Chapter 236 – Chapter 236 ― It’s Already Been a Year (3)
Episode 236 ― Already One Year (3)
“The devil… Summon?”
A positive expression was washed off Erenia’s face.
“… Why?”
“Hmm? I don’t know why. It doesn’t mean that I do it. I’ve heard stories from the distant past that demons were sealed in the past.”
Only then did Erenia come to her senses as if she had woken up from a dream.
“Ah… Yes. I guess so. Because Roan’s magical power is small…”
“Someone must have called that. So it would have been sealed. So I asked Liron about demonic arts, and I thought that Erennier knew best.”
“Um…”
Erenia let out a small moan.
It was to easily explain the difficult concept of magic to Roan, who was no different from an outsider.
“No one knows whether or not the existence of demons exists after all. Among the recent magic scholars, there are some who say that the existence of other powers that wander in the world, such as magical power and holy power, are called demons.”
Eleanor’s expression when he talked about magic was different from the gentle expression he always showed to Roan. Roan naturally put his chin on his chin and listened to Erenia’s serious words.
“Anyway, the principle of drawing and using such enormous power is the same. Whether it’s magical power, holy power, or the power of demonic magic.”
“How are they similar?”
“Everyone needs a price. Magic uses mana, and divine magic uses divine power.”
It’s the same thing as Ron said.
Liron said that the curse magic used by Erenia was done in exchange for a sacrifice.
“Then what about demon magic?”
“Demonology costs someone’s life force. And borrow the power of the devil.”
“However?”
“The important thing here is to ‘borrow’ the devil’s power. And what Roan said was ‘summoning’ the devil.”
Of course, the latter doesn’t seem easy.
“As I said before, we are not even sure whether demons exist or not. Such a demon… Or is it to ‘summon’ a great power? That’s a really big job For example, if the concept of sacred magic is to use the divine power given by the goddess as a medium to draw on the power of the goddess, summoning is the opposite.”
“You mean it’s similar to summoning a god?”
“How powerful that god is, of course, will depend on the details such as the magic power used and the caster, but… To sum it up, yes. Okay.”
Summoning God…
The ending is for the hero to grow up and defeat the devil, but is that enough? A hero of divine slaughter?
“But in theory it is. It’s not enough to be called a god, but you need to have a lot of life force just to summon a spirit or spirit worthy of being worshiped by someone. Wouldn’t it be impossible without at least a massacre to summon something worthy of being called ‘the devil’?”
“… Genocide.”
The first thing that crossed Roan’s head at that moment was how Fiora had made Laurecia a god.
Fiora carried the lives of all her races, and consumed them to turn humans into gods.
The next thought that comes to mind is that the nearest genocide is, after all, war.
And fortunately, for now, the war has stopped. If the massacre is related to the summoning as Erennier said, it seems that we need to actively use our hands to prevent the war from resuming.
If we find the whereabouts of the artifact, we will have one less preparation for summoning the demon, so it seems we must hurry up and find the artifact.
“Well, in that case, it’s just a home. Is there any way to summon something like that, if not for genocide?”
“Um…”
Erenia was deep in thought.
“I don’t know if it really exists, so it’s okay to say ‘summon’, but if you approach it from the concept of ‘gathering strength’, wouldn’t it be possible with time? Of course, depending on how much power you gather and what medium you use it, of course it will be different.”
“What if I were to summon an entity stronger than my strength that even I could not defeat?”
Only then did Erenia smile mischievously. She thought that Roan was too careful to worry unnecessarily.
“Whoops, Roan. Don’t worry. The condensed power that moves according to the will of the caster can never be summoned with the lives of one or two animals or people. It would take years to do that.”
The time from when the demon king was assassinated in the game and the war ended until the demon appeared in the demon castle.
Around 3 years depending on the route the player takes.
Roan tried to smile.
**
As each day passed, the day got a little warmer. Just as spring was in full bloom in Basel, Roan arrived in Spross for her third move.
After passing through the gate with Helen, Roan briefly stopped at the market in front of the gate to buy a small ornament.
There are people like Pervert in every game who go into every building the main character can enter, and the item Roan bought is one of the pieces of information they found.
A small decoration that speeds up the recovery of holy power. A cute bird-shaped necklace, something a little girl would wear.
Helen widened her eyes and put on a puzzled expression, but as if she realized the whole story, she didn’t question Roan’s actions as she noticed her subtle holy power like the sculptures of the goddess statue in the fountain last time.
After preparing another artifact, Roan and Helen were crossing the plaza to head to the mercenary guild, where they had their next business.
Near the fountain of the Statue of God, which was being restored after the water receded, people were quite busy. It’s embarrassing to see someone giving a speech. I never thought I’d see a street speech in Merde.
“Is that normal, Helen?”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it too, Master. Are you giving a sermon in the street?”
“… Are the words of the Goddess properly followed!”
A passionate voice can be heard from afar.
The speaker must have stepped on something, his head protruding above the people around him. Roan began observing the speaker through the small space.
