Roughly thirty years ago, the kingdom of Mytil was conquered by the Zashardine Empire.

　Old Rata tells me that shortly before that, Sheila Estillia had the important role of librarian of the forbidden library.
　The king of Mithil, anticipating that the knowledge of the forbidden books would be used by the young and ambitious emperor of Zashardine if the empire conquered them, had decided to burn the books, which Sheila opposed.

　The one who took advantage of this was the Immortal King Neuroid, who was working in the dark underground to obtain the power of the evil god. He was an ancient sorcerer who had already become rich at the time.
　Seizing the opportunity, the Immortal King successfully seduced Sheila into signing a contract with Old Rata and forcing her to take a book on the evil god from the forbidden library.
　However, the Imperial Army had already invaded the capital. Unfortunately, Sheila is separated from Erik as she runs for Neuried.

　Presumably, Eryk was killed by Imperial soldiers at this time.

　As a result, the library, including the forbidden books, became a facility used only by a few ruling classes, and the Royal Library was renamed the Imperial Library.

It's not like your son Eriq died yesterday or today, he died 30 years ago. Well, I made a mistake on my own, so who can blame me?

　I checked out the place where I was summoned after hearing Old Lata's story, and what a surprise it was. The corpse caught in the rubble was a girl's zombie.
　Even the information that Erik had died just a few minutes ago was my assumption.

''E, it's Eriq?　You're lying!　There's no way she's alive!
I knew it... or rather, I didn't hear anything about it. No, the two of you were just working for a purpose.

　The only thing Neuroid wanted was the ability to decipher the forbidden book that Sheila had. That guy probably wasn't interested in what was going on with Eryk either.
　However, it seems that Sheila, who threw a hateful glance at us, wasn't in a position to just be used one way or the other.

''How do you claim to know Eryk's name in the first place?　Don't tell me she's as undead as I am?
'You're right, you're right. I'll let you see him, but on one condition.
Stop fooling around and break these chains. Now!

　Sheila smiled like a bewitching smile as if she remembered something and stared into my eyes.
　It's probably the vampire's signature mesmerizing gaze. Even the fascination of a mere vampire, who isn't even a Lord or Elder, can make an ordinary human into a perfect servant. This is how vampires sip the blood of those who have been charmed and become irresistible, to increase their subordinates.

　However, the special ability of a vampire, which isn't even a cheat ability, wouldn't work on me.
　With a sound of something popping, Sheila's magic power dissipated with a pang.

''Oh, no........''

　It was probably the first time I'd ever seen my own fascination resist.
　I laughed indulgently as I walked up to Sheila, who had a stunned look of self-doubt on her face.

''Don't panic. I'm going to help you get your revenge, okay?　And you get to see your beloved son again, which is a bonus.

　She randomly took out her holy sword.
　Sheila bit her teeth as she realized it was an artifact sufficient to bring about her own destruction.

'Come on. You can help me, or you can stay here and be dust. Choose the one you want.



　We left the castle and headed for the ruins of the central square.
　When you arrive there, blocking Sheila's every attempt to betray her on the way, you find a huge, empty, large hole opening in the mouth.
　The moans of countless ghosts can be heard even now from the Great Dark Hole, which is said to have flooded the entire city with ghosts.

''.......What is here?

　Sheila's eyebrows furrowed in alarm. I didn't hesitate to jump down into the hole and use my levitation magic to slow my falling speed, and they followed me by the same means.
　I rushed into the zone overrun by the dead spirits, but the ghosts are more likely to avoid me on their own as I wear the example protection from my neck. They don't try to lean on Sheila, who is an advanced undead, in the first place.

''This hole is a star meridian,''
"Star meridians...?
'Well, an underground corridor leading to the core of the world...or whatever you want to call it. It's a pathway for energy.

　The city here was originally built on the meridians of the stars.
　It's not unusual for a land called the Spiritual Vein or the Dragon Vein to overlap with the meridians, so it's not unusual.

''There were a lot of convenient developments that happened before I came here. I feel like I've been walking on rails. It's as if you and I would have been here without me doing anything in particular.

　I had clearly thought that Stella was using her power as the will of the stars to guide me.
　This was half right and half wrong after all.

'God and the will of the stars are two entirely different kinds of beings. If God is a metaphysical transcendent being, then the will of the stars is just the heart that feeds the world. But rarely. Very, very rarely, God and the star's will can merge.

　Unless you are a reincarnated person like Stella, the will of the stars does not have a self.
　It's the same as an organ not having a will. Even if they had intelligence, they were only plants or animals.
　So when God and the world's will have merged, he will almost certainly take over their consciousness.

To tell the truth, this is the case. This world is fused with a sealed evil god.
A world and an evil god merged together?

