h.e.l.lo people! Well, I decided to translate this too now, hopefully the novel will turn out to be good, I dunno, I’ll it discover together with you
Anyway, here is chapter 1, I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Chapter 1
On the barren land that had been destroyed to the point where there wasn’t even any rubble left, there was a young and slender boy with cold and emotionless eyes, looking down on the demon king whose body was wounded all over.
【”―――― Grand-loss.”】
Without even chanting beforehand, the boy directly muttered a single word as if he was spitting it out.
At the same moment, a dark and empty void that could even absorb light itself, appeared from the boy’s right hand.
This enormous energy could swallow up the whole continent, let alone the demon king who had fallen down and who was feeling death approaching him for the first time in his life.
However, there was no deep emotion in the eyes of the boy facing him.
Even though he was still very young and was only in the first half of his teenage years, his facial expression was that of a sage who had attained some sort of enlightenment after growing old.
That expression made it seem as if he knew everything, even the result of this fight, and it well showcased the overwhelming difference in power between him and his opponent.
Even the word irrational seemed weak when describing this boy, who had now enraged the demon king.
【”You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! How dare you! You think you can kill me?! You think you can kill Melchior, the demon king, the supreme ruler of this world?!”】
【”―― What a joke, your magic might as well be a party trick.”】
The dark energy was so small that it could fit in the boy’s palm.
However, even the demon king himself knew that, although he was capable of using a magic defense barrier that could repel the world’s armies, it would be as good as a sheet of paper against this boy’s attack.
The demon king Melchior couldn’t help but realize that there was no use resisting anymore.
The boy’s power was simply that irrational and overwhelming.
【”Why? Why does a human being have this much power?”】
Melchior, who had managed to become history’s strongest demon king and had finally brought humanity to the brink of extinction, was going to be killed so casually?
Why? Why did such an insignificant human child have so much mana, and why was his magic even more advanced than the demon king’s?
Melchior had no more room to be angry or scared, all that was left in him was bewilderment, bewilderment from this situation that he could not understand.
But the boy did not offer even a single word in response to the demon king’s question.
The dark void instantly crashed against the demon king and swallowed him all, turning him back into atoms without leaving any dust behind.
―― No one had ever been able to defeat this demon king, he was supposed to take over the world in the end.
Be it the famous hero, the n.o.ble knight king, or even the mercenary who had risen to become the legendary sword king, all of them had been beaten hands down and trampled by Melchior; he was the strongest demon king.
And yet, a boy who was pa.s.sing by had annihilated that same demon king by casually casting a spell with a mere movement of his hand.
Over the red wasteland stretching as far as the eye could see, the only traces left of the strongest demon king were the ground that he had destroyed and the mountains that he had crushed.
No one else had been able to intervene in the fight between the two people, not the demon king’s subordinates who were standing at a distance, nor the royal court mages of the kingdom, who had used the art of clairvoyance to watch the fight.
【”Is this a dream…?”】
Due to the excessive difference in power, all the people who had witnessed the battle were questioning their own sanity.
Just now, the world had been pushed into a new era, an era without the demon king.
―― *snap*.
【”….Humph, what a waste of time.”】
As he said so with a hoa.r.s.e voice, the old man, who had been playing with his long beard that reached to his chest, erased the young boy, his own alter-ego, like he was breaking an unfinished puppet.
This time, it had only taken him three days to exterminate the demons and the demon king, and he achieved that without even having to put in any effort, it had been far from a hard fight.
The enemy had been too weak to affect the old man’s spirit.
The battle had been completely insignificant, as if everything had been a simple, preestablished scenario that was already set in stone.
The old man could not find any more appeal to the routine of making others submit to his far superior power.
―― It had been perhaps a hundred years since he had started doing this kind of play.
The old man, who could no longer find any stimulus in his own world, was seeking it in other worlds.
Obtaining an immortal body had cursed the old man into having an overwhelming power that came together with an unbearable boredom.
That man was a part of the world’s elements, he was equal to a G.o.d, and his name was George Bernst Von Almadianos.
Having attained the peak of magic, he was the strongest ruler of the Dormond world.
The play that he had come up with was to send his own alter-egos to different worlds and to control them.
This old man, who had become an enormous existence in his own world, was transmigrating to other worlds in order to satiate his boredom.
At times, he would become a demon king who ruled the world, other times, he would become a hero who defeated the demon king.
So as to enjoy himself in the different worlds, he would limit his power to one thousandth or less of the power that he had in the Dormond world.
Sharply reducing his power would make it difficult for him to achieve his duty in those other worlds, but the old man believed that it would conversely give him the thrill that he had not felt in a long time.
