KONOSUBA: BLESSED BE THIS WONDERFUL WORLD!
A WAR WITHOUT END
Vol. 1
IMPORTANT NOTE
All the facts you see here are respected from the original material of the author of Konosuba (Natsume Akatsuki) and in this fanfic book the events of the original novel and the anime will be used, but it will not follow the same linear story of the original work, so it is recommended to read the original works before this one to avoid possible confusion or spoilers of the work itself. (Vol.5 to 10)
This fanfic is originally in Spanish, this is an English version. The Spanish version is currently on Wattpad, so if there are translation errors it is completely normal.
This version has no illustrations, so I tried to make everything as clear as possible.
I hope you can enjoy this fanfic that has cost me so much to create and that I was so excited to do, and thank Natsume Akatsuki for creating this magnificent work.
MAY GOD BLESS THIS UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY
- Christiams Diaz
PROLOGUE: the beginning of something essential.
three days before the event…
- ¡Ex-PLOSION~!
The explosion destroys all the ground in its path, while a breeze hits us strongly after the impact of the explosion and creates a giant crater in the middle of the field. After finishing the daily explosion, Megumin falls to the grass quite exhausted, for my part, in the last few times that I have been accompanying Megumin to do her practices, I must admit that they have improved considerably.
Megumin turned to me with a triumphant look and a rather excited tone, while I looked with crossed arms at some of the destructive landscape before my eyes
- Kazuma, Kazuma, how about this time? That deserves about 90 points!.
- I can't be too critical this time... but I can tell you that 80 points should be the total today.
- You haven't said it out loud, but I think that this time you will have been even more impressed.
- This time you have achieved it, but even if you try to ask me, I will not raise the score.
I carried Megumin on my back and headed back to Axel. In the last few days I've felt nothing but stress for a useless person who spends her time drinking until she gets tired and who also lives in my own house. I haven't had time to go out to other places to help a certain person who keeps asking me for help with "important matters" of her own cult. I refused many times regarding this, but the goddess knows how to persuade me... sometimes I wonder, am I really that easy to manipulate sometimes?
While I was deep in thought, Megumin decided to break the silence with a relaxed tone.
- Maybe you haven't noticed... but Darkness has been behaving strangely these past few days after what happened at the guild a few days ago.
- Strange way in how? More than normal, you mean?
- In a strange way of feeling somewhat... Isolated? Isolated from others.
- *sigh* I'm not taking Darkness and Aqua to spend a night of partying at the guild again, that day I had to spend the whole night trying to defeat a giant lizard and trying to keep Aqua from going crazy and trying to spend all the money on liquor...
- What's with the giant lizard?
- I'll tell you later.
A few days ago there was a party at the guild after defeating one of the strongest enemies found in the southern area of a mountain near Axel, Majora's skeleton, this mission was one of the few that no one took due to disinterest and how complicated it could be, but there was a reason behind all this. Majora's skeleton had been getting very close to the town, so the emergency alarm went off several times and it was also almost impossible to try to get out of Axel since it was basically a danger after setting foot outside the walls for the simple fact that if the skeleton assembled an army of enemies, which if they were a group of only 4 adventurers, they would end up being mutilated by the army.
This mission had been incomplete for more than 3 years and no one was willing to complete it individually with their own group, and since no one could defeat the skeleton, the guild's decision was to stupidly lower Eris's reward after finishing the mission, so those who only wanted money, would go for safer and less difficult missions to complete, but for those who wanted to contribute to the world against the fight of the demon king's army, they had this mission at their disposal. But of course, a town of beginners who only seek money to support themselves and live quietly, this was not the case.
I wonder if this was a correct way to try to beat him...
- Just tell aqua that~... What the fuck?
- IDIOT! How can you despise me to the point of stealing my little emperor zelt.
- MUAJAJAJAJA! This little chicken has a great admiration for me.
- JUST GIVE IT BACK, IT'S NOT EVEN A CHICKEN!
