Chapter 486 – Goddess (9)
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“Because fragments are not stupid either.”
“… What does that mean?”
In response to my question, the goddess instead of explaining, showed me the mountain range where the fragments were sealed.
A barren mountain range covered with rocks and red soil. Monsters erupted before even a single blade of grass could grow in that mountain range.
The monsters that rushed out to cover the mountain range were eradicated by the goddess’s descendants and summoners.
How many times have wars broken out like that? The desolate mountain range gradually became covered with green.
The black energy that eroded the mountain range gradually lost its influence, and at some point came to converge to one point.
And a wall was built around the entrance.
Indeed.
I finally understand the name West Keep.
I don’t know much about sieges, but when I first entered this city, I thought the shape of the walls was strange.
The wall was not built on the outside of the city, but surrounded the core of the city, and the moat was inside.
Now that I see it, it was not designed to protect the city from the outside, but to prevent internal debris.
Anyway, there were a few monster eruptions after that, but most of them were easily defeated.
In this way, churches were built here and there around the wall, and the barracks surrounding the wall turned into a village.
At some point, monster eruptions could no longer be found, and the village prospered and became a city. People began to actively explore dungeons.
When I saw that, I asked the goddess.
“Isn’t it going well?”
The goddess frowned.
“I thought so. It is said that the reason the eruption stopped was because the strength of the fragments weakened. “The effect of consuming the energy of the fragment appeared.”
“It’s true, but that wasn’t the whole story.”
“After being repeatedly repelled, the fragments changed their strategy. “Fragments are also beings that learn.”
While saying that, the goddess floated a magic stone.
“Oh, no way…”
Before I finished speaking, the goddess shook her head.
“The magic stone is not contaminated.”
It was impossible to contaminate the magic stone itself. Because the goddess did not make such an obvious mistake.
The goddess continued her explanation.
Imagine that there is a human being whose entire body is restrained in chains. It is simple to notice and prevent the human from moving to loosen the chain.
But would you notice if the person reversed the body’s blood flow or the position of its internal organs?
The behavior of the fragment was similar. This is impossible for humans. But the fragments were not human.
The fragment broke off parts of itself and scattered them throughout the dungeon. Mainly in places where a lot of magic stones are distributed. The dungeon was a place to seal fragments, but if you change the perspective, the dungeon could be seen as an area of fragments, so it was possible.
“The actions of the fragments were extremely secretive. So much so that the chaos directly monitoring the dungeon could not notice.”
The goddess sighed.
“It was something that could not be helped. I was using most of my abilities to intercept external forces and purify mana, and Chaos was downgraded to the point where all I could do was maintain the seal.”
“The debris that flowed like that modified her strategy. As before, she attacked the mind, not the physical.”
While saying that, the goddess floated something.
“That is…”
“Is it so. “You know it too.”
That metal tentacle monster I met in the dungeon. It was actually a part of the fragment.
The goddess glared at the monster with her burning eyes.
“That damn bastard dared to try and mix a part of himself with his children.”
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The goddess spoke with her complex face.
“We confirmed the contamination, but that didn’t mean we could step forward ourselves. “We couldn’t intervene in such microscopic matters.”
The goddess could not give individual revelations to her own children. It was against the rules.
“So we needed to deal with it differently than before with summoners. That’s you.”
After listening to the goddess, her doubts were finally answered.
“… Okay. So…”
Why did I awaken an ambiguous ability called a buff, unlike other summoners who separate the mountains and the sea alone? Why was my combat ability at the level of an ordinary otherworlder?
The goddess said.
“Observation is interactive. If we had given you the same abilities as previous summoners and had you deal with the fragments, the fragments would have known that their strategy had been revealed to us.”
“You had to act based on some coincidences and your own will. To be precise, that’s how it had to look.”
“…!”
As I was listening to the goddess’ words, something suddenly crossed my mind.
It wasn’t my will, but it had to look like my will.
“Respect your taste! So!”
If you can find those that are blatantly contaminated, the debris will notice. Finding those guys had to seem like coincidence and my will.
And to disguise it… As if I had a distorted sense of achievement…
“… You really took a detour in many ways.”
She looked at the goddess with some reproach, but the goddess was looking at me seriously.
“I had no choice but to use an indirect method. The fragments have already responded to our strategy once. “If I had focused on you, the fragments would have also focused on you.”
I felt that the mysterious words I had heard from her witch before were being resolved through her words.
The witch compared the world to a chessboard. The pieces on the chessboard move as they please, and the gods just watch.
Then there was something added.
