This is the story of a magician and an elf girl.

Fair skin, smooth white hair, a ruthless yet innocent smile - a person who makes it impossible to feel any sympathy appears in extremely unnatural circumstances. Not to mention Linna, Jack and Wendy have imagined in the past that her appearance might be the black witch in the hell map, or a monster with dense holes all over her body, or something even more creepy.

Unexpectedly, all three guessed wrong.

"Ms. Linnae...what should we do?"

"…Wendy, land."

"Uh? Is this... okay?"

"We have no choice but to land and see what she is up to..."

"……yes……"

"..."

But in conclusion, she still maintained a rational attitude and let Wendy land on the ground, sharing the qualification for the conversation with the other party: "Oh, you are very calm, and your rationality is very commendable. There are very few people who are not moved even if they know my identity. Do you know? If a person's rationality can overcome his anger and hatred, it means that this person's psychological quality is enough to control his emotional impulses and thinking and behavior patterns. So far, I have only seen one person like this, 'only one person'. So I know very well that the more rational a person is, the more potential he has to gain huge power - but whether you are the same person as him, it depends on whether you can make the right choice."

The magician's back with his black robe fluttering flashed through Linnae's mind. When she thought of this, she couldn't help but feel pressure and incredible hatred: "... Let me make it clear in advance, I have no intention of letting you go, nor do I intend to forgive you - even now I wish I could kill all of you."

Linna used the power of the dryad to plant vines in the ground, and in an instant she bound the bodies of hundreds of puppets. As long as she wanted to, she could twist off their heads in an instant, and then attack other puppets, and in the end she could kill thousands of puppets.

"What a huge magical power, but you still endured it. You are different from that man. You know the limit of your ability very well. It is not enough to kill all the puppets. This is a wise choice. I still have several trump cards in my hand, and they are powerful enough to annihilate all the adventurers. You know very well that I am also holding back from killing you all. As long as I have the power of the Phoenix, I am invincible. You don't have the power to fight against it, so you have to listen to my advice. This is the right to negotiate and our current position."

“…Tsk…”

"Ms. Linnae..."

"...Elf...I know...Just bear with it...Just bear with it..."

And to be honest, if Jack and Wendy hadn't been holding her trembling hands behind her, Linna would have instantly exploded and rushed to the guy's face, swinging a dagger.

Moreover, it is an indisputable fact that the other party does have the qualifications to engage in dialogue.

If the problem this time can be resolved through negotiation, if it is the next time, Linna will definitely take revenge on the other party and will never let go of Hera, the murderer behind the scenes who took every opportunity to kill the magician. Never.

She swore to use the knife that man left for her to cut the bitch's neck with her own hands.

"Be patient. I like good children who know how to be patient. If I have to deal with a child who doesn't know how to be patient, I will definitely throw him into the hell of puppets, torture him, and then treat him. Repeat this process until he learns to be patient. Don't you think this is a process worth watching?"

"... Stop talking to me about such disgusting topics. I don't want to share such boring interests with you."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, sharing is a good thing. I am different from other people. I have no intention of resonating with or understanding you. Once people understand each other, they will only see the ugly parts of each other. What is the point of confessing one's true nature to each other for this reason?"

"No, understanding is..."

"Don't cover it up with ambiguous words, elf. You are asking even though you know the answer. The reason why people prosper is that they can share the benefits with each other through money, but sharing cannot make all people reach a consensus. The benefits can only be established when the interests are consistent. If people can really understand each other, then why do they hurt each other further? Because the fact is just the opposite. The more people understand each other, the more they will hurt each other. The culprit that causes this mistake to continue to spread is not me, but your ignorance and emotional obsession."

"...So what you mean is... that we should make people become like beasts, so that is the proper attitude of life?"

"What's wrong with being a beast? Are humans' attitudes towards life any different from those of beasts? You breed your own kind without distinguishing right from wrong, kill each other when you need them, and abandon each other when you don't. Under the mask on your face, you can't get rid of the instincts of beasts. You haven't made good use of the blessing that the magician has given to humans."

"Whether people can make good use of that wisdom is a lifelong test! In addition, humans are animals controlled by emotions, so it is natural for them to express their characteristics in this way! But we will not play with other people's lives like beasts! We will not command tens of thousands of puppets around us like you do. You will know who the mad man is after seeing this!"

"I said that it was nothing but your ignorance and arrogance. If the manifestation of desire is the characteristic of beasts, then the manifestation of ignorance is the symbol of life. You who pursue knowledge too much are not worthy of existing as a living being. It is enough for you to have four limbs and a head. You don't need anything else. All you need are teeth and digestive organs. Anyway, you have never reached the stage of 'evolution' in the past thousand years. You think you have reached the top of the food chain and become arrogant. I am tired of it. It is too stupid for all the knowledge to be occupied by people. Don't you think that the resources of this world should be shared efficiently with every life?"

"What……"

"Don't you understand... Humans are a kind of sad life form that relies too much on intellect, and are tortured by emotions day and night. If it is just to survive, then why do we have to live so tormentedly? Wouldn't it be better to let me take away all the pain and troubles? Anyway, you have no way to control that wisdom..."

"So it's okay even if I turn them all into puppets that only know how to eat?!"

