Episode 4
After the contract was signed, the Demon King asked me many questions.
I didn't like the mocking voice, but I was in a position where I tried to cheat first. Thinking that it was the price of belittling the demons, he replied sincerely.
What is the situation outside now, and what are your thoughts when you came to this demon world? What kind of person was the teacher? What spells do you know how to use? There wasn't much to talk about.
-Apprentice warlock? That's ridiculous. What kind of apprentice in the world knows about soul contracts? I want to see the face of a teacher. … Didn't you learn it? Do you remember the magic circle you saw once?
On the contrary, I asked him questions. Most of them were mainly about teachers.
-I've never heard of such a name. At best, the human warlock Naburangi. Do you think there is a king who memorizes the names of soldiers one by one? … Don't insult your teacher. What nonsense... Come on, wait. Don't. Wow!
The Demon King worked diligently on the contract. I didn't get a very satisfactory answer, but thanks to it, I was able to escape from the pit.
-Right. The corpse of the acid troll. Take care of your bones. It has no magical value, but when it comes into contact with water, it becomes acidic. Looking at its condition, it will be useful a few times.
I was able to bring things that could be worth money if I brought them. It should be said that it is a high-performance treasure detector.
-Hold on. Dig the ground here. You can see the roots, right? Cut. It contains a large amount of water and can be used as a subsper for drinking water. You will feel moderately full.
The water is running out. I chewed a little as a test and felt watery.
"Whoa...!"
The problem was the terrible taste. While I was nauseating from the bitterness that was so terrible that I couldn't eat it, I heard the giggling laughter of the demon king.
It was the worst. I tried to quench my thirst, but I was deprived of water.
-Are you going to die? The sun in the demon world is hot. Without hydration, a fragile human body cannot survive.
The pain felt with the voice of the demon king. The spirit sends a warning message.
"Wow, wow...!"
A terrible pain swept through her head, as if she were squeezing her head and chest. It was not that he was trying to give up survival, but the contract forced him to act. Even if it's just because it interferes with survival.
This means that it is impossible to die arbitrarily until the contract is completed. The contract I made to charm the demon king was actually holding me back.
When I see that the Demon King is fine, it means that eating this is for my survival.
I clenched my fists.
Even if it is not a contract, I have no intention of dying. Somehow survive until you get tired of it.
-Hoo?
I cut the root into large pieces and put it in my mouth. It was unbearable, but I didn't think about the taste.
"Uh...!"
I endured the nausea and swallowed the root safely. I felt like my thirst was gone, and my body was regaining a little energy.
-You have a lot of grit. Sprut is something that even the most evil beasts don't eat.
“… I have to live."
In order to survive, you can chew and swallow not only these roots, but also the flesh of demonic beasts.
-It's a good mindset. No matter what. The one who declared that he would achieve the feat of achieving the god and resurrecting the Demon King should not die like this.
The tone of voice is sarcastic and strong. However, I thought that it was definitely less than before, and when I picked up the cut root again.
-Put down that disgusting thing soon. There is a well not far away.
The Demon King said.
“….”
Don't trust demons. Even if they could not tell lies.
Following the Demon King's guidance, there was something like a huge oasis.
"Didn't you say it's a well?"
-Don't compare the things of the demon world with those of humans.
A huge lake in the middle of a dry land that makes you wonder why you haven't discovered it so far. If you look closely, you can see something like a polished stone, as if it were artificial.
The well was so deep that you couldn't see the bottom. Where did such a large amount of water come from in the arid land of the demon world? The blue, deep water stimulated the natural fear of human beings.
“… There's no monster in this, right?"
-Let me see. I had a watchman, but now I don't feel anything. It looks like the expedition team killed them.
I scooped water to quench my throat and filled the empty canteen. As long as you drink sparingly, you won't be lacking much on the way home.
"Hah...."
When the urgent problem was resolved, a sense of desperation came.
Just as the previous demon king had said, he was in a position to kill the goddess and resurrect the demon king.
All of them are things that have nothing to say even if they become meritorious achievements of mankind. I just needed money to hide my identity and live, but how did this happen? No, in the first place.
"Is it possible? Killing the goddess."
There is no human being who does not believe in goddesses. Because the enormous power, miracles, and history of the denomination prove her existence.
Even if she is a warlock who refuses to follow her, she just won't follow her. She doesn't deny her existence. It is an obvious fact that goddesses exist.
-Of course, it's impossible.
“….”
The Demon King affirmed. I wasn't even angry. It's natural.
Who would dare to kill God?
-No matter how much strength humans have, there is a difference between us and an ant or a dragon. If you try, you can tickle it.
Suddenly, I felt strange. 'We'. Isn't that like saying that the demon king and the goddess are equal beings?
-There is a slight difference, but strictly speaking, it can be said that it is.
A word that denies not only conventional common sense but also the doctrine of the denomination as a whole.
