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Chapter 276 - Calamity (2)
Chapter 276: Calamity (2)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
The letters vanished in an instant.
But for a while I just kept staring up at the sky, gritting my teeth.
‘So the wound has healed enough for it to come looking for me.’
Е́n u̇ m а̀
Was I too late, or was the thing recovering too fast?
I let out a sigh, then flicked my fingers and drew the Deep Sea back in. The water that had filled the city drained away as if a hole had opened up in the ground, and every last one of the citizens wore a dazed expression.
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“What is this? What just happened?”
“Pfft, this is seawater. It’s really salty.”
“Idiot, you don’t know what’s in it! Spit it out, quick!”
No one had died, and the rain clouds had all disappeared.
Ẃ еb̆ nо̊ v е_l Е̌n̂ u̇ m а̂_
At least I’d stopped it this once. I was breathing a sigh of relief when a fierce headache hit me.
“…?”
Ever since becoming an Outer God, all physical pain had vanished, so when I clutched my head at the sudden ache, the strength simply gave out in my legs.
“What the… ugh.”
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Kneeling in the squelching mud, I hurried to grasp the situation.
Had the poison mixed into the rain somehow gotten into the Deep Sea?
Wе̇ b̀ n̊ о̂ v́ ёĺ Е̇n u mа̌
…No, I’d let all the poison flow away. My ability wasn’t so crude that I’d make a mistake like that.
“Don’t get greedy.”
A voice dripping with disdain reached my ear.
Nightchase, who had taken the form of a young Linmel, was looking down at me where I’d collapsed, having slipped out at some point.
“Just let it go. You have to pay the price properly.”
“…Let go of what?”
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“Your World. There’s a providence that even gods can’t defy.”
It was a vague, airy thing to say, but something about it struck a chord.
With both eyes shut, I tried not to be conscious of the Deep Sea. As I steadied myself like that for a while, the headache gradually faded.
When I opened my eyes again, the Deep Sea visible in my right eye had grown slightly hazy.
“You should’ve just swallowed them.”
“Are you insane?”
Ẽ ń ûmа̄.і̆d.
I wiped my mouth and got to my feet.
Only after going through it once could I understand what that pain just now had been.
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I had manifested the Deep Sea very abruptly.
In human terms, that exertion was on the level of barely finishing a triathlon. Having moved that violently, I had to be paid back for the act.
The only currency that worked for a god was Domain.
If I’d simply subjugated those cities, the humans, the wizards, every living thing, to the Deep Sea and expanded my Domain, it would have passed without any trouble, but-
Е̌ n ǔ m̈ а́. і̊ ď
“Tsk, it is a bit of a waste.”
Instead, I’d thrown it all back up. I’d only moved without collecting any payment.
As a result, I’d lost a bit of control over the Deep Sea. Only a little, of course, but with the decisive battle against Void not far off now, even that little was something to regret.
Nightchase watched me with her chin propped on her hand, then offered some fairly serious advice.
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“You, if you’re going to fight Void over Domain, you really need to prepare now. You can’t just rely on your World and one paltry talent.”
“Prepare how?”
Ѐñ ú ṁa .і̇ď
“Subjugate other Worlds.”
“You want me to fight more Outer Gods?”
“There’s a far simpler way. The Fallen. They’re Worlds in themselves, so if you just swallow those, you can expand your World without having to fight Outer Gods at all. Why do you think Void is cultivating them?”
“Hmm…”
The way she talked about the Fallen as though they were some kind of summer health food grated on me, but the point itself was right.
Judging by how Linmel was still busy fighting the Fallen, there were clearly some left.
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As I pulled myself together for a while like that, my Current Sense caught someone approaching from afar.
“Gah, Jern! So this is where you were!”
“Ah. Linmel.”
As if she’d been searching for me, Linmel, covered head to toe in mud, came over in a flurry.
“I’ve been looking for you ever since the world flooded! I figured it had to be you… Are you okay? You’re not hurt, are you?”
“I’m perfectly fine. Don’t worry.”
