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Because the hero was a lie made up by the empire from the beginning. Do you really believe me when I say you are the incarnation of God?

It was like the people who conducted the witch trials knew better than anyone else that they did not represent the so-called God, and that the so-called witches who were burned to death did not have any extraordinary powers at all.

If it was a genuine article, how could they have caught it and burned it to death?

"Okay, so here comes the question, if the hero is fake, then what on earth is this stigma?"

Chapter 52: Dismantling the Stigmata

The identity of the hero is most likely just a lie made up by the empire, but the stigmata are the real thing.

So the question is, what exactly are stigmata?

If the hero's identity is fake, then the stigmata may not be a "blessing from God" at all.

"So, if we can dismantle the essence of the stigmata, maybe we can transfer them. In that case..."

In that case, it would be possible for Livi to create a stronger body and then transfer the stigmata along with the soul. Maybe there would even be no need to create a stronger body, as the stigmata contained the power to break racial boundaries.

Because it is true that the hero broke the limits of the "human" race, this must be the effect of the stigmata.

The stigmata are not as complicated as I imagined. Now that I think about it, it makes sense...

...Since the Empire was able to study the stigmata and figure out a secret method to suppress them, doesn't that prove in disguise that the stigmata can be analyzed?

"I'm confused. The answer has been right in front of me from the beginning. No, to be precise, I haven't been able to think about these details together before..."

In fact, looking back now, many details really reflect problems everywhere, but as the saying goes, many things are clearer to bystanders, just like many scams themselves are not clever, and some people wonder "How can such a scam fool people?"

It was not until I was fooled myself that I realized that the human brain can sometimes suddenly go haywire at some point.

Okay, now that the problem has been discovered, all that remains is to solve it.

"Your Highness Livi..." Star rubbed his hands, a flattering smile appeared on his face, "...So, can we get started?"

"……Um"

Livi is now interested. After using the power of the stigmata for so long, she still doesn't understand what they are. In the past, she always believed that they were a blessing from God, but now it seems that there may be another mystery.

In short, with Star, a lich-demon general who specializes in magic, as her subordinate, Livi finally has the opportunity to study the secret of the stigmata.

Although Star's talent in combat is average, her academic and theoretical attainments are the best among the three demon generals. The other two demon generals can't even catch up with her.

In particular, she studied various divine arts and gods, and collected a large amount of clues and information about the stigmata.

After all, the original purpose of her research was to gain immortality and eternity, and the only power currently known to break the boundaries of mortals is the special marks on the bodies of heroes and demon kings.

After that, almost a month passed...

...During this month, Livi and Star worked day and night to study the stigmata.

Mava and Aenekos were naturally not idle either, leading the goblins and lesser demons to train battle formations respectively. Although it was sad, Livi's team did not expand because of the conquest of Sta.

The main problem is that Star himself is a lone commander.

Of course, this is not actually accurate. Star has a powerful undead army at her disposal. The Undead Million Knights, one of her three weapons, is the fighting force in her hands.

But this is different from the general sense of the little brothers. These so-called undead do not actually have a fixed quota. Basically, Star will summon them on the spot when he needs them. In essence, it is to open up a field that can transform corpses into undead creatures.

After the fight, she will release the domain. After all, maintaining the domain consumes a lot of magic power, and she cannot continue to expand the domain.

Once the domain is lifted, the summoned undead will turn back into corpses, and the next summoning may not necessarily be the same batch of corpses.

It is even possible that there are no bodies at the scene, but this does not pose a problem for Star. If there are no bodies at the scene...can't I just kill a batch of them first?

This is natural. There is no need to talk about any morality with Star when he was a demon general. Strictly speaking, in Star's eyes, any life other than her is meaningless. If they die, they die...

In short, because of Star's temper and her lack of trust in other living creatures, the undead creatures completely obey her orders and are her most useful subordinates, so she naturally got used to this situation.

In other words, unlike Dullahan and the last demon general who had truly subdued a group of high-level demons, Star was a commander without any troops, but he could raise an army of undead anytime and anywhere when needed.

There was no enemy now, so there was naturally no need to summon an army of undead. Although Star had a lot of magic power as a lich, it did not mean that she could waste it casually.

