What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

“Maybe your teacher will say, you’ll know when you go to college, right?”

Connor put the diary in his arms and put it together with the drawings. Youyou didn't doubt Connor's action. She didn't have a backpack to carry anything anyway, and putting them together was also a good habit for adventurers to classify their spoils.

"What is university?" Youyou was very curious about this.

“It’s a place with a lot of buildings and masters.”

Connor didn't explain much, he just picked up the axe again and chopped the defensive barrier at a faster speed.

Interspersed between the paragraphs of the designer’s personal journey are things that only he can understand——

"As a qualified person, I obviously failed."

115. The Secret of the Qualified

Together with Aqua, Connor purified the defensive barrier and broke the last barrier protecting the power core, allowing the hungry golden apple to devour the legendary corona ore.

Once the source of heat release disappeared, the fortress suddenly became cold and gloomy.

The mobile fortress suddenly lost its power source and fell to the ground with a loud roar. After its bottom hit the plain outside Axel, it slid towards the town following the law of inertia.

The sliding giant object did not hit the roadblock in front of the town, and stopped in front of Darkness who was motionless at the front line.

Pfft!

A large amount of steam came out from the magical metal gaps in the giant spider's shell, and Darkness, who was closest to it, began to blush.

"Ohhh! Is this the punishment? Come on, make it hotter! Melt all my armor away!"

Since Darkness left the battle line alone, almost no one except Kazuma could guess the true thoughts of this masochistic knight.

Just treat it as the Paladin's inherent calmness.

"Success! What? I wanted the name of Mobile Fortress Destroyer to be so exaggerated. I'm really disappointed." Aqua looked calm and had completely forgotten how Kazuma had provoked her into doing something.

It is normal for the mobile fortress's defensive barrier to fail in front of a goddess. According to a conversation between Aqua and the former Demon King's Army cadre lich Wiz one day, the two came to the conclusion that even the Demon King's Castle's defensive barrier can be dispelled in front of Aqua.

"Okay, let's go back and have a drink. After all, this is a bounty for destroying a country. I wonder how much the reward is!"

Aqua has already started dreaming about her wealthy life. Why not just stop fighting the Demon King?

“Why do you always like to fall into this kind of cliché… Don’t just set such a flag casually!” Kazuma was a little worried, afraid that the Mobile Fortress Destroyer would suddenly enter its second stage and kill everyone in seconds.

In this respect, Kazuma and Connor in the fortress are the same.

boom--

A huge fireball suddenly appeared from above the mobile fortress. After the explosion, the magic power of the fireball did not dissipate into the air, but instead made a victory gesture.

Everything is fine? Kazuma looked at the V-sign in the sky and muttered to himself, was his worry unnecessary?

"This machine has stopped maneuvering. This machine has stopped maneuvering. It is unable to dissipate heat and consume maneuvering energy. Crew members please leave this machine as soon as possible and seek refuge. This machine has already..."

This mechanical voice was heard from inside the mechanical fortress, repeating over and over again.

"Look! Every time you succeed in something, you have to fail in something else to hold us back!"

Kazuma grabbed Aqua.

"Wait! Wait! This is not my fault. I didn't do anything this time!"

Just as Aqua and Kazuma were arguing, the [3D Mobile Fortress] — that is, Connor, who was carrying Yunyun, jumped out from the back of the giant spider.

"Hey! What's with this warning? Isn't it a bad idea to stay here any longer?!"

The dragon knight stepped forward and asked, "Only the guys who are in the fortress know best, right?" Even Kazuma and Aqua stopped for a moment and looked at the guy who said, "I'll give it a try."

"I destroyed the power source, but the heat accumulated in the fortress cannot be dissipated." Connor put Yoyo down and explained, while trying his best not to let everyone notice the extra thing on his back.

He brought out all the written materials collected from the mobile fortress.

Some of the things in it...maybe they involve his most fundamental existence.

"It's just a guess, but I think it will probably explode if it continues like this." Connor looked at the overheated shell of the giant spider, and his guess was easy to believe.

"So what now?"

Seeing someone taking the lead, the adventurers spontaneously regarded Connor who entered the fortress, the dragon knight who formed the second line of defense, and Aqua who lifted the defensive barrier as their leaders.

