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Book 9
Book 9: Chapter 40: Evil God’s Failure
“Evil God-sama, what kind of curse do you want to cast on the person you’re going to reincarnate?”
The Shikigami asked the Evil God.
He planned to kill a person from another world and force him to reincarnate into this world.
Reincarnating a person from another world would consume a colossal amount of energy from the Divine Realm.
Generally, only the Creator God could allow the reincarnation of a person from another world, but the Evil God was trying to interfere with the Creator God by arbitrarily reincarnating a person of his own choosing.
Even though this deity was named “Evil God”, he was still one of the deities who possessed power in this world. Thus, a “reincarnation privilege” would be arbitrarily given to the person he reincarnated if he did so through normal means.
That so-called “reincarnation privilege” was —
Increase of status tenfold compared to normal
Being reborn as part of royalty or nobility
Immunity against damages
Ability to erase one’s presence completely
— and so on; basically referring to those various cheat abilities.
The Evil God hated the very idea of the Demon King — the demon he painstakingly raised to spread misery in the world and personally appointed and bestowed his power unto — being annihilated by the hero from another world transmigrated by the Creator God.
Thus, he couldn’t help but decide to just take the matter into his hands and reincarnate a person from another world himself in order to interfere with the Creator God’s plans.
He wouldn’t be able to bear it if the reincarnator he chose got a “reincarnation privilege” and went on to defeat the Demon King.
Thus, it was necessary for him to cast a powerful curse on that reincarnator from another world.
“Yeah, now that you mention it, go bring me something terrible-looking from the bookshelf of curses.”
“I understand.”
The shikigami went to the library after receiving the order of the Evil God.
“Er, terrible-looking, terrible…. Which one….”
The Evil God was the deity that ruled the dark side of this world, so his temple contained several books sealed with curses that could bring destruction to the world.
All the bookshelves were classified and labeled according to the books they held.
There were a total of five bookshelves where the cursed books were kept.
[Decent Enough]
[Terrible]
[Very Terrible]
[Extremely Terrible]
[Terrible for the World]
[The Most Terrible, in a Sense]
By the way, it was the Evil God himself who jotted down the classification. Whenever he generated a curse, he would seal it inside a book and order the shinigami to keep it away.
However, the Evil God himself hardly knew what kind of curses he possessed because of the sheer amount of curses he created.
“There’s only one book here at the bookshelf of [The Most Terrible, in a Sense]...”
And that book was —
[Static Status Curse].
“I wonder, why did he consider this to be the most terrible?...but, if it says “most terrible”, then it should be far worse than the ones in [Terrible for the World], right? So this one should be fine, right?”
The shikigami decided to take the book where the curse was sealed.
One of the reasons why she picked this book was because it was the only one on the shelf, making it easier for her to choose without having to go through its contents.
And just as the Evil God instructed, the shikigami chose the most terrible-looking curse he could find.
She didn’t have a fault in this.
If there was, it would be her mistake of not checking the contents thoroughly first before bringing it to the Evil God.
“Sorry it took some time, Evil God-sama. How about this one?”
“Lemme see…Hmm, Static Status Curse, huh…Isn’t that quite plain?”
“That may be so, but if you cast this curse, the victim’s level will forever be frozen at Level 1, is it not? I’ve heard that a lot of people from the other world are excited about reincarnation and getting cheat abilities. Won’t it be fun to watch the faces of those stupid otherworld person fall miserably after all that excitement?”
“You…You can come up with quite the funny stuff, huh. Yeah, you’re right, that’ll be amusing.”
“Ehehe, please praise me.”
“Hey, don’t get too carried away.”
The Evil God mumbled, but he still patted the shinigami’s head.josei
In reality, the Evil God had gotten the effects all mixed up when he created this curse.
He wanted to create a [Fixed Upper Limit Status Curse], but he ended up creating a curse that froze the status itself without meaning to.
The person casted with this curse would never be affected by any damage.
That’s because the Physical Strength had also been [Frozen].
It didn’t end with that effect.
It was equivalent to having an unlimited supply of mana.
The maximum amount of mana that the person could release at one time depended on the value of mana at the time he was cursed. As long as the spell he casted didn’t exceed that maximum level, he would be able to use mana inexhaustibly.
Moreover, he wouldn’t be able to receive any debuffs as part of the effect of the curse.
The cursed person would never suffer from paralysis, forced slumber, nor would he be poisoned. Even Knock Back would not work on him.
He wouldn’t get blown away even if hit.
That’s because even his very condition was also frozen.
This curse could only be casted on reincarnated people, because of the restrictions with which it was created.
The Evil God did consider destroying this curse at one point, but because of the huge amount of mana he poured into it, he decided to just set it aside for the meantime.
He also thought that perhaps there might be an opportunity for him to reincarnate somebody, a person that would only listen to him, from the other world.
And that was precisely the reason why he created a shelf and labeled it as “The Most Terrible, in a Sense” and stored the [Static Status Curse] there.
However, this had already happened several hundred million years ago.
The Evil God hadn’t been creating any curses recently. He had almost forgotten what kinds of curses he created in the past.
And so, this was how the [Static Status Curse] was placed on Halt.