Chapter 290 – Trading

000

“Is this a bitch?”

That was the first comment Edin gave out on the harvest that Mimir had retrieved.

A poor girl with beautiful platinum-colored hair.

His skin her was pure white, and there seemed to be no small scars.

Her slender forearms were the thickness of Edin’s thumb her, a dwarf who was bulging with muscles all over her body her.

Besides, she must have been quite high in status, and the things she was wearing were all gorgeous.

It was a pretty classy jean dress that was worn on her body her, but from the fight she had with her own subordinates, you could see some wear and tear here and there.

She considered it a ‘useless’ object by Edin’s standards, not made with a defensive side in mind.

The girl was lying inside the barrier that Mimir had prepared to prevent her from escaping.

In case she did n’t know, she even had the shackles that suppressed her magic power.

If she got up and made a fuss, she could send electricity through her whole body just by stomping her feet her.

The preparations were perfect, and the ice hammer, which was an interesting weapon, was also taken away.

“Her men reported that there were ‘three’ of them.”

“Among them, only she survived. It is unclear whether the rest of her was scattered as she fell, or if she vanished into powder.”

When Mimir answered that, Edin said ‘Hmm’ and let out her saliva.

She did n’t completely trust the words of her sage her, but what she fired at them was the ‘Thunder God’s Spear’, one of the most powerful weapons in her own fortress her.

Just launching one of them uses 70% of the power of this mobile aerial fortress ‘Valhalla’.

“I was surprised when you suddenly came into the fire control room and shot it. Didn’t you hate it because it was a barbaric weapon?”

“It’s different depending on the time and situation. It’s the most reliable way to subdue.”

Edin sighed at Mimir’s answer, let out her breath, and nodded her head.

Mimir, who had always told Edin that weapons of mass destruction were not needed in war, took her own control of her and fired.

Of course, it was Edin’s mistake that he almost missed it by using only the ‘relatively’ weak weapon, the old-fashioned cannon, against an opponent who might become his strength in the future.

“How could this girl and her companions control my men’s goats?”

“At least it doesn’t seem like she did it. The one who can answer is gone, but the threat is gone too, so wouldn’t it be okay?”

Hearing the sage’s sly words, Edin didn’t think to nod easily.

His own automata his, the goat he created using his own technology, could not have been so easily manipulated by others.

If the impossible happened, it was the technician’s job to find the cause and fix it.

Edin, Lord of Thunder, was both a conqueror and an invader, but he was also a blacksmith, or engineer.

The blueprints for all the fortresses he created, the weapons he created, and the soldiers he created were all in Edin’s head his.

If necessary, he did not spare the use of other civilizations’ technologies, so he was confident that he was able to create a mighty steel dwarven kingdom.

He is one of the crystallizations of his own technology, such as how he mastered the automata.

It was also his bad point that he could not help it because his interest was welling up.

“When she wakes up, ask her about it. Even if she didn’t do it herself, if a guy she acted with did it, she might know why.”

“I will. I don’t think I can expect much from the answer…”

As Mimir added, Edin pointed her finger at her.

“Make it blow somehow with your proud tongue and muzzle. Otherwise, my lightning will have to talk to the girl next time.”

“…All right.”

Knowing that Edin’s words of her were not mere bravado, Mimir calmly replied with her slightly lowered voice.

After Edin left her room, leaving Mimir behind.

Amelia quietly opened her eyes.

She was pretending to faint while listening to all the stories so far.

As Mimir looked at Amelia, she was contemplating how to open her mouth her.

But it was Amelia who opened her mouth first.

“What are you doing, Your Highness Cassius?”

“Did you know?”

To Amelia’s words, Mimir readily acknowledged her surprise her.

The fact that the face beneath that mask was a blonde-haired hot-blooded young man similar to Amelia, and that she was Amelia’s half-brother her, Cassius Calde Aris.

But Amelia couldn’t get her way around how she should treat Cassius.

According to the story earlier, it was Cassius who fired that lightning at them.

Even as Amelia, she was not without trust in him.

Even if she had a bit of an erratic side, she couldn’t deny the fact that he was a good person.

Even if he didn’t know who he was, would he have used such a weapon without hesitation?

“I think this or that needs an explanation.”

“I’d appreciate it if you would.”

