Chapter 152
"Hello, Lord Dekal. And…… Goddess of Fire."
Ilesia stood in the center of the deserted library with an elegant bearing, greeting us like a guardian deity protecting the books.
"……I won't hold back. You spread your legs because you wanted to be conquered by Master.
As Master's slave, I am merely doing what is necessary."
The enigmatic goddess smoothly brushed aside Bella's provocation and smiled.
I could hardly stand it. I wanted to shatter that oceanic composure.
I wanted to make her gasp and struggle for breath.
By bringing all my abilities to bear.
Mainly by using my fully erect cock and hypnosis.
With Ilesia standing before me, I couldn't stop the most vulgar fantasies from running through my mind.
As though they were my driving force.
"Master. I'll begin."
"Good. Anytime……!"
Gasp.
The space suddenly split apart.
With a sharp crack, like a bursting watermelon.
What had been the library divided apart and fell into outer space.
No, was it still standing? Our position hadn't changed. It was just that everything around us was scattering away, fleeting and insubstantial.
"Huh, did you blow up the school?"
"No. We moved."
I couldn't help blurting out something stupid.
Human understanding could not reach the things gods did.
In the black space, cracks had appeared to the left and right, centered precisely on the spot where Ilesia stood.
The inside of the cracks was dazzlingly white.
Bella, who had been closing her eyes and concentrating, let out a long sigh.
"……You really are defenseless.
A fourth-grade god peeking into the mental world of a third-grade god…… That isn't something you can be forgiven for."
Ilesia spoke nonchalantly.
"Since you've come as Lord Dekal's helper, you may do whatever you like.
I won't harm either of you."
"……This is starting to scare me. Master's hypnosis."
"……."
It was a pointed remark that Bella could make only because she had experienced the power of hypnosis firsthand.
It was possible to infer that Ilesia, too, was currently helping me because of some form of hypnosis.
Perhaps, just as I usually did things, Ilesia's cooperation had been induced.
Either way, she surely wasn't doing this for no reason.
She had some kind of objective.
If I was a person who came close to acting without a plan, Ilesia was the opposite.
A planner who constructed everything with meticulous care. ……Because of that, I could infer that she never lost her composure.
There were two main situations in which a person who planned lost their composure.
One was when their plan collapsed because of an unforeseen variable.
The other was when everything came together perfectly and they achieved success…….
"I've opened the door leading to the mental world."
Bella said so.
I pointed at the white crack and asked,
"That one?"
"Yes. There is an avatar of the Goddess of Light in each world.
We just need to force it to leave."
"How do we make it leave?"
"Attack it and destroy it……."
"Can I have sex with it and get it pregnant first?"
"……It should be in something like a puppet state. If you can, go ahead."
"Good. Let's go!"
I leaped into the first world.
Bella followed after me.
"……."
What was this place?
It was an endless wasteland.
There was truly nothing here. Aside from some stones and nameless, earthen-colored grass.
"Hmm."
Bella looked around with her arms crossed, as though surprised.
"What's wrong? If you think of something, let me know too."
"It's nothing much.
From her neat appearance, I thought she would be a woman raised like a precious jewel, but she has a mental landscape like this."
"Mental landscape?"
"This mental world isn't just an artificially prepared world.
The places where the avatars are…… Yes. They're places deeply engraved in one's memories.
This scenery must be something Ilesia actually saw once."
"This? A world with nothing in it?"
"Well……. You know, Master.
There are truly hopeless worlds out there. This was probably a world she was assigned when she was still a lower rank, one that had no hope of being saved.
Saving a world like this would raise a god's divinity greatly. Maybe that's why she saved it?"
"Being a god sounds like quite a lot of work.
If it were me, I think I'd just lie down and whine."
"Pfft."
Bella giggled and said,
"Of course.
How many beautiful women are there in the world where Master is now?
Because of their beauty, even the unfortunate souls who met untimely deaths in other worlds were gathering in that world.
But there is nothing in this world. Especially none of the women Master likes."
"Ugh."
Horrifying.
If I were transported to a place like this, hypnosis or anything else would be completely useless.
"It's lucky that the first goddess I met was you."
"……That makes me a little angry.
Are you saying you're grateful because I'm an easy goddess who let herself be hypnotized?"
