Chapter 016 16
Just as Solomon was getting rid of the discomfort brought by the soul transfer, he found himself under the shade of a huge tree.
Based on the commission of this world Gaia, Solomon has more convenient privileges than the two colleagues who came earlier - Solomon found out the good things that the two colleagues had done in the past from the records of the world tree, and reluctantly modified the records in the world tree, overwriting the memory of mankind to make belated cleanup for them.
"Don't throw away the iron rule that humans need the leadership of gods in this world..." Solomon sighed while establishing a magic formation on the spiritual vein node next to him to connect with Chaldea. "It's not that the flower god abandoned the residents of the Great Oasis, but that he never set foot here in the first place."
The kingdom of Purvapurika is the kingdom of the flower gods, a kingdom without human inhabitants. The town spirits were born in that nursery, and they asked their mistress to stay there...
Solomon erased the oasis residents' memory that the flower god had abandoned them, and added some signs of the birth of the devil before he fully revealed himself to the oasis residents.
"King Solomon only needs to let the people know that 'the king has God's protection' - more miracles will only scare the people or make them corrupt." The person on duty at the center seat of the control room is Lansermero. Most of the members who had gathered in the control room earlier have been driven back to the dormitory to rest. "But there is no god in this world who protects a certain human individual. In other words - because the god is the king, the god of this world will choose to lead humans, but will never let humans occupy the leadership."
"Not even a King Solomon-style puppet."
"At the same time, based on the fact that the demon god loves people..." Solomon looked at the oasis residents who were preparing for the festival to welcome the new god, and recalled a classic case that proved King Solomon's wisdom. "It is impossible for the demon god to intentionally harm humans - or show a tendency to harm humans."
"...Although I really want to say that as long as they replicated Mr. Merlin's case, they should know that the teacher has arrived." Lanser Mello smiled and threw two sugar cubes into his teacup, "but let the ordinary people of this world go - they are the ones who still rely on the gods thousands of years later. Don't scare them silly."
"This is the problem with a world where the Age of Gods will not decline." Solomon calmly gave his own assessment, "The possibility of mankind will be stifled by the omnipotence of the gods. Speaking of which, the gods of this world have the instinct of the devils to love people, so didn't any devil choose to let go later?"
"Hmm..." Lancer Melo paused and glanced at the data collected on the screen. "King, have you not seen the development of other regions? I thought I didn't need to retell this part? But in fact, I think the gods here are more like Greek heroes--"
"They have extraordinary powers, but they do not possess power like true gods - for example, the power of concepts and rules."
"...I understand what you mean, but in any case, I think that apart from this, they are not similar to humans in any way." Solomon was silent for a moment and changed the topic to another direction. "It seems that the decline of mystery is irreversible no matter which world it is in - the mystery of this world is forced to remain at a fixed concentration... I think you should have observed the situation outside?"
"Hmm." Lansermello shook the signature pen in his hand and looked at the contents recorded in the file. "Forcibly maintaining the concentration of mystery and curbing human curiosity and possibilities is the protection measure of this world itself - a strong enough concentration of mystery can isolate malice... The false sky is also the protective shield of this world."
"It is not appropriate for magicians from the Animusphia 'Astronomy Department' to appear here." Solomon smiled slightly and took the laurel wreath from the oasis resident. "After all, the magic that you use to resonate with the real starry sea may destroy the sky curtain - well, how is your plan going?"
"Not in a hurry yet." Lanser-Mero shook his head gently and answered Solomon's question, "This is the first world related to the mystery - we need to observe more worlds and then design a path that suits us; not to mention that our resources are far from enough to rebuild it."
In the distant past when Solomon was a Roman "man" and had not yet revealed his true identity to Fujimaru Ritsuka, he once evaluated himself as King Solomon in this way -
"If the opposite of good is evil, and the opposite of evil is good, then Solomon is nothing.
No matter what happens, he will not waver, because he has no desires.
King Solomon was not allowed to have an ego.
He is a creature destined to be a king. 』
Although he had met other kings in the Clairvoyant chat room "Avalon" or the Throne of Heroes, when it comes to how to better guide the people - for Solomon, the only path he would choose is the one he had walked before, the path of "a device created by gods and humans to make the kingdom develop better."
——However, this path was rejected by the two colleagues and their common students from the very beginning.
