Chapter 465 (1/2)
16-59 Sage's Tower (7)
“Suicide booya's main headquarter?”
“Yes However, thanks to Reilas-sa by chance, none of the store personnels nor our visitors was injured Many ounded, but they've all already recovered thanks toto hq”
Satou and Sera who had returned to the solitary island palace for a lunch break got a report frooya Firm
Apparently, the holy shi+eld user of shi+ga Eight Swords, Reilas-dono was dropping by to make an adjustment on his new armor equipped with Armor Expansion and quasi-type [Fortress] functions that was provided to hioya Firm
Gotta remember to say my thanks as Kuro later
“We couldn't save the person who perforans that couldn't have been belonged to human from the remains, we had someone with Appraisal skill to check on it, and identified that it was a homonculus”
And it's not the commonly seen modern homonculus, but an ancient battle-type ho Furu Empire era, Tifaliza added
“But really, a terror act huh…”
Since the enemy's leader seems to be a reincarnated person, I should have considered the possibility of the to terror acts if they can't win a direct confrontation
There's been lots of terror acts before after all, like the indiscrih [Reborn Seed], and the terror acts at Siruga Kingdoents
Satou picked up several ite that
“Tifaliza, these are for you and General Manager Elterina And these here are for anego-san and the others who are guarding the executives, please pass these along to them”
“Bracelets, sliauntlets, and parasols?”
The bracelets and gauntlets are loaded with the saic-made artificial matter shi+eld on demand
And just having the bracelet equipped will provide one with an always active defensive wall that's sturdier than [Physical Defensive Buff] by a skilled ician, I should instruct the on a trip
As for the parasols, [Umbrellas] are defensive iteic circuit
The defensive power is only about 20 of the real [Fortress], but I think it's ainst ordinary terrorists
The king, the pri to be targeted too, h Echigoya Firm
“I can see it!”
Lady Karina who looked up and saw a tower beyond the snow field called out to Pochi and Ta a snow rabbit
“Where~?”
“Over there, nanodesu!”
The those faces were filled with snow shook their bodies and wiped the snow off their faces
Lulu and Liza can also be seen behind these three
Today, they're invited by the 『Witch of Ice Field』 to visit her tower
“Barrier~”
“Pochi feels like she can pass through it somehow nodesu”
“Yes~?”
Around here, said Pochi as she poked the barrier with her still-sheathed sword
“You te're here today because we're invited by witch-dono, so you can't break this barrier okay”
Liza rebuked Tama and Pochi
If they use the barrier-breaking Dragon Fang Swords, joking aside, they could really break most barriers out there if they wanted to
“Witch-san is here for us”
Lulu called everyone
“Thanks for waiting ssu Oh? Is Sir Satou not co?”
“Yes, master is a bit busy at the moment”
“Really ssu…”
The witch dropped her shoulders while ht I could talk about Demon God-sama all days with him'
“Master was looking forward to this visitation too, I am sure he will come too once he's taken care of his business”
“You think sso to? I've gone and borrowed materials about Underworld his excellency was interested in frootta come ssuyo”
The witch waved her hands around while calling the nickname of her best friend, the Witch of Frost Covered Trees (Juhyou)
“No point in standing around in the o inside the tower I'll let the barrier open for a while, wouldn't want his excellency to lose his ways ssu”
The witch waved one of her hands, and then light e a path above the ne
“A desuwa!”
“Gureato~”
“Witch person is really really a nodesu”
Karina, Tama and Pochi's eyes turned round when they sahat she did
That seemed to have stimulated the witch's self-estee, “I'ood ssuyo!” with a proud look
“U~n”
At the Sage's Tower Library, Arisa groaned while looking at the ceiling with a pen between her upper lip and nose
Hikaru who's reading docu her brain over their difficult research subject, [The transition of priic and variations]
“You think Mia's group has ress?”
“From what I heard from Zena after breakfast earlier, they're coic since there's too few docuress on the differences in bodily sensation between the usage/non-usage of Chant Shortening skill, it seems”
“I see~ No wonder all these problems remain unsolved for more than 100 years”
After sighing so, Arisa suggested to focus their research on the transition part of [Transitions and Variations], since it see about it from the materials they had on hands
“About the transition periods, it's said that the propagation was not like the coes in between”
“We know the propagation had stages because the transmission of information's speed periodically halted at countries' borders looking at the map”
The two draw different periods of propagation with colored pen, that Satou carefully made, on a transcribed map of the continent
And they s from the visualized information
“And if we trace that all the way back, the starting point was the 『Dragon's Valley』 to the north of Orc Empire…”
“Is it Dragon God-sama's work?”
