Chapter 525 – The Sage and the Wilderness

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Seeing Sophia escorted by Sasha into the living room of her mansion her, Amelia jumped up from her seat with a startled face as she dropped the book she was looking through on her desk.

“So-so Sophia-sama?!”

And she was to greet her by bowing her head after quickly grooming herself.

Seeing that, Sasha tilts her head, and Sophia puts her hand on her chin and smiles lightly as she talks.

“You don’t have to be so nervous, Amelia. This is your first time meeting in person, isn’t it?”

“Yes… I saw Sophia’s portrait of her when I was little…”

One of the three heroes who were companions of the hero Lesia, and the teacher of Crown Prince Cassius.

As for Sophia, Amelia knew well.

“Ah, that’s it. The one hanging in the royal castle. The painting of the 4 heroes with Talcheck 100 times more beautiful than the real one.”

While talking like that, Sophia casually put her butt down on the seat in front of him.

Sasha looked at her with a bit of wonder as her hair on her, which was long enough to reach her ground and curled down over her chair, came to her senses her.

“Oh, should I serve something!? Tea or coffee, which do you prefer?”

“No, it’s okay. I can drink this.”

As she said that, what she took out from her waist was a liquid in a reagent bottle that was sparkling like the night sky.

The color was black, close to blue, so to be honest, it didn’t look like a normal drink.

“The expression asking what kind of medicine it is, it’s nothing special. It’s a magic potion I made myself. This body is constantly using magic power.”

While saying that, Sophia’s fingertips her, which she raised her hand to, were slightly transparent.

Showing such a form tells us that her body is not physical, but a body made of ‘magical power’.

When she drank the liquid from the opened reagent bottle at once, she could see that the same sparkle as the bottle was visible as it flowed down her throat.

At the same time, when she felt a strong magical aura from her body, Sasha, who was sensitive to that sensation, looked at her with a slightly nervous expression …

Soon, the energy completely calmed down, and Sophia said Puha! And stealing her lips from her as they removed her mouth from her reagent bottle, like old men drinking a glass of her beer.

“Ugh. Not tasty.”

“Did you just say that it wasn’t delicious!?”

Thinking that she was cool no matter how she looked, when Sasha tackled her, Sophia nodded her head and ran her finger through the drop of magic potion left in her reagent bottle.

He placed it on her index finger her and held it out towards Sasha.

“Would you like a drink?”
“Eh. Ah, that… Like that?”

“Yeah. Why are you shy?”

Seeing Sophia’s imposing expression of her, she momentarily wondered if she was weird? She gets to thinking but she responds with a nod of her head.

“Joe, a little bit.”

Ruben’s voice came from inside Sasha, who hesitated a little while saying that.

[Sniff sniff… It smells like magic, but it doesn’t smell that dangerous. Try it, Sasha.]

[Yes, yes…]

At Ruben’s words her, even though she was a little reluctant, she took Sofia’s finger her to her mouth and licked the medicine. Sasha licked it.

Then the next moment.

“~~~~
$@!?”

She clamps her mouth shut and twists her body making a terrifying sound.

“Sa, Sasha, are you okay!?”

“Oh, it’s like firecrackers going off in her mouth her…!”

“Ahahahaha!”

Sophia laughed and looked at Sasha, but Sasha, after twisting her body like that in her living room for a while, finally calmed down and sat down on the ground panting.

“Sophia!”

“Sorry, sorry. It’s not bad for your health, so don’t worry. You should have gotten better instead? Sasha…”

She waved her hand at Amelia, who raised her voice as if it were too much, and Sophia told her not to worry.

Sasha then looked down at Sophia’s words and squeezed her hand her two or three times.

“Oh, oh, it’s true! A lot of mana came out…”

“Haha. Look, is it as I said?”

Sophia shrugs her shoulders as she looks at Sasha and tells her not to worry.

Then, Amelia let out a sigh at her attitude her and sat back in her own seat.

Then, Sophia, who glanced at the book lying in front of Amelia, raised her eyebrows.

“You were reading it, too, my book.”

“Ah… Yes. This encyclopedia, Sophia-sama last updated it.”

As Sophia says so, she glances at the page Amelia has been unfolding, and then glances at her girl her, who has been hiding behind Amelia during all this commotion.

“Is the girl hiding behind it the cause?”

