The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 541
Episode 541
Chapter 147 Nastrond
Selena finally got up after calming down.
The face that appeared again was clean and without any problems. It was as if he had never even cried.
Frontier nods to him.
Belphegor tilted his head in contrast.
“So, is that girl going with you too?”
“Yes, my escort.”
“Hmm, that’s fine, but······”
Belphegor looked at Selena intently and said,
“···I remembered. Jay. It’s that woman.
“I’m surprised you remember.”
“Hahaha. A good woman knows how to remember. That’s the devil’s basic quality.”
You have all these beggarly qualities.
But Belphegor soon scratched his cheek as if he was in trouble.
“But you came to Nastrond in a human body.”
“Is that a problem?”
For a moment, Frondier felt worried.
Isn’t Nastrond dangerous to the human body? It’s full of poison that shouldn’t be inhaled.
“If it’s a problem, then it’s a problem. You shouldn’t have come in alive, but you did. Isn’t that a kind of foul play?”
When Belphegor said so
Kieeeek─!
Squeak!!
Strange cries, or screams, echoed through the air.
“This is the land of the dead, and the worst of them all, Frondia, do you know how obsessed the dead are with the bodies of living humans?”
“···Ah, I know it well·”
I experienced it firsthand in Yeranhes. I swallowed as many evil spirits as I could while receiving the mana of Helheim.
Kaaaaaaah!!
Similar souls cried together, making a noise so loud that it was difficult to describe it.
As the gray clay swells as it absorbs air, the souls swarm and cover all colors, and they come to the Frondiers.
Frondi said as he watched the pouring souls:
“Is that why there’s a problem with Selena being here?”
“Not right now”
“If that’s the case, then”
Frontier has all the souls in sight.
Immediately after, Eclectis is opened.
Boom─!
The things that had been rushing in, filling my field of vision and making all sorts of noises, suddenly disappeared.
Without any significant change, as if it had never existed in the first place.
“No problem”
“······”
Selena was shocked by the sight, her mouth wide open, while Belphegor smiled with satisfaction.
“Only then can you be the king of demons”
“Don’t call me weird. I don’t want that to happen.”
“Well, the king is a nuisance.”
Heh heh, smiling Belphegor. He acts as if he is a colleague who deeply understands Frondi.
Frondier looked at Belphegor with low eyes.
“Belphegor, what is your purpose?”
“I told you, kill the Seven Deadly Sins and the Lord. Then there will be no one above me. Only then will it be my world.”
Hahaha, Belphegor laughed.
Belphegor, the demon, wants to become the top demon by killing all of his stomachs. It’s not strange if you think about it as the demon’s way of thinking.
However, there are two problems:
“···What will you do once I really fulfill that wish?”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’m the only one left”
If Frondi really does grant Belphegor’s wish, there is still one person left above Belphegor: Frondi.
Could Belphegor of that time be able to deal with Frondier?
“Oh, now that you mention it, I didn’t realize it. This is a big problem.”
“······”
Belphegor was sly.
There’s no way I didn’t know. That’s ridiculous.
But this meant that he had no intention of telling the truth, so Frondi sighed.
“Yeah, I guess I have to follow what you say anyway.”
“Yeah, yeah. That’s a good mindset.”
Belphegor laughed and clapped his hands.
match·
“Okay, then let me explain the situation.”
Belphegor pointed upward with his finger.
“Look at the sky first.”
“sky···?”
Frontier and Selena raised their heads.
I said it was the sky, but I didn’t see anything like it. It was just pitch black.
“···Is it night?”
“No, maybe”
Selena’s eyes narrowed.
“There is a ceiling”
“The ceiling?”
Frondi asked, and Belphegor looked at Selena in surprise.
“It’s amazing that you can see that. It’s beyond human visibility.”
“···Well, I am confident in my eyesight.·”
Selena replied shyly.
Belphegor looked up, as if he was really surprised. He muttered, “Is that really what you see?”
“Anyway, as Jay said, there is a ceiling here. It’s a feature of the world called Nastrond.”
“···Is the whole world like that?”
“Yes, it is a very large room, so to speak. It is so large that sometimes you forget that it is inside, but when you look from the outside, it looks like it is inside a very large fruit. I don’t know because I have never seen it from the outside.”
Frondier looked around at him.
“It’s pretty bright for the entire world to be covered by a ceiling?”
From the time I first arrived, I had almost no restrictions on my vision. My eyesight is not as good as Selena’s, so the sky just looks like the night sky. I can’t see the stars, but that was the case in the previous world.
Belphegor said:
“The reason this place is bright is because the spirits wandering around emit light. This is the world of the dead. And unlike Helheim, not just any spirit comes here. Only the most evil ones come here. The light in those places is quite strong.”
Unlike Helheim, where most of the dead go and live relatively normal lives, Nastrond is where humans who have committed great sins come.
