No One Told Us We Are Going To Fight A God

"Good thing what they prepare is a pure crystal."

The main ingredients of making talisman are a special crystal that has a similar appearance to the quartz crystal my the previous world. It has the properties of being able to act as both conductor and insulator for magic.

But that crystal is not a natural resource and has to be artificially made from special sands.

To purify it and get the crystal, normally someone needs to heat it at a very high temperature or doing some dangerous thing with alchemy. And those processes need time and so much energy.

Something that I and Violet can't really afford in this week.

"Then, we can start to work immediately."

"Ahh . . . . I don't want to work."

"Don't say something stupid, we can't waste everyone's effort."

Aside from the main material, there's also various other material that has already been processed to a certain extent for making every component we need for the talisman.

Processing that many materials into a ready to use component is not an easy task that. Its both time consuming and laborious chores. That's why by providing us with all of them in a ready state is a sign that the guild actually cares about us and giving its full support.

"Ok, so let's begin."

"Um."

Violet nodded and begin to help me preparing the material.

The first thing we need to do is coating the thinly sliced crystal with special epoxy resin that is sensitive to light. After that, I placed the template that I've created on top of a big mirror on top of the material, covering the unused area, and then prepared another tool.

"Wear your glasses master."

The first tool we used is a tool akin to a flashlight, inside the tool, there's a talisman to amplify the power of the light. Well, simply you can say it's pretty much laser gun.

The heat from the light is used to melt the unprotected part of the crystal through the template that I placed above.

Even the size of the manipulation path is not as small as the IC network form my previous world. Tracing the path manually is not an easy task because human hands are not that steady and it consumes too much time.

That's why I melt the material using light instead of carving the crystal by hands that have a big risk of making cracks, distortion, or uneven texture which in turn making the assembly more difficult.

In the previous world, electronic circuits are made in a similar way. Thought they use a more advanced technique that using UV, photoresist application, ion doping, and electroplating.

Making talisman needs a precision, but it's not on the level of making circuits in nanometer size. By the way, normally no one would create a talisman by using a die because melting the crystal inside a die would decrease it pureness hence also decreasing its effectiveness in inducing the magic.

After waiting around 30 minutes, the crystal is ready to be used.

"I will begin the assembly, please print 4 more board as our target today master."

The printing process is not automatically controlled because the difficulty in making right adjustment for the light intensity and material texture. That's why I need to still need to control the process manually.

While I print more crystal board, Violet is working on our main job. Assembling the main part of the talisman while wearing a protective ring that disperses magic, magic wave, and also radiation.

The assembly of talisman component start with installing copper in the manipulation path at the base of the crystal die and then covering it with leads.

In this world, many materials have different properties than the one in my old world. And most of them have magical unique magical properties. According to the law of this world, copper has the properties of absorbing energy. That's why it used as the base of the talisman.

The basic of talisman itself is not that complicated.

First, it absorbs the user magic, amplifies it, changing its properties, and then producing some kind of output in the form some kind of interference with the environment or the person themselves.

So how did we build our mental fortitude talisman?.

Just like I said before, the talisman pretty much consists 3 main components and 1 additional component.

The input, calculation and logic, output, and network.

On the first layer is copper and a small amount of uranium covered in lead and zirconium with the function of absorbing magic, giving additional magic input when needed, and sealing the leak, radiation, and prevent interference from a magical wave from another layer.

The second layer consisted of Tin for magic amplification and nickel as a switch to decide to trigger the activation of the uranium, and lead to seal the interference. In this layer only lead used as a seal because there's no radiation or big magic wave. So we use cheaper material.

The 3rd layer is where the component for the output placed. Plutionium have the ability to emit a magical wave that can interfere not only meta but also everything in a certain radius. By changing what kind of thing it can interfere. In this case, it made to interfere with the thought process of the user.

We can boost some kind of motivation in its user's head for not allowing him not to cower in fear. After that add another zirconium component with facing outward and connect both of them to the chromium behind them.

Chromium has the ability to boost the properties of components, and zirconium which have the ability to disperse a magical wave installed to prevent the mind of the user to get interference from outside its area of effect.

Connect all of them with silver which has the ability to cleanly transmit magic and the talisman is ready.

Each layer have to be tested to work, each connection in the path have to be connected into the right place, and the seal also needs to be completely safe.

"Ok, I've finished one talisman."

Violet put the last seal on top of the talisman and then covering it with a titanium cover.

"Please weld the cover master."

After I weld it with some tiny welding tool, the final product switch. The inside of the talismans is pretty much like that of multi-layered PCB, but the final form of it is a rectangular box with rounded corner and smooth surface with the size of that desktop processor and the thickness about 8mm.

Making a single talisman consume about 2 hours of time, we started at 10 pm and Violet finished our first talisman. If both of us make the talisman together than we can get 4 pieces 4 hours. In other words, we can finish around 4 pm.

Good.

"Let's print 2 more crystal board."

"Ha?."

"If we print 2 more crystal board we can finish 6 talismans on this day."

"That's too much, let's take it easy! as long we meet the deadline everything is going to be okay."

If we added 2 more printed crystal board, then we are going to finish at 6 or 7 pm even with the most optimistic calculations. I mean I'm going to stuck controlling the printing device for an hours before forced to sit for 6 hours straight.

We can't even get lunch.

"Well, I actually didn't have any problem though."

"Then why?."

"While I didn't really have a problem, I think master might have some problem with it."

"What do you mean?."

"If our working period is being stretched, the 'sticky free' is day also going to be extended too."

"No waaaayy!!! that's too cruel!!!."

"For some reason, I feel some deja-vu here."

1.

Our task today finally ended and we are able to get some rest. After taking bath(separately, of course) and having a meal we just go straight to the bed.

It's true that we are not really exerting too much energy for manual labor. But, having to sit and concentrate for a very long time really tired us out. After all, the brain consumes more energy than any other organ. No to mention the stiffness in our body felt so bad to the point I just want to sleep as fast as possible.

But it seems Violet didn't think the same.

"Master, when did you want to repair that broken sword?."

Did she want to have some chat before we sleep?.

"Which sword?."

"Did we even have another sword except for that bundle of talismans?."

"Ahh. . . now that you mention indeed we have that kind of thing?."

In the past. We are an adventurer, so we also have to fight something in order to get some money. And of course, in order to fight we need a weapon because both I and Violet didn't have time to train our fist like a monk.

"Aren't sword supposed to be adventurer partner? how master can even forget it's existence?."

I didn't really have any attachment to that sword. I mean, I didn't even want to wield it in the first place. I just forced by the situation to be able to fight, hence I use that sword to clear our job.

"Well, I'm not adventurer anymore! also, I already have this small cute partner it's not strange I forgot about that thing."

"Why master always brings the 'small' part?."

Instead of that cold bundle of talisman, I prefer this small fluffy partner.

"I know master didn't want to touch adventurer related thing anymore, but that thing is already saving our lives so many times in the past! I hope at least master can give it some maintenance."

"It has preservation talisman, some dust is not going to make it malfunction."

In fact, its full of talisman with so many functions. With those many talismans installed in it which also have various protection effect. I'm even sure that it can last for thousands of years into the future. As long there's no one capable of disassembling it without triggering the security feature or strong enough to break it with pure brute force.

Like the one, we face last time before we retire from being an adventurer.

"Then, it still can be used right?."

There's some talisman that has been broken, chipped, or missing on its surface. But its main function as weapons is still adequate.

But. .

"Hm?. . why did you suddenly ask about it?."

"Well. . . . . I wanted to use it."

"Eh?. . . for what purpose?."

She hesitated for a moment, but after gathering her courage she finally said what she thought.

"Honestly, I don't think they are going to be able to beat that Giant."

Besides from their very large stature, they also have very tough body, great strength, and also very huge reserve of stamina. Also, even though I said that a Giant is a dumb creature because they have been living since ancient time, of course, they also amass so much experience while also developing fighting sense.

It's absolutely not a weak creature.

"What's makes you think so?."

"Experience, I guess."

That's should have also applied to me.

"They didn't need our help beyond providing talisman for them."

"At that time, we barely able to survive when fighting it hence I think the adventurer and the army are going to fail in subjugating that Giant."

"The situations are different."

At that time, we are fighting a Giant alone while we are also still pretty much just a beginner. Hence, even some enemy which should have been easy to handle ended up become a foe strong enough to end ouz`r lives. We are in a pinch just because at that time we are still too stupid.

"In the upcoming battle, they are going to fight the Giant in a group."

That way they can chip away its stamina, attack from a various angle, and switch between the tired soldier. If the number is sufficient, they can even fight it 24 hours a day.

No matter how strong the Giant is, its bound to lose if it continues to fight without resting or eating.

"Master, there's something wrong with your logic?."

"Ha? which part? I'm sure chipping aways the strength of your opponent is a valid strategy."

"Not that, the reason of why we are in a pinch at that time didn't have anything to do with being expert or beginner! because in the first place, a Giant is not something that can be slain by a single individual."

"Aren't we a team?."

"That didn't make it sounds more logical."

"Let's not nitpick the detail, you can't call something as crazy if it works."

"Let's go back to the previous topic, can I use it?."

"No!."

"Why?. . . ."

"If you want to use it as a blunt weapon, then it's still able to do its job but if what you need are more than that, then no!."

"Is master didn't want me to go?."

"Of course, I didn't want you to plunge yourself into some dangerous situations."

As someone from the beast race, it's given that her strength is far above the average human like me. In raw physical strength alone, her power is about five times stronger than mine.

Even though her appearance is that of small weak girl, in reality, she can beat me to a pulp if she is seriously trying to fight me. And if you give someone like her a something to hold, even a stick is going to be a dangerous weapon.

But physical strength alone is not gonna help her much in fighting a Giant which have far far more raw strength than her. So, the sword she wants to use is going to be useless in its current condition.

"But I want to help them."

"Me too, that's why we are making talismans for them."

"I want to be able to do more."

"Why?. ."

Aren't we stopped being adventurer because we didn't want to fight again and lead a peaceful life?. Then why you choose to come to the battlefield again and stood with a sword in your hands?.

"Aren't you afraid of death?."

"Of course I'm afraid of it."

"Then why you can still go into a battle just like that?."

The last battle we fought is supposed to break us not only body but also mind.

The sheer despair we faced when fighting him should make it clear that we are a very weak creature, the fear we felt that day should make us realized that our bravery, wills, and confidence are nothing but a mere illusion. By seeing the difference of our power and him, we should have know that our strength is only the at the amount of a single grain of sand in the vast world.

"Is it only me who become a coward after meeting him?."

"Master?."

"You are not going to say that we should have stayed and save her instead of escaping like rats right?."

"Master, you are wrong . ."

Shit, just by remembering his face even able to make my hand tremble so much.

"Master. . ."

"Hah. .hah. ."

I can't even feel any strength on both my feets, my breathing also become rougher while there's a cold sweat pouring from my back.

"I'm sorry Violet."

The memory of that times even come back and begin to flood my brain.

"I'm sorry Violet! I'm sorry for not able to save her! I'm sorry for being a coward!!."

"Master!!!."

"Plase don't leave me alone!."

