Three hours of testing out divine weapons in the enclosed Demon King's controlled territory. The enemy line-up changed from wolves to goblins to kobolds..................The numbers were awesome.

''Oh?''

　Takahar stops moving as he flails in the front line. Takahar turns his gaze to his hands, which are raised to his chest.

　--!

　The bandage that was wrapped around Takahar's two hands - the glow knuckles - emitted a faint glow. As the light converged, Takahar's hands were fitted with iron merikensacks.

''Haha!　Nice!　It's great!　Isn't that great!

　Takahar laughs vigorously and hits the Kobold in front of him with his glow knuckles, which have evolved from Vantage to Merikensack.

　Evolving already?　That was quick.........

　Next, Hibiki's glow gauntlet, which had been continuously being attacked by the enemy, evolved. Following suit, Kotetsu and Lina's divine artifacts also evolve.

　The condition for evolution is the number of enemies defeated?　Or the number of attacks?

　Either way, the three people who haven't evolved are me, Sarah and the maple tree.

'Takahar!　Lina!　Kotez!　Hold your fire!
What?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.

　Takaharu snorts in frustration at my command, while Lina and Kotetsu obediently obey.

'Sarah!　Permission to use range attack!　Kaede ... increase the speed of eradication!
Ri!　I'll give you a raise~ - Fireblast!
Okay.

　At my command, Sarah happily unleashes her magic, and the maple also increases the speed of her attack.

''Master!　I.........!
Keep on getting beaten up!
...Thank you very much!

　I ignore the writhing pervert (Hibiki) and leap to the front line.

　-- 《May Rain Thrust》!

　With a series of divine speed thrusts, a group of goblins are brought together and thrust down.

　--Bottom Slash!

　I fire a shockwave at the crowd of kobolds that are frozen at a distance.

　I blast the swarm of goblins swarming towards me with a single cleave of my glow lance and stab the approaching Kobold in the throat with my glow lance.

　I'm knocked down. Adrenaline rushes through my entire body. I throw away my defenses and continue to swing my spear single-mindedly.

''Don't do it!

　--?

　An unfamiliar man's shout echoes around him.

　When I turned my gaze to the source of the shout - a man with a cropped haircut and a muscular tank top was carrying a huge battle axe.

　Is that the Demon King here?

　I turn my attention back to the acquisition in front of me - the goblin - and continue to swing my spear.

'What the hell are you doing!

　With the man in the tank top screaming as background music, I keep swinging my spear.

'Yeeeee!　Aashi's divine weapon, levelup!　Like.

　Sarah's joyful voice reaches my ears. I continue to swing my spear while feeling impatient.

　I know it's about time in terms of pace, but........

　--!

　It's time.

　A wooden spear held in a dominant hand - a glow lance - emits a faint light. With the convergence of the light, the glow lance evolves into an iron spear.

"Hmm..... You made me wait.

　I wipe the sweat from my forehead and call out to the man in the tank top.

'Who are you!　Who are you people?!

　The guy in the tank top pulls a battle axe at me.

'You'll have to tell me your name before you ask people what their name is. Isn't that basic?
'You've got to be kidding me!　Stepping into people's homes with their feet of clay and massacring their dearest friends!　What color is your blood, aaaaah!
'What?　Red?　And what's your name?
'It's Tomio!

　The man in the tank top - Tomio shouts his name.

　Ah!　The maple's divine artifacts have also evolved.

　The maple's divine artifacts that had been hunting the enemy impatiently while talking with Tomio finally evolved.

''You're Tomio.... You've interrupted me.''

　My business done, I lightly raise one hand and retreat.

'Wait!　You slaughtered my friends and you have no other words for me!
No, he attacked me. Self-defense?
'Doubt-o-ooh!　I've been watching from the time you guys started slaughtering Louga!
Louga?　...You mean the Wolf?
'It's not just Rowga it's Kiva and Ryuk, all of them, all of them... you guys... you guys...' ...

　Tomio shakes his hand and glares at me.

'If you're an important pet, you should at least have a collar--'
I'm not a pet!　I'm your friend!

　

　I left the screaming Tomio and tried to retreat........

"Gee Gee!

　One of the goblins starts screaming something.

'You heard the man!　Bern says you guys are attacking us, too!
What?
"Geeeeee.
Gee!　Gee Gee!
I knew it was you guys!

　Tomio speaks to the goblin with a goblin-like squeal, and the goblin squeals at Tomio with a frantic hand gesture.

'Heh?　Do you understand a word that guy says?
'Of course!　Don't you know what your friend said!
No, no, no, I wouldn't normally understand...

　I could understand a being with raised knowledge like canon... but this guy was speaking in natural goblin language.

　For two years, Tomio must have been preparing for an invader who would not come alone. And Tomio, who had no time to spare, learned the goblin language on his own.......

''Well then, I'm going home.

　I start to retreat, astonished at the goblin-speak of Tomio.

'Wait!'

　You are persistent.....

'Wait.......... Are you sure?　All of us here have the power to bury all your friends here, including you. Are you telling me to wait with that in mind?
Shut up!　You guys are my favorite--

　--The Dark Knight Tempest!

　A raging air current of darkness coalesces and buries countless goblins and kobolds.

'I'll only ask you one more time?　You said to wait, are you sure?

　I hit Tomio with my killing intent.

''........''

　Tomio shakes his whole body and goes silent.

'We're retreating,'

　Without a single glance at the trembling Tomio, I left the dominion realm with my subordinates.

　After returning to the control area, I instructed Lina and the others to raise the divine artifacts according to the situation, and then we disbanded.

　Although the divine artifacts were largely disappointing in terms of their immediate effect, they were very interesting items in terms of their future potential.