Pluto's Banquet - Allies of Shadows

"Contestant No. 420, Ogme Burning Eagle, please report to the center of the arena."

The arena messenger's voice came from a horn in the corner. .

Ogme, who was lying on the bed, stood up at this moment, and walked towards a miniature torii gate in the room. At this moment, Ogme was wearing a silver light armor and holding a gray-white demonized weapon in his hand. , there are some dark yellow crystal fragments on the hilt, and the runes on the back of the knife are still shining with blue light.As soon as the foot stepped through the torii gate, the whole person disappeared, and reappeared in the center of a circular arena.

A few days ago, Ogme, who had just been blown away by Ferris' magic, landed in the southernmost area of ​​the underworld, a forest of cherry trees.Although the scenery is beautiful, now is definitely not the time to appreciate it, because Eureka and Hanami were also blown away and they don't know where they are.

There is no communication tool, only the so-called "funding reward" given by Hades, a small dark purple cloth bag; and a weapon.

Thinking of weapons, Ogme suddenly realized that the sword he was holding before was gone.But soon he stopped panicking, and instead raised his hands, posing a posture of holding a sword with both hands, and imagined in his mind the appearance of the weapon he had just obtained before blowing away.

The gray-white magic weapon gradually appeared in his hands.

Article [-] of the guideline for using weapons of the commanding group: Once the weapons of the commanding group are successfully fused with the holder, the weapon can appear or disappear as you like, even if the weapon is placed far away from you, you can use it when you want conjure it up at hand.

This is the exact words written on the label attached to every weapon of the Domination Group, and Ogme has also heard it in the previous lectures.Now experience it for yourself.

Now that the weapon's label is still attached to the hilt, it's best to familiarize yourself with its characteristics as soon as possible.

Name: Jaws of Soul Devourer

No.: 623

Type: Two-handed sword

Crystal Content: Base 16%

Magic bonus: 10% of all magic

Magic Suppression: 10% of all magic

Explanation: It can absorb essence from the weapon held by the defeated person and fuse crystal energy.

"It's really a good idea to prepare weapons for new adventurers."

Ogme grumbled.

Then, perhaps due to the natural luck of adventurers, the trees in the direction Ogme was heading towards gradually became sparser.Finally, he saw a small town not far away. Although there were only a few buildings, they were all distinctive.Because each building is spliced ​​by polygonal glass of different colors.And there are many large and small tents and some tree stumps around these buildings.

Of course, there are buildings and tents without demons, but most of the demons Ogmi saw here were humanoid demons, while the powerful demons mentioned in the lecture did not.

Going to the largest building in the town center to inquire about some situations, Ogmi got a general idea of ​​the current situation here.

This place is called Xuanfeng Town, and it is the only registration location for the "Amber Ring" arena held regularly every year.When all the games are over, this place will be silent again.However, due to the movement and reconnection of the underworld land not long ago, the surge of magical power has caused more or less changes in various places, so this place that should have been a desert landform has now become a sea of ​​cherry trees.In the past few days, in addition to receiving the applicants for the arena, land development work has to be carried out to open up major traffic routes.So it's going to be a very busy time.

In addition to the local information, Ogme also came with a new map of the underworld, but because the most detailed maps of various places have not been drawn, the map he got now only draws the re-stitched outline of the land.Ogme also knew that he was in an area called Kamasha Valley (I heard that it was called Quicksand Valley before the land change, but now the environment is worse than before in a sense, so it was renamed).After further inquiring some information from the staff in charge of the arena registration, Ogme decided to participate in the new season of "Amber Ring" while collecting more information to find the whereabouts of Eureka and Hanami.

Together with the other registered players, he followed the arena staff to the outside of the town. There is the only road that can be entered from the center of the valley in the south. Outside of it, some very special creatures are kept in captivity with tall fences.In order to enter the arena, there is still a last stretch to go, so they need to use their power.

The sickle sand runner has four thick and long legs, the feet are like three leaf-like pads, and the head is more like an insect. It has six round eyes and antennae. It stands up to four meters high.Although the appearance is very weird, it is actually very gentle and has a strong load-bearing capacity. The biggest advantage is that it can walk quickly in the quicksand in front of it.

