Falling...
El felt the cold seawater fading away from his consciousness. At a certain moment, he suddenly broke free from the water.
The sound of howling wind filled his ears.
Opening his eyes beneath the starry night, the dim clouds were so close they seemed within reach.
In the distance, spreading across the plains, was an almost boundless, massive city with faint, warm lights glowing within.
Arad!
It was true, after passing through the Empyrean Ocean, one could reach the "World Below"!
"Woohoo!!!"
"That must be the Sky Tower, right?!"
El looked at the towering spire in the center of the distant city and couldn't help but exclaim.
"No, is the West Coast really that big? Isn't this a bit exaggerated?"
The city before him was absolutely massive.
Centered around the towering spire, it spread out in all directions, almost endlessly.
Outside the city lay even vaster farmlands, as well as port towns stretching along the rivers toward the sea.
After his brief shock, El finally realized that he was currently in a rapid freefall.
From this height, he wondered how Kiri and those Gunner adventurers ever managed to survive.
El was certain that if he fell like this, he would be smashed into meat paste.
After all, Mechanics were never known for their physical fortitude.
But it didn't matter.
"Air Combat Mech: Tempester."
Following El's command, the mechanical assistant that had always floated beside the young man spoke in a cold female voice.
[Deployment initiated.]
Equipped with Empyrean's newest and strongest artificial intelligence—the S.O.P.H.I.A mechanical assistant HS-1—it could instantly teleport war machines stored in the workshop to a designated area anytime, anywhere.
Not even a second passed.
A humanoid machine, about two meters tall, appeared beside El.
The dull steel reflected icy blue and brownish-yellow hues under the moonlight. El reached out directly and grabbed its right arm, which lacked a machine gun module.
"This should be fine."
The night wind continued to howl, blowing El's messy silver-white hair all over the place.
As he got closer to the ground, the golden ears of wheat, along with the large expanses of farmlands and orchards, drew nearer.
Falling outside that massive city was fine.
It didn't matter, he could just enter the city after landing.
Since he was here.
Should he become an adventurer?
Finding a random place to slack off sounded good. Yeah, having finally ended the Empyrean War, taking a break wouldn't be bad.
However, just as El was pondering how to spend his beautiful tomorrow, a piercing alarm suddenly shattered the silent night sky.
"Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning!!"
Red lights flashed continuously before his eyes.
El instantly realized what was happening.
Fuck!
It's going to explode!!
Every Air Combat Mech was installed with a self-destruct module at the factory.
This was, of course, because in the brutal Empyrean War, everything had to be turned into a weapon against the enemy.
Generally speaking.
All Air Combat Mechs would only initiate their self-destruct sequence when their loaded bullets and missiles were depleted, or when the unit was severely damaged.
But to be safe, there was also a setting for an automatic explosion 60 seconds after activation.
This was also because, on the battlefield, the combat duration of an Air Combat Mech rarely exceeded one minute.
As a result...
"The war is over, and I forgot to turn off the self-destruct sequence?!"
Holding his forehead.
El decisively let go and watched the back of the Tempester robot fly off into the distance.
Sure enough, it was going to be a crash landing in the end. Fortunately, he wasn't too high off the ground now.
Almost instantly, a very real sensation of impact came from behind.
So painful!
The smell of moist earth rushed into his face. El just lay there in the rice paddy, looking at the starry sky.
The night was so gentle, and the wind blew softly.
In this rare tranquility.
El, who had just experienced a brutal war not long ago, gradually felt his heart find peace.
"My, are you a new child?"
A sweet, syrupy woman's voice came from behind.
A beautiful face quickly entered El's line of sight.
Golden curly hair cascaded down, resting on a pale pink dress. She had sparkling amber eyes and a gentle smile hanging on her plump lips.
She seemed to intertwine with the stars and the moon, smiling softly.
...
So big. Holy crap, isn't that way too big?!
El was genuinely shocked at this moment.
"I am Demeter, the Goddess presiding over agriculture, grain, and maternal love."
"?"
Would anyone in this world actually call themselves a goddess?
Just as El was confused, a violent explosion suddenly echoed from the distance in the quiet night.
After the roar.
Towering flames ignited, spreading across the farmlands and orchards.
El opened his mouth slightly, watching the intensifying fire in the distance. He suddenly caught the key information in what the mature, voluptuous woman named Demeter had just said.
"You preside over agriculture and grain..."
"That's right. All the fields outside Orario are our Familia's real estate."
"..."
El's vision went dark.
He thought to himself: didn't I just get caught red-handed the moment I arrived!!!
...
Before dawn broke, the fire was put out.
