This chapter was sponsored by Sverrir G. ($200) [Extra length]
Rodcorte, the god of reincarnation, let out a heavy sigh as he looked over the message from Alda, the god of law and fate.“So, the existence of the reincarnated individuals has been discovered far before I originally planned…” he muttered.Lambda was a world in Rodcorte’s circle of transmigration system that was failing to develop… or rather, the human population would not increase. Frustrated with this, Rodcorte had decided to send a hundred and one reincarnated individuals to Lambda.
With no notice or permission from Alda, the god of law and fate who was the chief god in Lambda.
Of course, he had been fully aware that the gods led by Alda opposed the use of knowledge and technology from foreign worlds. He had gone ahead with his plan anyway because he had been certain that once he executed his plan, things would work themselves out.
The reincarnated individuals who had been born on Earth and gained additional experience in Origin should have naturally utilized their knowledge and technology from foreign worlds in Lambda. They should have been able to display their abilities in all kinds of fields… Agriculture, fishing, cuisine, clothing, economics and more.
However, Rodcorte had predicted that Alda and the gods who served him would not notice for a while, as long as the reincarnated individuals were not unnaturally hasty and did not operate on a very large scale.
The reincarnated individuals should have been born to parents in Lambda as humans, Elves or Dwarves, and given Lambda-like names. Thus, Alda and his servants would have assumed that the inventions created by these reincarnated individuals had developed in Lambda independently, or even if they had noticed, they would have been unable to differentiate between knowledge and technologies from this world and those originating from other worlds.
Of course, the reincarnated individuals would draw attention to themselves if they developed technologies that would be unnatural for Lambda’s people to suddenly invent themselves, such as gunpowder and steam engines. But Rodcorte had envisioned all of this being long after the reincarnated individuals were brought to this world.
The methods for manufacturing gunpowder on Earth or in Origin would be ineffective if they were tried in Lambda. Thus, extensive trial-and-error would be required, and it was possible that the resulting gunpowder would have less explosive force than the average adventurer’s martial skill or spell.
On top of that, in order to create firearms and explosives, each part would need to be built from scratch. Thus, Rodcorte had determined that many of the reincarnated individuals would lose the desire to build these things.
As for steam engines, even if they were invented, it would take a considerable amount of funding and organization to make use of the invention. In order to make that a reality, it would take at least a few years after the reincarnated individuals reached adulthood.
And by then, the one hundred and one reincarnated individuals would have already planted their feet firmly in their places in society, becoming figures who could not easily be disposed of.
If Alda noticed them at this point, it would already be too late. Even if he were to give orders to his believers via Divine Messages, he was currently having problems with Popes that lacked the talent for receiving Divine Messages. If he was not careful, the Pope might release an order to indiscriminately slaughter any individuals deemed even a little unusual along with the reincarnated individuals
Rodcorte had taken action with the assumption that he could gain approval, little by little, after everything had already happened.
Of course, dangerous monsters and fanatical groups already existed in Lambda. But Rodcorte had already made the reincarnated individuals gain experience in Origin so that they would be able to cope with these threats.
With the use of their cheat-like abilities and talent for magic, they would all be able to demonstrate abilities on the level of Lambda’s B-class adventurers.
The exception was the reincarnated individual named Baker, who had been given the ‘Object Creation’ ability. But all Rodcorte needed to do was warn him to not create gunpowder and firearms right away.
And so, Rodcorte had predicted a positive outcome for himself. The population of Lambda would increase over a hundred years, and the evil races of Vida… At least races such as the Majin and Vampires, if not the Beast-people, Titans and Dark Elves that lived in urban areas as well, would be exterminated and decrease in number.
“But in reality, there have been great discrepancies in the timings of the reincarnated individuals’ deaths in Origin, partially due to an anomaly taking shape in the form of Vandalieu. And due to the betrayal of three of the reincarnated individuals I sent to Lambda in adult bodies to exterminate Vandalieu, Alda has taken notice of them, despite the fact that the majority of the reincarnated individuals have not yet been reborn in Lambda,” Rodcorte sighed.
At this rate, the world of Lambda, which belonged to his circle of transmigration system, would no longer be a world that acted as a source of power for him. In fact, it was very possible that Vandalieu’s empire would cause it to become a world ruled by Undead, Monsters and Vida’s races.
“More importantly, what are you going to do about Alda asking you to confirm things? These messages are coming every three days, you know?!” said Aran.
“It doesn’t seem that you can choose what to do while being so indecisive… Surely you’re not thinking of… selling out Asagi and the others, like how you abandoned Samejima and Tanaka – Sarua and Sieg – right?” asked Izumi.
“We don’t really care if you sell out Murakami and his group, though,” added Kouya.
“Should we go as messengers to explain the situation?” Aran suggested.
“No. You intend to escape and make contact with Vandalieu or Asagi the moment you arrive in Lambda, do you not?” said Rodcorte.
“… Tch, you knew.”
It was clear that Aran intended to try to do something outside Rodcorte’s Divine Realm, where not everything was in his sight – regardless of whether this was actually possible or not.
But Rodcorte looked down at Aran and murmured, “However, it is true that I must consider sending a messenger.”
In Earth’s terms, Rodcorte had clearly violated the stipulations of his professional duties, committed unjust acts and one-sidedly trespassed into Alda’s jurisdiction. Naturally, the excuse of “I did these with the good of the world in mind” would not work.
Before Rodcorte sent the reincarnated individuals to Lambda, it was indeed likely that Lambda would undergo a slow decline over a long period of time, but it was not as if the world was heading towards a foreseeable end.
Considering that, there had been no need for Rodcorte to send a hundred reincarnated individuals who were capable of creating the gunpowder and steam engines that Alda feared would harm this world.
Thus, the responses available to Rodcorte were either honestly confessing and apologizing, defiantly defending his actions or lying to trick Alda.
But there was not much point in lying… Rodcorte thought that it was possible to make Murakami’s group’s story match his own, as they were cooperating with him. But Asagi, Mao as well as Kaoru Gotouta, who had left Murakami’s group, did not trust Rodcorte, and he did not trust them either. They were likely to simply tell Alda’s servants everything they knew.
A young Pope with the qualities needed for receiving Divine Messages had been born on the Amid Empire side of the continent, and there were similar events unfolding in the Orbaume Kingdom as well. Now that Alda could influence the selection of his believers into certain positions, it would not be difficult for him to learn of the locations of the reincarnated individuals and ask them questions.
“I shall tell Alda the truth regarding what I have done and who Vandalieu is, and have them cooperate with me in defeating Vandalieu,” Rodcorte said.
And thus, he decided to tell the truth and be defiant. Firmly, with no apology.
“… Do you really think that’s going to work? Have you forgotten that angering the gods will put you at risk as well?” said Kouya.
“Endou Kouya, what you say is correct. However, you are wrong. No matter how much anger Alda and the other gods harbor, they cannot do anything to me. There is a reason for that,” said Rodcorte.
Rodcorte was in charge of reincarnation for Lambda’s humans and animals. If he were to be eliminated, reincarnation would no longer take place correctly in Lambda.
Even if Alda and the gods serving him were to try to manage reincarnation in Rodcorte’s place, they did not possess a single piece of the knowledge required to do so, as Rodcorte had operated Lambda’s reincarnation since immediately after the world was born.
The humans of Lambda would either be born without a soul, or as children with the hatred from their previous lives intact, while monsters and Vida’s races would flourish, as they were reincarnated through the Demon King’s and Vida’s circle of transmigration systems.
This was a scenario that Alda could not accept under any circumstances.
After explaining this, Rodcorte continued to give a summary of facts.
“Alda and his servants are afraid that I will cut Lambda away from my system. That is why they should not be able to punish me if I take a defiant stance. Unlike Vida, Ricklent and Zuruwarn, I am not a god of Lambda, which means that I can escape at any time. They have not forgotten this… Come to think of it, I suppose I should tell them that Ricklent and Zuruwarn are apparently allies of Vida. Once Alda realizes that gods that they believed were their allies are actually enemies, he should be more willing to cooperate with me.”
Izumi’s suspicious expression disappeared after hearing this explanation, and she gave a resigned sigh. “In other words, you’re concealing it. The fact that you’ve already become acknowledged as a god of Lambda so you can’t escape from this world anymore, no matter how much you try.”
Rodcorte’s plan would only have worked in the past, before he became known as a god of Lambda.
He could not escape from Lambda… and if he could not cut Lambda away from his circle of transmigration system, Alda would be able to punish Rodcorte as he would any other god.
Naturally, he would be able to use the Stakes of Law to seal away Rodcorte’s ability to think and act, leaving him able to do nothing other than maintain the circle of transmigration system. It would even be possible to have his familiar spirits and subordinate gods steal knowledge regarding reincarnation, then rob Rodcorte of his authority.
