My Conquest of the World through Ice Magic Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Ice Magic

TN: Really interesting chapter, lots of cool sneak peeks at what we’ll get to see in the future  Enjoy!

I sprinted across the grasslands.

I had with me some potions and antidotes, as well as a night vision potion.

The real question is, will the night vision potion last long enough for me to make it to the deepest parts of the cave?
I have a torch, but with only one hand free I’d be easy prey for any monsters.

(Regza and Count Teremius, they’re really trying to make me look like an idiot!)

I had left the town in anger, and I still wasn’t feeling any better about it.

Deep down in her heart, does she actually think I’m an idiot too?
Is her smiling face only a mask for her scorn of me?

[Pigigi!]

A monster’s cry disrupted my thoughts.
About 20 meters in front of me, a slime-type monster was slowly advancing.

[Is this a joke…?!]

Slowing down a bit, I pulled out my rapier.

My rival was the weakest monster among all the creatures in this world.

Holding my rapier in a horizontal stance, I put my strength into my weapon.
The crest engraved on the hilt of the rapier glowed momentarily before going dark again.

[Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!]

Why is it that I can’t use [skills]?

And it’s not just people.

Being lesser than even those, I’m basically nothing more than a tumbling rock—. (TN: I feel so sorry for him lol)

[Pigi! Pigigii–!]

At the center of the slime, a red crest appeared.
Even this trash-tier monster can use skills, and yet I—.

[GOD DAMN IT!!!!]

I thrust out my rapier with all my might.

My rapier was still lodged in the slime’s jelly-like body.

[This… this trash mob is nothing to me, and yet…!]

Pressing my foot on its body, I pulled out my rapier.

I skewered the slime with my rapier over and over.

[Piii…! Pigi!!]

[DIE! DIE! TRASH!]

My body was covered in a light green liquid, but I didn’t stop striking.

Face to face with the shrieking slime, I sliced at it ruthlessly.

[Hah.. Hah.. Hah.. Damnit!] (TN: The Hah is a panting sound, not laughing. If anyone has a suggestion on how else I should translate it, feel free to comment!)

I kicked the slime’s unmoving body, sending it flying.

Sighing, I took out a recovery potion and poured it on my shoulder.
The wound slowly disappeared, and the pain also lessened.

[Why… can I not do any skills…?]

I really hated myself.

But, that was definitely just because I was in a Count’s family.

But now, that name has been lost.
Because by the end of the war, I was the only remaining member of the Asgard family which was all but eradicated from this world.

[…Alright, I need keep going]

It’s inevitable that I’d feel this angry.

Someday, I’ll definitely triumph.

All those guys who’ve been mocking me and making fun of me, I’ll definitely—.

From there onwards, I encountered all kinds of weak monsters.

At this point, my only choice was to collect raw materials on the spot and make some potions on my own.

So, I thoughtlessly used potion after potion to recover my wounds.

Ahead of me, I could see the large opening to the cave.

In the depths of this cave, I would defeat the [Sleepy Rabbit], a rabbit-type monster, and finish my mission. [TN: The furigana for the name Sleepy Rabbit wasn’t provided until now so I was translating it differently, but I’ll use this name from now on.]
A monster that hibernated throughout most of the year, its hide was often used for trade throughout the world.

Having collected all the recovery potion materials I could find in the area, I drank my night-vision potion and headed towards the cave’s entrance.

It was dead silent inside the gloomy cave.

I quietly moved towards the deepest part of the cave.

(Interesting… Why are there no monsters anywhere?)

I knew that there were supposed to be several types of monsters within Vizend Cave.

I had brought antidotes just for dealing with that, so what the heck was going on here?

Without encountering a single monster along the way, I arrived at the deepest part of the cave.
Feeling a sense of unease, I carefully surveyed the area from the edge.

(…Ah, over there.)

I saw the Sleepy Rabbit in the corner.

Its weakness is the back of its ears which have very good hearing.

Watching my footsteps, I cautiously took out my rapier.

Shit–!

Suddenly, for some unknown reason, something started rising up.

What the heck is this?

I looked down at my feet.

Is that, blood–?

