Chapter 39 – Master

000

Lyla watched from the hallway as Quon and Cleon held hands and passed through the portal.

She stretches and turns with a yawn.

Then, there is a black-haired servant standing there with a hazy expression, killing his presence.

Rubera was standing.

“Good morning. Rubera. How are you?”

Looking at her like that, Lila asks her condition.

Ruba leaned against the wall with a slightly staggered step and opened her mouth.

“I can’t say it’s good to say empty words. My whole body is floating in the air and it looks like I’m not wearing anything.”

To clear up any misunderstanding, she was properly dressed.

It was also the usual maid outfit that covered everything from the neck down.

“It’s proof that the medicinal effect is working properly. Yesterday was one night. I made them spend the night in the medicated bath I made.”

“I was worried that my body would swell up, but…”

001

Various herbs and medicinal herbs. And a bathtub infused with some paralyzing poison.

It was such a medicinal bath that Layla guided Ruba, who had been guided by Perdia to this place.

Looking at the bathtub with a little green light, even Lubera frowned slightly at first.

What kind of human experiment will I be subjected to from now on?

The same thoughts run through my head.

“Don’t get me wrong. This is a medicinal bath that temporarily blows away the body’s senses.”

“How can I listen to that explanation and not misunderstand…”

Rubera bets on Layla’s words.

Lila scratches her head and continues the story.

“The pattern of expulsion is a kind of imprint. What you see is on the back of your hand, but it’s actually connected to your heart.”

Saying that, Lila runs her fingers from the back of Ruba’s hand to her left heart along her arm.

“If you want to investigate, you have to examine the whole body, not the back of your hand. If extraction is necessary, you might have to make an incision.”

“…”

At those words, Ruba’s impression was slightly wrinkled.

“If you don’t actually extract it, there won’t be any scars left…But the pain is unavoidable.”

Laila sighed and shook her head, as if she had seen her sick before.

“So I’m going to use this medicated bath to numb my entire body for a day. It’s a kind of general anesthesia. Of course, I’m still conscious because I have to answer questions.”

“…I see. I understand.”

Only then did Ruba begin to take off her clothes as if she understood.

“Hmm…”

And Laila looking at it.

For a moment, Lubera looks at Lila, then sighs and undresses again.

“Ah. I’m sorry. It’s the first time I’ve seen the body of a well-trained female magic swordsman, so I didn’t know.”

Even though he says something like ‘Common sense has become strange because of Cleon~ Ahaha’, he doesn’t think about going out.

Before long, Rubera took off everything except for her underwear.

Her body was full of shallow wounds here and there, and even her long scars were visible here and there.

Although it was the result of her hard work, which she trained over and over again to become stronger.

As a woman, she was not something I wanted to show others.

But even considering those scars, her body was beautifully finished.

Clearly split abs. Breasts that clearly show their presence despite the restrained fat.

The muscles of her arms and legs were thoroughly trained only for the necessary parts for light movement.

The sleek lines from her head to her toes were like those of a statue of a goddess of war sculpted by a master craftsman.

“Should I take off my underwear too?”

“Ah- what do you want to do? There’s no problem wearing it, but I can’t use that underwear anymore.”

Ruba stares at her underwear for a moment, then she hesitates to dip her body in her bath.

When her warm sensations start from the tips of her toes and wrap around her shoulders.

Involuntarily, she said, ‘Ha…` A sigh escaped her mouth.

Sometimes a slight tingling sensation passes through her body and the scent of the medicine tickles her nose.

Nonetheless, the bath water at an appropriate temperature that covered her entire body seemed to wash away the fatigue accumulated during the war.

“24 hours as it is. Just stay calm.”

“24 hours… That’s quite a long time.”

After Lila says she can’t help it, she organizes her clothes and puts them next to her.

“She’s not going to be able to wear clothes on her own… I’ll tell Sasha. Oh, Sasha is a member of our mansion and she’s a girl with orange hair.”

Another woman’s name.

Ruba looked at Lila for a moment and asked.

“Is she also Cleon’s?”

“It’s like possession… No, what. It’s possession. Yes.”

“Is Cleon a lolicon…?”

Lila freezes for a moment at those words.

She notices that her gaze is on her own breasts or height.

And she speaks with a vein floating on her forehead.

“No. Just think of it as having a wide range of defense.”

