《(On Hold) Regarding my time being a God, it was fun》 [Volume One] Prologue and Chapter 001 Volume One: Wait, what? F-RANK? Prologue: Divine Lottery ¡¸Ehh¡­Congratulations¡­I guess¡­you got the F-ranked prize¡­¡¹ ¡¸¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­please explain about the ranking again¡­¡¹ My life as Kirihara Arata ended a bit too soon, but I didn¡¯t feel regret. Only because before death I managed to save two middle school kids. They have a longer future ahead than a 35-year-old man working as a programmer. So with me dying maybe they¡¯ll have a better future for themselves¡­ Nah¡­those two were originally delinquents¡­they won¡¯t get anywhere good¡­ ¡­or not. At least that was what the Goddess of Fortune told me. She also said that because of this amusing unfortunate event, she¡¯ll grant me another chance. The Ultimate Lottery of Divinity ¨C Wheel of Asmel. ¡¸Sure¡­the ranks go from the lowest F to the highest S¡­and you just pulled the F-prize¡¹ ¡¸¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­..can you not say it like that with an amused tone?¡¹ Right. I spun the wheel in hopes of getting another twist of fate. Ended up at a misfortune again. Sighhhh¡­ ¡¸Then¡­what¡¯s the prize for this F-rank ball?¡¹ ¡¸Lessee¡­You pulled the ball of Divinity so¡­you¡¯ll become a God¡¹ I don¡¯t see how¡¯s that an F-rank prize. ¡¸¡­but it would be the lowest ranking God¡­¡¹ I¡¯m starting to sense another misfortune. ¡¸¡­if a God got their Shrine¡¯s Core Crystal destroyed, they¡¯d be dead too¡­¡¹ That¡¯s bad, but I still don¡¯t get the worst feeling. Maybe I can struggle to live through this. ¡¸I can¡¯t refuse the prize right?¡¹ ¡¸Yep! You accepted the Wheel, so you can¡¯t refuse the prize!¡¹ Well¡­there¡¯s nothing I can do about it. Being a God in my next life isn¡¯t too bad either You know, getting worshiped and all that stuff? Being surrounded by beautiful Angels¡­ No no. Stop the fantasies. If it was that easy, it wouldn¡¯t have been the lowest prize. ¡¸Then before you go, let me explain a few things¡­¡¹ To make it short: I¡¯ll be given one piece of land as my Sanctuary. There will be a pre-made Shrine with an idol inside containing the Crystal Core. She showed me how to operate the Menu, a semitransparent popup window. Becoming an Arch God or Dark God is my choice, there¡¯s no right or wrong. I can even materialize and live like a mortal being. In case of the previous thing, if I want to keep my powers, I¡¯ll have to pay a price listed in the Menu. Other things can be figured out when I official take the job. There were also more rules on using my powers, but they¡¯ll be all listed in the Menu. A pretty decent job I¡¯d say. There¡¯ll be ups and downs, but I think I can handle it. ¡¸Now that we¡¯re all clear, you ready to go?¡¹ ¡¸Ehh? I have to go right away???¡¹ ¡¸Then what do you want to do now?¡¹ She tilted her head and looked at me with a question mark of her head. Now that I look closely, she¡¯s pretty damn beautiful. As expected of a Goddess. I wonder where did this stereotype of Goddesses being beautiful come from. I really want to test out this myth, no I¡¯ll absolutely do it when I become a God. ¡¸Can I sleep with you before going?¡¹ I said that with a straight face, and I absolutely meant it as a joke. I thought she was beautiful and had my hot blood come up a little. But I spat that out completely on a whim and didn¡¯t mean to be serious. Yet¡ª ¡¸Okay! Let¡¯s go¡¹ ¡¸NO WAIT!¡¹ ¡ªshe teleported us into a dark room. When I came to my senses I was already stark naked. The Goddess has settled herself sitting on my hip before long. Do you think a mere human soul with many years of sitting in one place doing programming¡­ Would even have the strength to resist a Goddess? She was so goddamn strong I couldn¡¯t even move freely. If we had an arm-wrestling session instead of this, it would end up in my arm got torn off. A beautiful woman with godly strength is just as scary as anything you can imagine¡­ So like that¡­before starting a new life as a God. I was raped. *** Chapter 001 - Sanctuary ¡¸Haaaaa¡­¡­¡­¡¹ The deepest, longest sigh I¡¯ve ever done in my life. Right now I¡¯m sitting in mid air looking down to my ¡°sanctuary¡±. The land was a circle area of plain in the middle of a sea of trees. The diameter of this circle is only about 200 meters. In the middle, there¡¯s a small house made from wood. Inside that house is a set of offering table with an idol. In other words, that¡¯s my shrine. I said I didn¡¯t get the worst feeling¡­ I get it now¡­ This defenseless tiny house is in the middle of a vast forest. What if monsters or wild beasts come? If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.I¡¯ll be a very dead God. At least I won¡¯t die a virgin anymore¡­ Sighhh¡­ Speaking of that, I still can¡¯t seem to judge being raped by that Goddess good or bad luck¡­ It¡¯s bad for my pride as a man who likes to take the lead¡­ But it was probably a blessing for the virgin me. ¡¸Died saving two good-for-nothing delinquents¡­raped by a woman¡­now on the very verge of death again¡­haaaaaaaaa¡­¡­¡­¡­..¡¹ Another gigantic sigh¡­ What seed of calamity have I planted to receive this kind of treatment from the God of Fortune. And ironically that person was the scary woman who took my virginity forcefully!! I¡¯m repeating myself too much. Let¡¯s stop with the whining, I need to think about my life now. Calling up the Menu, I saw a few options. [Sanctuary] [Guardians] [Settings] I used my finger to click on [Sanctuary]. The state of the land and HP of my Shrine were in there. Then I saw something extremely useful. [LV.1 Holy Barrier] Prevents monsters from coming, purifies low-class monsters. Cost: 100 Points Alright, the minimum of self-defense has been guaranteed. Now, how many points do I have? Usually in games that I participated programming, there would be 2 or 3 thousand points as a simple headstart. [Points: 0] ¡­ ¡­ ¡¸I DEMAND FOUNDER¡¯S PACK!!!¡¹ I jerked my head up to the sky and screamed. By the way, I¡¯m invisible right now. Though I can see myself, nobody can see me floating in the air, nor can they hear my voice. I learned that much from reading the Menu. But jeez¡­at least let me pre-order so I can get the headstart¡­ I guess this is just about right for the lowest prize. Now I finally understand why she told me about the Crystal Core so early. Without a single point, I had no option left. The only I could do was to sit there and read the instruction in my Menu. Turns out I¡¯ll be given 10 points everyday. And for every person passed by that stopped and offered a prayer, I¡¯ll get points depends on their faith. In case of monsters or any living thing dying within my domain, depends on the situation, I¡¯ll be rewarded with points. If many ferocious monsters die on my land, I¡¯ll become more Holy and get tons of points. If many innocent people die on my land, I¡¯ll get a bunch of Negative Points and become a Dark God. There are also a lot of exceptions and situations involved, but that was the main idea. Right now, I am only the rank of a Nature Spirit. Depends on what happens on my land, I¡¯ll become different kinds of Gods. And then, if there¡¯s a city here and people start worshiping me, the daily points will increase drastically. ¡¸I look like some kind of dungeon master¡­¡¹ Really though¡­ Without any points, how the hell can I protect this place? I¡¯m immortal, I can¡¯t touch beings belong to this dimension. Otherwise I would¡¯ve gone into the forest and try to kill monsters¡­ But if they don¡¯t die on my lands the points won¡¯t be much¡­ Sighhh¡­ I switched to [Guardians]. ¡¸EH? T-THIS IS!!!¡¹ [Note: The first one Guardian you summon will be free. Choose wisely!] That line was lying solid in the Menu. I was wrapped in excitement at that one line of words. It literally mean I can even choose a freaking dragon to protect myself. I was just about to click on the [Summon] button right next to the icon of a dragon when I suddenly snapped back to my senses. It wasn¡¯t a wise choice to choose a dragon at all. Dragons need food, unless you raised them to the point of evolving into a higher classification of dragons. Otherwise they¡¯ll die soon. Nothing would guarantee that something, if anything at all, will come into your land for the dragon to kill during its lifetime. In case of letting it go out and hunt, who will protect this place? Moreover, a dragon will absolutely attract attention. People who come and try to slay the dragon will most likely break the shrine during the battle. Getting caught up in the middle of that would be disastrous¡­ So what would be a better choice? Magical beings that don¡¯t need food at all and still absurdly strong. Of course there wasn¡¯t anything that convenient. But the best option I saw was an [Iron Golem]. Since iron is an element belongs to nature, the golem itself only needs to absorb energy from nature to live. With this, the guardian would last forever if nothing goes wrong. In the future I¡¯ll always save at least 100 points in case of emergency. Hopefully the barrier does its work when the need comes. So I clicked [Summon] on the Menu. A magic circle appeared on the ground in front of my shrine. Lights gathered and took shape. A black golem appeared. It was more than 2 meters tall and looked very intimidating. ¡¸OK. I ran out of option again¡­I guess that¡¯s it for today¡­¡¹ [Volume One] Chapter 002 Bandits [200 Points Acquired] I woke up with that notification on my Menu. The golem was still standing there gloriously. Around its legs were 3 black marbles. I clicked [Pick up Items] in the [Sanctuary] menu and the marbles disappeared. [Black-Monster Core] Can be used to summon the slain monsters instead of using Points. Glorious. This is pure gold. I checked the [Activities Log] and saw that at 1 AM, three Shadow Wolves walked into my land and were slain by the Golem. Nice. I used all three marbles to re-summon three Shadow Wolves. I accessed their behaviors through [Settings] and had them go hunt for themselves. I also set them as [Scout] to sniff for dangers and spy for any potential intruders. With that, during the day, all four of them will remain here and protect the shrine. During night, the Shadow Wolves will go into the forest to hunt and scout. From the [Log], I also found out that with the presence of the Golem, my daily points rose to 50/day. And killing 3 Shadow Wolves got me another 150 Points. I also figured out [Standby Mode]. When I accessed the Golem through [Settings], I clicked [Standby] and the Golem just disappeared. Its magic circle was still on the ground but the status said [Invisible to naked eyes]. For the Shadow Wolves, they just kind of merged into the shadows and lurk for the time to attack. With that, I''ll be able to attract intruders easier. The guardians won''t accidentally kill innocent people either. Back to [Sanctuary], I found something pretty cool. [Attraction]: 0 The cost was 200 Points for 1 point of Attraction. Damn... I hesitated over it a little. But decided to do it in the end. With a bit more attraction, I can earn back the points more easily. Even just a little bit, it should work better than 0 attraction at all. With no other things to do, I just kind of spaced out and took a nap. I then got waken up by the notification sound. [Intruders incoming] Observer: Shadow Wolf 01 Good thing I set them as scouts. They sniffed out the intruders even from the shadows. How convenient... From the [Sanctuary] menu, I pulled out a window for surveillance monitoring. 6 people. Armed with swords, daggers and bows. They only had leather armors. ¡¸****! ********....¡¹ ¡¸*** ***** ********!!¡¹ I activated [Eavesdrop] but couldn''t understand the language at all. So from a drop down menu in [Settings], I picked [Language - Human] and hit [Filter]. ¡¸What did you see?¡¹ ¡¸A small house...looks like a shrine¡¹ ¡¸Good. There are usually some good offerings in a shrine¡¹ ¡¸Let''s earn back the deficit. We didn''t get much from that carriage earlier...¡¹ I can understand them now. Seems like they''re all bandits. Their conversations have always been about killing this and that, or looting here and there... Perfect source of Points for me. This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. Don''t get me wrong, I''m not on the side of justice who purifies the bad or anything. It''s just that they made decisions in their lives and became bandits. So when they try to rob from people, they need to be prepare to be robbed back someday. They planned to attack me, so I''m simply just defending myself. If my guardians happen to kill them, they''ll just reap what they sow... (Bandits Leader''s POV) Today has been a terrible day for us. We tried to rob a carriage but turned out it belongs to the Black Council. We had to prostrate and ask for forgiveness. If we tried anything funny our lives as bandits would stop immediately. The Black Council regulates goods for underground criminals. If we still have the need of going to brothels or slum weapon shops, we need their approval... After that, we stopped a pair of adventurers but turned out they were S-ranks. We got beaten to half-death, but were able to escape with 4 of us being captured. But it''s not the end yet, my underling just spotted a shrine nearby. We should get something good out of this place. I''ve been to the Utel Sanctuary in the royal capital before. And I mean way before when I was still a Knight. There I saw countless pieces of valuable items being offered. Luxurious food and even magic elixirs were there. After that I did some research and found out that Sanctuaries always have at least some kinds of valuable items inside. With that in mind, we approached the shrine. ¡¸What...the fuck...¡¹ There was nothing inside... Except for a wooden idol. And it was so ugly too... ¡¸Haaa...what kind of fucking God is this?¡¹ ¡¸Then what should we do, Boss?¡¹ I feel like I just got laughed in the face by this goddamn bastard who calls himself the God of this Shrine. I''ll show him how to call himself God. This kind of humiliation just earned you my anger, "God"! ¡¸Let''s go outside and burn it down. Prepare the fire!¡¹ ¡¸Yessir¡¹ The moment we stepped outside, the people who were on guards were dead. All three of them, what happened? ¡¸Move in pairs! Be careful...search for attackers!¡¹ I gave out orders on instincts and pulled my sword out of its sheath. We moved around slowly with absolute awareness. ¡¸Arhhhhhhh!!!!!¡¹ ¡¸What?!?¡¹ I turned around at the scream and saw a Shadow Wolf ripping off my underling''s neck. What the fuck? Shadow Wolves aren''t the kind of monster we could encounter near shrines... Or perhaps this one is the guardian of a Dark God? Casting the speculations aside, I jumped in but was blocked by something huge. I was sent flying back after feeling an impact on my chest. When I used the last bit of my strength to look up, it was a black Golem. Heck, we just messed with the wrong shrine... The first time we tried to plunder a shrine...was also the last time we were able to breathe...I wonder how the hell did it turn out like this... ...hahaha... [Volume One] Chapter 003 First prayers [Points: 1310 remaining] *yaaaawns* Well that was a pretty damn pleasant sleep. In case you¡¯re wandering how do I sleep, I clicked [Rest] on the Menu and got automatically teleported to inside the wooden idol. There was a whole cozy room inside that idol. I didn¡¯t know about this the first night though. I just kind of spaced out floating midair. Luckily didn¡¯t catch a cold sleeping outside. Probably because I¡¯m not really connected to the mortal world through a physical body. Now back on the Points. Those bandits were trying to burn down my shrine, so I let the guardians took care of them. The wolves were surprisingly strong, I didn¡¯t think they could tear up a human¡¯s neck that easily¡­ Each bandits gave me 200 points, and with 110 daily points from my underlings, I am now having 1310 points ready to spend. How should I spend? That I have no idea¡­ First of all, let¡¯s just call up the Menu and see what we have. I went to the same place I used to summon the wolves, and there was some new things in there. [Undead Trap]x6 Yep. They definitely had a lot of regrets. When people die inside my land while having too many regrets, they¡¯ll end up like this. Undead. Fragments of their souls stayed and became my defensive devices. I offered a prayer and placed all 6 traps around the shrine. Since it came from the ones slain by guardians, they didn¡¯t cost points. The wolves and golem are still currently on standby. Last night, my scouts sniffed out some interesting news while hunting. The reported to my notifications about detecting a few more humans. But since they were too far away the notification didn¡¯t ring out loud. They spotted 3 humans, armed to the teeth. They were setting up a camp near a river. In my speculations, those people were probably some kind of adventurers. But as long as they don¡¯t try to attack me, I don¡¯t really care. Now, what should I do with the Points. For now let¡¯s throw another 200 into attraction. [Points: 1110 remaining] I can upgrade the Shrine to make it a bit bigger and nice-looking. Or I can upgrade the idol and make my bedroom bigger¡­ Let¡¯s upgrade the shrine itself, bedroom can wait. I don¡¯t have any particular discomfort sleeping in that room anyway. So that would be another 500 points spent. [Points: 610 remaining] I threw another 400 into making basic wooden fence. I set up the fence encircling an area with 150m in diameter. I also put down one small gate (10 points). [Points: 200 remaining] The last bit I saved for emergency cases where I need to summon something or use the Holy Barrier. I¡¯m also thinking of raising some animal aside the guardians. But that will have to wait since it isn¡¯t really needed. Finishing all the needed work, I was about to take a nap. The intruders alert suddenly rang. It was indeed the three adventurers the wolves spotted. Naturally, I monitored and eavesdropped them. ¡¸Can we really defeat the Ogre?¡¹ ¡¸I think if we try we can do it¡­¡¹ ¡¸Bad idea¡­Ogres are level 50¡­how the hell can we stand against them?¡¹ Looks like they didn¡¯t see the shrine yet. But this make me wonder. The bandits also came from the same direction. So there must me a town or a city nearby, right? And chances are it¡¯s a pretty decent place. Adventurers aside, if bandits came from there, it must be a place where they can rob. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.They can¡¯t take anything from a poor town, can they? I pulled out an area map from the [Sanctuary] menu. ¡¸Ah yeah¡­there really is a town¡­¡¹ It was about 15 kilometers to the west of my shrine. A free city called Twilight. ¡¸Hm? This is¡­¡¹ There was also another Sanctuary right in the middle of that city. ¡¸Twilight Ark¡­type Church¡­classification S¡­ranking 4th¡­¡¹ HAH? There¡¯s a ranking system for sanctuaries? And what¡¯s with type Church? That means that God has a whole religion for himself? Then what about myself? (insert name) Type: Spirit Shrine Classification: F Ranking: 1000th I face-palmed after reading through that. Ranking 1000¡­ So there are 1000 gods? It might sounds few, but it¡¯s actually quite a lot. Gods are still gods, they¡¯re not weeds, you know¡­ ¡¸Ah! There¡¯s a Shrine!¡¹ ¡¸Wanna stop by and pray for good luck?¡¹ ¡¸Yeah¡­sounds good. We¡¯re going to fight Hobgoblins after all¡­¡¹ So they¡¯re stopping by and pray huh¡­ Let¡¯s be nice to our first guests and hear them out. I went back into the idol and watched over them from the windows. And when I say windows, they¡¯re just 2 holes that act as eyes for the idol. But the view wasn¡¯t bad at all. The adventurers opened the gate, walked in and walked through another door to enter the shrine. Two were men, they looked bulky and skilled in weapons. The other was a woman, she was wearing robe and holding a staff. A cute sorceress, her chest wasn¡¯t so big, but¡­ No no no. Why am I thinking about that. What a God I am thinking about boobs first thing upon seeing a female prayer¡­ The woman took down the flower on her hair and put it on the offering table. Then they knelt before the table and started praying in their minds. O great God, please let your children, us three return safely¡­ I want to eat high-class beef. I hope next year Amy¡¯s breasts will become bigger again¡­ What?!? You perv. The girl is praying for you lot¡¯s safety and this is what you give back? And somehow I¡¯m able to listen to their prayers though they didn¡¯t speak anything out loud. I guess this is how being a God feels like¡­ [Points: +300¡ú500 points remaining] Not bad. Let me thank you all for giving me points¡­ I pulled up the Menu and rewarded two of them each a small buff. A magic boost for the girl, and a body boost for the beef-guy. The one praying about boobs got nothing, serves you right, pal. Hahaha I feel so almighty!!! [Points: 480 remaining] The me right now can¡¯t give them anything more powerful. So that¡¯s all I got guys¡­ I hope they don¡¯t pout and curse me for being stingy. ¡¸Uwhoaaa¡­I just got a boost in Mana!!!¡¹ ¡¸Y-Yeah!! I got a body buff!! I feel like I can jump over the castle wall now!!¡¹ ¡¸W-wait¡­why do I get nothing?¡¹ ¡¸What did you pray?¡¹ ¡¸Ugh!! Err¡­um¡­no¡­forget it¡­¡¹ He just hung his head and realized why. Haha¡­this is amusing! With that they left and headed east. They¡¯re going to subjugate Hobgoblins or something like that. Well then, good luck, see you later my children. Go and announce my generous divinity! This feeling of being all powerful isn¡¯t too bad. I¡¯m looking forward to meeting more prayers. Listening to them and gifting them with buffs feels like a pretty fun job¡­ [Volume One] Chapter 004 Gardening [Points: 650 remaining] Today I woke up with a somewhat strange notification in my [Log]. It said that, aside from 110 daily points, I also got 60 more from a thing called Treant. I accessed the Golem''s memory and saw a tree suddenly grew with extreme speed in the middle of the night. It was actually a common Treant spawned from the gathering of Mana. But it was crushed by the Golem and left behind a few seeds. [Apple Seed]x3 This is pretty good, a garden would be nice. These can be offered to visitors as long as they behave themselves. I''ll need a pond too, or at least a small lake for fishes. Then we''ll also add a well for fresh water, too. The well I can handle, but the pond and fishes would have to wait. I can''t afford all of those right now. First, I brought out an [Earth Golem(50P)]. And then gave it a [Shovel(5P)] to take care of the apple seeds. [Points: 595 remaining] I then had it planted the three apple trees. I had decent knowledge about this kind of thing, so I accessed its Behaviors through [Settings] and set the time for watering. I also raised the fertility of the land itself. Now the problem would be where can we find water? So I accessed the geography session from [Sanctuary] and found out that there''s an underground network of water running through this place. That was the first fortune I really had since becoming a God. I immediately bring out a [Well(50P)] and also a [Bucket(5p)]. Now the Earth Golem can water my apples. I gave it a [Watering Can(5P)] and accessed its behaviors again to give instruction on how to use it. [Points: 535 remaining] Alright. Now that all the preparations for my apples were finished, let''s take another nap. Ah before that, let''s throw another 200 into attraction. We now have 3 points of attraction, I wonder how much is that... Just as I was about to space out for a quick nap... [Two intruders incoming] Observer: Shadow Wolf 03 The wolves once again pleased me to no end. They''re so good at this kind of thing, though if I set up [Alert] in [Sanctuary], it would have brought the same result... Another two people clad in armor came close. One male one female, both armed to the teeth. ¡¸Young Miss, I saw a Shrine nearby¡¹ ¡¸Is that so? Let''s stop by and pray then...¡¹ I actually felt relieved. It was the first time I judged that if these two people had the intentions to destroy my place, I wouldn''t be able to stop them whatsoever. The moment they walked through the outer gate, I checked their information. Frank [LV.90 Adventurer] Elma [LV.110 Adventurer] Yep. If they want to fight, all my guardians along with the shrine will be destroyed. I''m glad they just came to pray, but let''s not be careless. Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. I prepared my Menu to be ready to call out a [Lesser Demon(500P)] anytime needed. The demon itself is LV.100, but hopefully I won''t have to use it. All of the inhabitants were in standby mode, so they were nowhere to be seen. The pair of adventurers opened the wooden door and entered the shrine. The man put a gold coin onto the table while the woman used a small piece of cloth to wipe the dust on the table and the idol. I''ll judge these two as nice people for now. That doesn''t mean I''ll let loose my hands on the Menu though. They knelt in front of the table and offered their silent prayers. O great God, I pray for your generosity and bestow upon us your blessing. If possible please take my life and let the Young Miss be safe... O great God, your child prays for peace and prosperity upon our lands, please let our sins be washed away by your divinity... Umm...I have no power to interfere with the peace of your lands. If you accidentally seduced a man or two then I''ll forgive you, but if you committed homicide then I guess you have the Demon Gods to pray to... [Points +400: 935 points remaining] Hooh~ Their faith are leagues above the other three. These two must have belonged to a religion Or maybe they just have a lot of faith in divine beings. I bestowed upon them two [LV.1 Blessing - Physical(10P)] just like I did with the other three. Well, it''s the only thing I could give anyway... ¡¸Oh? Frank...this is...¡¹ ¡¸Yes. A body boost blessing¡¹ The woman widened her eyes and prostrated to the idol. ¡¸Thank you so, so much, Kami-sama...¡¹ Hmm? Is this something very valuable? It''s just a LV.1 basic buff you know... It only lasts for a day. But I guess with their line of work, any help would be much appreciated. She left another gold coin on the table and the two of them left. Haaa... I sighed in utter relief. Good thing they were nice people. [Points +100Extra: 1015 points remaining] Ohhh...her extra gratitude at the end gave me another 100P. And in addition to that, my most basic daily points raised to 20P. [New believer added. Number of Believers: 1] That woman became a follower of my yet to establish religion. Well, it''s a nice thing, if anything. So I decided to upgrade the Shrine again to raise its HP. The house didn''t become bigger, but changed to more good-looking. Mostly the wood changed to a higher quality kind. [Points: 465 remaining] OK I''ll save it for now. I''m having something else in mind to spend. I guess that''s it for today...though the sun hasn''t even started to go down yet... Well, who cares...goodbye. [Volume One] Chapter 005 Perverts and Slave Though there''s only the bed inside the idol, it was a nice bed. I slept well every night, including last night. Since I''m not mortal, I don''t eat or drink. Thus there''s no need for excretion. So no toilet or bathroom or kitchen. [Points +710: 1175 points remaining] Yesterday, at noon, 3 monsters jumped over my fences. A LV.25 Hobgoblin was leading two LV.12 Green Goblins. They were trying to plunder the offerings. But in the end got wiped out by the wolves. Nobody stepped on the Undead Traps yet. I actually disabled them when those two dangerous adventurers stopped by. Apparently, Shadow Wolves are pretty damn powerful. And surprisingly, one of three wolves were female. After all the night "hunt", her belly swelled up. So much for "night activities" huh... I guess it can''t be helped, it''s animal''s instinct to leave offspring. I''ll have more Guardian for free, if anything. They can hunt for their children, so that''s all well and good. Another pair of adventurers stopped by today. But only one was actually praying, the other one was just showing the gesture. Neither of them had any strong faith. They were only trying to grab onto any tiny hope of surviving. [Points +25: 1200 points remaining] Evaluating their equipment and behavior, I came to a conclusion that these two didn''t believe in gods. They were skilled swordsmen, but they also wanted to be blessed if possible. In the end, they only trust their swords and skills. That''s natural. I have nothing against that. But if they don''t believe in me and aren''t that sincere, I can''t just give them charity buffs. So they left still with nothing but their swords. Then at noon another 5 Green Goblins of level around 12~16 arrived. They climbed over the fences and tried to plunder my offerings again. I was bored so I filtered their language just for fun... ¡¸Is this where Boss headed to yesterday?¡¹ ¡¸Yes, I''m sure he said he found a shrine¡¹ ¡¸Then where is he???¡¹ Ahh...so they''re looking for the Hobgoblin yesterday. I didn''t think goblins had that much intelligence. No, that''s stereotypical. I''ve read light novels about special goblins turning to super overpowered species before. In a world where magic really exists like this, anything is possible. In the end they got slaughtered by the two male wolves. They where hiding in the shadows waiting for the goblins to come close. And they really did close the distance towards the shrine. They didn''t even come close enough to activate the Iron Golem. The Earth Golem was watering my tiny little sprouts of apple trees as if nothing happened. [Points +750: 1950 points remaining] Oh yeah, all the equipment left behind by bandits and goblins have been stored inside my [Loot] menu. I was planning to save them as cheap rewards for prayers. Though it seemed to will be broken down into Points in the future anyway. And then, just right after the slaughter of the goblins... [Four intruders incoming] Observer: Shadow Wolf 02 Nice job. I really wanted to throw them a piece of fresh meat. But due to the free night hunt, they had no need for food at the moment, so I saved my points on that. As usual, I pulled out the surveillance monitoring window. I watched their actions and eavesdropped them just like I always did. I also changed the filter back to Human language. Then I was surprised upon identifying the lot. 3 men, 1 with a tiger head and a tail. The other two were humans. All were bulky and looked like yankees. They dragged along with them a girl. She was literally dragged on the ground by a black collar. Her eyes were devoid of any life. There was blood from her mouth, and countless wounds and bruises all over her limbs. [Human] Mercenary LV.20 [Human] Mercenary LV.18 [Beast Tribe - Tiger] Warrior LV.23 Those were the men. All three of them had a devious smile on their faces. Their groins were bulging up. Trash. That was the only thing came to my mind. This bunch belong to the definition of trash. And for the girl being dragged on the ground... Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. [Beast Tribe - Battle Bunny] Slave LV.8 Hooh... A sex slave. That itched my stomach just a little bit. Slavery is something very common in worlds like this. If one tries to demolish this system, the society itself will surely collapse. Fantasy worlds aren''t advanced enough to completely demolish slavery. But that has nothing to do with me wanting to do something about this. After listening to their conversation, I was more determined on what to do. ¡¸There''s a house over there, let''s finish dis quickly...hehe...¡¹ ¡¸Oi...isn''t that a shrine?¡¹ ¡¸Who cares, just a little house, if it was the Twilight Ark then I''d back down...¡¹ They kicked the fence and broke a hole through. Are you actually idiots? The gate wasn''t locked, you could just push it open. It was only two fucking steps away from you... Oh well, in my eyes they''re already Points for me to spend, so... ¡¸We''ll have a lil'' fuuun with dis babe before disposin'' her~¡¹ ¡¸I''m goin'' second alright?¡¹ ¡¸Don''t break ''er!¡¹ Then one of the humans threw the bunny girl onto the ground and started undoing his pants. This is the perfect moment for me to test out a feature. One that I''ve had my eyes on for quite a few days now. [Possession] Allows the god to possess a mortal being. If the mortal being''s body cannot handle the divinity, it will die instantly. I didn''t even think twice before clicking [Possess] in the Tiger''s status menu. My points of view suddenly changed and now I''m looking at the back of the two humans. Though I''m only a Nature Spirit-Level God, I''m still a God in the end. I drained the lifespan of the Tiger like sucking soda from a straw. He unconsciously let out an agonized roar. When the humans turned back and looked, I pulled the Tiger''s sword out of its sheath. With the strength of the beast tribe, I decapitated both humans in one slash. Blood was shooting out everywhere when the two no head corpses fell down. The life force of the Tiger ran out just one second after that and I was pushed out. When I turned back and look, the tiger corpse looked like a dry wooden log. It was all twisted in a strange way that I didn''t recognize it anymore. [Points +6000: 7950 points remaining] The slave girl was still lying on the ground being covered in blood. Her eyes were still dead fish-like without any life. She didn''t seem to care about what''s going to happen to her anymore. I immediately pulled up the Menu and selected a [Holy Spell]. [Semi-resurrection(450P)] Perfect healing technique. Cannot revive death. The girl was wrapped in white lights. After that, all the wounds on her disappeared. [Points: 7500 remaining] Truth be told, before that, I looked deep into her status. The diseases and damage she got on her were so terrible I don''t even want to mention it. Compared to 450P, saving a life worth more, at least that''s my belief. I pulled up [Settings] and added her to my [Telepathy Network]. Hey. You feeling OK? ¡¸Huh? Who...are you?¡¹ Still lying flat on the ground, she answered in a weak voice. It was definitely inaudible for normal people. But to a God it sounds as clearly as a loud speaker. The God of this shrine. Try sitting up and see if you''re still hurt anywhere? ¡¸Y-Yes...Kami-sama...¡¹ By the time she sat up and felt around her body, the other three corpses already turned into light particles and became my Points. ¡¸Looks like everything''s OK, Kami-sama...¡¹ Is that so? Then it''s good...do you have anywhere to go? That was a pretty idiotic question now that I think about it. A slave shouldn''t have many options she could choose from... ¡¸I...don''t¡¹ Then how about staying here? ¡¸Am I...allowed?¡¹ Yeah...I need someone to take care of my garden... ¡¸.....................¡¹ After a brief silence she suddenly burst out in tears. She cried so hard there wasn''t any sound. It was the exact same way an infant would cry. But life seemed to gradually returned to her eyes. So I left her like that for a while... [Volume One] Chapter 006 OK this is so insane. Yesterday I submitted this series with the solid mentality of getting washed away to some lost islands and never see the viewers again... But then after like 20min I came back seeing 80 views with already 8 followers. I almost jumped out of my chairs... The second time I came back, all the chapters became Hot threads. And the third time I got a bunch more views and replies... This morning I woke up seeing double the followers and ratings... Goddamn it this might just be the norm here, it''s maybe just common sense... And I''m prooooobably just an idiot who gets over excited but screw it maaan, who cares?? I''m happy... So here...please have a chapter! Thank you for your support. Leila ¡¸Ralph-sama! The carrots sprouted!¡¹ Is that so? That''s good to hear... Yeah. That''s really her. The bunny girl I saved. It''s been about a week since then, 6 days to be precise. She got a bit more energetic than the time I spotted her with those scums. Though I have to say it was really tough the first few days. Her mental state was on the cliff of falling into the depth of absolute despair. And there was one more thing I need to curse about... Yeah, that''s you, I''m badmouthing you right now, God of Rain, God of Weather or whatever! What kind of jerk are you, really... The moment Leila started to cry intensely on that day... It fucking rained like hell. I even thought I was in a shounen manga or something. You timed that on purpose didn''t you? I didn''t want to stop her from venting out her feelings. And I couldn''t just let her get sick from rain-showering either. I was between a rock and a hard place that time. And ironically, coincidence or not, the rain stopped the moment she calmed down and wiped her tears. Seriously, what the hell was that all about? I suspect someone''s watching us right now and will start adding manga-like scenes the moment there''s a chance. There was even fucking rainbows with dark clouds splitting to the sides shining sunlight down to her. I mean what kind of godlike timing is that if it wasn''t a god. I swear if it was that scary woman who raped me I''d be pissed... Don''t try to turn other people''s life in to a romantic light novel, woman! OK enough of me whining about the weather... After that I told her to go inside and gave her a [Towel(5P)] to wipe her body. At that moment I understood why she became a sex slave... Too beautiful. Her proportions were flawless. There was even this small mole on her chest. But somehow I didn''t get turned on or anything. I was strangely calm upon seeing a bunny girl stripping naked. Though I witnessed quite a nice show seeing her wiping her body, I didn''t feel horny at all. It seemed too normal it was pretty scary... I hope I haven''t lost the man in me... Her beautiful body with white fur wrapping her arms, legs and back aside... I gave her a set of [Female Underwear(10P)] and a [White-Leather Dress(10P)] in place of the ragged cloth that seemed to be her clothes. And no, I didn''t describe her body on purpose. Thought I''d just go over how she looks like... No Ero Thoughs, please understand that...No. Ero. Thoughts...probably... Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. She widened her eyes at the new clothes before her. Though hesitated for a while, in the end she took it after I urged her to. The days after that were completely exhausting.... But through heroic efforts and legendary patience... I finally somehow got her back into being a living being. She has always thought of herself as a sex toy. I fed her [Instant Noodle(10P)] and her eyes sparkled with wonders. Um...that was a bit over-exaggerated... Instant noodle isn''t something so luxurious, you know? Even if you''re a slave, instant noodle shouldn''t be that delicious to be honest... But from that, I had an idea and tried to cure her with food. I pulled out various kinds of food from the Menu. Her eyes shine brighter each time I gave her something new. So, until now, with the help of Melon Bread, Hamburgers, Fish Sticks, Shrimp Ball, French Fries, and many, many more kinds of fast food, I successfully brought her back to life. Now she would show her smiles and hum a tune while watering the mini-carrot field I gave her. Actually, I ordered the Earth Golem to cultivate a small field by hands instead of spending points. The only thing I spent points on were the seeds. Oh yeah, I forgot, Leila is her name. Nowadays she would happily chat about various things while having meals. It probably was so easy because she seemed to just be venting out in the form of prayers to a God. According to Leila, she was sold by her own family into that city. The Free Fortress City of Twilight, where the Twilight Ark is. Her village was in debt with a human Duke and forced her family to sell her as a slave. There were a lot of circumstances involved in deciding who will sell their child, so I won''t even spare my time to tell all about it. Basically, she was sold, and has been used as a sex toy for countless rich guys. Then after the third owner, her mentality broke. That''s how she became a sex doll devoid of any liveliness. So in the end, when she had too many diseases and wounds on her. Plus her mental state became completely empty. They decided to just dispose of her and left her to those good-for-nothing that I killed. And yeah, I also feel that it''s a huge miracle to have her return to somewhat normal just after 6 days. That I don''t understand at all, but if she''s fine then I guess it''s all good... I also used the cores the earlier goblins left behind to summon an Elder Hobgoblin. I did that by sacrificing 7 green goblin cores and 1 hobgoblin core. It saved me 150 points on getting Leila a body guard. The Elder Hobgoblin was 3 meters tall, as bulky as an ogre and had tusks like an orc. I used the equipment from the dead humans to arm him. For Leila''s house, I built a [Medium Sized-Hut(120P)] with a [Bed(20)] and a [Small Table(15)] inside. There''s also one [Wooden Chair(10)] that goes with the table. Of course I gave her spare clothes to change. With all that set, Leila officially became something like my personal maid who does all the housework. That makes me happy to be honest. It''s been pretty lonely recently... Though I said that, the labor work is shared with the Earth Golem. I want her to be healthy by working out, but at the same time wouldn''t over work herself. So in the end, she doesn''t cry at every single thing I do for her anymore. Let''s strive for an even better future! [Volume One] Chapter 007 Peaceful day [Points: 9,500 remaining] Morning feels so peaceful today. There was no clouds in the blue sky. The wind was gentle and pleasant. So nostalgic. It reminds me of those late summer days out in the park playing with my friends. There was wind like this at that time... It carries a warmth of summer heat but at the same time the cooling feels in fall. Even if Leila slacks off in today''s morning exercise I won''t blame her. But instead of that, she''s been outside since early to work out as I instructed. Why? Looking at her status from earlier, I spotted degeneration of muscles. She has always been put on the bed since forever. So, as a person who had martial arts training in my younger days, I made an exercising schedule for her. I''ve been letting her participating in defeating goblins and intruders. Her level raised quite a bit, she also gained back some fighting prowess of the proud battle bunny tribe. And then what happen when she got back a healthy body with well defined curves? I lost all clues on where the hell am I supposed to place my eyes every time I looked at her. That fluffy round rabbit tail got me every single time... Luckily I was invisible, or I would have taken a few slaps to my face constantly staring at her butts. Well, let''s cast that aside, it''s a peaceful day to enjoy after all. Being done with showering after exercises, Leila''s having breakfast I prepared. Yep, you guessed it, it''s instant noodles. She just extremely loves that thing. Though a battle bunny can live to forever eating only carrots, I wouldn''t allow something like that. I mean, each bowl of instant noodle cost me 5P while her existence itself gives me 40P every day. Of course I can afford to let her eat her favorite food... ¡¸Ralph-sama isn''t eating again?¡¹ No, I don''t need to. I''m not mortal... ¡¸Really? You''re not lying?¡¹ Ehh...why do you have to squint your eyes suspiciously at me like that? I''m currently lying on my comfy bed inside the idol, which is being placed on the table opposite of where Leila''s eating her instant noodles... Um...why would I lie to you something like that? ¡¸I have a feeling you can afford me these high-class food because you''re not eating at all...¡¹ How many times have I told her that the instant noodles aren''t luxurious. I lost track of my counts... And do you think I''m that poor of a God? I''m hurt... Seriously though, I get that she''s been a slave. But being fascinated over a bread with butter spread inside is a little too much... Just only a touch too much...I know there are people without even bread to eat... In any case, I''ll take that as a good thing if she likes it. However, I am still pretty damn confused about her recovery rate. I find it impossible to believe that a sex slave can come back to life that fast. But little did I know, I was the cause for that. Of course at this time, I have no way to know that yet... So...tell me more about that city you mentioned... This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.¡¸Ah yes...Twilight city...¡¹ Though I looked at it on the map several times and thought that it was only a decent city... It''s in fact a gigantic one with all kinds of things going on inside. That city is also a joint spot of two Kingdoms. They joined forces and turned that city in the middle into their trading center. And as expected, Slave Trading was overly popular. Along with Magic Stones and Blessing Charms, it made up the 3 top most traded goods. Seems like the charms come from the Twilight Ark with a cheap price. It was a kind of one-time-use disposable blessing. In other words, a consumable item. Extremely common in MMORPG... With that kind of goods being sold, no wonder adventurers gather there. And I must say that this God managing the Twilight Ark is a pretty damn opportunistic guy. I wonder why does he need mortal money? God''s powers should be enough for his life, right? Maybe it''s for hiring workers. Who cares, I''ll find out if I ever come there... ¡¸Ralph-sama intend to materialize?¡¹ Ah no...I''m just saying, I don''t really intend to ascend... By the way, Ralph is the most frequently used name of mine. I always name my characters in games "Ralphael". My chuunibyou time involved a lot of crap about divinity, sooo... I ended up as a programmer was also because I wanted to work with games more... ¡¸Thanks for the meal, Ralph-sama!! I''m going to water the garden now!¡¹ Oh yeah...thank you...it''s not too sunny, but don''t overwork yourself... ¡¸If I don''t work hard...I''ll become worthless...and...I won''t be able to thank you...for bringing me back to life...¡¹ OK OK OK I get it!! Don''t cry, I beg you...Now, go!! Work!! Work as hard as you want!! Work your butt off!!! Jeez...that was close. She''s still sensitive about being useful to the master... Every time that happened, the moment I told her to go work hard her face brightened up again... I have no idea how to deal with this... But when you take a closer look...it''s pretty natural. She''s been a slave almost her whole life. After being used like a sex toy for all those years, she has no idea what to do after she was freed. Moreover, I''m not sure about this, but I assume that I''m the only one that has been nice to her. So what can she do after being freed from slavery, and at the same time allowed to live in a place where there''s a God that would be nice to her? None. She doesn''t know what to do besides working hard. The feeling of being thrown away wouldn''t leave her alone so easily. It can''t be helped. She''s not been given the right to choose her own path. Thus in a situation like this, she''s lost. With that in mind, I decided to cast this thought aside. I believe there are things that can be mended through time. For now let''s go outside and take a sound nap. It was indeed the true definition of a peaceful day. Not even Goblins cared to stop by and suicide... I let my consciousness drift away together with Leila''s sweet humming and fell asleep just like that... [Volume One] Chapter 008 I had a lot of fun writing this one, hope you all liked it. Start of Disturbances [Points: 9,060 remaining] There has not been anyone stopping by this place since the incident with the perverts. I also threw another 200 into attraction. [Attraction]: 4 And 400 into upgrading the idol. From the outside it became a lot nicer now. I''ll stop there, because, as I said, I''m having something big in mind to spend. It will be a pretty damn convenient thing to have. But at the same time it''s so expensive I wanted to cry upon seeing it. Why didn''t I get fancy clothes for Leila? Well, first, she''ll absolutely feel uncomfortable being given fancy clothing. And then comes the most important reason... It''s easy to move in. She has not regained the full fighting prowess of battle bunnies her age yet. So giving her armor and stuff would be pretty, well, stupid. Why did I say that? Judging from the way most battle bunnies fight I saw in games... If she only has that dress, no mortal being weaker than a Demon would be able to chase her. Thus it would be the best choice to let her have a better chance of running away, rather than a tiny chance of winning a fight... Of course I did confirm this with Leila before deciding. So that''s that... Then right after lunch time, a whole crusade of people armed to the teeth marched through my land. The person that seemed to be the leader stopped by and offered a prayer. [Points +140¡ú9,200] They didn''t even care to look at Leila who was holding the watering can staring at them. The bunch seemed to be not just mere adventurers. They had uniformed armor and a flag. According to Leila, they''re from the Southern Empire. Judging from their chest-emblems, she guessed that they belong to the free group that receive orders to subjugate high-level monsters... Aside from the leader-like person, a few more came in and prayed. Mostly for a safe trip or safety for loved ones among the Knights. After a few people going out with my LV.1 buffs, a crowd was formed. Leila freaked out so I told her to go back to her hut and ordered the Elder Hobgoblin to guard her tightly. The people passing by only "uwhoaaa" at her body guard and then didn''t care about it anymore. It was rather tiring...listening to all 350 of them. Half of them weren''t even seriously praying. So of course, they left empty-handed. [Points +10,000¡ú19,200 remaining] Their faith were only average, around 80/person. But after more than 100 of those not so faithful people, I gained a huge chunk of points. It was so amazing I stared at it with widened eyes. After that crowd of people went away, I immediately started spending my points. 200 for attraction. [Attraction]: 5 300 for [LV.3 Holy Barrier] ¡ú[Points: 18,700 remaining] Then I added a [Medium Pond(200P)] and threw in there [Infant-Demonic Amphibian(500P)]. Later on I''ll expand this pond into a huge lake and have that demon be the guardian of the lake. I gave Leila [Mana Stone Package(100P)] to feed it everyday. This package would last for an entire year. She only needs to feed it one stone per day. How did I know that? Did I raise Demonic Amphibians before? Nope. I read the instructions in the Menu. I''m a man that reads instructions properly. ¡ú[Points: 17,900 remaining] Another 700 to upgrade the shrine. ¡ú[Points: 17,200 remaining] It became a brick house instead of wooden. Then I summoned another [Iron Golem(200P)] and had it guard the back of the Shrine. ¡ú[Points: 17,000 remaining] Another 100 to upgrade Leila''s hut. Bathroom wasn''t needed since I already built her one. ¡ú[Points: 16,900 remaining] 500 more points were thrown into upgrading the fences. It now became a wooden wall 1 meter tall with 2 gates. ¡ú[Points: 16,400 remaining] Suddenly, a huge noise rang and echoed throughout the whole forest. Followed by the sounds of screaming and swords clashing. I pulled out the surveillance monitor and checked what happened. The wolves also smelled a lot of blood. It was the earlier group of Southern Empire people. They were exchanging blow with another group. Unlike the Empire Knights, that other group didn''t have uniformed armor. They were just a bunch of various people. But they fought on par with the Knights. Then a person in black robe on the side of the diverse-group launched an offensive spell. The earlier noise was recreated once again. Of course, Leila freaked out and ran into the shrine. She hid under the offering able and rolled up like an infant trembling. Don''t worry...it''s OK...I''ll protect you! I patted her head with my non-physical hand and returned to keeping track on the fight. After more than an hour or so the battle came to a halt. Both sides withdrew back to their base-camps. Casualties seemed to be equal. Right after that wild beasts and monsters started to run wild. They scattered everywhere and ran like no tomorrow. Even the pack-hunting species became disorganized. Suddenly I received a pretty damn hard to swallow notification. [Danger: Mythical Being awakened. Status: Unknown. Type: Unknown. Race: Unknown. Danger Level: S+] Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. A being that even a God''s system can''t identify? Too dangerous, if you asked me... Damn. I was just about to spend points on the big thing I wanted. Guess I''ll have to leave that aside and strengthen our defense first. I pulled up the [Guardians] menu and surfed through it for the first time. Since the free Golem time I''ve only been looking at cheap crap on the first page. Now''s the chance to spend on a few high-ranking badass... Hmmmmmm???? T-These are... Why? I don''t get it... What''s happening?!? T-This Arch Demon...this Exiled Seraph...this Chaos Priest... All of these...all of the guardians from page two and beyond... Were mini-bosses, field-bosses, event-bosses and dungeon bosses from all the MMORPGs I''ve played before!!! Even the ones from those few games I participated in programming were in here... Don''t tell me... No. It can''t be... I switched to the [Spells] tab. The first page were all foreign things I''ve never heard. Then onto the second page... Divine Judgement...Nether Strike...Stellar Rage... Familiar! Stardust Melody...Shadow Spike...Moonlight Assault... Familiar! Familiar... Everything from page two and beyond... ...were absurdly familiar... These are all the skills I knew in MMORPGs... Same goes for the [Food] and [Items] tab... Anything beyond he first page was taken directly from my knowledge... What the hell...is happening...that scary woman didn''t say anything about this... No. Let''s immediately calm down. We have another pressing need right now. Though all the things beyond the first page were familiar. They were still very expensive in terms of points. Let''s think about this real quick... I returned to the [Guardians] tab and found a drop down menu that the first page didn''t have. [Adapting from]: All (select one source to filter) I opened that drop down menu and was stunned again. Chronicle Online...Phantasma Online...Tenma Online...World of Sins Online... Every single title of MMORPG I''ve played before showed up. All of them were listed inside that drop down list. Alright. Think harder, Arata!! A special feature of Bosses from Chronicle Online was high damage and huge in size. Bosses from Tenma Online were mostly cute ladies with absurd shape shifting skills. Then...that''s right!!! That''s it!! In Phantasma Online, Bosses always have summoning skills. They can call up underlings that were normally high-level monsters. Especially that one guy who has Chaos-attribute. He could easily neutralize anything aside from Stellar-attribute. The Chaos Priest, the final Boss of a dungeon called "Ruins of Divinity"... Haha bingo! I never thought knowledge in games would help this much!! I scrolled down a bit and found the guy. [LV.300 Chaos Priest(10,000P)] Corrupted High Priest of an Ancient religion. Can summon 5 Skull Face Angels per day. Special Ability: Chaos Demon Combat Form. Yikes... Looking at that price hurt my miserable heart. He previously could summon underlings endlessly, but I guess that''d be too OP... But let''s not be stingy about self-defense. I also have Leila, and probably the pregnant wolf to defend... Alright. Let''s do this with resolution! I clicked [Summon]. Ten thousand Points, without any wings, flew away instantly. A black lightning struck down from the sky in broad daylight. The moment it touched the ground, a shock wave was sent out. Black lightning gathered and took shape... ¡¸Yes! You called, my God. Your servant is ready for service even with the cost of his life¡¹ A man in black priest clothing and a bible in his hand appeared. He turned to where I was floating midair and knelt down. Huuuuhh? How did he see me? I was supposed to be invisible!! ¡¸Um...you can see me?¡¹ ¡¸I''m afraid these naked eyes are not able to catch your holy body...but I can at least sense your highness'' divinity...¡¹ And he can hear me, too!!! According to him, he could hear my words by deciphering the so called "holy radiation" from me while I speak. I see...this would be a lot easier to deal with. An intelligent subordinate who listens to mouth-orders are slightly better than one that has to be set up by coding... ¡¸Hmph! Very well then. I look forward to your service. Succeed in your tasks and your rewards shall not be disappointing!¡¹ AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! So. Fucking. Chuunibyou!!!! Where the hell did I get that from at this time?? It completely came out of the blue. I swear I did not plan ahead for that chuuni speech!! ¡¸Yes, my God. Though your praises are already very satisfying rewards, I shall succeed your orders even at the cost of my life¡¹ Good. Seems like he''s really loyal. He''s strong, I can''t fight him as I am now... But I''m confident I can instantly make Leila escape. Now that I know about the games I played affecting the Menu, it''ll be easy for me to just send Leila away with my knowledge on spells... ¡¸I am pleased to hear so. Now, this shall be your first order...¡¹ ¡ú[Points: 6,400 remaining] [Volume One] Chapter 009 Again, thanks for all the reviews and criticism! You might have noticed that I''m a complete novice in writing. This is the very first work I''ve ever brought out to public... My plan is to do this first volume in my original way and receive all the criticisms, then put those in use and improve in volume two. Thanks for the support, guys! -Nymphriel- Protection I ordered the Priest to summon all Skull Face Angels he could at the moment and spread them out to become our first layer of defenses. 2 were in the air. 3 were on the ground. I also spread the Undead Traps out more widely. The next layer after the Skull Face Angels were 2 Iron Golems. Each of these guys are as strong as all 5 Skull Face Angels. Right behind them are the Shadow Wolves and Von - the Priest. I was bad at naming and just threw out a name that came across my mind. But he happily took it, so I guess it''s fine... Then inside the shrine was Leila and the pregnant Shadow Wolf. Elgo-kun would be their body guard for now. And yeah, that''s the Elder Hobgoblin... I was lazy so I shortened the phrase Elder Hobgoblin into Elgo. But this guy also happily took it, I didn''t think he could speak though... So with all that, our defenses tightened. I also threw out another [LV.4 Magic Barrier(400P)] under the existed LV.3 Holy Barrier. None of the guardians were on standby. They were all up ready to fight any time needed. I saved the last 6,000P for emergency to summon a stronger subordinate. Or at least to secure a transposition spell to protect Leila and the Shrine. The trees in the forest were so tall I couldn''t really make out any gigantic creatures awakening. My surveillance monitor also has a limit on viewing radius... For now, we can only stay on guard and wait. I''m pretty damn uneasy about this, I could literally hear giant footsteps and the vibration of the ground thanks to my God senses. Von also seemed to notice a wild presence inside the forest. ¡¸Ralph-sama many individuals seem to be running towards this direction...¡¹ ¡¸Yeah, I noticed too. Let''s see who they are...¡¹ I pulled up the surveillance monitor and spotted the individuals when they come into viewing range. Beast people. A lot of them. Their faces were ash pale, they came running like no tomorrow. The leading person opened the gate on my fences and let them all pouring in. OH SHIT! I forgot about the gates!! What''s the point of defending when you''re inviting enemies in like that?!? Luckily these people weren''t hostile. They were just scared and decided to run into a sanctuary to seek protection. Of course when they''re in my land I can read their hearts as a God. So I ordered the guardians to ignore them. The lot seemed to freak out the moment they saw my guys. But that''s OK I''ll talk to them through [Announcement]. ¡¸You people over there! What is your purpose barging into my domain???