Unrivaled in another world

[: 3rd POV :]

"Is this… the final location?"

The words left his lips in a whisper, lost to the roaring winds that howled across the darkened heavens.

The sky above was veiled in seething black clouds, rippling with lightning that cracked like divine fury.

And there, suspended amidst the storm, floated a lone figure.

Daniel.

No longer could he be called mortal.

No longer did his form reflect the fragile bounds of human limitation.

His presence was something… else—an unknowable force veiled in flesh, draped in gold, cloaked in silence.

The world bent subtly around him, and even the raging sky dared not touch him.

His gaze, calm yet heavy, bore down upon the endless expanse beneath him—an entire territory writhing with monstrous life.

From towering behemoths to grotesque aberrations, the land was infested with beings that had once made this continent untouchable.

But in Daniel's eyes, there was no fear… and no mercy.

Only destruction.

He hovered, unmoving, as if time itself hesitated in his presence.

This was the end.

The last stronghold of chaos.

The final battleground between him… and everything that sought to keep him bound to this cursed continent.

His journey—unfathomably long, blood-soaked, and filled with both glory and solitude—had brought him here.

One last battle.

And then… freedom.

A whisper of wind brushed past him, and in that quiet moment, his thoughts drifted.

Beyond the gates.

Beyond the storms.

Beyond the endless carnage.

To them and to her.

"…Caelira… Rika… Kiel… Marnok…"

Their names surfaced like faded memories carved into his soul.

Faces he hadn't seen in what felt like lifetimes.

Smiles, laughter, the warmth of shared burdens.

And above all…

"...Mother…"

His voice cracked, barely audible.

"I wonder what she's thinking about right now…"

His eyes softened for a fleeting second, the violet glow within them dimming with melancholy.

"Would she… even recognize me?"

A broken chuckle escaped his lips, hollow and bittersweet.

It echoed faintly in the sky, swallowed by the winds.

"I'm still alive… after everything. Somehow."

The weight of those words was immense.

Not just because of the pain he endured, but because of the cost.

The countless lives taken, the cities buried, the monsters devoured, the parts of himself lost along the way.

All for this.

Just one step more—and he would be free.

Free to leave.

Free to reunite.

Free to see his mother's face that he had never seen before.

Lightning tore through the sky again, this time with a roar that seemed almost ceremonial.

Daniel's expression shifted.

The sadness remained… but it was joined now by something else.

Conviction and resolve.

His body straightened, and the faint hum of power radiated from him like a heartbeat.

The golden aura behind his back shimmered once more, taking the form of a sword suspended in brilliance.

This was not the gaze of a warrior.

It was the gaze of someone who had been broken, reforged, and chosen to rise again.

"Wait for me," Daniel whispered, eyes never leaving the horizon.

"Just a little longer."

And so, it had come to this.

The final blow.

The last act.

He could feel the tension in the air—heavy, electric, sacred.

His eyes, glowing with solemn intensity, scanned the battlefield one last time.

The horizon was a canvas of ruin, clawed by time, blood, and the cost of his journey.

But now… it would be wiped clean.

No more waiting.

No more chains.

No more detours.

This was his final step forward—

And the first step towards...home.

Daniel exhaled slowly and lifted his hand toward the sky.

There was no sound, no chant.

Only will.

His pure, boundless will.

The air cracked.

From above him, space itself twisted and tore open.

A black sphere began to form—no, not a sphere.

It was a sun.

A massive, howling, writhing black sun forged from the essence of destruction itself.

Its surface was jagged and molten, rippling with chaotic currents of annihilation.

Its presence distorted reality—light bent around it, gravity pulled in unnatural ways, and even time seemed to slow in reverence.

And in the midst of that storm, Daniel closed his eyes.

He could already feel the end.

But more than that…

He could feel what comes after this.

In that moment, within the silence of his mind, he saw it.

He saw her.

His mother.

Standing in a sunlit field, arms open, crying as he ran into them.

Even though her face was blurred, her embrace was warm, familiar and longed for.

He saw Caelira, scolding him with tears in her eyes and a shaky laugh on her lips.

He saw Rika, leaping onto his back, calling him a show-off like she always used to.

He saw Kiel and Marnok, arms crossed, both pretending to act tough, but their eyes glimmered with pride and relief.

He saw peace.

Laughter.

Sunlight.

He saw a future.

A future where the blood had dried, the gates had closed, and the burden he carried for so long was finally set down.

A life.

His life.

A small smile tugged at his lips, and a tear rolled down his cheek, tracing the path of every sorrow he had endured.

