However, the child named Goetia kept a blank expression as he stiffly stretched out a hand.
"I am thirsty. Bring me water, Solomon..."
The deliberately drawn-out tone at the end carried a trace of mockery, while his upturned lips brimmed with delight.
"..."
The former King of Israel, Class Caster, now Romani Archaman—a man who had returned his boon to heaven, broken free of his shackles, and become mortal once more—fell silent upon noticing the boy's subtle expression.
As expected of a Beast. He had possessed the talent of a brat since childhood.
Goetia, known as Beast I. One of the Seven Human Evils, a Beast possessing the principle of "Pity"—a bestial life born from humanity's prideful sorrow and disappointment toward humanity itself.
In truth, he was the collective body of the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars from Israel's First Temple.
Goetia, also translated as Gotelia, originated from the seventeenth-century grimoire manuscript Lemegeton. Its first section, which recorded the seventy-two demons, was called Ars Goetia.
Therefore, the original meaning of this term was the collective name for the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars.
As the legendary progenitor of magecraft and King of Wisdom, Solomon's tale of forming contracts with the kings of Hell and commanding the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars had endured for ages.
Yet throughout his life, King Solomon had rarely used his extraordinary magecraft or the astonishing power of the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars.
However, after his death, the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars sealed within his corpse developed independent thought, creating a life in King Solomon's image named Goetia.
The difference was that Solomon, their master, had understood humanity's hopelessness and ugliness, yet chose not to correct it and ultimately accepted death.
But Goetia, the New King born from the Demon Pillars, absolutely refused to accept that choice.
They concluded that humanity and the future