Chapter 417: Scher
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
“...You’re not following Holy Light, but Holy Light still takes care of you. No—it should be said that the Source of Order is taking care of you. This isn’t necessarily a good thing...”
I was surprised at Harloys’ final comnt. However, no matter how much I asked her about it, she would only respond vaguely.
“...I still need to think more on this matter. Now’s not the ti for you to know. If you trust , then don’t force to tell you with the magical pet contract. Otherwise, many things will beco far more troubleso.”
Since she said so, I decided to give up asking her despite my curiosity... Even my typically not-so-sharp senses told that Harloys was telling the truth—that continuing to ask might cause great amounts of trouble.
“Fine—fine—tell when you’re finished thinking about it. I’m not such a stickler that I’ll force you.”
I waved my hand to dispel my feelings of helplessness and being stuck in a quagmire as I could sense that I was potentially playing with fire. I then focused on the notepad in my hand, which listed the goals I had made for myself to complete in Dragon World. However, my accomplishnt rate was rather worriso.
1: Obtain the Foundational Elental Items of Dragon World. Obtain a minimum of one, but the more the better. (Absolutely necessary.)
2: Obtain one absolutely top-level item of each elent. The higher quality the better. The best would be the four God Equipnt of the Elents. (Absolutely necessary.)
3: Establish a stable base in Dragon World so that the young warriors can train and quickly improve in power level. (Low priority. Can be done in my free ti.)
4: Improve my power level to at least Myth rank. (Absolutely necessary.)
5: Have the devils enter Dragon World. (Originally absolutely necessary, but considering the devils’ terrible reputation, I suppose that this should be optional, although it will be difficult to explain to Ayer if I don’t have the devils arrive here.)
6: Final step: Notify Orloss to activate the ‘grand sche.’ There’s no more turning back after this step.
As for making Dragon City send reinforcents to the combat situation in Bardi? That was never in my goals to begin with. It would be nice if I could have the dragons send aid, but if I couldn’t, I didn’t need to worry about a thing at all. With my deep understanding of Orloss, I refused to believe that a sly old fox like him would roll over and die so easily.
After spending all this ti in Dragon World, my other goals were either completed or in progress. Things seed to be going well, but one of my absolutely necessary goals was now in a quagmire. I couldn’t be happy due to this.
“It’s impossible to speed up the process of progressing in power level. But if I really have no other choice, I suppose I could take a shortcut through my System. Although taking shortcuts will most likely result in not having a stable foundation, it can’t be helped if that’s the case.”
The System inford that I only needed to give her Fate Points to improve my power level. However, she also told that her type of leveling up wouldn’t be as effective as achieving the understanding I needed on my own to level up. My energy level had already reached the standard necessary to breakthrough. My Law and Holy Light Soul Imprints had already been fixed thanks to the Source of Order watching over . My undead magic Soul Imprint had been restored as well. My ice magic Soul Imprint was the only one I was stuck on, but it shouldn’t take much longer. Using my System to make a breakthrough here would bring too many disadvantages.
“As for the Foundational Elental Items of Dragon World, the dragons must have obtained all four after ruling this place for so many years. It’s quite possible that they’ll give one, but it’ll be far more difficult for them to give two as that represents equally sharing the right to rule this dinsion with . But it’ll be a great help to if I can obtain two. Perhaps it’s ti to have a good discussion with my new allies...”
It was far too difficult to be a proper major antagonist these days. The major antagonist would have to spend so much effort creating an excellent villainous sche with no flaws as well as find loyal, reliable and hard-working subordinates that wouldn’t be easily converted to the hero’s side with a simple talk of so sort. The major antagonist would also have to show up early to kill off so mooks to let people know of his existence. In the middle of the story, the major antagonist would always send out subordinates equal to the hero’s strength almost as if he was helping the hero level up...
Right, there were also antagonists that told the heroes classical lines such as “I am your father” or “You’re actually the legendary ______” all in order to show off how special the hero was. At the critical mont, the antagonist would naturally expose their greatest weakness, such as telling the hero or their daughter about the location of a divine weapon capable of killing themself... And why was it that the antagonist always had a daughter? Why was it that a demon king’s daughter would forever beco the hero’s girlfriend in these types of stories?
The antagonist would work hard for so many years, but their sche would always fail at the last step. The final boss always died because they liked to talk too much... and would even leave behind so top-level equipnt after their death, supporting the heroes in their journey.
