A little bit late, but I did make it......I got a little bit too into translating XD

Fun Fact: Before this, long ago, I did try to draft out a whole different story just to see how far I could go without planning anything, and I got to 24 chapters, so I'm nearing into my old limit, let's see how far can I go with this series.

Preparation of Defense (2)

They say nothing is better than coffee early in the morning.

I mean, what's better than sitting in a small coffee shop, next to the glass window looking out to the empty streets slowly turn crowded as morning goes on.

Today also, no, actually not also, I had onee-san's breakfast today.

She stopped by last night and scolded me for being so messy and disorganized.

Urgh, that hurts every time you mention it, I mean, I'M 35 AND YOU'RE 45, ONEE-SAN!!!

Geez......

Well that aside, I headed out for my favorite coffee shop, opened the door, listened to the bell rang and sat into my favorite spot with a newspaper in my jacket's pocket.

I have a noon shift for work today, so I'll be chilling in the morning, although my boss was yelling at me and wanted me to debug our new game......

Welp, who cares......I didn't even have to order, yet the waiter brought me the coffee of my preferences, that's how regular am I here.

Ah, so peaceful, I can never get bored of this......

Hm, but somehow, I feel like something's off.

As I took a sip of coffee into my mouth, the taste spread over my tongue and made me feel pleasant and......suffocating!?!?

What!? Why is it so hard to breathe? Did the clerk put poison in my coffee?

「Oiiiii, Ralph-kun, wake up~~」

What the fuck!? Who's Ralph!? Why is the waitress calling me that name!?

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I threw my eyes open and saw Amel straddling me while blocking my nose and mouth......

Err...............

That, was the true, definition, of embarrassment.

「......and why in the wide world of Ejorelle are you straddling me, woman?」

「Geeeeez......I even punched your stomach to wake you up but it hurt my knuckles instead of hurting you......」

Oh.

I guess all the past events were too tiring, mentally, for even a God like me.

But Chaos Origin should've waken me up, right?

EEEEHHHH!?!?!

For fuck's sake, then at least wake me up man......

「What are you looking at? The Sun's already way up in the sky!!!」

「Ah, right, I'll get to work right away」

I lifted Amel like picking a cat up and put her aside.

Now, let's get to business.

Ori, show me what you asked me last night again.

What do you mean by my knowledge?

I think I just heard something amazing, so let's not waste any more time, my answer will be a big YES.

Right, now let's test out what do we have here.

I made a gesture with my hand to call the Menu like I did in the past.

「WHA......!?」

I was a little shocked seeing this scene......

「Oi oi......what the hell is that, Mr.Ralph?」

「Umm......how do I say this, it's......a computer, makes sense?」

「Absolutely not~」

「Figured as much」

YUP. A fucking transparent dual monitor of a gaming PC just appeared in front of me instead of the floating little screen I usually saw as my Menu.

From geography, lei lines, population, individual status,......to the familiar [Sanctuary], [Guardians], [Settings] menus.

Everything was listed in these two monitor screen.

Right now, I can even check the status of heart-rate or respiratory system within my people......

Heck, I even know what gender is the baby Night Hunter in the belly of that werewolf woman.

Hm, so as long as the target is within my land, I can pretty much perform surgery on them if I want to.

...

...

...what?

I checked the [Guardians] menu, and yup, everything was only half the price before the update.

But wait, doesn't Chaos Origin hate the Menu, why is it so good now?

Based on my memories and knowledge, Ori called this [Operating System], but not a simple [Menu] anymore.

Errrr......hey people, me and my secretary just coded a whole OS, give us some money!!!

I feel like I just surpassed Taurus Silver, where's my little sister? Come praise me, girl!

Well, jokes aside, Ori did this so I wouldn't snatch away all the glory.

Right, let's get to work.

I walked outside of the temple with Amel, she's pretty sexy in that one-piece dress......no wait!

