Gabriel wiped the last Holy Lord Soul Fragment. He was the last person left in the place.
"What happened?" he asked again as his aura spread out, slowly devouring the entire sacred region of the Church of Light. "Won't you come and meet your old friend?"
"Don't worry. You might forget this friend of yours, but I won't forget you." As the sacred region was destroyed, Gabriel finally turned around. It was evident that the Goddess of Light wasn't going to show herself.
"Look forward to it..."
Gabriel appeared outside the Church of Light, which came crashing down, as if it had lost all its support.
In the Upper Realm, the Goddess of Light heard everything that Gabriel spoke. Her eyes revealed a cold glint. "Don't worry, old friend. I'll make sure to prepare a nice 'welcome' for your arrival!"
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The Lumen City that had gained peace to some extent was once again filled with discussions as people wondered just why the Church of Light suddenly came crashing down.
Most people were sure that someone had intentionally destroyed it. As for who did it, Princess Elia realized everything. However, she didn't speak of it. Even if she told others, it wouldn't have changed anything after all.
After leaving the Church of Light, Gabriel walked through the City of Lumen which was where his journey into the world of magic began in this life.
Walking alone, he didn't even realize when he reached the Academy of Element.
The Academy which used to be filled with students and teachers was now completely empty. Even normal guards couldn't be seen.
The academy wasn't just void of people. All the treasures and everything else was also taken. Only the old buildings were left behind.
Gabriel had a feeling that it was the teachers who took everything since he hadn't seen them in the war. However, it didn't matter. He had already taken most of their treasures the last two times he robbed their treasury. Whatever they had left was useless for him.
It wasn't wrong to say that the Academy was almost bankrupt.
"To think that I robbed people of those useless treasures..." Gabriel couldn't help but reveal a look of amusement.
In his first life, those treasures weren't even worth him taking a second glance. However, in this life, when he hadn't awakened his memories, he treated those useless treasures as precious items.
Looking back at his journey this far, he couldn't help but reveal a rare smile. Even though his journey in this life was much shorter than his last time, but there were still some moments that had left a lasting impression on him.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" While walking inside the academy that was supposed to be empty, Gabriel heard a voice coming from behind.
He turned around, intrigued, only to notice a small group of people, who had some bags in their hands.
Gabriel didn't react much. It wasn't odd for people to come here, thinking that they could find some treasures in the abandoned academy.
With his hands behind his back, he turned around and started leaving. There wasn't anything else worth seeing here.
"Stop right there!" Just as Gabriel started leaving, the same arrogant voice once again came from behind.
"Seeing how you're leaving, you must've already found some treasure inside, right?!" The scar-faded man asked, revealing a greedy smile. "Shouldn't you share that treasure with us?"
"I haven't taken any treasures from this place... today," Gabriel calmly responded without looking back. "You should keep searching. Maybe you'll find something nice. My suggestion, try the Tower of Challenges."
"You! Who gave you the permission to leave?! Stop and hand over everything that you have! You think you can fool us so easily? We'll search you ourselves!" The man once again stated. "If you don't have any treasures, we'll let you leave!"
"However, if we find a treasure on you, we'll kill you for lying to us!" he further threatened. "So you better hand over everything before we start searching, you little brat!"
"I gave everyone an opportunity to kill me a few weeks ago already. I'm not interested in entertaining you anymore," Gabriel lazily responded, snapping his fingers lightly.
The group of men was angry at Gabriel's attitude. However, as soon as they pulled out their weapons, their faces went blank.
They didn't even see how it happened but their hands that were holding onto the weapons fell to the ground! All of them had lost their hand which was holding onto a weapon and they didn't even see how it happened!
They were horrified, watching blood gushing out of their shoulders. Their arms were lying before their feet, along with their weapons.
They were so scared that even as they felt pain, they bit their lips but didn't scream. They didn't know who the man before them was, but it was certainly a scary existence! They didn't know if he was going to slice their necks if they annoyed him further.
Ignoring the people behind him, Gabriel stepped out of the academy. He couldn't help but feel as if this was the last time he was going to be here. Even he didn't know if he could return in the future or not.
He was confident in his abilities, but that was the extent of it. Before leaving, he was already prepared for his potential death during this journey. That's why, he wanted to savor every memory in this world one last time.
After leaving Lumen City, Gabriel moved with the wind. Within a few minutes, he appeared in the small town where he was said to be born.
Ever since the initial incident, the town had been Abandoned. However, most of the houses were still intact.
He stood before the house where he used to live with Maya and her family.
Even though the blood on the streets and at the entrance of his house had dried, some marks could still be seen, as if acting as a witness of the start of his journey into the world of darkness.
Gabriel couldn't help but glance at the roof of the house, from where he used to look at the moon almost every other night.
He couldn't help but feel as if it was just yesterday where he was sitting on the roof when someone hit his head, kidnapping him and taking him to that cliff where he first met with his old Grimoire.
At that time, he felt as if it was a coincidence that he found the Grimoire of Death there. However, it was only when he awakened his memories that he realized that the truth was somewhat different.
