Academy’s Weapon Replicator

Chapter 147 Nastrond

Selena finally calmed down and stood up.

The face I saw again was clean and without any problems. As if I’ve never even cried.

Frondier nods at him.

On the contrary, Belphegor tilted his head.

“So, is that girl going with you?”

“okay. “He is my escort.”

“Hmm. That’s probably good, but… … .”

Belphegor looked at Selena gently and said.

“… … I remembered. Jay. “It’s that woman.”

“I’m surprised you remember.”

“ha ha ha. A good woman remembers. “It is the basic skill of a devil.”

You have all the talents.

However, Belphegor soon scratched his cheek as if he was troubled.

“But you came to Nastrond in a human body.”

“Is it a problem?”

For a moment, Frontier felt worried.

Isn’t Nastrond dangerous to the human body? It’s full of poison that you shouldn’t breathe in.

“If it’s a problem, it’s a problem. “You shouldn’t come in alive, but you came in, so it’s kind of a foul, right?”

When Belphegor said so.

Kieeeeek—!

Good!!

Strange crying or screaming sounds echoed in the air.

“This is the land of the dead. Among them, it is the most evil one. Frontier, do you know how obsessed dead things are with living human bodies?”

“… … Oh, I know.”

I experienced it firsthand in Gjeranhes. How many miscellaneous ghosts did you swallow while accepting Helheim’s mana?

Gaaa!!

Souls similar to him cried out together, making a noise so loud that it was difficult to describe it.

Just as gray clay swells after eating air, the souls come in droves, covering Frondier and his party in all kinds of colors.

Frontier said while looking at the pouring souls.

“Is that why it’s a problem if Selena is here?”

“For now, yes.”

“If that’s the case.”

Frontier had all the souls in his sights.

Immediately after, Eclexis is opened.

Boom!

All the things that were filling my vision and making all kinds of sounds disappeared in an instant.

There was no change whatsoever, as if it had never happened from the beginning.

“No problem.”

“… … .”

Selena was surprised at the sight with her mouth open, while Belphegor smiled in satisfaction.

“Only then will he become the king of demons.”

“Don’t call me strange. “I don’t intend for that to happen.”

“Well, kings are annoying.”

Belphegor laughs. They act as if they are colleagues who have a deep understanding of Frontier.

Frondier looked at Belphegor with low eyes.

“Belphegor, what is your purpose?”

“I told you. Ask me to kill the Seven Deadly Sins and the main god. Then there is no one above me. “It is finally my world.”

Hahaha, Belphegor laughed.

Belphegor, the devil, tries to become the top of the devil by killing everyone above him. If you think of it as the devil’s way of thinking, there is nothing strange about it.

However, there are two problems.

“… … “What are you going to do once I really resolve that wish?”

“What are you going to do?”

“I stay.”

If Frondier truly grants Belphegor’s wish, there will still be one person left above Belphegor. It’s Frontier.

Would Belphegor be able to deal with Frondier at that time?

“Oh, I see. I didn’t realize it. “This is a big deal.”

“… … .”

Belphegor sneered.

There’s no way I didn’t know. This is nonsense.

However, this meant that he had no intention of telling the truth, so Frondier sighed.

“okay. “I have to follow you in the end anyway.”

“Okay, okay. “It’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 looked up.

I said it was the sky, but I couldn’t see anything like it. It’s just pitch black.

“… … “Is it night?”

“No, probably.”

Selena’s eyes narrowed.

“There is a ceiling.”

“The ceiling?”

Frondier asked again, and Belphegor looked at Selena in surprise.

“I’m surprised you can see that. “It’s beyond human visibility.”

“… … Well, I’m confident in my eyesight.”

Selena answered humbly.

Belphegor raised his head and looked up, as if he was truly surprised. Can you really see that? He muttered.

“Anyway, like Jay said, there is a ceiling here. “It’s a characteristic of the world called Nastrondra.”

“… … “The whole world is like that?”

“okay. In other words, it is a very large interior. It’s so huge that I sometimes forget it’s indoors. When viewed from the outside, it looks like it is inside a very large fruit. “I don’t know because I’ve never seen it outside.”

Frondier looked around.

“It’s pretty bright for the whole world to be covered with a ceiling, isn’t it?”

From the moment I first arrived, my field of view was virtually unrestricted. I don’t have as good eyesight as Selena, so the sky just looks like the night sky. Although you can’t see the stars, that was the case in the previous world as well.

Belphegor said.

“The reason this place is bright is because the spirits wandering around are shining. This is the world of the dead. And like in Helheim, not just any souls come, but only the most vicious ones. “The light from those things 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, eats them, and repeats. It is hell in the truest sense of the word.

“… … Come to think of it, you killed Nidhogg.”

