Chapter 797 Truth

Sophocles was a Demon Main God who was always quite active. He often had an incarnation and believers in the mortal plane. Only now did people discover to their surprise that his being so active was also a way to disguise himself.

“If my inference is correct, no, my inference can’t possibly be wrong with my understanding of the Gods. Sophocles… was a God with no self-will. Our miscalculation about what he really was resulted in this incident.”

Only a few people were present in the large conference room. My expression probably didn’t look that pleasant as I explained things.

I had come into contact with Sophocles multiple times already, after all. It really would make me seem quite foolish to only realize now that I had been talking to nothing more than a divine computer who was only capable of mechanical logical processing.

“…At the very least, you’re still far better than those who really suffered a big loss but never could find out why, since you still found the truth after the incident.”

“Harloys, are you… actually trying to console me?”

“…Of course you can think that since you’re so accustomed to being a narcissist.”

I glanced at the silly cat who was trying to encourage me in her own way. I then took a deep breath and organized all the information and clues that I had. No mistake could be afforded now.

“Sophocles. Most accurately speaking, he stopped being a demon long ago. He’s actually a pure Order God. Although it sounds inconceivable, that’s the only possible explanation for what happened…”

Those listening to me in the conference room included archmages from the Mage Country, Halent’s special envoy, high-level fairy editors, and Archduke Solan from Auland. Everyone really wanted to know just what had happened, and why the Sophocles self-destruction incident had occurred.

I was probably the one who had the most right to speak on this incident as I had been fighting against Sophocles. I also needed to give everyone a proper explanation so that we could all be unified for the upcoming battle.

“Sophocles succeeded in having his incarnation ascend to Godhood. That was the God of Evolution that ordinary people have long since forgotten about. Perhaps the God of Evolution is now a secret to the world, but it’s no big secret at all to everyone present here. However, there’s something that likely nobody ever knew. Perhaps everyone believed that the God of Evolution naturally became nothing more than a joke and a piece of dark history once his real identity was exposed. But actually… the God of Evolution has always lived on within Sophocles’ body.

“I don’t know what Sophocles was thinking. However, over the long years, he definitely transformed his main body into the God of Evolution which had no self-will. The Sophocles that everyone knew was nothing more than a fake puppet that the God of Evolution pretended to be based on Sophocles’ past personality data.”

Sophocles had long since died already as an intelligent individual. It was impossible to guess when he had died, but he probably died the moment that he perfected transforming himself completely into the God of Evolution who had no self-will.

Correct, Sophocles had died long ago. Once an intelligent individual gave up their own self-will, even if he was the #1 most powerful existence in the entire world, how different would he be from someone dead since he no longer even had a concept of himself?

However, someone dead had caused the entire world to tremble in fear. We had paid an unacceptable price because of Sophocles.

The reason? That was unknown. Maybe he went overboard in search of greater power, and was devoured by his more logical Order incarnation. Maybe he went insane from forcefully splitting his mind into two halves. Maybe he gave up his self-will of his own volition for some reason. Maybe someone scammed him into taking a wrong path…

Ahem, maybe such things sounded familiar, but I was definitely referring to Sophocles, not myself.

What? You’re asking if I’m afraid now that I might have reached such a state as well? Of course… I would be afraid! Thinking back on things now, if it weren’t for the System cheating for my sake, I would likely have lost myself like this as well, since it had also happened to Sophocles.

I revealed the truth about who Sophocles really was thanks to my detailed analysis. Although this seemed rather comical, the end result of what he did really wasn’t something that anyone could laugh at.

An Order Main God had arisen from the corpse of a Chaos Main God. This Order Main God continued to pretend to be a Demon Main God in the Chaos Abyss for countless years, acting as the Order Faction’s mortal enemy. But in the end, Sophocles sacrificed everything he had in order to carry out his responsibility as an Order Main God, all in order to push his personal Concept to the highest possible level.

“The source of everything is Sophocles’ Divine Concept—Evolution.”

A God with no self-will was nothing more than a computer programmed to think with mechanical logic and work their hardest for their Concept. Such a God would never deviate from their own program, even if the end result was their own death.

A God with no self-will would highly prioritize their own personal safety, but the foundational nature of an Order Main God was that they would absolutely carry out their Divine Concept above all else, even if there was a conflict between carrying out the Divine Concept and their personal safety.

