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There was a Divine Message.
“The abyss will come from a land far away, aboard a ship that soars across the heavens, bringing death with him. You shall beckon the abyss. When you do, he shall rule over the lands and devour the light.”
That was why she waited, inside the sea where the pools of various poisons and strong acids floated around each other without mixing, forming a toxic-looking, marble-like pattern.
She was completely shielded from the poison and acid by her fragment of the Demon King. Still, when she opened her eyes, she saw a sea that was so brightly pink that it hurt her eyes, and regretted not waiting inside a dark green patch of ocean instead.
However, the mucus produced by the Demon King’s mucus glands, the fragment she possessed, could withstand the pink mind-affecting toxin for longer than the dark green acidic seas.
If she were to have the Demon King’s mucus glands continuously active, she would be able to withstand it for days, but… that would cause her ‘Demon King Encroachment Degree’ to shoot up in the blink of an eye, and her mind would give out first.
Thus, she had been keeping the Demon King’s mucus glands mostly dormant, activating them only to secrete enough mucus to surround herself with. Even when she stopped using them actively, the mucus they secreted lingered.
With this method, she had managed to keep the level of her ‘Demon King Encroachment Degree’ low for years.
Still, I have recently been feeling odd sensations more frequently. A strange elevation of spirits, and an impatience as if I am being kept in suspense… Is that because of this ‘Abyss’ as well?
She often felt these sensations the moment she activated the Demon King’s mucus glands, and immediately after she stopped using them. Considering that, it was likely being caused by these detestable mucus glands, but…
Yes, detestable. I must not forget. My kin and I have managed to come this far because of our faith in our god and our mission to protect the fragment. And it was the power of this fragment that allowed me to escape to this place from the Bahn Gaia continent with my surviving kin after being wounded by the cursed Five-colored Blades. But it is a part of the detestable Demon King Guduranis. I must not be misled, she told herself.
But today was a strange day. The fragment throbbed continuously, even though she wasn’t using it.
Thinking that this was a sign that the ‘Abyss’ was approaching, she looked up at the sky, but she saw no ship soaring across the heavens.
Perhaps it was floating at a very high altitude, or perhaps it was concealed by the clouds. But just as this thought occurred to her, the air trembled.
“Hmm?”
In the next moment, something fell from the sky. It seemed to have fallen into the ordinary sea, some distance away from the Devil’s Sea where she was, but… a mountain-like pillar of water rose from the water’s surface, sending waves so far that she could feel them.
In surprise, she looked at the sky once more to see more than ten Colossi and Elder Dragons floating in the sky, and hastily dove deeper into the sea.
The Abyss has come! Hurry and come to me, Abyss! But be sure not to drop any Colossi or Elder Dragons on me!
Meanwhile, in the sky above, a fierce mid-air battle was taking place.
Lightning, elemental breaths, and spells from the Colossi and Elder Dragons were being met in a furious exchange by beams of light, eggs, martial skills, and spells from Cuatro’s deck.
The battle was currently even.
Even, huh, thought the ‘Boulder Colossus’ Gorn in vexation as he took part in the battle.
Having survived the battle against the Demon King over a hundred thousand years ago, he was considered a senior member and a leader among the Colossi in the forces of the God of Law and Fate Alda.
Thus, he had been designated as commander of the forces guarding Botin, Mother of the Earth and Goddess of Craftsmanship, who was sealed away on the Demon King’s Continent. In the event that Vandalieu’s forces approached the continent, he was to take command in battle.
He was not a subordinate god of Botin, but he had been given the name of ‘Boulder Colossus’ by his father and master, Zerno. As Botin was a great god of the earth attribute, he had been on friendly terms with her.
A hundred thousand years ago, a third of Botin’s subordinate gods had foolishly sided with Vida, cutting ties with the great Alda and the champion Bellwood. Now, many of them were sealed away, having been deemed members of Vida’s forces.
Another third of Botin’s subordinate gods had been sealed away with her, and only the remaining third were among Alda’s forces.
Some new gods of the earth attribute had been born in the hundred thousand years that had passed since then, but because Botin had fewer believers than gods like Alda or Nineroad, there still weren’t as many earth-attribute gods as there had once been.
Thus, only a handful of earth-attribute gods were among the forces who protected the goddess under Gorn’s command, and none of them were present in this battle.
However, there were many demigods – Colossi, Elder Dragons, and Beast-kings.
Gorn had come up with a battle plan for repelling Vandalieu and his forces, making use of the qualities that demigods had rather than using gods as his main fighting forces.
In other words, he would crush Vandalieu’s forces with sheer numbers.
He would attack with dozens of demigods and drag Vandalieu and his companions to their watery graves.
They were not underestimating Vandalieu and his companions. Vandalieu had defeated other demigods, such as the Pure-breed Vampires who worshipped an evil god. He had also defeated the Evil God of Joyful Life Hihiryushukaka, the God of Records Curatos, and the God of Thunderclouds Fitun, who had descended upon a vessel.
There was no way Gorn would underestimate a foe who had defeated such beings.
Some of the demigods he had gathered were very skilled, but there were more of them who possessed only the minimum strength of a demigod. If Vandalieu decided to send an attack in the direction of Botin’s seal, there was no guarantee that they would be able to stop him.
The most fearsome possibility was that of Vandalieu carrying out a hit-and-run strategy, attacking and retreating repeatedly to defeat Gorn and his allies one by one.
The forces under Gorn’s command numbered few when considering the size of the Demon King’s Continent. With the gods’ senses and speed, they would be able to keep an eye on Vandalieu, but they would need to split up and leave a small group of forces in each region to protect the sealed Botin from him.
If Vandalieu were to take advantage of that to eliminate Gorn’s forces a few at a time, then they would be forced into a final battle close to Botin. If Vandalieu were to use the great spell that destroyed Alda’s ‘Dungeon of Trials,’ it was possible that Botin would be harmed.
That was why Gorn had decided not to immediately attack Vandalieu and his forces when they appeared, and instead prioritized quietly forming an encirclement. Then, before Vandalieu’s forces became aware of their presence, they would all strike together from all directions, defeating them with overwhelming force before they could respond. That had been Gorn’s plan. Even if Vandalieu himself was present, they had enough numbers to push through.
Of course, Gorn had not forgotten about Gufadgarn. He had enlisted the help of three space-attribute gods to interfere with her space-attribute magic. All of them were young gods, and Gufadgarn was far above them in skill. However, if Gufadgarn tried to teleport Vandalieu and his allies away, they would be able to stop her for several seconds or perhaps a few dozen seconds.
In that space of less than a minute, Gorn’s forces would defeat Vandalieu and his companions while they were unable to escape.
