Chapter 576
Bringing a dead friend back to life.
If that was impossible, I wouldn’t even try.
However, what was clumsily possible will make people despair because they cannot achieve perfect success in the end.
It’s a ridiculous world, but the truth that death can’t be reversed by anything seemed irreversible.
Since Ashur couldn’t be saved, Delphine’s body couldn’t even be found, so they wouldn’t have even tried.
This is just a restoration that looks like a resurrection.
Although they may have the ability, power, and appearance they had before they were alive, they do not have an ego.
It’s just a living stuffed animal.
It can be used in combat, but not in relationships.
Although the usefulness of battle is better than in life, it is of no use to those who wish for true resurrection. And it shouldn’t be used for anything like that.
The topic of Ashir silenced us.
I no longer brought up the topic.
If only the dead could come back.
Everyone thinks that.
Not just Christina and Anna and Louis Ancton, but Bertus and Saviolin Tana would have no choice but to do it.
“Reinhardt.”
“uh.”
“I can’t justify all of this.”
“I didn’t know you were the kind of person who cared about that.”
“I never thought I would care about this either.”
Bertus smiled bitterly.
We, who were princes and beggars, faced each other again as emperors and demon kings.
“I have something to apologize for.”
“I don’t need an apology for the past. You said it earlier.”
“No, that’s not what I was talking about.”
Bertus leads the way.
“Follow me.”
After following Bertus, slightly larger ports began to appear. It was three times larger than the others, and although I couldn’t recognize the bodies in each compartment, it was clear that restoration work was going on on very important bodies.
Bertus stands in front of a culture port and looks at me.
It’s like looking inside.
There was someone’s body in front of me.
an old man with white hair
“This corpse is still in our possession. I expected it to some extent, but even though I succeeded in restoring it, I didn’t open my eyes. as it were… … . it failed He must have been someone important to you… … . sorry. I had to write all that could be written. Not even saying… … . I wanted to tell you that I wasn’t cooperating with the Black Order and that I wasn’t deliberately deceiving you. Even if you resent me, I have nothing to say… … .”
“… … Who is this?”
What is this in the first place?
Are you sorry about this?
When I was confused, not only Bertus but also Saviolin Tana were taken aback.
Like I’m surprised by what I don’t know.
“No, don’t you have to tell me to forgive or get angry? who is this… … .”
old man.
gray hair.
Say sorry.
“Oh wait.”
I think I know roughly what it is.
“This person he… … . Is he that person?”
who was it
I don’t remember the name.
“Larken Simonstite.”
Saviolin Tana answered instead.
“He is the Four Heavenly Kings of the Dark Land and the one who was my teacher.”
yes, that person
Saviolin Tana nodded slowly as if she remembered something.
“Come to think of it, you said that you lost all your memories of being the prince of the Dark Land… … .”
“ah… … .”
Bertus nodded as if he had just remembered it.
The person he should recognize doesn’t even know his face or even remembers it, but Bertus felt like apologizing because his feet went numb.
however… … .
that, no matter how you think about it.
I’m such a strange bastard that I can’t even recognize the faces of the former Four Heavenly Kings.
* * *
Larken Simonstite.
The former leader of Chanapell, and the greatest swordsman in the continent at one time, who rose to the rank of Grand Master.
He retired and withdrew from the front line, but for some reason after the outbreak of the Demon World War, he became the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s army.
That’s why he was hated by all mankind.
After the Pandemonium War, Larken Simonstein’s body was taken from the Empire. It’s a reason to take it, well, it wouldn’t have been necessary.
However, after the Gate Crisis, Bertus must have had no reason not to use Larken’s corpse to revive countless war heroes.
If he revives a person who has reached the rank of Grand Master while maintaining his former abilities intact, it will inevitably become a tremendous force.
However, just as it was not possible to succeed in turning all the corpses into golems, Larken Simonstein’s corpse did not resurrect. I don’t know what action was taken there, or if it just failed.
Anyway, Bertus apologized thinking he might have been precious to me, and things got weird when I couldn’t remember Larken at all.
No, but now you can believe what I say, but do you still not believe that you have no memory of the Dark Land?
It’s not that I don’t believe it, it’s that I didn’t consider it.
To be honest, I have no remorse for trying to use Larken’s body.
What do you need to know to get angry or not?
I can’t even empathize with the previous demon king, but there is no way I can sympathize with the Four Heavenly Kings.
“Are there any corpses of the other Four Heavenly Kings?”
At my question, Bertus shook his head.
“No, because the reason this body was retrieved in the first place was to study whether magical means were used as the reason for Larken’s betrayal.”
