Evil God Average 【First Half – Book of Evil】

by First Half- Book of Evil (epub)

  After driving out the survey team-looking people, starting from two days later, the number of intruders suddenly jumped up. On a normal day, 3~5 parties will come to raid us. And because I got fed up with hearing the alarm each time, I changed the settings so that it would only ring once they reached the 4th floor.

  At the moment, 80% of the intruders are defeated on the 1st floor, and most of the remainders fall on the 2nd. The only party that made it to the 3rd floor was the survey team from the other day who had come to challenge it again, and nobody reached the 4th floor.

  『GYAHHHHHHHH!』

  『G-, God dammit… To… in a place, like this…』

  Also, regarding observing through the dungeon core, it needs quite a bit of mana, but I managed to reform it so that I could hear sounds too.

  The result was that I found out the reason that the survey team ‘s pace suddenly got worse on the 2nd floor. Apparently there’s miasma floating in this dungeon. Certainly now that you mention it, I do get the vague feeling that that word was mixed in amongst the attributes for the dungeon, but I want to believe that in the end it’s just the characteristic of the dungeon and not something that’s my fault. ‘Miasma’ or whatever kind of sounds stinky, so I’m absolutely denying it.

  『What a sinister dungeon. The dungeon master has gotta be a pretty dangerous guy.』

  『Yeah, we gotta brace ourselves.』

  By the way, based on what I heard while eavesdropping on them, there are apparently lots of different types of miasma, but the miasma in this dungeon doesn’t do physical harm like a poison, but apparently has an effect on your mental state. Speaking simply, it amplifies fear, and is a troublesome thing because although this dungeon is one that you need to progress through really carefully even at best of times, the miasma increases your mentral strain right away. In the end it’s just a mental effect and can’t do anything to you physically, so apparently you’ll be alright as long as you keep yourself together, but the act of bracing yourself in itself brings about mental strain, so it’s a nasty one.

  『Kuh-, the miasma is too thick! It’ll get dangerous if we go any further!』

  『We’re only on the 2nd floor yanno!? If it’s like this on such a high level, just how terrible are the lower levels!?』

  Perhaps as an effect of being linked to the exit, the miasma is thin enough that there’s almost no effect, but in comparison to this, the 2nd floor and below has thicker miasma by the level.

  …Is it really because I’m on the lowest level?

  No, no, the Evil God Aura is supposed to have a weak effect on humans, so it’s probably something else. That’s why I’m not in the wrong.

  ..*

  Proportional to the amount of invading adventurers, the amount of collected items have increased too. Honestly speaking, it’s taking quite a bit of time to sort the items that were collected. Even at a glance there seem to be some things I didn’t really understand mixed in there, so I had to throw them into the item box and check the name… and after I did all this, it ended up taking a surprising amount of time.

  And even though I did the work with all my might, sadly, despite the amount of time it took to organise everything, there were a lot of things that I didn’t need. For things like mass-produced swords, no matter how many dozens of them I had there was no use for them, so I think I’ll have them brought to town and sold for money, but if people who should have lost their items in the dungeon saw them while shopping, it would definitely be suspicious so I can’t. In that case, I could just stop collecting them, but now that I’ve already started doing this, it seems that it’ll give birth to some weird speculations in the public if I stop halfway, so I’m hesitant to do so.

  I should have told them just to collect the gold. I’m sick of seeing swords already.

  『Aah… I’m done, my consciousness… A-, All I want… just my sword… this sword that took me two years of saving up for, can’t…』

  And so, I’ve decided to try putting them in treasure chests.

  Using the Dungeon Create skill, I created and installed a treasure chest creation box. The treasure chest creation box is a wonderful thing that places the things inside it into treasure boxes randomly around the dungeon. The treasure chest creation box is something that’s used to lure in prey, since normal dungeons steal mana by killing intruders. Placing things like strong weapons or expensive gems into the treasure boxes, they lure in prey using greed.

