Chapter 226 – Fruit

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Red—no, beyond red, a brilliant flame close to gold set Tindalos ablaze and demolished the small realm.

The other-dimensional predator that eats away at reality could no longer maintain its shape and disappeared as if it were drawn into its own abyss.

“Haha…!”

Thanks to Quon’s own magic, as well as Cleon’s magic, he drew and used it to pour out Galatine’s ignorant flames that were manifested from his hands her.

With a look of exhaustion, he released the Holy Sword from his hand.

Then, as Galatine floated into the air, the pure white armor formed on Quon’s body was transformed into magical power and scattered.

The color of his hair and the clothes of the clergymen also returned to their original form, becoming the usual form of Quon.

[Confirm subject’s eviction. You worked hard. Master Quon.]

When she thought she heard Galatine’s voice her once again, she changed her form her from the sword form, and then she changed into the form of a beautiful bird with colorful red feathers.

A bird that symbolizes sunset and sunrise, death and resurrection.

It looked like a phoenix.

She soared high into the sky, circled the inside of her room and made sure there was no Tindalos left, then returned to Quon’s shoulder her and sat down as if to take her place her.

Considering the size of its power her, it was so small that it could be wrapped in both palms of Quon.

“Is there a holy sword that takes on a non-human form?”

As Cleon muttered, Caliburn’s voice came from his waist to her.

[Because the appearance we can take is set close to the ‘role’ of the controlling personality~]

“It’s a role… Huh?”

Cleon blinked two or three times at Caliburn’s natural answer.

And if she squeezes her own hand two or three times and pours her magic power into the magic organ inside her body her-

“I can use magic.”

“Really… Is it because Galatin canceled the reverse magic field?”

Quon had already consumed a lot of mana, but he nodded at the remaining mana he could feel inside himself and Cleon.

[That’s right. Following the order of the former master, ‘Anubis’, the barrier that had been spread until the contract with the new user was released.]

At Gallatin’s words, Quon and Cleon sighed in relief at the fact that they were finally able to escape from the situation where they could not use magic.

However, there was one person who couldn’t help but smile in such a situation, and that was Berastol.

“…”

With her helmet off her, Vera Stoll, who was looking at Quon with a somewhat resentful expression, noticed her and realized that her hands her were bleeding.

If you can’t erase the uncomfortable feelings bubbling inside, keep silent and look away from the two.

Mejed was seen picking up the severed head of Horus.

“…Your Majesty Horus…”

She lent her strength to Cleon’s party in order to deceive Horus, whom her ancestors her and originally should have devoted allegiance to and defended.

It was because of her own sense of values ​​that no matter how much the Sun King was to be served, she could not forgive trying to steal the bodies of others living in her present age.

Even so, some complicated feelings will remain.

El Cairo in the past, the history of the splendid kingdom that blossomed there is now.

Ended here.

Thinking so, he held her her cold head her, which was no different from her previous life her, even if it was her her mechanical body her, to his her chest her.

“Don’t kill yourself.”

“Ugh!?”

Then her eyes abruptly opened, and her voiced Horus hit her head.

Thanks to this, Horus’s head fell to the ground and rolled around, crashing into Quon’s feet and stopping.

Her gaze turned to Quon’s eyes to her and to Galatine, who was sitting next to him.

“Yes… It’s as you said. Priest of the Gentiles.”

“…Yes.”

She had an expression of resentment somewhere, but at the same time, she seemed to have accepted the current situation.

From that expression, Quon picked up her head as if he had judged that she was no longer in danger.

Horus looked closely at Quon’s eyes and then quietly opened his mouth to her.

“When Tindalos swallowed us all. I too had visions of the past.”

Unbeknownst to the party, Horus also faced regrets from the past in the small realm of Yogtoth.

If you ask me if I’ll be able to resolve all the regrets accumulated over thousands of years, I don’t think so.

If only they could put an end to this situation brought about by their own stubbornness, which greatly twisted their fate.

In it, she saw a possible future by making a choice different from the original history.

“No matter which way I go. My kingdom is destroyed. Will it perish while fighting, or will it perish without fighting? To be.”

“Your majesty…”

Upon hearing Horus’ words of her, Medjed clenched her fists as if she understood her heart her more than anyone else.

