#439. why is that thing coming out of there?
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[Uh…]
Blink once.
Yuna-kyung tilted her head and asked.
[What is the genie of the lamp?]
“Don’t you know? It must have been in a fairy tale.”
[In the nursery school where I grew up, children’s books were rare, so I didn’t have many opportunities to read minor fairy tales.]
“A minor fairy tale… That’s a very interesting word.”
[Is that a famous fairy tale?]
“If you have to say it, it’s natural that you don’t know. It’s not even a fairy tale in the first place.”
[Hmm, that doesn’t sound like a very interesting story.]
I thought I would buy it for my younger siblings at the nursery school if it was a children’s book, but it’s a pity it wasn’t.
Hearing Yuna-kyung’s self-talk, Shir laughed.
From children’s books to folk tales and old books of the royal family.
It was because there was no way to get the storybooks of Aladdin, the black magician, who were all burned or sealed as they were designated as forbidden books after the Demon War.
[But why are you talking about fairy tales all of a sudden?]
“It’s because I’m curious.”
[What is it?]
“If there was actually magic that appeared in a fairy tale that could make three wishes come true, what would you wish for?”
Sir smiled meaningfully and asked.
Yuna-kyung replied in a cold voice.
[I’m not going to pray.]
“…why aren’t you praying?”
[Because there can be no such absurd magic.]
After all, magic is equal exchange.
It is a power that must be paid for in order to obtain something.
So, there is no magic that can make any wish come true, and if there is, how can I use it because I am afraid of the cost?
Looking at Yuna-gyeong, who was always shy and talking clearly, unlike usual, Shir muttered a pity.
“That’s a more trivial answer than I thought.”
Would you like to be human again?
Or do you want something else.
I was looking forward to it very much.
Now that she has learned some magic, she feels sorry for Yuna-gyeong, who gave too standard an answer.
Sir languidly added a word.
“Still, I am wiser than those greedy people.”
[The greedy people?]
“This is a story about children who were seriously trying to make the wish magic I just talked about.”
[…Were there such idiots?]
“You can’t be treated like such an idiot. In fact, similar magic itself has existed since the Silver Age.”
magic that grants wishes.
To be precise, there were many who studied how to make miracles without borrowing the power of God.
Warlocks, as well as witches and priests.
Even if it was a taboo set by God, those who dealt with mysteries had no choice but to covet the miraculous power that could be said to be the prototype of all magic.
Of course, the ending was disastrous.
Get caught by God and be executed.
or take everything away in return.
Wishes come true, etc.
If three of them tried, one would die, one would fail, and one would rather fail than die.
Worst case scenario, you could have experienced all three.
Among the legends related to treasures that grant wishes, the placenta met an unfortunate end for this reason.
But if a hundred fail, at least one succeeds.
After compiling such success stories, the superhumans of the Silver Age finally completed one magic.
That is the ‘genie of the lamp’.
It was magic that realized miracles most efficiently by using fake spirits created by magic as a medium.
Of course, even so, there is a limit to the wishes that can be fulfilled depending on the price and the user’s ability, and even that can only be used three times in a lifetime.
The mere fact that humans could handle miraculous powers made it the ultimate magic.
That’s why wish magic often appeared in history, from the Silver Age to the era after magic declined.
But there is no end to greed.
Those whose limited wishes were not enough.
That’s why there were those who studied the genie of the lamp and tried to complete the magic of true wishes that could make anything they wished for come true….
After a long time.
Finally, those who completed it appeared.
It is a magic that connects the genie of the lamp, which is originally nothing more than a fake spirit, to providence and makes it a tool that grants unlimited wishes.
“By the way, do you know what they say about an existence that grants a child’s wish without receiving anything in return when he prays?”
[…isn’t it a god?]
“Then, if you could create that god with magic, what would you call it?”
[Yes?]
It seemed like he was saying something nonsense.
Leaving Yuna-gyeong blinking, Shir slowly turned his head.
‘The children of the Dark Dawn were also competent idiots.’
The black door that Limon entered.
To be precise, all kinds of rich emotions such as fear, despair, and anger that are being sucked into it.
And the more you suck it, the more powerful you feel.
The legendary great witch, who had lived a long time when even an absolute person would have died of old age, murmured in her heart.
‘I wouldn’t have died like that if I had had a simple dream of immortality instead of trying to make a magical god.’
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“The devil is the god of magic.”
“An existence that only grants wishes by making the feelings of wealth in the world their faith.”
“Because he has no personality and doesn’t even need followers, he is more perfect than any other god in the world.”
Unlike gods who always act to gain faith and treasure miracles for their followers, beings who can perform miracles indefinitely.
A false god, the most powerful weapon and magic itself created by mankind.
Talking about the identity of the demon god.
said Sergei.
“So, if we use the power of the demon, we can build a country where all citizens are happy, free and equal.”
food? make it miraculous
labor? You can make a worker by miracle.
Military? All you have to do is wipe out all the enemies with a miracle.
If you have learned even a little bit of internal affairs, you will vomit blood, asking if there is any solution.
However, as long as there is a Demon God, an all-powerful wish machine and ultimate permanent organ that grants any wish, such absurd things are possible.
It is possible to create an ideal country where the vast majority of people enjoy the greatest happiness.
“So, if you are truly the guardian of humanity, don’t stop me swordsman.”
I don’t even want help
But please don’t interrupt.
