Hellmode ~Gamer Who Likes to Speedrun Becomes Peerless in a Parallel World with Obsolete Setting~ Vol. 6 - Chapter 318 - Eight Heroes Plan

rus spoke of how he destroyed the world many tis in the past.

This world existed for as long as the gods saw equilibrium in it, and once it reached an unrecoverable point, which seed to happen every few tens of thousands of years, the gods would reset everything.

That ant mass-murdering all the people living in it, and rus had helped with that in the past.

While the party listened in horror, Allen was thinking of sothing else.

(So it's like a major reset that happens almost periodically. I wonder what happened to the world where I used to live though.)

There were civil and international wars, religious and racial conflicts, famines and poverty, large differences in wealth, environntal issues, and many more problems that plagued the world. One issue would get resolved while another popped up, but people continued developing and learning.

Many countries could not et their expectations for the future, but sohow humanity had survived for millenia, thriving in a way.

But who was to say that maybe in a few more centuries that world would have fallen apart as well?

'Allen you said you were brought here from another world, right?'

Allen had told him to talk, and rus did so.

"Yes, though it was pretty forceful, or more like I wasn't even given an option."

(I just wanted to play a ga, but after I created my character instead of the ga starting I was born here as a baby.)

'Your presence here isn't against Ela's wishes, he chose those with suitable aspirations.'

"That makes sense. Wait, you ntioned Eight Heroes? Was that a plan to get eight people with a similar ntality as from my world then?"

"There are eight Allens sowhere then?!"

"Cecile, why do you have to word it that way?"

"Oh, I just thought that sounded like an interesting situation."

rus had ntioned in the past how there were issues with Allen's rapid growth, even after he had filed many complaints with Ela. Cecile wondered if things were going well in the Gods' realm.

Though she also imagined it could be fun to have eight Allens around.

'Eight people were the plan, yes. If a mistake hadn't happened when calling the first one, Allen.'

"You an when I almost chose to be the Demon King?"

'Yes, you were about to choose Demon King, so we prepared the Summoner Talent instead, an 8 stars class. But that also ant giving up the ability of calling in anyone else afterwards.'

"So that's how all the power Ela had reserved was spent just to get here."

Allen recalled he almost chose to be a Demon King when he was still Kenichi.

Ela knew that was a bad idea, so he quickly prepared the Summoner class instead, giving it 8 stars. The Spirit God had ntioned that in the past too.

'Yes, the power prepared to bring in eight people was all spent on only one. I'm sure you can understand what that ans seeing everything you've achieved and the battlefield you've conquered.'

"That was all thanks to his own efforts."

Kurena finally chid in.

She knew Allen had been busy throwing rocks at trees since even before he invited her to play knights.

She did not like seeing all his efforts being chalked up to a god's power.

'You have a point. Allen's actions were certainly odd...more like insane...no...'

"""..."""

rus tried finding the correct words to describe Allen's usual disposition, but he kept nding his own words, unable to find a positive description.

Regardless, it's extrely rare for a demon to beco a Demon General. Just one is considered a blessing in their race. I'm sure you understand how unnatural it is for Allen to defeat soone like that with one of his ridiculous strategies.'

"So now you have a different plan than the one with the Eight Heroes."

Allen summarized what he had gleaned from the conversation so far.

'Yes, the plan changed. We don't have the power to call in anyone else now.'

He finally got an answer for sothing he had been wondering and questioning for a long ti.

Usually most of the people in this world lived in Normal Mode.

The Gods and Demon Generals, of which there were very few in this world, were on what the developers called Extra Mode.

There were plans of calling in only eight people to live with six stars and in Extra or Hell Mode.

But the power for that had all been used up by Allen.

(So I'm guessing it was going to be impossible to send alone to defeat the Demon King.)

There was no way of getting other suitable people from another world, so they decided to look for capable people in this world.

The others in the party also began to nod, realizing what that ant.

After all, Allen had sohow managed to gather a well-rounded and balanced party.

"So you decided to gather talented people around ."

Allen asked sothing else he had noticed before.

He felt like many of his questions were starting to clear up.

