The Life of a Wise Cult Leader - Chapter 208

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Chapter 208

“Wait, shouldn’t we find the Widow first? She left a message telling us to find her just before. So wouldn’t the Widow know something more?”

That’s right.

“We don’t know if she’s there or not, but we should check anyway. She’s the main culprit who created this situation.”

But right now, I just didn’t want to see Teacher…

I was just avoiding it.

When Erendor asked that, I had nothing to say.

“Then the one who can meet the Widow right now is… shouldn’t it be Alderion?”

“Me? You mean me?”

Alderion, who had been quietly listening to our opinions, looked surprised.

“Yes. If she’s running the Banquet Hall, the only one who can approach her is Marquis Alderion, who has noble status. I’m also a noble, but I’m half-cast out…”

“…I understand. But even if I go, I’m not sure if I’ll get good results… I don’t even know her.”

“Let’s just go. We don’t have time. Look at the sky, it’s on the verge of breaking and we don’t have enough strength to deal with Lumensia right now.”

“Yes…”

“Then our plan is…”

1. Erendor persuades the Commander.

2. Alderion goes to the Banquet Hall to meet the Widow and gather information.

3. The Savior goes to Centa to meet Luan and gather information.

4. The rest rejoin the Demon King in the Demon Realm to kill Lumensia again.

“Alright! Let’s go again!”

Time was turned back and some people don’t remember me and are in various situations, but it’s still too early to despair.

*

The underground level of the World Tree.

Getting to the World Tree was easy. I gained teleportation abilities when I became a god.

I’m grateful that I didn’t have to build my power from 0 when time went back.

Otherwise, I would have had to start completely from the beginning to meet the Demon King… just thinking about it makes me shudder. It was truly a horrible thought.

Swoosh-

The barrier that had initially startled me accepted my entry as if it didn’t exist.

After passing through the dark passage, a cavern with splashing water appeared. Servantis, who had tried to bite me to death when I first entered, wasn’t awake and remained only as a giant serpent stone statue.

Splash.

There I could see Luan and Ife hanging on his shoulder.

Luan, with jet-black hair and exotic features, smiled brightly.

“…!”

{Ascetic!!!}

Ife welcomed me very warmly. I picked up Ife, who was wriggling with her short body and begging to be held.

“I was waiting here, knowing you’d come.”

Right. When a child gets lost, the standard is to wait where the parents might look for them.

I patted his head with pride.

“Why did you wake up here?”

“I’m not sure either. But since this was probably the source, I think I woke up here…”

He pondered and looked up at me.

“But did something happen? I received the Savior’s memories so I remember to some extent, but there are scattered broken memories. Especially at the end… I barely remember anything.”

Hmm, did Luan have some error because he hadn’t been in physical form for long in the previous world? Or because he’s connected as my alter ego?

Anyway, time was more precious than gold and life right now.

I directly hammered the situation into Luan’s head to replace a long explanation.

“Ugh.”

Luan frowned and clutched his head at the countless pieces of information suddenly pouring in. Then he soon lost consciousness.

Seeing this, Ife hissed.

{Uncharacteristically hasty, Ascetic. Doing such violent things.}

Ife, who didn’t know the situation, made carefree remarks.

“If you knew the situation, you couldn’t say it’s hasty… Well, to summarize in one sentence: we’ve gone back in time, we have to fight Lumensia again, and only those connected to me through trust remember going back in time.”

I tucked Luan under my arm and floated up into the sky. If I used teleportation, Luan might burst.

“Fighting Lumensia isn’t the end. This world has consumed possibilities to its limit, so it’ll probably break in about a week at most. We can’t even go to another world and will die.”

{There was a reason for the rush.}

Sir, our server is shutting down in one week.

{Even if you become a pillar supporting the world, wouldn’t that make this situation better?}

What a horrible thing to say.

I’ll pass on becoming like Lumensia.

“It would be difficult even with my power. Unlike when nine pillars were erected, I’m alone and have to support a world that’s already collapsing… I could only maintain a world that would last a week for about a month.”

{This isn’t easy.}

Ife, who had been pondering with a thick voice, hissed again.

{It seems Luan has awakened. How about asking him?}

Luan, who opened his eyes in the sky, held his head as if it was ringing. Then he skillfully used ether to treat his headache.

Seeing him as a half-and-half mixture of Sernuan Lumiere and Hanbul Park gave me a subtle feeling.

“I’ve confirmed it… Even the fact that the world will end whether we kill Lumensia or not if we don’t solve the problem of possibilities.”

He sighed while tucked under my arm.

“…The situation has become quite complicated.”

Since I had directly hammered my memories into him, he knew everything up to the Widow’s end and showed an even more complex expression than me.

After all, she was his teacher and no different from the parents who raised him from childhood.

“Borrowing the Demon King’s style, to get to the conclusion… Teacher likely doesn’t exist in this world.”

