A month after the conversation with Hitogami.
Killing Orsted won't be a cake walk. He is the world's strongest!
Obviously, that means he is even more overwhelmingly powerful than Ruijerd, Atofe, and Perugius.
I can't even beat them, then how am I going to beat Orsted?
Thus, I come up with three plans.
Three.
Everything comes in threes.
Three little pigs, three good luck charms, etc.
1. Develop magic armor
2. Find a partner
3. Research battle tactics
First things first, develop magic armor. If what's written on the notebook is to be believed, then with that armor I can obtain superman-like physical ability.
With that, the future me becomes incredibly powerful, so that's a must.
First I purchased a small house near the edge of Magic City Sharia. Originally I wanted to borrow a space at the Sky Castle, but Perugius refused.
About how the conversation went with Perugius, I'll talk about it later.
I requested the help of Cliff and Zanoba, even though I didn't explain in details, they accepted my request.
I asked Cliff to expand the Zariff's Arm system, and Zanoba to design the body structure and locomotion.
Their eyes glittered as soon as I said magic armor, and soon got the idea.
Even though power suits don't exist in this world... What boys long for, is probably the same in every world.
Next I asked Sylphy and Roxy to help.
Roxy became the project supervisor. Even though I can supervise the project myself, but only I could manufacture and refine the high strength stone needed for the shielding of the magic armor.
A very time and magic consuming process, so I can't spare time for anything else.
Sylphy can do Earth Magic with voiceless incantation. She is also well versed in magic circles, probably as a result of her research into the Metastasis Event. What I mean is, she's really high-spec.
Since she can do everything, I had her be Roxy's assistant, helping out when anyone needs a hand.
When I asked for help, Sylphy happily replied, "You can count on me." Somehow it feels like ages since Sylphy was this happy.
Maybe she has been tolerant.
She put up with a lot of things recently.
I'm sorry.
Anyways, in parallel of the above, number 2 was find a partner.
Initially I thought about fighting alone, but I don't have the skill for that. Unlike the future Rudeus, I lack the combat experience.
But I couldn't find a partner of that caliber either. Badigadi is missing. Ruijerd isn't here, and Perugius obviously refused.
Perugius said this.
"In this world there are three people you should never fight: Technique God, Fighting God, and Dragon God. Among those three, Dragon God Orsted is the strongest and the most ruthless. Even though I respect your determination to protect your family, and am curious of that Human God... I do not want to get involved. Until Laplace revives, I don't plan on dying."
Even though I was hoping to trick him into helping somehow, but that looks to be impossible. On this side, I should just be thankful that he isn't going to interfere.
Thus, outside of Perugius, I couldn't find anyone else capable of standing up to Orsted.
Even though I can bring Zanoba, but if Atofe can deal that sort of damage on the miko, then there's no question that Orsted could as well.
I don't want Zanoba to die. He is my closest friend.
Same goes for Cliff and Elinalise. I don't want them to die either.
When it comes down to it, there's no one that can fight with me.
Suddenly, I thought of Eris. I don't know when she'll come, but according to the diary, she was a match against me even when I wore the magic armor.
If she arrives in time for my preparations, and we were able to settle things, then maybe I can beg her for help.
I might be too selfish.
For now, number 2 will have to wait. Finally number 3, research battle tactics and simulate the attack.
A solo fight to the death, there are plenty of ways about it.
Since there's no chance of collateral damage, as long as I can keep the distance, I can employ plenty of area of effect spells.
As long as the range is large enough, there should be no way to avoid it. A direct strike spell like [Lightning] might deal more damage, but a person like Orsted would probably avoid it somehow.
In that case, then my best chance is to stand at range and just keep throwing area spells one after another. You can't use [Magic Disrupt] if the opponent is beyond your field of vision.
If I sneak attack Orsted in a moment of negligence, then maybe I might break through his defenses.
Thus, my best bet might be to set up a trap, lure him into somewhere empty, put something there for him to pick up, and hit him when he does.
The problem is how do I lure him in... Maybe I can take Nanahoshi hostage, or maybe I can use Hitogami, anything as long as it works.
Next, of course, just range attacks alone won't be enough to take him. Well, maybe I could, but it's better if I plan for the worst.
Afterwards it's close combat in the magic armor, but this is uncharted territory. Can my mind even keep up in a high speed fight..? This I won't know until the magic armor is ready.
Thinking like this reminds me of when I just came to this world, when I busied myself with tactics to beat Paul.
Even though I wanted to beat Paul at least once, I never ended up getting my wish.
But tactics from then still root deep in my memories. I'll just go with those, a mix of magic and physical combat, a 3D fight.