ELVES AREN'T LOWER LIFEFORMS!

"were you frozen in time?" she said with a serious look on her face, although her face was still covered in a lot of dirt, it wasn't that hard to read her expressions.

"well not really but just tell me about the great war."

"Alright fine, you see- The all father descended 5000 years ago, he said that he was the only Holy God and single-handedly defeated all the older gods. after that when he came to the lower world, he found lower lifeforms like elves, dwarves, and beastmen living alongside humans. He warned the then human emperor but he didn't heed his warning. after a few years demons waged wars across the world so all the other races formed an alliance and fought the demons, but the other races backstabbed us because they were afraid of our power, this resulted in the death of the emperor his son who succeeded him received the blessing of all father and slowly but steadily starting from the demons he defeated every race in a span of 1000 years, with all father's blessing he had his life span increased to 1500 years and after he had enslaved or destroyed every race, and taken over every human nation he was crowned the holy emperor."

"that's messed up no matter how you look at it- it's pretty easy to guess there's something with your story," I concluded, as it was pretty obvious, the fact that they started from fighting the demons and then turned against each other, a red flag, second a god which is racist, red flag, third if humans could have beaten all the other races there shouldn't have been a need to form an alliance just to beat the demons. and the biggest red flag of all, the emperor crowned himself the 'holy' emperor, also elves arent lower life forms! they are precious waifus! at least the female elves, every isekai protagonist needs an elf waifu!

"what are you even talking about- that was recorded in The Holy Inscriptions, which were personally written by the all-father," she said with a stern face. going against her religious faith right now might be a bad move, but it should be a good idea to let her at least question her belief.

"hmm- you see sometimes the real story is not how it's told, remember how the girls framed you- only you and the girls know what really happened but the guards will only believe their story, not yours- so maybe something similar might have happened with the great war."

"pffttt- what a joke, that's not even possible, it is written that to maintain his godly state the all-father cannot lie," she said with a mocking face, but my job was to plant a seed of doubt at the very least.

"well anyways if the old gods are gone, can you see your status?"

"We have to pay to get our statuses checked by an appraiser- is there any other way?"

"uhh like try opening your status?"

"uhh like how do you open a 'status?" she said while mimicking me. but honestly, I didn't really care since the fact that they didn't know they can read their own was more surprising- now I know why I couldn't use my status, it wasn't because I was a bug or something, it was because there isn't any goddess of statuses now.

"nevermind, do you hear a voice when you gain skills?"

"yes, but we still need to see our stats and learn about our skills that's why we go to an appraiser."

So was giving skills managed by some sort of system but the statuses were managed personally, i don't really get it, but this definitely means that the all-father is probably my final villain in this world's story arc.

"so what skills do you have?" I said as I tried to discontinue the topic.

"beginner cooking and item box-"

"Only two?"

"Most people only have two skills at most and I am still growing so I will still get at least one more skill- anyways enough about me- what is your story?"

only two skills!? the people in my knowledge had 10s even 100s of skills.

"well you see, I am in a really complex position, so complex that I can't tell you about it-"

"does it have anything to do with that weird orb thingy?"

"well yea mostly, that's a dungeon core you know?" I didn't really care about defending the dungeon core anymore, because I was pretty confident that I could easily paralyze her before she could even start moving.

"a dungeon core?"

"do you know what a dungeon is?"

"of course, I know what a dungeon is-"

I took a breath of relief when she said that because I started thinking that maybe even dungeons were gone-

"well, a dungeon core is what makes a dungeon, it's the thing on the deepest floor of the dungeon."

"deepest floor of a dungeon? dungeons have an end?"

"of course, they have an end! you don't think they stretch into infinity and beyond, underground?"

"no one has ever seen the end of the dungeon so no one knows-"

"huh! What's the deepest floor humans have ever cleared?" according to my knowledge, a dungeon on average has at least 100 floors.

"I guess it was the Brave Party 5 years ago- they reached floor 9 of a dungeon."

"HUHHH!!!?"

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well hello there,

just wanted to wish you guys a HAPPY NEW YEAR, no matter what the time in your place is right now.

hope you guys have a great year!