Chapter 249, Hera Mes

Blood moon.

Black soil.

The air is filled with fragrance, but if you take a few more breaths, your body will mutate immediately, and you will either become a demon or your body will collapse and die.

A place cursed by God.

Or--

Heramus's home.

Countless fierce-looking demons looked at the outsiders quietly.

"As expected, you are here, and you are still in this posture. You must have been cursed by God." A demon stood out from the crowd, and it was Aftetali who he had met once.

"Two?" He looked a little confused.

"Humans, what are you doing here?" asked a demon.

"Do something that everyone thinks is a win-win situation." Evelit said.

"Haha." The demons laughed.

"I will free you, and you will save my life." Everit said calmly, "How about that."

"What?"

Suddenly, a demon approached Yefrit in an instant. The huge dragon-like body came close to the front. If it were an ordinary person, it would definitely be frightened to the point of being unable to stand, but Yefrit did not blink.

"Relief?" The demons became very angry, so their ugly faces became ferocious: "You want to kill us?"

'clatter'

At this time, a hand was placed on Everit's shoulder.

Behind him, as the seven-colored light gradually faded, a beautiful face gradually emerged, from virtual to real.

Those pair of deep black eyes obviously showed no aggression, but they seemed to have the suction power of a black hole, causing the soul of any creature that looked at it to be sucked into the black hole, leaving only an empty shell.

All the demons were stunned.

Then the arm wearing a white plush armband gradually appeared.

Head - Neck - Arms - Shoulders - Upper Body

A demon girl based on a moth gradually appeared in the world.

He is two meters tall and is all white.

It has two wings on its back and four arms.

Wearing a long skirt, she looks graceful.

Miko looked at the demon that was scaring Everit calmly and said, "How dare you scare my Everit."

The demon's body froze, and its huge dragon-like body began to tremble.

The other demons were also frightened.

"Miko, it's okay. Let's ask for help." Evelit stretched out his hand and put it on the back of Mico's hand on his shoulder, comforting him: "Don't be angry."

"Your Majesty Hehramus!"

All the demons knelt down in fear.

The guy who scared Everit fell to his knees on the ground, his body shaking like chaff.

Mi Ke raised his eyes and looked into the distance, his eyes a little complicated.

"Did you remember anything?" Everit asked.

"No -" Mi Ke shook his head: "I'm not Heramus, I don't need to think of anything."

She explained: "It's just like you, a little emotional."

Miko actually didn't hate Heramus. She had no ill feelings towards the name or person of Heramus.

But this person must be the one she wants to draw a clear line between.

Because - Mico is the Mico of Evelit, but Heramus is not. Since it is not, then there is no need for Heramus to survive until now.

Mi didn't care what Heramus was thinking, what she wanted to do, or what secrets she kept. It didn't matter to her.

The focus is now.

She is Miko, the Miko who was Heramus in the past, not——Heramus is the Miko of the present and even the future.

"Where is Heramus's laboratory?" Everit asked.

"That way."

A demon shows the way.

Everit walked over, and the demons quickly moved out of the way.

"How much do you know about the outside world?" Everit asked as he walked.

"We don't know. We have hardly left here since we were conscious." The demons replied.

"Why?" Everit asked.

"We are people abandoned by God, and we are the existence of original sin. Moreover, Her Majesty Heramus does not want us to cause trouble for her."

"How did you become demons? Was it human mutation, or was it created out of thin air?"

"We are a conglomeration of magic."

"That's it." Everit understood.

The demons created by Heramus were created out of thin air. They were the aggregation of magic power and were the true original natural demons.

They do not distinguish between good and evil, and cannot even be counted as living beings——

It is more appropriate to say it is a disaster or a natural phenomenon.

It's like mist and rain in nature, except that they are more concentrated and have wisdom.

When Everit and Miko first met, the most important thing they signed was to help her bid farewell to the devil. The so-called farewell is to break up the devil's body and turn it into pure magic power to return to the world.

There are incomplete historical records that say this is a mission given to her by God. When she completes her mission, she will be able to enter the kingdom of God.

So--

How about treating God not as a villain, but as a being who maintains order?

All of Miko's instinctive logic seemed to make sense.

In the previous era, the wizard Heramus felt that the truth was too far away and life was limited, so she studied demons and turned herself into a demon.

In order to maintain order in the world, or in other words - to punish those who did wrong things, God punished her and asked her to make up for her mistakes.

Clean up the mess you made yourself.

so--

Everit had always misunderstood that Miko's mission was to completely eliminate the demons in the Book of Zeref.

But in fact--

It was Miko who wanted to destroy the demon he created and make up for his mistakes.

"If that's the case," Future Everit said, "If it's really about hedging the curse, will Miko be completed and Heramus be awakened?"

This is indeed a very worrying matter.

Mi Ke was silent. In fact, she was feeling her physical condition. It seemed that she was indeed slowly recovering, or in other words, her body was waking up.

"There's no rush." ​​Everit said, "Let's go to the laboratory first."

Everit continued to ask: "How much do you know about Heramus?"

The demons looked at Miko and saw that she was very close to this man.

I can only answer with my mouth, I don't dare to hide anything.

"That was a time before dragons ruled."

A time when dragons didn't rule yet, so how old is that?

"We don't know much about Her Majesty Heramus's childhood, but she was a... very scary person."

The demons told them in detail what they knew.

Heramus's image gradually became three-dimensional.

What is even more surprising is the time

That was a previous era more than seven hundred years ago.

At that time, humans were not weaker than dragons. They mainly used alchemy, and magic had not yet become mainstream.

However, the vigorous development of alchemy is a burden to the entire world.

Alchemy is not the same as magic. It consumes more resources than just magic power.

