Chapter 261 – 261. What Must Be Left Behind

I called out to the evil spirit, but there was no answer.

“Heavy body!!! “There is a god here!!!!”

No matter how desperately I searched, there was no response.

[It seems blocked!]

“You’re blocked?”

[The labyrinth and the outside are completely closed. Even if I call you, I can’t reach you.]

“What the fuck!!”

I never would have guessed that the outside and inside were blocked. So, is emergency escape impossible through phase transfer?

Kwaang!!!

At that time, the surrounding earth shook, and the trees were pulled out indiscriminately.

A snake of crazy size is coming up.

His true identity is Orochi. An evil spirit sealed in the forest of the missing.

I woke him up without even knowing that he was an evil spirit.

Even if he hadn’t skipped the intermediate step, he would have been able to catch him.

[Let’s leave now!!!]

“Uh oh!!”

I decided to try to escape from here by using phase transfer.

However, movement was impossible.

“Oh my!!!”

As expected, it was impossible to get out of the labyrinth.

However, movement is possible inside the labyrinth.

‘You have to use evasive maneuvers.’

If the evil spirit notices that I’m behind, it will come to rescue me before I die, but if it doesn’t notice, I’ll be caught and killed.

‘Please… Notice that the connection has been lost…!’

Since they were keeping an eye on me, they probably noticed that the connection was lost. So, I have to struggle like crazy until the evil spirit comes to me. There’s nothing I can do now except struggle.

[Coming!!!]

“Aaaaah!!!”

I immediately moved as far away from the shrine as possible.

Wow!!!

It felt like my body had moved past an unknown membrane.

I’ve never felt this way before. What is it?

“Hey!!! Here!!”

“Huh?”

As I lost my balance due to a strange sensation and fell to the ground, someone called me.

“Who, who?”

“Now is not the time to argue about that! Come in here quickly!”

“Huh?”

[Come!!! He is coming!!!]

“Oops!”

There was no other option.

I followed the man with a full beard and jumped into the tunnel.

Cooung!!!

With the sound of something exploding, I realized that Lamech, Bival, and Abalam, who had been summoned, had been canceled at the same time.

It looks like the ground has been devastated.

“Ha. Fuck.”

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Yes? Ah. Yes. But… Who are you?”

As I advanced deeper into the tunnel, I asked a man with a full beard his identity.

What? What is he doing? It can’t be read even by detecting the status.

Who are you?

“My name is Lesh Mak Rir.”

“… Yes?”

“I am the god of the spirit forest you were looking for.”

Wait, what the fuck does this mean?

“You came here to find me.”

“Well, that’s true.”

“I already know that you have become the apostle of the evil spirit.”

“Wait. “Wait a minute.”

I stopped.

The other person is God.

A god like Orochi that I escaped from.

It is the god of the forest who said he would eat the evil spirit.

“Why… Why are you helping me?”

I asked.

Why did this god help me when he knew my identity and why I was looking for him?

“I wanted to talk.”

“A conversation?”

“Okay. “I wanted to have a conversation about the truth of this world in a place where others could not see.”

“Wait a minute, this is the truth of this world.”

“For now, just keep following me. Soon the door leading to my sanctuary will open.”

“Now, wait a minute!”

Lesh chewed my words and continued to move forward.

I followed him.

Gradually, the entrance I came in became further and further away.

At the same time, the energy of a familiar god who seemed to have just entered the forest also moved away.

******

“You are welcome. “This is my residence.”

“…”

“You’re still nervous.”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

“Don’t be too nervous. Now, please sit down.”

“…”

The place Lesh was brought to was a cabin in an unknown forest.

It is a place that cannot be considered the abode of God. It’s shabby and old.

“It has to be that way. Because I am not a proper god.”

“Yes?”

“To begin with, there are only a few proper gods left in this world.”

“What is that…”

“The remnants of Orochi and the sleeping Garia that you saw earlier have a status befitting a god.”

Lesh took a glass out of the air and poured water into it.

Two cups of herbal tea were ready in an instant.

As expected, this guy… Is reading my thoughts to some extent.

“Drink. “Don’t hate it.”

I didn’t touch the teacup. The scent was good, but I couldn’t drink it with confidence.

“Hmm. Anyway, let’s continue talking. “The demon gods and black idol-like friends that you and I previously offered as offerings are flawed friends who cannot be called gods.”

“A defective… God?”

“Okay. Should we say that they are those who inevitably became gods? Although he is too insignificant to be a god. “These are people who had no choice but to become gods because their thrones were empty.”

“. Why are you telling me that?”

“It’s because of the evil spirit.”

“Yes?”

“If the evil spirits devour even the few remaining gods, this universe will come to an end that day.”

“What is that.”

“If the lights of the universe go out, there will be only darkness. The evil spirit intends to leave after consuming all the remaining embers of this world. Then, even if you survive, the universe will eventually cool down and disappear.”

“In one word, doesn’t that mean you shouldn’t offer up gods anymore?”

“That’s right. To be precise, it means that if you continue to listen to the evil spirit, you will eventually come closer to destruction. Earth’s winter night will end temporarily, but from a macro perspective, it will only mean that we all die together.”

“How can you believe that?”

“I have no choice but to ask you to believe me. I was in a bit of a hurry too. “Once you sacrifice all the gods that are left, everything is over.”

“But I have already made a contract with the evil spirit.”

