Chapter 33 – Even for God, Perseverance is a Must
This might be sudden but let’s talk about Renya’s divinity for now. It was said that Renya has just inherit his status as a god and his body is now still in the process of maturing into a fully matured god. He doesn’t even have his own myth and clear authority yet. In short, he is still a fledging god. Because of that, his power will definitely be lower if compared to other gods who have fully matured. It is proven to be true when his power compared to Floria’s. Floria has lived quite a long time as a god so her divinity is separated like heaven and earth when compared to Renya who haven’t even live as a god for a full one year yet.
There are ways to fill the gap through effort and practice. But the easiest way to do that is by using divine power.
Showering divine punishment to the mortal in the form of natural disaster, giving birth to a new kind of existence, exhibiting their own deed which surpasses that of a normal human could, and other similar bizarre things that can only be made possible by divine power are an easy ways for a god to improve their own divinity quickly.
There is such theory like that but in the end, what a god really is? If a mortal were to imagine god then they are an almighty existence which far surpass normal human imagination. Actually they are not that almighty as they can die like Renya’s predecessor. But their existence is indeed already a cheat by itself.
Those being called gods unexpectedly have other more option to quickly and easily increase their power, their divinity.
First, is by spreading their own name to be known by the mortal to increase their own popularity. By having more and more people aware of their existence, a god’s divinity would increase. But of course it also comes with some risk.
Even when a god spread their own divinity as is, the belief of mortal will always forked into two paths. That is whether the god is a good one, or a bad one. As fanaticism between religions worsens, a god could be recognized as both good and evil at the same time.
Both extreme ends of course could not exist together so it will result in the god splitting into two being in the end. Such case had happened before according to Floria and that is also why she doesn’t recommend Renya using this method. The biggest reason for it was because Floria simply couldn’t bear her beloved man to split up just like that.
Next one is from eating food.
This one might be an anti-climatic method but the gods also benefits normally from nutrition intake. From food, a god can receive the energy from nature which will be useful to help divine energy matures. Yes, food will be processed into divine energy not the body flesh and blood. In a way, that is also why god could maintain a perpetual youth. Their body simply didn’t change even one bit, only their divinity that is.
And the last one is spouses.
This is a different approach to the philosophy of ‘those who believed will be saved’ or ‘god is there even if he can’t be seen’. It was not the one blind faith a religion practitioner has but more like that of a lover. For their lover, even a human could perform miracles. So how could it not for a god? In a way, mortal and god are the same before love.
For god, the boost they can get from love is even more systematic. The deeper their lover’s love them and the more number of lover they had all of them directly influence not only the strengthening of a god divinity, but also would strengthen the god’s lover too by some degree. It was a mutual relationship after all. And love also doesn’t question other things like race, age, and even gender. Those all are just the same in front of love. Renya can only think inside his heart in pointing that love should question gender in the least. But well, if it was mutual how Renya could deny it? He just doesn’t want to have any dealing with those.
Anyway, after Renya long explanation, he just suddenly declares:
“In conclusion, I have reason to why I collect girls and keep them to my side like this!”
And that is how he summed his explanation out. He said that lines while taking a pose of a certain glasses character who is famous for his logical deduction* but too bad the other party beside Floria simply doesn’t know it so they don’t even react.
It was something that happened shortly after they arrived at the forgotten ruin. Renya had used up all his divine power to let 5 person fly while also not forgetting concealing their presence so the supposed 8 days one way trip got reduced into half a day. With not much in his reserves, he decided to rest first before start exploring the ruin tomorrow. This explanation happened at that night when they camped close to the ruin.
Beside Therese who had already fallen asleep earlier, the other member expression when hearing Renya’s conclusion can be guessed easily.
Those girls who had been with Renya for quite some time had grown a little bit tougher both in good and bad meaning.
When they flown near the questioned ruin and looking around at its surrounding, everyone was having the same thinking. They thought that it was natural that this ruin would be forgotten because it was nearly impossible to discover.
The ruin location is surrounded by steep mountains. Those mountains are somehow looks unnatural. It is just like, those mountains were there because someone or something ‘put’ a mountain there.
Inside Renya’s mind, this situation reminds him when he played a certain famous RPG where he needs a special air transportation mean so he could reach places like this*. And those mountains are also pretty similar to the one in the game which is they also perfectly form a clean perfect circle. This fact made Renya suspected even more that this mountain is created artificially by a powerful being that power surpass that of mortal.
At the time when Renya and party landed safely in this plains that no one else ever step on for who knows how long and opened the door of the ruin, He had exhausted his divine power. This situation caused Floria to talk about ‘how to grow a god divine power’ and it ended with a stupid remark from Renya.
After they spend a night resting, Renya and party excavate the buried entrance path and enters the ruin that was camouflaged like a cave.
When they first enter the ruin, they got surprised by how bright the inside is although this place supposed to be underground. There are lamps that were set along the wall in a fixed interval making the ruin interior bright. The path doesn’t feel cramped for even 5 people to pass them in a line formation, the ceiling is also quite high. High enough that even Elvira can use her halberd without any restriction in this path.
Renya gets excited and wants to advance immediately, but he stopped after taking one step. Renya notices something so he stops in his track.
“…… My divine power is repelled”
“Eh? Are you for real!?”
Renya scratch his head furiously, troubled by that fact and Floria responded without hiding her astonishment.
