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Following Botin’s declaration, the Demon King’s Continent fell into complete silence, as if time itself had stopped.
It was Vandalieu and his allies that made the first move. Vandalieu’s main body remained stationary by the feet of Botin and the other gods, but through the Demon King Familiars, he gave orders for everyone to fully focus on defending themselves.
Naturally, those orders didn’t directly reach Knochen, Bone Man, and Godwin who had only just started fighting on the frontlines and hadn’t yet activated ‘Familiar Spirit Demonfall’ or ‘Familiar Spirit Descent,’ but Gufadgarn made sure to relay them.
The monsters on the Demon King’s Continent that had been tamed by Gorn and his allies were unable to move, but the untamed wild monsters fled as fast as they could upon seeing the appearance of the great gods.
Even the monsters that possessed strength rivaling that of gods could not help but tremble in fear at the overwhelming, intimidating aura that the great gods radiated. And they had no reason to resist the fear that they felt – without hesitation, they obeyed the warnings of their survival instinct.
Thus, the gods that had been defending Botin, the ones that revered the God of Law and Fate Alda as their leader, were uninterrupted by anyone as they stood in place, utterly dumbfounded.
“That’s… impossible…”
“What… have we been fighting for?”
“Th-this can’t be happening. A hallucination… I must be hallucinating, right?!”
They did not even have the composure to think about how Vandalieu could have possibly evaded their watchful eyes to reach the place where Botin was sealed away. There was no chance for them to come to the realization that there was an enormous underground cavern named Gartland inhabited by members of Vida’s races, and a tunnel had been dug from it.
That was how shocked they were.
They had formed this force and fought these battles to defend Botin at the orders of Alda, who had assumed that Vandalieu was determined to reach her in order to devour her soul.
They had believed that if the Mother of the Earth and Goddess of Craftsmanship were to be released from her seal… she would join them to fight against Vida’s faction.
“Could it be that they were aiming to release Botin the entire time? But then, all of those attacks… they were distractions to misdirect us, rather than attacks of invasion?” muttered Gorn, the leader of the forces that had defended Botin.
He was not in a complete state of stupefaction – though with half of his mind working furiously to process these events, he also became aware that it would have been easier for him to not realize the truth.
He and his allies had perceived these battles as fierce, and they had believed that they were “repelling” the enemy despite taking casualties. But all of those battles had been nothing but distractions. A farce.
Coming to that realization, Gorn tasted a despair so deep that it felt as if his entire body was rotting away.
“But why… There is no way you could have reached a mutual understanding with Botin while she was still sealed away. How were you so certain that she would side with you?” Gorn muttered, still in a daze.
But thinking about it calmly, he realized that the belief that Botin would side with Alda’s forces had been an illusion.
“Wait. Botin was freed from her seal only moments ago. Perhaps this is only a temporary confusion. If she is persuaded… not by us, but by Alda directly, then she should come to her senses –”
“That is unlikely,” said the God of Mirror Images Larpan, extinguishing the last ray of hope… or rather, the delusion, that Gorn was clinging onto. “Gorn, it may be difficult to imagine for you demigods, but us gods have access to everything that is seen and heard by our believers. Botin-sama… Botin’s decision is presumably based on the information that she has learned from her worshippers, everything from a hundred thousand years ago up until the present day. Even if Alda-sama himself were to try and persuade her, it is unlikely that she would retract the declaration that she just made.”
Upon hearing these words, Gorn felt a shock so sharp that the world started spinning. In her declaration, Botin had indeed praised Alda’s actions as the ruling leader of the gods to protect the world and restore it little by little. But even so, she did not accept Alda, the God of Law and Fate.
Her declaration was as good as a declaration to sever all ties with him.
Gorn had held hope that the resurrection of Botin and her subordinate gods would change the disadvantageous situation they were in and turn the battle around, and that made his shock at this outcome all the worse.
Gorn fell to his knees, and all semblance of order among the demigods was lost.
The first to flee were the gods who had descended upon the area around Botin’s seal.
“… Retreat. We must retreat!”
“Run! Everyone, flee!”
“We have no hope of winning now! We have been defeated!”
These gods and demigods had turned the area surrounding Botin’s seal into a pseudo-Divine Realm to use as their final line of defense; other than Vandalieu, they were the ones that had been physically closest to Botin when they witnessed her resurrection and her declaration.
Having been pushed outside of the pseudo-Divine Realm by the shockwave created by the undoing of Botin’s seal, they were continuously expending power at a tremendous rate.
Botin, the one whom Gorn and his allies had been trying to protect, had sided with Vandalieu and was now their enemy. There was no hope of victory for them, not in terms of the sizes of each side’s fighting forces, nor in terms of an objective to achieve.
If they were able to defeat Vandalieu, that would be a victory, but… the battle thus far had proved that this was impossible for Gorn and his allies in their current state.
Botin and the others watched in silence as Gorn and his allies fled. There was no telling as to whether they would do as Botin had told them to – leave Alda’s forces and be neutral in the conflict.
In fact, it was highly likely that they would return to Alda, continue nurturing their developing heroes, focus on recovering their power, and come back as enemies once more.
“Just to be perfectly clear, let them go if they want to flee,” Vandalieu said, despite knowing this.
He felt no urge to attack them from behind – because doing so would harm Botin’s reputation.
Taking the opportunity to destroy a handful of lesser gods who had already expended a significant amount of power to fire projectiles from their pseudo-Divine Realm was too small a reward in exchange for displeasing Botin.
And Botin had said: “Demigods, return to your homes, and gods, devote your efforts to the maintenance of the world!” In other words, if these enemies did not do as she said and came back to fight another day, Vandalieu would not have to spare them next time. If they presented themselves as enemies once more, he would simply devour their souls or seal them away then.
And Vandalieu had another purpose for sparing them… a hopeful expectation.
Now that Botin has become my ally, other gods among Alda’s forces might change their way of thinking as well. If gods allied to Alda that aren’t here right now change their stance to a neutral one, the enemy will have less fighting forces, and it will be possible to create cracks in their unity, he thought.
Alda’s forces were likely already shaken by the Goddess of Rain Clouds Bashas and two other gods betraying them to join Vida’s faction, but Botin joining Vandalieu as an ally would be even more impossible for the gods serving Alda to accept calmly.
Some gods would certainly leave Alda’s forces to take a stance of neutrality, if not join Vida’s faction like Bashas had.
