Silence. Total utter silence.
It felt as if even a man's heart could not beat at this moment.
Elric's response left both God of Darkness and Kravel speechless. It struck them like an arrow in the throat as both of them seemed to lose their ability to speak and think at the same time.
Why did he give such an extreme reaction?
Elric literally 'unalived' himself because he was fed up with his life and the world. He committed suicide to achieve never-ending peace. And yet, this entity called God of Darkness wanted him to live again for some reason.
It took a lot of mental strength and conviction to commit suicide and end your life. Elric crossed that threshold as he was broken from the inside as a human being. So no way he would want to live again to repeat the same cycle.
This is why he suddenly erupted and told a literal god like the God of Darkness to 'fuck off' without thinking of the consequences.
A few seconds passed away, and the God of Darkness stared at Elric with a gaze so deep and full of wrath, enough to kill anyone just by looking at them.
Suddenly, an extremely horrifying aura exuded out of both God of Darkness and Kravel's bodies.
BANG!
Unimaginably horrendous killing intent filled the surrounding atmosphere and covered a radius of a few dozen kilometers. Even diamonds would be reduced to nothing but small granules under this pressure.
Elric, the one being who was actually at the receiving end of it all shuddered and his soul form flickered again and again as if his current form was simply getting wiped out of existence and brought back to life.
To Elric, it felt like he had gone through thousands of deaths. This pressure he was enduring had destroyed his current form and rebuilt him again in a nanosecond, only to carry out the process indefinitely.
After a minute of such a heart-wrenching scenario, God of Darkness and Kravel finally stopped exuding their killing intent and looked at Elric who was barely keeping his screams inside... He just didn't get time to open his mouth and scream or wail.
To be precise, he had indeed died a few thousand times again in that one minute. But an unknown force kept bringing him back to his previous state.
Elric had a hint of exactly what this was... It was the God of Darkness using his powers on Elric after his extremely rude and disrespectful response.
God of Darkness retracted his gaze from Elric, it appeared to become extremely dim compared to before.
G.O.D ruled over Death and Infinite Abyss. He was a True God who controlled an aspect of reality.
Then G.O.D gazed at Elric with a look of disappointment and spoke again, "Never had I ever seen such an extremely impetuous human before.
Even the other Gods do not dare to talk to me in such a vile and disrespectful manner. Tell me, mortal... What makes you think I really won't wipe you out of existence or torture you for the end of time?" he questioned Elric.
Elric, who had finally gained control over his consciousness looked back at G.O.D and responded, "Then why don't you do it? What makes you think I want to be alive? Just finish the job and end me already!"
Elric's fearless answer left both G.O.D. and Kravel speechless again.
Had their act of trying to put Elric into submission by making him experience death over a few thousand times turned him into a fool? Or had he gone senile from the pain and suffering to become a suicidal maniac?
Kravel, who was rendered speechless by Elric since he had said 'Fuck off' to G.O.D. looked at his master as if he was looking at someone who broke their favorite toy.
"My liege, are you sure you haven't destroyed his consciousness completely?" Kravel asked.
G.O.D. was startled at this point and refused by flexing his hands around.
"Oi, what are you waiting for? Just kill me already!
I don't want to look at your ugly faces for another second." Elric grumbled in a discontent tone.
"Ugly your mother!" both G.O.D. and Kravel said in rebuttal. Both of them looked at Elric as if he just killed their dog.
Elric on the other end was surprised.
These two ultimate beings killed him over a few thousand times for being disrespectful but now they were suddenly throwing rude comments at him for calling them 'ugly' like little girls? Why was this happening? He just wanted to die again and be done with it.
At the next second however, G.O.D. decided to end the charade and get back to business.
"Why do you not want to live again? Is it because of your past life experiences ?" he asked Elric.
God of Darkness had already read through Elric's memories so he knew of his miserable life.
"Yes. Who wants a second chance at life just to get used up by someone else again?
I mean whatever you want me to do comes with a price which definitely won't be beneficial to me at all. And why should I believe in anything you say?
Let's save us all the trouble, send me back to being dead, and find someone else who actually wants to live." Elric said with a bored expression.
G.O.D. and Kravel were taken aback again.
"So you don't want to live again, mortal? Do you not understand the opportunity my liege is offering you? Not everyone gets such a miraculous chance." Kravel who refrained to be part of this conversation decided to meddle.
"Are you two morons dumb? Didn't you hear me the first time?
Let me die you, bastards! Pick someone else. Why do you even need to listen to me, just send me back!" Elric gave his discontent rebuttal.
However…
"I... I can't." G.O.D. finally spoke up. He shook his head and was trying to avoid direct eye contact.
"My powers allow me to control death and things that have no place in existence. I am a being born out of that very aspect of reality in our world.
But even so… At most, I can summon the dead souls from other worlds like yours inside this World Boundary and only keep just one of such souls in my possession since the dead of other worlds are bound to their respective world's laws of reality.
And even keeping one soul here takes an immense amount of my power." G.O.D. explained the whole process.
Elric looked at G.O.D. as if he was looking at a liar. Not satisfied with his answer at all.
But then he looked at Kravel who was standing beside G.O.D. 's throne. And he too looked like that was indeed the truth.
"And what if I refuse to do whatever you said you wanted me to do? You'll at least kill me, right?" Elric asked with an expectant and elated expression.
"No!" both G.O.D. and Kravel shouted at the same time.
"Why?" Elric asked with an irritated countenance.
"Because you're the only one we can rely upon now. And I can no longer summon anyone again for the next few thousand years." spoke G.O.D.
"And why should I care? From the looks of it. It looks like an impossible job for a normal office worker guy like me.
I didn't live a life of wonders and heroic deeds you know.
Why would you even pick me of all the people you could've picked?" Elric asked curiously.
This didn't make sense to him as G.O.D. could've easily brought someone more capable and experienced for whatever job they had to be done.
So why him?
G.O.D. however, stayed silent for dozen seconds and finally heaved a sigh. He looked at Elric and said in a solemn tone.
"Because the task we're going to give you demands one being extremely aware and not trusting anyone.
Because currently, all my representatives and anyone who was allied with me has been marked as someone who must be killed in the entire world of Vantrea; including those who once served or worshipped me in the form of Cults, Temples and Churches." said G.O.D. in a very disheartened tone.
"I wasn't even supposed to summon you myself.
Normally, whenever a chosen one is brought from a different world into ours, they are summoned by the Churches and the Empire who worship a particular God and follow their doctrine at the expanse of hundreds of mages working together.
But all my followers and anyone who had worshiped me were wiped out completely 300 years ago. And now, not many people in our world even know that I exist.
My name is nothing but a myth in our world at this point." G.O.D. explained.
Elric who looked at both the beings in front of him with a suspecting gaze still appeared to be uncertain and asked…
"So what do you want me to do? Build churches and temples for you, spread your divine teachings to the masses and bring you back to your glory days?
Sorry, but I'm not a religious guy."
G.O.D. and Kravel both glanced at each other and then gazed at Elric together.
"No. We don't want you to do something so arduous and hectic. We just need you to kill the Demon God." Said G.O.D. with an embarrassed tone.
As if struck by a thousand bolts of lightning at the same time, Elric stayed rooted on the spot, shivering in immense disbelief.
He didn't speak or move at all. Only after half a minute, he was fumed with anger and shouted…
"YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!"