12 – Reborn as a new hero
“yes?”
As I was laying down and shaking off bad thoughts, a cheerful notification sound hit my ears, and at the same time a familiar quest window came to mind.
[New Hero’s Path]
[Be reborn as a new warrior, not a warrior of the goddess!]
[Success Reward: Constellation System Open]
“… . what?”
While I was surprised by the quest window without any signs, I slowly looked at the sentence and understood it, frowning at the questionable part and tilting my head.
“A warrior of the goddess?”
The warrior I know serves a specific god, and s*x love is a different occupational group.
The hero can also use divine power, but it is only by means of the faith gathered in the hero himself, that is, by a method close to half fraud.
The divine power of the goddesses belonged to a considerably different system within the category of divine power.
Divine power literally means to purify the faith gathered by the goddess once and give the person the divine power that is right for them.
It’s not that you can’t use it unless you’re in the category of a hero like me, but it’s that a special product just for that person is a divine power.
At least, people who shared the same faith had the same nature of divine power, so it was possible to divide them when using divine power, but it was impossible to be a hero. That is the biggest proof of the fact that the hero is not a servant of the goddess.
“Religious people say things like the oracle of the goddess without permission… . You just need to be qualified to draw the Holy Sword.”
Neither the qualification to pull out that holy sword nor the one day coming down along with the revelation of the goddess. In the case of me, the pattern of the holy sword was naturally engraved on my hand as time passed, but the warriors of the previous and previous generations seemed to have obtained qualifications in a rather peculiar way.
Like meeting the spirit of the lake and being qualified, or being engraved with a pattern while holding a sword with a golden handle.
It is unknown when and why each of them was qualified as a hero.
However, it was the religious people who conveniently believed that the goddess did it.
“If a goddess created this system, isn’t her hobby really nasty?”
Aside from other quests and status windows, the NTR quest given at the beginning and the fact that you have to give up them to open a proper happy life are very strange.
To be honest, if it weren’t for Minel or other academy students, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had fallen into misogyny, or even hatred of humans.
“What, anyway, to become a new hero?”
I’m not sure about the constellation system written in the quest reward, but once the new system is open, it’s usually not a bad choice. Anyway, at the point of handing over these quests, it seems that this system wasn’t created by a goddess… .
“… … But what should I do?”
Don’t just hold the holy sword as a hero, become a hero?
No, if that’s the case, there’s no way he could be treated as a hero without being treated as a hero.
The pattern on the hand is also a symbol of the hero, but it can only be known by looking closely. Most people focus on the holy sword obtained after receiving the symbol.
In a situation where the absurd formula of a hero = holy sword is established, there is no way that a hero without a holy sword will be recognized.
Even the fake holy sword made in the Holy Kingdom can imitate its power, but it is out at the point where the hero’s divine power cannot be used. Besides, it uses the divine power of the goddess. Then it completely contradicts the content of the quest.
“Okay… .”
My head pounded at different times and different quest contents.
Intuitive quests such as just defeat the demon army or save someone can be solved much simpler. However, I don’t understand the meaning of the quest with such a strange figurative expression.
“Who made this… .”
The creators or administrators of the system have been intensively researching for a short period of time.
At first, I wondered why this happened to me, but I had to pay more attention to them than to worry about things like this.
Not anymore. There was definitely a ‘space’ to the extent that I could turn my attention to other things besides them.
“First of all, it’s not like the three major goddesses… Are they even ancient gods?”
When I was living with Prin, I had to deal with ‘pagans’ who followed an ancient god like her. At that time, except for the three goddesses, they were found to be pagans and killed, but from the point of view of ordinary people, not priests, it is full of strange things.
The ancient 12 gods have fallen.
Even though the 12 gods created humans, they saw them as toys, not living things, so humans became heroes themselves and cut off the heads of the gods.
And the three goddesses created by the faith of humans replaced the places that the god slayers had removed.
Goddess of Benevolence, Neiris.
Goddess of amusement, Anist.
Last goddess of vengeance, Rachel.
The three goddesses took the position of absolute gods, creating not only humans but also elves and dwarves, and monsters, demons, and demons were born among the 12 dead bodies.
This is the history of creation that people know, and it is the orthodox theory.
“Something is strange… .”
However, there are too many loopholes in the story known as orthodoxy.
The names, weapons, and even the kind of deaths they faced are not revealed. The description that he was just a hero ended.
And after 3 goddesses took the place of 12 gods, could they afford to create other races? 12 Celestial Gods and 3 Native Gods. It’s obvious which one will be superior.
Besides, I know roughly what is going on in heaven.
The management of dead souls and the management of this world called the lower world or the middle world in which we live.
“Absolutely impossible.”