The moment I betray, not only me but everything I own will be ruined and die.

There is no way.

If you don’t betray the evil spirit, the universe will come to an end. However, if I betray the evil spirit, I will face immediate destruction.

“I know. What is your situation? So I would like to suggest one thing.”

“A suggestion?”

“Okay. The purpose of the evil spirit is to gather strength and return. So I’m sending it to you. And everything that has flowed into our world is also blown away to the other world.”

“… Is that possible?”

“Is it possible. Even an evil spirit… Is ultimately a mask.”

“Yes?”

“It’s a mask. His body is not in this world.”

“What is that.”

“Its true form is an entity called the Void Serpent. “The evil spirit is just a mask.”

“Wait. “The evil spirit is a mask.”

“The Void Serpent was expelled from the world it originally belonged to, but has not completely crossed over to this world.”

“The Void Snake is the body of the evil spirit. Are you saying you haven’t completely crossed over to this side?”

“Okay. To be precise, crossing worlds requires a great deal of strength, so even those who had blown up the Void Serpent in the other world could not have them all bounce back here.”

“…”

“So the Void Serpent is caught between parallel universes, scattering masks everywhere it touches, bringing disaster, and devouring the gods.”

“Why?”

“Of course, it’s to gather strength and return to your original world!”

“Then…”

“Our world is just one of the many worlds that the Void Serpent monster has reached out to.”

“Then what about the evil spirit?”

“To put it simply, the chest body is a terminal created because the main body cannot be easily moved. You can think of it as a kind of avatar and artificial intelligence deployed for automatic hunting.”

“It seems like the evil spirit has no idea about that?”

“I guess so. “Rather than giving commands to a being with a will, there is a greater chance of not deviating from the framework if you just plant commands into the subconscious and let it run autonomously.”

“Is this real? “Is it true that the evil spirit was just a puppet?”

“Yes! The evil spirit is just one of countless masks! He is committing evil deeds without even knowing that he is being manipulated!! So please trust me.”

“Okay. Calm down.”

“Ha, ha, ha… If I didn’t have anywhere to tell you this amazing truth, why would I have called you here? Not only is there no proper god in this damned universe, but there is not even a force that can stand against the Void Serpent and the Evil God. If you, a mortal, don’t hold on, not only me but this universe will end!”

“Hmm.”

[This guy… I don’t think he’s lying.]

“It’s all really true?”

So, to summarize…

Let’s say there is a world called A somewhere far away.

This is a world where the warriors have won and the gods of the pantheon have banished the evil ones.

And B is the world I live in.

The being called the Void Snake is an evil god from World A, who was defeated and exiled.

However, the body was so large that the gods of World A were unable to completely push away the Void Serpent.

As a result, the Void Serpent got caught in the dimensional gap and actively took advantage of this situation to spread its young here and there between worlds.

The evil spirit that entered our world is one of those bastards.

Without even knowing it, he was destroying our world for the sake of the Void Serpent.

With commands stuck in the subconscious disguised as free will.

“Yes. That’s it.”

“So, in the end, if you sacrifice the gods, all the power will be transferred to the Void Serpent.”

“That’s right. And our universe will cool down and disappear. So, by blowing the evil body over there and blocking the passage, we can hide our world from the Void Serpent.”

Lesh talked about his plan.

A plan to drive out evil spirits and block invasions from other worlds.

“Therefore. To summarize…”

“If you drive out the evil spirit, I will close the door to the world. Then we completely erase the coordinates of our world. To prevent outside forces from entering again.”

“Closing the door and erasing the coordinates…”

“It’s up to me and Hermes to do it. What you need to worry about is driving out evil spirits.”

“What should I do to do that?”

“The method is very simple.”

Lesh pulled a book from his bookshelf.

“What is that?”

“This is a book of prophecy and scripture written by the primordial god, who was called a prophet a long time ago. “I’m going to use this.”

“Use the scriptures?”

“Okay. “The existence of evil spirits is not mentioned anywhere in this scripture.”

“So?”

“It means that evil spirits are impurities in this world. This is conclusive evidence that something that shouldn’t exist has arbitrarily invaded. So, I will use this book as proof to drive out the evil spirit. To do that, we need two more items.”

“Two things?”

“Okay. One is a crown and the other is a magatama.”

“If you get that, you’ll be evil…”

“We can drive it out.”

“Indeed.”

Got it. How to drive out evil spirits.

“Agape. Do you understand roughly?”

[Okay. I understood how it worked.]

“You know what I think, right?”

[Of course.]

Agaf laughed.

He is also my partner. One thing is certain to be done.

[Already called. They say it’s coming.]

Soon, Lesh’s residence exploded.

Kwaaaaang!!!!

“Kwaaah!!! What is this!!!!”

“I’m sorry, Lesh. I have received too much to take your side. And you should have told me this before I became an apostle of the evil spirit. If I betray the evil spirit now, all my companions at my base will die immediately, and the situation will turn into a very messy situation, which is absolutely not possible. I was the only one who suffered losses, but now we are on the same side. “It’s too late.”

I received too much from the evil spirit. And there are too many hostages being held.

So, I leave my evil spirit behind in this world. Even the gods offer offerings.

What I have to do now is convey all the truth to the evil spirit and drive it away from the Void Serpent.

So, become a scapegoat for locking down doors, Lesh.