About the past
'So where is the heart of this snake?'
I asked to [Global Wisdom] after deciding our
method of going out of the Basilisk lord.
The options [Global Wisdom] gave me were not so many.
The first one was to walk up to the head and go out from the mouth.
Well, it is a good plan only if the Basilisk lord is sleeping, that is.
If not, I will be eaten for real this time.
The second one, I don't even want to talk about it.
So there is only the third option, and that is to destroy the heart of the Basilisk lord.
This is the safest option. It will take some time, but at least I won't be killed immediately.
[You have to find it!]
'Well, it seems fair; at least, can't you tell me in which direction I should go?'
[Just go in the opposite direction from which you came.]
'You have a point...Then let's start moving!'
Just like that, we began to walk along the stomach of the basilisk lord.
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'I AM SO BOREED!!!!'
It had been a while since I started to walk in the stomach of the basilisk lord to go up to the lungs.
In those days I had nothing to do.
So out of boredom I decided to start training my [Shadow Magic].
I trained so much that I gained a level on it, and also a few resistance skills have gone up as well.
I also learned these new skills:
[Shadow Body], [Shadow Resistance], and [Sixth Sense].
'[Global Wisdom] Let me see their descriptions.'
[Ok!]
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[Shadow Body: Lv1](Passive)/(Active)
Description:
A skill that only those who immerse themselves completely in
the shadows can achieve.
I don't want to fight someone with this skill at
nighttime.
Effect:
Increases a person's affinity for shadow,
and it turns your body completely invisible at night or in a dark place.
....
'I learned this skill by sliding my shadow magic through my whole body for
some days.
[Shadow Resistance] and [Sixth Sense] are self-explanatory, so I don't
need to see their descriptions.'
[As you want.]
'...Ever since I saw the basilisk lord status, I have had this question in my head.
Can you explain to me what the difference is in gaining a level in a magic element?'
I asked as I continued to walk through the gastric juices.
[The difference in gaining a level in a magic element is the increase in the affinity for the element.]
'What do you mean?'
[This is a unique characteristic of monsters, demons, and demi-humans.
To start with, they have the magic element at the lowest level.]
'But will not this make them weaker than humans?'
[Negative; on the contrary, it makes them stronger.]
'!?'
[Let me explain from the very beginning.]
[Centuries ago, humans were on the brink of extinction because of the first demon king.
During that time, monsters and demons were far stronger than humans.
The war for world domination began, and humans in less than a year had been forced to take refuge in one continent...THE LAST CONTINENT.]
[Humans were desperate and frightened about what would happen if the demon king
conquered even the last territory that belonged to them,
They had desperately appealed to the gods.]
[Surprisingly enough, the gods had responded to their prayers, and they summoned six heroes coming from another world; each of them had come with unique skills.]
[The first three were twins; all three of them had a unique beauty.
The older sister wore long hair that reached below her shoulders.
while the other two little sisters were not very long.]
[People could tell them apart by the color of their hair and eyes.
The older and younger sisters had red and orange hair, while the middle sister had purple hair.
The color of their eyes changed due to mana turning them a fiery red.
The skill they had allowed them to function as one person.]
[The fourth one was not as well versed in magic as the triplets but was not to be underestimated with the ability to control the earth and create anything he wanted with it.]
[His features...He was very much like a dwarf even though he was a human.]
[The fifth, she was as kind and compassionate as a saint. She had an affinity for healing and light magic second only to that of the gods.]
[Her features...She had long, silvery hair and golden eyes, tall and breathtakingly beautiful.]
[Lastly, their leader is THE HERO. Compared with the other heroes, he was not very strong, but with his space-time magic, he could see the future and discover enemy tactics.]
[His features: he had golden hair and eyes, skilled in leadership with a strong spirit of
justice and a sense of camaraderie. All features that helped him become the leader.]
[The first thing the six heroes did after finishing their training was
entering into an alliance with the two races, the elves and the dwarves, who had been neutral
since the beginning of the war.
The demi-humans were not part of the alliance for reasons of discrimination.
Not being completely human, but neither were they demons, the opinion people had
towards them was complicated, but there were still some demi-humans in the army against the demon king.]
[After some months of preparation, the army commanded by the heroes against the demon king set out to regain their territories.
They were only able to regain one territory, but at a huge price: sixty percent of the army of more than four million participants had been annihilated.]
[The heroes, seeing the desperate situation they were in, had asked the gods for help.
in weakening the demons.
The gods, knowing where the problem lies, gave the heroes the knowledge for a one-time spell.
to reduce the affinity for magic of monsters and demons by fifty percent.
The heroes, after months of failure to use the spell, finally succeeded. Weakening the demons, monsters, and demi-humans. The heroes leading their army finally succeeded in killing the demon king.]
[A few years after the demon king's death, the monsters had strangely begun to get stronger, at first people feared that there was another demon king, but this was not the case.
The spell that the heroes had used had a small problem, it did not consider the adaptive
capacity of the monsters and demons in the passage of time.
The gods, seeing their mistake, were forced to interfere in the world directly by creating dungeons all over the world.]