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Chapter 433: Summoning
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
"Dimensional rules? They're actually not that difficult to understand . A well-developed dimension is like a mansion with an owner . The creator is the owner of the mansion, and the Gods with their Divine Concepts are the managers of various areas . Some are in charge of watering (Rain), some are in charge of personnel and changing out the workers (Cycle of Reincarnation), and so on . If you can create a new job and a new task that can make this mansion operate more efficiently, and the owner recognizes your existence, you'll be able to become a God too . As long as your room still exists, you'll naturally become undying . " – Quote from "Games of Time and Space, Volume 3: Guesses about the World's Unsolvable Riddles" by Selis Solomon .
Archmage Selis was renowned as the greatest space magic mage of all time . His understanding of Time and Space created the foundational textbooks for the Mage Country's studies into these two top-level fields . His Volume 1 on Time and Volume 2 on Space became required textbooks for mages who wanted to study Time, Space, Dimensional Summoning, Illusions and so on . However, Selis's Volume 3, "Guesses about World's Unsolvable Riddles," greatly decreased everyone's opinions of him . Selis' reputation went from that of a wise scholar to one of the most insane mages in all of history .
It was unknown whether his inferences were real or not . It was also unknown whether assassins belonging to the Gods' Churches succeeded in assassinating Selis, who was one of the strongest mages in the world . Regardless, Selis hadn't made any appearances in more than three hundred years . His Volume 3 could only be found in the possession of the older mages .
Selis had explained the Gods' secrets in a way that was far too common and easy to understand . Belief and idolization would require a sufficient sense of distance . Who would fervently worship the person next to you who ate, burped, slept and farted like a normal person, even if that person was indeed a God? Perhaps it could be said that those who idolized others were farthest away from the truth .
Although mages typically lacked belief in the Gods, they still knew what they could and couldn't tread upon . Knowledge was power . But some things should only be known by themselves . There was no need to create a huge break in their relationship with the Gods unless it became necessary . And so only archmages knew top-level knowledge about dimensions, Time, Space, Divine Concepts and so on .
Archmage Selis actually had an even more direct explanation regarding dimensional rules in that now forbidden Volume 3 of his .
"Under normal circumstances, it's impossible for the Gods' true bodies to personally enter the world of Eich . The Gods can only perform a God's Descent upon one of their own believers or send down an incarnation . This is akin to directing from afar . This is because the homeowner hasn't given permission for these guys to enter, afraid that these powerful and clumsy existences will break the furniture or abuse the servants . But in a certain special type of situation, the Gods will be able to directly interfere with our world . And in that special timeframe, all limits will be removed, with outsiders being allowed to easily enter this mansion . Even the 'managers' will be able to act as they please . That's right, I'm referring to the Holy War . "
"Based on research data we've accumulated over many years, the rise and fall of the Elemental Tide is something beyond any mortal or God's control . The Elemental Tide is like an exchange mechanism for the mortal plane of Eich and the Four Elemental Planes . Whenever the Elemental Tide is in high tide, perhaps the entire world is renewing or exchanging something out . Perhaps this is the world's own natural exchange mechanism for renewal . Yes, I know that I have no evidence for this whatsoever . All of this is only my inference . Still, all the new species, new mines, new plants and new animals that appear after every Holy War provide circumstantial evidence for my theory . "
"In every Holy War, the previous ruler of the world is very likely to be defeated . Or that species will die off in such large numbers that they'll no longer be able to rule the world . The survivors of that species will also mysteriously find their fertility lowering drastically . Also, approximately ninety-five percent of intelligent beings will die off in every Holy War . After the Holy War's end, the new ruling species will have fertility like never before, and the empty land left behind by other species will become their territory . It's almost as if all of this has been planned beforehand, as a prize to be given to the victor . The best evidence for my theory isn't only the birthing boom after us humans won the previous Holy War . It's that the elves had a tremendous population increase after winning the Holy War from two wars ago . Elves are very famous for their low birthrates, and after the previous Holy War, their birthrate became even lower . "