These ones might do that as well, Vandalieu thought as he watched the gods leave.
“Bocchan, may I come out now?” asked a voice from Vandalieu’s shadow.
“Ah, Sam. Yes. And please let me use the Job-changing room,” Vandalieu replied.
No demigods had been defeated during this battle, but Bakunawa had devoured a large quantity of monsters, causing Vandalieu’s ‘Chaos Guider’ Job to reach Level 100.
They were technically currently still in battle, but the enemy was still in a state of shock, and they were showing no signs of recovering. And besides, they were literally standing at the feet of the gods. In a way, this was the safest place in the entire world.
“Ah, so you have mastered yet another Job! Congratulations, Bocchan!” said Sam as he emerged from within Vandalieu’s shadow.
Mähne and Hof came out of the carriage, and their harnesses began assembling themselves.
“Come on in, Bocchan,” said Rita as she and Saria welcomed Vandalieu into the carriage.
Vandalieu changed Jobs quickly. The Job he chose was ‘Divine Guider.’
It was yet another Guider Job, but given the current state of Gorn and his allies, it was possible that the battle would end here, so it seemed to be a more appropriate choice for the situation than ‘God Destroyer.’ And besides –
“I’ve just gained the ‘Great Demon King’ Title, after all,” Vandalieu said to himself.
Several seconds after Vandalieu disappeared into Sam’s carriage, Gorn and his allies stirred.
“I shall take my leave. Everyone, let us flee.”
“There is no use in fighting any further in this situation.”
“I’m telling you this for your own good: Gorn-dono, and everyone else, we must escape now.”
None of the demigods wished to resume the battle; they followed in the footsteps of the gods who had already fled.
They fled, as there was no purpose in them fighting any longer, and many of them were thinking of immediately joining up with the forces defending Peria.
They intended to meet Vandalieu in battle once more if he were to come to them with the intent of reaching Peria, but… such thinking was too naïve.
Still, perhaps it would be too harsh to blame them for their thoughts not yet having caught up to the reality that Botin had joined Vandalieu’s side.
Meanwhile, chaos was unfolding in the seas where a portion of the forces defending Peria were preparing to join the forces defending Botin.
The holy grounds were shaking, and the underwater dome looked as if it were on the verge of collapsing.
“What in the world is the meaning of this?!” shouted one of the younger gods. “Someone, please answer me! Pargtarta-dono, Goddess of Flow! What is happening?!”
These questions were directed at Pargtarta, a goddess who had long served Peria as one of her closely trusted subordinate gods. Her beautiful long hair resembled Peria’s, and she had the appearance of a warrior, wearing blue armor and holding a trident in her hand.
Pargtarta laughed, as if with joy.
Her expression was not the gentle smile that she always had. It was a laughter of genuine delight, with the corners of her mouth rising high into her cheeks.
“What are you flustered about?” she asked, still wearing this overjoyed grin. “We have been waiting more than a hundred thousand years to witness this moment, and it is finally upon us. The time has come for our master Peria to show herself and cease her pretense of slumber!”
The gods defending Peria opened their eyes wide in astonishment at the words ‘pretense of slumber,’ learning for the first time that Peria had actually been awake.
But they did not have the time to confirm if what Pargtarta said was true or not.
“This… Peria-sama’s resurrection is what we have all been hoping for! I am most overjoyed! But why is Peria attempting to remove us?!” the young god shouted.
The water flowing through the holy grounds had turned into a raging current that threatened to sweep the gods away.
As the holy grounds were underwater, many of those defending Peria were gods and demigods of the water attribute. Together, they were trying to stop the flow of the seawater around them, but it was taking all of their effort just to remain in place.
The young god suspected that the only one capable of creating such a raging current was Peria, the Goddess of Water and Knowledge – and he was right.
“Why is Peria trying to remove you, you ask? The answer to that is obvious. It is because you are the enemy, and she cannot simply leave you at her side,” said Pargtarta.
“W-we are the enemy?!” the young god uttered in shock. “Th-then, Peria-sama… it cannot be!”
“Very clever of you to realize the truth,” said Pargtarta, her smile growing even wider. “Now then, it is about time I bid you goodbye. But depending on what paths you choose for yourselves, perhaps we may see each other again sooner than expected.”
In the next moment, the raging flow of the water became even more violent.
“What do you mean by that?! Are you saying that we should join Vida’s side?!” shouted the young god, on the verge of being swept away.
But before he could hear Pargtarta’s answer, the current swallowed him and carried him away.
“… I am urging you to make a choice on which flow you will choose to follow. You should be grateful that you are so fortunate. After all, no matter where the flows may lead, you are able to choose with your own free will. And Botin-dono has even granted you the choice to sit on the fence, if you so wish. My master would not have allowed that.”
As if hearing these words spoken by her close servant, the violent current burst forth and swallowed Pargtarta as well, becoming a pillar of water that reached over the sea’s surface and pierced the sky.
And so, Peria awakened.
Peria descended from the sky along with a pillar of water in the pseudo-Divine Realm that had been created just on the edge of Botin’s seal on the Demon King’s Continent… the place that she had described to Juliana in a Divine Message – From above, the surroundings looked like a pair of unpleasantly-colored jaws.
With Pargtarta accompanying her, she had manifested in a form as enormous as a Colossus or Elder Dragon, just like the other great gods. Her hair and eyes were as blue as the sea, and her beauty was flawless.
“It appears that I have kept you waiting,” she said, quietly greeting her brothers and sisters.
“It’s been a long time, Peria,” said Vida, happily smiling back at her.
“… It seems that your power has returned,” said Zantark with a stiff expression on his face, which now had a prominent blue bruise.
“Yes, we have been waiting. We have been waiting for a very long time,” said Ricklent.
“I heard that you were pretending to be asleep – even ignoring Ricklent and Zuruwarn. Bit of a bad prank, isn’t it?” said Botin.
“Peria, allow me to offer some words to commemorate your awakening. ‘Hah, Peria, you were dead last!’” said Zuruwarn, taunting her with a serious expression.
“Yes, yes, I’ll listen to your words of joy at our reunion, as well as your scolding and complaints, later. But I had no choice, did I? When I came to, Alda had gone all crazy, and as for Vida and Zantark, I had no idea what had happened to them or where they were. Botin was still sealed away. Ricklent and Zuruwarn were still just barely alive when they were moving around. The only thing I could do in that situation was to pretend to be asleep,” said Peria.
