Antihero In the Hero Academy: I Can Connect the Past Heroes-Chapter 170: How Many Did You Just Say?

Each of them continued to fight without even knowing how much time had passed. Without realising that days had gone by, without closing their eyes once, without drinking a drop of water or eating anything, they continued to slay monsters as if nothing else mattered.

Thousands of monsters had turned into tens of thousands, tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands, and then millions had begun to form in the vast land.

Still, each horde of monsters was wiped out from the land in mere minutes.

Despite all this, nothing had changed. Each of them was on the verge of losing their minds. They could even feel the veins in their brains pulsing one by one...

They kept turning these thoughts over in their minds. Each of them kept thinking that Atlas might be in an even worse situation right now, and each of them was doing everything they could to save him, but they themselves did not know how what they were doing would help him.

Where was Atlas? Was he alive? Was he dead? Was he hungry? Was he thirsty? Was he tired? Was he okay?

Every question flashed directly through their minds. With each passing second, their stress levels rose, and the feeling that their brains might explode grew even stronger.

At that moment, something unexpected happened:

[Is this how far you all can go? Killing some monsters? Is that it?]

Above them, on the upper part of the vast land, these questions written in bright white letters had confused each of them. What could they do when they didn’t even know how to get out of there?

"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!" Cordelia shouted suddenly.

At that moment, the text in the sky began to change:

[Is a stone more important to you than his life? You should never have come here.]

While the Sages were slaying the monsters approaching them, they also began to ponder the message they had seen.

"IF WE GIVE UP THE STONE, WILL YOU GIVE HIM BACK TO US?!" Cordelia shouted.

At that moment, the text in the sky suddenly stopped. For nearly two minutes, no text appeared in the sky, but immediately after those two minutes, a single word appeared there:

[Yes.]

When Cordelia and the others saw that word, they couldn’t believe their eyes. Everything was that simple. None of them knew that Atlas’s life was more important than anyone else’s in this world. They felt such great love for him.

"THEN ACCEPT IT, PLEASE GIVE HIM BACK TO US!!!" Cordelia shouted. The Ancient Woman knew that every Sage thought the same way she did.

[Don’t you want to know? How many people you’re putting in danger by doing this?] the words that appeared in the sky suddenly asked.

Each Sage naturally couldn’t help but think about these questions, but since each of them still preferred Atlas over the entire world, Cordelia’s words from earlier hadn’t changed anything.

"I don’t care," Cordelia said suddenly.

[...So be it.]

After this message appeared in the sky, the monsters that had been rushing towards the Sages disappeared as if they had never existed.

When the Sages finally had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief, all of them except Cordelia had collapsed to the ground. The reason for this was not physical exhaustion, but rather that they had completely broken down mentally.

The writings in the sky had faded, and all that remained was Atlas, who had suddenly appeared unconscious in the middle of the place where the Sages had gathered.

Atlas was unconscious, but he was unharmed and seemed to be in good condition. His blood pressure was normal, and his heartbeat was steady.

Each Sage immediately took a deep breath. Cassandra had wrapped her arms around Atlas, refusing to let go, and began to wait. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Cordelia, however, had something else on her mind.

"Hey, dungeon!" Cordelia said suddenly, and then added, "You said that the actions we choose will affect others... I wonder what kind of impact Atlas’s actions in his previous life had. A world without us!"

When Cordelia asked this question, all the Sages had focused on the Ancient Woman. It didn’t take a genius to realise that everyone was curious about the answer to this question; it was obvious.

[Are you asking how many people were harmed by his actions?] asked the writing in the sky, which was the dungeon itself.

"Yes," Cordelia replied without hesitation.

With that, the writing in the sky vanished, and a number appeared.

[0]

When the Sages saw the number zero, they were very surprised and quite happy, but what happened next shocked them and the onlookers.

The numbers began to increase one after another, first by one digit, then two, then three, and after nearly two minutes, a new number appeared in the sky.

"I can’t believe it..." Cordelia said.

[1,298,776,224]

"One... One billion?" Cain muttered.

It was an unimaginable number. There was no way someone who had harmed so many people could have positive karma, was there?

As this question crossed everyone’s mind, Cordelia turned to Atlas’s unconscious body, and a green light shone across the entire realm.

Above Atlas, his karma had managed to manifest itself before everyone:

[367,769,871,557]

"More than 300 billion... For a human’s karma? How is that even possible, when hurting this many people?" Talon had questioned. It was truly unimaginable.

Still, neither the Sages were fools nor were the gods and goddesses who watched in astonishment. Each of them knew what this meant. If someone could be so perfect as to have more karma than even the gods and goddesses themselves, despite having killed so many people...

How many lives must this person have saved?

The world’s population was large, but it didn’t exceed 300 billion. In that case, how many lives must his actions have saved? How many animals? How many humans? How many elves? How many dwarves? How many dragons? How many fairies? How many races had he saved?

This also necessitated asking the question: