“Are you… a god?”

If it were any other time, Vivian wouldn’t have been able to speak so rudely to someone she had just met. But this time was different.

She was certain.

Although he had lured her in a suspicious way, she thought that he would not harm her.

Vivian thought the thick energy emanating from him felt somehow familiar and comfortable.

‘No, it’s beyond familiar. It’s exactly the same as the power flowing through my body.’

The other person was clearly the god who had bestowed divine power upon her.

Vivian waited a long time for his answer. But no answer came.

It would be nice if she could read his expression, but his face was hidden by a bright light.

As Vivian continued to observe the situation, she gathered her courage and approached him.

It seemed that nothing would change if she just stayed still like this.

She got closer step by step, but he didn’t move at all.

But the moment she finally reached right in front of him, he suddenly grabbed Vivian’s wrist.

Before she could be surprised, he quickly led her somewhere. Vivian had no choice but to be dragged along helplessly.

After moving for a while, there was a source of light shining brightly alone where she stopped.

‘It’s similar to that light from before.’

It looked similar to the light that had shown Vivian’s memories from the original story. But it was much larger than that.

‘He wants me to… touch this, right?’

Vivian took a deep breath and brought her hand close to the light. In an instant, some video unfolded before her eyes.

Unlike before when she was too busy being surprised, this time she concentrated properly on the video.

The sky was dyed a bright red color of blood. Below it, the land and sea were also filled with demons.

At first, she mistakenly thought the background was the demon realm, but Vivian soon realized that the place in the video was the human world.

Because the imperial palace could be seen in the distance, although it was a mess and in ruins.

‘What on earth is this….’

It was unknown where the humans who were the original owners of the land had gone.

Demons and magical beasts roamed freely through the huge portals installed everywhere.

At that moment, for the first time, a single human came into view.

The naked human was trapped in a cage.

Together with a giant magical beast that seemed to be twice the size of his body.

The human ran around trying to avoid the magical beast’s attacks, but was eventually caught by the beast.

In the end, the human was sucked into the magical beast’s maw, full of dirty, foamy saliva.

The demons outside the cage were clapping their hands as if pleased, watching the scene.

Vivian covered her mouth at the shocking sight. Then after a while, a strange voice filled the entire area.

[This is the future that humans will experience 200 years from now. As it was originally, no, as it was in the original story.]

Vivian instinctively realized. That this was the voice of god.

But this is the future after the original story…?

That can’t be…

In the original story, Ludovica and Callys definitely defeated Belial.

But not long after that, the human world becomes like this?

As if to explain her question, another scene unfolded before her eyes.

It was a scene of Belial, who she thought was dead, being resurrected in the demon realm.

Then, memories different from before began to flow into her mind. They seemed to be the memories of god.

For a moment, Vivian felt like she had become god himself. The anguish he had accumulated since the beginning of time was vividly felt.

This world is a world that was created with the birth of the original story.

The god was also a being born with it.

The one who must look after the humans who will become the absolute ruler and protagonist of this world in the future.

The god faithfully fulfilled his given role.

From the beginning, he was designed to love humans, so that role was something he himself desired as well.

He shared his powers with humans and became their spiritual pillar.

But such a life could not last forever.

Even though he was the absolute ruler, this was a world where the laws of the original story took precedence, and his extinction was already a predetermined course.

The god tried to accept his extinction. At least until he saw the foresight after the original story.

The future he saw was the resurrection of Belial.

And he clearly learned that humans, unable to cope with the powerful enemy, would eventually have their world taken away by demons.

In the predestined future of the original story, it seemed as if Belial had definitely died due to the holy sword.

But this was only a misunderstanding of the humans.

To draw out the true power of the holy sword, a special being was needed.

It was the apostle of god, a being with the power of god.

In the original story, the two protagonists did use the holy sword, but they were not apostles, so they could not truly destroy Belial.

Having realized all these facts, the god agonized over how to help the humans.

He had long since disappeared from the timeline of the original story.

Even if he wanted to convey divine power to the protagonists of the original story, there was no way to do so.

So he found another way. It was to transfer his power to someone from a completely different time.