"Master!!!!."

My mind snapped back from her loud calling. And after my brain started to function like normal, finally I begin to aware that since sometimes ago there had been something warm coiling around my body.

"No one is going to blame you for anything."

And when looking down on my chest, I found Violet has been hugging me tightly.

"And I'm not going anywhere."

She caresses my back while also rubbing her face towards my chest.

"Sorry for making you remember something painful."

"Thank you."

I hug her back and coiling my arm around her warm small body. After that, I buried my face on top of her head between her 2 fluffy ears while savoring the calming smell of her hair.

"Thank you."

1.

We are broken. Both of us have some deep scar carved in our heart that traumatized us for the rest of our lives. For her, it's her past as a slave before meeting me. And for me, it's our hopeless fight against the world in saving her little sister.

"It's already this late huh?."

It's already 8 in the morning. Yesterday we plan to start work at this very hours. But it seems that plan is now in impossible to do. Also, this plan is not the only one that we fail to uphold.

We also fail to uphold our plan for not doing any night activity in a few days.

After having my emotional burst last night, I become too restless. And in order to make me more relax, Violet, decide to broke our plan and let me use her to comfort myself.

We even go all the way to the main event last night.

And the result is.

"Violet, it's morning already."

While my mind is now refreshed, our body is unable to get a rest and we can still feel our fatigue from yesterday.

"Mmm. . . . . "

It seems she also still feels tired. Usually, she wakes up before me. But it's understandable. While she tries to heal me, she has to hurt herself. So not only her body is tired, her mind is also so.

I'm very sure she felt scared when I begin to attack her. But she endures it anyway and didn't voice any complaint to me.

"What a pathetic human I'm."

Last night stupidly asked her if she is afraid of dying or not, is she still affected by our last battle or not and even ask how can she still able to want to go to the battlefield.

The answer of all of that is obvious.

Of course she is scared, of course, she felt a fear, and of course, she has some resistance towards a battle. But she overcomes all of it. Just like she did last night.

In order to help me recover, in order to make me happy she gladly face her fears and surpassing her trauma. She is brave. She is far braver than this pathetic human.

"I want to change."

I also want to move forward.

"Stop!!!."

Let's just stop deliberately keep my own mood bad.

"Violet, let's get up. ."

"Mwa. .wawawa. .mawathar. . don't move twu fast. ."

Wha-what kind of dream she has right now?.

"I'm gowing to bweaaaaakk. . . ."

What a lewd sleep talk. Not to mention, her expression somehow also looks lewd. At this rate, I'm not going to be able to hold and play alone while she still sleeps like usual.

She is not going to get mad right? I mean? we already break the promise anyway. So even if I do something else to her, she should have any complaint.

"It's decided."

I begin to move my body closer to hers, and then start closing touched her here and there. After that, I shift my attention to her small soft pink lips that look glistening under the sunlight.

I kissed her lips.

As sweet as always. But it's not enough.

I kissed her lips again.

Still not enough.

And again, and again, and again, and. .

"Saburou-san, what are you doing?."

"Having my breakfast, I think?."

"I see, Saburou-san is going play a single player game."

"That's n. .. . . . . .yes!.. .I'm sorry."

I want to make some excuse, but her gaze already gives a verdict to me so I give up and just admit my crime.

"But. . . it's okay, right? I mean didn't we already broke that promise anyway?. . ."

"This is this, and that is that."

Indeed, she breaks her own promise because she needs to. Unlike me who just did it because I'm being captivated by her sleeping face.

"So how long you have been playing alone?."

"I just started, after all, I also just wake up myself."

"I See, Let's check it then."

She takes the blanket that covers our bodies, after that, she checked all part of her pink flowery pajama. When she feels sure that there's nothing wrong with it, she nodded few times and face me.

"Good, it seems master really hasn't done anything."

"Of course."

Because you are already wake up first.

"Ok, then let's prepare to work."

"Yes."

Our bed is a mess, our appearance is also the same. But the bed cover, blanket, and our clothes are still clean. Well, if there's something that's not clean, it's her sticky hair. We really did a good job last night.

As usual, both of us taking bath alternately and after we eat breakfast we immediately started working. Our target today is also 8 talismans like yesterday.

But today, I plan on having an overtime.

"Violet, please take out that thing."

"You mean the sword?."

"Yes!."

"I thought master didn't want. ."

"Yes, I still didn't really want to participate but I will go."

"If master didn't want to I can go alone."

"No! like hell I'm gonna leave you alone."

Just like you who would always stay by my side, I also want to stay by your side. I would do it even though I'm scared, in fear, or have to face my trauma.

I also want to be brave like you.

"Master. . ."

"But we are going to stay at the back and just move when we are actually needed."

"Yes."

She gives me a bright smile and then went to the back of our workshop. In a few minutes, she comes back with a big sword in her arms.

With a thud, she put it that almost 5 kg sword like it was nothing.

The length of its blade is 90 cm while the length of the hilt is 30 cm. In the length section, this sword is still considered normal. But the width is not. The width of the base of the blade is 20 cm while the tip has 15 cm width before it turns into a triangular shape.

Also, because the edge is blunt you can't really call this thing a sword.

"Let's disassemble this sword first.

"Um. . ."

She nodded and placed her hand on the left side of the rain guard where a small round crystal is placed, and I also do the same to the right side.

What we do is deactivating the talisman which maps the position every talisman and the one which locks the position of each talisman according to the maps.

The deactivating system is actually quite simple, we just have to send magic through a predetermined path. And if the magic is not through that path the security system would kick in and another talisman would get activated instead.

A collective talisman that forms an attack magic to shoo away anyone who tried to unlock it but failed.