- Vanir, if you want to cause some havoc to this woman, I would prefer that you don't do it right now, just leave the chicken with her.
- IT'S NOT A CHICKEN!
When I entered the mansion's door, I noticed that Vanir was having a small fight with aqua, and right at the table was darkness with her head down and a distraught look, muttering something that is surely "what have I done?... w-what have I done?" and Wiz and Claire trying to stop the couple that was fighting.
I left Megumin on the couch and headed towards Vanir and Aqua.
- Let's see, let's see. Could you tell me what you're doing here?
- I have something to ask you on behalf of the Sinfonia, so I've taken the trouble to come to Axel to tell you what I have to say in person. So I gathered Vanir and Wiz for this case.
- WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY DO IT NOW! This insolent demon is making me want to divinely punch him in the face.
- COULD YOU STOP ARGUING FOR JUST A SECOND YOU PAIR OF MORONS? So...what are you going to tell me?
A while later...
- That's all that's happened so far, I wouldn't rather take help from a person as despicable as you, but Iris was the one who decided to do all this.
- Wow...I thought this problem would be a little less serious than I expected, if my little sister asks me that way, I have nothing against it.
- Please, don't get close to Iris.
We all sat around the table and Claire explained the pending matter to us in detail. The problem was that the capital had recently had a few problems with conflicts from a commander of the Demon King's army who was threatening the capital during these days, one of the main reasons was to steal the divine relic of the sacred sword Excalibur that Iris has in the main palace, so despite the defenses of the capital itself and the adventurers, they were losing considerably and Iris after a moment of desperation had no other option than to send me a message for help along with Claire in person.
The army established a camp near the capital so it was a great danger, and in terms of defense, they could attack at the moment when least expected and deal a strong blow to the entire capital and thus be able to invade it completely.
I am quite worried about my little sister... I hope she is okay.
Darkness who until that moment had remained silent and attentive to what she heard but at the same time with some shyness, decided to speak.
- B-but...how does the army know that Iris has a divine relic?
-It could be because of previous events, we have drawn the attention of the Demon King quite a bit in the last few months, which could be a valid reason.
-I, as a faithful and cunning ex-general that I was, the Demon King must not know that I am still alive. That could bring his faithful follower enough problems than he already has.
-In any case Vanir-sama, you will only be of necessary help when we need you. You can rest easy for now, but stay alert.
-Can I ask you a question Claire?
-Of course, Kazuma. What is the question?
-I suppose that even though Iris made this request, we still have permission to stay in the palace on the days we are going to be-
-NO!
Wow...
-Even though we asked them to offer us their help, you are totally banned from the palace. I had an argument with Iris about that, although I was about to accept the request that you could stay, Rein agreed with me at the last moment.
- I'm not going.
- Wait, what?
- That's right, I'm not going.
Everyone around the table looked at me with a face of "what the hell is this idiot thinking?"
Suddenly Darkness grabbed me by the collar of my shirt.
- WHERE IS YOUR BRAIN!? You should know that this situation cannot be taken as a joke!
- I have a few things to tell my sister, I can't allow them to deny me to see her when she herself was the one who asked us for help. In any case, we must see how she is, aren't you worried that something could happen to her while we are not in the palace? It is part of our duty if we are going to protect the capital, don't you think?
Darkness, hearing my explanation, reluctantly let go of me.
- Partly you are right, but you don't have to act like an idiot about this... I'll let you go.
I get up from the chair.
- Well Claire, for my part, don't count on me, you can ask Megumin and other people to help you with this, but for my part, I won't go.
I turn around to go to my room, but suddenly...
- WAIT! I can make an exception... but don't think it's something out of this world.
Several hours later
When night came that same day, I was already in my room and I was somewhat worried about what could happen in the capital, but for the moment all I could do was just wait patiently for the moment...
something about them wanting to obtain the sacred sword Excalibur is already worrying, this is something that Eris would never have wanted ever.
Suddenly someone knocks on the door.
- Kazuma, are you awake? If so, I need to talk to you about something.
The voice was Megumin's, although I was too sleepy to talk, I couldn't say no to her.
- The door is open.
Megumin entered the room and closed the door behind her, I barely bothered to sit on the bed and listen to what Megumin had to say.
- What do you want?
- I wanted to be able to tell you something, I had nothing but courage and opportunity to come here to be able to tell you this.
- So... what do you want to tell me?
- For some time now I've been realizing that there's just... something that's been eating away at me, it was your birthday a while ago and I didn't have the chance to give you a present.
This smells a lot like romance to me…
Have I finally won?
I got up from the bed and approached Megumin, and grabbed her by the shoulders.
- If you're going to tell me that you like me, I already knew that.
- ...?! W-what?...
- I already know what you're going to say.
- W-wait, I-it wasn't that...
- THEN WHAT IS IT, MEGUMIN! If you come to see me at night while everyone is asleep and say that it's the moment when you had the opportunity and the courage, what do you want me to think? Besides, we already slept together a while ago, there's no need to hide it.
- I'D PREFER THAT YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER THAT MOMENT! And about the gift...
Megumin put her hands on my chest.
- It wasn't exactly that, but I wanted to give you something that I wanted to keep us together until the end of our time.
My heart had raced to the point where it was going to explode, whatever the gift was... I hope it doesn't disappoint me,
suddenly someone who doesn't know about privacy, opened the door unexpectedly.
- Hey Kazuma, I need you to...
...
- DO YOU AT LEAST KNOW HOW TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR, USELESS GODDESS!?
- THE ONE I CATCH WITH HIS RED HAND IS YOU KAZUMA! I'll tell everyone in the guild... the... the people in my cult... the lady on the corner...
- T-THIS IS NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AQUA!
RIGHT NOW I WANT TO CRASH HER INTO A FIFTH FLOOR.
- It's exactly what it looks like... it's not that late yet, I could tell the people in the guild and try to spread the word.
Aqua turned around and tried to walk towards the stairs.
- USELESS DEVIL!
CHAPTER 1: A BLESSING FROM THIS MAGIC GODDESS!
2 Days before the event…
The next morning we tried to organize everything so we could leave for the capital as soon as possible, for my part it was still too early and I was still a bit tired. I spent the whole night trying to convince Aqua not to say a single word... in the end it resulted in almost nothing.
I sat on the sofa and was about to look at the ceiling, but the first thing I thought was "I hope I can visit the succubi before I leave"
It was totally a necessary idea before leaving...
- Kazuma, at noon we will leave for the capital, so for now you can take a look at this.
Claire left an envelope with a letter on the table. So I put all my attention on it and decided to take a look at it. The letter was from the capital, the sender of the letter was a person called "Akira".
"Hello Claire-sama, my name is Akira, Akira Akatsuki, you don't know me but I'm one of the knights of the palace. Through Iris-sama and I we sent you this letter to let you know that we've gone quite far..."
How bad must things be going for them there?...
"The main problem is that since the Demon King's army has set up camp near the capital, apparently last night they got the opportunity to enter the palace and through this we were able to find out one of the main weapons of the army. They possess..."
"They already possess a divine relic"
What?...
"We are asking that you return to the capital as soon as possible please. And the worst thing is that...when we went to check on Iris, apparently she wasn't in the castle and disappeared without a trace, but you had-"
I tear the paper into small pieces.
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING, IDIOT!?
- I can't keep reading this.
- WHAT'S THE NEED TO TEAR IT UP!? Did you at least read it all?
I stared at the torn paper on the table for a moment, but then I felt the need to say something, I took a deep breath and I got ready to let it go.
- IRIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!
A while later
- Kazuma... is there really a need to leave so early?
- YES, IT'S SOMETHING QUITE NECESSARY! While we're here, they'll probably already be storming the palace, there's no need to make excuses for this.
