The Sin of Avarice is the next level of sin harnessed by humanity, Avarice humans want everything this world has to offer, they will scrounge the entire planet if they have to have it all for themselves.
The humans who had this kind of sin could never be defeated by only making them surrender, they must be eliminated especially if the human is too capable of doing so.
Even if they had to destroy the very thing they desired, even themselves, in order to not let others have it.
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" If I can't defeat any one of you if you relentlessly come to me to prevent me from reaching my destiny! "
" Then I have no choice but to destroy you all, even if I had to receive so much damage, you bastards! " Adrian says as he unleashes an explosive attack, he is already immersed in his ego that it clouded his mind on planning to do what's next.
[ Avarice Release Explosion ]
At that very moment, Ragna gets to see what happened in that very instance, he sees only bright light as he gets too close to the explosion, it even comes near him.
< CRIT DMG >
< HP - 80.000 >
< Warning: Low Health >
< Fatal Damage Received >
< [Ten Thousand Slayer Remastered Sword, Dainsleif (+10) | (A) ] Durability low >
< [Imbuement Crafted Sword Remastered (+7) | (A) ] Broken>
< [Twelve Eye of Time] has been critically damaged. >
Ragna's [Twelve Eye of Time] gets damaged as the eye was opened at the time, and some of his body parts are being blasted to his right hand and both of his legs.
"( Shit, what the hell...? )" Ragna says in his mind, he never realized that it will come to this.
"( Oh damn, I'm hit! )"
"( *Sighs* )" Ragna says in his heart, regretting the impatience that led him to not be aware of the possible future.
"( I've been damaged so hard, seeing this I can assume that my HP is reaching zero. )" Ragna says as this happens.
"( I can feel anything anymore... I )" Ragna says as he remembers some memories of himself, he remembers the time spent with his comrades inside the Tower, the comrades he wished to know further, to maintain relationships even more, the comrades he wanted to befriend more after the Raid of this Tower is over.
"( I'm sorry all of you... )"
"( I'm sorry for all of the trouble I have to give you, because of my personal quests. )"
"( I never wanted you all to lose your lives, I wanted you all to return to your loved ones too... )"
"( I always wished in my heart that it's possible to save your lives, I would want us to be together until we're old... )" Ragna remembers, he remembers his dead comrades like Yolanda, Jack West, Tricia, Inquisitor Kara, Aphrodite, and Raiden...
He wished he could at least make them his Black Shadows, to at least return them to the world of the living, but...
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( Flashback. )
< Black Shadow Summon Failed >
" Huh!? " Ragna says as he failed to summon the Black Shadow from the dead corpse of Yolanda, Jack, and Tricia back when he travels back to the Third Floor with Thorndamn.
< Failed to manifest the Shadows of a human >
< For the Player's current skill level, the Player is advised to only resurrect only monsters. >
" What do you say!? Ragna says, feeling saddened as he tried it again but still fails.
After tons of failures, Ragna can only see their corpses, he remembers the time having conversations with them, simple conversations but it makes him feel like he's not alone, like there are more people other than his grandmother that he could relate with.
" So you're saying they're lost forever...? " Ragna asks the System while clenching his hands.
< I'm sorry Player Ragna. >
< My deep condolences... >
" Dammit! " Ragna says as he curses this very result.
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( Back to the present. )
Remembering those, Ragna begins to realize that he still needs more, even if he's at Level 97 right now, after dealing with a lot of monsters and summoning his Black Shadow (he already retracts them back, canceling their summoning, to even face Adrian again), he still didn't manage to bring an end to him, didn't gave him the finishing blow, not even the already transformed Galen.
"( Sorry, both of you... )"
"( Sorry, Galen... sorry if I... )" Ragna says as his legs had already been vaporized by the explosion, his right hands too while protecting the Twelve Eye of Time that resides in his left eye.
"( Sorry Galen, Inquisitor, Raiden, Lord Aphrodite, Rachina, Grandma, Twelve, 69, 100, Maiden, and also... )" Ragna says while he suddenly gets a memory, a memory from Ragna Twelve, 69, and 100.
"( I'm sorry too..., dear Carla... )"
"( My previous 'selves' granddaughter... )"
"( I'm sorry for not being able to make you exist in this Timeline... )" Ragna says sorry before his body is blasted away.
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"( You okay...? )" A voice says in Ragna's mind.
"( Huh...? )" Ragna asks in his mind as he can hear it.