　Old Rata told me that the evil gods were sealed in this land by the Sun God.
　It is said that the gods could not be completely destroyed against the higher evil gods that spanned multiple dimensions, and they had no choice but to resort to the means of sealing. This is a common story in other worlds.

''The gods sealed the evil gods in this land because it was perfect for a spiritual land. But the evil gods were more stubborn than the gods expected. For thousands of years, they've been gradually invading the world, and eventually merged with the world itself.
How can you be so sure of that?
'If the world was normal, the undead would be all blown away by the aftermath of the energy that passes through the star's meridians. And yet, here we are, in this hellscape?

　As I cowered my shoulders while pointing at the space infested with mountains and mountains, Sheila's expression became severe.
　The pluses and minuses of the stars' energy are being reversed as a result of the fusion of the evil gods and the will of the stars that govern negative energy.

''In other words, what we were doing...''
Yeah, I guess that means the evil gods were behind it.

　Even if Neuroid and Sheila hadn't caused this incident, this world would sooner or later have become a world of dead people walking.
　However, the incident had an impact of just shortening the thirty-year grace period to thirty days. It would be somewhat too optimistic to think that the will of an evil god did not intervene there.

I'm sorry for the long preamble. In short, I wanted to say that me and you are here guided by the will of the evil gods.
''What... what does that... that story have to do with Eryk?

　Sheila ate at me as if she was disgusted.
　Without paying much attention to it, I told her the truth in a matter-of-fact manner.

''Her spirit wasn't controlled by the Immortal King.
'Eh....'

　Sheila exclaimed, understanding the meaning of the words.
　At the time I was summoned, the Neuroid was in control of all the undead. It was only after I had defeated that guy that most of the ghosts had rationalized. The old man who was chased by the zombies acted like a human at first glance, and the librarian ghost was solemnly going about his business.

　But when you think about it like that, one big contradiction arises.

''There's no way that a ghost under the Immortal King's control can summon me with a wish to see his mother, and on the other hand, there's no way that a mere ghost can escape the Immortal King's control. It's a strange premise. In other words--
Are you trying to tell me that Eryk was blessed by an evil god?

　I grinned back at Sheila, whose red twin eyes widened at the unbelievable truth.

'Yes. I can only assume that Eryk was protected by a higher being than the Immortal King... yeah, but that's still a good thing. Rather, it's more fitting to assert that Eryk is the son of an evil god.
"Erik is the Son of the Evil One?　Oh no, that's ridiculous....

　Apparently, Sheila also knew about the Son of the Evil God as knowledge about the Son of the Evil God.

　The Son of the Evil God is a powerful being who works for the resurrection of the Evil God. The demon kings who work for the resurrection of the evil gods are also usually the son of the evil gods.
　But before he could awaken as a son, Eryk was caught up in the ravages of war and died. There's a possibility that the empire heard about Erik's existence as a prophecy from the Sun God, and invaded the capital to kill him. The Son will be erased before he appears on the stage of history.......this is also a common bargain among the gods.
　But that's why the Evil God used Neurid and Sheila to cause this incident. To allow the spirit of Erik, the Son of the Evil God, to operate on earth.

''There are indications that Eryk may have become an acquired Son of the Evil God. Here it is.
I'm sorry, my dear.
'It's an evil spirit ritual book!

　Sheila exclaimed in surprise as she took out the forbidden book that the Immortal King had dropped from the item box.

''Ah, it's the book that Anta took out of the forbidden bookbox at the risk of his life. The grimoire with the true name of the Evil God... and the book that Eryk accidentally read when he was alive... right?
It's not... it's not like that time...

　We don't know how Sheila took Eryk to the forbidden bookstore, but Eryk testified that he read the book of the evil god. It is extremely possible that Eryk was found by the evil god at that time. Or, it could be that the evil gods, fused with the will of the stars, used their power as the will of the stars to manipulate his fate in order to link with Eryk, who was originally the son of the evil gods........

''But Neurid was trying to revive the Evil God, wasn't he!　Even if Eryk is the Son of the Evil One, you didn't have to do anything about it, did you?
''An immortal king who isn't even a priest wouldn't go that far. He just wanted the knowledge and forbidden spells to bring out the power of the Evil God as he sees fit.

　
　It would make the magic that borrowed the power of the evil gods many times stronger, and it would also allow him to control the evil gods' relatives as he wished. He could also get infinitely equal magic power, and the cost of his soul could be paid for by any number of other people's souls if they existed enough to become a No Life King.
　The origin of this grimoire was part of the power of the Sealed Evil God. It's no wonder it was kept in the forbidden vault. And it was precisely because the power of the forbidden book librarian was essential to wielding power without being controlled by the evil gods that Sheila was able to cooperate with the Immortal King.

