The True Identity of the Heaven God

The True Identity of the Heaven God

Before arriving at the ruins, I gave Luna one precaution.

“Try not to be obvious, and store all the books there in your memory.”

If we were caught openly copying, Ember might try to stop us, so it would be best to do this secretly if possible.

After I said that, Luna quickly nodded and said to me.

[Got it!]

I felt somewhat uneasy at her overly enthusiastic voice.

But since there was nothing else I could do but trust her, I just nodded and slowly moved forward.

‘I feel sorry for Ember, but it would be good to extract information from all the magic books that exist in the Illusion Library during this opportunity.’

Thanks to the free funeral service that Delia was running, I had accumulated countless points.

But since the price of each magic book was excessively expensive, it would be impossible to purchase them even after several decades.

So, deciding to use a trick to drastically reduce that time, I entered the Illusion Library, where Ember greeted us.

“Oh? It’s been a while.”

Ember, still holding a book as big as herself, pushed up her glasses and said to us.

“You might not know since you haven’t visited for a while, but quite a lot of points have accumulated. With this much, hmm… I think you could purchase some pretty good items.”

To that, I replied briefly in a voice devoid of much interest.

“Then I’ll look around.”

“Yes. Take your time looking around. If you need my help, please call me anytime.”

I nodded at those words and slowly moved my feet while holding Luna.

*

Looking around the room where all kinds of items were on display, I briefly said.

“Do you think you can do it?”

At that question, Luna stared intently at the nearby magic books and quickly nodded.

Satisfied with Luna’s reaction, I nodded and slowly moved my feet.

‘I guess I’ll just look through the useful things first.’

Unfortunately, the novel only mentioned ‘ancient magic books’.

Since I didn’t have any other information besides the ancient magic books, I needed to check everything one by one.

So I was looking at magic books focusing on the expensive ones, when Ember quietly approached from behind and looked at me with suspicious eyes.

“The items there are too expensive for Deren to buy… Why are you standing there?”

Perhaps due to her long experience managing the Illusion Library, she’s quite perceptive.

I felt guilty, but if I showed it, all my plans would fall apart.

So I looked at her calmly as usual and briefly said.

“I’m checking items to purchase in the future.”

It was a tone that could be described as arrogant rather than confident.

Perhaps because of that tone, Ember seemed to accept it and nodded while muttering.

“Well, you’ve found a way to regularly earn points, and you’ve also brought people with quite high points…”

She seems to think my words make sense.

I looked at Ember nodding her head, then turned my gaze and looked around more leisurely at the surrounding items.

‘She seems to have accepted it for now, but if I drag this out too long, she might get suspicious, so it’s best to wrap this up at an appropriate point.’

I walked around, buying time for Luna to grasp the contents of the magic book while thinking such thoughts.

*

I’m not sure if it was thanks to my acting, or if some trust had been built up over time.

Ember stopped questioning me and left again to do her own work.

Confirming this, I decided to quickly finish up and was looking around when.

[I’m done!]

Even though not much time had passed, Luna told me she was finished and nuzzled her cheek against my chest.

I was a bit surprised by how fast she was, but.

What was important now was not being surprised, but getting out of the Illusion Library, so I nodded and started walking.

‘Then after checking what we got from the research lab…’

It would be good to judge if there’s anything that can be combined with ancient magic.

I came to that conclusion and was about to go home when Ember called out to stop me.

“Oh… Are you leaving already?”

I nodded, and Ember stared at me for a moment.

Then she stood up and said to me.

“The things you were looking at earlier are quite expensive… so it might be difficult to purchase them with just regular income. Of course, you could borrow them for about an hour like last time, but… you might forget in the middle, so I think it would be better if you could buy them if possible.”

She’s speaking indirectly, but she probably means she’d prefer if I bought them.

I said I’d consider it and tried to pass by.

Ember continued speaking again.

“So how about bringing people who have good stories? If you’re lucky, you might earn enough points to buy what you want in one go.”

At her words about bringing people with good stories, a question suddenly arose in my mind.

I wondered why the Illusion Library was so intent on collecting others’ ‘stories’.

‘They said there were definitely people who needed them.’

I recalled how they had avoided answering by saying the detailed reasons were a secret.

I couldn’t help but feel uneasy as I watched Ember casually suggesting to bring in people with good stories.

It might just be my imagination, but I felt a strange sense of urgency.

‘It’s probably best to keep watching for now.’

They might tell me more information about the Illusion Library once I accumulate a higher score.

For now, I decided to sell useless stories while keeping an eye out, and resolve this later.

I just nodded vaguely and started walking.

* * *

After that, I immediately returned to the lab and asked Luna what she had learned.

[I’ll tell you.]

Then Luna started telling me what she had learned with a bright smile.

To briefly summarize the vast amount of information:

The structure and principles of creation magic, the origin of curses, methods to summon gods, swordsmanship of sword saints, and so on…

From magic to completely unrelated fields like swordsmanship and archery, various topics popped up.

I filtered out everything unrelated to magic.

Then I asked about the most intriguing topics: ‘the origin of curses and methods to summon gods’.

[The origin of curses is literally a magic book containing all curse magic. I can tell you if you want, Master.]

Curse magic…

Since curse magic falls under black magic, which I haven’t properly learned yet, it piques my interest.

I nodded, sensing that if I used this, I could properly get back at those Heaven God Cult bastards.

“Then, what’s the method for summoning a god?”

At those words, Luna raised her tail and spoke to me.

[To explain it simply, it’s a text describing the method for summoning a being called a god.]

I wiggled my hand, signaling for a more detailed explanation.

Luna waved her cat paw and continued.

[First, after creating a suitable medium for the Heaven God to be contained in, it says you need to offer something like a sacrifice because it requires an enormous amount of energy when summoning.]

… Heaven God?

Wondering if Luna had misread ‘god’ as ‘Heaven God’, I asked if she had misspoken.

But Luna shook her head and said she had spoken correctly.

[It was written exactly as Heaven God!]

The moment I heard that, I realized that what Luna had said earlier was subtly misaligned.

Usually, a being called a god typically descends using its own power.

However, in that book, unlike ordinary gods, it was written that a medium was needed, and something like a sacrifice was required when being summoned.

‘So it feels more like a resurrection than a summoning.’

As I was falling into such thoughts and questions.

Luna used mana to lift a quill pen and began to write something while continuing to speak.

[There’s a small note attached at the end. I’ll write it directly for you because this note seems to have various meanings depending on the interpretation!]

I nodded, and Luna quickly moved the quill pen to write.

[Humans tend to think from a human-centric perspective, so when they hear ‘Heaven God’, they naturally tend to think of it as a god of humans.

As a result, serious errors in judgment often occur.

It’s the illusion that the existence of gods is the exclusive property of humans.]

Exclusive property of humans?

At those words, a sudden thought flashed through my mind.

The scene I had seen before, where the priest of the Heaven God Cult emitted ‘magi’, which was said to be usable only by demons.

As that scene came to mind.

I realized that the ‘Heaven God’ the Heaven God Cult speaks of.

… Rather than referring to a god of humans, it means a god of demons.

In other words, I could recognize that it refers to a demon god.