However, Alda did not know that Rodcorte had become a god of Lambda. Rodcorte’s existence was known mostly to the region inside the Boundary Mountain Range, which was controlled by Vida’s faction, where the eyes of Alda’s forces could not see.
As for Vida’s faction… Even Vandalieu should have been unaware of the consequences on Rodcorte that spreading the news that he was a detestable god would have on him, so there was no way that Alda could learn of it from him.
“It is helpful that you are quick to understand. But just in case, I will silence you,” said Rodcorte, forcibly binding his familiar spirits to silence them with his authority as their master.
Once he had done this, he headed for a place in the depths of his Divine Realm, a place that he rarely visited himself.
His familiar spirits watched him leave in silence, deliberately ignoring the faint presence that they could feel behind them, choosing to focus on their discontent towards Rodcorte instead.
They had taken anti-interrogation training in Origin; it was simple for them to divert their attention away and forget about small things.
“Even if I take a defiant stance, it is still likely that there will be consequences,” Rodcorte muttered to himself. “Regarding the one hundred reincarnated individuals, there is nothing I can do about them as they are set to be reincarnated in Lambda regardless of my actions, but… I suppose that it is reasonable for me to keep watch over them to ensure that they do not create gunpowder or steam engines, and swear that I will never do such a thing again.”
A sworn promise from one god to another was equivalent to a binding force, like a curse. Rodcorte was far above Alda in stature as a god, but this was something that fell into the authority of Alda, the god of law and fate. It could not be easily avoided.
But Rodcorte did not mind this. Leaving Vandalieu alone would bring risk upon himself; the situation was becoming worse and heading in that direction.
Rodcorte had already tried to abandon Lambda once; whether the world developed or not was a very small problem to him now.
“The problem is whether he will demand for me to hand these over… but even Alda would likely hesitate to do that,” Rodcorte murmured.
The problem for Rodcorte now was whether he could keep the object that was sealed away here – the object that could become the key to defeating Vandalieu – at hand.
The Demon King Guduranis’s soul, which had been torn into five pieces – his reason, emotion, instinct, memory and power.
After the Demon King was defeated by Bellwood and two other champions, it was none other than Alda who had forced this upon Rodcorte.
At the time, Rodcorte had wanted to refuse, as it was nothing but a dangerous object. But Alda had said to him, “If the Demon King were to be resurrected, he would not stop at this world… he might extend his invasion to other worlds, worlds whose circles of transmigration you rule over.” Having been told this, Rodcorte had been left with no choice but to cooperate.
The soul had remained in the depths of Rodcorte’s Divine Realm for over a hundred thousand years, with so many seals that they could be considered excessive, and nobody other than Rodcorte could approach it.
Rodcorte had been thinking that it could be used as a trump card against Vandalieu. Of course, he would not do something like resurrect Guduranis and try to bargain with him to make him defeat Vandalieu… Rodcorte could not put himself at risk of having his own soul destroyed by a resurrected Guduranis.
No matter how high his stature was as a god, Rodcorte was nothing more than the god of reincarnation. He was not skilled at combat. To Guduranis, Rodcorte would be nothing more than a slow-moving dummy with a large frame.
“If I could place the memories and power of Guduranis, which do not contain his will, inside reincarnated individuals that are compatible… But they are likely to be compatible with Murakami, Anderson or Akira. Using Vandalieu as reference, someone with similar Mana properties to those of Guduranis should be able to use them,” Rodcorte muttered to himself.
“In other words, someone with death-attribute Mana or someone who actually possessed the power to oppose and control death-attribute Mana would be able to utilize the fragments of the Demon King’s soul. The reason, emotion and instinct were dangerous, but it should be possible to use Guduranis’s memories and power, which did not contain his will, just like the fragments of his body.
However, none of the three members of Murakami’s group had either of these. If he were to give the fragments to any of them, they would likely rampage out of control very quickly.
Rodcorte had granted ‘Mage Masher’ Asagi the power to erase Mana with an attribute, but… it was unlikely to work. He would resist for longer than Murakami, but the fragments would certainly rampage out of control in the end.
“I suppose I shall give this to Murakami’s group instead. It is far inferior to the Demon King’s soul, but… there is no use in giving them a power that they cannot wield.”
Rodcorte turned his gaze away from the fragments of the Demon King’s soul and looked instead towards some distorted orbs. They were objects that looked as if the fragments of broken orbs had been forcibly gathered and joined together again.
Two of them, one large and one small, floated in front of Rodcorte.
“Some fragments of their previous owners’ souls may still be left inside them, but given Murakami’s strong will, he should be able to suppress them. And in the end, it is his decision as to whether or not to use them.”
And with that, Rodcorte took the Orbs and returned to the center of his Divine Realm in order to approve a reply to Alda.
Ricklent, the genie of time and magic, was in the form of an old man, a young man and a boy, who sat in a temporarily-created Divine Realm and ‘observed’ his believers.
They were very odd; the old man was frowning with a complicated expression, while the young man was smiling bitterly and the boy had a joyful smile on his face.
Suddenly, Zuruwarn, the god of space and creation, who took the form of a four-headed lion, appeared.
“How strange are the actions of your believers?” Zuruwarn asked.
Ricklent grimaced. “There is nothing strange about them. My believers are doing well in listening to my words,” he replied.
“Then have they understood our instructions to place distance between the Church of Alda and cooperate with Vida’s races and Vida’s true believers?”
Naturally, Ricklent and Zuruwarn were aware that the gods of Alda’s forces had made active movements, trying to create hastily-made heroes. They were also aware that this was all to defeat Vida’s faction, which was recovering strength under Vandalieu’s lead.
That was why they had made moves of their own to press their own believers to separate themselves from the Church of Alda and join Vida’s faction.
There were few believers who could receive their Divine Messages, but many of those who could were in positions to lead other believers, so this should not be an impossible task.
“I gave instructions to over ten individuals excluding Legion, and I have been observing the movements of the followers who received the Divine Message after that, but… if I were to put their response into words, it would be something like, ‘We cannot respond immediately. We shall consider our options,’” said Ricklent.
“… Ricklent, is that not a rather unfavorable response?” said Zuruwarn.
“You are right, my brother.”
Those who had received Ricklent’s Divine Message had reacted with varying degrees of surprise, and then decided to keep quiet while scrutinizing the meaning of the Divine Message, gathering information and analyzing the situation.
It was uncertain as to whether the Divine Message they received was correct… Whether the god who had sent it to them was right, and whether there was value in obeying it.
Ricklent felt tremendous love and pride for his believers who doubted even the words of gods.
“I do not preach what is good, nor do I indicate what is evil. I am a great god who rules over time and magic. Thus, those who worship me are all investigators and students,” he said. “To them, I am a guide and a leader, and at the same time, I am a subject of their research. It is necessary for them to see things this way. It is only by observing the actions of their research subject, by doubting and by thoroughly examining everything until they are satisfied, that humans can reach gods.”
“You seem so happy again… Don’t you enjoy suffering a little too much?” said Zuruwarn, his tone no longer sounding like the speech of a god. “Well, your believers are mostly researchers or scholars of the Mages’ Guild, or secluded philosophers, so they might not be of any help even if they do join Vida’s believers, though.”
“Then how are your beloved followers?” Ricklent asked in turn.
“Do you wish to know? Then you should ask them yourself. I have sent a Divine Message to all of my followers who seem as if they can receive them. I have not looked at them since, so I do not know!” Zuruwarn replied proudly.
This time, it was Ricklent’s turn to sigh as Zuruwarn’s four heads laughed.
“… So, you simply sent the Divine Message and then left them be,” said Ricklent.
“If humans were pitiful creatures that would believe that gods would look after them in every aspect of their existence, they would not go out of their way to worship us in the first place. My words are nothing more than opinions for them to refer to,” said Zuruwarn. “How they act after hearing them is up to each individual. If I have nothing to do, then I will do my best to watch them, but they must bear the responsibility for their own choices. Humans are not puppets, after all.”
Zuruwarn had always been a trickster… even more indifferent to the concepts of good and evil than Ricklent, and he believed that it was his duty to destroy past preconceptions and traditions to bring about chaos. He maintained a considerable distance between himself and his believers. It was not that he did not love them, but he knew that due to his nature, he would disrupt the daily lives of humans too much if he were too close to them.
“Are we not the same in this regard? As our believers cannot ever become the majority, even if they do not join Vida’s faction soon, it is unlikely to affect the masses, but… leaving aside the issue of our believers, what of Rodcorte’s movements?” asked Ricklent.
“I know. It seems that he is attempting to tell Alda everything in order to establish a cooperative relationship,” said Zuruwarn. “He intends to tell him that we are Vida’s allies, too.”
Zuruwarn had recently been testing whether he could peer into Rodcorte’s Divine Realm by twisting space. He had begun these tests with the assumption that they would fail. Indeed, he had been unable to completely conceal his presence and was detected by Rodcorte’s familiar spirits as a result.