As alchemy reaches its peak, even small worlds can be created, but at the same time, the world's resources have been exhausted.

It's like Nirvana magic - creating a city in the sky, the resources that will be consumed are exaggerated and difficult to calculate.

The sages of that era had no choice but to study magic for the future of mankind - compared to alchemy, developing and cultivating your own magic would place a much smaller burden on the world.

In order to encourage people who were unwilling to abandon alchemy, the sages said: The end of magic is also connected to the door of truth. We must explore the abyss of magic for the eternal survival of mankind.

The two Yefulites looked at each other and sighed in their hearts: So this is how the saying about the abyss between truth and magic came about.

Heramus was born in this environment.

She is a wealthy daughter who showed extraordinary talent when she was young. However, she has a weird temper and does not like to make friends with others. She only focuses on studying alchemy and magic.

As a young adult, she had already reached the highest level of knowledge in the world.

But she never shared the results with the outside world.

To her - it didn't matter what humans were, she just wanted to see how many steps there were. How far apart is truth and God.

There is only one word for her character - ruthless.

Because he is ruthless, he doesn't care about the consequences of anything he does.

Because she didn't care, she created these demons out of thin air and brutally exploited them, acting like a tyrant.

But she's not violent, she's just ruthless.

As Heramus went higher and higher.

The world outside is also undergoing drastic changes.

The alchemical civilization completely declined as resources were depleted, but human magic has not developed yet.

As a result, the Dragon Clan gained power and became the masters of the new era.

the other side.

Heramus was about to reach the end of her lifespan, but she was unwilling to give in. It was clear that she was only one step away.

So she transformed herself into a demon.

Her body expanded into a huge world, forming a cocoon - the place abandoned by the gods. The faint fragrance that Everit could smell was actually her body fragrance.

Later, she emerged from the cocoon into a butterfly and a moth, and then was reborn.

But she didn't know what changes she had gone through, from ruthless to manic.

It seemed that she had accumulated a lifetime of emotions and put them all to this moment to vent.

After she completely vented her anger, she left this world and went to the outside world.

The demons don't know what happens next. They are more homely than Mikoto.

"It's really different paths leading to the same destination." Everit smiled.

Isn't the mirror world of Everit equivalent to the cocoon world of Heramus?

If he also chooses to integrate himself into the mirror world and become the god inside, then - wouldn't the mirror world also become a place abandoned by gods?

Miko listened quietly.

After listening.

She reached out and grabbed Everit's hand, interlocking her fingers with his.

Everit felt her nervousness.

"What's wrong?" Everit turned around and asked.

"I remember things that happened about a hundred years ago." Mi Ke said, "It's very clear."

This means that Heramus is waking up.

Everit said: "You go to the mirror world, you don't need to protect me here."

"I don't want to leave you." Mi Ke said with a cry. Over the years, she has never left Evelit.

"The situation is special now." Everit smiled and comforted: "It will be soon."

"Yeah." Mi Ke could only nod.

She was also very scared. If Heramus woke up, wouldn't that look like Miko was dead?

Miko's death was not the death of body or soul, but the death of Everit no longer in her sight.

This is the viciousness of God’s punishment. No matter what you do, you will be given a knife.

at this time--

Heramus's laboratory also arrived.

This is a huge city.

Various alchemy works make up this city.

"Unbelievable--" Yevlit couldn't help but say: "Even if I want to master all the technologies here, it will take at least a hundred years."

"It's just outdated technology." Future Yevlit said.

That's right.

Alchemy was eliminated by magic back then, and it is still an outdated technology now.

Magic has reached the same level as alchemy, and the use of magic is even simpler.

Just like treating injuries, alchemy still needs various materials to be refined into magic potions, but healing magic can be done by pressing both hands on the chest, which is quick and has no side effects.

Yevlit is not Herames, so he is too lazy to inherit these intellectual properties.

Anyway, Jellal and the black dragon are no longer a threat to life.

Now he and those two can't win at most, but it's hard to lose.

Even if it's a god, he has bargaining chips.

Continue to go deeper.

All kinds of alchemy and magic close to the conceptual level are really eye-opening - these are the highest achievements of human civilization in the last era.

Yevlit believes that if these things are released.

When the twelve shields are fought, Fairy Tail may not even be needed.

The army of the Kingdom of Fiore can flatten the Western Continent.

Of course, the consequence is that the world has finally accumulated a little wealth over the years, and it has been consumed again.

Then the gods will look at Yevlit again: You kid can really cause trouble!

‘Da’

The two stopped in front of a laboratory in the center of the city.

Here is the most core knowledge of Herames.

“Division of labor.” Future Yevlit said: “I study knowledge, and you do curse hedging.”

“Okay.” Yevlit nodded.

There is no need to learn general knowledge, but even if you don’t learn the highest achievement of Herames, you have to take a look to satisfy your curiosity.

And Yevlit has to complete self-rescue - by curse hedging.

God's curse is the sharpest spear and the thickest shield.

It is difficult to break it by yourself.

However, if you find another curse, you will have a chance to take a shortcut to resolve it.

So -

This is what Yevlit said: win-win, he saves himself, and the demons are freed.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether they are willing or not.

"We are willing." The demons said: "Human, whether you believe it or not, eternity is a punishment."

Yevlit did not answer them. After finding the materials, he concentrated on carving the magic circle.

Demon reversal equation: It is the opposite process of making demons.

The "farewell" that Miko has been using is based on this principle.

Yevlit used it to reverse these demons back to pure magic and "send them away".

These demons are also part of Herames's curse of God.

By reversing the curse on them, the two curses can be in an opposite state at the same time, so as to cancel each other.