Chapter 485 – Goddess (8)

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-In the beginning there was light.

I immediately tackled it.

“No, goddess. Anyway, wouldn’t it be a bit much to start from there?”

“…”

Honestly, isn’t the prologue that starts with ‘the war between the Elyos and Demons thousands of years ago’ now like an ancient relic? Of course, it may be important history for them, but is there really a reason for me to listen to all of it?

“Well, we shouldn’t get to the point quickly…”

I looked at the goddess’s face and shut her mouth.

This woman, her eyes are no joke. I took a step back before the words “Shoot me to death with a glare” Took on physical reality.

“Hmm. Sorry for interrupting you. Was it an important part?”

“… It is important. But you probably don’t care, so I’ll get straight to the point. “I’ll talk at your level, so don’t complain anymore.”

“Yes.”

The goddess opened her mouth again.

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In the beginning, there were two goddesses: the goddess of order and the goddess of chaos.

Order pursued rules and harmony, while chaos loved change and diversity.

The two goddesses decided to create the world together.

Order drew the energy of light to create the sun, and chaos drew matter from the darkness to create planets.

The creation of the two goddesses continued.

When order created a flat land, chaos caused the land to rise and create mountain ranges. While order created forests in mountain ranges, chaos made volcanoes erupt. As order rained down, chaos gave rise to a storm.

Then one day, the two goddesses got into an argument. Order accused her chaos of ruining her own perfect work, and her chaos accepted that Order’s world was oppressive and boring.

The two goddesses came into conflict with each other.

The moon blocked the sun, the earth swallowed forests and grasslands, mountain ranges covered volcanoes, and raindrops fought against storms and shook the world.

And life was born. It was something the goddesses did not expect.

Although it was an unexpected life, life was clearly a creation of the goddesses.

But life was extremely fragile.

Since it was not a creation of either order or chaos, it was burned by a ray of light created by order and swept away by the light wind created by chaos.

To protect life, the goddesses made one promise.

We no longer intervene in the world like we used to.

Life was not perfect, but it prospered greatly with the blessings of the two goddesses.

In that way, the goddess’s race seemed to grow smoothly.

Until there is external intervention.

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“External intervention?”

When I asked a question, the goddess nodded her head. And then the scene changed.

The planet where the goddess’ race lives became smaller and smaller and zoomed out, eventually showing the entire planetary system.

As if doing a space strategy simulation, the planet’s orbit around the sun is drawn with an imaginary line.

“No… Goddess?”

I was quite embarrassed by this drift.

Even though I dissed the prologue about the Elyos and Demons, the story of the goddess was quite worth watching.

As the mountain ranges rise and the terrain changes, the scene unfolds magnificently as if taken with a high-speed camera, and I truly experienced how myths occur.

But here we suddenly drift into science fiction?

The goddess looked at me pitifully.

“How many times do I have to tell you that we optimize it, so it’s easy for you to understand?”

“No, but changing the genre like this is a bit weird, suddenly changing from mythology to space opera…”

“Stop.”

“Yes.”

I kept my mouth shut at the goddess’s warning.

It was certainly not an empty statement to say that it was tailored to my convenience. If the zoom out continues, only starlight should be visible, regardless of whether it is a planet or something else, but the size of the Goddess’ planet is automatically adjusted to ensure appropriate visibility according to the zoom out.

While I was thinking such foolish thoughts, I saw something particularly shiny outside the star system. It was flying towards the planet inhabited by the goddess race, with its long tail dangling.

“… Comet?”

The goddess shook her head at my words.

“It’s similar, but it’s not just a comet.”

The screen zoomed in toward the comet.

I couldn’t see it clearly. There was sparkling dust surrounding it, but the main body was so dark that only the outline could be barely recognized. Even the darkness was so radioactive that it was difficult to see for long periods of time.

“… What is that?”

The goddess said, glaring at the comet.

“Foreign press.”

The goddess continued speaking in an unpleasant tone.

“I don’t know its exact name. I don’t even want to know. All we know is that it came from outside our world and its only intention was to eat us.”

If I had to give it a name, it would be the foreign press of greed and predation.

The foreign god continued to fly towards the planet of the goddesses with its ominous tail hanging.

I was embarrassed.

“Uh, can I just leave that alone?”

As soon as I finished speaking, the moon circling around the goddess’ planet flashed.

-Bang.

“…”

The comet was hit by something similar to a green laser cannon and shattered into pieces.

The goddess looked at me. With a triumphant face, the eyes look like I’m making a huge fuss.

“We are not stupid. Of course there’s no way I can just leave it alone.”

“…”

At this point, I thought about the filtering thing that the goddess kept telling me about.

What is this petty personality that breaks through such a great filter that changes people’s perception that makes it easiest for me to accept the various abilities bestowed on me, including the appearance of a goddess…

“Oh.”

My thoughts were interrupted by the scene that followed.

The problem was not completely resolved.

Most of the comet dispersed into cosmic dust, but several large fragments burned up in the atmosphere and struck the ground.

The goddess sighed and said.

“Not everything was possible. “The main body was almost destroyed, but some fragments could not be stopped.”

The fragment was thrown into the center of the planet of the goddesses.

A huge shock wave hit the ground, followed by fire. An earthquake occurred, and a tsunami swept away everything. The planet was speckled with red and gray.

“…”

I didn’t know what to say about the tragedy before my eyes, so I kept my mouth shut. The goddess just looked at the planet with a confused expression and continued speaking in a slightly quiet voice.

