We have reached the end of peace time in Volume One.

Volume Two starts tomorrow, prepare for just a little bit of madness.

From the shadows

Several days right after the incident with the Mythical Beasts...

Vlaga Kingdom First Princess - Elma Vlaga returned from her cover of being an adventurer.

Her report gave King Owen a big headache of how to deal with this.

Normally problems with Gods will have to be reported back to other Gods.

But this time, Elma sat down and had a talk with a God without reporting beforehand.

According to her, this God is strange.

He's just...strange in every possible way.

With her combat experiences, Elma cannot be wrong about sensing his strange presence.

He does project holiness, but right below that layer in a demonic aura.

A Chaotic Existence, one that announces the arrival of calamities.

Of course, Elma couldn't possibly see him.

But his divinity was overwhelming enough to make a veteran warrior like Elma herself trembled nonstop while having a talk at that round table.

What does a God that extraordinary have anything to do at a tiny shrine like that?

—was what Elma has been wondering and confused about.

The demonic Iron Golems aside...

There was even an Ancient Priest among his guardians.

According to his clothing, his religion must be the very ancient Jhurelle Belief that has been wiped out 10,000 years ago.

A Priest like that was inside that sanctuary...

Thinking about this God gives Elma a headache.

So she decided to not think anymore and went to report to God Bagdur's messenger...

***

「Oh? Is that so?」

In a well lit room, with luxurious ornaments and paintings on the wall, a man in white robe is gazing out to the window answering his servant.

His blue hair lightly danced along the wind.

He had an interested smile on his lips, but his black eyes carried no emotion.

Turning back and walked towards his working desk, Bagdur signaled his servant to leave.

Many cylinders and beakers with various kinds of liquids inside were all over the table.

Then on a red pillow, lies a transparent bottle with a blue elixir inside.

Bagdur's geatest invention.

The most formidable achievement of divine sorcery.

A brew that goes beyond the understandings of even the Gods themselves.

Bringing the bottle up close to his face, Bagdur looked at the item with gentle eyes.

But within those eyes, a flaming desire was burning.

「Ah~ Wait for me, my love...I will soon release you...」

The reflection on the glass bottle changed as the scene around Bagdur and the item was warped.

He finally made his move after all these years...

***

Southern Empire Eriellete - Division 8 Knight Captain Goza.

He was stressed to no end talking with that strange God after the snake incident.

Goza himself had to break his rules and went to the brothel more than once a month this month because of this uproar.

He got this Knight captain position from a former individual that was exiled and became a bandit.

He wasn't extremely experienced in dealing with high-level monsters.

But that alone was enough to feel the danger from that God of the tiny shrine.

He couldn't sense divinity or anything like that, but his instinct as a cornered animal that could have died any time with that God around told him so.

The day he returned from the incident, he was immediately summoned to Arch Goddess Amel's personal room.

At first this guy thought he might be able to save money for one time to the brothel, but he was terribly wrong.

Amel's lips and eyes were smiling, but her aura was not.

The tension in the room during his report became so tense he would piss himself any time he lost his focus.

「Ah~ Interesting~」

Signaling Goza to leave, Amel stood up and settled herself on another chair next to the window.

Her light purple hair moved elegantly along the summer breeze.

Let it be either in front view or profile view like this, Amel's well defined features could not be ignored by any man's eyes.

Her pink lips once again curved up at the corners.

But this time her aura became playful and devious.

「Ralph...huh...」

Gazing out to the busy city at noon, Amel let out a chuckle...

***

My apple trees grew quite big now, Leila's carrots are also pretty ready for harvesting.

Recently, Yuah has been coming over to read books with me and Leila.

We discussed various crap about magic and gods.

The girls became quite close friends, which I'm happy for.

From time to time I would pat their heads like an almighty God who values his Mikos.

I also let Yuah taste instant noodles.

Her eyes sparkled with even more wonders than Leila...

Seriously?

People in this world love instant noodles that badly?

「Is it...like this?!?」

「Nope. Wrong!」

We're teaching her some martial art moves.

I was really nervous touching her body to fix her stances, but I played dumb and appealed as a dense type protagonist so I won't embarrass Yuah even more. She's already bright red from ear to ear.

That made Leila became sulky the whole day...

She didn't even water my poor apple trees...

My heart hurts *sobs*...

Is this how it feels like to raise a semi-death flag?

How the hell did the dense protagonists live through this?

Shame on you, dense types!

In any case, a blushing blue haired Elven Miko...

Damn...do I have to say anything else???

Yes?!?

Haha...I hope you're joking.

Anyways, after a few pats on the head and strokes on the hair, my apple trees survived the wrath of Lei-chan...phew...

I stopped by the mansion of Von and Ana to discuss serious business.

I prepared a trip to Twilight city to inspect and learn more about this world.

I'll be taking Ana with me and have Von perform another important task.

Meanwhile, I'll use points to summon another strong guardian to protect the sanctuary.

Of course, with my [Telepathy Network], the guardians will be able to contact me the moment something happens.

I'll save at least 10,000P all time to guarantee a transposition spell back to the sanctuary.

I'm reaching a bottleneck staying in this place all time.

I need a lot more information about the world besides written in books.

With that, the preparations for the guardians will be set.

The rest will only be me preparing some tricks to survive the world out there.

Right, let's go, we'll prepare to head towards the Free Fortress City of Twilight, where the 4th ranked sanctuary Twilight Ark is!

...but little did I know that, my departure would be abruptly halted...in a terrible way...