What’s left were the questions related to myths.
“Bad guys being unable to see fairies… what’s the reason for that?”
“That’s simple. If there are too many Curses comprising one’s status, they become unable to recognise fairies, beings that are created from pure Gifts.
This is directly correlated to Gifts and Curses slightly shifting the register of existence of their owners.”
“Regarding Gifts and Curses—ignoring the fact that I’m on the benevolent gods’ side, and that Goleth and Gazaine were on the Evil God’s side—how are Elemia, Miguel, and all the others in
And the villains who’ve repented, or the good people who’ve been involved in evil deeds… I’m also curious about what happens to them.”
“The samsara system extends throughout the world… let’s see, it’s fine to think of it as something akin to a plumbing system.
It’s fundamentally something that exists to distribute Gifts, but the Evil God’s side has abused it, using it to circulate Curses.
“However, it’s not as if it can differentiate between good and evil in regards to the recipients and distribution of Gifts.
In other words, as long as the Evil God hasn’t conferred any Curses upon them, even bad people can receive the benefit of Gifts.
That’s why the Evil God will certainly want to send Curses to those who he intends to use as chess pieces.
“Furthermore, if the reformed villains are from the Evil God’s side, then they’ll be absconding with their Curses, so there’s the possibility that they’ll be subjected to the ‘collection’ of a Curse.
Also, regarding good people who’ve gotten involved with evil deeds, since it’s possible that they will be lured away by the Evil God’s side and be conferred their first Curse, don’t forget that there are also people who haven’t yet fallen to the Evil God, even though they’ve carried out evil deeds.”
“What about in
“In
It’s a method of converting good people into villains while still remaining good people, so to speak.” “Hm? Then this situation of good people being brainwashed in “Well… I’m not the Evil God, so it’s not like I understand everyone of the other’s thoughts.
I would think they only thought to strengthen the combat power in hand by hunting monsters.
Rather, he might even think that he’s profiting because he can strengthen his pawns without granting the Curses he has in store.
But then, Monguenues’ thinking is extremely heterogeneous, so there are parts that only the person himself understands.” “About Curses, can’t they be detected by magic or something? “I believe Melby-san will intuitively notice apostles of the Evil God like Goleth and Gazaine. “P-partner, you say…” Melby writhed around with her hands on her cheeks. “However, if the other party becomes so inclined to attempt to hide, it’s possible that even Melby-san won’t notice.
Come here, Melby-san.” “Y-y-y-yes!” “Fufu. Calm Down.” The goddess smiled as she said that, but there was a vague fragrance of the forbidden. *Snap* She was flicked by something invisible. “Ah, ow ow…” “A-are you alright?” The moment the goddess was to kiss her, something like a wall of light suddenly appeared, obstructing in between the goddess and Melby. The goddess said in indignation, “Good grief! That child doesn’t change!” “That child?” “Attiera, the god of magic, views me as a rival.
Attiera doesn’t like that and told me to ‘hand them over’, but it’s difficult to separate the magic skills alone.
Hmm… I wonder what I should do. The goddess raises her head and looks at Melby. “Melby-san, will you let me see your potted Rainbow Cactus plant?” “O-okay.” Melby retrieved the aforementioned mysterious organism from her dimensional storage.
I feel like it has grown a little bigger compared to how it was before. “Melby-san, have you tried using [Appraisal] on this?” “Yes, the first time I used [Appraisal], it appeared to be fine to give it mana, so I gave it some of my mana every day.” “Can you try using [Appraisal] one more time right now?” “Yes… E, eehhhhh!?” Ah, so she really hadn’t noticed. 《Tushaaravati
Rainbow Cactus? (tree form) / Magic Organism Level 1
MP 291/291 (29↑) Abilities Skills
[Growth Control] ―
([Aurora Magic] 1)》 Yup, still just like a mysterious organism. On top of its maximum MP steadily increasing, it even acquired an ability without us knowing. “Rainbow Cacti have the peculiar trait of absorbing mana to produce flowers and bear fruit.
