Chapter 172 (1/2)

“AAAAAAAGH!”

Rodcorte felt a greater, deeper pain than he had ever felt before His instincts told hie would be inflicted upon his body

“C-cancel! Cancel the disconnection fro the disconnection of Laration system

In the next moment, the violent pain vanished as if it had never been there at all

“Kahah… What just… happened to my body?” Rodcorte murmured, relieved at the pain’s disappearance

He looked around in bewildered

But as far as he could tell, nothing was different from before the violent pain and his scream

“Could it be that I was attacked by someone?!”

Startled, Rodcorte checked the inside of his Divine Realm, but the only ones in it were himself and his three familiar spirits And his familiar spirits, under his command, were completely still and unable to ,” said shi+aze was turned towards the, either”

“The only thingis you suddenly screa your task,” said Endou Kouya

There was bewilderment on all three familiar spirits’ faces

“Then as I assaulted by that volume of pain…?” Rodcorte wondered

“Is there any chance Vandalieu attacked you?” asked Endou Kouya

Rodcorte had tried to cut Laration system Perhaps Vandalieu had somehow sensed this and attacked Rodcorte

If Laration system, the reincarnated individuals would not be reincarnated in Lambda, and the souls of the believers of Alda and those who served hi the extinction of humans within a hundred years

The only ones left would be Vida’s races and the humans under Vandalieu’s influence, ould be reincarnated through Vida’s circle of transed to the Deration syste to Vandalieu and those of Vida’s faction

Considering that, it could be assumed that Vandalieu would not attack Rodcorte and interrupt his task But Vandalieu’s actions often ignored his own interests

And Kouya couldn’t think of anyone other than Vandalieu who could possibly attack Rodcorte, a God, in his own Divine Realm

“Kouya, is that an answer you heard from Oracle?” asked Aran

“No, I knoould be pointless so I haven’t bothered asking it There aren’t any humans that know about the circumstances of the Gods, after all,” said Kouya

There would be no point in asking the Oracle, which used the huration syste to Gods and Divine Realht,” said Aran “It’s true that he broke Death Scythe’s soul while he was in this Divine Real hiht I just got the feeling that he’d be able to do it,” said Kouya

“You’re overthinking things,” said Izu but a feeling that Vandalieu ht be able to do it, was incorrect

So then, Rodcorte asked himself the reason once more and ca to carry out was the cause of his intense pain

“To think that trying to cut Laration system would be the cause,” he murmured

He considered the possibility, but it was a difficult conclusion to believe

“See, there were malfunctions after all! That’s e told you to stop, that there’s got to be a better way!” said Aran

“There is no chance that this is a mere malfunction,” said Rodcorte

As Aran said, Rodcorte had predicted that the entire systee when Lambda was disconnected from it But he had not expected to suffer in violent pain

To begin with, even though Rodcorte shared his fate with the circle of transoverned the circle of trans that he needed But even if serious problems were to occur within the systee

“But if you can’t think of anything else, that has to be the cause,” said Izu”

“That’s why you should stop being so hasty and take a cal no attention to his fa to prevent the separation of Laration system, Rodcorte exa abnore that would cause dae to Rodcorte himself

So then could the violent pain Rodcorte had felt been unrelated to hi to cut Lambda away? Was there some other cause?

As Rodcorte asked himself these questions, Rodcorte recalled an event that had been buried inside his memory

He remembered when the ‘Clairvoyance’ Tendou Tatsuya had shown hie of La was out of place, as it had been easier to project an i this, Rodcorte felt a chill that caused him to shudder

“But… No, it cannot be…”

The familiar spirits took soing oncethem, Rodcorte examined the records frouided by Vandalieu yet

And then he beca hunch was on the mark

“Ho could this happen…!”

Rodcorte shuddered and trembled in fear, just like a human would He had realized that situation that was even more serious than when he had realized Vandalieu’s true identity, one that would lead to even ressed beyond the point that he could do soed in Lambda?! Already to the point that I am unable to separate myself from it!”

