The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

"Everyone praised me at that time, but I didn't know everything was a lie..." Curdova said as the ground started to shake heavily.

Boom!

Huge cracks spread out in the entire tower.

"What's happening?!" Alice said as she looked around.

"I think that thing is going to awaken..." Souta said this in a grave tone while looking at the huge metallic figure that was familiar to him from the game.

"How could we stop it?!" Lumilia asked while looking concerned about Cluster.

"I don't know..." He shook his head. From his memories of the game, this metallic figure was so powerful that it could wipe out a single city in an instant. None of them were its match.

Cluster, who was in the hands of the metallic figure, disappeared. At the same time, the eyes of the figure gleamed brightly as if life had come to it. Its huge body shook, and a wave of energy swept out.

Boom!

The wall of the tower was blown away, and the barrier expanded, pushing the two nuns away.

The amount of mana in the atmosphere was unbelievable. It was even pushing the best feram that Yuko was emitting.

"The tower is going to collapse... We need to get out of this place as soon as possible..." Alice said to her comrades.

"But what about Cluster...?" Lynn asked worriedly.

Lumilia looked at her and Brando before she said, "Brando, Lynn, go down and help Yujin. Yujin couldn't walk, so if this tower collapsed, he would be buried alive in this place."

"What about you guys?" Brando asked in return while looking at them.

"Don't worry about us. Our condition is better than Yujin's, plus we'll think of a way to stop that thing and save Cluster." Lumilia said unsurely. She had a feeling that they couldn't rescue Cluster. That thing was unbelievably powerful.

"Okay, I understand. I'll leave it to you." Brando nodded, and he said to Lynn, "Let's go and help Yujin first."

"Okay," Lynn said.

The two quickly go down to the floor below to help one of their comrades.

...

"Just what the hell is that thing, Yuni?" The smaller nun muttered while looking at the huge metallic figure.

"I don't have any ideas either, Safi. That thing fused with Cluster, and it possessed the power of the Thousand Spell. How could the church not know of this thing?" The taller nun, whose name was Yuni, said it in amazement.

"I'll report this to the higher-ups first." The smaller nun, Safi, said as she took out a transmission talisman from her pocket.

"If they could control this thing, the higher-ups would not separate Cluster from this thing," Yuni muttered while looking down.

"I have a feeling that will be the case... They didn't see Cluster as a child, but as a weapon for their own benefits." Safi said as she poured her mana into the talisman.

...

Boom!

The metallic figure began to move its giant body.

Curdova simply looked at this thing before he muttered, "It still doesn't fully control the Thousand Spell. Once it controls it, then everything will end."

The barrier around the tower once again grew larger. It blew everything inside the city, and the same could be said for the two nuns.

The two nuns were outside of the city while contacting their higher-ups about what was happening here.

The entire city was wiped out except for the Moon Tower. It was an unbelievable scene, and countless people died on the ground except for a few strong people.

Boom!

"Souta, what should we do?" Alice asked Souta while squinting her eyes. They couldn't get close to the metallic figure as a large amount of mana was pushing them away from it.

"Let's observe it for the time being and see if there's something we could do about it," Souta said as he took a step back.

Suddenly, the atmosphere changed... The mana in the air got thinner as it was being sucked up by the metallic figure.

After a few seconds, all of Cluster's mana disappeared as if nothing had happened. The barrier that devastated the city also vanished into thin air.

"What's happening...?" Souta muttered as he looked at the metallic figure. The atmosphere just went back to normal after the chaos in this city.

The magic circle on the ground emitted a light, and mana burst out of it. The metallic figure stood above the magic circle. The feet of the figure slowly sank down onto the magic circle.

"This is..." Lumilia narrowed her eyes when she saw this.

Alice recognized it and she said, "Cluster still have awareness... She's now trying to seal the object along with her."

"What?!" Lumilia was shocked as she opened her eyes widely. She couldn't believe what she just heard.

