Chapter 372: This World Is Doomed!

"You philandering daikon!"

Broly looked over in some confusion, and heard Megumin mutter those words in a small voice.

"Uh, Megumin, do you not want Yunyun to join the Crystal Palace?"

The Saiyan boy thought for a moment, then asked.

"That's not exactly it, but at least you should discuss it with us first, hold a vote or something, and then decide whether to let someone not recognized by the Crystal Palace join, right?

Otherwise, if just anyone can join the Crystal Palace, wouldn't that lower the value of us who have already joined and become Official Members, those who were recognized by the Crystal Palace from the start?"

Megumin said; she absolutely would not admit she was a little jealous of Yunyun.

"Uh, is that how it is?"

Broly was a bit surprised, but still listened and decided to hold a general vote meeting with everyone after returning.

If Aqua Master and the others all think people shouldn't be pulled into the Crystal Palace so haphazardly, then he would consider not doing so in the future.

"Megumin, is that how you treat a friend?"

Yunyun clearly expressed dissatisfaction; this girl is always willing to dig heart and dig lung for her friends, so upon hearing Megumin's words, even though Megumin's relationship with her is even closer, she couldn't help but point out Megumin's fault.

"Would you be willing to have another girl by Broly's side, one not recognized by the Crystal Palace, but who would cost Broly a large amount of Happiness Points to bring in?"

Megumin asked directly.

"Ah, this, of course I'm somewhat unwilling, but if it's Yunyun, I feel it's still acceptable."

Yunyun twirled her hair with her finger, somewhat conflicted, but still answered the question.

"Then what if it's not Yunyun, but someone we don't know at all?"

Megumin asked again.

"If someone like that joined, you would definitely feel very unbalanced!"

Not waiting for Yunyun to answer, Megumin just spoke on and on to herself.

"We're all wives, yet we weren't invited in by spending large amounts of Happiness Points, while others get that treatment; it totally feels like we're free low-grade wives, while they're paid high-grade wives, don't you get that feeling?"

"Ah, this..."

Yunyun was rendered speechless by what was said.

"So, facing these guys not recognized by the Crystal Palace, we have to establish an entry Threshold in advance!"

Megumin said again.

"I still have External Wives in another world, and I've already promised some people that when extra personnel slots can be added to the Crystal Palace in the future, I'll let them join, if they don't change their minds by then."

Broly spoke of the External Wife matter at this time.

"What?"

Megumin got a bit angry, stomped on the boy's foot a few more times, but also felt somewhat helpless.

"No, this matter needs to be discussed with everyone in the Group Chat Room; Broly, from Yunyun here on, you cannot arbitrarily send out invitations to join the Crystal Palace to other unrecognized targets."

Broly thought for a bit; it seemed he didn't have any other External Wives, so he nodded.

"Okay, I understand."

Megumin was very satisfied; Broly's attitude made her feel respected.

"Not good, Megumin, Yunyun, Broly..."

Just then, Darkness came running over.

"What's wrong?"

The three were a bit puzzled, looking at the knight girl running over.

"This world, this world, is doomed!"

Darkness was a bit out of breath, paused for a moment, then got the whole sentence out.

"Today isn't April Fool's either, are you drunk?"

Megumin asked with dead fish eyes, dragging her words.

"No fever either."

Yunyun reached out to touch Darkness's forehead, tested the temperature, and said so too.

"I'm not malfunctioning, and this world being doomed isn't something I'm making up; it's the future result prophesied by your Red Demon Clan's First Diviner."

Darkness pressed down Yunyun's hand and said to Megumin.

"Eh, First Diviner, you mean Soket?"

Hearing this, Megumin was stunned for a moment, then asked back.

"Mm, that Fortune Teller lady, seems to be that name."

Darkness was a bit unsure.

"What exactly happened?"

Broly pursued the details, somewhat suspecting whether this world also had hidden dangers.

If that's the case, they'd have to eliminate them in advance.

"I'll take you to the Divination Hut first, we can talk while walking."

On the road, Darkness narrated what happened on their end while Broly and the others were seeing old classmates.

As someone who had been to the Red Demon Village before, Darkness instead led a group of people who had never been there on a tour of the Red Demon Village.