“Don’t get me wrong, Mejai. Even if I gave up my human life. I made another choice to see the unknown. And now I can say it. Even if it cost me and all my retainers. Ash Rather than a kingdom with not a handful remaining, it is better to be in this world where there are ruins left.”

In another future Horus saw, the kingdom was swallowed up by Tyndalus and annihilated, thanks to the execution of Moses without developing the technology to transfer souls into machines.

Since everyone with knowledge of time interference technology has disappeared, it was only natural that the Tindalos would also have disappeared.

But thanks to that.

Mejed and even the descendants living in the present met the end of disappearing without leaving a single person behind.

Depending on your point of view, you might think it’s a neat ending, but it’s…

Even if she lives on the rubble of a destroyed land, it was an act of denying both Mejed, who is doing her best in her own way, and the villagers she guards.

“I’ll admit it. You are the owner of this land right now. And, the existence of me is no longer needed in this world.”

When Horus said that, everyone in the party fell silent.

After a while, Verastol opens his mouth.

“There’s nothing more to do here… Let’s get out of here before it’s too late.”

“That’s right. You guys also found the holy sword you were aiming for…”

Medjed said that and nodded her head.

And, as if Vera Stoll’s armor, which was still on her body, was heavy, she loosened her shoulders.

“That armor too. Give it back quickly.”

“Ah, I see. I’m not allowed to be this heavy…”

Medjed nodded her head and tried to unfasten her armor on the spot, when Vera Stoll strode up to her and tugged at her ear her.

“Why are you trying to change in front of people… !

“It hurts! Mi-sorry! I’m going outside to change…!”

Cleon and Quon, who were watching such a commotion, saw the two of them leaving the throne room first and was contemplating what to do with Horus’s head his.

“Master Quon. Cleon. I have a suggestion.”

Galatine, who was sitting on Quon’s shoulder her, raised his voice her as if to say something.

When the two of her look back at her at the same time, Galatine descends from her cuon’s shoulder her.

“Current location – underground in the throne room. There is a space that Anubis made secretly. Would you like to go there?”

At Galatine’s words, Quon and Cleon look at each other, but Horus, who was holding Quon’s hand her, widens her eyes as if surprised.

“…Anubis? Why… Did you keep it a secret from me?”

“Yes. Anubis-nim did not inform Horus-nim and expanded the facilities within the tomb.”

“I’m not asking the facts! The reason… No, Anubis must have something in mind.”

After hearing Galatine’s answer, Horus is silent for a moment, but then Quon nods her head.

“Okay. I’m still not sure why it’s us…”

In response to Quon’s answer, Galatin soars up into the sky and presses the button hidden inside the ejection port of the Sun Spire.

Then, the stairs hidden under it were revealed.

The Galatine is back on Quon’s shoulders and she asks the two of them to get down under it.

Quon headed down the dark stairs with Horus’s head in his hand.

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How far did you walk If you go down to a fairly deep place, you can tell that you can feel the moisture at the bottom.

And that wasn’t all. I could tell because I was in a space without natural magic a while ago.

As I went down the stairs, little by little, I could feel the mana.

“Caution, your feet are wet and can be slippery.”

When the two of them reached the bottom of the stairs, just as Gallatin had said, the floor was filled with water, and every movement made a thumping sound through the dark hallway.

And, more than before, the mana was felt more clearly.

“This space… What is it?”

Cleon, too, felt his heart throb a little and expressed his doubts his, but could not give a clear answer.

Magical power itself existed, but compared to the outside—the place where Cleons usually live, the concentration was very low.

And that wasn’t because it spread through the air, but because the magic power was dissolved in the water the two of them were stepping on.

Thanks to the subtle magic of the water, I felt as if I was walking in the water.

“The ‘cooling water storage facility’ that originally existed in this facility has a built-in function of pumping up water from deep underground. A part of that water was flowed into this facility and stored little by little.”

“Groundwater… Why?”

“It is to be used as a medium that can contain magical power.”

At Galatine’s words, Cleon briefly remembered what Lyla had said earlier.

Magical power that spreads in the air gradually dissipates and moves, but the magic that dwells in plants, animals, objects, and various substances in the natural world is difficult to dissipate and is maintained for a long time.

If a human possesses magical power, then they have the qualities of a magician.

If a tool is imbued with magical power, it becomes a magic tool.

In addition, minerals imbued with the magic of the earth, flames imbued with the magic of fire, and clouds with the magic of the wind.