Why am I trying to flirt again? I have work to do, this is the effect of being a virgin for 35 years, sigh......

I gathered everyone and had them all go into the main Temple, Amel can stay since she's a God, it's not dangerous for her.

First, we need to raise our defense now that my "SYSTEM" is back.

Yup, I'm bragging by emphasizing that word.

I thought about this last night.

The way I look at this problem is that, I imagined myself designing a fortress dungeon for a game.

So what I came up with was a floating island.

The reason behind this is that, with a floating island, we'll spot air attacks more easily, also magic cannons can cover a much wider range of attack.

In case our foes try to bite our ass from underground, a floating island will prevent them from doing so, but that's not all......

Since this System is the work of Chaos Origin, I can now clearly see where the goddamn Fortune Artifact is.

It truly was buried right below our asses, so by picking up my sanctuary and make it float, I'll also be able to guard it from being stolen from underground.

Don't get it mixed up, it-it's not like I did it for the world's sake or anything!!!

No, please forgive me, that was a terrible tsundere imitation.

The person who's lurking to turn my life into your novel, I forbid you from putting that one into your book!!!

Also the times when I flirt with Leila......and Yuah......and Amel......and Ana......um......okay I'll stop.

「What are you doing?」

「No, do not look, this is adult's business」

「Hmph!! How old are you?」

「Older than you」

「......really? I'm 623......」

「......」

「?????」

「I'm very sorry, aunt-sama.....」

「!!!!!!!!!!!」

OUCH!!!

She kicked my balls!!!

GEEZ, LUCKY THEY WERE MADE FROM FANTASY ORES!!!

You shut up please, Ori.

......and, she stormed back inside the Temple with a huge 'HMPH!!!'.

Eh......for now I'll say that was cute, but if this turns into a grudge I'll cry.

Well, same as Leila, she loved instant ramen, so I'll soothe her later.

My body is still that of a homunculus, so my seeds are fine.

That said, let's get back on topic, though I lost count of how many times we got side-tracked.

In [Sanctuary] menu, there's a feature called [Terrain Manipulation] that I've never used because I never had the need to, but now I do.

Messing around with that, I understood how to manipulate my lands.

The problem now would be how do we float it up midair?

Easy.

First, I cut out a big-ass piece of land, including the Fortune Artifact underground, with our Temple and the beast village as the center.

Then, I left it there and went back to [Sanctuary] menu.

There I adjusted gravity control over that specific piece of land.

When it reached a good altitude, I stabilized it in mid air using a spell from the old Menu.

It didn't cost a single points up until I used that spell.

Hm, so that means I can mess around with my land freely, but magic and other things will cost points.

That's OK though, it's not like I got a ton of points right now to spend, so it's good if anything.

Speaking of points, I only have around 8000 now, but that ain't a problem either, I have Amel as my tank of Points.

Hopefully instant ramen works on her, or else I'm dead, no we'll all be dead if Bagdur wins so......

OK, now that we got ourselves up in the air, time for defense upgrade.

For this purpose, I had to walk all the way back inside the Temple and drag Amel out to use her Points.

She was sulking but I gave her a cup of ramen to chew on and her eyes shone like there's no Sun in the universe.

Um, where the hell is your dignity as an Arch Goddess?

Well if she can relax that much at my place then I guess I succeeded in creating a calming sanctuary.

Anyway, using Amel's big-ass pool of Points, I spread out 10 layers of Lv.MAX barriers.

On the ring-side around the floating island, I placed down 10 magic circles with offensive functions, of course, these are from a game I knew of.

Since we ain't afraid of trespassing anymore, I removed all the walls and turrets surrounding us.

Surprisingly, there was a [Return] function where I cancel the things in my lands and got my Points back.

I need to experiment more on this.

Defense and basic offense is now done, so while I'm at it I gave Amel another cup of ramen and spent her Points to upgrade my Temple.

It's even bigger and extravagant now with more buildings for priests and guests.