“ah… … . is it.”
This is a body recovered to see if magic was used to brainwash the grandmaster.
“Of course, Larken wasn’t brainwashed.”
I knew everything I needed to know.
what did the empire do? about what is actually going on.
Ethically, it’s completely wrong, it’s dangerous, and it can become a big threat later.
There is nothing you can’t do if you find the right to overturn this work.
However, there are only so many reasons to leave it alone.
The research has already gone beyond a significant portion and is entering the stage of actual operation.
The golems are already being used by the guards guarding the magic university as well as the subjugation team that patrols the outside of the ecliptic and wipes out monsters.
Wearing a helmet so that no one could recognize him.
No one would suspect it, as it is natural for the guards to be armed.
“Reinhardt, if this army is sent in, the Allied Forces may end the war sooner than planned. It might be an instant.”
“I guess so.”
If countless heroes that have existed in history are revived, mankind’s power will be raised to a level unprecedented in history.
Even during the Pandemonium War, which could be said to be in its heyday, there will be no comparison.
No matter how many monsters there are at the gate, is that a problem? Perhaps even the dragons of the other world would be hunted for nothing.
It made me realize that the end of the gate incident was really right around the corner.
The sight I saw was terrifying and overwhelming at the same time.
Their armies may pose a threat to Edina and me, but the last warp gate is our top priority.
This army of the dead could eventually be the key to keeping me from using Alsbringer at the last moment.
What happens after that is what happens after that.
“Someday you will have to pay for all this.”
“… … .”
“Reinhardt, I have something to tell you.”
Bertus spoke as if he had made up his mind.
* * *
I had a conversation with Bertus. It wasn’t a very long conversation.
price for all this.
Someone has to pay the price.
There were some other stories, but that was the story after all.
So, I decided not to touch the Empire and this project.
It’s not something you can touch.
The relationship with the Black Order was also concluded in the direction of letting go of trust and taking it for granted.
In the end, you have to choose something.
It is unknown at this stage whether it was a choice that left only regrets or a better choice.
After the conversation, I came out into the lobby.
Saviolin Tana looks at me. She felt very strong suspicions and doubts about Larken Simonstadt’s decision, and was furious.
He hated him, saying that he was a traitor who betrayed humanity.
But now Saviolin Tanna will never know what the betrayal was.
“Sir Tana, I have no idea what kind of person Larken Simonstite is.”
“… … .”
“However, the former demon king Balie tried to create a new world through the Akasha he stole from Kantus Magna and migrated to that world with all the demons.”
Apparently, I saw the letter written by the previous demon king.
“Perhaps Larken Simonstein was sympathetic to the will of the Demon King.”
Those who knew the true purpose of the previous Valier were at most the Demon King himself, me in the days of Valier, and the Four Heavenly Kings.
Larken Simonstein would have tried to help Akasha complete.
“Everyone must have hated fighting.”
If the demons disappear, the conflict between the demons and humans will disappear and the fight will cease.
However, because Akasha was such a powerful weapon, there was no dialogue or persuasion between them.
They fought because they did not understand each other, and one side was annihilated.
“Yes… … I guess… … .”
Saviolin Tana hung her head and was silent.
In the end, he wanted peace.
The wishes and aspirations of all beings are trivially simple.
I want to be happy.
I don’t want to get hurt.
I wish the world was peaceful.
Those simple and intuitive desires lead to different actions.
For peace, someone dreams of a new world.
For peace, someone just draws a knife.
“Akassa… … . What happened?”
“I don’t know. You probably won’t be able to use it again.”
It has become unknown where Akasha came from.
In the world, only what has been caused by misused Akasha remains. We are the ones who have to solve the problem, scrape together what is still left in the world, and seize even a trivial peace.
The ball is over.
I was doing more dangerous work than I thought, but I decided to leave the Empire alone.
There is no reversal.
“Are you going?”
“Oh, let’s go. What else can I do here?”
Bertus had a somewhat regretful look on his face.
“Wait, what do I have to do to find you?”
As I was about to turn around, Bertus asked.
No, you said it a little strangely.
You know how to go right now?
“dormitory.”
“… … uh?”
“I will be in the dorm. Probably in Ellen’s room.”
“… … ?”
“I will be here for the winter. Come if you have something to say.”
When I turned into a cat, the expressions on Tana and Bertus’ faces became embarrassing.
-Aug
“… … .”
“… … .”
I mean, I no longer feel embarrassed.
Looking at it like that doesn’t shock me at all!
-nyangnyang
“This crazy… … . young… … .”