Claire looked at me with a disappointed face, with that pretty face she's giving me, she's easily calling me "Idiot".
I stood up quickly and started packing some things into my backpack.
Megumin approached while grabbing Chomosuke.
- Hey, Kazuma, I know you might be a little upset about Iris...but, I think he's probably okay.
- Say what you want, I won't change my mind. In that same letter they mentioned a few things that worry me, we should leave early.
- Kazuma, before we go I need to buy a few things from Emperor Zelt and go to the cult to take a look. I wouldn't complain if you came with me, as long as you don't say nonsense in my cult.
- I don't give a shit about your cult. Besides, doesn't King Zelt already have a corral that seems to really live better than us?
- HEY! Emperor Zelt needs a lot more, in the future he will become a dragon and I hope that for now he lives his life as he really deserves.
- How many scammers have you bought from already?
Darkness stood in front of me and crouched down to my height while she picked up some items and put them in her backpack.
- Kazuma, there is nothing to worry about right now. Iris is safe, we can take this lightly just for now until we get to the capital, hopefully... hopefully Iris is safe, I worry about that too.
Darkness took me by the arm.
- Come on, before we go we're going to drop off Chomosuke and Zel~. YAHHHHHHHHHHH!
I used the energy absorb spell on Darkness.
- WE'RE GOING, PERIOD, THE FASTER IT TAKES TO DROP CHOMOSUKE AND ZELT OFF TO DUST AND LEAN, THE BETTER!
- MUAJJAJAJAJAJ, it seems Mr. Kazuma is a bit upset. At this point you won't be long before you fall into madness.
- Kazuma-san, I don't expect anything from all this. But if you're calm, this will be resolved much better.
- First, go and prepare the teleportation spell, second, if you let me lie on your melons I can be calmer.
Claire grabbed me by the shirt and was dragging me to the couch.
- JUST SHUT UP, YOU BASTARD! Just wait until it's time to go, stop being so upset, IRIS IS-
- STEAALLLLLLLLLL!
…
You better guess what I stole from him…
PART 2
After a while we decided to leave Chomosuke and Zelt with Dust, I was already ready but while they left Chomusuke and Zelt I was able to stop by the guild for a walk. A pretty quick visit.
When I entered the guild door I noticed several glances towards me.
some were murmuring "Isn't that Megumin's boyfriend?" "Shut up, that guy is a stalker" "Kazuma... I didn't expect you to take advantage of Megumin" "Bazuma"
I'm going to kill Aqua one of these days...
A girl approached me, she was wearing a cape and clothes that fit... she didn't look almost the same as me, but something I could tell was that she had reddish eyes.
I think I know where she comes from now.
- Hi, you are... Kazuma, right?
- Yes, and you are?...
- My name is Rin, I'm a mage from the outskirts of Belzerg, from Elroad to be specific.
It seems I was wrong.
Rin seemed somewhat excited and somewhat nervous, it seems she already knew me from before.
- I've been told quite a bit about you, you're one of those who defeated Sylvia and Hans.
EH?... finally someone in this world recognizes that I exist?
- I couldn't wait until I met the real Kazuma in person, I've seen your exploits and continuous growth, therefore your team is also quite great.
- W-well, thanks for the praise but you don't have to thank me so much either.
I started scratching the back of my neck and felt a bit nervous. I find it strange that Elroad has adventurers and magicians considering that it is an extremely rich country at this point and that they practically do not share terror with the army of the demon king, therefore the adventurers could live in peace with all the money they earned and there was no need to continue fulfilling missions and also... those red eyes, no, there must definitely be something strange here.
Suddenly the emergency alarm sounded over the entire town.
"ADVENTURERS, ALL ADVENTURERS GATHER AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF AXEL IMMEDIATELY. WE HAVE A QUITE BIG PROBLEM WITH PACKS OF ENEMIES!"
- HELP, WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS!
- OVER HERE, OVER HERE!
