My mother's love song

Chapter 808: Beyond Almighty! I am the God of the Narrative Layer!

"…Deus ex Machina."

The black-haired boy whose name was reported to the world newspaper had a handsome appearance that everyone was already familiar with.

On that stern and heroic face were sparkling scarlet eyes, with rainbow colors flowing in the pupils that seemed to reflect thousands of parallel worlds.

Above the back of the boy's head, there was a brilliant golden halo floating, which looked like a thorny corona shining all over the earth, and also like a continuously rotating gear device.

He was slightly different from the frivolous boy that everyone was familiar with. Although his figure was still slender and thin, he exuded an atmosphere that was completely different from the past.

He possesses a clear strong will and a noble soul, exuding an extraordinary presence, and there is no trace of flaw in his figure.

The boy's voice was no different from the past, but it contained the ancient vicissitudes of a god and the youthful joy of a human.

After confirming again and again that their judgment was correct, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu happily called out the boy's name loudly.

“…Rod-kun!!!!”

Hearing their calls, the boy's calm eyebrows and mouth corners slightly curved.

"Really? I wanted to keep it a secret for a little while longer."

Rhode turned his head slightly, glanced at the two of them out of the corner of his eye, and spoke in a way that directly resonated in the minds of all intelligent life forms.

"Humans at the observatory, thank you for your patience until now.

I have heard your continued desire to resist the curse that seeks to rob humanity of its glory.

I've been listening all the time.

And the miracle finally happened.

I am right here.

Now is the time to defeat the arrogant sky and shatter the hypocritical sky."

At this point, Rhodes narrowed one eye playfully.

"But before that, let me say something off topic...

Long time no see, Ritsuka, Mashu."

"...!"

Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mashu looked at each other happily, it was indeed Rod-kun!

The girls initially felt a strange lack of humanity in him, but through his response just now they were convinced that the boy was still the boy they were familiar with.

A young man who helped them several times during the crisis of the Burning of Humanity and finally defeated the Demon King Goetia, and formed a deep friendship with Ritsuka and Mashu.

For the two girls, there is no teammate more reliable than Rod.

But... why on earth did he appear here, and was summoned by the Great Summoner Aether?

Not only that, he just claimed to be the Extra class of the Grand Ruler in the non-existent Decisive Tactics-Grand Heroic Spirit Summoning System.

"The time for the stage to end has been decided."

Rod declared calmly.

“No matter how grand or elaborate a play is, no matter how many times it is performed, or perhaps because of it, it will eventually come to an end.

A tough, unreasonable, helpless end [Deus ex machina].

Ritsuka and Mashu felt as if they had heard this word before.

In ancient Greek drama, in order to resolve a deadlocked plot, mechanical devices were used to allow the gods to suddenly descend, arbitrate conflicts, issue judgments, and guide the story to a resolution.

In ancient Greek drama, when the plot reached a stalemate and the dilemma was difficult to resolve, a god with great power suddenly appeared and solved the problem, allowing the story to be resolved and have a happy ending.

The actor playing the god would be lowered from above the stage by a crane or lifted up by a hoist through a trap door in the stage floor.

This performance technique is artificial, creating an unexpected plot twist.

Hence, Deus ex machina.

It is also called the savior from outer space, the god of rescue, and the god of stage machinery.

It is not a mechanical god in the physical sense, but a mechanical god in the philosophical and logical sense.

For example, in "Medea", one of the three great Greek tragedies, the witch who committed a serious crime should have been executed by the royal family, but her grandfather Helios' dragon chariot suddenly appeared and rescued her, allowing her to escape punishment. This ensured Medea's unrepentant evil nature and also led to the subsequent development of the story.

Deus ex machina is an unexpected, sudden, and far-fetched relief character, device, or event, suddenly introduced in a work of fiction to relieve a tense plot or scene.

Not only is it limited to the Greek culture that praises tragedy, traces of deus ex machina can also be found everywhere in Eastern culture.

For example, at the end of the story of Yugong moving the mountains, the Emperor of Heaven was deeply moved and moved the two huge mountains outside his home for him; another example is Song Jiang, who was at the end of his rope, met the Queen Mother of the West who sent him a dream and gave him help.

Deus ex machina is often considered by critics to be a poor storytelling technique because it undermines the internal logic of the story, although it is sometimes used intentionally for this reason.

Renaissance critics viewed it as a clumsy plot device, but it was still popular among Renaissance playwrights.

In "Faust", the scholar who was defeated by the devil said "Stop, you are so beautiful" at the end of the story, but was unexpectedly saved by angels in the end.

In the fictional stage created by humans, it should be enough for the story to end like this.

Despite all the unreasonable things, these stories of celebrities that will be remembered for ages were greeted with thunderous applause.

After all, what humans pursue is never logic and rationality, but emotional resonance.

Well, if we consider the Deus ex Machina as a kind of divinity.

What kind of existence is this God who responds to people's wishes endlessly like a fool's device that keeps turning like a gear?

There have been countless examples of this in the past.

One day, white destruction descended upon the earth, and at dusk, all myths came to an end. Without warning, a young man holding the Holy Sword of the Star appeared before the Giant.

One year, the polluted Holy Grail continued to grow, and all the evil in the world was about to overflow from it, burning the city at night. The boy once again wielded the Holy Sword of the Star.