“The physical damage was great, but the bigger problem was what came next.”

“A bigger problem?”

The fire that was burning the earth went out, and the ash that covered the sky eventually settled. But something was happening where the debris fell.

I couldn’t put it into words exactly. It was like a black wave or like fog. It crept out around the fragments, and soon began to color the surroundings.

The goddess continued speaking.

“We destroyed the body, head, reason, and intellect of the foreign body, but we could not stop the remnants. And if it is a divine being, its residue alone is bound to have an impact on those around it.”

Darkness continued to encroach on the surroundings. If things continued like this, it would only be a matter of time before the planet was immersed in darkness.

“We could not break our promise not to intervene in the world. Because it has already become the rule of the world.”

If the rules are broken, the world can be ruined. The goddess explained to it that way.

“Then how…”

“But promises are from the gods. Conversely, it means that you do not break your promise unless you are a god. So chaos demoted itself from the position of god.”

As soon as the goddess finished speaking, a huge mountain range appeared above the fragments of her body.

“So chaos sealed it.”

The goddess continued her words.

“Not all problems were solved. Because Chaos had demoted its position, it was unable to destroy the foreign gods as before. The sealing was ultimately a stopgap measure.”

Something began to form around the mountain range. Monsters of all kinds.

The goddess glared at that figure.

“Even though the erosion was stopped, the debris wasn’t gone, so the impact was starting to seep out. It was not a problem that could be resolved over time. So we had to find a way to permanently destroy this fragment.”

Numerous crystals of light poured down on the mountain range where the fragments were buried. The crystals of light absorbed the darkness and spread a fog-like horde over the world.

I asked the goddess.

“What is happening now?”

“Fragments are simply a mass of energy that has lost its owner. We decided to absorb that power, filter out the impurities, and disperse only the pure energy into the world. “The kids called it Mana.”

“Hmm… So, through the filter of being a goddess, she scatters mana across the world? Like refining oil?”

“… To put it simply, that’s how it happens.”

The goddess frowned as if she didn’t like being treated like a filter.

I tried to put my hand to my forehead out of habit, but gave up. My hand habits got worse because of a certain elf.

I was able to roughly understand the working system from the goddess’s explanation that followed.

Mana is energy purified through a filter, and magic stones are crystallized energy. So what about monsters? It resembles residue from a contaminated filter.

But as I listened to it, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of crisis.

“Oh, but isn’t this a bit dangerous?”

“Of course it’s dangerous.”

“Yes?”

I foolishly asked back at this very natural acceptance. But the goddess seemed to have already expected it.

“I know what you’re worried about. If the mana scattered like this goes wrong, if the contaminated mana flows out. But I am not a fool to trip over my own feet.”

“Hmm. But the Goddess can’t predict everything, right? In these cases, problems usually arise because of clichés…”

The goddess cut off my words.

“The reason clichés are effective is to drive the story forward in creative works. “I have said many times that I am not an idiot.”

The goddess spoke with displeasure and showed another scene.

“Ah. This is…”

“Okay.”

The crystal of light enters people this time.

The power of a pure goddess, different from Manawa. In this way, divine power was accepted by people.

The goddess sighed softly.

“It wasn’t like I was robbed of a location, but I had to sacrifice quite a bit because of this.”

The goddess continued her explanation.

She says she uses most of her abilities to filter the energy of the fragments. There are times when the workload is so overwhelming that you can’t even do the trivial thing of contacting me.

“That’s why the Holy Sword was silent.”

Even the resources of the Holy Sword are being used.

Poor guy. I said I haven’t been able to see much lately, so I guess I was being overworked in that way.

The goddess continued to open her mouth.

“But as you said, we couldn’t have predicted everything. “Problems always arise from unexpected directions.”

Foreign media did not invade only once. Another foreign comet continued to approach.

However, she had no intention of treating the goddess like before. A green laser was fired from the moon again, and unlike before, the foreign body evaporated without leaving behind any fragments.

“… I don’t think there’s any problem?”

When I spoke with a puzzled expression, the goddess shook her head.

“There is no problem with those. But as they got closer, the fragments started to activate.”

Once again, darkness falls on the mountain range.

The goddess who saw that said in a low voice.

“We could not intervene in the world any further than this. So we decided to get around the rules.”

“Detour?”

“It would be okay to call it expedient. We have summoned you.”

That’s how summoners appeared in the world. People from another dimension outside the rules.

The goddess granted them great power. Prevent activated fragments from having any further influence.

The summoners used that power to solve the problems caused by the fragments.

However, even after solving the problem of fragments, summoners continued to be summoned.

“Why?”

The goddess laughed at my question.

“It consumes less energy to keep the channel open rather than opening and closing it.”

It takes fewer resources to maintain the rules you’ve created than to turn them on and off. It’s really clear logic.

However, the powerful summoners used their power as they pleased when there was no demon king (in this case, a fragment) to deal with, and it was a headache for the royal family.

So, it became an annual event to prepare a full course for entertainment whenever a summoner appeared, give them a satisfactory role play, and then send them away.

As the goddess said that, she smiled cutely.

“It’s not my business to get involved in that.”

“… I see.”

And I somehow ended up missing out on the full course.

Then, a fundamental question suddenly occurred to me.

“Then why do I have this strange ability…?”

At my question, the goddess looked at the mountain range and ground her teeth.

“Because fragments are not stupid either.”