“So it was true~”
“Kuhahaha! Regression, how astonishing!”
“Do these fools actually believe that nonsense!”
For some reason, even the Demon Gods who hadn’t known were nodding, naturally accepting the situation.
Lucifer abruptly stood up, pointing out the problem.
Honestly, Se-un hadn’t expected the other Demon Gods to accept his words so easily.
“Regression! It defies time! No gods, not even the so-called God of Time, exist anymore!”
“Well said, Lucifer. Why do you think the God of Time disappeared?”
“That’s….”
“That is the aftermath of using the power of Regression. Isn’t that right, my treasure?”
“I’m not sure about the aftermath, but I certainly used that tool to regress.”
“Impossible! How could someone like you possess the power of the God of Time… Could it be!”
“Do you still not know my power? The God of Time is hidden and cannot be recreated, but the me back then could have replicated that treasure.”
“You crazy replicator! Did you finally touch the forbidden realm of time!”
“So what? It’s not like I’m doing it now.”
Mamon and Lucifer engaged in a sudden quarrel.
However, no matter how much they talked, Lucifer couldn’t accept it.
He couldn’t help it.
Even if Lucifer understood it in his head, the moment he accepted Se-un’s words, his position would become disadvantageous.
“Hmm, is that so? My treasure, come here.”
“Yes.”
“Lend me your ear.”
Mamon and Se-un quietly exchanged words.
Soon, Se-un hesitated for a moment before nodding.
“I will now show you the proof.”
“How are you going to show proof of Regression? You can’t possibly show the reversed future.”
“Now, begin.”
At Mamon’s words, Se-un nodded and drew his weapon. Then, without any further explanation, he immediately invoked the Authority of Greed.
Brilliant light and deep darkness began to dwell in Durendal simultaneously.
– The Vault of Greed has been opened.
[Inverted Repentance, Eosphoros]
– The sword bestowed upon the Demon God of Pride, Lucifer, to protect the Celestial Realm. Now, the tip of that sword has been inverted, turned towards the Celestial Realm, becoming a sword of corruption.
None other than the Demon God sitting in this very spot. The Demon God of Pride, Lucifer’s sword.
That power dwelled within Durendal.
“You…!”
Se-un’s target, who had unleashed the power, was naturally Lucifer.
As he swung the sword, the unique energy contained within Eosphoros burst forth.
A gray aura created by the mixture of light and darkness.
It was completely different from the nature of the power of destruction, but it was a chaotic power created to confront gods.
Lucifer could never have expected that power to be directed at him.
“How dare you raise a weapon against me!”
Lucifer unfurled his hidden wings.
Divinity could not be used in Pandemonium, but the opponent was the Demon God of Pride.
He was capable of blocking Se-un’s attack with pure ability, without using divinity.
Moreover, Se-un’s attack was not with any other weapon, but with Lucifer’s own weapon.
He knew better than anyone how to deal with that attack.
Whoosh!
As Lucifer flapped his wings and unleashed power, the chaotic aura split into two energies, black and white, and swept past Lucifer’s sides.
The energy that passed Lucifer collided with the walls of the conference hall, creating a loud noise, but not even a small scratch or scorch mark appeared on the walls of Pandemonium.
“Mamon, you son of a bitch! You not only dared to replicate my weapon but also gave my weapon to that guy?”
“Fool. Have you forgotten the rules of Pandemonium?”
“What are you talking about! It wasn’t you who used the power….”
“When lending power to a contractor, even if it’s a small amount, divinity is consumed. Even if it’s not an ordinary contractor but an Apostle, you cannot lend power in Pandemonium.”
“……That’s!”
“Or can you lend power to an Apostle here?”
Lucifer closed his mouth.
As Mamon said, once inside the conference hall, the Demon Gods could not use divinity, and it was impossible to lend power to an Apostle.
In other words, it was proven that the Authority of Greed used by Se-un was not from Mamon but was used by himself.
“As you can see, it originated from me, but it is completely separate from what I currently use. And as you can see.”
Whoosh-
A sword was held in Mamon’s hand.
The same sword as Lucifer’s, Eosphoros, that Se-un was holding.
Unlike Se-un, who borrowed the power of Eosphoros through Durendal, Mamon summoned the sword itself from the vault into his grasp.
“Unlike my Authority, which borrows the actual object, that one has lost its shell and can only borrow power with a medium. In other words, it can be said to be my lower Authority.”
“M-me too. He uses my Authority as he pleases. Well, it’s nice that the food is connected, but the basic concept is different……”
Beelzebub, who had been fidgeting in the corner, also stepped up to support Se-un.
Even after coming this far, denying the truth about Regression was not arrogance or strategy but simply proving one’s ignorance.
“Damn it!”
Realizing that, Lucifer sat back down, fuming.
Then, as he had done until now, Satan spoke first.
Surprisingly, Satan was usually the one leading the meetings.
“Kuhahaha! Good, good. Regression is understood, and going back to the beginning, it’s about whether we can trust the human’s words.”
Se-un, who holds the first key to Lemegeton [a grimoire or textbook of magic].
Without any evidence, who could possibly believe the words, ‘I will not betray you’?
At that moment, several Demon Gods raised their hands.
“I believe him.”
“I trust him too.”
“M-me too.”
“Me too~”
“Umm……”
Mamon, Beelzebub, and Leviathan, who had been with Se-un since the tutorial.
