Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Chapter 402 - Episode 76 - Book of Revelation (4)

[Every Constellation in the <Star Stream> has detected the existence of the Calamity!]

[Many Constellations have fallen into a state of fear!]

As the surrounding atmosphere transformed rapidly, Constellations enjoying the cease-fire all began repeatedly roaring out as well as speaking in their true voices. Some were panicking grandly, wondering what was going on here; some sensed the Status of the Calamity and became scared; some Constellations began lodging inquiries to the Bureau, hoping to escape from this scenario.

The bitter struggles of the stars trying to survive turned the battlefield into pure pandemonium in no time at all.

[The Bureau of the Star Stream is responding to the emergency situation!]

Finally, the Bureau was stepping forward.

Seeing that the messages regarding Constellations had decreased by a whole lot quite rapidly just then, it seemed that the Bureau also found the current situation rather concerning as well.

[The Bureau of the Star Stream has begun an internal meeting on the applicable issue.]

It was quite likely that even the Bureau didn’t expect this ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’ to become this big.

Well, from the get-go, the ‘Chaos Points’ were simply added in as the extra spice for the sake of speedy progress of the ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’. But then, that extra points system had surpassed the Good/Evil Points, and it was even trying to awaken the Apocalypse Dragon now.

If that Dragon did wake up, then countless Constellations would end up getting killed. In other words, it’d be the same thing as the number of the Bureau’s customers declining rather precipitously.

[Even if the Bureau steps forward, they won’t be able to revert the calamity, as if it never happened in the first place.]

I agreed with Surya’s assertion.

We were in the 80th main scenario. Even if this was the Bureau, they wouldn’t be able to cancel the ‘Great Fable’.

So, now wasn’t the time to place our faith in their potential response.

“In order for the Apocalypse Dragon to wake up, the Chaos Points need to rise up by another 10.”

Although it wasn’t a lot, we still had some time.

If we failed to prevent the release of the Apocalypse Dragon, then there was a very good chance that my companions would be killed here.

What should I do to prevent that from happening?

Of course, I could immediately come up with a method to do that – eliminate the source behind the rise in the Chaos Points.

The problem was that the source was hidden inside that ‘sphere’.

Tsu-chuchuchuchut….!

“Even if it’s a ‘Seeker of the End’, it shouldn’t be able to hold on for long inside there.”

Through the ‘Ways of Survival’, I knew who was on the list of the ‘Seekers of the End’. No one on that list was capable of lasting for a long time while inside that sphere.

Not only were Metatron and Agares were in there, but the highest-grade Constellations in this world were with them, too.

Even if they were to take their time, Archangels and Demon Kings should’ve discovered the ‘Seeker of the End’ and killed it by now. With that, Chaos Points should stop rising up….

[Members from the same camp have clashed!]

[Current Chaos Points: 91]

It was around at that time that sparks exploded in the air. The sphere violently shook around before a portion of its side faintly spread open, and something began falling from there.

There were six torn wings visible on her back; it was an Archangel I knew well.

I activated [Way of the Wind] and flew up in haste.

The body of the Archangel I caught was quite light. A certain fragrance wafted into my nose; Fables were falling like flower petals from the deep wound running across her back.

“Gabriel.”

[Constellation, ‘Lily Blooming on Aquarius’, is looking at you.]

She was the Archangel Gabriel, who had experienced the 1863rd turn with me before coming back home; the Constellation who fell into a deep pit of shock after learning that she’d betray <Eden> in the future.

I momentarily wondered if she was the reason for the unfolding crisis, but I knew that couldn’t be the case; even in the original story, there was a very good reason to her betrayal, and technically speaking, you couldn’t even really call what she did a betrayal, either.

Gabriel’s lips moved with great difficulty. It was hard to hear her voice.

I pressed her for an answer. “What happened in there? Please talk to me.”

She looked up at my face with fatigued eyes, but then, handed something over to me. It was her Fable.

Her trembling lips moved. Her voice couldn’t be heard, but I could definitely understand the words being conveyed.

⸢Please, save <Eden>.⸥

Gabriel’s Fable began telling its story.

*

Metatron looked at the Angels lining up by his sides, as well as the Demon Kings standing on his opposite side one at a time. They all seemed to be anxious. Also, their expressions displayed their failure at understanding how they arrived at their current situation.

In the middle of all those faces, the oldest rival to Metatron could be seen.

[To think that we’d be in this place because of a single Nebula. How absurd.]

It was the master of the 2nd Demon World, the ‘Ruler of the East Hell’.

While lighting up a thick cigarette, Agares asked his question. [How will we decide on the victors and losers? Will we enter the 3rd ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’ right away? Honestly speaking, I’m against it. Gathering this much Probability again would be next to impossible, after all.]