¡¹ To them, my voice was pouring down from the sky like a speaker. So immediately all 20 of them prostrated and cried for mercy. Oh god, no, oh myself... This feeling of almightiness feels so damn cool. No no no no, let''s not get lost into this. I''ve seen too many people getting drowned into powers before... I can somewhat understand why they walked down the wrong path now that I''m actually in the position that possesses powers. ¡¸P-P-Please forgive us, o great God!!! W-W-We only came to pray for your protection¡¹ ¡¸From what?¡¹ ¡¸F-F-From the ferocious beasts awakened inside the forest!!¡¹ ¡¸Hmm...let''s hear some more details¡¹ So I had them tell about the strange shaking of the ground. There were even echoing roars. Turns out there are a few sleeping Mythical Beasts deep inside the corners of the Forest. But the fight of those two groups of humans back then awakened them. Apparently, one of those beasts crossed path with these people''s tribe. It destroyed that place in an instant and kill quite a lot of people. The survivors are these 20 that ran with all their might. And how convenient they found my shrine... ¡¸PLEASE!! GREAT GOD OF DIVINITY!! I BEG YOU!! PLEASE PROTECT MY PEOPLE! THOUGH I CAN''T AFFORD ANY VALUABLE OFFERING, I''LL BECOME LABOR WORKER IN YOUR SANCTUARY!!¡¹ ¡¸WE BEG YOU!! WE CAN WORK IN ADDITION TO CHIEF, TOO!!!¡¹ They all prostrated once again. I decided to help them. Why? Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.Because of this: [Points +400...+600...+1200...+1500...+1800...] It kept increasing like a goddamn lottery prize. If I let this go on any longer, I''d feel rather bad of cheating their faith to earn interest... Besides, they submitted themselves. I forced nothing on them. More inhabitants, more points. It''s not that I look down on them. It''s just because they decided to serve me, and I have zero reason to decline that offer. Had I forced it out of them, it would''ve been a whole different story to deal with. But right now there''s no need for that, so let''s deal with it this way. ¡¸Very well then. That is your decision, prepare to be working your butts off!¡¹ ¡¸YES!! WE THANK YOU WITH ALL OUR HEARTS!! KAMI-SAMA!¡¹ With that I had them gather around the shrine and pulled out equipment from the bandits and goblins. With that they can at least defend themselves... I thought about it for a few seconds and decided to used the points they just gave me by faithful prayers to summon another [Arch Demon(5,000P)] to protect them. This girl''s a mini-boss in Chronicle Online. She isn''t as strong as the Chaos Priest in anyway possible. But at least protecting this bunch will be sufficient. [Points: 22,765 remaining] DAAAAMNNN. I didn''t think it was this many!! Did they really believe so much in my powers that the points became like this? Anyways, I immediately upgraded the fences to stone wall and installed 4 [Watch Tower(1,000P)] equipped with auto-activation ranged offensive magic cannons. In other words, I threw in 4 turrets from a strategy game. Their range and damage were average, but their abilities to cover both air and ground were useful. [Points: 16,500 remaining] OK. Now we really are all set. Let''s wait and see. The roars were still audible. The footsteps changed directions a few times before straight up running directly towards us. ¡¸Guardians!! Prepare for battle!!¡¹ All of them stiffened up and readied their stances. The trees at the border of my lands were broke to the sides by the impactful force charging out in the middle. It was a giant being, it looked glorious with sharp teeth and extremely strong jaws. The tail was a sturdy log of muscles, one sweep would destroy even a group of Knights. Those giant legs with claws and....................................tiny arms? What? Wait wait wait wait!! I''m confused... What...?? It looks so damn familiar... Where the hell have I seen this thing before? Wasn''t it...the movie where this thing was released from its cage and chased everyone around the Park?!? No, it can''t be right? This is a fantasy world with demons and angels... I don''t believe this... I pulled up its status menu and shrugged in disappointment. Tyrannosaurus-Rex Mythical Beast LV.100 Ehh................................. WHAT THE FUCK DOES A T-REX HAVE ANYTHING TO DO HERE?!? And what is with the Mythical Beast thing? You know, I''ll be frank. Deep inside my poor heart was a delusion of a nine-tailed fox girl jumping out. When you say mythical it should be something like that right? Or at least give me Chimera or a Sphinx!!! Sighhhhhhhh...... OK calm down. Let''s take care of it first then. It was standing on my land, so I easily clicked [Brainwash] and then [Tame]. It was a wild beast level under 120 so I could tame it... Had it been more than 120 in terms of level, I''d have to kill it. The ferocious "MYTHICAL BEAST" sat down and wagged its giant tail like a puppy. Every single one looked just as confused as the brainwashed T-rex... They calmed down after I explained the situation about me taming it. Like that, we had another guardian, or I should say, my new "pet dinosaur". But of course, I am very suspicious about the existence of this dinosaur here. There are only two theories. One, I''m a fucking idiot who doesn''t know dinosaurs also existed in this world. This isn''t Earth, so anything can happen, really... Two, there''s something fishy behind this that I have to take note and research later on... For now, let''s assume it''s both. So I''m a fucking idiot who doesn''t know about dinosaurs in this world and I''ll need to research more about them. Done. Just as we all relaxed a little, bad news came running our way... [Volume One] Chapter 010 Hassles ¡¸Get out here and fight or we''ll burn down the whole place!!!¡¹ How did it come down to this... Right. When I successfully tamed the T-Rex, one of the two earlier human groups came running in. And fuck me I forgot to lock the gates again. There was no hostility so the turrets didn''t attack. Those things would even attack the people inside the stone wall if there''s malice towards the Shrine. I told you, I''m a man who reads instructions... And unexpected as it is, the humans, only about 6 of them, ran through the gate with two of them being the pair of dangerous adventurers I met before. The only difference is that they''re not one bit dangerous anymore. I have my full fighting force up and ready to go, so I arrested all 6 of them. Where do you people think this is, a marketplace? I swear next time I''m making a whole station to sell tickets... No, I''m kidding, just imagine buying a ticket just to go to church...geehhh... After being arrested by Golems and Skull Face Angels, the woman from that pair desperately tried to explain the situation. Just when she was trying to speak and catching her breath at the same time, the Southern Empire group arrived right outside the stone wall... Hence, the situation right now. What kind of sick joke... I''m having a serious headache... I surfed through the status of all those Empire Knights. All of them were weaklings, compared to my guys. Even if I counted their superior in number, they were still weak. That''s how, well...weak they were. So I used [Announcement] and gave them some warnings. ¡¸Any more of you stepping into this land will be rewarded with death!! Didn''t some kind of church teach you lot to settle with words before fists???¡¹ Following my words were a whole debate between two sides. To make it short: The Empire worships Amel, an Arch God, and her religion taught that monsters should all be eliminated without even saying. Then we have the other side, apparently they were representatives from Twilight city, where people worship Bagdur, God of Sorcery. Now this god, he doesn''t care about races, his religion taught that we''re all living beings, so avoid fighting where we could. And my yet to establish religion would surely teach that this bunch of hassles are a gigantic headache and we should stay away. The Empire was trying to subjugate the Mythical Beasts. But these creatures were originally within the lands of the two Kingdoms that established Twilight City. By the way, my sanctuary is just barely outside the range of any country. I must thank that wild woman for this though... So, when those Knights were trying to subjugate one of the three Mythical Beasts, the group from Twilight came and stopped them. But awakening those creatures were an utterly bad idea to either side. The Mythical Beasts easily gulped down more than 100 Knights. They ran while fighting with the other side. Hence the fighting sounds and the awakening of those things. We already got Rex-kun here, so there are two more. And the Empire Knights are still trying to slay my pet. To be honest, I don''t want to mess with the Empire. I checked information about Arch God Amel. She''s ranked 12th... That''s already a huge threat I don''t want to touch, much less Twilight... Arghhhhhhh I wanna cry!!! Why is all this happening to me? Why am I always stuck between a rock and a hard place? A certain line suddenly floated through my head. [Attraction]: 5 Goodness gracious... Did I just kick my own balls and dug my own grave? If that''s true then I would curse myself to all eternity... But we don''t know yet, let''s set that aside. Now what the hell will I do with these two groups? Just at that time, a gigantic snake with jet black scales and horns appeared. It looked like a very long dragon without any limbs. The thing charged out from the forest just like the T-Rex. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.It didn''t even care about a single thing in the world and bare fangs towards the woman named Elma, one of the adventurer pair. Wonderful! This is a golden chance given to me. That woman, Goddess of Fortune, hasn''t forsaken me... Instantly, I used [Mini-teleportation(200P)] and kicked the 6 humans out. Then I order my guardians to fight as the snake was charging straight into my land. With this, I''ll subjugate this thing, save the humans from Twilight, and cut off the argument with the Empire Knights. One arrow piercing 3 targets! With his absurd magic power, Von easily held down the giant snake. But the thing was too powerful, before getting completely immobilized, it launched a black breath killing off 4 of my Skull Face Angels and one Iron Golem. It was the second Golem, had it been the first one I would''ve been pretty sad. We''ve been together since the very beginning... Von wasn''t in his combat form so he couldn''t just finish the thing. It requires time to chant a transformation spell, which we don''t have. And I myself do not wish to reveal his powers to this many people looking either. So I''ll spend Points instead. [Divine Judgement(3,000P)] Supreme purification method. Can only be used once everyday. The pillar of light crashed down from who-knows-which-heaven and turned the snake''s head into ash. As expected, it was too strong it shattered my [LV.3 Holy Barrier]. But was in the end slain by the supreme spell. I heaved a sigh of relief when the rest of the gigantic body of the snake turned into light particles. [Achievement Unlocked] Defeating Mythical Beasts(1) [Achievement Unlocked] Defeating Mythical Beasts(2) [Current Progress on Mythical Beast Chapter: 2/3] ¡ú[Rewards]: 80,000 Points. Alright people, I already forgave you all for this hassle, now let us part ways and enjoy our own banquets! Or so I wanted to say but it didn''t go that easily. In the end we had to have a talk between three factions about all this. Sitting in a small round table I prepared were me(a fake idol I bought with Points), Elma and the Knights Captain Goza. The talk was too formal and boring that I fell asleep midway. Luckily nobody saw me dozing off for a few seconds. In the end, we came to an agreement that:
  1. I saved Elma''s group.
  2. I subjugated the snake because it attacked my land.
  3. I did not stick my nose into any of the business between Elma''s faction and Goza''s faction.
  4. I don''t owe anyone and nobody owed me anything, except for Elma since I saved her life.
  5. The rest of this hassle will be settled by the higher-ups of Elma and Goza. I have zero share or comment on what will they do to each other.
To make all that into one sentence: The snake jumped into my land, I kicked Elma out because of trespassing and by chance saved her life. Then, at the same time, subjugated the snake for the sake of protection for my land. And since my sanctuary doesn''t belong to any territory, they can do nothing about me trying to kill the snake to protect my people. That marked the end of the long and boring talk. This time we actually parted ways and said goodbye. Though the Empire Knights had mixed reactions about this... But who cares, we have other things to do right now. We need to repair the stone wall where it got crushed by the snake collapsing. That thing while being held down by Von crushed Leila''s hut, too. But miraculously my little apple trees were intact, same goes for Leila''s carrots garden. Next thing would be housing for the beast people. While I''m at it I''ll expand this sanctuary, too. For now, I gave them cheap Huts and told them to go build houses on their own. I don''t want to spoil them rotten by just magically throwing out houses. I don''t lack points that badly, but making people dependent on Gods isn''t a good thing to have. So. Let us start our little journey on reconstructing this sanctuary! [Volume One] Interlude Alright guys, last chapter of the day, kind of a chill one actually... Please bear with the not-so-long chapters as I am still developing my writing skills... I certainly do not want to throw out a long-ass chapter without any quality in it. Leila''s POV ¡¸Let''s go boyz! We''re allowed to have a taste in dis babe before disposin'' of ''er~¡¹ Ah...so I finally expired. The usual routine has been repeating for how many years now...? I lost count of day and time since long ago... Until today, I was thrown out and were carried away by other men. My mind has given up since long, but I was conscious enough to comprehend their words. For short, I''m getting disposed of. I think they finally deemed me expired. I''m a nest of diseases after all. These men are pretty brave to want to "taste" me... Haha...they''ll just die not long after me... But I guess I don''t really care that much about others. We arrived at a strange place. My animal instinct told me that the place was strange. But I paid it no attention and just accepted my fate as always. I wonder how long would it take for me to die... Probably more than a week, I''m a battle bunny after all... One man started to undo his pants, as expected. Nothing was out of place about that, until... ¡¸ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!¡¹ The man standing on the back screamed in agony. White smoke was literally steaming out from his head. His face was deep red and his eyes rolled back into the skull. I knew that this place was strange. The syndrome on that guy just now feels very...Holy. I wasn''t sure but I guessed it was a possession ritual. The Tigerman body wasn''t strong enough so the divine being drained his life force. The moment the other two men turned back, their heads fell from their bodies. Blood was everywhere, the grasses were covered by a dark red color. Suddenly, the Tigerman body started to twist in a strange way. And he, too, fell down to the ground. Then I felt warmth. A warmth that tickled my dead heart. I felt like breathing ''life'' itself in and out of my mouth. Hey. You feeling OK? *** (Day 1) The God of this shrine called himself Ralph. Yesterday he gave me a set of luxurious clothing. I was scared and asked twice about it. These clothes would sell for 2 round gold coins. Who would give a slave these... Well you''re not a slave anymore, right? I already told you I need someone to take care of my garden, not a slave... I couldn''t rebuke those words so I took the clothes. Mostly because I couldn''t believe that I''m not a slave anymore. Putting on the clothes made me feel uneasy... Then he gave me a meal that looked like the noble meal I usually saw when my owner was a noble. He said it was just cheap noodles. But no matter how you looked at it, it was definitely high-class meal. And as expected, the taste was first-class. I pushed the bowl away but he got angry. Really though...I get that you''ve been a slave...but how about just eat up for today...you''ve already been lacking tons of nutrients! Why is he caring for me? Is it because he''s a God? Impossible, none of the Gods of this world is good people. I dare say so myself since I''ve heard the nobles talked about this topic. But...Ralph...-sama has been talking with a nice voice, so when he got angry it actually scared me to no end. I wonder why... I was so sure that feeling of being scared was gone long ago... It wasn''t being scared of getting hit or tortured... But it was the feeling that you think you would be useless to someone you respect. I finished the meal obediently and was patted on the head. Heh? There was no one around here. The God himself wasn''t mortal either... Then why did I feel the warm hand patting my head and stroked my hair? How long has it been since I last felt this?? Ahh...it must have been since the time with my second owner. The kind Count who didn''t have a child. He treated me as his daughter but he soon died... But...this warmth... It wasn''t the same...it was...actually...better... (Day 2) Yesterday Ralph-sama built me my own house. Luckily it was just a tiny hut with one bed and one table so I didn''t feel uncomfortable. I guess he decided on this house because the incident with the noodles. I woke up pretty early. My sleep time wasn''t much, but it felt strangely sound. You awake? Breakfast on the table. Please eat while it''s still warm. ¡¸Y-Yes, Ralph-sama...¡¹ It was only a strange looking bread and a cup of tea. I thought it would be a normal bread, but it turned out otherwise. Inside the bread was something a bit salty and fatty... The bread itself had a sweet taste to it. It was too delicious... Even before I realized, tears already streamed down my cheeks. Oi oi...W-What''s wrong? Was the bread no good at all?!? Ahh I made him worry... But somehow I couldn''t speak. The words just didn''t come at all... I continued to eat away with constant tears... (Day 3) Again, I woke up pretty early. The sleep was very sound and pleasant. Breakfast was ready on the table. It was again extremely delicious. This still makes me feel uncomfortable... I asked Ralph-sama for something else more suitable for slave, but... Sighhh...even if you make me do it...I still can''t give you something I don''t have...the bread yesterday was already trash cheap... ...was the respond I got every time. He did not seem to be lying, his voice didn''t have the tone of deception I always heard from nobles... And every time I finished a meal obediently without asking for something else, I got patted on the head. If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. I felt something sparked inside my long dead heart... (Day 4) I don''t know when, probably since yesterday, it has become like this... After doing something as instructed, I had this tingy feeling in my chest that told me to expect a pat on the head. What I always expected to receive was sex, and sex, and torture, and sex... I''ve never expected a pat on the head... Today Ralph-sama instructed me on morning exercises. He wants me to regain my fighting prowess as a battle bunny. I need someone to entrust the shrine when I''m not around. So... I followed instructions and got patted on the head. Sometimes he would stroke my hair for a while before lifting his hand... It has started to feel overly pleasant recently... If you asked me, I can only give you an answer based on what I know. Meaning that, in compared to the kind of dirty pleasure being a sex toy... This feels 10,000 times better... Ralph-sama also taught me how to use the watering can to take care of his garden. Later on that day, I watered it as instructed and ate my meal obediently. I got patted on the head again, this time he stroked my hair a little longer than usual. The corners of my lips suddenly curled up and my cheeks became hot... Did I just...smile from the bottom of my heart??? (Day 5) Today, as usual, Ralph-sama pulled out strange food I''ve never seen before. And they were extremely delicious, each of these would sell for a chunk of gold coins, I dare say... After morning exercises, I came back and water the garden for the morning. Leila, come over here...I have something for you! The voice came from the other side of the Shrine. It usually came from so near I didn''t make out the direction. So it was a little surprising to hear it from afar. ¡¸Ahh...T-This is...¡¹ A small field, cultivated by an Earth Golem. Why would he make a small field? I mean, he can pull food out from nothingness right?? I understand about the apple trees since Ralph-sama already told me about them. The seeds left back by the Treant would be a waste so he just plant it anyway. But why another field? And what is it for? It''s carrots. I had a feeling my eyes literally sparkled upon hearing the word "carrot". I don''t know why, but all battle bunnies seem to love carrots. Before being sold, I heard mother talk about how battle bunnies can live hundreds of years eating just carrots... I did some research on your race, you''ve only been taking care of my garden...so how about get one for your own? It''s a good chance, you''ve never been able to have something for your own right? Heh? I...I can have something...for my own...possession... I...I don''t know what to do...if you just give me something for my own... Should I take it? Can I really have it...something for just me and myself... ¡¸Ow!¡¹ I felt a hand knock on my head. It wasn''t hurt in anyway, but I was surprised. How can a God touch a mortal being? Don''t think about either you can or should take it or not...the problem right now is that you''re not a slave...you''re something like my maid...and you''ve been a good girl so I''ll reward you this! O-Oi!! S-Sorry about that!! I didn''t try to yell at you or anything...seriously though, did I set the volume to loud again!?! Ah... Seems like I cried again. I made Ralph-sama worry again... He didn''t do anything wrong. It was only me being a weakling and cried every time... But yet he would apologize and try to comfort me. Each time, my body was wrapped in a thick layer of warmth. Even if I tried to find a way out, there wasn''t any end to it... Besides, why should I run away from it? Ralph-sama would get angry and knock my head again if I do something that stupid... That''s right, I don''t want the person, the God who reborn me as a living being to worry about my stupid actions... I should only just obediently listen to him. I...want more pats on the head... (Day 6) Today we went over martial arts training. Though I couldn''t see him, his instructions on stances and how to perform training were very clear. I could understand everything right away and started practicing on my own after morning exercises... A few goblins and wild animals came into the land today. Ralph-sama told me to follow the wolves to start getting back on fighting experiences. I did it! I miraculously somehow beat a green goblin. It was truly so tough... But I did it!! I...can fight for myself now... I can defend myself and not me a burden for Ralph-sama... ...and most importantly...I got more pats on the head... Ahh...I never got tired of how he stroked my hair... Does me drooping my ears and enjoying it look...erotic? I wonder have I turned dirty because of being a sex slave? Hmm...if you''re wondering about that...I personally say that drooping ear bunny girls are the best!! I felt like he was doing a thumbs up and smile pervertedly... But I didn''t see him so I guess it was just my imagination... ¡¸R-Ralph-sama...can I ask...something...s-s-selfish...?¡¹ Ehh...isn''t it obvious that you need more selfish wishes? Don''t you dare ask to change your meal again...for god''s, no, my sake, properly ask something for yourself alright? ¡¸Y-Yes...P...Please...let me stay here...with Ralph-sama...forever...¡¹ ...geez...dumbass...that''s already an obvious thing... ¡¸...and...¡¹ Hmm? ¡¸And also...more...pats on the head...please...¡¹ Eh? You can feel my hand??? ¡¸Yes...I can...¡¹ EHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!? Ahem. Y-Yeah...alright...I get it... I don''t want to leave this place. [Volume One] Chapter 011 Homunculus [Points: 100,528 remaining] That number could literally make me feel horny... I got so many points out of that fight with the Mythical Beasts. Only two of them though, the third guy decided not to join the party. Which I am thankful for... It''s been 2 weeks since, the new inhabitants became my believers. My most basic daily points rose drastically due to their faith. I also used 10,000P to expand my land a bit. To be accurate, the radius of my sanctuary is now 250m, meaning 500m in diameter. More than double the original size, the stone walls have also been expanded. The turrets were installed to the wall so they moved along with it. I also upgraded my Holy Barrier to LV.10. Even if an Ogre steps in, it gets instantly evaporated. Magic Barrier also rose to LV.10 Not even an Arch Demon can pierce it. We''re currently on our way to the peak of our era. The Beast village construction is going well. Some of the Beast people have met and learned from the Dwarfs before. So the work is progressing smoothly without any problem. As a fellow Beast person, Leila quickly got familiar with those people. She''s also helping out here and there. Good good, I''m pleased with how things are going. I also put down a [Two story-House(5,000P)] for Von and Ana. Ana''s the Arch Demon I summoned, by the way... That house is for the higher-ups of this sanctuary. The Beast chief and his family will also be living in there. Leila doesn''t want to leave her little hut, so I rebuilt it for her and upgraded it a bit. She seems to have grown attached to that little cozy place. That''s OK, if it''s convenient for her then I''m perfectly fine with it. With various upgrades regarding the shrine and the idol, the little wooden house now turned into a brick Temple with fancy carvings and sculptures. The ugly idol became a badass skull face-like mini-totem. My bedroom also has an office desk and a closet now. After all the fancy stuff done to my sanctuary, it left me with around 60,000P. [Points: 61,853 remaining] It''s finally time to spend on the thing I''ve wanted all this time. [Homunculus(5,000~50,000P)] Yep. An artificial body. I read through the [Materialization] part in the Menu. If I don''t pay anything, I''ll reincarnate again into a human with no powers whatsoever. if I pay 100,000P I''ll be able to keep 20% of my divine powers. And that''s it, no other deals were offered. I''m not dumb enough to dip my hands into that... I mean, I want a proper body but being unable to defend myself is just as bad... So, with my knowledge from games being transferred into the Menu... I looked into the [Items] menu and skipped over the type of Homunculus I wanted before, because it sucks. I went straight to page 3, I''m only F-rank, I can''t use things from beyond page 3 yet... And found the kind of Homunculus that I knew about in a game I played before. I read the lore and story line of all games I played, so the knowledge about this kind of Homunculus stayed with me. How convenient. Then, why does the price varied? It''s the difference in materials. The very first one I saw on the first page is made from magic iron. Which sucked because of its low durability. Now that I know about my game knowledge affecting my Menu, I went straight for the most expensive one. [Black-Demonic Sapphire - Homunculus(50,000)] This thing was a quest item for the final quest before players finish Story Mode. I did do some previewing with the further pages, but there wasn''t Homunculus listed in there anymore. Seems like it stops at page 3 as the best Homunculus I can make. Surprisingly, I had the option to choose its appearances. And on top of that, I can change its look any time I want even while possessing it. In the customization menu, there was also an option called [Soul Shape]. Meaning that the homunculus will take the shape of what my soul looks like. Very convenient, I''m OK with my original appearance, so let''s choose that. Then my previous human self appeared in the Menu. I clicked on [Create & Transfer]. My points of view suddenly changed just like the time I possessed the tiger man. Let''s see... Hands, arms, legs, torso,... Everything was good, everything felt the same. Except for one thing... ¡¸I''m ripped...¡¹ Yep. This body isn''t the 35-year-old me. This is way back at the peak of my martial arts and kenjutsu training. My 25 year old body. I quit training because of my love for games. Then eventually became a game programmers. All the days and months sitting in one place coding degenerated my muscles. It gave rise to fats and I became plump and slow. But this body...it''s the peak of my youth... The time when I could even fracture human bones with a punch. I had mixed feelings about it. Then the door to the shrine, now a Temple, was pushed open. It was Leila, who came every morning nowadays to eat breakfast. Her hut was destroyed by the snake, so I had her stay in the shrine until it was fixed. It just kind of became a habit now that she comes every morning. ¡¸Good morning~ Ralph-sama!! May I ask for that fried eggs again today~?¡¹ ¡¸Yo. You liked the eggs? Sure...sit down...I''ll prepare it!¡¹ ¡¸Eh?¡¹ ¡¸Hmm?¡¹ Leila suddenly turned bright red from ear to ear. Her standing ears drooped helplessly. I followed her gaze and met my "son" down there. It was hanging gloriously outside. Ah. I''m stark naked. ¡¸KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¹ *** ¡¸You made me jump, woman...