and defeating monsters, wouldn’t that result in collecting the monsters’ Curses and being given Gifts through you?
Isn’t this unfavourable to the Evil G.o.d?”“Well… I’m not the Evil G.o.d, so it’s not like I understand everyone of the other’s thoughts.
I would think they only thought to strengthen the combat power in hand by hunting monsters.
Rather, he might even think that he’s profiting because he can strengthen his p.a.w.ns without granting the Curses he has in store.
But then, Monguenues’ thinking is extremely heterogeneous, so there are parts that only the person himself understands.”
“About Curses, can’t they be detected by magic or something?
It seems like it would be considerably easier if they could.”
“I believe Melby-san will intuitively notice apostles of the Evil G.o.d like Goleth and Gazaine.
You’ve found a good partner.”
“P-partner, you say…”
Melby writhed around with her hands on her cheeks.
“However, if the other party becomes so inclined to attempt to hide, it’s possible that even Melby-san won’t notice.
Come here, Melby-san.”
“Y-y-y-yes!”
“Fufu. Calm Down.”
The G.o.ddess smiled as she said that, but there was a vague fragrance of the forbidden.
The G.o.ddess gently brought her lips closer to Melby as though loving a flower―
*Snap*
She was flicked by something invisible.
“Ah, ow ow…”
“A-are you alright?”
The moment the G.o.ddess was to kiss her, something like a wall of light suddenly appeared, obstructing in between the G.o.ddess and Melby.
The G.o.ddess said in indignation,
“Good grief! That child doesn’t change!”
“That child?”
“Attiera, the G.o.d of magic, views me as a rival.
Attiera doesn’t like that and told me to ‘hand them over’, but it’s difficult to separate the magic skills alone.
Hmm… I wonder what I should do.
――That’s it.”
The G.o.ddess raises her head and looks at Melby.
“Melby-san, will you let me see your potted Rainbow Cactus plant?”
“O-okay.”
Melby retrieved the aforementioned mysterious organism from her dimensional storage.
I feel like it has grown a little bigger compared to how it was before.
In the short time I haven’t seen it, the colour of the flowers has changed to silver.
“Melby-san, have you tried using [Appraisal] on this?”
“Yes, the first time I used [Appraisal], it appeared to be fine to give it mana, so I gave it some of my mana every day.”
“Can you try using [Appraisal] one more time right now?”
“Yes… E, eehhhhh!?”
Ah, so she really hadn’t noticed.
Since I have a chance, I also use [Appraisal] once again.
《Tushaaravati
Rainbow Cactus? (tree form) / Magic Organism
Level 1
MP 291/291 (29↑)
Abilities
Anti-substance spray ★☆☆☆☆ (sprays sap that can be used to decompose harmful microscopic substances and microoganisims)
Skills
[Growth Control] ―
([Aurora Magic] 1)》
Yup, still just like a mysterious organism.
On top of its maximum MP steadily increasing, it even acquired an ability without us knowing.
Abilities should be an “innate ability” but was it something that could increase?
“Rainbow Cacti have the peculiar trait of absorbing mana to produce flowers and bear fruit.
At any rate, I’ll give this Tusha-chan the ability to detect Curses.”
The G.o.ddess tried to kiss the rainbow cactus, but a thorn p.r.i.c.ked her lip.
“Ow.”
The G.o.ddess grumbled cutely, then she blew a kiss to Tushaaravati.
…If she could do that, then she should have done that from the start.
Melby’s mysterious pet absorbd that kiss, and let out 2, 3 pulses of rainbow-coloured light.
I immediately use [Appraisal].
《Tushaaravati (《Mysterious Organism》)
Rainbow Cactus? (tree form) / Magic Organism
Level 1
MP 291/291
Abilities
Anti-substance spray ★☆☆☆☆
Skills
＋[Detect Waves] 9 (MAX) (A Gift from a benevolent G.o.ddess, detects the unearthly wave motions emitted by the Evil G.o.d’s Curses. Effective range has a radius of 500 metres.)
[Growth Control] ―
([Aurora Magic] 1)》
Ooh, it looks like quite a useful skill.
I mean, even the t.i.tles have increased.
The requirements for a t.i.tle were “many people calling someone by a certain name in awe”, and “if the one designating the name has great influence on their surroundings, the influence on bestowing a t.i.tle also increases”, right.
As for me, my influence in regards to bestowing t.i.tles upon others apparently became greater because of the effect of the 《G.o.d of Virtue’s Blessing (Kannumarne)》, so it might also be due to that.
“Can’t I possess it?”
“Humans are beings that fluctuate at the threshold between good and evil, so the observation results won’t be stable.
On that note, Melby-san is a being made with a Gift as a base, and Tusha-chan is――Well… An existence that is hard to put into words, yet has no components that would interfere with [Detect Waves].
….For now.”
The G.o.ddess said as she stared at the rainbow cactus.
“What? Why?”
“To begin with, Melby-san is peculiar among fairies.”
“Eh? Are you talking about… Me?”
“For fairies that have lived for a long time, their mentality changes and they become easily distracted, so as to decrease their mental burden.
That’s why, normal fairies are unable to temper their skills, or spend tens of years on developing needed tools like Melby-san.
If someone with a long lifespan were to continue concentrating on something, they would fall mentally ill.”
“Eh… But I don’t really…”
“That is Melby-san’s peculiar trait.
This is just my guess, but I wonder if that had a significant effect on Melby-san’s mental formation.”
“Do you know anything about Melby’s master――Alfecia-san?”
“She was one of the seven central figures among the Pioneer Elves.