'Pretty much, yes. We just made it easier for similarly skilled people to be born in the sa ti period, to be precise. Though if we overdid it, the Demon King's Army would've noticed.'

Kurena had the Talent of Sword Saint since she was little.

Then the daughter of a feudal lord was a Mage.

That was no coincidence.

"So God wanted to fight the Demon King's Army."

'It's you who ultimately decides that. But we thought that was going to be the natural conclusion if you t and beca friends. We just weighed the possibilities. After all, even if we got the Eight Heroes as planned, there was no guarantee they would all want to fight the Demon King, so that plan also relied on chance.'

rus answered Cecile's question.

It was everyone's own choice whether they wanted to join the party or not.

Even if eight Extra or Hell Mode players were gathered like initially planned, there was no guarantee they would fight the Demon King together too.

Their plan relied solely on expecting them to want to fight the Demon King.

"Then Peromus' absurd [Valuate] Skill was also prepared by the gods?"

Allen began talking about Peromus, the son of Kurena Village's mayor.

There was one more person who was of Allen's age, and had a Talent alongside Kurena and Dogora during the Appraisal Ceremony..

That was Peromus.

With his Extra Skill [Valuate] he could determine the value of anything.

"Peromus? So everyone in Kurena Village was always so weird?"

Kiel said as he thought of Peromus.

Everyone in the party knew of the rchant Peromus, even though he had not attended the Academy.

"That's rude. I'm not like them."

"""..."""

Everyone stared at Allen, as if saying he was the weirdest one.

"Oh right, wasn't Peromus going to marry Fiona?"

Cecile seed to rember sothing when Peromus was ntioned.

"Ah, maybe. I think Viscount Grandvelle ntioned Chester was on board with the idea."

"That pretty much decides it then. Did he say when the wedding is going to be? They really should invite . I want to be there for Fiona's wedding."

It had been a while since Cecile last saw Viscount Grandvelle, so she asked Allen, who had left a communication summon in the capital of Latash.

This had happened just before Allen went to the Academy. Apparently Peromus had fallen in love at first sight with Fiona, the daughter of the wealthy rchant Chester.

Chester was the wealthiest man in the Grandver region, and he owned many luxury inns in many cities and even the capital around there.

The son of a developing village's mayor and the richest man lived on essentially different realms.

When Peromus went to talk with Chester, asking for his daughter's hand, he replied saying "Beco a worthy rchant first."

He then went to attend the business school in the capital, while opening his shop so Chester would accept him.

"Peromus is getting married!"

Kurena shouted excited, joining the conversation.

The reason why everyone there knew of Peromus was simple. During the two years Allen spent in the Academy, Peromus would constantly co to visit in a Magic Ship, wanting to consult Allen on various things.

"Wait, not yet. Even if the father is okay with it, Fiona herself said that she's still not interested."

Allen said in a sad voice.

Peromus had spent many years working hard, even the wealthy rchant Chester had approved of him, but Fiona had rejected him.

"Huh? I thought Peromus was going to a Dungeon now?"

rle seed to rember Allen ntioning sothing like that about Peromus' whereabouts.

Even after being rejected by Fiona, Peromus refused to give up.

"Yeah, apparently Fiona said sothing like 'I'm only interested in strong gentlen'. So now he's trying to clear Dungeons, Raven is helping him and stuff."

(I did lend him rings and other equipnt too, for a price. Though I introduced him to Raven for free.)

In the end Peromus had asked Allen for advice not only for trading, but also to beco stronger, and was visiting Dungeons now.

Allen was also letting Peromus basically rent his old equipnt from his Academy days.

He also introduced Peromus to the adventurers that he t in Granvelle, Raven, Rita, and Milsy. Together with a few rcenaries they were going through Dungeons now.

Allen was impressed with how businesslike he handled everything, paying for equipnt and party mbers.

Allen also had planned on suggesting the na Popolo for the son of a rchant who fought in Dungeons.

"Oh my, it's so wonderful seeing a man work that hard to win over the heart of a woman!"

Sophie was excited thinking about that, her usually white cheeks flushed red, and her golden eyes twinkling.