“Well, that’s right.”

Belphegor said it as if it was nothing special, but it was very surprising.

It’s surprising, but it’s also serious.

“Then what happens to the sinners here? “Wouldn’t that cause a problem?”

Originally, the souls called Nidhogg were sent here to punish them, but in reality, there is no Nidhogg.

Belphegor grinned.

“okay. “That’s the key.”

“what?”

“This is Nastrond. It is the bottom of this world. Nidhogg tearing and killing the souls who came here is nothing more than entertainment. “There is actually something else to do.”

“what?”

“It’s eating away at Yggdrasil.”

Frondeer opened his mouth at that.

This is consistent with the original myth, and Nidhogg’s devouring of Yggdrasil signifies the entire flow of destruction inherent in Norse mythology.

But Nidhogg is no longer there.

“Frondier, because of Satan, I came here instead of going to hell where I was supposed to go. “Why do you think Satan sent me here in the first place?”

“… … To meet Nidhogg?”

“okay. I made a deal with God. If me and Nidhogg meet, Yggdrasil will be safe, at least for now. “If I last as long as I can.”

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 quite a while. “At least since the Demon War, Satan has had signs of that.”

“You mean the monster war, when humans started putting up barriers?”

Even before Frontier was born, monsters invaded this land. The empire’s territory was rapidly shrinking, but led by a few strong men, it succeeded in fending off the monsters and building a wall in the meantime.

It was so long ago that even the current emperor, Terst, fought on the front lines.

Frondier said as if he remembered something.

“Okay, now that I think about it, Bael and Marco said. “The monster war was originally a plan led by Satan.”

“By coaxing the monsters of the abyss, they gathered the monsters under them and made them attack the empire.”

Belphegor agreed and supplemented his words.

Frondier said, feeling strange at that.

“… … “If the demons had invaded the empire at that time, they could have destroyed it, but they were the ones who stopped it.”

“Yes, it was me.”

Belphegor honestly agreed.

Frondier asked.

“Why did you stop Satan? “What can I say, as a human? Were you trying to protect humans at that time?”

“Oh, that’s… … .”

Belphegor raised a finger as if to explain, then smiled bitterly.

“Shall we do something like that?”

“This b*stard.”

“It ended up being that way, but the biggest reason was that there was not a 100% chance that the devil would devour the empire.”

“… … “It was devastated by monsters, and the devil wouldn’t have been able to eat the empire.”

“Instead of being devastated, a large number of people who have surpassed human limitations have appeared.”

Those are several heroes, led by Zodiac.

The twelve Zodiacs alone were threatening, but Ampere de Roach and Terst were also unusual.

“It was the devil’s sense. “I had a feeling that the devil might press the switch that would trigger human awakening.”

“… … Awakening.”

“okay. “Eclexis.”

Gods, devils and humans.

In modern times, only humans can use Eclexis.

“So I stopped Satan. Eclexis is difficult to use if you don’t know its existence, but if you know it, there is a risk of it waking up at any time. Moreover, the humans of the time were devastated by repeated duels with monsters, but heroes began to blossom.”

If you stimulate them one more time, one of them will likely develop ecclexis.

In the worst case, it will lead to a chain reaction where many people end up using Eclexis.

“Frondier, the devil’s contract is not that different from divine power.”

“… … okay. “I heard it.”

“The biggest difference is that God seeks to give divine powers to strong humans, while the devil seeks to make contracts with weak humans. That’s how much the devil hates strong humans. Especially a strong soul.”

Humans who have become aware of ecclexis will never fall unless they choose to do so.

Because you will find out what your soul is.

It means that it becomes a soul that the devil cannot handle.

“… … I see so.”

“So I spoke to Satan.”

─The devil cannot kill a giant.

“After hearing those words, Satan agreed and gave up attacking humans. I decided that it would be better to hide the existence of the devil from humans until the end. As a result, humans still believe that the monster war is solely the result of the monsters’ irregularities. “I didn’t find the devil’s shadow there.”

And Belphegor was located on the west side of the Palind continent, and later it became Cape Bay.

“I was originally a bit of an oddball among the Seven Deadly Sins. Even while they were fighting for power, I wasn’t interested in that. “To become a king.”

“… … “Of course the reason is.”

“Because it was annoying.”

These are words befitting the devil of sloth.

“For me, monitoring the Palind continent was an easy mission. “I could kill time anywhere, so I sat down on Cape Mangot, and as the time got longer, I stopped looking at the situation in the Demon World.”

But, Belphegor laughed.

“I didn’t realize it until later, but Satan had planned a strange plan. “A plan to plunge me into the abyss.”

Contrary to its content.

Belphegor laughed as if he was genuinely having fun.

That it awakened his laziness. As if that alone was enough.