Allen pointed toward the heavenly city, then slowly lowered Stella who was in his arms.
"Okay guys, remember our original goal was to find the healing plant for Kuroichi who's currently in a coma," said Allen.
"Now that we're here, how do we find the plant?" added Merie.
"Oh, that's easy," Allen replied.
Allen entered the village, asking around about the plant, followed by Merie and Stella who asked the same to several heavenly citizens.
Two hours later.
Allen, Stella, and Merie were exhausted from failing to find any useful information. They decided to sit down at a fountain park nearby.
"What do we do now? We searched through the whole village but they were too strict and refused to tell us anything," said Stella.
Merie sipped a vegetable juice while leaning back. She remembered something about Allen.
"Allen, don't you have a skill that made you nearly omniscient?"
"Sorry Merie, but that skill has long disappeared since the Celestial Dragon incident and when I fought Godikan."
"Aw, that's too bad," said Merie.
Allen mumbled in his heart.
"The metafiction library skill and my demon lord skills have long disappeared ever since I became a god. That's because I didn't really consider what was happening, and truthfully, this world has been destroyed multiple times and I've always recreated it. I'm the one responsible for why Stella's name can be called in this world. I used law manipulation to allow her name to be mentioned by everyone."
system: the avatar with 10% powerAvatar status: NPC : Demon KingTrue status: God
"My true form resides above, and I am also responsible for this narrative—a narrative in which the author cannot interfere at all."
Suddenly, a villager came with military troops.
"That's them, sir," said the villager.
"Arrest them," ordered the commander.
Allen, Merie, and Stella were confused. They tried to run but were quickly captured by the troops.
"Based on a villager's report, you have been asking about the White Rose of Life flower. You are officially under arrest," said the commander.
"What the hell is this? We need that plant for our friend who's in a coma due to an illness!" shouted Stella.
Stella was struck by a soldier and knocked unconscious.
"Stella!!!" screamed Merie before she too was struck by a soldier.
As Allen was about to be subdued—
"Die," said Allen to the two soldiers restraining him.
Allen rose and summoned the Shinigami sword and also activated his demon eye.
"You people really have no manners," said Allen.
The soldiers fired at Allen, but Allen easily slashed the bullets midair.
Allen slashed his sword at the two remaining soldiers, and the distracted commander was also killed by Allen.
After that, Allen lifted Merie and Stella to escape from the place, but—
"Yuhuuuuuuuuu!" shouted a monkey demon who threw a magic staff straight at Allen.
The monkey demon landed while posing, and the staff that pierced Allen's chest grew in size and destroyed his body.
Stella and Merie fell down. The monkey demon approached them to secure them.
But Merie and Stella vanished into particles of dust. The monkey demon was confused, and in that moment of confusion, a fiery kick hit his face hard, knocking him back a bit.
"Good job, Stella," said Allen.
The monkey demon looked up and was shocked to see the person he just killed standing in front of him perfectly fine.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the monkey.
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Allen Stolen. I'm just an NPC passing by 😊. And who might you be, you damn monkey?"
"Sun Wukong."
Allen activated his True Demon Lord mode, and Sun Wukong took his staff and got ready to fight.
system: reactive evolution and adaptation+100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
Sun Wukong swung his staff in a 360-degree arc and it was blocked by Allen's sword. Wukong placed his hand on Allen's chest and pushed him away.
Allen was sent flying to the ground.
"Wind manipulation, huh?" said Allen.
system: adaptation +1.
Allen stood up and released cursed energy, slashing it toward Wukong. Wukong threw his staff into the air and switched places with his clone.
Allen's attack missed and only hit the clone, but that was his goal from the beginning.
Wukong coughed blood.
"How is this possible?" said Sun Wukong.
"Simple. It's because of my demon eye's effect which can manipulate souls and concepts while also altering laws."
Wukong got furious and summoned many clones—10 million of them. All Wukong clones charged at Allen.
Allen looked at Stella and signaled her to run from the scene.
Stella fled carrying Merie. One of the Wukong clones chased her but was immediately slashed by Allen's lightning attack.
system: Death Manipulation cooldown has ended.
Allen slashed lightning elements that shook the heavens, killing 5 million Wukong clones.
Allen pointed at one of the clones.
"Die."
All clones, including the real Wukong, immediately died.
Allen returned to his normal mode and followed Stella.
Elsewhere.
Dio had been watching Allen and Wukong's battle all along.
"The death command is absolute, huh? No exceptions. Just like when he killed a clone of Godikan that was directly linked to the real Godikan. When he ordered Godikan to die, the entire species perished," said Dio.
Dio glanced in another direction and was shocked.
"He turned the southern part of the heavenly realm into candy?"
TBC