Maou no Hajimekata Volume 2 Chapter 21 part1

Translator: DarkHeartedAlchemist

Chapter 21: Let's Bring Down an Almighty God, Part 1

All right, I feel like I should ask what happened in there, but at the same I don't want to know.」

That is what Zana said when her group rejoined Aur's after a few moments and seeing Rames who walked forward absent-mindedly while hugging his own arms.

「??? Is something wrong?」

「Not really, but when you see a former man turned transsexual acting all giddy after spending some time alone with the man whom he claimed to hate, you can't help but to wonder what you should make of it.」

Zana answers Hoseli's question, but she still looked like she didn't understood what happened at all.

「Why not just laugh about it?」

Mari tried to laugh, but under Zana's sharp gaze she quickly hid behind Aur's back.

「I realize you won't easily forgive me for everything I have done to you, but nevertheless, at least allow me to try. I'm sorry, please forgive me.」

Zana looked like someone has smacked her with something blunt, with her eyes wide open and mouth agape. Eldav, who was just as surprised as her sister, approached him cautiously.

「Rames…」

「Eldav… no, Eve. You, out of all people, deserve my apology the most.」

That was most unexpected. Up until this day, Rames didn't treat people as people. He thought of them as worthless.

「I… I don't know if I should say this, but now… now I feel like I can become friends… with you.」

She smiled faintly.
「Also… I don't hate the name Eldav, even though it is a Saharstyle name.」

Back then, the act of overriding her given with a new one was a demonstration of power Rames held over her.

「Well, well, well, look who decided to finally apologize for his numerous fuck-ups. Good for you, Eve.」

Zana exhales a long sigh and looks down on Rames. To think that someone like him, who was looking down on others his whole life will now be the one being looked down on.

「No, it is not good at all.」

Hoseli, however, disagreed with Zana's statement. Speaking of apologizing, those two are not the only ones Rames has wronged. He also tricked and used her when she was in her most vulnerable state, which in turn led to that whole mess with her becoming another vessel for the Sun God.

「….Whatever punishment you think is fine for me, I will accept it.」

But Hoseli ignored him and went straight to Aur's side and leaned against him.

「My lord. Out of all of us here I am the only one whom you haven't made love to yet. So if it's at all possible, I would like to request you to embrace me as well.」

「That is something that I do not mind.」

「Really?」

She then gestured towards Rames with her head.

「Hm? What is it?」

「Nothing. Your relations with… whatever this is now are of no concern to me」

「Fu… fufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufu~」

Rames smiles smugly at Hoseli and erupts with an eerie laugher.

「All right, in my infinite mercy, I will allow you to do it with Aur! But know this! The only one who will receive his semen shall be me, his one and only legal wife!」

「Haaaaa?! Is something wrong with that transvestite head of yours? What audacity, to be thinking so highly of yourself after master only made love to you once!」

Rames hugs Aur's right arm while Zana glues herself to his left one.

「Look here, people can't change that easily!」

Hoseli screamed, clearly stunted by what was unfolding before her very eyes.

「You think so?」

But Eldav wondered about that, seeing as the former Ice Queen and the Emperor of the Sands were now fighting over a single man.

「Because I think that both of them changed a lot ever since they met him.」

「Aaaaand up we go!」

Mari Swings her sword and destroys the pyramid's ceiling with one blow.

「Haaa… having to witness the destruction of my ancestors' pyramid so many times in such short intervals really leaves a complicated feeling in my heart.」

「You'll have the time to bitch about it later, but now just focus on climbing! The sooner we proceed forward, the better!」

Zana shouted at Rames and slapped her ass with perhaps a little bit too much force as he began climbing the rope ladder which Mari has dropped down.

「This is…!」

When they've reached the top, Hoseli exclaimed with her eyes wide open when they saw a mountain towering on the horizon.

「Princess's mountain!」

A well-balanced and beautiful volcano that cannot be mistaken for anything else. The endless mountain that was praised as the best mountain of all of Yamato was now clearly visible in the distance.

「Just don't go running towards it this time, okay?」

Although he issued that warning, Aur climbs the rope ladder and looks at the mountain. That is their destination. The last Dungeon where the Sun God will be waiting for them.

「That's nice and all…」

Zana stands beside him and points at the air corridor that's connecting the top of the pyramid to the volcano.

