199 – Cause and effect (3)
Quaaa!!
“Wow…!”
This… How did this happen?
I just can’t understand. Even if the work progresses quickly, it is so fast that the mind cannot keep up.
How did you become so strong in such a short period of time? In just one year?
A year ago, everyone was confused. When we first met, he ran away without even fighting me, and when we fought together in Kael, he often relied on me or received help.
But what does this mean now?
Even if it is strong, it is too strong.
If we fight each other one by one, I would still win in the end, but unfortunately right now it’s 1v5, and to be honest, I don’t see any chance of winning no matter what I do.
“Stop falling down quickly!!”
Kagagagak-!!
“Ugh…”
When Belial hurriedly grabbed the sword that Iris had thrown out with hatred in her scream, she felt tremendous pain in her hand, and then sparks flew out.
It’s not just that.
The huge vibration and shock that occurred at her fingertips flowed down her arms and instantly swept over Belial’s entire body. Belial was astonished as he felt the magic energy and mana within him being shaken by the mere impact of swinging the sword.
But there is no time to be shocked.
No, it’s not just shock. Belial has no time to think about what to do.
As the hero party continues to attack, the most important thing for Belial now is instinctive movement.
If you keep thinking about it, you will be attacked and finished in an instant.
Gooooo
Pabababag!
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Belial receives everyone’s attacks and hostility at once. And that’s not simply hostility toward a sparring partner, but a bad hatred directed at someone you really hate.
Belial, who can feel this fact as he is a devil, falls into the cycle of endless injustice.
Belial is here because he just wants to be helpful to everyone, and he wants to score points with his new daughter-to-be.
With the overwhelming power of the Demon God, he fools everyone and takes care of his dignity and is respected.
But in this situation, Belial cannot get even a single thing he wanted.
Rather than being helpful or toying with the Demon God’s overwhelming power, she is merely a punching bag, and the Lord’s daughter is expressing unreasonable hatred toward Belial.
Belial’s heart breaks, and his heart weeps and becomes sad.
It makes no sense in common sense that a devil would feel this way, but since Belial is closer to a demon god than a devil, and like Faust, he was originally a human but then fell, it is possible for him to feel such emotions.
‘What is this…?’
“-Kahaaak!!”
The warrior party does not miss the sight of Belial, who cannot stand the injustice, but distracts herself for just a moment.
Lucia’s flame spear penetrated the gap in an instant, piercing Belial’s defense posture and penetrating Belial’s body, and Belial was unable to think of anything else.
It’s not because of the pain.
She was just so wronged that she couldn’t properly control her emotions, so her thoughts were like that too.
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Wow.
It’s overwhelming.
Looking at this, it seems clear that I too have become accustomed to the hero party’s attacks. Because the attacks and combinations that were familiar to me were so unfamiliar to Belial, Belial was never able to properly respond to the hero party’s combo attacks.
It seems that not only the connection, but even the simple power vs. Power was very difficult for Belial.
In a 1:1 fight, Belial would still have the upper hand, but unfortunately there are five of them.
“Ah, ah…”
Belial fell.
Belial, who tried to protect his dignity and pride as a demon god until the very end, can no longer care about such things.
He just falls to the floor and lets out his breath, exhausted.
But even then, Belial’s expression shows more resentment than pain. He really feels like he doesn’t know why he has to do this.
“Then, let’s finish quickly and spar with dad–“
“Stop, that’s it. The sparring has stopped.”
When the party of warriors, who are looking at Belial as if looking down at a troublesome insect, approach the fallen Belial with dead eyes, they urgently announce a halt to the sparring as they feel like something terrible is about to happen.
No, of course, if something like that happens, you can tell that the sparring has been stopped… Right?
Why do you hate Belial so much?
Obviously we got along well with each other in Kael, but we haven’t seen each other even once since then, so why are you writing this…?
“Stop!?”
“So, are you going to spar with Faust now?”