Timidly, I turned around.

Chomp, chomp. I could hear it eating something.
Was that a monster normally found in this cave?

[Ah… ah…]

Unable to hold in my fear, I let out a squeak.

What the hell was that?
There wasn’t even any gossip about this kind of monster in the guild–.

[Girigirigirigiri…]

Finishing its meal, the monster decided on its next target.

Getting eaten by the monster, that would be the end for me.

… No.

I still had things I needed to do in life.

Shaking with fear, I readied my rapier.

I had to win.

Because, I absolutely didn’t want to die.

I–.

[Gshaaahh!!]

[Waaaaa!!!]

Figuring out the monster’s position by following its howls, I desperately thrust forward with my rapier.

I couldn’t feel anything below my elbow, and glanced down. There was nothing there. [TN: As in, his arm got chopped off. Ouch.]

[Damnit!!!]

Picking up the sword I had dropped, I prepared to fight left-handed.

This time, I barely managed to avoid the full brunt of its blow.

A sharp blade-like claw.

Kicking off from the ground, I charged again.

Entrails were leaking out of my side.

Because it was time to kill.

I had to live, survive, and triumph.

[Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!]

With all my might, I tried to pierce the monster’s body.

With my whole body restricted, I started laughing without knowing why.

[… Haha… even though I made it this far. Well, I almost got in the last blow, but it looks like I’ll still be eaten.]

The monster moved me towards its open mouth.

Even if I got away, I would die from my bleeding.
Laughing in resignation, I closed my eyes.

…..
……..

I wasn’t sure how long it had been.
Why hadn’t the monster eaten me yet?

I meekly opened my eyes.
The monster had stopped moving me towards its mouth.

[…? Did it… die?]

No way, from that one blow?
Without even using a [skill]?

No way, that’s imp—.

[Uh..!]

Suddenly, a light began glowing from the center of the monster’s body.

What was that?
The monster was being destroyed by a light—?

Well, I was already losing consciousness.

With great sacrifice, I had beaten the monster.
But, I was probably dead, anyways.

I saw something fall from the monter’s totally disintegrated body.
Trying to see what it was, I crawled towards it.

There was a single book laying on the floor.
I painfully reached over and opened the book.

[This… is…]

The same light from earlier flowed out from the book.
And then, my body was engulfed in a strange light.

[In my… head… what…?]

One after another, [words] were pouring into my head.

Maybe there weren’t even words.
But, I understood it all.

This was, [The Power of God]—.
Entering me was the one and only truly absolute power.

[Haha… Hahaha…!]

I slowly regained consciousness.

Looking down, I saw an icicle wher my right arm had been.
Slowly, it gained the form of a human hand, and eventually my whole arm had regenerated from ice.

Similarly, my abdominal wound was covered in an icy veil.
The bleeding was entirely stopped, and before I even realized, my whole body was patched up, with all my insides sealed up where they were supposed to be.

[… [Magic] … This is the power of [Ice Magic] …] [TN: So here, Magic (魔法) is given a pronunciation of ディザ・ベル, or “Diza Bell”. I have no idea what that means so I’m just translating it as Magic.]

I looked down at my hands.

To be able to use such power–.

[Gururu…]

Turning to the sound I heard, I saw the Sleepy Rabbit approaching me menacingly.

Baring its fangs, it slowly closed in.

[…]

I had no way out, so I pushed my right hand forward.

With the power of [Ice Magic], I would yield to no one.

[Gurururu!]

The Sleepy Rabbit made a huge leap towards me.
Unperturbed, I slowly murmured…

[Freeze.]

The air itself seemed to freeze as a rush of coldness attacked the rabbit.
Frozen in an instant while mid-air, the rabbit crashed into the ground, unmoving.

[Kukuku… Hahaha!! Frozen at my will in an instant, regardless of the target! This is seriously [The Power of God]! Hahaha! Hahahahaha!]

Overflowing with happiness, I couldn’t stop laughing.

The power of God–.
The power of [Magic]–.

My laughter echoed throughout Vizend Cave.

— And that was the beginning of my conquest of the world, in the name of [Revenge].

Chapter end