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Just a note, I don’t intend to translate over the weekend. So next chapter will be translated Monday (and therefore posted Monday evening or early Tuesday)
In human society, a great commotion was going on, particularly in the churches of Nineroad and the gods of the wind attribute.
The previous day, the statues of the God of War Horns Sirius had crumbled, and most of his most devout clergymen had lost consciousness. A knight with his divine protection had almost drowned in his stew. But this incident was not yet over, given the panic among the clergymen who had not lost consciousness.
But who could have foreseen that the statues of the God of War Drums Zepaon would crumble as well?
Both gods were ancient gods who had existed since before the Demon King’s arrival in this world, and unusual in that they were gods of the wind attribute and yet strongly characterized by their nature as gods of war. Thus, despite being subordinate gods, they had many worshippers.
The statues of three gods had crumbled in the past year – the other being Fitun, the God of Thunderclouds. The people were beginning to fear that events that would decide the fate of the world were taking place, unbeknownst to them.
The chaos was particularly great in the Amid Empire, where it had been announced that the Demon King had been resurrected through a divine message to Eileek Marme, the young pope of the Great Church of Alda.
Emperor Marshukzarl had suddenly abdicated, and all of a sudden, the eldest son of the Iristell house of dukes, whose existence had been previously unknown to the public, had been crowned as the new emperor.
The ‘Thunderclap’ Schneider, the S-class adventurer who was a living legend and regarded as a hero of the Amid Empire, had come out as a worshiper of Vida. Under his leadership, the Storm of Tyranny had assaulted Duke Marme’s mansion and destroyed a church of Alda.
To the common people who knew nothing of the surrounding circumstances, each one of these events was an incredibly significant one that might not even happen once in a lifetime. In addition to all of that, it was an understatement to say that they were gripped by fear and anxiety over worries that the resurrected Demon King had somehow defeated Sirius, Zepaon, and Fitun.
It was even possible that cities would fall into panic and riots as the people feared the end of the world. And the cause of that was incidents that had occurred at churches… places the people visited to seek comfort.
No matter how the nobles, knights, and guards tried to comfort the people and tell them that there was nothing to worry about, it didn’t sound convincing. The sudden crowning of a new emperor was one thing, but how could the nobles, who were still mortals, possibly be aware of what was happening to the gods?
It was the clergymen’s job to calm the worshippers as they voiced their fears and clung to their gods for hope. But this could not be done when the statues of the gods crumbled and even the highly-respected high priest of Zepaon collapsed with his eyes rolling into his head. The only clergymen who remained conscious were those who had never received a Divine Message from Zepaon before; they were not very effective at filling this role.
And the clergymen who served other gods couldn’t explain what was happening, either. But the Church of Nineroad, the Church of Alda, the clergymen serving other subordinate gods, and heroes with the gods’ divine protections were working hard to keep the populace calm.
But it was not all bad news for the people.
In the Church of Botin in the capital city of the iron-nation of Marmuke, the northern vassal state of the Amid Empire, people were rejoicing.
“Ah! What a good day today is!”
“To think that this day would come during my lifetime… Let everyone know! Botin-sama, our goddess, has been resurrected! She is free from the Demon King’s seal!”
Botin, Mother of the Earth and Goddess of Craftsmanship, and Peria, Goddess of Water and Knowledge, had been resurrected.
The two goddesses had sent Divine Messages to all worshippers who were devoted enough to receive them, whether they were in the Amid Empire or in the Orbaume Kingdom, informing them of their resurrection.
Hearing this news, the worshippers cried tears of joy and began to leave in order to spread this wonderful news to the people.
But the Dwarf who served as leader of the church stopped them. “No, wait! Wait, I say!”
Good news was not all that was in the Divine Message.
To the Dwarf, the latter half sounded like: “I have reconciled with the mad flame; I have gained magic, creation, and knowledge; and I give my blessing to life. Even so, we have no light.”
What does this mean? No light… is this a bad omen? No, that’s not it. If the ‘mad flame’ is Zantark, ‘magic’ is Ricklent, ‘creation’ is Zuruwarn, and ‘knowledge’ is Peria… ‘I give my blessing to life.’ Could it be that she gives her blessings to Vida?! And ‘we have no light’ means that Alda, the God of Law and Fate, is not their ally…
“I-if I make this known to the public, what will happen to this country… to the people? There will be no order… this nation could very well collapse,” the Dwarf muttered.
The Amid Empire’s national religion worshiped Alda, the god of law, as its chief god. It could be said that every citizen of the nation was a worshiper of Alda.
There was even a statue of Alda in the Church of Botin.
That was precisely why the Dwarf church leader could not carelessly speak of his interpretation of the Divine Message. Thus, he ordered the priests he had stopped at the church’s door to inform the people only of Botin’s resurrection.
“After that, give me some time alone so that I may contemplate the meaning of the Divine Message more thoroughly,” he told them.
He then stationed priest-warriors to ensure that he would not be disturbed and shut himself in his own chambers.
“What intentions did Botin-sama have when she sent this Divine Message? Or was I simply too inexperienced to properly grasp the Divine Message’s meaning?”
Divine Messages communicated the thoughts of powerful gods to humans whose minds were limited in comparison, so it was inevitable that they were not always interpreted accurately. There were cases when a worshipper was only able to perceive one part of a Divine Message, causing it to sound like something else entirely.
The church leader wondered if this was the case here. Perhaps there was supposed to have been a continuation to the sentence, ‘we have no light.’
But he realized that this was not the case.
