The Max Level Hero Has Returned!

Chapter 843

Chapter 843

[What do we need to do?!]

[Help us!]

[I’m in so much pain!! My friends are hurting!]

The crying little spirits gathered to ask for help. Davey realized there were still a lot of them left. They had come to him for help instead of the Spirit Kings—who were currently unable to take care of them.

There was nothing to think deeply about.

‘If the Spirit World distorts, there will be big problems in nature in the future. I can't leave things like this. I need to take care of this right now.’

Davey knew he had enough mana—he had no choice but to go with his plan here.

He left the group of crying spirits and clapped his hands together.

At the same time, mana mixed with divine power began to spread around him, covering an enormous area.

Zzzzt... Zzzzt!!!

Thud!!

With a huge earthquake, the earth distorted and changed.

Rather than with magic, the huge earth was lifted and lumped into a circle using only mana and interference power. Its size was such that even the Peslisa Continent was nowhere close to comparable. Davey could feel the mana in his body draining out in an instant, but he couldn’t care less.

[Releasing the Title Starbreaker.]

Gleam!!

The enormous mana stored in the title spread out and formed a huge circular moon beneath his feet. As it slowly rose, Davey felt dizzy as an unimaginable amount of mana drained away.

Even so, he kept going and moved the mana. He put his will in and poured his strength into it. Ever since he had subdued Thanatos, there was no longer anything that could threaten him. He wasn’t going to suffer the shame of dying while making a moon.

Although cold sweat dripped down his face, he held his right wrist firmly with his left hand as if he were lifting something. He then curled his right hand into a fist, slowly pulling it up.

Then, as he whispered a layered incantation, a massive mana channel started etching itself across the entire surface of the moon.

By circulating vitality, he was regulating this vitality-lacking world. He knew things were going to continue as he had planned.

The moon slowly began to rise. Channels were quickly created across many places, and mana began to rotate furiously within them.

As long as he could get it to float in the air like this...

“Cough!”

It was then.

Suddenly, an internal wound burst open, and he coughed out a handful of blood.

[The human is in pain!]

[Oh no!!]

[We have to help!]

“Damn it!”

Davey forced his shaking body upright to keep the moon from falling, but he felt dizzy.

He knew that once it fell, everything up to now would have gone to waste. There was no second chance, and if he failed, the Spirit World would be done for.

In fact, the destruction of the collapsing Spirit World had accelerated as he lifted up the earth.

If the Spirit Kings had seen what he was doing, they would’ve foamed at the mouth and interfered, but thanks to the rampage of the Primordial Spirits, he was free of disturbances.

“Failing when everything is perfectly set up? That’s certainly not going to happen under my watch,” he muttered as he got himself together.

He had already managed to make the most difficult mana circuit by himself. There was no way he was going to step down now.

Grrr!!! Grrr!!!

The moon began to rise once again.

Although he knew that it took an enormous amount of mana to lift a huge piece of land dozens of times the size of the moon he had lifted up in Peslisa, he was still draining so much more mana than he could have imagined.

‘If things continue like this...’

The speed of the moon gradually decreased as if reflecting Davey’s ebbing strength.

He gritted his teeth and kept going, but he could clearly feel that he was approaching his limit.

It was then.

[We... We will help you!]

[Help the human friend!]

Davey wondered where they had all gathered from.

An innumerable number of low-level spirits surrounded Davey like a gigantic channel, then soon began to flow from the ground toward the moon he was lifting up, forming a stream.

The moon, which had been struggling when provided only with the mana Davey had gathered for the past four months, began picking up speed again as it received the new source of power.

[The human friend is working hard for the Spirit World!]

[Let’s help! We have to help!]

Davey thought it would’ve been better if they weren’t chattering endlessly, but the scene of a gigantic procession of spirits rising from the cracked earth was truly a sight to behold.

It was a miracle.

A miracle was sweeping the Spirit World as the many low-level spirits that populated the Spirit World gathered together solely to help Davey.

Even though he hadn’t contracted with them, they gathered and sacrificed themselves without hesitation, all for he who was protecting the Spirit World.

Spirit Sacrifice.

An enormous power created by spirits burning their own existences.

Even for low-level spirits, the power they generated through sacrifice was enormous, reaching tens of thousands, or even millions of times what they were usually capable of. But it also came at a tremendous cost.

