Volume 1 Chapter 31 - The Dark Sanctuary’s New Members (1/2)
In an inn on the Nelson town’s outskirts, Ivy and Susan who had been waiting anxiously, finally saw Bella and the others. After seeing that everyone was accounted for and uninjured, Ivy and Susan finally let out the breath that they had been unconsciously holding for all this time. Although they were a bit curious as to how Bella’s group was able to escape from the SS+ class [Fierce Dragon], but decided against asking as they weren’t too familiar with Bella and the others.
“I’m so happy you’re all unscathed! Have you decided on what you want as a reward yet?”
“We can discuss the reward at a later time, here, take this. You can use this to contact me whenever you want.”
“This is?”
“A communication stone, two people can talk to each other with it. Do you see those numbers there? That is your communication stone’s number, anytime you want to contact someone just hold the communication stone and read their number through in your head, you can talk to the other person after the communication stone lights up.”
The magical stone that Bella gave Ivy was something that she had the Creators Andrea and Bethia design and create for her, an smartphone-like item that perfectly fused magic and technology. Currently though, it only had the telephone function, other features were still being developed.
Of course, it wasn’t just limited to Ivy, Bella planned to give all her friends one of these communication stones. There was a secret function of the device that Bella hadn’t told Ivy, something similar to a GPS system. The communication stone that Bella had was the ‘mother’ stone and the ones that she was giving away were all ‘child’ stones, the ‘mother’ stone was able to get a general idea of where all the ‘child’ stones in a certain area was. The ‘child’ stones did not have this function.
Susan had also received a communication stone, as had everyone else around Bella, except Kriss. Bella planned to make the communication device that she gave Kriss a special one, they were both transmigrators after all. It was a shame that Kriss had not yet admitted that she was a transmigrator, only that she was able to use the powers of a demon king, but she wasn’t even able to explain exactly how she had the abilities to use them.
After handing out the communication stones, the girls decided to split up for now. Kriss, who had returned to human long ago, would accompany Ivy and Susan to escort the girls that they had saved from the mysterious cave back to the Gabriel Empire(Swordsmen). For safety concerns, Bella had also secretly arranged for a few dark suzerains that were skilled in hiding their presences to accompany Kriss’ group from the shadows.
Many of the Dark Sanctuary’s evil beings had already seen Kriss’ demon king form, and with a little work from Bella, Kriss was designated as a high-ranking member of the Dark Sanctuary and would be free to enter and exit at will. Kriss didn’t know this yet, of course.
“Remember our deal, Bella! After finishing up here, come and find me in the Gabriel Empire’s royal palace, my stupid dad keeps arranging for those obnoxious suitors to pester me, I’m about to go crazy!”
“I’m afraid I can’t help with that, hero-sama, you should know that…”
“I don’t care, I just don’t want to see the fake emotions and feelings that those stupid suitors show when they come and visit me. You are the head demon king, are you not, who can help me if you can’t? If all else fails I’ll give you the map to the palace’s defenses and you bring some subordinates and ‘kidnap’ me. Simple!”
“Bella, we’re friends right, you promised me this! If you help me I can help you protect your territory~!”
Bella knew that if she turned down Kriss here, Kriss might be pushed to join the ‘righteous’ side, at least if Bella were to help Kriss, she wouldn’t join the other side. Bella found it pretty hard to turn down Kriss’ request.
Thus, Bella accepted a thin and elegant sword from Kriss, the symbol for the Gabriel Empire’s royal family. Having it would give Bella the ability to enter and exist the empire’s royal palace at will. Apart from this symbol, Kriss had also given Bella a delicate silvery-white key.
“This is the key to my private room, you can come find me directly in my room if you ever enter the palace.”
Kriss’ cheeks were a little flushed as she handed the key to Bella, whose attention was completely drawn by the key and wasn’t able to notice the sky expression of Kriss’ face.
After this, Bella and the remaining beauties returned to the Dark Sanctuary, which had been in a demon king-less state for quite a few days now and probably had a lot of things that needed to be dealt with. Bella remembered that they had seen an unnatural amount of the Dark Sanctuary’s evil beings wandering the Unnamed Forest previously, and guessed that there was probably something big happening that probably needed her and the other demon kings to return.
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At the center of the 3rd dimension, the 【Light Dimension], was a place known as the ‘Paradise of Light’ five loli creator gods had their first official meeting since they had come into existence. They had been able to gather here today because of the 6th Creator, 【Extra-dimensional Creator] Alfreia, whose abilities made this meeting possible.
“Vianne, can we hurry up with the meeting? I’m not very accustomed to the air here, I don’t think I can last too much longer here.”
Mystica leaned casually on her chair, flipping through a yuri-oriented manga. She didn’t seem like she was here for such a serious meeting at all.
If it had been before, Vianne would have kicked this damn atmosphere-ruining 【Dark Creator] out. But now, Vianne wanted to borrow the manga that Mystica was reading, she knew that if she kicked Mystica out there was no way that she would be able to get her hands on that manga, so Vianne decided to ignore Mystica for a while.
Vianne looked around her, apart from the 【Dark Creator], Mystica who was reading manga; 【Machine Creator] Andrea’s eyes were closed, seeming to be listening to music from her cat-ear headphones. Judging from how Andrea looked like she was being intoxicated by the music, Vianne knew that Andrea would most likely not know anything that happens during the meeting.
【Magic Creator] Bethia was playing with the dolls in her hands, evidently not planning to be part of the discussion. Bethia and Andrea’s rankings were rather low and decided that all they needed to do at this kind of meeting between Creators was to listen and follow the decisions of the higher-ranking Creators. The only one listening to Vianne right now the 6th dimension’s 【Extra-dimensional Creator], Alfreia, but her IQ wasn’t on the same level as her abilities.
“Mystica, come with me to the room inside for a bit. The three of you can do whatever, but stay here for now. My servants will bring some dessert for you later.” Without any choice, Vianne could only choose to have a one-on-one conversation with Mystica. Even though Mystica was the one who Vianne had wanted to avoid the most, the other Creators present were evidently… not very competent.
Seeing the leaving figures of Vianne and Mystica, the remaining three loli creator gods were quite surprised that the Creator of Light was inviting the Creator of Darkness to her room. The three of them were shocked at how quick the world was changing.
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Back at the centre of the Unnamed Forest, where the mysterious cave had been completely sealed. After Kriss had escorted the captured girls back with her to the Gabriel Empire, the cave had been destroyed by the dark suzerains that had been following Kriss in secret. The magic formation and pillars inside had been broken and the dark suzerains had also caused a cave in to seal off the entrance of the cave.