On how PhDs become human evil

"Lord Fafnir!" Rita was flattered. "To have troubled you to come all this way to see me—"

"Alright, alright, stop telling me you have to atone for your sins. I'm sick of hearing it. Besides, things here are more important than that." Bai Jie finished speaking and looked at Altair. "It's unbearable. Visitors from another world keep coming one after another. Do they think this place is just a transit station in this dimensional rift?"

"Also, you just mentioned the reality of the world, don't tell me you're some kind of god, or I'll stab you to death without hesitation."

Upon hearing Bai Jie's threatening words, Altair, who had finally recovered from his shock, revealed a delighted expression: "I never expected to meet you here. Is this fate?"

"Nice to meet you, I am Altair, who has traversed countless worlds of human evil."

"Alter... Judging from your tone, it seems you've known about me for a long time."

"A beast that slays gods, a beast that protects humanity, a magic king who possesses all wisdom... Your legends are known throughout the land of the gods; it's hard not to know about you."

The land of the gods?

Upon hearing an interesting term, Bai Jie chuckled, "Wow? The Land of the Gods, are you from there?"

"We should say we all come from that place. Our existence is not real, but rather a fiction created by the creators of the Land of Gods—"

Altair couldn't continue speaking because Bai Jie had already come up to her, and the Holy Lance had turned into a weapon to seal her mouth, leaving all her words stuck in her throat.

With a fierce red glint in his eyes, Bai Jie sneered, "I'm a fabrication? You really dare to say that. Can I take this as a provocation against me, woman?"

With Bai Jie's mouth covered, Altair naturally couldn't speak, but her eyes conveyed a message to Bai Jie.

Narrowing his eyes, Bai Jie drew his Holy Lance: "If you don't believe me, I can search your soul. It's unbelievable that you would be willing to suggest something that's tantamount to suicide."

Allowing Bai Jie to search one's soul is tantamount to allowing Bai Jie's power to invade one's mind and brain. And Bai Jie's power is so great that even a tiny bit of it can turn a commander with excellent mental strength who has contracted dozens of ship girls into a vegetable. So Altair's suggestion really means that she wants to commit suicide.

After gagging a few times, Altair smiled bitterly and said, "If I can gain your trust, what's wrong with dying once? If my death can bring about the destruction of the Land of the Gods, then I'd be happy to—ugh!"

"Alright, enough with the nonsense. Since you've brought up soul searching, I won't hold back."

After Bai Jie finished speaking, he pressed down hard on Altair's brain, his five fingers piercing directly into her brain. A torrent of magic rushed into her body, scanning the surface of Altair's brain in the most brutal way, like a radar scan.

Closing his eyes and sensing Altair's memories through magic, Bai Jie sighed and withdrew his hand: "This is really interesting. Is it a world on a higher level than this one?"

"It seems you believe in the existence of the Land of the Gods." Altair, whose brain should have been burned by Bai Jie's magic, was standing there as if nothing had happened. Of course, Bai Jie had also learned about her abilities while browsing Altair's memories, so he was not surprised by her performance.

After putting away the Holy Lance, Bai Jie said, "Although I believe you and know what you want to do, I still have a lot of things to do right now."

"It's alright, I can wait. You should finish what you need to do first."

"Okay, then wait a moment."

As he said this, Bai Jie raised his hand, and boundless magic power that shook the world erupted from his body, spreading across all the world's oceans in a short instant at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light. Then, countless magic circles appeared above the oceans. If viewed from outer space, all the ocean areas on Earth had been replaced by magic circles.

World Magic: The Wrath of the Four Seas, capable of upending the world!

This is destructive magic capable of causing massive ocean disasters worldwide!

Wherever the magic circle covers the ocean, the highest level of tsunamis, subterranean eruptions, underwater earthquakes, and ocean whirlpools will occur continuously until Bai Jie stops supplying magic power, or until all the enemies in the ocean that Bai Jie has identified are eliminated.

Sirens travel in the ocean, so under the influence of this magic, they would have no chance of survival. The ocean currents, reaching speeds of five kilometers per second under the influence of this magic, would slice all the sirens into pieces.