As for her so-called undead army, once they leave the southern border and are no longer protected by the barrier set up in the southern border, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced once they are exposed to the sunlight.

Therefore, unless it is at night, or in a venue prepared in advance, the combat effectiveness of her undead army is quite unstable.

Maybe after all the trouble, their performance is still not as stable as that of Livi and her group of young talents. At least with the bonus of the battle formation, Mava and Aenekos have managed to lead the team to a certain level of improvement.

At the same time, Dulahan was also quite quiet. He was probably still recovering from his injuries. However, many demons, except Dulahan, were looking for Livi everywhere. No one knew what their purpose was.

But in the end they all returned empty-handed...

...Levi is hiding in the southern border. Given Sta's ability to survive, her secret hiding place is really hard for ordinary people to find.

Unless the entire southern border is blown up, it is still quite safe for the time being.

Of course, rather than saying it's safe, even if Livi is found by these demons, with their strength it won't cause much trouble to Livi. It's just that Livi will have to waste time on them, which will be very annoying.

This was just to avoid unnecessary trouble, so I hid it for the time being, but this behavior might have caused some strange illusions to these demons...

...The reason why they had such a strange illusion came from a recent piece of breaking news in the Western Territory.

Let's put this aside for now. In short, after a month of research, Livi and Star have also completed the preliminary research and disassembly of the stigmata.

As a result, some remarkable discoveries were made...

Star's hiding place is located in a bunker hundreds of meters underground somewhere in the southern border. Livi and her group gathered together. Because of the previous research, Mava and Aenekos could not keep up with the pace at all, and the two could only practice battle formations every day.

A month passed, and Livi only talked to them for a few words every day as a routine, which made them extremely uncomfortable but they couldn't say much.

Finally, it seems that the matter has come to an end for the time being. Under Mawa's strong pleading, Livi agreed to her "honorable" duty as the "chair"...

Livi sat in Mava's arms. The 1.9-meter-tall lady could easily let Livi sit on her legs and lean her whole body in her arms, with Aenekos hanging on Livi's arm, thus maintaining the magical state of the triple nesting dolls of large, medium and small.

This made Star, who was sitting opposite, very unhappy. However, after all, she had "monopolized" Livi for the past month, so she couldn't say anything.

Livi naturally didn't care about their reactions at all. With a circle of little demons and goblin girls surrounding her as a background, Livi nodded and spoke.

"Preliminary research has confirmed that the stigmata should be two layers, the inner layer is not clear yet, but the outer layer is very clear..."

...That was some kind of "divine magic", and it was obvious that it was not integrated with the stigmata at the beginning, but was later added to the outside of the stigmata to form the complete stigmata at this moment!

Chapter 53 Isn’t this EVA?!

The dismantling of the stigmata has been preliminarily completed. Currently, two layers of structure have been found. First, the outer layer has been confirmed... It is some kind of "divine magic".

"What about the magic..."

Although it also has the word "God" in it, divine arts have nothing to do with the real God. As mentioned before, the power triggered by divine arts is only that of a "conceptual God."

Regarding the difference between a true God and a conceptual God, a true God is a special individual called "God" who exists in reality and possesses powerful and immortal power. Moreover, according to various clues, it has been proved that gods did exist in this world.

The concept of god is the product of the deification of natural phenomena based on the understanding of intelligent creatures. For example, the concept of "death" was created because of fear and awe of death.

The image of the god of death has changed several times, and finally became what most people know today... a black robed skeleton with a sickle.

One of Star's three magic weapons is the magic of becoming the god of death...

...Because he had studied divine arts, Star was quite knowledgeable about them. After all, although they were not genuine, they were genuine and had the word "divine" in them.

For Star, as long as it is related to immortality and eternity, she will try her best to study it, just to crack the secret of immortality.

Anyway...

"…Divine arts are special magics inspired by forms similar to 'faith' and 'concepts'. As for the divine arts of the outer layer of the stigmata, if nothing unexpected happens, it is the concept of 'hero'!"

Yes, in a sense, the hero is also a "god", because the empire has spared no effort to spend a thousand years to build momentum with public opinion, so the existence of the hero already has a broad mass base. A thousand years can be considered a time basis.

This already provides a sufficient foundation for divine arts to be established, so, is the so-called "hero" actually a conceptual god artificially created by the empire using the people's faith?