The reason Rodcorte had been able to reht that no matter how problematic Vandalieu became and how much hostility Zuruwarn and the other Gods of Lambda showed towards him, he would always be able to separate himself from Lambda at any time

If he cut Lambda away from the system, the system would not suffer any burdens no matter how many human souls Vandalieu destroyed

No matter what schemes the Gods of Lambda came up with, he would be able to deal with them easily if he was not connected with their world The only one as able to cross the boundary of the world was the ‘invader’ Zuruwarn, the great God of the space attribute, and he lacked the power to confront Rodcorte on his own

Even when the Deht to directly expose hi invaded was a serious blow to Rodcorte, he was a God who governed the circle of trans that he couldn’t endure

And unexpectedly, the De had not broken the souls of ordinary huh this was likely not because he had felt pity for them, but because he had simply felt no need to do so As a result, the burden on the syste Guduranis broke human souls and destroyed Gods, Rodcorte had believed that he, who did not exist in Lambda, would not be destroyed

When the time came, he could si himself in the process Rodcorte had secured himself this escape route

“But Vandalieu has spread ion within the Boundary Mountain Range! Because I a to or exist in any world, this has caused s to Lambda!”

That escape route was now sealed

Rodcorte was able to cut away and isolate any world from his system, but that was under the assumption that he was unknown to that world

The requirement was that he did not have any followers, his existence unrecorded in any ent life

“I mean, we know about your existence, and there are quite a few people other than Vandalieu who have been reincarnated in Lambda, aren’t there?” said Aran

“A hundred or even a thousand would be a negligible a as no more than that became aware of my existence!” Rodcorte shouted

As Aran said, the reincarnated individuals knew of Rodcorte, but a hundred or so people knowing of his existence shouldn’t have made any difference

And Rodcorte had assuo around spreading news of Rodcorte’s existence He had assumed that they would decide that nobody would believe theo around and tell others that they had been reincarnated from another world by a God nain Aran, Amemiya Hiroto and Vandalieu back then had never revealed Rodcorte’s existence to anyone

Rodcorte had naïvely assumed that the same would be the case in Lambda That Vandalieu would never create believers of Rodcorte

Ever since the age of the Gods, the Gods of Lambda, whether in Alda’s faction or Vida’s, had never revealed Rodcorte’s existence to the hu so

The Gods had been angry at Rodcorte for looking the other way during the battle against the De Guduranis, but they did not have the ti news of Rodcorte’s existence… and once the Deer any benefit init so that Rodcorte could not escape Laed in Lambda and unable to escape, his personality and the role he played would not change greatly In the end, he would not do anything that was unrelated to the circle of trans the Gods orders

Thus, the Gods of Alda’s faction had decided that it was better to s as they were, that there was no reason for theo out of their way to create believers of Rodcorte

Meanwhile, for the Gods of Vida’s faction, there was no purpose to doing this The reason Vida had created her own circle of transration system in the first place was so that the Gods of Laration of their oorld

Thus, her final objective had been to separate Rodcorte’s systeainst that objective

That hy Rodcorte had been left to do as he pleased up until now

Even the Gods wouldn’t have iined the God of reincarnation to voluntarily abandon his duty… to place the world on the brink of destruction in an even

But Vandalieu had told the people of Taloshei the fact that Vandalieu hie number of people had already learned of this information before the Gods… Ricklent and Zuruwarn realized it Deciding that it was pointless to try and stop it at that point, they had left Vandalieu alone as he spread news of Rodcorte’s existence This hat Rodcorte had failed to notice

“And so, you’ve been acknowledged as one of the Gods of Lambda So then, does that mean you can’t cut the system away anymore?” Endou Kouya asked Rodcorte, as still shaken by this realization

“… That is right Gods who belong to a world cannot separate themselves from that world It can be done with elaborate preparation, but even if done very hastily, it would take at least a thousand years,” said Rodcorte “It could also be done if one’s believers fall to a negligible nu and his subordinates cas the believers with him”

