Vol. 13 - Ch. 768 - Preparation for Conquer Day #1 - The Final Training

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The afternoon of the first day as everyone's preparation for the upcoming war with demons kicked off. 

After deciding on a general outline yesterday, Allen and his comrades retired to the rooms arranged by Heavenly King, and sooth their fatigue from the earlier day's battle. Given the late hour, they didn't have enough hours to rest, but with Allen's Grass E summoned ability «Herb», they'd managed to have a sound sleep, refilling their psyche as well as stamina.

Then, just as Allen had sketched out, they left for Sword God's Martial Hall at the Divine Arena. There, Allen put forward his request to Sword God—to level up their skills, and learn martial arts of Armament Gods—and resumed their training.

They mainly had the goal to hit job level nine, acquire new skills, and also drill Armament God's technique into their own as much as possible. 

[The Outline of 10 Days Preparation Phrase]

1. Power up party members and summoned beasts

2. Cecil's training

3. Prepare Allen Army for the war

4. Contact the leader of each nation and inform them of raid on demons

5. Appealing for support of Gods

"Haa!"

"Oryaaa!!"

"Grrrraahhh!!"

Armed to teeth, Kurena, Dogora, and Ignomas's voice filled the arena as they faced Armament Gods. The edge of their weapons bared their fangs against them. 

«How many times have I said your footwork needs correction!!»

"Gahh!?"

Axe God Baccarai made a sweeping motion with his leg, and Dogora took a full spin in the air before falling face first into the floor. 

They're at the Martial Hall of Sword God, with Axe God Baccarai, Spear God Gaidark, and Sword God Sestavenus gathered around. «Training? Then let's begin.» was the reply from Sword God when they'd visited Sword God first thing in morning.

(It's really great that Fire God gave her consent for training against Armament Gods.)

As the god with barely few belivers—because the magic tools from Magic God and Dungeon God had replaced the usefulness of fire—there had been precedence of her rejecting the notion of Dogora training under Armament Gods. 

Unlike the rest of comrades, Dogora was the apostle of Fire God Freya, and he had taken the oath to follow God's will before anything, and be the guide to lose people among many other things. He was the servant of God. 

There was also Ignomas, but the big hearted Water Goddess Aqua was, she had no objection with Ignomas training under Spear God Baccarai, and even had both of their blessings. Perhaps Fire God had been panicked to see Ignomas' contribution on rise lately. 

«Come on. Try to stop me! And you call yourself apostle of Fire God?! Don't make me laugh!!»

«Hey! Dogora, beat the hell out of that Armament God!!»

"On it!! —Wait, not that. Can you not quip in, Freya?! I can't focus!!"

The Fire God was constantly delivering her instruction through sacred artifact Kagutsuchi in an attempt to pull a fast one over Axe God. 

Ignomas was just a slight distance from him, pitting himself in the training. Like everyone else, he had his own reason to join Allen. After killing the former emperor of Prostea Empire under the turmoil of rebellion, he had been sentenced to "Demon King Penalty"—he was in exile until he killed the Demon King. 

«So you still seek my strength, Merfolk?!»

"Obviously. I am going to be the Merfolk fitting for Rapunnil, and make a triumphant return to the empire!"

«But that's not the path the spear seeks! Do not expect to comprehend Spearmanship under the wake of emotions!!»

"Merfolks live in love! And for me, love is everything!!"

(The contrast is so stark. Ignomas's voice is echoing loud, while Formar is quiet as still.)

Formar was at the corner end of Martial Hall, receiving training on archery from God of Archery Korone, who appeared no older than a kindergarten age kid with braided hair.

Keel was right beside Allen at the centre of Martial Hall, and wore a dumbfounded look.

"Goodness. Do I really need to go through all this to heal? Damn, I really want to make myself at home in one of the secluded corners."

"But this is great in its own way. You can listen to my song with everyone else! Roselina is the centre of the world!!"

Keel and Roselina had been positioned at the centre of Arena to keep their healing and stamina recovery et cetera reach to everyone. " 

We don't have more than a few days, so please use your full strength to train them. As long as it doesn't kill them, anything is allowed" was how Allen had requested to Armament Gods.

Armament Gods were using the live weapons, taking Allen's words to heart, showing no mercy. And ever since they'd begun, the party members had continued to be riddled with fresh wounds. 

But that hadn't been the source of Keel's dumbfoundment. He was feeling a second-handed embarrassment because Allen had been made up on a farm inside the Martial Hall of Sestavenus, a supreme god. Allen was concurrently using the creation skill while creating Heaven's Grace, farming for his own experience points.

(I really need to bring up my creation skill as soon as possible. Just a hellish regime isn't enough for the party members against the Demon King's army. They need more strength)

Even as the gods' gaze fell onto him, Allen unfazedly continued. With the skills he had fostered for over ten years, he created Heaven's Grace. 

But oddly enough, each of them led their training regime, but never once they accidentally bumped into each other. Apparently, the Martial Hall could extend to any size through the power of Sword God. 

However, for Keel, nothing could justify tainting the martial hall of dignified Sword God with soil and creating farmland on it. Allen's action had completely rocked his common sense. It wasn't just that, everyone had been training with a distance from each other, but for better efficiency, it was much preferred that everyone had gathered at one spot to recover mana and so on.

