Afterword
GOOD DAY! I’m Akisuzu Nenohi.
This has been Volume 9 of the series. Our heroine leveled up in a new dungeon, worked on production, met residents in relatively important positions, enjoyed some PvP with Fairellen, and reached the start of the official event.
Coming up, we have a Halloween horror event that’s only just begun, so I can’t write much about it here. I’ll discuss it more in the next volume.
First, let’s talk about the dungeon in the ruins. This dungeon can be thought of as the inside of a factory where mechs appear as enemies. The majority are equipped with long-range weapons for indoor battle, making it a delightful hunting spot for our protagonist.
The dungeon itself is actually one of the more difficult ones. The Mech race are generally built out of metal armor—weak against blunt weapons but resistant to slash attacks. They all attack with high precision and have great hit rates, since they’re machines, but their individual attack strength, frequency, and movement speed vary from type to type.
By the way, the mech race is based on a certain mecha game.
The chapter “Vs. Fairellen” was a sudden PvP fight between friends that erupted in Starting Town. If it wasn’t obvious enough from how it went in the volume, our heroine is basically a hard counter for someone like Fairellen. As a pure magic user, her only means of attack is casting spells, and as a member of the physically small fairy race, she has little stamina. Put simply, she dies. Fighting our heroine in a 1v1 would be enough to make anyone feel useless.
The protagonist also came to join Cecil’s chronicle quest through a different path. She arrived to bring about its conclusion.
Stellura referred to the quest as the heroine’s “job as an outer one” in this chapter. You’re very perceptive if you found that strange!
Immortals show up to handle people who lay their hands on souls, that being Stellura’s domain. If the royal family, high-ranking nobles, or the like were to partake in such a crime, the entire country could be wiped out as punishment. Meanwhile, outer ones appear specifically to punish those who violate contracts with Stellura, such as when someone annuls their own oath to the goddess—outer ones may also be called upon to punish Sorcieres, who could easily be too much for humans to handle on their own. In that case, when it’s generally the role of the Nemeseia immortals to punish those who interfere with the soul, why would the in-game message describe it as a job for an outer one?
The shocking truth—well, no, it’s not exactly shocking—is that immortals simply can’t carry out a soul eradication. The immortals—including Nemeseias, their royalty—act solely as Stellura’s proxies in the management of souls. It’s their job to maintain the afterlife and bring peace or punishment to each soul, nothing more, nothing less. They have neither the right nor the ability to eliminate a soul.
I may go into more detail later on in the story, so I won’t give a full explanation just now, but gods and outer ones are the only beings capable of performing soul eradication. Not all outer ones possess the ability either. There are few instances where soul eradication becomes necessary in the first place, so there’s no need for everyone to have that capability.
So that’s why the heroine’s mission was described as her “job as an outer one.” I could write even more about outer ones and immortals, but that’s plenty for now.
The new chapter in this volume is written from Yura’s perspective.
The rest of this series is written from the perspective of Anastasia, within which it’s impossible to show any scenes where she’s not around. I thought it would be easy to use Yura, the streamer, to show characters interacting outside the heroine’s presence.
By the way, Mohawk mentions the “chick dressed like a mercenary” in this chapter, but she’s actually the uncouthly dressed woman our protagonist mentions in Volume 3. She was nothing more than a passerby out on a nice walk, so I don’t have a name for her, and I haven’t decided if I’ll settle on one yet.
This series will be hitting double digits with the next volume. I believe most of it will cover the official event.
I hope you enjoyed reading Volume 9, even if only a little.
Let us meet again in Volume 10.
October, 2023