Amelia nods her head at Sophia’s question.

Sasha went behind Amelia and showed Gonzalez in front of Sophia, who had been hiding from strangers.

“My name is Gonzalez. I’m a griffon who was born a while ago.”

“Griffon? Whoa. It’s interesting. If so, did he use the magic to transform into a human? It wasn’t long after he was born.”

Sofia looked at Gonzalez with her curious eyes, and Gonzalez hid behind Sasha again, perhaps frightened by the look.

Still, though it could n’t be said that she completely hid from the slightest glimpse of her wings.

“By the way – as expected. That means…”

“Huh? Ahh. That’s what I mean. This illustrated book I made created a spell from the arrangement of letters and infused it with a little special magic.”

Sophia said, reaching for her encyclopedia and placing her finger on it.

“If you open this book, it must be a situation where you have a rare creature in front of you. If you detect a rare creature that is not in this book, you will receive a signal.

“That kind of magic!?”

Amelia looked surprised at Sophia’s words, but Sophia nodded her head and smiled.

“Yeah. Even if I don’t have to go looking for it myself, I can wait for people who have this book to discover new creatures and then go find them.”

“Then, is it because we opened this illustrated book that we came here today?”

When Sasha tilts her head, Sophia puts her finger to her chin, giving her a slightly troubled look before she responds with a raised corner of her mouth.

“No. As I said before, I came today because I have something to tell Cleon. Well, if you still need the help of my little knowledge, tell me.”

“Bo-nothing!? Sophia-sama is the great sage of this continent…”

At Sophia’s words her, Amelia raises her voice as she waves her hands.

But Sophia smiles, and she shows Amelia the palm of her hand her as if to calm down.

It’s like looking somewhere, far away.

“…Even if I am a great sage, my knowledge is really insignificant.

“…Miss Sophia.”

Amelia didn’t know who the two people she was talking about were or what they were referring to.

However, looking at her expression her like that, I could see that even if she was truly a great sage who was said to be the wisest on the continent, she was sad because she could n’t get the knowledge she really wanted.

“…Okay. My complaints end here. What you want is to figure out the child’s true identity?”

Sofia then takes a deep breath and then changes her expression to look at her Gonzales.

The imprint of knowledge burning in her eyes her seemed to see right through Gonzales.

“Yes. The mother who gave birth to this child was a bit of a special Griffon… She was a Griffon who obtained magical abilities through creature modification. But there is no way that the magical abilities acquired through modification will continue.”

“Yes, that’s right. I know that part well.”

Sophia looks admiringly at her Sasha and nods her head.

“Then, I wondered if there was a special reason on my father’s side. Speaking of monsters with the ability to transform into humans, the number is quite limited, so I think it’s one of them…”

Sophia nods her head at Amelia’s words and stars at La Gonzalez.

And, when Sophia’s eyes met Gonzalez’s, Gonzalez swallowed her saliva while looking at Sofia with a nervous expression-

Soon after, the great sage closed and opened his eyes, smiling knowingly.

“Okay. Why is this child able to transform into a human, and what kind of species is the father?”

“Is that true? Just by looking at it?”

“As expected, the great sage…”

As Amelia and Sasha look at her admiringly, her admiring expression her, Sophia lifts her thumb and smiles, making a V with her index finger and thumb and bringing it to her own chin.

“It’s natural that you guys don’t know. This child certainly inherits the blood of Griffon, but he also has the blood of other demons.”

“That’s what-“

Gonzalez swallows a gulp and looks straight at Sofia because he understands the three of them.

Then Sophia slowly opens her mouth-

001

When Cleon opened his eyes, Cleon thought he would be thrown into a weightless space similar to Galatea’s time.

However, contrary to such concerns, Cleon’s body was properly planted on the ground, and what he could see around him was the wilderness.

All you can see is the burned ground, dried up trees, and the remains of bones made from rotating animal corpses.

Finally, here and there, there were pits that looked like something had exploded.

“…This-“

This place, the innermost part of Caliburn’s image space?

That was exactly what Cleon wanted to say.

I couldn’t even see whether the sun was there or not beyond the thick clouded sky.

In the windy wilderness, Cleon was thrown alone.

However, Cleon closes his eyes for a moment and follows Caliburn’s presence in his. As he did to Galatea.