So why would the Empire do this?

"…It should be to control the stigmata, or in other words, to control the real stigmata!"

That’s right, the stigmata has been disassembled into two parts. The outer part is the "Brave Divine Art", and the inner part is the key.

That part...Levi and Star studied it for a month, and the final result was that they could only write a "solution".

can't read……

...Even though Star had made great achievements in divine arts, and even though Livi was considered a top-level spellcaster and even had the stigmata on her body, the two of them studied it for a month but still could not understand it at all.

Surrounded by the outer layer of magic, the "body" inside... the more I study it, the more unusual it feels, and the layer of engraving on the outside has been mostly dismantled.

The effect is "restraint" and "output limitation"...

At that moment, a very absurd association emerged in Livi's mind.

It was just like humans saw a humanoid weapon falling from the sky, but because it was too complicated to understand, they could only be sure that there was tremendous power hidden within the weapon.

But this weapon is too dangerous, so humans created a set of restraint devices to surround the weapon, which allows the weapon's power to be used by releasing it in a limited manner.

Does it look familiar to you?

If you have watched anime for two more years, you will know at least 8,000 of this kind of setting...

If this setting speculation is true, then the so-called hero is indeed a lie fabricated by the Empire, a lie made up just to manipulate the holders of the stigmata.

The outer layer of the magic has the effect of a "restraint device", so it can limit the output of the stigmata, and the actual user of this magic is...

“…Is it me?”

Livi blinked, and she understood why the Empire could counter the Stigmata. It turned out that the so-called secret technique to restrain the Stigmata was actually using the outer divine arts to completely cut off the connection between Livi and the Stigmata.

The reason why this can be done is because Livi herself firmly believes in the formula of "stigmata" = "god's blessing" = "symbol of the brave", and thus the concept of divine art can be completed.

In other words, Li Wei was actually tricked to death by herself before...

So if we go through it from beginning to end, the situation might be like this...

...The Empire discovered that among humans, there were people who possessed a special mark (the holy mark), which would give them great power.

For the empire, such an existence is too dangerous. If an individual's power exceeds the entire violent structure of the empire, he or she will be able to shake the foundation of the empire by himself or herself.

Although the Empire has a battle array, in theory it can forcibly replace the opponent at the cost of seriously damaging the Empire's vitality, but this mark seems to be transferred after the original host dies.

This is damning, you sacrificed most of the empire's army to replace the enemy, and then the next stigma holder appears, what should you do?

Therefore, the empire finally decided to change its thinking. Since it was impossible to restrain the holder of the stigmata, it would weave a lie and control the other party for the empire's use.

Thus, the "Brave Man" was born...

...The empire spent a thousand years using public opinion to create a false hero, from which it constructed divine arts and restricted the power of the brave.

Of course, the above are just guesses and inferences based on the existing clues, and it is not clear whether they are true or false.

But at least it explains a lot of details that didn't make sense before, and the empire's various attitudes towards heroes seem to have a seemingly reasonable explanation.

The reason why divine arts can restrain the stigmata is not because divine arts are really more powerful than the stigmata, but because divine arts deceive the holder of the stigmata himself.

In other words, what actually limits the heroes... is their own perception that they are heroes!

That is to say, you are tying your own hands and feet, and no matter how strong you are, it is easy for your immune system to kill you.

After confirming this, Livi sighed silently.

"...If that's the case, then it's no wonder the stigmata have changed their appearance."

The so-called stigmata that Livi sees now is actually a shell on the outside. Who knows what the stigmata inside look like?

However, the outer shell itself is a divine art that limits the power of the stigmata. The specific image is related to the source of the concept, and the concept of stigmata comes from the brave, that is, the cognition of the people of the empire.

The original golden triangle was the state of Livi when she was still a hero of the empire. It became a reversed black triangle, which corresponded to the crime that the empire framed Livi with at that time...

...The "God-rebel" who betrayed the glory of the hero

This concept then influenced divine arts, causing the form of the stigmata to change.

This way, everything makes sense...

“…It really took a long detour.”

Okay, now let’s take a look at another major event that happened in the West. It can be summed up in one sentence…

The former ruler of the West, the demon general Abaddon...

... was killed by someone~

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