Chapter 176 (1/2)

Having cleared the illusion of fear trial on the 95th floor by destroying an entire floor with Hollow Cannon, a Hollow King Magic spell that possessed enough destructive force to distort space itself, Vandalieu and his co the Dungeon

Things went so smoothly because the monsters on the 96th floor and beloere terrified of Vandalieu and fled for their lives as he approached theeon’seffect?” said Eleanora

“Perhaps it was loosened when the power of Bocchan’s Hollow Cannon created a hole in the Dungeon,” said Saria

“That’s just a guess, though, since we don’t kno Dungeons control monsters’ minds,” said Rita

The party watched the Demons fro out screa torn

… All of thele one of them could ale nation would lose several towns and villages in the time it would take an class adventurer to arrive on the scene These were ht of as natural disasters rather than living creatures, but…

“They’re even more scared of you than the ones in the Palace of hell in the Majin nation, aren’t they, Your Majesty?” said the Liberating Princess Knight Iris, as now a Succubus

“Yes… Maybe I’ Demons look like they have tears in their eyes,” said Vandalieu

“I would never have even iined that tears could appear in Demons’ eyes,” said the Ghost Scylla Orbia

With Iris and Orbia on either side of hiely depressed; he looked at the Deaze

You don’t have to be that scared ofup in rows in the Palace of hell, but it see De fro you to becoested Belluard down Once they’re far enough froht you,” Borkus warned her

“That’s what Demons normally do, after all,” said Vandalieu

De clearly superior foes, laughing as if enjoying themselves until the moment they turned into dust and disappeared

Even with the Dungeon’seffect on the in fear

“H to be afraid, and they are actuallyfun of the boy?” said Zadiris

“Mother, as a humble warrior, I’ll tell you, that’s not possible Look, that De away in ti its belly to us in surrender,” said Basdia, pointing at a Rank 10 Ark Sword Deround

Thisfrom both wrists, knife-like claws on its feet and a tail that looked likeitself to the party

Indeed, this did rese to surrender

“Basdia, it looks todead,” said Orbia

Indeed, with fluids dripping from every orifice in its face as it lay on its side, the De death

“It’s notan inch; maybe it’s actually just lost consciousness…” Basdia murmured

“Bocchan, should I turn it into Experience Points?” Rita suggested

“… Maybe not,” said Vandalieu, shaking his head “Though I wouldn’t hesitate if ere outside rather than in a Dungeon”

If they were to encounter an Ark Sword Deeon, Vandalieu wouldn’t hesitate to finish it off If they didn’t kill it, it would clearly endanger eon, no eon would continue to replenish them Their numbers needed to be kept down so that they didn’t overflow out of the Dungeon, but Vandalieu and his coh of that in the floors leading up to this one

On top of that, they were not delicious hting them

“Well then, perhaps we should talk about the divine protection,” said Zadiris “Boy, do you really not knohat it is?”

“As far as the tioes, I think it’s related to when you collapsed previously,” said Rita

The two of them had acquired a new divine protection immediately after Vandalieu lost consciousness in the illusion of fear trial But they had heard strange announce when they checked their Statuses

And the strangest thing was that the naiven thele letter was visible, and the rest were hidden

“That should nor “Divine protections are things that Gods bestow upon their followers, so there’s no point in concealing their naends and tales, it is not without precedent,” said Iris

There was a fah a period of unhappiness, lost his faith and begun living a wild lifestyle as a reat deal of luck, he survived multiple battles His heart was touched by the brave actions of a young boy whose sister had been kidnapped by a Va boy’s place It was only then that he realized that he had acquired Alda’s divine protection, and that Alda had been watching over him the entire time

“… Well, there’s no proof that it’s a true story,” said Iris, who had once been a fervent believer in Alda

Even she knew that it was ious propaganda

“But there’s no proof that it’s coerated quite often Not that it was lih,” said Vandalieu “But even though we don’t know the being’s name, isn’t it fine since it doesn’t seem to have any probleood idea of whose naht; we can only read one character at a time, but all of the characters are different,” said Basdia

“Yeah, there are so letters, but if you put all of the readable letters together, it reads, ‘Vandalieu’s Divine Protection’ What do you think about that?” said Borkus

“Gishaaah,” Pete hissed

“Eh, Pete, you can read letters?” Vandalieu asked

“Gishah”

Pete, the centipedehorns, had apparently learned how to read at some point His ladder-like nervous syste Let’s celebrate e get home,” said Vandalieu

“Wait, kid, the an

“I… do have soards to that,” said Vandalieu

After he lost consciousness in the illusion of fear trial, he had seen pieces of hiround in a drea the to waste theiving his companions the horns and scales of Garess, the God of warriors, and Lioen, the crystal-horned dragon God, and he had also torn off pieces of hiht,” said Vigaro “So, this divine protection is Vandalieu’s after all?”

“But there’s no proof of that, is there? Maybe there are Gods with names like Vandarion or Fantalieu that we don’t know about, and they gave their divine protections to everyone separately and concealed their names,” said Vandalieu

“Muh, I suppose we cannot rule out that possibility,” said Zadiris

“No, there’s no chance of that What are you talking about, Zadiris?” said Eleanora, looking at her through half-closed eyes

“But still…” Zadiris e that the boy’s theory is i that the boy is not a God, I cannot decide whether hi us his divine protection isdivine protections upon others That was an authority of Gods, like Skills such as Faenerally shared the sa walls that iress in Attribute Values and Levels In addition, they s ruled over by the Gods, as well asit easier to acquire and increase the Level of related Skills

It was nor on the God who granted it and the individual to whoranted

And the effectiveness of the divine protection depended on the power of the God who granted it