In other words, Rodcorte had to reduce… or rather, kill, those that believed in hi those in Talosheim and the e, until there were only a few hundred left Either that, or bring all of them with him outside of Lambda

“As far as my Oracle and Aran’s Calculation can tell, that’s impossible,” said Kouya

That was only natural It was difficult just to kill Vandalieu, a single person Killing the e… the likes of Budarion and the Majin king Godith foes like the ‘Divine Spear of Ice’ Mikhail standing in the ould be impossible

That would be the case even if all of the Bravers joined forces to do so

As for bringing all of them outside of Lambda with him, it didn’t even need to be said

“In other words, even if you s will be fine for at least another thousand years Phew, that’s a relief With thatabout Earth and Origin, and everyone’s third lives will have ended long before then,” said Aran, relieved at the fact that his first and second home worlds wouldn’t be destroyed for some tis will go that well,” she said, knowing that it was still too early to be relieved “There’s probably still some exception, anyway”

As she said, there were Gods that were capable ofbetorlds Gods who trespassed boundaries, like Zuruwarn

But for better or worse, Rodcorte was not one of those Gods There was no way that a God that governed soration for numerous worlds would have the authority to move about so freely Ordinarily, anyway

“And I think everything depends on hiive into self-despair and try to cut Lambda and the other worlds away froht tamper with the system to stop reincarnation in just Lambda”

“Th-that would certainly be problematic The desperate are always theabout the Eighth Guidance… Well, never mind It’s true that those in desperation are the h the three of theive into self-despair and do so of the sort

It was possible to forcibly perfor Lambda and the other torlds away fro violent pain si one’s arms twisted and torn off, and there was only about a thirty percent chance that Rodcorte would still exist by the end of it

As Izu that could not be done without the resolve to face the possibility of suicide

It was also possible to ta in only Lambda If he did that, the system would not suffer any problems no matter how many souls Vandalieu destroyed, just like if he were to separate La the world away from the system, this would be very unsafe

There was the possibility that Alda and the other Gods would attack Rodcorte and seize his authority over the circle of transration once they realized that their believers were on the brink of extinction

As the syste in it, this wouldn’t be impossible And this would be an easier choice for Alda and his followers than asking for the help of Vida’s faction

Unlike the weakened Zuruwarn, Alda’s influence and power posed a threat to Rodcorte, who had no experience or authority when it came to battle

“Don’t stop the syste them to kill Vandalieu if they want you to restart it… because that would have the opposite effect,” Aran warned the silent Rodcorte

This would be an eventhe systee, Alda and his followers should already be trying to kill Vandalieu, a Dhas It is difficult to think that threatening them will produce any dramatic results,” said Rodcorte “The hu to fight Vandalieu’s forces will never happen If they did concentrate their strength, it would be aimed at me”

From Alda’s point of view, it would simply appear as if Rodcorte had lost his uarantee that Rodcorte wouldn’t keep repeating this threat in the future even if he accepted his de the world in this way, Rodcorte would becoreater threat to the world than Vandalieu in Alda’s eyes

“I’et back to our usual work, right?” said Aran

Rodcorte remained silent

Unable to think of any effective method to protect himself, he removed the restrictions on his familiar spirits’ freedom

It would likely take Rodcorte soe and come to some kind of decision

Aran and the others decided that they would use this tiration system as much as they could, so that they could support their allies and do soin ca cut away and discarded

We need the help of the other Gods for that, the three of the to make their preparations to betray Rodcorte

Rodcorte read those thoughts, but he had never believed that his familiar spirits would be loyal to hi to worry about compared to the proble overcome the extremely cold ice-field floor, Vandalieu’s party headed froh an ocean floor with countless whirlpools and a precipitouson a floor that was in an everlasting suht?” said Zandia, giving a suspicious look at the clear blue sky

“That’s… right,” said Rapiéçage, sharing her thoughts