However, Rodcorte seemed to be unpopular even among his own familiar spirits; they had allowed Zuruwarn to observe events with no request from Zuruwarn to do so.
Still, Rodcorte would likely have noticed Zuruwarn if he paid attention to his surroundings, but… he was a god who had existed since long before the world of Lambda was born, while being the only god that did not belong to any world. It would have been unreasonable to expect him to constantly pay attention to his surroundings.
“So, the information that he is hiding… The fact that he has become a god of Lambda, shall we tell Alda?” Ricklent suggested.
“That is unclear,” said Zuruwarn. “It is true that we are allies of Vida, so we cannot be sure that Alda will believe what we have to say… and even if we do tell him, it is difficult to imagine that Alda currently possesses the spare power necessary to punish Rodcorte.”
“Indeed… He has used a significant amount of power in creating that Dungeon, too. Knowing Alda, he will likely join forces with Rodcorte to defeat Vandalieu and his allies, then punish Rodcorte afterwards. With that being the case, there is no point in telling Alda the truth.”
From Ricklent and Zuruwarn’s perspective, Alda could only be seen as having lost his mind, but they did believe that he was prioritizing the continuation of Lambda in his own way. That was why he was focusing his power into defeating Vandalieu, and not trying to take Rodcorte’s authority.
… To him, Vandalieu appeared to threaten greater harm to the world than Rodcorte.
“Then let us go to the Demon Continent for now. You will not be able to peer into Rodcorte’s Divine Realm if we enter the barrier around the Boundary Mountain Range, after all,” said Ricklent.
“It cannot be helped,” said Zuruwarn. “However, simply running away is irritating to me, so I shall play a little trick. After that, I shall express my desire to bestow a divine protection upon Vandalieu as a parting gift.”
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January came, bringing the new year with it. A row of covered wagons traveled through the cold winter air, away from the highway.
Around the middle of the row, the coachman of one of the wagons and the men guarding the convoy were complaining about the problems of the previous year.
“We got a big hunt this time. This will be more than enough to last all the way until next year’s winter.”
“The year before was pretty terrible because of the heroes, after all. There were rumors that others in our business were being attacked and massacred by some strange people, too.”
“It’s my first time hearing this rumor. What kind of ‘strange people’ are you talking about?”
“According to the rumors, some guys had their hideout raided by a bunch of completely nude people and had all their stuff taken.”
“… Huh?! What the hell is that? They were stark naked? Nobody would have any trouble dealing with people like that. Or are you telling me these strange people were all sexy ladies who killed them while they were all ogling?”
“I mean, I didn’t see them myself, but there were apparently both men and women. According to the rumors, they were all masters of magic, and the acquaintance of my acquaintance that I heard the story from was fortunate enough to escape, but the others were apparently slaughtered.”
“… Then isn’t it likely that either they were monsters camouflaged as humans, or that your acquaintance’s acquaintance is full of shit?”
“But apparently there really are groups of bandits that were wiped out like that. There are some differences in the descriptions of the attackers, like some saying they were fully naked while others say they were wearing only rags. I wouldn’t want to be targeted by people like that. It was enough that we were attacked by monsters last year and had to use our newly-acquired stock as bait to get away.”
Despite the topic of conversation, the men’s voices were not grim; they seemed to be talking loosely because they knew that their pockets would become significantly fuller soon.
Meanwhile, there was only a sense of emptiness among the goods inside the carriages… the slaves.
“Don’t you worry; you lot are precious goods to us. We’ll keep you fed until a slave trader buys you,” one of the men told them with a cackle.
These men were criminals who made a living by gathering slaves through illegal means. Tricking women and children living in slums by telling them that there was work for them and then kidnapping them was among the tamer methods they used; they sometimes attacked villages and then took the supplies and surviving villagers.
Every person inside the wagons was a slave who had been acquired through illegal means, except for one.
The future of illegally-traded slaves was dark in most cases. Most of their buyers were managers of mines or plantations that needed a source of disposable labor, or mages that wanted to conduct illegal human experiments, or those who felt desires that could not be made public and wanted an outlet to live out those desires.
Slaves that were traded legally still at least had some hope as long as they were not sent to a mine, and if they were lucky, they could be purchased and released by kind souls.
But illegally-traded slaves had no such hope, nor did they have any rights. The only way they could be released was through death.
The slaves in the wagons likely either knew this, or at least had a strong hunch that this was the case… Most of them were children, but there was not even a glimpse of life in their eyes.
But the sound of someone quietly humming was coming from inside one of the wagons.
Vandalieu, wearing a rag as an eyepatch to conceal one of his odd-colored eyes, had slipped in among the slaves, and he was humming. Even with one eye concealed, his white hair and wax-like skin should have been conspicuous, but he had suppressed his presence immensely with the Dark King Magic spell ‘Blind Spot.’ Naturally, the men outside and even the slaves sitting next to and opposite him hadn’t noticed an extra slave enter the wagon, nor did they take any notice of his humming despite the fact that they could certainly hear it.
In the time leading up to the new year, Vandalieu had made various preparations, such as acquiring the fragments under the protection of the Pure-breed Vampires slumbering in Vida’s Resting Grounds and continuing to improve the structure of Talosheim using his Demon King Familiars. But what was he doing in a place like this?
This was a part of his preparatory work to begin his activity in the Orbaume Kingdom.
As for why his activity was needed in the Orbaume Kingdom, it had something to do with the fact that Alda’s forces had begun acting in very visible ways.
Their stance of hostility against Vida’s faction had been strengthened, and if the plans of Alda’s forces continued as they were now, radical events would inevitably begin to take place in the Orbaume Kingdom.
For instance, people might falsely claim that Vida, who resided inside the Boundary Mountain Range, was a false goddess, an evil deity who misled people. Or perhaps people would begin to persecute those who could be guided by Vandalieu, such as Vida’s races who originated from monsters, and attack their settlements.
Unfortunately, Familiar Spirit Descent could also be used by believers of evil gods, and third parties could not tell whether those who claimed to have received a Divine Message really had received one or whether they were just talking nonsense.
If trusted politicians and famous figures inside the Orbaume Kingdom were to make such claims, wouldn’t people believe them regardless of what Vida’s believers said?
The effect would be particularly large if Heinz and those around him were the ones making those claims, Vandalieu thought.
The Heinz who had appeared in Vandalieu’s dreams late last summer had seemed to be in the peaceful faction, but Vandalieu couldn’t trust him. He believed it was possible that Heinz would come out of Alda’s trial that he was currently facing as a puppet incapable of saying anything other than, “As my master wills.”
Vandalieu wanted to try attacking the Dungeon that was apparently a trial created by Alda… He wanted to test if he would be able to wipe out Heinz and his companions along with the whole Dungeon by firing Hollow Cannon at it repeatedly from the outside. But this idea had been rejected after discussion, with the reason that it would be dangerous as the gods of Alda’s forces would make every possible desperate effort to stop him.
If it was just a single god descending upon the world, one about as powerful as Gyubarzo, Vandalieu was confident that he would emerge victorious. However, if it was multiple gods descending, and they were to coordinate their efforts without letting down their guard, Vandalieu was less sure that he would be able to win.
He might be able to defeat one or two gods, but three or more would be difficult. Even if he brought his companions and fought an all-out war, if the enemy gods and heroic spirits descended one after another with the resolve to sacrifice themselves to defeat Vandalieu, the end result would be the same.
In any case, there were more enemies than just Heinz. The hasty hero-making that Alda’s forces had started last year was happening in the Orbaume Kingdom as well. There were fewer of them there than the Amid Empire, as there were fewer believers of Alda to begin with, but it seemed that each of them was individually receiving more attention as a result.
They weren’t as famous as Heinz, but if anything were to happen to him, one of these hastily-made heroes could become a new leader.
Of course, the believers of Vida in the Orbaume Kingdom would likely oppose them, and many believers of Alda in the nation were supposed to belong to the peaceful faction that tolerated Vida’s races, but… it was the opinion of all of Talosheim’s key figures, including Vandalieu, that they could not be relied upon.
In the past, Princess Levia and a number of other Titans had fled from Talosheim to the Hartner Duchy. The newly-appointed head of the Hartner family at the time had charged Princess Levia with false crimes and executed her, then sent the remaining Titans, including Borkus’s daughter Gopher, to a slave mine where they performed slave labor for two hundred years.
Though the Sauron family had been supposed to be believers of Vida, after the second generation, they had isolated the Scylla race and confined them to their own territory.
And then there was Raymond and Rick, the Paris brothers who had murdered many Scylla, including Orbia, in order to make use of the Scylla race for their own objectives despite being believers of Vida themselves.
These were all real examples of why people could not be trusted just because they were believers of Vida. Unfortunately, their connection to Vida had been so weak that it was wrong to call them believers. That was why they had never received any Divine Messages.
