Can You Defy Death Itself?

"I guess this is the end... is everyone alright?"

Touya asks everyone including the soldiers and all of them a nod. Touya has also finished his job of burying the dead bodies including the dead body of the lizardmen summoner.

The lizardmen summoner died due to mana exhaustion since he overused his mana to summon a lot of lizardmen.

"What's the damage?"

"Out of the 10 guards we had, they got seven of them... damn it, if only I noticed it a little sooner!"

The soldier's clenched fist trembles in regret.

"Indeed, 'If only'. You all should retire from your jobs as a soldier since you are too weak. Not only you are all weak, but you are also not perceptive. You might as well be gardeners."

I bluntly said towards the remaining soldiers in disdain. Being weak is a sin! They should know about that. If not, they will be the same as those seven guards.

The soldier wants to retort to me but after remembering how I easily massacred all of the lizardmen without breaking any sweat, he quickly calms himself down.

"Seref-san, you don't have to be harsh."

"Lindsey, you should know that the world is a cruel place. If they were born in the Grand Magic Era, I doubt they will live up to this point. Being weak is a sin itself!"

I say to Lindsey. Before we can continue our conversation, a yell of distress resounds in our ears.

"Someone! Is someone there?! Jii is... Jii is!"

We all turned our heads simultaneously when the sudden cry of a young girl resounded. The door of the carriage opened and a young girl who was about 10 years old with blonde hair shouted while crying.

She looks cute.

Other than the girl clad in white clothes, there's an old man with white hair in black formal clothing who was lying down when I rushed over to the carriage. He was bleeding from the chest and panting painfully.

"Please help Jii! His chest... there's an arrow pierced his chest...!"

The young girl pleaded with her face becoming drenched in tears. This old man must be a very important person to her. The soldiers lowered the old man from the carriage onto the grass.

"Lindsey, healing magic!"

"Touya, are you dumb? There is an arrow stuck in his chest. If the arrowhead remains inside his body when he is healed, it will only increase his suffering. Look on the bright side, death is also a form of liberation."

I retort to Touya's measly intelligence. He is just an average student who was offered a silver spoon by a High God.

Unlike me, who starts from no cultivation to the strongest. It even took me ten billion years just to become the strongest in the entire Multiverse.

After hearing my words, the face of the young girl who heard this was gradually stained with despair. She clasped the old man's hands with trembling hands and tears overflow one after another.

"...Ojou-sama..."

"Jii...i...Jii...!"

"This is farewell... de gozai masu... The days I spent with ojou-sama... in my eyes... are far more valuable than anything... gofuu!!"

"Jii! That's enough...!"

"Stop with the waterworks. Crying won't solve anything."

I interrupt the moment of the young girl and the old man.

They all look at me with hope and one of them decides to speak.

"Elder brother Seref, do you have any way to save the old man?"

"None of you can save him now. The grim reaper is already waiting for him to draw his last breath, literally. Although you can't see it with the eyes of a mortal, there is a skeleton in black tattered robes holding a large scythe with a long handle next to the soul of the old man."

I bluntly say towards all of them. I use my spiritual qi to reveal the grim reaper and they all saw the grim reaper while staring at it in shock.

"Not only will you have to deal with healing the old man, but you also need to defeat the grim reaper. Now I may ask, are anyone of you capable of defying death itself?"

After asking that question, all of them fall into a state of silence.