"Hinokagahime's ...... soul power, you say?

　Sakura took a stabbing stance while maintaining a certain amount of pause and looked straight at Demon General Suzuri.

''So you're aiming for the complete revival of Hinokagahime, in other words, you're trying to revive Hinokagahime. Not only your body, but also your soul will be rewritten ......!
I don't mind if they do, but I don't mind at all if they don't.
...... what?

　The moment a faint flutter distracted Sakura, Suzuri took a moment to pause and swing the blade down.

　Sakura immediately changed her stance and parried the slash and took another step away from the sword fight, pressing her sword blade against him as if to cut down on his Shinogi.

It is only his 'power' that we are looking for. It's no different whether the personality wielding it is you or Hinokagahime. As long as that power is directed at Agat Ram.
I see. ...... Finally, I've got it all figured out!

　He flicks the scorching sword and leaps backwards, leaving a wide berth again.

　I managed to stomp out of the wobbly--consciousness that was about to slump, and I controlled the urge in my chest to breathe and suppress the urge in my chest.

''I'm not competent enough to take on Agart Ram at the moment!　Isn't that what you're trying to say?　That's why I'm not going to go through this kind of imitation: ......!
...... Once we were defeated by Agat Ram. I myself was defeated without a second thought, and ended up losing my body. I am now a far cry from being able to fight, even with my godsend activated.

　Only after arriving at this point does Suzuri's face change in what appears to be an expression.

　It was a distortion of the mouth that could only be seen as self-mockery.

　It was proof that the defeat against Agat Ram was of great significance to the Demon General Suzuri's perception.

''The puppets you guys have been fighting so far are nothing more than function-reducing, latent-specification models. It's a degraded product that has been judged to be ...... not to be able to be concealed by a doll that can extract maximum performance when hiding in the earthly kingdom and the athropolis unnoticed. Hence ......!

　A rigid sword swung down from a god speed step.

　The next moment when Sakura barely catches it from the front, Suzuri flips herself like a whirlwind and delivers a kick that blows her diagonally downward.

''Gaku......!''

　The body of the kicked-up cherry blossom danced through the air in a large arc and was blown through the illusion of lava to the fourth level.

　I'm not going to be able to get my hands on any of them.

You will have the 'power' in your hands ....... You'll have enough ...... power to make a fight with Agart Ram's battle dolls.

　Two swords collided with each other.

　The two figures, clad in the scorching heat of God's descent, crashed into the surface of the fourth level and scattered explosive dust.










　-- I directed my words on behalf of the people here to Eir Sesroomnir, who had finished talking to himself.

''I understand how the ancient magical civilization was cut off. But what the hell does that mean? What does it have to do with me ...... us?
Oh, you do know what you're talking about, don't you?　If you're so inconsiderate, we wouldn't be giving you this much trouble.

　Ail approached me as if she were dancing on her feet and bent down to look up at me.

　The garnet twisted itself in front of me and became a wall between Eil and me.

　I don't know if that was funny or not, but Ail chuckled and took a few steps backwards, this time turning his head towards Hild, whose face was hidden by his hood.

　Hild re-covers the hood deeply and turns his gaze away.

　I wonder if Eil has realized that Hild's identity - the elves who were once under their control.

　Nothing can be certain from the pretense alone, and Eil herself didn't dare to speak to Hild and returned her eyes to me again.

'I had assumed that in every dungeon the humans had perished. I thought that even if they were able to escape from the dungeon, they would not be able to rebuild civilization and would die out. And yet, and yet ...... ah!

　Eil spreads his arms in an exaggerated gesture of acting.

'One day, a group of humans visited 'Chalk Fairyland'!　Though the ancient magical civilization and the original role of dungeons had been completely forgotten!　They had mastered the lost pseudo-magic in the name of 'skill' and had successfully re-established civilization!

　So far, the matter is as you can imagine.

　I'm sure it's obvious by all accounts that since we exist here, there are people who have left the dungeon and built a new civilization on earth.

　But what we don't know - no, what we can't be sure of is the relationship between the original magic or pseudo-magic and our skills ...... and, by extension, the position of the gods who have been supposed to give us the skills.

'Um, Sir Luke,'

　Suddenly, the brave Ezell interrupted from the side.

''Could it be that God is the one who draws out the magical power that lies in our bodies, and he calls it a skill?
"No, ...... it's .......
Mmm, so close!

　With an expression that matches his youthful and even juvenile appearance, Eir laughs off the hypothesis of the brave Ezell.

　And with a smile on his face, he tells the truth, which should not be known to the people on earth.

There is no god in this world. The great ancient magical civilization has proven that there is no God in this world. The great ancient magical civilization has proven that there was never any such thing in the first place.

　--It's like dialogue in a play, lacking in realism, yet strangely easy to penetrate the heart.

I wonder who really invented this technique. Humans on earth had mastered the art of extracting the residue of pseudo-magic in their bodies, exaggerating only how much of the diluted power they had in their bodies: ......
'So that's what God(s) and(s) believe(s) .......
Yes, exactly!

　With a big smile, Eil affirms the most unrealistic hypothesis I've ever come up with.

'Humans have created a technology that, through self-suggestion, biases capacity to only certain abilities. That's what gods are. That is faith. Everything was in reverse order.