The four major elements of the natural world also easily nest in natural objects, and among them, ‘water’ was the one with the greatest connotation limit.

“Magic power in groundwater… But, where does that magical power come from?”

“Originally, it was contained in the underground water. If magic power itself did not exist, water would not be created. However, after entering this land, as time passes, the spirit vein is depleted, so magic power is lost.”

Horus closed his eyes in anger at Gallatin’s answer to his.

“Yes. The fact that even groundwater can’t restore the richness of this land is, of course, a problem with the spirit vein.”

“Therefore, Anubis-nim instructed me to open the ‘reverse magic field’.”

[…The reverse magic field is not a barrier that dispels magic. A barrier that stops the change and flow of magical power. In other words, the magic that enters the reverse magic field is fixed as it is, and it is maintained in the water regardless of the spirit vein.]

When Galatea answered that, Galatin nodded as well.

While talking like that, the two of them arrived in a fairly large room.

At the end of the road, there was so much water that I couldn’t tell how deep it was.

On the surface of the water, there was a stone platform to step on and plants that looked like ‘lotuses’ growing wild here and there.

“Plant…!”

Horus’ startled voice echoed through the cavity.

After coming to this land, the only plants I saw were the remains of wilted trees, but all the lotuses growing here look as healthy as they look elsewhere.

Another thing that caught the party’s attention was the center of the room, where you can step on the steps.

It was the only floor made of soil, not stone, and around it, like the stems of plants like lotuses, stretched out.

Just like the sacred relics of the temple were kept on the earthen floor, there were several sacred amulets decorated around it.

In the center of the amulets was a gorgeous box with golden decorations in a white tone.

Galatine flies over to its center, where she transforms into light once more-

This time, pinkish hair close to red, and a white priest’s robe that was long enough to touch the ground.

The red feathers attached to her clothes also look similar to the decorations on the armor seen when fused with Quon.

Her red eyes transformed herself into a characteristic chaste lady.

Although she suddenly changed into a human form, Quon and Cleon were not surprised and stepped on her footsteps to where she was.

I was worried that if a person climbed on it, it would sink under the water with its weight, but that didn’t happen.

Galatine picked up her box and carefully opened it as the two of them crossed to where he was.

What’s in it-

“…Apologize?”

Just as Cleon reacted involuntarily, what was in the box was a small reddish fruit that, although slightly distorted on the surface, looked very much like an apple.

“… No, this is-“

Quon became her surprised face of her and hardened her expression at the sight of the fruit.

“This is the fruit of the sacred tree called ‘the fruit of life’.”

“The fruit of life…?”

“Yes. It’s just as Galatine said. …It looks just like the fruit from the sacred tree in my hometown. It’s a very rare item… I heard that it doesn’t bear fruit well even once in a thousand years , let alone a hundred years. The fruit that remains there There’s only one…And a priestess’s job includes managing and protecting the fruit.”

At Quon’s words, Cleon nodded her head, but looked at Galatine as if he wasn’t sure why such a valuable item was here.

Then Galatin turns to him and replies.

“This is an object hidden in Moses’ laboratory. After he was purged by Lord Horus, when the laboratory was burnt down, Anubis-sama retrieved and stored it.”

“Moses!?”

Horus responded furiously to those words.

Naturally, her hatred for Moses had not gone away at all.

As for Quon, the power in her hands she grew stronger, as if the influence of Horus’ infusion had not yet completely faded.

“Burn that stuff right now…!”

Horus spoke, but Galatine shook his head in reply.

“Please wait. Horus… If you plant this sacred fruit, you can resurrect the spirits of this land.”

“…”

Horus, who was enraged, opened his eyes wide at Galatin’s words and shut his mouth.

“It will take a really long time to completely resurrect… But this is the only way to resurrect this land that has lost all intelligence and has lost the protection of spirit veins.”

At Gallatin’s words, Quon and Cleon recalled what they had talked about before at the place where the coolant was stored.

“Gentile priest. Do you think you know why Moses had the fruit of life?”

Horus questioned Quon as if he was still not convinced.

“I don’t know for sure… According to tradition, those who ate the Fruit of Life will have strong vitality and healing power enough to revive them even if they die. So humans were forbidden to eat it. It is also used as an ingredient in the elixir of immortality. It’s also used…”

“If you really had that kind of power, you would have eaten it before you were purged… What else?”

