"I alone survive and regress." After countless deaths, this is what I have concluded.

In the end, no matter what I do, everyone, including myself, always dies. Again and again. I regress and I regress - reborn anew each time. This is the 999th time it has happened. I let out a heavy sigh.

The countdown for the final level shines in a dark crescent blue rectangle in the middle of the dreary night.

[4:53 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]

This notification had always pained me in the past, but I've since become void to the feeling. I sat with my knees bent and my arms swung across them. The pile of corpses surrounding me are my allies - once known as dear comrades - and have had their heads dismembered and their faces disfigured as they lie still. They had all died against one of the Demon Kings: Asmodeus. I killed Asmodeus a few seconds ago, not that it matters anyway. However, he was not the final enemy nor the goal of Level 100 - the final level in The Games.

Some time later, A lone Angel, Uriel, flies towards me from a distance. My eyes slightly become relieved at the sight of her, and I let out a light sigh. Even after I have lost almost all emotion, she truly was beautiful. Being a high archangel, Uriel possessed authority on a truly imaginative scale, but this was the first time I have ever actually seen her in person and not in a dream world. This is due to the constraints formed on Angels and higher lifeforms attempting to descend into the mortal plane. She wore a white dress of the highest quality, had ocean blue eyes, white skin and blonde hair befitting of her status. Her halo glows bright gold and she was carrying a brown satchel over her shoulder. I always found the two golden leaves she had laying over her ears cute.

Even though I say all of this, it really is hard for me to feel anything towards her, well, anything beyond simple interest. How could love be in the cards for a guy like me?

She sat beside me. She is the only Angel with the alignment of 'Good' and had sponsored me the Regressor's Judgement stone. As such, she is the only one who knows of my regression - the celestial Sponsor.

We sat there silently for a bit until she spoke.

"Jason."

"Uriel."

She spoke with slight solemness and I responded with a monotone and despondent voice.

"I am sorry we have to meet under these circumstances. I would have rather been able to invite you to my Divine Sanctuary but..." Uriel spoke with a hint of sadness.

"You know it matters not to me, Uriel."

Of course she knew how I felt. After all, she's been with me for over a thousand years. Never once have we met in person, but she has reached out to me in my dreams and can communicate telepathically to me using her Divinity. What annoyed me the most, however, was her ability to read thoughts. After my third regression, though, I figured out how to block her from perceiving my most precious thoughts. Additionally, she has, of course, been watching me this whole time from her Divine Sanctuary.

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I look up to the dark crescent blue rectangle, the countdown, above me.

[3:00 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]

I turned to Uriel.

"For what reason have you descended from your Divine Sanctuary?"

"I bear important news, O' Regressor Jason. Your next regression will be your last."

My eyes slightly widened and my heart began to beat quicker. For the past hundreds of years, I had thought I was null to this feeling. The head rush was intense and for some reason, the edges of my mouth began to creep into a smile. Why had I began to smile?

Uriel looked at me and narrowed her eyes, but shook her head and did not think about it anymore.

"The Regressor's Judgement stone is a one-of-a-kind item, but its energy reserve is drying up. It is refusing my Divine Energy now, as well. I can only send you back one more time. Are you okay with that?"

"What is the alternative, Uriel, I die for good?" I said and continued to look at her fair skin.

"Yes, Jason. This is the End. I will support you no matter what you choose to do. I can even spare your life and you can live in the Divine Sanctuary with me as an Apostle for eternity if you like." She said with a smile.

Even with the bodies that surround me in a 500 meter radius, I suppose now that I recollect, the Divine Uriel really only did ever care for me in the end. She made that clear ages ago, but I never really believed her. She bore no attention to any of the countless corpses, friend or foe, on the battlefield. Maybe the alignment 'Good' is still a stretch for her. Her regret in meeting under these circumstances was simply because she wanted to meet me when I was 'happy.'

"I decline." I said with a monotone voice as usual.

"Ugh, why?" Uriel slightly pouted at my response.

A thousand years ago for me, the Angels descended upon Earth to give all of humanity The Games: 100 Levels/Trials for their own amusement. They promised salvation at the end of the road. From that day forward, I constantly reminded myself that I will see the end of The Games. That is all.

"You know why."

"Yeah, but you don't actually have to say it. Just because I'm Divinity doesn't mean I don't have feelings, you know?"

She was slightly childish in my eyes.

[0:30 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]

"I wish we could spend more time together, Jason."

I didn't respond and instead stared at the countdown.

"We are always together, Uriel. In this life and in the next."

"...Yeah." Uriel frowned and kicked her feet.

Silence emerged until Uriel spoke.

[0:10 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]

"Hey, Jason, what do you think of this world?"

An odd question to me. Maybe she did not actually know the answer. After all, my most 'precious' thoughts and feelings were blocked from her perspective and I never talk about how I feel.

[9 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]

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"...The world? I don't think or feel anything toward it." I said, staring at the countdown.

"I want to become The God of the new one."

[0 Seconds Left Until The End of The World]