And even if the dukes of the other ten duchies were virtuous leaders, that did not necessarily mean that they would distance themselves from Alda’s forces and be tolerant of Vida’s races.
There would surely be some who chose to obey the wishes of the majority of the population under their rule and oppress the members of Vida’s races that were in the minority.
It was possible that the reincarnated individuals like Murakami and Asagi, or the Pure-breed Vampire Birkyne who worshipped an evil god, would directly or indirectly begin a propaganda campaign against Vida. This would be a truly unpleasant thing to see happen.
Birkyne was particularly capable of taking large-scale actions like this, as he controlled numerous criminal organizations.
Thus, Vandalieu and his allies had decided to leave the Boundary Mountain Range to deal with these potential problems.
They needed to secure an intelligence base to gather information, build up their influence by making allies out of Vida’s believers and members of Vida’s races, acquire political and societal power in the Orbaume Kingdom, and widely preach their own beliefs to the people.
During this process, if Murakami’s group were successfully lured out to target Vandalieu now that he was outside the Boundary Mountain Range, he would kill them, then grab a hold of Birkyne’s tail and dispose of him as well. Murakami’s group might have changed their way of thinking now that some time had passed since their reincarnation, and if this was the case, Vandalieu intended to release them after making them swear (brainwashing them) to not get involved with Alda’s forces.
In order to do these things, I need to first slip into… take over, a criminal organization, don’t I?
Vandalieu and his allies had decided to take over an existing criminal organization, as it would be too much work to gather information from scratch. The fact that Vandalieu was currently among these slaves was one part of that.
In any case, things were going well… or at least, they had been, up until now.
A particularly large man with a scar on his face walked over, looking angry.
“Oi, you lot! When did your lips become so loose?! There’s a limit to how careless you can be!” he shouted at the other men.
The men stood up straight and their faces stiffened with fear.
“G-Girabat-san, w-we’re sorry!” one of them squeaked.
“Have you been drinking? If you mess up, I’ll sell you lot to the mines as well –” The man named Girabat stopped his reprimanding mid-sentence, frowning. “What is that weird noise?!” he demanded, looking around and then peering underneath the canopy of one of the wagons.
He had noticed Vandalieu’s humming.
Girabat was a failed mercenary, and due to various sorrowful events in his life, he possessed a Level 3 Mental Resistance Skill.
I’ve failed this practice… It seems that loosening the effects of the Mental Encroachment Skill reduces its power, too. It’s pretty difficult to use it in a way that it won’t have any lasting effects, Vandalieu thought to himself with a sigh as he stopped humming.
Perhaps as a reactionary effect from having resisted the Mental Encroachment Skill, Girabat seemed to become even more infuriated as he peered into the wagon, looking for the source of the humming.
At the worst moment possible, one of the slaves, a very young girl, began having a severe coughing fit. Girabat glared at her with bloodshot eyes.
“It was you…!” he growled.
“P-please, wait! My sister’s body is frail, and…!” began a young boy who appeared to be the girl’s older brother.
“Her body is frail?! I can’t sell her then, can I! She can’t even be used as a whore at that age and she wouldn’t last long in a mine, so it’d be killing two birds with one stone if I put her out of her misery so I can enjoy some peace and quiet!” Girabat shouted, climbing into the carriage and reaching for the girl.
Despite having his hands bound by wooden shackles, the older brother stood in Girabat’s way, but he was easily thrust aside.
“You don’t have time to be worrying about your little sister!” Girabat shouted at the boy as he lifted the little girl into the air by her collar. “You better pray hard that you don’t get sent to a mine –”
Suddenly, Girabat stopped mid-sentence and let out a strange noise.
Thin, black, slippery tubes had entered both of his ears.
Frozen in astonishment, the boy and the other slaves ran their eyes along the tubes to see that they were connected to Vandalieu’s tongue.
“… I suppose just the nerves and sub-brain will do for now,” Vandalieu said, speaking surprisingly clearly despite the fact that his tongue had extended and transformed into the Demon King’s proboscises from halfway down.
The tubes swelled, and something began pouring into Girabat.
“Stop… it…” Girabat begged desperately, with cold sweat oozing from every pore in his trembling body, tears and saliva dripping from his face. But in the next instant, he became expressionless and began speaking quietly and clearly. “Testing, testing, my name is Girabat, err, I’m Girabat, y’know? I suppose that’s close enough?”
As Vandalieu’s proboscises were removed from his ears, Girabat wiped the small amount of red-grey liquid dripping from them with a sleeve and gently put the little girl back down into her seat.
“Girabat-san! What’s the matter?!” one of the men outside shouted.
“It’s nothing! Hurry up and get back to work!” Girabat shouted back in a slightly flat-toned voice, and then he climbed back out of the carriage.
“W-what was that…?” the boy murmured, shielding his dazed sister from Vandalieu.
“W-who on earth… No, when the hell did you get in here?” asked another dumbfounded slave.
“I’m sorry. I swear to you that I mean no harm to any of you, so please stay quiet and patient for the next short while. Actually, that’s probably an unreasonable and impossible request, so please go to sleep,” Vandalieu said to them.
And in the next instant, the wagon was filled with a sweet scent… a sleeping drug that he had produced with Deadly Poison Secretion (Claws, Fangs, Tongue) and vaporized. The slaves all fell into a deep slumber.
Vandalieu began murmuring to himself.
“With this, I can concentrate on controlling Girabat… my infested Demon King Familiar. It would be simple if I just needed to move him around, but to actually take his place seems like it would be difficult to do in a short period of time. Mostly because of my acting ability…”
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Zenden1st
The gods are so fragile just like humans i noticed how theyve been influenced by their heroes they could been really nice gods if their heroes were cool headed.
VIDA IS BEST
Yonko
Vandalieu intended to release them after making them swear (brainwashing them) to not get involved with Alda’s forces.
Lmao 😂
mickeyduck
sometimes i feel bad for roddy boi because sometimes you’re just born a dumbass, take me for example. the only difference between me and him is that im a self aware dumbass
Rasho
If you’re aware that you’re a dumbass, that means you aren’t completely so, and can even reform and even get acknowledged as smart, unlike a certain Rodiot
emergency3808
That is strangely uplifting
Jason
This idiot just keeps getting dumber and dumber
Raidanzoup
“Still, Rodcorte would likely have noticed Zuruwarn if he paid attention to his surroundings, but… he was a god who had existed since long before the world of Lambda was born, while being the only god that did not belong to any world. It would have been unreasonable to expect him to constantly pay attention to his surroundings.”
It’s so funny how Rodcorte is portrayed as a creature stepping out of its comfort zone, or intended domain. He never learned how to be considerate of others, on any and all relevant levels, because he never had any need or intention to. But then one day, like a fully grown adult man attempting to pick up skateboarding, he just tried “doing new stuff” one day because he got impatient about Lambda and broke his teeth on the asphalt.
Dean1997
Simple probability states that that ONE guy who rejected reincarnation must have been something special, there should have been more of them otherwise.
Chiu ChunLing
Yeah.
He was special. He decided that he’d rather have his memories of his life erased and be randomly turned into whatever, animal, bug, plant even, with no special fortune or anything.
Very few people would chose that if they were offered to have a life with a bunch of advantages.
That’s why there was only one guy out of 102 who chose that.
Of course, Van also wanted that when Rotcortex told him he already gave away his fortune and powers, so he’d be reincarnated with a complete absence of luck and he’d be a freakishly disabled person in Origin. But that’s pretty normal.
polynesianvibez
van and co on the move now. nice
thanks for the chapter
Chalky4Block
“To Guduranis, Rodcorte would be nothing more than a slow-moving dummy with a large frame.”
Oh, he’s a dummy alright.
Brandragoon
How has Rodcorte stayed alive this long? He’s like a really old god right? Then how can he possibly be this stupid?
Townperson B
They can’t do anything to him, he can cut of the system to their world and even if they manage to capture him they will have to face other gods from other worlds.
SuicidalSkeletin
In many a case he is just a very egotistical God who robs other worlds from their own reincarnation cycles and takes over them. Them the other Gods can do nothing but obey him in fear that he separates their worlds and they die off. He is like the really really bad boss in a company that takes over an other company and threatens them to shut them down.
polynesianvibez
He just thinks he’s above everyone since he wasn’t bound to any of the worlds. You’d think he’d learn from mistakes and improve but no his ego is above everything else. Well, that’ll change now since he’s bound to Lambda now.
Alke
He stayed alive for that long because he was like a hikikimori god playing with lives behind his “screen” doing his little accounting while managing barely a system that works with or without him. 😑😑😑🙄🙄. Him around somebody is the perfect way to create criminal thoughts like :”I wanna kill this stupid b*stard”
WolfLord_Jordon
Thanks for the chapter on a good story is interesting that he can’t innocent people dying in front of him
Wannabe
I’m starting to see why Alda’s followers are all zealots. Ricklent advocates critical thinking, Zuruwarn gives tips and leaves them be, the other big ones are unconscious/weak. Alda is the only one that is pushy, and is kinda anti science. I am betting Alda’s church is unpopular among scholars. Maybe historians would like Curatos.
