The Artificial God

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On a clear day... Buahgh! buagh! the duar! zraaaa! chaos was everywhere outside the kingdom of Gygash. That place was our training ground, which is now full of damage from my fight with Tygruth. We fought brutally there, Elysna, Boa Boa, and Yuki were just watching us from a distance.

"Fucking kauuuuuu!" tygruth shouted and this was a rare sight.

"I'm sorry, goddamn it! why are you still attacking me too!" my words continued to withstand Tygruth's attacks as well as attack him.

All this mess has been going on since this morning. We originally intended to start our day on this sunny day to train together outside the kingdom after finishing our meal. We were chatting until we finally arrived at our training ground. Because it was raining last night, the ground in our training ground was a lot of puddles and mud.

"The air here is indeed the best" I said with a cheerful face.

"You are right. It feels really peaceful. So I wanted to read a book, by the way there is one more book about the creatures of Greek mythology I have not read. Can you get that book out of Gernath's sub-space?" said Tygruth who looked calm.

"Have you forgotten our purpose for coming here?" I said with an annoyed face.

"Ah come on.. Just for a moment, after that I will practice. After all my strength is much stronger than yours" Tygruth said, deliberately upsetting me with his grinning smile.

"Damn what are you saying!? you want to fight with me again?"

"Right, it's been a long time since we've fought like we used to. But I'll fight you after I read the book" Tygruth said deliberately.

"Tch.. okay.." then I opened the sub space that I made the shared inventory. But when I wanted to hand the book over to Tygruth, suddenly my hands were slippery and accidentally dropped the book into a very dirty mud. Instantly I felt a piercing aura from Tygruth and it gave me goosebumps.

Then. because it's me and Tygruth fighting each other right now.You've been fighting for quite a while, maybe for about two hours and Tygruth still can't let the book go. I don't know what made him so obsessed with books that told mythological creatures.

"Are you going crazy just because of that book? even you don't care about your friend's life" I said, quibbling to stop the commotion. Then Tygruth stopped attacking and fell silent, and then he started to say something to me.

"Books are what make your lives safe. Because it's a book I've never found, and it's a very strange title "Solitary Creature" and it's just a different book from other mythological creatures. Because the title of the book is not like the others who usually write the race of mythological creatures themselves" said Tygruth who is very serious about telling the book. Then he left and no longer attacked me.

I was confused and felt guilty for him. I don't know what to do now, "Hey.I'm sorry, I really didn't do it. Maybe we can find it in the library" I said, trying to calm Tygruth's heart. However, this method has not produced any results at all.

"There is no more such book. Because the book was only produced once and it looks like it is the oldest of all the books created. Maybe the book is what tells about the first mythological creature in the world" said Tygruth, who surprised me.

"Have you guys made up now?" said Elysna who approached us with Boa Boa and Yuki after realizing there was no more commotion in 5 minutes.

Finally we arrived and sat down on a new one to continue this conversation. Without further ado Tygruth immediately opened the conversation, "Do you know why I always read books like that a long time ago?" tygruth said with a gloomy face.

"No.." I said briefly.

"So you still can't understand than I said before. Well, you do have a stupid brain anyway" said Tygruth who seemed like he was starting to get annoying again.

"W-what!?.." said I who wanted to get mad at him and beat him up again.

"What do you think makes me say that reading a book can make your life safe?" said Tygruth who made the question difficult for me. But after seeing his serious face I finally understood from the intent he had said back then.

"What does the book contain about mythological creatures?" my spoken.

"True.. only the book we can know the weaknesses, the sources of strength, clues and others about the mythological creatures in the book. You also must have realized at that time, if the creatures that guarded the king at that time were mythological creatures that are still alive today" tygruth said that when interpreted with what he said at this time is the distance of the great war that will occur in this kingdom is getting closer.

This place will be a place of death, filled with blood and destruction everywhere. The place where suffering ends is if we can still survive the great chaos of the future, which means we won the biggest fight of the moment.

Day by day we have to become stronger, stronger. No one should be killed, no longer, for I will keep this peace. I will take care of the family that has been with me for a long time now. I will not let anyone die covered in blood. No more. I will not let it. I will not forgive my past actions.

"Gernath?..."

"Ah!? what is Elysna!?.." said I who was surprised after daydreaming.

"Why don't you eat your food? are you having a problem?" said Elysna who put a worried face on me.

"No. It's just that I'm waiting for this cold food, haha.." I said so that Elysna wouldn't worry about me. Even so I knew that she was worried about me so much, I should not show my burden-filled self to the people I care about. Because it will only make them worry.

"Well then, after eating you should go to bed immediately" said Elysna who went first to sleep.

"Good! happy eating!" I said that I put food in my mouth.

Right now, I have to fight alone, I will fight against the future! I'm going to turn that horrible future into the future I want. I will prove to the little boy that I met that the future can be changed and he no longer needs to suffer from seeing the death of someone who is inappropriate. I'll make all someone's deaths a happy ending.