‘It’s not that noticeable when a horse moves on its own. But the moment the goddess touched her hand.
‘The goddess’ opponent will focus his attention on that horse. That’s why she doesn’t put her hands on you first.’
Indeed.
Because the fragments of the foreign body could detect the goddess’s response strategy and thus recognize me, they deliberately gave me the quest in an indirect way.
“…”
I got shivers down my back.
The witch in the dungeon… The identity of the witch who told me this… I expected it to some extent, but this scale…
Um.
Let’s not think anymore about the witch’s identity. He’s just a really annoying but helpful helper. Nothing more, nothing less!
While I was engulfed in some cosmic fear, the goddess sighed.
“I wish you would focus more seriously. “She is still going through a hard time diverting resources to you.”
“Um… Is that so?”
It seems like the witch is just having a leisurely life inside the dungeon. She also plays with me.
The goddess changed the scene.
Suddenly, beasts were seen running wild in the mountains. And the magic stones embedded in that head.
“That is…”
“I’m sure you’ve seen it too.”
Magic stones do not appear outside the dungeon. However, Yuri’s parents said that they went on a trip after eating a magic stone from a wild boar.
The goddess said as she saw beasts like that growing more and more in the mountains.
“It took a lot of careful placement to take you out of the roleplaying of your summoners and give you the ability to block the shards while also making them unpredictable. The resources required were also unusual. In the end, we had no choice but to draw on some of the wall’s resources.”
“…”
Hmm. That means it all happened because of me… I feel like I’m going to have some remorse. I should have worked harder…
-Boom!
Lightning struck, and the animal burned to death.
I was dumbfounded and looked at the goddess, but she just shrugged her shoulders.
“Chaos did it.”
-Thump, thump.
As I watched the lightning continue to strike, old memories suddenly came back.
Not long after falling into this world, whenever I was arguing with the goddess over the status window and cursing her for being so petty, a thunderbolt struck me.
But it seems it was a coincidence. It’s not that the goddess was overwhelmingly childish, it was just that Chaos was filling the hole…
“Have all your questions been answered?”
“For now… Yes.”
The goddess smiled when she saw me not knowing what to do in embarrassment.
“You’ve done pretty well so far. Although the progress was a bit different than I expected…”
“You mean there was a better way?”
“Rather, it may be surprising that I used the abilities I was given less actively than expected.”
“Are you proactive?”
“… Hmm.”
The goddess hesitated for the first time, and then she continued, stuttering a little.
Since I yelled at them to fuck before being summoned, I thought I would be more active in spreading sex buffs.
Well… Honestly, it wasn’t that I didn’t have that thought.
Set up a base in the city
I’ve imagined something like an otherworldly sex masseuse (with a slight buff), but…
Now that I have a relationship with my kids, I can’t do that.
The goddess’s explanation is complete. But the most fundamental problem remained.
“Goddess. So, do I have to continue to deal with the fragments like this in the future?”
“Are you afraid?”
“Honestly… Yes.”
When I encountered the pieces of debris, I was literally helpless. I somehow stopped my mind from being polluted, but that’s it. If the fragments had tried to kill me instead of contaminating me, it might have ended there.
“Ah…”
The goddess cupped her hand around my cheek as if to comfort me. It somehow feels like it’s looking down on me. He’s definitely not taller than me.
The goddess smiled.
“There is nothing to worry about. “Just as humans have human tasks, dealing with fragments is the gods’ task.”
“Even though you happened to run into me, that won’t happen anymore. “This cycle is now over.”
All the foreign comets that flew in this time were all evaporated.
“The fragments will not be active for some time. You will probably never encounter another one in your lifetime. However.”
“Just?”
“Outside the seal… There will still be children contaminated by debris. Deal with them.”
The goddess had a confused face. I felt a certain sadness hearing her continue to call them children even though they were contaminated. As someone who has dealt with it in person, I couldn’t quite sympathize with it…
Anyway, in the end, you have to do the same thing as before. However, since the fragments no longer have any influence, the only consolation is that the number of contaminated paraphilias will not increase further.
Well… It was simpler than dealing with fragments, but the problem still remained.
The powerlessness of those dyssexuals was never the problem. The problem is their social background. Why is it that everyone I meet in the city is taking up one spot?
How can I do this…
Like the inspector who is shedding tears as if he has been hit by a hypnotic beam, is there no way to solve it once and for all?
“… Ah.”
Suddenly an idea occurred to me.
“Goddess. Is something like this possible?”
When the goddess heard my words, she looked embarrassed.