“When I want to probe this dungeon structure with my divine power it got repelled easily. This ruin seems to be something that has connection with some god out there. Therese, is there anything you noticed from the pattern in the ruin or material or maybe from its characteristic?”
“Umm please wait for a bit desu…… u-mm, I never saw pattern like this before desu. And for the material…… I’m sorry I don’t know either desu”
“In other way, we know that this ruin is not something created by human or even related to human history whatsoever. From that fact…… and from that ship sleeping in the depth of this ruin…… don’t tell me that ship is a divine armament created by this world god?”
When Floria checked whether there are any gods here when they first looking for a suitable world to stay, it was in the end can only detects any god that is still active doing their ‘duty’. So it doesn’t mean that this world never had any gods if that reading results are negative.
Renya doesn’t remember their name but he had read a few legend and myth that had happened in the past when he looks for some references in the royal library. Leaving aside whether the argumentation about those myth real or not, it was positive now that this world had already influenced in some way by the hands of the gods.
But the pressing trouble at present is that Renya suddenly can’t use his divine power. He then tests a few things regarding divine power usage and from the result, he knows that beside his divine armaments and self enhancing skill, his divine power is completely negated. Floria thinks that it was just simply because Renya’s divinity is weaker than the god who created this ruin so his divine power can’t overpower the seal that shackles him.
“But Renya, before coming here you have said it right? That you detect the ship in the very depth of this ruin”
“Yeah, I even know that this ruin reach far down to the underground and I there’s no mistake that the ship is down there ---- but I at that time, I had ‘look’ around the ruin exterior only”
“Then when you were thinking about checking the interior you also got repelled at that time right?”
“That’s right. I was planning to check the interior too so I can make a map from it but I can’t……”
He also felt that his divine power got repelled when he tries to do check the ruin interior at that time.
Floria who take a thinking pose from a while ago seems to come into conclusion and start discussing it with the other party member. It seems like this ruin will only repel any divine power that reach the interior of this ruin. Having reached that conclusion, Floria suddenly smiles charmingly.
“Fufufu…… this is an unexpected event don’t you think Renya? The main character whose were pretty much invincible until now suddenly getting his power sealed and face a major threat! And because of this crisis, the main character who usually can deal with anything by himself starts to understand how valuable the heroines that accompanied him really were! At last such easy to understand golden formula event arrives!”
“No… my power really isn’t that much sealed. I just can’t bend too much rules inside this ruin. And please stop with that kind of saying. It sounds just like I don’t know how valuable you guys are to me”
Floria mouth is turning into that of a cat while teasing Renya but Renya easily let her jokes slides without any care. Well it is indeed dangerous if the seal also restrict Renya’s divine armaments and body enhancement skill but it seems just fine somehow for the time being.
But the situation is still not entirely good just like what Floria says. If Renya can’t probe the ruin with his divine power then Renya wouldn’t be able to provide much support in conquering the ruin. They will definitely need to search for the right way inside the maze and there are also risks for traps. It is sad but, eventhough Renya is a god now he was a human before. Additionally he is also a human who comes from modern age. Coming from modern age means that he doesn’t have any single bit of experience for doing exploration or excavation an ancient ruin like this. The only one who might have some experience in doing exploration like this was only those who work as an archeologist.
“Sorry Brenda, but could you please take over the mapping? Keep track of our current position as well. Is there any magic to help you doing that? I hope there is so we can have it easier”
“Understood. I have a few spells that is useful for exploring so I think we’ll be fine”
“Please. And then Elvira, could you please detect any enemies that are coming our way? Brenda will concentrate with her mapping so she probably can’t detect any enemy fast enough so you have to cover for her too”
“Yes. Please leave it to me Renya-sama”
“And then Therese, please study the ruin’s structure and mechanism. This kind of ruin is probably teeming with traps and danger so I want you to defuse them off if there’s any”
“That seems rational desu. I agree that for huge ruin like this one, traps are something common desu. I don’t know how much I can help but I will use all the things that I have learned until today to help desu! I will do my best desu!”
“Okay then I will take the anchor, the vanguard will be Floria, and in the middle will be ordered from Elvira, Brenda, and then Therese. Let’s start the exploration!”
“””Okay!”””
There are only 3 people answering to Renya’s order with high spirit. The last one who doesn’t reply, Floria, is giving her all in showing her sulkiness.
“Hey~, Renya~, why did I feel getting mistreated here~? Why don’t you give me any detailed order too~?”
“N? You have that exceptional intuition right Floria? So please sense any other kind of danger in front of us by using that then. Trap and other mechanism will be undertaken by Therese while Elvira will deal with the enemies”
“That’s cruel! Too apathetic! Just because that reason you put me on the front!?”
“Hoo… from your talking about this ‘event’ just now, isn’t everyone supposed to help me right now?”
Author notes: Having an auto map is truly a godsend right?
Eros notes:
* A certain glasses character: can only imagine detective conan or that sunglasses guy in CSI meme. Renya acts all high and mighty while doing the glasses meme so those 'evil' glasses character like those from Log Horizon are out haha.
* Oldschool RPG golden rules: have a transportation method on land, then on sea, then flying on the air. Some example is the Final Fantasy series (mostly), Xenogears, Tales series, etc.
* A famous motivator: that over spirited tennis player from Japan. Forgot his name.
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