Chapter 164!

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-- Chapter 164
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bludvein (Spoiler for new raw):

Alright, they're in Sanctuary(the god realm) now after getting past the apostles.

Hajime shows off some of his new WMD and blows a mountain away, and he now has 7 orbital lasers.

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Well, the climax of the story has started off with a bang.

borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Hajime's new toys:
Balushyuberion - updated solar laser with new redirecting mirror bits included.
Gatling pile bunker - Harder, better, faster, stronger
Meteor Impact - 'Nuff said
Rose Helios - Solar flare bomb
Long distance electromagnetic anti-material rifle - everything a bunny sniper could wish for

Other highlights: Aiko's gotten good at firing people up. Lily is supreme commander of the allies while Gahard is commanding the field. Kaori's hair and wings are black thanks to a disguising artifact. After the opening shots the Haulia started discussing new chuuni names for Hajime.

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El Rue (Spoiler):

So much death from above...

The Dragon Clan members are of course in awe while the Ninja Bunnies are having the time of their life. The classmates are extra scared of Hajime now & fearing for Earth.

Well, to help out to give a better mental image, the author admits he was inspired by Weapons of Mass Destruction form various media like:
Icarus from 007 Die Another Day
Gundam00's Memento Mori
Zeus from GI Joe

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borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Peerless Outbreak of War Without Restraint

The world was dyed a dark red.

The color of dawn was not burning orange.  Stirring up people's uneasiness, the cruel, ominous color that can't help but make them instinctively feel unpleasant fanned their fear.  It was a demon's eye, so to speak.  It was as if the whole world was swallowed up by the demon's eye.  The brilliantly shining sun also was now just a dark red star floating in the eastern sky.

Then, a strange sound resounded in the strange colored world.  The world itself rumbled. The ground and the atmosphere raised a scream while trembling.

While the people there were made to understand that the end of the world had begun, a large crashing sound reverberated.

The soldiers in the fortress were surprised and shook their bodies.  In the sky above Kamiyama, a line stretched across the air as the sky cracked.

The sight of that crack slowly extending in the sky fueled their fear.  Gahard, having recovered his fighting spirit first among the battle formation, used an artifact to amplify his voice and angrily ordered the soldiers to prepare for combat.

Receiving the instructions, the spell over the soldiers was released.  All together, they began carrying out the roles they had individually been given.

Meanwhile, while the soldiers were deploying, the crack in the sky above Kamiyama increased in size, finally smashing the space completely with a thunderous roar.

Rather than the golden whirlpool Ehito and the others had used to return to the gods' realm, this crack spewed forth darkness like a miasma from the abyss.

There, a black rain began.  No, it was demonic beasts whose large amounts seemed like a rain.  From the tear in space over Kamiyama they began to pour down over the top of the mountain.  The number was uncountable.  After all, to the soldiers it looked just like a black rain.  They numbered many millions, or perhaps even reached several tens of millions.

Under the downpour of monsters, the top of Kamiyama was painted black in less than no time.  Then they began to descend like an avalanche.

In addition, from the crack in space covered with black miasma a silver rain began to shoot out horizontally.

Gahard muttered about the number of apostles with a grim look.  He had come to the front to take control of the soldiers at the vanguard.  He received a telepathic communication from Liliana to not stick out so much.  He could die after the battle.  Gahard laughed, saying the strongest man should fight at the front.

Though normally Gahard would have been the overall leader of the army, he had stubbornly insisted on going to the front, and thus had become the on site commander.  Overall command had gone to Liliana who had received an education in strategy due to the assumed fight with the Majin people in the future.  Even Gahard had praised her as someone of talent capable of commanding the troops from the rear.  She had the courage to leave the king's capital alone, as well as calm judgment and practicality.  In addition she was strong in barrier magic as well.  She could even help raise morale.  Thus she was more than fit to be the overall commander.

And, besides the general and the overall commander, there was another person who had a key role.