Of course, Aqua's decision was somewhat due to Kazuma who came up with the idea.

"Everyone retreat. Didn't Aqua solve the defensive barrier? Let the magician blast it with magic."

Connor pointed at Youyou, Huihui and Wiz. With these three magicians who can use advanced magic, Axel has sufficient firepower.

The shop owner Wiz had no objection. She came here to contribute her magic power to prevent Axel from getting into trouble. She was very happy that she could be useful. This way, more people would come to her shop to buy things, right?

The lich had no idea that her stuff was too powerful and too expensive for the adventurers in the Novice Village.

On the other side, two Red Demon magicians started to argue.

"Explosion magic? And with her?"

Huihui pointed at Youyou. She was asked to cast three explosion spells together with Youyou and Wiz at this time?

Youyou was also surprised and said: "I haven't learned explosion magic yet! Besides, that guy and I are rivals!"

"When did I say use explosion magic?"

Connor explained: "Yoyo, use freezing magic to destroy the metal structure of the Destroyer with a combination of cold and heat, and then Huihui... Huihui, you only know explosion magic, so use explosion magic; Wiz, what is your most lethal magic?"

"Explosion magic." Wiz said. As a cadre of the Demon King's army and a lich, her skill points and magic power are more than enough to release an explosion magic once and still have enough energy left for other things.

"That's good. After Youyou is frozen, you can use explosion magic together."

Connor clapped his hands, and then together with the Dragon Knight, commanded all the adventurers outside the city to disperse.

The power of one explosion magic is already great enough, let alone two explosion magics, and the ones that explode are something as big and solid as the Destroyer?

We have to be at least somewhat prepared for some metal fragments falling from the sky.

"Hey, Darkness, retreat! If you don't retreat I will steal all your armor!" Kazuma thought that the suggestion of using explosive magic to deal with the aftermath was also a good idea. After experiencing so many twists and turns, he didn't want to go treasure hunting in the fortress anymore, so he simply agreed to Connor's proposal. Not to mention the most critical thing, Yui went to the city to prepare magic, he also had to persuade Darkness to come back first.

“You’re so perverted in public?” Darkness’s breath became heavier, but fortunately she hadn’t completely lost her mind. She could still block Megumin’s explosion magic with her body, but with Wiz’s…

I really want to try it!

After everything was in place, Youyou, the great magician who wielded advanced magic, took the lead and used almost all of his magic power to cast freezing magic.

Immediately afterwards——

In the past, he was known as an extremely powerful wizard, but now he is a lich who owns a small magic item store that is suffering from poor business.

Now, the exploding girl who is said to have a problem with her brain has given everything to the Crimson Demon clan's foremost wizard who can use a single spell.

The two people's strongest attack magic was fired at the Destroyer whose temperature had dropped.

【Explosion——】

The subsequent events went according to plan, and the Adventurer's Guild announced that the crusade mission was successfully completed.

That day, after resting, Connor made sure that no one, including Youyou, would disturb him. Then he pulled down the curtains and locked himself in the small dark room.

Taking a deep breath, Connor took out from his backpack the diary that might have belonged to the chief designer of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, the man whose underwear had been stripped in public.

Covering the rotten part with his hands, Connor focused his attention on the words that Youyou couldn't understand.

"Um……"

Connor's eyebrows wrinkled into a W shape.

“Why can’t I understand it???”

Sandwiched between those paragraphs, the things that originally had clear meanings and specific directions have now all turned into a mess of gibberish, and it is impossible to tell what symbols or words they are.

Connor flipped through several pages and found that they were all in the same situation. He suddenly felt irritated for no reason.

My body instinctively leaned back and I felt that the air around me became less easy to breathe.

It's the kind of annoyance that comes when things are beyond your control, just like finally finding a magnetic link, only to discover after downloading that it's a scene of seven gourd brothers fighting a snake demon.

If I had a mouse, I would have smashed it long ago.

"calm down……"

Taking a few deep breaths, Connor forced himself to calm down.

"Decryption or something... it's better to chop it with an axe..."

Grabbing his hair, completely ignoring the mess that had turned his hair into, Connor began to recall how he had recognized and interpreted the meaning of the mess.