“Come to think of it, why did I only inform the believers of the goddess’s resurrection? Divine Messages should be delivered to the people in their entirety, no matter how long the messages of the gods are… Could it be that this Divine Message was actually two, sent one after another?!”
Divine Messages were not frequent occurrences. Two being sent one after another with no delay between them was unheard of. It was unheard of, and yet… the church leader had never heard that such a thing was impossible.
The question was, why had Botin chosen to do such a thing?
“Could it be… I interpreted the first Divine Message correctly, and its purpose was to let me confirm that I had interpreted the following Divine Message correctly as well…!”
The Divine Message speaking of Botin’s resurrection was correctly interpreted, so the second Divine Message with the information that all of the great gods other than Alda had sided with Vida was undoubtedly also correctly interpreted.
But this realization brought no relief to the church leader’s expression.
“What right do I have to pray to Vida now…? But there is no doubt that the goddess sent me this Divine Message because she has expectations of me. I must ask everyone to lend me their wisdom and somehow let the people know of her true intentions.”
This was the reason why clergymen served as representatives of the gods in the mortal world.
The church leader told himself this as he filled himself with a sense of duty to distract himself from the pressure he was feeling, but the truth was that a large number of other clergymen had also received Botin’s Divine Messages, and Peria had sent Divine Messages with the same meaning to her own clergymen. Thus, he found himself able to borrow ‘everyone’s wisdom’ sooner than he had expected.
Meanwhile, in the Divine Realm of the God of Law and Fate Alda, a heavy silence had fallen.
Alda had fallen silent after hearing the reports of the gods who had been defending Peria and from the God of Mirror Images Larpan, and the silence was made all the heavier by the absence of Nineroad, who had left to gather the subordinate gods together and deal with the situation.
None of the subordinate gods present found themselves able to speak. The silence of the subordinate gods of the earth and water attributes was one of complete astonishment, as if they had just become aware that the world was about to end.
After all, Peria and Botin had immediately sided with Vida after being freed.
Many of them were those who had risen to godhood after being accepted by gods who had served as replacements for Botin and Peria. These young gods had never even met the great god who was supposed to be their master, and they had always believed what they had been told since they were mortals – that Botin and Peria would become Alda’s allies once they awakened.
To be more precise, they had never even considered the alternative – the fact that they would become Alda’s allies had become such a deeply-rooted assumption that they had never paid any conscious thought to it, as natural as knowing that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
The minds of these young gods were in turmoil, and they were unable to even move.
The older gods who had existed since before the war against the Demon King were deeply perplexed as well. They could not comprehend why Botin and Peria had become Vida’s allies.
Why would Peria stand on the side of Vandalieu, who absorbed the extremely dangerous Demon King fragments into his own body and transformed into hideous forms?
Why would Botin declare that she was an ally of Vandalieu, who commanded not only filthy Undead and demigods such as Talos and Tiamat, but also the races of Vida who carried the blood of evil gods?
No matter how much they asked themselves these questions, they found no answers.
There were some among these gods who wondered if they were the ones who had been in the wrong, if they had been mistaken in assuming that the other great gods shared the will of Alda and Bellwood.
But it was difficult for the gods to admit these things.
After becoming gods, they had acted as gods of Alda’s forces and spread these teachings to their worshippers, and their worshippers revered them as gods of Alda’s forces.
To deny these teachings would be to deny themselves, a complete loss of self-identity.
It was just as difficult as it would be for a god who had always taught their followers to love others and forbade them from killing to suddenly instead teach that violence is justice and slaughter carried out by the strong would lead the world in the right direction.
“H-have… Botin-sama and Peria-sama gone mad after all?” one of the gods suggested feebly.
This was the easier conclusion to reach, and this god wasn’t the only one grasping at it. Indeed, many gods had believed this to be true of Ricklent and Zuruwarn when their betrayal came to light.
But unlike Ricklent and Zuruwarn, there were subordinate gods with their own personalities who knew Botin and Peria personally among the forces of Alda.
“You bastard! Do you mean to disrespect our master?!” one of them shouted in anger.
Botin and Peria’s subordinate gods found it difficult to believe Botin’s declaration as well. But they were not convinced by the irrational argument that the master they served had fallen to madness.
“But there was no sanity in that declaration!” the first god protested.
“No, it was very much sane!” testified the God of Mirror Images Larpan, who had personally witnessed Botin’s bold declaration. “At the very least, Botin-sama was in her ordinary state of mind when she made her declaration before us. Her eyes were filled with spirit and burned with the light of her strong will. I do not believe she had become insane and was simply speaking nonsense.”
“B-but then, why would she make such a declaration and say that she is an ally of Vandalieu… Why would she tell us to leave Alda-sama and remain in a position of neutrality? Could it be that Vida’s faction intends to say… that the filthy Vandalieu is right?”
“That is… But still, is it not dangerous to simply assume that Botin, a great god, has simply lost her sanity?!”
“Dangerous?! Do you intend to divide us? If we are in conflict with one another, defeating Vandalieu would be a hope that is beyond our wildest dreams. Do you intend to allow the efforts of Gorn-dono and his allies to go to waste?!”
“That’s not what I’m saying! But I –”
“Be silent, all of you,” said Alda gravely, finally breaking his silence.
The subordinate gods who had been on the verge of a full verbal argument closed their mouths and waited for their master to speak.
“Your surprise is only natural. But Botin has not lost her sanity; she was sane when she chose to side with Vida. The same is true of Peria, who has been deceiving us,” Alda said.
But these words only caused further astonishment for the subordinate gods. Unable to accept this, they loudly began voicing their objections.
