comes from the Ashborn Family. It was more like a warning shot."

"Should I give him a warning of my own then?" The constellation who had taken a completely human form asked, as an evil aura started rising around him.

"Should we?" The girl truly started considering.

Although she was cautious about Elias who had taken the first rank and killed a Professor, she also didn't find it pleasing to run away after such a crass warning.

After thinking for a long time, she eventually gave in. There were too many things that she didn't know about Elias. He was the strangest person in the entire class.

Although there were many rumors about him floating across the Academy about his undeserved first rank, she had always felt that something was off about him.

She came here to see if she could actually find anything about him when he was challenged by others. But the battle ended so fast, that there was never any danger for that boy.

"Let it go. We will wait for the others to challenge him. If he is truly anything special, it would be more interesting. But if he isn't..." She mumbled, but she didn't finish her sentence.

She commanded the Constellation to turn around and leave. She still had to collect some points from the others that were coming to the second battlefield, while ensuring to leave just enough to threaten Elias.

"She was wise to leave. If she had come down..." Astralious mumbled, feeling the heavy killing intent around Elias.

After the girl left, Elias lowered his head to look at the two corpses before him. He walked closer to them, and checked their clothes to see if there were any useful Materials there or not.

....

The sun had started setting, and no one else came to challenge Elias for the next few hours. He was sitting on the wall of the stadium, overlooking the small town that was covered under the heavy scent of blood.

Astralious approached him and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"This world is said to have died. But there are still so many useful things left in this world. Only the life forms have disappeared. But every other thing is left perfectly in fact, as if frozen in time."

"What about it?"

"I can't bring a person back to life. But if it's a lifeless world, is it still impossible?" He was looking at his own analysis screen, something that only he could see.

His class was that of an architect, and Earth was no different than a utopia for someone like him.

After the trial was over, this world was going to be left completely empty, and become a perfect place for him to revive this world as an Architect.

"I don't understand a single thing that you're saying. Are you talking about turning this world into your own Territory?"

"That's right. A territory that can become my strength. A modern utopia that might be lifeless, yet something that could never be surpassed."

"Hmm? It's easier said than done. Where will you get the manpower to make it happen? It's also not easy to surpass the upper world. The technology and the materials available on earth are still insignificant."

Astralious shook the incredulous thought off. It was just a fleeting dream in his eyes. Even if an Upper World wanted to create a Territory like that, they would need to spend wealth that would take them hundreds of years to gather, and employ millions of people.

"What even made you think of something like that?"

"It's just my class," Elias mumbled, gazing at his screen.

His class did allow him to gain strength beyond the wildest imagination of others, but at the end of the day, it was still called that of an Architect.

His class allowed him to fight, but was it truly what it was meant for? Did an Architect even need to fight personally? If he could truly use his class as it was conventionally meant to, he could draw out a thousand times more value.

It might even make it easier for him to upgrade his class further. Only when a class was put to the right use, it could evolve without needing external resources.

It was just like how a poison master could evolve when they surpassed their poison making skills. It didn't need them to kill people, or to fight with others. It was more of an intellectual class than many people thought.

It didn't matter if his memories related to earth were real or not. But this was still a territory that didn't have an owner.

Unlike other worlds that went through apocalypses that left them ravaged, earth had only lost lives and nothing else.

It was like a corpse master finding a perfect corpse that had died without having a single wound on their body.

Astralious slapped the back of Elias's head, but his hand simply passed through. "Enough thinking about such nonsense. It's impossible."

"Is it really impossible?" Elias placed his hand on the wall beneath him, and the material composition opened up before him.

Everything pointed towards his link with lifeless things, as if the universe was trying to guide him down the right path. But he knew that Astralious was also right. The resources needed to fulfil his dream were astronomical.

"Maybe in the near future," he mumbled, closing the material composition screen of the wall that was made of bricks.