553 Revived (2/2)

”Is it specialized for slime usage? I really prefer the oily creams!”

”…At least it will feel really comfortable when you apply it. Want to try?”

I intended to change the topic to be back on track since we had gotten way off topic. However, my two female companions both indicated that they were both completely uninterested in the topic of the 'Revived,' that I should just go do whatever I wanted without bothering them.

Theoretically speaking, the person with the greatest authority here should have been Amelia as she had the greatest power level. But, seeing how she was seemingly having so much fun chatting with Harloys, and recommending skin care products to my cat… Although I felt that it would be far more practical to recommend some anti-lice and anti-odor creams, even I felt that would be far too suicidal to say out loud. I decided against interrupting their fun.

”We're not interested. Have whatever fun you want.”

Their silence was also a way of expressing their attitude… Fine, I admit that I was intentionally being optimistic. I truly didn't understand why ever since the day I confessed my affection for Harloys, it seemed that Harloys and Amelia's relationship with each other improved drastically. Originally, they were only former teacher and student that kept trying to take advantage of each other, but now they seemed more like a pair of sisters friendly with each other. But, every time they smiled, I felt like their smiles weren't sincere. And no matter how nice their words were to each other, why did I keep getting chills down my spine that made me want to pretend to be background scenery?

”The Revived…”

I decided instead to focus on this new species, the Revived. The Revived were a completely new species and term in this world.

There really had been mechanical souls that resisted S1's rule of the Sky Tower. However, these souls were considered heretics who were locked away in the Sky Tower's prison. When Katerina ascended to become the true leader of this tower, all those souls had been released.

Yep, ascended, even if it sounded ridiculous. This former bartender girl was now the new leader of an entire species, even if her species was few in number and her territory quite limited.

Her territory was only the Sky Tower ruin and the surrounding area. When Katerina and her people matured some more, the wood spirits would also give Starwood City over to them. But even with that land added on, this domain would still be smaller than the average earl's domain.

My plan should be quite clear by now. We weren't staying here to support a wood spirit invasion or anything like that. We were here to support this new species, the Revived, which consisted of resurrected souls from the Haletdam generation.

These Revived were all rather pitiful. The souls who resisted S1 the most were either seriously injured or tossed into the prison. Less than one hundred currently had physical bodies that were able to move about normally. As for the other mechanical souls under S1's command, they all agreed with S1 that humans needed to be racially cleansed, so who would dare to leave those robots alive?

If the Revived wanted to expand their population without sacrificing the remaining souls of the sleeping scholars, they would have to try and awaken the remaining souls. Timlad was currently helping Katerina figure out how to do this, and it seemed that they were making progress.

What? You're saying that I forgot about the final boss of this Sky Tower, S1 the Sky Tower Spirit? Actually, there wasn't much to say, as he was nothing more than a tragedy.

With our current raid party's power level, Amelia acted as the leader, I provided cover for everyone, Reyne was the vanguard, and Harloys acted as the useless cheerleader. Even a SemiGod would be defeated in a single second in front of our party, not to mention a cornered S1.

Allow me to summarize what happened for you…

S1 summoned a demon army, and Reyne killed the entire demon army. S1 was angered by this, so he used his ultimate ability and summoned the incarnation of a Demon Earl. Then, S1 felt that he had gained the upper hand, so he said something like ”You're all going to die here, hahaha!”…At the exact same time, the Demon Earl recognized Reyne and myself, so he started loudly cursing Sophocles the Deceiver for pushing him into this pitfall while slacking off.

And then, Reyne instantly killed the Demon Earl's incarnation who raised up both hands in surrender, giving him a welcome return to the lower planes, having him bring a message that we would soon be visiting him down there. Reyne then instantly killed S1 in a single second… Yep, the final boss was killed in just one second as S1 was purely an academician who had absolutely zero personal combat strength.

This all seemed like a happy ending, but actually the troubles were only beginning. A terrible mess was left before us to clean up. And as the person at the center of this incident and the new master of this tower, Katerina had gotten caught up in everything.

And, her first statement when negotiating with me indicated that she was indeed an excellent leader for her new species.

”We want to join the Mist Alliance with the identity of an independent and newly born species. We're willing to sell our best technologies and techniques to only the Mist Alliance.”

Damn, I had to say that this little girl was far smarter than her adopted father. She knew that she was quite valuable, and that she would soon be devoured by ravenous wolves without someone powerful enough to protect her. She immediately found a backer who had reasonable morals and a good enough reputation to protect her.

All the main leaders of the Mist Alliance were currently present, so everything could be directly negotiated right here and now. Naturally, the Mist Alliance wouldn't reject a new species that possessed such highly advanced technology. And so, the Mist Alliance gained a new member species that currently only had several hundred ”people.”

And, the wood spirits would remain behind here as a show of friendship and to protect the Revived. The wood spirits' aerial fleet would be staying here until the Revived were strong enough to protect themselves. Every day, the wood spirits were catching and sending back more than one hundred spies and scouts that were trying to gain information on what was going on here.

As for the Dimensional Door that was currently out of control, that wasn't actually a lie. We had intentionally left it in such a condition for our own purposes. As for the demons that would randomly be summoned? Yep, they would be nothing more than unlucky demons who were either crushed to death by the force of the fall or provided some good exercise and training for the wood spirits who guarded the Dimensional Door.

Meanwhile, I was waiting for a certain person to arrive while training my techniques, preparing for future battles.