Demigods were able to wield their full strength in this world because they possessed physical bodies; they would use that ability to its greatest extent and teach the proud Demon King a lesson.
But why have things come to this?! Gorn thought.
In reality, things had not gone so well.
The Colossus and Elder Dragon keeping watch were supposed to remain hidden and report to Gorn and the others to inform them of the appearance of a suspicious ship that seemed to be Vandalieu’s. But the two of them had attacked instead, unable to suppress their hatred for the Demon King and Vida.
Immediately afterwards, Gorn and the others noticed the resulting emergency situation due to the enormous pillars of water that had acted as a signal, but… less than a third of the numbers Gorn had arranged for had been able to gather quickly enough. Thanks to that, their encirclement was full of holes, and they did not have enough fighting forces.
Because they had physical bodies, demigods such as Colossi and Elder Dragons were subject to physical restrictions. The forces Gorn had positioned on the other side of the continent would need to run across the continent or fly across it to get here, and that would take time.
“What are you crying about! Have you grown so senile that you have forgotten that it is only natural for unexpected situations to arise on the battlefield?!” said Brateo, the shaggy-haired, scraggly-bearded Colossus of Roaring Thunder, as he brought a lightning attack down on Cuatro.
But these words were not convincing to Gorn.
“One of the ones who got ahead of themselves was your own son!” Gorn shouted furiously.
The Colossus who had attacked Vandalieu was the Colossus of Lightning Radatel, one of Brateo’s sons.
“Yes, it was!” Brateo shouted back, unwavering as he continued attacking Cuatro. “My son Radatel fought bravely to take vengeance for his dead mother upon the accursed Demon King! Come, proud descendants of Zerno! Come, sons of Marduke, sons of Ganpaplio! Let us show our power to the second coming of the evil Demon King, the filthy child of the depraved goddess!”
Brateo’s shouts brought morale to his allies. Even Gorn, whose plan had been foiled, had to admit his leadership. If it weren’t for the rash behavior he showed as a result of the grief of his wife being slain by the Demon King, it would likely be him in command instead of Gorn.
“Still, it is true that this is no time to be clinging onto a failed plan,” Gorn told himself.
With a fierce roar, he conjured an enormous boulder with earth-attribute magic and threw it in Cuatro’s direction.
This was followed up by charging attacks from the Shellfish Beast-king and Starfish Beast-king.
Cuatro had held up against the attacks so far, but with an enormous boulder and two Beast-kings closing in, it looked like her fate was sealed.
However, a woman leapt into the air and smashed the tower-sized boulder into pieces, and a mysterious spell sapped the momentum from the Beast-kings, immobilizing them mid-air.
On top of that, Brateo’s lightning collided with a membrane of water that blocked it out.
“What?!” Brateo uttered in disbelief.
“They’ve started responding to our attacks! Damn it, where are our reinforcements… Where are Sirius and the others?!” Gorn shouted in frustration, looking around for the allies that he was depending on.
But those allies were nowhere to be found, and the counterattacks from Vandalieu and his companions began.
Vandalieu set up a barrier to keep out enemy attacks and kept the enemies in check with beams of light and cannon fire. Meanwhile, he and his allies were beginning their counterattack, and their plan to escape.
“If we head to that poisonous-looking sea, things will work out?” asked Privel.
“Yes,” said Vandalieu. “I can feel the presence of a fragment of the Demon King in that pink-colored place. It’s not moving, so it’s probably a signal for us.”
“Isn’t there a chance that it’s a trap?” asked Borkus.
“The choice of leaping into that water is the only one I don’t sense the presence of death in, so it’s probably not a trap… though it’s possible that there just happens to be a monster infested by a fragment over there,” said Vandalieu.
“I see. Well, if it’s a trap, then we can just teleport out!” Borkus said.
“Well, we need to defeat a few of them and make a hole in their circle first!” said Zandia. “By the way, what is that huge shellfish and that huge star-shaped thing? Do they taste good?”
“That is the Shellfish Beast-king Harinsheb and the Starfish Beast-king Repobilis… I imagine that Repobilis would not taste very pleasant,” said Gufadgarn.
Concluding their short strategy meeting, Vandalieu and his companions decided to go on the attack.
“First things first!” said Zandia. “Transform! ‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall!’”
“‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall!’” said Borkus.
“Come to think of it, why haven’t I learned ‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall?’” wondered Jeena.
“The difference between ‘Descent’ and ‘Demonfall’ is whether you’re summoning a god’s familiar spirit or a fragment of my soul; they should still functionally be the same Skill,” said Vandalieu. “You can still summon a part of me with your ‘Descent,’ can’t you, Jeena?”
“Ah, I suppose so,” said Jeena. “Well then, transform! ‘Familiar Spirit Descent!’”
Zandia and Jeena transformed as they possessed transformation equipment, and those that didn’t simply summoned Vandalieu’s spirit clones upon themselves.
The enormous boulder thrown by Gorn and the body-slam attacks of Harinsheb and Repobilis approached Cuatro.
“Alright, this is my –” Borkus began.
But the transformed Jeena ran past him first. “This is my time to shine!”
One of Vandalieu’s flight-assistant-type Demon King Familiars hastily attached itself to her back.
“Thanks!” Jeena said. “‘Transcend Limits!’ ‘Transcend Limits: Magic Shield!’ Next, ‘Strengthen All Attribute Values,’ then… ‘Shield Bash!’”
The muscles of her burly arm grew even larger, and the shield attached to it collided with the flying boulder. With a thunderous noise, the boulder crumbled to pieces.
At the same time, Gufadgarn began twisting space to make them fly past Cuatro, but Vandalieu got there first.
“This is a spell that I’ve recently come up with… ‘Impact-negating Barrier.’”
A barrier that resembled a black mist materialized around Vandalieu. But although this would protect Vandalieu, it would not protect Cuatro.
“Next, I put this barrier in my hands, condense it into a sphere, and fire it.”
The ‘Impact-negating Barrier’ surrounding Vandalieu’s whole body gathered in his palms, and then he fired it at the approaching Harinsheb.
“I’ll call this ‘Barrier Bullet’… Well, I’m just firing my barrier out, so it’s not a special spell or anything,” said Vandalieu.
He repeated this process to fire another barrier at the second Beast-king. Their bodies were over a hundred meters across and they were approaching Cuatro in a straight line, so there was no chance of missing.
Covered by the black spheres, Harinsheb and Repobilis were robbed of their kinetic energy, causing them to stop in mid-air.
Meanwhile, Zandia and Privel conjured a water barrier to block the lightning attacks pouring down from above.