“Alda, is that in itself not evidence that Botin-sama and Peria-sama have lost their sanity?!”
“Just what reason could they have possibly had to side with Vida… with Vandalieu?!”
“Could it be that Botin-sama and Peria-sama simply chose to join the stronger side, bending their knee to him because of his power?!”
The God of Judgment Niltark would usually be the one keeping the subordinate gods quiet, but he did not speak.
“That is not what I am saying,” said Alda. “Botin and Peria have chosen to envision a future that is different from the one that we envision. I cannot accept their future. And I cannot even begin to understand what they are thinking, but…”
Alda himself had been shocked into speechlessness by Botin’s declaration and the realization that Peria had been deceiving him all of these long years. This shock had been greater than the shock of realizing Zuruwarn and Ricklent’s betrayal.
But then, he remembered that gods, especially great gods, prioritized different things.
This simple fact had been obvious before the arrival of the Demon King Guduranis, but because a hundred thousand years had passed since he parted ways with Vida, and he had served as leader of the gods for so long, it had been left forgotten in the back of his mind.
“We have always envisioned returning this world to its original state… returning it to a world free of corruption – no matter how accustomed the people have become to living in a world with Devil’s Nests and Dungeons, using materials taken from monsters for their own purposes. We have resolved ourselves to making that a reality, even if we must spend hundreds of thousands of years purifying the Devil’s Nests, millions of years persuading the humans that this is for the best, and tens of millions of years sealing away all of the evil gods and fragments of the Demon King,” said Alda.
This was the ideal that Alda strived for. An ordinary world where monsters and the Devil’s Nests and Dungeons that spawned them did not exist.
A world without Vida’s races.
At Nineroad’s suggestion, and the discussions that followed, it had been decided that races that did not possess the blood of evil beings, with no Rank displayed on their Status, would be accepted. But that was the limit of what Alda was willing to allow.
A hundred thousand years ago, Vida had called her children ‘strong new races of people,’ but Alda could not think of them that way. To him, Vida’s races were not ‘people.’ They were highly intelligent monsters – nothing more than underlings that served evil gods.
If it were just Dark Elves, he might have been able to accept them. And perhaps it would have even been possible to accept Titans, Beast-kin, Merfolk, and the Drakonids.
Gods such as Alda, the God of Ice Yupeon who had represented Peria after she fell into slumber, and the now-deceased Brateo and Madroza, regarded such races not as new races of people, but as weak, mortal versions of their brethren, or the failed creations of former friends.
But even that was because they did not possess evil blood… the blood of repulsive beings.
They could not accept the existence of races that possessed Ranks, such as the Majin. Those were creatures that possessed the blood of evil gods. If they were to grow in number, they would become a harmful influence that corrupted the world and created more Devil’s Nests, just like monsters.
The gods were aware that these races had wisdom and benevolent hearts. But these races needed to be exterminated whether they were evil in nature or not, just as humans found it acceptable to kill Goblins.
But even without such reasons, Alda simply viewed races like the Majin as repulsive beings that encroached upon the lives of ordinary humans.
But all of this was just Alda’s view. He had forgotten that there was no guarantee that the other great gods would share that view.
“But Botin, Peria, and even Ricklent and Zuruwarn have decided to co-exist with this world… a world where monsters are continuously spawned in Devil’s Nests. They have accepted Vida’s races and Vida’s circle of transmigration system,” said Alda.
He did not know of the events that had taken place or the paths their thoughts had followed for them to reach that decision. But the conclusion that they had come to was clear.
“Impossible… That itself could not mean anything other than that they have lost their sanity!” shouted Yupeon, who had been the most deeply impacted by Peria’s choice to side with Vida’s faction. “But… it is impossible that Peria-sama has lost her sanity,” he whispered, dejectedly falling to his knees as he remembered what kind of goddess his master was.
“Then… Alda, what are we to do?” asked one of the younger gods. “I do not believe that the current world is in a normal state. Not only that, but believing in Peria-dono, who has deceived us this entire time, is…”
“The same goes for Ricklent-dono and Zuruwarn-dono, who kept themselves hidden and did not even explain their thoughts. I can only imagine that they simply abandoned the ideal of returning the world to the way it was before the Demon King arrived in it, and yielded to the present reality of a world filled with monsters!” one of the other younger gods said.
Peria had been pretending to be in a state of slumber, while Ricklent and Zuruwarn had kept their movements hidden despite being awake. They had been dealing with the situation of not being able to join forces with Alda because they believed Alda had lost his mind.
But none of the gods gathered here believed that Alda had lost his mind. That was why they felt as if Peria and the other gods were one-sidedly criticizing Alda’s forces without having even attempted to explain their opinions and intentions.
Peria and the others had likely imagined that this would happen, but… they couldn’t simply come to Alda nonchalantly and argue for and defend Vida’s opinions, when doing so would result in them being impaled by the Stakes of Law.
From the very beginning, they had known that they would lose the trust of the younger gods among Alda’s forces in exchange for their own safety.
And they were right.
“There is nothing to do about it,” said Alda.
He had not lost his ability to reason. He had simply become madly fixated on his ideal; on working towards that ideal at any cost.
“What they have deemed acceptable is different from what we deem acceptable, but that does not mean that we are wrong,” Alda said. “There is no mistake with the ideal that we strive for. One day, they will understand that.”
There was no mistake with Alda’s ideal. There was nothing to do other than to continue working towards making that ideal a reality.
