Rise of the Rejected Deity from Chaos

Blood, flesh and bones scattered in chaotic disarray, making the carnage that was already in sight more dreadful.

The villagers who already had a good idea of what Seiya was capable of were still surprised by this sight. Raw fear shunned their nerves, their feet involuntarily taking them further from the chaos.

The dread and devastation on the faces of the commander, his assistant and the remaining Humanity Saviors couldn't fully be described by mere words.

It was as if time itself had stopped. They were all still in their spots, rooted in places like robots that needed commands to budge.

The thrilling anticipation that was earlier on the assistant's face was wiped clean and replaced with dread. As was the gleaming anticipation that was on the commander's face a moment ago when Seiya's staff came.

All wiped clean and replaced with unfathomable horror.

Never before had they seen a brutality such as this.

Regret quickly surged through the commander for not intervening when he was supposed to—even after Seiya specifically turned to look at him.

As nerve wracking as the sight before them was, the commander needed to act like the leader he was. There wasn't time to wallow in things that had already happened.

Breaking free from his stunned shock, the commander snapped his head toward the female Humanity Savior standing in pale shock beside him.

"Bumi!" He called, his voice thick—every nerve in his body fueled by desperation.

The girl whose eyes were stuck in static at the sight far beyond where Seiya nonchalantly stood in the middle of the carnage he had wrought like it was nothing, quivered.

She peeled her gaze from the horrific sight, answering to the commander who had called out to her. Without being passed any commands, she understood right away what she had to do.

Instantly, before Seiya could wreak any more damage, the girl's eyes squeezed shut, her chest rising and falling as she panted heavily and trembled.

The girl extended both hands forward, and in front of her, floating aloft, a golden wheel shimmered into existence—rotating with graceful ease.

Keeping one arm stretched forward, she retracted the other back to herself, keeping it at her chest level, and saying, "Wheel of Life. Rewind!"

For a brief moment, the wheel stopped, as did the world around it. A moment later, it restarted rotating backward, and like something everyone would call magic, time was rewound.

But even when it was, this truth was solely exclusive to the girl who had cast it, and the commander who had the power to transcend time at that moment.

The commander and the girl's gaze snapped toward where the Humanity Saviors encircled Seiya, their faces covered with desperate urgency.

She had turned back time to the very moment the captain approached Seiya, mockingly asking if he intended to put on a grand show for their amusement.

Knowing they couldn't reach them in time no matter how fast they were, the girl and the commander's voice tore through the atmosphere—thick, and heavy with desperate urgency.

"No! Step back!!!"

"Do not let his staff touch you!!"

But before the Humanity Saviors could process the commander and the girl's warning, or even attempt to heed it, Seiya's staff was once again already pressed against the captain's chest.

And like it had before, the captain's upper half erupted into shattered flesh and bones—horrifying them for the second time. Though to them all except the commander and the girl, it was the first time.

Yet again, the commander turned to the girl to rewind time once again. But before the girl could, Seiya repeated the same devastating swipe, claiming the heads of four Humanity Saviors.

After rewinding time for the second time, the commander and the girl once again desperately tried to deliver their warnings to the Humanity Saviors.

But the same fate was replayed, making it the third time Seiya claimed the lives of five Humanity Saviors, including the captain.

Despite the toll of using her abilities repeatedly weighing heavily on her, causing her nose to bleed, the commander still turned to her to rewind time for the third time, and she heeded his command.

However, the moment she rewound time, and they attempted with all their might to stop the Humanity Saviors from moving forward or getting entangled with Seiya, Seiya appeared before the girl in a blur of motion.

None of them had seen him move. They had only seen him right in front of the girl like he had teleported there in an instant—surprising everyone, including the Humanity Saviors who had him encircled.

Seiya was yet to use his staff on them after the girl rewound time.

His blindfold that had never come off in front of any of them, was pushed upward—resting over his forehead—revealing his white gleaming eyes, and the scar across his face.

Though with his back to the Humanity Saviors, only the girl, the commander, his assistant and the other male Humanity Savior who stood at the other side of the commander could see Seiya's true face without the blindfold.

The commander was taken aback. The shell-shock that Seiya had not destroyed the Humanity Saviors with his staff like he had done three times before but instead, came to them, froze the commander in stunned silence and confusion.

If it was a normal day when there wasn't any devastating chaos such as this, the commander would've sure paid more attention to Seiya's looks.

Before the commander could recover from his state, Seiya's hand shot forward, clenching around the girl's mouth in a suffocating grip.

The girl's body shivered with raw fear, her face darkening with dread. Her legs wobbled beneath her, threatening to give out, but by his tight clench around her jaw, Seiya forced her to remain in place.

The commander's shock and confusion grew deeper, mirroring the expressions of everyone present.

Why had Seiya left the Humanity Saviors who had him surrounded and ready to kill him, to come to the girl? They were all puzzled.

"What the hell is he doing?!" The captain whose upper half Seiya had obliterated three times before time was rewound, gritted in anger.

"Is he nuts?" Another Humanity Savior spat as they all started running toward Seiya.

"This bastard!" The commander's assistant cursed, activating his ability—ready to attack.

Seiya leaned forward, looming over the trembling girl like a grim reaper about to harvest her soul. His eyes that gleamed eerily even during the day, peered intently at her—shunning every nerve in her body.

"You just won't stop rewinding time, will you?" Seiya's voice spilled over her, thick with scorn and cold, biting edge. "Tiresome parasite!"