There was also Youyou next to the table that day, but this is definitely not the key to deciphering the secret...

The table? The environment inside the fortress? A magic that cannot be seen outside the fortress?

Connor knocked on the table and turned on Eagle Vision. He tried the three methods of normal scanning, staring and revealing. Connor once planned to use the bird's-eye view to take a look, but finally he gave up this ridiculous idea.

Then the only suspicious one is related to the "Qualified Person"...

Connor read the [Apple of Eden] in the palm of his hand. This golden apple that had eaten the corona ore was brighter than usual, and the feel of it changed from cool to warm, but not to the point of being scalding.

This made Connor feel that this prism integrated the imperial equipment information of the world of Zanmei and the [Imperial Equipment] made from the blood of super dangerous species. At least on the surface, the [Imperial Equipment] became mysterious.

The golden apple had undergone a passive evolution before and had also eaten the corona ore...

Connor glanced at the diary, and under the light of the golden apple, the garbled text on it turned back into the familiar and decipherable content he was familiar with.

Leaving the changes of the golden apple in his mind for the time being, Connor did not ask the silent Prism, but first flipped through the contents that were already clearly visible in the diary.

Let’s figure out what’s in our hands first. Anyway... neither ourselves nor Prism can escape.

Below the paragraph announcing his failure, there are many self-narrations about this person who may be a previous generation or even the previous generation.

"On February 29th, I probably traveled through time. There was a girl who came up to me and claimed to be a goddess and asked me to assassinate the demon king.

Ah? I go fight the devil?"

Connor's mouth twitched. He could imagine the confusion of the qualified senior, and the goddess of the main world really cast a wide net, generation after generation?

wrong……

The main task given by the goddess here is... to assassinate the emperor...

Is there any connection between assassinating the devil and assassinating the emperor?

With such doubts, Connor continued reading.

"March 1st, I really can't beat it! How can I beat that thing? I should make a strategic shift and level up! In the magic world, of course you have to be a magician!

After going through two novice worlds, I can be considered a mediocre magician, but I know I can’t defeat the Demon King, so I need to practice more.”

Two novice worlds... similar to mine. Connor nodded slightly, but why can others choose magicians, while he starts as an assassin? It's not that the assassin's skill tree and panel are not good, but magic is cooler after all...

With magic, he would not be trapped on an isolated island in the main world. He would have crossed the sea to the imperial capital long ago.

"April 18th. After three worlds of training, I have become a master! Hehe, Demon King, clean your neck and wait for me! I will go home after I finish this job!"

"April 19th. Hey, didn't expect that? This is my escape route!... Well, I can't beat him. It's so embarrassing. I've decided to go to a place with high magic in the next world. I must practice hard!"

Connor: ...Don't just say you can't beat him. Tell me why you can't beat him! Is it because your damage output is not enough, or your defense is not enough? Is it because you can't hit him, or can't kill him?

He suddenly turned the page and found that the qualified predecessor did not record much about his defeat in history, and basically just glossed over it.

"Damn Spring and Autumn style of writing..." Connor pressed his temple as he continued reading.

"April 28th, um, Suqing. The magic here is already at a very high level. Even vegetables can kill people. Tsk, I want to laugh at those who were killed by watermelon seeds, hahahaha..."

"April 29th. I didn't go to kill monsters today. I went to see the priest to purify the grape seeds in my stomach."

"May 1st, Labor Day gives triple experience for killing monsters! I'll kill, kill, kill! The experience for a senior magician solo is really high! Hehehehehe!"

Ugh! What a foul smell!

Connor subconsciously moved away.

After reading this, Connor had another question. Since the qualified people had arrived here before him, why didn't he hear any relevant news or intelligence?

Is the spawn point not in Axel? Is it somewhere else?

Sure enough, as if he had heard Connor's question, he found the answer by turning the page.

"Axel is too far away. I have to go through the Demon King's Castle to get there... Forget it, leveling up is the most important thing!"

Connor: In the Demon King's Castle... How did these contents appear on the Mobile Fortress Destroyer? Did they really kill their way through the Demon King's Castle?

"May 8th, the triple experience golden week is over, hey, what did I find? A little spider is climbing the city!