Chapter 67 – Take a Good Look, Champion. Yasugak.(1)
As Selena spoke of her experience, it was like a siren blaring in my head. Well, the situation fits so perfectly that it is rather strange not to misunderstand from the point of view of the person concerned. I tried to hastily clear up the misunderstanding here, but in fact, I was on the same side as Luminus and I was trying to deceive myself, and in a situation where the divine power knife could be stuck in the stomach, I felt the need to be very careful with my words.
“… Luminus didn’t answer until the last moment, and a woman who called herself ‘Hel’ appeared at the moment of her death and told you the truth of this world? And you accepted her plan to get revenge on Luminus, , The plan is to kill important people in the story of Luminus as soon as they are resurrected?”
“That’s correct.”
“…Huh, where do I start explaining this? Okay, then ask me. If I know anything, I’ll answer.”
“First, why didn’t Luminus tell me that there was a way to seal the immortal dragon beforehand?”
Come on, let’s think carefully. It is a big mistake to think that with perfect logic you can win everyone over by talking. There are people in the world who do not have logic. Logic that the opponent cannot refute is of course important, but depending on the situation, it is also necessary to appeal to emotions, hide important facts, or intentionally tell lies.
“The reason why the goddess Luminus didn’t tell you how to seal the immortal dragon in advance was because all of your companions had to die.”
“Why?”
“Because that’s the scenario.”
The scenario of the play written by Luminous is like this. To defeat the absolute evil that even the most outstanding people of the past could not kill and sealed away, with weaker heroes and heroes working together. What the audience wants to see is a royal road where a weak warrior grows up and defeats the greatest evil, and here Selena and her colleagues serve as a kind of device that shows the current warrior’s power is relatively low.
Of course, the moment I say this as it is, this woman in front of me will turn her eyes and slit my throat, so I don’t have to say this part.
At my words, Selena asked with a frown on her face.
“A scenario? The reason why my comrades died in vain is because of that scenario? What the hell is the scenario for?”
“If what Luminous is doing is a play, there will be an audience watching the play, right?”
“…Is it the will of an existence other than Luminus to let me and my friends die?”
Her vengeance and hatred toward the goddess Luminous have now faded, but instead they are directed at many instead of just one. Overall, it wasn’t a very good result, but it was the most appropriate situation to move on to the next step.
“Okay. I don’t quite understand it, but let’s say that my comrades died because of that scenario or something. Then, does the fact that Luminus didn’t respond to my words until the moment I die is included in that scenario? “
The second most direct cause of Selena’s hatred towards the goddess Luminous. The attitude of Luminous who did not respond to her own call even at the moment of her death. There was pent-up anger in Selena’s voice as she asked me her facts about him.
“Of course not. According to the original scenario, Selena, after you sealed the immortal dragon and returned alive alone… Oops.”
As I was trying to clear up Selena’s misunderstanding, I suddenly felt her body tremble at the sloppy intent to kill me. At first, she wondered if Selena had decided to slit my throat and stop digging into a truth she didn’t know, but the look on her warrior’s face was suspicion, not murder intent. If that’s the case… I immediately drew out the black magic and assimilated my body into darkness.
Weeeee!
Then something pierced my head, which had become assimilated into darkness and became resistant to all attacks other than divine power, and flew towards Selena. Still, Selena, her former warrior, caught it flying towards her with one hand without blinking an eye. It was a sharp ice awl made of magic in her hand. I turned my head and looked in the direction from which the attack had come, to where Luke and his party had fallen. Luke and his companions were still on the floor, but only one stood on his feet and glared at me.
“Sheesh, anyway, one notice is filthy fast.”
“Ha, Viola. I’m in the middle of an important talk right now, so don’t interrupt. Throw away that damn totem.”
“Shut up! Do you think I will miss this golden opportunity that may come again? Today is my friend Manika, and I will avenge the people of the Mage Tower who died at your hands!”
That damn totem. Before clearing up the misunderstanding with Selena, I should have destroyed that first.
Did you say your name was ‘Hell’? After Selena is resurrected, she doesn’t act as she promised and disappears with me, so she intends to sabotage me using Viola, who also disappeared through her bone totem. Normally, this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but things are a bit…
“Revenge… It seems that you weren’t a clean person either. Besides… Revenge of the people of the Mage Tower? What did you do to the Mage Tower built by Alace?”
