Apotheosis Of A Demon – A Monster Evolution Story Chapter 59 (2/2)
According to the Champion, just as he was about to lose, the Dark Lady had saved him, but it was more likely that she had si was busy with hiovern the Troll King to belong to the Champion as a way to raise the citizens' morale, but the Hero himself had refusedHe had since disappeared
“Really, the guy's so uptight”
Quarancinq, City of MagicA large country in the Western Central Continent
While the City of Magic only had a population of four hundred thousand, around the same as a small country, it and the Academy City of Cinqres were countries for scholars and researchers of all things icians
In the center of the country lay a castle, its spire ru in the whole worldThe castle was both the royal palace and the world's ic University, at the sa of the country itself, could be seen strolling around and engaging new students in friendly chats from time to time
But the spire, christened 'Tower of Truth', held its own dark secretsIn this City of Magic, nized to be top-class were offered a laboratory space in the towerThe Tower of Truth here questionable research and inhu conducted, far away from the eyes of the wider world
In one of those laboratories, a rooant one could mistake it for a royal suite of a first-class hotel, was a beauty in her late twenties with hair as red as a blazing infernoWetting her scarlet lips with a sip of blood-red wine, she waved the glass in a light flourish to the man in front of her
“So you came to me because the Champion had disappeared?”
“Not so, , we at the Tee, was the ideal person to come to for this plan” A tall, brown-hairedsical capacity, the woic until the seventh rank when she was only in her twentiesShe was the ician in this world, as well as one of the Heroes
While her appearance was that of a quintessential fire e, she was, in fact, well versed in all the eleic had cured tens of thousands of people
Marlene had been the inventor of a new type of healing spellAll the royalty and nobility throughout the world cla it ar, and she continued to prioritize her work as a Heroine
“You said you were… Mason?”
“Indeed, my lady”
“The terms of the Temple's request forthe mana they supply, and the capture of the Dark Lady by said spellIs that right?”
“The capture of the Dark Lady is not required of youPlease do so only if an opportunity presents itselfHowever, if you can preserve the brain and organs, or even keep the head unwounded, there would be a bonus reward for you”
“UnderstoodHow about you have a drink with ies, it is currently work hours for me”
The contract she had with the Temples required her to develop a new spell, and to acquire a biological sample of Whitehare, the Dark Lady
And in return, for the next 50 years, the Temples would supply mana for her experiments, as well as help her acquire the subjects that had been getting less and less available recently
Mason leftMarlene licked off the last drops of wine on her lips, then headed to her lab with a chuckleShe opened the door that led to the subject storage roo boys, both deuish greeted her
“I' al with my experiments, I should think”
Marlene cheerfully took out her torture tools, further sending the boys into the depths of despair
“… damn her… dale large capital cityOutside of the far district, its citizens all lived at the city, with the upper class andinside the enormous protective city walls, while the lower class of one million and two hundred thousand people lived outside the walls
Outside the walls, in one of the lakeside resort villas of nobles, a young woarden, herself clad in a gri her knife into a tree as if it was a voodoo doll
Her naht officerShe'd been pushed into becouard in the hope that her looks would attract hi her as a concubine, but the wooal
Yet the path to her dreairl, Shedy, showed up
Salia had been abnoronistic to ShedyHer twisted emotions had turned into sheer hatred, and at the battle of Xontdix, she had massacred the demihumans to soothe herselfThen Shedy had frozen the skin of her face
She had been rescued by Xontdix's knights just before the Dark Lady Whitehare gave her display of powerHer face had refused to heal completely even with the best spells, and co by herself, she'd been sent back ho-terht officer, had scorned her as 'useless', and had banished her outside of the walls
The only people at the villa were her and an old caretaker couple
She had people to serve her food and to do her laundryBut she continued to be a prisoner to her hatred of ShedyShe hadn't been eating, hadn't been bathingShe just kept on stabbing the tree
The grass rustled with footstepsSalia stoppedShe looked up, glaring at the interruption, her face beset with uncontrollable twitchesStanding in front of her was a lare and a demented smile
“HeyoThe nae on the Bunny?”
A/N: Factions surrounding Shedy:
1st faction: The Temples
The local headquarters of the Earth-based pharmaceutical and defense Corporation, as well as the Developers ed hands from the 7th research center to the 4th
2nd faction: Regular Players
An enor of around three million people, but without unityMost had no awareness of the truthSoun to act
3rd faction: The Large Country Coalition
A ide organization to oppose the Dark Lady Whitehare and her assault on the SaplingsPerception of the Coalition differed depending on the region
4th faction: The Heroes
Included the ChaeOfficially, they had accepted the Coalition's request to subjugate the Dark Lady as their hts
5th faction: The Demihumans
People oppressed by the hu theone foreverThey had taken the opportunity to begin a resistance movement
6th faction: The Dark Generals
There were three Dark Generals on Yggdrasia: the Troll King, the Orc King, and the Ogre LordThey were e the huers
Brian, Salia, and others who had sworn revenge on Shedy