I ran as soon as possible to the outskirts of Axel with Rin. DAMN IT, I JUST WANTED TO GO TO THE CAPITAL AND LOOK AT THE PROBLEM WE HAVE NOW.
When I arrived I realized that the enemies were nothing more and nothing less than a dragon whose shape was quite strange to describe, there were several parts of its body that came off and it had no wings and a lizard tail, but its eyes were a bright blue color and half of its face was burned. My question is...how could a dragon get to Axel?
Despite its shape, the dragon can move with incredible mobility and tear apart everything in its path.
Behind me, I realized that my entire team was there. Megumin was a little scared, Darkness was a little firm but at the same time excited and Aqua...just stared at the dragon with her mouth open.
Useless...
I ran towards my team and took my Bow out of my backpack.
- HEY!, GET READY!.
When I approached and got into position in front of my team, I was able to analyze the situation a little, the adventurers who were in front were just trying to distract the dragon and Few were landing hits that really did a lot of damage, but to one side of all of us were several magicians including Rin, so I could use that to the benefit of the battle.
- Very well... Megumin, prepare the explosive magic.
- M-m-very well, I-I can do it... I-I-I just need to concentrate..
I turned around to Darkness and realized that he had his back to us
- Darkness, can you go to the front and try to distract him as much as possible and cover us?
When Darkness turned around, he already had the Vanir mask on.
- MUAJAJAJAJ, I'll do everything possible to defend you...
wow, you're fast...
- Aqua, HEY!.
Aqua, without having heard at least one part of the plan, started running back to Axel. I ran after her and grabbed her clothes, dragging her along the ground.
- K-KAZUMA!, HEY!, HEY!, WE CAN MAKE A DEAL!, RIGHT!?
- WHY THE HELL ARE YOU COWING AT A MOMENT LIKE THIS!? What a damn goddess...
- T-THIS, THIS COULD BE AN EXCEPTION!,. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE DIVINE STRIKE AND OTHER THINGS, B-BUT I PERCEIVE A QUITE STRONG AURA COMING FROM THAT DRAGON! IT'S ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN THIS KINGDOM!
What?...
I stopped dragging the useless goddess for a moment and turned to her.
- HEY, KAZUMA, LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY! THIS DRAGON IS KNOWN AS THE KATHARAN, THE KATHARAN DRAGON. ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN THIS KINGDOM!
I turned to the dragon and saw that it was destroying everything it could, just in the distance I was seeing how Vanir combined with Darkness were at least doing everything possible to prevent it from reaching us.
- KAZUMA, THIS DRAGON CAN REPEL MAGIC AND ABSORB IT!.
HOW THE HELL DID WE GET TO THIS SO FAST?
And NOTHING!? WHAT THE HELL IS A DRAGON OF THIS LEVEL DOING NEAR A BEGINNER VILLAGE!?
All the wizards in the village began to throw spells at the Dragon. The moment they threw them, all the spells began to surround the dragon without hitting it, apparently it could handle the magic of the others.
After a moment, the Dragon turned its head up and opened its mouth, all the spells that had been thrown at it, it had absorbed them in an instant..
At that same moment, the dragon began to run towards Axel. In the sky it left footprints everywhere. And suddenly it opened its mouth to expel something in the direction of the walls.
Megumin was pale and motionless, her body had begun to tremble.
- MEGUMIN!
I ran towards Megumin and grabbed her hand and took her to a safe place.
When I tried to stop him from hitting us with whatever he was going to hit us with, the dragon let out a HUGE EXPLOSION IN THE DIRECTION OF AXEL'S WALL. The wall broke into pieces, rocks were falling everywhere.
THIS SITUATION CAN'T GET ANY WORSE!
PART 3
A few moments later...
- KAZUMA, KAZUMA. IF WE DON'T MOVE FROM HERE I CAN'T CAST THE EXPLOSION SPELL RIGHT NOW.
- SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!.