“Hey you! Whoever you are, don’t ever be fooled by that bastard! That bastard is Ragnar Armageddon! He kills people in hundreds with a mysterious power you don’t know where he got it from, rapes all women, and even the Mage Tower. You’re the one who deserves to die!”
“…”
Oh please I’m really going crazy The timing is amazing.
“Is all that said true?”
Selena pointed her sword at me again and asked in a murderous voice. It would be strange, though, that she would not turn a blind eye to the idea that someone had horribly destroyed the legacy of one of her own deceased comrades.
“I’ll ask again. Is that statement true? Did you, did you destroy the magic tower built by my fellow great sage, Alace?”
“Ha, yes. That’s right. I did.”
“Why?”
“Because that’s what my role was supposed to do, and it was part of that damn scenario.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you died at my hand today!”
I appealed that it was something I had to do, not because I wanted to, but Selena didn’t trust me very much. Damn it I was able to talk it out nicely, but because of Viola’s intrusion, Selena’s trust in me was drastically reduced. It’s hard to believe anything you say in this state. Meanwhile, Viola was preparing her attack magic at me again. It wasn’t the flame-type magic I usually used, but the ice-type magic I’d never seen before.
Come to think of it, the previous attack was also an awl made of ice. Is that totem’s influence affecting her mind as well as her magic? Before I knew it, the ice spear completed on Viola’s hand flew fiercely at me. And I didn’t even try to prevent or avoid it.
Because it doesn’t work anyway.
Huung, Kwaaaaang!
The huge ice spear that flew with the momentum to rip my internal organs, just like before, pierced through my body to the point of futility. The reason why my weakness is divine power is not just because the power I control is darkness. In this way, if you integrate your whole body into darkness, you can ignore all attacks that are not of the light attribute, so it is said that it is a weakness. Even if a huge meteorite that would blow up a continent fell where I was, all damage to me would be zero unless it contained divine power.
In other words, no matter what kind of magic Viola uses, she cannot kill me.
“Damn… That’s right! Get hit!”
Viola continued to fire ice magic at me with her wrath, but the attacks didn’t do me any damage and just flew through me to the other side. She can’t help but feel that this is absurd on her part. But what? That this is the ‘rule’ of this world.
The rules of the world are determined by the god who created it. And the rule of this world is that only the divine power of the goddess Luminus, the power of ‘light’ can counter the power of ‘darkness’ used by the immortal dragon. So Viola alone can never harm me. Elia, her clergyman, and Luke, her warrior, are unable to deal proper damage to me unless either one of her two people adds her own holy power to her attacks. Because that is the rule of this world established by the Luminous Goddess.
“Well, honestly, you’d have a hard time believing me. Few people are as hard to earn the trust of others as a murderer. But, as I’ve said, this is my role. Like it or not, it’s what I should have done.”
“Are you saying you got your hands dirty with the blood of so many people because of that scenario? You want me to believe that?”
“Your role was a hero saving the world, and my role is an evil villain who will die at the hands of a hero. That’s all. Do you know who did it because he wanted to kill?”
“…”
It’s a story that the average person would never be convinced of, but it’s different for Selena. For when she denied my words, she was denying herself.
After she found out that she acted according to the scenario of the Luminous Goddess, she said that everything she did as a warrior was meaningless and that she would not have done it of her own free will. . But to accuse me of the massacre according to the scenario as my fault as a villain is to say that the act was my free will, which means that everything Selena herself did as a warrior is meaningless and that she has no freedom of her own. Because it contradicts the claim.
While I waited for Selena’s reply, Viola, enraged that she had been thoroughly ignored, prepared her spell again. However, this time was a little different from the previous ones. The form of this magic was so heterogeneous that even I, who was unfamiliar with magic, could notice that fact. If the previous magic had been a single cog, this magic had several cogs of different shapes and sizes interlocking and turning behind her.
“This…”
“Smoke Witch, Cigarete Tobacco. She’s a woman who doesn’t quite fit me, but she was of great help to me as she had the same purpose. She said she wanted to take revenge on you who destroyed the magic tower, so she taught me this technique. She has a lot of magic power. I haven’t actually tested it because it’s not enough, but I’m saying that it’ll work fine in theory. Originally, I didn’t intend to use this untested magic… But as long as it’s to get revenge on you, I don’t care!”