"Thanks to that, we're able to be together like this, aren't we?"
"Hmph, that's true. ……So don't look elsewhere and keep your eyes on me. You idiot……."
"What did you say?"
"……Nothing."
"Actually, I heard you perfectly. My hearing is pretty damn good, you know. Ha-ha."
"What are you going to do if you know!"
She had turned completely stern in order to overcome her embarrassment.
It was cute, like Diana when her patience was wearing thin.
"I'll have lots of sex with you. After this is over. After Ilesia."
"……I'll look forward to it, Master."
"Now, then……."
Finding Ilesia's avatar in this vast place.
Normally, one would think it impossible.
But as someone who had strangely become versatile after being transported to another world, I did have a way.
I activated the 'Search' skill I had learned from Isti.
"Hmm. These are lizard tracks. A snake passed through here…… Ah, I found footprints."
"Already?"
"Are you amazed by the ingenuity of humans, Goddess?"
"……When did you even learn a skill for finding human footprints in a wasteland like this?"
Thanks, Isti.
It was all thanks to my beloved girlfriend.
It had been quite a while since I had seen her, but since we were at the same school, we'd meet again someday.
I offered my thanks inwardly to Master Isti, then summoned the spirit of wind.
"Let's move."
Riding the wind spirit, I bounded lightly across the ground.
Even when the footprints were interrupted by a sandstorm, it didn't matter.
Using the Search skill, I doggedly followed the trail.
Who was the owner of these feet?
Small female feet. Unable to walk straight like someone lost, sometimes staggering, at other times hesitating, yet continuing onward through this wasteland—the footprints of Ilesia.
Was it because of the influence of this desolate world?
Uncharacteristically, I found myself wondering what the owner of these footprints had felt as she wandered through this world.
I was thinking about that when—
"Wait!"
A gigantic creature descended, tearing through the sky.
A-a dragon……!?
It was my first time seeing one! Incredible!
"Master. Step back."
It seemed Bella intended to fight.
"It would be troublesome if the footprints were erased. Make it neat!"
"Who do you think I am?"
The three dragons of unknown origin—
were disassembled by hundreds, thousands of heat rays, becoming chunks of meat before my eyes.
"……."
W-was that thousands of simultaneous casts of End of Fire?
No, each individual ray far surpassed my level of magic.
The places the heat rays passed over were cooked in an instant, and not a single drop of blood leaked out.
"That's incredible……."
"Don't be so amazed by something like this.
Have you forgotten who gave Master his power?"
"That was Bella. Epe, who kept running away from you, must be incredible too."
"She's a god too, after all.
It might be different in a contest of strength, but a battle wouldn't be decided in an instant."
"……."
Once again, I realized that she was a being of an entirely different order.
Now I understood why she didn't get hurt when I hit her stomach hard.
Back then, I had merely been thinking, The goddess's body is optimized for perverted sex. What an infuriating thought…….
She was a being beyond humanity, capable of enduring any harsh environment.
I realized that, at least when it came to the ability to break things, humans had no business daring to stand against her.
"If I manifested in person, something like this would be child's play."
"Just how strong is Ilesia?"
"That's why you mustn't make her an enemy. A second-grade god can destroy worlds on a whim."
"……."
A goddess who could kill dragons like toys while in the state of an avatar was standing beside me.
And outside this mental world was a goddess even stronger than her.
I tensed as I realized how insignificant a little creature I truly was.
"Do you understand now how serious this is?
Because the main body is sitting still and doing nothing, we're able to roam around here as we please."
"Then that means…….
Ilesia really is offering herself to me, intending to be conquered by me?"
"……It's hard to believe, but that's what it means.
What kind of hypnosis did you use on her?"
"Who knows……."
Be conquered by me?
……It was hard to believe she had given herself such a stupid suggestion.
If she had made this kind of complex behavior possible without any time limit, what sort of suggestion would she have needed to give?
I could think of several combinations right off the top of my head.
She would have needed to coordinate at least twenty or more suggestions…….
Urgh…….
I didn't think that I, when I was a god, had been such a lunatic.
Maybe I simply hadn't realized it, and there was some keyword that could replace all of it with a single, magic-like phrase.
Well……
Just as Tilia’s suggestion had remained suspended in an ambiguous state until I interfered with it again.
