To Be a Power in the Shadows!

I watched the Trial of the Goddess event blurry from the audience.

The event has just begun during the day. Greetings, introductions, parades. The main test of the goddess takes place after the sun sets.

My position right now is I'm just a mob in the audience. I sighed as I watched my three daughters sitting amicably in the guest room.

I want to do something.

I want to do something shady and powerful. It's unforgivable to spoil Mob for nothing at such a big event.

Is it a common pattern to hide who you are and take part in the trials of the goddess?

Show your overwhelming prowess and say, "Who the hell is he!?" The one who will.

It sounds like a tournament, but it's only one fight this time, and I've looked into it, and hiding who you are and participating in it seems difficult. I also thought of a forceful intrusion pattern, but that also makes me want to do it in a slightly more important battle.

Yeah, but not. While I'm thinking it's not like this, the event goes by.

I have no choice. I couldn't think of anything until the day before, but it couldn't have been convenient. I enjoyed being a mob half way back. [M] It was surprisingly quite enjoyable because there are not many big events like this in different worlds. There was a gambling match, and I made a small fortune.

And then the sun sank, and the trials of the goddess of the main event finally began. Luxurious lights lit the venue and ancient letters emerged from the floor of the arena.

The ancient letters unfolded in a dome with white light, and the voltage of cheer rose.

When a challenger enters a domed space, he chooses a warrior who deserves a sanctuary and the battle begins, and once the battle begins, he does not accept outside interference until one of them is no longer combatable. Sometimes the dead appear.

I even hesitate to mob appeal to be fought until I can't fight. There's quite a risk of strength finding out, isn't there?

While doing so, the first challenger is introduced into a domed space. Everything seems to be a Knights fierce.

But no response.

He goes bad and leaves the venue behind.

Now it's 200,000 zennies for participation, so it's not funny. Besides, I'm talking about over 150 participants in this one.

Well, it seems very honorable if you complete the trials of the goddess. I got a medal for the memorial and I said, "You've completed the trials of the goddess, good hire!" or so I heard.

I watched one challenger after another, wondering if Alpha was here yet. [M]

It was during the fourteenth challenger that ancient warriors appeared.

Ancient letters began to react and glow as the traveler Annerose from Vegarta, the land of swords, entered the dome. Light forms the shape of a person and there appears a translucent warrior. The narrative tells us he is an ancient warrior, Borg.

The two fought normally and Annerose won normally. It was more normal than I expected from an ancient warrior but something. Expect stronger warriors to be summoned ahead.

Events continued after that, I suspected. It looks like Annerose was just strong. He summoned about eight ancient warriors, but so far the only winner was Annerose. Thinking about it, Borg, maybe you were pretty strong, too.

The night is getting late. There are fewer challengers left.

When the atmosphere came to an end one by one, the name of the challenger was called.

"Next up is a challenger from Midgal Demon Swordsman School! Sid Cagheno!!

Who's Sid Cageno... it's me!

I'm the only one at Midgal Demon Swordsman's School who knows Sid Caguenot. No, wait, I don't remember entering at all.

"Let's applaud the brave challenger!

Wait, stop!

A big round of applause poured down. Someone whistles and cheers up the venue.

It's a shitty vibe. I thought as I pulled my cheek. [M]

There are three options for this situation.

Option one, give up and try. Nothing can end up as just a mob, but if you are chosen by an ancient warrior and your opponent is a strong enemy, there is a risk of strength finding out.

Option two, escape. What a mob I am from the Demon Swordsmen's School. It's easy to escape because you don't even know your face. But it's going to piss off the church. A protest has come to the school and there is a possibility of expulsion.

Option three, make it yummy. Yeah, this is all I have anymore.

I disappear and hide on the fast track. [M] And where no one was, he turned into a shadow and jumped up into the sky.

I advocate a theory that no bomb would have exploded in any training ground. [M]

So.

The mysterious prowess intrusion begins the operation.

I descend into a domed space and flip a long coat.

"My name is Shadow...... He who lurks in the shadows and hunts in the shadows..."

The audience grows.

"Sleep in the sanctuary and remember the ancients..."

Ancient letters react and form a human form.

"Tonight we release..."

I pulled out a pitch-black knife and swept through the night sky.

It was impressive that the beta in the guest seat was opening her mouth gently.