And just now, to be exact, while Broly and the others were meeting Yunyun, Princess Alice was also accosted by a voice from a roadside Divination Hut.

"That Fortune Teller lady said she sensed Princess Alice's troubles as she passed by, and said she might use divination to solve her troubles."

Princess Alice was thus attracted and entered the Divination Hut, where she conducted a divination regarding her troubles.

"She had that Fortune Teller lady divine the future of the Belzerg Kingdom, and then received a terrifying prophecy."

"The world is ending?"

"No, a war has broken out."

"Huh? What's so strange about that? Right now the Three Great Kingdoms are in a tense situation; if talks fail they fight — isn't that perfectly normal?"

Megumin looked a bit puzzled; she already knew about the tense situation among the Three Great Kingdoms and didn't think a war breaking out was strange at all.

"The future war this prophecy foretold — the breadth of its reach, the length of its duration — far exceeds our imagination, and the impact it will inflict on this world is even worse, even more terrible, than the impact the Demon King Army inflicted when it still existed."

Darkness shook her head and said.

"Worse than when the Demon King Army was around — that doesn't seem like much, does it? You know the inside story of the Demon King Army too, don't you?"

Megumin still didn't take it too seriously.

"Half a year later, war broke out among the Three Great Kingdoms.

One year later, the scale of the war expanded.

Three years later, all-out war began; the combined casualties of the various kingdoms' armies exceeded four hundred thousand.

The fifth year, civilian Professionals were conscripted and sent to the battlefield.

The seventh year, the Elroad Kingdom fell.

The eighth year, the remaining two kingdoms, unable to continue fighting, chose a temporary ceasefire.

But in the ninth year, hatred drove them to war once again.

After that, ceasefires and renewed fighting followed one after another; the war dragged on for over fifty years.

Cumulative casualties surpassed a hundred million.

Until the Human Kingdoms completely disintegrated and withdrew from their dominant position in the world.

Other intelligent magic beasts rose; the era of humans ended……"

Darkness spoke the prophecy's contents.

"Ah, Miss Darkness, you're joking, right?"

Yunyun asked.

"Although I'd like to think so too, but……"

Darkness shook her head.

"After learning of this staggering prophecy, Lady Eris also thought that fortune teller was joking, so she bestowed a Lucky Blessing on that fortune teller.

And the prophecy that other intelligent magic beasts would rise and the human era would end was the more accurate result foretold after the blessing was bestowed."

This world is done for, but more correctly speaking, it's the humans of this world who are done for.

Through their mutual wars, they erased the human race from the position of world Dominant.

When Broly and the others came over to the Fortune Telling Hut, the Goddess of Luck Eris was pacing back and forth in front of the hut like an ant on a hot pan.

From afar, Broly could still hear Claire arguing with someone; she didn't seem to believe this kind of future prophecy.

And the Red Demon Clan's First Diviner, Miss Soket, inside the divination hut, was insisting that her divinations had never been wrong.

Precisely because of that, Miss Soket was no nobody — on the contrary, she was a very famous fortune teller; that's why the result she divined made the people here feel distressed.

And at this time, Aqua was also called over from the tavern; seeing her approach, Eris hurriedly leaned in and asked: "Senior Aqua, what do we do now?"

The future of this world made even the goddess who manages this world feel a touch of despair.

"Don't worry, let me ask."

Aqua, reeking of alcohol, stepped forward and directly questioned Soket about the divination.

"You divined that humanity would fall into chaos and war in the future — then tell me, how does the Axis Cult fare?"

"Axis Cult? Wait, let me take a look……"

The fortune teller took out her crystal ball and chanted again; she soon reached a conclusion.

"In the chaotic times to come, the Axis Cult thrives like a fish in water; many commoners, suffering from the ravages of war, voluntarily join the Axis Cult with its powerful wilderness survival capabilities, and the current Axis Cult Archbishop achieves great merit, relying on close personal ties with many high-level magic beasts in the wild…… uh……"

The fortune teller's eye twitched suddenly; whatever she saw in the crystal ball, that Axis Cult Archbishop actually went straight for the beast, and with his powerful X Fetish and virile vigor, managed to make a giant dragon agree to let Axis Cult believers live in its territory, even actively providing them shelter.

"What about the personal ties? You spit it out!"

Aqua urged her on.