She had completely recovered her power – but complete only in relation to her power as it had been a hundred thousand years ago. On the other hand, Alda, the God of Law and Fate, had eliminated Vida and Zantark, and received the worship of humanity as the sole remaining great god.
The people had prayed to the subordinate gods, as well as Botin in her seal and Ricklent, Zuruwarn, and Peria as they slumbered. But heavy impressions were made on their hearts by Alda, who acted as the leader of the gods, and the priests who praised Alda.
Thus, even though people worshiped all of the gods, it was under the premise of Alda being their leader, so a part of all worship went to Alda, causing Alda to gain greater power than he had possessed a hundred thousand years ago. The only exceptions were the worship of Vida and Zantark, which had been revived in later generations by those who opposed the worship of Alda, and the worship from the residents of the Boundary Mountain Range, the Demon Continent, and Gartland.
… But even with such power, Alda had likely struggled with ruling over not only the light attribute but the life attribute as well, in addition to the messy battles with the remnants of the Demon King’s army and remaining alert and wary of Vida’s faction.
Still, when Peria awoke and found herself in this situation, she had faced no choice other than to work with Alda or pretend to still be slumbering.
Due to the barrier over the Boundary Mountain Range, she had been unable to enter it or send Divine Messages inside it. She had been unaware of Gartland’s existence. And even if she had made her way to the Demon Continent, if Zantark was still in a state of insanity, she would have been in a difficult position.
Ricklent and Zuruwarn had sought to contact her, making their moves in the shadows despite still being powerless, but following them would have been risky. Trying to respond to them in secret would have been a poor idea, as Ricklent and Zuruwarn would have been at risk if Alda and his servants were to find out.
Thus, she had simply waited until Vandalieu was born and for him to accomplish what he did. After learning of Vida’s resurrection, she had waited for her chance.
If Peria had joined Vida straight away, Alda would have focused the forces that had been guarding her to guard the still-sealed Botin instead. It was even possible that he would have gathered additional forces to strengthen Botin’s guard.
If this had happened, then even Vandalieu would have had to fight a difficult battle to reach her.
Thus, she had sent a Divine Message to Juliana and led Vandalieu to remove Botin’s seal first. After that, all she’d needed to do was wait until Botin’s resurrection before making her move.
Still, Vida’s new races and the former members of the Demon King’s army… they’re sturdier than I thought. It seems that Zakkart was right to have the enemy join us as allies, and Vida was right to create these new races, Peria thought.
She hadn’t known about Gartland’s existence; she was impressed with the gods of Gartland and the people living there who had allowed things to progress even faster than she had anticipated.
“Of course, all of that might have been unnecessary,” Peria remarked.
In the distance, she could see a fleet of flying ships, as well as several beings who had stepped into the realm of godhood – including the incarnation of Vida. She could also see Tiamat’s child, who had inherited the power of Marduke and the blood of the ‘Great Demon King.’
And then there was the ‘Great Demon King’ himself, who was standing by Peria’s feet. Peria had the feeling that he could have simultaneously fought both the forces that had been defending her and those that had been defending Botin, and won on both fronts.
“You are giving me too much praise. A simple doubling in the enemy’s numbers would have been a great threat; my Mana isn’t unlimited. And… the first battle was dangerous,” said Vandalieu as he stepped out of Sam’s carriage, having heard Peria talking.
《The Levels of the ‘Constant Mana Recovery,’ ‘Deadly Venom Secretion (Claws, Fangs, Tongue),’ ‘Augmented Attack Power while Unarmed,’ ‘Augmented Vitality,’ ‘Strengthened All Attribute Values,’ ‘Cooking,’ ‘Group Coordination,’ ‘Group Commander,’ ‘Transcend Limits: Fragments,’ ‘Group Thought Processing,’ ‘Group Control,’ and ‘Soul Form’ Skills have increased!》
《You have acquired the ‘Divine Path Enticement’ and ‘Guidance: Divine Path’ Skills!》
《‘Divine Path Enticement’ has combined with ‘Dark Dream Demon Creation Destruction Path Enticement’ and awakened to ‘Manas-vijnana Enticement!’ ‘Guidance: Divine Path’ has combined with ‘Guidance: Dark Dream Demon Creation Destruction Path’ and awakened to ‘Guidance: Manas-vijnana!’》
Vandalieu had changed Jobs to ‘Divine Guider,’ but he didn’t have any sense that it had affected any of the shocked gods and demigods who had been defending Botin.
In fact, he felt like his guidance’s effect on Sam, Rita, Saria, Borkus, and Juliana had grown.
Come to think of it, what is Manas-vijnana? Vandalieu wondered.
With ‘Divine Path’ combining with his guidance and enticement Skills for a total of seven components each, they had awakened into Skills with a name whose meaning Vandalieu didn’t understand. Even with the ‘Perfect Record Technique’ Skill, there was no way for him to recall something that he didn’t know.
‘Manas-vijnana’ refers to something deeper than one’s consciousness, the self that is aware of oneself. It was possible that the awakening of this Skill was appropriate for Vandalieu because he possessed the ‘Root Source’ Skill and a soul with a strange form… though Vandalieu himself was unaware of this.
“Oh really?” said Peria, taking Vandalieu’s focus away from his Skills and back to reality. “I think that your claim that your Mana isn’t unlimited is particularly questionable. You use a lot of big spells that consume a lot of Mana, but I feel like you can manage even if that causes a Mana shortage for you.”
Indeed, even if Vandalieu were to cast multiple large spells in rapid succession, he had numerous ways to get by in battle.
However –
“However, even if he is able to manage through some methods, he should not fight under the presumption that he can afford to run out of Mana,” said Ricklent, before Vandalieu could refute Peria’s assertion. “In a situation where he actually does run out of Mana, it is uncertain as to whether he will still be in a state where he can use such methods.”
“It seems that battles where the general fights on the frontlines aren’t very common these days, even though I personally like such battles. Generals tend to look down on the battlefield from a safe place and flee for their lives at the first sign of danger, though I think it is questionable as to whether such generals can really be called generals,” said Zantark.
“Ricklent is being reasonable – so reasonable that it’s funny, in fact,” said Peria. “But Zantark’s opinion is too similar to those of Vida’s races. Or maybe it’s just outdated.”
“That can’t be helped, Peria. More than half of human society now thinks of Zantark as an evil god, and most of his worshippers are members of Vida’s races. The mortals that he considers to be unworthy of being called generals don’t worship him,” said Zuruwarn.
