Pew!
“Ugh!”
Another beam pierced through my body.
A single beam of light erased half of my body.
The power of the enemy was becoming more refined and powerful.
It was getting more accustomed to the power of a god.
Whoooom
I regenerated my body once more.
The left half of my body, burned by the director’s laser, returned to its original state.
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“Stubborn.”
The enemy looked down at me arrogantly from above.
“I told you. I’m immortal.”
“Hmph. You’re regenerating slower than you used to, though.”
He seemed to be under some misconception.
“As expected. Even if I can’t die, regeneration is a different matter. It takes divine power to return to my full form. And the more I use, the slower the regeneration becomes.”
He twisted his lips into a sneer.
“When your regeneration reaches its limit, I’ll eat you.”
He said this while firing more lasers.
Boom! Boom!
I set up barriers to block the director’s lasers.
“You think you can buy time? You’re dreaming!”
Kwahhhhh!
The lasers rained down like beams of light.
The barriers I created with my imagination started to reach their limit.
“The time it takes for the divine power inside me to deplete is over a day! That’s more than enough time to absorb you!”
Pew!
Finally, one of the lasers broke through my barriers and hit me.
The enemy’s smile grew wider.
This bastard...
Does he really think I’ll just break the dream world and escape?
If I leave, he’ll die. He doesn’t even realize that.
Escaping would mean I wouldn’t be absorbed, but...
That would make it impossible for the goddess of wisdom to shed the past and awaken.
Right now is my last chance.
Constellation... please, hurry.
Please, hurry up.
How much longer?
I’m not failing, right?
At that moment...
Kugugugugung!
A loud explosion came from down below, from the surface.
...It worked!
“...Impossible.”
The enemy’s face hardened.
Since he had absorbed all the divine power of the goddess of wisdom, he should know what had happened down below.
“What’s happening down there... is impossible.”
“I can’t accept this! She has nothing left of the divine essence.”
The enemy stubbornly denied the reality.
“Ah. Yes. There was not a single shred of divine essence left.”
Divine power rapidly surged from below, coming toward us.
“But if she awakened her divine power herself, that’s a different story.”
The enemy’s face stiffened in shock.
He had ascended to godhood through many sacrifices and the use of shortcuts, so he could never accept the idea of someone awakening divine power on their own.
“That’s impossible! How can that lowly, stupid woman do something I couldn’t? It’s not possible!”
This contradiction of arrogance and inferiority made him lose control.
“I am the goddess of wisdom! I am the true pinnacle of intellect, unlike the vermin like you!”
Enraged, he raised both hands high.
Thousands of laser-like lights appeared in the air, all aimed for destruction.
Up until now, the attacks he had made were like fuel-efficient maneuvers, slowly burning through his divine power. Now, he was prepared to unleash an attack of a different magnitude, burning through the divine essence.
But...
“You’re wrong.”
Whoooom
All the lights vanished in an instant.
“You’re not the goddess of wisdom.”
A girl, glowing in vibrant purple, stood before me.
“Wisdom is the understanding of all things through knowledge and aligning one’s thoughts and actions accordingly. You, who forcibly bend your surroundings to suit yourself, will never become the goddess of wisdom.”
“...You’ve regained it, Princess.”
The girl, who had been trapped for centuries and suffered, had awakened on her own.
She had accepted everything within herself and had become the true goddess of wisdom.
“Prince, thank you.”
She gave me a sidelong glance and thanked me.
“You’ve died countless times for me. I wonder how much it hurt.”
It didn’t hurt, since it was a dream.
“I’m assuming this is a confession of love? Well, it was you who crossed the line first, Prince. Get ready later. I’ll show you hundreds of my goddess’s special skills.”
...What?
My brain couldn’t keep up with her words, and I felt a bit overloaded.
“Yes, yes!!”
Fwoosh!
The director, now engulfed in divine flames, shouted in rage.
“I can’t accept this! A lowly, stupid girl like you couldn’t have attained divinity on your own! This must be some trick!!”
He knew better than anyone about the formation of divine power, yet he denied it.