At any rate, I’ll give this Tusha-chan the ability to detect Curses.” The goddess tried to kiss the rainbow cactus, but a thorn pricked her lip. “Ow.” The goddess grumbled cutely, then she blew a kiss to Tushaaravati. Melby’s mysterious pet absorbd that kiss, and let out 2, 3 pulses of rainbow-coloured light. I immediately use [Appraisal]. 《Tushaaravati (《Mysterious Organism》)
Rainbow Cactus? (tree form) / Magic Organism Level 1
MP 291/291 Abilities Skills
+[Detect Waves] 9 (MAX) (A Gift from a benevolent goddess, detects the unearthly wave motions emitted by the Evil God’s Curses. Effective range has a radius of 500 metres.)
[Growth Control] ―
([Aurora Magic] 1)》 Ooh, it looks like quite a useful skill. I mean, even the titles have increased.
The requirements for a title were “many people calling someone by a certain name in awe”, and “if the one designating the name has great influence on their surroundings, the influence on bestowing a title also increases”, right.
As for me, my influence in regards to bestowing titles upon others apparently became greater because of the effect of the 《God of Virtue’s Blessing (Kannumarne)》, so it might also be due to that. “Can’t I possess it?” “Humans are beings that fluctuate at the threshold between good and evil, so the observation results won’t be stable.
On that note, Melby-san is a being made with a Gift as a base, and Tusha-chan is――Well… An existence that is hard to put into words, yet has no components that would interfere with [Detect Waves]. The goddess said as she stared at the rainbow cactus. “What? Why?” “To begin with, Melby-san is peculiar among fairies.” “Eh? Are you talking about… Me?” “For fairies that have lived for a long time, their mentality changes and they become easily distracted, so as to decrease their mental burden.
That’s why, normal fairies are unable to temper their skills, or spend tens of years on developing needed tools like Melby-san. “Eh… But I don’t really…” “That is Melby-san’s peculiar trait.
This is just my guess, but I wonder if that had a significant effect on Melby-san’s mental formation.” “Do you know anything about Melby’s master――Alfecia-san?” “She was one of the seven central figures among the Pioneer Elves.
There were plenty or resources because there was only a small number of people, and the apostles on the Evil God’s side were also powerful, so it could be said that that had been inevitable.” “What about your apostles?” “…They fought with the Evil God’s apostles and died.
The one in charge of Alfecia-san was Attiera, so I don’t really know the details though.” It’s something we’ll find out once the seal is released, so this much is enough. “Gazaine said that the Evil God was originally a comrade of the gods, but is that true?” “Hmm. Yes, and no. “Yes please!” A chance to hear about the creation myth of this world from a god directly doesn’t come too often, okay. “Let’s see, firstly, us benevolent gods weren’t originally gods of Marquekt.” “Eh…? Is that so?” “That’s right. “The thing called Absolute History? That was what was written in the history books in the study at the Viscount Chrebl residence in Corbette Village. “It’s not that they weren’t recorded, they just didn’t exist in the first place. “So you’re saying that the Evil God was originally the god of this world?” “The answer to that is, as I said earlier, both yes and no.
If someone who enslaves everybody and enjoys the discord of those souls can be called a ‘god’, then the answer is yes. If not, then no.” “What happened to your former world?” “Our former world was facing a crisis of destruction due to a stellar abnormality. “Stellar…” I was surprised at the term that suddenly popped out, but when I think about it, it might not be a particularly strange thing. “If it’s a stellar crisis, then wouldn’t it be fine if you moved to another star system?” “How could we do so?” “How, you say… By using a spaceship or something?” “Even in your former world, a spaceship that was possible of performing interstellar travel hasn’t been developed yet, right? What the hell. “By any chance, could the fact that no aliens have appeared on Earth also be…?” “I don’t know whether or not there are aliens in that world, but I suppose that’s one of the most significant reasons. “No intelligent lifeforms from another world came to Earth either though… Ah, no, that’s incorrect.” The goddess right in front of me was a being of such an ‘other world’. “Although I called it migrating, it was just the people throughout the world reincarnating simultaneously. Even in my previous life, there were webnovels where a reincarnated person makes use of the knowledge from their previous life in another world to become a peerless character, but there’s a limit to the amount of information that a human brain can hold. “But isn’t that the same for each world? “To the extent where it becomes a sophisticated civilisation, specialisation becomes extreme, and they would have to try to make existing technology a self-explanatory premise.