“I think Vandalieu is fine, though,” said Vida.
“… Zuruwarn, you haven’t changed, but Vida, you’ve been influenced by your new incarnation too much. Vandalieu, don’t worry about us and do what you need to do. If there’s anything you want to ask me, we can talk later,” said Peria.
“Alright,” said Vandalieu.
“Bocchan, everyone is here,” Saria informed him. “Juliana-chan is… kinda brown, isn’t she?”
“It’s winter, but we’ve been at sea, so maybe she got a tan? I’m a little jealous,” said Rita.
With the conversation taking place above his head coming to an end, Vandalieu returned his eyes to ground level to see Borkus, Juliana, Princess Levia, and Kimberley, who had traversed the entire length of the underground tunnel and the space that had been occupied by Botin’s seal.
“Hey, kid! The little girl’s Rank suddenly increased!” said Borkus.
Juliana was sitting on his shoulders, and her skin had become a dark brown color that contrasted with the waxy skin of Saria and Rita.
“Vandalieu-sama! After receiving Botin-sama’s divine protection, my race has changed from half-Minotaur to ‘Hathor!’” said Juliana.
“Oh, that’s a good thing… right?”
“Yes!”
Juliana was beaming happily, showing no signs of concern at the change. Perhaps the changing of her skin’s color was a small thing to her.
Somewhere in Vandalieu’s memory was the knowledge that ‘Hathor’ was a goddess in Egyptian mythology with the head of a cow. That did offer some explanation in regards to the race’s name, but… it was still something of a mystery as to why acquiring the divine protection of this world’s goddess of the earth attribute would cause Juliana to become a Hathor.
I have a strong suspicion… Could it be that it’s because of me, rather than Botin?
In the Demon Empire of Vidal lived Anubises, which had transformed from Kobolds, and the new generation of Lizardmen, Ammits. Both were gods from Egyptian mythology, and what both races had in common was Vandalieu’s death-attribute magic.
TLN: I translated “Ammit” as “Arman” a very long time ago (it is アーマーン/āmān in Japanese). It turns out that the mythical being in question here is known as “Ammit” in English. You might see Arman used in older chapters, but the race name will be Ammit in future mentions.
It was likely that Vandalieu himself was the cause. When he changed Jobs a few moments ago, he had seen a new Job, ‘Apep’… There was also a new one called ‘Azathoth,’ but he planned to not think about that one for now.
Incidentally, Botin was secretly a little surprised. It seems that her body is more similar to a monster’s than a human’s, but I didn’t think my divine protection would cause her to mutate! she thought.
“So, Peria has joined Vida as well… It is hopeless! We have no choice but to flee!” shouted one of the last of the fleeing demigods.
They had paused once more in shock upon seeing Peria’s descent, but as their minds started working again, they had remembered their fear once more.
The bird-type beast-kings had joined the battle to avenge the Sea Bird Beast-King Valfaz, but they were now fleeing while leaving their backs defenseless. If Vandalieu’s fleet had any intention of attacking them, they would certainly be struck down.
But at Vandalieu’s orders, no cannon-fire met the backs of the beast-kings. With their enormous wings, they flew to try and leave the Demon King’s Continent as quickly as they could. Some of the other demigods began moving as well, to follow them.
But one of the beast-kings screeched as he was struck down – not by cannon-fire, but by lightning.
“You cowards!” Brateo – the one who had fired the lightning attack – spat in disgust.
“B-Brateo, why are you attacking our allies? Have you lost your mind?!” Gorn shouted, dumbfounded.
“These cowards are fleeing in the face of the enemy! I am simply dealing with them in your place!”
“Fleeing? In the face of the enemy? You fool, do you still intend to fight?! There is no hope for victory!”
“Then are you telling me to run? Are you going to tell me to flee here, and look for another opportunity? Answer me, Gorn!”
The two Colossi began arguing. Brateo had attacked one of the beast-kings rather than any of Vandalieu’s allies; Gufadgarn and the others were bewildered, but continued watching the enemy while maintaining a defensive stance.
“If we flee here and look for another opportunity, what will we do then?! Will the situation become any better than it is now?! Any better than it is now, where every single living great god other than Alda has joined Vida’s side as an ally of Vandalieu?!” Brateo roared. “It is true that we may have hope for victory if Bellwood is resurrected. But will that resurrection happen before the enemy has the world in the palm of his hand?!”
What Brateo spoke was tragic, but the truth. Vandalieu had the support of six great gods, but Ricklent and Zuruwarn’s power had not yet returned. If the champion and heroic god Bellwood were to be resurrected and fought against Vandalieu, victory was possible.
After all, no matter what else could be said about Vandalieu, he did not yet match the Demon King Guduranis in pure fighting strength.
But despite the dangerous situation Alda and his allies found themselves in, Bellwood’s resurrection was yet to come. Brateo couldn’t be blamed for losing faith that it would ever come at all.
“Can you answer me, Gorn?!” Brateo demanded. “If you can’t, then now is our best chance for victory! Zuruwarn and Ricklent have not yet recovered all of their power, and Botin has only just been resurrected! And most importantly, they can’t leave the pseudo-Divine Realm that we created!”
The other demigods began showing signs of agreement. The more time they gave to Vandalieu, the more power the great gods on his side would recover, the more the worshipers of the gods of Alda’s forces would dwindle, the more allies Vandalieu would gain, and the stronger Vandalieu’s allies would become.
No matter how small or non-existent their chance of victory was now, it was the best chance they would have. This argument was convincing to the demigods, who knew how rapidly the strength of Vandalieu and his allies grew, and had experienced the threat represented by the latest addition to Vandalieu’s fighting forces – Bakunawa.
“… Yes. It is exactly as you say,” agreed Madroza, who was still in a heavily wounded state. “Calm yourselves. If we try to escape this place with the intention of distancing ourselves from Alda, do you think they will spare us as Botin claims? It’s obvious that they will wait for us to separate from one another as we flee and then strike us down one by one!”
The demigods who had been defending Botin opened their eyes wide at this realization.
Vandalieu and his allies frowned. They knew that Madroza’s claims were nothing more than paranoid delusion. But the demigods that had been defending Botin had been assaulted repeatedly, and they had just learned that all of those assaults had been distractions to trick them. To them, Madroza’s paranoid delusion sounded very much like reality.
If he were to be completely honest, Vandalieu didn’t know if he would believe that he would be shown mercy if he were in their position.
