Chapter 10 - The End Is…
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
[System]
{System Speech}
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It had been ten days already, and the Giga Potatoes planted being fully grown, I decided to sell some of them. I only placed in 1,000 out of the 40,000, each holding 500 pounds of food. After announcing it in the chat after a few seconds, it quickly sold out. That had generated 75,000 gold in one go.
I put more in, only for it to sell out again completely, and I refilled it two more times until I had gained 300,000 gold.
[Gold: 321,055]
Gaining 300,000 gold daily will be the most significant thing that should have never been given to me. As I use 100,000 gold on 2,000 [Eldritch Soldier]s, 75,000 gold on 50 [Eldritch Beholder]s, 15,000 gold on 5,000 [Eldritch Laborer]s, and 25,000 gold on the [Lowest-Tier Eldritch Priest].
[Gold: 106,055]
The [Lowest-Tier Eldritch Priest] looked like a floating circler blob with multiple small eyes and a giant mouth attached to it. With its brownish color, it was different from the darker shades of my army.
'Observe.'
[Lowest-Tier Eldritch Priest] Level 2 Lord Unit.
HP 500, MP 1,300, STR 25,
CON 25, AGI 35, WIL 67.
Loyalty 100% (Locked.)
Skills: All Devourer (Talent Skill), Chaotic Eldritch Qi (C Rank), Understanding Denial (C Rank), Eldritch Constitution (C Rank), Eldritch Magic Enhancement(C Rank), Death Bolt (D Rank, etc.
I shall name you Azathoth. The name only felt right for the moment as I could only wonder how far this summon would go.
"Ꮤል𐌊█ ██" ¿༙྇҉ !༙྇҉ ?༙྇҉ ¡༙྇҉ !༙྇҉ ¿༙྇҉ ?༙྇҉
(???)
The day had come as I and my army pushed directly into the defenses of the town's barrier. The enemy was shooting spells now into the center of my army's ranks, but as long as my crimson crown was active, their damage was minimal.
As they push deeper into the barrier, cracks form under the pressure. Eventually, leading to the barrier shattering from the weight, force, and spells being used on it. With the barrier-breaking, the battle got bloody; the humans in the settlement were scared for their lives as we pushed forward like a swarm of locusts.
This battle was already over in my eyes as the humans had lost all hope, with the majority committing suic*de to escape whatever fate they thought would occur after the end came.
Ꮤል𐌊ቹ ፱𐌓
(???)
The numbers and abilities of my army were great. The fact that it took the entire continent, including the aid of other Demon Kings, to even try to match us was amusing. The start of the battle was such a bloodbath that by the time most of my heavy infantry hit the stage, small streams forming underneath spoke of the true magnitude of this battle.
The only reason I would push myself to the front line would be the souls I would gain. My army's sole purpose is meatshields on the way to achieving souls, and for this, they would serve me well. Getting up from my blackish crimson throne, I looked out until the battlefield.
The battle was over before it began as I activated my domain and pulled all of the enemy into it. The ground disappeared from below, replaced by a scarlet void, and in that void lay a large crimson throne with eight pillars. The pillars and throne are pitch black with thin lines of scarlet-like futuristic lines.
The enemy immediately started falling dead one by one until only the strongest remained—the only ones trying to overpower my domain by using their own. Yet it was a foolish endeavor as I dominated their combined efforts, crushing their will to fight as they knew it was over.
Wake Up!!!
(???)
The continent is mine. Everything is a bare wasteland of death and destruction.
[Souls: 30,928,382,091]
The only thing left to take is the world, and as I have had enough of these games, I would only do that. Using my souls, I upgraded myself and gained new abilities.
[Ability Gained! Crown Of The Crimson Monarch.]
[Ability Gained! Conceptual Entity.]
[Ability Gained! Fate Manipulation Resistance.]
[Ability Gained! Time-Space Full Manipulation.]
[Ability Gained! All-Devouring Outer God.]
[Ability Gained! All Powering Size Manipulation.]
[Ability Gained! Concept Eater.]
[Ability Gained! Higher Dimensional Body and Soul.]
[Ability Gained! Ally Dimension Storage.]
I immediately ate the planet, gaining even more souls and stacking on even more abilities. Even then, that did not suffice. Growing even more, I ate the solar system until that did not suffice.
Even larger, I grew up eating galaxy upon galaxy until even that did not suffice. In the end, adding another ability
[Ability Gained! Universal Inescapable Black Hole-like Mouth.]
With this, I started devouring everything this universe had to offer. Time, space, light, dark, rules, laws, separate dimensions, concepts, and even the higher powers in this universe. In the end, leaving nothing but a white void where there was nothing.
I could leave it like this, but I decided to have some fun
[Ability Gained! Big Bang Singularity.]
I had an uncountable amount of souls to the point where spending billions didn't matter.
