บท 240: 240. The Demon Lord, Ariel
"Demon lord?"
Kumoko didn't understand what Izumi meant about her attracting the demon lord's attention. She never remembered having a conflict with the demon race, much less being hostile to the demon lord.
"Ah, maybe he meant it, since I have the title "Champion", the demon lord acknowledged my existence and wanted to recruit me. Hahaha, that must be what he meant. Hum, hum."
Kumoko spoke to herself while nodding her head. Yet, what awaits her is a crisis between life and death.
— — — —
Two days later in the evening.
"Finally done."
Currently, Izumi is on the beach where the ocean contains beasts such as water dragons and the like.
At first, he went to Keren county to buy some magic tools or metal materials. However, because his money was up, he couldn't rent an inn. He also felt uncomfortable asking Sophia's father for help so he decided to leave.
Izumi has 3 skills given by D. The first was the automatic translation that he had used when he arrived in the world he now lived in. The second and third are weapon creation and item creation. Although those skills are only auxiliary skills, they are very useful skills, especially when both skills have reached their maximum level.
"Now, my IS already has a more powerful and complete arsenal than before. There are only two things left."
After finishing his work, Izumi dives into the sea in search of prey due to his empty stomach. He caught some big fish and cooked them.
Izumi muttered.
"It would be great if I obtained precious and indestructible materials to create a god-slaying sword or something."
Thinking of materials for making weapons, of course, the first thing he thought of was a dragon, because most good weapons were made from parts of dragon bodies, bones, scales, or teeth.
"Looks like I have to go down to the lower layer of the labyrinth. Better ask Kumo-chan for directions."
Thinking of that, he immediately went to look for Kumoko.
However, when Izumi arrived in Keren county, he saw no sign of Kumoko. He couldn't detect her aura at all, be it inside of the city, or outside.
"Don't tell me she's met the demon lord already?"
But Izumi found it strange, it was only the second day after Kumoko evolved. She shouldn't have met the demon lord so soon.
Izumi stopped by Keren county for a bit to check on the situation. Maybe he got some information about Kumoko. And sure enough, Kumoko was still here in the morning. But she went somewhere during the day.
Izumi headed into the city, jumping from one building to another undetected like a ninja. When he saw a familiar carriage in a mansion, he stopped at a large tree near the mansion. Izumi was relaxing on a large tree near the mansion while waiting for Kumoko to come back.
The next day, Izumi saw Mr. Keren's guest who was an ambassador from the country of Ohts, causing trouble. He seemed to be deliberately drawing anger from Mr. Keren for something to happen.
Seeing that, Izumi shook his head and said,
"As expected, even though Kumoko isn't around, he still deliberately creates trouble so that the war between the two countries will occur. Even if I later save Sophia and her family, the country of Ohts will still start a war in another way. It can't be stopped."
Izumi more or less knew what the ambassador from the other country was planning. But he wanted to wait for the right moment to act. Izumi quietly went to the room where Sophia was resting. He called her softly. Sophia was a little surprised when Izumi suddenly came.
"You must understand what happened to your family, right?"
Sophia nodded at Izumi's question. She knew that the ambassador from another country had absolutely no interest in negotiating which was his main reason on paper.
"Then keep this device safe! If you're in danger, press the button! I'll know right away if you press it."
Izumi gave Sophia a tool that was the size of a flash disk with a size of 1x2 cm. Sophia accepted it with her tiny hand while looking at Izumi. Just then, Izumi marked her palm with a Jutsu formula.
"This is a Jutsu formula, so I can save you if you need my help."
Izumi only intended to help Sophia out of his goodwill. But Sophia was muttering to herself. "Eh, what's with this setting? Why does it feel like a conversation in an Otome game?"
Even though Sophia was still around 1 year old, inside, she was a high school teenager. It was not strange if she had that thought.
After that, Izumi left Keren county. He went somewhere to avoid people's eyes. What was on his mind now was a sea full of monsters including water dragons whose body parts and blood would be quite useful for him. He wanted to go to the labyrinth, but the place was quite complicated, and preferred the ocean because he was pretty sure no sea monster could defeat him.
"I'll find some materials first."
At that time, Izumi didn't know that Kumoko had just returned to Keren county and stayed outside of the city after Izumi left. Izumi felt that his arrival in this world made the storyline deviate from the canon. So, he thought that Kumoko had already met the demon lord Ariel and she had fled to another place to avoid her.
— — — —
For three days, Izumi only went to two places, at the bottom of the sea and on the beach. Not only trained his body, but he also made weapons from the materials he got when hunting a water dragon. With just one dragon, he had already obtained a lot of raw materials from the dragon's body parts. Then, Izumi made various kinds of weapons except for firearms.
Starting from swords, daggers, a pair of gloves, a spear, some kunai, some shuriken, and several other weapons. Thanks to the weapon creation skill, Izumi was even able to make a weapon with just a few taps of the hammer, like using a forging skill in a novel that had a story about a VR game.
*boom*
Suddenly, Izumi heard an explosion sound from a distance.
"Hmmm?
Izumi immediately packed his things and looked at the situation from mid-air. Due to the considerable distance, Izumi couldn't sense the presence or aura of someone who had just made a commotion. This made him curious and flew closer to the location.
The silhouette he saw from a distance came into view. What he saw was the figure of a little girl who seemed to be trying to communicate with the spider monster in front of her which was none other than Kumoko.
"Ariel?"
The little girl is Ariel, the demon lord who is one of the oldest creatures in the world. Izumi wondered what they were talking about. But he saw Ariel's face was slightly angry which Izumi could guess the cause of.
Since Kumoko had killed many of her kin, how could she not be angry? Yet, the one who killed them was also one of her own kin, to be exact, her granddaughter.
Izumi suddenly stopped. He could have saved Kumoko. But he knew that Kumoko was immortal now. He had absolutely no benefit in saving Kumoko now.
Izumi thought that it was better for him to descend to the ground than in the mid-air. And the moment Izumi's feet stepped on the ground…
*bang*
He saw with just one move, Ariel had destroyed Kumoko's body into pieces which were then thrown into the ocean.
Izumi frowned and looked at that attack.
"Too strong. What the hell with that power? My power can't even come close to that." Izumi muttered in amazement.
Ariel is one of the oldest beings on the planet. It wouldn't be strange if her position was at the level of a god or an administrator.
"But then again, it's been almost a millennium since she hasn't been able to break through to the god level."
Izumi didn't feel that Ariel used law energy as Wakaba Hīro did. It is safe to assume that Ariel can't use it at all. Or perhaps, she is hiding her power all along. Izumi wasn't sure.
With the exception of law power, although Izumi still loses to Ariel in terms of raw power, Izumi has another aspect that enhances his strength to the point that he can be said to be on par with Ariel.
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