I suppose I can’t be called an honest, proud enemy who keeps my promises, with my past deeds being what they are, Vandalieu thought.
He couldn’t recall ever having used any clearly dirty attacks or cowardly traps, but he had frequently used surprise attacks to catch his enemy off-guard. And even though he and his companions had always intended to fight head-on with all of their strength, their enemies would have surely perceived them as using tricky plans and foul tactics.
Of course, Vandalieu was not particularly dissatisfied with this. Alda’s forces already saw Vandalieu as negatively as they possibly could, just from the fact that he had absorbed fragments of the Demon King and commanded Undead and monsters as allies. And given that these demigods had decided that they couldn’t trust him due to the battles that had taken place thus far, he didn’t want to make them his allies, as they would obviously oppose him later.
“You are right… Fighting until we are broken and turned to dust is the only path to our future!” declared Gorn, agreeing with Brateo and Madroza as well.
Botin gave a heavy sigh, and Peria shook her head. Vida gave a sad smile of resignation.
“I see. So, they had already chosen a different path, without me realizing it,” Botin said, taking half a step back.
“Well then, please leave the rest to me,” said Vandalieu. “Resume battle.”
And with that, the cannons began firing once more.
Job explanation (Written by Luciliano):
Chaos Guider
Master only held this Job for a short period of time, so there is nothing that I can say about it for certain… It is unclear as to whether it is a Job for guiding others into chaos, or whether the chaos guides them.
My guess is that perhaps the chaos (Master) is the Guider who guides those who have lost their names and forms (spirits), and those who have not decided where they will go, into chaos.
Though this is just a suspicion, I believe that this Job cannot be obtained by anyone who is sane, nor by anyone who is insane. They would need to be both sane and insane at the same time, like Master is.
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If you don’t want to deal with the translation process then go ahead & learn Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc & read on the raw sites. Or do your own MTL. Otherwise, just shut up & grow up.
Kikiss
Well, i read the chapter from the link and as just expected, I had a hard time understanding the story cause the nouns tend to be changed from yoshi’s translation. So in the end, I’ll still end up reading yoshi’s. Anyways… Yoshi receives donations (i can’t donate since im dirt poor from a 3rd world country which will be china’s first target if war starts) while still jamming ads though…
Yoshi
I’ll just clarify that I don’t receive a single cent from ads on the site. Those go to the site admin for the maintenance of the site.
Drakoni-Krovi-I-Latuni
Just gotta say, 3 months and that’s all he says, “ActUaLlY I dOnT mAkE mOnEy fRoM aDs” then peaces out. A example of obliviousness if I’ve ever seen one
Yoshi
Are you one of the people who donate? Because if not, guess what you are entitled to, and guess what I owe you? Jack shit. Imagine being such an entitled piece of shit over content that you read for free.
Kikiss
Hey!!! Yoshi’s fine. Hopefully you’re doing fine. Adult life has probably caught up to you. Relax every once in a while. I made the mistake of forcing myself to work (when I’m a lazy couch potato) and I… Effin… Slept… While… Driving… My… Bike… And… Tried… to… Attach… Myself… To… The… Back… Of… A… Heavy… Equipment… I was lucky(?) to be not dead though. Noooooooow I’m here(went thru a major operation, deep in debt and a bit of metal in my head), on leave, trying to recuperate. Don’t be like me, okay? I’ll probably still be alive on your next release but it’s boring to wait so I’ll reread from the start. Keep cool!!!
artur0
Hey guys I understand that some people might appreciate being able to read ahead after waiting so long for a new chapter, but I don’t know how yoshi might feel about links to other translations being shared in his own comment section, he might be ok with it, or it might demotivate or upset him (I know I wouldn’t like it) , so I do think that you should get a green light from him before you share links here. And yoshi if you are reading this we love you and are more than willing to wait for quality content ✌️
Akachi86
I don’t think Yoshi, who gets paid 150 usd per chapter but fails to deliver even one per month and does not provide information why he’s stopped, has any right to complain if someone else decides to translate something he has no legal rights to.
Akachi86
And anyway he’s said he’s gonna ignore those and continue with his own.
Which is a proper way of dealing with fan translation drama.
Emperor87
arturo0, people like you who encourage procastination is the infection that this world needs to be rid of.
Good job Eximpera, your machine translation was readable. Thank you!
Drakoni-Krovi-I-Latuni
My guy, it has been over 2 months since the last release. You are a shill. Eximperia is a Goat coz he’s already released 6 chapters in 3 days for free, compared to the lazy, money grubbing Yoshi who piles up donations then doesn’t deliver in any fashion nevermind a timely one
EjPuzatiy
Kill yourself
Eximperia
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hup7zxEUBo2Tx6HWVw_pNJr-o9-g2vMh?usp=drive_link
I’ve done Chapter 303, you can check it out here. Obviously not as good, but should be readable.
Eximperia
Hello guys, since it’s been long ass time since a chapter has released, I decided to translate Chapter 302 using ChatGPT while editing out the wrong parts. It should be close to perfect, though the format, terms used and translation style is vastly different compared to Yoshi’s.
If you still don’t mind about any of that, you can check it out at this link. If a lot of people are interested, I’ll do more chapters. Do give feedback, thanks.
https://pastebin.com/WP7vqDqp
kenchan223
Interesting, the way gorn, madroza, and brateo interracted with each other is causing them to be chaotic, but their faith in Alda is still strong which caused this whole dillusional situation for them. That’s why the chaos guider is working lol
Baraz
did they stop translating this work?
Up to which chapter does the original exist in Japanese?
Why every time I enter this page it wants to download a file?
Lord Rin
The translator mentioned a few chapters back that translations would slow down because of being busy with work and looking for a new job.
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Chapter 414 is the last updated chapter in the raws though with all the side chapters and others things the real amount of chapters total is 513. Unfortunately the series hasn’t been updated in years with the last chapter being released 11-26-2021. At least it looks like the main story itself has been finished and the author released two after story chapters though it still feels like there’s more that could be written.
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I have no idea why it tries to download a file when viewing this page. It happens every time I view it on my phone.
Baraz
Thanks for the reply Lorde Rin
I started learning English, just to finish the books, Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, as there were only the first three books in Portuguese.
Learning these oriental languages will now be much more difficult
Emperor87
This translator is just shameless regardless of the donations he got and keeps getting from the ads, sponsors and patrons. He just kept growing even more shameless because of people who kept defending him saying it’s ok that he is shameless.