At Cleon’s question, Quon seemed to be pondering for a while, then as if he remembered something, he exclaimed, “Ah,” And then spoke.

“…If there is another possibility… In this world, there is something called the ‘fruit of wisdom’ that is symmetrical to the ‘fruit of life’. It can be put in… Ha, but this one has a much more obscure source than the previous one. No one believed in it, not even Miko’s clan. I’d never heard of a fruit of wisdom.”

At Quon’s answer, Horus was silent for a moment.

And then, after a while, he answered.

“There is such a thing as the fruit of wisdom.”

“…Yes?”

“The fruit of wisdom is an old way of talking about any ‘matter’ that is created within the human soul. It is said to bring infinite magic power to the user, and it is said that using that magic power, any wish can be fulfilled.”

Hearing Horus’ words, Cleon caught something passing through his head.

“… ‘The Crystal of Perfection’.”

“Yes. I know that. Even in my kingdom, there was an attempt to find the Crystal of Perfection and resurrect the spirit vein… In the end, neither finding nor making it failed.”

At Horus’ answer, Cleon and Quon looked at the fruit in front of them.

“In order to sprout from the fruit, Anubis stored a large amount of magical energy. However, even if the fruit is planted in the ground, it will not sprout.”

Saying so, Galatine picked up her fruit and handed it to Quon.

“Please, Master Quon. Please use your power as a planetary priestess to germinate this fruit.”

“…”

Quon listened to Galatin’s request, looked at her fruit for a moment, and shut her mouth.

“…There is a rule in Miko’s family that sacred trees should not be multiplied. No matter how long the fruit of life takes to grow, if the number of mothers increases, the number of fruits will also increase. Then, in the world, Because it can cause huge chaos.”

Saying so, Quon looked at Horus and Galatine.

“But…But, if you really need my strength for the people who really need it, and if you need the sacred tree… I will draw the power of the tree to help people, according to Miko’s mission.”

Eventually, when she opened her eyes, her expression was full of determination.

It was because she had been told for a long time that breaking the rules of her clan and the law as a shrine maiden was something that required great determination for her, and that it was not simply a decision made by humans, but a law given to balance the world.

However, as Kuon heard from Cleon.

She decided to be honest with her own desires her.

She couldn’t think of anything wrong with her desire to save someone.

“…Thank you, Master Quon.”

“Ah…But, in order for plants to germinate, a ritual…Is necessary. A ritual to awaken the power of the stars within the fruit…”

To Galatine, who bowed her head, Quon waved her hand shyly and replied.

“Are you conscious?”

“Yes. Also, I myself have a large amount of magical energy… So…”

And, while blushing, she looks at Cleon.

“Ah.”

And, as if Galatin knew something, he exclaimed like that.

“I see… I see… I understand.”

And stutter. She answered with her face reddened and clearing her throat.

Quon gave her head of Horus to Galatyn, nodding her head gracefully, and from her her in return received the fruit of her life.

“…Wait, I can’t-“

Horus also tries to say something, perhaps sensing what Quon is up to, but Galatine blocks her mouth from her.

“It looks like it will take some time. I’ll pass it on to the two people who went outside first.”

Saying that, while maintaining his human form of her, he stepped on her footstool and headed for the stairs.

And when there are only two people left in her room her… Quon slowly bends her knees, carefully digs up some dirt and buries the Fruit of Life beneath it.

After that, she faced Cleon and began to remove her clothes from her from her body to her.

“So… I want you to listen without misunderstanding. Cleon. A shrine maiden’s power is maximized when she is in a state of ‘trance’… One of the ways is called ‘ecstasy’… A trance state entered through sexual pleasure. Hey.”

“Ah, yes…”

When Cleon answered so coolly, Quon continued talking with her face still blushing.

“So… You can do it vigorously… Yes. The more pleasure you feel, the faster you can enter that state.”

“…Really?”

When Cleon asks carefully, Quon’s body ‘slowly…’ All of the clergyman’s clothes were taken off with the sound of ‘.’

“Actually… It’s been a while… I want to feel Cleon stronger…”

Just like that, Quon, who had become honest with her own desires her, stretched out her arms her and—

Carefully, Cleon and I hugged each other.

The ‘ritual’ began with a gentle kiss.