[Attribute: Monster is activated.]
William's eyes would change a bit, becoming colder and emptier.
"Hey. Odysseus."
"What's up?"
"Let's cut the charade. I know you're like me. A reader."
Odysseus would freeze and look at William. Before starting to laugh.
"Oh, it took you long enough. I've known you were a real person for a while back, did you know in this world Odysseus never pissed off a giant cyclops?"
"So that's when you found out....how clever. I presume you also have resistance against the story's effects?"
William would start to chuckle.
"You know, the other me is quite naive. I can't believe him sometimes. So let me ask you a question: What's your intention for the ending of this story?"
"My intentions? Well, that's easy enough. I want to paint a new picture. A perspective no one has seen before, a picture to break through every wall, one that shapes reality."
"What great ambitions you have. I'm not sure if I can sympathize, though. My ambitions are small, pitiful, and simple. I want to live an average life, live out my days as a regular human being. Having a standard job, friends I can hang out with, and maybe even a family to turn to. The reason I decided to become a wielder of The Library is because I'd like to have enough power to live a regular life, a happy life."
[Your chronicle is being written.]
"So, forgive me when I say that people like you will either create a new world or destroy our current world with nothing to show for it."
[Attribute: Monster is coming alive!]
[Attribute: Reader is activating!]
[Attribute: Calculator is activating!]
[Attribute: Actor is activating!]
"I'd rather live in a definite mediocrity than a possible hellscape."
William would pick up a sword from a dead suitor.
[Skill: Bane of Existence is activating at full force!]
He would use every last bit of Ingenuity left to fight for his ideals.
An aura of chaos and destruction would burst forth from William's body. Enveloping himself, his sword, and his chronicle.
[Skill: Insight is scanning the surroundings!]
This level of power could only be maintained for about ten seconds or so before draining him of all his Ingenuity. So he had to make these seconds count.
10
William would charge at Odysseus, with Insight active, he had a level of omniscience in this chamber, so he landed a devastating blow to Odysseus's side.
9
Odysseus would start moving extremely fast, while not as great as Eurymachus, it showed the lineage of the God of Messengers flowed within him. An aura of creation and life exuded from him.
William and Odysseus started trading blows, and an aurora of Destruction and Creation would appear as they fought.
8
To gain the upper hand, William expended more Ingenuity to throw light spells at Odysseus in an attempt to blind him, shortening his remaining time drastically.
3
The light spell hit, but Odysseus still fought hard, using the rest of his senses to gauge where the attacks were coming from. However, it wasn't enough. Now that William had the upper hand, he would swing at Odysseus over and over and over again. Nonstop.
2
Many deep gashes would appear across Odysseus's body. Symbolizing his complete and utter defeat. William would raise the sword high above his head. An empty expression on his face. Before bringing it down on Odysseus's head with everything he had.
1
[Attribute: Mistake warns you of what you're about to do!]
[Attribute: Mistake uses the rest of its might to fight against 'Monster'!]
*Stab*
Drip. Drip. Drip.
The sound of blood dripping slowly would echo inside the empty chamber. As Odysseus looked up at William with a confused expression on his face.
"W-what...what are you doing?"
As in front of them, a sword imbued with the powers of destruction had pierced the heart of its owner.
"Keuk...My name...is...William...Wei....nice...to..meet....you. I..don't...intend...to..die..here. Go...on...and...finish...the...story, in...your...own..words."
With those words said, William would collapse onto the ground with blood quickly seeming out of his wounds.
Odysseus would have a conflicted expression on his face as he looked at William's body, before dashing towards the door into Penelope's chambers at full speed.
-I'm going to finish this damn story.
'Go for it, my fellow creator.'
'God...getting stabbed in the heart hurts....what kind of nerves do webnovel characters have? Why didn't I just cut off an arm....'
Odysseus would make his way through various rooms, pushing past various housemaids, finally making it to Penelope's room and yanking the door open. Penelope would be sitting down, knitting a shroud. She had been knitting and unraveling for the past twenty years as a method to buy time for her beloved husband to arrive.
Unfortunately, that husband was no longer within her universe.
Penelope's eyes would widen at the sudden entrance of the husband she hadn't seen in over 20 years. She would get up from her chair and run towards him, exclaiming loudly.
"H-husband? Is that you?"
'If I do really die here....and my last action was making sure someone else who will impact the world as we know it greatly, it wouldn't be so bad...'
'But...forgive me for my selfishness..because....I want to change the world as well, so the people I care about and I can have....a happy ending.'
"Nothing personal, it's just business."
A knife would be plunged into Penelope's head. Killing her instantly. As the ending Odysseus desired didn't come from what the original proposed. Not after the fight that just occurred. She would decide to create her own story, one that even the Library of Alexandria would have to give five out of five stars.
-It's over, for real this time.
'The ending I desire is the simplest of endings. As well as the ending, the most difficult to achieve.'
'I guess that even in a world where reality and fiction are intertwined, a happy ending remains imaginary.'
[Your Story has been Written.]
[Attribute: Mistake has been destroyed.]