Saikyou Juzoku Tensei ~Cheat Majutsushi no Slow Life~

Chapter 298 - Episode Forty-Five - The Great God Kudor (19)

My head hurts. Where am I?

My consciousness is foggy. My eyelids are heavy. I wish I could just fall asleep again.

“-bel …… Abel ……”

Who is it? I hear a voice.

Is it Mea? Is it Mea calling me?

Yes, I lost the battle with Kudor …… so what happened to Mea?

And, I am ……

“Abel …… Abel …… Ch……”

“……!”

I wake up.

I can see the hem of a familiar, opulent vestments.

The one with the cracked mask barely covering his face and hiding his eyes was Lord Peltaire, the black-hearted masked Queer Peter.

“You’re awake, Abel-chan.”

“What, it’s Peter-san ……”

I said disappointedly, and Peter frowned.

“You’re the first person to ever look at me and treat me like I’m a failure. I may look like this, but I’m in a higher position than the current royalty. If I put a little pressure on them, they will replace the royal power.”

It’s not very convincing when you have a cracked mask over your eyes, a tattered vestments, and your arms crossed tightly as if you’re barely trying to maintain your dignity.

Peter, I believe, was crushed to death by Kudor.

Oh, right. I’m dead too, so that’s why I can see Peter-san ……?

“You look like you’ve met a dead man …… but, you see, I’m alive.”

Peter wrinkles his eyes.

“Mm?”

When I asked him back, Peter opened his mouth as if he was having a hard time saying it.

“It’s not that I was crushed by the …… tentacles, it’s just that I was caught in them. Somehow, she managed to let me live. Ahhh, thank God for Kudor.”

“…………”

I-It’s a comeback ……

Even though you tried to bind her with magic and get her to do your bidding, but she resisted, so you were ready to help me destroy Kudor ……

“…… So that thing is still alive. What, was I spared too ……?

I raise my body up.

Looking around, I found ourselves in a meadow along a cliff.

The sky, which had turned reddish-black with the complete revival of Kudor, had already regained its original blue color.

There’s no cloud in the sky. It was so clear.

“Did that monster go back to some …… kind of …… hellish place, if you compare it?”

“Who the hell has gone to hell, you fool.”

When I turned around at the sound of the voice, I saw a woman standing there who looked familiar to me.

Her pale hair is long and hangs down to her waist.

Her body was covered with multiple layers of cloth inscribed with magic, giving her a somewhat divine appearance.

“No way, this person ……”

I whispered to Peter.

“…… It’s Kudor-sama. She seems to have taken on her current form in order to keep her magic from leaking.”

I was confident that I could bring her to the verge of annihilation in five minutes, but it seems that my hastily prepared throw of squid ross did not penetrate Kudor very well.

I’m sorry. If I had been a better sorcerer, the result would have been different.

“…… Now, you can leave little Peter and the others alone, but …… I lost 30% of the magic I’ve stored up for thousands of years in preparation for the resurrection of my evil to pull that disgusting octopus off of me. You’re going to pay for this.”

Kudor eyes glared at me.

I swallowed my spit at the oppressive feeling.

“Well, 30 percent ……”

“You must have just thought, ‘Well, I’ve been cutting back, so I’ll just get on with it this time,'” right?”

“N-no! No, sir, not at all!”

I understand that Peter was overlooked because he was unimportant.

But why did I survive?

Kudor, who seemed to have read the question on my face, crossed her arms.

“I’d like to twist you up and feed you to the din-eaters right now …… but you’ve made it impossible for me to fulfill my mission. I am unwilling to do this, but I have no choice but to ask you to fill in for the lost magic. Become my apostle. As long as you’re under my command, I’ll let that woman off the hook for now.”

“Apostle ……”

I’m starting to get the idea.

In short, Kudor wants a dewdrop tool that will restore her magic faster than she can.

The higher a demon’s spirit body is gathered and elevated, the more magic power it can store …… or in other words, the more magic capacity it has.