"Ok, good."

After giving small glow from its silver connection all talisman that placed on top of it become loose and can be easily removed.

"So let's also do a thorough checkup."

Unlike the talisman that we made before, the talisman in this sword is smaller in size. When making this sword we remove so many functions from the usual talisman because it's not going to be operated independently and just act as a module. Hence we can make it smaller.

"As expected, the magical network is in a mess."

We call this thing a sword because of its shape, but instead of a sword, this thing is closer to that of magic wand used to assist someone like a witch who focuses on manipulating the law of nature.

But instead of directly manipulating a single element with an individual talisman, this sword utilize its magic by communicating with each other talisman and mutually interfering with each other.

This can lead to a stronger magic, more efficient manipulation or even creating some completely new effect that normally impossible to be produced with an orthodox method.

The simplest sample is. . let's see. You can generate fire by heating up some kind of material to an ignition temperature and then manipulate the oxygen to concentrate in a certain area.

This orthodox method only replicates what's exist in nature.

With multiple interferences, you can add more factor to the equation. You can compress the air, heat it up, ionize it with electricity, and then direct it to a certain target with conductive properties. This can create a super hot plasma which can even melt metal.

"I think we need to update the path for the network master."

"Yes, I don't think we are going to meet someone as strong as him again but just in case let's just add some tweak to this thing."

After we remove all the talisman on top of the sword, we can see that underneath all of that small metal is the bare skeleton of this thing.

The base is made of titanium coated with a small amount of iridium in the shape of a long thick plate. On top of that titanium plate, there's a thin layer of crystal that we used as the base of talisman. And on top of that, we placed the silver path that we use to connect all the talisman on the outer layer with each other.

The base is not only acting as the physical support for the talisman on the outer layer, but it also medium to control all the function of the sword. You can say that the base is pretty much the motherboard of this magical computing device.

"How about adding zinc to the silver link to increase its toughness."

"That's not going to work, it would just break again."

This sword can show its ability by absorbing the magic of the thing it touches so the user didn't need to supply the power for its usage. Beside that, by using the magic from our foe, we can increase this sword power in line with the strength of our enemy.

In another word, the stronger the enemy the stronger we can become.

But of course, there's a limit to that formula. If our enemy has the magical capability far above the absorbing power, networking capability, and capacity of the system on this sword it's just going to break from overloading.

And that what's happened in the past when we face him.

Honestly, it's miracle we can even escape from him.

"It's impossible for us to compete in raw power with something like that, so let's not just adding some toughness to it."

If we compete in raw power, without doubt, we are going to lose even we can muster every strengthening technique available. He is just that strong.

"I think its better if we can just redirect any excess stream of magic to outside the system."

"I see."

It's just like building a big dam. When the stream of water is above the capacity of the dam, it's better to just release some of the water instead of adding another fortification to it.

"How about adding ruthenium instead?."

"For some reason, I feel that the fact the one who taught all that knowledge is me seems like a lie."

"Is it a bad idea?."

"No, it's the opposite! I even think that you already more knowledgeable than me in this field."

"Ehehe. . ."

Ruthenium can add more hardness to another material, it also can add more wear resistant properties. But the most important thing is, it can convert energy to another form.

"We can use it to convert the excess energy into heat, and we can just blow the heat out with another talisman."

"While you work on updating the network, what should I do master?."

"Ah. please check the internal of every talisman and sort it by its condition."

"I see that way we can make a priority list for repairing the components."

"Yes."

The total number of talisman in this sword is 216, and each of them has a unique function with very little similarity in design and construction.

108 of them are used for magic manipulation where the rest are used for a summoning ritual. The 2 categories of talisman are specially made for 2 type of enemy. The one who only have magic, and the one which has a divinity.

In other words, this world real resident and the visitor from another world. A gods.

We can't defeat divine being without having a divine power, but human most mixed blood can't produce didn't possess any divinity. Hence, in order to be able to resist that kind of foe, we need to borrow power from another divine being.

Summoning ceremony already exists since ancient times. But the technique in the past has to rely on the right time, right place, and even some very elaborate ceremony plus the whims of their visitor.

You can say that the chance of success is pretty much one to thousands.

But with the advancement of magic technology, we can mostly replace all of the troublesome things.

We can artificially create the right place for the divine being to manifest. In this case, we can cleanse the area around us from impurities and enhance the magical density in it to create an artificial sacred ground.

A place that normally exists on some centuries-long historical site or untouchable place deep inside a forest or mountain.

The long and tiring ceremony is also no longer needed we can pack all the necessary magic in a small talisman. We can also establish stronger the connection to the spiritual world by using amplification. Something that didn't exist back then.

Most of the time, talisman can replace human magicians. But there's one final step that still needs human.

In the past, the summoner would bring a live sacrifice for the visitor to reside and manifest. And even now, it hasn't changed.

Summoning ceremony is like downloading a program from the internet. When the connection is established, we send a download request (that they can reject), after the visitor's souls accept our summoning, their soul would be downloaded. And in order to store it, we should prepare an adequate hardware.

That hardware is a human sacrifice.

Now Imagine what's going to happen when you run a program outside your hardware spec. The result is going to be bad.

In order to reduce the risk, our summoning ceremony only includes a fraction of visitor's soul and power to prevent overloading the hardware.

Or in this case, to prevent Violet's body from getting to much burden.

"What's wrong master? you have been staring for quite some time."

"Nothing, I just think that I'm so useless."

Yes, In order to beat some visitor A.K.A a divine being I've been using her body as a vessel for a summoning ceremony because my body is too frail to accept a visitor's soul.

"What are you talking about? without Master, we are not going to be able to talk like this right now."

