episode_0082
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A purple skull with a sinister glow.
The skeleton, which had no flesh left but bones, was naturally missing not only the eyes, but all the organs that were supposed to be in the head.
Inside the empty skull, an eerie wisp that could be called a spirit took over the role of the eyeball, emitting light instead of the eyeball.
As the saying goes, “seeing is worth seeing before hearing,” no matter how detailed the explanation, words cannot fully convey the impact of seeing something in person.
It was a common appearance that you would have seen at least once if you had dealt with undead or ghosts.
However, those of us who witnessed it firsthand could feel that instincts that had long since degenerated and disappeared were revived and set off alarm bells.
Even Wu, who was once called the Demon King of Ox for piling up a mountain of corpses on that vast plain, became stiff with fear.
Pluto is the entity that governs death.
Everyone was just a pitiful lamb in the face of death, and even Wu was no exception.
“It’s been a while!”
Of course, having encountered him several times in previous episodes, I had some tolerance for the primal fear he evoked.
Fortunately, thanks to the presence of the mother of all life behind me, my fear of death was lessened, which also contributed to this attitude.
[Yeah, it’s been a while.]
“… Hmm?”
The attitude was as if he had been seeing me for a long time.
A little while ago, when someone said, “It’s been a while,” I answered, “It’s been a while,” but if you think about it, it’s strange.
In this episode, it’s probably the first time we’ve met, so why did he say hello like that?
“Do you even remember me?”
[It’s the child of the giant tree. I know what you’re wondering right now. As you said, this is the first time we are meeting in this timeline. But does that mean I won’t remember what you remember? Didn’t your mother tell you?]
“He is far from being considerate.”
[Shut up.]
A grumbling voice came from my ear again.
World Tree wasn’t the type of person to do anything just because Shindo was being arrogant, but he had to be careful about what he said because it was annoying once he got offended.
In many ways, he is a difficult person to rely on because he doesn’t provide much help as he makes little unnecessary interference.
“But Pluto… .”
[Know. You must have come to be tested. Is the tribute ready?]
“Yes, please accept.”
Immediately after saying that, I stretched out my hand towards the altar, and about 100,000 gold coins came out of my inventory and began to pile up on the altar.
The sight of not just one or two gold coins, but a whopping 100,000 gold coins piled up was quite worth seeing.
For a moment, I was intoxicated by the sight of several strong adult men.
-Deuddeuddeuk!!!
When we suddenly looked up and heard the sound of the ground breaking, we could see the back of the altar cracking and something huge rising up.
The building that appeared, tearing up the land, was so huge that it was difficult to even see its outline.
Just as an ant sees an elephant’s leg and thinks it is a wall and not someone else’s leg, while everyone else was unable to recognize it properly, I realized that it was the outer wall of the arena.
That’s because I once saw that building in the sky.
Pluto’s arena, Tartarus.
That building named after hell is the place where we will be tested in the future.
[Would you like to walk directly?]
“No, please.”
[okay.]
Almost as soon as those words ended, our bodies were moved into the arena in the blink of an eye, without any warning.
Transfer magic usually has mana or some kind of omen magic before it, but I didn’t feel anything like that at all in Pluto’s transfer.
Because this was not some trivial technology like magic, but a miracle of God.
U and Sera were taken aback by the fact that their bodies were moved without any resistance, but they recognized once again that this was a being called God and nodded.
When I first met Pluto, I felt the same way, so I could easily guess how he felt.
[Oh my.]
“Yes, I will explain briefly.”
When I looked at the two people who were still in shock, they finally came to their senses, cleared their throats and looked back at me.
Judging from his red face, he must have been quite embarrassed for appearing so dazed.
When they smiled and said that it was cute like that, the two blushed even more and urged them to speak quickly.
“Pluto’s ordeal is actually an ordeal; it is the task of dealing with sinners who broke the laws of the underworld.”
Pluto, the king of the underworld and the god of death, ruled the underworld, but his power did not extend to the entire vast underworld.
In the vast underworld, there were many people who did not recognize the laws of the underworld established by Pluto, and they were always one of Pluto’s troubles.
Groups that did not recognize Pluto carried out destructive activities in various places, so of course the losses increased day by day.
Meanwhile, Pluto comes up with a brilliant idea to kill them.
