Academy’s Weapon Replicator

Chapter 147 Nastrond (2)

“Plan to throw me into the abyss?”

“hmm. I’ll explain as I go from now on. “It would be better for you too.”

Belphegor spread his wings.

Selena is a little nervous about that. It’s easy to let down one’s guard due to his laid-back atmosphere, but Belphegor is a devil. That too, the Seven Deadly Sins.

“Where are you going?”

“You say you’re saving Ajie? Then we should go there.”

At Belphegor’s words, Frondier looked at Selena.

“Selena couldn’t use flight magic. “Can you go into the shadows?”

“… … The shadow is only a means of movement, so it is not appropriate to stay in it. “It’s not a breathing space.”

“indeed. “Then it won’t be long.”

“yes. “It’s about 10 minutes at most.”

“… … .”

Frondier was speechless for a moment.

So Selena can hold her breath for 10 minutes?

“I can’t help it.”

Frontier turned his back on Selena. Then he got down on one knee.

“Get on your back.”

“… … .”

This time, Selena stopped talking.

“hurry. There is no time.”

“Well, that…” … .”

Belphegor, who was watching, said.

“this. Frontier, you don’t know how a woman feels.”

“what?”

“You’re asking me to hug you like a princess, right? “So that I can see your face before my eyes,”

“no!”

Selena cut off Belphegor’s words and carefully walked towards Frondier’s back.

“Si, please excuse me.”

“okay.”

Selena hesitated and eventually got on Frondier’s back, and Frondier stood up.

“let’s go.”

“This way.”

Belphegor flew up first, and Frondier followed. Meanwhile, Selena hid her red face behind Frondier’s back.

Shhh──

As he flew, Frondier asked again.

“So, what was Satan’s plan?”

As Frondier asked, Belphegor waved his finger in the air playfully.

“As I said, I wasn’t interested in the situation in the demon world. It didn’t matter who fought for power or who became king as a result. But it seems Satan didn’t think so.”

“What does that mean?”

“He thought I was trying to become king. Well, that didn’t become true until later.”

Satan held in one hand a staff of unknown origin. When I waved my wand, letters appeared in the air. ‘Baal’.

“Originally, this guy was the strongest among the Seven Deadly Sins.”

“… … Baal.”

“okay. “He doesn’t exist anymore.”

“No? “I met Bael.”

“okay. therefore… … .”

Belphegor, who was about to explain, stopped abruptly. I look at Frontier with a puzzled look.

“How do you know that Bael and Baal are originally the same being?”

“… … .”

This is knowledge that no one in this world would know. Because I didn’t know the devil existed in the first place.

However, in the case of Frontier, there is knowledge of the previous world. I knew that Baal was called by many names.

“Well, I guess it’s good. “That’s not what’s important.”

Soon Belphegor calmed down and continued his explanation.

It seems like it’s getting tiresome.

“Originally, Baal was among the seven deadly sins. The strongest devil in name and reality. There was no king back then, but it had a different meaning than it does now. “Baal is the king anyway, so there was no need to decide.”

“It seems like it was really overwhelmingly strong.”

“okay. But this guy had one problem.”

“what?”

“Half of it is God.”

Frondier 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, people are still praying as a form of faith. Therefore, Baal did not have the ‘desire’ that a devil should originally have, and it was possible to give ecclexis to humans. “At that time, I also interacted with God.”

“If that’s the case, I don’t see any evidence that it’s the devil.”

“okay. But he was in the demon world, and he liked having demons around. So Baal looked like a bridge between both the devil and God, but he also looked like a bat with one foot in either side. Well, it was so strong that not everyone said it out loud.”

However, Belphegor slashed the word Baal with his wand.

“I made a mistake.”

“mistake?”

“I fell for God’s trick.”

Belphegor wrote another name next to it. ‘Odin’.

As soon as he saw that name, Frondier’s eyes naturally narrowed.

“Odin wanted to weaken the power of the demons. That guy knew Ragnarok was coming. “If Ragnarok really comes and the power of the demons is strong, there may be a situation where the demons sweep over all of the gods.”

“So what did you do with Baal?”

“I convinced him to become a god.”

God and the devil, Baal with feet on both sides. He had confidence that he could stand on either side, but at the same time, he had subjective confusion that he was not on either side. Odin read it.

“But Baal didn’t know the specific way to become a god. Actually, it was natural. Because he was already a god. “I was the only one who didn’t think that way.”

“What did Odin say?”

“Baal is half god and half devil, so he said that the devil part should be discarded. If you remove one side, it will be completely placed on the other side. Odin said so and Baal heard it.”

──But, where in the world could such a being exist?

“Isn’t that what happens?”

“Demi-god, half-demon, half-god. Those beings are only called that for convenience; they are not actually two halves put together. “If there was such an easy way, all those mixed race people would have decided on which side they would be on.”

If we were to paraphrase Odin’s words, Hercules would have become a god long ago.

The soul cannot be removed and attached at will.

“Baal didn’t know that. Or maybe even though he knew, he thought he was different. He tried to separate himself from the ‘part of himself that he thought was evil’. A normal demon would have been dead at that point.”

It splits one’s soul. Most demons wouldn’t know how to do that, and even if they could, they wouldn’t be able to survive.

“Odin’s goal may have been to kill Baal, but something unexpected happened.”