When the Mother Goddess of Creation, who was brutally killed by the children, returned from the Sea of ​​Imaginary Numbers and the planet was about to return to its original state, a child stepped forward, soothed his mother's sorrow, and accompanied her to the paradise outside the star.

When the collapse of human nature reached its limit, the goddess who maintained the surface of the stars and the witch who longed to become a beast were caught in an endless dispute. At this moment, a young man stood in front of them and mediated the war between the sisters.

Under the light belt that can penetrate the planet, he is determined to make human history return to the Temple of Nothingness. He is a magus who is endowed with the Grand Spiritual Foundation and stops the Beast of Mercy.

At the end of the 20th century of the prophecy of doomsday, the Moon Queen descended from the sky to end this boring primate world. He...

At the bottom of the tomb of the Grand Dragon, the origin of modern magic, an ancient and newborn great devil is ready to invade humanity. He...

Etc., etc.

There are many similar examples.

A certain character who shouldn't have appeared on that stage suddenly appeared there.

Sometimes it is in response to human wishes, sometimes it is in response to someone's thoughts, no one can explain the reason.

Just as the stage machinery is endowed with divinity, it perfectly brings an unreasonable but perfect ending to the story [Deus ex Machina].

If such a character really existed, then he would definitely be called the God of Stage Mechanics.

"Really? So that's what's going on."

Holmes's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"The final stage of the God-breaking Operation. It is not about summoning a certain god that has been recorded in the Throne of Heroes!

...but to create a completely new god, to make a god that doesn't exist come into being! "

Mashu asked back in confusion: "Mr. Holmes, is Rod the new god...?"

Holmes nodded and said.

“Yes, I’m afraid that the [God of Heresy] and the [Great God Phanes] were just a cover-up to make Zeus let down his guard.

From the beginning, Rhode's goal was not to summon a "god who imitated the gods of alien planets" or a "primitive god who existed as a stepping stone for Zeus"...

His purpose is to use the stage of Greek mythology and the unprecedented predicament to establish and fix himself in the universe as a "new concept god"!

That is [Divinity: Deus Ex Machina]!"

Both Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu had their mouths half open, with a look of disbelief on their faces.

"Lord became the God of Rescue..."

"!!!!"

"It's not a heretic god, but a deus ex machina!"

Zeus, who had remained silent till now, suddenly roared.

"You've always called yourself Phanes, haven't you?!"

It was natural for him to think so. After all, in the heretical mythology, Phanes was born from the infinite Aether.

Then, the one who appeared in the great summoner named Aether should be the heretic god named Phanes.

Facing the question from Almighty God, Rhodes answered as if it was a matter of course.

"Yes, it is indeed Phanes."

"My name is [God of Stage Mechanism], or [Dionysus Night]."

Dionysus, the sixth god-king in Orphicism.

He is the god of indulgence, the savior of reason, and the god of drama.

Dionysus was persecuted by the jealous Hera and suffered many disasters in his life. Each time he was helped by Zeus and was resurrected after his death. The whole story reveals a strong sense of deus ex machina.

Moreover, Dionysus is Phanes.

In the final scene of the Orphic cult, the Last God King [Dionysus] transforms into the First God King [Phanes], symbolizing the return of Phanes, the reincarnation of the universe, the end of the story and a return to the starting point.

Of course, this is not the point. The origin of the nickname "Dionysus Night" is actually the Witch Night [Stage Installation Witch] in "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

Holmes turned to the goddess Avalon and said, "Miss Altria, I have something I would like to ask you."

"what?"

The Great Detective asked, "During the White War in pan-human history, the Holy Swordsman who defeated Sefalu with the Holy Sword was probably also Rhodes, right?

Are you aware of this?"

“…Eh!!!!”

Mashu was so surprised that her face turned pale: "Lord-kun is actually the Holy Sword Master of the White War! So he has been saving the world for 14,000 years?"

"........."

Hearing this question, the goddess Avalon was stunned at first, then nodded: "As expected of a sage of pan-human history, it is exactly as you imagined."

Holmes's frown gradually relaxed.

“Is that so… I see.”

He said as he looked at Ritsuka and Mashu who looked confused.

“Rod, even though this is only the first time I’ve met him, his glorious deeds have been influenced by you, even if I don’t want to hear about them.

He is a mysterious young man who has saved the world from danger many times during the human incineration in the past.

Not only in the singularity where human nature is burned, there may be traces of him being active in other eras that we are not aware of."

"Lord-kun... has saved humanity many times in places we don't know about..."

"It's amazing..."

Holmes nodded: "That's right, he had such a brilliant and glorious achievement, but he didn't leave his name in history as a hero!

It chooses to deliberately hide its existence in the shadow of human history, and will only show up when the world is in crisis!

His existence, his deeds, all of these are very consistent with the concept of "Deus Ex Machina"!

Just imagine, if such a hero died in the special environment of the Age of Gods in Olympus, what would happen? "

Concept sublimation.

As we all know, the heroes in Greek mythology will rise to the sky and become constellations after their death.

Depending on their deeds during their lifetime, they become beings corresponding to different concepts after death.

If Holmes's speculations were correct, then

Not all of what Rhodes had accumulated was useless. The end of the road he had walked was right here.