However, compared to the amplification of the maximum magical capacity, the amplification of the amount of magical power recovery is inferior.

This means that the higher the rank, the lower the ratio of recovery to maximum magic capacity.

If it were a mass of spirit bodies on the scale of Kudor, it would probably need to rest for several thousand years.

She doesn’t want to waste any more of that precious magic power, so she want to throw it to the humans, who are better than the demons when it comes to recovering magic power.

It is said that each of the four great creator gods also built their own human kingdoms and kept a high-ranking sorcerer from among them in their entourage.

The fire god Maharbo had the five grand old men, and the water god Levi had the four great priests attached to him.

I had often wondered when I heard the myth that if he was that strong, he should go on a rampage by himself, but perhaps the other gods had come to treat humans in a similar way.

If that’s the case, then I can understand what Kudor meant when she said, “I was trying to scare him and cut him loose.”.

From Kudor’s point of view, she probably wanted to quickly show her way up and down and scout out the apostles.

I was impressed that I had survived the blow from Kudor, but perhaps Kudor was using her reasoning to the fullest, telling herself that there was nothing she could do about it but leave it to me, and suppressing the power of the tentacles that attacked me.

“Plea-, please let me do it! I beg you! What the hell am I supposed to do with ……!”

I put my head on the ground and pleaded with him, apologizing.

If I offended her, she might kill us all this time.

Kudor looked in my direction and laughed.

“I’ll let you know when the time is right. If you let it slip out and he gets the jump on us, we won’t even be able to see. Until then, you can indulge in your peaceful life with that woman. If you need anything, use the summoning crest on your chest to call me.”

“Hm ……?”

I rolled up my clothes and put magic power into my chest.

A symbol of the Kudor Church appears around the bottom of the neck, with swirling tentacles.

Peter opened his mouth wide and looked at my chest as if he was gobbling it up.

“D-D-Don’t tell me, this is the summoning crest of the god Kudor ……?”

“Ehhhh, hey, I’m not sure that’s a good idea ……”

Even though it can only be used if you put magic into it, if the world finds out that it’s on my chest, I will either be elevated to the status of a saint of the Kudor Church or killed as a demon.

Both are troublesome and the latter is more likely.

In fact, in one day, I’ve added Zolomonia, the great demon of wisdom and ruin, and Kudor, the god of law, to my summoning crest.

“Don’t call me for nothing, Abel of the Marren …… I must gather information about the present age in this form for a while. If there is any movement, I will reappear before you to give you your orders.”

With that, Kudor’s figure disappeared.

I finally let go of my nervousness and let out a big sigh, collapsing my posture.

That way, I lay my back on the grasslands.

I’m sure I’ve gotten myself into even more trouble than I already am …… but for the time being, I and Mea are safe.

Peter, also exhausted, rolled over and lay down.

I’m also feeling heavy, probably due to exhaustion of magic power and physical and mental fatigue.

“I’m glad to hear that she seem to be a kinder god than I thought. …… I don’t know what’s going to happen to me.”

“I know, but Abel …… Can you give me back the ring I gave you? It’s not good that it’s not in my possession, and now that I think about it, it’s not like giving it to you was going to make anything better. Especially now that I’m still alive. I don’t know what would happen to this country if you were to destroy my organization or my royal family.”

“…………”

I’m sure that Peter’s organization, Amor, was a collection of Kudor Church fanatics and sorcerers who were forced out of the limelight.

They all have a reasonably deep knowledge of magic. That’s more than you can say for the alchemists of the country lords.

They are the perfect people to be research alchemists.

And the ring, which the royal family can coerce to invest as much as they want, I would not give up if I could.

I closed my eyes tightly and let out a sleepy sigh.

“Zzzz …… Zzzz ……”

“Hey, hey!? Stop it, it’s so obvious!? You’re kidding, right? You’re not seriously thinking of carrying me around like this, are you? Hey, I’m sorry! I’m in serious trouble! I need it! I’ll give you anything else you want!”