¡¹ ¡¸I-I-It''s your fault!!! Why would I expect Ralph-sama naked first thing in the morning?!?¡¹ This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. If it was the former Leila, she wouldn''t even bat an eyelid at that scene. She gained back her sanity as a young woman, so I guess screaming at that is pretty natural. After screaming, she ran out of the Temple and slammed the door shut. I calmly called up the Menu and took out an average hunter''s leather clothing set. [Points: 11,600 remaining] I put it on and walked outside to look for Leila. She was burying her face into a pillow with her ass up high to the sky in her hut. ¡¸Pffffffft........¡¹ ¡¸R-R-Ralph-sama is a bully!!! You''re laughing at me again!!!¡¹ ¡¸Sorry sorry...ha...I won''t...haha...laugh anymore...¡¹ My apologies, girl...but that scene was too cute and amusing. I can''t believe a former sex slave can become this pure and innocent. Either it was because she''s very adaptive, or she just recovers fast. Well, I don''t really care. As long as she''s fine, I''ll be good with anything. ¡¸Geez.....you''re such a meanie...but to think that you materialized, it''s quite a shocking news...¡¹ ¡¸Hmm? Why?¡¹ ¡¸If a god materializes there will be large voice coming from the sky announcing it...¡¹ ¡¸Ahh that...I didn''t materialize...this body is a Homunculus¡¹ ¡¸Homo...lust? EEEEHHH???¡¹ PFFFFUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I spat my tea and coughed while laughing like a fucking nutsjob. This woman...this woman... I swear you would kill me someday without the need of any weapon... ¡¸No, you idiot!! It''s HOMUNCULUS. An artificial body vessel¡¹ ¡¸Ahh...I see...¡¹ Oh yeah, I think you might have been wondering how the hell do I converse with Leila and others. It seems like Gods words are always understood by others. I might not understand them if I don''t have filter on, but they will always understand my words no matter what the hell kind of language I speak. Now while I''m at it, let me explain a bit about Homunculus and Possession. As I said before, I''m a man who reads manuals and instructions. I learned that I can do this after reading "How to Use" in the Menu of [Items]. So, a homunculus, in other words, an artificial humanoid body, doesn''t have a life by itself. Though the body was made with all kinds of functionalities a human would have, it can''t live on its own without a source of power. That''s perfect for a God to possess. But the downfall depends on materials used to make the Homunculus. Assuming that other Gods don''t have game knowledge like me. The only kind of homunculus they knew of would be the shitty one on the first page of the Menu. Magic Iron isn''t strong enough even for an F-rank like me, much less those high-ranking Gods. So their choices were narrowed down to formal materialization if they ever want to ascend to the mortal world. But. With my knowledge on Black-Demonic Sapphire, a fantasy crystal ore that was spat out from the throat of the Dragon God, of course in a game I played before... I was able to pull out a homunculus with an extremely strong structure. The proof is that I''m moving in it without breaking it. Though the materials were black crystal ores, I selected [Soul Shape] so the color of my skin and body features are human. And surprisingly I can control the hardness. Normally I left it at human flesh, but when needed I can increase it back to the hardness of Black-Demonic Sapphire and easily shatter diamonds. If you fight me with just brute force alone, I''m invincible, probably. This body is at the peak of my youth, when I was 25 years old. So with just a little warming up in martial arts, I was able to fight skillfully again. Plus the hardness of the homunculus itself, I''ll break your skull like smashing chocolate. But if a God use magic and their divine powers then I''m not so sure anymore. Though because I didn''t materialize, I can still use all the powers of a God right now, there''s nothing to guarantee that other Gods don''t have stronger powers than me. Especially those higher in the ranking ladder, D C B and above... Those people can use stuff from beyond page 5 6 7. I have no way to know if their later pages have anything stronger than my knowledge from games in my pages 5 6 7... In case you didn''t quite catch that, I was talking about the Menu. My knowledge from games I played was somehow put into the Menu for things I can spend points on. So with this new body, it became easier to communicate and hang out. My boring days of watching them partying around camp fire is now gone. I can join my believers in their activities now. That said, the moment I stepped out of my domain, I was pushed out of the body. The homunculus fell to the ground like a corpse. Of course, Leila freaked out, but I talked to her and comforted her. The reason was because of the Crystal Core inside the idol. As long as the Core is still in one fixed place, there will be a range that restricts my movements. So I transposed the Homunculus back into the Temple and installed the current idol into it in replacement for the heart. I pulled out another fake idol with 10P and placed it back on the offering table as decoy. I think it''s best to bring the core with me, my hard body can protect it better than this brick house. With all that said and done, I am now a free young man who can freely walk around everywhere without worrying. Nice. It was a nice peaceful day! Let''s take a nap! But where the hell should I sleep? Let''s tease Leila a little... After lunch, she went to water the garden and then as I instructed before, went back to her hut and take a quick nap to rest her body after morning training and labor work. With that in mind, I sneaked in and lay down next to her on her bed. Don''t get me wrong, a nap to me is only 20~30 minutes... I''m not pulling anything dirty, just want to tease her a little bit. Her reactions are going to be amusing... Haha...goodbye! [Volume One] Chapter 012 Elf and Pride It is peace time again for us at this Sanctuary. The beast village is nearly done. There were only 20 people so there weren''t many problems. Besides, the Skull Face Angels that Von summoned helped out with their magic too. So it''s a success in building a small tribe for the Beast people. I''ve started to caught glimpses of promising beauties among the beast children. NO. I''m not a lolicon, I repeat, I am not a lolicon...probably...maybe... Aw come on...can you resist the cuteness of children with animal ears? Even though my current body is 25 years old, I have the mind of a 35 year old man. I have my instinct as a father, alright? Oh yeah, I also announced the villagers about my new appearance. I was lazy to explain all about homunculus to them so I just told them that I secretly materialized. Then after all the necessary work is done.........no, not yet. I completely forgot about Rex-kun, my pet dinosaur. About him, I just let him loose around the Sanctuary and feed him meat. Nope, I didn''t feed to his mouth. I summoned a few wild animals and let them loose so he can hunt. Of course I accessed their behaviors so they won''t attack the villagers. If you look down to us from the sky, or use the mapping app on your smartphones, you''ll see a clump of houses in the middle of a wide circular area. The rest of the land was the playground for a T-Rex... What a weird place I own... So now that everything is really done, what do I do next? Become bored and take another nap, yep. Oh yeah, about napping. Yesterday when I pulled that joke to tease Leila, her reactions made me regret. I woke up seeing a Leila with teary eyes and bright crimson face. She was mumbling something like "If it was Ralph-sama...t-t-t-then it''s....o-o-o-okay...." I didn''t quite get it, she should have screamed and kicked me out of the bed right? Turns out there were circumstances behind that reaction. Here''s how it goes... Remember the [Semi-Resurrection] spell I used on her the first day I found her? Yep, that thing lived up to its name, it literally resurrected her partly. And what do I mean by that? Aside from healing physical wounds, it actually revised the broken mentality of Leila to a certain extent. That explains why she recovered so fast, only 6 days needed. Those were the information I got from reading the description of the spell again. And here''s the piece of information I got from Leila. The spell also revised that. You know, that! The symbol of a virgin. She got that back from the spell. I won''t even ask how she found out, but that''s quite a revelation... Hence, the current situation. She woke up seeing me napping next to her with a devious smile on my face. And of course, she thought I took it... I was about to dogeza to apologize but was stopped. Disgrace of a divine being bowing his head? Wrong! Dead wrong! A divine being playing with the heart of women can''t even be compared to trash. Especially ones with the soul of a game-fanatic who loves beastwomen... My pride as a programmer who works with games everyday won''t allow that! Speaking of pride, there was an interesting event today. Around noon, I was so bored I bought a few books from the Menu for 5P each. I shared it with Leila and we called it a study session. Of course I offered it to all vilagers, but they weren''t just interested in reading. Though there were a few youth and children who asked for books about Magic. I picked the ones written in Beast language and gave it to them. Just their existence alone gave me tons of points everyday. So stingy about these little stuffs are utterly bad. Back on topic, while I was reading about history, a Skull Face Angel contacted me through telepathy. ¡¸Ralph-sama. It seems like there are 5 individuals asking for an audience with you¡¹ Strange. This is a free place, they could just enter and go straight into the temple. Even though I''m in Leila''s hut right now, I''ll hear their prayers loud and clear. ¡¸Can''t they just go straight into the temple and pray?¡¹ ¡¸They''re asking for a personal talk with the God, they aren''t planning to pray¡¹ Oh? Interesting. A personal talk with a God. You''re full of yourselves out there, friends. ¡¸Lead them into the Temple¡¹ ¡¸Roger¡¹ Within my land I can warp to anywhere I want instantly, so I jumped to the Temple and sat down at the round table I usually ate breakfast with Leila. Yeah, with this new body I can now taste things. Turns out the instant noodles were better than the ones I had in my previous life. No wonder Leila liked it... After a few minutes, the door opened, a man 180cm tall stepped in. Through my surveillance monitor, I saw 4 more women standing guard outside. All five of them were elves. [High Elf] Spirit Mage LV.60 Tuha Tujei, 100 years old. Quite a young individual to be escorted by 4 beauties. Probably some kind of chief or prince... I stood up and we did our basic greetings with handshake and all that. He was quite surprised seeing me in human form. We sat down and started our discussion. ¡¸Then, what do you need from a Nature Spirit like me?¡¹ ¡¸I want to sign a contract¡¹ ¡¸Contract?¡¹ Elves use contracts with the spirits to perform their magic. That I knew, but environmental spirits and divine nature spirits like me aren''t the same things. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡¸That''s right. Protect us from the human raids, there are rewards¡¹ ¡¸Hoh? What kind of rewards¡¹ This jerk. At the word ''rewards'' he smirked at me. Let us play along for awhile and see what the hell does this idiot want... ¡¸To a low rank stray spirit like you, we''ll be generous, 5 gold coins of offerings and 3 elven women¡¹ Do you think I''m some kind of sex crazed monkey? Agree that not all Gods are nice, but I think I am a decent person. Offering me sex slaves equals digging your own grave, you know? Don''t get me wrong, I''m not saying that I''m so clean myself that I would turn down women. But this kind of shitty personality pisses me off ¡¸Nice, sounds cool. Then tell me about the contract itself...¡¹ I made an interested face and spoke with a slightly interested voice. The guy instantly smiled deviously and nodded with pride. I quietly guided him into a frenzy of himself talking all big about generous rewards and shit like that. The story goes like this... God of Sorcery Bagdur is only interested in researching. He left all the managing of the Sanctuary to his disciples and apostles. Thus, they linked with the nobles at Twilight city to perform raids on Elf villages. The ultimate goal is of course, sex slaves. Apparently it seems like all men in this world is openly perverted... The High Elf sitting in front me said his people detected a full raid party of humans not far away from their village. They alone cannot repel that force of more than 250 humans. So they sent an envoy, this brat, to me and negotiate. ¡¸OOOOOOOHHH. I see I see I seeee...¡¹ ¡¸Hahaha! Good deal indeed, no?¡¹ ¡¸Yes yes yes, good deal. I refuse¡¹ ¡¸Hahah¡ªHAH?¡¹ Pfffff...!! His face...oh my god, no, my self!!! His face twisted between a frown and a laugh!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! It''s the face you''d make when you were laughing along with your friends then suddenly realized you''re the one being trolled...hahaha... ¡¸You probably didn''t catch that. I REFUSE¡¹ Here''s my reasoning... Who the fuck do you think you are? Through games and light novels I knew that High Elves are very prideful. But you''re mortal, you''re not divine... The reason Gods are called divine is because they''re beyond you. Like, right now I can just pull out a spell and roast you then feed you to Rex-kun. And I''m confident that I can do the same to your whole village... So with that said, when you ask for protection from a God, be sincere. Had he prayed and had faith, his people would have all ended up in prosperity like the beastmen... But this bitch he said NO. Let''s treat a God like his fucking underling. Low-ranking God? Generous in rewards? How about I take your life now and view that as a reward for your "kind words"? ¡¸B-Bullshit!!! You Gods are supposed to protect the mortal world aren''t you!!!¡¹ ¡¸Interesting. Who taught you that?¡¹ ¡¸Don''t play dumb!! Aren''t all the mortal religions believe that?!?¡¹ ¡¸Hoh? And who are these "religions" that you''re talking about?¡¹ ¡¸Of course the Church!!! You bastards have one job to protect us, so follow the rules and accept it!!!¡¹ ¡¸Tell me, do you see any Church in this Sanctuary?¡¹ ¡¸.......................no¡¹ ¡¸What fucking religion worships me and taught that I''ll protect the mortal world?¡¹ ¡¸................................¡¹ ¡¸Who the hell exactly was the one who implied a rule about Gods protecting mortal worlds as their mission?¡¹ ¡¸.................................¡¹ ¡¸Goodbye¡¹ I used [Transposition] to kick all 5 of them out of my lands and ordered the Skull Face Angels to be on guard. But they seemed to left after a few minutes. *** ...or not. After only two hours, the guy came back with a force of 20 elves. 10 men 10 women. All armed to the teeth with magic ready. ¡¸Burn down this place! Let that lowly trash know he''s not anything close to a God!¡¹ Sigh. I welcomed them by opening the gate from my Menu and stood in front of my temple to see how it plays out. The idiots actually took the gate and came in gloriously. Pfffff...!!! Hahahaha... I''m dying to see them put up a comedy stage. ¡¸Let me show you the power that a lowly spirit like you don''t ha¡ª¡¹ ¡¸Nether Strike(200P)¡¹ The bitch evaporated after a purple explosion took place right where he stood. The whole place was wrapped in complete silence. The Elves widened their eyes in terrors. The female elves'' legs trembled like no tomorrow. This is what you get when you try to pull a dirty trick on a God. He was trying to attack me, so...reap what you sowed bitch! Even if this infuriates the Elf village and they pull an all out attack, I''ll destroy them. Of course, female prisoners of war, that''s the priority. It''s High Elves we''re talking about you know? My hot blood came up a little seeing the elf girls in this group right now... That said, Leila isn''t inferior in any aspect either. ¡¸So...your leader''s dead. Prisoners of war or follow him to see Hades, choose one!¡¹ Apparently, 15 of them, 10 men and 5 women pulled out their weapons and attacked. Ended up as a massacre by the two male Shadow Wolves and Skull Face Angles. The other 5 elf girls just surrendered unconditionally. Good girls. I''ll make sure to treat you well. Um...about how you interpreted that, I have a bad feeling... Author''s P.s: Stop what you''re thinking. I''m so not going in the direction of Re:Monster. [Volume One] Chapter 013 Alright, last chapter of the day guys. Again, many thanks towards the reviews and comments, I am aware that I lack a lot of writing experience, still striving for improvement the best I can. Thanks for the support! Free Magic After the incident with the Elves yesterday, I returned to reading leisurely. I also put down a [Small-Apartment(3,000P)] to contain the 5 prisoners of war. I also asked Ana, the Arch Demon I summoned, to call up 10 Lesser Demons (her basic summoning magic). Their jobs would be to guard the house where the Prisoners are. Of course, except for the 2 guards at the outside door, the other 8 are all females. Can''t have male guards in female prison. The female Lesser Demons will split up, 5 as cell guards - though it was a just single room for each Elf girl - and 3 as maids. The maids will take care of housework and feeding the prisoners. The source for food would be either me or home made food with ingredients from the beast tribe. Later on I''ll have them do labor work or something like that... Done. I can now enjoy reading my books. There''s also a rule on giving out books from the Menu. And of course I followed it. Through experiences I learned that if you''re not an important individual of an organization, do not recklessly break the rules without legitimate reasons. The rules stated in the Menu that, except for [Divine] level Archives, all other kinds can be given out unconditionally. Which makes perfect sense... As a God you really do not want to spread knowledge beyond the mortal world widely. There are also special exceptions to give out [Divine] Books but I don''t have any need for that right now, so let''s over look that one...for now. Right, back on my reading time, I learned about the History of this world through an Ancient [Divine] Archive called "Dawn of Ejorelle". According to this book, at the beginning of everything, there were 3 beings called Origins. Light, Fortune, Dark. Fortune? I have mixed feelings reading this word... Anyway, they gave birth to everything. Their most proud product was Ejorelle, this world. At the very beginning, there are only Demons born from Dark Origin, and Angels born from Light Origin. The eccentric individual among those beings, through Fortune Origin, became Gods and Demon Lords. After that was a long, long, long history of constant wars. They fought as if it was their only reason to live. Until one day, God of Peace was born and stopped the war. They progressed through time and arrived at this point, the current world. In peace time, the Gods decided that human race was interesting, so they reached out their hands and formed shrines, sanctuaries, churches, temples,... all around the world. Those very first Sanctuaries became the base for powerful nations nowadays. The ranking system came from within the Gods as they divided their social standing. That said, disputes happened countless times between the Gods. They fought for higher ranking, fought for possession of a mortal woman as wife... Literally, they can fight for anything, like a bunch of kids. By the way, I''m reading a [Divine] Archive, so there isn''t anything about Demon Lords. I''ll get to the [Phantom] Archives when I need to know more about Dark Origin. The rest of the book was basic biography about the top brass of the Gods. In other words, the guys with ranking 10th and above. Which includes a familiar name, Bagdur, God of Sorcery. He didn''t fight his way up to this position of 4th rank. He contributed to divine sorcery so much that people brought him up to 4th rank. It wasn''t because of curiosity that he researched, he tried to revive a woman. What? A God can''t do resurrection? Well, she didn''t die on his land. So her soul wasn''t there for him to resurrect. Poor guy... Anyway, enough of others'' love story. I switched to another book. [Basic concept of Magic]. I''ve only been using points to shoot out magic until now. Though I have plenty to spare, but that isn''t good. What if I ran out of point and we got stuck in a fishy situation? That''s disastrous... So, now that I got this supreme mortal body, a homunculus vessel actually, I need to learn how to use magic ASAP. According to the book, the very fundamental core for using magic is [Mana Manipulation]. People who use body''s inner Mana are Sorcerers, Wizards, Witches,... People who use surrounding''s outer Mana are Summoners, Elementalists, Spirit Mages,... So from those two options, I picked the Third one. I''ll use both. Why the hell should I choose and limit myself? There''s also a section that wrote about people who use both system. They''re call Prophets of Disasters. These guys are literally viewed as incarnate of calamities. Why? Because even Gods can''t use both. When you utilize two systems of Mana at the same time, your body explodes. People that use both systems were usually those that perform one ultimate spell then die without a corpse being left behind... If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. That''s the case for mortal bodies and materialized Gods. Then how about a certain jerk who made his body from Black-Demonic Sapphire? On top of that, this isn''t even his body, it''s a homunculus vessel for possession. The answer is that it''s possible. My body isn''t...a body. It''s a medium, an object to circulate my movements. So there shouldn''t be problem for me to experiment this. I immediately went outside, pulled up the Menu and ordered 2 Scrolls. [Magic Knowledge - Scroll of Inner Mana Manipulation(1,000P)] [Magic Knowledge - Scroll of Outer Mana Manipulation(1,000P)] [Points: 32,000 remaining] They were only basic stuff so the price was trash cheap. But who would have thought that their potential in my hands are unlimited. I opened up the Inner Mana Scroll and clicked [Learn] on a separate popup menu. The scroll glowed brightly and knowledge started to pour into my mind. How to control the flow of Mana, how to utilize the output, how to suppress the recoil... Everything on the topic of inner mana became clear. So utilizing those information, I focused and easily created a fireball floating on my hand. I could control all elements around me, it was so cool. [Achievement Unlocked] Mortal Elementalist. +10,000 Points Next is the Outer Mana Scroll. I did the same thing to it and information poured into my head. I quickly became comprehensive of all things about borrowing mana in the surroundings to rewrite phenomenon. To compare these two systems, it would be like this: Inside a barrier that doesn''t allow phenomenons to be rewritten, for example making molecules move faster to increase heat, Inner Mana would make it possible. But inside a barrier where your flow of inner mana is blocked and cannot be released, outer mana would make it possible. And inside a perfect barrier, you combine both systems and create an Extra system that goes beyond even Gods. It''s something called [Essence] - the problem child from the marriage of Inner and Outer Mana. Then I created a similar fireball. The chanting time was 1 second slower, but the heat created from the flame was 1.5 times hotter compared to the flame that came out of nowhere using inner mana. Goddamn it, I curse whoever programmed this world. So balanced, you made game developers jealous because of this Mana system. But coming from the jerk who exploited bugs to use both systems like myself... It sounds rather dumb...haha... Then I finally experimented on [Essence]. I brought inner mana into my palm and at the same time gathered outer mana into the same spot. ¡¸Fireb*ll Ju*su!!!¡¹ A gigantic sphere of flame as big as a freaking boulder emerged and scared me to half death. ¡¸Uwhoaaaa!! Stop!!¡¹ I cut the mana source and it dissolved into thin air. Phew. That was too close, I would not prefer a forest fire near my sanctuary... Now I understand why people treated this Extra system like a criminal. The output of Essence could not be controlled that easily. When outer mana and inner mana merged, they double the amount of power. So if you want to use Essence, you have to control the flow of inner and outer mana way better than average people... For example, you need 50 MP for a fireball. You can either spend 50 inner mana for one, or gather 50 outer mana to make it happen. But when it comes to essence, people would misunderstand and gather 50 inner and 50 outer. Resulting in the outburst of Essence and destroys their bodies. If you can narrow down the inner and outer mana output accordingly, using Essence won''t pose any challenge. That sphere of flame just now, if I wasn''t made from Black-Demonic Sapphire, I would''ve been roasted alive in one tic of time... Let''s take note of this and restart our training. I then performed many other experiments on other elements. I now can create water blades, wind blades, stone cannon balls,... I also figured out how to use merged elements, like ICE for an instance. The way it works is that, you create a water ball out of nowhere with the first half of inner mana. Then you gather outer mana to rewrite the phenomenon, slowing down the molecules to make it freeze. The result is an ice ball made by essence. The hardness and the lowness of temperature were way superior to ice made from only one system. Even the chanting time got reduced by split seconds. For a magic user, one second is enough to take lives. Satisfying at the result, I continued to perform more complicated experiments. [Achievement Unlocked] Essence Apprentice. +10,000P That doesn''t mean I''ll neglect martial arts and kenjutsu training though. But for now, I''m glad I can use magic on my own... And the Elves? I have no idea... Later on, there was another crusade of armed humans passed through my land. Some of them prayed, some didn''t. I got some points and that''s the end of my knowledge. None of the Elves ever came back. Well...I couldn''t care any less... I have no obligation whatsoever to look after them. So that...would be just that. Goodbye. [Volume One] Chapter 014 In this chapter I shall grant you children your most wanted wish since chapter 5. Brace yourselve. D-Rank [Achievements Unlocked] Essence Amateur Essence Wizard Essence Professor Essence King Essence God [Extra Archive acquired] [Points +50,000] [Conditions Satisfied. Rank Up /] I woke up today with a barrage of notification menus popping up everywhere. Yesterday I got so caught up in being able to actually use magic that I experimented from 8 in the morning to 2AM the next day... That explained the bunch of Achievements about Essence. Right now, I can easily focus essence into my eyes and make the whole world looks slow-motioned. I''ve practiced so much yesterday that the tasks with essence became simple as breathing for me right now. Sometimes I don''t even realize I''m using essence to slow down the things moving in my vision. Of course I''m not on the level of a certain someone that can see molecules and infrared or UV rays yet. But a boost in perceptive vision is always nice for someone that uses kenjutsu and martial arts like me. I thought that my game knowledge in the Menu was quite cheating, but with this Essence thing...I lost the definition of cheats at the moment... Let''s go back to the notifications. Rank up? What do you mean by ranking up, Mr.Menu? I judged that it won''t hurt to find out, so I clicked . [God: Ralph - Sanctuary: (unnamed) now ranking up...Complete] Ralph Type: Temple Classification: D Ranking: 612th Nice!!! I just became a D. Can you believe that? I turned into a D just after like more than a month of being a God!!! Finally, I got myself a D as my rank. At least it''s better than F. [Related individuals will be awarded with blessings...Complete] At the same time, I heard various noises and lively chatters rang throughout the place. I went outside and asked them about what kind of blessing they got. Turns out the fighters received blessings befitting their style of combat. Strength for fist fighters, swiftness for swordsmen... And these are permanent buffs. Some even got new jobs. [Beast Tribe - Battle Bunny] Miko LV.34 Leila Rhuji, 23 years old. OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!! The girl got herself to become a Miko, a beastwoman shrine maiden!!! I can already feel the jealousy throwing at me from my fellow otaku. I immediately pulled up the Menu and gave her Miko clothing. This is pressing business, it cannot be delayed. ¡¸Leila! This is an important order! Get changed into these clothes right away!!¡¹ ¡¸Y-Yes!!! Ralph-sama!!!¡¹ She ran right away back to her hut and came back within minutes in full Miko clothing - red hakama and white haori. The haori itself left her shoulders uncovered, a bit of her healthy cleavage could be seen. Right, fuck dignity. Let''s go wild right here and right now. NO! STOP it right there sir God... Sanity! Right, sanity... ¡¸Fumu. Looks wonderful on you!!!¡¹ I held out my arm and did a thumbs up, then patted her head with a somewhat perverted smile but I think she didn''t catch that, phew... She blushed slightly and just asked "R-Really...". Then she excused herself to go water the apple trees with a bow. WAAAAIT!!! DO NOT BOW SO DEEPLY, I REPEAT, DO NOT BOW SO DEEPLY. GEEZ...that bow showcased the whole set of her well developed swellings. I almost gave into corruption at that moment, but somehow endured it and kept my sanity... But when you think about it, isn''t it pretty worthy to become a Dark God after that...? She did say herself that if it''s Ralph-sama then it''s okay, right................................... STOOOOOOP!!! Please make it stop!! I can''t stand the madness anymore... I cannot get that pair of orbs out of my mind. I even spent 200 points and cast [Purification] on myself... But luckily it worked...somehow... I finally got my sanity back and continued to inspect my people. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. Von and Ana didn''t evolve or anything, but they were obviously stronger. My very first buddy since my rebirth, the Iron Golem, Gole-kun now can converse!!! He can speak and have emotions to a certain extent. Elgo-kun, the Elder Hobgoblin, evolved to High Ogre and changed color to brown. He also got a bit taller and bulkier, his speech is now more clear and makes more sense. Now the surprising part. The Shadow Wolves turned into Night Hunters - a variant of werewolves. Hahaha...and of course, you guessed it...despite being pregnant, the female Shadow Wolf became a Night Hunter beauty with smooth black fur covering her arms, legs and back just like Leila! But seriously though, spare me the beastiality...I am certainly not THAT wild, OK?. On top of that, she''s pregnant, so please, forgive me... Anyway, Rex-kun, my cute little (white lie) pet dinosaur. This bastard, he grew a pair of horns and his tiny arms became as big as a dragon''s arms. More spiky bones grew along his spine all the way down to his tail. An absolute badass dinosaur, can we now call him Dino Th**der?? Actually, he''s way cooler than that. [Lesser Dragon] Young Ancient LV.120 Rex, 2 million years old. Yep, he has something called [Ancient Seed] inside him. Chances of this bad boy turning into a dragon are absurdly high... The Skull Face Angels and Lesser Demons aren''t directly connected to me, but they also received a small buff. And lastly, the Elf girls. Of course they didn''t get anything since they''re just prisoners. But, there is one girl that also became a Miko. The reason to that is because I made them do labor work, well...mostly just gardening and cleaning or help the beast tribe... One of them was actually sick of the Elf village and expressed gratitude towards me that I took her in as a part of this sanctuary. [High Elf] Ranger; Miko LV.57 Yuah Juul, 130 years old. I...didn''t refuse...''cause she''s cute... Of course, she''s in my land, I can read her heart to see whether she was acting or not. And luckily she wasn''t lying at all, thus I patted her on the head and got myself another shrine maiden... And damn, I bet £¤1000 that she''s in no way less stunning than Leila in Miko clothing... So to celebrate this, I spent 80% of my current point on upgrading the Temple. [Points: 9,574 remaining] It became a gigantic fancy Shinto temple built with superb quality wood. There are 3 buildings in total, the main praying sector and 2 small buildings for priests. There''s even a front yard with a water fountain. I immediately pulled out a bunch of ''koi'' fishes to raise inside the small pond. I also asked the Beast chief to send me a few people doing housework inside this gigantic temple. Of course I did plan to grow more trees around the Temple, the fresh air in early mornings is always nice. Oh yeah!! Speaking of the pond, remember the Amphibian I threw into a pond in my apple garden before? That guy was originally looked like a frog, but now he''s a freaking huge, black Eel right now with sharp teeth and even a small pair of horns. That pond wasn''t even enough anymore, so I used points to expand it. We took our time in the afternoon to prepare and threw a big banquet until midnight. I was sandwiched between two drunken Miko... I was planning to blame alcohol for my following actions, but I decided not to. I left the Miko Elf, Yuuah, to her guard and I brought Leila back to her hut myself. I was about to leave the hut when she unconsciously tugged on my sleeve. Turning back to see what did she want, I saw sparkling lines running down her cheeks. ¡¸Sighh...¡¹ Must have been dreams about the slave time again. I patted her head and stroked her hair a little before quietly remove her hand from my sleeve. The girl was so damn stubborn she grabbed my arm and sleep talked "don''t go...". Thus, I stayed and slept with her for that night. No, I''m innocent, I haven''t touched her yet, she was sleeping too soundly I just couldn''t bring myself to feel any hot tension. Ahhh I''m sleepy. Goodnight. [Volume One] Epilogue We have reached the end of peace time in Volume One. Volume Two starts tomorrow, prepare for just a little bit of madness. From the shadows Several days right after the incident with the Mythical Beasts... Vlaga Kingdom First Princess - Elma Vlaga returned from her cover of being an adventurer. Her report gave King Owen a big headache of how to deal with this. Normally problems with Gods will have to be reported back to other Gods. But this time, Elma sat down and had a talk with a God without reporting beforehand. According to her, this God is strange. He''s just...strange in every possible way. With her combat experiences, Elma cannot be wrong about sensing his strange presence. He does project holiness, but right below that layer in a demonic aura. A Chaotic Existence, one that announces the arrival of calamities. Of course, Elma couldn''t possibly see him. But his divinity was overwhelming enough to make a veteran warrior like Elma herself trembled nonstop while having a talk at that round table. What does a God that extraordinary have anything to do at a tiny shrine like that? ¡ªwas what Elma has been wondering and confused about. The demonic Iron Golems aside... There was even an Ancient Priest among his guardians. According to his clothing, his religion must be the very ancient Jhurelle Belief that has been wiped out 10,000 years ago. A Priest like that was inside that sanctuary... Thinking about this God gives Elma a headache. So she decided to not think anymore and went to report to God Bagdur''s messenger... *** ¡¸Oh? Is that so?¡¹ In a well lit room, with luxurious ornaments and paintings on the wall, a man in white robe is gazing out to the window answering his servant. His blue hair lightly danced along the wind. He had an interested smile on his lips, but his black eyes carried no emotion. Turning back and walked towards his working desk, Bagdur signaled his servant to leave. Many cylinders and beakers with various kinds of liquids inside were all over the table. Then on a red pillow, lies a transparent bottle with a blue elixir inside. Bagdur''s geatest invention. The most formidable achievement of divine sorcery. A brew that goes beyond the understandings of even the Gods themselves. Bringing the bottle up close to his face, Bagdur looked at the item with gentle eyes. But within those eyes, a flaming desire was burning. ¡¸Ah~ Wait for me, my love...I will soon release you...¡¹ The reflection on the glass bottle changed as the scene around Bagdur and the item was warped. He finally made his move after all these years... *** Southern Empire Eriellete - Division 8 Knight Captain Goza. He was stressed to no end talking with that strange God after the snake incident. Goza himself had to break his rules and went to the brothel more than once a month this month because of this uproar. He got this Knight captain position from a former individual that was exiled and became a bandit. He wasn''t extremely experienced in dealing with high-level monsters. But that alone was enough to feel the danger from that God of the tiny shrine. He couldn''t sense divinity or anything like that, but his instinct as a cornered animal that could have died any time with that God around told him so. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. The day he returned from the incident, he was immediately summoned to Arch Goddess Amel''s personal room. At first this guy thought he might be able to save money for one time to the brothel, but he was terribly wrong. Amel''s lips and eyes were smiling, but her aura was not. The tension in the room during his report became so tense he would piss himself any time he lost his focus. ¡¸Ah~ Interesting~¡¹ Signaling Goza to leave, Amel stood up and settled herself on another chair next to the window. Her light purple hair moved elegantly along the summer breeze. Let it be either in front view or profile view like this, Amel''s well defined features could not be ignored by any man''s eyes. Her pink lips once again curved up at the corners. But this time her aura became playful and devious. ¡¸Ralph...huh...¡¹ Gazing out to the busy city at noon, Amel let out a chuckle... *** My apple trees grew quite big now, Leila''s carrots are also pretty ready for harvesting. Recently, Yuah has been coming over to read books with me and Leila. We discussed various crap about magic and gods. The girls became quite close friends, which I''m happy for. From time to time I would pat their heads like an almighty God who values his Mikos. I also let Yuah taste instant noodles. Her eyes sparkled with even more wonders than Leila... Seriously? People in this world love instant noodles that badly? ¡¸Is it...like this?!?¡¹ ¡¸Nope. Wrong!¡¹ We''re teaching her some martial art moves. I was really nervous touching her body to fix her stances, but I played dumb and appealed as a dense type protagonist so I won''t embarrass Yuah even more. She''s already bright red from ear to ear. That made Leila became sulky the whole day... She didn''t even water my poor apple trees... My heart hurts *sobs*... Is this how it feels like to raise a semi-death flag? How the hell did the dense protagonists live through this? Shame on you, dense types! In any case, a blushing blue haired Elven Miko... Damn...do I have to say anything else??? Yes?!? Haha...I hope you''re joking. Anyways, after a few pats on the head and strokes on the hair, my apple trees survived the wrath of Lei-chan...phew... I stopped by the mansion of Von and Ana to discuss serious business. I prepared a trip to Twilight city to inspect and learn more about this world. I''ll be taking Ana with me and have Von perform another important task. Meanwhile, I''ll use points to summon another strong guardian to protect the sanctuary. Of course, with my [Telepathy Network], the guardians will be able to contact me the moment something happens. I''ll save at least 10,000P all time to guarantee a transposition spell back to the sanctuary. I''m reaching a bottleneck staying in this place all time. I need a lot more information about the world besides written in books. With that, the preparations for the guardians will be set. The rest will only be me preparing some tricks to survive the world out there. Right, let''s go, we''ll prepare to head towards the Free Fortress City of Twilight, where the 4th ranked sanctuary Twilight Ark is! ...but little did I know that, my departure would be abruptly halted...in a terrible way... [Volume One] Extras Well, first of all sorry guys, this isn''t a chapter. But we''re at the end of the first volume so I thought I''d share some insights of the process in creating the characters for, of course fun, and to clear up their personalities... I''ll be talking about Ralph and Leila. Very first draft: Ralph is a God who can''t even see his own body, he wasn''t given a land or anything, he just kinda woke up with a Menu. He was too OP that he could manipulate terrain and everything since the very beginning. If he goes into a cave and clicks on the wall, the Dungeon menu will pop out for him to do everything he wants. His powers'' capabilities were too wide too early on, thus I didn''t have enough skills to guide the story and be in charge of his bunch of powers all at the same time - Failed. *Leila''s actually a newly high elf slave that hasn''t been touched. Second draft: Ralph dies in a hospital and the goddess gave him a character creation menu. He creates the new "himself" in the new world as a Vampire. I tried to put my own spin of Death March on him, meaning that he gains abilities through behaviors. But yep, way out of my capabilities, I couldn''t manage all the abilities and guide the flow of the story itself without making its cogs loose everywhere FAILED *Leila''s a ragged Elf slave at this point and later on evolved to a Dhampir, didn''t get too much into her... Third draft: this one''s kind of better for Ralph...but Leila just dies off the story within 2 chapters... I was seriously depressed writing this draft... If you have seen my side story project on RRL, you''ll notice this: Ralph is a skull face. Everything about him is human except for the face that of a Skull. This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.He has this absurd ability of darkness to devour things around him. It seriously went well until Leila appeared as a Vampire Princess that has mental problems due to a trauma. I couldn''t make out what is the trauma for Ralph to work on, thus the character of Leila just kinda dies off away...*sobs* Then the very last and final draft I suddenly came up with by jumping out of bed first thing in the morning: Our current Ralph-sama with the miko bunny-chan Leila... So with that said, I want to clear up Ralph''s personality... I''m getting some feedback saying that Ralph is unrealistic as a grown man. Dude. I''m sorry for those of you who have never met a grown/adult/middle-aged/grandpa man who is still playful and carefree like in his teens or 20s, I seriously am... When I build up a unique MC that stands out from the generic world, our world, I intentionally had him as a man who isn''t depressed with his life, otherwise it wouldn''t just be a fantasy if you stick the big rod of ''depressed/serious adults'' into Ralph''s butt... He only likes games and stuffs like that, he''s just happy with his life that he''s really carefree and goofs off a little despite the number 35 in his age. So to close this up, I would like to hear from you guys YOUR DEFINITION of a real villain, alright? I''m working very hard on Bagdur, I need a few more references to work with, so...please get in the cmt (if you can) and throw at me some opinions on what do YOU think would make an extremely badass Villain.... Thanks for sticking with this shit, guys...Hatter''s out. Alright, I went full retarded and made a whole new post...I''ll merge the illustration into this post... [Volume Two] Prologue Volume Two: Artifacts The woman I searched for Time stopped. ¡¸Empty Chronicle...100,000 Points...it sure worked...¡¹ An original magic created by Bagdur, Empty Chronicle, a forbidden spell that stops time. Right now, he''s surfing on the ground, not walking, but floating, towards a specific person in this frozen period of time. The leaves stayed in mid air, the dust kicked from the ground froze as if it was brown ice. In this circular land, a temple with 3 buildings stood gloriously in the middle. The people''s expression were fear and terror. However, their eyes weren''t locked on the floating Bagdur, but an object in the sky. A yellow meteorite crashed down straight into this land. But just seconds before it touched the ground, time was stopped. The meteorite, just as everything else, froze in mid air... Bagdur just now walked pass an individual that he deemed interesting... ¡¸Hmm...how did he materialize without any world wide notice??¡¹ He tilted his head but the answer did not come. The frozen man with black hair is still glaring towards the sky with his mouth in the middle of shouting. He was bulky, about 185cm tall, even taller than Bagdur himself. ¡¸His body is also strange...hmm...but let''s cast that aside...¡¹ He turned and continued to stride (float) towards a woman. ¡¸Ah...my love...how long has it been...¡¹ A beautiful woman with bunny ears in miko clothing. She was in the middle of running towards the earlier man Bagdur just passed by. Her face was uneasy, it seemed like the man she was running to was the only source of reassurance to her... Paying no attention to her expression, Bagdur proceeded to come closer. To the frozen woman, he placed a kiss on her forehead and muttered... ¡¸By the power of the 5th key...release the sins of "Lust"...Unlock "Luxuria"...¡¹ Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Instantly the girl''s body glowed. Something was pushed out of her, a transparent figure. Bagdur widened his eyes and smiled in admiration. The figure of the woman he has been longing for... ¡¸Huh...?¡¹ Floating mid air, the woman slowly opened her eyes. Her pupil were purple, her hair was a lighter shade of violet. On her back, 3 pairs of angel wings, 6 wings in total, were spreading out... A Seraph. But not just any Seraph. Out of the three pairs of wings, one was jet black while the other two were pure white. ¡¸The 5th Exiled...Aliel Luxuria...at long last...do you...remember me?¡¹ ¡¸B...Bagdur...Bag...dur...*grasp*...NO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!!! STAY AWAY!!! RALPH-SAMA!!!!!¡¹ ¡¸Not so fast, my love...Binding of Sins(2,000P)!¡¹ Black chains coming out from spacial holes in the air binded the woman. She couldn''t move nor could she escape a LV.8 Divine Binding spell... ¡¸You bastard!!! What have you done!?!?!¡¹ ¡¸I came to revive you...¡¹ ¡¸Removing the seal is against the doctrine!!! Do you want this world to crumble?!?!?¡¹ ¡¸We''ll see about that...the time when I revive all 7 Exiled Princesses...this world...this dimension won''t even be able to crumble anymore~¡¹ ¡¸Do you think the Emperor will let you do as you please?!?¡¹ ¡¸What Emperor...he''s long dead with that Fortune woman...but if you''re trying to point at this strange guy right here...then...¡¹ Bagdur released a beam of light from the index finger he was pointing at Ralph. The beam hit his back, but Ralph was still frozen in time, no reaction occurred. ¡¸Goddamn you!!! What did you do to him???¡¹ ¡¸Ahh...just a little interference...what is that...you''re worried more about this lowly trash than your ex-fiance?¡¹ ¡¸You''re no fiance, fucker!!¡¹ ¡¸Such cold words, as always...beautiful but cold just as a blue rose...as expected of the former Queen of Succubus...¡¹ With those words, the figures of Bagdur and Aliel faded into nothingness. What left was the resumed disaster at Ralph''s sanctuary... [Volume Two] Chapter 015 First, let''s clear up some misunderstanding (I''ve prepared these two chapters since yesterday so it came out fast today). I feel extremely cringed and weird to write about extreme sexual contents, much less NTR. And I''m not the kind that change the tags in the description of the story as I go, I didn''t put Tragedy in there because there won''t be any tragedy in my story, that was intended... And about the dark side of the world or anything like that, nope. Well, it''s not like I have enough life experience to do so anyway, I''m still just a college student. What I''m pulling off now, is a wake up call for Ralph, he needs to realize that there are at least 999 other gods and they aren''t that friendly. An event that makes him think that he needs to be more aware of the surroundings and think about how to take care of his land from now on, not just pulling pranks on the mikos. If nothing happens in the Prologue, there won''t be chances for Ralph to interact with other gods, he''s D-rank and ranks 612th, who even knows about him? People aren''t just going to show up and declare war out of nowhere... From scratch ¡¸Ahhhh my neck hurts!!!¡¹ I woke up and found myself falling asleep sitting on a chair. In front of me was the familiar computer screen, the familiar keyboard and the familiar mouse. I looked down and saw my otaku-style T-shirt and a pair of blue pants. ¡¸This place is...¡¹ My company. The place I always sit days in and nights out to program games. Either for the company or for personal projects, it''s always here... ¡¸That dream was weird...I must have fell asleep while working on MMORPGs...¡¹ Haha... I even got to pat on the head of a bunny girl. Being a God in a dream... How old am I, really... But having 2 beautiful mikos weren''t so bad... Sigh. I guess I''ll go back to work again, there''s a deadline tomorrow... I reached out and pushed the power button on my PC. I turned on the monitor and took a sip of energy drink as usual. But¡ª ¡¸Hiii~ Did you enjoy me?¡¹ ¡¸PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF¡¹ I spat my energy drink all over the place. ¡¸What is this?!? Am I still dreaming?!? Why are you here!!!¡¹ A person appeared on the monitor. She was beautiful, but her expressions were devious. Yep. The Fortune woman. I have zero idea what the hell is going on... ¡¸Dream? You didn''t dream...this is just a realm belongs to your consciousness...you''re still breathing as a God named Ralph out there...¡¹ What? What the hell? I don''t get it...I don''t understand anything at all... ¡¸Why are you making that face...you died and pulled the F-prize in my Wheel remember?¡¹ Of course I remember that horrible time!! I just can''t grasp the situation at all... ¡¸A...disaster came down to your sanctuary...and you''re unconscious...if you leave things as it is now...your people will die you know?¡¹ My people? Ah...you mean the beast tribe... There were also Von and Ana, those two can take care of themselves... Actually, I''m not one bit worried about the guardians. They''re strong enough to stay safe, the important problems are... HUH! ¡¸Ara~ Realized now?¡¹ SHIT! Leila and Yuah...the elf prisoners...!!! How the hell do I get out of this place??? Ah!! The windows!!! I jumped out of my chair and ran towards the glass window. ¡¸Ple--- t--e ca-- of m- d-----er!!!¡¹ Fragments of the Fortune woman''s voice were left inside my ears as I dashed forward, broke the glass window with my momentum and flew out of the 12th floor. Trust me, you''ll never want to experience this twice. You might have experienced this when you suddenly fell from the height and jumped up from your bed... But when you''re conscious in your dream, it''s way more terrifying... *** It was hard to move... The lower half of my body was so heavy. Shit there''s dirt in my mouth. Good thing this body''s a homunculus. I didn''t suffer any injuries... The Black-Demonic Sapphire sure is doing its job... I sat up and saw from my crotch down was buried under dirt and stones. But with this homunculus body, it wasn''t really hard to get out and stand up. I''m glad I pushed the Crystal Core into this artificial vessel. That thought immediately hit my mind the moment I looked at he temple. One priest building and half of the main building was blown off, including the part with the fake idol inside... What scary power... ¡¸AH! Right! Leila!!! Where are you?!?¡¹ Don''t get me wrong, it''s not that I don''t care about others. But the one with the weakest mentality and physicality is none other than this cute Miko... A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Well, she can beat the living hell out of a human now, but compared to other people in this place, she''s just simple weak... I ran around the ruins searching for her. I came across many other inhabitants and it seemed like they were alright. After going in a circle, I spotted her ears pointing up from under a layer of dirt and ruins. The homunculus body doesn''t have human limits, so I easily lifted the ruins and pulled her out. ¡¸Hmm?¡¹ Originally, Leila''s skin is really white, but right now, it''s ash pale white... I have an extremely bad feeling about this. ¡¸She...isn''t breathing...¡¹ Wha...? There...wasn''t any heartbeat... Huh? I don''t...No. Calm down immediately. There''s the Menu... I can only use [Spells] up to page 6 in the Menu as a D-rank...but there should be something in there... I made a gesture and bring up the Menu, yet¡ª [Sa5ctu0ry] [Gu4rd7ans] [Zetti9gs] ¡¸What the hell is this???¡¹ The display was messed up, it was full of noises like old style TVs with bad connections... I tried to click on where the [Sanctuary] line was... What the fuck?!?!?!?! What the hell happened to the Menu? What do you mean interference overloaded?? This is a God''s system!! And you said it''s overloaded?!? OK, fuck that, how about [Essence]? Can I still use my essence skill??? I tried to gather essence into my palm and a water ball appeared. Good, I can still use essence magic... Healing spells, right, healing spells... When I was experimenting with essence, I read about the concept of healing spells in magic books. I understand how it works, so performing it shouldn''t pose any problem... Alright, let''s go... ¡¸Wake up Leila!! Leila!!!¡¹ I pushed all the healing power into her. Yet her face didn''t return to the color it should be... Goddamn it just wake up!!! You said you like to work for me right?!? Then fucking get up and work!!! There''s a fuck ton of things we need to do right now!!! Can''t you see everything''s destroyed??? What the hell are you doing lying around??? Go and take care of your carrots!!! It''s all messed up with the dirt!!! My apple trees are nowhere to be seen either, so JUST. FUCKING. GET UP. AND DON''T LEAVE MEEE!!! ... ... ... Didn''t work. Even essence...didn''t work. Where did I go wrong...I wonder. I did close my loops...I didn''t forget any semicolons... I searched for exploitation and debugged... I didn''t forget any step right? I did run simulation test and it was going well... Then... ...just what the fuck did I miss out to have raised this kind of flag...? I don''t get it...I dot get it at all... And what the fuck is wrong with the Menu? A God''s system overloading?? Is it because I''m only D-rank? Fuck it...just...fuck it alllll!!!!! What kind of fucking God system can''t handle an overload?!? Are you even seriously working?!?? Whoever the fuck created this useless shit, I''ll murder you if I ever see you!!!!!!! [Achievement Unlocked] Heart of Vengeance(1) Fuck you!!! The Menu isn''t working and yet you''re still telling me about achievements?!? Go fuck yourself!!!!!!! Heart of Vengeance(2) I told you to fucking shut the fuck up!!! Heart of Vengeance(3) Get off my vision!!! Why the hell are you keep popping up? Instead of this shit, pop up the real Menu, you son of a bitch!!!!! Heart of Vengeance(4) Heart of Vengeance(5) Heart of Vengeance(6) Heart of Vengeance(7) ... ... ... [Gift of Fate activated] [Fortune Wheel is now available for One Spin] Just...fuck off and leave me alone... After who knows how many popup windows of achievements, this thing came up. I''m still holding Leila in my arms staring into nothingness... I felt like my heart just popped the moment I picked her up and a window came up saying: [Dead body acquired] Pick up /? And now, another Fortune Wheel... Didn''t I spin one and received this situation? Hah...fuck it... I''ll gamble with you, Fortune woman... [Spin] - confirmed. [50%...60%...] [Complete. You won the Power Ball] [Hidden Achievement Unlocked] God of Origins awakened. ... [Volume Two] Chapter 016 Preparations <61%...75%...91%...Complete> (Author''s Note: Ralph-sama won''t be OP right off the bat with this, he needs his Menu back before his powers from God of Origins can activate at full strength, there will also be a chapter to explain why God of Origins materialized instead of turning Ralph back to being invisible again) I felt like someone hit my head with a hammer. Next time I came back to my senses, I was lying on a bed inside a half-destroyed house. Leila''s body was right next to me, but her soft breathing wasn''t there anymore... ¡¸Shit...just what the hell happened to me...¡¹ I massaged my nose bridge and looked over to Leila... Suddenly a flow of information poured into my head. <[Beast Tribe - Battle Bunny] (empty body vessel) LV.??> What? What the hell is this? Why is there information appearing in my head??? <[Eyes of Origins] - Origins God''s unique feature> More information slip into my mind... I''m so confused...who are you that''s writing stuffs into my head?? Hah?? Are you kidding me? There are only 3 Origins...Light, Fortune, and Dark... Oh shit. Did you just literally insult me? Dude...I remember this kind of plot in light novels... You''re supposed to be systematic and doesn''t have an ego!!! Oh god... I feel like I just gained myself a troublesome companion... And he went ahead and admitted it himself!!! Are you even a "he"??? Right...let''s call you Ori-chan anyway... I''ll pretend you''re a secretary lady... Now, what in the fucking wide world happened to us...? *** Today is the final day in the Temple. I''ll be preparing to leave tomorrow for the city of Twilight. With that in mind, I''ll go ahead and prepare some tricks that would help me survive out there. First, I picked out a number of useful spells from the Menu and read the descriptions on how they work. Then, based on what I understand, I tried to reproduce them with my Essence. Successfully learned ones will be practiced more to master it. But there are also ones that I had zero idea on how the hell are they working. So how did I deal with that? I ordered a scroll with points and just learned it the systematic way. Of course, after all the upgrading, I didn''t have many points left in my pocket. That''s why I chose to learn it formally by reading instruction. Though the skills and spells from games were pretty damn many, not all of them are that useful. Besides, I''m only D-rank...I can only order scrolls for stuffs in page 1 to 6. And as you guessed, not many OP skills/spells are in these first pages. I narrowed them down by usage and was able to pick out 5. [Short Blink] [Physical Burst] [Crescent Slash] [Downfall of the Stars] [Scarlet Melody] With 5 of those learned and practiced, I moved on to the second step. Equipment. I pulled up the Menu and surfed through page 6. All the stuff of [Mystic]-class were so damn expensive I couldn''t even afford with my points. So I just simply ordered a set of [Unique]-class light plate armor. The main color was silver with arm plates, shoulder plates, breast plate, and leather clothing under the armor. I also have to save points for emergency [Transposition] spell back to the Sanctuary so I could only afford a [Rare]-class katana with a white hilt and obsidian blade. I clicked on the [Status] menu and saw the material for that blade was processed [Demonic Adamantine]... Sounds great...this sword also looks pretty damn familiar... I think I once used this sword in Tenma Online. It came from my game Menu after all... Anyway, gears and abilities done. Next would be money. I''ll be using the untouched-up-until-now offerings. I gathered everything usable on the offering table and counted 4 gold coins, 24 silver coins, and 32 copper coins. Through reading books, I already knew that 100 copper = 1 silver and so on. Money, check. Next, companion. ¡¸I''m always ready for your orders, Ralph-sama¡¹ Ana, check. Am I forgetting anything else? Though I''m not even departing today... But Von did, he already left for the Southern Empire. I''m sending him to infiltrate the place as a free priest and inspect the place. That reminds me, I need someone to protect this place before I leave. I once again surfed through the Menu. I can now afford only one dungeon boss-type guardian. If I lowered it down to mini-bosses, I''d be able to afford 2 of them. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.But I believe that having one high quality and absurdly strong subordinate would benefit slightly more than a bunch of weaklings. Just as I was pondering about this, [Alert] suddenly rang. It wasn''t any guardian, but the [Alert] system of the Sanctuary itself screamed out. [Unidentified Object heading towards the Temple. Calculated damage upon collision: 84%] DAMN! That number is huuuuuge!!! What the hell is that thing??? I ran out of my room in the Temple and looked up to the sky and became as surprised as anyone else looking up towards that thing. ¡¸A fucking meteorite!!!¡¹ Shit!!! I pulled up the Menu and selected [Transposition] spell, but the points were insufficient to move everybody. So I selected women and children, including the pregnant Night Hunter, and immediately transposed them out of the sanctuary, into the forest. Then I was about to move Leila and¡ª BANG. Too late. It wasn''t a normal meteorite at all. It was magic doings. It came with a speed exceeding the speed of sound. I had no idea where she was at the moment. I only saw a flash of light. The sound was probably too high of frequency for mortal beings to hear, but my ears heard an unpleasant mixture of sounds. It was a mix of explosive sound and the high-pitched sound usually heard in problems with microphones... Then next time I came back to my senses... ¡¸Ahhhhh my neck hurts!!!¡¹ I was in my office... *** ¡¸I see...Now I remember everything...it was so damn hazy before...¡¹ Damn...Ori-chan really hates the Menu. She''s been trashing it since... But how did they jam my shit during that incident? Moreover, who the hell has this power to jam a God''s system? Please, stop being mean to me... I give up. Then, you said Leila''s an empty body vessel right now. What does that even mean? Wait! Then she''s not dead!?!? There was a rune written on her forehead. The ink was blue and it looked the same to any other fantasy runes you''d see in games. Well, she''s technically dead without the soul, but... Apparenly, Ori-chan''s a reliable young lady... You know, I''ll be frank. If she''s mortal, I would have hugged her and patted her on the head right about now. But since Ori-chan''s only texts and information in my head, let''s just imagine I did all that to her... Yo!...you chose to jump into my head, remember?? No, please, I beg you... God of Origins??? Ah yeah... There was something about a Power Ball lottery popping up before I spaced out. That evil woman planned something for me huh...I''ll deal with her next time we meet... Then, what is my body condition right now? That''s no different than before!!! Oh wow... Did I just became unstoppable...literally? WHAT?!? Then what the hell am I going to do?!? Just an unstoppable body ain''t enough to fight anyone!!! I''m so not becoming like a certain M female knight who only puts points into DEF and has zero DMG!!! Yes, please. Immediately execute the said statement. I''ll treat you ramen next time, Ori-chan. Alright...she really hates the Menus... ¡¸Ralph-sama...are you OK?¡¹ ¡¸Ah...Elgo! Yeah, I''m fine...but we''re having problems with Leila¡¹ ¡¸.......................my deepest apologies...Elgo could not...do anything...¡¹ ¡¸No...not your fault, really...I was...naive to think that this place will just simply be safe if I spend points......¡¹ ... *** Emergency Announcement. Eyyy guys...I have pretty damn bad news... ;~; I have family business coming up because of Chinese New Year (I''m asian)...so we''ll have to go on a temporary break/hiatus for quite a few days... Sorry for this, but there''s nothing I can do about it...we''ll resume when I have free time again T-T *Update: I know it''s just impossible to please everyone, not that I have enough skills and experiences in writing to do so anyway, but!!! There are some feedback that makes me LMAO...people are trashing the story because it didn''t go along with their interest/way. Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.Remember that I''m writing just for hobbies, I like sketching out a story, and I''m not professionally publishing or anything... So when you criticize my work like "why did it go this way, but not that? your story is shit!!!"... I''d have to say it''s like that because: F.U. LOL... Other than that, thank you, other people who have been supporting MY WAY of guiding this story. Again, I''m sorry for the break, but we''ll resume the releases right after I have more time!!! [th_009_v2.gif] [Volume Two] Chapter 017 You know what, before I go, let us just have a chapter. This is my gift for you during Chinese New Year, as for how we call this kind of gift in Vietnamese: "L¨¬ X¨¬"... I don''t really know when, but I started to get caught up in reviews/ratings a lot, and before I even realize I forgot about myself having fun with the story and tried to plan ahead. So after this hiatus, I''ll say bye to the reviews/ratings page and stop planning ahead...it demotivates me and gives me headaches... That said, please be careful in the future as I shall go full imagination mode and really have fun with writing, not trying to appeal like an author... Setting off Alright, so what do we have here... I can create things out of nowhere just like before, but without spending any points at all. Why? Apparently Ori-chan hates the Menus and the Points system, so... But I can''t create everything though, only about a half of what I could before. The [Storage] thing is actually the [Loot] menu, but, again, Ori-chan has a grudge with Menus, so it''s now something like an Item Box with only half the capacity of my original [Loot] menu. And about [Spells]. So I only have the 5 things I learned using essencce... I think that''s quite enough to survive already, I have this masochistic body too... Then, what are we going to do about the jamming? WHAT? You''re the great mother of origins!!! Work faster!!! Right. Sorry about that... But that opened up a hole of hope for me. A much higher-ranking God huh... Who could it be? Nice. Let''s do that, you can do parallel thinking right? Right. Please stop being mean to me... But is there anything else that can be done to speed up the removal of jamming? ... Ori-chan just said something horrible with a (imaginary) professional voice... Well...if someone kidnapped my bunny miko and jammed my shit... Murdering him...no, let''s cast that aside, now isn''t exactly the right time. We''ll deal with him when we find him... Now, the important topic. Where''s Leila? Her soul was snatched away. The rune on her forehead is written in a special liquid that would prevent [Soul Tracking]. That was what Ori-chan said... But we have not a single clue on where to start looking. I mean, a soul is a soul, it''s not a stray dog... Where do souls often go in this world? Probably not to where Hades is...that''s certain death. Hmm... What do we do there? Just come and take her home? I see. We''ll go there and summon her. Talk to her and ask where she is... But isn''t that simple? Do I have to go myself? Sigh. So sending Von instead isn''t an option anymore... How long would it take to go from here to that place if I ran full speed nonstop? I can''t use [Transposition] spell at the moment, but since this body is the materialization of my divine spiritual body, plus the "God of Origins" thing, I''m confident I''m pretty damn strong and fast... Can we make it...? I feel like 2 days are really long. Now that I think about it, the idea of leaving for Twilight City was absurdly bad. I didn''t consider the possibility of getting sudden attacks from other stronger people at all... I only thought about mortal intruders...what a goddamn naive kid I was... Now without a proper Menu, I can''t guarantee this place''s safety anymore... Even if I had points, it''s already a ruin...wait... That''s it...what if I just leave as it is, well...not that I can fix it anyway...but still... If I just leave it as a ruin for camouflage, it might prevent more attacks, at least within 2 days. I don''t think I have a lot of choice right now regarding to go or not to go. The problem is that I have to go... I didn''t murder the three mercenaries and spend all that time rehabilitating to just let her die off without a soul like this... My miko is my miko, you''re not leaving without my permission... I ran out of the half-destroyed house after storing Leila''s body into [Storage] ¡¸Yes. I''m ready for orders¡¹ Ana appeared after I called her. ¡¸Good. Take care of this place, I''m heading out¡¹ ¡¸Ye¡ªNo! Please wait a second. A being like me isn''t worthy to handle your sanctuary...¡¹ ¡¸3 days. Only tree days, keep this as a ruin, use your magic to set up barriers, do everything you can to hide from the world. Just only 3 days, can you do it?¡¹ ¡¸.....................................YES! Please leave it to your loyal servant!¡¹ Good. I patted her on the head and ran off in a hurry... Do you think I have many choices? Seriously though, use your head! Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. First, my miko just got abducted. Second, looking for her opens up a way for us to track the jamming source. You can analyze that bitch and remove the jamming, right? Nice. Alright, let us go....where? Where is the fucking place? WHAT? Oh...ok...shame on me then. So I ran to the opposite direction and headed south. We''ll probably pass through the Empire, I''ll say hi to Von if we ever meet. No, actually, I''ll tell him to go back and help Ana out... Since I don''t really need to eat and I can easily create a few things with God powers, I needed no luggage whatsoever. Besides, this ain''t no goddamn sightseeing travel!! It''s a rescue mission, my cute bunny miko was kidnapped, isn''t that horrible?!? You shut up. Anyways, I already got the equipment on me so we don''t need to prepare anything else. You''re probably wondering why the hell am I running... I mentioned earlier, the [Spells] menu is still being jammed, I can''t use [Transposition] spells. Not that I run any slower than a car though... Besides, I''m not mortal, I don''t feel tired, I can just run and run and run. Please... I swear this is the last time I plan on going anywhere... The moment I get my Menu and powers back, I''m instantly building a goddamn fortress as my shrine/temple/church, whatever... That reminds me...who''s the fucker that crashed the meteor into my land? Screw that! It was going way too fast compared to a common meteorite! It must have been the work of magic or some kind of spells... Upon hearing the name, I frowned and kept that name in my mind. I''m murdering that bastard in the future, he''s so dead... *** Gazing up to the clear blue sky, Amel once again put on the playful aura along with her beautiful smile. Her cloak was floating in the wind, revealing the first-class leather clothing underneath. It was a set of hunter''s clothing that fit closely to her curves. It wasn''t too skinny, yet no spare space was left. An elegant hunter searching for her prey. Amel has been looking for a certain someone for so long. Unlike the dark desires of Bagdur, hers are only to find a person. Just simply so, and judging her facial expressions right now, she has found traces of that person... ¡¸A sin...cannot be forgiven...by anyone...but one God...huh...¡¹ Muttering these words, Arch Goddess Amel continued her long journey in solitude. *** With his appearance as a free priest, Von easily got into the Southern Empire Eriellete. His religion has been banished long ago, but people here and there would still recognize the priest clothing. So Von disguised himself with a more common priest clothing set. He also used magic to change the appearance of his Bible. His God has given him a mission to infiltrate, inspect and gather as much information about the sanctuary inside this Empire as possible. Having asked the directions towards the Sanctuary, Von headed there himself. ¡¸Hmm...this kind of structure...Light Origin-based, is it?¡¹ The Sanctuary was a Flower Garden. Two Angels were standing guard right in front of the gate. ¡¸Looks like it''s impossible to just knock the door and go in...¡¹ As a High Priest from a religion banished by the Angels, Von himself cannot afford to be reckless and risk being recognized by Angels. Though his real body was dead, his soul after being summoned took the shape of his younger self... Chances of being recognized are high. Maybe his appearance was OK, but the distinctive aura each person has had since birth will be the problem. With that thought, Von decided to wait until night. At night he can send out as many Shadow Minions as he sees fit. The limits on summoning is still there, but for Shadow Minions, it would be almost infinite since these creatures are only fragments of darkness. Turning around, Von started walking towards the main city plaza again. ¡¸Oh? An adventurer guild?¡¹ There wasn''t any Guild this big back in Von''s time so he became curious and entered the place. Walking up to a counter, Von politely greeted the receptionist lady. She returned with her own greet and a slight bow. ¡¸I am sorry for coming not for adventurer business, but I have a question...¡¹ ¡¸Please do not mind that, the Guild is here to help people¡¹ ¡¸That I am glad to hear, then...can you please recommend me a decent inn?¡¹ ¡¸Yes, sure. In my opinions...¡¹ Receiving directions from the lady, Von said his thanks and turned to walk towards the inn. ¡¸Excuse me¡¹ ¡¸Welcome¡¹ Entering the recommended inn, Von asked for the pricing. ¡¸It would be 2 silver coins for one night with 2 meals. One silver coin for a night alone¡¹ ¡¸I''ll stay for 2 nights, I can take care of my own meals...¡¹ ¡¸Then, 2 silver coins it is...¡¹ Von is a summoned being, he needs not the slightest amount of food or drink. By the way, the money he''s spending right now came from a few bandits attacking him on his way towards this place. How he dealt with them? We all know too well... ¡¸Here''s your room key. It''s the last room on the second floor...¡¹ ¡¸Thank you¡¹ With that, Von''s base camp has been set up. Now he only needs to wait until night and make his move... [Volume Two] Chapter 018 Well, surprise, people!! Have you all forsaken me? If you have not then Ralph-sama has already given you a blessing... Anyway, I have to say that the releases would slow down guys. I was busy (gambling) during Chinese New Year and ended up procrastinated a ton of homework T-T I''ll have to slow down a lot because of work and school XD Just a quick reminder: If one were to expect excellent writing skills or professional planned plots, etc. then you''re actually in the wrong place. I''m making everything up as I go, so there won''t be anything too crazy to expect, you may or may not reconsidering about following this series after reading this reminder... That''s all! Thank you. Transaction We came close to the Empire after 1 day. I must say that running through the forest at night felt too lonely. Probably I was just not in the mood to enjoy the fantasy forest scene at night, but it felt rather sad to be alone running like an idiot... That''s just my honest thoughts, but I''ll admit that the Moon was brilliantly beautiful. It was purple instead of white. According to Ori-chan, there are 4 months in this world with each having 90 days in it. And each time the new month comes, the Moon changes color. We''re currently in the second month, the Violet Moon. The first month is Blue Moon, third is Scarlet Moon, and forth is Golden Moon. But every 1,000 years there''ll be a Fifth Month, True Moon. It''s pretty complicated to explain about this, so let''s leave it for another day. Oh! Nice! I know you''re a reliable lady, Ori-san. Let''s connect us right away, please... ¡¸Yes, you called, my God...¡¹ ¡¸Von, did you find anything?¡¹ ¡¸My apologies, I am still in the process of inspecting the Sanctuary¡¹ ¡¸That''s fine, no need to rush too much, but be fast anywhere you can. I''m heading towards the Utopia of Souls, so when you''re done, immediately return and help Ana, she''ll explain everything¡¹ ¡¸Roger. Then about the Utopia of Souls, Ralph-sama, I suggest going in from the West Gate, the access there is easier¡¹ ¡¸Got it, thank you. I''ll be off now¡¹ ¡¸Yes. I wish you success¡¹ Alright, now, please explain, Ori-chan. WHAT? There''s a fucking chance of success??? You didn''t say anything about that! Goddamn it...anyway...what if we fail? Sigh. How much? What do you mean? I see. By the way, how the hell did you get so much information? Where''s your source? Right, right... Let''s think about our plan once again. We arrive, we try to summon Leila, figure out where she is, then we''ll deal with that. About the jamming on my powers, damn...I don''t know... Leila soul was abducted at the same time with when the interference took place. These two problems must be connected somehow. I have a feeling that when we find her, we''ll obtain an important piece to solve this shitty puzzle. But at the same time... My guts also told me that this is a rather troublesome, and dangerous task... ¡¸The Utopia of Souls huh...what kind of headache would be waiting for me this time...¡¹ Ahhhh!!! I''m so taking a big nap after all this is done. Going out to find more headache like this isn''t my way of life at all... But then again, what can you do about it. A God, as a man, doesn''t let his miko get kidnapped and just laughs it off like nothing happened at all. That, I won''t allow... *** A soul is originally just a thick gathering of energy, it cannot last long in the mortal world. Thus, after taking Aliel (Leila) away from the mortal body, which was her safety seal, Bagdur left her in the Utopia of Souls. God of Underworld Rhunan, the owner of this sanctuary, is a man with a merchant heart. He''d let people do as they please in his Sanctuary, as long as they pay accordingly. With that, Bagdur pulled out a few interesting things from his Menu and have Rhunan prepare a special cell for Leila''s soul, Aliel Luxuria. ¡¸To think that you destroyed my room and made me leave you here...what a scary bride I have...¡¹ ¡¸Don''t dirty my name with that disgusting word coming from your trash mouth...¡¹ ¡¸Haha...cold as always~¡¹ The Utopia of Souls have 2 separate sections. The Northern half is for stray soul that couldn''t find their way to resurrection. The Southern half is a prison for criminals, in short, a place where immortal monsters are caged to all eternity. Aliel is being held in the Southern half since this place has especially high level of security. Rhunan is a man of promises, he''ll satisfy your request if you pay as promised, thus this place was funded my many Gods in the past to have Rhunan make it the most trusted prison where breaking out is totally out of question. If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. With that said, even buying prisoners would be allowed if you have enough payment. ¡¸Then how about this?¡¹ ¡¸Hmm...10,000,000 Points is truly a big amount, but Bagdur-dono...you know who we are talking about in this transaction, right?¡¹ ¡¸You are right, I think 10 million Points you can earn easily with the amount of souls inhabiting this place...then...how about we adding 3 zeros...¡¹ As a God who reigns his sanctuary in the gigantic city of Twilight, Bagdur can be said to be a "rich God". The amount of people stopping by to pray, as well as people believe in him, within the city is absurdly many. There was once in the past, a period of time when Bagdur could even earn 100,000 Points each day just with the most basic daily points. But for this big plan, he''s been preparing points for more than a millennium. A number with 10 zeros in it would blur the eyes of any mortal merchant...but not Rhunan. ¡¸I''m afraid I have to repeat myself, Bagdur-dono...you''re buying 100,000 souls of Fallen Angels, Exiled Angels, Demons, and Dark Lords...this list contains 90% of SS-rank criminals who have been sentenced to all eternity...¡¹ ¡¸...fair enough, then please, go ahead and state your conditions, Rhunan-dono...¡¹ ¡¸Then please excuse me freely speaking...¡¹ ... ¡¸Oh? Interesting...¡¹ A devious smile was visible on Bagdur''s face as he listens to Rhunan. *** We''ll quickly arrive at the Utopia of Souls in another half a day. I also received a report from Von a few hours ago. According to him, the Sanctuary in the Empire was a flower garden, the Goddess Amel wasn''t there when he arrived. It seemed like she left the managing to her disciples and left for a trip to somewhere else. During the free visit time, Von has successfully infiltrated deeper inside than his shadow minions and inspected the place a bit more before leaving to head home. He said that, there wasn''t anything out of the ordinary there, it was a clump of buildings of churches and orphan schools around the Garden. The royal castle wasn''t really near, but messengers do go back and forth between the two places. There was but one thing that Von found it strange. The offering table. It was made from sapphire but the transparency didn''t let people see through. But to Von, who can sense divinity, he knows there''s something inside that table. He said it was more like a coffin than an offering table. Yesterday, Von was also able to eavesdrop an argument between a messenger and a guard Angel. They were arguing about letting this messenger into the sanctuary of Amel. Surprisingly, this lady was sent by Bagdur to visit the sanctuary and have a talk with Amel. But she wasn''t there to begin with, so the messenger lady wasn''t allowed in... Which was strange, even if Amel wasn''t there, visiting shouldn''t have been prohibited, right? There must be something going on between these two Gods... Well...Bagdur''s from the side of the Kingdoms, while Amel is monopolizing a whole Empire... It wouldn''t be too strange if these two had fire sparks between their gazes. But what made me feel strange is that, what does a guy like Bagdur want from Amel? As an Arch Goddess, her powers belong to the balanced system of jack-of-all-trades, master of none. She shouldn''t have anything valuable enough to intrigue a God of Sorcery who makes mad-scientist''s shit... Probably that offering table is a serious business... There''s only more and more headache if I keep thinking about people''s business all the time...let''s stop right there and focus on our goal first. Though I only have 5 skills using Essence, I think I can fight pretty well with this newly materialized body. It doesn''t have any limits a human has, meaning that I can spin my wrist 360¡ã or do the same with my head. I can pull off martial arts moves that no ordinary beings can do. I still am a God, so my god senses are still there, plus the use of essence, I can almost stop the movements of the world within my field of perceptive vision. Oh yeah, I was wondering about why did I materialize instead of turning back to being invisible after awakening as God of Origins. Ori-chan said that, after a quick analysis of the situation, she concluded that this Homunculus body is more compatible than returning to be a divine being. The reason for that is, when I''m in my spiritual body, chances of me getting caught by a Soul Binding spell and become useless are absurdly high...which makes sense. But if she merged me into this homunculus, judging the quality of the ore made up this body, I''ll become immune to Soul Binding system magics. Plus, my thinking speed will be boosted to a certain extent by Ori-chan. With this, I can deal with problems along the way, if there''s any. Preparations are always good for a trip full of headache. Alright. Let''s head straight to that soul gathering party and take Leila home, well kind of, since we''re just trying to ask where she is at the moment... But anyway, speed up! [Volume Two] Chapter 019 I was busy lately, so I didn''t check RRL too much. Then a few days ago I logged on an saw this series on #4 Monthly and #2 Weekly... What. The. Fuck? Would you ever think a story you put together on a whim and wrote the first 6 chapters in one go the same day you think of the concept without any preparations would jump onto the top list of a community? I had never thought about it either... I stared at the screen for a good minute... Welp... Thank you for all your support! Headache (1) Just as estimated, the Utopia of Souls came into view after another half day of nonstop running. It looked like a wasteland, to be honest... No trees at all, as if there''s a constant drought in this place. In the middle was a dungeon-like cavern structure that looked like small mountains with doors on them. And in front of the main gate was... HAH? There''s a whole fucking crowd!!! All of them were transparent and looked scary as hell... Never in my wildest dreams had I thought of one day when I witness a festival of ghosts like this... I''m sorry mom I didn''t believe your bedtime stories... What? Warning? What is it? Are they that dangerous? SHIT! Where''s Leila exactly??? I tried to speed up even more to close the distance. The scene before me was a crowd hanging their heads like they have given up on life. And right in front of them was a pair of people, 1 male and one female soul. The guy had blue hair and white robe on... WHAAAAT? What the hell is he doing here with a whole festival of souls like this?!? And moreover, that woman looks pretty damn familiar if you ask me... She had violet hair and something like a long sleeved sleeping gown on her. On her back were 6 angle wings with 2 of them being jet black. Her facial features looked familiar as fuck but I just couldn''t recall right away until Ori-chan told me: ... AND? Don''t just stop there, Miss Secretary!!! I don''t understand at all!! No way... I...no... I can''t...believe this... This...t-this is...THIS IS...SO FUCKING COOLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?? MY BUNNY MIKO IS ALSO AN ANGEL!!! HAHAHA!!! I WOULD SIT AND PLAY THIS WHOLE ROUTE AGAIN WITH THIS KIND OF FLAG!!! I mean, taking a Seraph Bunny in as a priestess in Miko clothing?!? Oh damn, you''re sooooo not taking her away (scum)Bag-kun!!! But I soon got snapped back to seriousness seeing him reaching one hand out to click on her neck. I immediately kicked the ground, focus my essence and used [Physical Boost] on top of [Short Blink] and closed the distance even more in one blink of an eye. My speed far exceeded the speed of sound but with my God senses, together with [Eyes of Origins] and Essence focus, it seemed like I was just running leisurely in a frozen period of time. I''ll admit that it was the best feeling ever, running in a almost frozen world like that... But of course, Bagdur is a God, he would have noticed and should now be preparing to counterattack me. I should hurry... Let''s do this. *** After done dealing with the transaction between himself and Rhunan, Bagdur gathered the souls out to the front yard and began the ritual. He finally gets the chance to put his ultimate invention to use. [Brew of Harmony], or slang term "blue blood of god". A divine elixir that will be used to draw a magic circle for a summoning ritual. ¡¸Stop this madness Bagdur!!! How can you still grieve over that time and try to pull this off again!!!¡¹ ¡¸Aliel, you''re naive... I don''t grieve over the past, this is for the future, summoning the ¡ºFortune Artifact¡»only serves the sole purpose of helping the world...¡¹ ¡¸What part of that is helpful to the world?!?¡¹ ¡¸You should know better than I am... A divine artifact that has the power to turn a possibility of 1/1,000,000,000 to 100% success... Just imagine how prosperous the world would be with this?¡¹ ¡¸Hypocrite!! You only want to conduct experiments on forbidden spells that have low success rate!!¡¹ ¡¸That''s how you see it... hmm... time''s running out... let''s begin sacrificing all 100,000 souls... together with the ¡ºGolden Key¡» inside you... the legendary ¡ºWheel of Asmel¡» will be mine¡¹ (Author''s note: Yep... that''s the thing turning Ralph into a God) Bagdur was about to activate the lock on Aliel''s neck when he heard a sonic boom. Since Ralph was faster than sound, the moment Bagdur noticed the sound, his right arm has already left his body. Tch... Bagdur clicked his tongue. The arm that fell to the ground turned into goo and returned to its original place taking shape back into a normal arm again. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Of course, Ralph wasn''t so leisure just to let the arm reform as he kicked the ground again. The moment the sound of the sonic boom hit Bagdur''s ears the second time, his neck has already been sliced halfway. Quickly moving, Bagdur managed to avoid the core of his body to be scratch by the sword. His whole body was made from the ¡ºPhilosophy Stone¡», or in other words, liquid metal. Yes, Bagdur also uses a homunculus so that he can use his full God powers outside the sanctuary. What the hell is this guy... That wasn''t the speed of a materialized God... And I knew for sure I jammed his powers... What the hell is happening really... Slicing through the artificial body of Bagdur, Ralph''s sword shattered as it was only [Rare] class. Focusing once again on using Essence, Ralph coated himself in a blue glow and dashed towards Bagdur. What the fuck? An after image!! Tch!! Bagdur hasn''t noticed Ralph using Essence so using his God senses, he blocked one of Ralph''s strike and got the spiritual part of his arm destroyed instantly. ¡¸Gahhh!! ¡¹ Shit. This guy... don''t tell me... that''s... Essence?? There was confusion all over Ralph''s face as he always thought of Bagdur as a powerful 4th rank God, while Bagdur himself was panicking all the time dodging the deadly attacks with Essence. Ralph''s speed was too much for him to handle at the same time with the Essence attacks aiming at him.. Bagdur became more and more panic every 0.1 second as Ralph confusion also got clearer. Then suddenly his face turned angry and his attacks became a lot deadlier. If I continue like this... I''ll be dead spiritually in 2 minutes... Shit... I''ll have to use that thing to escape... A smile floated on Bagdur''s face as he dodged the last blow and pulled out a talisman. The item glowed and dissolved. Bagdur''s figure disappeared. *** I don''t get this at all. What the hell is that guy doing? I blew up his arm too easily, he barely dodged everything by a hair. His face wasn''t even focusing on the fight, seemed like he was pondering about something else. Really though, I expected a 4th Rank God to be a hard pill to swallow. But somehow he didn''t even care to counter attack... Oi... Don''t tell me... He''s looking down on me and playing with me? Alright... alright... This (scum)Bag-kun... Let me show you some serious action. Looking down on Ralph-sama ain''t something you should do after abducting my Miko... I entered Battle Mode and let Chaos Origin dictated my parallel thinking. That drastically refined my movements and made it smoother with faster speed. He still didn''t even care to return a single hit and kept dodging... (Author: WTF Ralph? He didn''t cuz he couldn''t at all LOL) What the hell... how lowly I am in this guy''s eyes? And now he even has this evil, devious smile on him and... ...he disappeared. Eh? I looked back at that crowd and the souls were disappearing one by one. Shit. I ran straight to where that Seraph was. ¡¸R-Ralph-sama ?¡¹ ¡¸Yo, Leila... The hell is happening?¡¹ ¡¸There isn''t much time left, but please listen to me. Bagdur''s going to attack your Sanctuary again in 3 days. He''s summoning the Whee¡ª¡¹ And the conversation was cut off as Leila''s soul was transposed away. FUCK. Yo, Ori... Can we go into the place and summon her back to ask her the rest now? Sigh... That makes sense. Now we have no idea where she is. Moreover, what, he''s attacking us again in 3 days... What the hell is that all about? I don''t have any treasure back home... ... Oi... ...don''t... tell me... Oh shit... He wants that? Bagdur, the God of Sorcery, who kidnapped Leila''s soul... Don''t tell me he wants... her PANTIES?!?!?!? Right, sorry... back on the seriousness of the topic... I turned away and started to walk into the Sanctuary of Rhunan to see if I can dig anything out from him. Then a soft voice called out to me from the side. ¡¸Ralph...is it? Fufu~ we actually met...¡¹ When I turned towards the source, a beautiful woman with light purple hair and a black cloak was standing there with a smile that sent chills down my spine. Shit. This look in her eyes... my goodness... when the hell did I raise a yandere flag...? What now, really... But when I heard the information from Ori-chan, I was stunned. [Volume Two] Side Story Side Story: Before the incident On a peaceful day, I was researching as usual when¡ª ¡¸Bagdur-sama... A letter just came straight into your Mail Box...¡¹ ¡ªmy messenger received a strange letter that went straight through the [Filter] menu. ¡¸Hmm... let me see it, you can go now¡¹ ¡¸Then please excuse me...¡¹ The messenger disappeared using [Spacial Blessing]. I gave one of those to all my subordinates so they could move freely around the place performing their tasks. Anyways, the letter was neatly sealed with magic. Not just any magic, but divine magic, in other words, this person used a mini holy barrier to seal the letter. No wonder it went straight through... I called up the Menu and checked the seal. There was a lock that was let loose on purpose. ¡¸This brat... Looking down on me...¡¹ Even without that, I could''ve easily broken the barrier in no time at all. Who does this person think I am? The letter was anonymous. No sender''s information was displayed on the front, at least that was what it looked like to naked eyes. To me, it''s different... ¡ºHasegawa Masaki. Stellar God. Classification A. Rank 9th. Sanctuary - Sky City of Met¨¦o¡» This bastard... How dare you send a letter straight to me... He''s just a young god who recently found himself on 9th rank when he destroyed the former 9th rank, and that''s it. He didn''t achieve anything too crazy... Unlike me, who successfully made "blue god blood"... Tch. Oh well, as a reward to bypass my filter system, I''ll read what you have to say. ¡ºAyy! Bagdur-san... You might have heard about my name before, but greetings!! Now, I know you hate beating around the bush in business, so let''s get straight to the point. Do you know a guy named Ralph?¡» Ralph? Who the hell is that...? I don''t remember seeing his name among the top 100 gods. If he''s not in there then I don''t even care about if he exists or not... ¡ºI know you''re thinking that he''s no one, but let me tell you something real fun about him. The Second Golden Key, he''s keeping it in his hand¡» My eye twitched hard upon reading this. How the hell does this young brat know about the Golden Key? What happened to Divine Secret? Aren''t only ancient gods know about this? Ancient Gods are the beings that were born from evolved Angels through the luck granted by the Fortune woman. She''s long dead together with that old man anyway... I''m one of the very first 10 Gods of this world, aside from us, nobody should know about the Keys. ¡ºHehe~ Then about how I got this information... Hmm... Let''s say I asked a friend¡» *snort*... Who do you think I am getting fooled by that stupid white lie... A Stellar God can obtain even classified secrets through Horoscope. So this bastard, I''m 100% sure he summoned one of the Zodiac and asked about it... ¡ºYou might or might not have figured it out, but anyways, a low level God, a nature spirit named Ralph is now keeping the ¡ºGolden Key of Lust¡» in his sanctuary, and he has no idea about it, ain''t that funny? Hahaha! ! ¡» I''m losing my patience really quickly with this. The 5th Exiled Princess... Aliel Luxuria and her ¡ºGolden Key of Lust¡»... That made my heart throb remembering about the time we spent together. We indulged in lust and enjoyed ourselves. Until that goddamn day... Hmm. Anyways... If this piece of information also came from the Zodiac, it can''t be wrong in anyway possible. The stars do not tell lies, not to the Stellar God himself... Not good. I need to take her back... My body is trembling in reminiscence of the old days... If I look at the mirror now, I think I''ll see a creepy smile... Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.(Author: Imagine Onsoku no Sonic from One Punch) Which makes me look bad, so it''s no good. I gotta control myself and behave in front of the Princess of Lust. ¡¸Ha... haha... ha ha haha ha... ¡¹ With her golden key, I''ll be able to revive the Fortune Artifact. That woman is no longer here to stop me anymore this time around. Turning the possibility of 1/1,000,000,000 into 100% success... Haha one can already feel ''lucky'' about obtaining this thing... I then can resume my experiment of cloning Zoras'' genes, reviving only a piece of her Father would be enough to control this dimension. And then... Hehehehe... ...and only then can we once again enjoy ourselves and indulge into Lust. ¡ºI won''t ask for payment this time around, ''cuz I wanna sit back and watch how this plays out. I attached the location of Ralph''s place in this letter, you''ll receive it in your Menu at the end of the letter. Be sure to make this fun to watch, ''kay?¡» My joy was cut short by the next few lines of this bastard. You''re trying to make us dance in your palm? Hmm... If this was the me a while ago I''ll go for him and destroy his sanctuary right away. But now... now I finally found Aliel and her whereabouts, so I''ll play along with you this time Stellar God. ¡ºI also attached a talisman. Using this, you''ll be able to borrow one of my favorite invention, Ultra-sonic Meteorite. Use it wisely, please¡» So he''s telling me to attack? That''s against the laws for a top 10 to suddenly attack a low ranking God... Hmm... no, actually I can do it. I''ll use the Stellar bastard as a scapegoat. Together with [Empty Chronicle], I''ll be able to set it up as an accident where the mortal body of Aliel will die. Meanwhile I''ll obtain her Seraph soul and at the same time blame it all on the Stellar bastard. Nobody but him can use meteoric magic after all... Then, what''s next? What''s next? Haha I''m excited for this... That''s right. I should put my invention to use, I can obtain 100,000 sacrifices at Rhunan''s place. If I''m lucky I''ll be able to directly summon a piece of Zordas together with the Fortune Artifact without needing to attack the Ralph guy again... But just in case, if I fail, I''ll have to retreat and prepare a quiet war. Tch... making up excuses to talk to the Eastern Holy Land is going to be a pain in the ass, but I got no choice. Let''s do it that way... ¡ºThen about the Fortune Artifact itself... Fufufu~ surprisingly... it''s...¡» I was shocked at the location of the Artifact shown by the Stellar bastard. This guy, he must have planned all this ahead. You want a joyful act? So be it, I''ll be the one on the main stage with all the praise anyway... ¡ºThen, that''s it for me. All related information can be transferred to your Menu by clicking the seal bellow. Have fun~ I''m intrigued to see Zoras roaming around~ Fufu~¡» He even knows about Zoras huh... Fuck it... I have something else to worry about. Next morning, I received information about Princess Elma of the Kingdom encountering that guy named Ralph. After confirming about the location, I concluded that the Stellar bastard gave me the correct coordinates. I immediately made my move. A sudden attack with a ton of surprised elements would be more amusing than anything else. Poor guy... He won''t even comprehend what just happened to him all of a sudden. Let us not waste time, we have a perfect tragedy drama to set up. I wonder how should I use this Meteorite Talisman? Should I just throw it out all of a sudden? Yes... Let''s do that, that sounds good. It''s gonna be fun to watch the Ralph guy''s expression when this thing just appeared out of nowhere... Let''s go. [Volume Two] Chapter 020 Worst Valentine Joke: I asked a girl in my class ''Would you be my Valentine ?''. She said ''No, because of Medical Condition''. I asked ''Why ?''. She said ''Because you make me SICK !'' Alright please forgive me for the bad joke LOL, I couldn''t resist putting it in the Author''s Corner... Headache (2) ¡¸And that''s how it is~ ¡¹ ... ¡¸No... no no no no ! You don''t just spit out an absurd story and tell me "That''s how it is", woman... ¡¹ Yeah, standing right in front of me is the Arch Goddess Amel. She just lectured me about the history of Gods and what the hell is Bagdur plotting. Basically, there are 7 Seraph Princess that have been exiled from Heaven since the ancient time. Why? Because they became the symbol of 7 deadliest sins to seal God of Sins Zoras away. How do I put this... right, let''s tell a bedtime story then. So, despite the fact that Aliel, which is my Leila, was an Exiled, Bagdur still dated her. And this bastard, the kind of Lust he wanted from the ¡ºGolden Key of Lust¡» wasn''t sexual desires. It was the lust for performing this kind of absurd experiment on living souls. The scum loved to perform surgery on souls and put a bunch of different beings'' souls into one "mutant". He created shit like and fire breathing rabbit, or a venom spitting deer with bat wings and snake tail. Yes, in other words, he used Sorcery and Alchemy to sew souls into chimeras. He spent a whole hundred years to flirt with Aliel and acted like a lover. Just for the sake of luring her into being a guinea pig. What was he trying to experiment on her was "Artificial Seraphs". Especially when Aliel has the Golden Key, she''s way stronger than common seraphs, which means a ton more regenerative. That makes a perfect subject for Bagdur to cut off pieces of soul and has it regenerate to continue the experiment. Why was Aliel the main target ? Well, there are also 2 other golden keys, but they were kept by Gods rank 2nd and 3rd, so this scum didn''t have enough balls to go and snatch them away. Aliel, on the other hand was a free and single woman, wow... so fucking fit for an easy target. Then, Bagdur actually came very close to put her on the surgery table when that crazy wild woman noticed it. Yes, THAT woman. The Fortune mommy... She kicked his ass and hid Aliel away. Then the news came to the sealed Zoras, yay... He''s the Father of all Sins. God ranking 1st with classification of SS. Apparently, the 7 exiled are all his daughters... and an angry papa was too scary for Bagdur to handle so he went and hid himself somewhere else while Zoras rampaged. I mean, his daughter was nowhere to be found right after almost became a guinea pig. He broke through the seal that was locked with 3 golden keys and wreak havoc everywhere. Now this guy is scary as fuck because of his Divine Skill ¡ºFather of Sins¡». He can tickle the darkest corners of every single living being''s heart. For example a friendly farmer would turn into a psychopathic killer when the hobby of homicide deep, deep inside his heart got provoked by Zoras'' influences. Even priests would all become wild and treat women and children like toys. It didn''t stop there, even the God of Peace himself almost went mad and rage wars all over the world but somehow he kept his sanity. But nonetheless, calamities were brought to both the mortal world and Heaven when Zoras rampaged. Funny enough, even the Underworld was chaotic with demons going mad everywhere. Then, the three Origins came together and created a stronger seal for Zoras. Originally there were only three golden keys and 4 smaller seals, but now it became 3 golden and 4 silver keys being put into Zoras'' 7 daughters... Goddamn it I''m having a headache teaching this goddamn history class. Jeez... this is why I failed History class back in high school... Back on topic, that marked the end of the Great Calamities... sadly there wasn''t any spe*r, sw*rd or shi*ld heroes being summoned to fight Zoras... he was just that overpowered he had to be handled by the Origins. Speaking of which, where the hell were you when all that happened Ori-chan ? Apparently, my secretary lady was the infamous "Emperor"... the God of Origins. That gives me another huge headache on what to call myself now... Nature Spirit... or Emperor ? Nice one. I love you Ori-chan. Anyways... thanks to that old geezer, Ori-chan lost her physical body and became what she is right now. It seems like that crazy Fortune woman also went missing right after that. ¡¸Wait a minute ! ! Why the hell did you know so many things, Miss Amel ? ¡¹ ¡¸Um... I asked my benefactor... Light Origin ¡¹ ¡¸.... ¡¹ Stolen novel; please report. Right. Apparently this woman is an acquaintance of Light Origin... I''ll leave that aside immediately, anymore information and my homunculus head will explode. Back on topic, right now, it seems like some bastards leaked the information about Aliel to Bagdur. And that bitch chose to attack me and abducted my miko... How did he do that ? Both me and Amel had no idea... but we do know that he''s been plotting this. About the meteorite, even Amel smells something fishy behind that... the timing on that one is just too perfect for Bagdur... So... what has that bastard been trying to do with 100,000 souls and Leila''s Golden Key ? Ding ding... the answer is that he tried to summon the ¡ºFortune Artifact¡» using his "Brew of Harmony". He chose to use the complicated method because he hoped to summon one part of Zoras along with that thing. But in the end I kicked his plan in the balls and ruined it. Now he''ll have to come to where the artifact really is and unlock it by hand. And where is the artifact ? ¡¸It''s right under your sanctuary ¡¹ Ding di¡ªNO! WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK ? ¡¸He~h ? You didn''t know ?¡¹ ¡¸Of course I didn''t ! ! I even checked the geography of my land with my Menu ! ! ¡¹ ¡¸Do you think an artifact left behind by an Origin can be found that easily ? ¡¹ Right... that makes sense. Now that explains why Leila said Bagdur''s going to attack me again. Wait ! Isn''t that really bad ? Don''t I have to like... go back right away ? ¡¸Rest assure... he needs to submit a report to the Eastern Holy Land before attacking you... otherwise he''ll become the enemy of all Gods. That would take around 3 days before he comes for your land... ¡¹ Alright, that''s a relief. Now, onto the real question... ¡¸Why the fuck... is the artifact of that crazy woman in my sanctuary ? ¡¹ ¡¸That I have no idea, but she set you up pretty nicely fufufu~ ¡¹ ¡¸Hah? What do you mean ? ¡¹ ¡¸Then, let me tell you this first before explaining... that artifact can turn the possibility of 1/1,000,000,000 into 100% success... that''s why Bagdur wants it for his experiments ¡¹ ¡¸Wha... ! ¡¹ That''s an absurd ability... that goddamn woman buried a huge pain in the ass RIGHT UNDER MY ASS... ¡¸Have you wondered why ? ¡¹ ¡¸What ? ¡¹ ¡¸Have you ever wondered why, or how did you became a God... ? Why did you possess the powers you have right now ? Why is your sanctuary that tiny land inside the forest instead of a plain or somewhere else ? Why did Aliel end up in your land being your priestess ? I''ll repeat this again... ¡ºFortune Artifact¡» can turn the possibility of 1/1,000,000,000 into 100% success ¡¹ ¡¸WHA... ! ! ! ¡¹ Right. Why did I come straight to that woman instead of next life ? Why did I pull that F-prize and turn into a God instead of a Goblin ? Why did Leila end up getting dragged into my land instead of being finished somewhere else inside the forest by those mercenaries ? Why did my knowledge of games all jumped into my Menu ? Why did Leila''s mental health return just like that ? Why did that bunch of "Heart of Vengeance" shit popped up one after another ? Why did I manage to pull the Power-Ball and won Chaos Origin as the grand prize ? EASY. Because I was LUCKY. I was sitting right on top of that goddamn artifact left behind by Fortune Origin the whole time ! ! That bitch set me up hardcore... I''ve been had all this time. But I don''t get it... what is her purpose of turning me into this absurd being ? Well... though I''m happy I didn''t have high luck stats and carry a stupid goddess with me to a different world... it''s still pretty painful to swallow this... ¡¸She probably wants you to kill Zoras... ¡¹ ¡¸What the fuck ? Killing the 1st rank SS class God ? Please excuse me... ¡¹ Somebody, please... send me back to Earth and let me live my life as Kirihara Arata... Daaaamn... this is the true definition of headache... more like pain in the ass, really... ¡¸That aside... don''t you think there''s other pressing business you need to worry about now ? ¡¹ ¡¸What now... ? ¡¹ ¡¸I mean, Bagdur''s going to attack your land within 3 days... ¡¹ ¡¸Right... I have to go back and strengthen our defense... with what... ? ¡¹ That''s my secretary... you people better be jealous. ¡¸You better be careful, if he successfully lay his hands on the artifact, he''ll use it together with Aliel to summon 1/3 of Zoras ¡¹ ¡¸...... ¡¹ I want to take a good nap... *sobs* All in all, I found one thing that sounds perfectly plausible to me: L E I L A ? A L I E L. ...and that was it. The rest is just a huge mess that hurts my head... Ah... nee-chan... if you haven''t got married on Earth... I''d like use your lap pillow right now. [Volume Two] Chapter 021 Alright guys, sorry for the delay. Apparently homework ain''t friends T_T I have news for ya... I decided that I''ll do WEEKLY releases from now on, just temporarily so I can balance out my schedule a little bit. The chapters of each week would be longer, that I can afford, and if I have time I''ll do 2 chapters a week. Again, sorry for that, but that''s the best I can do for now. Headache (3) Mobilizing his 100,000 troops, Bagdur prepared for battle at Ralph''s sanctuary. Originally, these 100,000 were intended to be sacrifices, but since they''re all S-rank criminals, Bagdur decided to put them to proper use on the battle field. By using [Temporary Materialization], he gave them their physical bodies for a fixed amount of them. In fact, it would just be enough to bombard Ralph''s place with time to spare. Making up excuses like "Ralph''s taking advantage of the Artifact", Bagdur dodged a few bullets from the Eastern Holy Land. He knows that around this time of the millennium is when the True Moon month draws near. The Eastern Holy Land needs to pay extreme attention to Zoras'' seals, so they''ll overlook Bagdur''s business. His plan of using the Stellar God as a scapegoat isn''t completely lost, the meteorite cannot be proved to has been invoked by Bagdur. Though he knows he''s dancing in Stellar God''s hand voluntarily now, he plans to flip the table on that man the moment he lays his hands on the Fortune Artifact. With only one Golden Key, chances of summoning Zoras is almost impossible. But there''s the word "almost", and there''s the Fortune Artifact. As long as it''s not 0%, the Fortune Artifact will make it happen. Through time, Bagdur developed a mind control spell that might work on Zoras. Again, there''s the "might", and there''s the Fortune Artifact. Thus, if he has the artifact in his hand, he''ll be able to control Zoras and climb the hierarchy of the Gods. With that in mind, Bagdur started his plan and moved towards Ralph''s land. He could''ve march the army, but that would attract too much attention. That said, Bagdur decided to spend more points and transposed the whole 100,000 troops. Originally, he doesn''t need that many troops to raid a D-rank God... But somehow Bagdur felt strange fighting that God named Ralph. (Hmm... he mastered the use of essence... I don''t know how that''s possible, but I can''t be careless) Thus all 100,000 were mobilized and transposed. They appeared in the sky of the small sanctuary and... ¡¸What... the fuck...? ¡¹ Before them was a floating island. Not high enough to be called a sky city, but it wasn''t on the ground either. A flying piece of land with a magnificent temple built on it. There were houses around the temple. Around the body of the floating island were magic circles that has shooting range of a half sphere. These things would roast anything coming with hostility. And on the island, in front of the temple were 5 individuals. From the left, an Arch Demon woman, a Priest dressed in ancient religions clothing, the God Ralph himself, Arch Goddess Amel, and lastly, at the very right, a huge Knight clad in black armor, a gigantic sword and a shield hung on his back. Above them were an army of around 20,000 angels with Holy spears and valkyries'' weapons equipped. (Tch... Amel huh... I''ll deal with you after this...) ¡¸Attack!!!¡¹ Given the order, Bagdur''s army of 100,000 S-rank criminals clashed head on with those 5 individuals and the 20,000 angels. The angels were on par with his troops. But the 5 individuals were mowing them down like plucking weeds. Bagdur''s face twisted in discomfort. (What thel hell happened in 3 days?) *** Hahahahaha... ! ! ! Look at his face, oh my self, look at (scum)Bag-kun''s face. He''s staring at Von and Ana with a face that you''d make when you know you screwed up somewhere. They''re chopping down his troops with never seen before magic. Why? Because they came from games, I don''t know about Von, but Ana is completely something new to Bagdur. And then my new guardian, Mr.Rhodes, Ancient King with Job Dark Knight, and no, he didn''t pick that job because his parents were murdered. This guy is a hybrid tank-dps, he''s solo-ing 10 guys at a time up there with flight magic. You just normally don''t fight a freaking [Legend]-grade Dungeon boss like him, unless you''re an Elder Lich with a golden staff. That aside, how did it turn out like this? Let''s rewind again, bedtime stories are good, so please bear with it. 3 Days Ago ¡¸Then what are you going to do? ¡¹ ¡¸What do you mean? ¡¹ ¡¸How are you going to fight that army of 100,000 souls? ¡¹ Even if you asked me like that, I could only answer "somehow"... ¡¸Well... I have my tricks, I''ll pull it off one way or another ¡¹ I''m not dumb enough to just reveal my hand to a stranger, even if she''s an ally. Strong enemies ain''t that scary compared to double-faced allies. Besides, I''ll get my Menu back shortly, the only problem would be Points. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.Where the hell do I earn a whole chunk of Points in 3 days? ¡¸Sigh... you have a weird aura, I know you''ve got some strange powers with you... but you won''t escape the ranking rule. With your current ranking, you can''t just access all of your powers right? Well... not that I know what kind of powers do you have though... ¡¹ Ehh... isn''t that kind of correct... Again, reliable secretary-san. According to Ori, she can open up my powers a bit more if she merges with the Menu and become something completely different. I look forward to that... and by the way, if Amel''s standing here... she also uses a homunculus? I though I''m the only one using homunculus. I see. That''s one way to avoid materialization and lose 80% of powers... ¡¸Then... what do you mean by saying that? ¡¹ ¡¸According to the stories I heard from humans, this should be the time for the main character to beg the heroine for cooperation right? You''re going wrong from the generic scripts... ¡¹ And why the hell are you pouting? I''m not a fucking hero, woman... If my life gets turn into a story with me as a protagonist, it''d be a complete joke, people would laugh at me and my secret flirts with my mikos. So please, whoever watching me, do not turn this into a story... I beg you... ¡¸I''m done being scripted... ¡¹ I''m talking to YOU, Fortune woman, goddamn it... ¡¸...but according to what you just said, we should shake hands? ¡¹ ¡¸Actually, we MUST do that. Light Origin told me that I need to make sure you don''t lose...¡¹ Whoa... Ori-chan is mad... I''m so not going to pry into this... ¡¸...if the Artifact falls into the hands of Bagdur, it''s utterly bad. Besides, I do have plans to form a Coalition with you in the future, your place can be used as a port for exporting goods to Twilight city, and from that, your land would have more chance to prosper, that''s if you know how to hold onto the chances ¡¹ Hmm... she''s kind of right. If I freaking make a whole dungeon there, and have adventurers buy tickets to challenge it. Then open weapon shops, armor shops, even inns, merchant shops and all that... Then if a branch of the Guild is made there to escort carriages... I can see that''s possible. ¡¸How do I know that you''re not suspicious? ¡¹ ¡¸I can''t prove that, but if you lose to Bagdur then this whole world is done anyway... I don''t want to die, I don''t think you want to die... Fortune Origin and Dark Origin both went missing, if Zoras rises, we''re all dead, that''s all... ¡¹ Err... so it''s the situation where I''m not sure I can win and I need to pick two routes... If I decline this, death flag raised, we''re all dead, there''s no Save/Load Game button... If I say OK let''s shake hands, good end is reached, there might be hidden R18 scenes with the heroine, who is Amel, I should even raise ecchi-flags.............. NO!! Wait wait wait wait ! Why the hell am I thinking like an eroge... this is the reason why my life shouldn''t be turned into a novel... people are going to laugh at this God who tries to play an eroge when his land is attacked. Anyways... I''m not a strategist, but I don''t think we should decline this either. I''m not sure about how to earn a crap ton of Points to protect my lands in 3 days. ¡¸Alright... we''ll raise fla¡ªNo, I mean, let''s shake hands and become allies ¡¹ Geez... that was damn close... ¡¸Okay~ Then it''s decided ¡¹ After that, using Amel''s transposition magic, we were back at my sanctuary. The people I transported into the forest to dodge that meteorite safely returned due to them being beast race. They''re good with directions inside a forest. The elves were fine thanks to Ana''s effort. There were injuries, but no casualties. Von hasn''t returned, but he''ll be here soon. Even the pregnant female Night Hunter was alright. That''s a relief. Now what''s left is Leila. Let''s dip our hands into business right away. ¡¸Then, how are you going to help me, Amel? ¡¹ ¡¸Call your Menu up ¡¹ ¡¸Well... I can''t right now... but tomorrow I''ll be able to ¡¹ ¡¸Hmm... then it can''t be helped, well talk about how we''ll proceed first then ¡¹ ¡¸OK then what do have in mind ¡¹ ¡¸I know we''ll need a huge amount of Points... so I''ll use [Transfer] to give you fund¡¹ W-wait a minute... we can give Points? Then... ¡¸Hey, wait a minute, you have a whole Empire right? You have a crap ton of Points right? ¡¹ ¡¸Err... yeah, I have around 2 billion... ¡¹ Oh shiiiit... that''s a huge number... ¡¸Hey, we''re sitting right on top of the Fortune Artifact right now right?¡¹ ¡¸Yeah... what of it? ¡¹ ¡¸Wanna bet with me and make a gamble?¡¹ ¡¸Oh? Interesting... ¡¹ Alright, now we''re doing business. . Author: The flashback continues on next chapter. Sorry for doing this, but I''m running a bit short on time. [Volume Two] Chapter 022 OKAY......please don''t make me seiza, but sorry guys......it''s been some pretty rough weeks. Here are the reasons for my delay:
  • Family business - a lot of things came up suddenly
  • Somehow I joined RaisingtheDead as a Translator and devoted quite some time translating
  • Then my evil Editor drugged me with "Maji de Watashi ni Koi shinasai", the visual novel one, not anime......I didn''t leave my room for 4 days......
