Chapter 169 – Past Life

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Arachne, who had absorbed enough magic power, gave off her own light, and the strong light that flowed out her completely covered the entire space in white.

A white space where colors exist, but neither sound nor smell exists.

Cleon tried to approach Arachne, who was flustered but calmed her down and showed strange phenomena.

But.

`Your body is… Heavy…?`

When Cleon felt that his body her was not moving according to his will her, he could n’t help but panic.

It wasn’t that gravity got stronger or that Cleon’s stamina ran out or anything like that.

As if time had stopped, Cleon’s body his remained motionless with his eyes fixed on Arachne.

I just stared at Arachne in a state where breathing was allowed, and it was impossible to open my mouth and utter a word.

And the moment he feels a sense of déjà vu at the white scenery that comes into his field of vision his.

It descended slowly from above Arachne, like a piece of paper dropped from mid-air.

Even when touching the ground, if you step on the ground with the tips of your feet, ripples spread across the surface of the ground as if you had landed on water.

Like Arachne, it emitted such intense light that its eyes and mouth could not be seen, like a white shadow walking around.

It was only confirmed by the curvature of the body and the fluttering hair that it was something of a humanoid in the form of a ‘female’.

The wings of light that radiated like the body folded and disappeared as if they had never existed in the first place.

The she-girl of light approached Arachne, who was still glowing, and placed her supposed right hand on her forehead on her forehead.

[Acquisition of code. Checking subject’s deity… Checking database for deities similar to that entity. `Utu`.]

A voice that seemed to have been heard somewhere came from the girl.

No, to be more precise, it would not be a ‘voice’.

Cleon felt quite dizzy at the girl’s will his flowing directly into his head.

It was as if he had opened the lid of his head and was talking to it.

[-Denial. As a result of the inquiry, the deity of ‘Utu’ has been erased due to the nuclear destruction. Confirm that it is a new existence that has acquired ‘qualification’… Oops…]

The girl, who had just coldly muttered an unknown word that did not contain her emotions her, confirmed something about her her from Arachne, then left her right hand still and gently clenched her fist with her left hand and pressed it against her chest her. Take it to

Tight. Her fists her, which seemed to contain something, a strong will, looked somewhat happy and pitiful.

Cleon’s gaze was watching the girl’s movements of her.

[Still in this world… A new baby could be born…]

In her voice, as if she had found new hope for her, the clenched fist held an orb made from the coalescence of the light that flowed from her girl’s chest.

It was very similar to Caliburn’s golden light, but it was a shocking sight to see a much higher concentration of divine magic condensed into such a small size.

Perhaps, magicians who coveted magical powers or priests who followed God might have rushed like crazy as soon as they saw it.

Of course, in a situation where I can’t move my body like this, I can’t do anything.

The girl gently kisses Arachne on the forehead. Like, she says, like a bride blessing a new born child.

And, it was to insert into Arachne’s chest as if absorbing the orb of divine magic he had created.

[Confirmed the birth of a new…Deity. Define the subject yourself. Definition complete. Confirm the object as ‘Anansi’, the successor of ‘Utu’.]

Then, her body her, which has returned with a cold voice, slowly begins to emerge.

Only then did Cleon know her identity.

A girl with wings of light who was wrapped in light and descended at the moment of her previous life when a new god was born.

The incarnation of divine magic, no. The girl is the very essence of divine magic, the energy of this planet.

“Yes… Mea…”

The moment Cleon recognized the existence of her as ‘Nemea’, only his mouth her moved slowly from his frozen body her and he was able to call the girl’s name her.

[So…!?]

When her own name was called her, the girl who was about to ascend to the sky instantly turned into light, then moved to the state of scattered particles like her feathers her and flew right in front of Cleon’s eyes.

[You… How do you look at me… To be able to hear, to be called by name… ?]

She reached out her fingers and grabbed Cleon’s face her. The shape of her face was still vaguely visible, but the sound of her voice her no longer pierced my head.

[Your soul… Ah… Is that…]

Cleon strained her whole body to answer the girl’s voice her.

I know your voice, I’ve touched it.

She herself, relying on her vague memory of her, wanted to stop her by calling her girl’s name her.

However, the world did not forgive Cleon for interfering more than necessary.

