Episode 124. presentation (8)

A world in which order is perfectly established will be more beautiful than anything else.

If the world changed by mana is restored, not only dragons but everyone in the world will be able to stop the endless struggle against the unpredictable world… .

Akasha has been singing to the Laplace members.

‘Why would Elma bring order to chaos? I know better than anyone that disorder is a negative state, so I established order within it.’

Paradise, she said, is a world where the same day repeats itself infinitely.

There is no need to sacrifice the present for an unknown future, and there is no need to regret past mistakes.

The future is predestined, so envy, jealousy, and meaningless fights lose their meaning.

The past, the present, and the future are not different, so you can live a peaceful day without struggling.

‘Your descendants will feel the same happiness. Even if you make a mistake, you can handle it differently next time. Because the world won’t change… . Even if it takes a little time, if we can correct our mistakes one by one.’

‘… .’

‘In the end, only eternal happiness will remain in the world.’

If only Laplace could banish Elma and the Guardian God from the world… . It would be possible to dye all the mana surrounding the world black and stop its movement.

Akasha said that at least this world would lose uncertainty and stop indiscriminate expansion, and everything in the unchanging world would repeat itself endlessly as planned.

‘Dragons are the strongest and smartest beings on earth. Elma was afraid of that power, so he designed it so that you would not unite and focus only on individual research… . If you get rid of those trivial restrictions, you guys can change the world.’

I believe in her story as she sings that all of this is not a vain dream.

To Kegar, who has abandoned astronomy, which he has been studying, and has devoted himself only to the study of mana reduction theory… .

‘Before chaos, the world was full of order?’

The primordial world that Ian shows shook him greatly.

Is this the world that a blind cataract patient sees?

Under the vertically pouring light, even Kegar, who was left alone in the world, was completely buried in white.

There was only one thing he could perceive, a stream of light.

“In the beginning, the law that light falls vertically. It alone existed.”

Unlike Laplace’s imagination, a world where one order dominates everything… . It was a pale appearance.

Obviously, everything in the world has not changed as they wanted, and it is moving within the predictable range.

Here, he is not at peace… . I could only feel intense emptiness.

‘Why the hell… ?’

In a world where the goal that Laplace was pursuing was embodied as it was, why did he feel more anxiety than before?

Surprised by himself, Kegar didn’t even think to find the answer, and concentrated all his nerves on Ian’s continued presentation.

“In the midst of this colorless and odorless world, the goddess crouched for an eternity.”

There’s nothing I don’t know, so there’s no need to think.

Since nothing has changed, I couldn’t have any expectations.

Because I was alone without anyone else, I felt very lonely.

At the time, Elma was also conscious, but in a world close to futility, this was no different from a curse.

She forgot herself and focused only on feeling the flow of light.

“If you can become one with the first law that governs the world, the light that strikes vertically… . He believed that he would be able to get out of the hellish boredom that sometimes strikes him and reach a point where he completely stops thinking.”

However, she did not reach the stage of becoming one with the laws of the world.

“instead.”

In a world where you can’t measure how long you’ve spent with the light… . An act that was mere coincidence saved her.

“One day when the toxic ceremony continued for a long time. The goddess, unable to concentrate on the flow of light and suffering, for the first time stretched her crouched body and put her hand on the falling beam of light in front of her eyes.”

It was just an act of trying to find something to focus on in order to stop the chain of endless accidents.

The beam of light that touched her hand was very subtle, but it changed the direction it was traveling.

“That first inflection… . It began to fall all over the world at the same speed, causing a chain of collisions of light particles that never collided.”

When the particles that fell endlessly in the same direction collided with each other, the white world began to mix with infinitely many colors.

Elma became a small light and began to fly around in joy over the scene where paint seemed to spread rapidly on a blank sheet of paper.

And, after a long time… .

“Just like when you mix different colors of paint, they get closer to black. The white world gradually became darker, and the light particles constantly collided and gradually changed into new forms.”

In the darkness where you can see various colors like the curtain of the night.

Elma named the space that shuddered inexplicably an inch ahead as chaos.

In this dynamic darkness, the goddess restored order and created an elaborate world.

Because order never again stopped everything, because mana that could move endlessly and randomly was scattered throughout the world.

In the end, Elma created the present world where order and change are harmonized so that everything is not swept away by chaos, even though it is endlessly changing.

* * *

“’Clinamen’ means refraction. Among them, it is the first word that deviates from the vertical line and refers to the refraction that gave the world countless colors.”

As if eyes were opened in a dark place, the free magic that Ian showed to everyone in the pulpit was slowly dispelled.

