189 Chapter 189: Dark Schemes (2/2)
”So you sleep here?” I asked dryly, looking around at the revolting place. ”And I thought the cheap basement room I rented out in my previous life was bad…”
”Huh? Why would we sleep here?”
”This is our room, but not our bedroom!”
”Why are you even answering his question seriously…?” Anastasia was resting a hand on her forehead and sighing in exasperation.
”So, Mell and Nell, right?” I asked, and the two girls perked up when I called their names. I gestured at the eggs. ”So I'm guessing you've been left in charge of taking care of all these eggs and Goblins?”
”That's right! We were the one who triggered the Emergence event and gathered as many Goblins as possible! Then we put them in all these eggs as Uncle Solomon requested!”
”Using our earth magic! That Golem you saw earlier is a Soul Beast summoned by us too!”
The two girls were sure loose-lipped, but I could use that to my advantage. Especially since one of their revelations caught my attention.
”Who is this Solomon? Is he the leader of the Dark Church?”
”Uncle Solomon is Uncle Solomon!”
”Uncle Solomon takes good care of us!”
I wasn't sure how giving goblins to a couple of young children and asking them to watch over them was ”taking good care of them” but whatever. I hadn't become a parent or guardian yet, and was thus in no position to criticize one.
”I haven't heard of this Solomon either,” Anastasia revealed uneasily, chewing her lip as she glanced around. ”Actually, I didn't know the Dark Church's schemes have progressed this much. And those girls…even though they're so young, they already know summoning magic?”
”Not just summoning magic, breeding and grooming magic too!”
”We've been designed and raised to enhance the power of monsters!”
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The two girls were puffing out their chests proudly before turning to each other and slapping a double high-five.
”Okay, cool.” As a summoner, that actually sounded like the perfect set of skills to have. Not only could they summon Soul Beasts, they could also enhance their capabilities. I would love to do that with my Constellation spirits, but I had never heard of grooming or breeding magic before. It was possible the girls made them up…or they were different from what I was currently assuming them to be. In any case, I decided to address the predicament at present. ”So what do you intend to do with all these Goblins that you've bred and groomed?
”We'll awake the Goblins!”
”And set them upon the city!”
Behind me, Anastasia gasped in shock. She probably couldn't reconcile such malicious actions with the incongruously innocent and playful tone. As for me, this was turning out to be a cliché scene from some anime, so I merely raised an eyebrow.
I can't say I didn't expect that answer. This Solomon wouldn't have assigned the Goblins to these children if he didn't think they would do what he asked of them.
”…I knew it…”
However, Anastasia was far from convinced. Outraged, she glared at the two children.
”Do you know what will happen if you do that?!”
”Of course we know!” Mell replied cheerfully. ”The Goblins have been commanded to **** the women until they break!”
”And the Goblins have been ordered to kill all the men and children and eat them!” Nell added, joining her twin sister in some weird dance of delight.
”Wait, you can order the Goblins?” I asked skeptically. ”I'm pretty sure they still haven't found a way to control the monsters yet, even rank F ones.”
”Hah! You're just an idiot for not knowing who we are!” Mell puffed out her chest proudly.
”We are to be future Apostles!” Nell also looked pretty arrogant.
Anastasia and I exchanged bemused glances. ”Apostles?” I asked uncertainly.
”The top twelve mages of the Dark Church!”
”We're being groomed to be their successors one day!”
”That's why they're leaving such an important mission to us!”
”We will never let them down!”
The two girls seemed pretty certain of their status in the Dark Church. I sort of could understand a little why they were here. It was entirely possible that the higher-ups in the Dark Church saw this as a trial, a test for the children they were raising to be their organization's elite mages. No wonder they had all sort of fancy magic.
”Besides…!” Mell produced a weird crystal ball. ”We have this!”
”That's right!” Nell took the crystal ball and played with it, passing it back to her sister and taking it again several times. ”We can use this to give orders to the Goblins!”
…that looked like an ordinary crystal ball with no functions to me, but I wasn't one to shatter the innocent dreams of cruel children.
”The poor kids.” I shook my head and said to a horrified Anastasia. ”They've been deceived. This isn't going to end well for them.”
Well, they reaped what the sowed.
”You're just jealous that we can control Goblins and you can't!” Mell shouted. Ha ha ha ha! Little lady, did you actually think I would be jealous of you for being able to control Goblins? Why would I need Goblins when I already have an army of Constellation spirits at my beck and call?
”It doesn't matter. Both the big brother and big sister will die here!” Nell crowed.
”That's right! Let's do it!”
”Yeah!”
The two girls held the crystal ball together and raised it high into the air. I watched as it began glowing an ominous verdant.
””Awaken!”” both girls cried out in a shrill but cheerful and playful voice that echoed across the chamber. ””Everyone, wake up!””
”Ugh…” I buried my face in my forehead. ”Those idiots actually went and did it.”
Then I frowned. Actually, why did they wait for me and Anastasia to arrive before they awakened the Goblins? If they had the ability to do so, they could have done it any time before Anastasia and I got here. Why wait dramatically for us to arrive before deliberately pulling such a comical performance in front of us?
Perhaps this Solomon wanted to make fun of us, to show us despair or some bullshit or that. If so, he was going to kick himself for wanting to get all dramatic when his plan failed. I mean, he could have awakened the Goblins a while ago and set them on the city, and it would be extremely difficult for both me and Anastasia to stem the tide and stop them from reaching the surface.
But no, he decided to show off, and conveniently had all the Goblins gathered in one spot for me and Ana to deal with. I didn't know whether to be grateful or amused. Perhaps both.
Maybe that wasn't his plan, but the kids being willful and stupid. If that was the case, then Solomon was still an idiot for leaving such an important plan to kids.