A little while ago, I called the girl’s name her. As if just recognizing her coming her was something that humans couldn’t forgive.

Slowly, slowly, I feel my consciousness drifting away.

[You obviously have ‘qualifications’ too… Cleon.]

The girl put Cleon’s name in her mouth her in a lonely voice.

The girl’s fingers went up to Cleon’s forehead of hers.

Gently, at the touch of the girl gently caressing her forehead with her gentle hand her, Cleon felt her speechless, to the extent that she could n’t even care that she could n’t speak.

[Hello, Cleon. I will remember you.]

With the last words left by the star’s will, the consciousness that had been blurring completely permeated into the swamp of oblivion.

‘Lessie…Ah…’

The last thing I remembered was her figure of her.

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“Cleon… Cleon…!”

With eyes closed, a desperate voice heard from beyond the darkness.

Realizing that she was calling her own name her, Cleon slowly and cautiously began to open her eyes.

For some reason, her body felt very heavy.

Surely, I should have been able to sleep soundly today for the first time in a long time.

When I opened my eyes, there was a familiar face.

A purple-eyed woman with disheveled green hair was looking down at Cleon, her hand her on his chest her.

“Gala, Thea…”

“You idiot…! What have you done! Suddenly collapsed…!”

Galatea slapped Cleon on the chest with tears in her eyes.

More than her physical pain her, Galatea showed such an expression and her heart ached with her sorry for the situation she was hanging on to herself.

“Sorry… I-“

Even as Cleon stood up as he spoke, he recalled that his memory of her of the time he and Sasha had been cut off after making love to her.

“…I don’t know. Did you really collapse from exhaustion…?”

“That’s why you should do good things in moderation that don’t suit you…!”

Saying so, Galatea came into Cleon’s arms as if she was genuinely worried.

Under that weight of hers, she almost fell behind her without realizing it, but Cleon, who somehow supported her upper body her with her arm her, was stroking her back her with his other hand her so she could calm down.

“Perhaps, being swept up in my previous life was an influence.”

Then, another woman’s voice is heard and she turns her head towards it.

There, I saw a beautiful woman with her brown hair hanging down, with her whole body covered in a robe made of white thread.

If you look closely, you can see that the robe was made based on wedding lingerie that I had seen somewhere, and the closer I looked, the more revealing it was than I had imagined.

“…Could it be Arachne?”

When Cleon said that, the woman lightly nodded her head.

The reason he didn’t recognize Arachne momentarily was simple. It was because her spider-like lower body was her, which was her biggest feature her for her, disappeared, and she did not think that she, who had become her perfect human form her, was her Arachne her.

“Now, please call me ‘Anansi’. Mr. Seo…”

“Anansi… Is that your name?”

At Cleon’s reply, Anansi smiled kindly and she nodded her head once more.

“Whew~ It seems like you succeeded somehow in your previous life.”

Then, Sasha walked by wearing her original armor. Although she was exactly on Ruben’s side of her, using her body her.

“Ruben…”

Anansi looked at Ruben and slightly frowned, but she shook her head.

“In Utu-sama’s memories, you were an arrogant, self-centered, god who didn’t care about human life or even the existence of gods other than himself. Why did you, like that, dwell in the body of a girl who follows West?”

“Kufufu… Isn’t it quite eloquent? I guess I need to learn some of the manners of Utu with that tone.”

Anansi and Ruben suddenly start preparing for battle by releasing magic from their bodies at once.

“Both of you. Stop.”

When Cleon, who was worse than him, raised his voice her and restrained them, the sparks and the clashing magic of the two were released in an instant and scattered into the air and disappeared.

“Yes. Mr. West.”

With her who obeys Cleon’s will and still has a beautiful smile.

“…Huh.”

Ruben snorts as if he does n’t like her fawning her.

“Anyway, it’s fortunate that I was reincarnated safely. It seems that I succeeded in accepting the holy relic… With this, I’ll be able to protect the holy relic even if it’s not in this forest.”

“Yes. It’s all thanks to Seo-Bang-sama’s consideration… Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to insult Utu-sama. Thanks to Seo-Bang-sama, I was able to be reborn with a new look like this. Although I still lack faith, I’m not a very strong god, but I’m using this power for the west-“

Looking at Anansi holding Cleon’s hand, Ruben let out her voice in displeasure.