"Uh, relying on good personal connections, many high-level intelligent magic beasts voluntarily sheltered Axis Cult believers; the Axis Cult thereby became the world's number one sect — not only humans believe in the Axis Cult, but even intelligent magic beasts, and the mixed-blood offspring of humans and beasts, also believe in the Axis Cult."

Miss Soket still spoke the future she saw.

"Eh, isn't that a very good future?"

Hearing that the Axis Cult would become the world's number one sect, Aqua sobered up and turned to Eris with a surprised look.

"Then what about the Eris Cult?"

Eris hurriedly leaned over to ask.

"Uh, with the end of the human era, the Eris Cult completely withdrew from the world stage, becoming one of the many faiths buried in the dust of history."

Soket answered.

"Wah……"

The white-haired goddess couldn't hold it together and burst into tears.

"Is there any possibility of changing the future?"

Broly walked over and asked.

"Of course, the future I foresee isn't absolute; as long as there's effort, there's still a possibility of change."

Soket answered, then turned back and, seeing Broly's appearance, asked with some surprise.

"Ah, Monster Boy, you're back again?"

"What 'Monster Boy', can't you watch your mouth?!"

Megumin, face dark, shouted at the fortune teller in dissatisfaction.

"Sorry, slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue."

Soket hurriedly apologized.

"How long has it been since the Demon King Army was defeated? How many years has this world been peaceful? And now it's about to step into a future of war. Ah, a desperate future like this... it's still better than the era when the Demon King Army existed!"

Eris shouted out. She truly could not accept a future where the human race would see nine out of ten homes empty due to war, and even more could not accept a future result where her Sect would become history.

"Yes, this is exactly one of the ways to change the future!"

Upon hearing Eris's words, the Fortune Teller immediately slapped her palm and spoke.

"Eh, what does that mean?"

Princess Alice, whose eyes had turned somewhat hollow from hearing the terribly grim future prophecy, hurriedly looked over and asked.

"As long as the Demon King Army reappears in this world, then this world will not see a future of large-scale internal war among Human Kingdoms!"

Soket began to explain.

"Of course, there are other ways to change the future, but those methods might be a bit... violent."

The Fortune Teller originally wanted to say they were impossible to achieve, but she glanced at the boy standing next to her who would turn into a super giant Kaiju upon seeing the full moon, and she changed her words.

Utilizing the Kaiju boy's power, first destroying the other two Kingdoms, and thereby unifying the human regimes of this world ahead of time — this is also a way to solve human internal strife.

Princess Alice pursued the question of other methods to change the future, so Soket incorporated Broly, this Super Variable, into her divination.

And the divination result obtained was, unsurprisingly, that the boy effortlessly destroyed the armed armies of the other two Kingdoms, and this world thereby obtained nuclear peace under absolute force.

Hearing the way to change the terrible war-torn future by relying on the Saiyan boy, as spoken by Fortune Teller Soket, everyone present had different feelings.

"Truly worthy of being my Disciple."

Aqua felt a little proud.

"Phew~"

Princess Alice relaxed slightly in relief.

"..."

Eris, on the other hand, was still sorrowful, completely unable to rest assured.

"If the prophecy of a war-torn future is true, Brother Broly, could I entrust you to help my country?"

Princess Alice requested.

"No."

Just as Broly was about to casually agree, he heard Eris's voice of opposition.

Of course, this Goddess of Luck does not dislike a peaceful future; it's just that the price of letting the other two Kingdoms suffer heavy casualties to end a future war event that might happen — this way of changing the future is something she cannot accept.

The Eris Cult is not only the state religion of the Belzerg Kingdom, but also the mainstream Sect of the other two Kingdoms; both palm and back of the hand are flesh. No matter which country Broly chooses to help, to attack the other two countries, it would make this Goddess of Luck feel heartache.

She feels heartache for the departed souls who might lose their lives in the prophesied war, and pities the countless living beings who, for the sake of peace, might be destroyed prematurely by the boy.

"Miss Soket, are there really no other ways to change the future?"

Yunyun asked.

"I'm very sorry, Yunyun. With my divination ability, the exact ways to change the future that I can divine are only these two."

Soket shook her head and replied, affirming that there definitely exist other ways to change the future, but the futures she can divine are limited.

(Chapter End)