In this way, after traveling southward for about 20 minutes, Ogme finally arrived at the destination of the trip, to be exact, it was below the destination.

The building in front of me, or the land, is already floating in the air. This conical land is now being fixed to the ground by several iron chains to ensure that it will not continue to rise.And the cone-shaped subsoil has been transformed into stairs running through the interior and countless houses protruding outside, large and small.This is the "Ring of Amber" arena.

Right below it, there is a large conical crater of the same size. The depth of the crater is exactly the same as the height of the floating land above.But now the golden sand at the bottom of this pit is rolling unnaturally there, and gradually rolling upwards.

At this time, all the runners on the sickle sand walked towards the big pit with the contestants on their bodies, and Ogmi swallowed.When the sickle sand runner was about to fall into the big pit due to stepping on the air, the quicksand in the pit just reached the height parallel to the ground.The snails stepped on the quicksand, and the quicksand continued to rise until Ogme saw that the cone-shaped land above had an exposed staircase entrance, and the quicksand stopped rising.

Stepping on the back of the scythe sand runner, Ogme, like the others, entered the interior of the Amber Ring arena from the dozen or so entrances. At the end of the narrow stairs was a wide room, where other contestants gathered one after another .

"Please stand still, now we will give you the exclusive identity props for participating in this arena competition, the 'Douju ​​Wrist Wheel', and the most detailed arena rulebook."

It was a strange existence that uttered this echoing man's voice.

The body is made of dark yellow film filled with black gas, the shoulders and chest are covered with dark yellow and purple matching armor and cloak, and there are two decorations of some kind of biological skull on the shoulders.The arms are long and have claws, no mouth, and the eyes should be just two small black holes constantly emitting black smoke.In addition, the lower body was completely covered in black smoke.

For the current Ogme, he is quite familiar with the creature in front of him, because he has seen similar creatures before his death.

Douju ​​Wrist Wheel: From the appearance, it is just a piece of dark green cloth wrapped by two gray belts.But in fact it is also a simple magic tool.If the wearer has a match, it will emit a bluish-yellow light immediately, and if the wearer delays in participating in the match, it can even forcibly teleport the wearer into the arena.

"Ring of Amber" arena game rules:

1. Challenge the person whose number is higher than yours.After winning, replace that person's number.You don't need to challenge any more until your number reaches number 10 or above.

2. The person whose number is higher than 1 will be rewarded with 80 Mora for each game won, and will be disqualified for losing 3 games in a row.

3. All private fights are prohibited, and those who violate the order will be deprived of their lives.

4. It is forbidden to deprive the opponent of life in the game with the number below 10.

5. All contestants are not allowed to leave Kamasa Valley between games.

After that, everyone was taken to see the competition venue, infirmary, and supporting training ground, restaurant, bar and other facilities in the arena.It was already night when Ogme was assigned to his own lounge.Although this is somewhat contrary to his original intention, he will spend this period of time in Kamsha Valley.

The perspective changes to other places in the underworld. Yuzra, Yui, and Kuykana in Yuetong City come back from the outside. The spacious hall on the first floor is very dim, and the interior decoration can hardly be seen. There are only three tall towers in the distance. The dark blue light emanating from the tombstones.While the three were walking towards the tombstone, a voice sounded.

"Welcome back, Lord Yuzra."

"Ah, back."

Yuzra also responded.

"Now I have something to tell you."

As he said that, a figure fell from the position that was probably the ceiling.

"It's the big bat from before."

Kuikana said.

Huge dark purple wings with some light blue runes on the inside, although the head is covered by a light blue helmet with a full sense of mechanics, but two big ears with three forks are exposed outside.The belly and legs are also covered with some metal armor.

"Let me introduce to you, he is 'Sacrificial Skeleton' Holubator, the guardian here, if someone breaks into Yuetong City without authorization, he will basically not walk out of the hall on the first floor and be dealt with by him."

Hearing his master introduce himself in this way, Holubator raised one wing to his chest and bowed.

"But, no one is stupid enough to come in through the main entrance?"

Kuykana asked.