''I don't think that he's going to let go of the Evil Spirit Ritual Book. The fact that he has it.......you really defeated the Neurid.
'Oh, I knew you didn't believe me yet. It would have been a lot quicker if you'd shown me this thing first.

　Anyway, the evil gods probably didn't trust Neuroid. Magicians who study mysteries are far from worshipping a god by nature. It could be said that even though they may pray to the magic gods for the success of their magic, it is almost never the case that they even serve as a priest. A sorcerer who can use faith magic may be called a sage, but a priest who can use secret magic is a priest, not a sorcerer.

''Well, here we are,''

　On top of a huge red-black hill, Stella and Eryk are standing blankly holding hands.
　I put up a ward to prevent the evil gods from touching the two of them, but nothing seems to have happened.

''Oh, Eryk!''
Mom!

　Sheila landed on the hill and rushed down to her son at a glance.
　Naturally, my wards didn't do anything tactless to interrupt the father-son reunion.

'An emotional reunion........is it, in case you were wondering?

　Stella was smiling at the mother and son who were embracing each other using dead spirit contact magic.
　But even if the father and son were reunited, I wouldn't be summoned to the next world.
　Naturally. As long as it wasn't Eryk's own will that summoned me, there's no way I can fulfill my pledge with this.

　Whether or not Sheila knew about my depressed mood, she looked up with tears in her eyes.　

'Thank you. How can I thank you?''
'Don't worry about it. I brought you here to help me with what I'm about to do.
What the hell are you doing?

　I told Sheila, who tilted her head dubiously, without emotion.

''Of course. It's the resurrection of the Evil One.''

　The one who summoned me is a sealed evil deity. Then the only wish is to resurrect the evil gods.
　The reason why Stella-chan always showed me the way is because the Evil God was showing me the way through Eryk, who was holding my hand all along, so it all makes sense.

''The evil god of calamity, Hazade!　If you do that, you'll destroy the world this time!
Oh, come on, now you're telling me that?　Didn't you wish this world would just go down the drain?

　I was taken aback by Sheila's reaction and said it a little harshly.
　Sheila, who looked as if a possession had fallen off and reformed, looked very comical to me.

''That's true, but...''

　Sheila chokes on her words and looks into Eryk's eyes, which are stunned.
　Eryk, in his own right, asks, "What's wrong? He tilted his head. If I hadn't blocked the influence of the evil gods with my warding, I would have said, "Mom, bring back the evil gods! I might have let him intervene as much as he did.

'Eryk there is just a ghost spelling out Eryk's memories, you know?　It doesn't bring back the son you love. And even if it is, it doesn't change the fact that your beloved son was taken from you. Your vengeance is not over.

　He acts like a child at the height of his mother's pampering because he died before he awakened to the Son of the Evil One, but Eryk is just a stage set that acts only for the benefit of the Evil One.

　Just like Stella, who looks at me sadly, will forever be a childlike child.
　He will never change, and he can't change.
　You are not alive. You are dead.

'And yet ... and yet this is my child!　There's no point in getting revenge when you're here and existing like this.

　Sheila rants and hugs Eryk while ranting.

'If you want revenge on the empire that killed my son, I welcome the resurrection of the evil gods... isn't that why you were helping the immortal king?　Don't you hate the people who did that to my son?

　Sheila didn't listen to my unusually talkative words. She remained silent as she hugged Eryk tightly.

'So even if you're a ghost, you don't care about revenge anymore when your son comes back. You've killed a number of people in your life, that's pretty wormy.''
Call it what you will!　Anyway, I can't help with the resurrection of the Evil One.
'The bottom line is that my son is the best, right?　You know, mothers always say the same thing about mothers...

　I don't blame her for that.
　I just want to see how different mothers are from me.
　I don't want to force my own view of revenge on others.

You'll understand that when you have children.
Well I guess I'll never know then.

　Sheila is puzzled as to how she took my return.
　Yes, indeed. I have no right to meddle in anyone's affairs as a parent, as I am the one who throws away my parenting duties.
　That's why there's nothing more to talk about with this father and son.
　If you've lost your motivation, you don't have to ask them to help you.

　I don't think I'll ever see them again.
　So I finally asked them something that had been on my mind.

"Wouldn't you rather see your son alive and well not as an undead person, but as a human being?
What are you talking about you can't do that, it's impossible.
Okay.

　I huffed at the weirdness that was building up, and I tapped Sheila lightly on the shoulder.

'If you ever get your life back on track, don't let go of my son's hand this time.



　After that, I sent them both to the ground with a dimensional transfer cheat and then beckoned Stella-chan to me.
　I patted Stella-chan's head as she attached herself to me with a smile on her face.

