The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 39

What should I do?

An unexpected problem has occurred.

The people I sent memories to don’t think about summoning me.

The problem starts like this. I gathered Yasle’s summoning event memories, then cut them into pieces and transmitted them. The reason I didn’t send them all at once is because people couldn’t withstand the memory transfer and died.

So I lowered it to the maximum and experimented with transmitting while gradually increasing the capacity. I found the point where I could send as much as possible and sent it.

But people who understand quickly used the magic Yasle used with just the memories I sent.

Yes.

No matter how much I look at the memories, I only know that the part to summon me is here. But some people understand the principle from those memories and use simple magic. How do they do it?

No, anyway.

They can use new magic.

This is the fundamental problem.

All the lights falling on me, sunk like a cold sea below the surface, are deeply despairing and resigned people.

But when they receive a blessing, they basically gain powerful strength. Just in case, I did a full investigation and found that not only did their physical abilities improve before and after receiving my blessing, but their intelligence also increased.

There are differences in degree for each person, but overall, the body itself changes for the better. And if they’re lucky, they get a special ability on top of that.

Checking the results so far, out of a total of 797 subjects, 236 gained abilities. About 3 out of 10 gain abilities. Isn’t this a good probability?

By the way, I say subjects because it’s not just humans.

Additionally, in the world where I was summoned, I blessed a total of 542 people. The rest of the numbers are the lights that fell on me as time passed.

All those who received that blessing became stronger without exception.

Incurable wounds healed, they became younger, stronger, smarter, and some even gained special abilities.

Most problems are solved when the body becomes healthy and strong.

That alone is a problem, but people who are smart enough to understand Yasle’s knowledge well even use magic.

Many people improve dramatically before and after the blessing.

Yes. This is the biggest problem.

If they gain the power to escape from difficult situations, there’s no need to summon me.

But if we wait for blessed people to become unhappy again, the timing of becoming unhappy is too vague.

It’s not that they’re alienated and abandoned, but the moment their necks are cut.

They abuse the power they suddenly gained, and are killed without achieving their goals.

It’s a dilemma.

To give knowledge to someone desperate enough to call me, I first have to give a blessing.

If I give a blessing, there’s no need to call me.

When I was inside that world over there, I could influence people with little warmth, but I can’t from below the surface.

It seems not just my consciousness was pulled up, but my actual body went up. That’s why I could interfere with that world.

Now that I’ve come back down, I can’t interfere with the world.

Saying I came back down reminds me of a scene.

That time.

When I tried to make a phone and saw a crack in the air. What would have happened if I had just applied force then? Would the warmth have increased? Or would I have fallen back through that crack?

There’s too much I don’t know.

At times like this, we shouldn’t proceed hastily, but move forward step by step.

First, let’s try to make blessed people able to summon me.

How should we do it?

Let’s think about it.

How can we make them summon me?

What can I do?

First, one thing.

I can give blessings.

To explain accurately, it’s passing myself to the other person. Then, the light they have turns black and their body mutates.

We shorten this and call it a blessing.

People who receive blessings become stronger.

Sometimes they gain special abilities. They control elements like fire, water, lightning, or wind, or their body size changes freely, or even if their arm is cut off, it regenerates immediately. Some people gained the ability to twist people’s minds.

This is good.

Then let’s think about the other side.

From a third-person perspective, the bad side.

I can steal warmth.

And if I only steal warmth from a living state, people turn into monsters.

The thought crossed my mind that maybe I too became human after having my warmth stolen.

But when I first stole warmth from people, they felt an intense chill as they turned into monsters.

Then they attacked the person in front of them to gain warmth. But at that time, the warmth of the attacked person was drawn to me.

Not to the attacking monster, but to me.

Let’s make a hypothesis first.

That monster was infected by me.

There are stories where a vampire sucks a victim’s blood and discards them, then the corpse rises and becomes a ghost craving the blood of the living, right?

Like that, we could see that when their warmth is stolen by me, they become a lower entity than me.

But this is a bit unclear. At that time, the monster looked at me, then looked as if watching prey, then looked as if seeing a strong monster before choosing another target.

