Day 65
Ever been so bored out of your mind you would literally want to talk to a devil? Well, I have.
Not in my previous life, obviously. I wasn’t into the occult and stuff. All superstitious beliefs seed so dumb to . Like, why believe there were other almighty deities out there, simply watching you go about your normal business in life like creeps.
Well now I did believe in the existence of such beings.
My conversation with the devil, the one residing in [God’s Wisdom] went sothing like this.
‘Hey, devil-san. How are you in my skill [God’s Wisdom]?’
‘O-Oi! Tori I thought we agreed to not talk to it!’
‘What’s the big deal? With [Skill Alchemy] you should be able to move the devil out of the skill at any point. [God’s Wisdom] has virtually no access to our physical affairs and we are resistant to soul attacks. There’s no problem, right?’
‘But-’
‘Leave her, Akira. She’s right.’
‘Oi, don’t call ‘her’.’
‘Sure thing, Tori.’
‘Tch. You. Devil. Answer now.’
‘Of course.’
‘If you think I wouldn’t notice if my own unique skill was acting wonky, you are dumber than I give you credit for.’
‘So, spill the beans. Why’d you enter my skill?’
‘Eh? When was this?’
‘Jesus Christ! It’s been that long!?’
‘What do you an?’
‘Answer or you get expelled.’
‘Do you an if you possess soone they die?’
‘Eh? Eh? I don’t understand anything!’
‘Don’t use my own words against !’
‘What even lead to that whole situation?’
‘That doesn’t explain how you ended up in that particular situation.’
‘Don’t you dare use bird puns on ! Like so sort of Cuckoo.’
‘No. Because it’s simply too much of a bird-en.’
‘Shut up! Explain everything from the start properly!’
‘Tch. Whatever. I want to make sure you know what will happen if you try to ss with .’
‘You prefer that?’
‘Hmm, you sure this is a good idea, Tori?’
‘You, tell . You’re the one who sees 12 different possibilities at a ti.’
‘You know, it’s kinda annoying how you create new factors to stuff we’ve already set up. But this is looking really good. Better than before even. Things will proceed at a faster rate now.’
‘Seriously? Then that’s a good thing.’
‘Yep.’
And like that, I’d acquired the full cooperation of the demon residing in my head… skill… whatever. Morning ca with a baggy eyed Tsuna.
She hadn’t gotten much sleep since coming back to life. For the second ti, it seems. Apparently, she died when Krull invaded and was revived only to die a second ti when Fafnir attacked. I couldn’t imagine dying twice. At least that affected her evolutionary path and made her into a Death wight.
She, much like , only grew weaker in the sun. If she stayed out for too long, she’d die so I bought a [Daylight Ring] for her. After making sure she was physically alright, I inquired further.
Seems like she keeps having dreams of an ugly albino witch hob-goblin trying to suffocate her. My mind went to Minerva, but she said it wasn’t her. Soone else called Zana. I pictured my Zana as a hob-goblin. Still a cool beauty in my eyes, so this whole ugly business was beyond .
I wasn’t sure how to help her, but the agent decided to prove its usefulness as soon as possible. It identified a second soul inside of Zana’s body. All of a sudden, her title [Cursed Vessel] made more sense to .
There was a wicked witch nad Zana. She used to terrorise most creatures in the west even though she led the weak race that is the goblins. Goliath had to personally end her, but he didn’t finish the job and only ended up killing the witch temporarily. She found a way to return to this world through reincarnation. Her vessel was Tsuna, so she was trying to take over.
Normally, she wasn’t in the wrong for trying to take what’s hers. Tsuna wasn’t hers for the taking though. I used [Dragon Eyes] to peer into Tsuna’s [Soul corridor]. There, I found that the witch was talking to herself like she was going insane.
I wouldn’t be able to physically interact with her soul though, so I gave a warning to the witch with [Terror]. With that, Tsuna could now go and sleep in peace.
After all that, she explains her actual problem to . She wanted to know about Shitsuke and how I’d bring him back. I lied that it was a work in progress.
Can you bla ?
I can’t go into Hell now! Especially when I don’t have a way back here. We’d have to resu this discussion at a different date. Since the eting was tomorrow, I had to make sure the eting place was up and ready.
Diane hadn’t set up anything. This stupid dryad claid to have not received any orders from the forest’s new master so she wasn’t aware that she had to do anything. I really, really, was on the verge of fighting her, but I gave up and ordered her like she wanted.
She took into her tree where things had already been set up. The space was bigger than I rembered it being with a large rectangular desk set up. At the end, there was a throne of tree branches set up with flowers blossoming out of it. The table was big enough to have at least a dozen people sitting at its sides comfortably.
I asked her to get rid of the throne. She refused, so I ordered then she complied.
What was with her and orders?
