Chapter 6 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Demon
Well, as it is a game where a variety of options appear at various times, if you dig deeper later, you may find a way, but at least before Eugene was possessed, such a strategy route was not found.
… Of course, if you say it like this, wouldn’t it be okay for Eugene to take the route of becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon? A thought may have occurred to me.
The penalty for character growth in the beginning, which is one of the two biggest penalties that accrue when you become a disciple of the Heavenly Demon, originally became meaningless when Eugene was possessed in the second semester of the first year when Stral Zenon was expelled.
The other penalty, which was having to please Cheonma’s every pleasure, in short, the penalty of liking Cheonma and having difficulty becoming her disciple, was not such a big penalty for Eugene, who knew her strategy.
… However, despite this, the reason why Eugene did not necessarily think about becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon was because of the talent of the character Stral Zenon.
‘There’s no way a guy who was good at martial arts and had no talent for magic would be good at martial arts, right?’
It is said that reaching the level called master or absolute is not talent but the area of enlightenment, but to put it another way, it was said that talent has a very large influence on reaching the level called expert or superhuman. .
In such a situation, you become a disciple of the Heavenly Demon with the body of Stral, who has no martial arts talent at all?
Even if the martial arts taught by the Heavenly Demon were so excellent that they reached the sky, there was no answer. Perhaps it will take at least 10 years before I can reach the level of a superhuman?
‘In that case, it would be better to acquire my own abilities.’
In this case, even if the enlightenment part was not possible, it was a situation where the status of the absolute was naturally resolved, so it would be possible to grow quickly by solving the essence capacity through all kinds of hidden pieces.
No matter how talentless Stral was, pioneering a path and walking down a path that had already been paved from the beginning were two completely different stories.
With that in mind, Eugene begins to climb up the tree where the entrance to the dungeon is located, showing off his skillful movements.
‘Well, even so, there is no route that guarantees safety more than staying by the Heavenly Demon’s side right now, so I am trying to obtain the old martial arts book like this.’
Yes. Even though I had no intention of taking the route of becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon, there was a reason why I was trying to obtain the hidden piece named Guyu Demon Duke, which was a condition for taking that route.
The route to becoming a disciple of the Cheonma begins not by putting the martial arts book of Guyu Demon in her hands and learning it, but by accidentally meeting the Cheonma who is hiding somewhere in this forest and returning it to her.
Of course, just giving it back didn’t make him her disciple right away, and he was able to become her disciple only after he continued to like her by pleasing her without dying among all the options, but in any case, it started with the hidden piece called Gu Yuma-gong’s martial arts book.
Eugene intends to take advantage of the situation where he has to stay by her side and listen to her help during the winter vacation period, which is the process of becoming a disciple even if he does not become her disciple after pulling the trigger on the route of becoming Cheonma’s disciple through the old magic trick. That is.
Originally, the standard route was to overcome the minefield of all kinds of mines installed through this process, raise Cheonma’s favorability rating, and then become her disciple, but Eugene plans to use this route with a slight modification as the game has become a reality. It was.
‘I plan to raise the favorability rating according to the favorability rating, but…’
The character of the elf Cheonma itself was a character with excellent brute force, so it was not a bad thing to raise the likability rating.
However, due to the nature of the character Cheonma, the problem was that if you make even one mistake while working to increase likability, you could end up completely mad…
‘In the first place, if I am not protected by the Heavenly Demon, my human rights and life are in danger, whether I will become a slave or be murdered out of spite…’
In that case, it would be better to take the relatively less risky role of the Heavenly Demon since you know the strategy.
It is presumed that if you raise your favorability level to the point where you are invited to become a disciple, you will be able to receive some level of protection even if you decline to become a disciple.
‘In this dungeon, you can obtain the Manger Demon Craft and return it to the Heavenly Demon, increasing her favorability and taking the route of becoming her disciple. And after increasing her favorability and receiving her protection, she politely declines her invitation to become her student. At the end of winter break, she returns to the Academy and takes the first-year combat department entrance exam.’
First of all, the plan itself was perfect. Even though he is a hidden person, the Elf Heavenly Demon’s eccentric personality and inaction are quite famous even within the capital.
Well, in the Orbital world, where it is not really known what the Heavenly Demon is, the rumor was that there was a strange elf who called himself the Heavenly Demon and was staying somewhere in the forest near the capital, and that he was a master-level strongman, one of the few in the world. That is.
Even so, the rumors about his inaction are true, so even if he were a noble who had a grudge against Strahl, he would not be able to attack Eugene as long as he stayed by the Heavenly Demon’s side.
‘In other words, if she takes the route of becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon, she can be safe during winter vacation even if she doesn’t end up becoming a disciple.’
And that was Eugene’s purpose. It was painful for her to kick the route of being able to learn from all the high-ranking magicians of the Heavenly Demon, including the Manger Magician, but in the first place, even if she learned them with Stral’s talent, they were useless magicians.
In that case, it would be better to use a hidden piece called Guyumagong to ensure your own safety.
It was a very unsafe situation in that they were only trying to ensure safety at the cost of a legendary skill, but if they didn’t do this, they would either be sold as sex slaves or killed, so there was nothing they could do about it.
“Come on, let’s dive in.”
For that reason, for his own safety, Eugene reached out to the clump of leaves on just one tree out of the many, in order to get his hands on the old martial arts book.
Rather than having leaves hanging from branches, many leaves were bundled up on the tree, like a bundle of straw.