The power of the gods of Alda’s forces alone was woefully insufficient to achieve this goal. Even if the gods of Vida’s forces were to join them, it would be impossible. At the very least, it would take ten million years to reach that ideal.
And even if that ideal could be reached, a hundred million years from now… Was it right to impose this upon every mortal that would live between now and then?
If it could be reached in ten years, it would be the correct decision. Even a hundred years from now, the mortals could do it for their grandchildren. Even a thousand years into the future would be the great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren’s generation for long-lived races such as the Elves.
But what about more than ten thousand years from now? Was it really acceptable to force the mortals to fight against Vandalieu and his empire, with their lives and souls at risk, for the sake of an ideal that would be realized in a future that was too distant for them to even imagine?
Alda believed that it was. He believed it was only natural that any proper mortal would be willing to fight.
To Alda, it was something that did not even need to be thought about or questioned. It was no different from the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
“But if we include Vida and Zantark, that would mean that six great gods will be our enemies…!” said one of the subordinate gods.
“Do not worry. Future battles will likely take place where humans live, rather than uninhabited lands. The time has come for the heroes that we have been nurturing to show their true value,” said Alda.
“Can our heroes really be victorious against enemies that defeated Gorn and the others?!” said another of the subordinate gods, seemingly unable to stop him from voicing his doubt.
Indeed, it was difficult to suddenly believe that humans, even if they were heroes, could be more powerful than demigods who possessed enormous, powerful bodies.
“Of course they can. I am certain that you have nurtured them so that they will be able to,” said Alda.
Indeed, true heroes… mortal individuals that the gods believed would one day join them as gods, were just as powerful as demigods, if not even stronger.
It was true that demigods were powerful. They possessed hundred-meter-tall bodies protected by strong muscles, scales, fur, and shells, and each one had their own unique abilities based on what they ruled over. They were capable of fighting even in places like the Demon King’s Continent, where humans could not possibly survive.
In that sense, demigods were unmistakably more powerful than heroes.
But in combat, it was a different story. True heroes were capable of defeating Colossi, Elder Dragons, and Beast-kings.
The ‘Thunderclap’ Schneider, though he was a hero of Vida’s faction, had defeated multiple corrupted Elder Dragons in the past. And heroes of the gods of Alda’s forces had defeated demigods such as Pure-breed Vampires as well.
Heroes used the Status System to its fullest extent to benefit as much as they could from it. They came up with clever strategies, equipped themselves with equipment of exceptional quality, and could even summon familiar spirits or heroic spirits into their own bodies. Demigods were a marvel of nature, but even they could fall at the hands of heroes.
The prime example of such heroes was Bellwood and the other champions. Although the gods had brought them to this world after searching another world for the best individuals to serve as vessels for their power, they had also once been human.
“And the Five-colored Blades, led by my own hero Heinz, have finally reached the floor where Bellwood slumbers. It will not be long before he is resurrected,” Alda announced.
And for the first time in a long while, his Divine Realm was filled with cheers of joy.
The numerous battles against the recreation of the Demon King Guduranis produced by the Dungeon were incredibly fierce.
Even after seeing Guduranis turning into dust and vanishing, Heinz looked around warily for some kind of trap, unable to believe that he had finally won.
“Does this mean that we have finally matched Bellwood?” asked the human martial artist Jennifer as the party descended the stairs to the next floor.
But nobody agreed with her.
“It is true that we defeated Guduranis, but… in the battle that took place a hundred thousand years ago, I am sure Bellwood and his allies had to fight against a countless number of evil gods and their armies of monsters just to get to him,” said the Elf Diana, priestess of the Goddess of Slumber Mill.
“I’d say that we’ve gotten closer, but not that we’ve matched him,” agreed Delizah, the female Dwarf shield-bearer.
“And besides, in order to defeat the Demon King, we had to die over and over while coming up with a strategy and refining it. We’re a long way away from Bellwood, Farmaun, and Nineroad, who defeated him in a real battle,” said Heinz.
Indeed, their victory was the result of a countless amount of experience… and learning.
With the destruction of the God of Records Curatos, the original ruler of this Dungeon, the powerful enemies recreated by the Dungeon from records of the past really were nothing more than recreations.
They did not possess the ability to think or make decisions; they could not fight against Heinz and his companions with any patterns other than the exact ones that had taken place in the past. It was impossible for them to act spontaneously in a way that deviated from those patterns or adjust their behavior to Heinz’s moves.
To give comparisons, they were like robots that only moved exactly as they were programmed, or like enemy characters in a video game.
Heinz and his companions had learned the Demon King’s behavior patterns through countless deaths, then defeated him by exploiting the openings in those patterns.
Even so, the fact that they were able to learn and exploit these patterns was proof of their tremendous skill. As they were now, it was likely that they were capable of defeating Schneider.
But if Curatos were still alive, allowing the enemies to use a greater diversity of patterns and possess a certain degree of thinking and decision-making ability, then it was unlikely that Heinz and his companions could have defeated Guduranis so quickly.
It could not yet be said that they had matched Bellwood.
“What he means is, don’t get ahead of yourself just because we beat a fake,” Edgar said chidingly.
“Yeah, yeah, I get it. But you don’t have to glare at me like that, you know?” said Jennifer.
“Glare…?”
Edgar touched his own face, as if he had just noticed.
His eyebrows were unintentionally furrowed in a deep frown. That was how much displeasure he had felt at Jennifer’s words… no, at fighting against the fake.
“… Sorry. I think I was feeling a little tense,” he said.
He couldn’t remember why he felt such displeasure. He managed to play it off, and nobody took too much notice.
