Fortunately, I was able to enter the Great Labyrinth without receiving a separate blessing. Is this a privilege when you have God as your friend?
The inside of the Great Labyrinth was different from before. The Great Labyrinth before was an endless cave, but now it resembles a well-made dungeon. And the monsters that appear have changed.
If the monsters that appeared before were monsters that could not be seen in the outside world, the monsters that appear now were not much different from those of the outside world. However, these too, like the old Great Labyrinth, were soulless.
However, the monsters that appear are much stronger than before. They were as clever and strong as the beasts of the Great Forest or the Dragon Mountains.
Even monsters that looked similar to the weakest goblins were at a level that ordinary mercenaries could not compete with, as they used their brains to hunt in groups like the goblins of the Great Forest.
So, the entrance to the Great Labyrinth was crowded with far more people than before. It is to fill in the number of people who are lacking here and enter.
I didn’t need to do that, so I skipped over and went deep into it at once, but this time, the Great Labyrinth was certainly not as easy as before.
Aside from the strength of the monsters, there were all sorts of traps, so it was doubtful whether they were made to break through them.
Of course, that won’t stop me. However, I didn’t know how much I had to enter before I could meet Drakan, so I proceeded one by one, adjusting the speed appropriately.
In the middle, I met a party that was good enough to fight here a few times. Certainly compared to before, the power of humans has increased. However, it is not at a level that can stand against foreign media like the world of Setas, but if it goes on like this for hundreds of years, you never know.
Similar to before, when I broke through the time of half a day and entered the next area, I could feel a slight change in my view. The way it works is the same as before.
Entering the next area, what caught my eye was not a huge hollow as before, but an ordinary-looking cabin. I know people very well who like places like this. Aren’t you a human now?
“Is it you?”
The answer came from inside the cabin.
“Are you here?”
When I opened the door to the cabin and entered, I saw an interior that looked exactly like the one Howard had built for himself. Confirmed this once again. God is not omnipotent. Especially in Howard’s case.
I half-lyed on the shabby chair, opened my eyes, pulled out the chair opposite Howard, who was looking at me, and sat down.
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“What are you thinking?”
“I have no idea.”
Then, they make the shape of a hand holding a glass and chat. When I took out a bottle of alcohol, there was no glass here.
I took out all the things I needed out of the subspace and piled them in one corner. You know how to organize it.
“Okay, foolish man, pay more tribute.”
I threw a bottle as hard as I could because I was talking nonsense from behind, but I caught it very lightly and brought it to my mouth.
“What are you, are you the manager of the Great Labyrinth now?”
“Yeah, I heard it’s something newcomers have to do.”
“Then why did you allow only Calistas to enter?”
“That is my heart.”
The reason is really simple. But can I do it my way?
After a while, we exchanged drinks and talked about this and that. Most of it was pointless, but there were important ones.
“But you mean. It seems to have been quite famous before, but now it’s getting a lot of attention.”
“Are there any gatherings among the gods? What kind of rumors are spreading like that?”
“There is something like that. I’m still new, so I can’t see high-level information.”
“Can you just tell me about that?”
“How is it?
It is not very welcome to be noticed among the gods. Maybe someone like Utuka will come out again.
“So is it dangerous?”
“No, because Utuka has completely disappeared. Not many gods would want to take that kind of risk and lose Chuck with you. It turns out that Utuka is greedy, so it seems that she was cursed a lot even among the gods. On the contrary, there is an opinion that it was good because it was like that. On the contrary, there are quite a few gods who want to have a good relationship with you.”
thank god. Still, it doesn’t put my mind at ease. There are always crazy people everywhere.
“Is this world safe now?”
“Not really, but at least it will be quiet for a while.”
That’s it. There is no such thing as eternal peace anywhere.
“And Germain”
“why?”
“Don’t mind other people, just do what you want to do”
After becoming a god, this guy also developed a habit of cutting back and forth. Still, I think I can roughly understand it.
“Then why did you become an evil god? Did Junon make you do that?”
“It wasn’t done. You made that offer, and I just accepted it.”
“so why?”
I couldn’t understand why Howard, who was far from evil, chose to become an evil god. No, I understand, but I couldn’t accept it.
“Who is stronger between evil and good?”
“The strong one will be stronger.”
“Yeah, I got the question wrong. Then who will become stronger faster, evil or good?”
If that’s the case, there’s nothing to look at. Evil grows stronger faster. I’m getting stronger because I don’t choose any means.
“Usually the bad guys get stronger quicker.”
“Yes, there are other reasons, but I chose the path to become stronger as quickly as possible.”
In other words, half of it is because of me.
“Another reason is?”
“If there is light, there must also be shadow.”
“So you decided to become a shadow?”
“It is for the betterment of this world. There is no progress in the world without good people.”
Like Junon and Drakan, even Howard didn’t know how to talk about the development of the world.
“So who is the victim of the bad guys?”
“You have to be strong to overcome yourself. You said evil grows stronger faster. Do you know why evil grows stronger faster?”
“Because you don’t choose the means and methods?”