"Although I can't demonstrate this to you, from the outside it looks like we come in through the main entrance every time, but we are actually teleported here when we enter. We will also be teleported here if we enter from other places. There are other ways to go directly to other parts."

"In other words, this is the first area of ​​Yuetong City, and it happens to be the first floor."

"Yes, that's it. Uh, it seems that you just said you have something to report, right?"

Yuzra suddenly remembered.

"Hi, Lord Alante has just visited and is waiting for you now."

Holubator said.

"what!"

Yuzra's eyes widened.Then immediately grabbed the hands of Yui and Kuikana, and quickly gathered strength and disappeared into the hall.

The three of them reappeared in front of a gate.A long sword has appeared in Yuzra's hand.The color from the hilt to the tip of the sword changed from dark blue to light blue, and a huge diamond-shaped white gemstone was inlaid in the middle of the original streamlined sword body, so that the blades on both sides of it also curved outward.

"Um, can Uzra tell us what it's for?"

Yui asked.

"Could it be that the man named Alante has a bad relationship with you?"

Kuykana guessed.

"It's not that the relationship is bad, it's that every time we meet, I will be teased by my stupid brother!"

As Yuzra said, he pushed open the door in front of him.Then he raised his sword and jumped in.

"Ah, you're back, Yuzra~"

Alante, who was sitting in the room, said.

"This time I'm the first!"

Yuzra shouted.

"I'm going to see the panties~"

When Alante said this, Yuzra fell to the ground with a knife.

"Ah, it hurts so much!"

"Hey, I'm actually lying to you. But it's nice to see you look energetic!"

"Uh, damn it. Brother can't come in without my permission."

"But you never said hello when you went to my place."

"It's two different things. My idiot brother can't just come here."

"Then sit on my lap as an apology~"

"Really? Then I'll be rude...Ahhhh, I forgot that Yui and Kuykana are still there!"

Standing at the door, Yui and Kuykana were already powerless to complain.

But in the end Yuzra sat on Alante's lap.

"...These are my two new friends. You must know Yui, and the other one is Kuykana."

Yuzra introduced.

"Hi, I'm Yuzra's brother; my sister thanks for taking care of me. She used to be..."

"Stop, don't say any more, idiot brother."

"Well, it's nothing important anyway."

"Brother, why did you suddenly come to my place today?"

"Can't you come and see my lovely sister if you have nothing to do?"

Hearing this, Yuzra's face immediately turned red, and then turned away.

"Don't say such nasty things, uh, don't get so close to me!"

"You sat on my lap yourself."

Then Yuzra jumped down again.

"...I think the two of us should avoid it for a while."

Yuyi said.

"what?"

"Yes, come and find us when you're done, see you later~"

Kuikana walked out of the room with Yui after saying that, and closed the door deliberately.

"Wait a minute, you guys must have misunderstood something, hello!"

"Well, it's just the two of us. Now we can get down to business."

"...Is my brother finally going to do that to me? But...do I have to wait until night?"

"You seem to have really misunderstood."

The conversation paused for a few seconds.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ahh

"Look through the conversation list, where did I say something strange?"

"This is not a game, how can I find a dialogue list?"

"Heluka asked me to come here to work with you on the second issue of "The Story of Sacrifice."

Alante said so suddenly.

"Ah? Why did you switch to such a topic so bluntly?"

Yuzra also finally calmed down.

"Although I am looking forward to what you can come up with, but the time is tight, because there is another thing besides the production of the "Ji Monogatari" program."

"Ok?"

"Heluka asked you to make a documentary about the Blood Sakura Festival."

"Because this year is the 20th anniversary of the Blood Sakura Festival?"

"Yes, she has already made a very short promotional video, you can watch it first. Also, ask your two friends to come and participate in the recording of the program."

"Uh? What? My brother is not allowed to shoot at my friends!"

"...I don't seem to have said that."

The second issue of "Monogatari" looks to be on the horizon.

One last look at a world that is about to be destroyed.

The severely damaged streets left only the scorched earth city, and there was a huge silver-white cross in the big pit on the ground, and the two people standing beside it were talking at the moment.

