Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2278  The End

The Almighty stood across from Ryu, huffing for breath.

It felt like everything had flipped in an instant. One moment, he had cornered Ryu, teaming up with Zercius and Primus. In the next, it was like the world had been stripped down around him, reversed, and flipped on its head.

Ryu, who should have been dead down below, suddenly appeared in the skies, standing quite calmly. The world fell to silence.

Ryu did only have one thing to do. And that was to end this loop.

"You…" The Almighty held his trident, looking around him.

Zercius was still there, but his momentum seemed to have been completely neutered somehow. The Almighty felt the same, like he was beaten and broken. And yet, there wasn't a single wound on him at all.

"Confused?" Ryu asked, but he wasn't looking at The Almighty at all. His gaze was instead aimed toward the skies. "I am too. I really am a bad husband. I'll probably have to spend a lifetime making up for it. As for what happens to the world in my absence… well, that won't have anything to do with you either."

Ryu shook his head. It was his fault that Yaana and Nuri had suffered so much, it was his fault that Eska had to carry the burden of a declining Clan all on her own, it was his fault that Black Rose lost the love of her life, it was his fault that Hope's race was no more…

It was his fault that Ailsa had suffered so much at the hands of the Heavenly Court. If he didn't have to create the Heaven's Gate, then none of what she had suffered back then would have happened in the first place.

He sighed. How ironic. In his journey to the top, he had put his loved ones through quite an ordeal. He had lost count of the number of things he was responsible for. In return, the least he could do was give them repayment in the form of his love and concern.

He had accomplished almost everything… almost. At the very least, he could give them some of his time.