[Deity panel] [True name]: Haimo [Race]: God (conceptual divinity) [Divine names]: War/Weapons/Strife/End... (and 108 other hidden entries) [Current familia: Haimo Familia] [Familia rank: I (not even as good as a stray dog)] [Familia members: 0 (a commander without troops)] [Familia funds]: 150 valis (only enough for three days of black bread) [Authorities]: Instinct: As the god embodying the Lord of Arms, you possess an innate understanding of all forms of skill beyond any species' imagination. Whether forging, swordsmanship, magic, or hand-to-hand combat, a single glance lets you grasp its essence. Passing the torch: Civilization began with tools and fire. You are the sovereign of iron and blood. You possess supreme authority over forging and creation, allowing you to analyze and reproduce any weapon or tool whose structure you understand. With sufficient materials, there is no upper limit to the quality of the items you forge. Divine Falna: A basic formula that grants mortals falna, allowing their potential to be quantified and developed. [Divine power (sealed in the Lower World)]: Status: Cannot be used in Orario. Current reserves: 999,999,999+ (virtually infinite) [Multidimensional Familia Recruitment System functions]: World Selection: Available for activation. Divine Appraisal: Activated. [Items held]: World Selection (basic) x1
Haimo's mouth twitched as he looked at the assessment on the panel: "not even as good as a stray dog."
This system really had a vicious tongue.
But that did nothing to spoil his good mood.
After all, things were different now.
He was finally about to recruit a familia member!
"System, use World Selection!"
At that thought, Haimo issued the command without hesitation.
Haimo could hardly wait to see which world his first familia member would come from!
[Command confirmed.] [Beginning first random world search...] [Disturbing world lines... The sea of possibilities churns...]
Along with the system notifications, Haimo felt ripples rise around him.
Those ripples passed through Orario, through the crystalline barrier of this world, and cast him into a boundless ocean composed of countless points of light.
Each point of light seemed to represent an entire world.
[Setting World Selection criteria...] [Condition one: Contains suitable candidates with high potential.] [Condition two: World rules are highly tolerant of divine interference.] [Condition three: Initial arrival point is relatively safe.]
Within the vast sea of possibilities, countless points of light that failed to meet the conditions rapidly dimmed.
It was like sifting gold from sand.
In the end, only a handful of lights remained, stubbornly flickering.
[Selection complete...] [Locking onto target...]
The system guided Haimo's gaze toward one point of light that shone with a faint cherry-blossom glow.
[Target world locked: World S-14] [Alias: Armed Girls' Campus Power Games] [Analyzing world information...] [World S-14] [Current anchor location: Aichi Kyosei Academy] [World background summary]: An academy with a long history and unusual traditions. Formerly a girls' school for the nobility, the academy recently began admitting boys in an attempt to become coeducational. However, to suppress unruly boys, the academy granted its female students the right to carry swords. The academy is currently ruled by a group of armed girls known as the "Five Heavenly Swords." [Special rules]: All boys entering the academy must undergo "correctional education," being forced to wear heavy makeup and girls' clothing, sacrificing their dignity as men to eke out an existence at the bottom of the academy's hierarchy.
Its combat strength was not particularly high, still within human limits. It certainly fit the criterion of a "relatively safe initial arrival point."
Haimo continued reading.
[Power system assessment]: Primarily swordsmanship and martial arts. Some powerful individuals possess superhuman physical abilities, achieving seemingly superhuman feats through special breathing techniques or sword techniques. [List of suitable high-potential candidates]: [List of suitable high-potential candidates]: No. 1: Tsukuyo Inaba Title: Cloud Sword Style: Yakumaru Jigen-ryu Traits: Blind, extraordinary hearing, unusual constitution. No. 2: Sasamori Aya Title: Empress Style: Ryukyu Kobujutsu: Uechi-Ryū Traits: Extremely precise bodily control, with knife-hand strikes as sharp as blades.
Haimo's gaze lingered on the panels shimmering with pale blue light.
As a transmigrator with memories of his previous life, he was exceptionally familiar with these names.
In fact, he understood their true nature far better than these few brief lines from the system could convey.
"So it's this world..."
Chapter 4: The Age of Divine Descent
Haimo leaned back in his chair, tapping his fingers lightly against the armrest with a rhythmic knock.
When it came to choosing familia members from this world of "Armed Girls," these two undoubtedly stood at the pinnacle.
First was Tsukuyo Inaba.
To ordinary people, blindness might seem like a flaw that marked someone as forsaken by the gods, a fatal weakness that doomed her never to become strong.
But to Haimo, it was precisely a window the gods had left open for her to reach a higher realm.
Human senses often interfered with one another.
When the other senses occupied the vast majority of the brain's processing capacity.
People overlooked the movement of the wind, the trembling of muscles, and that instant of stillness in the air before killing intent erupted.
As the old saying went, "The five colors blind the eye."
Too much color, light, and shadow instead obscured the mind's eye that perceived the essence of things.
Tsukuyo Inaba had lost her sight, but in the process, her hearing had developed to an extraordinary degree.
She could hear every stir throughout the entire academy.
In Orario's Dungeon, where the terrain was incredibly complex and sight was frequently obstructed, that ability was nothing short of a divine skill made for survival and slaughter.
Not to mention the Yakumaru Jigen-ryu she practiced.
It was a madman's sword style that abandoned defense to focus on absolute speed and sword-drawing techniques.
Its defining feature was a one-strike kill.
The very first strike was meant to take the opponent's life. As the saying went, "Never doubt the first strike; the second means defeat."
In other words, the most crucial point, the very essence of this sword style, lay in that first strike.
The first strike was lethal, but if the opponent evaded it, they could read the second and turn defeat into victory.
A girl who could not see the world could wield the fastest sword.
Such contradictions often gave rise to monsters who defied convention.
If she received a god's falna, her so-called "extraordinary hearing" might very well evolve into a rare skill like "Mind's Eye."
An absolute S-rank prospect.
As for the second candidate.
Haimo's gaze shifted to that imposing name: Sasamori Aya.
If Tsukuyo Inaba was a lightning-fast blade hidden in its sheath, then Sasamori Aya was a fully unleashed warhammer, wantonly venting her destructive power.
"The Empress."
That title was no empty boast.
With her own strength alone, she had defeated the Five Heavenly Swords one after another, reigning supreme over all of Aichi Kyosei Academy.
The ancient Ryukyu Kingdom martial art she wielded, Uechi-ryu.
It focused on training the body to its absolute limits.
The value of a girl who could forge her own body into a weapon spoke for itself.
And besides.
More important still was her mindset.
That supreme confidence, that hunger to challenge the strong.
It was precisely the driving force at the heart of every top adventurer.
Lions did not flock with sheep.
To bring an empress like her to heel.
Ordinary methods would be meaningless. Only by demonstrating strength greater than hers could he make her willingly bow her proud head.
"One combines the strongest shield and spear; the other embodies the ultimate in speed and perception."