Chapter 203 (2/2)
It was therefore impossible to make Heinz and his companions any more powerful than they were now
From this battle, the Gods had learned that it would be a mistake to believe that the Five-colored Blades would be able to fight against the current Vandalieu to soht circuht circumstances could even be wished for
”Alda, what if we end the Five-colored Blades' training here and have thein a crusade in severalin the city of Morksi then,” suggested one of the younger Gods
”Indeed,” another young God said in agreeather the heroes that we have been raising and have Heinz and his companions lead them after they have recovered”
”Silence,” said Niltark, standing up to speak before Alda could even respond ”Do not trouble our lord with your foolish plans”
”F-foolish?!” one of the younger Gods repeated incredulously
”Niltark-dono, thatfrom someone of your stature!” protested the other
”We understand that your heroic spirit was destroyed, but ould like you to refrain froer out on us!”
But Niltark's expression was one of exasperation, not anger ”Allow me to ask, then, Arkuather for this crusade to the city of Morksi in the Alcredoather all of our war forces if we are given several ather all of the heroes and includeforces from every Church If we have Heinz stand as a leader, those who have deluded the that they are devout followers of Vida, members of Vida's races themselves and even adventurers who never attend any Church would join the line of battle,” said Arkuh ”Why don't you understand that that would be impossible? As a God, you should be able to comprehend this”
The Gods of Alda's forces were raising heroes in order to defeat Vandalieu Many of theuards, squires, rookie adventurers orand developing after receiving divine protections froathered, it would for force However, not all of the in regions controlled by the A in the Adom, a nation that was the Aht about it, it was obvious that they would be stopped by the armed forces at the border between the nations in the Sauron Duchy
There was the option of having thedo their companions, that would be hundreds of people That was far too dom within the space of a few h to suggest that we Teleport thearn?” Niltark continued ”It is already clear that Zuruwarn, the chief of the Gods of the space attribute, is on Vida's side We cannot acquire their assistance when they are focused onthe attribute, and even if we could, we should not ask the where the heroes that we have put sowould be sent off to”
”Then there should be no probleth of our folloho have ascended to divinity and become Gods of the space attribute!” said Arku a stable maintenance of the world, Alda had turned qualified believers into new space-attribute Gods to join the re space-attribute Gods in their work
At first, it was to replace the large number of space-attribute Gods that had been lost in battle, but now that the situation was like this, they had to be used
But they were far too few in number
”Do not be so foolish There are far too few of them Perhaps they could Teleport so that they possess enough power to exert it upon the world's surface multiple times in quick succession? If ere to uished fro the reality of events in the world for the first tiasp and looked away
Incidentally, relying on hues was out of the question Al other people over great distances was already ee Churches
Requesting for their help would need inforanizations There was no doubt that this would result in a crisis
If they did not do this very carefully, a great war could break out between the Adom In the worst-case scenario, the heroes of the Ain killing each other
After all, the Aed in bloody feuds since they were founded
In ordinary circued by the newly-appointed Pope Eileek of Alda's Church in the Amid Empire and Heinz, the successor to Bellwood, after he finished his training Led by these two individuals, the nations would overcome their differences and hu At least, that had been the plan, but…
”In any case, the forces required to defeat Vandalieu cannot be gathered in a ap in the fighting forces left by Edgar, Heinz had lost his heroic spirit, Joshua He was currently only able to summon a familiar spirit upon himself, even with Heroic Spirit Descent
Of course, Alda had numerous heroic spirits other than Joshua However, that did not mean that any of them could siinally humans, and they had their own personalities Unlike familiar spirits, each would have their own compatibility with certain individuals Heroic spirits could not be suood
Joshua had been the heroic spirit with the best compatibility with Heinz
”Then, we must simply have the other heroic spirits coan
”Even if the heroic spirits did coless before a Vandalieu who is free fro forces gathered,” said Niltark
”Unfavorable circumstances?” Arkum repeated ”Was it not Heinz and his companions ere taken by surprise?”
”It is the complete opposite,” said Mill, the Goddess of slu in Niltark's place ”It is true that this battle was unforeseen by Heinz and his co froh his body was elaborately reproduced, it was still a fake, and he was forced to materialize his own soul in order to compensate for that And none of his subordinates ith hiarn and Vida's Incarnation interfered, but Vandalieu was in unfavorable circumstances for the entire duration of the battle”
The faces of the young Gods, including Arku the case, Vandalieu would likely spend the next fewa countless nu forces would he have on his side?
