The robed man seemed to be speaking in a sincerely happy tone to the corpse lying there. And, he saw one sword. The magic sword Balmanx. The sword Rihyalda had held with the blue jewel embedded into it. He—Genful—laughed. That weapon fit Rihyalda’s overwhelming charisma.“That was a terrible last moment, eh, shogun Rihyalda?”

“I’ll do in those monsters from another world.”

The man stared at the strange boat floating in the bay.

“Kuku… But your death won’t be useless.”

Genful took something out of his pocket. It was an old crystal ball. It was a beautifully polished orb.

“It’s quite a fine church, eh, shogun?”

He said as though it were just common chatter, and he lifted up the sword covered in soot. He could feel the pulse of the sword’s magic power. He thought it was almost as if it was rejecting him. Perhaps a normal human could not easily hold it. However, he was a magic user. What’s more, he was fairly high-cla.s.s, too. He was used to such resistance.

“A festival for the downfall of Brominia, such quite a discovery is to be found as the present of that nation’s idiots.”

He was talking about how the insistence of trying to take the throne was thanks to the knight unit missing the court mages.

“It’s because they think they are the center of the world. If I were destroyed or even if the world were destroyed, they probably would not think it matters. Using the archive, the magic of the ‘people of the wings’ was used to call forth those monsters to this world.”

Genful lifted his crystal ball and stared into it.

“Yes, they are not of this world, shogun. In the case that you would die, I was ordered to settle the affairs.”

He continued to speak of Rihyalda’s magic sword. He was colored by the intoxication of madness.

“We must maintain the balance of this world. They are an existence we cannot have in this world. They are an existence that bends this world and calls for chaos in it.”

Genful saw a mountain of corpses.

“Ultimately, you were unable to stop them. So, I will offer to settle everything.”

He lovingly stared into his crystal ball, and noticed that the magic sword is shaking. Strong, frightening magic power was put into that crystal ball. The magic sword probably feels that.

“Kukuku… Have you ever heard of the fairy tale of the ‘falling stars’? It has been relayed to me that those people of the wings that are said to be destroyed used the ‘eye of the shooting star’ as a controlled weapon to rain down and hit rebels and savage tribes. No one believes the fairy tale… My church disagrees. The reason is because… It is right here… That ‘eye of the shooting star’.”

He put his hands out towards the sky and saw something in the crystal ball. It was not just a reflection of the sky’s scenery. In that crystal was a universe.

“This crystal itself is a magical tool of destruction, the controlling weapon the ‘falling star’, the ‘eye of the shooting star’.”

He took a commanding view of the burning city.

“If peace for this world is attainable by the vanishing of one country, then it would be quite cheap a price to pay.”

And, he thrust Rihyalda’s sword, which he had been holding in his hand, into the ground.

“I am happy. I am, right now, about to move to save the world after all.”

He laid bare the workings of his heart and mind by himself:

“You disdained me, but I also want to protect! The empire, the world!”

He held the crystal in both hands and started to focus his mind. The sweat on his forehead is not just because where he is standing is hot. This magic weapon is too strong for him alone to handle. And, he also understood that.

“To control this comes with a price. That price is my own life. But, I don’t mind. That is because my name will always be pa.s.sed on in my church. Against those enemies from another world that the elites could not defeat, I will exchange my life to become a martyr!”

He didn’t have plans on a safe return. This is the death he hoped for. Immediately, his body started to shake. His heart beating fast, blood vessels show on his skin. While his focus was reaching its limits, the “eye of the shooting star” entered into Genful’s body.

And, the direct absorption of Genful began. Even with this, it is not enough. There is a need to supplement it with more. Genful was covered in darkness. The darkness, as though it l.u.s.ted insatiably after the corpses scattered around, began to take them in. Devouring fresh blood and regret, the darkness swelled.

“Wh-what!? What’s happening?!”

A young man from the parallel world yelled. Genful was noticed by him, and Genful shook in a sense of superiority.

——Now, he has become a being that transcends everything. And, Genful was swallowed up by the darkness and became the darkness itself. However, somehow he managed to successfully gain control. He gushed with the greatest sense of achievement.

“Haha, hahahaha! Now… Monsters from another world, disappear with this country!”