Chapter 212: The Magical Formula of Angels (2)

“He said Geppin. It’s the same Geppin who created Geppin’s Gate, right? Why did Miro call that person at the last moment?”

Ikael blinked with a surprised expression.

She did not expect Shirone to have heard that voice. However, she soon continued explaining in a calm tone.

“Geppin was the first guardian who protected your world from the army of heaven. Miro is, so to speak, Geppin’s successor.”

“What? Miro wasn’t the first?”

“Their situations were different, but basically that’s how it is. McCline Geppin, that man was one of the most outstanding humans in your world. No, even superior to any nephilim. That’s why he separated humanity from God.”

“Then, where is he now?”

Ikael shook her head.

“He went to a place that even I cannot observe. Leaving behind his successor, Miro.”

“But that means…”

“That’s right. She must eternally fulfill the role of a barrier in a place where time does not flow. Otherwise, Shirone’s world will be destroyed.”

Shirone’s lips trembled.

The face of Miro he had seen at the end appeared clearly in his mind.

How must she have felt, forced to face endless solitude, isolated from the world?

At that moment, a terrifying thought came to him.

He recalled one by one the conversations he had with the director.

At that time, Alpheas’s face had seemed sad. No, sometimes he even showed a frightening expression, as if he were angry.

What if Miro had not chosen that path of her own will?

What if she had been isolated by someone’s force?

At that point, Shirone felt a chill run through his body.

It could not even be called a crime.

It was a decision that had cast a human being into eternal hell.

“How long will Miro have to…?”

“Right now the army of heaven is still fully preparing for the final war. It may not take long to begin. Because the coordinates are recorded in the Metagate that Shirone’s group brought.”

Shirone’s mind went blank.

Miro had sealed the gate of heaven using large-scale magic.

But the Metagate was practically the same as opening a new gate to heaven.

“That can’t… be…”

“No. It is possible. If they have the Metagate, with heaven’s technology they can easily enter while bypassing Miro’s space-time.”

Shirone felt as if his chest collapsed.

This was not a matter of life or death only for them.

It was the destruction of all humanity.

He could not believe it was true.

What the hell had they done?

“That is also the reason why I want to help. Shirone’s friends are being held in the Grand World Hall. Kariel will implant nephilim information into the bodies of the girls.”

“Why? You said they are preparing for the final war! Then what does a nephilim have to do with all this?”

“The situation has changed. Miro is not a nephilim. And even so, she opened the Immortal Function on her own. It is extremely rare, but in Shirone’s world it happens quite often.”

That was also why he had felt confused when he heard the word nephilim in the refuge of Nor.

There were too many Unlockers for all of them to simply be descendants of angels.

“That means Shirone’s world has moved far away from the will of Ra. Geppin bought time so that humanity could understand the essence of the world. And now that will has been inherited by Miro. Of course, the time she has managed to defend is insignificant compared to Geppin’s. But considering the speed of human growth, it is not something that can be ignored.”

Shirone also agreed with those words.

The speed of magical development was clearly increasing.

There were even analyses saying that the achievements of the last hundred years were inferior to those of the last ten.

“Then this time humans will not be defeated so easily.”

“Exactly. Even if they are few, the rulers of the human world probably already know about the existence of heaven. They are surely preparing in some way. Right now they need as many nephilim as possible.”

Shirone trembled with rage.

Implanting angel information into human bodies just to destroy humanity.

Just imagining Amy giving birth to someone for that reason was unbearable.

“Why did you just stand by and watch? If you are an archangel, you could ask for their release.”

Ikael looked at Shirone with sad eyes.

“Ah…”

It was obvious.

Why did Miro hate Ikael?

Because she was the angel who commanded the army of heaven.

Ikael had also once been an archangel who punished humanity.

“That’s right. I am an angel. If the final war begins, I will also have to fight against humans.”

Shirone felt all the strength leave his body.

Was this how everything ended?

Did he have to watch his friends be defeated without being able to receive help from anyone in heaven?

“If I… had not met Geppin.”

Ikael smiled with her eyes and stuck out her tongue slightly.

“Don’t worry, Shirone. I want to help you. Humans, unlike angels, possess infinite possibilities. I believe the final war should never happen.”

Shirone looked at her with a stunned expression, but soon understood the weight of her words.

If an archangel who had reached the rank of great archangel stood on the side of humans, then even if the final war broke out, there would still be hope.

She had said it was before meeting Geppin.

He could not ask what sin Ikael had committed, but it was obvious that it was related to him.

“But you must not relax too much. My power is sealed. Also, I cannot even leave this room, so even if I want to help you, I cannot provide direct assistance.”

“But with my power, I cannot defeat an angel.”

“That’s right. Angels are strong. Moreover, if it is Kariel, even before I lost my powers, he would be an archangel too powerful to confront recklessly.”

“Then what do we do now?”

Surely she had not said that just to discourage him.

Shirone waited, clinging to a thread of hope, for her to offer some kind of solution.

“There is a method. It will slightly increase the chances of rescuing your friends.”

“Really? What is it?”