The shape is similar to the priestly uniform, but the color is dark gray, unlike the priestly uniform of the Goddess Church.
“Priests?”
“It’s the first time I see clothes like that. Gray clothes are not worn in other denominations.”
Dozens of people around him were listening to him, so he couldn’t see his clothes or the situation around him anymore. But the people around the speaker are holding their breath and listening to him.
And other people passing by, hearing the speaker’s words, were startled, or shook their heads and hurried away as if running away.
“That’s why the Goddess sent the agent herself and severely punished the greedy nobles!”
… Uh?
That’s not what I’m talking about, is it?
Helen, too, is surprised by the content, staring blankly at the priest, a smirk-looking speaker who utters a voluptuous speech.
“That’s strange.”
“… Yes.”
Helen, who answered mechanically, she tapped the person at the far edge of the audience listening to the speaker.
“Hey, I’m sorry.”
“No, what’s bothering you… What are you doing?”
She must have been engrossed, but her man, who looked curtly at Helen, became very polite when he saw Helen’s face. Her wariness, which had appeared on her face, also subsided.
“Because I don’t come to the capital often. Who is he and what is he talking about?”
“Ah. Are you seeing the priest of the Liberation Church for the first time?”
“… Yes?”
“The Liberation Church?”
She glanced disturbingly at Roan, who her man questioned with her Helen, then looked back at Helen and smiled at her.
Come on wait for a sec.
Liberation Church.
Does this have something to do with the Liberation Corps that Sermo talked about the other day?
“It’s a new religion.”
And suddenly the man lowered her voice.
“The reason why the country has become such a mess is because the royal family, nobles, and religious groups all came together to make a fuss. The Goddess was furious with him, dried up the grain of the land, and began to punish the country through her agent.”
Helen involuntarily opened her mouth.
The reason her pretty lips parted in a nice shape was actually because she was so stupid, but her man understood Helen’s reaction positively. He started getting more excited.
“Have you heard of a baron who recently kidnapped commoners and was dismembered? That is the punishment given by the agent.”
… Uh, uh be damned
Even if you pretend, it’s a strange word.
The goddess this man is talking about must be the goddess Laurecia, the main deity of this country, but she cannot punish humans in the way that the goddess of life dries up the land and starves everyone to death in the first place.
Because the goddess wouldn’t be interested in what human nobles and kings were doing.
Goddess Laurecia is the goddess of life.
She is not a goddess of politics or a goddess of justice.
But what matters to these people is not the truth.
“So, what are we going to do?”
When Helen asked cautiously, lowering her voice like he did, her man’s face grew even more delightful.
The attitude of a beauty who would normally be untouchable was focusing on his story broke his heart even more. So, he brought up a story that he wouldn’t normally tell to someone he’d never met.
“You can come to the secret meeting if you want to hear more. Here you can hear more details than what the priests are saying. Maybe even the lady will be surprised when she hears it.”
“Details? Can you tell me a little bit here?”
At Helen’s request, her man looked around.
When Roan seemed to be interested in what I was saying, he spoke up a little confidently.
“It sets an example by punishing the rotten nobles and religious orders. Just like the agent did last time.”
Are you planning a riot?!
Perhaps if the emotion had been revealed, Roan would have opened his mouth wide with his eyes wide open.
“People… Are you hurting me?”
“No, no. That goes against the word of the Goddess. It’s about robbing warehouses and distributing them to people in need.”
She expected something like this, but didn’t think it would be this fast.
It seems that the whole country is really in a state of dry firewood. Otherwise, there is no way people would understand such a sudden story like this.
“Those who farm outside the capital are robbed by taxes to local lords and officials, and robbed by war… There are many people who suffer like that, and there are even people who starve to death, but it is said that such people would rather go to the country of demons.”
“A country of demons? Are you talking about Evirgio?”
“Yes. If you go to the demon fortress beyond the dark forest, the demon king will give you land to farm. In fact, he says there are people who farm there.”
It seems that the story is spreading excessively and better than expected. The so-called ‘liberation group’ seems to be working very diligently.
She moved away from the man who wanted to hold and talk to Helen more. She missed the man, but soon she focused again on the priest’s words.
He looked like a ‘believer’ fascinated by the priest’s words.
Except for those ‘believers’, most of the people walking in and out of the plaza glanced at them with rather uneasy eyes before passing by this group.
However, Roan, who runs ‘detection’, can tell.
In the hearts of those who listen to the priest’s words, there is a mix of curiosity and a subtle sympathy.
Occasionally, passers-by hear the priest’s voice and stop, or, as Helen did, ask the listeners something.
“Awesome.”
And Helen had an unexpected reaction from Roan. She got a little scared to be honest.
“At las…”
A smile spread across Helen’s face.
“Finally, these ignorant people are finally learning the greatness of their master little by little.”
Oh, uh… Mmm.
Roan looks at Helen with her quivering eyes, but Helen just smiles with joy.
Helen’s liking rises along with the beep beep beep alarm she hears in a long time. She took +85.
