Chapter 49 – Hey, Kamp… I’ll Put It In. (3)
In the mansion of Mystrina, the ‘Witch of the Mist’, I met the hero in the room she made for me. The warrior came at such a late hour without the knowledge of his colleagues as if he had a lot of worries, and I, who had a prior promise, thought of sending the warrior back, but then stopped. If that clumsy guy mustered up the courage to come to me, but I send him back saying it’s too late to come back tomorrow, this hero with low self-esteem will be even more discouraged.
Why are you saying that you are going to save the spirit of a guy who is not even a friend… But can you do anything? Only when the hero in question works hard can this play have a happy ending.
After changing into a simple dressing gown, I greeted the hero while sitting at my desk. As expected, this warrior was nervous about the fact that he had entered the middle of the enemy camp alone without his comrades, so he looked like a small animal about to die from stress sooner or later. It was a sight that made me sigh, but I held it in. I don’t know how he will react to each of these little things.
“It’s new, but before we start talking, let’s introduce ourselves to each other. I am Ragnar Armageddon. I am the last and only heir to Baron Armageddon. A twenty-four-year-old warlock and aristocrat who leads a debauched life by holding and waving his arms and letting countless women into his bedroom, he is one of the villains you must defeat.”
“…Are you making a fool of me?”
“To be treated like an idiot, that sounds disappointing. Didn’t I tell you? Let’s introduce ourselves before we start talking. We think we know each other well, but in reality we don’t. Let’s be more specific, that’s it.”
Luke glared at me with a face full of displeasure and continued.
“…Hero Luke. He is twenty-three years old and has no last name. He was chosen by the goddess Luminous to become a hero, and according to the oracle, he embarked on an adventure with his companions to stop the immortal dragon and his four evil followers. Started.”
Rattle.
“…Yes, Luke. The hero chosen by the goddess. ‘Destroyer’ Serberk and ‘Madman’ Sillip. Both of them fell by your sword? Although they did not have their own powers, they were armed as individuals. And the influence was strong enough, so when you defeated them and made me your next target, I was fully prepared.”
The hero swallowed dry saliva. It seems that he remembered the first time he broke into my mansion.
“More monsters, more soldiers, more weapons, and more traps and magic. You can’t imagine how much money I spent just to defeat you. When I met you, only one question remained in my head.”
After practicing for a long time, I continued to speak while staring at him with a terrifying gaze that I had grown accustomed to so that when others saw it, it gave me goosebumps.
“What kind of a warrior is so weak?”
“Kuh…!”
“Ah, I didn’t mean to mock you. It was a really pure question. Serberk is very powerful, but he’s an individual and his range of abilities is limited, so if you join forces with your colleagues, you’ll be able to defeat him. Actually, you were at that time. I participated in Serberk’s subjugation party. But… In Sillip’s case, the story is a bit different.”
Yes. This was the biggest question. The moment I first fought the hero, the reason why the hero, who should have defeated me lightly, was so vainly defeated and fled. At first, I thought it would be because it was before he obtained the power of ‘Purification’, a skill to simply attack me, but even taking that into account, he was much weaker than I expected.
It was so weak that I even suspected that Luke, whom I had just met at the time, was not actually a hero, but rather a decoy sent by a real hero to catch me off guard. Of course, the goddess Luminus immediately corrected it, so I confirmed that he was the right hero, but he was weak enough.
As for his fighting power, he was weak enough to take me down even if I wasn’t thoroughly prepared. I questioned that fact. Why did this error occur? And I recently found the answer.
“Sillip’s ability is distortion. The power to twist and alter all kinds of natural laws and truths. Depending on how you use that ability, it can be very difficult to deal with. Quite a few attacks are a reflection that twists the direction or trajectory and returns it to the enemy. Is basic, and it can do all sorts of bizarre things, such as changing a person’s gender or swapping two people’s souls, etc. But… The hero who defeated that guy couldn’t resist the light hallucination I walked into. ? That sounds ridiculous. Then there is only one conclusion.”
I tapped the desk with the cherry branch in my hand and laughed.
“They certainly fell at your hands. But that’s not the result of your own efforts alone.”
“They said I joined forces with my colleagues…!”
“Are you even aware to what extent that this isn’t the case?”
“…”
There was a third party’s intervention in the hero’s adventure. And he is probably the same person or an accomplice to the one who attacked me when I was alone with his men for a while. At first, I didn’t know what was going on, but the moment I saw this object that came down as an oracle from the church I visited to reconnect with the goddess Luminus, I finished grasping the situation.