Aiko's voice poured down from the fortress, giving a speech to raise the soldiers' spirits.  They stamped their feet in unison, shouting for victory.  Aiko fulfilled the role Hajime had given to her earlier to incite the people.  She told them that the evil god's servants were not worth being afraid of, and called on her sword to show them proof.

At that moment, a voice echoed across the battlefield.

“As you wish, my goddess.”

The soldiers who were looking up at Aiko saw a shadow fly up from her back.

The boy with gray hair and an eye patch, Hajime, while standing in the air, took out a sacred gem like a diamond from somewhere and floated it in the air.  Then the gem began to shine brilliantly down on them like the sun.  Seen from the soldiers' perspective, Aiko might have seemed to have been shouldering a halo.  This was Hajime's production.

Hajime floated a fearless grin on his mouth.

A moment later, it happened.

Part of the dark red sky caught the sunlight momentarily.  On Kamiyama that had changed color with the avalanche of monsters, a part of the mountain was suddenly blown off with a terrific roaring sound.  Immediately after that, as if the sky was blinking, something poured down on Kamiyama one after another, destroying the 8,000 meter mountain as if it were a hill of sand made at the beach.

What bombed it from above were not missiles with explosives, but a masses of metal free falling onto the mountain.

The so called Meteor Impact.

Though it was dropped from the stratosphere  since it seemed like the fortress would get caught up in it if it was dropped from space, still, the energy of a mass of metal whose weight measured in tons falling freely was such that an average bomb's destructive power would not reach it.

With a roaring sound that seemed to split one's eardrums, the sacred mountain that was the highest peak in the world collapsed like a joke.  Monster's rain?  Apostle's rain?  Then here was a meteorite rain.  Of course, since Hajime thought that the whirlpool of gold would appear it was all a coincidence.

The Allied Forces that witnessed that power where the mountain collapsed and hundreds of thousands of monsters were wiped out got their fighting spirits up and let out a deafening cheer for Aiko.

They had been already been told where the attack would originate from.  In that case, they only had to annihilate that place entirely.  Of course, Hajime had taken provisions in case that had been a lie, but he guessed that due to Ehito's superiority complex that was a low possibility.

The apostles had stopped moving at the destruction of Kamiyama.  However, in another moment they approached the fortress moving at a blistering speed like a flock of birds that would not fall into disorder.

Hajime took out another crystal that started shining, saying they should burn up their wings and fall like Icarus, and a downpour of light from the sky.

- Sunlight focusing laser Balushyuberion

At the height of 10,000 meters seven of them floated, controlled by the gem Hajime held.  Like the Tower of Babel, seven pillars of light connected the earth to heaven, swallowing the apostles that were close to the allied forces in an instant.

It was unknown how many apostles were annihilated.

Though several tried to defend themselves with the silver feathers' disintegration ability, it could not be compared with the explosive rise of the heat, focusing rate, and duration of the improved Hyuberion, and so the apostles had their bodies charred and erased even if they used their unique ability.

Those who had escaped from it somehow as well as those just exiting the crack in space, after a moment's hesitation, flew upward at an incredible velocity, aiming at the source of the light.  Seeing this, Hajime grinned and the crystal he held shone further.  From all of the Balushyuberions, small mirror bits flew out and scattered in the surroundings.  They were shaped like an isosceles triangle of about thirty centimeters and had a bright red jewel installed on their surfaces.

The apostles weren't sure what to make of the mirror bits as they avoided them, but determined that it was enough as long as Balushyuberion was destroyed, and so continued to charge while disregarding them.  However, before they could release their magic to destroy the artifacts, they were suddenly surrounded by a net of laser light that covered the sky.

One of the apostles surrounding herself with disintegration power guessed that the cause was the mirror bits, to which there seemed to be an auditory hallucination of Hajime ridiculing voice saying “Clever answer.”  The mirror bits could alter the paths of light in order to attack from any direction.  Incidentally, although they were named “mirror”, in actuality the light was bent by manipulating space, so that it only seemed to reflect off the bits.

