“As the Duke who controls Hell, I can help you. As long as you enter the sight of the gods of Hell, you will be isolated from Hell. How about that?”

“You’ve always treated these people as tools, right? Well, that’s cold and heartless enough. How about changing to a more useful tool? You won’t mind, right?”

The devil’s temptation appears again.

The conditions offered by Huihui, who was replaced by Vanir, to the adventurers were very attractive, and even achieved an all-round crushing of Huihui in terms of functionality.

“Eh? You’re going to hell?”

Aqua looked at Connor, who called himself a “believer”, in confusion. Why would a living person go to hell for no reason?

She knew that Connor was looking for clues related to hell and demons, but she thought it was because of the teachings of Axis that every believer would take it as his or her responsibility to defeat demons.

As for the word “tool”, the Water Goddess, who had very low intelligence and luck, subconsciously ignored it.

After all, Kazuma would occasionally treat her as a similar banquet goddess, a tea bag, a priest with buffs, a ball of light that could attract the undead, a useless waste, a money-loser…

Although Aqua was unhappy, she had no reason to refute.

“By the way, don’t even think about using force against me. You know what I mean.” Vanir clenched his staff tightly. “Explosion magic doesn’t require any chanting. It just looks very cool.”

Vanir’s meaning was very clear. If the adventurers launched a frontal attack, the consequences of an instantaneous explosion magic could be imagined.

“Tsk… If you possessed Darkness, I’d have a headache just relying on her body’s defense…”

Connor stood up and threw Aqua’s water knife to the ground. The water knife, which had lost its magic power, quickly turned into a pool of clear water, flowing slowly on the floor.

“What do you want to do?” Huihui stared at Connor with her scarlet eyes.

“Of course we have to give it a try.” Connor raised his hand, and the projection of the golden apple appeared in his palm.

call–

A biting cold wind suddenly blew into the mansion’s hall with its doors and windows tightly closed, and time seemed to be frozen.

152. Tighten the screws

The [Possession] of the Duke of Hell, Barnil, is a very high-level skill.

When the target puts on the mask actively or passively, Vanir will immediately gain control of the other’s body, along with all the skills the target has learned. And because the dominant one is Vanir, a great demon who has lived for an unknown amount of time, the power and fluency of his skills and physical techniques will all be increased to the peak of that level.

But the reason why [Possession] is of high standard is because of another function of [Possession]. After Vanir possesses a target, his skills that originally require a physical body to activate will become unusable. The strength and combat style of possession will all depend on the target.

If the great demon Vanir, who is good at using various magics, possesses the Crusader Darkness, then Darkness will become a defensive knight with the strongest offensive and defensive balance, relying only on physical fitness and consciousness, even though he has not learned any offensive skills.

It’s very tough and does high damage.

If Youyou is possessed, then Youyou’s extremely powerful magician’s profession panel will be shaped by the great devil using the magic skills honed over a long period of time into an invincible battle mage, the kind that can solo the Demon King’s Castle as long as the magic power is sufficient.

Possession and Shin will greatly make up for the shortcomings of the Adventurer profession, making it a perfect profession that combines various professions in one.

Unfortunately, Vanir chose Huihui.

This Crimson Demon magician did not have any spare skill points at all, and had put all of them into Explosion Magic and Auxiliary Explosion Magic. Apart from firing a single Big Bang, his combat power was not even as good as that of a toad.

No matter what Vanir wanted to change, he had no room to change it. Even when he realized that Connor was about to attack him, the heart-freezing ice had already spread under his feet, but Huihui’s physical limit was there, and there was no way to deal with it except instant explosion magic.

Vanir didn’t want to release the explosion magic here. He used the explosion magic to threaten these people just to negotiate terms.

Just like when he negotiated with Wiz, the owner of the magic item store, Wiz was not a lich at that time, but an ice witch famous among adventurers, and her two teammates were also the best among adventurers.

However, none of Wiz and the other two could withstand the possession of Vanir, and Wiz was always in a cycle of buying props – defeating Vanir – failing the defeat and going bankrupt – making money to buy props, so in the end, the defeat of Vanir could only be left unresolved.

Later, because the Dullahan, a cadre of the Demon King’s army, released a death curse on Wiz’s two companions, Wiz had no choice but to compromise with Vanir and turned into a lich in order to find a way to save his companions. A sword of light broke through the barrier of the Demon King’s Castle, and he killed his way through the Demon King’s Castle alone to find the Dullahan Beldia.

With previous successful cases and Wiz having reconciled with Vanir, Vanir thought whether he could turn these adventurers into people like Wiz this time, providing him with negative emotions and funds to realize his dream. However, after several negotiations, things did not go as smoothly as Vanir imagined.

When he was suppressed by the Holy Purification for the first time, Vanir had already understood that Aqua was definitely not a priest with the same name as the goddess, but the water goddess Aqua herself who had come down to earth.

