Chapter 259 - Episode Six - A Certain Fixer's Ambition (2) (Side: Peter)
Two weeks had passed since Peter had been investigating the god Kudor in the easternmost part of the Dinrat Kingdom.
Peter had gathered thirty of his own men at a cliff by the sea and had them perform the ritual of the resurrection of the god Kudor.
On the edge of the cliff, Peter laid out the ancient ritual magic tools he had found in the depths of the Great Sanctuary of Kudor, and his men used them to pray to God Kudor.
The huge magic circle carved into the ground is filled with paint made from the blood of magical beasts with strong magical powers, such as Pegasus, Unicorn, and Griffon.
“Fufufu …… at last, at last my wish will come true ……”
Peter smiles with satisfaction as he watches the scene.
There was a girl behind him who was shouting abuse at him.
“You devil! You are bound by your own delusions and want to use the power of the God of Law! Change your mind quickly, and throw yourself into the sea with your men, as the least you can do to atone to the God of Law!”
The girl was wearing a blue robe, similar to the monastic uniform of the Kudor Church.
Her arms are tied behind her back with ropes, with one of Peter’s men on either side of her, watching her.
She is Cynthia, a female priestess, the owner of an abandoned church on the coast of the easternmost part of the Dinrat Kingdom.
When Peter’s men first visited, they found no connection to the god Kudor, the god they believed in was a name they had never heard of, and they were left alone as they sang songs in spirit language under the guise of praying to the god.
The reason for this is that the god Kudor and the four great creator gods do not use the spirit language as a language.
This is an idea that originated from the claim that these gods are higher dimensional beings that are completely different from spirits, and it is the most widely known idea, although it is not clear what it actually was.
So Peter’s men thought it was just a minor religion born of the devil’s deception.
However, Peter was interested in the abandoned church and decided to visit it in person.
While there, he encountered Cynthia saying the name of the spirit language of the god Kudor in a song, so he used his men to capture Cynthia, raided the abandoned church, and conducted a thorough search, revealing that Cynthia was a descendant of a family that had been responsible for watching over the seal of the god Kudor long ago.
He also uncovered a hidden door that contained a book about the ancient rituals of the god Kudor, and robbed it, preparing to perform a ritual to revive the god Kudor.
“Are you trying to destroy the world by doing this! If you incur the wrath of the God of Law, it won’t stop at just a single country being destroyed!”
“God of Law? It’s just an artificial spirit, isn’t it? Fufufu ……”
Peter grins and laughs back.
Cynthia’s expression hardened in astonishment, but it was only for a moment.
She immediately became angry again and shouted at Peter in a fierce manner.
“You guys don’t know anything!”
“Isn’t it you who doesn’t know anything? You know how much I have contributed to the Kudor Church …… I know everything there is to know about Kudor. It’s a shame that you don’t know what that thing is and you’ve been assigned to watch it for generations.”
“If the gods were to return, they would not lend their power to a self-righteous wanker like you! You should know your place!”
“You! What a rude thing to say to Peter-sama!”
Peter’s men, standing on either side of Cynthia, point their swords at her.
Peter suppressed it with his hand, then let out a high-pitched laugh and held his mouth.
He then bent at the waist and brought his face very close to Cynthia’s. Cynthia’s expression was one of disgust.
Cynthia, with a look of disgust on her face, did not look away, but stared back at Peter at close range.
“You really don’t know anything, do you? You know, Cynthia-chan. I’ve succeeded in summoning Kudor …… No, recreating the priesthood binding technique left behind by the priest who created it.”
“Wha-!”
Even Cynthia was surprised by Peter’s words.
Seeing this expression, Peter smiled with satisfaction and turned away from Cynthia, raising his arms wide to the sky.
“Come on! Cynthia-chan, you are so hard-headed. I’m not trying to use the power of God Kudor for selfish purposes. I just want to be the center of the world, cut off all evil and its source of thought, and create an eternal utopia. Is that wrong? Tell me?”
“That’s just oppression based on your selfish standards! If you think you’re going to become a god, you’d better cut back on your hubris! The God of Law sealed himself away because he knew that even with his great wisdom, a utopia of domination would not be possible!”
“You’re not making any sense. I have no idea what you’re trying to say. Well, at this point, there’s nothing you can do. You can just sit there and howl and wait. It’s the beginning of a new era that will last forever!”
As Peter and Cynthia argued, one of the men rushed to the scene.
“The four-faced beast has been offered to the center of the magic circle! All preparations are now complete!”
The four-faced beast was a chimera that Peter had created in order to break the seal of Kudor.