"I don't think so, without you maybe I'm already dead in some random forest."

"Don't say something like that even for a joke."

But it's the truth. Without her strength, I'm nothing but some powerless human. The reason we are able to stay alive until today is that she is strong enough to protect both of us.

"That's wrong master, we are able to stay alive even after facing that massive existence is because we are together."

Violet stopping her hands and walk towards me and then grab my hands.

"Muscle would not move without a brain, and brain can do nothing without muscle."

That's how we create our first bond 4 years ago. I'll give all my support for her and in turn, she will protect me from any danger.

This arrangement seems weird remembering that she is a girl younger than me and I'm a man. But that's the best labor division between us.

Well, after a few month I didn't have the hear to always just stand at the back and getting hurt though. After that I begin to train more to strengthen my basic spec, creating a weapon that can utilize all of her ability, and construct a strategy that best suited for us.

"We are strong because we are together."

She squeezes my hands and gives me a look full of confidence.

"We are also backed by the strongest visitor, Shiva! no amount of small fries can defeat us."

The talisman we made is based on Shiva's name and ability as a template. Hence, the talisman for summoning process is only able of connecting to his soul.

In sense, indeed we are backed by Shiva. The strongest God.

"For some reason, I can't remember just when did we ever fight a small fries."

Also, in the fight between gods, something like advantage or disadvantage is not really a deciding factor. Fighting a divine being is about who can grasp the opportunity for victory, and strike it first.

"Not to mention, what we can summon is just a very small parts of his soul."

In another word, a just small fraction of his power. The opponent we face usually a full-blown divine being. In other words, we are always facing a far stronger opponent.

"Let's not nitpick everything, what master need to do is focus on your job so I also can focus on my job."

Checking the condition of every piece is a time consuming difficult task.

But she is an excellent girl who already surpasses me in this field, not to mention I build this sword together with her. So spotting some irregularity in the talisman is not a real problem for her even the number is huge.

After that, we work until around 11 pm and sleep like log after having dinner and taking a bath. And because we are really tired, we really just sleep without doing anything.

That kind of lifestyle continues for 4 days until we finished the request for making 30 mental fortitude talisman.

In the sixth day of the request we do nothing and just playing around all day to relieve our stress.

1.

"Thanks for coming with us."

"Well, I still fell responsible for proposing the plan, that's why I also come even though just as technical staff."

In the 7th days, we ask permission from the guild master to be allowed to participate in the upcoming battle with the excuse of giving maintenance to our talisman.

"You are not going to the frontline?."

"You see, now I'm just a talisman smith, not to mention my presence would just disturb the current carefully structured organiation."

My position is that of a merchant who handles the logistic problem. Not to mention I've never actually participated in the large-scale operation. If someone put me in the middle of the battle formation, my amateur skill in team battle would just get in the way.

"I understand, while you are pretty smart you actually didn't really have that high social skill."

"You are not implying that I'm a loner right?."

"Setting that aside, you always have the choice to simply move alone and kick that that Giant, honestly I didn't want to work at all."

Don't set that aside!!! I'm not a loner. I just prefer to be in quiet place. Also. . .

"You want me to die huh, Gotthard."

"Is there even anyone who can kill you?."

"Said the one who tried to kill me countless time."

"What's doesn't kill you, make you stronger."

"I'm not going to thank you for ingraining the habit of sniffing every food before eating it."

"By the way, you still have to watch out for a honey trap! I'm sure many people would try that method considering that you are a loner who didn't have any experience with a woman."

"Stop treating me like a failure in society."

This irritating guy who welcome us in one of the tents used by adventurer for the upcoming battle one of my old acquaintance. Or precisely, my old enemy.

I call him Gotthard but the truth is, I actually didn't know his real name. I also didn't really know his age. Based on appearance alone, maybe he is around 20 to 25 just like me.

As adventurer his level is in the middle, someone that's considered as strong but not that strong. But his level or position as an adventurer is nothing but a facade. His real job is an assassin for a certain semi-religious (it mostly political) organization in this country.

After I and Violet gain a little bit of recognition, we also get some unwanted attention from many people. One of them is the people at that certain organization. And it seems, in their eyes, my existence is deemed as dangerous so they sent their best assassin to kill me and Violet.

He can't compete in strength with violet so he resorts to many trickeries, and most of them include some kind of poison. That's why because of him, I developed some kind of habit of making sure anything we eat is safe.

Well, after making some promise to that certain organization, this guy stopped trying to kill us.

"Hey, you said something about me weak against honey trap right."

"Yes, what of it."

"Too bad, that kind of thing is not going to have any effect on me anymore."

"How?. It's impossible for a loner with zero romantic relationships to have any resistance towards it."

"Maybe you haven't heard it, but now I'm married to Violet."

If they want to trap me in a honey trap, they need to overcome my overflowing love for my wife first. After that, they need to make consider the honey to be cuter than Violet. But too bad, my Violet is the cutest girl in the world. So no matter what, I'm never gonna fall in one.

"I see some sign of it in the past, but it seems you are now already throw away your humanity and become a full-blown scum who can lay his hands on children! with this, it's indeed difficult to trap you in honey, looking for a small girl who wants to work for us is not that easy after all."

"Hey Gotthard, can we reverse our role here! I really want to kill you right now."

"Eh? you want to try me? ok! come on!."

"That should be my line! are you sure you want to challenge me? Violet is in the next tent you know! when she hears my cry of help she would come here in the blink of eyes."

"How can you threaten me with someone else power? and what is that 'when she hears my cry of help' crap!? just how lame you can be."

"Well, I'm not expert in fighting a human."

