Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World: Volume 2 (Light Novel) (eBook)

Meikyou Shisui (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-5450-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Light's revenge tour takes him to the Elven Queendom, home of his former partymate Sasha. Her reward for leaving him for dead was riches, status, and a betrothal to Sir Mikhael, second-in-command of the queendom's elite White Knights. To 'congratulate' Sasha on her engagement, Light issues her a challenge: face off against him in a giant tower shaped like a wedding cake!

Although Sasha knows it's a trap, she must rectify her former party's mistake of leaving Light alive three years ago in order to preserve her new lifestyle. With Sir Mikhael and the White Knights in tow, she challenges Light and his crew of Level 9999 bombshells-plus a few new faces. Can they overcome the might of one of the world's strongest nations?

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Chapter 1: Sasha and Her Fiancé

The afternoon sunlight dappled through the trees onto an attractive elf couple who were sitting across from each other at a porcelain-white table on the lawn. With a maid waiting on the elves, the two took sips from their teacups in a refined manner and engaged in conversation that was every bit as pleasing to their palates as the tea.

“And Light looked absolutely crushed when he found out we’d tricked him all along,” Sasha said to her companion. “He tried to run away, but one of my arrows stopped him in his tracks. Then he started bawling ‘You’re fakes! You must be fakes!’ Oh, darling, the expression on that inferior’s face was the most disgustingly pained one I’ve ever seen, yet at the same time, I couldn’t help but clutch my sides from the hilarity of it. I wish you could have been there with me to see it, Sir Mikhael.”

“Miss Sasha, it’s always such a gas hearing that story, no matter how many times you retell it,” Mikhael said with a heartfelt smile on his face. “I wish I’d had the opportunity to see the face of that foolish inferior once he realized all of you had deceived him. My fellow knights and I occasionally go around razing inferior villages to the ground, killing all inferior travelers we meet on the way, as well as any other inferiors who witness us in the act and make a run for it. You are quite right when you say those creatures look uglier than normal when they are begging for their lives in the moments before we slaughter them. But they look so clownishly ugly, they make us laugh rather than cringe.”

“I know! I can almost see the faces of those inferiors now!” said Sasha. “Light looked downright ghastly the moment before we killed him, yet I couldn’t contain my laughter!”

Mikhael—Sasha’s fiancé—was a member of the Elven Queendom’s royal family, though he was also the vice-commander of the White Knights, the nation’s most elite order. He kept his blond hair neatly trimmed and wore glasses that gave him a rather gentle, handsome look. Although Mikhael had the aura of an intellectual, he also had broad shoulders and a solid build befitting a White Knight officer. Put simply, he was a warrior-scholar of sorts.

Sasha and Mikhael shared a deeply held bond when it came to discussing how hilariously repulsive humans looked when on the brink of being slain, and they talked about it in much the same way as people exchanging thoughts on a comedy revue they’d enjoyed. Although the elves certainly made a beautiful couple to look at, their topic of conversation was unequivocally hideous. Yet Sasha and Mikhael both shared such a giddy appreciation for human suffering, the subject was always broached whenever they met for tea like this.

This “Light” Sasha mentioned was the same human boy her former adventuring party—the Concord of the Tribes—had duped into joining their ranks three years prior. Boasting a member from each of the nine races, the party had spent the following three months secretly investigating whether Light could be a “Master,” since he possessed magical abilities. The powers-that-be ultimately determined Light wasn’t a Master because his magical Gift—the Unlimited Gacha—produced nothing but junk items. Consequently, the order was sent down for the Concord to kill Light as a precaution, so the party tricked Light yet again, this time making him follow them into the Abyss, the world’s largest and deadliest dungeon. Once inside the dungeon, they attempted to assassinate Light, but the boy somehow managed to escape their clutches. Or to be more precise, Sasha embedded an arrow in one of Light’s legs, rendering him unable to run, and Garou the wolfman was just about to eviscerate the boy with his gauntlet-style blades when at the very last moment, the young human’s hand accidentally touched and activated a teleportation trap, which sent him to some other part of the Abyss.

The Concord searched every corner of the dungeon—aside from the most dangerous, practically impassable areas—but they weren’t able to find hide nor hair of Light. However, it remained an irrefutable fact that a human child who was unable to walk or run due to having an arrow through their leg had teleported to another part of the Abyss. The only fate that awaited Light was for a monster to catch the scent of his blood and devour him. The whole of the Concord agreed with the assumption that Light had died not long after being teleported, so they reported back to the higher-ups. On hearing the party’s account, the officials determined that there was little to no chance that Light could have survived, and wrote the boy off as deceased.