However, I had no choice but to believe it. It is possible not to tell the truth, but it is not possible to tell a lie. Because that was the restriction on the demon king.
"But, you, the Demon King, were killed by humans."
A story that contradicts the saying that no matter how strong a human is, he cannot kill the demon king. The mere traces of the power of the warrior made me tremble, but according to the Demon King's words, the warrior would never have won the war.
-Correct. That's the scary thing about goddesses. If you look at the size of your strength, you are definitely stronger. But he makes the laws of the world.
Make a rule. It was a word that I didn't understand easily.
-Let's give an example. Imagine if a goddess creates a law that says 'you can talk to dead people'. What do you think will happen?
"That's it..."
I don't think anything that big will happen.
In other words, warlocks who deal with the undead are common and common. It may be necessary to express it in the past tense now, but it was not so long ago.
It is said that there are high-ranking undead individuals who maintain Yee, so it is not impossible even now.
-Seeing that you are talking stupidly, it seems that the teacher didn't teach you properly.
Repulsion raised his head, but the Demon King's words were true. Without any basic magic teachings, the master left.
But isn't it because of the war between the demon king and the hero? It wasn't the master's fault.
-Listen carefully. A warlock who deals with lions. In other words, the undead of the necromancer are technically different from the person before they died.
I couldn't easily understand why it was different.
-I don't know if you have a high level of soul like me, but most of the objects lose their souls at the same time as they die. There must have been very few beings in the world who could talk in that state.
"That's...."
For most warlocks, souls are just energy. They are not worth more than processing them into magic to increase their power.
Why does that mean that you become a different person? Just as I was worried about the words I didn't understand, the demon king clicked his tongue and said.
-It's because you're injecting magic into a soul that has already been absent. Even if you can have a conversation, it is only using the information left in your body during your lifetime, and it has nothing to do with the actual person involved.
However, among the magic that necromancers handle, there are also soul bodies such as Benci and Wraith. Moreover, if it is impossible to talk to a dead person, who is it to talk to me now?
-Ok. That's the problem. In fact, it is. There are people who can talk to the dead. You warlocks. And the priests of the denomination.
If priests could talk to the dead, why did they give such an example?
While I was thinking about it, a certain family came to mind.
"No way..."
-Ok. This was originally impossible. But the goddess turned the impossible into the possible. In order to increase the power of the denomination.
It was shocking that priests could talk to the dead, but it was not comparable to the fact that it gave birth to soul-type undead.
What has existed since ancient times, and what was thought to have been that way from the beginning, is actually created by a goddess.
-The goddess used her own abilities to engrave the law in this world that 'the hero wins over the demon king'. Because of this, I needed to be defeated by a warrior.
“… Was there a need?"
The words of the demon king as if they had lost the war on purpose.
-Goddesses make and modify laws, but they are not omnipotent. There are so many restrictions to create strong laws. Think about it. The warrior won. The Demon King was defeated. According to the law, it was done. Then.
Will the Demon King be defeated even if he fights him again?
"That's right, the Demon King must be defeated by the Warrior..."
-Do you know.
The Demon King affirmed.
-The warrior fulfilled his role by winning against me. Strictly speaking, it is just 'being a warrior'. This does not mean that the power he has built up will disappear, but he will not be able to benefit from the absolute law.
If so, the demon king will not lose.
-Even if you can't, you won't be able to elect a new hero for hundreds of years. In the meantime, he restores his power and destroys Middle-earth. trampling on the goddess. That was the original plan.
My plan was disrupted by me. The Demon King, who had been saving his power for resurrection, became subordinate to me, and he also consumed all the power he had accumulated. Therefore, the Demon King entrusted his role to me. But.
"That doesn't mean I can kill the goddess, does it?"
-Correct.
Even a hero, let alone a goddess, cannot be defeated. Just because you don't benefit from the law doesn't mean that the hero is weak.
-But if you were alone. Don't worry. If the goddess sets the law, I interpret it and laugh at it at will. The method is ready.
My teacher asked me before. Do you know the difference between a wizard and a warlock?
When I replied that I didn't know, the Master smiled and said:
'Wizards take the truth of the world as an absolute value and explore it. But we warlocks bypass the law, and we are the ones who beat.'
Suddenly, I felt that the relationship between the goddess and the demon king was like that between a wizard and a warlock. Although the scale is completely different from that of me, who is just an apprentice warlock.
-Be prepared. It's going to be quite a long and arduous journey.
“… Yes."
It can't be helped. Because a contract with a soul is absolute.
-Before that, prepare.
"Huh?"
'What the hell?' Just as I was about to ask the question.
"Didn't you hear something like a human voice somewhere?"
In the distance, a voice was heard.
“… I can't see it. Didn't you hear it wrong?"
Person.
"Let's look for it. If the one who came first, he might have something that would make money."
In other words, it was an enemy.
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