"She must be doing this because she wanted to protect us..." Souta said while looking at it.

Then... they heard Cluster's voice from the figure.

"I'm sorry everyone... I hide a lot of things from you..."

"That's nothing from us... There are no people that don't have a secret..." Lumilia said in a loud voice.

Souta and Alice nodded at her words. She was right. Everyone has a secret that they don't want others to know.

A blueish sphere flew out of the metallic figure and slowly floated in front of Lumilia. The sphere looked plain, but it was emitting faint mana.

Ohm!

Lumilia tilted her head in confusion as she slowly grabbed the sphere that was floating in front of her. She didn't understand what this sphere was for.

Before she could ask Cluster about it, she saw the figure completely sink into the magic circle.

"CLUSTER!!!"

Lumilia shouted at the top of her lungs. She knew that Cluster couldn't hear her anymore, but she still had some hope that Cluster would reply.

"She's gone..." Souta said as he looked down.

Now that the caster has disappeared, the whole place that was caused by the [Rising of the Earth Domain] spell will disappear too.

Boom!!

The whole tower started to shake, and it slowly crumbled. Debris of rocks fell on the ground, causing the dust to shoot up into the air.

"Let's go..." Alice said as she grabbed Lumilia before she jumped away.

Souta floated in mid-air, and he slowly descended using the power of gravity from his [Gravitational Ball] spell.

Boom!

...

Brando, Lynn, and Yujin weren't in the tower when it collapsed. They had already escaped the place and were looking at it, hoping that everything would go well.

"The enormous mana in the atmosphere disappeared..." Brando said while observing the destroyed tower.

"Yes, but I couldn't sense Cluster's presence anymore. It vanished along with the mana," Lynn said worriedly.

"Just trust our leader, and the rest there... I'm sure that they will not let Cluster disappear just like that," Yujin said to them.

...

Yuni and Safi, who were outside of the city, raised their eyebrows. They saw that Cluster sealed herself with the figure to prevent it from rampaging around.

"Did she really have to do it? That figure wouldn't be able to kill everyone with us here," Safi, the smaller nun, said as she slightly tilted her head.

"That's certainly the case, but that figure hasn't fully integrated with Cluster, so it's weak. If it gained control of the Thousand Spell, then even with our powers, we couldn't stop it." Yuni paused for a moment before she continued, "Also, Cluster found some friends this time, and she wanted to protect them."

"Oh, I see... We should go back now." Safi said.

"Let's wait here for a while. Also, that man said that he wanted to talk to me." Yuni said to her with a smile.

...

Smoke and dust filled the surrounding...

"Cluster..." Lumilia muttered as she clutched the blueish sphere in her chest.

Alice patted her shoulder and said, "She left it to you. If that thing got broken, it would free Cluster along with that giant figure."

She could understand why Cluster sacrificed herself. She simply didn't want to create havoc and cause destruction in this world. That figure was going to use her power to rampage around, so she decided it for herself.

"This thing..." Lumilia looked closely at the blueish sphere.

"Yes, that's Cluster's momento..." Alice said to her as she glanced at Souta.

Souta's eyes were closed. Beside him was Yuko, who was looking around with a curious expression.

After a while, Souta slowly opened his eyes and looked at his hands.

"What you want to do..."

He already finished every quest here and had nothing to do with it. But was he really satisfied with this ending? The ending that Cluster is gone?

He felt something in his chest, like a hole. They came here because they wanted to rescue Cluster.

He slowly moved his body and turned toward Lumilia.

Lumilia felt his gaze on her body, so she turned around and saw him looking at her with a serious expression.

"Souta?"

She called him, but he didn't answer and kept looking at her. She was surprised for a moment, but she realized what Souta wanted to do. She took a deep breath, and she nodded her head.

The Vajra sword emitted a red energy, and Souta swung it.

Swoosh!

The bluish sphere was split into two. It then crumbled.