159-Dungeon management negotiations




 
 I bargained with the Creation God to let him manage the dungeon of the ruins in Bestieth.

 Originally, it was created by the Creation God to raise brave people, but brave people only came once every hundred years or so, and the dungeon of the ruins could only be entered if there were otherworldly people below level 100 in the group.

 As such, they were rarely utilized.

 The ruins dungeon had been traversed twice so far, but both times I was the one who went through the dungeon.

 Furthermore, the dungeon's administrator, Chalk, became my family.

 Also, managing a dungeon requires a large amount of magical power. Magic is needed to create monsters to attract adventurers and to expand dungeons.

 On the other hand, if you have magic power, you can do most things. And I have the curse of the evil god (infinite magical power).

 I put all that information together and explained to the creator gods how I was suitable for dungeon management.

 I can write the letters of the magic circle with magic power, I can turn the magic power into the form of letters, and I can also color them to make them visible to others.

 After a little training, I can also draw illustrations.

 I'm not very good at drawing, but if I can visualize a scene or an object I've seen before, I can use my magic to illustrate it.

 If I could visualize something clearly, I could illustrate it even if I had never seen it before.

 In that manner, I used my magical powers to create all of my materials, projected them into space, and presented them to the God of Creation.


 My request was easily granted by the God of Creation.

''Let's leave the management of the dungeon in Bestiary to Halt. The idea of turning it into a dungeon that can be used to train the low level ones is a great idea. By all means, do it.

Thank you!

 The Creation God praised me.

 As the level of many beginner adventurers rose, eventually the average strength of humans would rise. This seems to make the Creator God happy.

 As humans became stronger, their average life expectancy would increase and they would tend to pray for more periods of time.


By the way, how do you manage to put letters and pictures in the air?

 The Creation God was interested in my presentation material.

'I can manipulate magic and write letters in space.

 I gathered magic power at my fingertips and made the word 'hello' float in space.

'I usually use this to draw a magic circle, but this time I applied it and added a picture as well. How did you like it?

Hmm, nothing short of brilliant. Very clear explanation.

 Most of the information in this world is in writing, with a few pictures to some extent.

 My material, with illustrations like pictures attached, would have been pretty clear.

 I'm glad I took my information literacy class seriously. I didn't expect the day to come when I could make use of it after coming to another world, though.

 At any rate, I received permission from the Creation God to manage the dungeon.

''Then I'll let us manage the dungeon of the ruins from now on.

Yeah, that's good to know. Now, about the conditions I gave you.

 At the end of the presentation, the Creator God used telekinesis and, in a voice that only I could hear, he presented me with a condition.

'Yes, I'll manage that too,'

 I accepted that condition.

 God of creation said I could handle it, and I had a feeling that I would be able to handle it.

Oh, I see. Well, take care of that too.

 With those last words, the God of Creation disappeared.
 We found ourselves standing in the corridor of the Great Temple.


'Lord Halt, what was the last condition that the Creation God said to you?'

'Hmm, can we keep it a secret for now? I'll be sure to teach you by the time you get back to Magical Academy.

 Tina asked me about it, but I couldn't tell her yet.

 I don't think there was any, but if I failed to do so, there was the possibility of a lot of awkwardness.

 But since it was related to my family, I would have to explain to everyone before I returned to the school if I achieved the conditions of the Creation God.

 Everyone seemed to be curious about the conditions that the Creation God had given me, but they backed down after I promised them that I would definitely explain it to them.


 The condition I was given by the Creation God, that is──.

 He welcomed the saint of the Holy City Sanctum to the House of Elnor - in other words, he wanted her to marry Seira as well.

 However, it seems that there really is no need to marry her.
 As long as he could free Seira from the office of a saintess, that was all that mattered.

 Creation God wants to give Seira, who has been a saint for two hundred years, a break.

 In fact, God of Creation had sent out several oracles to Seira to replace her as a saintly woman.

 However, Seira's sense of responsibility was so strong that she hadn't yet developed someone she could confidently entrust with her successor, so she had refused the Creation God's offer.

 There were several times when a candidate for a saint was brought up that could be entrusted with the job, but the timing of the candidate coincided with the resurrection of the Demon King, and it seems that the Creation God was unable to provide an oracle.

 It takes time to raise a saint candidate, but the period of time it takes to go from saint candidate to saint is short.

 Only a pure maiden who had just celebrated her sixteenth birthday could become a saint.

 That's why Seira had to be a saint for two hundred years on her own. Even the creator God said that she had tremendous spiritual power because she was originally just a town girl.

 And this week, a girl who has the ability to become a saint is going to have a birthday.

 At that time, it seems that the Creation God is going to issue an oracle. My job was to push Seira to quit being a saint.

 They say you can seduce Seira, or you can attack her and scatter her purity by forcing her to do so.

 However, I would never choose the second option. The creation god knows I would never do that, so he told me that option.


 So, what do I do now?

 I left the Great Temple, trying to figure out how to get Seira out of her saintly office.