228 – Recovery (1)
“…This place.”
[This may be a familiar sight to you.]
If you move as your thoughts tell you, you will see a place in front of you that you have never seen before.
The entire surrounding area is covered with snow, and numerous mountain peaks are visible from afar. There is not a single cloud in the sky.
It’s like the top of the Himalayas.
However, even though it is clearly my first time here, this place is very familiar to me, as Sasyeom said. It feels like I’m home.
This… What the hell…
[Because I died, my memories were mixed with you. This is the place where I, divided in half, lived while suppressing the divine power of light.]
Oh, is that so?
For some reason, my demonic energy was everywhere.
“What can I do in a place like this? Absorb this demonic energy?”
[No, if you are recovering your strength by absorbing demonic energy, the sparring hall where the divine power of light was extinguished will be more effective than here. That’s not what I’m talking about. Now, look.]
“…?”
I looked in the direction my thoughts told me to look, but I didn’t feel anything strange at all.
It’s just that my demon energy is concentrated, and I can’t see anything except my eyes.
“What are you looking at? It’s just concentrated demonic energy, nothing in particular… Wait a minute.”
But something is strange.
When the demonic energy is so concentrated, why is nothing happening?
It’s normal for demonic beasts and monsters to be created randomly right now…?
[You noticed. This is the place where I suppressed time.]
“…Suppressing time?”
[Yes, it looks like an ordinary place to the naked eye, but time here passes very slowly. If time had passed normally, numerous monsters and monsters would have been created by demonic energy, but because I suppressed time, there was not enough time for the monsters and monsters to be created.]
That’s… You’re doing something amazing.
Seeing as no force field can be felt around here, it appears that the place where the thought is speaking is quite large. This means that since I am inside the force field, I cannot observe the force field.
Obviously, except for the divine power, the power would have been exactly the same… That’s surprising.
Well, I guess I, who have lived more as a demon, can handle magic better than I, who only had memories and experiences from my human days.
“Did you make it from scratch?”
[No, because the god of light and the system could no longer be suppressed due to the nonsense you committed, it was urgently created to plan the future. Even if you kill the God of Light, the system cannot be solved.]
“…”
It’s such a mess, even if I say it…
No, from my perspective, it’s bullsh*t. I did no training and only did dirty things, but the fact that it ended with just one word shows my generosity very well.
“Anyway, is it okay to release the force field that is suppressing time?”
[…No, it was already made, so I don’t know why they’re getting rid of it. Do not do that.]
It would be too embarrassing to just stay like this, so I just blurt out something.
Samyeom seems to have realized my intention right away, but doesn’t bother to point it out. They just close their eyes and let themselves be deceived by my force.
[Just go to the place where you were sitting and contact the system.]
“…What?”
And the words of resignation that followed after that were so shocking.
Contact the system.
Thoughts are telling us to contact the system as if it were very natural and natural, like turning on the TV by touching the remote control.
Regardless of the fact that the system is a very dangerous concept, it is quite shocking that one can contact the system so easily.
If you look at what the system can do, isn’t it no different from the power of the only god who can control the world as he pleases?
[Through the time force field, the flow of time was reduced to one ten millionth. The system that is superior to all of them will not be affected by my magic, but I can still maintain a link to contact the system.]
“…What should I do once connected?”
[I just need to make the fact that I split us in two never happen. If you do that, you will be able to regain half of your lost strength.]
Making something that clearly happened into something that never existed at all is like a miracle of manipulating reality, but strangely enough, there is no special emotion.
[Isn’t this our specialty?]
“Well, turning back time and making the incident never happen is something I’ve done a lot of times.”
That’s something I’ve done many times before.
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I have more than once gone back in time and gone back to before something happened. There is no need to be so surprised that something has never happened. This time, the time that goes back is just too long.
“But if we make the separation between us something that never happened, what will happen to your death, the spirit of light that possessed you, etc.? Will the outcome change?”
[No, it will not change. If it were a simple time reversal, all kinds of things would come back and cause quite a bit of trouble, but since this is purely manipulating reality without using the concept of time, only the power cut in half would come back.]
“That’s right… It’s new to me, but the system is amazing.”
[That’s why we have to destroy it.]
“…Okay.”
If the system was simply a tool like a computer that only works when someone operates it, we wouldn’t have tried to destroy it, but unfortunately, there is something egoic or ego-insensitive about the system.
It is a mechanism that operates to maintain the world under certain conditions.
Because of this, he created his divine status arbitrarily, and even killed living creatures periodically to maintain his divine status.
I have no idea what the system, which is looking at the world where its divine status has been destroyed, is thinking, and the actions of the system, no matter how trivial, are fatal to everything in the world, including me, so I must destroy the system before it does something terrible. Must do it.
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“Keuuut…!!”
“No, no… It can’t be like this…!!!”
“Hey…!!”
“Hey, let’s trade that with me.”
“I don’t want to, go away.”
Meanwhile, the wives, who have become dissatisfied with the affair because Faust has disappeared, instead of being angry, are going back and forth between heaven and hell.
Why did Faust run away like this?
Isn’t it because you lack energy?
Even in their opinion, it was too much of a stretch for Faust alone to deal with 9 people at the same time.
If nine people continue to attack Faust at the same time in the future, it is certain that Faust will run away again and again.
So, a total of nine wives, Lucia, Iris, Celestine, Lena, Irene, Elias, Irene, Belial, and Flora, reached an agreement with each other.
By drawing lots, they decide the order in which they can sleep with Faust.
The wives agreed that one person each day would ‘own’ Faust, and the wives whose turn came first expressed joy and joy, while the wives whose turn came later expressed despair and anger.
“Uh, okay… How about we just go to the room I mentioned earlier? We’ll take turns with three people a day.”
“Lena, you can’t do that now.”
“That’s right, that’s right. Just curse your luck and wait patiently until the end.”
Seeing Lena speaking as if she was in a hurry, Lucia and Elias, who had drawn lots relatively early, spoke in a mocking manner.
The plan that Lena is talking about once received a lot of support because it would allow her to work at night with Faust three times more, but Lucia said that it would feel better to receive love on her own, in a one-on-one, serious relationship with Faust. Since then, it has lost much of its persuasiveness.
“Tell me something, Mr. Belial!! You’re the 8th!!”
“Well… Young elf. I’m dissatisfied too, but I made a contract with everyone, right? I’m dissatisfied, but I have to keep what I have to protect.”
“…Ugh, this is why devils are so inflexible!!”
When she saw Belial in the same situation as her, Lena asked for her help, but all she got back was a bruise, and all Lena could do was gnash her molars after receiving it. There was nothing there.
Lena is just resentful of her own luck.
Party!!
“Alright, anyway, the order has been decided, so everyone disperse!!”
When it seemed like her mood was about to turn a little strange, Lucia, who drew the first lot, hurriedly dispersed her wives’ gathering by clapping her hands.
Although there is generally no hierarchical relationship between her wives, Lucia’s special position as Faust’s adopted daughter gives her a bit of an upper hand over all of her other wives, so she manages the gathering of her wives in this way. Possible.
“Um… Lena, let’s go together.”
“I have to prepare more if I want to work one-on-one with Aliunera Faust at night, but I’m glad that this is my 6th time.”
Fortunately, her wives obediently listen to Lucia’s order to disperse.
Except for Elias, who has a job at the Magic Tower, Irene, the patriarch of Katara, and Irene, who works at a pawn shop, everyone is unemployed with nothing to do, so even if they were to disperse, they would just go back to their rooms. .