[The king of the gods. His na shall be Baal].
The inscription carved on the small stone fragnt obtained from an old man caught my attention.
Even though the gods would not tolerate soone above them, and there could not be a king among such arrogant gods, the fragnt of the ancient stone tablet directly contradicted this fact.
Should I believe the widely known facts? Or should I believe this small and humble stone fragnt?
Rational thinking was telling to discard this insignificant stone fragnt, but my instinct was shouting that there was sothing different about it.
It was proclaiming that the truth contained in this stone fragnt was not ordinary.
After that, I began to investigate the stone fragnt in various ways.
The material was marble. The magic used to asure the age of the tablet fragnt dated it to the era when the gods walked the earth - the age of the gods.
The era when the archetypes of the nurous myths scattered around the world existed.
Whether tablet, which spoke of the King of the Gods, contained the truth or falsehood, I could not easily gauge.
But... it was worth investigating.
If I could uncover what happened in that era when countless gods lived alongside humans, where records and excavated artifacts are scarce, great wealth and honor would co to .
The first thing to do is to uncover the truth about the King of the Gods, Baal. If the King of the Gods is the highest among the gods, then it would be the Goddess of Life, but... for now, I won't think about the Goddess of Life.
The thing to be found now is the existence of the King of the Gods buried in forgotten history.
Since the na Baal is the only clue, let's look for Baal or a similar na in the myths scattered around the world.
If I'm lucky... I might find another clue.
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And so the coronation ended.
Baal's final words had created quite a ss, and even the rarely seen Sagarmatha had erupted in volcanic fury, but it's over now. Yes.
After sohow calming the raging Sagarmatha, it was only natural to scold Baal.
"Baal. Wasn't that last statent unnecessary?"
"But I needed to declare that it is mine."
"All things in this world?"
It was a statent reminiscent of a certain pirate king who seed to have left everything in this world sowhere, but let's set that aside for now.
"Anyway, the coronation ended without much problem, right? That's good enough, isn't it? The gods in the square didn't raise any objections either."
"Of course they didn't, because after the coronation, they all dispersed to visit the pantheon! But Sagarmatha was so angry!"
I've never seen that child get so angry before. They say that even a calm person becos terrifying when they get angry, and the sa goes for her.
But why did Sagarmatha get so angry? Was it because she didn't like Baal's words?
Since Sagarmatha is usually taciturn, I'm not sure. Was it because she was rubbed the wrong way by Baal's words?
Thanks to that, I ended up spending so ti with Sagarmatha to help her calm down... Hmm. Resolving her anger just by spending ti together, these children are really easy, this Mom is worried.
What if they end up with a an guy? They won't allow anyone other than gods, so...
"What kind of things should the King of the Gods?"
"Um.. That is.."
I took out the papyrus scroll rolled up in my pocket and handed it to Baal.
"This is a list of the nas of all the gods in this world. morize them all."
The thick scroll contained many nas. Starting with Baal, the scroll was filled with the nas of various gods, and it seed to go on and on without end.
Well, since it's a scroll made with magic, it's only natural. I've cast a spell to automatically transfer all the nas of the gods listed in the papyrus scroll, which extends infinitely, by linking it with the Godtalk, so as long as the Godtalk exists, it will be automatically updated!
The problem is that my na and Baal's na are not included in the list, but that's a very minor issue. Who wants to have their na on their ssenger friends list in the first place?
In Baal's case, I just took him off, because why would he need to be on the list anyway?
"All of this...?"
"It's fine to just morize as much as you can."
At my words, Baal dropped one end of the scroll, and the scroll began to unroll and extend endlessly.
"How am I supposed to morize all of this!"
The scroll that fell to the ground continued to unroll without end, circling around the divine seat.
If I leave it like this, there won't be any space left to step around the divine seat, so I should restrain it.
I used magic to stop the continuously rolling scroll, and it automatically rewound itself.
"How am I supposed to morize all these nas!"
"Can't you do it?"
"I can't!"
This isn't working. Sigh.
