On that day, all of Earths people came to know that there was something mysterious happening with their world.
Everyone other than those who had just been born or those who had already died looked towards the skies.
What they saw was another.[1]
Having blue oceans, green stretches ofnd, and white clouds, it was a that looked simr to Earth.
It was another world.
The satellites that should have been orbiting their all disappeared, along with other space stations, causing each country to fall into chaos. However, each one observed this new world and recognized the traces of intelligent life, contacting one another.
A certain hasty country set out reconnaissance aircraft and confirmed that there truly was a world there.
The cause was unknown. Its very existence was unscientific and was a contradiction to all knownws of physics.
A hade in contact with their atmosphere. It had very scarce artificial lighting.
Another certain country judged thosends to be undeveloped and tried to send in an aircraft carrying people to upy thend, but it failed.
The had allowed drones, but manned aircraft were refused. Those aircraft were blocked by the atmosphere, but managed to return home safely.
What was it? Everyone the world over discussed it.
Each country held conferences with their specialists, but the everyday inte users instantly guessed what this signified.
Another world.
Even if they didnt know anything else about it, it was definitely another world.[2]
Even through the use ofmonly bought personal telescopes, the traces of intelligent life could be found on the. Rather, the intelligent lifeforms themselves could be seen.
Excitement swept across the world.
Three dayster, it appeared.
What looked like a massive screen appeared in the skies in two thousand locations throughout the world.
A figure was in it wearing gold-embroidered ck clothes, a gold mask, and a ck mantle with horned headpieces on the shoulders.
Greetings, those of Earth.
With the voice of a young man, the messages mysteriously managed to urately use all of the Earthsnguages.
It took a few minutes for what he said to sink in.
Ars waited in silence for that period of time. Around three minutester, he began to speak again, but Earth had already been thrown into chaos by then.
It was natural. Someone suddenly appeared saying that they would destroy the world.
The worlds superpowersthe United States includedmade official war preparation announcements.
By the way, we are prepared to ept immigrants from Earth. However, there is a limit. Six hundred million people. That would be the ideal amount.
Although the Demonds bureaucrats desperately calcted the upper limit that could be epted to be closer to one billion, there was no need for him to speak so honestly. Humans were a race that would multiply. To somewhat guarantee them a certain standard of living, the less of them there were, the better.
We are willing to ept engineers and scientists along with their close rtives as priorities. However, we have no use for humans will unproductive abilities.
He spoke coldly, very much like a true Demon King.
Moreover, we refuse to ept the sick and elderly unless they hold unique skills.
He spoke ruthlessly, saying that nuisances were unnecessary. This was also something very Demon King-like.
You have five days, please use them wisely. At noon of the fifth day, we will send several messengers to the Japanese parliament building.
Saying that much, Ars leaned back into his chair in a rxed manner.
Although it will not be possible to invade our world until then you are free to try. It has been set such that any objects with a living signature will be temporarily rejected. In the case we are attacked, we will immediately consider it a deration of war and eliminate the country responsible.
If you want to give it a shot, go for it. Thats what Ars was saying. It was to cause countries that were quick to fire to have second thoughts.
Well then. See you in five days. We look forward to meeting the leaders of your various countries in Japan.
With that, the projections all disappeared.
Aaah~, I was seriously nervous during that speech. I didnt trip up anywhere right?
Taking off his mask, Ars had cold sweat dripping down his forehead. He used his hands to wave air against his neck.
Their worlds various royal families and strong people were invited into a facility simr to a universitys lecture room. There were many people unable to make the trip due to the distance involved, but they too had been sent information throughmunications.
Even so, what you said was pretty one-sided. There arent any God Dragon-like strengths on Earth?
The youth that spoke up was Prince Sion of Lemdria. Although he was a genius when it came to strategy, he wasnt able to ovee the demons overwhelming war potential in the previous war.
epting the water someone had brought to him, Ars gulped it all down and took a deep breath before answering Sions question.
Its alright. Although they have weapons strong enough to turn our worlds continents into wastnds they do not have a weapon capable of destroying a.
Thats still something to worry about. Do we need to put up barriers to counter it then? By the way, you spoke of weapons, but what about Earths mages?
Eh?
Well, if they have weapons that are that strong, wouldnt the worlds magic be just as strong?
Oh. Oooh, oooooooh~
Ars covered up his face in what looked like a face palm, reflecting on his thoughtlessness.
Well, you know, Earth doesnt have magic. At least to my knowledge, there isnt even a single mage on Earth.