That kind of majestic divine power is definitely not something a believer can mobilize.

One of Wiz’s friends is a high priest of the Church of Eris, but they still can’t do anything to him? They can’t even purify his clay body.

With the goddess’s true form present, Vanir did not expect these adventurers to voluntarily become undead to cooperate with his plan, nor did he expect to use any curse to control them. Aqua, the goddess of water, could solve the problem in a matter of minutes with a purification, and Vanir did not want to waste his power in vain.

He just wanted to make a deal. It was normal to make a deal with the devil. There were many believers in the church who made deals with the devil. Moreover, his deal had nothing to do with the devil or evil. He just valued human creativity and hoped that if these people had any good ideas to make money in the future, they could guide him and let him invest or directly sell the patent.

Building the dungeon of his dreams would be expensive.

Demon labor is free, clay puppets are free, and their own time is even less valuable, but what about the construction materials of the dungeon? What about the soft decoration? What about the early publicity? What about the wages of the big demons who serve as bosses and level guards? What about the treasures that must be believed by adventurers in the dungeon? Even if it is not much, there must be some real money in it. Otherwise, those adventurers who don’t know what to do will not rush in.

Money is needed everywhere, and countless demons in both parts of the Hell Dungeon are carried on the shoulders of Barnil.

Now, that deal looks like it’s falling through.

The coldness that Vanir felt in Huihui’s body was not just physical. Even his soul, the Duke of Hell who had lived for countless years, was touched.

The moment the ice came down, Vanir briefly lost his memory.

A lady with silver-blue hair that went down to her waist and a queen-like aura appeared behind Connor. Ice and ultra-low temperatures spread from her as the center.

【Summon force】!

After devouring the ore and the artifact, the feedback from the evolution of the Apple of Eden far exceeded Connor’s imagination. Not only did the skills of the Apple of Eden become stronger, but as long as he activated the Apple of Eden, the evolutionary power even gave his own skills the power of the artifact.

He originally thought that as the target of [Force Summoning], Esdeath’s special skill – “Mokobotmo” which was enough to freeze time would be ineffective in this world full of magical power, but looking at Vanir’s condition, it was obviously successful.

As the only person who could move freely in the frozen time, Connor glanced at Aqua’s condition and found that the goddess of water was frozen more solidly because she was rubbing her water knife, so it didn’t matter whether time was frozen or not.

“Eh… I thought the god’s true form wouldn’t be affected and he could just take off the mask… I can only do it myself…”

The thought flashed through his mind briefly, and Connor could already feel the temperature rising, and the world was beginning to flow again. In order to save time, he didn’t even move, and flashed directly in front of Huihui.

Grab the edge of the mask with both hands——[tighten the screws]!

153. Not so many people

A screw is a tool that uses the physical and mathematical principles of the inclined circular rotation of an object and friction to gradually tighten objects and parts.

The mask is a tool that uses the demon’s possession skills and the magical principles of magic to gradually tighten the demon and the possessed target.

How come tightening a mask is not considered tightening a screw?

“You’re very interesting! Huhahaha, I can’t even see you clearly with my eyes!”

Vanir quickly recovered from his daze. In addition to the slowing effect of the ice on him, when Connor activated the [Screw Tightening] on his mask, the magic power that possessed Huihui was actually pried open. The possession state that should have been actively removed by him was actually twisted off Huihui’s face by Connor like tightening a screw.

The black and white mask was laughing wildly in Connor’s hand. After so many years, he was tired of observing the world with his clairvoyance day after day. But today he could see someone that his clairvoyance could not see through?

Barnier was extremely happy at this moment. Any extreme negative emotions were not as good as the excitement that Connor brought him that touched the depths of his soul!

“I am very happy, and I have decided to give you a chance to realize your dream!”

The devil’s sneer filled the time and space that was returning to its original state. A vortex that distorted the light suddenly appeared on the black and white mask, and a huge suction force emanated from it.

“You guys killed me, my life! From now on, Vanir, the general of the Demon King’s army who served the Demon King, is dead! Hahahaha!”

Connor’s heart sank. He couldn’t break free from the suction of the vortex with just his physical strength. The deathrattle skill of a great demon who was as powerful as a god and activated by a clone was beyond the ability of a mortal like him to resist.

Although I want to go to hell to look for the information left by the qualified predecessors, but… actively entering hell and passively entering hell are two completely different concepts.

Especially since he had just sent Maxwell, the Duke of Hell, back to Hell not long ago, and now he had sent Barnil, the great demon who ruled Hell, back to Hell as well…

Having offended two of the Seven Dukes of Hell, Connor is definitely not waiting for a grand welcome party in hell.

But, this is also an opportunity.

A reliable opportunity to travel between Hell and the mortal world.