In the process, a soul caught his eye.

A soul that had already died after reading the contents of the original story.

The god used all his powers to bring a soul from another world and shared his power with it.

And he made all preparations for her to be active at a point before the original story began in earnest.

He possessed her in a body that matched the soul’s texture and set it up so that she would recall the memories of the original story at the right time.

In addition, he left a part of his memory so that she could realize all these facts when she came to find the holy sword based on the original story in the distant future.

Vivian held her head in confusion.

It was too vast an amount of information to accept in a short time as a human.

Her head began to ache as if it would shatter. The level of pain was similar to the day about two years ago when she recalled the memories of her previous life.

‘At that time, I thought my head just hurt because I was injured, but that wasn’t it….’

Now she could understand.

The pain at that time must have occurred in the process of accepting the memories of her previous life, which should not have been remembered.

Fortunately, the pain that continued endlessly subsided as time passed.

The memories began to reorganize and organize in her head.

The moment she finally fully grasped the situation.

A strong light suddenly enveloped her body and then disappeared.

When she opened her eyes that had been closed due to the brightness, what she saw in front of her was Melphis’s face full of a worried look.

[This is the timeline separator]

In the end, the princess made a decision.

The ones to go north to face Siegfried were Ludovica and Dietrich.

Ren was to stay in the capital to prepare for emergencies.

‘I hope my choice is right….’

The north, where large-scale movements had been detected.

It was clear that Siegfried was deliberately plotting something, so she couldn’t send just one person.

After much deliberation, she had made the best choice she could make at the moment.

Accordingly, the Belvederes’ mage knights immediately headed north.

But not long after Dietrich and Ludovica arrived in the Palatinate region, an invasion from demons began.

When faced with a sizable demon army, Dietrich thought the princess’s judgment was correct.

‘It seems Siegfried is determined to kill us. Seeing how he has poured out this much military force.’

No matter how strong he was, it was not an easy task to deal with so many demons.

Especially since high-ranking demons are each capable of overwhelming even high-level mages or swordsmen.

If the princess had not sent Ludovica with him, it seemed certain that he would have faced difficulties.

Entrusting his back to his only sister, he immediately confronted the demons.

From the beginning, they were a pair whose breathing matched well, but now, after going through several battles, that description was not enough.

They didn’t even need to exchange glances. The two seemed to read each other’s thoughts and their hands and feet matched perfectly.

As the battle continued, a question grew in Dietrich’s mind.

‘…They’re too weak compared to what I expected?’

They had already fought demons at the army commander level several times.

Of course, the demons they were facing now were much stronger than ordinary humans.

But compared to the demons they had fought before, they were ridiculously weak.

Dietrich, who had cut the throats of three enemy soldiers who had charged at him at once, grabbed the neck of a demon that had fallen to the ground and lifted it up.

When he took off the glove, the demon’s back of the hand, which had been hidden, came into view.

But the demon’s back of the hand was spotlessly clean.

“…!”

He hurriedly took off the glove on the other hand and checked both backs of the demon’s hands.

But no matter how much he looked, there were no traces left on the back of the hands.

He also thoroughly examined the hands of the other demons rolling on the ground, but the situation was the same.

“They don’t seem to be high-ranking, but they are middle-ranking, right?”

Ludovica, who was protecting Dietrich and defeating the other demons that were swarming, asked indifferently.

She seemed to have the same question as him.

Dietrich slammed the demon he was holding onto the ground and answered.

“No, they are low-ranking demons.”

Siegfried’s strong soldiers had a unique mark engraved on the back of their hands.

High-ranking demons had a shape of overlapping triangles and inverted triangles, while middle-ranking demons had a triangle.

The weakest low-ranking demons were not allowed any patterns. But the backs of the hands of the demons here were spotlessly clean.

It meant that although there were many, the demons here were only low-ranking demons and not troops for a full-scale battle.

At Dietrich’s words, Ludovica let out an irritated sigh.

“Then, as expected……”

“Yes, the north is a trap. Siegfried must be targeting somewhere else.”

Dietrich looked in the direction where the capital was far away.

Anxiety was clearly visible in his black eyes.