- H-HEY, KAZUMA, KEEP IN MIND THAT IF WE DON'T MOVE FROM THIS DIRECTION, WE'RE GOING TO END UP CORNERED.
- SHIT!
Me, Megumin and Aqua started running in one direction while being chased by some skeletons that had appeared from the ground of the entire terrain. This was an occasion in which I would never think I would be, this occasion was the opposite of being super good.
IT'S SUPER BAD.
I noticed from afar that the skeletons had us cornered in some parts, I had no choice but to stop and take out my sword.
- Aqua, I know that the flood spell is a useless thing most of the time, but right now it would be useful.
- Kazuma, are you crazy!?.
- Completely. But it's the only chance we have.
Aqua stood in front and raised her arm. Some skeletons were slowly approaching us, Megumin moved away a little in case she needed to conjure the explosion.
- Alright, let's go see-
- AAAAHHHGGGG!
Claire appears and with her sword she tries to fight against the skeletons, they were fluid movements and each sword slash was strong. I swore where she had been all this time, but she finally appears.
Claire, after finishing off several skeletons, stood in front of us in a defensive position.
- HEY, DON'T MAKE ME WAIT AND GO, TRY TO FIND A WAY TO BEAT THIS DRAGON AND GET OUT OF HERE!
Without saying a word, I ran out of there while Megumin and Aqua followed me.
In the distance I could see how the Dragon was fighting against the adventurers and the magicians, Darkness and Vanir were still stable, Wiz was with some magicians inside the village, and where is RIN?
While I was thinking about all this I could realize something...
The Dragon can only receive physical attacks that are not from any magic, as I previously thought "the adventurers who were in front were just trying to distract the dragon and few were landing hits that really did a great deal of damage"
"Few hits had a great effect" you can try to distract the Dragon in one way or another, but the only point I could find is that at least it is not immune to physical attacks.
Suddenly I remembered something.
- I'll go back to the city in a moment.
- What?, why?
- Just try to distract the dragon for a moment, I'll be back soon.
I ran towards the entrances of the town, all the adventurers up until then had been fighting without getting tired. Vanir, who until then had been possessing Darkness, noticed that the armor had been broken by the blows, they were still standing so I didn't have to worry.
I ran towards Wiz's shop, I went in and the first thing I did was grab a couple of things. I started to make an item that had helped me a lot and that was useful, not in a very incredible way but it was useful to have it.
After a while, I left Wiz's shop running towards the outskirts of Axel. When I arrived, the situation hadn't changed much, this seems like an endless battle. Most of the adventurers were already in the grass, so this was supposed to be a greater danger than what we were facing. I saw that my team was trying to distract the dragon, Aqua whimpering as she ran, Megumin paralyzed from head to toe, and Darkness who was still wearing the Vanir mask, about to fall into a coma from the recent blows.
Pair of useless...
- MEGUMIN!, START CASTING YOUR SPELL, NOW!
- Y-yes.. YES!, I'M GOING FOR IT!
While Megumin was preparing her explosion, I was running towards the dragon from behind while it was being distracted by a few adventurers and Darkness. The dragon can't control other people's spells if it's not distracted, THAT WAS AN ADVANTAGE FOR ME!.
"Darker than black, darker than darkness, combine with my intense crimson."
I took out my Bow, got into position and picked up an arrow that I made for this case.
"The time has come to wake up, descend to these borders and appear as an intangible distortion."
I aimed at the dragon in a precise part.
"Dance, dance, dance! Let a destructive force flood my torrent of power, a destructive force without equal! Send all creation to its origin! Come out of your abyss! Humanity does not know another more powerful offensive technique! It is the supreme magic attack!"
- CERTAIN SHOT!
I shot the arrow in the direction of a part of the dragon, the arrow had a long string that I was ready to use this very effective object, and then I conjured the activation words.
- Flame...
I raised my arm in the direction of where the arrow was, The air wrapped and dispensed towards us, this was the perfect moment.
The final word…
- Ex-PLOSION~!"
END OF CHAPTER 1