  In my case, I throw in nothing but unnecessary things like weapons, so it’s almost used like garbage collection though.

  But still, having said that they’re unneeded, weapons or whatever can be sold for fairly high prices, so it’s not as though it doesn’t attract customers. Moreover, once the news spreads that you can get back the things you lost in the dungeon from these treasure chests, it’ll be possible to sell things under the pretense that we found them in the chest. Well, if we do it too much, as you’d expect things would get suspicious, so we can only sell a few at a time though.

  Also, I wasn’t really sure about having only these unneeded consolation prizes, so for roughly every ten, I’d mix in one with enchantment. They might be cursed, but looking at just my tantou, the stats should be good.

  『T-, This sword is!?』

  『We’d better report this to the church, or else, huh?』

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  “I am back, Anri-sama.”

  “Welcome back.”

  Tena had returned from selling things in the city.

  Also, since the number of adventurers dropping by had increased, I created a backdoor for Tena to come and go through. I might be a little prejudiced, but about half of all adventurers are rough-looking men. If it were in town then it might be another matter, but I can easily imagine that if they met a girl like Tena in a place with few people, she’d definitely get mixed up with them in a bad way.

  Of course, since I can’t say that she’ll be absolutely fine in town, I instructed her to buy a robe for herself to use in town, and not show her face too much.

  “I have put the ingredients I bought in the food storeroom.”

  “Thanks. And so, how about the thing I asked for?”

  “Yes, please have a look at this.”

  I asked Tena in an indirect manner like that, to go have a look and see how the Adventurers Guild was treating this dungeon, while she was out shopping. When I asked her about the result, she presented me one sheet of parchment.

  This was written on it:

  Request: Suppress the dungeon master of the new dungeon south of Riemel, the “Wicked Cave of the Robber”

  Reward: 30 gold coins

  Requirements: Present the dungeon core

  Time Limit: None

  “Wicked Cave of the Robber?”

  Did they discover some other new dungeon?

  “It seems that the Adventurers Guild has named this dungeon as such.”

  Wai-, they’re talking about this dungeon? Thinking about it, neither the adventurers nor the guild have any way of knowing the official name of this dungeon, so if you had to ask if it was obvious that they’d give it its own name, then yeah, it’s obvious I guess.

  But still, by “robber”… Well, I mean, I certainly do take the items and gold of the intruders, so it’s not as though you can’t call me a “robber”, but even though I thought that we’d have a more positive image than other dungeons, the impression they have of us is cruel.

  “Unlike other requests, this one does not need to be accepted, so as long as you meet the requirements, it seems that you can receive the reward. This paper has been distributed to all parties.”

  Rather than a request, I wonder if it wouldn’t be more accurate to say that it’s basically a bounty already. That I’d have a bounty on my head is not something I could even have imagined when I first came to this world… is perhaps not something I can say, since the moment that I saw the skill explanations.

  A reward
of 30 gold coins is quite a large amoutn, so I can assent to the sudden surge of intruders. If the conquering of the dungeon doesn’t progress, then the guild will probably raise the reward, so the intruders will probably keep increasing from now on.

  If this was a normal dungeon, then the intruders would die once they fell anyway, but as long as you don’t have a series of terrible coincidences, you won’t lose your life in this dungeon. In other words, unlike other dungeons, as long as you don’t give up you can try again, so even if the number of intruders increases, there won’t be much decrease.

  I need to strengthen the dungeon to stop them from breaking through to the lowest level, at any cost. Having decided this, I decided to return to the office.

  Jashin Average – 13

  English Version:

  In my mind, the bear speaks with Nakata Jouji’s voice.

  感想～Impressions

  “IMO, prefer the Jap.” -Sexy Cross Jesus (XCrossJ)

  “I actually like the English version.” -rei_hunter

  “Japanese. Just for [Nakata Jouji’s voice].” -rhayex

  Chapter 13 – Cornered

  Sacred Goddess implies ‘a saintly woman-type, goddess’

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  The alarm that represented intruders rang out.