I pretended to be cute while jumping, and both of them looked more attractive.
honestly it’s cute
When I look in the mirror when I look like this, I find it cute.
* * *
Ludwig was assigned a special mission.
A priest who purifies the contagious disease spreading in the refugee district.
to protect the priest.
Ludwig and Rowen talked about this and that while heading to the epidemic outbreak area.
“Aren’t you escorted by the Templars…? … ?”
It was too dangerous a place for a single priest to wander alone. When Ludwig asked if it would be safer to be escorted by paladins equipped with dark armor, Rowen shook his head.
“If we have the manpower to do that, it would be better to send priests to more places.”
“… … okay.”
Ludwig nodded when he was told that he had no choice but to scatter around like this because of the absolute lack of manpower.
And since the majority of Priests and Paladins were dispatched to the battlefield, manpower was inevitably lacking.
“If you don’t mind… … . What about the arm… … .”
“I was bitten by a snake.”
“snake… … What?”
“It was a snake with petrifying poison. It wasn’t a very big snake, but… … . Just because a monster is small doesn’t mean it’s less dangerous.”
“okay… … .”
Rowen couldn’t hide his sadness when he saw Ludwig’s empty arm.
“it’s okay. Better than losing your life.”
Is it better to survive losing an arm than to die and not be able to come back?
Ludwig didn’t know if it was true, but he thought he had to say it at least.
A missing arm doesn’t matter.
It pains me to think of other things I’ve lost.
“By the way, the epidemic problem… … . How serious is it?”
So Ludwig forcibly changed the topic.
“The problem of each infectious disease itself is not so big. Not all infectious diseases necessarily lead to death. For example, most of them are small illnesses similar to those of a common cold.”
“is that so?”
“Yes, but it must be important that a cold in a healthy person is completely different from a cold in a weakened person.”
“ah… … . okay.”
If a healthy person catches a cold, it will last for a few days, but to a weakened person, a cold is a serious illness that can be life-threatening.
“The basic conditions are too poor. Even if you are cured of your illness, you cannot stop your body from dying, weakened by the disease.”
Death due to weakness cannot be cured because it is not an illness.
People who are already weak will die because their energy has already been exhausted, even if they are rescued from the disease. it can’t be stopped
“And if those bodies are left to rot, another epidemic will circulate. It’s serial.”
At Rowen’s words, Ludwig’s complexion darkened even more.
“Right now, it’s winter, so decay is slow. So the epidemic is less than last summer. Of course, I wouldn’t call this fortunate.”
A body left unattended in the cold will not rot.
However, the cold itself can’t be called fortunate because it kills people.
Infectious disease itself is a problem, but more important is the poor environment itself.
People are dying from diseases that do not have to die.
So, even if this contagion is eventually cleansed, another contagion will inevitably arise, so this is always a stopgap, Rowen added.
Rowen is the kind of person who knows it’s bottomless poison but has to pour water into it.
“Above all, there is a lack of priests. Most of the Paladins and Priests are on the front line, and the Priests of Tuan are absolutely down in numbers. They died, but rather converted… … . Many have abandoned their faith.”
“ah… … . okay.”
“Yes, because of the Demon King… … .”
There are countless believers who felt betrayed by their god who chose the demon king and abandoned their faith.
Believers in Tuan and Als are also a problem, but the number of priests has drastically decreased compared to before.
The remaining Priests and Paladins were put on the front lines.
So it’s only natural that there are always a shortage of Tuan priests to deal with the epidemic.
Even to the priests of Tuan, not only the refugee area but also the entire imperial capital is in a way more dangerous than the battlefield.
Ludwig began to wonder if it would be more dangerous and nobler for Rowen to remain in the imperial capital and take on the task of cleaning up the plague than to go to war.
Rowen wandered around looking for something to do in a place where no one praised him, but rather everyone hated him.
And, he did not give up his faith in Tuan.
“I’m a human too, so I’ve often wondered.”
Rowen walks quietly and says.
Looking down at the floor, Rowen says.
“What kind of existence is the Demon King really?”
Devil.
That word is like a stone in the throat.
To most people, the devil is a symbol of hatred and despair.
There are only rumors about what kind of existence the Demon King is.
But Ludwig was not the only one who heard rumors.
That’s why I hate it even more.
Because they lived together without knowing that he was the Demon King at a close distance.
“I was a classmate.”
“… … yes?”
“I lived with the demon king at the temple.”
“!”
Rowen looked at Ludwig with his mouth wide open.
Ludwig only then, in a good or bad way.
Just by being with a special being, I realized that I had no choice but to be treated as a special being.
