Pendragon's Infinity Gauntlet

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"There is a girl, and for some reason, things keep happening around her. Now, something is happening again, centered around this girl."

"Everyone in the world has been affected by this incident, but the only person who hasn't been affected is this young girl at the epicenter of the disturbance. Under such circumstances, isn't it reasonable to suspect that this girl is the culprit?"

"Hey, wait a minute! Your statement is very strange! What do you mean by 'something happened again'? According to your logic, are these phenomena man-made?"

Do you think this resembles a natural disaster?

Jing Shen was rendered speechless by this sharp rhetorical question. What you said makes perfect sense.

Tsuchimikado said with a wry smile:

"Hey, Jing Shen, don't stay silent! Otherwise you'll be the scapegoat!"

"Tsuchimikado, who are you suggesting should take the blame? Right now, the only people in the world who haven't been affected by 'Angel's Fall' are..."

"Hey! You guys have been talking about 'Angel's Fall' so many times, what exactly is that?"

Jingshen picked out a word from Kanzaki's words and asked about it, and both magicians turned to look at her.

"Ugh, 'Angel's Fall' is such a pain to explain. Kanzaki, I'll leave it to you, meow~"

"Tsuchimikado, you're a girl, don't speak in such a cutesy voice."

Kanzaki sighed listlessly and said, "Simply put, this 'role replacement' phenomenon is a 'man-made event' caused by someone using magic."

"Human-caused incident?"

Kanzaki nodded silently.

Of course, Kiyogami didn't understand such a simple explanation and looked bewildered. Kanzaki then continued:

"The whole world is now affected by a certain magic, resulting in a certain phenomenon. Even the British Library's record book has no record of this phenomenon, so the detailed spell and structure of the magic are a mystery. Based on the characteristics of the phenomenon, we will temporarily name this magic 'Angel Fall'."

"You don't know how it happened, but you know what happened?"

So far away.

Such conversation made the sounds of Metal Model and the others playing and laughing in the shallows sound incredibly distant.

"It was like a mysterious, gigantic monster attacking the city."

Tsuchimikado explained with a smile, "The Self-Defense Forces investigated for a long time but still couldn't figure out the monster's true identity. They only knew that if they didn't stop the monster from advancing, the damage would continue to increase. You, Jōjin, are just bound by common sense and preconceived notions. If you just listen to it as if it were the rules of a video game, it should be easy to understand."

"Your example is actually making me confused."

After hearing Tsuchimikado's words, Kanzaki tilted her head with a look of suspicion.

P.S.: It seems I accidentally typed Kanzaki Mizuori as the original Fire Mizuori in the last chapter, lol. The author went up and down six floors countless times today, carrying nutrient soil and culture troughs, preparing to grow something on the balcony. Growing some vegetables, fruits, and catnip, etc.

Chapter 260 Explanation

Chapter 260

After hearing Tsuchimikado's words, Kanzaki tilted her head with a look of suspicion.

Who would have thought this man would make such a cute gesture? Jing Shen thought to herself, quite rudely.

"To explain further, the magic of 'falling angels' is related to the concept of the 'Tree of Life' in Kabbalah. Have you heard of that?"

"Not impressed."

Actually, Jing Shen felt like she had heard it somewhere before, but because she couldn't quite remember, she immediately denied it.

Thinking back carefully, the magician Tyr mentioned something similar during the battle with the alchemist.

"The so-called Tree of Life, simply put, is a hierarchy of status. It's roughly a concept that divides the souls of gods, angels, and humans into ten pyramid-shaped levels."

"It's a diagram drawn based on 'theocracy.' To put it simply, this diagram means that 'humanity's domain is limited to this point; beyond that lies the domain of God, which must never be violated.'"

"The number of humans and angels is predetermined, so under normal circumstances, humans can never be promoted to angels. Conversely, angels cannot be demoted to humans."

"Because every area is already fully booked."

Kanzaki continued, following Tsuchimikado:

"But the magic 'Angel Fall' is exactly what it sounds like; it can forcibly demote angels who were originally in heaven to human form. And the human realm is like a glass full of water. If a drop of 'angel' is then dripped into the glass, what will happen to the water in the glass?"