"…If you look back at the Holy Wars from history, it's almost as if the Holy War itself has become a necessary method for this world to mature and grow . We humans are nothing more than a sacrificial byproduct . We aren't the masters of this house (or world) . We're nothing more than temporary renters that have to give the key over to the next renter . No, if my theory is correct, even the Gods who are supposedly so high above us are nothing more than higher-level sacrifices, or perhaps I should call them consumables . "
"…All of us lifeforms are a part of and serve this world . As long as the River Styx continues to flow, demons and devils will forever be produced . As long as Heaven's Pillar continues to exist, the general populace will continue to believe in the Gods, desiring a good place to go after death . The Order Gods will also have an endless amount of belief power . However, when compared to the Chaos Evil Gods, their strength has too many limitations because they'll be controlled by the Source of Order . "
When I read this back in the day, my first reaction wasn't "Oh, he's absolutely correct!" Instead, my reaction was "Unbelievable! He actually didn't disappear for knowing too much?" But then I asked around and learned that Archmage Selis had indeed gone missing several hundred years ago . And so I nodded and said "That's right—that's how it should be . That's what happens to those who know too much and say it out loud . "
Several hundred years ago, when Archmage Selis came up with his theories, everyone treated them as way too radical . Plus, he himself said in his Volume 3 that they were "guesses" with no concrete evidence to back them up, so of course very few people believed him . Of course, the main reason why his theories never spread was because it was impossible for anyone to obtain any power or knowledge from this volume which contained nothing but guesses .
But, if this volume was completely useless, Selis' Volume 3 would have been left to gather dust in everyone's warehouses . Although Selis was a traditionalist mage uninterested in studying Demonology or Summoning, he had managed to obtain many byproducts from his Time and Space research that helped him accomplish incredible achievements in demon summoning, dimensional traveling and so on .
"…In that case, it's easy to explain why demons and devils require blood sacrifices to come to our world . These bloody sacrifices always have many requirements, but one thing in common about all of them is that the more frightened and worse of a death that the sacrifice undergoes, the better . Based on my research on these blood sacrifice rituals, the sacrifices' souls weren't consumed but instead vanished . The demons have a saying that 'Souls are the only currency in the lower planes . ' In that case, just where exactly did this 'currency' obtained in the blood sacrifice go to? I personally believe it was paid to the Chaos Abyss or even the world of Eich itself as the 'toll' and 'rental fee' to allow demons to stay in the mortal plane . I've done a series of experiments on this subject and obtained some results…"
Selis invented simple items to assist in blood sacrifice rituals, the unit for measurement for souls and methods for communicating with residents of the lower planes . His new theories came up with new demon-restraining summoning formations that were basically the equivalent of summoning through the dimensions by abusing loopholes . Selis' accomplishments in this field made countless SemiGod Demon Warlocks and Summoners feel ashamed of themselves . The greatest achievements in their own topic of research were done by an archmage from another specialty entirely .
"The best evidence of my inference is that the low-ranked demons have incredibly weak abilities when in the mortal plane . In fact, they're even weaker than ordinary wild beasts . There's no reason whatsoever for them to be under dimensional limitations . However, summoning even the low-ranked demons still requires a blood sacrifice, even if it's just the mage's own blood . This goes against the mainstream 'Elemental Tide Limitations Theory . ' According to that theory, these low-ranked demons shouldn't be under any limitations whatsoever . Also, while the undead are also unwelcome in the mortal plane, summoning undead from the Undead Planes doesn't require a blood sacrifice . And it just happens to be that it's not anywhere near so troublesome for these lower plane residents to visit other dimensions . Perhaps the blood sacrifice itself isn't even that important . It may be nothing more than a request to enter the 'mansion;' it may be just a method to obtain the world's recognition . In that case, I have yet another guess…"
If that was the extent of Selis' research, it would have still been fine . But I continued to read his book and could only exclaim that "Archmage Selis had nobody but himself to blame for his own disappearance . Forget about just playing around with such research results on his own—he actually dared to write all this and publish it as a book?"
What else did he write about? He wrote about… the truth behind the Holy War!
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