In fact, the undead were created because of insufficient management of dead souls. dead but not dead. Looking through the past records, there was no case where the undead were naturally created, except for cases where black magic or shamanism was used to forcibly return the soul somewhere.
The undead started appearing relatively recently. It was around the time when the first demon king was rampaging right before the first hero appeared.
“Are the three goddesses not able to handle the soul…”
That’s why the means of countering the born demon king is the hero.
“I’ll know for sure once I’ve sorted it out like this.”
It is true that 3 goddesses have risen to the position of 12 ancient gods, but they are not completely replacing them.
The three goddesses are a mess in the first place, but there is no proof that the popular myth isn’t a mess.
“Shall we investigate this way?”
12 ancient gods… .
“Let’s go to the library first.”
You’ll have to jump in and find out the information yourself.
I can’t completely trust the books, but there’s no guarantee that no one will have doubts about the three goddesses like me. And the Arcade Academy’s library. It’s hard to believe that the book I’m looking for won’t be there.
“Lane, I’m going to the library. Will you follow me?”
“All right. Lianne, I’ll ask you to tidy up the house while I’m with you at the library.”
“If I follow… !”
“no. I told you that access to the inside of the library by outsiders of the academy is prohibited. Obviously, there are very few places you can go at the academy, so didn’t Liane tell you to memorize them?”
Lianne couldn’t even accept Lane’s words. After that, she grabbed the hem of her skirt and bowed her head.
I don’t feel pitiful. After the incident in the bedroom, his negative feelings for Rianne peak and he has little intention of moving.
I think it may have been ruined because I forcibly heated it while the affection in a corner of my heart was cooling down.
“Rain, let’s go quickly.”
“All right. young master.”
Lane stood next to me, wearing a jacket over her academy uniform.
“I will go. In the meantime, I’ll ask you to clean up.”
“… I will be back.”
As I opened the door and went outside, I heard a small voice from behind.
“Have a good trip. master.”
“… .”
As soon as I heard the familiar greeting, the heat that rose from the inside came out through my mouth.
“ha… .”
After all, he wasn’t bringing Lianne here.
With belated regret, I walked away from the lodging I was staying at at a faster pace than usual.
“The library is open 24 hours a day, even if you are in a hurry. Calm down and go.”
Reign, noticing my hasty steps, carefully held my hand and matched my steps… slow down little by little
Yes, there was no reason for me to run away from the beginning.
You could call it a kind of trauma. When I am simply with her, the memories of the past come to my mind, and my heart fluctuates wildly.
“Bocchan, what are you so afraid of?”
“I… .”
scary. being betrayed by someone.
I want to believe. I want to get rid of this loneliness by leaning on someone.
You can trust the system-approved lanes, but it is too difficult to trust them.
To be precise, it is… .
“I can’t put complete trust in anyone.”
If I’m entrusting my back on the battlefield, it doesn’t matter if it’s Minel or Rain, or even adventurers who won’t betray me.
However… . However!
“The thought of betraying me and disappearing keeps lingering in my head unconsciously.”
Maybe this isn’t going to be that simple.
Unlike the trauma, this thought really settled in a corner of my mind.
I went through countless encounters and even more betrayals. And it is even worse because there are women who have sent absolute trust among the hawks.
It’s a shame there are people like Minel. If you think about it, it’s not that there is no distrust of humans at all. It’s not that serious, and it looks like there’s relatively no problem because it’s more than that.
“I can’t trust Rain, Minel, or even my father and mother.”
“Then it doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me.”
“What?”
I turned my head to look at her at Lane’s words, and her red hair was reflected in the scarlet sunset, and I felt a different atmosphere than usual.
“Even if you don’t trust me, I just follow you.”
Lane smiled a little as he said that.
“If you’re feeling anxious, you can just think of me as an object.”
There was no trembling in Rain’s voice when he said that. He continued to speak calmly, as if telling the truth.
“Because no one can be betrayed by things. If not… I don’t mind if you make me your slave.”
“it’s crazy?”
Being a slave is not a metaphorical expression. A sign of complete submission to engrave the sentence of servitude engraved on one’s heart.
Because it is a terrible method, Lane is suggesting to me a method that is known to have no treatment other than heinous criminals or illegal methods.
“No, it’s nothing more than an untrustworthy maid acting to gain trust.”
“under… .”
Place your hands on your face and dry your face several times.
“You’re not crazy either.”
“You said you wouldn’t believe me… Shouldn’t this be a maid who protects her duty as a servant?”
Oh yeah… Is there anything that will ruin your life trying to fulfill one of your duties as a maid?
“done. Let’s just go to the library and borrow a book before the sun goes down.”
“All right.”