The observers, who were swallowed up by the light coming down from overhead and got up from their seats in amazement, sat down as if their legs were weakened.

With only Kegar standing in his seat, he stared at Ian standing on the podium and asked.

“Are Professor Ian’s argument that the beginning of the creation of the world was an accident?”

“That’s right.”

The observers, startled by his unconventional claim, gasped for breath, and Kegar slowly asked the question again.

“I will ask you again. If you follow Professor Ian’s argument, you might think that the goddess is not omnipotent. Is my understanding correct?”

“That’s right. It is clear that he is a transcendent being, but since he did not know what consequences his actions would bring, he cannot be regarded as omnipotent.”

Then, before Kegar could answer, one of the scholars called out.

“It is blasphemy! This is a serious crime that would not be enough even if we stopped the presentation right away and held a heresy question-”

“Is it really blasphemy to introduce what the Goddess herself has revealed in the Bible?”

“… that’s.”

Leaving the speechless scholar alone, Ian told everyone.

“Apar, the wise man who was handed the bible, said that he received all of its contents from the goddess.”

He moved according to Elma’s command to bring together the people who were divided due to lack of a guardian spirit.

“As a religious leader, it would have been much more advantageous to cover up the flaws of the goddess in order to unite humans… . Afar didn’t. As written in the Bible, he explained the origins of the creation of the world to his disciples. Do you know why?”

“… .”

“It is to make them understand why he did not attach guardian spirits only to humans.”

Around the time when heterogeneous tribes, who united in an orderly manner under the guardian spirit and devoted their lives under a firm sense of purpose, began to achieve brilliant development.

Watching such a situation, it is said that the people of the time resented the goddess who abandoned them in a barren and harsh world.

Some argued that the goddess was to punish sinful humans, and urged them to serve the different races with superhuman strength and mental power and believe in their gods together.

It was an era in which the reason for the existence of humans, who were far inferior to other races, was vague.

“Then, Afar spoke of the origins of the creation of the world… . I explained why the Goddess did not assign guardian spirits to humans.”

Elma, who had spent a long time in a stagnant world where only order existed, was afraid to entrust the world to a different race who tried to live according to the will of the guardian spirit she created.

I hoped that unpredictable beings who would bring vitality to the world would freely roam the world.

“Human beings are beings who can bring about their change when someday the heterogeneous races become stagnant trapped in the doctrine of a guardian deity… . It is a life that is absolutely necessary in the world, and a race with the freedom and potential to become anything. Afar taught his disciples, and that spirit still lives on here in the first tower.”

* * *

The audience, the judges, and even Caldera were paying attention to his presentation.

The Creator God is not omnipotent.

This was an even more shocking claim than Kegar’s announcement to attack the guardian deity’s flaws.

‘… I didn’t expect to play like this.’

However, it was a number no different from self-destruction.

To put Elma down in a public place like this. Of course, when you do that, you can bring about a topic that goes beyond Rane… .

Due to this announcement, it was clear that many theological students would be hostile to him.

“Then, there is no reason why we should continue to serve a goddess who is not omnipotent.”

“… .”

Above all, if the authority of the goddess is lowered because of his announcement, the power of theological students will also decrease… . This will eventually become a good stepping stone to achieve the final goal of mana reduction theory research, the severance of God and the world.

“The professor’s announcement that the existence that theology students have blindly believed in and feared so far is not omnipotent seems to be in line with the topic that we, the Imperial Society, are currently researching.”

Aside from that, Ian’s announcement, which drew more attention than expected, needed to be cut off once.

Kegar stood up and pointed at Rane, who was sitting next to him.

“We, too, have found evidence that the Guardian God is not perfect and that the different races who worship imperfect gods also hide a cruel side.”

Kegar, who naturally took away the flow of the presentation, left Ian standing alone on the podium and looked around the audience.

“Let me introduce you. A vampire abandoned by Esca… . This is Rane, a natural Diffel.”

At the word “Diffel”, the observers looked at Rane and started whispering, as if they had completely forgotten that Ian was presenting.

“Diffel? Yesterday, I saw you speak the language perfectly!?”

“No, before that… . If it’s Diffel, isn’t it a monster that bites at everything around it? Then, did Princess Seryl bring such a dangerous being inside the veil…? ?”

Kegar smiled and lifted her from her seat.

“… Rane, say hello to everyone.”

Everyone looked at her with mixed eyes of fear and curiosity as she bowed her head obediently as she was told.

Confident of victory, Kegar looked at Ian’s expression as he kept his silence.

‘What is it, a bluff… ?’

As if he expected all of this, from Ian’s expression as he leisurely waits for Kegar’s announcement… .

I felt a strange feeling of insecurity.