  This sound that I hadn’t heard for the long while since I changed the conditions for the alarm to people invading the 4th floor, sent my right tension up. When I sat on the chair on my office and looked at the intruders on screen as usual, I found a party of 4 being shown. Two of them were female.

  When I checked the intruder party’s status I found a shocking entry.

  Name: Arc

  Race: Human Race

  Sex: Male

  Age: 25

  Job: Swordsman

  Level: 38

  Title: Hero of the Holy Sword

  Name: Zio

  Race: Human Race

  Sex: Male

  Age: 28

  Job: Swordsman

  Level: 33

  Title: None

  Name: Frey

  Race: Human Race

  Sex: Female

  Age: 24

  Job: Mage

  Level: 33

  Title: None

  Name: Widdi

  Race: Human Race

  Sex: Female

  Age: 19

  Job: Monk

  Level: 31

  Title: None

  Hero…?

  I was shocked at the title held by the ikemen swordsman with the short blonde hair who was walking as the vanguard.

  No, I mean, since it’s a fantasy world like this, having a hero might not be all that strange, but now that he’s here in front of my eyes, I can’t help but be shocked, as you’d expect. Moreover, the fact that it’s shown as a title must mean that he’s formally recognised as a hero by “something”. I don’t know if it’s a god, or a country, but even though there’s been close to 100 intruders so far, nobody else has had a title.

  But not only the hero who doesn’t fail to live up to his name, the other party members also have levels that are clearly a cut above the rest.

  Could this possibly be a desperate pinch that I’m in…?

  I’ve already increased the dungeon to 27 floors, but I’m worried about whether that will be enough to stop them in the end. Let’s say that they do manage to reach here, what would I do? What would they do? When I see the sharp looking shining sword that the hero is holding, an unpleasant sweat runs down my back. While praying that he wouldn’t reach me, I continued to monitor their exploration.

  『The effect of the barrier is about to run out, so I’ll recast the barrier, okay?』

  『Yeah. Counting on you, Widdi.』

  Widdi who was dressed in a nun’s outfit gave her proposal, and they all stood still in the large room. After Widdi chanted her spell, for an instant, all of them were wrapped in a white light. The light settled after a moment, but if you looked carefully, you could see that their whole bodies seemed to be faintly shining.

  『With this, we’ll be protected from that troublesome miasma for a while longer, hey?』

  『Now that we’ve come as far as the 4th floor, it’s gotten very thick after all, so if we didn’t have Widdi’s barrier, our progress would not be very good at all, would it?』

  『Huhu, I’m glad to be of use. Because we have the protection of Arc-sama’s Holy Sword, it might have been meaningless though.』

  『Nah, it helps. Even if we have the enchantment of my Holy Sword, I don’t think it would feel too good being enveloped in this evil miasma.』

  Well, sorry for being evil.

  But still, monks had a way to defend against the miasma? This is some important information. The enchantment on Arc’s Holy Sword is on my mind as well.

  『But still, this dungeon was only just made, right? Just how many floors down does it go?』

  『Usually it would take a number of years to grow, huh?』

  It seems that because they stood still to reapply to barrier, they’ve decided to take the chance to rest in that room. While paying attention to the surroundings, they sat down in the room and began chatting.

  『Well about that, it seems that when the dungeon master of this dungeon was originally subjugated, this place was only 3 floors deep. The guild believes that the current dungeon master took over that dungeon and used it as the basis for this one.』

  『Even so, considering that this floor right now is the 4th one, there’s no mistaking that this place grew in a short time, huh?』

  『Yeah, you have a point, Frey.』

  『But well, I really doubt that it’s in the double digits after all. I don’t know when this dungeon master took over this dungeon, but even at the earliest estimate, it wouldn’t even be a month after all.』

  Well, no, it’s 27 floors.