Of course, Bai Jie also considered that this magic would have an extremely negative impact on the ecological environment of the ocean, coast, and land, so he added a large-scale time reversal spell. Once all the Sirens are killed, this spell will be activated, turning all the places destroyed by the magic back to their state before the destruction—except for the Sirens.

This is Bai Jie, the Magic King who has traveled to many worlds and explored the path of magical wisdom.

"Alright, let's go, Altair, to that place called the Land of the Gods."

Section 338.1. What should I do if the character I write wants to hit me?

Bai Jie is starting to panic.

If his memory serves him right, he is currently in Akihabara, Japan. He used to occasionally wander around here when he was in High School DxD, but there is a big difference between this place and the Akihabara he remembers—a picture is being displayed on the electronic screens in Akihabara.

That was a scene that Bai Jie was very familiar with. In the painting, he was wearing dark gold armor, holding a holy spear in his left hand and a divine sword in his right. A holy yet ominous aura flowed through his body like a radiance.

Opposite him was a luminous being who looked like a madman, with all sorts of wings on his back—wings of dragons, bats, angels, and eagles.

That was the core of Bai Jie and Beast Emperor 666 who had activated the Holy Lance Forbidden Hand. The scene shown on the screen was the bloody battle he had fought with Beast Emperor 666 in the dimensional rift.

(That battle should only be known to me, Chen, and A-Cai, so why did it appear as a promotional PV? And it was even streamed live across the entire internet!?)

Even Bai Jie's thoughts were a bit muddled. Then, the screen suddenly changed to an advertisement, and the content of the advertisement made Bai Jie's mentality explode.

[After a year and a half, the latest volume of "The Doctor of Infinite Worlds" will be released and a signing event will be held at 2:30 PM this afternoon! At the same time, the production of a fourth season of the anime has been confirmed!]

Seeing the message appear on the big screen, Bai Jie quickly glanced at the time: "Four o'clock?! There's still time! No matter what, I have to find that author!"

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At the Akihabara convention center, a boy sat at a table in front of a long line, signing his name on the books of everyone who came to him.

The boy's name is Souji, which is not his real name but his pen name. As for his profession, he is a light novel writer and a best-selling author. His work, "The Doctor of Infinite Worlds," is one of the pillars of Dengeki Bunko's new generation, and the signing event for the latest volume is currently underway.

"Sōji-sensei, have some water. You've been working for an hour and a half."

"Thank you, Aoyama, I'm saved."

After finally managing to deal with a group of readers, Souji gulped down a mouthful of water and slumped onto the table: "Now I understand why my seniors looked so gloating when I told them I could hold a book signing event. These book signing events are exhausting."

Although book signings are a symbol of honor for authors, they require them to sit in a chair for hours on end, repeating actions such as smiling, signing, and shaking hands over and over again. Souji felt that he would be unable to lift his shoulders for several days after the book signing ended.

"Um... senior, if you don't mind, I can give you a massage later."

"Okay, please... and don't call me 'senior' during work hours. It was fine during school, but now you have to call me 'teacher'," Souji said with a smile.

The girl in front of him was named Aoyama. Like him, she was a transfer student from China. Because they were from the same country and attended the same school, Souji pulled her over to help out when there was a shortage of people for the autograph session, euphemistically calling her a "temporary worker".

After resting for a few more minutes, a staff member ran over: "Souji-sensei! The next group of readers is coming! Please be prepared!"

"Ugh, it's happening again! My shoulders and back..."

Souji wore a miserable crying expression. Although he was happy that his book was selling so well, the thought of being exhausted made him completely unhappy!

But no matter what, he had to go ahead. Patting his face, Souji looked ahead—

"You're the bastard who wrote down my dark history?!"

A pair of red eyes were staring intently at Souji, and it was clear that the owner of the red eyes was in a very bad mood.

Leaning back slightly in a tactical manner, Souji smiled and said, "I am indeed the author of 'The Doctor of Infinite Worlds,' and this reader..."

"It really is you, kid! Come with me! I have something to tell you!"

Before the commander could react, an extremely dazzling white light burst forth from beneath his feet, enveloping his entire body. Immediately afterward, a dizzying sensation spread throughout his body.

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In a park, after dropping Souji onto a tree and setting up a barrier that hindered perception around him, Bai Jie looked at his creator with a kind expression: "Well then, let's settle our affairs properly, Creator."

