Chapter 127 (1/2)

An unbearably anguished dying scream

The reincarnated individuals, who had been through nuin, had heard such screams multiple times

However, even so, the screa in the Divine Realm was so wretched that they covered their ears

“I thought it would go a little better than that, but this was at least a reasonable outco at Kyuuji as he fell apart, becoht that dispersed and disappeared He stopped his forceful Mana flow into the ‘Clairvoyance’ Tendou Tatsuya

Tendou staggered; Asagi and Akaki hastily rushed over to catch him before he fell

And then the i from his eyes, disappeared

“Oi, is Kyuuji… dead?”

“W-why? This Divine Realuy, Vandalieu, shouldn’t have been able to lay a hand on us, right?!”

With the tension broken, the reincarnated individuals, especially the ‘Marionette’ Inui Haji noise

“I-it’s over! I’ain!” Hajime moaned

“H-hey! I’ht?!” Tsuchiya shouted hysterically

“H-how am I supposed to know! O-oi! I’m not involved in this!” Hajime said

“Calm down, all of you! Tendou’s Clairvoyance has already stopped! He shouldn’t be able to see us anyi shouted loudly, and the unrest settled down, at least on the surface

In fact, Kyuuji Konoe was the only one who had been extinguished The reason Tendou was so exhausted was because of the shock and fatigue fro Rodcorte force Mana into hi Clairvoyance

“Can you move now?” the ‘Oracle’ Endou Kouya asked Izumi and Aran

The two of thehs

“Yes, because Rodcorte isn’t doing anything now Phew, that was frightening,” said Izumi

“More i?!” Aran de at Rodcorte

“Hmm? Very well, if you do not mind that I do it as I perform maintenance on the system,” Rodcorte said

The destruction of Konoe Kyuuji’s soul had caused a slight error, so Rodcorte had already started his ration syste at Aran and the others

“It appears that Vandalieu has acquired a special skill that reflects the effects of skills that use the eyes… vision, and abilities that require vision as a condition for their activation, back upon the user This allowed hih Clairvoyance, and reflect the power of Death Scythe, which requires the user to see the faces of creatures in order to stop the ans, back upon to Konoe Kyuuji to destroy him”

I suppose it is also this skill’s power that allowed him to reflect that Pure-breed Vaht to himself, satisfied with this explanation

“W-wait a h the vision of Lambda’s people, he can attack us?!” Izumi exclaimed

“And why am I unharmed? No, if the effects are reflected, why did Kyuuji die? We’re just souls; we shouldn’t have hearts or lungs, right?” asked Tendou

Even as the questions came one after another, Rodcorte answered them without hesitation

“As you are Faaze If you are so concerned about it, you can sih humans’ present vision, but their memories of the past The reason Vandalieu was able to see into my Divine Realm was simply because he reflected the effects of Tendou Tatsuya’s Clairvoyance, and he exists within my Divine Realm Clairvoyance is a power that I bestowed, but it is simply a power that has been altered to be usable by humans”

With that being the case, it is best to avoid using Clairvoyance for gathering infor the next question

“Next is the reason Konoe Kyuuji, a soul with no heart or lungs, was destroyed… to explain things in a way that is easy for you to understand, it is because the dae reflected by Vandalieu exceeded his Vitality, his maximum Hit Points I do not know if Vandalieu did this on purpose or unconsciously, but it was not the effect of the heart and lungs being stopped itself, but the dae caused by this effect that was reflected”

“M-maximum Hit Points?” Tendou repeated

Perhaps having not played ames, he and several others had bewildered expressions on their faces

“This concept doesn’t exist on Earth or in Origin, but they do in Lambda, so don’t make fun of it and listen,” said Izumi

“I know that, but… we’re souls, right? I don’t get hoe can break and fall apart just by having dai said

It seeined that minds and souls were inviolable and more resilient than physical bodies

