Chapter 152 (2/2)

Even though this was the army’s headquarters, it wasn’t as if every soldier was stationed in a single building Vandalieu’s forces had infiltrated and eliminated enemies swiftly and quietly, so the soldiers on the sas still weren’t aware of the situation

If those soldiers in the other buildings had maintained a syste unusual, things would have been a little different

Duke Marme was speechless for a moment, but then quickly returned to his senses “W-wait! I surrender, I surrender! What are you after?! Is it faht be, I should be able to help you with it! I’m Duke Marme, someone with a claim to the emperor’s throne!”

He are of his own value Whatever else ht to the Orbaue suotiations were carried out with the eained

He was overesti his own value a little, but those with the position of duke orth more than just their abilities

“Even if you kill ht use this to begin an all-out war You should take me captive and treat me with honor –”

“Yes, as you’re hoping, I intend to capture you alive rather than kill you,” said Vandalieu

Duke Marh of relief, but it was too early for that Vandalieu’s tongue peeked out from between his lips

“De’s proboscis”

A long, thin proboscis like that of a butterfly extended froue

“W-what is that?! What are you – GYAH?!”

With a speed too fast to be seen by the eye, the proboscis stabbed into Duke Marme’s chest

“This is a proboscis The an of insects such as butterflies,” said Vandalieu

“You bastard… you said you’d capture me alive…”

Fro unable to move, Duke Marme had mistakenly assumed that his blood would be sucked and he would die

“You’reyour blood,” said Vandalieu “In fact, I’ venoue into you”

Why are you doing that?! thought Duke Mar, as he opened his eyes wide in shock He saoman with a collar appear behind Mikhail and approach him

She grabbed the duke’s hair roughly and forced him to face upwards

“IGEH?! W-wha are hyuu doinh?!” Duke Mar with inarticulate words

Isla ignored him, unsheathed her favorite knife and licked its blade with her purple tongue “Will we deal with him here?” she asked her master

“Yes, I’ve paralyzed hi him back as a prisoner… as an experimental subject, but we still need to make a proper declaration of war”

Today was the last day that anyone would see the duke’s face ever again, including Vandalieu and Duke Marme himself

Around the tiedy, there was a

The man had predicted that the arht about now He even thought it was possible that every single soldier would be wiped out However, he hadn’t spoken a single word to warn the the headquarters

My duty is to return with infor else!

The man, the onlyin a faraway place right fro involved with the battle at all, simply made haste to reach his destination

The Divine Realm of Alda, the God of law and fate, was filled with the panicked cla of the Gods

There were soinally been humans, but now that they had become Gods, they did not lose their composure easily It was not common for them to be in dismay and lose their senses

But the scenes that could be seen through the records of the ‘Five-headed Snake’ Ervine and the ‘Light-speed Sword’ Rickert were h to strike the Gods into a whirlpool of chaos

“What in the world is that?! This can no longer be called a human!”

“Just howdoes he… and yet, his mind is not consu?!”

“More importantly, the destruction of two of Niltark-dono’s farave matter! Even if they were familiar spirits made of Mana with no minds of their own, how abominable it is that as a mortal, he can destroy servants of a God…!”

How unsightly, thought Fitun, the God of thunderclouds, as he looked upon his brethren with a cool gaze

The reincarnated individual that he had taken in, the ‘Marionette’ Haji and wielded them like they were parts of his own body Fitun had been surprised upon learning that Vandalieu had considerably ments than he had heard before, but he wasn’t flustered by this

As for the destruction of familiar spirits, which were servants of Gods, Fitun felt contempt towards the Gods whose faces had turned pale at this thought

War is a series of battles to the death to begin with The thrill is there because there is the chance that you will be killed What did these guys expect when their boss said, “This is a ti’s army and Vida’s faction?”

Fitun was a heroic God and a God of war; he didn’t expect the others to quiver in anticipation like him But they were still Gods; shouldn’t they be more composed?

“Everyone, calm yourselves! A new sinner… a new fiend has been born in our world That is all this ment

His tone was brazen; he showed no signs of disco had his familiar spirits destroyed and his followers’ souls taken from him

Of course, to begin with, one of his folloas the kind of person ould use fa Niltark, I suppose he approved of it, thinking it was a necessary sacrifice The broken faht as he killed time

Meanwhile, Mill, the Goddess of slumber, and Nineroad, the heroic God of as also Fitun’s superior, were trying to cal down

It see the ar Guduranis were deeply shaken It was likely that their past traumas had resurfaced

When I look at them like this, Gods are no different from humans Oh, damn

Being the only one to re out

“Fitun, do you have so taken notice of him

The other Gods’ eyes focused on Fitun as well

He couldn’t honestly tell the with, “I’ here quietly” was too foolish as well

Fitun decided to give a response that would be expected of hiht,’ but for now, it is just that he can use over ten fragh you say he can destroy the servants of Gods, what he destroyed were ,” he said “With that being the case, I thought that there are all kinds of methods available to us”

Several enraged Gods began berating Fitun

“Merely familiar spirits, you say?! How dare you say that in front of Niltark-dono!”