"( Thank goodness, you're still conscious, guess my [Mind Transmission] using Ki at least managed to confirm that you're still here.
"( Pardon...? )" Ragna says as he then opens his right eye which hasn't been damaged, unlike his left eye which had almost got permanent damage. The damage given is too critical for the left eye.
< [Twelve Eye of Time] has been seriously damaged. >
Ragna sees the notification while he also sees the source of the mind transmission, where he sees there's someone in front of him that shields him from the explosion, someone he definitely knows.
"( Don't worry, Ragna... )" Galen says as he says it through his mind.
Seeing Galen in front of him, Ragna was shocked to see him holding his body, shielding him by offering his back to the explosion blast, leaving him vulnerable while he was in his Black Spirit mode.
"( Galen you're... ) " Ragna says in his mind, tears begin to drop as he sees his remaining comrade just shielded him from his impending doom.
"( Don't worry, it won't easily blast my body away in my current state... )"
"( It is enough, to defend you... )" Galen says.
"( My disciple... )" Galen tells Ragna that everything is alright.
"( Galen...? )" Ragna asks as he still thinks about this in midst of the explosion.
"( I know, you don't have to use your brain much to realized this, actually... )"
"( I already know the consequences but when I considered it, a good decision. )"
"( For I know that my part as your teacher is over, you already absorbed my Black Spirit Martial Arts earlier, didn't you...? )" Galen asks Ragna while the explosion slowly vaporized his body, he realized that the reason why Ragna let him fight alone earlier is to let him absorb his Shadow using < Black Shadow Absorption > as Galen tells he already sees Ragna doing so while he's battling on the ground earlier before the explosion even begins.
"( Yes... )" Ragna says as he tells Galen that he had already absorbed it.
"( Good... )" Galen tells him while explaining to Ragna that the explosion is getting weaker while his body is getting more vaporized.
"( Then you're training is complete... )"
"( Now after you absorbed it, you will perform my techniques perfectly then... )"
"( For that's what I can offer to you, after all this time. )"
"( I'm sorry if my skills were not that advanced, but that's what I can teach you. "
"( The rest is for you to learn it yourself... )" Galen says while his body gets more vaporized but when it happened he hugs Ragna to shield him even more from the last waves of the explosion Adrian created.
"( Thank you disciple... )" Galen says while still maintaining his Ki and body to block the last waves of explosion from hurting Ragna.
"( Thank you for also teaching me new things and helping me answer my questions... )"
"( I'm proud of you, I never regretted teaching you in the first place. )"
"( Ragna... )" light flashes from the explosion as Galen still protects Ragna from the last explosion unleashed by Adrian.
"( I trust my secrets and knowledge to you now, like you trust your secrets and knowledge to me. )" Galen says, remembering his moments with Ragna back then. As he remembered Ragna shared many of his secrets with him even some of his items that helped so much this far, such as this hand weapon Ragna gave him. After receiving all of that, as a warrior, he always tries to find a way to return things to him but always failed, and finally, the time comes, so he decided that this is the time for him to share his secrets, his knowledge, and also...
His own life...
For Ragna...
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There's some part of Galen vs Adrian's battle that is on the ground, giving Ragna the chance to absorb his Shadow using
I'm sorry if it comes to this, but as the Author, I must say that Galen is rarely looked upon despite him having a better reason to kill Adrian than the others, but sadly, I forgot to mention that the [Hive Stinger Clan] has some principles that prevent from doing revenge, the principles I forgot to mention is.
Hive Stinger Clan's Principles:
1) Reject the Divine half-promises and the Demonic temptations.
2) Always implement justice above all else, do not mistake it for vengeance.
3) Always return one's kindness and help with kindness and help, never give them trouble and insult.
4) Keep those you cared about safe, do not ever lose or abandon or even sacrifice them.
5) Use Martial Arts to defend life, not to destroy it.
6) Only use the most dangerous of techniques when all hope is lost, not when you're at your peak.
7) If one destroys life, especially that of a human, they must prepare for their own life to be taken as their retribution.
With those principles being said before Galen entered the Tower, he actually went on some killing spree to find out the identity of those who murdered his Clan, in the previous chapters, you can see his flashback killing many that were linked to Adrian and many more that he himself might've forgotten on doing so.
Thus making him go too far from his own Clan's principles, Galen already knew he would receive the consequences sooner or later. But during his awaiting, he met Ragna the first person he could trust and become his disciple, the person he can inherit all he has before he finally receives the final consequences of what he had done behind the curtains.