Everyone in the group had beco adults at the age of 15, and the one who seed more likely and willing to get married first was Peromus.

They all discussed his love story with much interest, hoping he would get married by the end of the year.

"H-hey! That's enough about him!!"

Dogora's potato face was red with anger.

He had tried to endure that conversation, even though that ti was supposed to be for his own issues, but he had reached the limit of his patience.

"Okayyy, no need to glare at us like that."

(It's rus' fault for not stopping us. Okay, where were we...right, my friends, we were talking about my friends.)

"..."

Dogora was glaring angrily at everyone, so they quickly tad it down and returned to the previous topic.

"Mm? So it wasn't as simple as just gathering other seven heroes in that village, or like a lot of Saints and Swordmasters popping up, right?"

The Demon King's Army was already gathering a lot of information from the human countries.

If sothing so unusual were to happen, they would know instantly.

'Basically that. Anyway, you wanted to know why Dogora can't use his Extra Skill, right?'

rus finally looked ready to talk about the main topic of the entire conversation.

"My Extra Skill?"

'Yes. Your stars couldn't be increased, so instead your Extra Skill was changed.'

"So you gave him a more powerful Extra Skill?"

Allen seed to catch on, pushing the conversation forward.

'Precisely. There's basically an endless amount of Extra Skills, so a suitable one was chosen. Well, for everyone except Dogora.'

"Huh? Wait! So I was left out?!"

His potato face seed about to burst.

'Not exactly. A suitable Extra Skill wouldn't have been effective enough, at least according to Ela.'

(Hm? Ahh, I see, so that's why he was hesitant to talk about this.)

"Is this about the limit of three Extra Skills per person you ntioned before?"

'...Yes, basically Dogora's Extra Skill is a King Rank one.'

"""King Rank?!""

No one had heard of that before.

Everyone's voices overlapped.

rus waited a bit before continuing.

Extra Skills are extrely varied, so more effective than others.

While there is a limit of three Extra Skills per person, each of those has to be from a different rank.

Those ranks go in ascending order, General, King, and Emperor.

"Allen aside, everyone here has an Extra Skill. They're all General Rank, but Dogora's is King Rank."

(Even Cecile's Small teorite is General Rank then. If I assu that as the ceiling of General Rank Extra Skills, then Dogora's must be a step above that.)

"O-oh, huh, so only I got a King Rank one."

Dogora looked pleasantly surprised.

'Well, your objective is to kill the Demon King after all. Ela thought that no matter what Extra Skill you were given, it would not be good enough for a battleaxe warrior, so he forcefully gave you a higher ranking one.'

So in the end, Allen was not the only one helped along by the God of Creation Ela.

"Hm? Is that also why I can't use it?"

'Essentially yes. There are others who got a King Rank Extra Skill as their first one, but it's extrely rare. But basically none of them were able to use it right away. So at least I feel like it's normal that you can't activate it yet.'

rus continued explaining.

A King Rank Extra Skill packed an imnse amount of power, but even seasoned warriors, or those who trained for a long ti, still needed many decades before they could use it.

So rus saw Dogora's struggle as sothing completely normal.

In a way, he thought it was a miracle Dogora had activated it just one ti in the past.

"Isn't there so way to make it easier to use?"

"Like a condition you must fulfill to use it? There's nothing like a shortcut pill you can drink to use it instantly. Extra Skills are like a representation of their user's life. You need to live more. To be honest, I wouldn't be able to tell you how long it'll take."

Extra Skills varied between each person, and activating them was complex on top of that.

"So I'm special."

(Oh? rus, tell him he's right.)

Even though Allen and rus could share their thoughts, Allen still stared at him to do so.

rus just shook his head.

'Listen Dogora. Just like how Ela gave Helmios power to fight the Demon Generals, you also have a special power. But whether you learn to wield it or not, depends solely on you.'

"I have a power...just like the hero's."

'Power befitting a hero.'

"A hero, huh. So I can beco a hero too."

rus had told him it all depended on him, but Dogora was looking at his palms, his mind overtaken by new feelings.