If you can't do something, just leave it to someone who is actually capable of doing it instead of forcing yourself.

"Work delegation is the basic of basic in the economy lesson."

"Indeed, he is so lame."

Before I and Gotthard even able to make some opening move, Violet enter the tent we are in give me a quite strong blow directly to my heart.

"I thought you are on my side Violeeeet."

"I'm on your side master, but as a wife, I should readily accept the reality in order to be able to love my husband as is."

"Geh. . . ."

Because of her height, she has to carry the sword on her back. And when she bends her body forward, the hilt is hitting my shoulder because she stands too close to me.

But that's not the one which hurt me. It's her sharp words.

"Setting that aside, what we should do master? the first wave of attack would begin in an hour."

After confirming the position of the Giant, the adventurer from the town quickly move to the location near it to begin the operation. Because this is a joint operation between the adventurer guild and the army, we receive some additional logistics to be used like this tent and portable foods.

These freebies from the army really helped us a lot. While adventurer usually prepares everything they needed by themselves, having someone else provide their basic necessity is really helpful. Not only time, we can also save a lot of money.

With this, the guild shouldn't have suffered too much economically.

"Let's just see the situation first, I didn't want to join into a fight without any preparations."

"You are still being careful as usual huh?."

"My motto is never underestimating an enemy, carefully look for any information, and plan ahead, if all of that didn't work let's just leave it to Violet."

"I'm really sorry for you Violet-san."

Gotthard gives a fake crying voice and bowing deeply to Violet like a mother who has her child doing nasty thing to the neighbor kids.

"He is maybe lame and a coward, but when it matters the most he is the most reliable person I can depend on! that's why I love him so much."

Gotthard shifts his sight to me and made some scary angry looks.

"Just die already!!!!!!!!."

"Hahahahahaha. . . . behold!! the power of married man!!!."

"Don't get carried away!!!."

Violet give me a head chop, but I didn't care because my revenge is already successful.

After that, both of us, went to the nearest hill to observe the upcoming battle because we didn't have any real job yet. And when the real battle started, we finally understand that checking and validating every information we got is a must.

"Master!!!!."

"I know!!!."

The sword on her back begins to shake. That sword is designed to be able to absorb magic or divine power from everything it touches. So, of course, it also able to respond to magical wave or divine vibration in the atmosphere.

And the time where that sword gives that kind of wild feedback are only two. When we faced a very strong pureblood, or when we face a visitors from another world. Gods.

"Shit!!! I should have known that most people can't tell the difference between ordinary Giant and Titans."

She draws the sword on her back and holds the top in front of me.

"I should have known that coming here is a bad idea."

"But you didn't regret it right? master."

"Yes, I would regret it even more if I didn't come here."

I hold the tip of the sword and both of us send our magic to the sword at the same time. After the crack between the talisman on top of the sword that acts as a magic network glows. The talisman which connected to the magic path begins to lose and separated itself from the main body just about 10 cm above the base of the sword and realign itself on a different slot.

"Ready? master."

The effect of the current magic from the sword is to make our body lighter. By making use of that magic I stand on top of the sword she is holding.

"Yes!."

"Then, Goo!!!."

And then she swings it to launch my body towards the position of the adventurer. In the blink of eyes, she already beside me just by jumping using her own power.

1.

Giant is pretty much just enlarged version human with over the top upgraded spec. But Titan is a completely different entity. Even though their size and appearance are similar, you can't compare Giant with Titan in term of power.

They are the 2nd being that born into this world after the Primordial. The parents of the universe itself. And by born from that almighty incomparable existence, they, of course, possessed a divinity. In other words, they are pretty much a god.

The 2nd generation of gods.

Something that's definitely can't be beaten by a mere human no matter how many they are.

"Master!!!."

". . . . "

"Master!!."

"What. . ?."

"Hold me tight!."

"Ah? . . . ."

"Hold me tightly master."

Shit, how the heck I'm having my mind wandering around when we are in a dire situation like this. We are not even landing and yet I'm already being confused by the situation.

"I'm the one who protect Everyone in my sight, palanhar 61."

The soil below us moved as Violet brandish her sword to the direction of the attacking Titan and begin to swallow that Giant body.

"Not enough."

I grab into Violet's body tightly in order for me to be able to land safely.

"One who bestows prosperity, shambu 81."

Many plants begin to sprout from the soil, after that it begins to grow rapidly, and in the blink of eyes the soil that buried the Titan become a complete forest which no sunlight can penetrate it soil.

"Lord of earth, bhudheva 12."

The soil started to change its color and become harder and harder, and when we landed. The mountain of soil and forest completely turned into a Giant stone with the unimaginable weight and hardness.

"Did it finish it?."

"Of course not! something on that level is not gonna kill it! what it can do is just buying us some time! let's ask everyone to leave this place."

Human magic or its effects are unable to hurt a divine creature, in order to hurt them, you need to possess the same amount or stronger power than them. And without divine blessing, no human can match them in magic capacity.

"Yes."

She grabs my hands and started to run where everyone still shocked about what just happened in front of them. But when she pulls my body, I just fell to the ground.

"Master?."

"My feet. I can't move them."

She looked at me with shocked eyes, but without a second thought she comes back and pick me up and then put my body on top of her shoulder while also carrying the sword in one hand.

"I'm sorry Violet."

"Don't worry, everything is going to be ok, master."

". . . ."

She carries my body like a sack while also looking for our acquaintance. After some time, she finally found the guild master and able to ask him to command the team to retreat to the headquarter.

"So, why we should retreat Violet-san?."

Because I'm still not in a condition to talk, Violet decided to become my representative.

"This operation is a failure, you guys can't beat that thing."

