Chapter 115
Chapter 115
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 115
Chapter Title: There Were Demonic Beasts, Though
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[Title: There Were Demonic Beasts, Though]
(Searchlight illuminating the underworld GIF)
None left.
- What kind of sun is that? lol
- Underground? Nah, aboveground vibes
- (Praise! Elf face con)
ㄴ (Praise! Elf body con)
ㄴ (I'll slice the elf myself... warrior con)
ㄴ (Praise! Elf legs con)
Those searchlights were closer to laser beams than mere lighting.
You don't believe it?
Try getting hit by one yourself and your mind will change.
Their purpose from the start was to concentrate light in one direction.
"The sandworms are using their heads for once?"
The lead sandworms disintegrated into dust and died.
That's why?
The ones that came after all closed their eyes tight...
- Closing their eyes?
ㄴ Got it
ㄴ [Searchlight x10]
ㄴ Graaaah!
ㄴ What the hell are these guys doing lololol
The moment countless searchlights focused their beams in one spot, it was all pointless.
If you're dumb, your body suffers.
But if your body is overwhelmingly strong, your brain doesn't have to suffer.
Just blind them even with their eyes closed.
[Title: I'm a convenience-type mage myself]
Today I learned for the first time that light magic can be used offensively.
(Regular mage's lighting spell GIF)
(Searchlight beam GIF)
What is this?
Is this really that light magic that got looked down on as a one-trick lighting tool?
My heart is swelling with pride...
- I'm illegal fire myself but seriously considering switching schools
ㄴ Canon is fire anyway...
ㄴ Lol holding back after seeing that?
- So that's the pinnacle of light magic, huh?
ㄴ But it really fits the hype lol
ㄴ What's with Judak handling electricity, light, heat, everything???
ㄴ Does a grand mage look like a joker to you??
Above all, I had given them out for free to help the rabbit beastkin survive.
But unexpectedly, it turned into a profit coming back to me.
[Title: Graduated from dirtball life...jpg]
(Rabbit beastkin smugly sitting in mana ball pile GIF)
Peee-ace ₍ ᐢ. ̫ .ᐢ ₎
[Upvotes 1231] [Downvotes 12]
- Fuck, so jealous...
- Lol look at that smug face
- This the same rabbit eating dirt carrots yesterday?
- Intervene with Judak and get rich... note taken...
ㄴ Judak please intervene in my life too...
The wave that used to risk lives turned into an auto-farm dungeon.
No need to venture outside the village and stake their lives.
Just flick on the searchlights.
One flick and the demonic beasts become mana ball dupes.
- Earned 10k mana balls! Drop your account! [50]
- Poor little babs... big sis will give you some money! hehe [31]
- All in on Judak coin! hehe// [56]
- Secretly watching only Judak oppa...jpg [412]
Gallery posts started overflowing with all sorts of lewds and donation posts.
On top of that, market sales skyrocketed, so it all came back as profit to me.
Myoran: Lord Judak, please accept it meow.
Myoran: (Myoran proposes bartering '100,000 Mana Balls'!)
Judak*: ? What? You rich or something?
"Why give this to me?"
The rabbit beastkin's income came from their fields.
They sold crops on the gallery to earn mana balls.
Now they finally have some, so why give it all to me?
Myoran: 70% of the profits from this wave meow.
Myoran: Wouldn't have this money without Lord Judak's help
Myoran: Everyone agreed, so please accept it meow.
Judak*: (Declined the proposal.)
Myoran: ! Why...
Judak*: Nah nah, you guys keep it
Judak*: Didn't give it expecting anything, just gal hard
Of course, I didn't need it.
Not hurting for mana balls that badly.
If that was the goal, I'd have done it from the start.
Better for them to dive into galing with that money, gallery-wise.
Myoran: ...Understood.
Myoran: I'll tell the rabbit beastkin too.
Myoran: And for the time being, please stay away from our village, lock your doors tight meow.
Judak*: ?
The reply felt like inexplicable blackmail, which was odd.
But I don't go out much anyway, so no kidnapping worries.
And now wasn't the time to worry about that.
[Level Up 9 → 10!]
[Level 10 Achievement Unlocked! Special reward granted.]
"Ooh..."
The level 10 achievement reward that had everyone so curious.
Right on the verge of getting that 'special reward.'
"What are they gonna give?"
My anticipation swelled even more in that moment.
[1 empty slot created.]
[Please designate a target.]
"?
Just some incomprehensible message popped up alone.