After all, they were about to step onto the floor where Bellwood slumbered.
From behind the door at the bottom of the stairs, they heard the faint sound of clinking chains.
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UnveilingSage
This is what I find so interesting. Alda truly believes he is doing the right thing. The reason we call him an idiot is because he refuses to change this belief. He has actually demonstrated several times that he is not, in fact, dumb. He realized when Bashas and Co. were planning to betray him, not that he could do anything about it (nor felt the need to), and he has also calmed the other gods radical delusions on several occasions and even made correct guesses as to what Vandalieu has done or learned after they fought. As a side note, I actually think it’s an unintentional stroke of genius on his part to use Mr. Ketchup as his trump card against Van-sama. If nothing else it will be a great bait for drawing his attention while Alda strikes a blow himself.
The problem again comes in who he surrounds himself with (hysterical fanatics, who despite ascending to godhood still view Alda with the same level of superior relationship as when they were mortals and he was a Great God, and therefore listen to and accept all his words as the God-given absolute truth. Much like Vandalieu now that I think about it, though their humility versus arrogance is what separates them.) and who Alda allies himself with (AKA Rodcorte, who clearly should not be trusted because I think even if they succeed in killing Van-sama Rodcorte would still pull some stupid BS like “this world is clearly a repeat offender and a problem. I’m going to disconnect this world anyway”). To touch upon an earlier topic briefly, Alda is not an idiot so much as a biased conceited racist bigot, but Rodcorte definitely is so stupid it makes me laugh.
The next problem, as stated clearly in this chapter, is that he intends to force his beliefs of purity and regression on the mortals regardless of their wishes. Something a god is not supposed to do (which the other Great Gods know, but he has conveniently forgotten). Though is suppose an excuse for him is that he elected himself God King is the absence of the other Great Gods so it has probably gone to his head. It is most certainly, objectively wrong to force people to fight and die for an ideal they don’t even know about, as Alda’s forces have not yet specifically told their heroes who and why they are fighting they just expect them to do so naturally, and to expect every human on the Bahn Gaia Continent to accept the destruction of Monsters. All Adventurers use monsters to survive so the God of Law is taking away a large chunk of his believers and the vast majority of people’s lively hood, just because he believes monsters shouldn’t exist. He even says in the chapter that he’s not even able to do it himself!! No one cares what will happen hundreds of millions of years from now! Except him! If the subordinate gods could actually think for their damn selves we would have so much of a problem!! Sorry, I’m getting a little worked up.
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Now let me give you guys something new to chew on and think about. Let’s say Alda wins (I know impossible right?) and succeeds in ridding the world of monsters. Hooray! No more bad guys slaughtering villagers!! Oh wait those are humans, not monsters! So this brings me to my point: If all the monsters are gone, what is left for the humans of Lambda to kill to level up except other humans? If Alda wants to return the world to its original state, I think he’ll have to figure out a way to dismantle the Status System. But, Ricklent has previously said that would be impossible, even for him as its creator! This ideal of Alda’s is actually already a complete impossibility! Because if he does destroy monsters without destroying the Status System humans will quickly (on a God’s timescale at least) turn to just killing each other instead something Alda, as the God of Law does not want even more than killing helpless expecting mothers of Vida’s races.
On another note this would also weaken Alda’s forces in the long run because if they could not level up so efficiently it would lead to fewer mortals ascending to godhood leading to still not enough gods to maintain the world, which could eventually lead to world destruction!
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So, there you have it. Isn’t that Interesting?!?!
blinkaoa187
Alda has already hinted that Bellwood was capable of guiding Gods, so it is starting to appear he ‘guided’ Alda onto a path where the only acceptable state for the world to be in is its’ ‘original’ and ‘pristine’ state.
Bellwood was pretty much on the path of an ecoterrorist back in his own world and violently objected to any otherworld knowledge being spread, even relatively harmless knowledge. He could have become a God that taught people how to develop new knowledge without leading to the deforestation and pollution problems of his own world but instead, he not only encouraged the destruction of any knowledge from his own world, but new inventions thought up by the people of this world that seemed too much like knowledge from his own world.
UncleWarcrimes
Tell me, Alda, Bellwood, if you can. You have destroyed so much, killed so much. But tell me, what is it exactly that you have created? Can you name even one thing? I thought not.
Akachi86
Aldiots: “Are we out of touch?”
Aldiots a moment later: “No, it’s the other gods who are wrong”
Naberisu
The gods were aware that these races had wisdom and benevolent hearts. But these races needed to be exterminated whether they were evil in nature or not, just as humans found it acceptable to kill Goblins.
But Botin, Peria, and even Ricklent and Zuruwarn have decided to co-exist with this world…
“Impossible… That itself could not mean anything other than that they have lost their sanity!” shouted Yupeon,
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Yeah, disagreeing with a genocide and siding with the races of benevolent hearts is insanity 🙄
DarkCarnage
alda was not wrong in that every major god has different goals, just like people. alda wants a world pre-demon king. which is frankly impossible as those scars will never really fade from the world.
learning to adapt to and to minimize the devils’ nest/monsters/etc. and how to use them for the betterment of everyone is a good idea. and he see throwing lives away for a goal millions of year yet to happen as perfectly okay, it is for the Human kinds best interest…right.
Bob, Son of Bob
Why would any great gods want to ever with Alda? The last time he had a disagreement with one of his siblings he attacked her, sealed her, stole her power and murdered her children. Then he spent the next hundred thousand years attempting to genocide her surviving offspring while running the world into the ground in his mad quest to restore the world according to his vision.
