Chapter 59: Beauty of Magic
"What the... How can someone even resist against something like this!?" Sebastian's expressionless face for the first time was filled with this much terror and... fear.
Johan, Kirin, and Sebastian were sitting around a campfire, its warmth a comfort they all needed—Kirin and Johan after training hard, and Sebastian after getting his daily cell-cleansing treatment to stop the spread of cancer cells.
The darkness of the night sky was heavy, but the beauty of the stars still made everything peaceful and comforting to their tired bones.
Johan also frowned. He was telling both of them everything he knew about what had happened—from Leor planting fake evidence by torturing his mother and sister, to an ability to manipulate people—the favorability system—while still hiding the real truth and making it sound like an Aethric ability, and of course...
The Schrödinger's Cat. And Johan's assumption was correct—even people like Sebastian and Kirin could feel fear.
"So... he can just kill us at any time, right? He can just imagine a reality where we are dead and make a move trying to kill us..." Kirin said word by word, scratching her head, her body trembling.
Sebastian also nodded, a bit surprised they weren't already dead.
"It's not that simple, actually. Leor can only make a reality real if he truly believes it could happen. If there's even a shred of doubt, it won't work. The second condition is that he can only make one sequence of actions, not multiple. Like, to kill us, he will have to find us, travel to us, engage in a fight with us—only then it will happen. It's too complicated for his ability... for now, at least." Johan rubbed his chin thoughtfully, explaining everything in detail.
'Reality magic is deeply connected to the creator Ymir, so she knows when someone tampers with it. In the DLCs of the game, if you chose the ending where the Goddess of Death was alive, you had to fight the creator herself. At that time, Leor could make tens of sequences happen in a single use...' Johan thought. 'This was the reason he added "for now." Leor, with his foreknowledge, could definitely hasten this process... and if he did, there would be no way they could fight against him...'
Even an omnipotent, omnipresent God... lost.
Kirin grinned. "There should be a time limit on using this bullshit power too, right?" she asked, entering her battle maniac mode.