After hearing Amelia’s answer, Cassius sat down on the empty ground and faced Amelia.

Amelia had never seen the iron mask on her face her and the glowing inscription above her eyes her, the only thing that could be seen inside her.

“First of all. I should start by talking about how I came here. I fell to this land a year ago in the time of this place.”

“…A year ago…!? For me, at least a few hours ago…”

At Amelia’s words, Cassius nodded and continued his explanation.

“The rift in another dimension is originally a place where the flow of time is strange. Even if you pass through that door at the same time, no one knows at what point you will appear in this place.”

Cassius said that and raised his hand.

He wore a glove on that hand, but when he took it off, the hand inside it should be unscathed, like other young royalty.

However, what was there was a hand that was stained black and was leaking bad energy.

“Could it be that it was eroded by another dimension’s magic…!?”

“That’s right. No, I should say ‘gave it’ to be precise.”

Covering the not-so-good-looking thing with his glove again, Cassius spoke.

“I came to my senses, Cleon and Amelia… And, Amelia, another child who ran after you fell into the seasonal realm ‘at the same time’. It’s thanks to my knowledge of how to walk through the gaps that I learned from Sophia-sensei But that’s also perfect I didn’t do it, so only I fell about a year earlier, and each of them fell to a different place… But this is, in return for using such magic, I was quickly stained by another dimension’s magic.”

As expected, I don’t have as much talent as Miss Sophia.

He adds.

From his words her, Amelia recalled that the Thunder Lord had waged a war over the past year absorbing other realms.

“…Your Highness Cassius, helped the Thunder Lord invade another realm.”

“That’s right. Thanks to being eroded by the gap in the second dimension, my foresight has gotten a bit stronger. I’ve been able to predict the future to some extent. I used that.”

“…”

Seeing Cassius answer casually, Amelia was silent.

Absorbing other realms is to absorb other people’s souls, mana, and life force that exist within them.

According to Peruluca’s story, everyone else in the area had to be eliminated.

What Edin and Cassius, who became his adviser and commanded the war, did.

Even if it was not in their own world, but in the gap of the other dimension, there was no change to the ‘massacre’.

Seeing Amelia’s expression darken, Cassius tried to say something, but stopped it.

He was trying to tell a different story.

“What is needed to create the power to go out of this place is, of course, powerful magical power. The magical power accumulated by the weapon ‘Mjolnir’ possessed by the Thunder Lord by absorbing the five realms is, of course, great. But that alone is not enough. Speaking of comparable levels, would it be the magic crystals possessed by the Frost Queen?”

To Amelia, who has no answer, Cassius continues her explanation of her.

“You must have heard that the Frost Queen needs the Thunder Lord’s hammer. That’s the surest way. So, if you take the hammer and return to the Frost Queen’s side, you will surely be able to return to the original world. .”

“What do you want to do?”

At Amelia’s words, Cassius pauses for a moment and then smiles hard.

“Yes, of course, I’m sending you and Cleon back safely to the original world. Besides, the other realms are dangerous places to leave as they are. It’s understandable why the Exiled Church confined them to this place. Just in case they were If something happens that devours the entire territory and crosses over to our world, it will be an unstoppable disaster.”

“In order to prevent that, you mean that you stopped the threat from entering our world by absorbing it under the power of the Thunder Lord in advance in this world?”

Cassius nodded his head.

“Sophia-sensei said. What I, who has the power to see the future, must do is not simply defend the kingdom. “

“In that balance, what always goes down is-“

To Amelia’s question, Cassius answers.

“Of course, the kingdom’s people. The continent’s peace. The world’s well-being.”

Amelia shut her mouth in response.

As Saint Princess Amelia, she has fought many demons.

If anything threatens the peace, it is excluded.

What Amelia did and what Cassius did were different in scale, but the essence was the same.

The difference is that, unlike the demons that are threatening the royal capital even at this point, they were acting with the expectation that they might become a threat to them in the future.

Both in legend and in mythology.

The predictions of the prophets, or the actions of those who know the future, have not always been understood by others.

Amelia couldn’t understand what kind of future Cassius was seeing and acting like that.

And, even when he tried to understand that his actions were right, she could n’t easily understand them.

When Amelia takes over her silence her in her own judgment of his actions her, which is not easily put down.