This was why it wasn’t actually that important how powerful a God with no self-will was. A fixed mechanical way of thinking would forever be the most foolish way of thinking.

“Gods with no self-will are far too inflexible in their actions. As long as I take advantage of your own rules, I can easily weaken you constantly. As long as I weaken you sufficiently, I’ll be able to kill you quite easily in the end.”

If my inference was correct, Sophocles and Karwenz had also lured the God of Holy Light into sending a Main God level incarnation to the battlefield by taking advantage of Karolan’s mechanical thinking.

However, Sophocles had an advantage over the God of Holy Light’s mechanical thinking. Sophocles had originally been a Chaos Main God, meaning that he had a stronger foundation before he died. The essence of Chaos meant that Sophocles had devoured countless souls and memories before. This gave Sophocles an excellent artificial intelligence that allowed him to pretend to be an incredibly sly and intelligent living individual. He successfully fooled everyone in the world with his disguise. It was already too late by the time that the truth was revealed.

Sophocles’ Divine Concept as an Order Main God was Evolution. The main goal of the Chaos Abyss was also evolution. An Order Main God had been trying to push evolution forward in the Chaos Abyss for so long, which was why nobody had ever noticed anything wrong with the situation.

“The key person in this matter is the other Main God, Karwenz…”

Karwenz had likely managed to see through Sophocles’ true essence, and then told the latter ‘I have a plan that can realize true evolution.’ Karwenz probably then showed Sophocles sufficient evidence and logical reasoning about being able to realize true evolution. After that, Sophocles would be willing to sacrifice everything in order to carry out his Divine Concept as he was only a God with no self-will.

It could be said that Sophocles was already dead, nothing more than a tool or weapon when he self-destructed. The true culprit who caused such tremendous losses was the mastermind who used this tool: Karwenz.

Sophocles had only been acting every time that he met me previously. He had even tried to lay so many traps for me. Fortunately, I had never trusted Sophocles even one bit, so I hadn’t fallen for any of his traps. As for who had been telling Sophocles to set traps for me? That was obvious.

As for whether Karwenz himself really believed in so-called pure evolution… I swear upon my knee that has taken so many arrows already that if he truly believed that, then I should become the world’s most pitiful person… by making me be single for the rest of my life?

“…I can sense evil intentions emanating from the world; I think I really shouldn’t swear on this after all…”

“Things will be different just because you didn’t swear such an oath?”

Ahem, ahem, if Karwenz really did have some belief that I was wrong about, then my second uncle’s grandfather’s niece’s second grandson’s name would be “Idiot Second Son”, and everyone would be welcome to beat him up as they pleased…

“…Aren’t you just saying in a roundabout manner that everyone should beat up Karwenz?”

The silly cat reacted really quickly. I wasn’t able to even slow her down one bit.

“No, I didn’t even need to think about it. I simply sensed your own evil intentions.”

I ignored the silly cat who was becoming ever more arrogant, and refocused on my analysis regarding Sophocles. Since it was certain that Sophocles was a God with no self-will and Karwenz’s tool, the rest could be figured out as well.

We had all originally thought that Karwenz wouldn’t have any allies, since nobody would possibly gain anything by standing together with someone who wanted to destroy 90+% of the world. However, there were always idealists who believed that their ideals were more important than their own lives, such as a special existence like Sophocles.

Sophocles and Karwenz had been allies since the very beginning while constantly acting in front of us and everyone else.

The other two Chaos Main Gods Donatis and Barbarot had fallen into their trap. Not only did Donatis and Barbarot become bait that attracted lots of firepower, they were even planned sacrifices to realize Sophocles and Karwenz’s “ideals”.

Devil Main God Sarwenstan had also fallen into their trap. Sophocles had never intended on helping Sarwenstan to begin with. The Lord of Tyranny was nothing more than another potential sacrifice to help open a door to the dimensional barrier. Sarwenstan would have been yet another sacrifice if he had been on the same battlefield as Sophocles.

And now, Karwenz had achieved his own goal. Sacrificing a sufficient number of Main Gods helped to create a chaotic domain where it was now possible to open a door to the dimensional barrier. Everything would be too late unless Karwenz was stopped soon within the new chaotic domain.

Now that all the facts were laid before us, our next course of action was also quite obvious.

“We must analyze that chaotic domain! We must destroy the door to the dimensional barrier at all costs! And then… we must kill Karwenz and finish everything.”