"Uh……"

With a very embarrassed expression, Jing Shen said:

"Angels...?"

"Yes. Strictly speaking, they are not messengers of heaven, but messengers of God. Do you have any questions?"

Kanzaki answered very seriously.

"Emmmm..."

The mind of the Pure God gave up thinking.

The laughter of Misaka and the others playing beach balls reached the ears of the silent Jōjin.

Because there were only a few of them on the vast coastline, their voices sounded slightly lonely.

Jingshen wasn't unaware that it was impossible to communicate with these people living in a magical world using scientific common sense.

In fact, her last hospitalization was because she was involved in an incident related to vampires, and she lost her hand and almost lost her life.

The question is, angels? Isn't that a bit far-fetched?

If someone heard the explanation that "all the problems in the world are caused by angels," and could actually reply, "This is terrible, what should we do?"

"She must have completely given up on treatment, right?" Jing Shen thought seriously.

"Angels? That's really hard to believe. These days, spaceships can break through the atmosphere and land on the moon, but we haven't seen any heaven..."

"Well, the 'above' and 'below' relationship between heaven and hell is not a matter of altitude."

"What else could it be?"

"To give you an example, the human eye cannot see radiation such as infrared and ultraviolet rays that cannot cause human vision, and the human ear cannot hear ultrasound. You should know this, right, Jing Shen?"

"Huh? Hmm."

The teacher, Xiaomeng, mentioned in her physics class that she had reviewed this knowledge during her summer tutoring after losing her memory. Perhaps because she had learned it before, she mastered it very easily.

"The so-called 'high' and 'low' refer to this: above or below the range that humans can perceive. Too high and you can't feel it, too low and you can't feel it either. So even if a god came to the side of the Pure God, you definitely wouldn't be able to detect it."

Tsuchimikado smiled happily.

"By the way, 'low' refers to hell or demons. The opposite of infrared is ultraviolet, and the opposite of high frequency is low frequency, which is also known as reverse. Although the frequencies are different, they are both radiation. In other words, even if an angel stands next to a demon, they cannot detect each other's presence unless they are interfering with the 'human world', the area between heaven and hell."

"Tsuchimikado!"

Kanzaki's tone was slightly reproachful.

He seemed to dislike Tsuchimikado's use of metaphors like infrared and ultrasound.

Especially after the Forbidden Arts Catalogue was accidentally succeeded by the Pure God using a similar theory last time.

"However, objects heat up when exposed to infrared radiation, and glass vibrates when exposed to ultrasonic waves. This is what is known as divine retribution or a miracle. So, what appears to be a completely unconnected 'heaven' can sometimes affect the 'human world,' and of course, the opposite can also happen."

Jōjin still looked completely bewildered, and Tsuchimikado continued:

"By the way, about the Pure One. In religions like Buddhism and Christianity that worship idols, the so-called divine power or angelic power is actually in our surrounding environment."

"????"

Jing Shen looked on with suspicion, her beautiful face practically screaming, "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not lying to you. Let me give you an example. Doesn't every church roof have a cross?"

“These crosses all possess special power. But are these the same crosses used to execute the saints on Calvary?”

“The answer is of course no.” Tsuchimikado waved his hand and continued, “The crosses on the church roof are all fakes, but fakes can also possess power. As long as the shape and purpose are similar, they can obtain a small portion of the power of the real ones. This is the basic principle of idolatry.”

Simply put, it's Trace~on!

"This law of 'idol worship' also applies to so-called angels. With some special techniques, it is possible to imbue certain objects with 'angelic power.' For example, engraving an 'angelic statue' on the hilt of a sword can give the sword 'angelic' power. Engraving the 'angel's name' in a protective magic circle can obtain the 'angel's' defensive power. Of course, the power that substitutes can obtain is very weak. Pure, natural, 100% angels descending to earth is something that only happened in the Old Testament."

"All of this must be based on the assumption that 'angels exist'."

"It's really hard to believe."

Although Jing Shen still harbored doubts, he dared not openly express his disdain.

After all, these people were experts. And their attitude was very serious; they weren't joking at all. In the previous incident against the alchemists, the Cleansing Goddess had suffered quite a bit because she hadn't listened carefully to Tyr's explanation, so this time she learned her lesson.