But Rodcorte said otherwise “You are in a state with no physical body, so the dae was done directly to Konoe Kyuuji’s soul You seem to be unaware of this, but you are like shellfish without shells Even so, I protected hie fro the others as as fatal”

Even with the Hostility skill increasing the dae from just Vandalieu, but when he attacked Zadiris and the other two, he had been unable to resist all of it

As Rodcorte gave this explanation, he finished his maintenance work It wasn’t just that he had beco with these errors; it was fortunate that Konoe Kyuuji’s soul had been separated froration and his reincarnation destination had not been decided yet

Having resolved both problems, Rodcorte looked back towards the reincarnated individuals, and though he had answered their questions, they and his fa at him with pale, stiff faces

“In other words, you made Kyuuji, as equivalent to a shellfish with no shell, attack And you realized that Vandalieu was counterattacking partway through but didn’t warn him or stop him?” said Izumi

“On top of that, you were protecting Kyuuji? Then shouldn’t you have been able to save Kyuuji? Byhim The fact that you didn’t do that i

The two of the Rodcorte, as if he had killed Kyuuji himself

“That is correct What of it?” Rodcorte said in response, sounding unconcerned

The reincarnated individuals shuddered

“Y-you! Didn’t you say that you didn’t want our numbers to be reduced for no reason?!” Inui Hajime shouted, his face pale

“That is right,” said Rodcorte, as if nothing were out of the ordinary “In exchange for the being known as Konoe Kyuuji, we learned of a part of Vandalieu’s power”

Rodcorte did not value the reincarnated individuals to the point that he would protect theathered to accooals; it was only natural for hioals Also, some of the reincarnated individuals were more useful than others; there were so as they were useful in the process

Like the currently-screa Inui Hajime, and Konoe Kyuuji

Kyuuji’s Death Scythe was powerful, but like Marionette, it was poorly-ic, and he couldn’t be relied upon as an assassin on his own

And he would be of al the world His level of knowledge could be replaced by any other reincarnated individual

He would have been fairly useful for hunting powerfulthat could be achieved by granting the people already living in La that the Gods of Lambda, such as Alda, the God of law and fate, were already doing

In Rodcorte’s eyes, this was insufficient for a reincarnated individual that he had spent ti to Lambda

Kyuuji hi Clairvoyance to try and erase Vandalieu There had been no reason for Rodcorte to refuse

It would have been good if he had succeeded, and even in the unlikely event that he failed, Rodcorte would be able to observe a part of Vandalieu’s powers

Those had been his intentions, but… it see had been the more unlikely event

Incidentally, it was true that Rodcorte would have been able to save Konoe Kyuuji if he had wanted to It would have been possible to make Kyuuji stop at any moment The reason that Kyuuji had been able to use Death Scythe as a mere soul was because Rodcorte had allowed it and provided him with Mana, after all

But because there had been the possibility of killing Vandalieu by allowing Kyuuji to continue, Rodcorte hadn’t stopped him

If Rodcorte had put anyKyuuji, there would have actually been a high chance of breaking Kyuuji’s personality and memories, but it would have been possible for Rodcorte to cover hie Rodcorte would have received by doing so would have been equivalent to his pinky finger being broken It would have been far from a fatal wound

However, Rodcorte hadn’t even considered Konoe Kyuuji to be as valuable as his own pinky finger There hadn’t been any guarantee that he would only receive that se, and even if Kyuuji’s soul was broken, Rodcorte had been prepared to deal with it

There were still ninety-five re all of the worlds that Rodcorte governed, there were hundreds, thousands of trillions… an uncountable number of souls, so there was no need to value Kyuuji’s soul so highly as long as its disappearance didn’t cause any problems to the system

“Now then, with the inforathered, I wish for you to think about the decision that you must make,” Rodcorte said “I am sure there will be individual differences in how useful your abilities will be, but I will allow all of you to use your abilities here I want you to use those toyour own Mana, however, so there will be limits”

With that, he left the speechless reincarnated individuals and fa to his work and meditation