As her reward for disposing of a potential Master, Sasha got engaged to Mikhael. She also received a hefty sum of money that would guarantee her a life of opulence for the rest of her days. One slight downside was that Mikhael would never ascend to the throne due to the fact that the Elven Queendom was ruled exclusively by women, but nevertheless, he was still of royal blood.

On hearing about her newfound wealth and upcoming marriage into the royal family, Sasha’s family finally warmed to her after a lifetime of estrangement. Every time Sasha thought about their sudden change of heart, she had to hold her sides to suppress her laughter.

“Oh gracious, your company is so delightful, I always lose track of time,” said Mikhael, who got up from his chair to signal that this little tea party was over. The elf gazed at Sasha through his glasses and extended a genteel hand to her. Sasha responded by looking longingly into Mikhael’s handsome face as she felt her cheeks glow crimson. She took her fiancé’s hand and allowed him to help her to her feet, where she stood alongside him.

Mikhael lovingly clasped Sasha’s hand in his, a princely smile lighting up his face. “I’m so lucky to have met you, Miss Sasha. Before our paths crossed, I found it exceedingly difficult to find any lady who would engage in such stimulating conversation with a brutish knight such as myself. I sincerely believe we are meant for each other.”

“I also feel very lucky to be your wife-to-be, Sir Mikhael,” Sasha replied, returning his meaningful gaze. “I’m so elated, this all feels like a dream.”

“You stole the words straight from my hungry lips, my dear,” he said with a glint in his eye.

“My goodness, Sir Mikhael,” she replied bashfully.

Mikhael escorted Sasha to her horse-drawn carriage, though it was evident the pair didn’t want their tryst to end. Mikhael remained rooted to the spot as he watched the carriage go, until it finally disappeared over the horizon. Sasha also continued to wave at her fiancé through the carriage window until he was no longer visible. Although their engagement had been arranged by the queendom as part of Sasha’s reward, the two appeared to be the perfect couple.

As the carriage proceeded through the streets of the queendom’s capital, Sasha chatted away to an elf maid in her employ, with the occasional blissful sigh punctuating the conversation. “Sir Mikhael was so wonderful today,” she cooed.

“Yes, I’m extremely envious that you are betrothed to him, milady,” the maid said without missing a beat. “You and Sir Mikhael are such beautiful people, and the two of you seem perfect together.”

Sasha giggled, tickled by her maid’s flattery. “Why, thank you. Hearing you say that makes all the effort I put into becoming the ideal woman for him worth it.”

Sasha had gone to great lengths to make herself as beautiful and refined as she could be in preparation for her marriage to Mikhael, but most of her effort had been focused on raising her power level. When she first met her fiancé, Sasha had been hovering around Level 300, while Mikhael’s power level had exceeded 2000, which meant Sasha had to do something to close this sizable gap between them. For the past three years, she had been unable to tie the knot with Mikhael due to the difference in their power levels. During that rather lengthy time period, Sasha had shed blood, sweat, and tears, eventually reaching Level 500 (give or take), and the queendom had deemed this level suitable enough to fully sanction the union between Sasha and Mikhael.

“You have most certainly pushed yourself beyond your limits for Sir Mikhael, milady,” said the maid. “Even though there is much still left to be done to prepare for the event itself, it warms my heart to know that, at the end of this year, you will be wed.”

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?” Sasha cautioned. “The wedding is still a long way off.”

“Milady, if you don’t watch out, the day of the wedding will be on you before you know it,” warned the maid. “I don’t want to hear you can no longer fit into your wedding dress because your waist has ballooned outward.”

“Now you’re just being rude. That’s never going to happen,” Sasha replied, before her attention was drawn to the fact the carriage she was in had started juddering. “Hm? Why are we stopping all of a sudden?”

The driver of the halted carriage hollered down to Sasha, “Some inferior was loading stuff onto a carriage in front of a store, but he let everything collapse and it’s blocking our way.”

“Unbelievable...” Sasha breathed.

An unforeseen accident was delaying Sasha’s trip home after her visit to Mikhael’s. The elf peered out the window and got visual confirmation that a bunch of items had indeed toppled from...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World (Light Novel)
• Reihe/Serie: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World (Light Novel)
• Illustrationen: tef
• Übersetzer: Gad Onyeneho
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: anthromorphized monsters • dungeon crawling • Harem • Interspecies relations • Light Novel • OP protagonist
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-5450-9 / 1718354509
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-5450-0 / 9781718354500