When undead or ghosts born from fraud are hunted as so-called monsters, they give experience points just like naturally occurring undead do.
Of course, undead and spirit-type monsters are difficult to deal with if not dealt with properly.
If you challenge them after thorough preparation, you can defeat them more easily than other monsters, but there were many of them that were difficult to prepare for.
However, this is a story that only applies to ordinary adventurers who have no money.
The story is different if you can obtain exclusive equipment or hire a priest to defeat the undead like a noble.
If you can make such preparations, the dangerous undead den can be transformed into a hunting ground that is much safer than an ordinary hunting ground and gives more experience.
From what I heard from Pluto, at first he didn’t receive money for the trials because he was just taking care of troublesome things.
However, as the number of volunteers increased, they began to receive money to select those who would take on the challenge.
It is said that people did not stop coming despite the absurd condition that in the end, whoever loses the ordeal will be turned into gold.
Because he only dealt with undead that could be safely dealt with, he didn’t seem to worry that he would die even if he made a mistake.
Thanks to Pluto’s grace, the average level of humanity exceeded that of the sub-humans, but that did not last long.
After the death of the warrior Hanji, the goddess abandoned humanity.
The nobles who used the power of the goddess to deal with the troubles of the underworld were no longer able to defeat the undead and spirits like before.
As their visits slowed down, Pluto’s garden began to become increasingly crowded, and all that was left at the end were the words of those who lost the ordeal.
“… At some point, I thought the monsters were getting stronger, but was there such a secret?”
While Wu belatedly realized that fact and nodded, I continued speaking.
“This arena is a place that connects the underworld and this world. If Pluto designates a certain place in the Underworld, it will be connected to this arena.”
Thus, monsters that come to the arena cannot escape to other places and are tied to this arena.
It’s a simple story, we just have to defeat the monsters.
The amount of monsters that appeared ranged from hundreds to thousands, but there was no need to worry.
The Druid’s healing magic is not appropriate for defeating demons, but it acts as a poison to undead and spirits that reject life.
“Source of life.”
Brilliant green energy appeared on my palm.
When I carefully placed the seed-like thing on the ground, the energy that had penetrated the ground began to sprout in an instant and began to transform into a huge tree-like shape.
Literally in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a giant tree that seemed to have been tens of thousands of years old, creating a new ceiling in the ceilingless arena, but the surrounding area did not darken.
This is because not only the tree trunk but also each leaf covering the ceiling was emitting a brilliant light.
The source of life.
This is a magic that summons a false world tree modeled after the world tree. This ability continuously casts recovery magic on allies and enemies within the range.
It is a magic that cannot be used in normal battles due to its characteristic of healing not only allies but also enemies, but this case is different.
That’s because they were undead, for whom even a small amount of recovery magic was poisonous.
“The range of this magic is below the light emitted by the leaves. In other words, this entire arena is out of range right now.”
Any decent undead would die on their own with this magic alone, but the opponent was an undead from the underworld.
And that’s only the strong ones who are over level 70.
This alone is not enough.
He stretched out his hands forward as if decorating Yujong’s beauty and said the mantra he had said many times before.
“Summon a familiar. Everyone come out.”
earth and sky.
What appeared in the huge empty space on both sides was an army of familiars whose average level had reached 70 through previous work.
In the sky, a large army of giant wasps and fairies.
On land, a large army of insects (ants) and dinosaurs began their advance, shaking the earth.
It is no exaggeration to say that it was for this day that they gathered familiars and increased their power.
Since there is support from the fake World Tree, they alone will be able to stop the large army of undead.
“Pluto, you could start now.”
[Uhm… .]
The scenery of the arena began to change and a large army of undead appeared, but they were swept away without being able to use their hands or feet due to simultaneous attacks pouring in from the ground and the sky.
I felt ecstatic at the sight of leaves being swept away with a broom, and I realized once again that all my hard work was meaningless.
“Kkiss!!!”
The undead who survived the ground and aerial bombardment rushed towards us, but their futile resistance was blocked by the Triceratops’ horns and disappeared in vain.
Pluto, who was quietly watching as the last remaining undead stretched out his hand toward the sky and turned to ashes, spoke.
[1st wave cleared. Move on to the next wave.]
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