novelCoincidence
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Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
"... You're saying a mortal plane resident was dragged into a dimensional portal!? You met such a person in the 6th level of the Chaos Abyss?"
I recalled that the 6th level of the Chaos Abyss was also a level of ice, just like the 7th level. The 6th level was also physically connected to the Wildsnow Forest Mountain district of the 7th level. I would be far too dumb if I couldn't guess what had happened.
I was filled with immense delight, along with being slightly apologetic towards that unlucky individual. After all, there would be a 99% chance for an ordinary person who was teleported to the Chaos Abyss to die almost instantly. However, this person's arrival provided some incredibly important information—the place where this Dimensional Door led to in the mortal plane!
"Where is that person? Is he together with you all?"
I looked around at all the adventurers. The tiefling warrior had obvious inferno demonization traits. The human obviously wouldn't be the elf mage or dwarf priest. I couldn't see any humans with them, so could it be that the human was somewhere else?
"He was already dead before we even saw him. I should say that we only met his corpse."
The dwarf priest retreated to my side. This dwarf had a face covered in a large beard and a deep voice. It was impossible for me to tell if this dwarf was male or female... Many female dwarves these days were choosing to shave their beards completely due to the beauty standards of other species. However, it would still be quite common for dwarven adventurers not to shave often during an adventure, especially while running for their lives.
"Dead? Are you joking with me? Oh, I see..."
I was astonished at first. Why would so many people be hunting Casio's team down if that human was dead already, with no more information to give? But then I thought about it some more. It would be incredibly unusual for an ordinary person not to die when suddenly teleported to an icy level in the Chaos Abyss.
And in this magical world, information could still be obtained even from the dead.
"His belongings?"
"We have them."
That was all I needed to hear. Either Casio's adventuring team had been truly unlucky to meet with this, or they had to have received a mission from an Order or Hell God to search for that corpse and take his belongings.
The corpse probably had no obvious identification on him. Otherwise, the dwarf priest would have informed our Gods already, and this incident would be over. There would be no need to take the corpse's belongings then.
But, in this magical world, as long as there were clues and you were willing to pay a price, even the dead could talk.
An undead archmage's soul-summoning spell, a space and time mage's Memory Recovery spell, an arch druid's Soul Scent spell, a God's prophecy-type Divine Art, and so on could all obtain information from a dead body or its belongings.
As long as the price was paid, it would be quite easy to find out where this unlucky person had come from, especially since Gods would be willing to help out. It would even be possible to revive this dead person and have himself tell us where he was from.
The adventuring team had obviously met with several battles already. It was obvious that they were fatigued and injured. It was likely that they had fought their entire way here. But, judging from their angry yet spirited attitude, and how they were fatigued but still had high morale, it seemed that they had yet to suffer a major loss. It also seemed that they hadn't lost any of their members yet.
But, right when they entered the Ashen Furnace, even the Chaos War God Donatis personally came over. It would seem that the powerful existences in the Chaos Abyss had already noticed that information might leak about the Dimensional Door's location in the mortal plane, so they came over to personally crush the adventuring team that would be nothing more than tiny insects to them.
"I never expected that the famous Roland would personally come to meet us. Our God truly takes such good care of us. However, are our Passion Knight allies still safe?"
Passion Knights? That was a relatively famous Holy Knight group from the Lanbing district. The moment that I heard this name, I recalled that group of overly tense Holy Knights...
"Paha, I voluntarily took work that I didn't have to again?"
At this moment, I finally realized everything. It wasn't that Beyana and the other Hell Gods had wanted me to work for free. They had already arranged for this Holy Knight group to be Casio's team's reinforcements. It was just that I had too many years of experience of being pushed into pitfalls, so I thought too much into things, and voluntarily took this work...
Donatis personally arriving here was also something we couldn't do anything about, since the information that we might find out the location of the Dimensional Door in the mortal plane had leaked already. Donatis even personally came here just to prevent anything unexpected from happening. He wasn't even targeting me to begin with. Perhaps he would be quite astonished to see me here.
"Roland..."
"... Harloys, don't say anything. I know exactly what you want to say. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get... So let's just let the past be the past. I just have to get used to my dark history..."
"I just wanted to tell you to hurry up and come help us! He's too powerful, we can't handle him anymore!"
Fine then, this was not quite the time for joking around. I would have to hurry and deal with the trouble before me.
As I looked at Salor, who was still filled with energy, and the Chaos War God who had already enlarged himself visibly in the distance, I was actually quite relieved.
It was lucky that Casio's team had met us. Otherwise, if their Holy Knight group reinforcements met with Donatis and Salor, it was likely that even all of them combined wouldn't be enough to stop these enemies. The information would have been cut off before it could leak.
"This guy is incredibly durable..."
Even though Salor was trapped with no escape, and completely unable to even counterattack, he didn't show a single sign of fatigue. In fact, he seemed like he became more energized as the fight went on. Even though he was focusing fully on defense, his concentration didn't lapse one bit. If this went on, it was likely that the "youngster" adventurers would be defeated first.
Rather than worrying about the enemies in front of him, Salor suddenly paid more attention to the tremendous War God who suddenly arose in the distance. Salor kept looking over in that direction with an expression of unmistakable... fear!
