Chapter 375

Chapter 375

For Sale. Fallen Lady. Never Used.

Episode 375: Boiling Silence (4)

After talking about Fake-rla, I contacted the Empire separately, just in case.

All the targets Fake-rla could take revenge on were in the Levantin Empire, so if she started taking revenge here, it could be seen as Carla had fallen.

Anyway, after finishing everything I could do right away, I went to bed. And now that everyone was asleep and I was the only one awake. I opened the notification that I had put aside for a moment.

Tting!

【Eliminated the Boiling Silence】

The one who wriggles in the dark, the one-eyed schemer, the one who bears the great sin of sloth, the wisdom of the seven Evil Gods, the transcendent hidden behind the curtain…

All of these are words that refer to the Boiling Silence, and at the same time, they are decorations that make your achievements shine even more.

You have finally defeated the Evil God who calls himself the mastermind, proving the reputation of the God Slayer once again.

This is not an individual glory, but a hope that will illuminate the entire Eurelia Continent!

…But be careful.

The other Evil Gods have begun to see you as a serious threat, not just a nuisance.

There are still five Evil Gods left. And there are still problems left by the two who have already fallen.

I hope you will not be broken until the day you defeat all the Evil Gods.

-Increased favorability of all groups.

-Weakening of the Evil God forces.

-Trait: Blessing of All Gods (A) strengthened.

-Significant increase in mana stats.

-Title: God Slayer strengthened.

Compared to last time, the increase in stats is minimal. It goes without saying, but it’s not enough to raise the mana stat that has already reached 29.

Well, I can’t help it. Even though the mana stat limit has been lifted with the Dragon Heart, it’s not really without any burden.

It means that the mana I can digest now is just this much.

Well, the most important thing is that the weakening of the Evil God forces, which is the most important thing, appeared as a reward without change.

In H&A, the Boiling Silence played the role of mediator and strategist among the Evil Gods, so there were many problems on the front line as he disappeared. It’s not enough to cause a civil war, but they sometimes got into fights with each other.

The system expressed this as weakening the Evil God forces… I thought the Boiling Silence knew I had knowledge of the future and prepared something, but it wasn’t that much.

That’s a relief. I was a little nervous at the part where the Evil Gods regarded me as an equal enemy, but with this, the worst situation will not come.

For example, a situation where all the Evil Gods join hands and try to get rid of me alone.

Well, even if the Boiling Silence prepared something, if he himself died, the other Evil Gods would not listen.

I let out a sigh of relief inwardly and turned my gaze to the traits and titles.

First of all, the Blessing of All Gods went from rank A to A+, but it wasn’t enough to go to the next stage.

Still, since it has a plus sign, it will be promoted soon with just a little trigger. The Blessing of All Gods is a trait that grows if you inflict significant damage on the Evil God forces, even if you don’t kill the Evil Gods, so if you fight, it will rise at some point.

The problem is the God Slayer title.

Options that randomly increase each time you kill an Evil God. It’s beneficial no matter what comes up, but there are some that are more efficient and some that are not.

For example, the additional damage and critical hit rate options are useful, but they can be replaced in other ways, so they feel a bit disappointing.

On the other hand, resistance-related options are very limited in how to obtain them, so you should raise them if you can raise them even a little.

“Please resistance option, please resistance option, please resistance option, please resistance option…”

I muttered and checked the title.

Tting!

【Title: God Slayer】

You have succeeded in killing a god with a human body.

Giving a mortal end to an immortal being is absolutely impossible with mere strength, and luck, strategy, and many other conditions must follow.

Maybe you were born with some kind of fate.

As long as you don’t give up, nothing will be able to break you.

-Resistance to power increased by 10%.

-Additional damage limited to Evil Gods increased by 20% + 10%.

-Critical hit rate limited to Evil Gods increased by 10%.

-Resistance to the effects of the Evil Gods’ domain.

-Can be applied in duplicate with other titles.

“……”

The additional damage option, which was originally a 20% increase, grew to 30%.

No, well… since I’m a magician, it’s good to have high attack power…

But isn’t the power already enough? In the first place, it’s enough to injure the divine body full of divine power with high-level magic.

What I lack is not power, but class….

No matter how much I lamented inwardly and checked it again and again, nothing changed. I just became able to hit the Evil Gods a little harder.

“Tsk.”

Okay. It’s already in the past anyway. It’s better to forget it and defeat the next Evil God and roll the gacha one more time.

The moment I reached that thought, I suddenly realized… Me a moment ago… wasn’t I too game-minded?

After almost dying against the Grotesque Proliferation, I’m talking about the next Evil God gacha.

Is it because the memories in the time warp are faint that I don’t feel like I suffered? Or because I met Fake-rla, who became an apostle of the Evil God?

All of them are correct. However, I think the fundamental reason is the status window.