“…Is that so. Certainly looking at Quon-san…”

Before long, Rubera dropping her head.

I fall asleep right in the bathtub.

Lila put her hand in front of her own chest for a moment.

He left the room with a depressed expression.

002

Recalling yesterday’s events, Lubera follows Lila to her lab.

In her laboratory, which had already been renovated in a matter of days and turned into a red room.

A large pot that looks like something out of a fairy tale.

The eyeballs in the flasks that look away from time to time.

And scraps of paper and books of thesis spread all over the place.

Ruba looked at this pigpen-like room for a moment and frowned.

It was a shock that seemed to blow her mind.

Her habits and instincts as an attendant, which she had forgotten for a moment, awakened.

“May I clear the room before we begin?”

“What? What kind of cleaning are you doing with that body? It’ll make you more dizzy?”

Layla says it’s okay with her Lubera and makes a way for her roughly with her feet and lets her sit in her proper chair.

Ruba has no choice but to do as Lila tells her to and sit in her chair.

There was still no feeling in her entire body, and she felt a little dazed.

“Tell me if you feel any pain. It means that the effect of the medicine has decreased.”

“…Yes. But that’s okay. I’m willing to pay any price.”

Then, Lila started examining Rubera’s body.

`The pattern is connected to the nerves that spread throughout the body and eventually goes to the heart. The important thing is how much magic aptitude Ruba has.”

If her magic aptitude is higher than Lyla assumed, then

The connection between the imprint and the nerve is more precise than necessary, making it impossible to separate it with a general surgery.

As he said yesterday, a major operation that may require cutting her body and removing the magic nerve itself.

If he fails, he becomes paralyzed, and even if he succeeds, he cannot use magic for the rest of his life.

Even as Lila, who knew her circumstances of Rubera, she could not present it that way.

And Layla realizes that her own worries have been overshadowed by her.

“…What is this?”

Lubera’s body, which Layla confirmed, was a mess.

Originally, her magic aptitude must have been excellent in its own way.

Due to the nature of the dark horse clan, it was impossible to have no magic aptitude at all.

However, the nerves connected to her body’s magical organs were all in a mess, as if only ashes were left after burning everything.

Forcibly disconnected. Twisted and was worn out

Normally, there is no way that this type of magic nerve is created.

Because someone maliciously remodeled the body or made me take medicine…

It felt as if all potential in her body had been cut off with pruning.

There, hot. Recalls Lila.

`When a magic swordsman awakens, he first grows his body. You will be equipped with the appropriate ability to oppose the enemy.`

Knowledge absorbed from Kleon while mixing with him.

‘Marquis Hughes knew that. That’s why, just in case, Ruba doesn’t wake up… Or even if they wake up, they won’t be able to rebel against them.’

“…Why do you do that?”

“Uh, uh, no. Hey, Lubera. Did you prepare food separately when you were at the Marquis’ Mansion?”

At her words, Ruba tilted her head as if it were strange.

“Of course. I was an attendant, so I can’t be sick with my master.”

“That’s just…”

Is it medicine, or do you do this while you sleep?

Layla squeezed his hand and harbored indignation at the atrocities of his marquis, who had treated such a talented person with the qualities of a great wizard.

“…How about the pattern?”

Did he think that Lila’s expression was unusual?

Ruba cautiously inquired about her condition.

Lila frowns.

They said that surgery would be a big deal if the magic aptitude was too severe.

Even if it’s the complete opposite, it’s the same story.

If you put your hand on the nerve that has been broken like this.

Rubera’s body will be completely shattered before she can even take off the pattern.

Lila quickly organizes the accident.

It is impossible to fix her with her own technology or the facilities of her place.

In addition to removing her symbols, it was also necessary to reconnect the magic nerves in her body.

However, the only ones who can do that are the sly and serpentine wizards at the level of the elders of the academy.

She could never do anything more than lend her hand to them, and she might endanger Ruba herself.

Then, something about Sasha flashed through Laila’s mind.

“…Hey Rubera. You said you could pay any price? That. In any sense?”

“… It’s a literal story.”

Ruba looks at Lila as if she is asking a strange question.

Then Lila quietly lays her own hand on her Rubera’s her hand.

“In that price, intermingling with a man you don’t love… Is included?”

“… What…”

This time, it was an expression of incomprehensibility, but Laila looked at Ruba while catching her breath a little.

“Your body is generally incurable. It’s not impossible, but it’s too dangerous.”

