Chapter 103: “The Seventh Catastrophe”
Rare ordered Sugaru to make preparations for airlifting infantry and engineer ants to La Colline. She had them scour the underground tunnels as well to make sure nothing got left behind. This would finally close the curtain on the entire La Colline situation.
Using [Summon Caster] to return to the capital, it was finally time to check out the forums.
“Hm, so there are six other known catastrophes aside from me.”
Since most of the information came from legends passed down within various NPC countries, she didn’t know how reliable it was. She wasn’t sure how trustworthy these lore players’ fact-gathering skills were, but it didn’t really matter either way. All Rare wanted right now was to confirm what information was being shared between the player and NPC sides, not determine the absolute truth.
And as she suspected, the number of catastrophes that the NPCs had identified was inaccurate.
This wasn’t based on anything in the game, but it would be natural to presume that an archdemon was diametrically opposed to an archangel. Similarly, the relationship between a demon lord and a spirit lord could also be antagonistic. Regardless of the truth, the leaders of the kingdom of Hiers believed that the spirit king favored them, which meant that it was possible that the spirit lord was assessed as a force that posed no threat to humanity.
In which case, Rare didn’t think a spirit king would trigger that “special being of calamity” or whatever system announcement.
“The developers probably made that decision—or rather, that setting. They surely didn’t consider how the NPCs felt about it…”
When considering Rare as the leader of a faction, the developers probably assumed that “the demon lord was antagonistic to the human faction.” This was obvious from the fact that her birth as a demon lord was announced via system message. So it was hard to believe that her own nemesis, the spirit lord, would have also merited an announcement as an enemy of humanity. Along the same lines, based on the prime minister’s description of the artifact’s effects, she could infer that the spirit lord and the archangel weren’t opposed to one another in the natural order. Which meant that when the archangel was born, it was possible that the human faction didn’t get an announcement about it.