“That’s right too. But the bigger reason is that villains fight and compete with each other. Wouldn’t that be the case if the world was filled with only good people?”
I was speechless. More words will only lead to parallel lines. I don’t like sacrificing some for the betterment of the world. Until now, I have filled Akasha’s and Tempest’s domains with the best people possible. As a result, the two estates have become the most livable and most developed places in the world. However, it is not that there were no sacrifices along the way. After all, I did something similar.
We continued to drink in silence for a while. And slowly got up to go back.
“I am going now.”
“okay”
But there is no response. We stared at each other for a while, blinking our eyes.
“Aren’t you letting go?”
“I can’t do that because I don’t have the strength yet. Get out on your own.”
“Aren’t you too weak?”
“It’s okay because I’m taller than you.”
Leaving Howard behind in the cabin, he had no choice but to pass through the Great Labyrinth and come out. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve never been like this before, but this is more annoying than I thought.
Back at home, I pondered my conversation with Howard. The new continent under my management is sufficient for my involvement. It will not be thrown into the whirlpool of struggle and rivalry that Junon or Howard plot. Wasn’t Howard like that? do as you please
The migration plan led by Wither began to speed up under my direction. Now, without any intention of hiding, he was sending airships to transport young people who wanted to migrate. Sooner or later the complete migration will be over. And the Akasha estate, which has many memories, is about to disappear into history.
William wanted to give the land of Akasha to Shark, but it was canceled because Shark did not want to receive it. As long as there are no major incidents, it will probably be under direct control of the Empire.
It wasn’t bad either. Only residents who want to relocate are moving, so there are many people who stay. Due to its nature, the Sword Mountain Mercenary Corps cannot migrate. Rather than entrusting such a territory to someone else, it would be better to leave it under the direct control of the Empire.
In the meantime, there was a small farewell. Cetas’ mother, Cecil, died. It was a rather sudden and futile death. Cecil, who ran a bar in the new continent with her unique affinity, was not yet old enough to leave the world if it were normal.
However, since she was a child, she worked as a maid for a noble family, suffered a lot, and gave birth to Setas at a young age, so her body was not normal. It wasn’t a quality I could fix. It was not a painful death. I went to sleep as usual and couldn’t wake up in the morning.
It might have changed if she lived a little more comfortably, but she chose to work without a break. A large number of people attended the funeral. Although it is a human funeral, it is probably the first in the world to have attended a funeral attended by far more heterogeneous people than humans.
Setas is now an adult, but at the funeral, he cried endlessly like a child.
After Cecil’s funeral, Setas’ lab started to get busier. It seems that the sluggish research has finally paid off to see if the pieces of Utuka’s beads I gave her have helped.
Cecile’s sudden death shocked me too. If I had paid a little more attention, I could have saved it. And there was a limit to the clone’s field of view.
I couldn’t completely abandon my alter ego’s vision. However, like Bastet and Cthula, he needed to become a little more proficient in how to contemplate and predict the world.
I tried to see more and feel more than my alter ego’s vision. I spent several months focusing my mind. Then, things that were invisible to the naked eye began to become visible little by little.
As a little more time passed, things that seemed blurry or felt began to be seen a little more clearly.
I went out of the mansion for the first time in a very long time and walked for a long time to an empty place. Arriving in a field with no one around, I stopped.
There is a door here. I had to say it, but I didn’t know that they cleverly made a door to the new continent.
I reached out and opened the door. It was my first time opening the door, and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought.
When I opened the door, the desert I saw last time came into view. I didn’t go inside the door. I just opened the door and waited.
Then, from the other side of the desert, the wagon that had come to pick me up the other day was running.
Eventually, the carriage came in front of me, and I stepped inside the door. Then he greeted a familiar figure sitting in the driver’s seat.
“Long time no see. Count Ctolari”
“Has Count Akasha been doing well?”
“Yes, thank you.”
Thanks to that, I fought against the gods, went into the void, and spent an unknown number of years.
“Then could you pass this on to me?”
I had no intention of meeting Ctula. Cthulla would already know that I would use the other shards and hand her one shard. Moreover, since Howard has risen to the god, there is no way he doesn’t know.
“All right.”
Count Ctolari took the pouch containing Utuka’s orb and put it in. Seeing that he received it without any objection, he must have already heard it from Ctula.
“Ah, Lord Ctula told me to give this to Count Akasha.”
Count Ctolari took a small pouch from his pocket and held it out to me. Without a chance to check what it was, Count Ctolari immediately drove away without looking back. I watched the carriage go away for a while, then opened the door again and came out.
I waited quite a bit and worried a little at one time, but it ended without much trouble than I thought.
Upon returning home, he opened the pouch Count Ctolari gave him and found a bunch of thread in it.
“If you want to give it, you shouldn’t have given it right away.”
I think you know what this is. I feel very similar energy to the needle I received from Drakan before. This is Arachne’s thread. Arachne’s needles are already there, so it should be said that a set was gathered. If I had two things, I thought I could make another one with the leather left over from making the book cover.
Another parting came when the work with Krula ended like that and he was concentrating on the training of the senses again.