“You told me that pure water doesn’t conduct electricity, Your-Majesty-kun; I’m combining that with regular water to redirect the lightning attacks, but it’s pretty tough!” said Zandia.
“Van-kun! Could you get Orbia-neesan to lend us a hand, or have her swap places with me?” asked Privel.
“I’ll send her your way,” said Vandalieu. “And here, I’ve readjusted your transformation equipment. It’s got the familiar spirit of Jugarion.”
“Really?! Thanks, I’ll try it out right away!”
The water-attribute Ghost Orbia joined Privel and Zandia, and Privel immediately activated her new transformation equipment.
“Transform! This is… really comfortable, and they fit my tentacles perfectly!” said Privel as the liquid metal formed fiber-like shapes that entwined around her upper body and the tentacles of her lower body to complete the transformation.
Jugarion was a god with eight heads; it seemed that his familiar spirit was very compatible with Privel, who had eight tentacles with Dragon heads.
“I’ll be fine with this, so leave the lightning attacks to me!” said Privel.
“If you’re happy with it, then that makes me happy as its maker,” said Vandalieu. “Now then, I’ll be gathering power for a big attack, so please buy some time.”
“As you will!” said Bone Man, separating his entire body to pieces to attack the immobile Repobilis.
At the same time, the gunports on Cuatro’s right side opened up, facing Harinsheb.
“Vengeful berserk starboard cannons! You’re up!” said one of the Four Dead Sea Captains.
“We won’t let you!” shouted a Colossus wearing golden armor.
He and an Elder Dragon that resembled the Great Vortex Dragon God Zvold but was smaller than him charged towards Cuatro to save their immobile allies.
“Wait, don’t charge in!” shouted Gorn in warning, trying to stop them while also throwing another boulder at the same time.
“To think that I’d be using this on a Colossus some day! ‘Elder Dragon killer!’” shouted Borkus, leaping off Cuatro’s deck after Jeena and unleashing a ‘Sword King Technique’ martial skill that cut deep into the torso of the golden-armor-clad Colossus.
“‘God Spear Screw Strike!’” said Mikhail, driving his spear into the torso of the Elder Dragon, sending scales, flesh, and blood spraying into the sky.
The Colossus groaned in pain. “How is it possible that my armor is being cut through so easily?!”
“Damn you!” cursed the Elder Dragon. “You are Mikhail! So, you have become an Undead and stooped to being a pawn of the Demon King!”
Despite being heavily wounded, the golden-armored Colossus and Elder Dragon engaged in close-quarters combat with Borkus and Mikhail.
The boulders thrown by Gorn were struck down by Jeena one after another, and Brateo’s roaring lightning attacks were being blocked by Privel, Zandia, and Orbia.
Fire erupted from Cuatro’s right-side gunports towards Harinsheb… along with screams.
The right-side gunports were sound-wave-cannon-type Demon King Familiars made with the Demon King’s lips, tongue, and lungs. Vandalieu’s ‘Vengeful Berserker’ Job applied a bonus to attacks using sound and screams, and he was even able to add status effects to them now, so he had installed these specialized Demon King Familiars on Cuatro.
Their firing range was shorter than cannon-type Demon King Familiars, and their immediate firepower was weaker.
But their attacks were more effective than cannonballs against physically durable objects like Harinsheb’s enormous spiral shell.
Harinsheb let out an odd scream as thin cracks appeared in his shell.
From Vandalieu’s shadow emerged the enormous black centipede Pete, who was now a Rank 12 Demon Steel Roaring Lightning King Centipede, who let out a hiss as he charged towards Harinsheb.
Chipuras, formerly a Noble-born Vampire who was now a light-attribute Ghost, gave a triumphant laugh as he sent forth a beam of light. “Without your shell, you’re an easy target!”
“I’ll cook you in your own shell!” said the fire-attribute Ghost Princess Levia as she released a stream of flames.
Pete’s horns sank into Harinsheb’s cracked shell, pouring deadly venom inside, and Harinsheb screamed once more as Chipuras’s beam of light and Levia’s flames scorched him.
Meanwhile, Bone Man was using the bone blades that made up his body as swords against Repobilis, inflicting a countless number of wounds. “‘Starving Bone Blade Storm!’ Jyuuh, I do not know where his weak points are!”
Repobilis was the Starfish Beast-king. Unlike the Colossi and Elder Dragons, it was difficult to tell where his weak points were.
On top of that, starfish were creatures with high Vitality; as the Starfish Beast-king, Repobilis was capable of regenerating his body even if he were cut into two.
But there was no way that he would feel no pain when his entire body was being cut up. He let out a strange scream and tried to spin his body around in place to repel Bone Man, but as Vandalieu’s Impact-negating Barrier remained in place, he could not move very well.
The counterattack of Vandalieu’s companions had inflicted severe wounds on several gods, but none of them had been defeated yet. It could be said that Gorn and his allies were managing to hold on with only a third of their numbers because they had forced Vandalieu to be on the defense against their attacks.
As if commending Gorn and his allies for their efforts, a majestic horn sounded and echoed in the air.
“Sirius, you’re finally here!” Gorn said in relief.
He turned towards the Demon King’s continent to see another ten or so gods, led by the God of War Horns Sirius.
Unlike demigods, Sirius and the gods led by him did not possess physical bodies, and they would normally not be able to fight on the world’s surface unless they were in the area near the sealed goddess, which had become extremely similar to a Divine Realm.
In order to make up for that, Gorn and the others had turned a part of the sky above the Demon King Continent into a partial Divine Realm. With this, Sirius and the other gods were able to fight as well.
The original plan had been to gather all their forces and attack Vandalieu and his companions when they approached the space that had become a partial Divine Realm.
“We are quite far from the Divine Realm, but the situation we originally planned for is finally drawing near! They’re still some distance away, but Madroza is coming here as well! Let’s push on for victory! Help Harinsheb and Repobilis, and support your brothers!” Gorn shouted in command.
The demigods responded with roars. Their physical strength was increased and their wounds were healed by the sounds of the war horns and war drums of Sirius and the gods with him.
At this rate, Vandalieu and his companions would be steadily driven into a corner.
At that moment, Vandalieu climbed and stood on Cuatro’s bow, pointing his arm diagonally behind him. “Everyone, stay where you are. ‘World-Piercing Destructive Hollow Cannon.’”
He cast the spell that had collapsed Alda’s Dungeon and destroyed the God of Records Curatos, the most destructively powerful spell that he was currently capable of casting.
With a torrent of pure-black Mana streaming from his left arm, he swung it from behind him to in front of him, then behind him on his right side.
