The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 194



194 – Training (2)

“Is work going well?”

“Ah, Master Faust. It’s been a long time.”

While everyone was in the medicinal bath to deal with the after-effects of petrification, I went to see Elias at the Magic Tower of Eilleuge for the first time in a long time.

I didn’t come just to get to know each other as I haven’t seen each other for a long time. Elias will naturally be inferior to me in the overall aspect, but in some areas she has a better magical temperament than me, so she came here to ask about that.

For example, Xinwi.

If it had not been for my intervention, Elias would have created an artificial god before. Although he was a little late, he created an artificial god as he should have been.

In this respect, Elias has a different direction from me, but is by no means inferior.

“What’s going on? This is literally the first time you’ve come here since Seraphia died.”

Elias speaks to me with a bright smile, but her tone is not like that at all. There are thorns in her words. Thorns.

It feels as if I could have seen it at any time since there is a portal, but I’ve been wandering around all this time and now I’m here.

Uh… Well… If you say that, I have nothing to say.

“…I’ve been wanting to know something about the divine power. What does this divine power control?”

Desperately pretending not to feel the thorn in Elias’ tone, he stands in front of Shinwi and forcibly twists the topic of conversation.

Elias narrows her eyes and looks at me, as if she knows very well my intention, but she soon exhales softly and answers my question.

“It’s just an artificial god, so it doesn’t govern anything. But if you really look at it… You could say that it governs me, the being called Elias. This god status is maintained only because I believe in me. If I do, “If you become depressed and feel like committing suicide, your spiritual status may disappear.”

“That’s… Great. Is this similar to atheists who say I don’t believe in God but in myself?”

“Well, I’ve seen God with my own eyes too many times to be called an atheist. Isn’t the God of light walking right before my eyes like this right now?”

After saying that, Elias walked steadily around her lab, and soon she stood tall in front of the divine body.

The artificial spirit seems to recognize the owner who created it, and it trembles and vibrates differently than when I stood in front of it.

It’s like… Morse code.

If it buzzes quickly, it is a dot, and if it buzzes slowly, it is a line. We can be sure that Xinwi is saying something in his own way.

Well, the God of Light also had a will, but the same goes for other Gods.

“Elias, I want to know about the Divine Powers. Why on earth the Divine Powers exist, why the Divine Powers can be made infinite if intelligent beings have faith, literally everything.”

“When it comes to magic, Faust probably knows more than me, right?”

“That’s true in general, but you know more about divine powers than I do. I can’t create artificial divine powers like this.”

“…Until now, I didn’t really feel that others were acknowledging me, but Faust said that, so I’m surprisingly happy. I guess it’s because someone with more magical talent than me is acknowledging me?”

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After saying that, Elias slightly made her take a deep breath, and she immediately raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

As expected, as an archmage, being recognized by someone with greater capabilities than oneself seems closer to satisfaction rather than hurting one’s pride.

“Hmm, anyway, to answer Faust’s question… First of all, contrary to the word, a god is not a god. It is just a being who can truly be called a god in this world, a managerial position created by the system. “The true God I have been searching for until now is the system I saw in Kael.”

“Then why is it that divine status is created through faith?”

“It’s just that the system has created an automatic process that responds to the needs of intelligent beings and creates corresponding administrator roles. In my judgment, it is completely impossible, but if the system is destroyed, no more divine positions will be created. Since the divine powers are also operated by the system, they will not function properly.”

Elias, who said so, cited her self-existence and artificial divine status as examples.

If the self ceases to exist due to death, etc., This artificial spirit will also lose its power and not function properly.

When she limited the world to only Elias himself, she said that Elias was acting as her system.

“What does it mean when something doesn’t work properly?”

“If we take the deity of light as an example… The deity of light will still exist, but it will no longer be able to manage and control all the lights that exist in the world. It will simply follow the physical laws created by natural phenomena. , The light will simply exist alone, and the power of faith that comes from believing will also completely disappear.”

Hmm, if that’s the case, ‘my’ plan has a surprisingly high chance of success.

If you just destroy the system, all the divine powers that depend on that system will become useless.

As the world that ‘I’ want is a world that is not controlled by the divine power, if the divine power cannot manage it as Elias said, it is exactly the world that ‘I’ want.

Of course, this only works if the system is destroyed as planned. If the system cannot be destroyed, divine powers will continue to arise, so we must focus on destroying the system more than anything else.

“But… Is it really okay?”

“What?”

“If the system is destroyed, can this world continue to exist?”

But Elias’ sudden question was enough to make me confused.

Artificial gods that can be created assuming their existence as the whole and system of the world will disappear as soon as their existence disappears due to death, etc.

In other words, this means that the entire world and the system must be on the same line to create an artificial god.

If the system is destroyed, will all the worlds on the same line be intact?

“…That.”

“What is the reason for the existence of the system in the first place? It has no will or desire, and is no different from a machine that just manages, maintains, and repairs the world mechanically. Who created that machine? What is the limit to life? Doesn’t the fact that there is a limit mean that something terrible would happen if there were no limit?”

The question Elias had shocked not only Elias but also me.

… None of Elias’ worries are unfounded.

Until now, I have made this entire journey only seeing the system and the limitations of life as my enemies. But… What if the end of the journey that achieved all goals is the irrecoverable destruction of the eternal world?

This is definitely worthy of being called a devil. The great evil that destroys the world.

The Earth is a completely different space from this world. What is natural on Earth may not be natural in this world, and what is natural in this world may not be natural on Earth. Can’t we prove it just by looking at the existence of magic?

It is natural for Earth to have no direct intervention by God and no limits to life, but that is not the case in this world. Forcing this world to conform to the laws of Earth is no different from forcibly infusing the Earth with magic, demons, living, breathing gods, etc.

…If you think about it with common sense, I don’t think the side effects are a joke.

“And… Master Faust, what is that magic sphere?”

While all kinds of distracting thoughts were sweeping through my head, Elias’ question disrupted my distracting thoughts and made them disappear.

“Magic sphere?”

“Yes, in the past, I thought that the magic sphere simply played a role similar to the mana concentration at the top of the magic tower. It absorbed the magic energy emitted from Faust’s body. But… Artificial energy “It doesn’t seem that simple to me now that I created Shinwi.”

It looks similar to an artificial god.

Elias, who is squinting his eyes and assessing the magic sphere, speaks as if he were approaching a wild beast that will bite you if you make even the slightest mistake.

“How was this magic sphere made?”

“… I made it when I was recovering my demonic energy that had been concentrated for 13 years in the great forest. I condensed all the demonic energy spread throughout the forest into one dot, and from then on, it absorbed the demonic energy like this on its own. “

“Doesn’t that mean that absorbing demon energy is not the option Faust intended?”

“That will happen.”

“…Master Faust, this magic sphere is dangerous. It must be removed immediately.”

When Elias’ finger touches the magic sphere, the magic sphere hums and trembles as if it has a will. Just like when the artificial god just reacted to Elias’ presence.

The sound of the magic sphere, which at first glance sounds like the sound of a wasp’s wings, sounds like a warning sound that it will not leave you alone if you try to get rid of it.