Nairne
I think Bellwood is the cause here, and Alda is an uber coward (only those are pushy and tyrannical). I don’t remember how he was described (or if he was at all since I’m coming back to the novel after a while), but I think he wanted to be “the protagonist” and as someone mentioned in comments in a previous chapter, gunpowder led to a change in the society.
They want to preserve the world so much that they forget that they keep killing each other just as much without gunpowder as with it.
Also, it’s ridiculous when you think about pollution – there is magic, so just invent spells to deal with it.
All in all, I think Alda and Bellwood are both cowards, Alda being a particular kind of trash for attacking his sibling.
Calango
In a sense, Alda acts unfavorably towards the other gods. He and bellwood advocate against the traits of other gods, and it is the same as denying their existence. Example: Going against technology, medicine and population growth are the same as not recognizing the existence of Vida, Paris and Ricklent. Lambda has 8 great gods, but because he is the god of law and fate, he thinks he is the boss.
Leguim
He thought he was the boss since the time he only ruled over Light, but once he could actually fulfill his fantasy (superiority complex) he started to call it “Fate”…says a lot about how he views himself: “The one who rules over law and fate, and thus if anyone opposes me they’re mad, evil and need to be exterminated or sealed, even if it means destroying the world on the long run”.
Thebuddy
I was wondering if the translator has any social media so we can be in know about the translation of chapters or if the $150 has been reached
Yoshi
Our Discord channel keeps you (more) up to date
Nobody2
Chapter? When?
Kendov
Usually every one or two weeks, so probably later this week, but has been up to four weeks before so I wouldn’t bet on it
NeoKiske
Thanks for the chapters
MrMarroc
Thank you very much for the ALL the chapters up to this point and going forward. Sadly, its taken me 194 of them to muster up the motivation to create an account and share my gratitude. BUT ITS BEEN THERE NONE THE LESS!
Ive read through a bunch of “hypothetical” scenarios for future chapters, so I figured I would toss in my two bits about it. I dont read raws, so this is all skeptical information that I believe COULD happen, But ill throw in a
[BEWARE OF POTENTIAL SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT]
just to be safe.
After finding out a year has passed in Lambda at this point, I believe we are going to get the “Conclusion” arc for Origin. Which means we will find out what ends up happening to our newborn Death Mage Mei, what Rikudou does to her, what ends up killing Amemiya Hiroto and (still salty about the author making this happen even if it made sense for the plot) Amemiya Narumi, and etc etc. My guess is that we will NEVER find out the names of ALL the Bravers/Reincarnated individuals, because at this point I sometimes find it hard to follow even those we have so far, and most of them will probably end up very inconsequential in the long run anyhow.
My guess on the matter is that Rikudou will kill the two Amemiyas trying to get his hands on death magic, but will turn into a mutually assured destruction moment and die himself as well.
After that of course they will be reincarnated into Lambda where good ol NimRod will finally spill the beans about Van to Narumi, who STILL doesnt know that she took part in killing the guy who tried to save her life the very first time around. Her current hubby will trip up, tell her that HE KNEW FOR A LONG TIME NOW BUT DIDNT FEEL LIKE TELLING HER, and will cause a rift between the two. From there, my guess is that she will either be held up by NimRod because she will obviously go side with Van, or she will reluctantly be reincarnated and ‘fight’ with Van only to turn coat and join him later.
Another possibility I had thought was Vida stepping in and bringing Narumi over to that reincarnation circle upon her death, but this is unrealistic since Vida/Van would need to provide a body for her soul to enter and at this point I cant see either of them caring enough about Narumi to do that.
We can already tell Alda’s “Make Heinz a Hero” plan is going to fail. Heinz cant beat the current Van because hes been fighting an outdated version for so long. But Heinz’s character matches so well with Amemiya Hirotos that I see no way Van wont have to end up fighting the both of them at the same time further into the story. Whether or not its a total blowout remains to be seen, but I cant see the situation playing out in any other particular way.
As for NimRods plan in using these two orbs hes got, my only thought is that its the souls of the previous heroes. Obviously, Van has parts of their souls in him as well, so as always NimRod is just adding fuel to the proverbial fire that is Van, but how they will play out has me curious. My expectations are that either they will stabilize vans abilities somehow (such as removing a couple of those curses hes got), or boosting him with some more godlike powers that make our favourite abberant dhampir who he is. Cant wait to find out.
Once again, to the entire LNB team, Thank you for your hard work getting these to us. Thank you to the donators and patrons who pay for it, Thank you fellow readers for enjoying the same story and leaving comments along with me, and Thank YOU for reading this if you made it this far 😉
-Mr M.
Lucian
Those orbs are the DK Guduranis soul split into reason, emotion, instinct, memory and power.Van will probably get the “memory” and “power” from Murakami’s group,probably before or just after the start of the war with Alda&Co and will get a major boost in power.
MrMarroc
Im sorry, but I believe you are incorrect:
Rodcorte turned his gaze away from the fragments of the Demon King’s soul and looked instead towards some distorted orbs. They were objects that looked as if the fragments of broken orbs had been forcibly gathered and joined together again.
Two of them, one large and one small, floated in front of Rodcorte.
“Some fragments of their previous owners’ souls may still be left inside them, but given Murakami’s strong will, he should be able to suppress them. And in the end, it is his decision as to whether or not to use them.”
This passage here states that the orbs NimRod picked up to give to Murakami’s group ARE NOT the DK Soul fragments and instead fragments of other souls. Hence my suspicion that they are parts of the other heroes soul’s that are a part of Vans at the moment.
Ryuuseiboy1
It isn’t four champion soul since Rod already combine them and become van soul.
I would like to spoil so much but I’ll just say it is from a soul that van broke.
Yoki
Yeah I agree, I believe they’re soul fragments that van-sama broke, probably Gungnir’s and Death Scythe’s
Megamink24
The heck is up with these time slots? It’s after 2’oclock and my time slot says I posted it at 6:06.
Nobody2
It’s probably set to whatever time zone the person making the site is in. Their comment section is (no offense to them) really crappy and basic compared with disquis which they stopped using for some reason
Megamink24
What happened to my comment?
Megamink24
I was going to wait till next chapter. But since I have a feeling my comment will be invalid by then, I will say it now. I think the conditions to be capable of using Death magic is not what we think it is. I think the condition to be capable of using and wielding death magic your soul must be covered by death energy. Why do I think this? For one our main character had his soul broken into fragments by Death magic and then it was reformed . Then there’s daughter of Amamiya Hiroto, who possesses the death attribute. She was covered by it when she still in her mother’s womb, she was basically a soul so was she more susceptible thus she became infused with death magic. If my ramblings make any sense, I hope it helps people understand. Also, I hope I didn’t spoil anything I don’t know how to do a spoiler tag.
Morgan
This makes a lot of sense. But it creates the question, how did Gudaranis get his Death Mana? perhaps it’s something like the energy that makes up the void since nothing is supposed to be able to survive in it. That could be because it’s literally just an infinite dimension made of Death Mana.
Supreme king
Or guduranis was just born from DEATH or after unraveling deaths secrets he became the founder and user of it?
HyuRin Askha
can’t wait to see what is going to happened when heinz out of that dungeon so i wait
OwO) oh and thanks for the chapter so i report
it was delicious so i declare
akatsuki kuranashi
poor rodcorte he hasn’t realized that to all demon fragments vandalieu is the demon king and all the fragment prehaps excluding the demon lord will are going to run stright to vandalieu to offer themself to him
Kendov
The usual problem, most gods can’t observe him, so they never witnessed how he absorbed the fragments. If they knew that the fragments are running to van like moths into the light, Alda would probably not have caused the eclipse which caused the seals to weaken.
cloudguile
Wonder what kind of Trolling Zuruwarn is gonna do? I hope it’s gonna Loki level
Rollrock
Van is seriously underselling his strength, at this point he’s probably fully capable of taking out the entirety of Alda’s pantheon if they were to descend.
rainyday
nah the stuff that kills God’s like hollow king magic and the DK fragment artillery takes a lot of mana even for him
tigerpro1
Plus hollow king cause recoil destroying his arm. At least for hollow cannon.
Supreme king
It’s hollow cannon man Andy it’s magic is hollow king magic I know u wanna say hollow king cannon cuz of well bleach lol I do too at times plus it sounds cooler
shadowboy
what if the old demon king resurrects and picks a fight with Van but then Darcia comes and chides both of them and somehow old demon king starts calling Darcia mum and Van his little brother
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all of Alda’s faction instantly screwed
Kendov
How about “the demon king wasn’t that much of a bad guy, Alda was just a douche right from the beginning” xD
Demonicmuffin
The Demon King did nothing wrong.