It’s all well and good to say he’ll spend a million, a billion, a trillion years righting the world, but at some point he has to stop and see if he’s actually making any progress. So far Alda has done nothing but lose ground. But alas, he’s so convinced he’s right he won’t stop and think. He can only double, triple, quadruple down on the bad decisions that have led to stagnation and regression.
ICZephyr
Well..why else would we call him aldiot then? His stupidity has no limits. He doesn’t care about the progress or if his ideal vision of the world is even feasible in the first place. All he cares about is following his dumb and rigid ideals, his prejudiced views and his personal disgust of Vida’s races that are borne from monsters.
lawson
Alda deveria perceber que seu objetivo e impossível quando seus irmão e irmãs foram destruídos por rei demônio/Gundaranis(?), ele deveria saber que deuses estrangeiros podem se tornar parte do mundo como aconteceu com o idiota, já tendo passado tanto tempo quantos deuses do mal do exercito do rei demônio, já são incapazes de deixar seu mundo por que muitos dos crentes do próprio Alda se acostumaram e ter esses deuses como parte de sua doutrina, quanto aos monstros e similares e o sistema de status, Alda disse em um capitulo passado que o gênio da magia deveria ser capaz de criar masmorras com “monstros” sem alma e como fonte de materiais e XP, o mundo nunca poderá ser como já foi, isso e obvio para todos os que pensam nisso mas Alda se vê impossibilitado cego em sua crença
Kikiss
I can’t support yoshi thru donations but I can only say THANK YOU!!! for the translations. However little it may help. And even though it’s totally annoying, i had to unblock ads so that atleast it will help keeping the site functioning(it’s really frustrating for me cause I have heavy thumb-with a 7 year-old cheap android) and i will atleast open 3 ads by just scrolling down. Can’t you get even a bit of earnings from the ads on your page yoshi? Good luck and may you have better living in the future. Keep moving forward (ironic from a couch potato). You will survive this. If it gets worse, just think you are not alone in the endeavor.
bk3k
Almost there, to one of the most satisfying chapters (IMO). I look forward to reading it with quality translation. Thank you.
Vaul
So has anyone else wondered how badliy this is going to go if Bellwood sense’s the fact that Edgar has part of Guduranis soul in him?
Triduo
I did ! ^^
Entropy
I doubt many of the “faithful” to Botin and Peria will side with Van just because their gods have. Look at what happened with Vida’s human followers. They still serve Vida’s mortal enemies. I imagine most will want to sit out on any fights. As for the heroes, Alda is being overly optimistic. A few heroes joined Van, and I can guess a few will not want to be a part of a global war and genocide or if Heinz’s peaceful faction wins, probably enslavement for Vida’s races. Seems like Edgar is being turned into a pseudo Demon Lord. I wonder if he will be able to absorb the demon lord’s parts or if he will be overtaken by them. If he can take parts, then I wonder if he will be able to steal the parts from Van or if they are closed off from him and vice versa. I remember a few characters saying they quit being the original demon lord’s body and became Van’s.
Lord Rin
Well the so-called followers of Vida were never true believers. They’re just shills for Alda. Vida herself said they aren’t her true believers since they couldn’t even receive any of her Divine Messages when she was freed. The believers of Peria and Botin are different because they HAVE actually received their god’s Divine Messages. That means they are true believers. They aren’t likely to openly side with Vida because the two nations that have the most of Botin’s and Peria’s followers are vassal states to the Amid Empire but they can probably make up reasonable excuses to stay out of the conflict and be neutral. Meanwhile the Amid Empire can’t realistically do much to them even if Alda informs them through his pope that the two goddesses have sided with Vida because if I recall the nation that worships Botin happens to be the main provider of grain and weapons to the Empire while the nation that worships Peria is the main route of maritime trade with the Orbaume Kingdom and other assorted island nations. Those two nations could easily disrupt the supply of food, weapons and trade to the Empire if they get provoked so Alda would rather keep quiet than let the Empire get weakened and become an easy target for invasion from either the Orbaume Kingdom or Van’s side.
Tejing
The humans of Botin’s and Peria’s churches are really in a tough spot. Especially in the Amid Empire. They’re deeply tied with Alda’s church, but their gods are going the complete other direction. Actually publicly standing by the direction their gods are going in could easily lead to them being executed by the state.
Hopefully at least a few of the gods on Alda’s side will see past the zealotry and question whether Vida’s side might actually be the more reasonable one. Especially with Alda himself admitting that they’re not insane, just have different values.
Doc
“Botin and Peria have chosen to envision a future that is different from the one that we envision”
Yeah…one of peace and prosperity amongst the populace, instead of the hell scape of genocide you want.
The core flaw of his reasoning is just assuming anything with blood that comes from some other world cannot be allowed to exist. By that logic, his own champion Bellwood should sicken him, but of course he doesn’t see the hypocrisy there.
Irazori
Kind of a boring chapter because it’s the aldiots doing aldiot things as always. It’s fun when they freak out about their deserved losses, but their thought process always leaves me exasperated/exhausted. Case in point was them self-righteously making baseless assumptions/accusations (AGAIN) just because Botin and Peria don’t share the aldiots’ shitty standards.
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“ If it were just Dark Elves, he might have been able to accept them. And perhaps it would have even been possible to accept Titans, Beast-kin, Merfolk, and the Drakonids.”
I find this to be highly unlikely, since the aldiot champions would totally say they’re evil solely because of their original world’s standards like they did with Vampires and Ghouls, and because the last 3 don’t even have human features.