Grinning fearlessly at the apostles trapped in the laser cage, Hajime operated the control crystal and something was dropped from the seven Balushyuberions.  Just as he muttered for them to all disappear, a sun bloomed in the dark red sky.

- Treasure Warehouse type Rose Helios specialized in focusing sunlight.

It was a large scale bomb made by freeing stored up solar energy.  Though only one could be installed on each unit, the focused energy that was liberated caused an explosion like a solar flare.  The dark red sky was lit up like it was midday.

The power of the seven suns that suddenly appeared was such that not only the apostles trapped in the cage, but also the ones just exiting the crack in space were all blown away like leaves.  An enormous cloud of dust swept toward the fortress and was barely prevented by the large force field that covered it.  The field was generated from the artifact that had been moved from the king's capital.  Though it couldn't prevent a direct hit from an annihilation attack, with Hajime's improvements it seemed to be able to block the aftereffects at least.

To the Rose Helios that showed greater destruction than anticipated, Hajime dropped a cold sweat.  The result was alright since his allies weren't blown away.

Shia, Kaori, Shizuku, and Suzu comment on his destruction of the environment.  Shizuku compared it to blasting away Mount Everest, while Suzu commiserates with her and promised to help her as much as possible because she seemed to hear the world crying out.  Ryuutaro renewed his determination to grab Kouki and run as far away as possible.

Additionally, Tio was proudly showing off Hajime to her grandfather.  Adoul agreed that he was super amazing while wearing an expression of shock that could be commonly seen in old shoujo mangas.  His aide tried to put in a tsukkomi, but gave up half way.  Listas looked like his soul was coming out of his mouth.

The fortress below was also noisy.  The rabbit ear group was especially raising a commotion, getting into a lively discussion about what Hajime's new second name should be.

Above the soldiers' clamor, Aiko's voice rang out, claiming that was the power of her sword and that victory was with them.

The soldiers raised a cheer again.  Gahard had a half smile, but quickly smoothed it over.  In a loud voice that almost didn't need an artifact to amplify it, he began issuing orders to the troops, telling them the feats of arms shouldn't belong to the sword of the goddess alone, and that they were all heroes who should fight to the last moment to eradicate the enemy, proving the strength of humans.

Another shout went out and the soldiers turned their weapons toward the sky with their morale it its maximum.  In the sky, the apostles who had escaped barely managed to straighten themselves out.  Additionally, more of them came pouring out of the crack in space.  The number of apostles might be unlimited.  Therefore, this was really a war of the human race against god's minions.

Looking at the appearance of the Allied Forces, Aiko let out a breath of relief unnoticed.

Hajime came and complimented her on her speech, as expected of the goddess of good harvest.  He handed her the gem to control the Balushyuberions since she would be controlling it from now on.  The one most suitable to use the light of the sun was the goddess of good harvest after all.

From Aiko who nervously accepted the gem, Hajime turned his gaze onto Kaori.  He says that even though her face is that of an apostle, it can't be seen with her hair color, and that as he thought, black hair suited Kaori.  Kaori giggled and told him to hurry up and end it or she can't return to her original body.

So that she wouldn't be mistaken as an apostle, Hajime had created an artifact to disguise her appearance.  Now both her hair and wings would appear black.  Coupled with her black clothing, it was an appearance like a fallen angel, suitable for an apostle that served the Maou.

Hajime asked if he could leave the rest to her.  Kaori told him that it would be fine.  She would protect the place they would come back to and no further harm would come to Myuu and the others, so he should please bring Yue back.  He said she should look forward to it.  When they got back he and Yue would mess with her together.  Kaori called him a bully and puffed her cheeks out for making fun of her, however from their gazes the trust between the two could be well understood.