No matter how you look at it, it is an object that is not natural but artificial. However, since it was an object made of leaves bundled together, it was difficult to recognize its existence if it was placed on a tree boasting dense leaves.
Because the leaves were so thick that you couldn’t even see the tree branches by just taking a quick look, it was hard to tell them apart.
Eugene also knew about this existence and searched for it with all his eyes, so he was barely able to find it. Ordinary people would have passed by without even knowing about the existence of something made up of leaves.
… And this artificial bunch of leaves could be said to be the entrance to the dungeon where Lord Gu Yuma was sleeping.
Rather than a dungeon that exists overlapping in real space, it is a subspace type dungeon that takes you to a completely separate subspace when you enter through the entrance.
Therefore, it is said that the moment Eugene touched the entrance to the dungeon, he felt as if his body was being sucked somewhere and disappeared on the spot.
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Orbital World is set in a medieval fantasy world, but the world’s civilization itself was closer to modern times than medieval times due to the influence of magic.
There is a class system, kingdoms and empires, but should we say that the civilization related to the standard of living is a world that is modern, or in some cases close to modern, through magic?
Therefore, it was a world view full of a sense of disparity in which the social norms of the medieval era, such as giving up on gender equality, were allowed to exist despite the existence of modern-day water supply facilities.
Orbital World’s world view is a world where this gender-discriminatory social norm is completely reversed and the ideology of men over women dominates.
Therefore, the Orbital World was a worldview in which the social conventions about men and women in the Earth’s Middle Ages were reversed, polyandry was allowed as if it were natural, and slavery also existed, with most sex slaves being men.
In other words, it is a worldview in which most of the power that makes up the world is concentrated in women, so it is natural that not only the emperor of the empire but also the successor is a woman.
“… Are you saying that you left the imperial capital and headed to Laina Forest? “That Stral spirit?”
And to put it another way, the Crown Princess, who firmly maintains her position as the successor to the next throne, is also a woman.
Rather than the Crown Princess who overpowers her eldest son and becomes Empress because of her skills, which is common in novels and comics, the Crown Princess means a Crown Princess who will rightfully become Empress based on her legitimacy rather than her skills.
Of course, that did not mean that the Crown Princess’ abilities were low.
It is simply a story that since legitimacy is overwhelming before ability, if ability is added to it, the position of successor will not be shaken under any circumstances.
“Yes, it seems that Yeong-sik was not as extravagant as rumored. “You can see that he left the capital, which is the most dangerous place for him right now.”
“No, Stral Youngsik… , No, it wasn’t even English anymore. That Strahl man is even more stupid than the rumors say. “To be precise, he is a man obsessed with an inferiority complex and unable to use what little brain he has.”
Otherwise, she is a beautiful girl who would join hands with the Demon Lord like an asshole and even find it so easy that it would be in vain.
As the only princess of the Orbital Empire, she is currently appointed as the crown princess. She even shares in the duties of the empress and is steadily growing as an empress in the future.
The blue-haired girl, who proudly serves as one of the four main heroines in the game named Orbital World, has her own news about the man who was her own fiancé until one day ago. I was listening to the news from the driver.
“Is that so? However, if what the princess said is true, I don’t understand the fact that as soon as she was expelled from the Grand Duke’s family, she left her capital and hid in the forest. Doesn’t hiding into the forest mean that she at least has the intelligence to recognize that it is dangerous for her to stay in the capital now that she is no longer a noble?”
When the female envoy in charge of her protection confirmed the information from her source and relayed it to the crown princess, Prisian, expressing her doubts, Prisian could not help but tilt her head as well.
“I don’t understand that part either. “If it were the Strahl I knew, I thought he would foolishly try to use his authority that no longer exists to go to his mother’s house in a carriage or go to the Demon Lord without even understanding that he was used and abandoned.”
And of course, as a result, Freesian thought that he would not be able to achieve what he wanted and would either become a slave or be killed in an alley somewhere due to the karma he had accumulated.
But I never would have guessed that right after he was expelled, he quickly escaped from the capital and hid himself before the news spread throughout the capital…
“Hmm… , Did he come to his senses only after being stripped of his nobility? Or is there some other reason… ?”
“What do you want to do? Wouldn’t it be better to give an order to track it down and deal with it?”
When Prysian looked worried at Stral’s actions, which were different from what she had expected, the female knight asked carefully.
“Me? “Do you really need it?”
In response to the female knight’s question, Prysian smiled brightly and asked in a cold voice, and the female knight carefully shared her thoughts.
“That’s true, Strahl, wasn’t he the princess’s fiancé? Of course, since the princess herself helped expel Strahl after revealing his sins, she would not try to slander the princess with the matter about Strahl…”
Even so, from the perspective of Prisian, the crown princess who was perfect in every way, even if the engagement was broken, the fact that she was engaged to Gstral Zenon was bound to be a flaw.
Even if Orbital World’s worldview is a world in which men and women are reversed, if the engagement is broken off, there will be little harm to the woman and it will remain a bigger blemish on the man.
From the perspective of Prysian, who has no other position but will rule the Orbital Empire as an empress in the future, it is a wise choice to eliminate in advance any elements that could lead to political corruption, even if it is only a blemish.
In that sense, the female knight’s suggestion was not strange either. Even if the engagement was broken, it is a clear fact that she was engaged to Stral Zenon.
In that case, it would be better to make the flaw, which was originally just a gise, even smaller by removing the person responsible, Stral, when the opportunity arises…