“Hey~ It’s this body that I said to reincarnate you, you spider.

“Ah, there was. Yes, of course I am grateful. Ruben-sama. To be precise, to the girl named Sasha, who resides with Ruben-sama. I would like to talk more about her. When are you going to change with her?”

Seeing tendons rise from Ruben’s forehead, Cleon sighed and stood between Anansi and Ruben.

If we don’t see each other, we’ll be able to prevent unnecessary quarrels for now.

“So, Anansi, can you tell me why you were performing such a ritual on a holy relic?”

“Yes… Of course. That hateful person who deceived me. No, now I think I know what she is. According to the magic and knowledge she received from the West, she is a human with ‘devil’ blood. ‘Half-man, half-demon.’ .”

As Anansi’s eyes sharpened, Cleon’s head her nodded at her predictably.

Currently, when something bad happens near her royal capital of her, if you take a rough picture of her, it will be revealed as her black magic of her.

“That red-haired, half-human, half-horse told me that if I performed the ritual, Wutu would come again. …If I had known that there would be no resurrection of a being whose divine core was destroyed, that wouldn’t have happened…”

“Ishtal or something, the girl’s goal was to create a demon god with the power of Utu-no, the spider relic?”

At Ruben’s words, Cleon pondered and shook his head.

“Of course, if he succeeded, he would have caused great damage by polluting the forest, but his goal is to summon Demiurge. Maybe he had a different purpose.”

Cleon muttered that while looking around.

When Arachne transforms into Anansi, divine magic spreads around and some of it is said to have been purified, but if you go outside a little, the basement will still be contaminated with black magic.

Dark magic will slowly spread through the spirit veins that circle the entire forest.

Fortunately, it is possible to purify it with the power of Anansi-

“…Spirits.”

While organizing his thoughts of her, Cleon hesitates at a keyword that came to him.

The Forest of Virtue is a place where the stems of the great spirit vein flow. This spirit line started further west of the continent and continued to the royal capital.

In other words, this is a place that corresponds to the middle stream when it comes to rivers, and it is a place where mana flows to the lower stream, the royal road.

If the spirit veins of this place are polluted with dark magic-

“…Is that the purpose?”

“Did you notice something?”

When Ruben confirmed that Cleon’s eyes were shining, Cleon nodded.

“First of all, let’s go back. If it’s late today, Quon might cry. And Anansi-“

Cleon looks at Anansi. It was considered dangerous to leave her alone because Ishtal, who confirmed that her situation had changed, might come here again.

Anansi also caught Cleon’s gaze, checked her body for a while, then took on her mischievous smile of her.

“Whoops. With this appearance, there won’t be any problem even if you enter a place where humans live, right?”

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“That’s why he brought them. Again.”

It was early evening when Cleon returned to the mansion. When Cleon returns with a woman he has never seen before, Layla looks “Again” And Quon accepts her guest with a story like “Should I prepare another person?”

When she explained everything, Layla let out a big sigh, and Quon looked at Anansi as if he was interested in being a new god.

“Again… Don’t talk like I usually pick up weird things.”

“You brought something strange enough last time. A demon’s head that can talk while still alive.”

Cleon was speechless at Layla’s exact point, but Anansi laughed at the conversation between the two.

“It’s okay, mage. I’m not a strange being. The ‘mother goddess’ who is ready to use her strength for the sake of the West. Yes. Starting from all aspects of Cleon-sama’s life, from laundry, washing dishes , escort, and night watch. All you have to do is leave it to me.”

“Eh!?”

“Quon is in shock, afraid that even the lyrics will be taken away! It’s okay, Quon.

At Layla’s encouragement, not encouragement, Quon nodded his head cheering up, saying, `Ugh, yes…!`.

Cleon sighed as he listened to the story of the three people, then opened his mouth.

“Rather than that, I want you to listen to it because it’s a bit more important. I think I know how Ishtar is spreading dark magic in this city.”

“Um… So, through the spirit vein?”

When Sasha answers Cleon’s words, Cleon nods his head.

“Yes, that’s right. However, no matter how much one’s own dark magic is injected into the huge leyline, it’s the same as dropping ink into the sea. Besides, the fact that the dark magic flowing through the leyline continues to gather in this city ​​is also true. Strange.”

