episode_0124

Originally, I wasn’t a big believer in the multiverse theory. It wasn’t that there was a cool, scientific reason, and it was because I didn’t want to accept the painful story that there are multiple such things in multiple dimensions when the universe is so vast that there is no way for everything to be revealed until the end of human history. .

However, this thought was shattered when I moved to another world. I had no choice but to believe that I was actually going to a completely different world in another dimension.

“Umm… where should I start talking….”

Prinia began with these words and told me quite a long story. Because the stories were so vast and complex, I couldn’t understand them right away, but after listening to them all, I was able to summarize them in four simple lines.

Stella and Prinia came from a world where they call the place they live in, ‘Poina.’

Poina has an energy source that is similar to the mana of this world, but has a completely different mechanism, and that is the identity of the power that the people here regard as divine power.

All Poina graduates can use that power to demonstrate their own special abilities, and the scale and power of their abilities vary widely, making dangerous people people of note.

Those women of interest were unable to withstand the constant attention and surveillance and ended up crossing over to this dimension.

“So, Poina is a world where everyone has superpowers…”

“Superpower? What word is that?”

I had to correct my expression in response to Prinia’s purely questioning response. To these people, the definition of superpower itself may be ambiguous. If everyone had super powers, it wouldn’t be a super power, it would just be an ordinary one. It was the same as when a person breathes, taking in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide.

“It’s nothing… The Holy Sword and the World Tree’s Bow… The sacred power is contained in the weapon, but is it originally a power that can be freely given to other objects or people? ”

In the case of Stella Church believers and high elves, although there were individual differences, they were able to use divine power. Through the process of eating the fruit of the World Tree, I also, with Kaela’s help, lifted the curse of the elves and created a green land near Lair, but it was impossible to explain how such things were possible through the words Prinia had told me so far.

“Mana, too, I think that’s a characteristic of this dimension. Faith comes together and acts as a practical force.”

“Hmm… Is that really how you came across to this dimension?”

“Yes. Because my ability is to open and close dimensions. I’m helping people other than me escape surveillance.”

As expected, it was like that. That would be enough to be labeled as a person of interest.

“I still don’t understand. Why should Prinia be considered such a dangerous person?”

Stella, who was next to me, added a word. I couldn’t agree with that. Even if it were to open a dimension, I saw with my own eyes the scene where a space that was supposed to be connected was closed.

The majestic sight of a waterfall that suddenly appears as if the world has been cut off by the horizon in the vast ocean is a sight that you will probably never forget until you die.

“Then why did Stella become a person of interest?”

“I am not a person of interest. I just followed Prinia because she came.”

“Even if you say it with the nuance of sharpening a needle, what is Stella’s ability?”

“It’s very interesting, but it’s nothing special. It’s just that we can create stars as has been passed down to humans.”

As Stella said that and gestured, a new star emerged among the countless stars in outer space.

“…Huh?”

I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. Contrary to its beautiful name, a star is a large nuclear fusion reactor.

“Wait a minute, how did you make it?”

“Even if you ask how it was made… In Poina, where we lived, there are even fewer people who know the mechanism by which their abilities occur.”

“No, you don’t know that, but you can use your abilities?”

“Why are you talking so reproachfully? Even Prinia doesn’t know how to open and close dimensions.”

Anyway, it wasn’t a sane ability. I thought opening and closing dimensions was a semi-unscientific story from the beginning, but my curiosity exploded when I saw an ability that was vaguely based on science.

“Now that I think about it, wouldn’t it be possible to know the mechanism of Stella’s abilities with knowledge of the world where Eugene lived?”

Stella, who came out of Remains Thought and talked about various things about the Earth, spoke as if she was interested. I definitely felt like I could figure out how stars are created.

“How do you use your abilities? If you just wish for a star to appear there, will it happen?”

“How could such a foolish thing be said? I don’t know about you, but I can feel the space being filled with very small and fine particles that are invisible to the eye.”

“…So?”