“…”

“But if you borrow Cleon’s power, the story is different.”

The magic swordsman’s imprint of dominance controls the body of the target freely.

The domain reaches even the places where the person who is dominated cannot be aware of it.

The one that sealed Sasha’s hunter’s mark.

That, too, was impossible for Sasha herself.

“Use the power of the Imprint of Dominion to reconstruct your body from within. And then overlay the Imprint of Dominion over the Glyph of Exile.”

The pattern of expulsion and the imprint of dominance were similar in that they forced the will of the opponent.

However, the compulsory power of the symbol of banishment is lower than that of the mark of control.

If you overwrite the lower order [Mark of Expulsion] With the higher order [Stamp of Dominion], The effect can be erased.

“…Is that the best way?”

Lubera quietly asked Laila.

Layla has already been simulated in her head several times, so it is the result.

He nodded her head slowly.

“I’m sorry. I think it’s the safest and best way for my current skills and conditions.”

Layla, with high pride, bowed her head to Lubera.

It was because he thought that even if he used all his knowledge as a mage, he would not be able to save her with his own power alone.

It was an act that came from the heart.

Then Ruba made an expression as if she was a little worried, then opened her mouth.

“If necessary, I can mix with Cleon. But… I have a barrier that protects my virginity.”

“A barrier to protect virginity? Wait a minute.”

At Rubera’s words, Layla once again sweeps her body with magic.

“I-I really am. It spreads all over my body so naturally, I didn’t know… Was this done by Marquis Hughes?”

“No. It’s my deceased mother.”

“…That’s why the lineage of the magic formula is old… If there is this, mixing with Cleon is… Ah.”

Layla looks at Ruba as if something came to mind here.

“…If you want, you can remodel this barrier a bit. Although it’s impossible for me to completely destroy it.”

“Is it a modification?”

Layla nodded and cast a barrier spell in the air.

There, in magical language, information about what the barrier protects and under what conditions is recorded.

“Yes. This barrier is two years at the longest, but… That’s because it’s activated for ‘all living beings regardless’.”

Ruba recalls the faces of men and women of all ages who tried to violate her in her mind.

Boom everyone! Even the things that flew away with the sound of

“But if even one person makes an exception, the duration can be dramatically increased.”

“Are you talking about making that one Cleon?”

Lila nodded again and continued the story.

“That’s right. Actually, I can’t do such a big transformation. It’s a very powerful and heartfelt spell.”

“…”

Mother’s last magic that protected her until now.

Make an exception there.

By doing so, he freed himself from the bondage of forced exile.

I can be a little more together with my mother’s magic and her heart.

Rubera quietly looked at the formula floating in the air, then turned her head to Lila.

“Please, Mr. Layla.”

“…Okay. Just leave it to me.”

Seeing Ruba’s determined gaze, Laila rolled up her arms and took out the cane leaning next to her.

The only preparation left was her body.

003

After leaving the temple, the two wandered around the city for a while before returning to the mansion.

I ran into Iona Chevalier, who was sitting on a bench in the square with desserts in both hands.

Of course, the two changed their appearances with changing magic.

“…Cleon, Miss Quon?”

Iona grasped the identities of the two at once with her excellent eyesight.

Of course, this also contributed to the fact that she was a person from an ‘intelligence agency’ who liked to observe and remember people.

If you’ve already been caught, there’s no need to deny it.

Cleon and Quon sit by her side and talk.

“Are you dating?”

“Oh, no~”

Quon blushes and denies her.

Iona gave a small smile as she saw that, and then she spoke to Cleon.

“Sometimes you need a break. Today I’m taking a break from my heavy work.”

“…What about Eustes?”

Cleon brings up work without notice.

Iona puffed up her cheeks for a moment, but ‘this person was originally like this.’ She made a face and she continued talking.

“I think I went back to the mansion safely. If I ask my father, he said, ‘It’s been fun, so leave this to me…'”

“What that person says is funny isn’t usually the right thing to do.”

Iona nodded and agreed with Cleon’s words.

Quon listened to the story of the two and just tilted her head.

At that time.

“Everyone! God is always watching over us! A human world full of chaos and danger!”

A voice echoed through the square.

When three people look at it at the same time.

There, a man wearing a white robe raised his voice and preached to passers-by.

“That’s…”

“Are you from our church? There was someone preaching in this city too.”