For argument’s sake, even if they did know, they wouldn’t have any of the equipment to make it, so it would be hard to reproduce it.
Perhaps it is somehow possible to be able to reproduce up to a computer, but even so, what about after that?
Even simply inheriting knowledge is difficult.” The goddess continued. “The Marquekt that we arrived in had a much crueller environment than it is now.
Infertile soil and polluted rivers.
The atmosphere was thin, so strong cosmic rays would even rain down on the earth intermittently.
In order to improve this environment, we split our power as gods on a grand scale and flooded the world with various spirits.
In other words, the extermination of powerful demonic beasts, and expanding the range of humanoid existences.
However, we also succeeded in greatly shaving down the might of the Evil God’s side at the same time, and were able to release the original inhabitants of Marquekt from the collar of slavery.” It’s a very, well, majestic tale. “…Melby, did you know about this?” “Uh uh… Because I was only with Master when I was small.” I decided to swallow down the retort of “you’re still small though”. To put it simply, the gods came from a different world and settled on this planet.
They released the humans who were slaves of the Evil God, but were unable to completely bring down the Evil God. Even after a thousand years has passed after their settlement, the contest of influence between them and the Evil God continues to this very day. …In that case, just what kind of existence was considered a “god”? I considered asking about that, but the nearby Melby’s body was appearing transparent. “――It looks like it’s almost time.” The goddess says. “About the matter with
However, your body is still small so try not to overexert yourself.” Me and Melby’s bodies were sucked up by the planet below. Chapter end
Isn’t this unfavourable to the Evil God?”
It seems like it would be considerably easier if they could.”
You’ve found a good partner.”
The goddess gently brought her lips closer to Melby as though loving a flower―
――That’s it.”
In the short time I haven’t seen it, the colour of the flowers has changed to silver.
Since I have a chance, I also use [Appraisal] once again.
Anti-substance spray ★☆☆☆☆ (sprays sap that can be used to decompose harmful microscopic substances and microoganisims)
Abilities should be an “innate ability” but was it something that could increase?
…If she could do that, then she should have done that from the start.
Anti-substance spray ★☆☆☆☆
….For now.”
If someone with a long lifespan were to continue concentrating on something, they would fall mentally ill.”
…Melby seems like she really wants to ask more though.
About the origin of this world, and the relationship between the benevolent gods and the Evil God――do you want to know?”
You have also read history books so you may already know, but what do you know about Marquekt’s calandar?”
There was only the ‘absolute’ history, and nothing about events prior to that era was recorded no matter where I searched.”
Incidentally, the current year is AH 1294… No, the new year started while I was in the Nest, so it’s 1295.
In the first year of Absolute History, us benevolent gods came to this world, and while confronting the Evil God, we started liberating the people who were the Evil God’s slaves little by little; that was precisely what happened that year.”
That’s why we decided to bring the survivors along and migrate to this world.”
Rather, another world without stars would be harder to imagine.
Rather than migrating to a star many light years away, it’s easier to migrate to another world.”
Mankind’s dream of advancing into space was shot down with this one line just now.
To intelligent lifeforms that have mastered science and delved into the domain of magic and souls, what they should touch upon is not the intelligent lifeforms of a faraway star, but rather the intelligent lifeforms of another world whom they can have direct contact with.”
What we brought to the other world were their souls alone, so the sophisticated civilisation achieved by mankind in their previous world ended up lost in one generation without a chance to be accessioned.”
Even if I was told to make a computer or automobile in this world from scratch, it would be impossible.
If fellow reincarnators were to exchange information together, then to a certain extent…”
No, my body was as well.
I watched Melby panic and cry out “Wah, wah” as my consciousness receded――.
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