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Volume 7 Chapter 161

Negotiating Dungeon Management

I began my negotiation with the Creator God to entrust the management of the dungeon in the ruins in Vestier to me.
Originally, the Creator God created it to train heroes, but heroes appear only once every hundred years or so, and the dungeon in the ruins cannot be entered unless there is a group of otherworldly people below level 100.
Therefore, it was hardly ever used.
The dungeon in the ruins has been cleared twice before, and both times, I was the one who cleared it.
Furthermore, Hakua, who was the dungeon master, has become part of my family.
In addition, a large amount of magical power is required for dungeon management. It is necessary for creating monsters that serve as bait to attract adventurers and for expanding the dungeon.
Conversely, if you have magical power, you can do all these. And I have the curse of infinite magical power from the Evil God.
—-I summarized this information and explained to the Creator God how suitable I am for dungeon management.
I can manipulate magical power to write characters in space, and I can also turn magical power into characters and color them to make them visible to others.
After a little training, I became able to draw illustrations.
I’m not good at drawing, but I can turn things I’ve seen into illustrations using magical power if I can imagine them, even if I’ve never seen them before.
Using this method, I created all the materials with magical power and projected them into space to present them to the Creator God.
My request was easily granted by the Creator God.
“I’ll leave the management of the dungeon in Vestier to Haruto. Your idea of making it a dungeon for training low-level adventurers is excellent. Please do it.”
“Thank you very much!”
I received praise from the Creator God.
If the levels of many novice adventurers rise, the average strength of humans will increase in the long run. This seems to be a pleasing thing for the Creator God.
If humans become stronger, their average lifespan will increase, and the period during which they offer prayers will also increase.
“By the way, how do you project characters and pictures in the air?”
The Creator God became interested in my presentation materials.
“I can manipulate magical power to write characters in space.”
I gathered magical power at my fingertips and displayed the characters『Hello』in space.
“Usually, I use this to draw magic circles, but this time, I used it to add illustrations. How is it?”
“Well, it can be summed up in one word: magnificent. Your explanation was very easy to understand.”
In this world, most information is conveyed through text, and there are some illustrations.
My presentation materials, which included illustrations like photographs, should have been quite easy to understand.
I’m glad I took information literacy classes seriously. I never thought I’d be able to use them in another world, but in any case, I obtained permission from the Creator God for dungeon management.
From now on, I will be in charge of the management of the dungeon in the ruins.
“Yes, please take care of it. Also, the condition……..”
At the end of the presentation, the Creator God used telepathy to convey a certain condition that only I could hear.
“Yes, I will manage that somehow.”
I accepted that condition.
The Creator God said that I could handle it, and I had a feeling that somehow it would work out.
“I see. Then, I leave that matter to you.”
With those words, the Creator God disappeared.
When I realized it, we were standing in the corridor of the Great Temple.
“Haruto-sama, what did the Creator God mean by the condition?”
“Well, can I keep it a secret for now? I promise I’ll tell you all before we return to the Magic Academy.”
Tina asked, but I couldn’t tell her yet.
I thought it was unlikely, but if I failed, it could become quite awkward.
However, since it was a matter related to my family, if I fulfilled the Creator God’s condition, I would need to explain it to everyone before returning to the academy.
Everyone seemed curious about the Creator God’s condition, but they backed down after I promised to explain it later.
The condition given to me by the Creator God is—-
To bring the Holy Maiden of Sanctum into the Elnor family, in other words, to marry her.
However, it seems that there is no need to actually get married.
It would be enough to release Seira from her position as a Holy Maiden.
Actually, the Creator God had given Seira the option to retire from being a Holy Maiden several times.
However, Seira, who had a strong sense of responsibility and didn’t have complete confidence in entrusting her position to a successor, had declined the Creator God’s offer each time.
There had been times when a successor to the Holy Maiden had been trained, but unfortunately, the timing had coincided with events like the revival of the Demon King, and the Creator God had been unable to issue a divine message.
It takes time to train a Holy Maidenly candidate, but the period during which one can become a Holy Maiden is short.
One must be a pure maiden who has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday, or else one cannot become a Holy Maiden.
Therefore, Seira had been alone as a Holy Maiden for two hundred years. Since she was originally just a town girl, the Creator God also said that she was an owner of extraordinary mental strength.
And this week, a girl with the ability to become a Holy Maiden will celebrate her birthday.
At that timing, the Creator God intends to issue a divine message. My job is to support Seira in retiring as a Holy Maiden.

I can try to woo Seira, or I can forcibly attack her and defile her purity.
However, there is no way I would use the latter option. The Creator God also knows that I would never do such a thing, so he told me about that choice.
Now, what should I do?
As I thought about how to release Seira from her position as a Holy Maiden, I left the Great Temple.