Since the appearance of heroes, demons and mankind have fought over 30 times.
Humans have not won every one of them.
Defeat the demons and win control. Either that, or get cornered to the point of destruction., which has happened many times.
AS calendar year 955. Now 50 years ago.
At this time, humanity was on the verge of a disaster.
Also called the sixth generation demonic calamity.
The demonic calamity---a disaster caused by the Maou.
It was the sixth crisis for humanity caused by the Maou.
The battle with the Maou was advancing with humanity having the advantage.
They temporarily pushed the Maou into a corner, and besieged Maou Castle at the southernmost point of the continent. The hero gathered elites and rushed into the castle
However, in that battle the hero was killed, and humanity received a counter-attack by the demons.
A number of countries were destroyed, and about ⅔ of the world was controlled by the Maou’s army.
Humans chose to fight a decisive battle, at a place more to the north than Rhoden. Kan Punoh plain.
In that decisive battle, the hero’s party survived, the great magician Serena beat the Maou, and humanity won the battle.
“Serena-sama, the one who killed the Maou, is now the director of this school.”
Says the history teacher, Albright-sensei says, deep with emotion.
I’m currently in history cla.s.s.
This teacher speaks of history as if it were a legend. He seems to be an interesting teacher.
“That was a nice story.”
I’m impressed. As I thought, stories that make history are nice.
“Hey, he’s crying.”
Jamie is looking at me, surprised.
“It’s fine. Yufi’s crying too.”
Tiraiza points out in amazement.
“Transfer student! Do you understand the brilliance of this fight!?”
“Yeah, the fight was amazing, but the fight between the human side General Ames and demon side general was very impressive.”
“Oh okay, okay. If you have any interest, you should come to my seminar. I’ll welcome you.”
Albright-sensei invited me to his seminar.
It’s a seminar where we study history.
It seems interesting.
I’ll go if I have an opportunity. This teacher might know a little bit about evil G.o.ds.
“Very impressive…”
Tiraiza was tilting her neck, but I decided not to worry about it.
After the lecture is finished, I get ready to leave.
I’m going to register for the Adventurer Guild
It will be convenient to be registered as an adventurer so I can capture dungeons.
“Will you be fine alone?”
Yufilia asks me worriedly, but I won’t be at rest not training for two days.
“Theheh---ar-ar-ar-e nn-n-n-u p-r-u-b-b-blomz. (There aren’t any problems)”
Therefore I refused politely.
“I don’t understand what you just said, but there are a bunch of problems.”
Jamie retorts accurately.
I wonder if she’s come to understand my mysterious language too?
The Adventurer’s Guild was in a downtown area near Cantabridge Academy.
There are a lot of graduates registered there.
Many of the graduates of the adventurer course become register with the guild and become adventurers.
There are also some who become knights of the kingdom and serve certain n.o.bles.
Also, depending on the time period there are some who live as mercenaries.
You can register as an adventurer while enrolled as a student.
The Adventurer’s Guild was a tall building with 5 stories.
When I entered the guild, a receptionist woman who looked about 20 years old was sitting.
With semi-long, chestnut colored hair, she seems to be enthusiastically drawing doc.u.ments.
A young lady?
It was a sudden trial for me, but I’ll try to get through it.
“H-h.e.l.lo…”
I’ll be fine if I speak slowly and stay calm.
“What do you need? Would you like to request a job? Or are you an aspiring adventurer?”
“Auretta, it’s impossible for such a young boy to be an adventurer.”
On the first floor was a dining room and a bar. An old man who looked like a warrior was laughing.
Auretta would be the name of the receptionist.
Auretta carefully watched me as I ignored the warrior’s jeerings. To be exact the clothes I was wearing.
It is the uniform of Cantabridge Academy.
Cantabridge Academy has a variety of students.
However, if they come to the Adventurer’s Guild wearing their uniforms, of course they’d be trying to register as an adventurer.
Is it that the old man couldn’t come to this conclusion because he’s stupid, or is it because he’s drunk at this time of day.
“You’re a student of Cantabridge Academy right?”
“Yes…....I would like to register as an adventurer.”
When I try to speak slowly, it turns into a loud voice for some reason. It seems Auretta became uneasy at that.
“You’re a little lacking in ambition. Being an adventurer isn’t easy to do you know.”
“Hm, it’ll be fine if I check his skills.”
Saying that, the warrior rises and pokes his arms.
“Hey, Bernard, you’re too strong of an opponent for newcomers, you’re rank C you know.”
The adventurer who said that sounded like he thought it was fun.
Contrary to his words, it seems he thinks it’ll be good entertainment.
Getting back at these guys will be easy.
But I came to register as an adventurer. I don’t have enough time to deal with problems.
“Sorry, today I just want to register, so…”
I lightly lower my head.
The evil G.o.d who has lived 1000 years will not stand out unnecessarily in this place.
“That’s right Bernard-san. You should stop picking on newcomers like that.”
When Auretta complains to Bernard, Bernard approaches me while holding liquor.
And he sprinkled the liquor on my head.
