Published: January 24, 2026
The reason we caused the flooding of dungeons across various regions is that Orun Dura has regained his power.
Orun Dura is a troublesome opponent for us.
Under normal circumstances, he should have been killed ten years ago when he attacked the Village of Dawn.
The reason we didn’t kill him but instead only altered his memory is partly because it’s difficult to kill him, but the main reason is that he helps increase the mana density of this world.
As an explorer, he has exercised countless supernatural abilities over the past ten years.
Most of those were focused on mana convergence.
That power accelerates the increase in mana density in this world.
Originally, it was estimated that it would take nearly a hundred years for the mana density to exceed the prescribed value.
Thanks to Orun and Oliver repeatedly using mana convergence during their dungeon explorations, the threshold was surpassed in just ten years.
Until now, the evil god Oberon was focusing on increasing the mana density so that he could operate smoothly in this world.
But now that this goal has been achieved, Orun Dura, who has no more use to us, is nothing but a nuisance.
So we planned to break his mind in Tsutolairu and then eliminate him.
After that, we intended to slowly conquer the Great Labyrinth, which is the sealing device that imprisons Oberon.
Our greatest forces, such as Blazing and the Thunder Emperor, are, like Rakshasa, fairies possessed by demons inhabiting human bodies.
Their power is enough that they are not outmatched even by the Great Labyrinth’s floor bosses.
Reaching the deepest 100th floor is easy.
However, standing in their way is the 100th-floor floor boss.
If you compare sheer combat ability, Blazing and the others are stronger than the 100th-floor floor boss.
But the 100th-floor floor boss possesses the ability of mana eater.
For fairies, this ability is the worst match.
It alone makes the boss a natural enemy of fairies.
Therefore, humans are the only ones who have a chance to defeat the 100th-floor floor boss.
That’s why, after eliminating Orun, we planned to crush Amuntzarse as well and have the remaining humans conquer the Great Labyrinth.
And yet, at the very moment we were about to kill Orun, he regained his power and has already acquired enough strength to defeat Rakshasa.
The cult’s goal is, after all, to revive Oberon.
Even Orun can’t win against Oberon.
That much is certain.
But now that Orun has become aware of the supernatural ability of all-encompassing phenomena, the longer time passes, the faster he will grow beyond anything before.
In fact, August, the Hero of the Fairy Tale, was initially no match in combat ability.
But after manifesting all-encompassing phenomena, he quickly rose to become the strongest human.
If we give such an opponent time, there is a chance, however slight.
For that reason, we are now threatening people's survival to make them seriously pursue conquering the Great Labyrinth, stirring up their sense of crisis.
Instead of concentrating forces in one place, we will have demonic beasts rampage simultaneously on a global scale to limit Orun’s movements.
Knowing his personality, he would not approve of people being sacrificed.
Also, by fabricating the cause of the global flooding and pinning it on Orun, we bind him not only physically but socially.
The world is currently in chaos, with many people suffering misfortune.
Directing that hate toward Orun and creating a situation where he can hardly move is our immediate goal.
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(…Even so, I still can’t shake this unease.)
Although we reset our short-term goals after Orun Dura’s actions, the feeling of discomfort remains.
He regained power and defeated Stig.
Though surprising, the result itself is not strange.
If you regain power, that would be possible.
But I do not understand the process.
Regarding the Second Farm, Orun certainly should not have known about it, nor should the Amuntzarse faction.
How did he find out about the Second Farm?
No, more importantly, how did he know that Stig was at the Second Farm today?