The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 542
Episode 542
Chapter 147 Nastrond (2)
“Planning to throw it into the abyss?”
“Um, I’ll explain as we go from now on. It’ll be better for you too.”
Belphegor spread his wings.
Selena is a little nervous about him. He has a relaxed atmosphere, so it’s easy to let your guard down, but Belphegor is a devil. One of the seven deadly sins.
“Where are you going?”
“You’re saving Atjie? Then you should go there.”
At Belphegor’s words, Frondier looked at Selena.
“Selena couldn’t use flight magic. Could she enter the shadows?”
“···A shadow is just a means of transportation, so it is not appropriate to stay in it. It is not a space where you can breathe.”
“I see. Then I guess I won’t be around for long.”
“Yes, at most 10 minutes.”
“······”
Frondior was speechless for a moment.
So can Selena hold her breath for 10 minutes?
“I can’t help it”
Frontier turned his back to Selena and knelt on one knee.
“Carry on”
“······”
This time Selena’s words stopped.
“Come on, there’s no time.”
“I, that···”
Belphegor, who was watching, said:
“Oh, Frontier, you don’t know a woman’s heart.”
“what?”
“You want me to hold you like a princess? So I can see your face right in front of me.”
“no!”
Selena cut off Belphegor’s words and cautiously walked towards Frondier’s back.
“Excuse me, sir.”
“okay·”
Selena hesitated and eventually got on Frondier’s back, and Frondier stood up.
“let’s go·”
“This way”
Belphegor flew first, followed by Frondi. Meanwhile, Selena hid her blushing face on Frondi’s back.
Easy──
As he flew away, Frondier asked again:
“So, what was Satan’s plan?”
When Frondi asked, Belphegor waved his fingers playfully in the air.
“As I said, I wasn’t interested in the situation in the demon world. I didn’t care who fought for power or who became king as a result. But it seems Satan didn’t think that way.”
“What does that mean?”
“He thought I was going to be king. Well, that turned out to be true later on.”
Satan held a staff in one hand, from where he did not know. He waved the staff, and a letter appeared in the air: ‘Baal’.
“Originally, this guy was the strongest of the Seven Deadly Sins.”
“···Baal·”
“Yeah, he’s not there right now.”
“No? I met Bael…”
“Yeah, so···”
Belphegor, who was about to explain there, stopped and looked at Frondi with a puzzled look.
“How do you know that Bael and Baal are originally the same being?”
“······”
This is knowledge that the people of this world would not know. They didn’t know about the existence of the devil in the first place.
However, in the case of Frondia, there was knowledge of the previous world. He knew that Baal was called by many names.
“Well, whatever. That’s not the important thing.”
Soon Belphegor calmed down and continued his explanation.
Looks like you’re getting annoyed
“Baal was originally one of the Seven Deadly Sins. He was the strongest demon in name and reality. There was no king then either, but it had a different meaning than it does now. Since Baal was the king anyway, there was no need to decide on one.”
“It really must have been overwhelmingly strong.”
“Yeah, but this guy had a problem.”
“what?”
“Half of it is God.”
Frontier tilts his head at him. Is that possible?
“Baal is one of the most powerful and oldest demons. At least to the ancient people, Baal was a god. Somewhere, he is still prayed to as a faith. That is why Baal did not have the ‘desire’ that a demon should have, and he was able to give eclectis to humans. At that time, he also communicated with gods.
“If that’s the case, there’s no evidence that he’s the devil.”
“Yeah, but he was in the underworld and he liked to rule over demons. So Baal seemed like a bridge between demons and gods, but he also seemed like a bat with one foot in each. Well, he was so strong that no one said it out loud.
But, Belphegor struck out the letters Baal with his staff.
“I made a mistake”
“mistake?”
“I fell for God’s trick”
Belphegor wrote another name next to it: ‘Odin’.
As soon as he saw the name, Frondier’s eyes naturally narrowed.
“Odin wanted to weaken the power of the demons. He knew that Ragnarok was coming. If Ragnarok really came and the demons were strong, the demons might sweep away all the gods.”
“So what did you do with Baal?”
“I convinced him to become a god.”
Baal, who had a foot on both sides, god and devil. He had the confidence that he could stand on either side, but at the same time, he had the subjective confusion that he was neither side. Odin read it.
“But Baal didn’t know the specific way to become a god. In fact, it was natural. He was already a god. He just didn’t think that way.”
“What did Odin say?”
“Baal said that since he was half god and half demon, he had to throw away the demon part. If you take one part away, the other part will take its place completely. Odin said so and Baal listened.”
──But, where in the world would such a being exist?
“Isn’t that how it happens?”
“Half-god, half-horse, half-god, half-human beings, those beings are just called that for convenience, they’re not actually half-and-half combined. If there was such a simple method, all of those mixed-bloods would have decided which side they’re on.”
If we were to paraphrase Odin’s words, Hercules would have already become a god.
The soul is not something that can be detached and reattached at will.
“Baal didn’t know that. Or he knew and thought he was different. He tried to separate himself from the ‘part that he thought was evil.’ A normal demon would have died at that point.”
Cut out your own soul. Most demons wouldn’t even know how to do it, and even if they could, they wouldn’t be able to survive.
“Odin’s goal was to kill Baal, but something unexpected happened.”
“···You succeeded in separating the souls.·”
“Yes, that’s why Baalzebub and Bael were born.”