“You’ll be my opponent once you grow enough to understand the taste of liquor.”
Saying that, he left.
“Ah, what are you doing!?”
Auretta hurriedly picks up a towel.
A silently take it and wipe my head and face.
“Sorry for causing you trouble.”
“No……thanks to you……there wasn’t any.”
“But you’re angry right?”
Of course I’m angry.
Like, what the h.e.l.l was that?
But I won’t bite at such cheap provocation.
The adventurer registration was extremely simple. I just had to touch a crystal that does a special a.n.a.lysis.
“Yes, now your body information has been recorded. Now we just need to input some personal information.”
I was asked for my name, s.e.x, and birthplace.
“M-m-m-y n-n-n-n-amu o-os Aa-a-ss-ht-al. (Translation: My name is Ashtal)”
c.r.a.p. I immediately failed.
“So, sorry, I couldn’t really understand.”
The woman who works in the service industry asks me to repeat.
“Calm down, we can’t hear either.”
“Your voice is so messed up that I don’t know what you’re saying.”
I could hear laughing voices from the bar.
They tell me I can’t speak well.
“Kid, you’re not used to handling women, so if you need to handle one, tell us.”
“If you treat me to alcohol I might tell you stories of my bravery. Of course, it might too early for children though!”
Such lines come from the bar. I ignore it, ignore it.
After that, I registered my profile despite failing.
Occasionally I needed to communicate through writing.
“Yes, now your data has been recorded. Ah, also……”
Auretta takes out another crystal. It seems to a crystal that measures status values.
She said it isn’t compulsory because some don’t like to share.
If I had to choose, I wouldn’t want mine to be known. But, wondering how far the data is shown, I touched the crystal.
“I’m sorry but it says impossible to measure. I’m sorry but please let some of your ki out.”
For humans, ninki(jinki), for demons maki, during battle a their ki is wrapped around them.
It greatly improves the person’s physical abilities and has a great affect on their defensive power and attacks.
Warriors use it to strengthen their bodies, and magicians use it as the source of power for their magic---it can be used as magic power.
By the way, the ki for evil G.o.ds is called jaki.
I’m currently not emitting anything. Thus, the crystal couldn’t detect anything.
“If you don’t understand, I’ll explain it. The current you is too weak to be measured.”
Bernard drinks some of his alcohol.
Sip by sip.
Jaki is a power unknown to humans. I really don’t want to release any of it.
Thus, I’ll release the minimum amount of jaki for just a moment. It’ll just be for a short time, so humans won’t be able to notice it at all.
But it seems like it was the same for the crystal, as it couldn’t detect anything.
“Chi, what the h.e.l.l are you doing, you go like this!”
When Bernando places his hand on the crystal, there is a reaction.
Characters emerge in the crystal.
Bernando. Human Race. Fire Attribute. POWER: 180.
POWER is the original standard of the crystal. It seems the bigger it is, the stronger.
“Today’s isn’t so good. Well, I guess it’s cause I was drinking.”
Bernando returns to his seat, unsatisfied.
“As expected from Bernando-san.”
“Ah, 180 is a considerably high number.”
The adventurers drinking sake around him praise him.
“Stop, I’ll get embarra.s.sed won’t I?”
Even though he said that, Bernando seemed to be in a good mood and made him his next drinking partner.
“Um…you don’t need to worry about drunkards, so let’s do this.”
Auretta acts considerate of me.
I’ll release a bit more power for a longer time.
This time until the crystal reacts.
It will take less than a second.
However, I was concentrating so it felt like a long time.
Still not yet? Hurry up and react.
“Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”
Auretta let out a scream.
Oops!
It seems it got to the level where people were able to sense it.
Auretta isn’t the only one. There were adventurers who noticed it too.
There are also those who fainted from it.
The first floor of the Adventurer’s Guild turned into a mess.
“What was that just now? I felt a terrifying presence over here?”
It seems like Bernando’s drunkenness got blown away.
“Tha, That’s the first time I’ve ever felt something like that.”
“I’ve seen the Maou from afar before, it’s the same as that time……no, it was much worse!”
They seemed to be making a racket, but they couldn’t find the source.
Dangerous, dangerous.
“Auretta-san?”
I call out to Auretta, but I don’t get a reaction.
There are bubbles in her mouth and she’s pa.s.sed out with white eyes.
The beauty is messed up.
The lower half of her body was wet with what leaked out.
She was the closest one to me.
Because of that, she was influenced the most by my jaki.
I guess the stimulation was too strong for her.
A staff member from another floor came in response to the noise.
Auretta was taken away by the female staff.
I quickly glance at the crystal.
The crystal was broken.
However, the last measurement result was displayed on it.
Ashtal. Unidentified. Unidentified. Measurement impossible.
This crystal is useless.
Nevertheless, I can’t leave this unknown measurement as it is.
I crush the crystal into pieces, so that the characters on the crystal can’t be read.
The clatter of the Adventurer’s Guild doesn’t seem like it’ll stop anytime soon.
After a glance behind me, I leave the building behind me.