"What do you mean by that?."

"That thing is not a mere Giant, it's a Titan, and unless you think you can slay a god let's just retreat and let it pass."

"Are you saying that we have to just let it trample our town."

"Y. . .yes."

We come here to stop it from destroying any more place and killing any more people. But after we found its real identity, we propose to just let it do whatever it wants. Yeah, it's lame, it's contradicting, it's shameful, and it's the worst kind of idea someone can suggest.

But there's no better solution that, a solution of letting it do as it pleased is the best thing we can do. Because if we oppose it with violence, our annihilation is nothing but certain.

A god is something that can affect the world's law just by being present. Its mere existence can break any rule. A gods presence on the surface is bring nothing but calamity. And puny existence like a human is nothing in front of a big calamity.

Even in my previous world, any information, preparation, and plan would become useless if the mother of nature seriously trying to kill its resident.

"So we can't do anything huh?."

"I'm sorry, but it's the truth."

Normally, the myth race like spirit, angel, or gods didn't possess a flesh body and exist only in the spiritual world, hence they can't really appear in this world.

In order to be able to appear in this world, they need to create an avatar for themselves and then possess it. Or making someone in this world do a large scale ritual to create an artificial sacred ground that can act as temporary support for their spiritual body.

Both of them is extremely difficult to do when they can't directly interfere with this world, so something like that can only happen once in thousand of thousand years.

They need a proxy.

But there's an exception.

After losing a battle with the 3rd generation gods, most Titans are slaughtered or kicked from another world. And because this world can't support a purely spiritual body, most of them ended up disappearing like a mist.

In order to stay alive this world, they need a physical body, and the body which has the best affinity with their spiritual body is the body of a Giant.

The one who unable to possess a compatible body would perish, but the one who can successfully hijack the Giant soul and body survive.

Like the one which we faced today.

"Let'ts focus on evacuating the people and save our own self."

We can't do anything about the Titan, but we still can save the townspeople by evacuating them to a safer place. We can think of any follow-ups problem later. But for now, we should focus on lowering the number of any possible casualty.

"I will dispatch someone to inform the remaining adventurer in the guild and ask them to help the evacuation, but we are not going to retreat or prevent the army to come."

I shouted when the guild master starts to talk nonsense.

"Why? you can't win! facing it is just a suicide and adding more people just going to bring more casualty! we all should just fl. . ."

"Saburo! you misunderstood something this whole time."

But he readily interjects my words before I can even finish it.

"No one expects an easy fight in this battle, everyone is betting their lives since the beginning, and many of them are even already prepared themselves to die today."

"How come?. "

"Saburou, do you know what kind of requirement we placed on this operation to the adventurer besides their basic strength?."

"Ra-nk?. . ."

"Wrong, it seems you didn't read the notice on the quest board."

I'm not an adventurer so of course, I didn't read anything on the quest board.

"The other requirements besides their strength is their resolve, the resolve to do anything in order to protect everyone even if they are no longer able to go home anymore! you can flee if you didn't have that resolve! that's why I not even trying to coerce you to join the operations."

"That, can't be true. . . I mean."

We only planned to face a Giant. If we have adequate preparation and personnel, we definitely can beat it. It's not an enemy that's impossible to defeat.

"Let me tell you something Saburou, not everyone is as strong as you."

"What do you mean by. . "

"Not everyone can treat this battle as just some light exercise!."

"I never fe. . ."

"For us! even a Giant that you treated like a small fry is not something we can beat with just a little hard work!."

"But. ."

"Hence we are still going to continue the operations, what we need to do hasn't changed."

At first, they just want to divert its attention, stall some time while also grinding its powers little by little and wait until the army come and able to land a fatal blow. But what now they are trying to lure it away from the town and just hold out as long as possible because the options of defeating it are now gone.

In other words, since the beginning, they are just acting as a sacrificial pawn. A bunch of cannon fodder for the army.

"I'll reorganize the adventurer, after that we are going to lure it away! If you still don't want to fight! please go as far as possible from this place I'm not gonna blame you for your decision."

Yeah, he can't blame me for anything. I'm just a talisman smith and nothing more. I also didn't need to worry about the maintenance of their talisman. After all, maybe most of them are not even able to bring it back to the headquarters.

"You can flee with Violet, after all, you already have done so much for us, I will pray for your happiness."

The guild master gives me a bright smile that didn't fit an old man like him and then run to the other side of the headquarter. And after some time passed, finally Violet moves closer to me.

"What the heck is that!!!!, Is he try to criticize me?."

Only to find the trembling me shout like crazy.

Why the heck you treat me like some kind of hero who has nothing to fear, stronger than anyone, and can do everything I wanted if I just put my mind into it.

I'm just weak tiny human just like all of you. A human who struggle to stay alive in this harsh brutal world.

"Is he trying to curse me by crushing my soul with guilts?."

I grab my face and cover my eyes with my fingers.

I never once looking down on them, treating them like inferior people. I also never once treat my enemy lightly nor underestimate them. I have never gone into a battle with puny resolve.

I always fight with the assumption that my enemy is stronger than me.

"Is he trying to show off how great he is, ho admirable the other adventurer is, and how brave they are."

I already know all of that. You didn't have to tell me anything. Do you want to compare me to them that much so I can understand how miserable am I?. No! You didn't have to do that.

"I already know that I'm a miserable person!!!! I know it better than anyone else!!!!!."

While the other move forward I just shuddering like a rat in the back, while the other is facing danger I'm just cowering in the safe place like a chick, and while the other steeling their resolve to protect the future of their most important person. I just think about fleeing like a defeated dog.

No, in fact, I'm a defeated dog.