And the dragon Nidhogg tears them apart, kills them, tears them apart and eats them again and again. It is a true hell in name and reality.
“···Wait a minute, by the way, you killed Nidhogg…”
“Well, that’s true.”
Belphegor said it was nothing special, but it was quite surprising.
It is surprising and serious at the same time.
“Then what happens to the sinners here? Won’t that cause problems?”
Originally, Nidhogg was meant to be a punishment for sending souls here, but Nidhogg is not there.
Belphegor chuckled.
“Yeah, that’s the point.”
“what?”
“This is Nastrond, the very bottom of the world. Nidhogg’s play is tearing apart the souls that come here. His real work is something else.”
“what?”
“A beggar who devours Yggdrasil”
Frondi opened his mouth at him.
This is consistent with the original myth, where Nidhogg devouring Yggdrasil symbolizes the entire flow of destruction inherent in Norse mythology.
But that Nidhogg is no more.
“Frontier, I was sent here instead of going to Hell, where I was supposed to go, because of Satan. Why do you think Satan sent me here in the first place?”
“···To meet Nidhogg?”
“Yes, I made a deal with God. If Nidhogg and I meet, Yggdrasil will be safe, at least for the time being. If I can hold out as long as possible.”
This is just Belphegor’s guess, but it probably isn’t that wrong.
“You probably already know that Satan made a deal with God. And it’s been around for quite some time. At least there have been signs of it since the Demon Wars.”
“The war between monsters? Back when humans started building walls?”
Even before Frondia was born, monsters invaded this land. The empire rapidly shrank in size, but with the help of a few strong men, they managed to block the monsters and build a wall.
It was so long ago that even the current emperor, Terst, fought on the front lines.
Frondier said as if he remembered.
“Yeah, now that I think about it, Bael and Marco said that the demon war was originally planned by Satan.”
“A beggar who lured the abyssal monsters and made them gather under him to overwhelm the empire.”
Belphegor agreed and added:
Frondier, who felt strange about him, said,
“···If the demons had invaded the empire at that time, they could have destroyed it, but it was they who prevented it…”
“Yeah, it was me.”
Belphegor honestly agreed.
Frondier asked:
“Why did you stop Satan? What can I say, a human being? Were you trying to protect humans back then?”
“Ah, that······”
Belphegor raised his finger as if to explain, and smiled bitterly.
“Should we do something like that?”
“This kid·”
“As a result, it turned out that way, but the biggest reason was that the possibility of the devil devouring the empire was not 100%.”
“···It was a wasteland because of the demons, so I don’t think the demons could have eaten the empire.
“Instead of it being a wasteland, a large number of people who have surpassed human limitations have appeared.”
These are some heroes, led by Zodiac.
The twelve zodiacs alone are threatening, but Ampere de Roach and Terst are also extraordinary.
“It was a devil’s feeling. It was a feeling that the devil might press the switch that triggers human awakening.”
“···awakening·”
“Yes, Eclectis.”
God and devil, human
In modern times, only humans can use eclectics.
“So Satan was stopped. Eclectis is difficult to use if you don’t know its existence, but if you do know, there is a risk of it waking up at any time. Furthermore, the humans of that time were worn out from repeated duels with monsters, but at that time, heroes began to bloom.”
If you provoke them one more time, one of them may manifest eclecticism.
In the worst case scenario, this could lead to a chain reaction where many people end up using Eclectis.
“Frondior, the devil’s contract is not so different from divine power.”
“···Yeah· I heard about it·”
“The biggest difference is that God wants to give divine power to strong people, but the devil wants to make a contract with weak people. That’s how much the devil hates strong people, especially strong souls.”
A human who becomes aware of eclecticism will never fall unless he does so willingly.
Because you get to know what your soul is.
It means that the soul becomes something that the devil cannot handle.
“···I see· So·”
“So I said to Satan,
─The devil can’t kill the giant.
“After hearing that, Satan gave in and gave up on attacking humans. He decided that it would be better to hide the existence of demons from humans until the end. As a result, humans still believe that the demon war is just an irregularity of the demons. He couldn’t find the shadow of the demon there.”
And Belphegor was located on the western side of the continent of Palind, and later this place became Mangot.
“I was originally a bit of an oddball among the Seven Deadly Sins, you know. Even while they were fighting for power, I had no interest in that. Or in becoming a king.”
“···The reason is obvious·”
“Because it was annoying”
The devil’s words of sloth.
“For me, watching over the continent of Palind was a relatively easy mission. I could kill time anywhere, so I settled down in Mangot, and as that time grew longer, I stopped checking on the situation in the Demon World.”
But, Belphegor laughed.
“I found out later, but Satan had a strange plan. He planned to throw me into the abyss.”
Contrary to the content,
Belphegor laughed as if he was genuinely amused.
As if it was enough to awaken his lethargy,