Connor reached out and touched the scroll in his arms. That was the idea he came up with after he entered hell last time in the body of a hellish imp, which was to use teleportation to record the location of hell.

Even when he was fighting with Barnil in the mountains, Connor did not use this precious scroll.

After all, he didn’t record Axel’s location at all, and the scroll was just a useless prop that recorded a blank teleportation spell.

The ice faded away, and the mansion was in a mess.

There was white frost on Kazuma’s eyebrows, as if time had been frozen. The fire in the fireplace had long been extinguished, and the freezing cold wind blew in mercilessly from outside, making him sneeze.

“What happened…”

The trembling Kazuma only remembered that Huihui was possessed by Vanir, and everyone was afraid to take action. What happened after that…

The unconscious Megumin, the dazed Yunyun, Darkness collapsed on the stairs, Aqua frozen into an ice cube, and a dagger stuck in the ground. Kazuma looked around and nodded. This was probably the situation in the mansion.

Hmm, there doesn’t seem to be anything unusual… What the hell!

Where is the reincarnated hero who passed on his experience and helped him solve his problems?

How come there is only a dagger left there?

“Ahhhhh! It’s over, it’s over, it’s over! Aqua, quickly think of a solution!”

Kazuma stuck to the goddess ice block and could vaguely see Aqua’s eyes moving.

boom!

The iron sword chopped on the ice, but the ice did not move at all, not even a white mark appeared.

The water created by Aqua was of extremely high quality. After being frozen into ice, it was naturally far superior to ordinary ice. Kazuma, an adventurer of the lowest occupation, did not have enough attribute points, so he could not break the ice.

If it were Darkness, it would still be possible to break the ice with physical means, but the prerequisite was that Darkness could hit the target.

Darkness, who was inexplicably frozen, can’t even stand up now. Kazuma can forget about counting on this perverted knight.

“Fireball!”

Kazuma struggled to rub a fireball in the cold, but as soon as it touched the surface of the ice, it was extinguished by the abundant ice magic, and not even a spark remained.

“I can’t cut it, and I can’t burn it…” Kazuma turned his eyes to…

It definitely isn’t Huihui, because Huihui only knows explosion magic.

“Youyou! Wake up, wake up. Your fire magic is definitely stronger than mine!”

First, rescue Aqua from the ice, and then work together to find out whether Connor is dead or alive. If he is dead, we must collect his body, and if he is dead, we must find a way to rescue him. Kazuma’s plan is good, but it is completely stuck at the first step.

“well!”

Youyou replied incoherently, she had not been able to completely get rid of the influence of the ice. It could even be said that the ice summoned by Connor was a greater threat to magicians like them than the devil.

If the mind is frozen, the spell cannot be chanted, and if the magic power is frozen, the spell cannot be cast. Even the slowness caused by the cold is fatal to the magician.

A ball of fire as big as a human head hit the goddess’ ice. The crackling sound brought some joy to her and Kazuma’s faces. It seemed that there was hope of melting the ice!

When it comes to caring about Connor’s safety and finding his whereabouts, Youyou is even more anxious than Kazuma. The first friend he made outside of the Scarlet Devil Village, the first person he formed a team with, the reliable companion in carrying out missions, the heroic adventurer who resolved several major crises…

There is no need for the Duke of Hell, Barnil, to lie, as what he sees with his “Clairvoyance” that sees through everything is indeed true.

Finally, after Darkness recovered, she joined the ice-breaking operation with a greatsword, and the three of them finally worked together to rescue Aqua from the ice.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… It’s so cold, so cold, so cold…”

“I thought I was going to freeze to death… wuwuwuwu…”

Aqua was crying loudly, and her tears and snot fell to the ground with a loud noise due to the low temperature.

“Don’t cry yet, Aqua, let’s find where Connor has gone!” Youyou’s little leather shoes tapped anxiously on the floor covered with white frost.

“He… I saw him being dragged to hell by the devil…”

Aqua sobbed and said that even though her whole body was frozen in the ice, her vision and perception were still not blocked. The current freezing time had almost no effect in front of the true body of the god.

“Take him to hell…”

Yunyun repeated silently, while Kazuma asked bluntly, “Does that mean…”

“There is almost no hope of survival. If there is still an intact body, I can be resurrected…but…” Aqua sneezed several times, her voice muffled.

Even she, the goddess of water, wanted to know who the lady with long silver-blue hair who appeared next to Connor was?

Didn’t Connor say that he was her believer? Or… did he still have a chance to grow?

Kazuma sighed. Now even if it is a cenotaph, this dagger can only be used to replace it, right?

“Today, we are here to remember a dear friend, a senior, a brave adventurer, a hero… His departure makes us…” Kazuma took off the non-existent air hat sadly and said in a deep voice.

“Ahem, stop talking. There aren’t that many people in hell.”

154. Hell!

ghost!