“You are a mere lowly member here! Do you even understand how serious this situation is?!”

But theirthem to fall silent and step back “What methods do you speak of?” Alda asked

“As I areat ood to raise a chaive the equipments, and then break that Dhampir’s entire body to destroy him completely After that, we just need to seal his rehts in depth

If one ignored the point of ‘multiple of them if possible,’ it was an exact outline of the plan that he was putting into action using Hajime

The Gods unaniestion

“Such foolish… a method that is impossible outside of theory!”

“It is easier said than done Fitun-dono, if such a thing was possible in the real world, none of us would be suffering like this We would have won the war against the reo”

Indeed, that was how difficult… iested by Fitun was

There was not ht of by a playing child Selecting those with desirable qualities and granting the equip them Artifacts was a little difficult, but not impossible

But whether the heroes raised this ould be able to stand on even grounds with the champions of the past was another matter entirely

Even if divine protections were given to them to speed up their developer infinitely It wasn’t just a matter of their qualities There were flaws that could only be seen during events experienced during the developained power

Being Gods didn’tThe reality was that there were many candidates to becohts reached by Ervine, whoo

I don’t need to be told that It’sif you’re unsure whether it’s possible or not… These peace-loving fools

A fight to the death against an enemy that could kill you It was only natural that it was difficult to prepare to win a battle where you would lose everything if defeated

“Yes, I apologize forthese inner thoughts, trying to step back

But it was none other than Alda hi the atmosphere completely “No, it is exactly as you say,” he said “A Dhampir who does not die even if decapitated, who does not lose hi absorbed over a dozen of them, who casts spells that none have ever seen before, who misleads people’s hearts and co that cannot exist outside of theory, a being straight out of a delusion That is the kind of eneht Ordinary methods will not do Nowe can to carry out a ive a trial to the hero who is my follower, the ‘Blue-flarant him power and use him to carry out this method that is impossible outside of theory The rest of you, find your own candidates to become heroes and raise them”

This decision caused unrest a the Gods once more, but this time, it was a positive unrest with the idea that they could defeat the Dha the initiative

Training Heinz… Kukukuh, that will not happen so quickly During that tithen Hajime

It would become a co of enjoyhter

On the other hand, Alda’s mind was filled with distress

It seems that Nineroad has started to realize Hasn’t Fitun realized it as well? The most proble Guduranis

The De creature and God that had existed in this world fro The monsters he created, even the superiorbut pawns to him, and he had mercilessly destroyed the subordinates that were his evil Gods if they disobeyed him or proved to be useless

This allowed every living being in this world to focus their strength into fighting him Thanks to the champion Zakkart, it had even been possible to

Even when one considered the fact that this was the age of the Gods, an era when the Gods ruled over the people directly, that was howhad been

But Vandalieu was different He was not an invader, an enemy to the entire world

He protected those who served him equally, whether they were monsters like Undead, humans or me about peace He did try to destroy those he saw as ene that there were clear standards that he had set for himself

And those standards were difficult to describe as harsh in this world

In other words, Vandalieu was nothinga nation in this world

… It was just that his goals, histhem and his sense of values were in absolute conflict with Alda and the Gods who served him

But for the humans who lived in Lambda, that wasn’t the case In fact, Vandalieu had taken in the people of the cultivation villages in the Hartner Duchy and those from the Sauron Liberation Front

From Alda’s point of view, it was difficult to believe, but Vandalieu was not a being like Guduranis, a being that the people of the world needed to set aside their differences to join forces, concentrate their power and stand up against

Then it seems that I must carry out the reconciliation with Vida’s races that Nineroad suggested By doing that, I can prevent Vandalieu fro the leader of Vida’s races as a whole

Like the humans, those of Vida’s races were not aware of the Gods’ circu in human societies orshi+pped Alda and the Gods who supported him

Thus, he had to do as Rodcorte had said, destroying Vida’s circle of trans the souls of the members of Vida’s races to Rodcorte’s system

But the requirement of this is to have Vida fall from her position as Goddess Even if that were to succeed, we can only take those as, such as the titans and Beast-people