Sweeping this attack across the battlefield caused heavy damage to Gorn and his allies. Harinsheb screamed as his shell completely shattered to pieces simply from the shockwave produced by it, and the Colossus and Elder Dragon who had tried to approach Cuatro fell to the sea after their limbs and tail were heavily wounded.
“W-what?!”
“Don’t try to block it! DOOOODGE!”
“GAH! My war horn!”
Repobilis took a direct hit, and three of his five limbs were disintegrated. Even so, he was beginning to regenerate due to his astounding Vitality, but…
“Now is the time! ‘Great Starving Bone Wheel!’” shouted Bone Man, arranging his bones into an enormous wheel.
With this secret ‘Hollow Bone Swordsmanship’ technique, Bone Man cut even the core of Repobilis’s remaining two limbs into pieces, ending his life.
Gufadgarn retrieved the pieces of Repobilis and Harinsheb with her magic. The space-attribute gods lurking in a sub-dimension noticed her doing this, but… they could do nothing but watch, as they needed to be prepared to act when Vandalieu and his companions attempted to make their escape.
If they were to try and interfere with Gufadgarn collecting these spoils of battle and then lacked the Mana to prevent Vandalieu’s escape later, they would lose everything.
“Now,” said Vandalieu.
His left arm had turned into a useless mass of flesh from the recoil of having used ‘World-Piercing Destructive Hollow Cannon’ past his limit; he cut it off and devoured it with the Demon King’s jaws.
“Everyone, back to the ship!” shouted one of the Four Dead Sea Captains.
“Cuatro, full speed ahead to the sea of our destination!” shouted another.
It seemed that the perseverance of the space-attribute gods would be for naught. In response to Vandalieu’s command, Cuatro began flying towards the venomous sea.
With ‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall’ active, Cuatro let out a creaking noise as it flew through the air, surrounded by a black aura.
“Impossible! They are escaping with a method other than teleportation?!” Gorn shouted, astounded at this unexpected development, as he desperately tried to stop Cuatro.
“That’s why I told you! You never know what will happen on the battlefield!” said Brateo as he followed.
But Gorn and Brateo had been keeping their distance during their battle; they could not catch up to Cuatro.
Radatel, the Colossus of Lightning, and Zvold, the Great Vortex Dragon God – the two demigods who had been sent sinking into the sea after being struck by egg projectiles and beams of light – let out fierce roars as they re-emerged from the sea and stood in Cuatro’s path.
“Leave it to me, old man!” Radatel shouted.
“‘Extreme iceberg!’” said Zandia, conjuring an iceberg.
“I’ve never tried this before, but ‘Conjure Ice Dragon Pack!’” said Privel, summoning a multi-headed Dragon made of ice.
Pete let out a fierce hiss as he extended the top half of his body from the ship.
The iceberg, the Dragons and Pete’s horns collided with Radatel and Zvold.
Radatel and Zvold had already been covered in wounds; they were unable to withstand this attack. Pete possessed the ‘Dragon Devourer’ Skill; Zvold was struck by his horns and poisoned by the deadly venom secreted from them, and his body was split in two before he could even let out a dying scream.
“I’m sorry, Father…” Radatel whispered.
He couldn’t withstand these attacks for long, either. With a final ballista shot from Cuatro piercing him, he fell as well.
“Curse you! How dare you kill my son!” shouted an enraged Brateo.
But Cuatro sank below the surface of the pink sea.
“‘Disinfect,’ continuous cast,” said Vandalieu, casting the death-attribute spell that neutralized poisons that were harmful to people as soon as Cuatro hit the water, turning a part of the pink sea into ordinary seawater.
By the time Vandalieu realized that there was a Merfolk enveloped in a membrane-like object, Cuatro was already completely submerged.
《The Levels of the ‘Dark King Magic,’ ‘Super Rapid Regeneration,’ ‘Self-Regeneration: Cannibalism,’ ‘Strengthened Attribute Values: Cannibalism,’ ‘Precise Mana Control,’ ‘Scream,’ and ‘Demon King Artillery Technique’ Skills have increased!》
《The ‘Alchemy’ Skill has awakened to ‘Divine Alchemy!’》
- Name: Pete
- Rank: 12
- Race: Demon Steel Roaring Lightning King Centipede
- Level: 60
- Passive skills:
- Hunger Resistance: Level 3
- Self-Enhancement: Following: Level 10
- Deadly Venom Secretion (Neurotoxin): Jaws: Level 2 (Awakened from Venom Secretion!)
- Wind Attribute Resistance: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Super Strengthened Body: Exoskeleton, Horns: Level 2 (Awakened from Strengthened Body!)
- Monstrous Strength: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Self-Enhancement: Guidance: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- Rapid Healing: Level 6 (NEW!)
- Strengthened Attribute Values: Predator: Level 5 (NEW!)
- Night Vision (NEW!)
- Active skills:
- Silent Steps: Level 1
- Ferocious Charge: Level 1 (Awakened from Charge!)
- Transcend Limits: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Armor Technique: Level 9 (LEVEL UP!)
- Roaring Lightning: Level 2 (LEVEL UP!)
- Coordination: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- High-speed Travel: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Familiar Spirit Demonfall: Level 2 (NEW!)
- Unique skills:
- Dragon Devourer: Level 9 (LEVEL UP!)
- Zanalpadna’s Divine Blessing
- Vandalieu’s Divine Protection
Monster explanation (Written by Luciliano):
Demon Steel Roaring Lightning King Centipede
Pete has reached Rank 12 and is on the verge of Rank 13, a Rank that possibly no centipede has ever reached. Literature does not say whether something like a Beast-king of centipedes existed. However, if one did exist, then Pete would be close to being on equal terms with it.
He is quite enormous; his body is several dozen meters long. When he emerges from Master’s shadow, even I mistakenly think for a moment that Master is showing his true form.
This must be because of the incident where Master clung to Pete’s stomach when he saved Gizania’s life, though it doesn’t seem that Master intended for that.
Now that he has consumed a true Elder Dragon, as opposed to a lesser Dragon, we can expect more growth from him in the future.
Incidentally, when he wants to travel quickly, he apparently holds his tail with his mouth to form a ring that rolls across the ground.
- Name: Privel
- Age: 19 years old
- Title: None
- Rank: 9
- Race: Scylla Origin High-druid Princess
- Level: 0
- Job: Magical Shaman
- Job level: 0
- Job history: Apprentice Shrine Maiden, Shrine Maiden, Mage, Spiritual Mage, Crystal User, Tentacle Warrior, Transformation Equipment User
- Passive skills:
- Water Adaptation
- Dark Vision
- Enhanced Physical Ability (Lower body half): Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Ink Secretion: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
- Superhuman Strength: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
- Automatic Mana Recovery: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!)
