551 Scheme (2/2)

To be honest, this was actually another of the main reasons why I had been staying in the Sala Dukedom. I had originally intended to see who exactly was behind the traitorous noble that rebelled to see if I could find anyone behind the scenes. Although the hope for successfully catching the true mastermind would be quite slim, I could at least give it a try. I wanted to at least find out which bastards from the lower planes were meddling in human affairs.

”Tsk, in the end, all my plans were interrupted. We actually met with so many things here. Am I really the legendary elementary schooler God of Death like Conan Edogawa? I meet with incidents everywhere that I go? Why am I so unfortunate?”

”Shouldn't the Sky Tower Spirit be the one shouting about how unfortunate he is? He almost managed to achieve his goals. If it weren't for meeting you, his scheme which took him hundreds of years likely would have succeeded.”

Judging from this standpoint, the Sky Tower Spirit was also quite the incredible schemer. He had started his plan several centuries ago and patiently waited for the Holy War to begin again before putting it into action. He then purposefully let the adventurer Old Barton into the ruins, having him take away the critical Katarina. The Sky Tower Spirit then started an Undead Calamity to indirectly kill the true master of the tower so that he could become truly independent.

But, due to a single unexpected occurrence, Undead Emperor Conservation and the Sky Tower Spirit's schemes were destined to fail.

”Their only mistake was that they antagonized the main character! That's right, me!”

”…Are you sure that you took care of all this with your main character plot armor rather than your calamitous aura of misfortune? All those 'reinforcements' of yours came here more to hunt you down.”

I was actually rendered speechless by this. Indeed, this potentially devastating Undead Calamity had been halted mostly because of Amelia and her wood spirits arriving on time, and the adventuring team in the ruins had mostly been saved because of Reyne.

”Silly cat, would you die if you stopped commenting on everything about me?”

”I would!”

But while the silly cat and I glared at each other, others were finally unable to take this anymore.

”Be a little more serious, we're in the middle of a battle!”

Even though I also kept reminding myself that this was a battlefield, it was so hard to actually take things seriously.

The stairs going down had been opened up again, with more demons coming up. However, Reyne blocked the stairway by herself. All I saw was her swinging around her silver sword and spear in circles, and then… there was nothing else except for blood and flesh flying off of Reyne's shining weapons. I had yet to see a single complete demon down here.

”Reyne's in such a combat fervor. She's showing off her own progress. Right, did you teach her those sword techniques?”

”Tsk, I would never teach her sword techniques like this. They fit only a gorilla.”

I wasn't blind. Of course I could tell whose style these sword techniques were. I had indeed previously taught Reyne fighting skills and techniques. But, her current sword techniques were very honest and simple horizontal or vertical slices. They were gorilla-like brute force techniques that used instinct and senses far more than any logic or reason. Only someone as simple and direct as Karwenz would use such sword techniques.

Although I was rather surprised by Reyne's huge increase in power level, I highly doubted that any ordinary demons would even pose a threat to Reyne. This meant that I could secretly slack off and plan for the future.

Indeed, plan for the future. Plan for the future of these ruins, and the future for the huge inheritance within these ruins.

From what I could tell, since Amelia and her wood spirits had arrived, and we had already eliminated the most troublesome and powerful individual, Conservation, it would be impossible for us to lose control of these ruins unless something like two Main Gods suddenly appeared.

There were no treasure chests or gold coins here for adventurers to go crazy about. But, all those silly-looking robots we'd met on the way here were actually hundreds of times more valuable than treasure chests filled with gold.

Perhaps I wasn't exactly a high-level engineer myself, but I could at least slightly extrapolate the advancement of a culture from its creations and tools.

Completely automatic robots and artificial souls, together with designs and constructs for all sorts of never-before-seen machines. This Sky Tower even managed to produce half-machine and half-undead creations, and there were also spiritual creatures here that could imitate a real person's soul wavelength. All of this knowledge was a treasure trove of information that far surpassed any known archaeological dig on the Haletdam generation. This was a super mega harvest.

Just the fact that this place also had a highly unique structure that made it easier to communicate with other dimensions here would probably make this location tremendously valuable to the Chaos Faction. And of course, this naturally had worth to us as well.

If news about the true nature of this place was leaked, it would quite obviously cause the Sala Dukedom's civil war to rage even harder. Perhaps some major countries would also find excuses to invade. I would need to think of methods to contain everything first before the news leaked.

”Perhaps keeping this portal and having this ruin constantly maintain itself in a state of 'active warfare against intruders' will be safer.”

But as many thoughts and schemes which I hesitated about roamed around in my head, the true master of this tower, Katerina, walked in front of me, seeming like she had something to say.