The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 205
205 – Cause and effect (9)
Quaaang!!
Immediately after discovering the abnormal phenomenon that appeared in the night sky, things progressed very quickly.
The meteor hit the ground in an instant, creating a thick cloud of dust around them that blocked everything from being seen, and Aigokeros and Irene, who were hit directly by the dust cloud, looked around with frowns on their faces. See.
“Aigokeros, hurry up and call Faust.”
“I’ve already called you. No, even if I didn’t call you in the first place, if it’s such a huge shock, you’ll come.”
“That… I guess so.”
While exchanging words with each other, Aigokeros and Irene enter a battle stance.
They both know that another Faust, that is, a Faust with divine authority, is fundamentally good, but there is nothing wrong with preparing for a fight in advance.
More than anything, the night sky they saw was so… Strange.
A meteor filled with divine power, the night sky shining brightly with the light emitted from the meteor, and even Faust, who is creating it all at the center.
Even that Faust… Seemed hard to touch. It’s like a poisonous snake that looks like it’s going to bite you if you get even a little closer.
“Ventus Aria.”
When Irene clapped her hands and chanted her magic, she instantly created wind and blew away the cloud of dust around her.
It’s not just that.
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The dust clouds swirled in one place and slowly died down, and soon disappeared completely, causing the dust to clump together in one place. She asks why she even bothered to clean it when she could have just blown it away, and Irene, feeling Keros’ gaze, just smiles and replies.
“Well… It looks good, so it’s okay, right?”
“I’m sure you will.”
“Why do you always end your sentences so tightly– Wait.”
“…Hmm.”
As the dust disappears and the view becomes clearer, Irene and Aigokeros can see Faust, who had fallen from the sky a while ago, with divine status.
Even though it flew from the sky at incredible speed and fell to the ground, the surrounding terrain was so stable that it seemed as if it had been there from the beginning rather than being stuck in the ground.
And on top of that stable terrain, Faust, who holds divine status, stands unharmed.
It shows very well what it means to have divine status.
“…It was obviously night now.”
“This heat… Wow, it’s fire.”
The topography of Dalianjang is constantly changing under the influence of God.
The spirit of light drives away the dark night that spreads across the sky and brightens the surroundings, and the spirit of fire takes away all the moisture from plants and causes them to spontaneously combust, spewing out heat everywhere.
The spirit of the wind must have been stimulated by the wind magic that Irene used earlier, and uses the convection currents of the air to gather all the heat around her and sweep it all over Irene’s body. Irene grimaces as she feels the hostile heat coiling around her own body, but there is nothing she can do but grimace.
If she makes a wrong choice now, she is sure to die horribly right away. It is impossible to disrupt one’s posture due to something like heat.
“…Aigokeros, may I ask you a question?”
“Ask me.”
“How many gods have been killed by Faust’s descendants, who have been shaking their heads at the god of light? So, what is the god that was offered to Faust?”
“There are so many that I can’t explain them all, so I’ll just tell you about the most important and highly dangerous deities… The deity of fire, the deity of wind, the deity of lightning, the deity of the colossus, the deity of alcohol, and finally, the deity of the dead. It has divine status.”
The gods mentioned by Aigoceros are the most basic beliefs that have ever been worshiped in all human societies.
Natural objects such as fire, wind, and lightning, worship of something huge, and even death. There is no civilization in which this type of faith has never been discovered.
And the fact that we have never been able to find a culture without such faith shows that the risk is extremely high.
A divine position is the embodiment of worship toward something.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t support it. With just a sense of wonder, the embodied worship has power.
Paaa
“However, even if such gods are dangerous, they are insignificant compared to the gods of light.”
“…I guess so.”
However, no matter how much that may be, all of those deities are insignificant compared to the deity of light.
This is because Serapia has absorbed the Serapia Church, which it had created with great effort, and is exerting an overwhelming influence on countless people.
In this world where it is common sense that the number of believers is directly proportional to the power of the divine power, there is no other divine power that can compete with the divine power of light.
Feeling a bright light blocking her vision, Irene agrees to Aigokeros’ words.
“There is also a reason why it is the only artificial god created by the system.”
And when Lucia’s Faust, who appeared from behind, accepted Aigoceros and Irene’s words and continued, their expressions became distorted with doubt.
Artificial spirit?
This is my first time hearing this story.
“Faust?”
“What on earth are you doing now?”
“Generally, if you find something magical, a deity is created in response to that, but that deity of light was not created through that process. Before anyone worshiped the concept of light for the first time, the system created a deity of light. “Either they created it, or the system created a rule called Divine Wisdom and created the Divine Wisdom of Light as an example.”
-To me, the latter seems more likely.
Faust, paying no heed to the two’s questions, that is, Lucia’s Faust, continues speaking calmly.
This is literally the first time they have heard this story and there is no evidence for it, but Aigokeros and Irene have no choice but to believe it.
No matter how groundless it is, if you say it as if it is that certain, that alone is enough to be persuasive.
[…I know very well.]
Faust, a man of divine power who has so far only kept his mouth shut and suppressed his divine power, speaks.
There is no sense of any physical law in that nurturing nature. All I can feel is fleeting holiness.
[I, no, neither of us knew this. How on earth did we know?]
“There is a wizard named Elias who has spent his entire life studying divine figures to find the true god, and has even created artificial divine figures. The wizard said that all existing divine figures are nothing more than administrators, and that the concept called system is defined by himself. He is the true God. The God of Light is his representative created by the true God, and the God of Light created Noah as his representative.”
It may not be very polite to speak while wiping away the numerous traces of Lucia, Iris, Celestine, and Lena’s body fluids, but that doesn’t matter right now.
The words Lucia’s Faust said were so shocking that I couldn’t even care about such things.
“Anyway, the general divine power is a replica of the concepts of the divine power of light. If it is possible to destroy the huge library that the divine power depends on, the god power of light… Other divine powers will react and lose their power. It will work out.”
[…I like that the story is fast. I was a little worried because I was a very immature person at the same age, but it was just unfounded.]
“Being immature also means that there is a possibility of further development.”
[Ugh, right.]
Faust, who has only endured the pressure of his status and the system, suppresses laughter.
It would be normal to feel disgusted because the patience that should have been used to suppress the pressure of the system and authority was wasted on something useless, but Faust, who possesses authority, does not feel that way.
I just feel a lot of relief.
“I’m not sure why I changed the plan… Should I just kill you first?”
[Okay, kill me while I’m suppressing everything. It’s hard to hold on any longer.]
As he looks at his other self slowly walking in front of him, Faust, filled with dignity, just tells him to do the same.
There is no need or reason to say things like why you became like this, or whether you did something too strange and became like this.
I just wish for someone else’s suicide.
…Of course, since the other person is another person, the sentences get a little twisted, but whatever.
“I hope you find rest-“
Flashingㅡ
“–Tsk.”
However, at that moment, something unexpected happens, just as we had been aiming for.
As Lucia approaches Faust, a huge barrier of light appears in front of her.
It’s not just that.
The numerous divine powers contained in Faust’s body are united under a single will and are hostile to Lucia’s Faust.
[I finally fell. It was annoying, but there was a price for that hassle.]
The Divine Wisdom of Light, the one will that commands the Divine Wisdom, savors the strength of the body it has taken away.
For example, by clenching and opening your fist with force, or creating a small sun on top of the clenched fist.