The witch thought I am a Demon God

The bronze masked man sitting on the stone chair said: "I know that in your eyes, Chitose fire using corpses as firewood is very sinful. For people of your time, it seems to be a completely different world from the one you live in. The world of barbarians.”

"But you have to remember that it was the original Chitose Fire nearly three thousand years ago."

He stretched out his palm to Ivita, and the most primitive Chitose Fire appeared in his hand. It was the most primitive and evil Chitose Fire.

When Ivita saw this primitive thousand-year-old fire, she immediately felt a desolate, primitive, and evil feeling.

The bronze masked man said: "As the most powerful regional independent law, the price paid by the Chitose Fire is that it risks extinguishing every once in a while. That's because the biggest secret of the Chitose Fire lies here."

"What I hold in my hand is the earliest Chitose Fire. It was when humans were closest to beasts. It is the Chitose Fire that you see on the murals when humans were in the period of tribal monarchy."

Ivita seemed to understand somewhat, while the Hearthstone Witch beside him was confused.

The bronze masked man said: "Ambrose during the tribal monarchy period was essentially a large primitive tribal state composed of five tribes. At that time, the firewood that maintained the Thousand Years Fire was...humanity itself, that is, the people in the tribe. Captives and slaves.”

"But at that time, many nobles from the five major tribes would take the initiative to throw themselves into the flames, and there was even a custom of using the Chitose Fire as a funeral."

"Human life at that time was not as valuable as it is now. The main concern of mankind was how to survive under the threat of the children of the forest and natural disasters. It was an honor to sacrifice for the tribe."

The bronze masked man said: "It changed later. The inequality of wealth soon made the people of the five major tribes dissatisfied with the primitive military democratic system of tribal countries. They wanted to use hierarchical order to create permanent possessions of wealth and control of others' lives. position of power, so the slave city-state replaced the original tribalism of the Ambrose humans.”

"The Ambrose people at that time, began to make laws to define what the country was, who was a slave owner and who was a slave."

"Therefore, the people who lit the Chitose Fire at that time changed from captives and a few nobles to slaves. Slave owners began to regard throwing themselves into the Chitose Fire as pure suicide, and refused to fulfill their obligations. Their responsibilities were transferred to Slaves."

The thousand-year-old fire in the palm of the bronze masked man changed again, turning into the light red thousand-year-old fire that Ivita had seen before, and the evil aura weakened a lot.

As Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch listened carefully, the bronze masked man continued: "Then the unprecedentedly powerful civilization came. The ancient civilization established a republic and an empire on this land. Although Ambrose For ancient civilization, it is just a small corner."

"But after the arrival of the ancient civilization, it brought a slave democracy system and replaced the authoritarian slave centralization system. Later, the ancient civilization began to use debt slavery, which gradually increased the personal freedom of the slaves and gave them the most important freedom. Use money to buy the right to freedom. In this process, what was used to light the Chitose Fire was the blood left on the bodies of the gladiators. That’s why ancient civilizations were so obsessed with building magnificent arenas.”

Bronze Mask said: "But unlike all the previous native Ambrose regimes, the Thousand Years Fire was too weak for the ancient civilization. Therefore, the ancient civilization treated the affairs of the Thousand Years Fire more as a plaything, a kind of cultural practices.”

The color of the Thousand Years Fire in the hands of the bronze masked man became lighter, and the evil aura almost disappeared, turning into a savage but powerful feeling.

The bronze masked man said: "Then the most important thing is that when the latest Chitose Fire was about to go out, a thousand years ago, Ambrose's human civilization changed again. Feudal serfdom replaced the ancient civilization after the collapse. Ambrose’s slave democracy, in which feudalism replaced the central and provincial systems.”

"Rural villages and estates replaced the cities and ports of ancient civilizations."

"But because after the decline of the ancient civilization, the entire human world suffered a serious setback, and most areas entered a state similar to anarchy or some institutions that were leftover from the ancient civilization survived. Therefore, Ambrose only changed the system. It took three hundred years for feudal serfdom to be established."

"Then, the Chitose Fire fell into a continuous decline that lasted for three hundred years. After three hundred years, it was almost extinguished. Until four hundred years ago, a fire starter named [Alcusi] took his wife [Anna] 】When he came here, he went through all kinds of difficulties, met the conditions to open the Bronze Door, and obtained the secret of the Chitose Fire, and then he found a way to rekindle the Chitose Fire."

The flame in the hand of the bronze masked man has turned into a color similar to ordinary flame.

Iveta suddenly became familiar with the flame.

Yes, this is the thousand-year-old fire that I am familiar with, the fire of law that represents the noble qualities of human civilization.

The bronze masked man said: "This should be the Chitose Fire that you are familiar with."