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I think aldiot himself even knew that deep down he was a condescending god that thinks of mortals as tool/toys. Hence with them thinking that just because they’re mortal and not full or demigods, that they’re weak.
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The aldiots of fake peace are definitely screwed if they think those dumbed down mindless copies would be any good as training materials against Van’s ever evolving forces, but as expected, it’s pare for the course with aldiots never thinking about the long term.
Lord Rin
I find it laughable that Alda thinks the heroes his side have been raising can defeat Van. They’re weaklings compared to Van’s side. They’re like flowers being grown in a greenhouse. The gods guiding those heroes are practically babying them. Because they’re still trying to keep up appearances of righteousness and that this is a reward for them because they are good people deserving of being heroes, the gods can’t just order them to go into dungeons and Devil’s Nests to level up and get stronger. They can only give them vague instructions to do good because they’ll lose the supposed grandeur of what they’re doing if they just tell their heroes the truth that they’re nothing more than soldiers meant to be trained so they can then be throw at the new Demon King.
EdgarJTC
So here’s a thought, why do they need a human to awaken Bellwood from his slumber, I mean if they had his body and not sealed like Botin and Peria can’t they just bring him back. Could it be that Bellwood needs a strong enough vessel to return because his body is so badly damaged after the war. I wouodnt mind Heinz being used for the “greater good” according to Alda but ive been waiting for him to die at Vans hands.
Xross24
Better question. Why is he awake and chained? The last sentence when they started to walk toward a sleeping bellwood. The sound of scraping chains.
Townperson B
didn’t bellwood got sealed with the evil god of chains
Tejing
We’ve only been told that the two “struck each other down” and that Bellwood “fell into slumber” afterward. I know what that means because I’ve read the raws, but as of this moment you’re not really supposed to know what really happened, just that Bellwood has been out of commission for the last 50k years.
Aldidiot
I doubt Alda would be willing to propose negotiations until his plan for mankind to beat Vandalieu goes up on smoke. Even though Alda could stand so much to gain the earlier he proposes such a thing with mankind mostly under his palm. I would love to see Edgar and Bellwood exchanging blows / words or seeing Bellwood repenting much like Mikhail.
Yoshi is also going to spoil us rotten with all these updates giving us withdrawal symptoms once the rate is back to normal.
Irazori
The aldiots weren’t open to negotiations to begin with. Which was why they self-righteously attacked Vida first without even confirming the results of the new races. They just assumed that the new races would produce miasma, which never happened.
Tejing
The new races do produce miasma, as I understand it. Vida’s side just doesn’t see that as a big problem.
Seinvolf
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
Libio
Great chapter
Now, I little understand, why so many gods still follow Alda. When it was described, how it would be go against their own teachings it reminds me how skylla goddess changed herself from evil God to heroic goddess. It was described as full body plastic surgery and organ transplantion at same time. This is something different and less drastic that change of identity, but it is still radical change that has consequences. I am not surprised, that they instinctively reject it. I wonder if Alda is under same problem of changing direction of his faith, but probably not. He is guy, who would go through anything, if he believes it’s right way. He is just blinded by glory of past, that can’t come back. It’s surprising, because when he was remembering past, he was guy capable of accepting being wrong and follow majority vote. But that was before Bellwood and x years of being only main God. I am little curious about Bellwood, he is described as person with charisma or cult leader, it will be interesting see him at work. Heinz has serious dumbs about Alda and his original and main reason for this journey is being able to question him. His problem with Van is also logical. While is worries are based on believe, that undead will reverse to their destructive form without Van and that Van can/will die etc., they are still valid points. Van’s empire should have backup source of death mana in case he is busy (maybe they have, his son, not sure). It would be interesting see their meeting. I also wonder, what kind of evil God is God of sinful chains, was he part of demon army or was he one of Vida’s gods? If his power is like name and he can trap someone using their own sins, it makes sense, he would be one dealing with Bellwood (and Bellwood and spol., underestimating him, because the don’t see their own sins). With Bellwood, Heinz, pseudo-reincarnated demon king Edgar and God of sinful chains, this will be hell of meeting.
FrogAku
I agree and disagree. First, let me quote you:
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I wonder if Alda is under same problem of changing direction of his faith, but probably not. He is guy, who would go through anything, if he believes it’s right way. He is just blinded by glory of past, that can’t come back.
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The problem is that Alda was first and foremost a God of Order. Standing alone, he would reject any change to an existing order. The ultimate conservative. During the Age of the Gods, he was one among many, and his voice was no stronger or weaker than the others. So he had to compromise, even if he disagreed. After the war though, he became the sole voice of the Greater Gods, and there was no one to gainsay him. Which for him, has become the “new normal”. So he rejects all circumstances that would force him to change, either internally or externally. To quote Botin from a few chapters back –
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“It’s obvious, isn’t it?! I’m a mother-goddess, you know? There’s no way I could accept exterminating entire races, no matter the good or evil of it, no matter what circumstances there may or may not be!”
Botin was a great god of the earth attribute, and a goddess who ruled over craftsmen and mothers. To her, exterminating a child that had been born was an unforgivable sin, no matter the circumstances.
This was one of her qualities as a god, something that even she herself could not change.
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Especially the last line, the Gods themselves (with the possible exception of when being lead/manipulated by a powerful Guider such as Van or Bellwood) CAN NOT CHANGE their own natures. And Alda’s is especially rigid by the nature of his Aspect.
