499 The Seven Calamities
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“Mochi?” Wondered Aquamarine.
Of course they don’t know about Japanese food, this world seems pretty Western-like. Takeshi in his previous life was a young child in Japan, who died in a boat accident. He’s of course still missing food from his home country.
pA n,dan(-)0ve1.c0m “They’re rice cakes! They’re yummy when filled with fruit jam!” Takeshi said, as Aquamarine nodded.
“Rice… You mean white grain? We have some here, but its hard to grow because it needs a lot of water… I’ve heard Elves are good at it back in their original continent.” Said Aquamarine.
So Rice exists in this world, woah…
“I do remember that in the past Rice was introduced by a Hero Summoned from another world.” Said Aquamarine. “He popularized the white grain which he seems to have created by modifying existing grains with alchemy and magic.”
Eehhh… So that’s how Rice was introduced into another world, now that’s interesting. We really need to get our hands into some rice. I do remember the first and second floor of the dungeon had a lot of shallow waterways everywhere, so rice plantation shouldn’t be that hard.
But for now, there was a more important topic than rice and mochi… And that’s my sister-in-law Brunhild! She was still rather sleepy, but was surprised when she saw us.
“Ah, everyone…” She said with a low tone of voice.
“Brunhild! You’re awake!” Lucifer ran towards his sister and hugged her body, which was smaller than him in her humanoid form.
“Ugh… Don’t hug me like you’re a child…!” Brunhild got slightly angry, as she began to slam Lucifer’s head with her tail.
“Hahah, you always did that to me back then.” Lucifer laughed, quickly letting her go.
“Old habits die hard.” Brunhild said.
“I thought you were going to sleep for way longer…” Said Lucifer.
“I forced me to wake up, I couldn’t just sleep all the time while I finally meet my little brother again. Fate has made us encounter with one another after so long… I can sleep later.” She said.
“Brunhild, I have so many questions…” Lucifer sighed, sitting at her side.
“I do too, let’s continue this conversation in our room later.” Brunhild said, giving Lucifer a head pat using her tail.
Like that, we waited until everyone ended eating while I explained what happened to the children and Brunhild. Only Laura got the hist of it while Takeshi lost himself halfway through, Brunhild seemed to not understand how humans did things, so even when she heard it all, she didn’t seem to make much sense of it.
“So you humans agree about things by simply writing them in a paper?” She wondered.
“That’s how it usually go, yes.” I said. “That paper had magic on it so people cannot easily break the contract.”
“I see, well, I suppose that’s fine. I never thought a dungeon could be used for the production of food, but what are you going to do about the monsters inside?” She asked.
“I’ve become the Dungeon Master; I can control the monster population or make them spawn elsewhere. Monsters never really stop appearing, but I can make them appear elsewhere, and even give them orders such as not attacking people if I want to.” I said. “However, I will limit the production of monster to the bare minimum, I’ll use the dungeon’s Mana to enrich the soil and vegetation instead. That’ll make monsters spawn less frequently, and they will all be weak versions of those that showed up before too.”
“I see, makes sense now…” Said Brunhild. “So you can even possess dungeons and become a dungeon master. I never thought of such a possibility. I always thought such a thing was only possible for those chosen by the gods to possess a Dungeon, such as the Seven Great Calamities…”
“Seven Great Calamities?” I asked.
“They’re the strongest Dungeon Masters. Powerful monsters like nothing ever seen before, they grow powerful over time and usually control thousands of their own species. Amongst the Calamities there is the Arachneia Queen, the Abyss Ant Queen, the Kraken King, and so on…” She said. “What we defeated there was one of them, didn’t you realized? It had yet to reach its fullest potential though, this is why we were able to defeat her… This means that more Calamities will emerge around the world.”
“O-Oh, so she was really becoming one, huh?” I wondered.
“Wait a second, does that means you’ve defeated a Calamity?! Then you’re all heroes…” Aquamarine said.
“Well, we don’t like that sort of fancy title.” I answered while shrugging. “I prefer to just be called by my name. Also lets keep this a secret to not make the entire population panic.”
“R-Right, I suppose…” Aquamarine said. “But still, this is big. Not only those annoying Vampires are there, but a new Age of Calamity might soon approach.”
“Age of Calamity?” I wondered.
“Yes… when these Seven Calamities emerge, it is often called the Age of Calamity. This is already seen as just ancient legends because the last time it happened; it was over fifty thousand years ago. Many don’t even believe the Seven Calamities to be real, and only to intimidate the masses.” Said Aquamarine.
“Indeed, but they’re real.” Said Brunhild. “Our parents one taught us about such entities, our ancestors were known as the Dragon Gods, guardians of the world created by the Creation Gods Tiamat and Ymir. They were siblings of the Titans, who were given the task of protecting the land and nourishing it. The Dragon Gods once fought against the Seven Calamities in the past, which were created by the God of Chaos to stir destruction and change in the world…”
“Of course, not many gods liked that, and there had been many disputes between them. However, it seems that Gods had never dealt with their own problems directly and do everything indirectly. Even the battle between the heroes and the calamities of the past was like their indirect fight.”
Brunhild seemed to know a surprising amount of information about the gods…
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