Of course, with this incident, I believe it has become difficult to choose any option other than to kill Vandalieu

This incident had been an unforeseen fortunate event for Rodcorte With the ‘Death Scythe’ Konoe Kyuuji’s attack, it wasn’t difficult to iine that Vandalieu no the reincarnated individuals as his enemies

Considering Vandalieu’s ferocious personality, he will not think of it as the Death Scythe’s individual, rash action Even if he does, he should view the others as guilty for not stopping him The other reincarnated individuals should realize this, even withoutthem

With this, the nu not to become assassins would decrease And there would be none betraying the other reincarnated individuals to join Vandalieu

And the more reincarnated individuals chose to become Vandalieu’s enemies, the more difficult it would be for the individuals that would reincarnate froin in the future to not become Vandalieu’s enemies as well Rodcorte wanted Vandalieu to die before then if possible, however

“I’m sure they will have their answer just as Vandalieu’s sense of vigilance loosens”

Vandalieu was painting the highest roofs of Taloshei’s ink sacs

“This is taking longer than I thought”

He orking while hovering using the wings of an insect he had equipped with Insect Binding Technique, so the asn’t too inefficient It wasn’t too inefficient, but the area of the roof was too large for Vandalieu

“Van-kun, you’re still recovering I can help, too… if you teach me how,” said Orbia, who had been born a Scylla and was noater-attribute Ghost She was looking at the parts that Vandalieu had already painted, and her voice didn’t have much confidence in it

She was looking at the indescribable thing that was drawn in sti colors

At first glance, it si closely, it looked like a portrait depicting a person drawn in twisted lines against a landscape made entirely of primary colors

And for so at it made one feel at ease That was the kind of picture that Orbia was looking at

“Hmm… If I could ask someone else to do this work and still have my Mental Encroachment skill take effect, I would,” Vandalieu said

“Mental Encroachment? What is this?” Orbia asked “I was under the impression that you were so overjoyed with your first kiss that your eccentric behavior took over”

“Wow, that’s a terribleZadiris just performed artificial respiration”

Artificial respiration didn’t count as kissing Especially the type conducted by blowing air straight into the lungs through metal tubes

“This is a counterainst Clairvoyance,” Vandalieu explained “It will eat away at theat it”

Now that the soul of the ‘Death Scythe’ Konoe Kyuuji had been broken, it was unlikely that the reincarnated individuals with Rodcorte could attack using Clairvoyance

But even if they couldn’t attack, there was no reason to allow the eneather information freely

This was a mental trap to prevent that

“Well, there’s no sure positive proof that Clairvoyance used froh,” Vandalieu said

It was Clairvoyance froht, the eneht that it was likely that they had to view from above

… The truth was that this was quite accurate

“Really? It’s definitely a strange picture, but… I don’t dislike it,” said Orbia, doubting whether this picture was effective as a trap But that meant it had been successful

“Yes, because I drew it in a way that those affected by Demon Path Enticement and Guidance: Demon Path are unaffected by it,” Vandalieu said

The picture was drawn on the tallest roof of the royal castle, so it wouldn’t be seen unless looking at it from the sky However, there were many who could fly in Talosheim

It would be a problem if Orbia and the other Ghosts, the Pteranodon Zombies and the Cemetery Bees fell like flies every time they saw the royal castle’s roof

“So, are you changing the shape of the walls surrounding the city as a countermeasure for Clairvoyance as well?” Orbia asked

Though Vandalieu had silenced the noise of the ith ic, one of his spirit for the location and previously circular shape of the city’s walls

He was addingneatchtowers

“Yes,” Vandalieu said “I’e stone circle that surrounds Talosheim to apply the effects of my Mental Encroachment skill”

Pictures would lose their effect if the paint, the Deanization of structures wouldn’t lose their effects as long as the structures weren’t destroyed

It was soht than the rooftop pictures to take effect, but it was targeted at so Clairvoyance from a Divine Realm There would be no problems