"The Chitose Fire is the fire of human civilization, so whenever there are huge changes in human civilization, the characteristics of the Chitose Fire itself will also change."

"The firewood required for the Chitose Fire is also different."

"Alcusi and Anna discovered that it was no longer necessary for living people to light the Chitose Fire, not slaves, captives, or gladiators, but for people to bury the serfs in intact tombs and return their souls to their hometown. Such a Chitose Fire It can burn forever. At that time, [Alkusi] and [Anna] believed that the Chitose Fire had reached its extreme development, and that feudal serfdom was the truth of the universe, the ultimate change in society, and the end of the system."

"The result is that less than two hundred years after their death, Ambrose's social system actually changed again. The ghosts of the ancient civilization revived and spread again and again with the Papal States and the three major republics on the peninsula, and actually spread in Anbro. Burrows has roots again.”

“The cities and towns of Ambrose arose.”

"The emergence of commercial cities and commercial towns, and even two huge serf rebellions."

"The result is that the changes in human civilization in Ambrose have caused the Chitose Fire to change again."

"The firewood needed for the Chitose Fire has changed, and the Ambrose people outside don't know it, so the Chitose Fire is about to go out."

Yvetta and the Hearthstone Witch marveled.

They didn't expect that the biggest secret of Chitose Fire was this.

The reason why the Chitose Fire is almost extinguished now is because of the war between Ambrose's city faction and the noble faction, and because Ambrose's civilization has once again undergone drastic changes.

Ivita became confused. "But if this is the case, why did the last time there was a huge change in social civilization, when feudal slavery replaced slave democracy in a unified country, it took three hundred years for the Chitose Fire to decline before it was in danger of extinguishing, but this time it only took less than a hundred years. , there will be a risk of extinguishing.”

Bronze Mask said: "There are two main reasons for this. And you have encountered both of these reasons, and you have met the protagonists of these two reasons."

"First, the wife of the previous generation of fire igniters seems to have developed an improved law of the sea of ​​​​Sequoia that can counter the Chitose Fire. This has accelerated the decline of the Chitose Fire."

"Secondly, two hundred years ago, a demon who claimed to be [us] came to Ambrose. Although the Chitose Fire suppressed the demon, it consumed almost all the reserved flames."

"That incident left a very obvious consequence, that is, Ambrose's mortal king and landless Airland actually died in the war against the remnants of the Children of the Forest, and even lost his broken steel sword. That’s why the steel sword fell into your hands.”

Ivita nodded, and everything clicked.

Therefore, the Chitose Fire is not sinful at all, because the Chitose Fire of each era represents the epitome of human civilization in that era.

The problem is never Chitose Fire, but the people who use the perspective of this era to demand the human civilization of the previous era.

So now the Chitose Fire needs new firewood.

Just don't know what it is.

Ivita thought of the demon who called himself [us], and he felt a little familiar. "Is that demon who calls us the Omega Demon? If you say I have encountered it, then I have only encountered two demons - it and the Hugo Demon."

The bronze masked man said: "Impossible."

"There was never any Omega Demon."

"If it said its name like that, then it must be lying to you. But then again, isn't it always standing next to you? Just ask it yourself."

Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch were startled. They looked around but could not find anyone other than the fourth person here.

what's the situation?

Ivita didn't speak when she saw the bronze mask, and the Hearthstone Witch also looked surprised. He suddenly thought of something that Milani and Frankska mentioned when they communicated.

It was after Hugo's fall that his mother, who was possessed by the devil, suddenly disappeared from the ancestors in the cemetery, as if she had never been there.

If the woman who once smiled at herself and wanted to go in a certain direction disappeared from the cemetery, where would she go? ?

Ivita frowned and said to the Hearthstone Witch: "Has your ability to exorcise demons improved recently?"

The Hearthstone Witch was obviously taken aback. She said to Ivita, "Your Majesty, how about we go to a serious church?!"

The bronze mask spoke. "It turns out you don't know that it has been following you. Ivita."

"I thought you knew, because it is very afraid of you and follows you all the time, but doesn't dare to get too close."

"Two hundred years ago, the demon that suddenly descended on Ambrose also brought a problem. It was hunted down by a force called the [Black Rat Plague]. Later, Ambrose was The leader of the cemetery sealed the plague at the cost of his life, and placed the plague among a family who voluntarily sacrificed his life. It was at that time that the cemetery declined."

"And the plague will be sealed by the bloodline and high righteousness passed down by that family from generation to generation."

"Unless a generation of cowards emerge from that family and destroy this seal."

Ivita looked strange.

He thought of the sick child that Knight Gaslot had always carried with him.

Therefore, Knight Gaslot never told himself the truth. His friend who joined the Crusaders may have become a deserter on the battlefield, causing their family's blood seal to lose its effectiveness.