Supreme king
Goddamn u FAGITH!!!!
Morgan
What I’m wondering about is that girl Van tried to save waaaaay back in his first life. She was pretty grateful to the wrong guy so when she finds out it was Van, what will she do? Also when van becomes a god, what will his authorities be? Obviously the Death attribute but will he also become a god of souls or family cause he can manipulate souls (Kinda) and literally broke the laws of life and death to reincarnate his mother?
Byakko63
That girl already know that van was the one who saved her, because of this she even have a break out with her boyfriend after she have know that the one who saved her was Van, but she coud’nt do anything anymore since Van was already dead at that time.
But what will happen when she is face to face with Van is the question, since its possible that she and her husband will have another break out because of Van, because her husband is idiot an like Heinz, its possible that he will believe in Rodcord and try to kill Van, and she will try to save the one who saved her in the past, i would like to see something like this.
Oshibo
there is one flaw in that and it is that Rodcorte doesn’t have to tell her Van’s identity. What I would love is if there was a screwup and she ended up in Van’s harem, the other guy got Van’s blessings and potential girl, why not steal one of them back. The dude profited from Van’s misery, might as well let him have some too.
Ryuuseiboy1
There’ll be an origin arc that would reveal most of RI that would have a connection to van (allies or enemies) and they would mostly coming to lambda at the end of arc. Now back to the question about narumi’s relationship. Base on already tl chapters. I think she still don’t know. I mean last time they actually met is when van got insta-killed. Also Rikudo destroyed all clue that point out that van is RI and only Rikudo and Amemiya is only ppl who know that still in origin.
Byakko63
Even if Rodcord don’t tell her who Van is, their three friends over there will tell her, the other option is that Rodcord give a ban to the three so they don’t tell hem the truth.
tigerpro1
Plus Rodocorte has already decided not to hide anything about van after the gungir incident.(Also i only remember that guys nickname) Because it Had made Gungir overconfident. Letting Van know Rodocorte’s plan. Also the reincarnated individuals already don’t trust him. So he basically causing himself more problems by giving contradictory information.Leading more reincarnators are going to trust van more than him causing them to join van’s side.
Supreme king
Nahh fam we don’t need no hoes in the harem
Doom
PRAISE VAN-SAMA, OUR LORD SAVIOR, OUR CHAMPION, OUR DEATH GOD, AS HE MAKES HIS ENEMIES COWER IN FEAR WHILE HE INFILTRATES HIS ENEMIES AND PREPARES HIS COUNTERMEASURES. THE SACRED MESSAGE TODAY IS:
I wonder if I can make him do a funny dance?
frozen ink
im just curious if rod knows van eats souls…. cause if so hes basically preping him dinner
Byakko63
I don’t think so, after all if rod did know about this, he would’nt prepare such dinner to van.
VEreality
At this point in time we can all agree that Rodiot is awful at everything. Including spying and information gathering. I think he has no idea
Chadd
Minor updates this time. Wondering If Rodcorte’s angels do defect, would they defect to Van or not. Those demon god fragments appear pretty dangerous, I wonder if Van would destroy them rather then merge with them.
Biggest irony with what Hienz is doing is he is making the conflict between Alda and Vida even worse even though his goal is to make peace between the two factions. Hes Alda’s champion and getting stronger will the goal of freeing Bellwood. By doing so he will encourage Alda’s forces and convince Vida’s forces that negotiation is impossible. Basically wont be any way to even negotiate once hes done with the dungeon. Best thing he can do is go hide in a remote area of the world for the rest of his life.
-Souls Destroyed (2)-
Kaidou Kanata (M/Gungnir) – Ex-Bravers – Ignore interference
Konoe Miyaji (M/Death Scythe) – Murakami (Betrayed) – Kill/Stop heart of things he sees
-Lamba (17) –
Vandalieu [Amamiya Hiroto] (M/Undead/Dhampir) – Vandalieu Faction – None (Death Magic)
Minuma Hitomi (F?/Gazer/Legion) – Vandalieu Faction – Future Sight
Tsuchiya Kanako (F/Venus/Chaos Elf) – Vandalieu Faction – Copy and Paste
Melissa J. Sautome (F/Aegis/Chaos Elf) – Vandalieu Faction – Barrier
Doug Atlas (M/Hecatoncheir/Human?) – Vandalieu Faction – Telekinesis, Omnidirectional Perception, Force Vision
Sarua Legston [Sameshima Yuuri] (M/Perseus/Baby) – Vandalieu Faction – Halt movement of target
Sieg [Tanaka] (M/Skanda/Baby) – Vandalieu Faction – Speed Boost
Asagi Minami (M/Mage Masher) – Peacekeeping Faction – Magic Canceler
Shouko Akaki (F/Ifrit) – Peacekeeping Faction – Heat/Flame manipulation
Tendou Tatsuya (M/Clairvoyance) – Peacekeeping Faction – Vision related abilities
Mao Smith (F/Noah/Dwarf) – Neutral Faction – Storage space
Mackenzie (F/Urðr/Baby) – Neutral Faction – See into past
Gotouta Kaori (F/Super Sense/Elf) – Neutral Faction – Enhance 5 senses
Murakami Junpei (M/Chronos/Human) – Hostile Faction (Rodcorte) – Spell/Skill Delay
Hasamada Aki (M/Odin/Human) – Hostile Faction (Rodcorte) – See few seconds into future
Misa Anderson (F/Sylphid/Elf) – Hostile Faction (Rodcorte) – Turn body into gas
Inui Hajime (M/Marionette/Human) – Hostile Faction (Fitun)- Body Manipulation
-Origin (79)-
Amemiya Hiroto (M/Braver) – Bravers – Seven Attributes Affinity, Chant Revocation, Multi-Cast, Ignore Defense (4 others)
Amemiya Narumi (F/Angel) – Bravers – Telepathy, Joint Sensation
Iwao ???? (M/Titan) – Bravers – Gravity
???? Baker (?/???) – Bravers – Object Creation
Rikudou Hajiri (M/Avalon) – Avalon (Fake Bravers) – Learning Speed, Unlimited Development
Shihouin Mari (F/Metamorph) – Avalon (Brainwashed) – ShapeShifting
And 73 others
-Purgatory (3) –
Rodcorte Angels:
Shimada Izumi (F/Inspector) – Former Braver – See through lies
Machida Aran (M/Laplace’s Demon) – Former Braver – Calculation/Predictive Analysis (Based on known facts)
Endou Kouya (M/Oracle) – Former Bravers – Predictive Analysis (Based on information known by souls in Rodcorte’s system)
Funky K
I feel like Hienz would just blame the conflict on Van saying “its because he’s a demon king or that he disrupted the order”. He’s basically becoming more like Alda and even Van is saying that the dungeon is brainwashing him.
ObserverBias
Note; the previous Demon King and his fragments are canonically Neutral Evil, and Van hasn’t openly given anyone that doesn’t know him personally any reason to believe he is otherwise. (Note such public entries as “poisoning what land he left behind” and “assaulting a town with its undead soldiers” a long time ago. Consider the majority of the public remains unaware it’s “nothing personal,” and for the most part are being convinced he’s not real)
Hobbes
The previous DK and his body & soul fragments are ‘neutral evil’…? Seriously? Wanna try that again my friend lmao
I know Zakkart approached the DK invasion as an invasion from foreign entities attempting to snatch control of another territory from the indigenous people rather than as some kind of ‘holy war’…, but still you can’t say that many of the evil gods and the DK himself did not have completely opposite views, values, and goals to those commonly held by humans.
That incompatibility could never be bridged without the DK and those in his army who thought similarly spending a ton of time acclimating to a different world while just peacefully learning and absorbing the new info. Plus, they would have to completely reevaluate their values, beliefs, & worldviews as well as reinvent themselves in order to adequately fit in. That simply was never going to happen.
Given all of that how can you call the values, goals, and worldviews of the DK and his close retinue anything but damn near ‘ABSOLUTE EVIL’ from the point of view of human common sense, common decency, etc.? Just because a portion of the evil gods were able to adapt and eventually reside smoothly and freely doesn’t mean you can say the same of all of them.
Plus, even though Van skillfully uses the DK fragments with no side-effects doesn’t mean that anyone else can and in fact no one else truly has. The DK’s soul fragments and body fragments only want one thing: to resurrect Guduranis. They don’t care how they accomplish that feat. Plus, once the DK is fully resurrected what do you honestly think his first major goal is going to be, huh?
Ryuuseiboy1
This may count as spoiller since I took it from raw chap but you may not see this appeared at all in future chap
Amemiya’s last 4 cheat ability is
Immortal force , Steel spirit , Fortune Enchantment , Performance Enchantment
Tokanya
Am I the only one who have problem with the ads in mobile site?