- Increased Mana Recovery Rate: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- Mana Enlargement: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
- Rapid Regeneration: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Self-Strengthening: Guidance: Level 4 (NEW!)
- Strengthened Magical Attack Power when equipped with a Staff: Medium (NEW!)
- Strengthened Attribute Values: Transformation: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Active skills:
- Farming: Level 4
- Unarmed Fighting Technique: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
- Dancing: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!)
- Singing: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Dismantling: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- No-Attribute Magic: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Water Dragon Princess Magic: Level 1 (Awakened from Water-Attribute Magic!)
- Earth-Attribute Magic: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Mana Control: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!)
- Chant Revocation: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Spiritual Magic: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- Parallel Thought Processing: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Ice Breath: Level 7 (NEW!)
- Housework: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Familiar Spirit Demonfall: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Silent Steps: Level 3 (NEW!)
- Unique skills:
- Merrebeveil’s Divine Protection
- Jugarion’s Divine Protection
- Vandalieu’s Divine Protection (NEW!)
Race explanation (Written by Luciliano):
Scylla Origin High-druid Princess
The above Status reflects the Rank increase that took place after Cuatro successfully escaped into the sea.
She is Rank 9. Her water-attribute magic has awakened, and she has acquired the ‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall’ Skill. I am sure that she is happy that her development is proceeding smoothly.
She has no Titles now, but it is certain that she will acquire some in the future.
Well, I will not speak of Titles, race titles, or Skill names that she will acquire in the future. At least, until some time passes and she calms down – for the sake of her heart, and for the sake of my own safety.
… How is it that Master is so composed when being constricted by her lower body?
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“teach the proud Demon King a lesson.”
These gods are really projecting hard.
Not to mention the good old “curse you for killing the people/gods who are trying to kill you” again.
I wonder if these gods are reincarnated young masters from some 3rd rate Chinese novel. “How dare you resist, and not get obediently beaten to death.”
Hobbes
I wonder if Alda has another close aid like Curatos the god of records… maybe Delusionass the god of projection.
Zenden1st
did it mention how heinz and his group killed merfolk before?
JKingSniper
Really wanna see Heinz get killed by mermaid and every other race that he killed since they weren’t considered “people”
would be karmic justice
Bigguyman
What chapter was this
Ze Chad
Caught up, thanks for the chapter! I wonder if Pete would evolve/transform into a butterfly.
Ze Chad
Oh wait, Pete’s a centipede and not a caterpillar. I’m dumb.
Lord Rin
Uh whoever gave that Divine Message needs to work on the contents more. That message sounded friggin’ ominous. They could’ve just said that the Holy Son of Vida is coming. Anyways so once again we’re treated to another example of Heinz and his group’s hypocrisy. Merfolk are supposed to be one of the races that Alda’s Peaceful Faction claim to champion and protect since they are completely native to Lambda and have no Evil God or monster ancestor like some of Vida’s other races. Yet Heinz still attacked them just because they happen to guard a sealed DK fragment probably because someone just made a false accusation and Heinz can never be assed to do any sort of legwork to verify that a job he’s brought is legit or not. Also Heinz can’t use the excuse that he didn’t know that they were a race of Vida like with the Ghouls nor are they a race that’s kill on sight like Majin and Vampires are according to Orbaume’s laws meaning killing Merfolk unprovoked is illegal in Orbaume.
Anyways man Alda’s force absolutely suck at coordination. Gorn is supposed to be the commander yet Brateo is egging everyone on to go all Leeroy Jenkins and try to bum rush Van before their reinforcements arrive or at least try to coordinate to encircle Van and keep him busy until the reinforcements arrive. They could have also just pulled back and let Van go. Instead Brateo is just whipping everyone into a fervor by trying to equate Van with Guduranis despite them being two completely different people. I hope Van keeps people like Brateo alive for as long as possible to keep screwing up Gorn’s plans. Meanwhile this failed ambush attempt ended in at least 4 demigods dead. It’s also kinda funny how Van’s group now only see demigods as food ingredients.
Oh so Descent and Demonfall are basically the same thing. I was wondering why people that had the Descent skill weren’t getting the Demonfall skill. Turns out that a person with the Descent skill can pick between either having a familiar spirit or part of Van’s soul descend on them.
Anyways so Privel’s equipment has been modified to house Jugarion’s familiar spirit instead of -I want to say Lioen’s- familiar spirit. She does have Jugarion’s Divine Protection so it’s probably easier to use equipment housing his familiar spirits. Hrmm Jugarion is basically Yamata-no-Orochi so maybe he should also give Yamata his Divine Protection too if she doesn’t already have it because after all Yamata is an Orochi as her race. Van could probably now be able to create a personal transforming staff for Yamata now that his Alchemy skill has awakened.
On an unrelated note, I see that Zadiris’ Princess Curse is still going strong. Privel is now a Scylla Origin High-druid Princess and her Water-Attribute Magic skill has awakened into the Water Dragon Princess Magic skill. Now to wait for her Earth-Attribute Magic skill to end up awakening into Earth Dragon Princess Magic skill.
Chiu ChunLing
I confounded this mermaid with the Majin holy women whom the FCB mentioned escaping them before, but even granting that she’s not the “Holy Woman of Darkness”, it wouldn’t be odd if she worshipped an evil god (since she doesn’t live inside the Boundary Mountains where Tristam is).
I hadn’t even figured out why Luciliano was commenting on her getting Titles in the future…lol. Only a matter of time before Kanako forces her to take the Magical Girl job too.
SchmidtNation
There is no mention of when this mermaid fought Heinz. It most likely happened when the Five Colored Blades were still in the Amid Empire, before they got involved with Van and Darcia, given that the mermaid was able to escape after being wounded. We have to remember that Heinz was born and raised in a country where only humans elves and dwarves are considered people. His party hunting mermaids isn’t hypocritical at all, if it happened before defecting to Orbaume.
Lord Rin
It can only have happened in the Orbaume Kingdom because any merfolk in the Amid Empire would have been in hidden villages protected by Schneider. Heinz wouldn’t have been able to find and attack them and manage to escape Schneider’s vengeance since he was only a B-rank adventurer when he was still in the Amid Empire versus a group of S-rank adventurers that include both a demigod level pure-breed vampire and an actual goddess and we know Schneider isn’t the type to give a damn about any political complications that might come from murdering a famous person in broad daylight. Heinz being somewhat famous and a rising adventurer wouldn’t stop Schneider from going after him.
