The world was silent.
No more immortals.
No more sects.
No more names.
Just Kang Woo, standing atop a mountain of corpses—once men, gods, demons, friends, enemies…
The blood had dried.
The fire had long faded.
And even grief had nothing left to say.
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Then—
A soft, mechanical ding broke the silence.
A glowing blue window appeared before him.
Crisp. Cold.
Out of place in the ruin he stood in.
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> [SYSTEM NOTICE]
Congratulations.
You have achieved GODHOOD.
— Would you like to return to your origin world?
[YES] / [NO]
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Kang Woo didn't react.
He just stared at it.
The glowing letters reflected in his tired, red-stained eyes.
> "Now… you show up?"
"After I've killed gods with my bare hands? After I burned a world you refused to guide?"
He smiled.
But there was no joy in it.
Only emptiness.
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He raised a finger to touch the screen…
Then suddenly—
> [SYSTEM ERROR]
You have surpassed godhood.
No system can quantify your existence.
Accessing emergency protocol…
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A second screen opened.
A swirling gate of light appeared beside him.
Pure. Untouched.
Unreal in a world that had become nothing but death.
He didn't hesitate.
He whispered one thing—
A whisper only the wind heard.
> "Let me go home…"
And stepped through.
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White Light
Time blurred.
Weight vanished.
Memories tried to fade—but he clutched them tightly.
Then—
> Beep. Beep. Beep.
He opened his eyes.
A dull ceiling.
A slow fan.
IV lines. Machines. Soft footsteps.
He blinked.
> "Where…?"
Then he heard a voice.
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"Kang Woo…?"
Soft. Shaky. Familiar.
His eyes turned toward it slowly.
A woman sat beside his hospital bed.
Aged slightly. Dark circles under her eyes.
Tired hands clutched a paper cup of cold coffee.
But her eyes…
> The same.
The same eyes that looked at him twenty years ago.
That cried when he left for night shifts.
That held their newborn son.
That waited.
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> "You… waited for me?" he croaked.
Her cup fell.
She ran to him and grabbed his hands — hands that had held divine fire and demonic blood — and pressed them to her face.
> "Ten years… Kang Woo… you've been in a coma for ten years…"
She broke down sobbing.
But this time, it wasn't over a grave.
Not in front of a burning village.
It was a sunrise.
And Kang Woo — the man who had burned heaven and earth — finally smiled like a man again.