At the end of looking at Sergei, who was saying something that I didn’t know if it was a request or a warning.
Limon said plainly.
“What if that doesn’t work?”
“You mean stop me?”
“Yes, there is one contradiction in your words.”
Others might not have noticed Sergei’s idea of utopia.
However, Noh Kang-ho, who has lived a long life, and Limon, who knows about demons better than anyone else, did not miss the loopholes that Sergei dreamed of.
“If we really create a country where all citizens are happy, there will be no place to get the feeling of wealth that the demon god uses as the source of power.”
“…”
“You know that, so you’re talking about making an ideal country, but you’re not saying you’re going to change the whole world into a utopia, are you?”
“…”
“For the country you will create to be happy, other countries will have to continue to be unhappy.”
Maybe it was because he was hit hard, but he looked at Limon with a heavy face for a while.
Sergei said quietly.
“I will only use the feeling of wealth overflowing in the world, and I will not intentionally make the people of other countries unhappy.”
“What if that feeling of wealth is not enough to create an ideal country?”
“According to my calculations, there is no shortage.”
“What calculation? Calculate that if billions of people are unhappy, that’s enough to make only 500 million people happy?”
“….”
“What if many of those billions of people are more unhappy than you think, or even happier later? Are you going to excuse me for saying my calculations were wrong?”
“…”
“If you don’t even know what choice you’ll make then, I’ll let you know instead.”
fed up
hold on to cynicism
Limon said.
“You will sacrifice a human.”
“At first, they’ll try to get a feeling of wealth by offering death row inmates on the altar or harshly rolling felons.”
“But no matter how much wealth you lack, you won’t be able to fill it, and later, even a child who stole a loaf of bread will be offered as your sacrifice.”
“If that is still not enough, I will eventually try to create an ideal country by going to war against the whole world.”
It’s like being a prophet.
Sergey objected to Limon, who spoke of the catastrophe he would reach without a moment’s hesitation.
“…That won’t happen. Because that is not the country I am trying to create.”
“No, it will.”
However, he denies that objection too easily.
Limon held back a sneer.
“Do you know why the demon god caused the indiscriminate massacre during the demon god war in the first place?”
“It was just a rampage that happened because you killed the warlocks during the descent of the demons, and the person who wished for them disappeared.”
“Sorry, but you are wrong. Ever since the demons descended, they had been wishing for one thing.”
It’s because I didn’t know there.
Sergey paused.
Limon said quietly to him.
“This is what they wished for. ‘Please create a world where warlocks are not oppressed.’”
“In order to make that wish come true, the demon god had to solve a problem.”
“Killing me right away.”
It was natural.
Of course, he killed the black magician who created the demon.
Even after that, as long as there was Limon, who was full of thoughts of subjugating the black magician, that wish could not come true no matter how much the providence changed.
That’s why the Demon God attacked him to kill Limon as soon as he descended.
“But instead of killing me, the demon god killed himself.”
“In the end, the Demon God, who judged that he lacked the power to kill me, acted to gain more wealth and emotions as soon as he was resurrected.”
“The result was a devastated Europe.”
Wishes must come true.
But what if the price is not enough?
Get paid even if you are forced to.
It is said that the demon war was the result of a god with no emotions or personality acting only to grant wishes unconditionally.
said Limon sarcastically.
“A demon god is such an existence.”
“No matter how well you wish it, it essentially craves death and destruction.”
“You may have become a demon yourself to avoid such a situation, but… That is the worst mistake you ever made.”
Since there was no personality in the first place, he used a wish to the demon god, who was perfect at least as a system, and fused his personality.
The Demon God will function as a ‘god who unconditionally wants to create an ideal society’.
For that sake, in the end, all mankind except for the Russian Khanate will be made unhappy.
Under the very Sergei-like conviction that this is also a noble sacrifice for the cause.
“…Right.”
I feel like I’m going to draw my sword right now.
Sergei closed his eyes as he saw Limon exuding cool energy while holding the handle of his sword.
It was because he knew that Limon would not be persuaded if he insisted that he would never bring the world into misery.
He is the protector of mankind.
Because from the start, he was not a great person to look at a tumor that feeds on human misfortune and despair.
“If that is your will…”
So Sergei gave up further conversation.
After looking at Limon with heavy eyes, he only raised one hand.
“I also have no choice but to carry out my will, even by force.”
Kururureureung.
Thus, the forest, the earth, the valley, and the animals and plants that were beautiful like a paradise on earth melted into shadows all at once.
The moment a wand came to life in Sergei’s hand.
A voice resounds…
“【World Break】.”
Kwagwagwagwagwang!!!
A brilliant light like the sun that can instantly kill even the absolute exploded into pieces, burning everything around it.
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[Eh?]
Yuna-kyung, who was chatting with Sir while looking at the black door, blinked.
It wasn’t just because countless monsters suddenly started popping out of the black door.
Since the demon resurrected, this was something I was prepared for.
The problem was the appearance of the monsters that popped out like that.
Like a window in the moonlight.
A shadow with only outlines without substance.
And the bizarre appearances of all of them, whether they were beasts or monsters, were very familiar to Yuna-kyung.
[…why did that come out of there?]
Laying London down.
A catastrophe that terrified the British Empire.
Looking at the infinitely pouring shadow monsters, Yuna-kyung couldn’t help but put on a dumbfounded expression.