"The affected area is huge, and a massive amount of crops that were about to mature or be harvested have been burned down. But fortunately, it happened at night, so there were no casualties. A blessing in disguise."
"But even so, El-kun has caused quite a significant loss."
"Let me see, a rough estimate would be about..."
Demeter tilted her head slightly, making a cute expression as if she were calculating.
"One hundred million... Three hundred million... Six hundred million... One billion Valis!!"
"How could it be that much?! Did I burn solid gold?!"
El was shocked.
Especially since he had just learned that in this world, about thirty Valis equaled one Jagamarukun, giving him some concept of their currency system.
One billion?
That could buy almost 33.33 million Jagamarukuns!
Completing the conversion in his head almost instantly, El concluded that the self-proclaimed Goddess Demeter in front of him was clearly talking nonsense!!
"The area El-kun burned included the vineyards necessary for brewing the wine that the gods love the most. Calling it gold wouldn't be an exaggeration at all."
"Real or fake?"
"Real!"
It still felt incredibly suspicious.
El stared at the magnificently endowed beautiful woman in front of him, noticing that her charming face was full of... anticipation?
In the end.
He could only choose to compromise.
He silently took off his clothes. Let alone one billion Valis.
El didn't even have a single penny in his pocket right now, so he had no choice but to follow what Demeter had just suggested and use his body to pay off the debt.
"Come on."
"Yay!"
Demeter pounced on him almost instantly.
And then...
...
"Is this good?"
"Mhm~"
"So fast."
Just now, El had become a member of her Familia.
And it was also on this night.
El finally learned that he hadn't arrived at the Arad Continent beneath the Empyrean Ocean, but somewhere else entirely.
The Labyrinth City, Orario.
The towering spire in the center of the city wasn't the Sky Tower either, but the Tower of Babel, a symbol of the adventurers' unity and strength.
Great.
He had transmigrated again.
It wasn't anything new to El. After all, he had originally transmigrated into DNF, arriving in Empyrean during the war against Bakal, the Dragon King.
On the other side.
After dropping a drop of divine blood onto the young man's back, Demeter's eyes suddenly widened as she looked at the adventurer status board that appeared before her.
How is this possible?!
All the initial stats on the board were, of course, at the lowest rank, I0, and there was no magic.
This was normal.
Although El was tall, he was clearly human, not a race with a special affinity for magic like elves.
What shocked Demeter was that El possessed three skills.
[Unknown, Comprehend, Transcend]
[Unyielding Spark]
And...
[God Slayer / The One Who Conquers Gods]
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PS: Regarding the male protagonist's setting.
He is a Mechanic who experienced the Empyrean War and ultimately killed Bakal, the Dragon King.
Due to plot requirements, he is a transmigrator and learned all Mechanic skills through a system (completed the Third Awakening, including female Mechanic skills—male and female Mechanics only differ in research directions; theoretically, one can learn both).
This is mainly because in the DNF game, many of the Mechanic's skills didn't exist during the Empyrean War era.
For example, the G-Series robots were invented by Pela Wayne of the Seven Shards hundreds of years after the Empyrean War ended.
The system here is only for setting purposes and will not appear in the main text. It can be understood that after the male protagonist learned all the skills, he graduated, so the system disappeared.
Additionally.
The male protagonist has some little inventions that fit the setting.
Yes, this book is an overpowered harem story. The male protagonist starts as a Third Awakening Mechanic. If you don't like it, please don't flame.
Of course, due to the settings of DanMachi and the inherent fragility of Mechanics themselves, the male protagonist will also have a growth arc later on. Please look forward to it.
Also.
Regarding the male protagonist's skill [God Slayer / The One Who Conquers Gods].
It is set to have been obtained by killing Bakal, the Dragon King.
As one of the Apostles.
In the original DNF lore, Apostles were the strongest beings on their respective planets in the universe. However, with multiple retcons and plot expansions, Apostles can be considered god-like existences according to the current lore.
First, the dark side of the Creator God Carloso was used by the scientists of Terra to create twelve artificial gods. Because they wanted to unearth the thirteenth sister buried deep within the planet, they fought Carloso and lost.
The power of the artificial gods scattered across the universe, finding new bodies and becoming the Twelve Apostles.
Second, the Apostles were originally regarded as gods on their native planets, such as Prey.
Third, in the latest DNF main storyline, the Mist God was explicitly stated to be one of the twelve artificial gods who lost her power and memories, and was then heavily suppressed by the Apostle Diregie.
Therefore.
Logically speaking, Apostles can indeed be regarded as gods. Of course, gods also vary in strength.
They cannot be compared to Creator Gods or Outer Gods.
Finally.
The timeline for the start of this book's plot is one year before the beginning of DanMachi.
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