*BANG*
What a beautiful explosion… Making one final item as I prepared to leave this universe.
[Item Created! One-way ticket to before-time!]
This item cost me the highest amount of souls, being at trillions, but it was worth every soul. I tore the ticket up, and the universe as I knew it was torn from my vision.
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Upon opening my eyes, I was surrounded by monsters on all sides. Using my aura, I immediately killed most of the monsters around me in a half-light-year distance. Only five percent of the monsters around survived due to them having a bit of strength, being far away, having not taken the full brunt of my force, or maybe a mix of all three.
I created my final abilities:
[Ability Gained! High complex time-space paradox.]
With this last ability, no matter when or how I'm killed, I'll always revive. Even going back in time to smite my past self wouldn't do anything to me. This also makes every different version of me just a different moment in time as long as they are male.
[Ability Gained! Seven Sealing Chains.]
Each chain has a different effect when destroyed, and as long as a single chain remains, I am not only unkillable but also conceptually unkillable.
Done setting up my abilities, I finally created my children and took out my army. The first child I created, weirdly enough, looked like a massive lizard but was unmistakably mine as I could see the loyalty and utmost respect for me in his eyes. The other children I made weren't note-worthy, but I still made them look the part of high power.
I made one last child based on the journey I had. He was scarlet red like the blood I had spilled; He had four green eyes with yellow irises, a humanoid body with red spine-like protrusions, and finally, a head the shape of my Altar with a rectangle as the base mixed with the triangle tip at the top.
Just like all my children, I said his name to him so he knew what it was I would call him. "I proclaim you, Golb!" I could see he wasn't entirely there as he allowed his aura to escape from his mouth, creating more monsters. Yet despite this, I was going to allow him to be, but one day, his non-activeness would lead to his downfall.
I used half of my total souls to boost not only myself but all the minions and children I created so that they could live to the fullest to the extent of their power from their father, who is an Outer God. And there I sat surrounded by monsters of my creation in this time before time with only monsters.
With the knowledge I have on this place, usually the top of the top leave each other alone due to the fact that a battle between two of the highest would leave them vulnerable in the case of others jumping in at the end of the fight or in the case of mine where the enemy is another almost boundless being able to shrug off death and then end you instantly.
Because there was nobody to fight since my passive aura was holding back the monsters usually around here, I decided to do something that would make anyone green with envy. Using my power, I searched the different Custom Made Demon King timelines and gave a system to the special ones I found. An angel being born in a heaven that is being run over by demons, a demon being born with Osiris, and I even took an impossibly small fragment of my soul and gave it a reincarnation. The fragment was small for me, but for any human, it was quite large. Since it was a soul fragment of my making, it had the same system I had.
My fun over, I went back to staring into nothing and sometimes watching my summons, worshipers, and children in this space before time.
It seems Golb has even gotten a couple of worshipers in the end.
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I said WAKE UP!
(???)
I awoke to the sound of my voice yelling at me to wake up, and as annoying as that was, I found myself thinking about how impossible it should be. I felt like I had a long dream, not a dream, but it seemed to be memories. But the memories kept going faster and faster to the point where I was missing out on so many vital details that I couldn't even follow what was supposedly being told.
Even as I stare into nothing, not knowing what is going on in this slime-filled cell that I call this place, I still can't help but wonder who that is.
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Title: The End Is… The Prologue?
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Yes, it is I again, your wonderful author, and I was wondering how I was going to break it down to you that this was, in fact, a prologue without making one chapter with 15,000 words cause nobody is going to read that.
You didn't expect it, and I know you didn't! Oh yes, I'm him, I'm really HIM! I bet you all didn't notice that the story was slowly speeding up with fewer and fewer details added in!
As this story is about Custom Made Demon King, I will be remaking an Eldritch power system, a different home dimension, and AN EVEN HIGHER POWER CEILING!!!
I made The Scarlet King a collective of multiple versions across space and time so that when wondering, "Is this related to the CN version or the ENG version?" The answer is always "YES!!"
And as I am the greatest, I shall reward my readers with one last thing.
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Deep underground in the depths of a facility lies a lizard in acid. For what purpose this acid is for and how the lizard hasn't died yet is unknown, but for some reason, the lizard's eyes look unfocused.
Staring at the ceiling with confusion, the lizard unknowingly says something out loud. "Where did you go, father?" Yet the lizard was not alone, and someone had heard him. Speaking up on the intercom, a researcher says aloud.
"Did you say something just now, SCP-682?" The researcher was a little confused due to 682's nature and status, not expecting him to speak up suddenly.
The lizard's eyes glanced at the glass above with a hate-filled look; the lizard only had one thing to say to the researcher. "Shut up, Filth." And just like that, the conversation ended with SCP-682 closing his eyes as his peace had been disturbed.