assistirfilmes Chapter 317: Laws of the World
Chapter 317: Laws of the World
chapter 317: laws of the world
merus finally decided to tell them why he was staying silent.
seeing how merus reacted allen could guess it was not something that could be explained in a sentence or two though.
"maybe we should leave this conversation for after we've gotten rid of the pagan worshippers and monsters in theomenia then. are you okay with that, dogora?"
"yeah."
allen was really curious to find out why dogora could not activate his extra skill.
they had been friends since they were small in kurena village.
that was an important conversation, but some things had higher priority.
theomenia was still overrun by monsters, and they needed to be killed.
they had to exterminate the monsters, return the city to normal and let the people taking refuge in niel return to their regular lives.
only when that happened, would their mission to rescue the holy land be complete.
they had to finish what they had initially set forth to do.
it was very unlikely, but there was also the possibility of some survivors still desperately hiding under all the rubble.
if there was a life to save, they had to save it.
allen's party split into a few groups and they all went to hunt monsters.
he also summoned wraith a's that could phase through walls and check every building.
even though that was the largest city in the entire country, all monsters in it had been killed by dusk.
allen's party climbed inside merle's tam-tam, and they flew back to niel.
his summons remained there, planting gold beans to build a monster-deterring barrier around theomenia, and to kill the monsters around the city.
with all that in place, theomenia should recover soon enough.
"..."
inside tam-tam's control room, dogora waited silently for merus to start talking.
merle left tam-tam on auto-pilot and sat down together with allen and the rest.
'you wanted to know why i haven't said what i know, right? this is something not even rosen knows.'
"the spirit god?"
the spirit king rosen had lived for 5000 years, but as the first angel, merus had lived for nearly 100000 years, letting him call rosen without a title.
'that's right, descendant of the prayer maidens. the god of creation elmea explains these rules to gods as they ascend, but not the reasoning behind them. i'm sure there's many things the spirit god keeps to himself already.'
"i see."
'do you still wish to listen? it isn't a pretty story.'
"i don't mind."
allen replied as he glanced at the spirit god rosen, who was getting his back rubbed by sophie.
'alright then... i think i mentioned this before, but the gods value equilibrium. and i hope you realize that maintaining said equilibrium is extremely complicated. allen, i'm sure you've seen what a world without equilibrium looks like in your past life.'
"mmm, equilibrium? like when a king gets overthrown and a country falls to anarchy? or when money loses its value?"
allen recalled what a world without equilibrium looked like, but tried to word it in a way that made sense in this world.
'...'
merus remained silent, not saying anything to sophie's words.
"the gods aren't supposed to get their hands dirty, right merus?"
(that's why you look so displeased all the time. and that's why you refuse to show yourself to the priests of elmea's church.)
on top of his usual reserved self, there was another reason why he did not want to be summoned near priests.
"huh? then who..."
cecile understood before she could finish her question.
'we don't, unless it's for salvation. i...or rather, us angels, representatives of the gods, have been in charge of destroying worlds without equilibrium. the number of lives taken by the demon king in the last few decades is nothing compared to what i've done. i was created around 100'000 years ago, and it's happened many times since then.'
(the demon king has destroyed around four countries in the last fifty years, and there's a way almost every year. and that's nothing to him.)
as far as allen knew, the demon king and his army had already killed many tens of millions of people.
maybe the victims numbered even a hundred million, and it was hard to imagine that was still nothing compared to merus' count.
he had existed in elmea's church since way before the giamut empire was founded.
allen did not know who built that church, but he realized that an awe-inspiring demonstration of the gods' powers had a hand in its creation, and not just mere faith.
"but because of all that, i can't say what i know."
"but we're trying to use our powers to defeat the demon king. do you really have to hide the reason from us?"
the world was suffering under the attacks from the demon king. sophie tried to reason with merus, they were going to use that power for good.
'even if insignificant, an event like that can slowly and steadily dissect the laws of the world. and there's always someone who uses that knowledge for evil. it's always happened that way.'
he almost sounded like he blamed himself for failing to stop it in the past.
merus continued speaking.
at first only a handful of people would slip through the rules set in place.
but craving power and fame is ingrained in human nature, so the abuse of said loopholes would increase exponentially.
there was a case of one person who gained the title of sage, he kept what he knew to himself for his entire life, but then when the end of his days got closer, he wrote a book detailing his life, as a way to be remembered for posterity.
"and even if one never speaks, there's always those who can divinate or read minds, finding out secrets."
allen felt like merus had always been wary of the astrologer temi.
if he had destroyed the world a few times in the 100000 years he was alive, that meant the world had to be erased every few ten thousand years.
considering it only happened so rarely, allen was willing to listen, since it was unlikely it would spread far even if they gained hints about the laws of the world.
'but anyway, with that long preface out of the way, the reason why dogora can't use his extra skill is almost connected to the laws of the world. are you sure you want to hear that?'
merus gave them a last chance to stop.
"..."
dogora did not know what to say.
the party turned to look at allen.
"well, if we don't know that then we might never save the world from the demon king. tell us."
'i see. i'll tell you then. this is a story about the eight heroes plan as well...'
with a new term, the eight heroes plan, merus began to talk.