Maou no Hajimekata

"It's the pinnacle of stupidity."

In short, Oulu said so.

"The power of the enemy is unknown. That's why I can't expose my hands first. The advantage is this dungeon's ability to defend itself and the demons in it. Attacking with all your might from the beginning is like crushing all that advantage."

I am not taking my opponent lightly, I am rather most vigilant, so I cannot send out all my troops. That was Oulu's discussed strategic policy.

"That being said, aren't you the one who can fight and spare and win?

To Lil's inquiry, Oul shook his neck to the side.

"You don't have to win in the first place. If you don't lose when you attack me, that's fine. All you have to do is take your opponent's 'nucleus'."

Virgin Merriam died without leaving any information. But it was that fact that made Oulu feel the presence behind it. It's not the organization or the group behind it. He's one of those cunning, hard-willed people. Defeat one of them and Oulu will win.

"But don't you know where that 'nucleus' is"

To Spina's inquiry, Oul shook his head sideways again.

"No, it's the Grand Temple of Merizand that has eighty-nine 'nukes' in it"

"... would you be in such an easy place to understand?

"So listen, if that's possible... do you care to put the dungeon core somewhere despicable outside the labyrinth?

To Oul's words, Lil and Spina were so convinced. The dungeon core is literally Oulu's life itself. It has to be in the dungeon to build up magic, but I don't feel like leaving it anywhere else.

"If you do put it somewhere else, you might be surprised. but what do you do in the unlikely event? Beautiful to protect in such a place. or, if you place enough defense from time to time, it will be discovered in no time. Then it's natural to put it in a place that's easiest to protect. In the first place, the very existence of the" nucleus "is a secret."

The same goes for Oulu's dungeon core around there. First of all, I made no mistake, because it was a decision I made after figuring out how to do it.

"So the problem is force, not enemy force. How far can you handle the English spirit and angels?"

The story of Raffanis being attacked was hundreds of years ago. There is little material left to say to what extent they possess war power, and there is no assurance that they are still the same today. But the fact that it is true is confirmed by the ritual of replacement of the Virgin every few decades.

The English Spirit and Angel are coming to bless the new Virgin. It is not just a liturgy, it is also a restraint against the countries around us. Oulu also had experience of actually going to see it, but I could confirm that it was not a phantom or anything else, but an undisputed real one.

"Angels and English spirits... can't I eat?

Shake your body, says Spina.

"No, I guess you can't. It's not made of magic, it's made of reason."

"... what is reason after all?

If only I knew that, I'd try to make a slime that eats it, Spina asked with a freshly said look.

"Magic is the power to twist and bend reason and alter the world. Rationality is the opposite of that. The power to inspire reason and shape the world… it's said to be the power to take for granted."

"Do you take the obvious for granted…"

Oulu snorts at Spina, who squirms back at the unexplained.

"I can only return vague answers because I can't use magic either. As things fall to the ground, for example, so that the child grows up and grows up and eventually dies old. Magic twists and bends such logic, floating things in the universe, rejuvenating the old man."

Spina is satisfied with the practical example in front of her. But if so, what the hell does magic do? Normal things happen without the use of magic. It's not a technique, it's just a law.

"As much of the magic exists in the earth, so much of the reason is in the air… in the sky, it is said, but the truth is not good"

"It's empty...... so you're saying the sun moves is also due to the spell?

"Such a massive spell on a boulder would not be within people's grasp....... but the sun has often long been seen as a symbol of God's power. Maybe it's because they say reason fills the sky."

To Lil's words, Oulu's dialogue, which is spouted to contemplate, hooks into the corner of Spina's thought. I can't think of anything, some sense enveloped her.

"Either way, because angels are similar to demons. Anyway, it's still the English spirit that's troublesome"

A hero is a being born to be an English spirit. Just as the devil makes a covenant with man, gathering his soul together to increase his power of war, the angels celebrate man as a hero and let him polish his soul within his life, and after his death, bring his soul to heaven as an English spirit.

The devils chose quantity over quality, and the angels chose quality over quantity. Whatever the fine difference, neither of them translates into eating humans.

"More power than Eunice..."

Lil remembers her vivid impression as she attacked the labyrinth, shaking herself. I don't even want to imagine how many of them have that strength.

"I don't know how many English spirits I can serve at a time... if there are more than 5 of them, I'd lose"

Oul prayed otherwise.

"Ready?

In a dark, narrow pit, Oul asked.

"Yeah, okay"

"Until this demise, we will follow your master everywhere"

Lil answers lightly and Spina answers heavily.