“If you want to gather them all in one place, strangely enough, something like that will appear.”

“Ah….”

I realized it at first glance. Those small, minute particles that Stella is talking about are probably atoms.

“If you collect them like that, will those particles just collide with each other?”

This time, Stella made a surprised expression at my question.

“How did you know? Did you feel that too?”

So, this woman in front of me, without even knowing the concept of atoms, was clashing and combining atoms to create nuclear fusion. In some way, isn’t this person a person of interest?

“Ah… Okay… I understand… ”

That’s what he said, but when his expression showed that he didn’t have the confidence to explain, Prinia only smiled brightly and didn’t ask for an explanation. Instead, the story shifted the topic in a different direction.

“Anyway, as I said earlier, this world is a place where faith is expressed through direct force. The reason why I, who can only open and close dimensions, suddenly created residual thoughts through trees and created a land where nature thrives, is because the elves believe that I have such power and send their faith to me.”

“How on earth did the elves come to believe that…?”

They deny that they are gods, and if the story so far is true, we know that Stella did not actually create humans or that Prinia did not create elves.

“Did you see the sea when you came to the place where my residual thoughts were?”

I immediately knew what he was talking about. It must be referring to the huge ocean waterfall I was thinking about just a moment ago. When I nodded, Prinia continued.

“Beyond that, there live beings that the creatures of this dimension fear. They call them demons.”

“Asmodians?”

Here again, a familiar cliché pops up. The hero’s main enemies are invaders from another dimension called the Demon World. The existence of the hero was not much different from what I knew in this regard.

“They are creatures from different dimensions, and the two dimensions that should have been disconnected originally were connected… so I disconnected them again. The elves living in that land intuitively realized that.”

“Aha.”

Moses’ parting of the sea is praised as a miracle of God, but if the entire horizon is used as a line and the space is cut out as if drawing a line on a piece of paper, it will make one lose faith and become exhausted.

“After that, the elves began to believe in me, and I gained the power to bless nature as they wished. Although it is a power that can only be used in this dimension in a limited way.”

“Then Stella?”

“The night was dark, so I made a few stars to light up the sky, but people believed in it. Originally, this dimension had very few stars.”

Now I look everywhere and everything is stars. Once again, I was able to indirectly see how excited this woman was using her abilities.

“So what exactly is Stella’s ability that came from faith?”

“It’s hard for me to explain that too. Humans have a very diverse and free way of thinking, so all the spells that my believers use using divine power while using my name are all done with my power.”

Simply put, making your wishes come true. Of course, the equivalent exchange seems to be working properly here as well, so greater divine power will be needed to achieve a greater wish.

“But perhaps because of that, the identity of my faith itself is ambiguous, so my power in the Holy Sword seems to have its origins in my original ability.”

“……Really?”

I once again learned the source of the sacred sword’s destructive power. I thought it would be a very convenient setup to cut down all things regardless of whether they believed in Stella’s existence or if they were targets that Stella was aware of, but it turned out that the Alpha Collapse occurred based on faith.

Although it takes time to recover after being hit by something like that, I was curious as to what happened to the dragon’s body.

“Anyway, as I’ve said before, the really important thing is that faith actually becomes strength. And although it may not have been intentional, Eugene, you have also gained a lot of faith through your actions so far.”

“I also mean that half a penny has joined the ranks of gods…”

He saved the people from the falling meteorite with the help of Arjen. It was Prinia’s intention to create a body through which Stella’s divine power could not pass. It was Akasha’s evil plan to reappear after 360 years in an unchanged form.

If you look at it comprehensively, it was all done by the power of others, and the only thing they did was to call themselves gods, but the series of actions were definitely in the form of faith.

“So be careful. Depending on what those who think you are a god think, you will gain new powers. It could gnaw at you, or it could be an uncontrollable force and cause another danger.”

This is probably what Prinia truly wanted to say to me.

‘…What I’m saying is that you should behave well.’

Even though I thought I had done something pointless, it was also true that I felt excited at the thought of gaining new strength.