Published: September 10, 2025
“Lord Nameless! I will fine-tune the ritual device. Please evenly channel magic power into the blue and red gems on the left side from my perspective.”
Loleiya shouted with a serious expression.
This was the Saga Empire, in an underground facility beneath the temple on Hero’s Hill, near the Old Capital.
According to Loleiya, if the currently activated hero summoning magic circle were to go out of control, it would continuously summon heroes from another world until it exhausted all the lives and magic power of the people in the Old Capital.
Hero Nameless, at Loleiya’s request, teleported to the gems on the ritual device.
(Yes, that’s good. The plan is going smoothly.)
The goblin Demon King, who was disguised, secretly chuckled as he watched Hero Nameless’s actions.
After losing his head to a light projectile from Weiyali’s Holy Bow and losing his avatar when he drew the heroes into the temple’s underground, the goblin Demon King had secretly remained here, observing the heroes from somewhere.
“Loleiya! I’ll help too!”
Like Loleiya, Weiyali, a long-eared (Buchi) tribe archer and attendant to Hero Hayato, called out.
“In that case, please check the instrument on the opposite side of Lord Nameless!”
“Understood!”
Several other people related to Parion Temple were here, but they were too flustered by the sudden change of events to do anything but nervously watch.
The hero’s gaze shifted slightly, showing a faintly suspicious expression.
It was only a brief moment, and no one here noticed it.
“Can I forcibly drain magic power? Would that be no good?”
While supplying magic power to the ritual device, Hero Nameless asked.
(Oh no, no, what are you saying? Doing that would ruin the plan.)
The goblin Demon King muttered in his mind.
“No! If you do that, the hero summoning magic circle will break!”
Loleiya cried out as if screaming.
“Right, that’s true—”
Hero Nameless obediently resumed supplying magic power.
(Phew~ that was nerve-wracking.)
“Is this amount of magic power okay?”
“If possible, please increase it by fifty percent.”
“Okay!”
The amount of magic power supplied to the ritual device increased.
Exactly fifty percent more.
(Good, good, just like that!)
“Hey, Loleiya. Doesn’t something seem off about the magic circle’s circuit?”
(Don’t bother with unnecessary worries!)
The goblin Demon King mentally retorted to Weiyali’s question.
“No, everything is proceeding as planned (……). There’s no problem.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Tilting her head slightly, Weiyali returned to assisting.
(That’s right, just like that!)
The goblin Demon King wiped cold sweat from his brow.
“A bit more. Keep the magic power steady.”
“Okay.”
Hero Nameless casually agreed to Loleiya’s request, who was sweating from her forehead.
Soon, the magic power filling completed, and a different magic circle appeared beneath their feet.
The magic circles began to chain-replace one another, and countless layered magic circles spread across the entire ritual device.
The magic circle divided vertically, scanning the bodies of the three nearby, forming a cylindrical layered magic circle.
“Now! Dump magic power all at once!”
“Alright!”
When Hero Nameless poured in magic power, a torrent of light filled the area around the ritual device.
When the dazzling flood of light, too bright to keep eyes open, subsided, the ritual device fell silent as if the previous light had been a lie.
(—Perfect.)
“Phew, I’m glad it settled safely—”
Weiyali looked around the underground space and felt something was off about the scene.
“—Where’s the hero? Where’s Hero Nameless?”
“What do you mean? Where did Hero Nameless disappear to?”
Startled by Weiyali’s words, Loleiya also looked around with a shocked expression.
But Hero Nameless was nowhere to be found.
(He’s nowhere to be found, no matter how much I look.)
The goblin Demon King gloated silently.
(Hero Nameless has already been sent back.)
Chuckling in his mind, the goblin Demon King muttered the reason for Hero Nameless’s absence.