Its HP also went up quite a lot, which is good, we need more toughness.

When I looked again, Amel's Points already half-regained of what I just spent......

WHAT!?!?

That Empire is clearly scary, and faithful, and overpopulated, and......wait a minute......is Amel actually an idol there?

Normally only idols get this many fans and profit from selling singles and posters......

To be honest I wouldn't even be surprised if she did say she was an idol.

Back on topic goddammit!!!

I think we're pretty much OK up here, the last thing I need to do up here is to summon Ancient King Owen, but that can wait, I need to continue working when the fire is still burning in me.

Then, when we float up like this, what do we leave behind?

A~fucking~gigantic~crater~yaay~

To deal with that, I manipulated the terrain so that underground water come up and fill it up.

Then I released my Demonic Amphibian-kun, now Aqua Demon-kun, into that giant lake and sprayed a whole bunch of Mana Stones in there again.

I did say I'd make an underground labyrinth network, but last night I gave it some more serious thoughts and decided on something else.

In the future, when we open up trading with Amel's Empire, I'll make an island in the middle of that lake.

Inside that island will be a big-ass labyrinth/dungeon for Adventurers to challenge.

I'll place transportation magic circles all around the dungeon so that if an Adventurer steps on it, he/she will be warped into the front yard of my Temple, and if they seriously pray, I'll give them nice buffs and send them back into the Dungeon.

I have a detailed plan for that dungeon, but let's not talk about it now.

So, as a foundation for that, I took a crap ton of lands from deep, deep underground to create deserted island in the middle of the lake.

Aqua-kun will be guarding it, I doubt anyone would prefer to fight an Aqua Demon in the middle of a lake, unless you're a fanatic or battle maniac.

Then around the shore of the lake I'll make a town out of it.

Weapons, armors, items, and many more kind of merchant shops will be laid out around the lake with a few docks for boats heading towards the island.

I'll make the challengers purchase an amulet so that Aqua-kun won't make them his lunch.

Now that is that, and this will be this, back on topic of self-defense.

With all that said and done, for now I summoned Ancient King Owen as a new Guardian.

Then I discussed with Amel about how we were going to fight.

Oh, her serious switch is on, she looks scary as hell now......no, to be 100% honest, she looks like she's on period.

I better be serious now or my name's gonna be on the headline tomorrow for the victim of homicide......

Jokes aside, we agreed to bring a couple hundreds of Amel's troops just to make sure.

Then on my side, Von can call up 10 Ancient Liches, and Ana can call 5 Skull Face Angels.

Good, none of the liches held a golden staff, it would've been bad if one did.

Then to protect the innocent people and the elves, those 5 Skull Face Angels were appointed as bodyguards.

Our whole army has been ready for this.

To be honest, me myself can fuck Bagdur up without problems, but I prefer to be careful, they do say better safe than sorry.

I was careless once and ran into a whole series of problems because of the goddamn Artifact.

I spent the rest of the day practicing my essence, reviewed my martial arts skills when I was young and then went into the center of the beast village to have a barbeque dinner with everyone.

Before going to sleep I delivered a half-assed encouraging speech and raise morale a little bit.

Ahhh, if my sister heard what I said in that speech she'll make fun of me to the rest of my life.

No wait, my life already ended, I wonder how's everyone's doing on Earth?

「You're deep in thoughts, Mr.Cocky」

「......yeah, the stars here are beautiful, but I have a feeling they're laughing at me......」

「Hm, probably Stellar-kun's interested in you......」

「Stellar-what?」

「Stellar God Masaki, I guess you never heard of him then......」

「......」

No, you're wrong, I did hear about him, the number suspect of the meteor crash.

Ori told me about this earlier when I was running towards the Utopia of Souls.

Decided that there's no use trying to speculate, I dragged Amel back in the Temple and we went to sleep, SEPARATELY.

I'll make that one thing clear, okay?

Goodnight.