Chapter 11

An Unexpected Encounter

Translated by Darkapta
Edited by Darkapta

An Unexpected Encounter

Spiritual Upper World “Playground of the Gods”.

This place changes its appearance in a thousand different ways depending on the wish of the God who is its owner.

The place Fei arrived at after that dive was…

“Huh!?” (Fei)

It was the Miracle city “Ruin” if I remember correctly. Even The Mystic Court that I saw after returning, this morning, was at the exact same place.

“It looks very familiar, but… wasn’t this supposed to be already the “Playground Of The Gods?” (Fei)

“Fei! Here! Here!” (Reche)

A voice reverberated from the city square.

The origin of that voice was a girl with long flame-life hair. She was calling him, waiving her hand to him on the air.

“Uuuu. I can’t wait anymore!!! Ne ne ~ Fei, what do you think would be the game we will be challenged to?” (Reche)

“Even I do not know… Rather, shouldn’t you know about it better than me? Weren’t you previously a resident over here, also a former God?” (Fei)

“Are you not familiar with the fellow Gods that reside here?” (Fei)

“Hmm? Nope.” (Reche)

The girl carefreely shakes her head sideways.

“Humans tend to associate all Gods alike, but that’s actually not quite true. Just as even when if you lump cats and whales together as ‘animals’, they are fundamentally different.” (Reche)

“So, you all are not actually associated like friends?” (Fei)

“Un… Even the God over here. They might not actually know who I am or was.” (Reche)

Even though Reche was of the opinion that “Its normally different”, the same was not actually applicable to Fei.

The reason is simply because, Fei didn’t have any opportunity to talk with any God before.

Even from the eyes of the Mystic Court, this was an information that their researchers would do anything to get their hand on. Yep, definitely, so.

…… I guess in the past year, no one cared to even ask Reche about herself. They were probably too afraid to even approach her.

…… Well, that must have made even a former God such as Reche feel lonely.

I am sure that it was probably because of this reason that Reche had her eyes shining even before the game would actually begin.

“Ah Right! Reche, I would not be wrong to call this place as the ‘Playground of Gods’ Right?” (Reche)

I looked around at the buildings.

The time of day was dusk.

The silvery glow of the buildings, the intersections, the exquisite dirtiness of the traffic lights. All was a perfect recreation of the cityscape Fei had walked through earlier this morning.

However, there were no living beings.

Well, not even a single insect can enter the spiritual upper world. The only ones who can enter are Apostles, who were granted permission to pass by the ritual which provided them with the divine spell ‘Arise’.

“Why is the residing place of a God is the place resembling to Human’s dwelling place?” (Fei)

“Hmm… Even I don’t understand the mental processing of the other Gods ne ~” (Reche)

“See — there are several people accumulating there, lets try going over to that place.” (Reche)

What Reche pointed to was the center of the city, the city-square.

There was a total of sixteen people in all present there.

I guess that makes one team.

But as soon as the other apostles wearing ceremonial robes of the Mystic Court noticed Fei, they all turned towards at once.

And —

“Fei?”

“That’s him!?”

“Why is he here ……?”

There was a big buzz.

The new rookie who represented the last year’s God battles was suddenly participating with them. It’s no wonder they were surprised.

“Fei, what’s happened till now? I heard that you took a leave!” (?)

“Oh, thank you for your help until now Asta, it’s been a while. Actually, I just came back in this afternoon, today.” (Fei)

I made a small bow towards that familiar female apostle.

Asta Canarial—

Three ranks above Fei. She was a passionate lady apostle who would just turn 20 this year. She had challenged the ‘Play of Gods’ twice with Fei in the past. Such was their relationship.

“HAA!? You just returned this morning, and you already want to participate!?” (Asta)

“What about rehabilitation? Even if that is you, if you spend time in vacation, your intuition is bound to become dull.” (Asta)

“Iyaaa… Even I had similar motifs… but well, was dragged by a certain someone.” (Fei)

“Let’s all do our best ~” (Reche)

Reche appeared from behind of Fei.

Just at the same moment, the surrounding Apostles screamed at the top of their voice  backing away almost immediately.

“Drogon God!?”

“Le, Leoreche-sama!”

“W-Why here?!”

“I will also be joining you. I’m on the human side, so you need not worry.” (Reche)

And…

Just at the very moment…

“Hello and Welcome to our Divine Playground.”

On top of Reche’s head.

A small, light green object came down flapping its tiny wings.

“I am a terminal spirit – ‘Meep’, who lives in the realm of the Lord God Titan. I don’t have a name, so please feel free to call me Terminal Spirit – ‘Meep’.”

God does not interact.

The terminal spirit – Meep is like an intermediary who dictates the rules of the game on behalf of the said God.

“Now that it’s about time, we will be starting the participation to this game. Umm, 18 people in total right? …”

 …

“Ne ne ~ Your hue appears to be a little different ne ~.”

The terminal Spirit Meep sat on the tip of Reche’s shoulder.

As expected, of the follower of God.

It seems to have found out the sense of similarity with Reche and determined her to be different from us, fellow humans around here.

“And you are?”

“I’m a former God. I can participate too right?” (Reche)

“Yes, there are no issues. Anyone is welcome to join us in the game.

Well then, sorry to keep you waiting ~ Let me introduce you to the game of my God Titan!”

“…… It’s a fighting battle game anyways, right?”

The captain of the apostles took out a thin mechanical terminal.

– Built-in application [Encyclopedia Biblia].

It is a data book provided by the Mystic Court having aggregated all the information about games played in the “Play of Gods” by human beings all over the world. It contained information of every games that have appeared in the game with Gods till date.

“Titan, the Giant God, as per our database, always challenges to a battle game that’s about fighting. If we defeat Titan with our 18 players, we will win. Right?”

Battle Game-

One of the most popular game battle type in the “Play of the Gods”.

In other words, “A Great Brawl”.

In other words, a fight between humans and gods.

Even though the apostles are given the power of the divine spell ‘Arise’, the power of the apostles in comparison to that of the gods is like the difference between heaven and earth.

Therefore, rules are established according to each God, such as, in the case of A Great Brawl:

‘humans win if the god kneels down’ or ‘humans win if the god is overturned’.

“About Titan, the Great God… Well, there are records about him as the captain says!”

The girl apostle also pulled out the Encyclopedia-Biblia.

“This is it, isn’t it? The number of encounters in the last thirty years were about twenty-three according to the world statistics. The winning rate is…… about 17 percent for our number of people.”

The win rate on the human side in the ‘play of gods’ was about 13 to 17 percent.

Titan, the Giant God

The game content, the win rate… its just like with respect to any standard Gods.

“That’s convenient, Captain. If it’s a game about combat, pure power, we have the Dragon God Leo Reche with us. Though if the gods help us though…”

“No.”

That one voice of the terminal spirit – Meep that cut through the Apostle girl’s words, shocked everyone there.

“My Master, Titan expressed his discontent with this battle-type games.”