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Chapter 277 - Calamity (3)
Chapter 277: Calamity (3)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
Once people learned that I was a god, they begged me for mercy in every way they could.
“Can you truly return the world to the way it was?”
“If you can do that, I’ll believe in you no matter what you do.”
Еń u m̊ ӑ .і̃ d_
“Please, if only for this child’s sake…”
“…”
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I watched in silence as people worn down by life pleaded desperately with me.
Whether I could save all of these people… I didn’t know. I wasn’t a real god, after all.
Twisting the world, creating life, and ruling over existence wasn’t enough to be called a god. That was an Outer God. Beings with nothing but power, and none of the right to it.
“I will do my best.”
Wеb n òṽеl Е̊ n ũ m ӓ
Still, I could hardly tell them, ‘You’ve chosen the wrong god to pray to’, so I offered them suitably pleasant words instead.
After carrying on with these Confession-like sessions for a while, I returned to the castle to find Sharmia smiling bitterly.
“I’m sorry. I should have at least discussed it with you first.”
With a light sigh, I shook my head.
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In the end, a situation like this needed someone to serve as a pillar.
“It’s fine. It must have been necessary.”
Еn̆u̇ m̈ а́
“Hmm, I’m relieved to hear you say that. Because honestly, going forward, I think I’ll need you to step out in front completely.”
“Pardon?”
As I wondered what on earth she meant, Sharmia continued with a troubled expression.
“Your plan is to move every single person underground, isn’t it?”
“I must have mentioned it. That’s right.”
“I may rule the vast territory that is the Empire, but I don’t command every nation. Asking those people to abandon everything they have left and follow us, every last one of them, is a bit much to expect.”
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“Hm, true…”
However many nations Sharmia ruled, issuing absolute orders seemed difficult with the world already half in ruins.
But it wasn’t as if we could simply abandon them, either. As I mulled it over, Sharmia spoke.
“In the end, we need an order from someone with more authority than me, someone who might actually be able to resolve this crisis.”
“…A person with more authority than the Emperor of the Empire…”
“No such person exists. But a god does.”
Ѐn_u m а_. ĩd
“…”
Seeing Sharmia’s bright smile, it seemed the matter had already been settled.
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And of course, I must have accepted. Even at this very moment, as an Outer God, I nodded, feeling like nothing more than a simple Mortal before that ability of hers.
“Understood. Set the stage for me, and I’ll put on this little charade as many times as you need.”
“Thank you, I’ll send word to every nation that still exists. Oh, would it be all right to go with the story that I offered myself up to summon the god who will save us?”
“You’ve already announced it, so why bother asking? Is that really necessary?”
Ẁе̌.b̊ n оṽ е̌l̃ Êñum_ӑ
“Probably? It’ll take about two weeks.”
“We can issue the relocation order around then. By that point, the Dwarves should at least have made enough space for everyone to fit inside…”
As we talked, passing by the busy retainers carrying out Sharmia’s orders, the outline of the plan finally took shape.
Send every human underground, under the command of my power.
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At the same time, submerge the world. Every last bit of it.
And after that…
Е n ů m ă..і d̀
“Can you do it?”
“…”
At Sharmia’s worried question, I looked at the Stigma, still vivid even in the darkened Heaven, and nodded.
“I can. Because I have to. However, I think we should prepare for the worst-case scenario.”
“…And what would that be?”
“I’ve witnessed Void’s power once before, and I’ve met Outer Gods as well. He must have swallowed countless Worlds by now, so the total time for the final battle… I’m estimating about one week.”
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In truth, that was exactly as long as I could hold out while keeping the world submerged.
If it dragged on any longer, I would no longer be able to keep Void confined within the space of the Deep Sea. Heaven would once again exist above the water’s surface.
And when that happened, everything would be over.
“If you haven’t heard from me after a week has passed, then… you’ll have to try a new method.”
“A new method…?”
After glancing around for a moment, I told Sharmia what that method was.
Е̌ñu m̆ à . і̂ d́
Sharmia looked bewildered at first, then her eyes went round as she stared at me.
With a hint of reproach.
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“Jern.”
“It’s truly, truly only for the worst case.”
“…”
“If you just promise me, I swear I will pull through. Please.”
W е̊b n о̆ v̆_е l̂. E n ū m̈a.
“Haa…”
Sharmia deliberated for a moment, then let out a rare sigh and reluctantly nodded.
“All right. But I can’t give you a definite answer. I don’t want to survive badly enough to go that far.”
“Thank you.”
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The more insurance, the better. With that thought, I gave a slight bow and turned to leave, and Sharmia asked with a weary expression.
“I’ll call for you once the preparations are done. What will you be doing in the meantime?”
Ӗňûm а̂
“I’m planning to put up a struggle, just this once.”
I clenched my fist, steeling my resolve.
If I could, then as much as I could.
I intended to expand my Deep Sea.
***
An underground prison.
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A short distance from the Capital, deep beneath a small tower.
In a place where the foul stench of mold and rotting wood drifted up, Karos held up a torch with a look of displeasure.
“The Capital has prisons too. Normally, that’s where these ones would be locked up, but… the citizens wouldn’t stand for it. People whose families were murdered, people who lost their lovers… those who’ve been wounded are beyond counting.”
“And it would be dangerous, too.”
“That’s right.”
“…You don’t have to speak so formally with me.”
Ẁе bnо̇ v̆ е́ l̀ Е ṅūmа̀
“This suits me better. Don’t trouble yourself.”
Karos led me deep underground with formal speech that carried not the slightest trace of actual respect.
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The deeper we descended, the more my Current Sense warned of danger.
Because I was gradually beginning to feel the things down below.
“Tch, small fry.”
Just as I was tensing up, Nightchase, standing beside me, rained on my parade.
