Lightning didn’t fall from the sky – 8
Maybe I was thinking wrong from the start.
Claudia is the city of clouds. It is a land where clouds pour like waterfalls over the slope and lightning strikes like rain. Instead of milk and honey, it can be said that it is a rough terrain where a dirty and grunting air current flows. Unless you are a vampire who naturally hates sunlight, there is no reason to go out looking for it.
In the distant past, when Tyr led the vampire over the mountain, it was not a city, but a mountain village with a rather unusual natural scenery. Of course, not many people lived there. Because beasts are afraid of thunderbolts.
At least thanks to the thunderbolt, the tiger stopped approaching and the village was able to be built. If Hwan-ho had come to a land that was already tired, he would not have been able to live.
Anyway, the thunderbolt became the Thunder God because of that fear… The high regressor said it, and others think so too. That wouldn’t be true.
Rather, it is because the lightning that suddenly falls and takes away lives and property is less dangerous as the god of thunder foretells the appearance of lightning. People are even starting to treat the god of thunder as a friend.
“… Wake up alarm?”
“Yes. Maybe we misunderstood the brain god. The Thunder God is not a being that brings thunderbolts… He was the one who came to warn me when lightning strikes.”
A giant who roars with thunder and throws lightning bolts to the ground. Being an incredibly powerful and divine being, the title of god seems fitting, but in fact, if you look at the work of cutting everything and making it pure….
Isn’t that just lightning? Lightning originally thundered loudly and scattered thunderbolts to the ground.
“Additionally, looking at this broken figure now, it must have been an artificial product created by someone. It is true that other gods were also created by humans, but the Thunder God was created in a more pure sense.”
“… God?”
“And he is more helpful to humans than any other god. Peru, is the thunder god always visible on lightning days?”
“… Come to think of it, there was always a thunder god on lightning days.”
“Has there ever been a time when lightning struck without the thunder god appearing?”
Peru shook his head as he rummaged through the past at my question.
“… No. If lightning strikes before the alarm sounds… I think there was hardly any. Unless it’s thunder from afar.”
“Is lightning a pure natural phenomenon? If the Thunder God is really fickle, there should be no thunderbolts even on days he doesn’t appear. Seeing that it wasn’t like that, it seems that the Thunder God was right on the alarm. It also works very well.”
The Thunder God, who has been known to come to punish humans who stole lightning, is actually a tool created by humans to detect the approach of lightning.
Peru muttered after learning an unexpected fact.
“… Who is this?”
“It is written here. Fran, the Lightning Thief. He’s a man with a great name. Judging from the fact that he even signed it, he doesn’t seem to have any intention of hiding himself.”
“… I never heard of it.”
“So, what matters is not his identity.”
In any case, knowledge passed on to all humans. Knowledge itself is not a secret. What can be called a secret.
“Who hid his identity? At this point, that’s more important. Anyone who hides will inevitably know about the hidden object.”
“… Know?”
“I don’t know the same as Peru, but I know something different. When something obviously contrived happens, it’s easy to think about who gets the most benefit.”
Actually, I already know the answer, but for the sake of Peru, I pretended not to know and continued the conversation.
“You know the story about the lightning thief, right?”
“… Huh.”
There is a story that people from all over the world must know even better. A legend about a lightning thief and a thunder god.
There are many fairy tales in the world about stealing gold and silver treasure from a giant living in a magnificent palace. However, the story of the lightning thief is the only one where a giant made of lightning descends from a cloud and takes revenge in real life. Fiction can’t beat reality. Only the story of the lightning thief that started with Claudia has been passed down to the world.
“By the way, the thunder god was actually a lightning reminder, and the lightning thief was the creator of the thunder god. This truth has been cleverly distorted by piggybacking on the original fairy tale. There is only one entity that has benefited from this process.”
“… Who?”
“He’s a celestial god.”
I guessed roughly. Did you attack me by revealing the precious words of thunderstorm for nothing? There’s a good reason for that.
“When the lightning thief stole the thunderbolt, the thunder god who stole his was granted permission by the heavenly god and punished the humans on the ground. He was tricked by the lightning thief a few times, but the lightning thief eventually caught him and changed his mind and gave him back the lightning. After that, there is a lot of talk about forgiving humans, or whether the Thunder God burned his anger, but the wind that the Heavenly God commanded to return went back beyond the sky.”