He said, tucking his jet-black hair behind his ear as it fluttered in the wind.

“Why?”

“Teacher made a contract with a demon and no longer took human form afterward. And turning back time requires quite a lot of possibilities… She probably disappeared with the demon to be used as a sacrifice for the next cycle. The fact that we’re remembering like this is fortunate enough.”

…So Teacher is dead after all?

‘When she wanted to live so badly.’

I felt a pang and closed my mouth.

‘When she wanted freedom so desperately…’

Luan sighed briefly and said.

“When she already knew her fate. When the constraints of her lifespan approached, Teacher was destined to disappear this way.”

“…So it was fate after all.”

“Yes. Though it’s sad.”

Then is the current situation also fate’s scheme?

But knowing that might lead to destruction like Teacher.

I stood still for a moment.

‘She told me to find her, but if she leaves like this, there’s nothing I can do.’

The end of someone who wanted freedom so badly was to disappear without leaving even a speck in this world.

Then Alderion won’t be able to meet Teacher even if he goes to the Banquet Hall. Or maybe the Banquet Hall doesn’t exist because her existence itself disappeared.

Strictly speaking, the Widow’s disappearance is good for us since she was close to being a villain. It would be hard to defeat someone who contracted with the God of Darkness and consumed Eris’s power.

But maybe because I saw the Widow’s past like that.

I didn’t feel very good.

‘No, of course I didn’t like that she killed all our kids, but… really, my feelings are… ambiguous.’

I landed softly on the jet-black ground. And I put down Luan who was tucked under my arm.

“What we need to do is… Well, should we just explain after everyone gathers? Rather than doing it twice…”

“Right now everyone went to do different things, so gathering won’t be easy. If you tell me, I’ll pass it along.”

I placed my hand on Luan’s head again. And connected the roots.

“Um, ah. I just need to speak, right?”

“Everyone should be able to hear this too.”

“Huh.”

Luan was startled and cleared his throat again. Then he looked into the void and explained the plan.

“I understand well that the world is on the verge of destruction. To stop that… people need to trust each other.”

“People trusting each other?”

“Yes. The reason demons make deals with humans is because humans are beings with infinite possibilities. Meanwhile, demons are trapped within their own limitations.”

Luan explained with a serious expression.

“Humans, that is, people are not constrained by possibilities, so if they believe in each other rather than in a monotheistic god or other gods… the world can avoid destruction. They become pillars for one another.”

Yelena spoke in my mind.

-“But for those who have believed in gods all this time, such a thing couldn’t happen overnight…”

“It can’t. So in fact, even the system had given up on it…”

Celestia shouted.

-“We have to do something about it, don’t we?”

Right. This wasn’t the time to debate whether it could or couldn’t be done – this was the only way…

I was desperately trying to figure out a method. Then Alderion conveyed his message.

-“Um, Savior. The Banquet Hall is gone. The Widow too… is gone, but I think I might have searched incorrectly, so I’m reporting for now.”

Hearing this, Luan rolled his eyes around.

“You don’t need to search anymore. Since the Widow disappeared, it seems the Banquet Hall disappeared too.”

-“If the Widow is gone…”

“She probably vanished as the cost for the third world. It’s not your fault, so don’t worry about it.”

-“…Yes.”

I cut the communication. Then I connected my perspective to Erendor.

“Are you done persuading the Commander?”

-“It’s not ideal, but he’ll cooperate. Since his power suddenly increased so much, he half-believes what I’m saying, but who am I? Since I was acting like this all of a sudden, he thought I’d gone crazy and tried to crack my head open, so I barely escaped and talked to him.”

“Did you tell him about the situation too?”

-“Yeah. The Commander said he also saw cracks in the world when he opened his eyes, so my skull could avoid getting split.”

It seems things were quite eventful anyway. Since the Commander doesn’t trust me enough to invite him to my chat room, I have no choice but to go close to him.

“I’ll go meet the Commander briefly, so stay with the Demon King. If the angels attack, you’ll die quickly on your own…”

“Yes.”

“Ife, like last time. Please.”

{Leave it to me!}

I handed Ife, who had been wrapped around my wrist, back to Luan.

Then I headed to where the Commander was. With Erendor there, tracking was easy.

All sorts of attacks poured down on me as I suddenly emerged from the ground, but they didn’t even hurt.

This was different from when I was exhausted from falling into a trap and capturing Lumensia.

Moreover, the gap was even greater between the Commander who had become a Transcendent through his own power and knew how to utilize his abilities well, and someone who had become strong overnight and was swinging his hands around without even knowing his own power.

I lightly grabbed the attacking Commander’s wrist and tapped my reed on the ground to restrain the Commander.

“You must have heard what I had to say, Commander.”

As golden waves starting from the tip of the reed swept across the ground, the surrounding space twisted.

The Commander’s arrogant eyes were stained with shock and fear.

“I am the Savior.”

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