The spirits were sacrificing themselves just for Davey. As he watched their sacrifice in silence, he released his left arm holding onto his right wrist.

Then he softly gestured with his hand and muttered.

[I am nature.]

[And nature will become me.]

[Let everyone reveal their original potential in my presence.]

Despite it being a simple murmur, the results were incredible.

He amplified the power of the low-level spirits who were using the Spirit Sacrifice so that they could draw out more power. He forcibly stopped their sacrifice and raised the moon with only the amplified power.

He had managed to prevent the low-level spirits from disappearing and generated the necessary power.

However, one couldn’t create something from nothing.

He was controlling and amplifying their power at the cost of his mental power, which was close to his Zhen Qi. He diverted all of the power that was being wasted needlessly and used it for its original purpose.

Unfortunately, this also led to its own problem.

The uncountable number of spirits continued to increase. If Davey continued to control them all, he knew he would run out of mental power and his mind would collapse.

[No! The human is overdoing himself!]

[The human is trying to do something that even the Spirit Kings can’t do!]

[The human’s mind will collapse if he continues!]

[We just have to sacrifice ourselves to help!]

As the massive clashes of spirits continued, their Spirit Sacrifice went on. But if they could be saved, Davey was planning on saving as many of them as possible.

Davey didn’t stop controlling them, even as the blood in his veins ran cold with agony and tears of blood streamed down his face.

He raised the moon and carved a mana formation on its surface. He was controlling the countless numbers of small, low-level spirits that had gathered as well.

Normally, controlling such a ridiculous number of low-level spirits was crazy.

[Human! Stop before it’s too late! Otherwise, you’ll be in grave danger!]

[Your mind will collapse! I can't let you die!]

[We’re okay! A new friend will be born next!]

They tried to stop Davey somehow, but he held on steadfast.

“Guys.”

He muttered in an exhausted voice.

[Huh?]

[Talk to us! We’ll listen!]

“Can you please shut up?”

[...]

‘All that talking is giving me a headache. Stop talking. I need to concentrate.’

* * *

The moon rose.

After it rose to a certain height, it began to float by itself, slowly making its way beyond the dimension, passing the stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.

Davey had gone through all the mana he had collected like crazy for four months, along with many spirits’. He wanted to give up right away due to the pain that made him feel like his mind was going to collapse, but he kept going.

An enormous moon rose further.

Eventually, he crouched down, breathing heavily, and took out a card from the Pocket Plane.

The divinity of Thanatos. He manifested the card containing her vast vitality. At the same time, the residual consciousnessof Thanatos remaining on the card showed enormous hostility toward him.

[You will never achieve the results you want.]

“That’s for me to decide. Sweet dreams.”

[Don't forget.... Do you really think I’d lie at this point?]

“Damn, lady, I already said that’s for me to decide.”

Thanatos.

White rays of light poured out from the card, forming a huge pillar of light, and soon permeated the massive moon in the sky. Although she showed hostility, Thanatos eventually gave up resisting and seeped into the moon.

All of her vitality transformed into pure energy completely immersed in the moon, soon creating a huge flow.

Just like before a supernova exploded, the collected vitality exploded in an instant and began to spread.

As the power of Time Spirit Altair was applied, the time in all dimensions was synchronized. As an enormous amount of energy flowed out, the lacking vitality began filling them one by one.

Davey, lying down on the cracked ground, grinned.

“Look... I told you I could do it.”

Hercules had given up. But now that he thought about it, he supposed Hercules was genuinely afraid of death.

The chronic problem of this world that he couldn’t even begin to solve was slowly being resolved by Davey.

Looking at the enormous moon high in the sky of the Spirit World, Davey took a short breath and coughed up blood.

“Geez, I feel like I’m dying.”

Even though he was no longer controlling the spirits, the fatigue he had accumulated hit him in an instant, making him dizzy.

[Contractor!!]

Earth Spirit Gnoass and Water Spirit King Ellaim ran toward Davey, only now seeing him. Behind the two, other Spirit Kings who had been stopping the Primordial Spirits were making their way over as well.

“What about the Primordial Spirits?”

[Scattered. Contractor! Are you crazy?!]

[Know your limits before doing crazy things!! A human trying to control a number of spirits that even Spirit Kings couldn’t manage?! Your mind would’ve collapsed if you had made the slightest mistake!!]