Cassius spoke to Amelia.

“Of course, I don’t think everything about what I did is right. However, I intend to do everything in my power to return you to the original world to the extent that I can. And, the karma for that. It has to be built.”

“… His Highness His-“

At Amelia’s words, Cassius stood up.

“Seeing the opportunity, I’ll release your restraints. Perhaps, Cleon will come here soon. Then I’ll join him and help him capture Mjolnir. Save some strength.”

Amelia could not imagine what kind of expression he was wearing under his mask.

Also, what is he carrying?

I have a colleague for myself.

Aurelia, Rubera, and Cleon. And even Gray and Peruluca.

Cassius was obviously envy and respected by many in the palace as the next king.

For him too, would he have had companions like himself?

And, the opportunity to share hard times and joys with them?

The more he thought about it, the more his head hurt.

Making judgments about what was right was, after all, something he had to do himself.

001

“In other words. You planted a piece of your soul in Peruluca before you died. You got out of your realm before it disappeared.”

“[Yes. This guy is a slave who was raised from the beginning to prepare for such an event.]”

Peruluca- No, Crowley, who controlled her body her, continued the story by going through his book his, the Book of the Law.

Somewhere, Ruben seemed to be seeing the possessed Sasha.

“…He’s an inexcusable villain.”

Freya looked at Crowley with disgust, but Cleon calmed her down first.

“[The righteous eldest daughter of Yggdrasil doesn’t seem to like me. Don’t worry, that’s the same for me. Your mother has such power, but she doesn’t care about expanding her territory to protect only you. It was .Thanks to that, when we were invaded by Edin, we stood by the sidelines just like other realms.]”

“You guys…!”

When Freyja took out her bow and tried to shoot Crowley at once, Sif lunged at Freyja and grabbed her arm her.

“Gee, calm down! That body is a girl, and that wizard is like a parasite!”

[Isn’t that a discriminatory remark about bugs?]

“You be quiet!”

“Don’t provoke others unnecessarily. What is your purpose?”

“[That’s what it means to survive. If possible, to return to the original world you were living in. For that reason, I made a deal to give away my magic tower.]”

“…Deal?”

Crowley raised his hand at Cleon’s question.

In the distance, in the sky, I could see a huge aerial fortress moving slowly.

“[Under the thunder lord, a strange kid recently came in. It was a guy wearing an iron mask, but he said he had the power of foresight. In order to overthrow the thunder lord and return to my original world, I need to give up my current realm. Talked- I let you do that.]”

“The ruler of the realm gave up his realm his…? Such an idiot… The others who were following you are just fine!”

“[They are all my slaves. I use them however I want. My life, magic power, even my soul. If I can get out of here in exchange for that, then I will gladly do so.]”

Crowley’s morals of his, even compared to others, were severely twisted.

Indeed, it seemed as if he was saying that all beings other than himself were his tools.

“Cleon. There is no need to talk to this guy any more.”

“I understand you’re upset, but I’m willing to hear all the information you need.”

At Cleon’s words her, Freya sighed… And stood up from her seat while clenching her fists.

“…Where are you going?”

“If you think he’s photosynthesizing with the same light as this guy, his head gets dizzy… He’ll patrol the area for a while and come back.”

When Freya said that and tried to get away from his group her, Sif stood up too.

“…Because you don’t know what will happen. I’ll go with you.”

Cleon nodded, and Sif walked away, asking Utgart for directions.

“[Do you think it was a coincidence that the survivors gathered from each area? A magician guided by the stars.]”

“It’s Cleon. ——Are you saying it’s not a coincidence?”

Crowley raised the corner of his mouth as he watched the departing people. When Crowley said that, Cleon asked a question.

“[Of course. All realms were ‘agreed’ and absorbed by Edin. Everything, that kid’s work. Nearly aeons of time were spent in this, and the rulers of the destroyed realm all wanted to end their boring time. But that’s It’s not going according to one’s own will.Even if the territory was demolished, oneself would only be thrown back into the rift of another dimension.In a situation where it would be impossible to commit suicide because of the clinging magic power, it would be eroded and mutated.]”

Hearing Crowley’s words, Cleon couldn’t help but be silent.

He recalled what he had heard from Lutios before that immortals were beings who lived with the curse of immortality.