”Niltark, Mill, that is enough,” said Alda, having stayed silent up until now as he listened to the Gods' conversation ”Arkus of i Guduranis in all aspects except for his strength in battle I a able to only watch as the souls of other Gods are devoured”
”Our apologies,” the young Gods said, bowing as they regained their coentle tone of voice
Vandalieu was the first being they had ever seen with the ability to destroy souls They had been shaken and become i them despite the fact that Gods were otherwise considered immortal
Indeed, Vandalieu was different from Guduranis Guduranis had only been able to destroy souls rather than devour them, and had needed somewhere between several seconds to half a le soul
As each of Vandalieu's attacks caused dae to the soul, he could si the Destructive Hollow Cannon, he could devour the souls of hundreds of hule attack
”For noe eon left behind by Curatos to raise the Bellwood… Individuals who can becoainst Vandalieu,” said Alda
Curatos, the God of records, had made copies from the information that he had recorded It was possible for another God to recreate the copies on the Dungeon floors that reh they would not be as elaborate as the copies created by Curatos
All of Alda's subordinates coap left behind by Curatos
”I am sure that you are still uneasy, but I am sure that they will buy some time for us… Rodcorte's reincarnated individuals or Fitun, who is absent here,” said Alda
In Vandalieu's dreareat number of blocks
He knew that he had to assemble these blocks But he didn't kno they were supposed to be assembled
”Well, I don't know, so I suppose I'll think it up as I go But I suppose I need to assemble hands before I can asse sound, Vandalieu began asseers, long hands - he created a great number of hands, each for a different use
”Next, I should assemble eyes… no, brains first Eyes can come after that”
Vandalieu needed brains to think about how to asse brains out of suitable-looking blocks Round, triangular, rectangular - hethat the more brains he had, the better
And so, he continued building body parts he thought were necessary in quantities that he thought were necessary Before he realized it, he had begun to lose track of things
”Was this an eye? Or a leg? No, maybe it was a heart… No, I'm sure it was a vertebra It has to be But I'm not very confident,” he murmured
Vandalieu had become unable to tell the body parts that he had assembled apart from one another Would it be a mistake to assemble himself with these body parts in this state?
”Vandalieu, nobody knohat's the right or wrong answer You should take the forentle voice said suddenly
Vandalieu looked around to see that he was surrounded by his many companions; he hadn't noticed them up until now
Body parts asse carried in Sathe apart body parts that had already beenthe to take separate body parts and put the theathered the crushed fragether
Eleanora, Bellether on their own, and Pauvina fell over and broke the scorch-ooeyblocks into a beehive-like shape, and Eisen was atte to feed the blocks to Vandalieu Kanako stood on top of Vandalieu and began to sing
Everyone else was putting the blocks together as they pleased
It was very, very fun
”… Where a as soon as he woke up
The roo Inn, but he had the feeling that it was higher in quality
The back of his head felt war, Vandalieu”
”Mo with his head in Darcia's lap
”This is the Spring Day Pavilion,” said Darcia ”Your rooot a personal rooh-class inn and a cheap one”
”More importantly, why are you here in Morksi, Mom?” Vandalieu asked ”And your skin color has beco to help h”
”You re Even in that condition…”
”You were in your irl outfit with your transformation staff activated”
”You don't need to ree, but it's earn-san turned up all of a sudden and said that ere going to get you, and I didn't have anything to change into… Ah, those people saw me as well, didn't they… I hope they've lost their memories,” Darcia mumbled to herself
As Vandalieu lay there in her lap, he began to get a gist of what had happened
After Darcia retrieved Vandalieu's soul froeon, she had come to the city of Morksi to look after hie her skin color so that she appeared as an ordinary Dark Elf
Bellmond and Eleanora were in the city, but they had taken over the crianization here, so they had likely been apprehensive about being seen by the city's people if they had coarn wasn't anywhere to be seen… was possibly because she was considerate enough to leave Darcia and Vandalieu alone to have soarn, too I've made everyone worry about me,” said Vandalieu
He heard a wararn inside his body Darcia stroked Vandalieu's hair with her ware about your Status?” Darcia asked
”My body… feels really heavy, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it As forvery slowly Maybe it's because I tore my soul into pieces and then essentially ate reed ”But Vidsaone after a week at most, and then you'll be back to noro to the Commerce Guild tomorrow”
Vandalieu had recovered about half of his Mana He wouldn't have any difficulty doing the things that he had planned If he was going to make a full recovery in about a week, it was probably fine to beginhis move now
He couldn't afford to just sleep as he lured Murakao with you It'sto the Commerce Guild as well, so I' as well?”
”Yes, of course That's why I caates, after all”
It seemed that Darcia hadn't come here just to look after Vandalieu
”What about your ser some new members, so it should be fine for a while,” Darcia replied
It seemed that Kanako had made use of Darcia's absence to persuade candidates to join her idol group by telling them, ”It's for both Darcisan and Vandalieu's sakes!”
”And this city is quite nice, isn't it? I wasn't denied purchases for being a Dark Elf, and the guards and the people running the inn were nice to et any unpleasant stares from alleyways, either,” said Darcia
Such persecution had gone unpunished during her days as an adventurer in the Ae to bombard the emperor's castle and the Great Church of Alda
”Well, there was soave me a little trouble… but it was just one,” said Darcia
Though he had no proof of this, Vandalieu iuard who had demanded a bribe froo and turn him into meatballs for Quinn's children
No, no, Moood, so I'd end up cole person for things like that, Vandalieu told hi?” Darcia asked
”It's nothing,” said Vandalieu ”Well then, let's do our best with the skewer stall toh ”I' forward to it”
And so, the sun set over the city of Morksi, none of its citizens aware that it was now inhabited by the De
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