As if adding paint to a landscape painting painted by another person, the black space is dyed with her color. A space full of colorful lights. In her dazzling space, where the color of the light in front of her changes before she even knows what color it is, Viola confidently shouted, hiding her weary expression.
“A unique magic created by combining 13 types of magic, starting with barrier magic. ‘Sub-space creation’. It is a magic that separates the inner space from the outside with the barrier as the central axis, so that unique rules are applied within the space. And those rules are…”
At that moment, in the hands of Viola, who must have almost no magic power left from using the huge complex magic circle from before, attack magic that could never be activated with her remaining magic power, not one, but dozens at the same time, suddenly without any sign. Thread appeared
“Magic consumption 0, multiple chanting, chanting no chant, 100 shots. These four things apply to me. The magic I use to maintain the barrier itself can’t be helped, so I can only keep it for 3 minutes at the longest, but I can’t use any magic. Without chanting, you use several at the same time without consuming mana, and all of that magic is sure to suit you. In this space, that ridiculous evasion doesn’t work!”
“…Huh, this is kind of surprising to be honest.”
What she said is true. The reason that the skill I used to assimilate into darkness evades all attacks other than divine power is due to the rules in the world created by Luminus. However, Viola completely cut off this space from the outside world through a barrier, thus temporarily creating a very small world where the rules do not work. Originally, it was a high-level magic that could never be used with her growth, but it seems that it succeeded thanks to the help of that obstruction through that damn totem.
Viola was a face that had already won. She might think so. I, who have little knowledge of magic, can overwhelm other magicians by pouring infinitely well-springing magic power into ignorance, and using even simple magic by multiplying its power dozens of times, and using any attack other than divine power. It was because he had a fraudulent technique to avoid all of them.
However, in this space, she is not caught by the limits of her magical powers, and she has far higher magical knowledge than me. This is because it is incapacitated in space. Literally checkmate. There is no way out.
“It’s amazing, Viola. No matter how much the hinders helped, it’s probably because of your skills that this magic was realized. But don’t mistake me for thinking I’ve won already?”
I spoke leisurely as I watched dozens of spells pouring over my head, including colorful fireballs, ice spears, lightning chains, hammers made of rocks, and wind sharpened like blades.
“People say everyone has a trump card hidden, but I’m the kind of person who feels at ease when I have five, not just one.”
The magic that fell with the momentum to tear my body stopped from the sky.
“…What? No, how the hell…”
“It’s a simple story.”
I smiled and took off my coat to show the inside. Her eyes were stained with astonishment.
“That, that’s…!”
“Did you hear that you learned that spell from Cigarette Tabacona? But if it’s a magic formula that a smoke witch can develop, if you’re from the same magic tower and have a huge supporter, if you can make a more upgraded version than that, there’s no such thing as nothing. Do you think? And my Mystrina, when I make magic, always makes a magic formula with a simple structure that works by itself when I infuse magic so that I can use it well, even though I don’t even know how to use magic?”
The magic formula drawn on the inside of my coat was similar to the complicated magic circle Viola used earlier, but it was different. Mine is not as large, complex, and three-dimensional as hers. But the most important place remains the same.
“Create a barrier to cut off from the outside world, and make independent rules apply within the barrier. Subspace magic is not your exclusive property.”
Her subspace, which was filled with colorful colors, was gradually invaded by the dull and ominous dark red subspace that I had. When different subspaces collide, in the end the stronger one wins. Viola has a limit on her magic power to maintain the barrier, but since my magic power is unlimited in the first place, I have no choice but to win. In an instant, the ratio within the barrier was divided into viola 2 and me 8.
“Unlike yours, my space has only one rule, so the size and structure of the magic circle are much simpler. And the rules applied in my space are simple.”
I pointed my finger at Viola, who had a blank expression, and asked in a playful tone.
“Now, Student Viola, let me ask you a question. A simple syllogism? Rules were applied to do so. Then, what rules would apply within the subspace created by the warlock?”
“You can’t…”
Pooh. I fired at her her magic made from her infernal fire. Viola blocked my attack with defensive magic, but her complexion was not good. Even though she safely parried my attack, Viola staggered, vomiting blood from her mouth. She looked at me with dismayed eyes, as if Viola wanted to exclaim, ‘Nonsense!’
“The correct answer is the cost transfer! The price I have to pay when I use black magic, such as vitality or parts of my body, or lifespan, is to pass it on to someone other than myself?”