"Whether it's destruction or rebirth, although the progress is okay, don't you feel sorry for Moro?"

One of the generals of the underworld, "Qi Blade" Sendenori said.

"In addition to selling arms, there are many other things that can be sold to other worlds. If you really feel sorry for Master Moro, you can 'reborn' with this world."

"The face of the sky," Teresa touched the cross next to her after she finished speaking.

"Don't release skills suddenly!"

Sendenoli left and flew off the ground.

"Hey, it's rare to see you panicked."

Teresa also gradually flew up, and the ground behind her began to fluctuate regularly around the cross, and the range continued to expand outward.

The ruins on the ground also began to gradually "sink" below the surface with this wave of fluctuations, and this wave of waves then expanded to the entire world.About 20 minutes later, the entire "rebirth" was over. Looking at the birth of a brand new world from the bridge of the new test mothership in the underworld, Teresa, Sendenoli, Kunaka, and Hecate were not in the same mood. No ups and downs.Because compared with this world, negotiating with the heavens is more important.

At the moment there is still a person standing on the bridge, with long blond hair, wearing a gray beret, the same gray long-sleeved jacket, yellow pleated skirt, black pantyhose, and gray boots.About the same age as Tilea.

"The things on our side are completed, and we will jump soon. Is there anything else that can help you?"

asked the general.

"No, it's a great honor to cooperate with the general and the judge this time."

The woman responded.

"We set off after receiving the order of Lord Pluto. Although we have visited several other worlds before coming here, this is the first world that also has the forces of the heavens. Regarding our unilateral behavior this time, What is the reaction of the heavens, or what does Kaoru-sama think about our behavior this time."

"The order I received is to do my best to assist the two of you in your work, and today I also let me see with my own eyes your fighting skills, General, and the magic of Lord Judge. But for this unilateral face of the underworld As for the handling of the world, Lord Kaoru just said that after the civilization here develops again, please let the heavens intervene first."

"Okay, so that's the end of today's task. I hope to cooperate with you again in the future."

Teresa ended the conversation.

After that, the woman left using teleportation magic, and the mothership of the underworld began to leap.

"I can't see that you have a pretty clear mind in making this kind of official negotiation."

Theresa looked at Sendenorri and said.

"It's just because it's easier to negotiate with people in the heavens."

"Is it simple? I have a hard time dealing with things related to words such as sacred and pure."

"According to my conclusion, except for our acquaintances in the heavens, everyone else is naturally stupid, always accepting, and rigid in their work. Of course, those people we know also have this attribute more or less."

Sendenori said so.

"Don't let the people in the heavens hear what you said just now."

At this moment, a brand new planet appeared outside the bridge.

"Master General."

The operator sitting on the bottom level of the bridge asked the general what to do next.

"Notify the underworld army below to end the battle here as quickly as possible. The planet tearing cannon starts to fill and aim at the planet, and fire after charging is complete."

Sendenoli ordered.

"Oh~ suddenly become so ruthless."

Teresa said.

"It was just a sudden inspiration, and I wanted to prepare the song for the 'Blood Cherry Blossom Festival' concert. So let me leave for a while before the planet is destroyed."

"That's right, facing such a world, even if I want to destroy her, I don't want to go down there and use magic myself."

Theresa said looking at the devastated world outside.

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Kunaka: "I feel that Miss Teresa is quite happy to cooperate with the general, but why does she treat him so badly?"

Teresa: "Uh, how did you see that we worked well together? And why are we discussing this topic here since we didn't appear in the feature film?"

Kunaka: "Kunaka just wants to find out what kind of relationship Miss Tilea has with the General?"

Teresa: "What kind of relationship is with you... Well, forget it, let me tell you, my relationship with that guy is similar in a certain way. You always like to play with your brother, but I get teased by her from time to time, but I still want to play with him afterwards. Probably such a relationship...do you understand?"

Kunaka: "Ahhh, I suddenly feel that Kunaka asked a very embarrassing question! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Teresa: "So I feel like I'm done with this topic, please watch the next episode, "Pluto's Dinner: Shadow Alliance" Chapter 12 The Wish of a Foreigner"