“The magical circle of angels. Shirone must use it.”

“Then… do you mean the halo?”

“Exactly. Angels activate their abilities by concentrating information in the halo. If Shirone learns to use it, he will be able to create a decisive opportunity at the crucial moment.”

Shirone remembered what happened in Shamayin.

The pressure he felt when Ikasa deployed her halo still lingered in his body.

And now they were telling him he had to use something like that?

He didn’t believe it was possible.

Humans do not possess Over Spirit.

Without a body of sacred light, there isn’t even a space where information can be recorded, so how could he create a magical circle?

“Of course, it won’t be easy. For Shirone to use the magical circle of angels, he must overcome at least three obstacles.”

Ikael raised three fingers as she spoke.

“First, create a body of sacred light. The human spirit is inside the body, but I know there is a special method to bring it outside. Can you do it?”

Shirone nodded.

The concept Ikael referred to was the separation type of the quadrangular method.

If he used the separation form, he could imitate the angels’ Over Spirit to some extent.

“The real problem begins now. Even if you manage to create a body of sacred light, deploying the halo is something completely different. You must draw a perfect circle. If the circle is distorted even slightly, the calculation speed of light decreases drastically, and if it slows down even 0.1%, the abilities of an angel will not manifest.”

A human cannot draw a perfect circle.

But in the mental realm, it is not impossible.

What matters is understanding the mathematical concept of a circle.

It wouldn’t be easy, but it was a barrier he had to overcome.

“That is the first obstacle. The second is even more serious. The power of angels comes from the enormous amount of information accumulated in the halo. In terms of formulas, it is an amount that a human could not even record in an entire lifetime. The essence of the halo is calculating all of that at the speed of light.”

Shirone remembered the scene where Ikael caused the eruption of Galliant’s volcano.

The ability to increase the activity of a dormant volcano twenty thousand times and make it erupt completely surpassed human limits.

“Even if I could make the perfect circle what about the formulas? The human mind cannot instantly calculate enough information to make a volcano explode.”

“But you have intuition. Here we will try something. We will connect mentally. I will become Shirone and use the halo. Then that experience will directly become your own experience and will be engraved in your mind.”

“T-that kind of method…?”

Ikael’s gaze became stern.

“Don’t call it a method. It is practically the most extreme form of violence that can be inflicted on a human being. If something goes wrong, Shirone’s mind could break. And my mind, by merging with yours, will not be safe either.”

Shirone’s stomach twisted.

If it was to save his friends, he didn’t care if his mind was destroyed.

From the beginning, he had already risked his life.

But if even Ikael was in danger, it wasn’t a decision he could take lightly.

“If I fail…”

“Shirone, don’t think about other things. I said I will help you. Don’t worry about me. Right now, just think about saving your friends.”

Shirone took a deep breath to calm himself.

Just as she said, he had no other choice.

“What is the third obstacle?”

“Even if the formula of the magical circle is completed, another issue is whether your mind will be able to withstand it. If your mental resistance is not sufficient, Shirone will be destroyed. This is independent of the risk I face. But if you cannot endure it, it is better not to attempt it from the beginning.”

“Don’t worry about that. I will endure it.”

As for the final obstacle, he was confident.

Since entering the magic academy, his mind had always stood out for its resilience.

Moreover, he had reached the level of the indestructible body, so he believed he could endure it.

“You don’t understand. I know your mind possesses a resilience that has never collapsed. But even so, it may not be enough.”

“How can something that never collapses collapse? That sounds contradictory.”

“No. They are different conceptual levels. If it is about the container that holds your mind, your current resilience is sufficient. But the concept of an angel born in a higher dimension is of a different quality. The container may be sufficient to hold water, but if that water freezes, any container will end up breaking.”

“I understand.”

It was like climbing one mountain after another.

Of the three obstacles she mentioned, none were easy to overcome.

Perhaps that was only natural.

After all, it meant a human learning the magical circle of a great archangel.

It made sense to accept that level of risk from the beginning.

“The halo will cause Shirone’s mind to explode from within. The decision is yours. If even knowing this danger you still want to try, I will help you.”

For an angel, the destruction of the mind was equivalent to the extinction of life.

If Ikael was willing to risk everything to help him, Shirone had no reason to refuse.

It was for his friends, but also because an opportunity to learn the true essence of a great archangel would never come again.

“I will do it. No please, do it. I will accept any result that happens.”

“Good. The spell I will use with you from now on is called possession. It consists of merging with the mind and controlling the human. Normally, the angels sent use it to transmit the will of Ra.”

Shirone had read about possession in various texts.

At that time, he doubted its authenticity, but now that a great archangel said it directly, there was no reason to question it.

“If the possession succeeds, our minds will merge. If I had bad intentions, it would be very easy to harm you. And if Shirone loses his purity, that malice will flow into me.”

It was a clear warning.

If they were not careful, something irreversible could happen.

Shirone nodded calmly again.

Ikael had no reason to harbor bad intentions.

And even if he lost his purity for a moment, he was not such a weak person as to be unable to control it.