There was a tiht the re’s arreat Gods, could be resurrected During this ti her own champion, Vida had incited the evil Gods ere supposed to have changed sides and deceived the insane Zantark, spreading new chaos and disaster across the world But even so, to Alda, Vida was just a sister who had gone down the wrong path

But she had led the world together with hiainst his since they were born Alda could not deny this, nor did he intend to

That hy he had defeated Vida a hundred thousand years ago, hoping that she would regain her sanity at the end of her long slumber

And now, in order to save half of the children that she had given birth to in her madness, he would have to drive her from her position as a Goddess and have the rest of them be treated purely like monsters

It wasn’t that he felt no hesitation or guilt over this

“But I suppose I inated fro down the roots of all of Vida’s races and protecting the world’s order But Bellwood, my champion… I pray from the botto encounter with Heinz”

If Bellere still active now, Far with his subordinates to return to Zantark’s side, Alda thought regretfully, hoping that Bellwood’s awakening would return Farmaun’s sanity

Name: Rickert Amid

Race: Human

Age: 27 years old

title:【Light-speed Sword】,【Evil-breaking Sword】

Job: Sword Saint

Level: 32

Job history: Apprentice Knight, Equestrian, Knight, Magic Knight, Magic Sword User, Holy Swordsman, Master Swordsman

Passive skills:

Augth: Level 1

Augility: Level 1

Strengthened Attack Pohen equipped with a Sword (Large)

Strengthened Defense Pohen equipped with Are)

Disease and Poison Resistance: Level 3

Active skills:

Light-speed Sword Technique: Level 1

Armor Technique: Level 8

shi+eld Technique: Level 5

Mount: Level 5

Archery: Level 3

Co: Level 5

Coordination: Level 6

Transcend Limits: Level 1

Transcend Liic Sword: Level 1

Familiar Spirit Descent: Level 2

The ‘Light-speed Sword’ Rickert Aained experience and piled up achieve up the holy sword Nemesis Bell as he polished his talent in swordsmanshi+p, he was appointed as aSwords

He was generally so directly on the frontlines, and as a knight, his ability to coe

Also, as he specialized in swords But the swing of his Neility from his Passive Skills, is not at all inferior to that of an class adventurer

His abilities were equivalent to those possessed by the ‘Sword King’ Borkus while he was alive If one factors in his equipic Ite, he surpassed Borkus

Name: Ervine

Race: Elf

Age: 249 years old

title:【Five-headed Snake】,【Evil-breaking Sword】

Job: Evil Whip User

Level: 100

Job history: Apprentice Warrior, Warrior, Whip User, Thief, Mage, Enchantic Whip User, Dual Whip User, Executioner

Passive skills:

Dark Vision

Enhanced Agility: Level 7

Enhanced Muscular Strength: Level 6

Strengthened Attack Pohen equipped with a Whip (Large)

Augmented Attribute Values: Loyalty: Level 1

Mental Corruption: Level 3

Status Effect Resistance: Level 5

Intuition: Level 2

Detect Presence: Level 5

Active skills:

Killing Snake Whip Technique: Level 4

Unar Technique: Level 6

Throwing: Level 4

No-Attribute Magic: Level 2

Mana Control: Level 7

Fire-Attribute Magic: Level 6

Water-Attribute Magic: Level 6

Earth-Attribute Magic: Level 5

Wind-Attribute Magic: Level 5

Light-Attribute Magic: Level 6

Silent Steps: Level 9

Lockpicking: Level 4

Trap: Level 5

Surpass Liic Whip: Level 10

Transcend Limits: Level 3

Familiar Spirit Descent: Level 3

Unique skills:

Niltark’s Divine Protection

Ervine, the ‘Five-headed Snake’ of the Fifteen Evil-breaking Swords A veteran a the members, he was a capable individual who possessed such ability that he could have aimed for proth and loyalty were so trusted that he was given a piece of the dangerous De equipment

He came from the same settlement as Marshukzarl’s mother, the Elf concubine of the previous eht him into the service of the Amid Empire

He possesses an affinity for five attributes, but his talent with them was not particularly exceptional; he prioritized his skills with a whip and techniques as a spy, for which he did have talent for He turned his eyes towards ic when he felt that he had reached the lih coic other than enchantments for his armor and weapons such as his whip

He possessed power roughly equal to that possessed by the ‘Divine Spear of Ice’ Mikhail while he was alive

Job explanation:

【De User】

A Job that can be acquired by one who can harbor the De their mind absorbed by them, but instead absorb them and use them as a part of themselves

Those who possess fragree Skill, and those who possess De equipment, cannot acquire this Job This is because those who possess Dements as weapons due to the seals on the them as a part of themselves