While bitterly laughing at the reaction between the two extremes, Oul corrects his residence and raises his voice.

"Perhaps this is our last fight! It belongs to all of us! The enemies are filled with joy and tranquillity, and heavenly bearers who have no nose for songs of happiness and affection. Take it away, filth it, step on it! Decorate their doors with their organs, expose their necks and set them on fire!

Sorcered-enlarged voices echo in the pit, and savage suburbanites raise their voices in unison. Goblins, Kobolts, Dwergs, Giants. Oul had gathered all his men here who depended on his arm strength and specialize in drilling holes.

"Let's go...... 'Accelerate'!

Taking in the magic of Lil and Spina, Oul exercises his magic. It increased the muscle strength of the subpeople and their movements literally accelerated.

At a rate as if a person were walking, a pit was dug, columns and beams erected and stretched. Crushed, dug dust is instantly carried away by countless imps.

If we can dig the tunnel directly beneath the Great Temple and draw a transfer line there, Oul's victory will be almost definitive. An enemy gushing hole is created directly next to the main circle, and there is no such thing as an undefeated castle.

"But isn't the basement just wary?

"I guess."

I just stripped the Virgin first. As long as we know it's coming from underground, there's a sense of it. Without a doubt, the enemy should be protecting the basement by some means.

That's why Oul decided to break through there.

'Most importantly, because it's safe'.

Perhaps the enemy is considering digging in from the last pit or building a sidewalk along the way to invade. If so, it's the 'face' that's on guard. You should be wary of the surface between the Grand Temple from the pit directly below the altar and considering it not to be intruded further inside.

It is unrealistic to be wary of any further ranges. Whatever, even that aspect has the problem of 'depth'. Until too deep a place, whether it's magic or magic, it can't reach impact.

But what Oulu is digging now is out of the realm of that thought. It was already directly beneath the temple in position. Slowly moving up like a spiral from there, the Ouls are on their way to the temple.

The place was one where he had dug and drawn formations before stripping the Virgin. He also dug a raid pit for insurance when the Virgin's abduction didn't go well.

I buried the entrance in mind and let it bury deep enough not to know it existed, so I'm not going to attack it directly from here, but it's one of the fabric stones that attacks, the 'Fort in the Ground'.

"Mage! It's time to get out!

Oul frowned at Dwerg's uplifting voice.

"What? That's crazy. There must still be 100 yards to the ground."

Oulu doesn't have an absolute sense of distance in the ground, so it's only a reckoning, but he can't go as far as 100 yards wrong on a boulder.

"That's right, but this sound is the sound of digging thin walls. Maybe it's a natural cave."

"A cave..."

That's a little unwelcome. If the earth is jammed with guisilli soil, dig straight into the pit and proceed, but when there is a cave in between, you have to bypass it or build a staircase. Both will be L.A. for quite a while, and if it comes to bypassing them, they're more likely to hook up to enemy alert networks.

"Anyway, there's nothing I can do about it that I won't look at. No water sounds, huh?

"Oh, I'm fine with that. Then I'm gonna blow it out."

The most important thing to be careful about when digging in the ground is the water... the groundwater vein. Especially if you're digging up like you are now, the drilling unit could be wiped out.

But what was waiting for me before I dug was unparalleled troublesome, such as groundwater veins.

"Nah..."

The Dwergs face the falling blind light, breaking down the ceiling. It wasn't supposed to be on the ground yet, but the space was full of light.

And they saw the identity of that light, and they flashed.

What I dug in was that the cave was neither cave nor natural. Since there is no cross section of stalactites or weathered stones, it can be seen at a glance that it is an artificially created space.

And there were countless angels waiting.

From there on, it was a massacre. With a noble glow in his body, the beautiful angels with their golden hair and white bird wings arrived simultaneously at the submen and cut them with swords in their hands. I'm not just a worker with the miners. Each and every one of them is also a warrior.

But they were hardly armed to dig the pit, and there was no reason for them to rival the angels, nor could they make use of the number in the narrow pit, so long as they were all alone.

Watching how it goes, 'Immortality' sighs. Towels were sprinkled on its neck, and its palms on its hands, and its white costumes were stained all over the earth.

"Let's start with a good first round, shall we? He also came to my boss. Where in the world is the Virgin who makes the English Spirit do civil engineering?"

With the power of the English Spirit, a cave of this magnitude, a day or night would be enough, wouldn't it?

Remembering his boss who smiled so much, 'Immortality' smiled bitterly.