Just because they are gods, it seems there is no law that makes them different from humans.
Her purpose of the Luminous is to end this play safely, and the purpose of those who intervene in this world besides her is to ruin her play. And the reason they risk exposing their existence to get rid of me means that I am a hindrance to them.
There was no problem with the warrior. It’s just that those damn bastards used their hands. The reason why the hero did not gain an important realization even after winning the battle against them was that the authors weakened the two guys in the middle so that the hero could not grow, making it easy to defeat them.
To be a hero is to overcome hardships and grow, but by intentionally lowering the level of hardship, the result was to hinder the growth of the hero and lower his combat power. Perhaps, had they worked well, the hero would have defeated four unenlightened, strangely weak villains, stood before the immortal dragon, and suffered a crushing defeat, with extreme bloodshed.
Churrup.
I blocked it in the middle.
Questions bite their tails here.
Q Then why didn’t those bastards put such a weakening on me?
A Because a god can only affect the area he or she originally assigned or the things he or she created. This world was created by Luminus, and in the meantime I am a soul from another world. Even Luminous can’t control me, and unknown people can’t influence me.
Q Then why were those two guys affected?
A There are two possibilities that can be considered. The first is that Serberg and Sillip belonged to a field where unknown gods could influence them. And the second one… Is that ‘Serberk and Sillip are the creations of unknown gods’.
The first assumption is unlikely to be correct. In the first place, it is presumed that the purpose of those guys is to turn the typical royal road warriors into extreme blood by breaking the rapid drift at the end, so of course the character ‘Baron Ragna Armageddon’ must have prepared a way to use his hands. However, the fact that I was the only one trying to kill myself by dropping lightning feels more like something I just committed because I was wrong in the middle, rather than something that was meant to be the case from the beginning.
Here… The reason I came to this world and this cherry blossom sent by the goddess became the stairway leading to the next step.
“…Who do you think intervened? During the time of ‘Destroyer’ Serberg, we acted together with the punitive force, so it might be possible, but in the case of ‘Mad’ Sillip, we received an urgent request from the guild and only we went out to deal with him. There was no one around, and if there was, there was no way we, who were fighting Sillip, wouldn’t have known about it. Who and how could intervene in our battle?”
I was troubled here. Should I tell the truth or just hide it?
From the point of view of the audience watching this play, I am just a villain who is so suspiciously strong that it is difficult to defeat him. If I suddenly explain the process that happened due to the personal relationship with the goddess Luminus, it would be tantamount to openly revealing that I was an outsider to her, and that would be breaking the promise with Luminous.
The promise I made with the goddess Luminous was that I would help her with her play in exchange for the right to wish.
However, this play is not just a show. First of all, it is expressed as a play, but in fact, this is a kind of test.
The Luminous Goddess, a test to prove that she is a full-fledged god, and that she can faithfully carry out her duties as a god without any problems even with greater power.
Creating a world and safely progressing a big story without direct intervention within that world is the content of this test. Of course, if the circumstances are revealed, those who disturbed the goddess Luminus will be immediately found out and punished appropriately for what they have done. However, that is not necessarily the best ending.
Even if a third party interferes, if she instills the perception that she cannot properly control even a single world she has created, her future life as a god will suffer greatly. Besides, there are not one or two gods who undergo this kind of test, and if the play is stopped to catch those interrupters, it will take a very long time until the next opportunity is obtained. So, for now, the best option is to catch them after the play is over, no matter what they do.
In the end, I have to finish this play safely without revealing to the audience the personal circumstances of Goddess Luminus, the relationship between me, and the existence of a deity trying to ruin the play.
…Damn it, it’s not like a game that started on the difficulty level and changes to the Korean difficulty level without notice in the middle… It’s just not profitable to do it in exchange for a wish ticket. Of course, I’ve already made a promise with my mouth, so of course I’ll keep it, but at least I’ll have to get at least two more wish tickets once this is over.
And… They say that you shouldn’t reveal the circumstances, but I’m not a big-hearted person like a great friend, so I can pass over things that almost killed me as if nothing happened.
“I don’t know. Maybe you know? Maybe some unknown being played a prank secretly?”
“What do you want to say?”
“No, I was just talking to myself.”
The hero wondered what the hell I was talking about, but it didn’t matter. In the first place, this wasn’t what I meant to hear from him.