To start this ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’, both <Eden> and the Demon World had to swallow huge losses.

Even among all the ‘Great Fables’ of the <Star Stream>, the ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’ boasted an unparalleled scale. If this scenario ended in annulment, then the ‘Fable of Good and Evil’ they barely managed to scrounge up would scatter again, and both the ‘Good’ and the ‘Evil’ could end up on the road to extinction.

Metatron looked up at the outside sky, faintly visible through the grey sphere. Flashes of lightning could be seen within the dark, gloomy clouds ominously gathering above them. Was it because of the end-of-the-world type vibe? He abruptly recalled an event that had taken place a long time ago.

[Agares. It’s already been several thousands of years since the master of the 1st Demon World had passed on.]

[I don’t have the time to leisurely reminisce about the past with you.]

[Do you still remember that day?]

[It was the day I inherited this abominable ‘wall’, so how could I have forgotten it?]

[‘Wall that divides Good and Evil’ is growling.]

Ominous sparks danced around Agares’s Incarnation Body. When that happened, a similar phenomenon happened around Metaron’s Incarnation Body, as well.

[‘Wall that divides Good and Evil’ is falling into a reminiscence of the past.]

A wall that was one but at the same time, two. A fragment of the Final Wall, that decided the ‘Good’ and the ‘Evil’ of the world.

With that wall in the middle, the representatives of <Eden> and the Demon World were staring at each other.

[For a long time, you and I decided on the ‘Good and Evil’ of this world, didn’t we?]

Just what was ‘Good’?

Even Metatron, the leader of <Eden>, didn’t have the answer to that question. Because, ‘Good’ was simply a collection of countless Fables, that was why.

He read the Fables of his predecessors, figured them out, and learned about ‘Good’ that way. And those ‘Good’, rather than explaining themselves, simply pointed to other Fables and spoke like this, instead.

⸢That is not ‘Good’.⸥

And that was how ‘Evil’ was created.

‘Jeong-ui’ (Justice, 正義) had morphed into ‘Jeong-ui’ (To define, 定義), and along with that, ‘anger’ had been invented.

⸢And therefore, we are not ‘Evil’.⸥

That was how ‘Good’ was created.

That simply dichotomy had managed to tear the <Star Stream> in half.

The simpler and more unyielding the principle, the stronger its ability to spread out. Countless Constellations jumped on the bandwagon of the principle of ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’.

[You probably have no idea. No idea about how boring it can get, trying to exist as ‘Evil’ in this world.] Agares breathed out the cigarette smoke and continued on. [It was you who forced the ‘Good and Evil’ into this state. You erased the particulars of ‘Evil’, and you also spread that damn ‘promotion of virtue and disapproval of vice’ like some kind of a plague. Indeed, you bastard, are the original culprit who managed to break the Fable of ‘Good and Evil’.]

It didn’t really matter what kind of minute details, or whether sadness and pain existed within the scenario. What did matter, however, was the conclusion.

The ‘Good’ judged and punished the ‘Evil’. That was enough for the others to shed grateful tears and clap their hands. Without a doubt, such a time did exist.

Metatron spoke up. [But, you also agreed to do that, didn’t you?]

[Back then, that was the only way for us to survive.]

The ‘Good’ stayed alive by punishing the ‘Evil’, while the ‘Evil’ continued to exist by resisting against the ‘Good’.

And so, tens of thousands of years passed by like that. The division between ‘Good and Evil’ became blurry, and justice/definition had disappeared. The ‘Good and Evil’ ended up becoming a concept of bored old men.

No one welcomed the idea of ‘promoting virtue and disapproving vice’ any more.

Drop.

Agares dropped the cigarette he’d been smoking on the floor, and as if he was stepping on an insect, squashed it to kill it.

[Through the repetition of the scenarios, the ‘Good’ has become a source of stuffy boredom, while the ‘Evil’ has become an antiquated cliché. I have to wonder, maybe it’s about time that we stop with this foolishness.]

Agares’s words prompted the Demon Kings to pull out all of their weapons.

Metatron spoke again. [If we fight here, then everyone will perish together.]

[‘Evil’ has always been easier than ‘Good’. Even if you all disappear, we will still remain.]

[The world forgetting about ‘Good’ does not mean I have forgotten mine.]

[Then, prove it.] Agares’s eyes began burning up. [We will no longer be the plaything of the ‘promotion of virtue and disapproval of vice’ any more. I am ‘Evil’. I was born ‘Evil’, and proving that you exist used to be the reason for my existence. And from today onwards, I shall break free from that reason.]

The Demon Kings all roared out in unison. Their Statuses overflowed as if to sweep away every Archangel present at any given moment.

But, right at that moment….

[Members from the same camp have clashed!]

[Current Chaos Points: 83]