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Volume 9 Chapter 263

The Failure of the Evil God

—-The Temple of the Evil God—-
「What kind of curse will you place on whom you will reincarnate, Evil God-sama?」
The shikigami asked the Evil God.
The Evil God was planning to kill a person from another world and reincarnate them into this world. Reincarnating people from another world consumed vast amounts of energy from the divine realm. Originally, only the Creator God was allowed to reincarnate people from another world. The Evil God intended to interfere with the Creator God’s plans by doing so himself. Despite being the Evil God, he was still one of the powerful gods in this world. If he reincarnated someone normally, that person would gain automatic 『Reincarnation Benefits』. These benefits included—
A tenfold increase in stat growth
Attaining royal or noble status in the reincarnation destination
Becoming impervious to damage
Perfectly concealing one’s presence
And many other cheat abilities.
The Evil God couldn’t stand the idea of the Demon Lord, whom they had nurtured and empowered until they could plunge the world into fear, being defeated by the hero from another world, transmigrated by the Creator God.
To thwart the interference of the Creator God, they would reincarnate an individual from another world.
They would bestow special benefits upon this individual upon reincarnation, so if they were to defeat the Demon Lord, it would not be possible.
Therefore, it was necessary to place a powerful『curse』on the individuals reincarnated from another world.
「Very well. Bring me something dreadful from the cursed bookshelf」
Commanded the Evil God.
「As you wish」
replied the shikigami, heading towards the temple’s archives.
「Let’s see, something dreadful, something dreadful, ah, here it is……」
The temple of the Evil God, ruling over the darkest aspects of this world, stored numerous books containing curses capable of bringing about the world’s destruction.
Each bookshelf was labeled with the classification of the curses it contained:
『Somewhat Acceptable』
『Dangerous』
『Extremely Dangerous』
『World-Ending』
『Arguably the Most Dangerous』
Incidentally, it was the Evil God who classified these bookshelves. After creating curses, the Evil God sealed them into books and had the shikigami store them in these bookshelves.
However, due to the overwhelming number of curses he created, the Evil God hardly knew what curses were stored there.
「There’s only one book in the 『Arguably the Most Dangerous』 bookshelf……」
The book contained a curse—-called the 『Fixed Status Curse』.
「Why would this be considered the most dangerous? ……Well, being the most dangerous means it’s worse than 『World-Ending』 so this should suffice, right?」
The shikigami, judging it to be adequate, picked up the book containing the most dreadful curse.
One reason for choosing this book was that there was only one book in the shelf, making it easier and more convenient to select without reading its contents.
She was not at fault. If anything, it was for taking the book to the Evil God without reading its contents.
「Evil God-sama, here it is. What do you think?」
「Let me see… …Hm, the Fixed Status Curse? It seems rather mundane……doesn’t it?」
「However, if one’s status is fixed, the cursed individual remains at level 1 indefinitely. Recently, it seems many of the foolish people from another world, upon being reincarnated, get excited about receiving cheat abilities. Don’t you want to see the despair on their faces when their excitement turns to despair?」
「You…… you come up with quite interesting ideas. Indeed, that does sound amusing」
「Hehe, praise me, please!」
「Don’t get ahead of yourself」
Even as he said that, the Evil God affectionately patted the shikigami’s head.
The truth is, this curse was accidentally created by the Evil God, who mistakenly misinterpreted its effects.
Originally, he intended to create a curse called the 『Capped Status Curse』, but he accidentally created a curse that actually 『fixes』, the status itself.
Those afflicted with this curse become unable to receive damage.
This is because their health is 『fixed』as well.
But that’s not the only effect.
They become akin to possessing infinite magical power.
Although the maximum amount of magic that can be released at once depends on the value at the time the curse was inflicted, as long as it is below that maximum value, the usage of magic becomes inexhaustible.
Furthermore, there is an effect of not receiving debuffs.
They will not be paralyzed, forced into sleep, or poisoned, and they won’t even be knocked back.
They won’t even be blown away when hit.
Because their status is also 『fixed』.
And this curse can only be cast on reincarnators. That’s the constraint placed on this curse.
The Evil God considered disposing of this curse, but it was made with such an enormous amount of magic that he decided to keep it stored away for the time being.
Perhaps he thought there might be an opportunity to reincarnate obedient individuals from another world in the future.
That’s why he created the shelf labeled『 Arguably the Most Dangerous』 and stored this 『Fixed Status Curse』there.
However, that was billions of years ago.
The Evil God hasn’t been creating curses recently, and he has almost forgotten the types of curses he created in the past.
And thus, this is how Haruto ended up being subjected to the 『Fixed Status Curse』.