I’m just a villain actor. It’s enough if I fulfill my role as a villain according to the role given to me. But sometimes unexpected situations happen during a play. In that case, the important thing is, of course, the ability of the actors to cope. No matter how embarrassing the situation, it is to naturally flow through the situation with ad lib. To continue the play brilliantly until the end so that the people watching the play do not feel anything strange. That’s a great learner in my opinion.
Even though I’m a really evil villain, wouldn’t this be enough villain actors?
I tapped the desk with my right hand holding a cherry blossom branch and continued to direct the hero and someone else’s attention there. As if it could be something important. And with the rest of his free hand, he affectionately stroked the head of the woman who was working hard under the desk.
Oh, it’s cheap.
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“I don’t know. Maybe you know? Maybe some unknown being played a prank secretly?”
[Five…]
To that one word that came out of his mouth, the audience reacted differently.
[Wow, creepy. Look at the goosebumps on my arm. I haven’t heard of such a twist, is it a surprise? I was really creepy.]
[Is it metafiction? It’s a good element. It’s several times better than that bastard’s world.]
[Fuck, don’t ignore Isekai stuff! The first time I did it, I praised it for being innovative, and now it’s like this!]
[It’s only novel once or twice, the same pattern in the same flow every time. Is that novel?]
Those who laugh and chat with each other, accepting even his remarks as the content of a play prepared in advance.
[Couldn’t it be… Isn’t it? Oh, please…”
[But in case you don’t know…]
[More than that, who secretly pranked me? That…]
Those who take his remarks more seriously than they thought and struggle with the contents.
[No, so what is metafiction, bastards! Again, I was very excited that what they knew came out.]
[It’s only you who doesn’t know, you idiot.]
[It’s not an asshole, it’s an asshole!]
[In the end, being an idiot is the same, you idiot.]
Even those who quarrel with each other talking about completely unrelated stories.
‘…Ah, please.’
And the person who showed the greatest reaction among them was none other than Luminus, the goddess of light who was the play’s scriptwriter and general director at the same time.
‘It’s good that you noticed the message I sent you… But this isn’t it! This is a really big deal!’
The reason why that man took on the role of Ragnar Armageddon was the influence of the disappearance of the real Ragnar Armageddon. If it is revealed that he is a human from another world, the process of why a human from another world became involved in this test without warning will be revealed, and a soul from the world he created has disappeared. It is even discovered that the play started without finishing preparations.
If that happens… No matter how good the results of this test come out, you may be eliminated. The exam that I prepared so hard for is going to be a waste in an instant. And worst of all… All Luminous can do now is believe in that man.
With the help of ‘the audience’, we are recovering the disconnected communication, but because it is very determined and blocked, it does not have a big impact on the fragile world that became the stage. It takes about a week. If you restore communication like that, you can share the details and make detailed plans for the future, but in the current situation that can’t do that, I just hope that he doesn’t do anything strange. Yes, for example… Like now, while talking to the hero, let the hero’s colleague elf suck his penis under the desk…
‘Crazy, crazy.’
The two biggest emotions that move humans are, of course, desire and fear. In terms of a car, desire is the accelerator and fear is the brake. He promised to help Ruminus with his play, and as a support for him, he demanded that he get rid of emotions such as fear and guilt that prevented him from acting as a villain, and Ruminus agreed. Not knowing that if he did such a thing, he would not know that his life would be precious and that he would end up as a nopakku.
It’s a shame because the majority of the audience is watching the play from the perspective of the warrior, but if that is discovered, this audience will be in a great chaos. I thought it was an authentic heroine, but I am sure that she will be angry that her co-worker has suddenly become a netoraremul that is made fun of by the enemy boss.
Besides her, there were only two people in the audience who knew about that situation. For some reason, the audience is watching this play from the perspective of the villain Ragnar Armageddon and is giving him all kinds of support, and the audience is Hochna, the hero’s colleague.
I can understand the person in front, but why is that audience in the back? To be honest, Luminous still couldn’t understand the behavior of that audience. Your favorite character is getting messed up by the enemy, so why doesn’t he reveal it and go on a rampage? Normally, if you see something like that, you’d get angry…?
The Luminous Goddess did not know. She knew that there were people who would do it if Choi Ae-kae walked only on a good path, and that there were people who couldn’t get out of the sense of immorality watching Ae-kae Choi being raped. She, who has always lived with a righteous and upright heart, understood that her darkness was too ugly and filthy.