When the sparring was declared to be halted, the warrior party, who had been walking slowly with the intention of killing Belial just a moment ago, changed his facial color completely and became cheerful in an instant, as if it had never happened before.
The difference between the expression from before and the expression now is so severe that it feels bizarre.
And with that cheerful expression, the warrior party instantly turned to me and immediately asked if they wanted to spar with me.
No… That can’t be possible.
It is said that he had the upper hand throughout the sparring, but he was hit by Belial’s attack and must have been tired from fighting. Training is as good as training, and continuing to train too hard is counterproductive.
“No, today’s training is over. Go back and rest.”
“…Yes?”
After hearing my words, the expressions of the warrior party hardened again.
The same cheerful smiling expression. As if it had turned into a piece of marble.
The face is smiling, but you can see that everyone’s emotions do not match the facial expressions.
“This b*tch… Because of this b*tch…”
“Why on earth are our precious…”
“Ugh…”
‘What’s wrong with everyone?’
And everyone’s hatred is directed towards Belial again.
Belial, who is breathing hard, doesn’t seem to know exactly what’s going on, but since he is a devil, he seems to be able to immediately recognize negative feelings towards him.
As soon as Belial’s body, which was just out of breath, received everyone’s hatred, it suddenly began to shake and tremble.
“Aigokeros!! Hurry and send everyone back to their rooms!!”
“Yes, yes, Master Faust!!”
In the end, only after forcibly pulling everyone out of the training ground was Belial able to find rest.
… Rest, that’s a bit of a word choice. I should just say it gets easier.
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[Long live Faust!!]
[Exterminate life.]
[Infinite worship to the great Faust!!]
[Just give up. Survive at all costs, that is what you must do.]
In Faust’s head, all kinds of words are literally swirling.
Pressure from status and system that continually forces action.
The faith and worship that countless people have for themselves.
Even if Faust doesn’t want to hear all of these things, he can’t help but hear them.
Because that is what divine power is all about.
Unless one’s personality is distorted, like Seraphia, who enjoys infinite worship for herself regardless of the time and period as always, there is no one who can withstand these waves of infinite worship.
[We have no reason not to worship Faust. There is no one who can deny Him in action.]
[You won’t be able to bear it.]
[Faust will reign over everyone.]
[Do you think corrupt humans can defy fate? Kill them all.]
[All wishes require a price, but Faust does not need such a price. Just, everyone, do your best in your own position!!]
Words that are constantly whispered in my head. A word that commands you to do something you don’t want to do.
It is literally the same symptoms experienced by schizophrenia patients.
If a normal person experiences these symptoms, it is certain that he will go crazy one day, so Faust is also similar.
Of course, since Faust has superhuman mental power, he will not be swept away by this ‘wave of words’ defenselessly like ordinary people, but unfortunately, he cannot help but have his mind eroded.
‘Day by day, the pressure of authority and the system is getting stronger.’
What makes such symptoms worse is the worship of believers.
The deity of light represents the authority of the system, and Faust possesses such a deity of light, and believers send infinite faith to Faust, who holds the deity. And the deity of light transforms such faith into power.
Since faith cannot be eliminated by force, the only way to escape this bondage is to make all believers in Faust die and not be able to believe in it.
But… That method is also impossible.
No, exactly, I don’t want to do it.
For Faust, no, for Fausts, it is absolutely impossible to sacrifice someone for the greater good.
Sacrificing someone else is enough.
‘They gave us a deadline of 2 years… But unfortunately, it will be sooner than that. As short as 3 months, as long as 1 year.’
Not even Faust himself can be sure how long he will be able to endure.
For Faust now, the only thing he can trust is another me.
‘Live as best you can in your position…’
Faust thinks about the words of a priest that had just rang in his head.
Faust only hopes that, unlike himself, he is free to act, and unlike himself, who is not prepared for death, he can live as best as he can, so that he can come up with a solution to all of this.