Behind Hajime, Shia and the others stepped up.  Kaori and Shizuku made an illusion of lily flowers appear as they grasped each others' hands, causing Hajime to look around at the surroundings.

In the surroundings, the outside situation could be understood from within the fortress due to the innumerable crystal displays set up.  There was a display showing the command room where Liliana as well as each of the commanders such as Cam or the others.

Hajime addressed Liliana and told her to use the artifacts for opposing the apostles well.  He entrusted them to her because he thought she was suitable.  She asked him not to put more pressure on her, although they would manage somehow.  Then she wished him the fortunes of war.(Note, here she changed the way she addressed him from Nagumo-san to Hajime-san.)

Nodding to each other, Hajime turned to Cam's image.  He told him further talk was unnecessary...and just ordered him to rage.  (And Hulk....Smash.)  Cam laughed evilly and thanked Hajime for his instructions.  After exchanging fearless smiles Hajime looked around at everyone else who was displayed and then declared that he would be out for a bit.

They were light words, but somehow mysteriously it made them think that he would take care of it all.  They all nodded to him powerfully and sent him off.

Hajime and the others flew out on the sky boards toward the rip in the air.  Though they could have gone using Aerodynamic, this time they were valuing speed over everything.  A cheer rose from the soldiers seeing the sword of the goddess sortie.

Soon around 20 apostles appeared to obstruct them, but Hajime didn't slow down at all even though they readied their swords and feathers.  Instead, he accelerated, and while using telepathy to prevent Shia and the others from taking action, pulled an artifact out of the treasure warehouse that he set up on his shoulder.

Then, a crimson storm attacked the apostles.  Of course, the apostles tried to defend expressionlessly since they had the disintegration ability, but they were blown through like wastepaper.

The barrel rotated at high speeds while making a distinctive sound and emitting sparks of magic.

Gatling Pile Bunker.

Different from the past pile bunker, its loading was smaller, however its power was not at all inferior.

The apostles stiffened for a moment, but then attempted to execute a pincer maneuver.  Shia and Tio prepared to meet two of them, but before they could a flash of light shot through the air and blew their heads off.  Looking back toward the source, Hajime and the others saw Pal(ten year old Haulia sniper), on the top of the fortress wielding a large sniper rifle prepared by Hajime.  Though since they were over 5000 meters away they could not hear what he was saying, but they guessed from reading his lips that he would guard their sides.  To prove this, he started sniping at the apostles who approached, making it difficult for them to get close.

Shia commented that everyone in her clan was becoming superhuman.  Tia said Shia wasn't the only one who could be considered special anymore.  Shizuku said that anyone related to Hajime would stop being human.  Suzu asked her whether or not Suzu was still human.  Ryuutaro said it was probably already too late for him.

Finally they arrived at the black miasma.  Hajime clicked his tongue since it, like the whirlpool of gold, would not let them pass.  He had Aiko turn the mirror bits and Suzu create a barrier to keep the apostles away.  As he issued instructions he brought out a crystal dagger he had made as a deteriorated version of the crystal key.  Though it could not open a gate itself, it could be used to pick a locked door.

Hajime activated Limit Break and poured all of his magic into the dagger.  Shouting that he will get through this time, he stabbed the dagger into the miasma.  An apostle's sword appeared from the miasma to attack Hajime, but was prevented by Suzu and Aiko.  A large number of them came attacking and were somehow held in check by Shia and the others, although the number kept increasing.  Hajime determined to disregard his own safety, leaving his back to the others while he surged ahead.

He poured yet more power into the key.  Finally, though he and the others received various wounds, with everyone's encouragement Hajime managed to push the knife into the miasma.  Thinking of Yue, Hajime twisted the knife and an empty oval hole opened, showing the road to the gods' territory.  Saying “Let's go” to everyone, they all acknowledged exchanging fearless smiles.  Immediately after, the crowd of apostles surged, however Hajime and the others were no longer there.  Only the gate that would soon start closing remained.

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