When Quon said that, Iona tilted her head.

“Doesn’t the Church of God’s Protection often come out and talk to people like that?”

“I knew that too, but I’ve never seen one in this city.”

When Quon answers Iona’s question, her gaze shifts to Cleon.

“…Ruti hated the church, so I forbade him from preaching in the city. Adventurers don’t believe in God very well anyway.”

“Is that so!? Mo, I didn’t know…”

Could it be that you were being hated?

Quon with the same expression.

“What Luti hates is the church itself.

“But of course there would be complaints.”

At Iona’s words, Cleon shook his head.

“Not really. It’s only the clergy and religious people who feel dissatisfied with that.”

Saying that, Cleon’s gaze scanned the surroundings.

Most of the adventurers just passed by, ignoring the sermon with a frown on their faces.

“Because this city has a really high population ratio of adventurers. Adventurers are just noisy about the church’s sermons.”

Above all, it was difficult to win the popularity of Luti, who carried out a policy that valued the lives of adventurers along with his good looks.

“Probably, the policy changed when the guild master changed to Marquis Hughes.”

Iona nods to Cleon’s guess.

“-Therefore. We must repent and face the new world! Where is the answer! Look around you! This chaos!”

A clergyman of the church who continues to talk despite a stinging glare.

Quon felt something out of place in his typical denominational sermons.

“Ancient humans were not like this. They created powerful civilizations and built societies that looked very beautiful in the eyes of the gods.”

At those words, Cleon and Iona reacted.

Although they are two people who are darker in the doctrines of the Church than Quon, there is something wrong with their words.

“Return! Only in the past is there teaching! There is salvation!”

“Cleon. That priest…”

“…Yes, that’s for sure. He’s a regressor.”

Cleon answers Iona’s words and nods her head.

Of course, the church is not without its reliance on an ancient relic called the ‘sacred sword’.

However, their doctrine is the construction of an orderly society centered on the trinity of ‘Hero’, ‘Saint’, and ‘Holy Sword’.

It was different from what this man was talking about.

“Why is the priest of the church a regressor… Or vice versa?”

Iona tilts her head, assuming the man’s identity her.

“…We’ll need to investigate either way. Let’s investigate that man as it is.”

Iona nodded at Cleon’s words.

Cleon took the scroll of the portal from his bag and handed it to Quon.

“Quon is returning to the mansion first with this scroll.”

Then Quon looked down at the scroll for a moment, then shook his head.

“No. If this has anything to do with the Church, I’ll help too. I know more about the Church than you two.”

Cleon is taken aback by that statement.

But Iona seemed to ponder for a moment, then nodded her head.

“Quon is right. If the other person is really a regressor, it would be good for her to come along in case of any unexpected incident.”

“Iona. But Quon…”

Quon grabbed Cleon’s hand as he was about to say, “Today is just to relieve my mood.”

“Cleon. Did you forget? I was once called a candidate for a saint. I can’t just send you to a dangerous place. Let me help you too.”

A strong eye with determination.

Cleon looked into those eyes for a moment and held Quon’s hand a little tighter.

“…Thanks Quon. But be careful.”

“Yes. Of course.”

Was the sermon over in the meantime?

The priest, who was not welcomed by anyone, looked around for a while and tried to leave.

Then, three people approaching him.

Looking at Quon, Cleon, and Iona, their faces brightened.

“Ohh. Those are the people who listened to the sermon over there. What are you doing?”

Seeing his welcoming attitude of her, Iona cleared her throat and opened her mouth.

“The priest’s sermon I just listened to left a deep impression on me. ‘Return’… Can you really be saved that way?”

The priest then nods his head loudly and speaks.

“Of course. This doctrine is still relatively small within the church, but little by little it is being recognized by everyone. There must be a key to the salvation of mankind in the ancient civilization.”

A little fanatic look.

Both Quon and Cleon look a bit tired, but Iona continues the story without revealing her agitation.

“Could you tell me in detail? I’m also very interested in ancient artifacts…”

“Ohhh! Is that so! Then let’s go together! I’m sure our colleagues will be delighted!”

The man opens his arms excitedly and guides the three of them.

The direction of movement is opposite to where the church’s temple is located.

Iona and Cleon face each other, nod quietly and follow behind.

Quon twisted his hands back to hide his tense hands, clasping them tightly.

I was chasing these two people.