If something like a status window appears in front of you, and things that would normally take a long time are shortened to a few lines of text, anyone can’t help but feel like they’re playing a game.

Then, doesn’t one question arise at this point?

This status window… Isn’t the performance too good?

If it’s just growing stats… no, if it’s up to the inventory, it’s understandable.

Fafnir was a dragon, a race that was born with inherently powerful powers, but he was a quasi-transcendent who had surpassed his own limits through a long war.

It’s natural that my body, made by grinding such Fafnir, has enormous potential. It’s also plausible that the status window, made by grinding Fafnir’s soul, promotes growth.

Inventory? Maybe he created a subspace attached to the body?

Since he could transcend time and space and scatter future information to other worlds, an attached subspace wouldn’t be that difficult.

But look at the effects of titles and traits.

Some of them have effects similar to the Dragon Heart, which simply assist what I’ve learned, while others make clearly impossible things possible.

For example, the God Slayer title I was looking at right now.

It unconditionally corrects additional damage and critical hit rate only for Evil Gods, and even allows resistance to power and domain?

I can assure you that this is impossible even if Fafnir comes back to life. No, it’s the same even if Solari regains her prime power.

Since she’s a god who deals with light, she can gain an advantage over the Boiling Silence, who’s closely related to darkness, but there’s no such thing against other Evil Gods.

Since it’s a battle between gods, the scale will be large, but essentially, it will be a fight between ordinary power, skill, and domain.

But what is it about the title that guarantees unconditional superiority against Evil Gods?

Of course, the fact that you defeated a god is a great achievement. But giving this much ability just because you killed one is too strange.

It’s like saying that if you kill a deer once, you’ll be able to catch deer just by roughly hitting them from now on.

And what about the cultist abhorrence trait? How do you judge that they are cultists, and what principle do you use to inflict additional damage?

In addition, there are many large and small effects that clearly go beyond Fafnir’s ability… like directly touching the rules of this world.

At first, I thought that an unknown transcendent being gave me the status window, but after coming back from the lair, I thought that it was the power Fafnir made by sacrificing himself.

But when I think about it carefully, there are too many strange things.

It’s true that Fafnir created this body and brought my spirit to possess it. He probably gave me the status window too.

But isn’t someone… an unidentified being with much stronger power than Fafnir, let alone the gods, lending me power through the status window?

By hiding my suspicion in the familiar format of a game. If not, there are too many things that cannot be explained.

If so… for what?

Well, that’s simple. To make me defeat the Evil Gods.

When I reached that thought, I had some guesses. There are many things I learned today because of the Boiling Silence, who was making a scene.

Like the existence of a force of providence, which ultimately aims to wipe out the gods and lead humanity to independence.

…Come to think of it, didn’t the Boiling Silence once say that everything he tried went weirdly wrong?

Like the world itself was trying to kill him or something?

“……”

I glanced around. The party members were all fast asleep, as there were many shocking things that had happened.

I carefully whispered.

“Status Window.”

Tting!

A semi-transparent screen appeared with a familiar notification sound.

Judging from the tone and content of its notifications, I was sure of one thing: there was a consciousness behind this thing, and it was watching me.

I’ve tried talking to it many times, but I’ve never gotten an answer… but maybe it’s different now.

“…Can you hear me?”

All I could hear was the sound of the party members’ snoring. The status window was just nonchalantly showing my stats.

“Are you perhaps the rules or will of the world? Are you giving me strength to kill the Evil Gods who have arbitrarily deviated from the order of nature?”

I waited for a long time, but there was no response. Just like before, it won’t answer this time either.

However, if my hypothesis from a moment ago is correct, it’s closer to not being able to answer than not answering.

The Boiling Silence specifically mentioned luck. Not something great, but simple luck.

Perhaps it meant that as much as he was trying to keep the providence, he couldn’t cause things that were out of the ordinary?

If so, it’s roughly understandable to lend power like a game by borrowing the format of the status window.

It’s natural to get a big reward for catching a boss in a game, but it’s awkward for someone to secretly give you a knife that works well against an Evil God in reality.

It means that even if you notice, you have to pretend you don’t know.

Then it’s impossible to confirm whether my guess is correct or not. However, sometimes it’s necessary to cover it up without checking.

Anyway, I need the power to defeat the Evil Gods.

After putting aside the thoughts that filled my head for a while, I made up a tone as if I was telling someone.

“Hey, that can’t be. I should go to sleep too. I have to go to the dungeon tomorrow for the first time in a while.”

Did it work? No idea.

But one thing I do know for sure: the status window was still perfectly intact the next morning.

“Brother, do you know what it’s called when a bug hits a rock?”

“Huh?”

“It’s called a collision.”1

“???”

Why did Helena break down instead of the status window?

ED/N: A Korean dad joke that plays with the word collision (chungdol). Bug(chung) + rock (dol). ↩️