At Cleon’s words her, Lyla nodded her head and opened her mouth.

“As Cleon said. The royal capital’s spirit vein is bigger than you can imagine. Even if you call out demons and put in a lot of effort, contaminating this whole spirit vein is impossible in common sense.”

“…Yes. Lila. This royal capital is a city built at the intersection of four spirit veins, right?”

When Cleon questions Layla, Layla replies with another nod of her head.

“That’s right. The magic flowing through the spirit veins also has an attribute. The place where the elemental magic of ‘fire’, ‘water’, ‘earth’, and ‘wind’ that exist in the natural world all intersect is called the ‘collective spirit vein’ in magic science.It is called [Elemental Cross].Through the combination of attributes, the magic power becomes stronger and the city is developed more quickly with various beneficial effects brought about by the magic power.It was built on top of it. The academy and the capital of the old empire were such places.”

To Lila’s explanation, Quon replies, ‘I see,’ as if he knew it for the first time.

“The Forest of Virtue we visited today was a place where the spirit vein of the ‘Earth’ attribute flows. We tricked Anansi into placing the contaminated holy relic there, and by contaminating the ley vein, dark magic flowed to the royal road.”

“…There’s a good chance. As I said earlier, the collective energy veins have the effect of amplifying magic power… If you mix dark magic into each of the four spirit veins and let them flow to this royal capital, even with a small amount of magic power, you’ll be able to create a nightmare throughout the city. I can do the work of. Besides, because it is mixed with the natural elements and hidden, it won’t be discovered even by the clergy.”

Laila, as if quickly completing the calculations in her head her, answered as she tapped the table with one hand while resting her chin on the other.

“Then… Do you mean the remaining three places also need to be purified?”

When Quon asked that, Cleon also nodded his head.

“Yeah. Also, there will definitely be traces of Ishtal there, so it will be necessary to find her base of her.”

“… I see. Then, leave the purification to me, Cleon.”

“… Quon?”

When Quon clenched both of her hands into fists and spoke with a confident expression, Cleon tilted her head.

She was of course willing to do anything she could do for those in need and as a priest, but she was strangely motivated.

“Purification is my specialty! From now on, I’ll go to three places with Cleon so that they can become a clean spirit vein!”

“…That’s trustworthy. Actually, I was wondering if I should pass it on to the Order of the Protection of the Saint.”

If you talk to the church, they will surely do something about it. However, if that happens, demons are hiding in this city, and the existence of Saint Princess fighting them will be exposed to the church.

If that happens, the Church will also move to figure out the identity of Saint Princess, Amelia, a crusader who is not under their control.

… On Amelia’s part of her, she had to avoid revealing her own identity of her.

When Cleon smiled at Quon and nodded her head, Quon also smiled and cheered up.

“Then. You are going to do ‘sacred’ work with the priest outside and with me inside, right? West?”

Anansi intervenes without showing a gap, but Cleon looks back at such Anansi.

[Are you really going to keep him here?]

Layla’s worried telepathic voice echoed in Cleon’s head.

[No… Don’t worry, I have an idea.]

“Anansi. Actually, there’s something I want you to help with.”

Cleon speaks with a serious face while holding Anansi’s hand and looking into her eyes.

“! What is it, Mr. West! If there’s anything I can do to help, please tell me!”

“In fact-“

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“That’s it. This is Miss Anansi, a new nun who will help you with the introduction of ‘Aurelia’, who is the patron of this place.”

An old nun with a benevolent impression introduces a beautiful woman wearing a white habit, quite different from herself.

Her hair her was brown with a purple bridge, but her aura her was a pious, holy woman compared to her other nuns.

The warm energy that many feminized victims feel from her, such as ‘The new nun is cute~’ ‘It makes me feel like my body and mind are getting warmer~’. I’m talking with words.

Only one person, her Eusteth her, felt her familiar energy her from her her and her her body her trembled.

“…Cleon’s woman…?”

When she muttered that involuntarily, Anansi would open her eyes and look in Eustes’ direction.

“Now, I think I heard Seo-Bang’s name… Is it you?”

“…Hehe.”

Feeling the fear of a hiccup, Eustes let out a scream.