He could not accept that a mere experiment he had despised had done what he couldn’t.
That was the same as denying everything he had fought for all this time.
“How dare you interfere with my thousand-year plan! I will burn you both with divine fire!”
He raised both hands high.
Flames gathered to form the shape of the sun.
“You dare to burn the core of a god? Has your anger paralyzed your reason?”
A god can absorb other divine powers to sustain itself, even if it means sacrificing others.
But the core of the god is the very concept of existence.
If the core is destroyed, its extinction is inevitable.
“It doesn’t matter! I’ll burn you all and eat you both! I’ll do it right here!”
Even if he won and ate others, he would still cease to exist.
He had crossed the point of no return.
“Ugh.”
The goddess of wisdom extended her hand toward the sun, but the sun did not disappear.
“...It’s too powerful.”
This final attack, made at the cost of his own destruction, was an immense power that even she, now fully awakened as a true goddess, could not stop.
Then...
“Princess, could you lend me a hand?”
“W-Wait, Prince?”
I took her hand and clasped it.
“Whew, this, in such a dangerous moment, this sweet scene, it’s romantic, but... isn’t this too dangerous? We don’t have time for this... But, if I’m with you, Prince, I don’t mind dying... And your hand is so warm and soft... I never thought it would be like this...”
She started rambling, which was understandable. After all, she had been trapped in that room for so long without any real conversation.
More than that, now that she had ascended to divinity, she was more expressive than ever.
“Sorry, Princess. We don’t have time right now.”
Constellation! Please, I’m counting on you.
[The Dreamteller makes a pouty face, looking upset.]
[But the Dreamteller replies that it’s for the sake of our precious Apostle, so I’ll do it.]
Whoooom
The remaining divine power from the Dreamteller surged into me.
[The Dreamteller, whose divine power is depleted, temporarily falls asleep.]
Always grateful.
I thanked the Dreamteller as it slept, then turned my attention to the goddess of wisdom.
“Princess.”
“W-Wait!”
Why was her reaction so intense?
She had achieved divinity and changed, but she still had some awkward behavior.
“Let’s blow him away together.”
“Pardon?”
“Our imagination and your wisdom are going to combine.”
“Wow, to become one with you, Prince...! How-How romantic...”
She was so far out of it, I wondered if I could trust her, but right now, she was the only one I could rely on.
Kwoooom
The powerful energy gathered around us as we clasped hands.
“Is this your last struggle? It’s useless! My sun cannot be stopped! I am the pinnacle!”
The sphere of destruction shot toward us.
“No.”
My imagination has its limits.
I don’t know the actual structure or principle, only the fragmented concepts.
But when that imagination meets the power of wisdom, it changes.
The goddess of wisdom manifests all the details with her power.
Her divine power took physical form.
“Higher.”
I pointed upward.
“...What!”
Above, in the sky, beyond the atmosphere...
A mighty force was gathering.
“This magnificent imagination of the Prince... It’s amazing!”
“...Please focus, Princess. Let’s talk later.”
I conceptualized,
The goddess of wisdom completed the weapon that would defy even gods.
Our ultimate collaboration.
Satellite Cannon.
Ἴκαρος
“That... That’s impossible! A strike higher than my sun!”
“Go! The culmination of love between the Prince and me!!!”
Boom!
At a height that surpassed even the sun created by the director...
A spear of light, fired from space, pierced through.
“It’s impossible... It can’t be...!!”
As the pinnacle of arrogance he had built crumbled...
***
“Ah, I found it!”
The goddess of wisdom, who had been sifting through the rubble, picked up a piece of charred debris that was sluggishly moving.
“Fortunately, it's still alive.”
Wait, it’s still alive?
This bastard is really persistent.
Was she genuinely happy that the director was still alive? She smiled brightly.
“What do you plan to do with him?”
Having witnessed every part of her life, I knew the countless atrocities the director had committed.
The pain she had endured because of him was beyond comprehension.
Just throwing him into the weekly boss fight might not be enough.
“Prince.”
“Yes?”
“Have you ever heard of personality jelly?”
...What? What kind of jelly?