3 of them cover part of the paragraphs.
The header part is covered too but it is underneath title and some texts, so no problem there. But in the middle of the rest they are above the texts. I have to switch to desktop version to read.
I use Google Chrome on Android if that helps.
Cendacyl
I use chrome on android too but I’m not seeing any issues with the site. (-ω- ?)
Funky K
I use the same ( Chrome on Android) but it looks like the text is just being displaced by the ads and not covered up.
Demonicmuffin
So, while there are so many interesting things in this chapter, I see many of them already being brought up so I’ll attempt to choose something that I haven’t seen.
What does the “Demon kings Treasure Orb” even do? Is it a sort of item box perhaps? If that is the case, maybe things once owned by Guduranis? Perhaps it simply generates treasure and van will now be able to spit diamonds? Maybe it’s just a treasure detector with a fancy name?
So far it seems to be the least clear of the fragments by name alone, and given how bizarreasy many other fragments are, or at least how Van uses them, I hope we can expect much from this, and it isn’t just a simple item box as likely as that is. He already has a pseudordinary item box due to being able to fill Sam with stuff and then equip him.
Either way I am looking forward to seeing these new abilities in action.
BoringHorseMan
It will be unveil at next chapter or one more after the next. It has some fancy use but the function is quite basic.
Cendacyl
Maybe its what was used to put treasure in the dungeons? Or was that explained already? I don’t remember…
Azeroth
Wouldn’t it be his sacred pouch that all guys have
Erick cerqin rojas
yo lo me pregunto es que ara Rodcorte cuando se entere de que la ultima hija de Amamiya Hiroto tiene potencial para la magia muerte,,, me pregunto si creara un tipo de situación en la que tenga que matarla, para poder usarla después con la alma del antiguo rey demonio, y supongo que después van la convertiría a su lado lo que provocaría que Amamiya Hiroto y compañía se pongan en contra de van con engaños de Rodcorte.mmmm
Oldman Locke
Hey! Thanks for the chapter!
is my first time commenting, I started to read recently and only now have I reached the old readers!
well, on the way to the story, I like what I’ve seen so far, but I really wish the author did not stop at the cliche of making the ultimate villain have the same kind of hero power.
I would like the magic of death to remain exclusive to Van and Legion.
ObserverBias
I mean, technically speaking, what was pulled was the hero (Vandalieu) having the same kind of villain power (Guduranis) from ages past. From there, it could be claimed that Demon King fragments only ever properly bonded to him because he uses Death-attribute mana, (which apparently Guduranis used previously) in which case, it would be reasonable to assume (for Rodcorte) that someone of equal power-type would be ideal.
Besides which, erm, death magic hasn’t be exclusive to Legion and Van ever since Pluto died.
ObserverBias
**WARNING**: the TL;DR of this comment boils down to me trying out a MST3K thing. Feel free to move along as you will.
|Naturally, the excuse of “I did these with the good of the world in mind” would not work.|
But only the best bad guys do the “For the good of mankind!” thing! Well, I suppose he’s aware enough of himself to know he’s not even at par, huh… ah, he considered it, though, so maybe that counts? Let’s count it.
|Unlike Vida, Ricklent and Zuruwarn, I am not a god of Lambda, which means that I can escape at any time.|
Ha! You thought–
|Rodcorte’s plan would only have worked in the past, before he became known as a god of Lambda.|
… Well, having it pointed out immediately is fine, too.
|His familiar spirits watched him leave in silence, deliberately ignoring the faint presence that they could feel behind them, choosing to focus on their discontent towards Rodcorte instead.|
Oh, good, we haven’t forgotten something “extra” is skulking about, good. I mean, er, we don’t know anything about that, as it should be. What’s “that,” you ask? Why, whatever do you mean? There’s nothing there, move along.
|The Demon King Guduranis’s soul, which had been torn into five pieces – his reason, emotion, instinct, memory and power.|
Oh, REAL good, the risk of Guduranis rearing his ugly mug is actually still present, grrreat, great… I don’t think we want a memory arc, but who am I to judge?
|“If I could place the memories and power of Guduranis, which do not contain his will, inside reincarnated individuals that are compatible… But they are likely to be compatible with Murakami, Anderson or Akira. Using Vandalieu as reference, someone with similar Mana properties to those of Guduranis should be able to use them,” Rodcorte muttered to himself.|
… Sssso. Between the memories of an eldritch abomination that subjugated all that served him through brute force and threat, and the power of that same eldritch abomination, which mess will Van have to clean up first, I wonder? This is how you propel your public enemy to stardom as “I guess he’s not all bad?” in the eyes of the general public, you… (wait, isn’t that fine? it’s fine, isn’t it?) As for the daughter of Amemiya Hiroto… why would she respawn in Lambda? Rodcorte’s deal was specifically for the Bravers to come over, wasn’t it? Mumumu, if things go that direction… well, I suppose having Avalon get sent over in tandem wouldn’t be bad, per se. Lucilliano would get to flex on him, and that’s one for the books.
|Ricklent felt tremendous love and pride for his believers who doubted even the words of gods.|
Erm, well, there’s a time and place for that kind of behavior, isn’t there…? Rather, isn’t that a bit inconvenient?
|It was not that he did not love them, but he knew that due to his nature, he would disrupt the daily lives of humans too much if he were too close to them.|
Ahh, and Zuruwarn’s more of the DisappearedDad type, huh…
|However, Rodcorte seemed to be unpopular even among his own familiar spirits; they had allowed Zuruwarn to observe events with no request from Zuruwarn to do so.|
(throws away hot popcorn) I just got this ready, you know? It’s convenient to be informed, but (put-upon sigh) it’s better than having it turn out to be some other unheard of entity, I guess.
|“Indeed… He has used a significant amount of power in creating that Dungeon, too. Knowing Alda, he will likely join forces with Rodcorte to defeat Vandalieu and his allies, then punish Rodcorte afterwards. With that being the case, there is no point in telling Alda the truth.”|
… Hey, hey, isn’t that kind of specific to “that being the case”? Aren’t you guys playing it glass half-empty, that they’ll successfully be rid of Vandalieu and have an afterwards? Muh, rather, that’s how Alda sees it, so there’s no point?
|“According to the rumors, some guys had their hideout raided by a bunch of completely nude people and had all their stuff taken.”|
??? What the devil?
|These men were criminals who made a living by gathering slaves through illegal means. Tricking women and children living in slums by telling them that there was work for them and then kidnapping them was among the tamer methods they used; they sometimes attacked villages and then took the supplies and surviving villagers.|
Okay… so this event they mentioned, it’s from the previous year… ahh, Bravers, got it… and they left one alive, then?
|He might be able to defeat one or two gods, but three or more would be difficult. Even if he brought his companions and fought an all-out war, if the enemy gods and heroic spirits descended one after another with the resolve to sacrifice themselves to defeat Vandalieu, the end result would be the same.|
Can’t tell if thinking lowly of his own skills, or considering things realistically. Inevitably, however, something like this is bound to still have people ignore it as the former… that said, ships passing in the night.
|“What is that weird noise?!” he demanded, looking around and then peering underneath the canopy of one of the wagons.|
Someone rolled a 20. Lucky!
Featured in this chapter are; Rodcorte, Aran, Endou, Izumi, Ricklent, Zuruwarn, Girabat, younglings 1 and 2, and Vandalieu himself. The Demon King parts obtained number 11, parts fused number 1, skills leveled number 7, skills ascended number 2, and skills newly obtained number 1, with 5 other Demon King parts being mentioned. Oh, and, er, one named maybe-important meatbag newly (and properly, for that matter) mindslaved.
Will Vandalieu’s plan of infiltrating a criminal organization go well? Is Girabat still alive in his skull, and just riding backseat? Might the Magi trio figure out how to switch what god to follow before they get Familiar Spirit Descent-shattered? I don’t know about that one, chief.
Kazza
~In the not-too-distant future, somewhere… Something AD!~
Can’t remember the theme song too well. Can nail Rifftrax, though.
Anyway, can’t tell if you were seriously wishing for it or not, but Avalon making it to Lambda would be catastrophic. Since his cheat is unlimited development and quick learning, it’s unclear how the job system would accommodate that. It’s entirely possible he would be able to go through jobs quickly like Van, and may not actually get limited in choices.
I would honestly think he would serve as more of a threat than Alda.
That, plus Mei, even if she isn’t a Braver, is still under Rodcorte’s reincarnation cycle. He pulled 100 people out to do as he pleased, so doing the same to one girl doesn’t seem strange. The problem is he needs her to grow up beforehand, and use/understand magic that her dad has a serious semi-grudge against.
Honestly, I would be expecting quite a few Origin side chapters to be coming out. That’s not a spoiler or anything, just a guess.
