Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (LN) - Volume 15 Chapter 4.4

Not to mention that using it could very well kill the whole server.
Basically, it would be a feature so stupid it could overturn the entire foundation of the game.
In fact, at that point I’d call it a bug, not a feature.
But in this case, you better believe it’s an intended function, not a bug. I mean, think about the evil god who made it.
My guess is that D left it in so that the people of this world would have the option of challenging an administrator.
Although I’m sure if you asked why, the only answer you’d get is “because it seems more entertaining that way.”
An ordinary person, taking on a god.
I don’t know if that would end up changing the world, but I bet D would find an event like that amusing either way, don’t you think?
Yeah.
In other words, the hero before last and the previous Demon Lord challenged a god in the form of an administrator and succeeded in using MA energy to momentarily gain enormous power.
Of course, the cost for this was wasting a massive amount of MA energy and both their lives.
No doubt both of them felt that this sacrifice was worth it.
But in the end, all that it accomplished was throwing away a ton of MA energy and putting the world in an even worse predicament.
As a bonus, they even went out of their way to slaughter a classroom full of reincarnations from another world for no good reason.
Talk about a hot mess.
Now, did you notice anything about this story?
That’s right: Black wasn’t particularly responsible for any of these events. “From what you’ve said so far, isn’t it mostly Potimas’s fault?”
“No. I am to blame for not clearly explaining things to the hero and the Demon Lord.”
Black stubbornly insists that it’s his fault, in spite of the Demon Lord’s perfectly reasonable observation.
He kept harping on the idea that he was responsible throughout his explanation, too.
Now, it’s true that I can’t say Black was completely 100 percent

blameless in this situation.
I don’t know what kind of explanation he gave to the old hero and Demon Lord, but if he had succeeded in winning their trust in the process, none of this would have happened.
Since it seems like they trusted the P-man more than him. That’s sad, for sure.
But still, obviously P-man is the most at fault here for having tricked the Demon Lord and the hero.
Though judging by P-man’s diary, they didn’t work with him directly, instead acting on their own in a way that promptly blew up in their faces.
Maybe P-man was just half hoping they’d defeat Black for him.
He was always weirdly good at correctly guessing the truth, based on what information he could gather.
Which only made him even more annoying! “Gülie, what are you hiding?”
“I have nothing to hide. I failed in my duties. That is all.” Black feigns ignorance at the Demon Lord’s questioning.
But by now, it’s painfully obvious that he is hiding something.
“The tragedy occurred because I foolishly gave them incomplete knowledge about the system. I am to blame for that.”
Hmmm.
I mean, he’s not lying.
He’s leaving out an important detail, though.
It’s true that the former hero and the previous Demon Lord did something stupid.
It’s true that P-man was the one who put them up to it, too.
And that Black was the one who gave them half-baked information about the system.
It all added up in the worst possible way.
You could say that everyone involved was partly responsible for pulling the strings.
But there’s one more culprit who hasn’t been named. “The Goddess Sariel.”
Black pulls back dramatically at my statement. His eyes are ordering me not to say another word. That’s not gonna stop me, though!

“Someone redirected the attack meant for Black toward D. It was Sariel.” My words elicit a different reaction in everyone.
Black remains expressionless.
The Demon Lord looks like the fight has gone out of her. Mr. Oni looks like it all makes sense to him now.
Vampy looks like an idiot who doesn’t understand a damn thing. It’s obvious if you think about it, really.
The old hero and Demon Lord couldn’t have possibly launched an attack at D when even the P-man didn’t know about her existence.
Technically, if you used the system, it might be possible to find its creator and operator, D.
But you’d have to be extremely familiar with the inner workings of the system to do that.
Unless you were an administrator of the system, like Sariel the Goddess. “Is that true?”
The Demon Lord looks at Black, but his only response is silence. That in and of itself gives the answer away, though, y’know?
From Black’s point of view, an attack meant for him was somehow blocked by Sariel, and that resulted in the loss of a bunch of MA energy and the arrival of reincarnations and all that. You can see how he would feel guilty for causing such a strange situation.
If he hadn’t met with the hero and Demon Lord, they would never have known to target him with their attack in the first place.
Dimensional Magic isn’t all-powerful.
As the evolved form of the already convenient Spatial Magic, it’s ridiculously useful, of course.
But there are still plenty of things it can’t do.
Although you can also say that about skills on the whole, I guess.
If you want to do something beyond how a skill is designed to function, you’ve got to have an understanding of conjuring, the basis of skills.
There are very few people who can use Spatial Magic in the first place, so the old hero and Demon Lord must have been crazy talented to be able to use Dimensional Magic.
But still, there are things it just can’t do.
Dimensional Magic can’t attack a target you’ve never seen or met before. Just like with Spatial Magic, the first step of Dimensional Magic is