How, in any possible way, was this what a major antagonist was supposed to be like? They all treated the heroes so well, as if they were the heroes’ parents!
“I never understood how antagonists, who are so skilled at scheming, always mysteriously get killed off by simple-minded heroes in the end. My sche is perfect. I have countless subordinates, and I’ve been scheming from behind the scenes for so long. I, Roland, shall never be defeated so easily and incomprehensibly!”
“...Emperor Yongye and Adam.”
Alright then, when Harloys ntioned this, I instantly recalled the past and all my passion vanished. In fact, I now recalled that I had raised more than one disciple who had personally killed .
“That was an accident; there are reasons for that...”
“Still, it happened. And it was all your fault, wasn’t it?”
I found myself unable to counter what the silly cat said. I only wanted to be alone by myself; don’t ask why...
Cough—cough—getting back on topic, although I always had countless plans in motion, this particular grand sche of mine was quite thorough. I chose the best people to carry out my sche, so it definitely wouldn’t fail.
“...Your Highness Roland, bad news. Lady Elisa has returned from the Fire Elental Plane. She failed to retrieve the God Equipnt of Water!”
“What? She’s the Fire Sea Marchioness, and she was the fire elental demon who had acquired her position by walking on top of the previous Fire Elental God. She actually failed in the Fire Elental Plane? Could this be the legendary 2% failure when the obsidian treasure chest is supposed to have a 98% success rate? Is our luck that terrible?”
“...I think it’s the curse of you being a jinxer.”
“It’s not my fault!”
But once I read the detailed report, I understood what happened. This really wasn’t at all Elisa’s fault.
Any lifeform that chose to embrace Chaos was capable of becoming a demon—even elental creatures. However, if an Elental God beca fallen and transford into a demon, that Elental God would naturally be rejected by their Elental Plane. Even an Elental God would lose the favor of the Elental Throne and their Godhood if they beca a demon.
After the original Fire Elental God had perished, the Fire Elental Lords beca busy fighting each other to determine who was the strongest. But if the “original successor to the Fire Elental God” arrived, the situation would be... to use an analogy, it was as if the previous emperor died, so all the domain lords started fighting over who would be the next ruler. But suddenly a prince appeared and said that he was the rightful successor. This would naturally make all the domain lords band together to deal with this prince.
Actually, the Fire Elental Lords already knew about Elisa. They noticed her presence the mont that she had arrived in the Fire Elental Plane. And so all the Fire Elental Lords ca looking for her together. In fact, even the dinsional will suppressed this forr Fire Elental Lord that had “fallen to beco a demon.” When faced with the enmity of an entire dinsion, it would be impossible for even a Demon Prince to deal with, much less a Demon Marchioness. All Elisa could do was turn and run away.
“It would seem that I chose the wrong person for the job? Should I contact her and soothe her emotions?”
“...I feel that you’re the person she wants to see least right now.”
Thinking about her forceful personality, I could only silently nod in agreent. But then I felt that I should contact her soon regardless. This was such a rare chance for to laugh at her! Elisa always made fun of , and this was my opportunity to have so revenge!
I obtained much information about top-level elental items from the Great Stone Sculptor. However, the highest-quality items would be the God Equipnt of the Elents or the Elental Thrones themselves, so those would naturally be the best choices. However, obtaining an Elental Throne would be far too difficult as I would have to face off against both an Elental God and the entire Elental Plane’s dinsional will. So of course I focused instead on obtaining the God Equipnt of the Elents. After all, very few even knew of their existence, so this should have been the most likely part of my plan to succeed. Instead, this part directly failed together with Elisa failing to obtain the God Equipnt of Water.
The God Equipnt of Fire was stuck in the Water Elental Plane. The Water Elental Plane was a completely water-based world with no land, so almost no land-based species would be able to enter and survive in that environnt. The few strong enough to survive permanently underwater would also have their power levels seriously reduced. I didn’t even bother sending anyone to the Water Elental Plane because of this.
The God Equipnt of Wind... was currently in Camdian’s possession, given to him for his assistance with the God Equipnt of Earth. Borrow it from Camdian? This was sothing related to his very life. If I even ntioned the topic of borrowing it from him, he would be on guard and perhaps even directly form a grudge against .