Why not let a different translator pick it up instead of making the fans wait on a limbo and keep hearing about your monthly excuses?
Baraz
Thanks for the reply Lorde Rin
I started learning English, just to finish the books, Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, as there were only the first three books in Portuguese.
Learning these oriental languages will now be much more difficult
paeme
I find myself waiting on these drops like it’s shonen jump monthly… neeeeed.
Chiu ChunLing
Since nobody else has complained about it, I will.
The Alda side is the one that has always been resorting to surprise attacks without any attempt at negotiations or reaching a mutual understanding, ever since the days when Bellwood perfidiously betrayed the other Champions to Guduranis.
They were also the first to resort to a surprise attack at the outset of the contest over Botin’s seal.
This level of hypocrisy has become par for the course, but that doesn’t mean we should have no complaints about it.
FrogAku
I have a (possibly weird) theory as to what caused the sudden Suicide-by-Van moment from the previously fleeing gods. The gods were fleeing without noted problems, and then Van went in for his job change to Divine Guider which prompted the new Guidance evolution. And all of a sudden, the gods snap…
This reminds me a great deal of what happened after Van acquired the Scylla territories and added the Mental Corruption / Guidance features. When devoted Alda followers encountered those features and began to be guided they too began to go violently insane as they tried to resist the guidance. And we know Gods are vulnerable to Van’s guidance, even before he added this last key step.
So perhaps the beaten gods are in the same boat as the mages of the past: they feel the guidance bearing upon them, but their trained fanaticism to Alda is great enough to be literally driving them insane, leading to an effort to destroy the source.
Libio
This is honestly really good theory! They react aggressively to guidance/influence from Van. With two great gods siding with him (+great gods that already were on his side) that they were protecting and fact, that they were wrong and he really just wanted to release them, should create seeds of doubt. Van’s guidance nutrients them and fanatism with hate react violently, rejected reality and chose to fight. Question is, shouldn’t they detect influenced of guidance? I remember, that pureblood vampire did say something about remembering how it feels like to be guided. Not sure if they have experience with guidance too. Or she could mean it differently, like remember effect of guidance. Or it could be that they were already feeling guidance, but simply ignored/resisted it and didn’t detect change that managed to influence them.
Humble Bumblebee
Even before that, Death Attribute Charm caused Sercrent to run his mouth and caused Borkus to get irritable when they first met, so if you explained the gods’ actions as resistance to the feeling his guidance exerts, it makes a lot of sense.
A_wandering_otter
I thought some of the gods would reconsider once every single great God aside from Alda sides with vandeliu but I guess they can always serve as xp care packages
Winter
A lot of the gods and demi-gods are blinded by their hatred of the demon king and by the deceptive words of Alda, who deludes others and himself into thinking that Vandalieu has driven every god on his side insane, and that killing him will solve all problems magically.
Another big problem is that a big amount of the current gods on Alda’s side are new gods, who never met any great god except for Alda, so they are even more easily manipulated by him, not to mention that Alda and Bellwood have rewritten history in a way that a lot of the creation oriented heroes achievements are attributed to Bellwood, while also depicting Alda as the “chief god” even though the great gods originally were equals.
Irazori
It hilarious on how all the aldiots were all freaking out/whining about how both Botin and Peria have chose to stand by Van and Vida, just because they deluded themselves into thinking that any sealed god would be on there side on such baseless assumptions that said gods would side with their pro-discrimination policies.
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Thank goodness that Van’s guidance skill became less of a mouthful. Though I did forget that he had Divine Guider as an option. So it could be possible he can guide light attributes to not be aldiots.
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Van’s new jobs are an Egyptian god of Chaos, and a certified lovecraftian horror when I looked it up. Kinda fitting since the former is due to the fact that he kept bringing in Egyptian culture to Lambda, while the latter is pretty much due to his composite soul and the demon king fragments.
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I honestly though gorn would be better than this. But I guess he’s a through-breed aldiot like his 2nd and 3rd aldiot in command.
Kiriaru
I couldn’t have said it any better myself, everything you said is true. The only problem now is I have no idea how to pronounce his new guidance and path enticement skills.
Lord Rin
I like how Peria didn’t even try to sugarcoat it and outright called Alda crazy. I also do like how she was more realistic with her actions. She stopped pretending she was asleep and used her power to remove all the gods and demigods that were guarding her because she considers them enemies. She’s not giving them a chance because she’s been awake for ages and has had her subordinate Pargtarta feeding her information all that time so she knows that those guys are unlikely to ever leave Alda’s side and become neutral like Botin had suggested to them.
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Oh finally Van’s comically long Guider job has evolved and consolidated itself into a shorter word. I have no idea what Manas-vijnana means but it sounds like something from Hindu mythology.
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Welp looks like we’ll be needing to give out many Darwin Awards. Gorn’s forces were fleeing safely with Van pointedly NOT attacking and shooting them in the back as they fled yet all it took was two idiots yelling random crap to get the rest to stop fleeing and go for a suicidal last charge. All they’re doing is offering up Van and his allies their sweet, sweet XP to strengthen themselves even more. They’d have actually done less harm to their own faction if they had killed themselves because then at least they would have denied XP to Van and his allies with which they can get stronger. Van just changed job and I bet he’s gonna end up maxing out his new Divine Guider job after this battle too. Speaking of which I wonder what new job Van will choose next? He did just gain the Apep and Azathoth jobs and who knows if he’s got any other new jobs in addition to those two. Meanwhile if he chooses another Guider job I bet it’ll just get integrated into Manas-vijnana just like how whenever he gain’s a new DK fragment it winds up integrated into the Demon King’s Body skill.
YohaoShakur
Brateo was always an idiot but to think that Gorn would end up joining him in this ridiculous suicide attack is just sad, dude at least was a moderately smart leader till now, but clearly the shock got to his head and his brain stopped working completely. I don’t think they would have a chance even if Alda himself descended now.
Irazori
I figured that the brateo and the aldiot elder dragon would die in this fiasco. Though I guess gorn went crazy realizing that most of the orders from aldiot himself were pointless as much as their self-righteous war against demihumans.
Lord Rin
Oh Brateo and Madroza are definitely going to die. They were only kept alive because they got in the way of Gorn but now they’ve lost their purpose so there’s no point in keeping them around. Plus they’re so vengeful that it wouldn’t be a smart idea for Van to spare them since they would just turn their fury on Van’s allies anyways.
dr_friedman
Thank you to Yoshi and editors for all of your hard work over the years. I found this gem a few years back and quickly binged it all. I came back a few weeks ago and read it all over again. Now I am caught up (again).