designating a space.
Once you’ve done that, you move on to choosing a spell and setting it in motion, whether that’s teleporting or attacking.
And the only space you can designate in that first step is a place where the user has physically been, or the general vicinity of a person the user has met.
By meeting with the former hero and the previous Demon Lord, he inadvertently became eligible as a possible target of attack.
If he’d been more careful and sent a subordinate instead of going to them himself, they wouldn’t have been able to target him.
Although I’m sure he went himself in order to gain their trust… That really backfired on him, though.
Then, when they attacked him, Sariel tampered with the system to change the target to D.
Honestly, I couldn’t tell you why.
I’ve got a few theories, but I have no way of confirming any of them, since I don’t know exactly what she was thinking.
Was she just trying to protect Black, did she want to harm D, or was there some other reason?
The only way to find out would be to ask her. Not that I particularly care to do that.
If I ever met her face-to-face, I’d get pissed off and want to punch her, probably.
Anyway, regardless of her reasons, I’m sure she didn’t mean any ill will. She was just reacting instinctively to avert a sudden disaster.
Not that she averted it very well…
But if Sariel hadn’t intervened in her weird way, and the hero and Demon Lord actually hit Black with their attack, he would’ve either been dead or severely weakened.
Then I’m sure P-man would’ve noticed and made things even worse. He might have even eliminated Black and reigned supreme.
Still, then all the MA energy that was used to attack Black could probably have been recovered, so it might’ve been better that way from an MA energy standpoint.
Because if it was used in this world, at least most of that MA energy would’ve gone back into the pool, if not all of it.
Not to mention, Black’s death would probably mean that a considerable

amount of MA energy was gained.
Since it’s possible to attack an administrator, I don’t see why there wouldn’t be a feature like that built into the system somewhere, too.
You know, something that absorbs a god to restore more MA energy. But this is the situation we got instead.
Black is alive and unharmed, but in exchange, the world lost a ton of MA energy.
And the reincarnations came crashing into an age of upheaval. I guess the situation would’ve been chaotic either way.
But at least we succeeded in eliminating P-man.
That means we rid the world of its worst rot, or cancer, or whatever you want to call the most unhelpful existence around.
Hrm.
When you look at it this way, it’s hard to say which route would’ve been better, since they both have pluses and minuses.
But since it’s impossible to imagine things getting anything but worse if P-man was still alive, I guess you could say this route is the right one, maybe?
Yeah, let’s just go with that.
As inconvenient as it is for all the reincarnations. Oh, except for me.
I mean, I was just a normal spider before I was reincarnated into this world. I’d probably be long dead by now if I stayed there.
Instead, I somehow wound up becoming a god, so I’m sure glad I got reincarnated.
Hrmm?
In that case, maybe Sariel did a good thing after all?
…Thanks, I guess.
“Gülie. It’s not your fault.”
“No… I still believe it is. Especially after I lived so carelessly all this time, never knowing I had caused all this trouble.”
The Demon Lord appears to have put aside thoughts of Sariel for now to reassure Black.
But he just smiles bitterly. Riiight.
Black here didn’t know so much MA energy had been consumed, and he

figured P-man was to blame for everything.
Once he figured out that he was unwittingly involved, of course this moron would feel responsible.
I’m sure a certain evil god was thoughtful enough to tell him aaall about

it.

Otherwise, he would never have known what happened behind the scenes. And that evil god is the only one who would know the whole story.
Seriously, talk about evil. Hmm?
Why do I know all this, you ask?
Don’t underestimate my information-gathering skills, thank you very

much!
My information-gathering clones have been keeping tabs on things all over the world, while the analysis team’s been hacking into the system and feeding me all the relevant information. Plus, I’ve been occasionally using my Past-Vision Evil Eye.
That’s a new Evil Eye I came up with recently that can show me scenes from the past, letting me gather circumstantial evidence and such to help figure out the truth.
Now I’m basically a super detective who can solve any cold case with ease.
Although I don’t use Past-Vision Evil Eye very much, since it’s far from user-friendly.
“If you feel that bad, just work harder now to make up for it.”
I decide to wrap things up before all this whining and hand wringing gets any more annoying.
“Yes…you’re right. I will.” Okay, cool.
You do that.
I’ve got a huuuge job for you to handle after this, you know.
The incident the old hero and Demon Lord caused has led to this route, thanks to Sariel’s intervention.
Now, then.
What path will the people of this world choose when faced with the incident I’m about to cause?
Not that their choice is going to affect the outcome, in the end.