“[In the meantime, this guy appeared. The kid said he was planning to open a dimensional portal by absorbing our territory into Edin’s weapon – Mjolnir. With that, he would bring an end to this boring banishment. The worm, too, , The black goblin too. It must have received the same offer.]”

“But they didn’t parasitize the soul, like you.”

“[That’s because it’s only the method I use. But those guys are also the core beings in each area, or they must have brought something like that. Whether it’s their own will or not.]”

According to Crowley, Edin’s men planned all of this.

However, when I heard the story, I didn’t think that the existence was working for Edin at all, considering that it was Edin’s subordinate his.

Did Edin know that he talked to the rulers of other realms about their plans his and made them give up their realms themselves?

“…No way.”

What passed through Cleon’s head was the young man who had told him he could see the future.

It was Cassius Chaldearis.

The time zone doesn’t match, but considering that this place is a gap in another dimension.

It is a place where things that are not common sense become possible.

“[Besides, that guy also talked about you. You’re a human who can use the mark of control. That’s probably the power of your demonic sword. To be precise, that’s not the mark of control-]”

“Then you, too, will go inside and cooperate in finding Mjolnir.”

What Crowley was talking about excitedly, Cleon interrupted.

Crowley stopped his mouth at that, frowned at him, then let out a sigh and nodded at him.

“[Yes. It will. But this body is adjusted to contain my soul to the last.

“So, what is possible?”

Crowley replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

“[It’s a magic that brings out the ‘sin’ inherent in humans. Haven’t you heard of it? Humans have seven sins.]”

“I think Quon said something like that…”

Cleon doesn’t know what to say, but Crowley smiles.

“[Looks like you need a lecture.]”

“No, it’s fine. Just, as long as you’re strong enough, I don’t care.”

But Crowley didn’t listen to Cleon’s answer and took out his wand and pointed it at himself.

“[Rust.]”

Then, an intense pink light burst from her wand, covering Peruluca’s body with her.

Seeing the dazzling sight in her eyes her, Cleon raised her hand to protect his eyes her.

After a while, in the place where the light faded, I saw Peruluca standing there with the lifeless eyes in his eyes her.

“…If you use magic so suddenly… Wait, is it okay?”

“Whoa… Nu, who are you… Gray and the princess…”

As her Cleon her calls out to her, Peruluca recoils in surprise at the sight of her Cleon her.

“Crowley… No, are you Peruluca? I, Cleon-“

“Ugh…!?♡”

As Cleon held out her hand to her to calm her down, she let out her short scream and backed away from her.

For some reason, her face was red and her breathing was rough.

The inside of her stomach she became hot, as if her body her was on fire.

“Crowley, what have you done…?”

“[It’s the magic of ‘lust’, one of human sins. In other words, it’s magic that can be used to seduce enemies.] Hey, Mr. Crowley!? Where are you!? Try to seduce him with your body] “

Seeing the two words alternately coming out of one person’s mouth, Cleon felt like he couldn’t say anything.

The story that was brought out was not something that could be ignored.

“Wait, what are you doing?”

The next moment, when Cleon met Peruluca’s eyes, magic flowed into his head her.

It was a sweet and enchanting magic that I had briefly felt at the Promise club before.

However, at that time, there was a slight lag between gathering mana and defending what I was able to block because I was prepared to some extent.

Magical power was allowed to penetrate.

“S-I’m sorry…! Did you say Cleon-san…! I-I can’t control my magic…!”

Peruluca also goes closer to apologize to Cleon after confirming that his own magic her has invaded Cleon.

“[Attack! Peruluca!] Yes, Neet!?”

As it is, Crowley takes his body again and pushes Cleon over.

At the same time, Crowley opens a small field of magical power and traps Cleon and Peruluca.

“Crowley… From the beginning, this was the purpose…!”

“[Because it’s an opportunity to see the imprint of dominance in person. Cooperate with me, I’ll cooperate with you…Haha!] Hey, Mr. Crowley…? Uh, how can I… [Eight !Take off!] Mo, I can’t~!”

Even as Crowley and Peruluca started chatting after pushing him over, Cleon felt the heat slowly rise in his body.

With the thought that this was not the time to be like this, Cleon’s consciousness gradually became hazy.