Huh?
Sions mouth stayed open. It probably really was something iprehensible to those of this world as its civilization was developed with magic as its premise.
Magic was the basis formunication, farming, and even raising cattle. All magic tools used magic crystalsmasses of manaas their fuel. Moreover, cutting edge technology made use of magic cores.
In other words, they only use magic crystals for maintaining their civilization? You should still need magic to make magic tools though
Weeell let me tell you a bit about Earths civilization, alright?
He then exined the development and growth of science through ancient times, the middle ages, the early modern era, the industrial revolution, and the modern era. He exined the transition of what was used as fuel in as much detail as possible.[3]
Regarding the industrial revolutions steam engine, Serge had been invited into the exnation to give more details on it.
This Demon King-sama had lived for more than a thousand years. He didnt remember too many details from that era.
In conclusion their studies concerning mathematics far outstrip ours? Couldnt we make use of that in our world?
Its possible, but I think it is better to tread that path very, very carefully. Once you make machines through science, humans be unnecessary, leading to problems with masses of unemployed individuals.
Unemployed people would flood the city, leading to the degradation of public order. Something simr was starting to ur in this world as well. War refugees disced by the demons invasion were now on their way to return home, though.
Prince Sion grew quiet as he fell into contemtion.
After that, questions came one after another. Ars had Thor and the other reincarnators help out in answering their questions.
They were surprised that Gifts and Skills didnt exist, but it might be fine to say that they did exist yet just werent quantified into numbers. It took mana to use identify-type skills to quantify them into numbers, after all.
I see. The more I hear about their world, the less I understand it.
For the time being, well assume that Earths army will definitely attempt to attack. What we need to pay the most attention to out of their weapons are what are called missiles.
Ars briefly exined to his audience about what would be assailing them soon enough.
That nuclear explosion thing you mentioned, is its strength at the level of the forbidden fire magic?
Thats correct.
Such power only a huge citys barrier might be able to defend against it.
Us demons are already prepared to handle that. Same with the God Dragons, or at least Ohma-sama will be giving us her cooperation.
The assembly hall filled with noise, but as far as the worlds protectors, the God Dragons, were concerned, nuclear weaponry causing the amount of habitablend to diminish would be troubling.
Valis appeared to be concentrated on destroying Earth and Lanna was somewhat worn out from using her power to send the current eras Hero to another world. As for Terrew, she would exercise her power the moment their own atmosphere was invaded.
The extended conferenceing to an end, Ria gave Ars, who looked tired despite likely not being too tired, a cold gaze.
Good work.
No no, you saved me quite a lot there. As expected, those whove made it through to post-secondary schooling are different.
Who he was conversing with was Serge. Ria herself wasnt too useful.
Even so even if we can win, it looks like well have our own deaths.
Ria was concerned about it. Ever since she decided to fight for this world, she was thinking about how to lower the death count as much as possible.
I dont think there will be too much damage as long as its not dered an all-out war and America starts doing indiscriminate carpet-bombing, at least.
Well, thatll depend on the negotiations with me and Nee-chan.
Yes, during these five days Ars gave them, it was decided that Ria and Serge were to go to Earth.
As an aside, Labyrinth was invited as well, but she withdrew into thebyrinth. It appeared that she didnt really even want to meet her acquaintances from her previous life. Well, as an elf, she would have stuck out quite a lot on Earth though.
So, are you prepared?
No problems here. Well be flying there soon.
By the way, between Sion, a prince, and Ria, an archduke, Ria was distinctly of a lower rank. An archduke wasnt royalty, after all.
Youre leaving already?
Yeah, right now even.
That so? If you can, could you try to get a hold of some of Earths weaponry? Nuclear weaponry in particr.
Although his request surprised Ria somewhat, she smiled in the next instant and asked for his reason.
Theyre weapons youve said are strong enough to decide the oues of battles by themselves. Dont you think that we should study them?
The three whode from Earth looked at each other before looking over to Ars.
Your Highness, those weapons have very sensitive matters keeping them held close to the chest, if you will.
Leaving the exnation to Ars, the two looked back towards Ca.
Alright then, were off.
Ill buy you some souvenirs!
Serge spoke in a light tone, but he quickly grew concentrated.
Unlike the short distance teleportation he could use offhandedly, this was a long range teleportation that would bring them all the way to Earth. It took him time to construct the form.
Constructing the magic even while thinking about something as carefree as how he had to buy something for Chris as well, he finished, the two of them teleporting away.