Chapter 75 The One-Eyed Othinus II - 'The Fountain of Mimir'
This is a hidden area belonging to the vast snowfield.
The magician lady from another world, Zella doesn't know whether her location is marked on the map, but she is probably near Odense, which should be correct.
There was no sound of people, no shadow of vehicles, and even no traces of small animals could be seen.
It's obvious that this place has been shrouded in magic.
——‘The idlers disperse’.
Moreover, it is a level where the effect of the spell has been improved and increased to a very large range.
(...Okay, this is the last one.)
After retracting her hand from the tree trunk and saying goodbye to Orrels and Sylvia, Zella arrived at the end of the journey and began to investigate and arrange the 'ceremonial ground'.
After spending several weeks, she finally got a result that satisfied her.
On this land where wind and snow spread.
On the outskirts of this castle called Iesco.
In this "primordial lake" known as the "territory of Otinus (Odin)".
In order to cope with the coming changes, Zella has already left its own 'footprint' on these important places.
(Huh... This is really true. I don't think anyone, not just Orrels, would have thought that this tourist attraction with hundreds of years of history, which continues to be more of a tourist attraction, would actually hide it.
The secret of becoming a god by following a god...)
The brown-haired witch guessed as she stretched her body.
Even before she arrived here, she was not 100% absolute.
But from the moment Zella stood in the center of the frozen lake, she was completely sure.
The throbbing coming from the depths of the soul and the sense of being rejected by the world are the best proof.
It proved that this was the 'must pass' place she was looking for.
The route we have taken so far has finally reached this final location.
(But...what exactly is the so-called "wisdom"? Could it be...)
Keeping thinking and tilting her head, Zella's breathing became melodious and long.
I don’t know how long ago, perhaps it can be traced back to before this area was inhabited, ‘a girl’ held an unknown mysterious ceremony here.
‘She’ dug out her ‘right eye’ with her own hands and threw it into the bottom of the lake as a sacrifice.
Through this imitation of myth, full of systematic ritual actions, 'her' body has been sublimated.
Then, the 'girl' with 'wisdom' became 'Othinus'.
Became a "devil".
This is the closest truth to the truth that Zeira got after sorting out his past memories and current legends.
And she had only one purpose for coming to such a special place.
I just want to get the 'parameters' for that 'girl' to become a demon god.
Of course, these are not things that can be easily digitized, let alone items that can be easily obtained.
That’s why Zera arranged the ‘scene’ here in advance.
She didn't make the decision to become a demon just based on whims.
(Let me think about it... In addition to "Othinus", there are also "Sengzheng", "Empress", and "Nephthys" in 'there'...)
Recalling several names that she still remembers as being very active in the future, Zeira clearly knows that there is more than one demon god in this world.
In that case, since so many "troublemakers" have been born since the formation of civilization, it also proves something from the side.
Here, in this world, the possibility of a magician becoming a demon is not infinitely close to zero.
She also has this possibility.
Now is the most important and dangerous time to realize this possibility.
As he started walking towards the lake, Zella couldn't help but think back to Orrels' advice a few days ago.
As this would-be demon warned, no one, let alone a real demon, would want others to pry into their biggest secrets.
What Zera wants to do is tantamount to standing on the hostile side of the 'Demon God Othinus'.
But it was impossible for her to just run up to Othinus without any precautions and innocently say to her, "Please let me study how you became the devil."
Not to mention whether Zella can do it and how much time it will take to find Othinus, once the other party becomes defensive, it will be even more difficult for her plan to be implemented.
She was not like Aleister, who could spend decades slowly planning and waiting for the perfect time.
She still has a world that she needs to return to as soon as possible to fulfill her promise.
And as her own strength increases, the part of the soul belonging to 'Frenda' can feel it more and more. The closer to her original 'death date', the stronger the feeling of rejection and distortion in her body.
It was not obvious last year, but this year it has become a clear and substantial premonition.
There was a similar 'death disaster' in the previous world, so Zera himself had some conjectures.
It is simply because one's own strength is not strong enough to fight against the "world", or the so-called "correction" is at play.
This is one of the reasons why she resolutely chose to embark on the path of the devil.
Only with the power to change everything can she choose the 'ending' she wants in the 'story'.
With these already clear things clear to her mind again, Zera's figure gradually approached the center of the Fountain of Wisdom.
The rustling sound of compressed snow was replaced by the echo of stepping on the ice.
This also means that the time for gossiping is almost over.
(… Yui, let’s proceed according to our ‘plan’ from now on, I’ll leave it to you.)
(I get it! Mom! Just...)
only……
Is it really okay?
I know very well that Zela’s plans and information, as well as the extremely, extremely likely ‘people’ I will face this time, are far from comparable to those in the past.
Yui's hesitant figure appeared vaguely in the void.
(……it does not matter.)
Holding the little goblin in her hands, Zella also understood that the child's worries were justified.
but.
(Have you forgotten that what is here is only part of ‘me’? And...)
(The ‘God of Magic’ is actually not that far away from ‘us’.)
The softly spoken confident words gradually calmed the elf's uneasiness.
yes.
‘She’ is no longer the little girl who can only run freely in the virtual world.
And 'she' is no longer a management support program that can only imitate human emotions.
The little guy who regained his energy nodded seriously.
(Um!)
alright.
Then the next step is really the moment that determines the direction of fate.
White breath spreads around his mouth.
Zella, who was fully prepared, knelt down and placed her hands on the lake.
Obscure spells drive the flow of magic.
The next moment, cyan light suddenly appeared from the bottom of the lake.
The world covered in silver has produced countless cracks.