As the name implies, it has four faces, all of which are protected by a hard surface.
It is a magical beast prepared for a ritual that requires a large amount of magical power, and was created with the sole purpose of increasing the amount of magical power it possesses.
It is an offering, and its arms and legs have been removed from the root to prevent it from getting out of control.
“Good work …… Fufufu. See you later, Cynthia-chan. Thank you for your cooperation. If it weren’t for your abandoned church, the revival of the god Kudor might have been delayed by a few years.”
Peter was taken by his men to the edge of the cliff.
Cynthia tried to attack Peter and was held down by his men on either side of her.
Even though her shoulders are completely pinned down, she stretches her neck and claps her teeth as if she is about to bite Peter.
“You treacherous bastard! You devil! Curse you! Curse your soul for eternity!”
“You are an apostate. From this day forward, I will be God, after all.”
When Peter reached the edge of the cliff, he raised the staff of Zolomonia to the sky and chanted in the spirit language.
Following him, his subordinates also chanted and assisted him.
The four-faced beast roared from its four faces as a huge magic circle drawn with the blood of magical beasts lit up with intense light.
“Our Lord Kudor.”
As Peter concluded his chant, there was a roar that reverberates.
Something large rose up through the water.
It was a huge, blue tower with a strange, twisted shape. It was surrounded by a large exterior wall of the same color, and only the front part of the wall was open.
The building is supported by a huge cylindrical base, also in blue.
“Ahhahhahha! I did it! So that’s the Great Temple of Kudor, where the god Kudor rests? Yes, that’s it! At last, at last, I’ve done it!”
Peter was laughing maniacally, rejoicing at the surfacing of the Temple of Kudor, when suddenly his expression returned and he turned around, pointing the staff of Zolomonia at a point.
“Flame, form, bird.”
Five magic circles appeared around Peter, and one by one, birds of reddish-black flame flew out from the center of the circles, each following its own path to a single point.
“Peter-sama …… What are you ……?”
The men wondered at Peter’s sudden use of magic in the direction of nothing.
At the point where Peter shot the firebird, a large magic circle appeared, and three human figures emerged from the light.
It was teleportation magic.
Peter had read the signs of the teleportation magic and made the first move.
The firebirds attacked the people who suddenly appeared from different directions, but the page of a thick book in the hands of one of the three men suddenly tore and wandered through the air, and the paper dust formed a human figure.
The humanoid stretched out its arm and grasped the firebird.
The firebird that had touched the figure disappeared as if it had never existed in the first place.
After making Peter’s magic disappear, it returns to the wreckage and flies through the air again, returning to the grimoire in the man’s hand, and when it is restored, the man closes the book.
The man puts the book under his arm and raises his glasses, letting out a sigh.
“It’s amazing …… that you can perform such complex magic with a five-fold chant. As expected of the ex-Pope Peltaire.”
The three who appeared were a tall man wearing glasses who had just conjured up a monster from the grimoire, a large man wearing an iron mask who must have been two and a half meters tall, and a blonde girl holding a cane that was taller than she was.
They all wore robes that were white with red trimmings and patterns.
On the back of the robes, there was a shadowgraph of a scale.
(That strange golem seems to be dangerous, but …… I feel like they used the teleportation magic, which is said to require the magical power of the square of the distance, from a considerable distance. It seems that the accuracy is not very good, but the scale is strange)
Peter thought about this, and drew the shape of the magic circle that had just appeared in his mind at the same time as the teleportation, and began to analyze it.
(The magic circle just now …… It’s simple and easy to use, but on the other hand, it is very inefficient in terms of magic power. They’re using their enormous magical power to force activate it. Those three…… the best of them is that blonde girl who used the teleportation magic. if it’s pure magic power, she completely overwhelms me. Even I can’t do and use that kind of sorcery ……)
Cold sweat dripped down Peter’s cheek.
Peter doesn’t remember their faces, but they showed in this situation using teleportation magic.
It was hard to believe that they were on friendly terms.
“Y-You know me? Who the heck are you ……”
“I’ve always wanted to meet you someday. It’s a good opportunity to introduce ourselves. We are the magic cult, “Balancer of the Scale of Time”.”
The man with glasses bowed politely to Peter with a condescending fake smile that didn’t move an eyebrow.
Peter had also heard of the magic cult “Balancer of the Scale of Time”.
It was an organization that existed across national borders and was said to be a mediator of the times as a measure of its activities.
It was said that the various unnatural points in history were the result of the fact that the “Balancer of the Scale of Time” had been exerting a great deal of influence over the world for a long time.