This sweet wholesome found family of degenerates and lost causes never fails to lighten my mood.
bookworm12
Thanks for the great chapter, Yoshi! I have lots of things to say since it has been a while.
1. My main comment on the last chapter apparently got removed because my copy-paste from the chapter included a swear word. It was mostly about how they were so determined to see themselves in the right that interpreted Botin being unsealed as a miracle and a victory, not at all related to the fact that Van was standing right on top of her seal. They were supposedly trying to stop Van from getting within range and firing off an attack that would devour her, not stalling for time for her to revive. Even if Botin was on their side, that wouldn’t be a victory in my opinion, just a random occurrence that happened to be beneficial to them. I also noticed that they seemed to be leaving -sama off of Botin’s name, something they intentionally did this chapter. How rude of them!
2. I randomly purchased the first couple volumes of the light novels, and the translation quality made me value Yoshi’s translation even more than I already did. There were many weird choices for names, skills, and even race names, and they occasionally tried to translate Japanese customs into English and just made it weird. Thanks for all the translation notes and the overall great quality translations!
3. Now on to this chapter. It was immensely satisfying to read about the enemy group’s despair, especially this line:
“He and his allies had perceived these battles as fierce, and they had believed that they were “repelling” the enemy despite taking casualties. But all of those battles had been nothing but distractions. A farce.
Coming to that realization, Gorn tasted a despair so deep that it felt as if his entire body was rotting away.”
I am a little confused about how many (if any) gods/demigods actually left before the two unhinged idiots managed to convince the rest to offer up their experience points to Van’s side while making a suicidal attempt to cause them any damage at all. It sounds like they paused when Peria arrived, but they should have had some time to get away while Van was changing jobs. One of the ones speaking was one of the ‘last of the fleeing demigods’ after all. Were they all still close enough to hear the argument and change their minds? And as usual, Alda’s side is determined to misinterpret everything Van does in the worst way possible. He said he wasn’t there to devour Botin and in the end he got around them and unsealed Botin without devouring her. Any distractions he had to pull to get around their unreasonable obstructions shouldn’t factor into his trustworthiness. He did what he said he would do and left most of them alive in the process.
Van intentionally leaving the two idiots alive backfired though.
dogma4demon
They had the chance to go in peace but noooo, some stupid idiot has to convince rhem to fight.
🤦🏽♂️
It was nice knowing you
Thanks Yoshi for the chapter 😁
Bob, Son of Bob
Once again we’re forced to ask: Who’s the bigger fool, the fool or the fools that follow the first fool?
The Botin defense team had a chance to leave and live, but all it took was the words of two morons to convince them all to go to their pointless deaths. Yes, it’s technically true that Vida’s forces will only get stronger, that doesn’t mean now is the time to attack. You were already too weak to meaningfully stop Van’s forces when they were treating you with kid gloves. Now the gloves are off and they’re resigned to wipe you all out. Even worse, now they have the backing of multiple great gods and their attendants.
I guess it’s not surprising, they’ve spent a hundred thousand years following the second place winner of the Double Down on Your Stupid, Stupid Decisions Contest.
Shank Mugen
I assume Rodcorte is the winner in said competition?
It’s a bit hard for me to leep track of the stuff as it has been a long time since they showed up
Irazori
Pretty sure aldiot and rod-moron share 1st place on that.
bookworm12
Yeah, they’re being pretty dumb. They stopped fleeing from a completely lost fight (while the opponent was quietly watching them go) because two unhinged gods argued that the opponent would definitely get stronger and attack them later on. And one of the unhinged gods attacked his own ally first to get them to stop running. Really trustworthy!
nubEX
Thanks for the amazing chapter. However, I need to report something. I read on mobile and whenever I access the site, I always get a forced download. What is downloaded is a 75.75 kb text file called f.txt. The source is securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. I know you’re busy but I feel this needs to be checked out asap.
P.S. I don’t open the file for safety reasons.
bookworm12
I’m experiencing the same thing on both mobile and computer.
bookworm12
And it pops up every time the page is refreshed to post a comment.
Lord Rin
I’ve been experiencing the same thing too on my phone.
ExplodingPenguinDood
I wonder how strong Alda is given that, iirc, great gods don’t have levels and he’s been growing with multiple gods worth of worship. Would he defeat Guduranis 1v1 as he is now? Speaking of which, I wonder how that dwarf with Guduranis in him is doing while all of this is happening
Randy Rando
Edgar or whatever his name is isn’t a dwarf. The tank Delizah is the dwarf.
Libio
Well, Alda isn’t really battle oriented God. He is law oriented, so difference between police and army. He has advantage against local gods but not demon king.. When Demon king arrived, we know, he defeated/destroyed three big gods that were more battle oriented (beast, dragon and colossus) and they have been combined effort of all gods, to destroy him. He has his own subordinate gods, but local has them too, so demon king was battle oriented God stronger that multiple great gods at their peak. Now we must take into account, that population of lambda is now smaller and that demihumans etc don’t worship him. So while he is stronger than he was, he isn’t all gods worship combined, so his grown should be smaller that combination of multiple great gods at beginning. I don’t know, if he is 20% or 200% stronger, but should be weaker that demon king at his peak (of course, I don’t know if demon king somehow comes back, how much of his strength will be restored etc.) I didn’t count fact, that he must most of his power spend on maintaining a life and light attributes. We don’t know, how much is it power/energy needing job and how much is it about focus and calculations etc. We know that it needs energy from demon continent gods, so if reason why Alda struggle to control two attributes is because he isn’t strong enough, them his strength is around two great gods (fully healed, if not peak). If it’s for ddifferent reason, them he is weaker that original demon king. Of course all this power is potential power, if he doesn’t need to maintain world. Effective power, that he can use now, them it should be much much less. Actually some bad guy (not sure which one) did say, that after whole Bellwood dungeon etc. he doesn’t have any effective power at all, for some time. But that was just his option and without someone else holding world together etc. If newly revived gods take their job back, some subordinate gods of Alda can go to help him with life and light attributes, so he could have more effective power.