"Uh... I think this might be a dream, but you wouldn't happen to be a character I created...."

"Yes, it's the Bai Jie you wrote about." Bai Jie said with a dark face, "You really have a lot of nerve, you actually wrote down all my dark history in a book without missing a single detail. To be honest, I really want to pull out the Holy Lance and stab you to death right now."

"No, no, no! Merciful sir, spare my life!"

The commander knows what Bai Jie's Holy Lance is. It is the strongest mythical weapon in his setting. There is almost no one who can not be killed by one shot. Even if someone uses a forbidden technique, it can still kill them instantly.

If that kind of thing were stuck in his body... he'd definitely be dead!

"Besides, why are you in this world? Aren't you a character I created in a novel? Did I transmigrate?!"

"No, you didn't time travel, it was me who time traveled."

Bai Jie sat down on the bench next to the tree and took out a stack of paper documents. The commander recognized the documents almost immediately.

"Isn't that my original manuscript?!"

"Yes, I just retrieved it using spatial magic. Didn't you write here that after experiencing the world of Azur Lane, I went to a new world?"

"So this is my real world?!" Souji was shocked. He himself didn't know that the male protagonist he created was so strong!

While the setting does allow him to travel to various worlds, this is practically coming directly from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional world! Newton, Einstein, Planck, and a whole host of other scientists must be turning in their graves!

Setting down the stack of paper documents, Bai Jie said, "Speaking of which, you should know about those laws in Kamen Rider, right? Since you wrote them, like the concepts of fatherly love and filial piety."

"Huh?" Souji didn't react at first, then— "Wait, wait, wait! Don't come any closer, don't come any closer... don't get near me! Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!"

Facing the souji who had transformed into a giant pineapple, Bai Jie smiled and raised his fist in a gesture of filial piety.

P.S.: Please just think of this Souji as the author himself; the author is making a cameo appearance.

P.S.: Our team-building activity was a barbecue, but the organizer sent us the wrong location. My roommates and I walked three kilometers to Zijin Mountain and then walked back down, a total of six kilometers round trip. Finally, the organizer told me the barbecue location was less than 200 meters to the right after exiting the subway station... Fuck!

Section 339, Part 2. Author: Bought a complete Cthulhu Mythos collection, preparing to lose sanity.

"Ugh..."

Inside a high school in Tokyo, Souji was slumped over his desk, looking like a salted fish that had been dead for two or three days, or like a lump of coal that had burned out, his whole being radiating an aura of depression.

Everyone was already used to Souji's condition. After all, the whole school knew that he was a bestselling novelist, and they also knew that his current state was probably because he had been rushing to finish his manuscript under the last minute last night. So, including the teachers, no one said anything.

However, this time, Souji's helpless state was not due to the deadline, but because of a group of people.

Everyone knows that Souji rose to fame three years ago with "The Doctor of Infinite Worlds" and is excited about Souji's one wonderful world setting after another, but those are not actually Souji's own creations.

For some reason, Souji has been having recurring dreams about many things since the beginning of his life, such as Kamen Rider, Honkai, and Godkillers. So, Souji had the idea of ​​creating a character to connect all these dreams, which led to the creation of "Doctor of Infinite Worlds".

Three months ago, the protagonists of "The Doctor of Infinite Worlds"—that is, the male protagonist and his harem—suddenly appeared in front of him and called him their creator.

Since then, Souji's life has been completely disrupted. He is often summoned by Bai Jie using magic to do things that have no meaning. The reason he is so tired today is because Bai Jie dragged him to play games with him last night.

Incidentally, Souji was so abused that he became withdrawn.

However, although Bai Jie made a mess of his life, Souji was not dissatisfied. After all, for creators like them, the characters they created were like their own children. Would a father hate his own child?

Although Bai Jie, the son, immediately gave his father a good beating upon meeting him, he was incredibly filial.

(I really hope Bai Jie and the others can take a break today and stop making me so busy. I'm so exhausted...)

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Perhaps it was a telepathic connection, but just as Souji was praying that Bai Jie wouldn't go out and cause trouble, Bai Jie indeed stayed at home today and didn't go out—because they had guests over.

"It's been a long time, Your Highness Fafnir. How have you been?"