  • A big issue would be that I didn''t get the right mood to write...I assume that you guys won''t enjoy forced chapters with slacking contents, so I held off until I get the right mood going on to sit down and start writing
Well that''s it for Author''s corner, enjoy your stay. I''ll try to make up for last week if I do get enough time to write a second chapter... Preparation for defense Hey guys, Ralph here......no I should really stop before Meteor Shower crash down my land again......I have no idea if copy rights exist cross worlds... Right. Gamble. Somehow I had a pretty funny idea and managed to pursued Amel into playing this with me. The plan is to have Amel transfer me a crap ton of Points so I can turn my place into a freaking fortress of some kind. So, in order for that to work, I need to confirm something first. ¡¸Can I see your Menu?¡¹ ¡¸Eh? Yeah, but why...¡¹ She skeptically looked at me but still called up her Menu and showed me what''s in there. First, I told her to click on [Guardians] herself. Then I took a look at her list of the guardians that she could summon. Amel is an A-rank God, so she can access things up to page 12. Actually, I should be ranking up right about now, but nothing happened yet... well who cares really... The things in there weren''t too crazy, just various kinds of Angels and Valkyries... she''s an Arch Goddess after all... When you compared these to the game bosses I can summon from my old Menu... ...haha, you could really laugh at them. But it''s good like this. This means I confirmed my condition to go with this idea. The main concept is to have Amel invest as many Points as possible into my land. So if I can show her that my troops are way more absurd, she''ll be convinced. Next, I''ll experiment this thing that has been on my mind. I had Amel returned to the Home Menu, then I myself used my own hand to click on [Guardians]. The first page was the same to all the Gods... but then the second page and beyond... They were all game bosses from my knowledge just exactly like my old Menu. ¡¸Eh!? What are all these absurd creatures!?¡¹ ¡¸Well......let''s say they''re friends......¡¹ So she wasn''t surprised that the contents changed accordingly to my click, but surprised at the fact that these game bosses were in there huh... It must be something the Gods already knew, they probably have messed around with each other Menus... Now let''s make use of the buried Artifact. Ori, what are the chances of me being able to access up to page 12 of the Menu because I''m using the Menu of an A-rank Goddess? Then it''s almost zero... but that''s my win...probably. Why probably? Because if there''s the word "almost", the Fortune Artifact should make it possible. But I''m not sure if it''s going to be on my side this time around... I mean, it''s sealed away, the events happened recently are all from its influences... One can say it''s the leaked powers of the Artifact I''m standing right on top of, but that doesn''t guarantee those influences will get to effect my activities now... But it''s a gamble, so let''s just do it... I''ll stride through Amel''s Menu all the way to page 12. And... ¡¸......it worked¡¹ ¡¸Eh?......Ah, so this is your gamble huh......a D-rank God being able to access page 12 because you''re using my Menu......¡¹ Jackpot. Now let''s spend her Points to my heart''s content. [Ancient King Owen(950,000P)] - ouch...that hurts just looking at his price. But it does worth summoning him. This guy can access the spiritual channel and speak with wandering spirits to disrupt enemies through various methods. He''s also a hybrid Tank-DPS with very high damage output when solo-ing a crowd. Me and my Guild used to struggle so much fighting him to complete an expansion. His HP and powers increase accordingly to the number of his enemies. So if he''s solo-ing a whole crowd of 100,000 strong enemies......hahaha. I can only smile wryly as I thought of that situtation...my raid party only consisted of 12 people and yet he was already near impossible to beat... By the way, speaking of Menu, I''m not getting my full powers back until tomorrow. Chaos Origin is still working on it diligently for the sake of the handsome me. <......> ...okay I''ll stop. I had a feeling she just glared at me from the corner of my soul. Geez...having a mental voice with an ego surely is hard...this familiar plot in light novel should be a systematic voice with only analysis right? Yet this loli Chaos Origin (my imagination) would pierce my miserable heart with words every time I make a joke... Anyways, my land is still a ruin so let''s not summon him right now. What do you think would happen if a subordinate was summoned into a ruined Sanctuary with his God trying to flirt with Amel but saw no opening in her defense? Well......that aside, let''s take care of the ruin first then. I couldn''t do the same thing anymore, meaning that I couldn''t make any changes on my land using Amel''s Menu. But luckily she can do it for me if she she uses the [Invitation] function. Amel played with her Menu a little bit and before long, a popup window appeared in my field of vision. ¡ºGrant Arch Goddess Amel permission to make changes to your Sanctuary? /¡» Erh......I''m getting d¨¦j¨¤ vu......as a programmer I find this line familiar to a scary extent. Man......I can never forget the days when I needed to install applications on my company computer but needed permission from the Admin account on my Boss'' personal computer...... But oh well......if you mind it too much you lose. I clicked . ¡¸Al~right......let''s start fixing your place then~¡¹ ¡¸Oi......why are you smiling devilishly, woman?¡¹ ¡¸Yaa~~ I''m just wondering what shade of pink should I paint your Temple~¡¹ You...woman... This is seriously karma for having the intention of flirting with her... This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.I swear I''ll go complain with the God of Karma very soon. What!? The fuck is with that overpowered status... Well, it seems like that God of Karma can''t go around and change the world as she pleases. Her job is to control the flow of Karma around the world, her Menu is a little special. That aside... ¡¸O-Oi......¡¹ ¡¸Haha don''t look at me like that, I was joking~¡¹ ¡¸Haa......you remind me too much of my elder sister......¡¹ I could only sigh. Speaking of sister, I actually don''t want Zoras to rampage... What if he tickles my long-lost siscon past that I sealed away carefully? Urgh... I''m shivering to recall... Well no, we weren''t hentai, but we were too close because of 2 reasons. Our parents are always away from home, and the age difference between us is too large. You''ll just naturally get attached to her a lot since she''s doubling as your mom... I got sidetracked again dammit! That said, Amel turned the ruin back into the glorious Temple of Ralph. I gathered everyone and confirmed their states. Golem-kun, safe with a few scratches... tough guy will always be tough. The Night Hunters are also doing well. Amel performed a checkup on the pregnant one, but there wasn''t any damage because I transported her away from the sanctuary when that goddamn meteor crashed down. Rex-kun......well, let''s skip this bastard since he''s sleeping soundly in the front yard of the temple...... The beast people did suffer some injuries, some serious some not so much. I used my my essence to cast healing magic and they were all good to go again. Same goes with the Elves, Ana tried her best so they were just slightly scratched. The Skull Face Angels were all dead though... but Ana can summon more later, so let''s just offer them a silent prayer. Yuah-chan was clinging to me with teary eyes. Eh......I don''t wanna be viewed as a dense protagonist......so let''s pat her head and give her a thumbs up for reassurance that everything''s fine now. But I''m not even a main character of a light novel anyway, so let''s pay it no mind. That marked the end of my medical report......as if!!! There are still my apple trees!!! Apple Trees are important!!! I went to the back yard, which is my personal garden. Well damn...Leila''s carrots were smashed...but my apple trees somehow survived with a few broken branches. Phew... That''s when I saw the huge pond. Ah crap......I forgot about my demonic amphibian again...... I walked closer and squatted down on the side of the pond, then got scared to half death by a blue dragon the size of an elephant... What!? According to Ori, it seems like my demonic amphibian swallowed the whole bag of Mana Stones with 1 year worth of his food and immediately ranked up to Aqua Demon. Nice. I like this, he looks so badass. In the future, this guy will be our underground guard. If someone tries to trespass via tunnels, they''ll meet their destiny at my planned-for-future underground labyrinth network consists of many underground lakes. I played around with Aqua-kun a little bit and returned to my room at the main building to discuss business with Amel. Time for the big bet. ¡¸What? You''re telling me to invest all into your troops instead of calling my Angels?¡¹ ¡¸Precisely, I''m confident to say that my troops are stronger¡¹ Well...she''ll have to bet on the odds of me being absurdly strong. The reason is that, if she don''t want to risk trusting a stranger like me and used her own troops without lending me Points to call my troops and we lose to Bagudr, we''re dead. Also, if she decided to bet on me and let me handle the troops, we may have a chance to completely stop Bagdur and destroy him. Well, in case of me also lose to his 100,000 troops then we''re done. We''ll be dead either way so if she takes risks and does trust me to a certain extent then we can pull through this somehow. I do agree that we could just wait one day to get my powers back and fight with that. But where the hell do I get a crap ton of Points right away to use my powers ? I need Amel''s Points either way... ¡¸......hmm¡¹ ¡¸Well, my subordinate already reported that your Empire is showing signs of overpopulation......we can talk that out and form a real coalition on that front......that is if you do have some trust in me and lend me your Points¡¹ Another good thing for her is that, if she just uses Points to invest in my troops then her Angels won''t die in vain. The battle takes place at my Sanctuary so I can revive my subordinates to a certain extent. But if Amel''s Angels die here then that''s the end of them. ¡¸Then, if we lose this bet then all of us would just die, huh......you''re playing around with Fortune itself you know that?¡¹ ¡¸Please......I''m placing my ass on top of that goddamn Fortune Artifact, so don''t even talk fortune with me right now......¡¹ ¡¸Tch......fine, I''ll invest my Points into your army......but we''ll sure have a lot of business to talk after this, remember that!¡¹ Eh? Did I just do that? Did I just get myself another head aching conference-like talk? I spaced out half-way into the conversation the last time we talked with the humans... Argh!!! Fuck it!!! We''re moving on!!! Sanctuary Reconstruction. I need to put more thoughts into this. I''ll really shine as a game programmer right now when it comes down to balancing maps and their inhabitants. I sketched out a brief plan in my head before going to sleep at night. Will Amel come into my room? Urgh...let''s not think about that as we have pressing business right now. I did prepare a guest room for her but the woman said something like "Eh? I can''t sleep on the floor?". I was pretty damn dumbfounded at the remark... Seems like this ojou-sama is already sick of comfortable king-sized royal bed and decided to return to nature. The proof is that she walked all the way from the Empire to the Utopia of Souls and slept on trees at night... What a wild Goddess...literally. Oh well, I used her Menu to pull out a set of futon and let her sleep on the floor as requested. I also need some sleep for tomorrow''s work...I''ll be burning my brain after getting my powers back fully. . . [Volume Two] Chapter 023 A little bit late, but I did make it......I got a little bit too into translating XD Fun Fact: Before this, long ago, I did try to draft out a whole different story just to see how far I could go without planning anything, and I got to 24 chapters, so I''m nearing into my old limit, let''s see how far can I go with this series. Preparation of Defense (2) They say nothing is better than coffee early in the morning. I mean, what''s better than sitting in a small coffee shop, next to the glass window looking out to the empty streets slowly turn crowded as morning goes on. Today also, no, actually not also, I had onee-san''s breakfast today. She stopped by last night and scolded me for being so messy and disorganized. Urgh, that hurts every time you mention it, I mean, I''M 35 AND YOU''RE 45, ONEE-SAN!!! Geez...... Well that aside, I headed out for my favorite coffee shop, opened the door, listened to the bell rang and sat into my favorite spot with a newspaper in my jacket''s pocket. I have a noon shift for work today, so I''ll be chilling in the morning, although my boss was yelling at me and wanted me to debug our new game...... Welp, who cares......I didn''t even have to order, yet the waiter brought me the coffee of my preferences, that''s how regular am I here. Ah, so peaceful, I can never get bored of this...... Hm, but somehow, I feel like something''s off. As I took a sip of coffee into my mouth, the taste spread over my tongue and made me feel pleasant and......suffocating!?!? What!? Why is it so hard to breathe? Did the clerk put poison in my coffee? ¡¸Oiiiii, Ralph-kun, wake up~~¡¹ What the fuck!? Who''s Ralph!? Why is the waitress calling me that name!? . . I threw my eyes open and saw Amel straddling me while blocking my nose and mouth...... Err............... That, was the true, definition, of embarrassment. ¡¸......and why in the wide world of Ejorelle are you straddling me, woman?¡¹ ¡¸Geeeeez......I even punched your stomach to wake you up but it hurt my knuckles instead of hurting you......¡¹ Oh. I guess all the past events were too tiring, mentally, for even a God like me. But Chaos Origin should''ve waken me up, right? EEEEHHHH!?!?! For fuck''s sake, then at least wake me up man...... ¡¸What are you looking at? The Sun''s already way up in the sky!!!¡¹ ¡¸Ah, right, I''ll get to work right away¡¹ I lifted Amel like picking a cat up and put her aside. Now, let''s get to business. Ori, show me what you asked me last night again. What do you mean by my knowledge? I think I just heard something amazing, so let''s not waste any more time, my answer will be a big YES. Right, now let''s test out what do we have here. I made a gesture with my hand to call the Menu like I did in the past. ¡¸WHA......!?¡¹ I was a little shocked seeing this scene...... ¡¸Oi oi......what the hell is that, Mr.Ralph?¡¹ ¡¸Umm......how do I say this, it''s......a computer, makes sense?¡¹ ¡¸Absolutely not~¡¹ ¡¸Figured as much¡¹ YUP. A fucking transparent dual monitor of a gaming PC just appeared in front of me instead of the floating little screen I usually saw as my Menu. From geography, lei lines, population, individual status,......to the familiar [Sanctuary], [Guardians], [Settings] menus. Everything was listed in these two monitor screen. Right now, I can even check the status of heart-rate or respiratory system within my people...... Heck, I even know what gender is the baby Night Hunter in the belly of that werewolf woman. Hm, so as long as the target is within my land, I can pretty much perform surgery on them if I want to. ... ... ...what? I checked the [Guardians] menu, and yup, everything was only half the price before the update. But wait, doesn''t Chaos Origin hate the Menu, why is it so good now? Based on my memories and knowledge, Ori called this [Operating System], but not a simple [Menu] anymore. Errrr......hey people, me and my secretary just coded a whole OS, give us some money!!! I feel like I just surpassed Taurus Silver, where''s my little sister? Come praise me, girl! Well, jokes aside, Ori did this so I wouldn''t snatch away all the glory. Right, let''s get to work. I walked outside of the temple with Amel, she''s pretty sexy in that one-piece dress......no wait! Why am I trying to flirt again? I have work to do, this is the effect of being a virgin for 35 years, sigh...... I gathered everyone and had them all go into the main Temple, Amel can stay since she''s a God, it''s not dangerous for her. First, we need to raise our defense now that my "SYSTEM" is back. Yup, I''m bragging by emphasizing that word. I thought about this last night. The way I look at this problem is that, I imagined myself designing a fortress dungeon for a game. So what I came up with was a floating island. The reason behind this is that, with a floating island, we''ll spot air attacks more easily, also magic cannons can cover a much wider range of attack. In case our foes try to bite our ass from underground, a floating island will prevent them from doing so, but that''s not all...... Since this System is the work of Chaos Origin, I can now clearly see where the goddamn Fortune Artifact is. It truly was buried right below our asses, so by picking up my sanctuary and make it float, I''ll also be able to guard it from being stolen from underground. Don''t get it mixed up, it-it''s not like I did it for the world''s sake or anything!!! No, please forgive me, that was a terrible tsundere imitation. The person who''s lurking to turn my life into your novel, I forbid you from putting that one into your book!!! Also the times when I flirt with Leila......and Yuah......and Amel......and Ana......um......okay I''ll stop. ¡¸What are you doing?¡¹ ¡¸No, do not look, this is adult''s business¡¹ ¡¸Hmph!! How old are you?¡¹ ¡¸Older than you¡¹ ¡¸......really? I''m 623......¡¹ ¡¸......¡¹ ¡¸?????¡¹ ¡¸I''m very sorry, aunt-sama.....¡¹ ¡¸!!!!!!!!!!!¡¹ OUCH!!! She kicked my balls!!! GEEZ, LUCKY THEY WERE MADE FROM FANTASY ORES!!! You shut up please, Ori. ......and, she stormed back inside the Temple with a huge ''HMPH!!!''. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Eh......for now I''ll say that was cute, but if this turns into a grudge I''ll cry. Well, same as Leila, she loved instant ramen, so I''ll soothe her later. My body is still that of a homunculus, so my seeds are fine. That said, let''s get back on topic, though I lost count of how many times we got side-tracked. In [Sanctuary] menu, there''s a feature called [Terrain Manipulation] that I''ve never used because I never had the need to, but now I do. Messing around with that, I understood how to manipulate my lands. The problem now would be how do we float it up midair? Easy. First, I cut out a big-ass piece of land, including the Fortune Artifact underground, with our Temple and the beast village as the center. Then, I left it there and went back to [Sanctuary] menu. There I adjusted gravity control over that specific piece of land. When it reached a good altitude, I stabilized it in mid air using a spell from the old Menu. It didn''t cost a single points up until I used that spell. Hm, so that means I can mess around with my land freely, but magic and other things will cost points. That''s OK though, it''s not like I got a ton of points right now to spend, so it''s good if anything. Speaking of points, I only have around 8000 now, but that ain''t a problem either, I have Amel as my tank of Points. Hopefully instant ramen works on her, or else I''m dead, no we''ll all be dead if Bagdur wins so...... OK, now that we got ourselves up in the air, time for defense upgrade. For this purpose, I had to walk all the way back inside the Temple and drag Amel out to use her Points. She was sulking but I gave her a cup of ramen to chew on and her eyes shone like there''s no Sun in the universe. Um, where the hell is your dignity as an Arch Goddess? Well if she can relax that much at my place then I guess I succeeded in creating a calming sanctuary. Anyway, using Amel''s big-ass pool of Points, I spread out 10 layers of Lv.MAX barriers. On the ring-side around the floating island, I placed down 10 magic circles with offensive functions, of course, these are from a game I knew of. Since we ain''t afraid of trespassing anymore, I removed all the walls and turrets surrounding us. Surprisingly, there was a [Return] function where I cancel the things in my lands and got my Points back. I need to experiment more on this. Defense and basic offense is now done, so while I''m at it I gave Amel another cup of ramen and spent her Points to upgrade my Temple. It''s even bigger and extravagant now with more buildings for priests and guests. Its HP also went up quite a lot, which is good, we need more toughness. When I looked again, Amel''s Points already half-regained of what I just spent...... WHAT!?!? That Empire is clearly scary, and faithful, and overpopulated, and......wait a minute......is Amel actually an idol there? Normally only idols get this many fans and profit from selling singles and posters...... To be honest I wouldn''t even be surprised if she did say she was an idol. Back on topic goddammit!!! I think we''re pretty much OK up here, the last thing I need to do up here is to summon Ancient King Owen, but that can wait, I need to continue working when the fire is still burning in me. Then, when we float up like this, what do we leave behind? A~fucking~gigantic~crater~yaay~ To deal with that, I manipulated the terrain so that underground water come up and fill it up. Then I released my Demonic Amphibian-kun, now Aqua Demon-kun, into that giant lake and sprayed a whole bunch of Mana Stones in there again. I did say I''d make an underground labyrinth network, but last night I gave it some more serious thoughts and decided on something else. In the future, when we open up trading with Amel''s Empire, I''ll make an island in the middle of that lake. Inside that island will be a big-ass labyrinth/dungeon for Adventurers to challenge. I''ll place transportation magic circles all around the dungeon so that if an Adventurer steps on it, he/she will be warped into the front yard of my Temple, and if they seriously pray, I''ll give them nice buffs and send them back into the Dungeon. I have a detailed plan for that dungeon, but let''s not talk about it now. So, as a foundation for that, I took a crap ton of lands from deep, deep underground to create deserted island in the middle of the lake. Aqua-kun will be guarding it, I doubt anyone would prefer to fight an Aqua Demon in the middle of a lake, unless you''re a fanatic or battle maniac. Then around the shore of the lake I''ll make a town out of it. Weapons, armors, items, and many more kind of merchant shops will be laid out around the lake with a few docks for boats heading towards the island. I''ll make the challengers purchase an amulet so that Aqua-kun won''t make them his lunch. Now that is that, and this will be this, back on topic of self-defense. With all that said and done, for now I summoned Ancient King Owen as a new Guardian. Then I discussed with Amel about how we were going to fight. Oh, her serious switch is on, she looks scary as hell now......no, to be 100% honest, she looks like she''s on period. I better be serious now or my name''s gonna be on the headline tomorrow for the victim of homicide...... Jokes aside, we agreed to bring a couple hundreds of Amel''s troops just to make sure. Then on my side, Von can call up 10 Ancient Liches, and Ana can call 5 Skull Face Angels. Good, none of the liches held a golden staff, it would''ve been bad if one did. Then to protect the innocent people and the elves, those 5 Skull Face Angels were appointed as bodyguards. Our whole army has been ready for this. To be honest, me myself can fuck Bagdur up without problems, but I prefer to be careful, they do say better safe than sorry. I was careless once and ran into a whole series of problems because of the goddamn Artifact. I spent the rest of the day practicing my essence, reviewed my martial arts skills when I was young and then went into the center of the beast village to have a barbeque dinner with everyone. Before going to sleep I delivered a half-assed encouraging speech and raise morale a little bit. Ahhh, if my sister heard what I said in that speech she''ll make fun of me to the rest of my life. No wait, my life already ended, I wonder how''s everyone''s doing on Earth? ¡¸You''re deep in thoughts, Mr.Cocky¡¹ ¡¸......yeah, the stars here are beautiful, but I have a feeling they''re laughing at me......¡¹ ¡¸Hm, probably Stellar-kun''s interested in you......¡¹ ¡¸Stellar-what?¡¹ ¡¸Stellar God Masaki, I guess you never heard of him then......¡¹ ¡¸......¡¹ No, you''re wrong, I did hear about him, the number suspect of the meteor crash. Ori told me about this earlier when I was running towards the Utopia of Souls. Decided that there''s no use trying to speculate, I dragged Amel back in the Temple and we went to sleep, SEPARATELY. I''ll make that one thing clear, okay? Goodnight. (Not a chapter) Apology & Future Alright guys...sorry because this ain''t no chapter. First of all, I''d like to apologize to some of my enthusiastic readers who did enjoy this series for disappearing suddenly. I won''t actually make excuses but I''ll say that it''s because I knew I would run into a dead-end with the ways things are right now in this series. Sure, I can write a few more chapters before than happen, but what I want isn''t that. That said, let''s move into the Future part. You guessed it, I have not been updating because I was planning a half-complete revise. This means I will now put an official hold on this series and plan for a big rewrite in the future, probably the last bit of Volume One and the whole Volume Two. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. I do want to get out there quality contents, not half-ass make-do. With all that being said, Ralph-sama will see you again in the future. Well, you might say ''fuck you who cares'' but that''s fine, it''s natural, but if there are still readers that would read this series after revision then thank you very much. Meanwhile, I''m doing a new series over here: http://royalroadl.com/fiction/6372 Do check it out if you did enjoy my writing style. That''s it for me and this goddamn boring post that ain''t a chapter.