Е̊n u mӑ
With a look of disappointment, she ran her gaze along the filthy underground walls and rattled off names I’d never heard before.
“Pollution, Decomposition, Stench… nothing but trashy Worlds. I know beggars can’t be choosers right now, but aren’t they a little too low-grade to put into the Deep Sea?”
“Sometimes I genuinely wonder whether you really gave up your Divinity.”
“I spent thousands of years rubbing up against those things. One whiff of that filthy stench and there’s no mistaking it.”
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A deepening furrow between her brows.
Watching Nightchase make no effort whatsoever to hide her disgust, I asked something I’d suddenly grown curious about.
Ẇе b̈n ӧ vе ĺ Е ǹŭm̈а
“Do Outer Gods do nothing but fight each other? Is there no concept of cooperation, or coexistence?”
“Your problem is that you think too much like a human. Every bit of space those things take up is territory I can’t rule, so how could we possibly cooperate? Though if they were willing to kill themselves for my sake, I suppose cooperation wouldn’t be entirely out of the question.”
After descending for a few minutes while being lectured on the utterly horrifying partnership spirit of Outer Gods…
I saw several dying people inside the prison.
“…Ah, ugh…”
“Uh…”
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They had no consciousness left, nothing at all.
Several people had been crammed into a single cell like livestock, and the occasional groan or twitch was the only proof that they were living human beings.
Karos clicked her tongue at the sight and explained.
“Unlike the others, these Fallen neither die easily nor cause harm. They’ve become something like living mold, spreading spore-like particles around them, so… they weren’t quite worth studying, nor quite worth executing, so we locked them up for the time being.”
“And those skeletons?”
“It seems they all died from being locked up together with these ones.”
W ѐbn̂о v е l̃. Ѐn̊ u̇ḿ ӑ
After the Crimson Circle had utterly destroyed the Capital.
The Fallen, already regarded with cold contempt, had apparently come to be treated as worse than beasts.
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A certain girl came to mind unbidden. Feeling a faint pang of pity, I nodded.
“Thank you for guiding me here. Would you mind heading back for now?”
“It’s dangerous. They may be like that now, but there’s no telling when they might come to their senses and attack.”
“I appreciate the concern, but right now, the one in the most danger here is you, Karos-nim.”
W е̇b̆ n̈ о̌v̌е̊ l̂ Eñ um a
I gave a light swipe of my hand.
-Clang, with that alone, the steel bars were sliced away like scraps of paper. Karos watched in apparent astonishment, then gave a single bow and climbed the stairs.
The moment my Current Sense confirmed that she had completely left the underground prison, I approached the Fallen and sighed.
“So what exactly am I supposed to do with these?”
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Void was growing stronger by absorbing Fallen. Absorption was the polite word for it; in truth, it was a brutish form of domination closer to consumption.
At first, I’d had my reservations about devouring people too, but with the final battle so close at hand, I knew well enough that this was no time to be picky about means and methods.
Ẁ е̂b nò v̊е_l̈ Е̂n um а
In the end, I too had to devour what Fallen remained and expand the total volume of my Deep Sea. At least to the point where I could submerge the world.
“Summon the Deep Sea.”
Nightchase continued as if it were nothing.
“Whatever dies in your Deep Sea belongs to you, all of it. So what you need to do is simple, right?”
“Ugh, I really hate this.”
Grimacing hard, I summoned the Deep Sea.
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In an instant, the damp cell went far beyond anything the word damp could describe, becoming part of the deep ocean itself.
“…”
Even within it, the Fallen did not die, still drawing breath.
At the very least, sending them off in peace had to be better than leaving them to cling to life like that.
I lightly raised my hand and called forth a Current.
And at that very moment.
Е̂n̆ ŭm̊ā. і̇ d̆
“Ugh… ugh….. ah…..”
“?”
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Suddenly.
The Fallen opened its eyes.
The thing looked around as if breathing underwater were the most natural thing in the world, then slowly began to move its hand.
“What the.”
E n ŭmа̇
Three Fallen rose at the same time, in the exact same way.
As I frowned, trying to work out what on earth was happening… Nightchase acted first.
“Oh, shi-”
Spitting out a curse in some strange language, she ripped a rib from a nearby skeleton, drove it straight through one Fallen’s throat, and shouted urgently.
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“We’re screwed, kill them!”
“…”
Е n̄ ǔm̃ã
My judgment was swift.
With all my strength, I snapped the necks of two Fallen with Water Pressure.
-Crack, along with the sensation of bones breaking, an incomprehensible sense of fulfillment enveloped my body.
A satisfaction no delicacy in the world could ever provide. A feeling as though the very rank of my existence were rising.
As I fought to resist the sensation, like being high on some drug, the one with the rib through its throat reached out and grabbed Nightchase.
“…Thi, s place.”
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“Too late. Hoo…”
Nightchase wrenched herself backward with all her might and crawled into my pocket.
The Fallen’s body gradually began to transform. Soon, just as foul liquids started seeping from its body… I felt a familiar sensation.
An Outer God.
The Fallen before my eyes was slowly turning into an Outer God.
“-What’s going on? What’s wrong with them?”
E n̂ ǔ.m̀ а̌
I immediately deployed Water Pressure at full force, pinning the thing down as I calmly asked.
“Uh, those things used to dwell beneath the Deep Sea, you see?”
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Flustered as she was, Nightchase continued.
“When you drew that one into the Deep Sea, it manifested through him as a medium. So things like this can happen too. I should have thought of it…”
“What?”
“Hang in there, good luck.”
Е n um̊ a
And just as Nightchase slipped inside.
“…So you are the Deep Sea.”
The Outer God of Pollution descended before my eyes.
*****
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