W̊ёb̂ nо v̌ӗ l Е́n ù.ḿа̂
When I answered cheerfully on purpose, she finally seemed to relax, and after letting out a sigh of relief, she slapped her own cheeks as if to say this was no time for that.
“Right! Sorry to spring this on you, but it looks like there’s something you need to do!”
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“Something I need to do? Did something else come barging in?”
As far as my Current Sense could tell, there was no problem other than the rain. As I tilted my head, Linmel shook hers and answered.
“Princess-nim says she needs to use your face, Jern!”
“?”
Enúm а̀
“Come on, let’s hurry!”
What was she talking about?
Frowning, I followed Linmel back to the Capital, where a royal command must already have gone out, because most of the citizens who hadn’t fainted were standing in the plaza looking like drowned rats.
“…Where are we supposed to go this time, I wonder.”
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“Haah…”
The mood was just as damp. Listening in loosely with my Current Sense, I gathered that people were assuming this strange phenomenon meant they’d have to abandon the Capital once again.
Е ṅ úm̃а
I understood how they felt.
An overturned mountain, a scar torn across the sky, and now a flood in broad daylight.
None of these were disasters that mere ordinary people could withstand. Even Knights, trained their whole lives to fight, couldn’t fight against natural phenomena.
A sense of helplessness filled the plaza. The only one in that plaza not steeped in defeat was a single woman standing at the railing of the royal palace.
“Hmm, ahem… Can you all hear me well?”
Sharmia cleared her throat as she amplified her voice with her Magic. It wasn’t a voice that carried any particular tension, or the dignity of a nation’s ruler.
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“I’m sorry. This is my first time using Magic like this… so it doesn’t seem to carry very well. Still, I’d like you to lend me your ears for now. Ahem.”
She gave a light cough, then got to the point.
“To be honest with you- the Empire has witnessed its own ruin.”
“…”
“…”
A soundless shock spread.
E_n̄u m̆а
It was something everyone secretly knew, but no one had expected to hear it come from Sharmia’s own mouth.
“The great roads that once kept us strong are now too badly ruined for carriages to pass, and more than half of the fertile land that gave us grain has rotted away. The former capital, which held thousands of years of history… has now become a den of witches.”
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Regardless, Sharmia calmly went on.
“The Crimson Circle. This band of Fallen had been planning all of this from far longer ago than we ever imagined. And in truth, that plan was finished a long while ago. They already held the power to do whatever they pleased with this world. They were raising us like animals in a Cattle Shed, thinking there was still something left to squeeze out of us.”
“…This isn’t good.”
I frowned, feeling the crowd around me grow restless.
Е n̊u mӑ .ї d̂
Sharmia was telling them all the Secret Affairs that should have been kept hidden.
Saying things like this would only breed confusion and despair. And this would soon spread to every other survivor out there…
I had no idea what she was thinking, and as I wondered whether I should stop her even now, she bowed her head.
“From now on, things that cannot be opposed with sword and spear will keep coming, full of hostility. Whether we can stand against them all- honestly, I don’t know.”
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“D-damn it… why does all this have to happen while I’m alive…”
“…”
W е b̂n̈ o v е̊.l̆ Еńům а̊
Some gritted their teeth and grumbled, and parents pulled their children close.
As the Knights weakly began to let go of the hands gripping their sword hilts, Sharmia gave a faint smile.
“And so, I’ve decided to place my hope, at least, in another being.”
“Jern. Would you come out here?”
Only then did I grasp what the Princess had meant about putting my face to use, and I scrunched up my whole face and stepped backward.
But Linmel was blocking my back. Having fooled even an Outer God’s Current Sense, she dragged me along and gave me a wink.
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“What, who’s that?”
“I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere…”
As I stood there, thoroughly uncomfortable, before the people tilting their heads, Sharmia patted my shoulder and made an exaggerated gesture.
“Jern Aspandal- even if I introduce him by that name, you wouldn’t know him, would you? This is the one who just flooded the city.”
“…?”