Chiu ChunLing
I tend to think that the DK fragment would also be a factor, even if the mucus is mostly defensive, I can imagine that it would be too much for a B-Rank party to even attempt.
Doc
@Lord Rin I mean you’re assuming Schneider can protect the entirety of the Amid Empire at once. He’s not that good (which was why he was sad that so many Vida races were lost in the places he couldn’t reach).
Further, we have no idea where these merfolk were in relation to Heinz. I’m sure not every member of the entire race is hiding in their villages at all times. Case in point, Darcia wasn’t in the dark elf hidden village, which allowed Heinz and crew to easily hunt her. From what we’ve been told, the only Vida races Heinz has fought since moving to the Orbaume Kingdom was a Majin and some ghouls. And he’s stopped attacking both those groups since his fight with Van
Chiu ChunLing
They mentioned wiping out some Kijin as well. But more than that, they were trying to think of “Holy Mothers” they might have killed, that’s why they dropped the Kijin group (all men, apparently) and the Majin who got away. Since this Mermaid also clearly got away, they may just not have brought her up cause they knew she wasn’t dead.
I think we can take it as a given that the author is not trying to build up Heinz and the Five Colored Blades as paragons of perfect honesty (even with themselves), there’s no reason to suppose that they don’t ever kill people and then ‘forget’ to mention it…that’s kinda the whole schtick with Darcia. In her case, they only aren’t mentioning it. But from the conversation they had with Van, it’s pretty clear that sometimes they had to be reminded of things they ‘forgot’.
Van just didn’t specifically bring up Mermaids, is all.
bookworm12
Am I the only one who read the chapter title and thought Van was going to lose somehow? I was thinking he wouldn’t be able to teleport in his reinforcements or something.
Chiu ChunLing
I think it’s purposefully written to make it ambiguous which side doesn’t get reinforced in time.
Irazori
Very typical of the aldiots. brateo is certainly living up to his name, both as an individual and an aldiot.
I can’t help but laugh at their pathetic attempt at trying to defeat Van and continually sucking at it.
Jonathan Hurd
What’s funny is their plan feels like it could of worked. It’s just Aldiot and his crew really stink at coordination. Why would you charge in waves at a guy who already has a handful of Demi God level fighters and eats souls. Your Demigods and God’s are limited. Add in that each death just strengthens Van and his followers. It’s stupid how suicidal they can be.
At this point I can’t tell where the overconfidence of the Elder Dragon and Colossus is coming from. Thinking they alone could take Van and his entire crew lol.
Chiu ChunLing
No matter how much they think their plan could have worked, Van has Danger Sense: Death on all the time. He’d have changed course before being encircled by the ambush anyway. Another few minutes on course could have made this a closer fight, but not a losing one for Van.
Lord Rin
I hope they keep Brateo alive. He seems like the kind of hot-headed idiot that will screw up any plans in favor of going all Leeroy Jenkins because of his hate.
Chiu ChunLing
Especially now that they’ve got the corpse of his son….
Phantom Knight
….Is the second [Spiritual Mage] (in Previl’s status) supposed to be the [Water Mage] job instead?
Chiu ChunLing
Hmmm…good point.
Phantom Knight
Thanks for the chapter!!! Since no one is going to say it, I will……..Vandalieu-sama has finally evolved his [Alchemy] skill into the [Divine Alchemy] skill. This is a type for applause. Lol
After all, he learned that he has no talent for Alchemy, but even I didn’t think his talent was that bad. He actually had to continuously create revolutionary items, invent divine equipment, and kill countless divine enemies in order to evolve the skill.
He didn’t even awaken a [Dark Alchemy] and simply acquire a somewhat predictable evolution……Sigh, after all that struggle, we can only hope that he can start creating even more interesting things now.
Jonathan Hurd
We’ll probably get an excerpt about the skill from Luciano soonish, but I think Divine Alchemy is way cooler than just Dark Alchemy. Though I could easily imagine Van getting Dark Alchemy with what he does.
To me I think the trigger was his recent work in making Divine Artifacts with Familiar spirits in them. I would think his ability to shape change Orichalcum probably helped, but his now making new items and artifacts out of Godly Materials is probably what pushed it over.
Hopefully now that he has Divine Alchemy a lot more people will start receiving Familiar Spirit and Spirit Clone equipment. I feel like Isla might get something from Merribevil since I think Tentacles and her chains could be a good combo. Also add another layer to her bondage type gear, lol.
bookworm12
What I want to know is why his alchemy skill chose now to awaken. Skills usually awaken after some breakthrough involving using them in new ways, but did he use alchemy at some point in the fight? Nice name though.
Lord Rin
Skills don’t necessarily need to be actively used in order to gain experience to level them up or awaken them. They still can get some xp just from fighting or other factors like jobs or racial bonuses. It’s why Iris has managed to level up her Endless Sexual Stamina skill despite being a virgin still.
Doodads
I think you’re forgetting how abnormal Van’s skill evolutions are. “Divine Alchemy” clearly isn’t something you can acquire with just talent. Hell, it’s pretty much guaranteed that he’s the first one to ever get that skill. He only got the skill because of his divine artifact crafting shenanigans
Seinvolf
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
Buphido
Man these guys are projecting. I get that you hate the demon king, pretty sure Vidas faction is not too keen on the demon king returning either. But Van is not THE demon king, he is A demon king. You slap a title on van and all of a sudden he is to ne hated for what his predecessor has done?
And furthermore, how dare you kill my son? Have you looked at the situation? Not only did your idiot son ruin your entire strategy, you guys are actively trying to kill somebody out of your prejudice and you never stopped to consider that he might kill you instead? Truly, fitting members of Aldas faction. I don’t think they’d want you even if you decided to join Vida instead.
ObserverBias
The one thing I’ll say anything towards is Van’s status as Demon King. Considering the absolute unit that the previous one was (to the point that even now he’s not “dead” in the full sense of the word), and that Van became capable of doing the same thing as he did /before/ getting that title/designation, AND that they are literally not on speaking terms with each other, of course he’s “the evil” that must be defeated. There would be no point opposing him if there was a line of communication and mutual trust past impressions of each other.
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He’s regularly in his own country doing “heretic” things that they can’t peep on without getting a headache, because of a poorly thought-out scheme by an auxiliary god made him aware that people could peep and cause problems. He also has a habit of sniping descending familiar spirits because he’s dealt with people becoming problems for him while using that and would just rather not. He’s also passively continuing to gather fragments of his predecessor like they’re Rare Candies, which even one usually drives its host into a violent rampage so it’s frowned upon.
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Every other idle thing about Van “justifies” their view of him, regardless of him not actually being the bad boss eith ill intent that the previous one was.