*
[Title: World's doomed lol]
Giving world-shaping power to that irresponsible loner?
Gotta check him, not suck up like good boys lol
Last time he dropped market stuff, instead of uniting in protest, you pussies crawled
Wake up already
Stop sucking Judak dick like he's god, believe in the real god and build some faith
[Upvotes 1] [Downvotes 52]
- 1/10
- -shut-
- These guys normalized? Still dragging low-level aggro lol
ㄴ That's all they know how to do lol
"...These rotten bastards!"
-Bang!
The pope slammed the desk.
The already gloomy conference room turned even more depressing.
He tried posting to check Judak, but it wasn't even getting traction anymore.
The glorious days were all in the past.
Now his mirror only showed an old, sickly man in a decaying cathedral.
"Calm down, Your Holiness."
"There must still be other ways."
"What ways?"
The pope turned and asked.
No one could answer properly.
The cathedral's absolute authority was history.
Powerless, honorless, a meaningless group on the brink of vanishing.
That's the current cathedral's image.
"It's all because of Collin, that guy."
Someone spoke up quietly then.
Collin, the cathedral knight who refused orders during the violent suppression and sided with the people.
The cathedral was split in two now.
The pope's faction and the one led by cathedral knights.
"If we just watch, power will fully shift someday."
"It's already happening, what do you want to do?"
Power transfer was just a matter of time.
The problem: no way to stop it.
Reforms were happening even now.
Voluntary donations, banning private armies for high priests, donation drives.
"That guy's ruining everything."
Collin, that cathedral knight was the issue.
"We have to kill him."
Simple solution.
Assassinate per ancient tradition.
But the pope snarled at the suggestion.
"Fool, how?!"
Killing Collin would scream pope faction hit job to everyone.
Pretend ignorance like old times?
Not the atmosphere now.
Do that and the pope's head might end up on the guillotine like the archbishop.
But the bishop who suggested it didn't flinch.
"Put forward a hero."
No, he even smirked faintly.
Create a plausible pretext.
Hero, the cathedral's proxy, symbol of justice, executor with legitimacy for any act.
The cathedral's cheat key, basically.
"A hero?"
"But that's..."
Everyone reacted tepidly.
No hero named in centuries.
Hero proof was the holy sword.
Bright light when gripped = hero.
But not even in the Great War.
"The holy sword exists, but it was handed to Judak, right?"
Plus, Frederick gave the holy sword to Judak.
Forget hero, how to get the holy sword back?
"It's been centuries without the holy sword shining."
"So?"
"How about a fake hero?"
Infuse magic into some random sword to make fake holy sword glow.
Prop up a fake hero to reclaim cathedral legitimacy.
Killing Collin and the knights wouldn't be hard then.
"But Judak saw the holy sword's light before!"
Problem: Judak proved the holy sword's light.
"No need to worry."
The bishop asserted.
"Judak can't be a hero."
Holy sword shines to prove hero.
Half legend at this point.
Heroes aren't anyone.
"How could that lightweight be a hero? He must've tricked it."
Even if.
Even if it really shone somehow.
"Announce the holy sword given to Judak was fake, real one's separate."
To the cathedral, hero or holy sword were just tools, truth irrelevant.
Lie to regain power? Good enough.
"Dangerous plan."
"But we have no choices left."
The pope fell silent at the bishop's words.
No real dilemma.
Holy sword hasn't shone in centuries.
Watch it sink in fear?
Or prop fake hero to reclaim power?
"Very well, proceed."
"As Your Holiness wills."
"But it must succeed."
Everyone, including the bishop, bowed to the pope's grave tone.
Succeed, and next target: Judak.
*
"Ah."
Mid-galing.
I suddenly remembered the holy sword.
"Right, left the holy sword behind."
Escape from Baldy's death throes, forgot it there.
No wonder the bunker felt dark.
-Hummm
Then the named sword approached.
"What? Glad it's gone, more convenient?"
-Hummm
"Wasting light bad for eyes?"
The dwarf's named sword had been bossed around by the holy sword forever.
Finally venting grudges?
Popped up like a ghost at mention, protesting.
"But no holy sword is inconvenient."
What sword was the holy sword?
Just touch it and it beams light, perfect eco-friendly lamp?
No electric bill either.
Kinda sad to forget my bunker's key player.
"Ask for it back?"
Hard to bring up casually, since Baldy has it now.
One taste of yandere imprisonment enough.
Pondering what to do.
[Title: Hero Emerged from Cathedral (Real).jpg]
"Wat?"
Irresistible clickbait post appeared.