“Oh, don’t be alarmed. Jern-‘nim’ flooded the city in order to protect all of you.”
Ẅ е b̄n̈ о̆vе̇l Е̌_nů m̆а̊
Sharmia soothed the flinching citizens and introduced my sullen self as though I were some kind of treasure.
“And, I introduced him as a person, but that’s actually not quite right. He isn’t a person, but-”
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“Princess-nim, do you really have to do this? Can’t you just put up a stand-in?”
When I quickly whispered in her ear, Sharmia whispered back into mine.
“I’m sorry, Jern, but humanity right now needs hope. A being they can believe in- someone who’s more than just a mere human like me.”
“…”
E n u m а. і̊ d̆
“If you really don’t want this, I’ll stop. Is it all right if I continue?”
“…I’ll ask you to keep my time out front to a minimum.”
It was true that something was needed, at least to turn this dreadful mood around.
And in my head, I understood that I was the most suitable thing for it.
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She smiled gently as if she’d known I’d say that, and went on.
“He’s a god of another World, an Outer God.”
Ẽnũ m а̊.ĭd̀
“A god…?”
“??”
The citizens tilted their heads at the word god, unable to accept it right away.
That was only natural. To anyone’s eyes, I looked like an ordinary human. By appearance alone, there was no telling the difference.
I let out a sigh and raised one hand.
“There’s no need to hold your breath.”
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I had used quite a lot of power just now, but.
This much, at least.
“….Ah.”
Someone, noticing a shadow fall over their head, looked up at the sky.
In the place that was no longer sky, something enormous was drifting. No light could be seen anywhere around it any longer, and a heavy, ear-ringing cry blanketed the Deep Sea.
In the end, my words went unheard. The citizens, who had met the Deep Sea within that vast layer of air for a mere ten seconds or so, stared blankly around them as if they’d forgotten how to breathe.
Еn ǔ m̌а̌ . і̂d̀
Judging that they’d faint if I showed them any more, I quickly returned things to normal, and the sky came back into view.
“…Wow, so that’s what it was like.”
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It was Sharmia’s first time, too, seeing the Deep Sea from this close.
Even she, who had experienced countless deaths, was blinking in evident surprise, and the plaza had fallen so quiet that it was hard to believe it was packed with that many people.
Sharmia clapped lightly to gather their attention, then continued.
“As you’ve probably guessed- this one shares the very same essence as the head of the Crimson Circle, the Empire’s current enemy.”
W̆еb̂ ṅôvе ľ Ẽn̄u mа̃
“A being of the sort that destroyed the Capital and overturned the mountain.”
“If I’m going to stake my last hope on anyone, I want to stake it on him.”
The citizens’ expressions split sharply, each in their own way.
Some feared me as if they couldn’t bear to look, some were glad, and some let hope rise to their faces.
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Just as they feared an enemy beyond their understanding, they could believe that someone beyond their understanding was offering to help them, I supposed.
As I was thinking that wandering the streets was going to become a hassle now, one fearless person, using the crowd as a shield, threw out a question.
Е n.ùm̃ а̌
“Wh-what’s the price for helping us?”
“…”
At that, the citizens made faces that seemed to say, good point.
They seemed to think a being like this would never help humanity for no reason at all. When I glanced at Sharmia, she looked momentarily flustered, as though she hadn’t thought this far ahead, but then she smiled with a mischievous glint and answered.
“You don’t need to worry about that. To persuade Jern-nim, I offered up something truly precious…”
“…Half the Empire’s lives?”
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“Ah, no.”
At the rather down-to-earth question, Sharmia quickly shook her head and dabbed at the corner of her eye.
“It was- none other than me.”
“Pardon?”
“I offered up myself and barely managed to persuade him. But it’s something I had to do for all of you, so please don’t worry too much about it.”
“…”
Ӗ nu m а̃. і̌ d
As I watched the citizens’ faces slowly fill with the look of being moved.
I gritted my teeth, seriously weighing a method of making Sharmia Fall, hunting her down, and expanding my Domain that way.
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