Meanwhile, Pecktan, Leon, Spirit A summoned beasts followed Allen as he concurrently led a farming and creation with inhumane speed. 

«So, is this going inside the grimoire? It's not quite as easy as I thought.»

«Burun~.»

«They're not to be just stored into grimoire. Bring them to everyone for use, or else they would run out of mana.»

Like Keel and Roselina, Allen had deployed his summoned beasts to keep track of everyone's mana and refill them before they ran out. He would have them distribute Heaven's Grace as he continued to farm them at a fixed interval.

Leon, too, was dumbfounded by how quickly Heaven's Grace was growing up, making him a bit unused to the situation. 

The trick was, needless to say, in Pecktan and Allen's synergy. Pecktan's «Mushroom Bed Cultivation» allowed to harvest twice the amount of crop, meanwhile, Allen had the «Quick Summon», and spiritual power recovery ring which gave him access to inexhaustible supply of spiritual power. Under the combined effect of skills and accessories, Allen could harvest Heaven's Grace every 10 seconds. 

With «Elasticity» special skill, Leon had delated himself to human size, and his task was to pick up Heaven's Grace. Albeit, as someone who didn't really much care about the finer details, the effect of it was reflected in his current task. He was quite struggling to store them in grimoire.

[Sword God's Martial Hall - Training Spot of Allen's Party]

Upper Area - Sword God and Kurena

Left Area - Axe God and Dogora

Right Area - Spear God and Ignomas

Lower Area - Archer God and Formar

Centre - Field, nest (for teleportation), resting spot (Herb effect), Food Space

Outside -  Shower, Restroom, Diner, Private Rooms (Harb effect)

This was the training space Allen had created after receiving Sword God's acknowledgment. Beyond the farms that Keel was looking at, Formar faced Arrow God Korone.

«This is how you should hold a bow, got it? You must cease your hostility until you have shot your arrow.»

"Ha, *huff*....."

*Fwossh*

*Thud*

«Aah, sheesh. You're destroying too much-pon. It's fine to just demonstrate visually, Korone-sama. The walls are crumbling down-pon. Now they ought to be repaired-pon.»

*Thump-Thump*

«Ha, ha. I think I exerted myself.»

There was quite a lot of damage to the walls of Martial Hall as Archer God's arrow effortlessly tore them down. But within the next moment, everything would be repaired like it had never happened by Earth Spirit King Ponzu when he tapped the drum on his belly merrily.

He was on the back of Mackris, who had been floating at high altitude, alongside Spirit God Rosen, Spirit God Fabul, Sophie and Luck's great spirits. The spirits were around to heal and buff the status of part members at the Martial Hall. 

They're another cog in his plan to maximise everyone's efficiency that he had come up with last night.

A smile spilled on his lips as he used creation skill.

"Alright, it will be your turn tomorrow, Leon. I can feel the creation skill's coming off for you. Once seals are off, focus on training immediately."

«Tomorrow, is it? I am going to be strong. I am looking forward to it.»

In contrast to their bright expression, Sophie addressed Allen during a break of her skill, her voice tinged with uneasiness.

"Err... you haven't slept since last night, have you?"

"Mhm. Well, yeah. The situation doesn't allow it."

"But..."

"It's not as big of a deal as Cecil being abducted by thieves, or Demon King's army invading your country. It's the last. I will take a nap somewhere around."

Sophie appeared to be concerned about Allen who hadn't slept since yesterday at all. On the flip side, the party members could now train themselves with maximum efficiency. 

«It seems everything is going well.»

Sophie didn't appear convinced, a worry still tugging on her, and just then, a magic circle appeared before their eyes. Merus appeared out of it, alongside other party members.

"I am back!"

"Meruru-san, good work out there."

"Haa...... it's already such a heavy start for the morning. I really want to have some dri...ink—wh-wh-what in the world are you doing at Divine Excellency's Martial Hall!!"

"Welcome back, Rosetta-san. There's fruit water for you. Also, please remember that alcohol is prohibited until we have won against the Demon King's army."

Sophie offered chilled fruit water, done via magic tool, to Sophie who appeared flabbergasted by the state of Martial Hall. 

"We're back! ......That's quite a nice drink you have."

"You sure know how to jest, Admiral Galara. It's merely chilled fruit water."

"Good grief. I know you're stickler to Elmean's doctrine, but learn to take it at ease. Now I feel even more thirst for my sake."

"Huh? For goodness, Admiral, just don't say anything!"

Seeing as Admiral Galara was quite stubborn about alcohol, Keel and Merus advised him cautious immediately.

"Anyway, Allen. Is that what it is?"

Galara then turned the topic of discussion to Allen, as if to escape from the doubtful gazes. Allen hadn't joined in the conversation, quietly taking care of the field.

"As you can see, the preparation for war. Still, it took a good while, Merus. Was there any problem?"

Allen replied, and in that motion, turned to Merus for confirmation of status-quo. 

«Everything's alright. I am going to check out the island's situation.»

"Ah, yes. I believe they should have begun the conference. Tell me when preparations are done."

«Alright, I will tell you.»

After clearing out the details, Merus put behind Meruru and others and teleported away.

T/N - If your preferred genre is dungeon x light-hearted story, try out LET ME SPEND MONEY, DAMMIT!