"Master. . . . . . . what do you want to do?."

I want to help them, I want to be useful, I didn't want to leave them to die.

"Violet. . . help me. ."

I peeled my hands from my face and show her my miserable crying face.

"I understand, leave it to me."

She wipes my tears with both her thumb while having her palm rested on my cheeks.

"Master, you love me right?."

"Of course."

"You want me to be happy right?."

"That's not even a question."

"And you also want to protect me right?."

"Yes, even at the cost of my lives."

"Then, if that Titan threatened my lives and we didn't have any way to escape and we are forced to face it, can you give your all to defeat it?."

"I. . . ."

"You can't?. . ."

I don't know if I can really protect her or not, I don't know if my power is sufficient to pull her up from that dangerous situation, I didn't even don't that I can muster any resistance at all. But even so.

"It doesn't matter if I can do it or not, If I'm able to do it or not, or if I have the power or not."

"Then."

"I'll do it."

I'll just do it even I have to force myself to do it. Because of her existence, is far more precious than my puny lives. It doesn't matter if I'm weak, or my enemy is immensely strong. If using every single grain of power, wisdom, and bravery that I possess can give me even a tiny chance to protect and made her safe.

"I'll just do it."

She releases her hands from my face and gives me a very gentle smile.

"I'm the one who fulfills wishes instantly, Aashutosh 1."

It was 1 of 108 spell words from our sword. But she didn't insert any magic to the correspondence talisman so the power should not have been activated. In fact, she didn't even hold the sword because now she is grabbing both of my hands.

"With this, now you are a brave knight that exist solely to protect me."

After that, she gives me a light kiss on my lips.

1.

"What is that face master."

"Nothing."

"Are you mad?."

"No, not at all."

"Are disappointed?."

"Yes, that's it."

Usually, the solution to a complicated problem is the easiest one. Now, I know what that proverb truly means.

"But it works right?."

"Yes, though it made me feels always on edge."

"We can fix that later."

The biggest factor that prevents me from able to fight properly is my trauma after being defeated and fail to save Violet's little sister. I didn't really felt anything when the opponent is human or normal things like a wild animal because I have an absolute faith in Violet's capability.

But other than that any fight would trigger my trauma and made me unable to move well due to fear.

And unlike Violet who can overcome her trauma with her own will alone, I'm just a weak lame guy who can't fight his own fear.

So how did I overcome it now?.

"I thought you would do something with the power of love, the bond between comrade, or something similar to break my trauma. . . to think you just use that thing. . . it's rather anticlimactic."

"In a sense, it's a power of love, master's power of love to be exact."

It's true.

What she does is just giving me a mental fortitude talisman that we created after fishing my feeling for her to the surface.

Normally, mental fortitude talisman is just tool to control one own motivation to drive the user to do something. It was a talisman to make someone able to endure something for the sake of something else.

If you didn't want to work but you want money, you can use the use mental fortitude talisman to boost your hunger for money so you didn't want to stop working.

"I can fight, but the image that the talisman shows me are all very scary."

"I'm sorry."

"No, I don't blame you."

My biggest motivation in living is to be able to stay with her, make her happy and protect her. If She boasts one of that 3 feeling I'm not going to fight because I will just prioritize her safety over anything else.

So, what kind of feeling that needs to be boosted.

Boosting my fighting spirit would do nothing, because how many times you multiply a zero it would stay zero.

It was my fear of losing her when I can't do anything but fight in order to save her.

In other words, I washed blood with blood. We toppled my fears with even stronger fears.

Hence, my mind is now full of many scenarios of how I'm going to lose Violet in so many situations. Honestly, it's really terrifying. But with that fear, now I can muster a resolve to fight.

"So, what's the plan master?."

"Normal magic is not gonna cut it, so we can only borrow divinity from our backer."

"In other words?."

"Yes."

"I'll depend on you, master."

"Likewise."

I grab the handle of the sword and take it from Violet with my right hand, after that I use the left to grab her right.

"Lord of the lords, Devadeva 17, master of all, Gurudeva 27, master of the universe, Jagadisha 29, lord of gods, Maheshwara 54, the supreme god, Mahesa 53."

The talismans on the sword begin to move from one place to another, rearranging itself as I said the spell words. With every movement of talisman, the sword gives a beautiful bell-like sound that pleasant to the ears.

This was a part of summoning ritual. To summon the power that can even cut through the divinity of visitor from another world.

The power we borrow from another visitor from that world.

"You ready Violet?."

I pull her hand, but unlike the usual, her hand didn't feel warm anymore, Not to mention, her aura is completely changed. I can clearly feel something else is residing inside her body.

"Anytime."

After arriving at the place that we used previously, we can see that the Titan already able to destroy the stone seal we created before and currently engaging the adventurer.

They look doing better than I imagine, it seems they really put all of their resolves into this operation.

"I'm the source of everything, Sarvayoni 79, Hence, I can destroy everything, scorcher of all, Sarvatapana 78."

Her hair turned into red along with her pupil. After that, a golden fire like aura begins to engulf her body.

"Shit, how can you look so cool like that?."

"Let's not have a too much needless chat and just focus."

Yes, even though they are able to offer some better than average resistance to the Titan, they can't land any decisive blow to it. After all nor their weapon and magic have any effect on it.

She claps her hand and focuses her sight on the Titan that currently attacking the adventurer. Along with her clapping sound, a golden fire also begin to engulf the Titan.

"Is it working?. . ."

The Titan looks agonized, but it only lasted for a few seconds. It soon regains its control over its body and then the fire begins to get extinguished.

"I see, let's move closer I want to dig more information about it."

With that, both of us plunged directly to the center of the battlefield.

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