There were plenty or resources because there was only a small number of people, and the apostles on the Evil G.o.d’s side were also powerful, so it could be said that that had been inevitable.”
“What about your apostles?”
“…They fought with the Evil G.o.d’s apostles and died.
The one in charge of Alfecia-san was Attiera, so I don’t really know the details though.”
It’s something we’ll find out once the seal is released, so this much is enough.
…Melby seems like she really wants to ask more though.
“Gazaine said that the Evil G.o.d was originally a comrade of the G.o.ds, but is that true?”
“Hmm. Yes, and no.
About the origin of this world, and the relationship between the benevolent G.o.ds and the Evil G.o.d――do you want to know?”
“Yes please!”
A chance to hear about the creation myth of this world from a G.o.d directly doesn’t come too often, okay.
“Let’s see, firstly, us benevolent G.o.ds weren’t originally G.o.ds of Marquekt.”
“Eh…? Is that so?”
“That’s right.
You have also read history books so you may already know, but what do you know about Marquekt’s calandar?”
“The thing called Absolute History?
There was only the ‘absolute’ history, and nothing about events prior to that era was recorded no matter where I searched.”
That was what was written in the history books in the study at the Viscount Chrebl residence in Corbette Village.
Incidentally, the current year is AH 1294… No, the new year started while I was in the Nest, so it’s 1295.
“It’s not that they weren’t recorded, they just didn’t exist in the first place.
In the first year of Absolute History, us benevolent G.o.ds came to this world, and while confronting the Evil G.o.d, we started liberating the people who were the Evil G.o.d’s slaves little by little; that was precisely what happened that year.”
“So you’re saying that the Evil G.o.d was originally the G.o.d of this world?”
“The answer to that is, as I said earlier, both yes and no.
If someone who enslaves everybody and enjoys the discord of those souls can be called a ‘G.o.d’, then the answer is yes. If not, then no.”
“What happened to your former world?”
“Our former world was facing a crisis of destruction due to a stellar abnormality.
That’s why we decided to bring the survivors along and migrate to this world.”
“Stellar…”
I was surprised at the term that suddenly popped out, but when I think about it, it might not be a particularly strange thing.
Rather, another world without stars would be harder to imagine.
“If it’s a stellar crisis, then wouldn’t it be fine if you moved to another star system?”
“How could we do so?”
“How, you say… By using a s.p.a.ceship or something?”
“Even in your former world, a s.p.a.ceship that was possible of performing interstellar travel hasn’t been developed yet, right?
Rather than migrating to a star many light years away, it’s easier to migrate to another world.”
What the h.e.l.l.
Mankind’s dream of advancing into s.p.a.ce was shot down with this one line just now.
“By any chance, could the fact that no aliens have appeared on Earth also be…?”
“I don’t know whether or not there are aliens in that world, but I suppose that’s one of the most significant reasons.
To intelligent lifeforms that have mastered science and delved into the domain of magic and souls, what they should touch upon is not the intelligent lifeforms of a faraway star, but rather the intelligent lifeforms of another world whom they can have direct contact with.”
“No intelligent lifeforms from another world came to Earth either though… Ah, no, that’s incorrect.”
The G.o.ddess right in front of me was a being of such an ‘other world’.
“Although I called it migrating, it was just the people throughout the world reincarnating simultaneously.
What we brought to the other world were their souls alone, so the sophisticated civilisation achieved by mankind in their previous world ended up lost in one generation without a chance to be accessioned.”
Even in my previous life, there were webnovels where a reincarnated person makes use of the knowledge from their previous life in another world to become a peerless character, but there’s a limit to the amount of information that a human brain can hold.
Even if I was told to make a computer or automobile in this world from scratch, it would be impossible.
“But isn’t that the same for each world?
If fellow reincarnators were to exchange information together, then to a certain extent…”
“To the extent where it becomes a sophisticated civilisation, specialisation becomes extreme, and they would have to try to make existing technology a self-explanatory premise.
For argument’s sake, even if they did know, they wouldn’t have any of the equipment to make it, so it would be hard to reproduce it.
Perhaps it is somehow possible to be able to reproduce up to a computer, but even so, what about after that?
Even simply inheriting knowledge is difficult.”
The G.o.ddess continued.
“The Marquekt that we arrived in had a much crueller environment than it is now.
Infertile soil and polluted rivers.
The atmosphere was thin, so strong cosmic rays would even rain down on the earth intermittently.
In order to improve this environment, we split our power as G.o.ds on a grand scale and flooded the world with various spirits.
In other words, the extermination of powerful demonic beasts, and expanding the range of humanoid existences.
However, we also succeeded in greatly shaving down the might of the Evil G.o.d’s side at the same time, and were able to release the original inhabitants of Marquekt from the collar of slavery.”
It’s a very, well, majestic tale.
“…Melby, did you know about this?”
“Uh uh… Because I was only with Master when I was small.”
I decided to swallow down the retort of “you’re still small though”.
To put it simply, the G.o.ds came from a different world and settled on this planet.
They released the humans who were slaves of the Evil G.o.d, but were unable to completely bring down the Evil G.o.d. Even after a thousand years has pa.s.sed after their settlement, the contest of influence between them and the Evil G.o.d continues to this very day.
…In that case, just what kind of existence was considered a “G.o.d”?
I considered asking about that, but the nearby Melby’s body was appearing transparent.
No, my body was as well.
“――It looks like it’s almost time.”
The G.o.ddess says.
“About the matter with , you were really a great help.However, your body is still small so try not to overexert yourself.”
Me and Melby’s bodies were sucked up by the planet below.
I watched Melby panic and cry out “Wah, wah” as my consciousness receded――.