“It is true that Dannsama is a God-slayer, but since he is not a God himself, it would be corant divine protections as Unique Skills to others,” said Bellmond

“With that in mind, my far-fetched theory is et that theory,” said Vandalieu, rejecting his own theory as he perhaps realized that it was si who generally exceeds what most consider to be common sense… or rather, wanders the real that coly aware of this, Vandalieu didn’t object to that statement “It’s like I’m a creature fro as we know that it is Vandalieu who has given us his divine protection, then that is enough for now It isthat a divine protection has been forced onto us by an unknown God,” said Zadiris

“That’s right It’s just like a continuation of the dreaave aro

It seemed that Zadiris and the others had wanted to confiriven thes, but there was a chance that an evil God that was a re’s army had placed it on them to hinder theiven it to theht favorably of it, as Vandalieu was al even superior to a heroic spirit in the future and there were already soion’s o around handing things out again the next ti,” said Vandalieu

“Next time, you have to appear as human as possible so that you don’t surprise everyone” said Darcia “Don’t appear in a strangely flat shape or as a liquid, okay?”

“Yes, Mom”

After that, Vandalieu and his coeon smoothly froet in their way fled and scattered, and the only ical creatures like Golems For some reason, the floors went on and on with no real trial in the a deserted plain, or rather, an uninhabited labyrinth

“It is a little unsatisfying in terms of Experience Points, but it’s best if we proceed quickly,” said Vandalieu “I’ from us now, but why are there no trials?”

“I think it’s perfect that there are no Deon-head ends of her tentacles released a cold breath that froze the liht !”

She released a water-attribute Spiritual Magic spell, unleashi+ng a swarm of icy beasts, but only the surface of the Mythril Statue was daed; it was not defeated

“That is to be expected Cutting Rain!” said Myuze, unleashi+ng an Empusspecialized Unarmed Combat Technique martial skill that turned the Mythril Statue into a pile of metal “Mythril may be exceptionally solid, but it is known as a ic No ic, it would have been iic alone, Privel”

“Muh, says the one who just used her own sickles to turn that exceptionally harddissatisfied

“That is because I perfor the bonus of assassin Technique… It is thanks to Vandalieu-dono and Lioen after all,” said Myuze, raising her prided sickle-arms

She had become a Crystal Ele nick in her transparent sickles despite having sliced straight through Mythril

“Well, I was only able to perform my attack because the enemy was unable to ether That is right, is it not, Vandalieu-dono?”

“Statue-type Golems are less robust because they are human-shaped, but their ht,” said Vandalieu

“I see! If there are anytheiron you to finish the

Her dragon-head-shaped tentacle ends lifted Vandalieu in their jaith joy as well

With the original intended difficulty of this floor, having Privel and Myuze on the frontlines wouldn’t have been enough But the Deers with their special abilities andonly Golems with no special characteristics other than the metals that they were ain like they had on the middle floors

It was unlikely that they would be able to defeat Orichalcum Golems, but only Mythril and Adamantite Golems had appeared so far

“Come to think of it, about the trials… arn decided not to put there for us?” Privel suggested “It’s strange that there’s just floor after floor that only test our strength”

This would normally be unthinkable, but Vandalieu and Myuze quickly accepted this theory

“I see… That’s possible,” said Vandalieu “I suppose I went a bit too far”

After all, he had pierced the ceiling of a Dungeon, which was normally supposed to be indestructible In return, Vandalieu had lost consciousness for about an hour due to having exhausted all of his Mana, but one could say that it was quite a low risk to take to destroy a Dungeon floor It eon every day

Gufadgarn wouldn’t be able to withstand such an event happening repeatedly

“… Though it would be probleeon were to collapse, so I don’t intend to repeat it,” said Vandalieu

“But froarn’s point of view, it would not do to sie of it,” said Myuze “Considering that, it is possible that the event that happened e first entered this Dungeon was the re where we felt a bit strange for a moment?” said Privel

The moment the party entered this floor, the 100th floor, they had experienced some kind of dizziness for a un, and there was no trace of it now

It was too unnatural for everyone to experience it at once for it to just be a trick of the iination or some ordinary dizziness, so while they had been wary for a while afterwards, nothing had happened afterwards

“You uess was indeed correct

This trial was forcibly teleporting only the challengers’but their mental fortitudes to defeat Mind Demons, a special kind of monster that nested in human minds

But immediately after the trial started and the Mind Deht and immediately ended the trial

It seemed that the fear felt by the Mind Dereater than that of the ordinary De for their lives now

“By the way, Bocchan, is not about tied Jobs?” said Sam, just as the staircase to the next floor came into view

Vandalieu had in fact already reached Level 100, but would the De theroo wary of this, he had decided to stay outside and observe the Demons

But now that they had co to worry about

“Yes, you’re right Well then, I’ll go and change Jobs,” said Vandalieu, cli like he was very accusto rooe or so, but…” he murmured as he touched the crystal ball

《Jobs that can be selected:【Disease Deeful Berserker】,【Dead Spirit Mage】,【Dark Healer】,【Magic Cannoneer】,【Dark King Mage】,【Divine Enemy】,【Creation Guider】,【Fallen Warrior】,【Insect Nin】,【Destruction Guider】,【Enchanter】,【Dungeon Master】,【Dee】,【Eclipse Cursecaster】【String User】》

Vandalieu saw the Hollow King Mage Job displayed in his head as he had expected, as well as new Jobs that he had not expected

“I suppose they are read ‘shokujuji’ and ‘genjutsushi+?’ Well, the one I’h,” he murmured to himself “I select Dark Healer”

TLN: These are the japanese readings of the kanji As far as I’ really notable about these readings except the String User Job, “genjutsushi+,” would probably normally be translated to “illusionist” if it had the