“… … “You succeeded in separating the soul.”

“okay. So, Beelzebub 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 restores the body, and although its strength is reduced, it maintains its position as the Seven Deadly Sins of the Demon World.

This is Beelzebub.

“The separation of the soul was successful, but it did not lead to becoming a god. “After the success of separation, our status fell.”

“Is that even Odin’s plan?”

“well. “You don’t know that.”

No one could have predicted whether Baal’s soul separation would succeed or fail.

Even if it were Odin, it is unclear whether he could have foreseen that far.

“Anyway, after that Bael was freed from the Seven Deadly Sins. It’s like being abandoned by Baal, who was originally you. The Seven Deadly Sins believed that Beelzebub was the original entity and Bael was something that broke away, so they had no allies. So I escaped from the Seven Deadly Sins and settled down somewhere in the Demon World.”

“From then on, you started to enter the ranks of the 72 devils.”

“yes. By taking away some of the army that followed him when he was Baal. In fact, even though Bael was eliminated from the Seven Deadly Sins, his existence is quite stable. “He is, in a way, reborn.”

Since Bael is the one who removed the demonic part of himself, Bael is quite stable as a demon.

In the demon world, being a devil is advantageous in many ways.

“But Beelzebub thinks that he is his own body, so it is not easy to restore his body. “Because you lost your soul to the extent of Bael.”

Beelzebub is an imperfect form of Baal that has lost as much soul as Bael exists. He is endlessly looking for something to replace the empty part of himself.

However, of course, this cannot be achieved except by Bael. An emptiness that cannot be filled, an eternal hunger.

The devil of gluttony. Beelzebub.

“… … But it’s awesome. Even though half of it fell, he stayed in the position of the Seven Deadly Sins. “How strong was he?”

Frondier was amazed at Baal’s strength.

It was so difficult to defeat Belphegor, but Baal is far stronger than him, and even if the separation of the soul occurred, he is still one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Belphegor gave him an ambiguous expression.

“Well, that’s true. “What I want to say starts here.”

“what?”

“In fact, Beelzebub was on the verge of being kicked out of the Seven Deadly Sins.”

No matter how powerful Baal was, Beelzebub was different. The power that was blown in half was not enough to be called the Seven Deadly Sins.

“I stopped that.”

“You blocked it?”

“okay. “The Seven Deadly Sins, no matter how solemn they may pretend to be, are fundamentally evil. They are lost in the logic of power and cannot see anything.”

Ha, Belphegor sighs. The shamelessness of criticizing him freely, saying he is no longer one of the Seven Deadly Sins, stands out.

“If Beelzebub had been kicked out, there would have been no devil to replace him.”

“… … “There is Astaroth.”

“Oh, my successor?”

Belphegor then reacted as if such a child existed. His eyes were bored.

“It’s impossible.”

“… … is it.”

“Odin was busy killing demons. So we needed to show the world that Beelzebub was fine, no matter what his condition actually was. If the Seven Deadly Sins are shaken, the Demon World will be over. Especially if it’s Baal.”

Through that persuasion, Beelzebub remained among the seven deadly sins.

But from there, Satan’s attitude toward Belphegor changed.

Belphegor typed one more word. Side by side, they were ‘Satan’ and ‘Lucifer.’

“These two guys are the strongest in the Seven Deadly Sins right now.”

“They’re all similar, so aren’t they the Seven Deadly Sins?”

“It’s similar. But these two are second only to Baal. “Because it is so well-known to humans, there is even a little bit of faith in it.”

Satan and Lucifer.

The other Seven Deadly Sins are famous enough, but the popularity of these two is overwhelming.

The devil gains power simply because he is well known to people.

“Satan is a smart guy, but he is honest about his emotions. The same goes for preferences. What he likes is simple. The most powerful one. So I liked Baal, and now I like Lucifer. “Lucifer is similar to Satan in some ways, so it was easy for the two to become friends.”

“The two most powerful of the Seven Deadly Sins joined forces?”

Belphegor nodded to Frondier’s question.

Frondier tilted his head for a moment at that sight.

Isn’t the power balance of the Seven Deadly Sins already collapsing?

“In fact, if things continued like this, Satan would soon become king. But a minor problem arose there. “At least for me it was a very minor problem.”

“what?”

“After the Baal incident, Lucifer thinks highly of me.”

Belphegor was always in the position of an observer.

However, the surroundings did not see it that way.

Stopping Satan in the war against demons and preventing Beelzebub’s expulsion. These two things greatly changed the thinking around me.

Until then, he was just a lazy demon who said he was one of the Seven Deadly Sins and did nothing.

“Lucifer treats those he does not understand as inferior. It’s natural. Because I believe that I am the strongest. If there is anything different from him, that difference is the reason why he is weak. “I think so.”

“… … “This is truly arrogance.”

“So I was the one that Lucifer hated the most.”

Belphegor sighed again.

“For some reason, he suddenly changed his attitude towards me. They say they recognize me the most and all. Especially in front of Satan. ‘Of course I should be the king of demons, but if you want to do it, Belphegor, I will yield.’ Like this.”

Frontier listened to that quietly and thought.

He watches from afar, then shows up when it’s most important to solve a big problem. So the evaluation of those around me began to change.

However, I just want to continue taking on the role of an observer.

… … uh? This is perfect.