A hypnotic suggestion also gradually fades and weakens as time passes if there is no existence called “me” to deliberately stimulate that situation.
That is only natural, like a law of nature.
Humans are beings who forget.
“Master. Get ready.”
“Hm?”
Following Bella’s gaze, I saw bone soldiers rising among the shattered dragon corpses.
“They’re undead reacting to the magical power released when the dragon died.”
“I’ll handle it. Rest.”
I stopped Bella and stepped forward.
“End of Fire.”
I released a beam of heat from my fingertips and swept away every last skeleton.
Since we were out in the open and the spirits were in peak condition, its range had become far longer than it was in the Trial Room.
(Your level has increased.)
(Your level……)
Oh, I guess they weren’t ordinary skeletons.
I hadn’t expected to gain any levels, but it felt like I had obtained quite a lot of experience.
“Hmm. You controlled the flames condensed through spirit magic and developed them into a new skill?”
When Bella commented on my skill, I belatedly felt embarrassed.
“Well. It may seem insignificant to you……”
“Of course not. What I gave you was only a seed.
There’s no way I’d laugh at the magic I gave my Master and he lovingly nurtured. I’m happy instead.”
“……”
“It might look a little underhanded to other people, but I’ll teach you a few things. Look……”
Bella clasped my hand tightly and let her magical power flow through it.
“You can control it sufficiently without using spirit magic.
Once you learn the knack…… you’ll be able to use an even stronger End.”
“……”
Bella seemed even more beautiful than usual.
“Master. Do you feel it? My hand……”
“Oh, it’s soft.”
“D-don’t set the mood in a wasteland like this. It’s embarrassing.”
I kissed Bella.
Bella shyly reciprocated.
“Thank you.
I won’t forget it.”
Thanks to the knack Bella taught me, it seemed I could use End without the spirits’ help.
Of course, using it as it was would roast every living creature nearby to well-done with its tremendous heat, so the Veil of Wind was still essential.
But since I no longer needed to create a Path of Wind to guide the skill’s direction as before, there would surely be situations where this proved useful.
Since it was a skill personally taught to me by the Goddess of Fire herself, I decided to take pride in it.
“Let’s go. This isn’t the time to be kissing sweetly here.”
“Was it sweet?”
“H-hng…! Master. Honestly!”
“Shall we do something sweet one more time? Hmm?”
“……”
I kissed Bella again.
This is starting to feel like I’m on a date with a goddess.
Rattle, rattle. The intruders emerged from the dragon corpses, their bones clattering.
“I’ll handle it.”
As Bella had taught me, I used End of Fire without a Path of Wind and burned the skeletons to ash.
It seemed twice as powerful.
It felt like I had only received a very simple adjustment.
“Mm……”
Bella smiled in satisfaction.
“It’s a pretty fire.”
We walked through the wasteland again, following the footprints.
The fierce wind and the frozen wasteland.
With Bella beside me, I felt at ease, as though a warm fire were burning at my side.
But I gradually began walking faster.
The loneliness exuded by this wretchedly lonely landscape was urging my footsteps onward.
The end of the wasteland.
At the heart of that despair, where another wasteland stretched out beyond the end,
a fragment of Ilesia stood there blankly.
“……”
She made a somewhat different impression from when I had seen her in the library.
The Ilesia before me now wore plain clothes, unassuming as a country girl, and had her hair tied into two braids in a cute hairstyle.
She also appeared younger in age than her true body.
“Why does she look a little different?”
“She really is different.
She said it was dividing her existence, right? Sometimes a fragment emerges with another aspect of her brought to the fore.
So…… we’re seeing the weak side of a Rank Three god.”
“The weak…… side……”
The lonely solitude Ilesia held within her.
It seemed that something like that was conveyed through the fragment’s expression.
“……”
“There’s no need to pity her.
A fragment is merely a by-product projected from the true body.
If we attack it and drive it away, it will return to the true body.”
“……Before that.”
“Hm?”
I took off my clothes.
“We should have sex.”
“Master…… Were you thinking about that with such a serious expression?”
“Sex!”
Loneliness is loneliness.
But we still have to have sex.
“Phew…… Just finish quickly.”
Bella turned her back.
Shamelessly, I pounced on Ilesia—the girl version.