「How are we going to get up there? There's no walls.」

It was the Wind Dungeon of the Country of Fuuro. A Dungeon that needed no walls because the raging winds were keeping any uninvited guests from reaching its inner depths. So if they make an ice wall in the air it will simply be blown away and they couldn't allow themselves to create a passage that was too narrow to avoid being thrown off themselves. Proceeding forward while securing more of Aur's territory without alerting the Sun God seemed almost impossible.

「The answer is really simple.」

Aur says while stretching his hand towards the Dungeon.

「We'll just have to fill everything with ice.」

「No, uhm … that is going to be pretty much impossible…

Anyway, the dungeon of the wind continues to the end of the earth both vertically and horizontally. No matter how much power Rames has, the amount they need is not something that normal people can provide. What they need here is spiritual energy.

「What. If you can't do it, you just have to use the power of something that is not human.」

Saying that, Aur took out a white ball with a rough texture from his ever-so-reliable bag.

「What's that?」

Mari asked as she stared at the familiar looking ball.

「That's one of the treasures you've given to Marina!」

「That's right. The Dragon Neck Ball made from the bone of the dragon Defakito.」

The moment he said that, an immense amount of magical power began to overflow from the ball in Aur's hand.

「A dragon's bod is made up entirely of magical power. Even the smallest scrap of its meat possess the amount of power than no ordinary mage could ever hope to achieve by any normal means.」

「But can a mere piece of a bone really give us as much of it as we need?」

Rames inquires and Aur shakes his head in response.

「That one bone alone won't be enough to cover the entire Dungeon like we need it to. However…」

The overflowing magical power is converted into spiritual power with Mari's sword, and Aur pours it into Rames, converting the huge fireball he has created in his hand into ice for Zana to use.

「With the authority of the Goddess of Fortune, we removed the boundary between this bone and the rest of the corpse. We will now use the power of a whole dragon, the one who has survived through the war of the Gods at that!」

It was a sight similar to the Meteor magic used by the highest level mages. The only difference is that the thing now floating in the air is not a star falling from the sky, but an ever-expanding mass of ice. One by one, chunks of it separate from the main body and fall on the enemy's Dungeon, forming a path for them to walk on.

By the time the ice ball grew up so huge it almost covered their entire field of vision it has broken in half with a crisp, dry sound, falling below and completing the work of remaking their surroundings into an ice field spreading as far and wide as the eye could see.

「Cool. Now we can go on ahead without any problems.」

Aur was once again amazed by Mari's ability to remain calm in any situation, even when it was as absurd as this one.

「I almost feel sorry for them, you know.」

Mari says as they go past the monsters buried beneath the mass of ice. Now the only thing they had to worry about were the winged residents of the Wind Dungeon that swooped in on them from the sky. The rest was either buried under the ice or swept off the edge all the way down and the remaining ones were crushed to bloody paste by the traps that couldn't withstand the weight of the ice and falling snow.
「Flying monsters need to be light in weight in order to support their weight with their wings. But with that amount of ice and snow that suddenly fell on top of them, there's no way that they didn't accidentally swallowed some of it and if they did, it should slow them down significantly, making them easy targets for us.」

「Anyone would be slowed down if he ate a huge amount of snow, regardless of their ability to fly.」

Zana was unimpressed by Aur's explanations. That's the Queen of Ice for you, of course she would know so much about the element she was attuned to.

「In any case … now we have all the dungeons except the volcano as my territory.」

Aur speaks again in front of the endless mountain as they are getting closer to it.

「Which means the Sun God has nowhere left to run.」

「Precisely.」

Mari, who was listening to their conversation showed an uneasy expression.

After defeating Yatarasu, Aur talked about a strategy to hunt down the Sun God. Everybody agreed that that's how they should do it… but deep down inside she felt that something was still amiss here. After all, Aur's strategy was based on unconfirmed information and assumptions. Was this really all about the Dungeon?

「So you have finally come here, Demon Lord Aur.」

A voice resonated within their heads.

「Come then. You will be greeted at the entrance to the best of my hospitality.」

That voice sounded like it didn't belong to neither a man nor a woman. However, its owner had the appearance of Aur's precious daughter whom he loves more than anything else in this world.

「Sophia, Sakuya … I'll get them back from you, Sun God!」

Aur said so, declaring a war on the Sun God who has the power over everything.

Chapter end