Chapter 261 The Center

Chapter 261

"Excuse me, I just want to make sure this isn't a prank?"

"I don't understand you."

Kanzaki coughed and continued:

"In short, 'Angel Fall' is a kind of magic that forcibly pulls angels from the higher ranks to the lower ranks, and this result will affect the four realms that cover the ten ranks, namely the original world, the created world, the formed world, and the material world."

"Tsuchimikado-sensei, what language is this young man speaking?"

"Let me put it this way: just as you saw, everyone's 'inner self' and 'outer self' have been replaced. It's like a 'wind' game. Once the game starts, the 'chair' and the 'person sitting in the chair' will be completely changed. But in this game, not everyone who participates will end up with a chair. The only person who doesn't get a chair will be pushed up to heaven to sit in the chair that the angels used to sit in."

Role replacement.

The result was the phenomenon observed both near Jing Shen and on television.

It seemed that Kiyokami had grasped this point, and Tsuchimikado said with a leisurely smile:

"However, the theory is actually not important at all. All we need to know is that 'strange things have happened' and 'we must stop it'."

"Stop it? Is there any way to stop it?"

“Yes. The spell ‘Falling Angel’ doesn’t seem to have finished casting yet. If we want to stop it, we have to do it now. Even your right hand can’t revive someone burned to ashes by magic, right? Similarly, if the spell is fully cast, it will be too late.”

"..."

Your right hand.

Although this isn't a very important question, why would Tsuchimikado know about Imagine Breaker?

Seeing the suspicious look on Jōjin's face, Tsuchimikado paused for a moment and said:

"Hey, does this even need explaining? I know everything about the Index of Forbidden Books battle and the Misawa Academy siege. In fact, I was in charge of collecting and organizing the intelligence on both of those events."

Tsuchimikado casually uttered a startling remark, then naturally steered the conversation back to the original topic.

"While the exact spell is a mystery, 'Angel's Fall' is a large-scale magic spell on a global scale. It would be too much of a burden for a single magician to execute it alone. Therefore, the perpetrator must have already set up a 'ritual site' such as a barrier or magic circle."

Tsuchimikado then said with great interest, "So there are two ways to stop the 'Fall of the Angels': the first is to defeat the caster, and the second is to destroy the 'ritual site.' Of course, there is a time limit, but we have no idea how much time we have left, so it's quite tense and exciting."

In the end, Jing Shen was still completely confused. Basically, everyone's "roles" were changed because of someone, right?

At this point, most people would have already shouted, "Stop spreading these lies!"

But the Goddess of Purity lives in a city with 2.3 million superpowered individuals and has dealt with magicians in the past, so she is quite aware that many things cannot be dismissed as "too unreasonable".

So, Jing Shen also started to feel a bit of a headache.

It seems that everyone's strange behavior is due to the "role swap," Jing Shen recalled the situation in the morning.

It was a terrible start to my day; A Certain Scientific Railgun had turned into my own younger brother.

"Wait a minute! This is so weird! Why do I have an extra brother? I don't have a brother at all!"

If these strange phenomena are all caused by "character replacement"... Jōjin, who has already begun to accept this setting, begins to wonder, how could Misaka become Jōjin's sister who never existed in the first place?

Kanzaki said nonchalantly:

"Who knows? But since a 'role swap' has occurred, it means there must have been a character who originally existed. Perhaps you really do have a younger brother in this world, you just don't know it."

"What? You've let me discover the family's biggest secret under these circumstances?"

Jing Shen was greatly shocked. But she could still make a normal comment, indicating that she didn't really believe it.

"Speaking of which, what exactly was the prisoner's purpose in making such a big deal out of this?"

"There are roughly two reasons that can be guessed. The first is to capture the angels who have fallen to the human world and make them into servants, and the second is to take away the angels' original status in heaven."

"No matter the reason, if it succeeds, it will be a huge event in the world of Kabbalah. The people of the 'Golden Dawn' must be as anxious as ants on a hot pan right now."

“If misused, the power of an angel could destroy the entire Vatican. This is no joke; the perpetrator’s purpose is definitely not trivial.”