He opened his eyes.

"...It's time."

With that whisper, he released the sun.

The black star descended slowly, like a god's judgment, like a promise written in shadow and flame.

It fell with silence—terrifying, complete silence—as the land held its breath.

And then..

BOOM

The moment it touched the ground, reality buckled.

A flash of blinding, pitch-black light exploded outward, swallowing the continent whole.

The ground ruptured.

The sky shattered into streaks of burning violet.

Seas rose and fell like beasts thrashing in pain, sending waves towering into the clouds.

Mountains were flattened, forests reduced to ash, the very fabric of the continent torn apart.

The sound came after, there was a ooming wave of force that screamed through the heavens and made the continent weep.

Birds fell from the skies.

Islands nearby had cracked.

The sea itself retreated from the blast.

And when the light faded—

There was silence.

Where once stood an army of abominations, now lay only a vast, endless crater—a wound in the earth that glowed faintly with residual energy.

There was nothing left.

Not even dust.

Daniel stood in the air above it all, clothes fluttering gently in the breeze that followed devastation.

And on his face, despite the ruin, was a smile.

It wasn't one of pride.

It wasn't one of arrogance.

It was a smile of peace.

Finally...after everything that had happened, he had finally achieved it.

Freedom.

[: Congratulations, you have completed an Ex Rank Mission and have obtained 1,000,000 Points :]

[: Congratulations, you have achieved the impossible of freeing the Forbidden Continent from chains of monsters and has obtained 10 Gift Bags :]

"System..." Daniel called.

[: Yes Host? :]

"Did I finally did it?" Daniel questioned melancholy.

He wanted someone to convince him that this was real.

He didn't want it to be an illusion where due to years of isolation, he had gone lonely.

[: Yes Host, you have finally did it :]

[: The restriction that was sealed upon this continent has finally been undone :]

[: And you can finally leave :]

He had done it.

He had truly done it.

And yet… why did it feel so empty?

The time he spent alone.

The laughter that never echoed beside him.

The nights he slept beneath blood-soaked stars, holding memories like fragile glass in his hands.

He had spent 4 years being alone with only the system beside him.

"…I can go home now," Daniel whispered, his voice nearly breaking. "It's over."

His shoulders trembled slightly, though no enemy stood before him.

There was no more war, no more survival.

Only the quiet.

His fists clenched slowly, his breathing shallow as something unfamiliar welled up in his chest.

He was free.

But freedom didn't feel the way he thought it would.

He thought he would shout.

Scream.

Laugh.

Collapse from relief.

But instead…

Tears.

Hot, slow tears fell from his eyes—one by one—each a memory, a scar, a loss.

Each one a name he hadn't spoken in years, a warmth he had forgotten, a dream buried in blood and silence.

"I'm going home," he said again, shakier this time.

His hand brushed his face, wiping the tears away as they came faster now, as though all the sorrow he'd buried behind power and purpose had finally broken through the dam.

"...I'm going to see them."

He forced a weak smile, but it trembled, the kind that barely held its shape.

He pictured Caelira's eyes—sharp but always filled with warmth.

Rika's relentless teasing.

Kiel's quiet pride.

Marnok's grounded strength.

And most of all… his mother.

The face he had never fully seen, yet had spent years chasing in his dreams.

A smile he had imagined countless times in the darkness.

"Will she even believe it's me?" he asked the empty air.

[: She will, Host. You are her son after all and blood can never lie. :]

The system's voice echoed gently in his mind, no longer joke or teasing—but soft and understanding.

Daniel let out a trembling laugh, one that quickly turned into a sob.

"I'm… really going back."

He didn't realize he had dropped to his knees in the air, floating just above the crater, as if bowing before all the pain he had endured.

All the souls he'd lost.

All the parts of himself he had to bury to survive.

"I don't even know who I am anymore," he said quietly.

"But… I still want to go home."

The sky above cleared at last, letting soft light bleed through the clouds.

A golden warm light touched his figure, warm and calm.

It was the first sunlight Daniel had seen in years without the smell of blood or smoke around him.

It felt like a promise.

A beginning.

A world that waited beyond the gates.

One where he wasn't the Death Calamity.

Just Daniel.

A son.

A friend.

Someone who survived… and wanted to live.

[: Host… shall we begin the returning to the Human Continent? :]

He took a breath.

A long, shaking breath that carried the weight of a thousand battles and a thousand regrets.

Then, he nodded.

"…Yeah," he whispered, tears still sliding down his face.

"I'm coming home"

Author Notes:

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