"Of course, this is the original attitude of life! Being eaten or hunting, the law of the jungle is the attitude that life should have! All the sense of unfairness comes from the accumulated pressure in people's hearts! And the source of pressure is people's wisdom and emotions! Various facts and history have proved that you are not worthy of the intelligence that is embraced by intelligent life forms! You deny the mating between creatures with order! You deny the inevitable killing with law! You deny everything you don't want to accept with ignorance! At this point, don't say that people become happy because of wisdom - all that is just your delusion! Poor thinking and weak social life have reached their limits! You can no longer prove that you are loved by the intellect! No matter how long it continues, it will only make you look more sad! Just admit it!"

"Shut up!"

"Thank me, sing praises to the arrival of the new world, an era without any sense of injustice is coming! All life forms will share all the resources of this world equally! The torture of ignorance will be eternally ended! I am the goddess Hera, the only goddess in the world who can control the power of nurturing, the 'cradle of life'. I hereby declare that if you want to continue to exist as a part of the world, you need to accept only one condition, that is, to unconditionally share with me the 'intellectual heritage' of the intellectual pioneers. In that case, no one will have to shed a drop of blood to end this meaningless war."

“Unconditional sharing…”

"The intellectual pioneer..."

"An intellectual legacy..."

"Hey, hey, hey... don't pretend you don't know. Even if you were fooled by Athena, you have vaguely sensed it, right? Where did the magician's true power come from? Why was he called a pioneer of knowledge? Why did he reach the origin that no one else could reach? The truth is right in front of us. The magician holds the key to a new world. In terms of the multiverse of parallel worlds... it's like a turning point that converges all destinies and the future."

"!" "!" "!"

Wendy and Jack, who really had no idea, looked at each other in confusion. Only Linnae, who continued to stare at the demon god, showed a look that seemed to give her some idea.

Intellectual pioneer, magician, beyond the light, origin of magic, if there are paths among these factors that I have not yet opened, resulting in discrepancies in information and unnecessary errors... now as long as the information provided by Hera is added... perhaps everything will be revealed.

"…What do you know…"

"Are you really ignorant or are you pretending not to know? In this world, whoever possesses that power is equivalent to possessing the power to turn destiny. For this reason, I have been searching and searching... Finally, I found it. After a thousand years, the gears of this world have become restless. In order to personally achieve the greatest achievement in the world, I have racked my brains to arrange everything. This time, I must snatch it from someone's hands. After all, it was originally--"

"——That kind of thing never belonged to you, Hera."

"!"

"Boom!" Suddenly, a silver spear fell from the sky. Both sides reflexively took a step back, only to see that their vision had been blocked by the smoke and the outline of the spear. However, with just a casual wave of Hera's hand,

"Swoosh!" The wind-blown weather was split open by her vision like an obedient offspring. At the same time, Athena, who appeared from behind Linna and the others, formally exchanged glances with her old rival who she had not seen for many years: "Are you out? Cunning and embarrassed Miss Valkyrie, you still love to sneak attack."

"You are the one. Wouldn't it be very rude to show up with a fake identity? The name of the famous Queen of Heaven and Goddess is crying."

"You are only good at talking. I am just being cautious in order to avoid being ambushed by a despicable villain like you."

"He who comes out and talks nonsense and wants to put forward such conditions, yet he wants to get the qualification to talk without taking any risk at all, it's really a big joke, is he that afraid of death?"

"I don't want to be told that by the famous death squad leader. If it weren't for the death squad that took the bullets and knives for you, would you still be alive today?"

"It's the same for both of us... At least I have paid the price for my mistakes, but you are still playing with these lives. You have no room for reflection. It can be seen that your nature is still as bad and childish as before."

From the conversation, it can be known that the two of them are really incompatible with each other. Naturally, they do not intend to interrupt the conversation casually. After all, such a long time has passed, and the hatred accumulated in the hearts of these two people should have exceeded the critical point long ago.

In this atmosphere full of minefields, it was Hera herself who first broke the silence: "Just like you, you want to discuss the past with me? Haha... Ahahahahaha, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!"

"..."

Athena and Linnae knew exactly why Hera laughed so loudly, and they couldn't help but recall the confusion they had when they first met.

That's right, Athena had no right to criticize Hera. She was also a despicable and childish person in the past, and she had also hurt that person's kindness for her own benefit.

At this point, she had no way of refutation in front of Linnai.

"You seem to know about it, right? What did that woman do to the magician? Have you forgiven her? There is no way, right? After all -"

"——Yes, I can't forgive her, but the one I can't forgive even more is you, Demon God Hera."

"……Um?"

Linnai raised the dragon tooth knife and pointed it at the demon god, staring at him with straightforward eyes: "If you hadn't come, the relationship between that man and Athena would not have been broken. You are the spark that ignited the fire and the wind that caused the war to spread. So I will kill you first, and then let this goddess atone for his sins until she dies. At this point, I will not waver anymore, and I am tired of listening to your nonsense."

By now, Linnay had already faced the reality.

Even if they continued to blame Athena, it would be of no use. They needed Athena, and Athena needed them. The only thing they didn't need was the existence of their natural enemy, the demon Hera.