King Solomon is wise, but he is more than just wise - but in the information provided by Gaia in this world, the King of Trees seems to represent only the symbol of wisdom...
"...Teacher." After the ceremony ended, Lancermello's voice once again rang in Solomon's ears, "No matter which king in the Throne of Heroes, their way of governing is not suitable here - it's just that wisdom is the synonym of the king, so it replaced the tree king who represents wisdom..."
“‘Although King Solomon is known as the ‘passionate king’, these are all responses to requests from those around him.’” Lansemero repeated Roman’s past evaluation of King Solomon, “But ‘Roman’ is different from this pattern, right? Dr. Roman is not simply responding to requests from those around him, but based on his own will as a human being—”
"Don't forget your life as Roman once you become Solomon again, teacher."
After nearly a thousand years without the leadership of gods, the largest oasis in the desert established a kingdom under the leadership of the new gods. Although Solomon had not yet figured out how to lead the people here, he still clearly used wisdom to lead people to a better life.
When the last corner of the Clairvoyant chat room "Avalon" appeared, Merlin, as the creator of the chat room, should have noticed Solomon's appearance, but who made him fight with an unknown demon at the eastern border with Gilgamesh at that time? The combat power of demons in different regions is also different, at least the guys coming from this direction are all very strong.
——So much so that the chat room prompt signal was completely ignored by the half-dream who was busy stacking magic.
"How many guys are fighting each other in that area?" Merlin looked at Gilgamesh, who temporarily transformed his spirit base and fought the demon in the Archer state. "It's too much to be unable to defeat the guys who escaped to our side. King Gilgamesh, have you seen the future of that place?"
"Haven't you counted how many demons there are?" Gilgamesh, whose spiritual base had stabilized at the Caster level again, pointed to the mountains in front of the two of them. "Our situation is abnormal - but it's just a huge desert where there is no life at all. It was normal that no demon was willing to come over in the previous situation."
"As for now... who gave those bastards the courage to covet what belongs to me?"
“Hahaha…” Merlin smiled and picked up a blooming flower from his feet. He looked at the mountains in front of him and said, “Well, thank you for your hard work, King Gilgamesh. There’s a new demon coming from the same direction. I’ll leave that guy in your care as well.”
In short, because Merlin and King Gilgamesh were busy expelling demons from other regions, they missed the opportunity to find Solomon as soon as possible. Of course, Chaldea was not in a hurry to re-establish communication with them, so it was delayed for many years until many oases began to spread the wisdom of the king of the oases. Only then did Merlin remember to look for Solomon.
The two then began to prepare for their return journey - but Merlin went ahead and returned to the country of Purvapurinka in the form of Magic☆Merry. As the god of flowers, he announced to his followers that he was going to pay a visit to the king of infinite wisdom who led the Great Oasis.
With the help of the town spirits, Merlin led countless maids, servants and soldiers to the Great Oasis.
Arriving before Solomon one step earlier than Merlin and Gilgamesh was a visiting card written by Merlin himself. Mortals did not dare to open the letters from gods privately, so Merlin left three riddles there, which were similar to but different from the ones they knew, waiting for Solomon to give his answer.
The oasis residents had not yet built a temple or palace for Solomon, but the huge tree where Solomon first appeared had become the default residence of Solomon in the entire oasis. Merlin's visiting card was thus delivered unimpeded to Solomon, who sat under the tree most of the time.
The content of the visiting card is as follows:
"What kind of existence will protect "humanity" but will not care about "individuals", yet will like humans very much?"
"What kind of existence has no freedom, no humanity, no will of its own, but yearns to become a true human being?"
"What kind of existence looks like a human but is not a human, and yet cannot be separated from human existence?"
Solomon looked at the visiting card in his hand, thinking of the information Gaia had provided them, and sighed softly: "The answers to those three questions foreshadow the ending of the original three demon gods. It seems that Merlin had already written a new prophecy predicting the ending, otherwise the questions here would not point so directly to the three of us."
"Teacher Merlin is the most famous wise man and prophet." Lansermero recorded the text into Chaldea's records. "This world can be said to be very interesting - I suggest that you ask him how many prophecies he has made about this world..."
"After all, prophecies like this, even if only a few words are left, can have a huge impact on the future - it's just that most of them are closed loops of Oedipus Rex."