【”…… However, the problem is that I’m too strong.”】
Even though he had sharply decreased it, Bersnt’s power was still out of norm.
While Bernst was called the elemental mage, and the magic king, he was also the world’s best when it came to making use of his powers. He was not a G.o.d’s equal for show.
And before long, even the stimulus of going to another world was not enough to move his heart anymore.
Bernst dearly remembered his younger days, thousands of years ago, when he aspired to become a mage and he had vowed to carve his name in the continent’s history one day.
He wanted to taste the excitement of those days once again.
However, that was not possible due to the way things were in his world. At the end of his quest of power, Bernst had partly joined his soul with a star.
Over the years, he had acquired the strongest power he could have hoped for.
Reverence, faith, worship, and yearning… He was receiving every form of adoration, and he held the power to do and control everything he wanted, however, there was one thing that he could not completely control yet: his own emotions.
【”Perhaps I soon will not be able to think like a human being anymore…”】
A thousand years had pa.s.sed since he had forfeited his body’s senses and had started losing his physical body.
Since then, he had never laughed out loud, not even once.
He had already accepted long ago that the end point of his quest of power would be to completely unite with a star, or, in other words, to lose his sense of self.
Rather, it was close to a miracle that he had been able to keep his individuality as the man name Bernst so far, even though he had lost his senses and was now a being of consciousness only. If If he had kept being a normal human after that, he would have become insane a long time ago.
Because of all that, he wanted to taste one last time the ambitions and the dreams that he had in the days when he was craving for strength.
He wanted to taste the maniacal love of those days, so sweet yet painful to the point of tearing his heart apart.
―― And above all, he was br.i.m.m.i.n.g with the hope of a future that wasn’t transparent, a future that he could not predict.
However, as he got closer to becoming a G.o.d, those hopes were becoming more and more distant, to the point where they seemed like fleeting dreams.
But Bernst had suddenly hit upon a way to grant himself that wish.
【”Mhm. If I can’t personally experience these things, then maybe I can share another’s feelings and experience them through him…”】
As a final resort, Bernst decided to give up on living temporary lives through alter-egos.
He had considered lowering the alter-egos’ power even further, however, as the highest ruler of the Dolmond world, he refused to weaken himself to the point where he would be forced to submit to others.
His pride could not allow that.
But what if it wasn’t Bernst himself who went to the other world?
If he were to give life in a different world to an alter-ego who had a high shareability with himself, in a different world, and if he were to then give him an artificial personality ―― then surely, that alter-ego would be able to develop various feelings that Bernst himself could not.
And since that alter-ego’s personality would be different from Bernst’s, then even if his circ.u.mstances were to be somewhat disgraceful, it would be no problem for Bernst to close his eyes on that.
In that case, it was essential to adjust the alter-ego’s virtual personality so that it would still stay active and independent even if he was possessed by Bernst.
Because if Bernst himself were to take over the body, in the end, he would merely become unparalleled again and he would stay in the cycle of predictable futures. To get any sort of feedback from sharing the alter-ego’s emotions, it was essential for the virtual personality to hold perfectly.
【”It’s a gamble.”】
Despite everything, Bernst was still very anxious about not being able to control his alter-ego.
Since he had obtained a nearly ultimate power, he felt a strong sense of crisis when thinking of a situation where he would not be able to use said powers as he wished.
However, there was not much time left to think too far about this.
【”I can’t just sit like this and wait for my unavoidable unification with the star….”】
For Bernst, who had lived for an eternity, the temptation of living one last adventure as a human being was too sweet to give up on.
Despite knowing the risks, Bernsts resolved himself to try one last play.
In order not to lower its shareability with himself, Bernst set himself as the base of the alter-ego’s virtual personality.
Even so, if his upbringing and living conditions were different, there was no doubt that the alter ego would develop a fairly different character form Bernst. Human beings are creatures that adapt to their environment.
Because of all that, it was very likely that he would get to have a fresh experience.
As for the alter-ego’s power…. Since Bernst’s power was too extraordinary, he set the double’s power as one thousandth of his own.
【”Don’t fail to live up to my of this expectation, my double!”】
While he wondered whether this idea would succeed or not, Bernst was like a starving man craving for food, he could not suppress his desire for the strong and intense feelings that came with life.
Translator’s note: So far so good, the novel seems like it will take a good direction to me, I like this author already, after all, he’s the one who made Isekai Tensei Soudouki; don’t hesitate to tell me what you think of this novel in the comments, I’m curious to know your opinion