Baal separated his ‘demonic part’, and the separated part became conscious and survived on its own.
This is Bael
After the soul is removed, the remaining half somehow manages to regenerate its body, and although its strength is diminished, it maintains its position as one of the Seven Deadly Sins of the Demon World.
This is Baalzebub
“The separation of the soul was successful, but I did not become a god. My status fell as I succeeded in the separation.”
“Is that also Odin’s scheme?”
“Well, I don’t know about that.”
No one could have predicted whether Baal’s soul separation would succeed or fail.
Even Odin may not have seen that far ahead.
“Anyway, after that, Bael escaped from the Seven Deadly Sins. It was like he was abandoned by Baal, who was his original self. The Seven Deadly Sins were considered to be Baalzebub’s main body and something that Bael had separated from, so he had no allies. So he escaped from the Seven Deadly Sins and settled down somewhere in the Demon Realm.”
“From then on, you started to enter the ranks of the 72 demons.”
“Yes, while taking some of the troops that followed him when he was Baal. In fact, Bael has fallen from the Seven Deadly Sins, but his existence is quite stable. In a way, he is like being reborn.”
Since Baal is the demonic part of Baal that was cut off from him, Bael is quite stable as a demon.
In the Demon World, being demonic is advantageous in many ways.
“But Baalzebub thinks he is the main body, so it is not easy to restore his body. He lost his soul in proportion to Bael’s.”
Baalzebub is an imperfect form of Baal who has lost his soul as much as Bael exists. He is endlessly searching for something to replace his empty part.
But of course, it cannot be accomplished without Bael. The void that cannot be filled, the eternal hunger.
The Demon of Gluttony· Baalzebub·
“···But it’s amazing. Even though half of it fell off, it still managed to stay in the Seven Deadly Sins position. Just how strong was it?”
Frondier was amazed by Baal’s power.
It was so hard to defeat Belphegor, but Baal is far stronger than him, and even with the separation of souls, the Seven Deadly Sins are…
Belphegor gave him an ambiguous expression.
“Well, that’s true, but here’s what I want to say.”
“what?”
“In fact, Baalzebub was in danger of being expelled from the Seven Deadly Sins.”
No matter how powerful Baal was, Baalzebub was different. Half the strength was not enough to be called the Seven Deadly Sins.
“I stopped it.”
“You blocked it?”
“Yes, no matter how serious the Seven Deadly Sins may seem, they are demons at heart, so they are caught up in the logic of power and cannot see anything.”
Sigh, Belphegor lets out a sigh. He is shameless enough to freely criticize himself, saying that he is no longer one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
“Even if we had just banished Baalzebub, there would have been no demon to replace him.”
“···There’s Astaroth·”
“Oh, my successor?”
Belphegor only then reacted as if he had found such a person. His eyes were bored.
“It’s impossible”
“···Is that so·”
“Odin was eager to kill the demons. So we needed to show the outside world that Baalzebub was fine, regardless of his actual condition. If the Seven Deadly Sins were shaken, the underworld would be finished. And especially if it was Baal.”
Through that persuasion, Baalzebub remained among the seven deadly sins.
But from there, Satan’s gaze towards Belphegor changed.
Belphegor scribbled the letters once more. They were ‘Satan’ and ‘Lucifer’ side by side.
“Right now, the Seven Deadly Sins are the strongest among these two guys.”
“Aren’t they all the same deadly sins?”
“Similar, but these two are the most heterogeneous next to Baal. They are so well-known to humans that they even have a little bit of faith in them.”
Satan and Lucifer
The other seven deadly sins are well known, but these two are overwhelmingly famous.
The devil gains power simply because he is well known to people.
“Satan is a smart guy, but he is honest about his feelings. He is also honest about his preferences. What he likes is simple. The most powerful one. That’s why he liked Baal, and now he likes Lucifer. Lucifer also has some similarities to Satan, so it was easy for the two to become friends.”
“The two most powerful of the Seven Deadly Sins have joined forces?”
Belphegor nodded to Frondier’s question.
Frontier tilted his head for a moment at that sight.
Isn’t the power balance of the Seven Deadly Sins already collapsing?
“Actually, if things had continued this way, Satan would have become king in no time. But there was a minor problem there. At least for me, it was a very minor problem.”
“what?”
“After the Baal incident, Lucifer has been thinking highly of me.”
Belphegor was always in the position of an observer.
But it didn’t look like that to those around him.
The two things that greatly changed the minds of those around him were the fact that he stopped Satan from fighting the demons and prevented the expulsion of Baalzebub.
Until then, he was just a lazy devil who did nothing, despite being one of the seven deadly sins.
“Lucifer treats those he doesn’t understand as inferior. It’s natural. He believes he is the strongest. If there is anything different from him, that difference is what makes him weak. That’s what he thinks.”
“···That is truly arrogance·”
“That’s why I was the one Lucifer hated the most.”
Belphegor sighed again.
“For some reason, he suddenly changed his attitude towards me. He said he recognized me the most and such. And in front of Satan, of all people, he said, ‘I should be the king of demons, but if you want to do it, Belphegor, I will yield.’”
Frondier listened to it quietly and thought:
He quietly watches from afar, then appears when it matters most and solves a big problem. So the evaluations of those around him begin to change.
However, I just want to continue to play the role of an observer.
···Huh? This is totally·