The God Equipnt of Earth was naturally in the possession of the new Earth Elental God, the Sand Worm King “Little Sandy.” As I recalled his mountainous size, I felt like his na was truly awkward. While I did tell a certain Beast Tar to go and retrieve the God Equipnt of Earth, I didn’t have much hope for this. Even if Little Sandy wasn’t very smart, he was still the Earth Elental God...
“Your Highness, as you wished, the obsidian treasure chest... I’ve obtained the God Equipnt of Earth!”
Alright then, it was truly as my System had called —I was truly like Pele the jinxer. Anyone I felt would succeed ended up failing, while anyone I felt would fail would end up succeeding.
“How did you accomplish it?”
“Oh, Little Sandy is too big and can’t use the God Equipnt of Earth. So I simply played with him for a while and he gave it to .”
“...That was all it took!?”
I was smart enough not to ask what they “played” as the answer would surely be mind-scorching. Still, didn’t Little Sandy trust Beifeng a little too much? Being able to obtain the God Equipnt of Earth so easily? Was Beifeng actually the main character, favored by Goddess Eich herself? Was there anything he couldn’t accomplish?
However, I understood why Little Sandy was unable to make use of the God Equipnt of Earth. It was a small, exquisite, colorless mage staff. It was the perfect size for .
“All God Equipnt should have the ability to change their size. Why is Little Sandy incapable of using it?”
“...Little Sandy doesn’t have any hands.”
Alright, this reason was so logical I could only agree. And so I directly accepted the staff and tossed it into Frigidwinter Earth. The God Equipnt of Earth was emanating trendous waves of elental energy, so I was worried that it would attract unwanted attention if I left it outside.
It would be impossible for to obtain the God Equipnt of Wind unless I wanted to kill Camdian. I had just failed in obtaining the God Equipnt of Water, and the God Equipnt of Fire was in the Water Elental Plane, an environnt none of us were suited for going to. In the end, I only obtained the God Equipnt of Earth.
However, I needed one top-level elental item of each elent for my Frigidwinter Earth’s developnt. Even if the dragons gave one of the Foundational Elental Items of Dragon World, I would still need two more elental items.
“Perhaps it’s ti for to contact the Water Elental Goddess Aylos. She should be able to help retrieve the God Equipnt of Fire from the Water Elental Plane, since I have a hostage on my hands...”
Aylos was the immorial generation Ocean God Sidunwar’s wife. His only hope of revival, the Ocean Bottle, was in my hands. And I was the only person in the world capable of reviving him.
But if I contacted Aylos right now, I probably wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything. After helping us last ti in the Earth Elental Plane, she had left us right away, not giving the opportunity to extort her. And if I contacted her asking for her to obtain the God Equipnt of Fire for us, soone with so many millennia of experience like her would definitely never give it to us unless I revived her husband. And for that...
“Reviving Sidunwar is one of my Myth-ranked Quests. Of course I want to earn so Fate Points and do it. However, I need to hunt down powerful sea beasts and sea monsters to obtain divine power. This is truly difficult.”
I wasn’t actually worried about the sea beasts and monsters themselves. Previously, just the Borealis alone was more than sufficient to kill off several top-level sea monsters. Now that I had three large aerial battleships, why would I have to worry about sea monsters? I was worried about...
“The mont I enter the ocean, that crazy lady will surely start a rampage because of .”
Actually, not only myself, but even the Borealis didn’t dare anymore to travel over the deep sea. Otherwise, powerful sea monsters would surely show up together with thunderstorms and tornados, followed by a certain Goddess’s personal incarnation.
“As expected of the Goddess who possesses the Divine Concept of Revenge. She really knows how to hold a grudge... wait a mont, one of her Divine Concepts is Revenge. Isn’t that one of my goals for my grand sche?”
I hesitated for a mont but finally picked up my notepad, adding one more goal to the end.
7: Kill off that crazy Queen of Storms and steal her Divine Concept of Revenge and divine power over the ocean, reviving Sidunwar along the way. (High priority.)
Of course, considering that she was a newly-rising star in the Chaos Faction along with being a powerful Goddess, it would be nigh impossible for to do this. And so I quietly started writing a letter.
“Boss Ayer, I think there’s sothing that only you can do. There’s an idiot in our way; you understand how it is. I’m talking about the crazy woman who rules over the blue depths—yep—I’m talking about the woman with the strange hairstyle who even colored her body ridiculously blue. Boss, I should tell you that she’s absurdly arrogant...”
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