“…This way.”

Then, Cleon turned his body in pursuit of the presence of Caliburn.

It looked like the same scenery everywhere, but the traces of Caliburn were felt in that direction.

Come to think of it, unlike Galatea’s image space, her voice her came out properly.

This place must be completely different from the space of Galatea.

‘…I’d better be careful.’

The current self is in a state where neither Galatea nor the sword of the shadow exists.

Because I had a bad feeling about something, I could n’t relax when I started walking slowly following Caliburn’s presence of him, and I was wary of where the enemy would pop out.

Then- From a little far away, I heard some commotion.

The shouts of people, and the sound of weapons clashing against each other. The sound of something exploding.

“…What?”

Then, when Cleon narrowed his eyes and lowered his body at the sound that could only be heard on a battlefield, he slowly approached the sound—

Cleon had no choice but to open his eyes wide there.

There, about three boys and girls were fighting a gigantic monster with swords in their hands.

Standing on the ground on all fours, with a machine and a cannon on its back, it was hard to believe that it was a monster born from nature.

It was not difficult to see that it was modified by human hands.

And, what the boys and girls who are confronting such monsters are holding in their hands are brilliantly shining swords.

One in the form of a great sword, one in the form of a short sword, and one in the form of a twin sword.

And it was not difficult for Cleon to know that it was all ‘sacred swords’.

“…Holy sword. Is it?”

Cleon leaned over to avoid being noticed by them and looked at them for a bit, while a girl with a golden ponytail who seemed to be the leader jumped forward holding her twin swords.

“Ha!”

When that courageous blow wounds the huge monster’s face, the monster howls in anger, twists its body, and then thumps, aiming for three with the cannon mounted on its back.

“Dell!”

When the girl with the twin swords who jumped out first shouted that, the other blond boy holding a great sword said ‘Ugh, yes!’ In a nervous manner.

She jumped high and swung her greatsword at the cannon.

“Haha!”

Then, the greatsword cuts through his cannon and causes a huge explosion.

“Ram. Step back.”

And then, when the golden short-haired girl holding the short sword said so, the twin-sword girl jumped backwards and-

Several spears of light shot out from the short sword girl’s sword and pierced the body of the gigantic monster.

“Good work Mew!”

“It’s a compliment, so let’s wrap it up, Ram.”

The girl with the twin swords nodded her head to the girl with the short sword who said that, and rushed at the monster again as it was-

“Answer me, ■■■■──!”

With a noisy voice, the twin swords consumed her mana greatly, and a long blade extended from her sword with an intense light.

“Haaaaagh!”

With a scream, her blow slashed the gigantic monster, and as an explosion occurred, the monster fell to the ground as a corpse on the spot.

After Cleon lowered his body even further, feeling the aftermath of the explosion reaching his location her.

The boys and girls each stuck their holy swords into the ground and stood there-

Soon, after the explosion died down, I could see the three of them sitting on the ground as if exhausted, or putting their hands on their knees and gasping for breath.

“Gee, I finally took it down… This guy is too strong…”

“If the silver class warbeasts are this good, how strong are the frontline gold and platinum…?”

While the boy with the big sword and the girl with the twin swords sighed, the girl with the short sword, who seemed to be the only one who seemed a little unscathed, kept her mouth shut and looked around for a moment.

“…I don’t think there are any enemies around here anymore. Let’s go back to the base and rest.”

“Agree… I want to take a shower.”

“I think I need to do a kendo maintenance.”

‘… Base. The three… Aren’t adventurers, are they soldiers?’

Cleon was quietly listening to the three of them talking and grasping the situation, but he shut his mouth for a moment, realizing that the direction the three people were moving was the direction he felt the presence of Caliburn he was chasing.

‘…Is it correct to think that Caliburn is also at the base…’

If that’s the case, it’s right that he’s heading to that base as well, but the problem is that he doesn’t know where he is now—what form he’s in.

Even if he proceeds like this and goes to the base, if he can see himself, will he be able to enter himself?

Thinking about that, I tried to carefully follow them, but for a moment, I felt something snapping from under my feet.

“This.”

Whether it’s a broken tree branch or a discolored animal bone.

The moment after expressing his resentment for the guy who made the noise under his feet his, Cleon couldn’t help but see something flying right in front of his eyes his.