"In the first place, what kind of king morizes all the nas of his subjects? Being a king doesn't an you have to morize them all!"
"Hmm... now that you ntion it, that's true."
Even small hills and streams have gods being born, so it wouldn't be easy to morize each and every one of those minor gods one by one.
It's no different from a human having to morize the nas of tens of thousands of subjects.
Ah, these days the population has grown a bit, surpassing even a million.
"Then just carry this scroll around and refer to it. And try to morize the nas of the more influential gods."
"Ugh... how troubleso. But I have no choice! I'll give it my best effort!"
That's right. The act of making an effort itself is important.
"By the way, this scroll. Did you give it a na?"
"A na? I didn't give it one, actually."
"What! That won't do! Everything that Gaia's hand has touched is an item of extraordinary nature, even the most trivial things! You must give it a proper na!"
Hmm, that's true. From a human perspective, that would make sense. I did see the obsidian spear I had fixed for the lizardn still being used like a precious treasure.
"Then, Directory of the gods?"
"That's too plain and direct. Hmm... The Pantheon. Since it's a list of all the gods, let's call it the Pantheon."
T/N: Can you tell what it is translated to? I'm not sure if it's a Korean version of sothing. Does it an "List of All Gods"? "만신록" (Manseonrok)? And does it have the sa aning in English (Pantheon)?
Ah, similar to the term "Pantheon".
Well, it doesn't really matter. From now on, it will be in Baal's possession, so it's best to call it whatever Baal wants to call it.
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The Pantheon refers to the temple of all the gods.
Therefore, it was known that all information about the gods could be found in the Pantheon, so in order to investigate the god Baal, I had no choice but to be involved with the Pantheon.
Of course, the Pantheon is the world of the gods that is not permitted to humans, so directly entering and investigating is impossible.
However, there were so gods who favored humans and liked to share their knowledge with them.
And among the things they shared were even the knowledge that only the gods possessed.
The list of gods, the Pantheon, was one of those.
This list, said to be compiled by the Goddess of Life, contained the nas of countless gods, but the gods themselves could only access a portion of that list.
And the version passed down to humans was even more limited than that.
Humans have compiled their own directory of the gods by combining the fragnts of lists that were passed down to them.
Of course, compared to the original held by the Goddess of Life, it was severely lacking, but for humans, being able to organize the gods' lists, which varied by region, was already a godsend.
Such directories of the gods were managed by the Temple of Life, but greedy individuals had sotis leaked them out for a few silver coins., that's a boon for soone like conducting less-than-upright investigations.
I spent so money to collect as many Pantheons List as possible, ranging from thousands of years old to the most recent ones.
At first, I thought it was just a waste of money, but after carefully examining the lists over a long period of ti, I was able to glean a few results.
First, the na Baal did not appear among the countless nas of the gods. Nor was there any position of "King of the Gods".
In the many Pantheons, the nas of countless gods appeared and disappeared repeatedly, but the na Baal was thoroughly absent.
At first, I was extrely disappointed with this result.
Could it be that the god Baal is false? Was I engaging in a futile endeavor?
At that mont, an electric current ran through my head.
What if the god Baal actually existed and was the King of the Gods?
Perhaps he did not exist in this list not because he did not exist, but because he did not need to be on it.
Just like the widely known Goddess of Life, who also does not appear in this list.
Might the na of the existence known as the King of the Gods also not need to be on this list?
Thinking along these lines, I once again examined the list, confirming the countless and the things they preside over.
Surely, if he were the King of the Gods, he would preside over sothing befitting of that status.
Then, among the countless lists of gods, there would be sothing that the King of the Gods presides over, left vacant.
There were gods presiding over various elents, the World Tree, sacred mountains and seas, vast plains and wide rivers, and raging storms.
But there was one thing that had no presiding god.
The Sky.
In the mythologies from all over the world, in the diverse mythological systems, the God of the Sky did not exist. As if that position was ant to be left vacant.
Then, if the god Baal existed, and he was the King of the Gods, he would be... the God of the Sky.
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