Episode 442
Episode 141. A new phase (2)
and Yuma decided to use the portal straight away.
It was not a decision made by Yuma alone, but a conclusion reached after a meeting between the dragons and humans. It was a painful loss for high-ranking dragons to lose their magical power, but it was absolutely necessary.
What is the extent of the damage in the East, whether the influence of Resol is as great as that in the West, whether there is enough power left to support the West, and so on.
This is because the dragons pioneering the East-West route are not able to accurately grasp the current situation in the East, and if the situation is more serious than in the West, they need to communicate as soon as possible.
After a small party celebrating Mio’s birth, the dragons immediately began preparing to open the dimensional door.
While Ariel’s spirit family, Orlando, and ten dragons gathered at the library where the portal was installed, Yuma thought about Lisol.
To be precise, it was about the dimensional transplantation of Sekmeira, which Risol clearly insisted on.
‘The authority possessed by a Demon God with no restrictions on intervention… cannot be compared to anything else. At least that’s what I’ve been through.’
The moment she became a demon in the East, Yuma remembered what it meant to be able to destroy the world with ‘one gesture’.
Grandmasters, or transcendental ones with equal or greater power.
Even if thousands of such beings flocked to them, if they were to deal with a demon god with no restrictions on intervention, not a single finger of the demon god would be able to help.
Even Sekmei, the demon of the underworld, would have the same level of power, but Yuma couldn’t understand why she was claiming to be under Rizol.
‘No matter how much I think about the ability that Risol shows in the human world, it can’t be reached by a demon who has descended.’
If Rysol has power beyond the true authority of a demon god.
There was no need to destroy a small country by spraying Meteor Strike, build the New World Alliance, or join hands with Galos or Haider.
In the first place, it was the same even if you look at the transcendental abilities that Risol had shown to herself in the past. Are there only sorcerers who can stop the world?
‘Somehow I feel like I’m trying to divert my sight… Are you using your power elsewhere? It feels like I’ve been missing something ever since.’
It was clear that Maria had been secured, but the fact that there was still no response was also bothering her.
For the past two months, not only Yuma, but Malone and all the dragons have been frantic to find Maria’s location.
As a result, it was revealed that Maria was kidnapped by Mero in the southern part of the Empire and given to Rizol. Through the scattered refugees of Harrell Manor.
If that’s the case, the only choice is to find Rizol and retrieve Maria yourself. However, Risol was changing her location from time to time using teleportation, and even tracking was impossible.
It was just hearing the news that it had appeared in a certain area. At 3:00 PM, near the free country at 5:00 PM, at 8:00 PM, near the kingdom of Helga, there were eyewitnesses in the West Country.
Even the Balaur pay a huge price to use the dimension gate, a sub-concept of teleportation, but Risol is moving around the continent very simply.
However, I was puzzled that the frequency of movement was so frequent.
I couldn’t figure out what the heck they were preparing while traveling through so many countries.
It wasn’t conquering like it was when the banner of the New World Alliance was first raised, and it wasn’t giving agitational speeches.
‘inspection.’
After thinking for a while, Yuma remembered the word.
‘If I were Lisol, if I had the same transcendental powers as Lisol and if I could teleport like Lisol… I guess the only reason I’d be wandering around the continent was to investigate.’
If so, what is the investigation about?
It was meaningless to regard it as a topographic survey for future battles.
Risol had already taken over most of the countries around the Empire. In the midst of that, as a commander, there was no need to investigate terrain for a land battle.
Above all, it was not by military force that Risol conquered most of the Western lands so quickly. It was achieved with my own strength and special ability.
In fact, without Yuma and the Balaur, Risol would have already succeeded in occupying the Empire.
Although the King of Knights, Duran Zach, and numerous strong men who are no different from the one-man army are holding out in the empire.
If you look at it coldly, they couldn’t even handle the ‘Dragon Horse War’ before returning.
Duran was killed while fighting against the generals of the summer world, and the rest of the strong warriors were at a level that even a single high-level demon corps could not handle.
During the Dragon Horse War, in which only the demons of the lower world participated, humanity would have perished if it had not been for the dragons.
Needless to say, it was a war in which Rizol and Gal Los Heider were added to the underworld demons.
In other words, Mahatrisha’s wide-area protection and Yuma’s singularity are protecting the empire.
In such a situation, if Rizol was ‘investigating’ something, there was a high probability that it was related to Yuma and Mahatrisha. If you had the means to keep them in check, you would be able to take over the empire right away.
‘What on earth can I read about the Dragonlord and me in those lands?’
Is the dimension transplant a means to keep me and the Dragon Lord in check?
Yuma thought so and let out smoke from his pipe.
“What are you thinking?”
“Oh Natalie.”
“Just a while ago, looking at Mio’s face, I wanted to laugh for the first time in a long time.