It actually gave me a half-second (no more, I promise) of pity for Alda this chapter, in that he’s smart enough to realize that others disagree with him, and maybe for valid reasons, but then just plans to double down and use force to make sure things work out his way.
Libio
While nature of God can’t (probably) change, his option can. Alda is God of law, he is very rigid and don’t like changes, but he was able accept his own faults in past. I’m mostly using chapters, where Alda and Vida remembers past(could forget something). Alda originally rejected whole Champioms idea. He didn’t think aliens would help them or could help them. He was against bringing more chaos to their world, but they voted and he, as God of law, follows law too. He was surprised by Bellwood and accepted, he was wrong. Later he think about whole war with Vida and believes, he could act differently and not let it escalate. Not that he was wrong, but he could agree with her at some points and pressure her about others (he thinks). So he is capable of changing mind and accepting his own flaws (not that he works on them). I think, that Alda from age of Gods would try to reach to his siblings in this situation and try to find way forward. Not saying, that they would find solution or that he wouldn’t go agains majority, this is about survival of them all and Vida system looks like treat to him, but he would send message or something to establish communication.I wonder, if Bellwood is reason for his more fanatical form or it’s simply because how long he was alone as great God. Maybe his change in status before believers into chief God and God of fate affect him and make him feel above everything, including law. But that’s are just my ideas and options.
Triduo
Alda is definitely mad and his obsession at trying to “reset” the world to what it was before Guduranis, even if it has to take hundreds and millions of years, just shows the depth of his madness…
Let’s just hope that Bellwood will have more reason in his brain than Alda in his whole being…
On another note, Edgar is definitely starting to feel the corruption from the shards of Guduranis’ soul… If Alda, Bellwood or Heinz catches on to this, Rodcorte’s going to be thrown in an even more awkward situation…
Irazori
I honestly kind of doubt the aldiots would even notice. A likely scenario is that rod-moron would pass it off as Van corrupting edgar just because Van had the fragments or something.
Lord Rin
Well honestly I doubt they would even notice until it’s too late and Edgar has been fully taken over. As for Rodcorte I’m not sure he’s cunning enough to pass off his own mistakes as Van’s. He’s more likely to brazenly admit that he was responsible for whatever happens to Edgar and try to bluff his way out of any punishment by continuing to act like he’s outside of Alda’s jurisdiction like back when they found out that Rodcorte has reincarnated people into Lambda without their knowledge. Alda didn’t punish him back then because he still believes Rodcorte isn’t a god of Lambda so he thinks he can’t actually punish him with his Stakes of Law. Of course he totally can because of Van spreading his name throughout his empire which has gotten him acknowledged as a god of Lambda but Alda doesn’t know that.
Doc
I’m guessing it was Bellwood that put Alda into this state to begin with. Bellwood was a guider and was capable of guiding gods. Botin made a great point a few chapters ago that Alda acted far more impatiently than he would have before when they all worked together. Vida’s races were not a threat to the stability of the world, unlike Gurandis and his subordinates. Yet Alda chose to attack Vida and destroy her races over peaceful discussion.
Bellwood, from what little we’ve been told of his character, was a nature extremist. Bellwood was vehemently against Lambda gaining technology from other worlds or anything that would alter the natural progression of civilization in this world or things that would harm nature. Even if the world suffered because of it.
The implication is these extremely conservative views changed Alda bit by bit until Alda become much more inflexible and hardline. This is why Rinkulent and Zuwuwarn refused to talk to Alda despite being awake for so long. They did not see Alda as acting rationally like he used to. And it’s why Peria and Botin refuse to show before Alda now. They fear he’ll just stake them like he did Vida just because of his inflexible perspective.
Lord Rin
To make it even more ironic is that Alda is fully aware that even gods are susceptible to being guided. He explained it to a bunch of his followers a while back yet he has zero self-awareness that he could have also been guided by Bellwood.
Doc
It also points out an interesting distinction between Van and Bellwood and Vida. Vida likes Van because he’s a direct descendent of Zakkart (and has bits of his soul in him) but she limits her overall exposure to Van because I think she’s aware of the influence Van’s guidance can have. Alda spent thousands of years with Bellwood before Bellwood was sidelined by the Evil God of Sinful Chains.
Dyneamaeus
A great point, and it leads me to a perhaps paranoid suspicion. We know that Van’s guidance can reach across realities and continues even when he himself is incapacitated, so why wouldn’t Bellwood’s? Now that wouldn’t normally mean much, essentially just Alda growing more in line with Bellwood’s guidance while he sleeps. BUT! Given how many examples from the Demon King war fused together already, it’s possible Bellwood and this evil god of Chains are also fused, or maybe fusing?
Which could mean Bellwood’s guidance has been corrupted, no? Hope not though, I’d really rather not give Aldiot an excuse for his actions.
no1
Nice chapter, hearing alda’s debate makes me irritated at how narrominded they are. So a vassal nation of mirg has been informed of the gods of Vida’s faction. Also Heinz and friends have made it to the bottom of their trial. Edgar might be losing it even more. They shouldn’t pat themselves on the back since their trial was made easy for them even before Vandal broke it. Those chains are most likely because bellwood and the evil god of sinful chains struck eachother down. I am looking forward to the next chapter. Thanks for the chapter yoshi
Irazori
The aldiots were always narrowminded throughout the series. They even shame the rape victims for what happened to them.
Thk
Has Bellwood been *imprisoned*?
Utsuho
Reminder :
About 50.000 years ago, Bellwood and the Evil God of Sinful Chain struck each other down.
Utsuho
Oh boy.
Next chapter is gonna be interesting.