I also asked her if it was alright to use so wood from the trees to build houses. The point of this question was that I wouldn’t be able to buy buildings all the ti. The monsters need to learn to build such things if they did enjoy them. The condo for instance has only received praises from everyone sleeping in them so far. If possible, I’d prefer if we found so people with architectural skills. Maybe so more humans were needed.
The only issue was the fact that the monsters here didn’t like humans too much. Erwin was the exception and even then, no one went out of their way to interact with him. I kind of felt bad for him, but it was his choice to live with the monsters instead of going back to human civilisation.
Well, this was an issue for another day. Maybe Yokino and Uni had so sort of idea.
Diane gave the green light. As long as it wasn’t the trees of dryads in particular.
With that, I left off and was caught by Uni. He wanted to talk to about the wooden condo that popped up literally overnight. I asked him not to think too much about it, but he was adamant about it, saying it was too out of this world’s standards.
I guess erecting a condo in a forest in this kind of setting wasn’t the best idea. Precisely why I wanted these guys to make their own buildings so I see how best to adjust everything. I had no interest in improving the state of living for everyone in this world. Imagine I sped up things and caused them to learn how to develop nukes or sothing. That’d be too scary, for even .
He wanted to ask if I was from another world just like him, but it would seem he too wanted to keep the fact that he ca from another world his secret. Since we both weren’t 100% sure we could trust each other, I too would keep it under wraps.
Since he didn’t have anything else to report, I left to go see Reiman. According to him, the Orcs and Trolls were using the tunnels to co to the West. They were moving away from the East since they were scared of what Krull would do. To be honest, the West was starting to feel more crowded now with the new additions.
The North was still inhospitable, since it contained only the most dangerous monsters Larm had. The minimum rank living there was C which was scary to think about. The Tyrant of the North definitely was no pushover in that case.
Under normal circumstances, considering how it was, it would be safe to assu no humans would be stupid enough to go there. If they were, they would be t by cyclops, giants and the likes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t call humans rational beings.
As much as they claid to be, when push ca to shove, logic was thrown out the window. Emotions and simple instinct took over and hence, the only way humans truly evolve. Those violent bastards would definitely try going through the North if the West, South and East are completely unpassable.
I had to get the Tyrant of the North on my side by any ans necessary before the war between demons and humans starts in earnest.
Reiman said he’d keep trying to make more progress, but for now his focus would be on invading human turf. That way, his shadow rats could get more information from humans. They didn’t really understand the human language, but they’d learnt bits of it. I could have [God’s Wisdom] translate for all of them easily, so I did.
My general was greatly pleased with this developnt and began singing praises to . It felt nice to be praised so I didn’t stop him. When he was done, he left to continue the mission. Looks like the Tunnelers have a lot of work ahead of them.
I also decided to use the remainder of the day to speak to the people who I hadn’t spoken to since they joined us. The kobold I’d nad Inu and the silver back pumas Kuro added to the fray before Fafnir happened.
Both were nervous about talking to , sothing about my eyes looking scary. Though Inu was a bit bolder and loud since we’d talked once before when I gave him his na. He was excited to be receiving a mission from personally.
I asked him and the Pumas to be receiving the kobolds and orcs that were marching to us.
The kobolds would be more at ease with a familiar face guiding them and should anything happen, the silver backs were there to fight. They should have been enough to protect the kobolds and tunnelers from the big orcs.
Due to the distance, they’d miss the eting, so I offered to personally explain the details of the event to them. They were happy with that, and so I nad the leader of the pumas, Concol. It didn’t take any relevant amount of mana, but it was enough to excite the puma.
When they left, I asked the tunnelers to keep an eye on Inu and Concol. Other than house duties, the kobolds were virtually useless. If he possessed diplomatic skills like I was hoping, he’d have so use and the pumas could be divided between forest protection alongside the wolves and bugs, and transport for any one leaving our territory under a mission.
Tomorrow was the actual eting, so the dryads and sprites would welco the leaders. If we ever had to hold sothing like this again, it'd be better prepared and held so everyone wouldn't be nearly as stressed out as they were now.
DAILY ACHIEVENTS
[10 goblins evolved into hob-goblins]
[5 timber wolves evolved into Faeri Hounds]
[3 timber wolves evolved into Triplet Hell Hounds]
[Consensus on house structure is still ongoing]
SKILLS
[[Novice Swordsmanship] beca [Amateur Swordsmanship]]
STORE
[Akira bought the skills [Aura Domain] and [Skill Enhance] for 400 store points]
[30 store points remaining]
[Hyakkun sold [Golden Sigma Armour] for 1000 store points]
[1030 store points remaining]
[Hyakkun converted 5000 Atlantean Gold coins to store points]
[11,030 store points remaining]
[Hyakkun bought 2 [Hut blue prints] for 30 store points]
[Hyakkun bought [Architecture] skill for the servant [Reiman] for 100 store points]
[10,900 store points remaining]
DUNGEON
[2 Dungeon quests were completed]
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[[Shadow's Crib] is cracking]
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