'Totally, I'm f*cked. I didn't know that what I did with me was going to be made to dance on the palm of the evil gods, much less be made to work for their resurrection.

　On a red-black hill.
　He spoke to no one as he flipped through the pages of the Evil God's book.

''I've got a good thing to tell you on the parting gift, Evil God. As soon as you merge with the will of the stars, you're no longer a god.''

　I throw words at the red-black hemisphere at my feet.
　This is the god body of the sealed evil god.
　Now that I've lost the eyes and ears called Eryk, the god body may not have the ability to hear my words, but I don't care.

I'm going to have to keep taking in the souls of the stars for the last time after your resurrection, or else you won't be able to maintain your existence. So from now on, after you have eaten up this world, you will have to continue to eat the stars across a different dimensional universe in another world. We will always starve, always eat, and become such a being.

　He skipped a lot of sacrifice and stuff with all the cheats of the evil god resurrection ritual, and completed the process that Sheila should have done all by herself. Finally, he dipped the book with Hazade's true name into the god's body, and a creepy tentacle reached out and took it in.

　The resurrection procedure is all completed, and the divine body begins to stir with an earth shaking.

　A deafening roar roared through the great dark hole.
　The cry of doom that must have reached the entire earth was a cry of joy for vengeance against the gods who had sealed him off?
　Or is it the joy of being able to destroy all living things?
　It doesn't matter which it is.
　I don't care what's on the mind of the evil gods, I'm not going to let the shifting magicians that appeared underneath me after I achieved my pledge stop me from finishing my story.

'By the way, I don't like gods. I'm not going to be the only one who can do that. I hate them anyway.

　With a grin, I put my hand on the divine body.
　The entire evil god was transferred to the sky.



(Goaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!

　A deafening scream echoed through the space where there was supposed to be no air.
　No, to be precise, the evil god's screams were a direct cry of pain to my spirit.

(How does it feel to be cut off from the stars? (Oops, that's not really the point for you.)

　I cower my shoulders while sending a telepathic message to the main body of the evil god.

(Geez!　Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!　(Walle, fukkatsusate, okinagaraa!

　The divine body, which looks like a lump of red-black stone covered by my wards, is burnt to a crisp as smoke erupts from places.
　That's also why I'm throwing the God Body of the Evil God Hazade out from underground, outside the atmosphere of the stars, into space and letting the sun's light shine on it.
　There is no way to protect oneself from the sun's light here. The wards are also set up to allow light to pass through them bare, so the sun's holy attributes are also a direct hit.
　By the way, Stella-chan and I are fully resistant to various types of radiation, and of course we've also turned on the Breathe-Free Cheat, so there's no problem.

(Anta has a negative concept, controlling the power of death. The holy attribute is just too hard, and you've even been defeated by the Sun God. I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not going to let you fall directly into the sun. I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable with that.
(Fuzakelnaaaaaaah!　(Ningenfuseiga, chooshini, noliotte ee!!!!

　It stretches out its countless tentacles and attacks my prison wards with guns.
　Of course, the wards created by my self-domain cheat don't budge.
　Even Eva can't escape from my prison ward.
　A mere parallel-world omnipresent high evil god would not be able to defeat it.

(If they're just evil gods, I'm willing to tolerate their use of me. You've merged with the will of the stars, haven't you?　As I said before, once you've merged with the will of the stars, you're no longer a god. (I'll tell you what we call such a being.)

　I narrow my eyes with a quiet killing intent in me.

(Kaifa-ha-mi-da.)

　The Sekai-eaters, as the name suggests, are beings that eat the stars.
　They may be space monsters, disembodied, erosive conceptual creatures, meteorite-like creatures that fall to a star and hide deep underground, or beings like Hazade that have evolved by merging the will of the stars with the gods, and there is a great variety of shapes, forms, and even ways of being.
　The only thing they have in common is that they eat up the energy of the stars and keep hustling to another star to eat it again.

(Sorry, but that's an old friend's promise. (Sorry, but I made a pact with an old friend, and I'm determined to destroy the world-eaters, no matter the cost.

　I made a clenched fist in front of my chest and swore an oath, just as the holy knight in the story does.



(Pledge. In accordance with my promise to my eternal friend, Artorius, Ryouji Sakagagi Ryoji, I will strike down the evil gods who have become the world's eater to the ground without a trace!

　--Dismissed the summonser's request. The proxy's pledge was accepted.



　The wish that had been fulfilled by the resurrection of the Evil God is nullified, and the transition magic circle disappears.

(That's why I'm sorry to wake you up, but I'm going to have you die immediately, Evil God Hazade. No.........true name, Hazard-Distrius!)

　At that moment, an evil god's roar that seemed to cut through time and space roared out.