“Or perhaps, Orc Einal developer…”
If it were the foron God being the founder of ic
The witch insisted that Deated, even though there were docuave an affirmation
“There's barely nothing about the variation point, but it's clear that priic is completely different than e use today”
“Un Coic consu to be cast, and you don't get headaches nor nausea like when you're trying to useelemental skill”
Hikaru agreed with Arisa's remark
With Satou's guidance, the two have ic
Though, on top of taking a long tiot it cast somehow], so it has zero practical use
“But there's too few documents about Orc Empire”
“Nothing we can do about that…”
Hikaru lets out a lonely smile
“Guess we've got no choice but to ask Master to let us interview either Ri Fuu under the royal capital or Ga Hou under the duchy capital then~”
“–Ga Hou? Is Ga Hou living under the duchy capital?”
Arisa nodded repeatedly as Hikaru caught her shoulders and shook her
“You know him?”
Arisa who escaped Hikaru's grasp with Warp ic asked
“Un, Ga Hou was a proud 『Griffon Rider』 of the Orc Empire After the as over, I asked him to supervise the clean water facility of the old capital He should have been living peacefully in a sion after I went to sleep But there was not even a single orc when I visited that region after I woke up, when I asked Sete about it, he said all the orcs who lived there were all killed after the war 400 years ago–”
Hikaru began to reminisce on her past even before Arisa asked
“But, I'lad he's alive…”
Hikaru hts
Arisa clapped Hikaru's shoulders and said, “Let's go see him next time”
“–Master?”
Since she's connected to Satou as his familiar, Arisa lifted her face to feel the sense of oddity he felt
“What's wrong Arisa?”
“Looks like our eneht be a decoy, so we should go help Nana who's watching over the 『Heart of Gold』 headquarter”
“Sure thing”
Since there's a possibility the eneht detect their teleportation, Hikaru and Arisa run through back alleys toward the headquarter instead
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“–Tch”
A small man who had teleported into City-State Kariswolk clicked his tongue right after he got in
“Teleport detection barrier and even seals on additional teleportation–we've been playing right into your hands have we not, Irregular!”
“Spot on–is what I'd have liked to say, but since the body double is here, that means the real one must be in another place huh?”
The sly at Satou who's appeared in front of him
“You think I'll talk? –”
The body double took out a sinister looking elliptical orb from Item Box's black space
“Death–”
Just before the body double could finish talking, Satou jumped into his bosom with Ground Shrink and put the elliptical orb into his Storage all the while neutralizing the man
『Fool』
Thevoice resounded from the body double's chest, a white flash and an explosion rivaling that of an advanced s in
『Kukakakakaka, you hable, Irregular』
A single Wraith Lord floated up at the place where the body double was
『There is nothing alive that could withstand the [Cursed Flaular!』
The city that has turned into rubble is sunk in the flames
“Seems like this place is a miss”
“Un, there are some suspicious people, but they're just ordinary suspicious”
“In agreement so I inform”
Arisa, Hikaru and Nana exchanged those words on top of a roof near the 『Heart of Gold』's headquarter
“–It's here”
Hikaru muttered shortly
“Seriously? Where?”
“Finding no fresh personnel within my vision so I inform”
Without answering Arisa and Nana who look around, Hikaru readies her wand
“Divine Lance!”
A gigantic telephone pole-sized spear appeared next to Hikaru who's stood up
“GOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
The gigantic spear pours doard a spot that has no one around
Pedestrians scream out, and run to the opposite side of the cloud of dust where the spear hit the ground
“–Geez, I'm no match for ya Talk 'bout reckless”
A sreen hand showed up from inside the cloud of dust
“Hey hey, how'd ya find me? It shouldn't be possible for analyze skill reincarnated people and heroes got froh me”
“Oh is that you Green I didn't recognize you at first since you're not wearing your usual green outfits”
Hearing Hikaru's words, the small man seemed dumbfounded as he looked at his own skin
“Nay y'know?”
“You can't weasel this out Only Greater Dee and Avatar abilities”