Utsuho
Beside, Among Alda’s forces, only Nineroad and Alda himself understood that Vandalieu is not like Guduranis in his very being. (Fitun too, but he’s dead.)
But as Vandalieu’s way of life oppose in every way Alda’s percepion of the world, they have to fight to the death. So Alda never spoke a word of it to anyone and Nineroad as well, letting every other misleaded Gods think that Vandalieu is Guduranis 2.
bookworm12
If Alda’s followers had half a brain, they would realize how different Van is from the original Demon King. But no, they are too busy blaming Van for stupid things and writing off the good he does as “he has to live on this world too, of course he wants it intact”.
Chiu ChunLing
I’m sure that Van will make good use of their stupidity somehow.
Irazori
That’s why they’re aldiots, they stick to outdated/normie standards and deemed it to be the only way to live while promoting racism in acts of self-righteous baloney.
bookworm12
Right? They were saying something about Van killing their mother, which had me confused for a second until I realized they were talking about the original Demon King. They’re two completely different people, you morons! They also keep on saying that they are there to guard Botin and protect her from Van, based on no evidence whatsoever. So, 1/3 of Botin’s followers turned traitor and followed Alda, while the rest joined Vida or were sealed with Botin. Seems like the majority are sane and will be joining Van’s group soon!
Doc
These “friendly” gods really aren’t helping Van’s image as a non-evil entity. The merfolk’s god sent her a divine message calling Van the “abyss” and that he’d “devour the light”. Bashias and her crew weren’t much better in their divine messages.
Gods looking to side with Vida, stop telling your followers that Van is some doom-bringer. Dude’s done nothing but improve the quality of life for whomever he’s been around. I get he’s got some scary sounding ability names and jobs, but nothing wrong with putting a positive spin on things.
ObserverBias
Besides his Guider job (which doesn’t sound like sunshine and roses itself) what is there immediately identifiable of Van’s stats or titles that says “This here upstanding individual”? The predictions are vague because they can’t forsee details, aren’t they? Sure, one of those titles is “Holy Son of Vida,” but even that’s apparently contended (by first ‘Shrine Maiden’, and then ‘Goddess’ after the race adjustment).
Doc
@ObserverBias These gods know Van’s deeds. They don’t have to use any of Van’s ability or title names. Just say the champion of Vida will come to free the earth mother goddess and save your kin. That’s no less vague and flowery than the original message but doesn’t make Van sound like Satan.
My point is simply for gods trying to ally themselves with Van and Vida they sure put little effort into not sounding like Van will cause the apocalypse to their followers.
ObserverBias
Excepting that anyone can “count” as a Champion of Vida (Schneider, despite being so secretly, could count, as could any individual among her heroic spirits, or a fraud presuming one could earn such a title by word of mouth but be like the Paris brothers in actual character), and for all that Van himself doesn’t like how fearsome the jobs he has access to sound, he keeps semi-randomly taking ones that are even more along those lines while he has a number of alternatives still.
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I kind of question whether or not they /do/ know his deeds without actually getting eyes on him. Like, big picture, they get the vibe for who he is in character, so they don’t go demanding anything particular of him, but they don’t know exactly how he’ll react to claims of exactly what he will do in the end.
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In this particular case, he has ‘Abyss’ and he has death magic. Two undeniable facts of him. He’s coming from a land far away in a skyship. Also accurate. He would be beckoned to the fragment holder, rule over the lands, and swallow the light. What, exactly, those last two entail is vague and up to be found out, but it’s far from the darkest way he could be portrayed.
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Like, it could totally have been claimed that “this will cause the end of your people” (because something will change with your races or because they unintentionally doom themselves in his judgment), or “there will be no survivors” (specifically among those that oppose him or because of some collateral damage self-destruct sequence on the gods’ side), but thus far, none of those that seek to interact with him positively are saying anything quite so easy to misunderstand. If it makes sense to the message sender and recipient that the descriptions flow fine as they are, then they aren’t really obligated to use a different description, no? If they were freaking out about it, it would track that it sounds like an apocalypse, but they aren’t, so that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Doc
@ObserverBias The level of effort you’re putting into defending what is a harmless observation is boggling to me. There is only 1 “champion of Vida”. Zakkart. Van is essentially Zakkart 2.0. Also it doesn’t have to be that exact statement I said, “Child of Vida”, “Child of the Holy Mother”, etc. All are acceptable ways of referring to Van without directly saying his name and don’t come with outwardly apparent negative connotations.
Van has many skills and abilities. “Abyss” and his death magic are but two of them.
You’re also not getting what I’m saying. I’m talking about the gods who WANT to work with Van. Obviously gods who are afraid of him or hostile to him would say whatever negative stuff they want because they don’t like him and they want their followers to kill him or at the very least, not help him. But for gods who want to join Van or Vida, telling their followers a bunch of scary things about a person they want to ally with only serves to create misunderstandings (as it did with Arthur’s party initially).
ObserverBias
@Doc Am I ‘defending’ the harmless observation, or attacking it? If I’m the one defending it, then I should probably know what it is I’m defending, right?
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My point is, the Message gets across. It’s been established that Divine Messages have varying levels of compatibility between who they’re sent and received by, where poor compatibility gets the message completely wrong, while high compatibility leaves the message clear.
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Furthermore, it’s /well-established/ that the heroic gods and evil gods both already allied with Van find him a disturbing existence. They aren’t going to work as hard as possible on their end to make his image squeaky-clean when he doesn’t do so himself. The impression that he wasn’t to be avoided was provided without mistake. That we can read it otherwise doesn’t actually matter.
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The misunderstanding with Arthur’s party was every individual chosen being awkward and shady-looking, and them happening upon a level-headed person to mind them let the encounter go well, was it not? Divine Messages are very much up to interpretation for those that get them, and thus far, nobody’s booked it the complete opposite direction from Van’s approach upon getting a DM about him, except those heroes explicitly told to just leave the place he was going.
Utsuho
If anything, we can guess that the one sending the divine message was Tristan or a relative. Tristan is a subordinate God from Lambda.
From a god of lambda (lets say that they consider themselves to be ‘normal’) an Evil god is usually ominous and disturbing.
And from the perspective of the Evil gods, Vandalieu’s soul is very ominous and disturbing.
So it is not hard to guess that from a God of lambda perspective, even as allied, even with the good deeds of Vandalieu, they will find Vandalieu’s presence to be nightmarish.
id
Devouring the light doesn’t sound THAT terrible if you’re not a fan of Alda.