  It’s more convenient for me that they’re optimistic, so I’m not going to tell them though.

  『The dungeon master… huh?』

  『What’s wrong, Frey?』

  『Well, I was just wondering what kind of guy the dungeon master is, you see. The impressions of them is just too randomand… while you’re thinking about how they release this terrible miasma, at the same time all their traps are non-lethal, so…』

  Seeing the glamourous mage oneesan fall into thought, Arc asked her the question, and she voiced her doubts. Certainly if you consider it from an outsider’s point of view, perhaps it can’t be helped that they see it as random. It’s not like I’m releasing this miasma because I want to after all, and from my perspective, I did try to make everything consistent, though.

  『Speaking of which, I’ve heard that there still hasn’t been one fatality in this “Evil Cave of the Robber” yet, hey? Even when you get done in by the monsters and faint, they only take your weapons and items and throw you by the entrance apparently.』

  『Ahh, I see. So that’s why it’s “robber” isn’t it.』

  『Even so, we can’t let our guards down. The monsters that appear here are all strong foes that will easily wipe us out if we lose focus after all, and even if the traps are non-lethal, they’re dangerous and can throw us into a crisis in an instant. Also, if by some chance I had the Holy Sword stolen, I wouldn’t be able to face our Sacred Goddess Sophia-sama.』

  『I don’t think that beings of evil would be able to touch the Holy Sword, but yes, that is true isn’t it.』

  Sacred Goddess Sophia, huh? Is that the name of the god worshipped in this world? Speaking of which, the time when I went to the church in Riemel, I get the feeling that there was a statue of a goddess enshrined further inside the church hall. I didn’t have time to pay attention to it at the time so I don’t remember the details though.

  In my old world I didn’t believe in god, but as long as that evil god exists, it wouldn’t be strange for god to exist either… or rather, I’d hate it for there only to be that evil god, so I hope they do exist. Well, since the monk really can use their power, I thin
k the power of gods exists at the very least.

  Going by Arc’s title and the conversation just now, could it be that he received the Holy Sword from that goddess? From the name ‘Holy Sword’ it probably has holy power, and in a dungeon with lots of undead, you could say that it’s something you could call its natural enemy.

  Considering that I was rejected by the church’s barrier, I’ll probably go through a harsh time if I meet with that sword too. Of course, even if it this wasn’t the case, I’d still pass on being cut down though.

  『Well, I don’t know what kind of guy they are, but there’s no doubt that their personality is totally messed up, hey?』

  『Ahaha, definitely. They seem to be a money-grubber, so they might even be dressed up like an upstart rich guy, you know. I’m sure they definitely look like a fat, ugly lump of meat.』

  『Huhu, you’re right.』

  Youuu-. I-, I want to hit them…

  I’m sure they meant it as some meaningless chatter, but no matter what, isn’t saying those things about a maiden just too cruel? Boiling mad, I sent the monsters current on the 4th floor towards them, and at the same time, I poured in my mana and increased the spawn rate of the monsters on the 5th floor and below.

  Without knowing about the angry me on the other side of the screen, the hero party wrapped up their break and began exploring again.

  I was wondering how they were avoiding traps without a scout, but apparently the hero senses them all beforehand with nothing but intuition. Or it might be the enchantment on the Holy Sword or something. From what I’ve heard of their conversation, that possibility seems high, but it’s quite an all-purpose sword, huh? Or rather, I get the feeling that it’s already gone beyond the category of “weapons”.

  As expected of a high level party, perhaps I should say, even the attacks by the monsters whose numbers I increased were easily driven back. The skeleton lords were cut down by Arc’s Holy Sword, the black steel golems’s metal fists were blocked by Zio’s shield too. The wraiths were blown away by the flames and blizzard that Frey shot out, and even the chaos elementals were purified by the light magic that Widdi fired.