Davey smiled and closed his eyes as Ellaim and Gnoass shouted at him.

“We’re good now that everything is resolved. Now... I can...”

‘I can rest...’

His consciousness began to fade away. His body, which had been summoned to the Spirit World, began to reverse-summon back home.

“Take responsibility for restoring the Spirit World. Gnoass.”

[Ha...]

He saw the sky of Tionis just before he lost his consciousness, also spotting the huge third moon in the sky...

There were originally two moons in Tionis.

Red Moon Syras.

Blue Moon Cryas.

But now, Davey clearly saw the third moon made from the soil of the Spirit World that he created.

The name of that moon was...

‘Thanatos.’

As he bathed in the moonlight, Davey remembered the saying that a tiger left its skin behind when it died, and a person left their legacy when they passed away. Well, to be exact, tigers died because of their skin, and people died to leave a legacy.

“You, the God of the Abyss, died for the moon.”

As he chuckled nonsense while lying down and looking up at the sky, he noticed something else.

"Huh?”

He widened his eyes in an instant.

The vitality that had vastly spread was gradually decreasing. The amount coming out was constant, but the amount itself was decreasing.

He couldn’t let things continue like this. He knew the world wouldn’t be restored back to the way it was before the collapse if it did.

“Ugh...”

As he reflexively tried to get up, someone pressed him down as if they were hugging him.

The residual consciousness of Thanatos on the card had told him that he was going to fail.

Hercules had said that he had given up and accepted it as fate because he couldn’t come up with any kind of solution, no matter what he did.

Goddess Freyja had remained silent until the end in order to wipe out the world. In the meantime, she tried to carry out another reset to save his existence.

Davey wondered if this was all a useless act. A meaningless struggle.

He realized he had made a complete calculation mistake.

What was happening now was proof.

The problem was that since he was spreading vitality across not just one dimension but many dimensions, he needed a lot more vitality than he had anticipated.

He needed more vitality to be circulating. He needed to permeate greater vitality than what the divinity of Thanatos contained into the moon.

Davey had prevented the imminent collapse, but with such a relatively small amount of vitality flowing out, the end would be the same. In the end, he had only delayed the collapse.

He knew he couldn’t just give up like this.

Even though his consciousness was blurring due to the excruciating pain and exhaustion throughout his entire body, he couldn’t close his eyes.

He knew he was almost there. Everything was so close to being resolved. He could really distance himself from all the nuisance.

‘It... It really is difficult to live this life that I’m given...’

Davey had promised his wife that he’d protect her for the rest of his life, told his precious younger siblings that he’d protect them for the rest of his life, and promised the dwarves, humans, elves, and beasts that followed him that he’d become a lord they could follow for the rest of their lives.

Failure was not an option for him. Not on his watch.

He grit his teeth and forced himself to get up. If Thanatos’s vitality wasn’t enough, he was determined to pour in more—even if it meant he had to reach for the impossible.

"Stop!"

Once again, Davey heard a voice and someone pushing him down in an embrace. He could tell by the voice that it wasn’t Perserque, Illyna, or Aeria.

It was the voice of his first love, who taught him devil magic.

“...”

“Stop. Davey.”

She calmed him down with a very sad voice.

“You did everything you could. It's okay now. No one blames you.”

“...”

He was successful in lifting up the moon that radiated an enormous amount of vitality.

But—

Thanatos’s vitality alone was insufficient to solve the prevalent problem of lacking vitality around the world.

“...”

“It’s okay, it’s okay...”

The woman muttered sadly while hugging his head.

“Don’t feel burdened. Don't feel guilty. You did so good that no one could say anything otherwise. Don't worry. I will protect you.”

The choked up voice comforted him.

Drip... Drip....

At the same time, raindrops with the power of Goddess Freyja, different from ordinary rain, began to drop one by one.

Davey felt like the raindrops were persuading him that he had done a good job; that he could rest now.

As he laid on the ground with half-closed eyes focused on the sky, the emotional teardrops rolled down his cheek.

"It’s okay... It’s okay...”

But Davey knew that if he gave up now, the moon he had created so far would eventually have been created in vain. The promise he made with the spirits would become lies.

Eventually, he clenched his fists and spread his thoughts.

[Arbit, I command you as the second leader.]

‘If the vitality from the divinity of Thanatos isn’t enough, I’ll completely infuse a new world into it.’