Sailon
Well even if the mermqids worship evil gods dont mean they are evil and that they cause harm to people. after all has the evil gods of Vida faction and not all of them was able to reach the boundary mountain range Merrebeveil’s ia the best exemple
Nobody2
A merfolk? Interesting.
Chiu ChunLing
Furthermore apparently the ones Heinz Rex decided to exterminate without negotiation. They had Majin with them too, right? I doubt that story is going to look any better from the victim’s perspective.
Irazori
Weren’t merfolk also created by evil gods of the demon army remnants to begin with like the orcs, goblins, kobalds, and lizardmen?
Tejing
No, merfolk are actually 100% lambda-native. They’re the children of Vida and Tristan. No evil gods involved, and no ranks as a result.
Irazori
Guess that’s another one for aldiot idiocy for the nth time of blatantly ignoring the key facts of different races.
Sailon
No, the merfolk are child of vida with the sea god they are just like dark elves, titans or demi humans they dont posses monster or evil god bloodline.
bookworm12
I enjoyed that part. This is the first time we get the perspective of an innocent who was attacked by Heinz and company and hates their guts (besides Van and Darcia). I hope they get the chance for revenge.
Chiu ChunLing
Well, she’s strong enough to handle a DK fragment…but she lost to them before and once Van absorbs her fragment she’ll just be a somewhat strong…mermaid. So unless they arrange for the next battle to be underwater I think her revenge is going to have to be vicarious.
unmellow
Thanks for the chapter!
Why are the war gods talking like they don’t know people die In war? If you’re prepared to kill be ready to die
If you want to live don’t ally yourself with a facist God who commits genocides in an attempt at ethnic cleansing
No sympathy for you and your children sir.
Also Pete has hunger resistance: level
Level what?
Doc
Level: demigod. Tis a mighty hunger….resistance
Thk
Seems it has been fixed and is level 3.
Too bad, I have been looking for a level hunger to use as a foundation, too many slanted ones all over the place.
no1
Great chapter. So Van ate his own arm after wrecking it, that’s possibly the least graphic thing that he has done with his body. Also we don’t get to find out who the mysterious person in the pink patch of ocean is. I really wanted to know…maybe in the next chapter. Hopefully we get another chapter this month, thanks for the chapter Yoshi
Doc
@no1 They do reveal who it is, or at least what race the person and her kin are. A merfolk. Last paragraph of the chapter.
DarthCommanderVakas741
They said that these guys fought the five colored blades and the only one mentioned before would be the majin priestess. Heinz said that she escaped alive so she probably did so with others and could have had more followers, not just the majin.
Wyverius
Boneman: Turns into a wheel to attack.
Me: Dark Souls flashbacks intensify.
Halfsweat
Let’s be honest bone man will become a meme someday he went from weaker then a anorexic ant to almost dying to blowing himself up and using said blown up parts to attack to turning himself into a wheel of war
lalnax
why am i finding myself rooting for Pete more than any other character? my boy needs more time to shine!
lalnax
i seem to subconsciously be imagining Pete as Mega Rayquaza as well, which may be why i like him so much.
Wyverius
Kinda upset we didn’t get to see his lightning at all this time around.
Irazori
I picture Pete to be more like Bayonetta’s centipede summon: Scolopendra.
Lord Rin
I picture Pete like the giant flying centipede monster from Juushinki Pandora.
Tejing
Well, it looks like Van can hold his own against Alda’s forces, but he still needs to get stronger if he wants to win.
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I’m eager to learn more about these folks (and what their history with the five colored blades is)
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Also, free fragment. Nice!
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Alchemy finally awakened… that kinda came out of the blue. I wonder what triggered it?
no1
I’m also wondering about that alchemy part
SeamusTheDog
My guess is the constant building of egg-shooting cannons and their ammunition. Eggs aren’t supposed to be filled with blubber.
Doc
I assume making Privel a new familiar spirit imbued artifact leveled it up.
bookworm12
Good point. That makes more sense than anything else.
ObserverBias
Continuous-casting Disinfect on absurd-tier poisons in the water? Like, it’s mentioned that they’ve been around since waaay back in the day, so they probably aren’t “weak” by any means, and their properties would be rooted into the environment, so… it’s no “destroy a mountain with fire magic,” but it’s affecting his local environment on a large scale with something basic. Something like that?
Doc
@ObserverBias Not sure what your view of a “large scale” is. I think he’s just disinfecting the water in the immediate area around the boat, not like the entire coast line.
Van has like over a billion mana and disinfect is one of his most basic and original death attribute spells. I don’t think it’s that large a feat for him to continually cast it. I also don’t think the severity of the poison matters to Van’s spell. But the merfolk did pick that location to hide in because it was less severe than the other kinds of poison/acid that were in other areas.
ObserverBias
I did state that it wasn’t comparable to destroying a mountain with fire magic, but presuming Disinfect (basic as it is) is usually on a scale of immediate surroundings of an individual, and Cuatro is a /ship/, it’s a significantly larger use of it than typical, then factoring in it’s being set on loop for casting.
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Less that it’s a ‘feat’ and more that it’s the thing that ticked over into awakening it. Like, we’ve seen plenty of skills awaken with no particular individual feat associated with it for those that aren’t Van, it’s within reason to believe that new applications for the ‘same’ skill fit the criteria for letting them grow.
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As for the poison, mind, the merfolk did also specify that they had to make repeat use of a DK fragment to offset the poison (so it’s hardly benign, and is directly less effective against this use of DK mucus), which they’ve been juggling for a while to not get overtaken (insomuch that it would be most “efficient” to leave the mucus active constantly but would be needlessly dangerous to do so for obvious reasons).
SpudCaleb
Maybe using the kraken ink to cook or his purification of the mega-poisonous sea water at the end there.
Or maybe it because of one of the demigods he just killed/ate???
Irazori
Van’s is never the type to take too many risks to his life, especially not after the noble orc cut him during the Ghoul King arc.
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Now Van is gonna be like Hajime/Orcus with his crafting skills.
Lord Rin
Time for Van to build a MegaZord. Some of his transformation equipment already looks like something from Power Rangers/super sentai so this is the logical conclusion. Divine Alchemy should make this possible.
Chiu ChunLing
He already did, for the Alcrem Super Sentai Show.
Though I suppose you mean one that can be used in actual battle against enemies stronger than Rank 13…I think that a giant transforming armor suit for one (or several) of his stronger allies makes more sense. I feel like Knocken would make a great candidate for a transforming/combining mecha if it learned how to wear armor.
Without an already extremely powerful being inside to handle moving and attacking, even the best giant golem would be just a punching bag in a demi-god fight. Alternatively, Van should be able to make a giant Demon King Familiar. But it may still be simply less practical than smaller ones.