Yes, correct—fear. The devils and demons had just finished a vicious war in the 7th level of the Chaos Abyss, a war which involved Salor's direct boss, Sarwenstan. Since Donatis had personally arrived here, it was natural that Donatis would be related to the demons fighting for control over the 7th level's Dimensional Door. It could be said that Salor and Donatis were mortal enemies on opposite sides.
"What will Donatis do if he arrives right now at this battle between us and Salor? Will he instantly kill Salor first?"
"... He would kill you first. Just think about what you did to the Chaos War God! Can anyone in the world compare to you in taunting ability?"
What did I do? All I did was lock him away in Hell for a few years, had my pet dog beat him up for a few years, and then I laughed at him, saying that he couldn't even beat my pet dog. After that, I tossed him into the Order Gods' upper planes so that he could enjoy a Holy Light bath... I suddenly felt like it would be quite normal for him to want to kill me first. It would be best if I wasn't so suicidal.
But, for some strange reason, Harloys no longer sounded as anxious as before. She even had the free time to snark at me. I could also hear some strange clamor on her end.
"What happened? Someone intervened?"
"A group of idiotic knights suddenly rushed over. They actually dared to charge at Donatis directly. This is nothing more than complete suicide. However, we'll be able to hold out for a while longer until they're all dead."
"... Are those knights shouting slogans like 'for the Holy Light', 'for our God', and so on?"
"No, they're all gritting their teeth in silence while dying. However, they told us to 'run away with the items', 'you must bring it to that place', and so on as they challenged the Chaos Main God with their physical bodies... They're not even trying to dodge his attacks. Don't you agree that all of them are complete idiots?"
I was unable to comment on this. Even though the Holy Knights clearly had such praiseworthy wills to sacrifice themselves, Harloys made it all seem almost comical.
We had misunderstood whom Donatis was hunting down, and ended up voluntarily attracting trouble by challenging a frighteningly powerful enemy like him. We had even mistaken his true body for his incarnation. Meanwhile, this Holy Knight group mistook Adam's party for Casio's party on the wrong battlefield, but found the right enemy despite these two wrongs... Why do I feel so confused? Why do I feel like it was so hard to be serious here?
"Stop thinking already. With all that chaotic stuff you just thought about, you're confusing me as well. The relationships here are so messy... It seems that we can't have all these cannon fodder guys dying. Little brat Adam, your rest time is over. Go up and tank for them."
Harloys' words were still ringing in my ears. I would have to speed things up here.
Since people were dying every minute over at Adam's end, I naturally would no longer be able to take things so leisurely here. It was now time to kill Salor at any cost.
...
Very few people knew that the fairies' information stands which were everywhere would also sometimes offer bounties. However, there were some bounties that nobody ever picked, or bounties that nobody was ever able to accomplish. These bounties became known as the "Terrible Bounties".
The fairies' bounties, #3 ranked Terrible Bounty poster.
Most Wanted Target: Beifeng Herault.
His crimes: Beifeng. Guilty of: Beifeng. (If you don't understand this word, please check the "New Generation's Dictionary (San Antonio Official Edition)". There's a detailed explanation of this word, but minors and women should refrain from looking it up. )
Dead or alive? For the sake of world peace and your personal health, please kill him at all costs. We will only pay the bounty for a dead Beifeng. We don't want a living Beifeng!
Recently seen at: Holy Lake, Source of Elves, Ardell Lake.
Victim 1's statement (the head priest of all silver elves ranked #1):
"The Holy Lake is a holy ground for all elves. Legends say that this is where our Gods created us. This is also the bathing ground for our divine beasts and Superior Elves, the holy ground where we worship our Gods. That bastard dared to do disgusting actions in our Holy Lake, polluting our water source for several hundred days, causing... causing several hundred of our divine beasts that bathed and drank from the lake water to... become pregnant.
"Nobody dares to stop his ugly actions. Our female noble Superior Elves and priestesses were all seriously psychologically scarred. Many elves even committed suicide... I, the highest-ranking head priest of all silver elves, declare that as long as this monster is killed, I am willing to reward the slayer with the noble title of Elven King, elven artwork worth one million gold pieces, and two pieces of God Equipment! We only want to see him dead!"
Victim 2's statement (Mother Earth Goddess priestess):
"He dared to desecrate our Goddess in front of everyone in broad daylight... he did such a thing to the sculpture of our Mother Earth Goddess, and somehow transformed the sculpture's appearance as if she was pregnant. That's so..."
Victim 3's statement (a half-deerman that Beifeng abandoned):
"He lied to me! He said that he loved my strong muscles, but actually only wanted me to get pregnant with his child. Oh, by the way, I'm male..."
Alright, since victims one through ten (there were more, but there was no more space on the wanted poster) all brought out the entirety of their riches to reward whomever could complete this bounty, anyone could easily go from a pauper to a king in a single night if only they could kill Beifeng...
Just the God Equipment alone offered in the reward had already totaled seven or eight. This tremendous treasure would make even the Gods tempted. So, when the Gods teamed up to hunt Beifeng down, he was no longer able to remain in the mortal plane, so he jumped into a dimensional portal leading to the Chaos Abyss...
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