Peru, who was thinking hard, asked back.
“… Does it benefit you?”
“Sure. He took the Thunder God as his subordinate without lifting a finger, and of course it’s an advantage.”
“… Uh?”
While Peru stopped at the unexpected words, I whimpered and lifted the Thunder God’s ribs and looked inside. I thought there would be a complicated mechanism, but I was wrong. Inside was almost empty. There is a small device inside, but that’s only a small part. For some reason, it seemed to fall slowly, but it was as bulky and light as a balloon.
Is the Thunder God just an alarm? But I can feel something…. The real memento left behind by the Demon God is….
This is it.
“Thunderbolts did not fall from the sky.”
If it’s big enough, there must be a reason for that. I passed the empty body of the god of thunder. If there was anything that could be called skin on the restored Thunder God, it was the wide piece of cloth hanging from its back.
“It was sent from the ground to the sky. From the beginning, lightning wasn’t from heaven.”
It’s a kite.
A toy that ties things that are trying to go up into the sky on the wind by tying them together with a thread. A fallen kite was hanging from the thunder god’s body. It was torn and worn, but its function and shape were clearly recognizable thanks to the restoration with the power of the Golden Sutra.
The god of thunder was lifted from the ground and sent up to the sky. While entrusting the heavy responsibility of asking when the thunderbolt will come.
“… The Thunder God is a tool to protect Claudia….”
“It’s not necessarily just the god of thunder. The vast majority of Claudia will be useful tools like the Thunder Gods.”
“… Why did the Lord of Thunder want to get rid of the Thunder God?”
“Well? You don’t need an alarm anymore?”
He answered without hesitation, but Peru nodded his head in agreement.
“… That’s right. After building a lightning tower in Claudia and installing a thunder wheel, there is no need to fear the Thunder God.”
“Then everything falls into place. Until now, I feared and reverenced the Thunder God, so it would have been better if I left it alone. But if you no longer fear the Thunder God, your reverence for the Celestial God will also disappear, so you must have wanted to deal with it now.”
“… Did Lord Urea know all of this?”
“I don’t know that much, but maybe I didn’t know?”
Thunderstorm herself did not know. However, she was an existence that was observed by the saintess, from her values to her powers, so even if she made a rational decision, she would have moved in a direction that would benefit Seonghwangcheong.
“Anyway, since this is also a keepsake of the Demon God, it is clear that someone other than Thunderstorm knew about this existence.”
In this keepsake, I don’t feel the resentment I felt right before I died like the Golden Gyeong or Daejongsa. It seems that he even paid a prize. It’s not like she died holding on to unfulfilled wishes just because she was a demon.
However, this is also a memento. There are still traces left by the demon god in the world.
“Fiction reflects reality to some extent. The lightning that the lightning thief gave back must mean this. If not, he wouldn’t bother to say he would take it back.”
“… Want to have it?”
“In some cases, that may be the case, but I’m satisfied with just watching. I have no water bath.”
“… ?”
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Don’t look at it with suspicious eyes. Where is the person who is not greedy like me? If I had wanted money, I would have enjoyed a good meal while catering to aristocrats.
I’m just trying to catch up with humans. The human footsteps that went too far while I lost my power.
Now, where. What did Seonghwangcheong dare to return to the sky and hide? Would you like to see it? It was when I reached out for the keepsake with my pounding heart.
It felt like the world stopped for a moment. Apart from mind-reading, the instinct of a moving beast senses something ominous and pulls my senses away. A huge, razor-sharp presence swelled behind my back in an infinitely stretched world.
[I definitely warned you.]
A light flashed.
There was no time to react. Couldn’t even react. The misty vision was blurry, there were few people around me, and the weakened Peru was more insensitive than me. No one reads in advance by mind reading.
But this… It’s too lethal.
Keep your head down. I see a sharp blade. Where did the handle go? Only the blade protruded from the abdomen.
Oh. Mind reading didn’t read it.
Then came the pain as if burned by fire. It feels like scraping the inside with sandpaper and then pouring debris into your mouth. The taste of blood fills your mouth.
Even if I try holding the blade with my hand, it doesn’t move. Only my palms are cut and blood flows. When I looked back in terrible pain, there was a thunderstorm staring at me with empty eyes.
A ring of electricity floats on its head, and wings made of thunderbolt sway behind its back. Thunderstorm, manifested as an angel, pierced the blade even more strongly.