Natalie said, putting her hand on Yuma’s shoulder.
She was smiling, but she also had a haggard face.
“just. I don’t know what the hell was going through that lunatic’s head.”
“You mean dimension transplant?”
“huh.”
Whoa.
Having received the pipe, Natalie exhaled smoke and nodded.
“I’ve been thinking about that too… It’s kind of weird.
Isn’t Rizol’s original goal to reinstate Geil by increasing the total amount of pain?”
“yes.”
“But looking at what I’m doing right now, it’s not that I’m trying to increase the total amount of pain, but I feel like it doesn’t matter what happens to the human world. The demons whose ‘intervention limit’ is gone would want to kill humans, they just want to inflict pain.”
That was right.
Natalie wondered if Rizol could really control all the demons whose intervention restrictions were removed due to dimension transplantation.
“Actually, demons near the transplanted dimension are killing people at random. It’s fortunate that the radius of activity isn’t wide, but that’s what I mean. Does that level of slaughter have no effect on the second coming of Hwa?”
“You might think so.
Or maybe he decided that after Geil’s reinstatement, he could grant a new order to the demons in the lower world. For now, it seems that Risol has the upper hand over Sekmeira.”
“Um… Yuma, that’s how I feel. I wonder if Rizol is afraid of you and has no regrets in the human world anymore.”
“There are no regrets in the human world…?”
“Yes, and wouldn’t it be the same with Sekmei? ‘Dimension transplantation’ is an act in which there is nothing to be gained from a god’s point of view. That demon also has no lingering attachments to the underworld, so he spreads his land in the human world.”
It was a completely unexpected perspective.
It sounded like a story based on feeling rather than logical reasoning, but it was a very interesting approach.
Neither the human world nor the underworld is needed anymore. According to Natalie’s assumption, it could only lead to the conclusion that it was because there was ‘something to replace’.
“Keep talking, Natalie.”
“Isn’t there something that can replace the human world for Rizol and the underworld for Sekmeira? The existence of that great system is the reason Sekmeira and Rysol joined hands. Otherwise, there would be no common sense reason for the two of them to hold hands.”
“Yes, there is no reason for the Demon God and the Apostle of Light to hold hands. Alternate system… Then, the reason why all the human world has been in trouble so far is to hide your system?”
“maybe. It’s an emotional story anyway. If I were Resol, I don’t think I would have conquered the world like this. It’s stronger than a demon, but you just have to push it all away. I don’t think the Dragon Lord is outnumbered by the demons.”
Natalie was the person who looked closely at Yuma, the Demon God who had fully descended.
At that time, Yuma had the power to destroy the world ‘just by blowing his breath’, as he later expressed himself.
And Natalie thought that expression was by no means an exaggeration.
“That part I still didn’t understand.”
“It must be because you are afraid.
He seems to treat everything, whether it be a demon or a stone, as if it were a stone in the palm of his hand. Strangely, whenever he met you, he was taken aback. Same with coins. You are a variable.”
“Speaking of which, their ‘replacement system’ is not yet in a perfect state, and before that system is completed, they are rolling me, who can be a variable, to the outside as much as possible.”
“yes! If you think like that, don’t things fit perfectly? Same with Maria. If Maria also falls into Haider’s hands, she could become a ‘variable’, so isn’t it just secured?”
Maria guessed that Yuma would too. Even after Heider regained his name and was freed from the curse of Hwa, it was highly unlikely that he would be friendly to Rizol.
“It seems like a perfect hypothesis if you can confirm the existence of an alternative system. Alternative agent Alternative agent… If there is a safe dimension even if Hwa descends and the end comes…
And if it is in a state where most of its power is used up to move to that dimension.
The ‘simple’ display that Risol is currently showing in the human world was also understandable.
Things like spraying meteor strikes and avoiding all-out war by occupying only small countries with teleportation day and night.
And that wasn’t all.
When the Second Coming of Hwa begins, Sekmeira will not be able to avoid extinction. It was also possible to explain the background of the demon god forming an alliance with Risol and abandoning his land.
Even from Risol’s point of view, the second coming of Hwa, whom he had been most wary of, turned into the best result.
If the end comes to all dimensions except for the replacement of Rizol, Geil will naturally become the only god in that replacement.
It will be engulfed in emptiness along with the world, and other gods and divine beings will come to an end.
Or even include Geil in the end of the world, and Risol herself becomes the sole god of the new world.
“…Huh crazy. Seriously, it couldn’t be any better from Rizol’s point of view?”
Thinking that far made my heart beat faster.
Until now, it was too difficult to keep up with the visible phenomena, so I couldn’t even think of establishing such a hypothesis.
“Yuma is ready.”
At that moment, Kriesha found Yuma and announced that the opening of the dimensional gate had been completed.
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