ObserverBias
Not a sincere thing, necessarily, but I do see it as an eventuality if the former mentioned thing were to pass, as there’s only one nut goofy enough to do something that dumb to the child of his “good friend,” and he’s the one. Besides which, way I see it, his gift from Rodcorte would likely equate to an XP boost, but a significant portion of how people grow is actually experiencing the jobs (as opposed to having other people do everything for him, which is how he’s doing things in Origin). Ominous, but I can see it being not enough, especially if he maintains his interest in the Death Attribute, which on paper “doesn’t exist” in Lambda and would place him against Rodcorte and Alda’s interests.
Conversely, he would be more the atypical threat that Alda and Bellwood fear, that could (potentially) accelerate the development of the world too quickly with zero restraint, so “a third contender enters the fray” except he would have no godly support except Rodcorte, if anything. I might be idealizing it though, so (shrug).
I figured such, but again, as time passes quicker in Origin than Lambda (again, seemingly), and she wouldn’t be “required” to keep her memories, he would be throwing a blank slate with the memories and power of Guduranis’ “soul” at the world. He technically doesn’t “need” her to understand the magic so much as he needs to be aware she has it, at which point, she has to die at least the one time. Aside, way I was parsing it, the semi-grudge Amemiya had against it was people feverishly researching it, as that was what caused the situation that killed ‘Amamiya’, and gave rise to Eighth Guidance. Well, maybe I’m biased against the double-destiny golden boy turning into an abusive father.
Same expectation, though I’m not too sure on the amount. There’s significantly less (well, approximately 15) individuals we know there by name at this point (ah, crap, someone named “Baker” was mentioned, wasn’t he?), down to five or so, and I reckon there will be significant crossing of the streams in the plot.
Funky K
Thanks for the Chapter!! Not really worried about Rod and Alda working together. They’re both idiots, so them joining forces would be like multiplying 2 x 0. Also what the heck is the “Demon Kings treasure orb”?
Cendacyl
No, no. Wouldn’t it be more like: 2 × -1 = -2 ?
Seinvolf
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
Kenshin135
While Rod’s plans of empowering others with powerful souls and informing Alda of things sounds scary, it’s Rod… it’s going to blow up spectacularly in his face. Probably Van defeating them then eating that power for himself or something. Can’t bring myself to feel even a bit of worry at this point. Then again, that may be the point? Bring our guard downs so much that the one time Rod does something well, we’re truly taken by surprise?
ObserverBias
It’s less that he’ll do something “well” and more the specific requirements he notes… there’s only one person (we’re currently aware of) that has the ability to use Death-attribute mana that isn’t already accounted for in Lambda. If he’s planning to do it any time “soon” (which, it would seem years-ish are passing in Origin with months in Lambda?), it would be dropping both the memories and powers of essentially Megatron in the head of someone with little to no reason to believe anything Rodcorte says.
Decaf [Invidia]
“He had gone ahead with his plan anyway because he had been certain that once he executed his plan, things would work themselves out.”
… Yup. Rodcorte is definitely an idiot. From the beginning Bellwood and Alfa’s faction believed in naturalism, and were heavily against industrialism. …He seriously expected these people to develop technology quietly, despite having op cheat abilities?
Not to mention the fact that these are sailors, high school teachers, and students that were reincarnated, so their political aptitude might not be the best when dealing with noblemen and other countries.
Cendacyl
I mean, things are going to work themselves out…
Just not necessarily the way he wants them to.
Nox
Thanks for chapter.
Alda being able to punish Rodcorte is it due to Alda being more powerful than Rodcorte or because Rodcorte is now a god of Lambda and Not having enough believer?
Rodcorte is if he does giveaway those parts to Murakami helping Van getting even more stronger while giving him the demon king parts but Van should be more ruthless and kill Murakami and eat their souls or he himself will be killed by them because they will likely make use of Van’s naivety.
Probably Amamiya’s daughter will get the demon kings soul fragments and maybe some body parts from Rodcorte and probably she will be controlled by them, Guduranis awakening and controlling her, she’ll fight Van or joining Vida’s/Van’s side.
Nobody2
Because Alda is the god of law one of his divine authorities (the stakes of law) is to punish those gods of lambda who have broken the rules (at least that he believes broke the rules) these stakes are an incredibly powerful divine authority that can bypass most power gaps with the weakness that they can only be used on gods of lambda because gods who aren’t of lambda aren’t tied to its laws or under Alda’s authority. Now that rod is a god of lambda he IS under that authority and so if Alda learns this he could call those stakes of law down on him to seal his mind and control him despite rod technically being stronger than him
Paps
Thanks for the chapter, well I am excited at how well Vandeliou is developing, the fact that he is integrating, all those DK parts into himself well its great. Since Guduranis has been mentioned I am anticipating a confrontation with Van, if Van those guets to consume him, he migth gain another tittle like ‘The Real Demon King’ hahahahahaha!!!!!!
Sebas Tian
More like The Greatest Demon King
Kendov
“It enters His Majesty the first Eclipse Emperor, the Holy Son of Vida, Vandalieu Zakkart Maou the Second.”
mcdex
It seems that Amemiya Hiroto´s daughter will receive the Demon King´s power in the future.
Diggydawg
Indeed. All flags point in that direction.
Lex
And will become another of Van wife candidates haha, joke but It’s most likely to me that Van will end up saving her afterall.
Makarios
She’ll probably end up as Van’s clingy daughter since he’s basically the god of death with death charm. Since eighth guidance got their limited abilities from Van’s dispersing Mana after his 3rd death while Mei was submerged in a quantity equivalent to a nuke while still a fetus, she should have a stronger affinity towards Van. Every demon king has a daughter after all, funnily enough Avalon said that the Amemiya son doesn’t look like Hiroto so maybe Mei will look like the old human Van.
WizziBot
Shinigami…
frozen ink
but the thing is how will her soul get there how much will she hate, who will she hate? so many questions not enough foreboding
Cendacyl
I bet she’ll be told by Rodcorte something like it was Van’s(Legion’s) fault that a ton of the bravers died ahead of time or that Van is the reason she (will become)became a test subject for death attribute magic. That way she will initially be antagonistic towards Van. Then again, maybe she’ll be saved by the god of Origin like Legion. Or maybe not…
blackkat
Well, with that foreshadowing, if everyone remembers the new female child born from the bravers in Origin who possibly has Death Attribute magic. She will not only be targeted there for having it, now Dumbcorte will be after the little girl once he notices her to use these fragments of the demon kings soul…..
Paps
Well if my info is rigth, if Rodo does that his plan will backfire so grandly that it will be posible to watch from Origin!!!!!!!
Metazoxan
I”m guessing his assumption that certain parts of the soul won’t lead to the Original Demon King’s revival is wrong and the moment he merges them with a compatible host like her either she’ll immediately become him, she’ll draw the other fragments into herself, or she won’t become him but she’ll inherit his will and will act on it.
ShiN.A.X
thank for your hard work!.
it’s very fun.
frozen ink
I sometimes forget that alda is a genui e threat and so is rody cause of how retarded they both act
CLE3
An idiot with a really big gun still has a really big gun.
Kendov
And so far they did their best to shoot themselves in the foot 😀
Vaccaria
Thank you very much for this chapter.
Heretic1313
thank for your hard work
SaMu
Thanks for the chapter, and much thanks to our MVP Sverrir G. (G for generous? Gorgeous? Great?)
Don’t mind me. I’m just counting the seconds til Heinz gets turned into paste by Vandalieu
Kendov
If Alda intends to keep Heinz in training until he catches up to van, they’ll never meet
Hobbes
Tomato paste to be specific
rainyday
I’m excited for this because I really liked the last time he ran around the Orbaume Kingdom during the whole Hartner Duchy arc. As much as I like van’s entourage it’s fun when he’s mostly by himself or with a small group because he gets to use more of his wide range of abilities
WBee
Rodidiot is such a great guy, giving the the demon lords power to Van without any of the troublesome parts.
Tirirism
Yup. Rocroach is the best.
Best bitch Cockrod.
Zenden1st
Wait he gave him demon frags? i thought van got those from vidas resting grounds
Adddmeeee
Not frags, the soul parts
Crimson Nanashi
Yea more vandium for the supply. Also maybe second?
CLE3
So apparently Van can make infested Terrans now.
Dark Templar
For the Swarm!
Makaayplays
Ah….I want ascene where it’s just Van and Darcia doing cute family things. That would be lovely 😊
Eternal Abyss
So awesome, he finally gets Demon Eyes!!!
Sebas Tian
Hope everyone enjoys the chapter, and that you all have a wonderful rest of your week.
SaMu
The new comment section’s been quite lately… Have a good week yourself. Yoshi too
Decaf [Invidia]
I suppose it has to do with the notification system of these comments. There’s no convenient in-site way to check for replies and things, aside from going to each specific page or regularly checking your email.
Something I personally only check biweekly, at best.