I don’t know after that. Its face was covered with white carapace, so I couldn’t read its expression.

But it was afraid of me. Was this fear because it was completely alien? Or because I was the one giving orders?

Either way, in the end, when a person turned monster kills another person, I gain warmth. In other words, I can create unpaid workers who can exploit for me.

Not bad. I like it because it’s the most efficient beyond ideology. I can use them freely and discard them, right?

But this is not a good method.

It’s especially bad that they fall into mindless monsters.

Because simple enemies are easy to kill, right? There’s no guilt, and you can slaughter them as if working.

There’s an example.

Zombies in shooting games. They look like humans, but you feel no guilt killing them. Because they’re monsters that eat people, because they’re already dead, because they have no reason. There are many reasons, but in short, there’s no mental burden in hunting them.

If this happens, they’ll eventually be hunted without question.

It’s good when it first spreads like a plague, but the problem is what comes after. It appears in any plague simulator game, right?

When the infection is less, if the mortality rate is too high, people quickly make a cure. If I create monsters with warmth, they might find a solution in a way I never thought of and kill the monsters.

I know that if I have to do something, spreading first is more important.

So blessings are better than warmth.

It’s not necessarily a bad result for people around, right? Whatever the substance is, it’s just power, it seems there’s nothing like good or evil.

But blessed people give more warmth than expected.

When people pushed to extremes gain power, they try to break through the difficulties they’re facing with that power.

And because of the experience of falling into that extreme situation, they choose violence over dialogue.

Someone says this, right?

What’s the point of philosophy or moral concerns when there’s no rice at home?

It’s not about what’s right or wrong.

It’s not about human nature or whatever. People with leisure would do that.

What’s important to me is which has a higher probability.

Are there more people who act with reason in extreme situations? Or are there more people who want to survive first?

Purely considering, there will be more people who want to survive.

And violence always brings resentment.

Of course, the person who used violence could be right. The person who was hit could purely be a vicious person.

So when that vicious person is hit, will they say this is their just deserts, or will they resent the person who hit them?

It’s clear that blessings will bring more warmth.

Yes. More warmth.

I know how to be patient.

I’ll choose the side with the larger total amount.

In other words, let’s say my advantage is giving blessings. Let’s set aside warmth for now. That’s an issue to think about when I go to that world.

First, I need to sell my advantages.

How can I sell them?

Let’s search through all the memories I’ve gained so far.

Hmm.

Hmm.

There was something that popped up every time on internet video sites and stuck in your head, right? That’s right. There’s something that sprays specific information to people in various mass media.

Advertisements.

Shall we insert my advertisement when giving memories?

If we insert content like “You can give more blessings to people around you!”, one of them might bite.

Moreover, I don’t think there are only one or two people like Yasle or Andrew. There must be many.

Even in the memories of the faded man, there’s something like this.

To make a pioneer church run properly, you just need to gather 80 people.

They say this enters the stable zone without deficit.

Yes. For some people, religion is a business. Wouldn’t blessings be an excellent business item for such people?

I actually saw and experienced such business happening right in front of me.

Surely someone will see my advertisement and call me.

Yes. I’ve decided.

It might take a bit longer to put all the necessary memories into one person, but I’ll insert advertisements here and there.

What kind of advertisement would be good?

Can you hear me? Can you hear my voice? Shall I start with this and eventually imitate the goddess in some game who hit the back of the head?

I hope there’s someone who mindlessly calls me like in cosmic horror works. No, my thoughts strayed, but this mostly shows people obsessed with alien knowledge, so there’s little information to reference.

Hmm.

Let’s keep it simple for now. Simple.

‘If you want more blessings, call me with this knowledge.’

This sentence also contains a bit of deception.

It sounds like you can gain more power for yourself, right? I meant ‘more’ in the sense of spreading blessings to more people.

However, depending on the language, I need to change the method slightly. There are some that use completely different words depending on that nuance.

But the basic framework is the same. It speaks as if giving benefit to the other person, but actually it’s for my benefit.

I’ll try to make it a short and simple sentence that stimulates desire as much as possible.

Isn’t that what all advertisements are like?

There are no laws anyway, right?

Hehe.

I made an advertisement.