Even Lilith and Belphegor, who had only known him for a short time, raised their hands.
“Kuhahaha! A human with such big dreams wouldn’t lie about this! And those eyes, they’re not the eyes of someone who’s lying!”
“Do these fools really believe him?”
Even Satan took Se-un’s side.
With the exception of Lucifer, all the Demon Gods had taken Se-un’s side.
“Your ignorance truly surpasses my understanding! How can you be so ignorant and foolish!”
Lucifer couldn’t stand it and stood up once again.
“Why do you trust that human so much! Rather, follow my plan! If we take Getia [another name for Lemegeton] from him right now, even the Celestial Realm will be under our control! Why don’t you understand!”
“Are your ears just for decoration, Lucifer?”
“What?”
“Didn’t our Se-un say ‘God-Demon War’ earlier?”
“Of course, I heard it!”
“That means Se-un already knows the outcome of the God-Demon War. So why would he side with us?”
“Of course, it’s because the God-Demon War will end in my victory, so he’s trying to freeload!”
“That’s not arrogance, that’s just being stupid, Lucifer.”
“You sons of bitches have been doing this since earlier!”
“Can’t you see? Our Se-un isn’t sticking with us to freeload; he’s helping us to manage us.”
Lilith’s gaze turned to Se-un.
Her eyes seemed to see through all of Se-un’s thoughts.
In response, Se-un nodded and replied.
“Before Regression, the God-Demon War ended in the victory of the Good Gods. Most of the Evil Gods fell, and Pandemonium dropped to the 92nd floor.”
“The 92nd floor, how terrible.”
“I was able to obtain the Authority of Greed thanks to that.”
“I will acknowledge your Regression. But I lost! That’s impossible! Aren’t you lying to us about the Regression?”
“I don’t need to lie.”
“Why?”
“Lucifer, were you unaware?”
“Kuhahaha! I know roughly!”
“He couldn’t possibly know. That guy, he’s so focused on the key that he’s only looking ahead like a horse with blinders.”
“Unaware, what am I unaware of!”
The other Demon Gods knew, but only Lucifer didn’t.
It was simple.
It was the decisive reason why Se-un regressed.
“Outer.”
“Outer?”
“After the God-Demon War, the Outer invaded the Tower. Because of that, the Tower collapsed, and the Constellations that tried to fight back also fell.”
“What is this Outer!”
“It’s better to show it directly to someone who doesn’t understand.”
Lilith grabbed the round table and infused it with power.
Divinity cannot be used in Pandemonium, but the use of the round table for briefings is an exception.
Lilith was mainly in charge of the briefings because.
Glug-
Thanks to the power she wielded.
The unique mucus that came out whenever Se-un used the Authority of Lust bubbled up on the round table and turned black.
‘Outer.’
A creature that looked exactly like the Outer was quickly formed.
Before it, a Constellation [a powerful being or entity] with white and black wings appeared. That is, the figure of Lucifer appeared, and then.
Gulp.
It was swallowed by the Outer.
Soon, Lucifer, who had been consumed by the Outer, began to attack other Constellations.
“Why did you have to use me as the model!”
“Isn’t it obvious? You’re the most easily consumed idiot among us. Knowing you, you probably charged in foolishly under the guise of arrogance and were the first to be consumed.”
“Nonsense! I don’t know what it is, but that slime is swallowing Constellations? Do you think that makes sense?”
“Please, get rid of that outdated stubbornness, Lucifer. That’s why you were defeated in the God-Demon War that our Se-un saw, because you were trapped in your own world.”
“An event that hasn’t even happened……!”
The debate continued.
However, Lucifer didn’t express his opinion much after that.
He wasn’t an idiot, so he had already fully grasped the current situation in his head.
He just didn’t want to admit that he wasn’t the failure from before Regression that Se-un remembered.
“Enough, everyone shut up! Then, I’ll ask one thing.”
Lucifer glared at Se-un.
To prevent unnecessary harassment, Leviathan tried to stop him, but Satan intervened. He realized that Lucifer had acknowledged the situation.
“Ars Theurgia Goetia [the second book of Lemegeton].”
Lemegeton.
The Lesser Key of Solomon, the second chapter.
“What are you going to do with it?”
The goal that Lucifer himself had been searching for to conquer the galaxy.
Even if he understood the situation, he couldn’t give it up now.
If he couldn’t accept the reason, he would never be able to understand.
“I didn’t even know that the second key was in the Tower in the first place.”
“Then surely, you’re not saying you won’t do anything even though you hold the key?”
“No, I will.”
“Then?”
It had only been a moment since he had grasped the key.
As soon as he grasped the key, he was invited to Lucifer’s invitation and even to Pandemonium, so he didn’t have time to think properly.
But in that short moment, Se-un had already finished his rough plan.
Now that this key had come into his possession, Se-un had no intention of simply ending things by preventing the God-Demon War.
“I plan to go to Olympus.”
“And?”
Olympus, the most powerful force even among the Good Gods.
The place with the most Constellations hostile to Se-un among all the Constellations.
Se-un will go there.
“I plan to build a temporary alliance to fight the Outer.”
And he was planning to build a kind of alliance to fight the Outer by gathering the Good Gods, the Evil Gods, and even the neutral Constellations hiding somewhere.