Doc
This is the problem I currently have with the story is that I have no frame of reference for how powerful Van’s enemies are. Like Van handled Fitun, who was a combat specialized God, pretty easily. But I have no idea how much stronger Alda is, or how strong any of the great gods are really. Alda struck down Vida with his authority as a god of law so at the very least I understand he’s stronger than Vida and that over 100k years he would have gotten even more powerful, but does that mean he can take on all of the other great gods single at once? Like are the other great gods so weak that a few Alda aligned demi-gods feel any bit of confidence being able to fight them? It just feels very, “we can’t end the story yet, so the remaining enemies are just arbitrarily waay stronger”
Lord Rin
Well Fitun had a lot of things working against him so even though he was a god specialized in combat, he wasn’t able to bring out his full powers. He was weaker than he could have potentially been because Alda had split the authority of the original god of clouds -or whatever he was called- between two gods since no single person was strong enough to manage the original authority. Then Fitun was also fighting in a stolen body that while strengthened and trained to withstand his power still wasn’t trained enough to unleash all of his power. I believe they mentioned that Hajime’s body that Fitun was using was only equivalent to an A rank adventurer so even if he went past the body’s limits it’d probably have only raised his strength to lower S rank -maybe middle S rank. Plus by going past the body’s limits, Fitun was on a timer before the body would expire and he wouldn’t be able to fight anymore. Also his original weapons he was using were merely Orichalcum-plated swords and the second pair of blades he used were Demon King Fragment Equipment that Van would probably be able to affect to some unknown extent.
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On another note Alda wasn’t stronger than Vida when he struck her down. It’s just that his authority works on all of Lambda’s gods. It doesn’t matter how strong a god may be, if they get struck directly by one of Alda’s Stakes of Law then they will lose because that’s just how his authority as a God of Law works.
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Well it’s probably not that the demigods are confident that they are stronger than the Great Gods but it’s more that they’re just idiots who’ve gotten swept up in the baseless words of Brateo and Madroza.
bookworm12
Like Randy Rando said, Edgar is the human with Guduranis fragments, and the tank is the dwarf. And kind of like Libio said, I’d just like to point out that Rodcorte is also insanely powerful but useless at combat. Pure power as a god can’t be used to reliably predict the winner of a fight in this world.
no1
An amazing chapter, took a while, but finally another chapter. A little peaceful. The demigods freaked out a little, tried to run and Vandal has two new great god allies just standing there. His enticement and guidance skill have shortened a lot after he finally got the divine guider job. Gorn and his ally are going to keep fighting to the death. I could already guess that from the chapter title. So I guess we can expect more fighting for the next chapter. The demigods’ brain freezing from the realization was a little hilarious. And Vandal gets two new powerful god named jobs on his job list. And the theory from @Libio sounds very likely. This was a good chapter thank you Yoshi and hope to see another one this month.
Libio
Great chapter, thank you
Oh my god! While Van didn’t show us his potential job page, he did tell us names of two new ones…. IT IS GREAT SNAKE OF CHAOS AND BLIND IDIOT GOD!!!! That should be cheating to have Azathoth as job. Well, he is called Nuclear Chaos, so both are chaos related job, but while Apep is prophesied world destroyer and basically main enemy of Egypt pantheon, Azathoth is world(universe) creator! While he can bring destruction, his main role is creator and universe he created is his dream (which is connect with Van). So two new job are chaos destroyer and creator! I dare to ques, that Azathoth will allow him open his divine relam or something like that!
Triduo
“Chaos Guider”, a Job meant neither for the sane or the insane but for the ones whose sanity are always on the verge of insanity.
Paradoxe : I fail to understand what you’re trying to say. -___-
Van is mentally unstable. :3
Paradoxe : Obviously.
Randy Rando
Hathor, alter-ego of Sekhmet, goddess of war and healing. Also known as Sekhmet the bloodthirsty.
Easykiln
I feel bad, a little bit, that my immediate thought was “Nice, he can squeeze one more job advancement out of all this”
Seinvolf
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
MidMist
I’m pretty sure that the main reason so many of these demigod’s and god’s have such a warped understanding or viewpoint of the situation is due to having been under Alda’s influence for so long and without any other equivalent source of influence nor the allowance to have any form of opposing thoughts they don’t have the ability to rationally think on their own and are easily influenced or manipulated into obeying whatever they have been ordered previously and all it takes is for the few loud and violent people to use the confusion and fear to make the others follow them to their deaths for the sake of maybe hurting the people who messed up their self imposed plans and broke their delusional reality. People who are delusional don’t like having their delusion broken or revealed as false, oftentimes it just causes them to pitch a fit and either act like it never happened or worse doubling down on it sometimes going back to it in a roundabout way to make it seem like it is different from earlier but it’s really just the same thing with new paint to convince others or even to re-convince themselves. Psychology gets into some really weird and scary stuff sometimes…. It makes me concerned about the future.
flannan
Finally, MC’s super-long skill has evolved into a one with a shorter name.
Not that the shorter name makes it easier to understand, since my mysticism skill is not high enough to know what they’re talking about with “‘Manas-vijnana’ refers to something deeper than one’s consciousness, the self that is aware of oneself. “.
Thk
I think it is tragic. I quite enjoyed watching that monstrosity grow. Now new guider skills are probably just going to get absorbed into it without changing it.
Rurourin
I suspect that it will move from the seventh consciousness in Buddhism to the 8th when he gets his 8th and probably final guider job
Metazoxan
I don’t think further guider jobs will do Van much good. Based on the name his guidance has become more fundamental. So more guider jobs would only offer raw stat boosts at this point.
Lord Rin
I don’t know. Yeah probably getting more Guider jobs probably won’t do much to his guidance itself but I think that by adding more jobs it’ll expand the scope of targets his guidance can affect. That’s essentially what’s been happening all this time anyways.
Metazoxan
I think it basically means the super ego.
It is the part of a person’s mind that acts as a self-critical conscience meaning critical of oneself, one’s abilities, or one’s actions in a self-aware or unduly disapproving manner.
So rather than guiding people with specific ethics or mind set his guidance now speaks to the part of ones sense of self that governs such things.
It has become more fundamental… More universal.
bookworm12
I’m also happy with the change, and since his guidance awakened again it should be even stronger!
Tejing
Somehow they don’t seem to be thinking about the fact that they’re just handing Van a whole bunch of experience by dying in a futile battle here. They’d hurt their own side less by just committing suicide, actually…
Reiji
They’re way past that point. They’re too cornered. It’s crazy how desperation affects people, or in this case, the divine.