Chapter 1270 – Extremely Sinister

Cadia explained the unusual thing in a calm tone.

“In order to exterminate the heretics, paladins from the vicinity headed to the scene.”
“It’s a matter of course.”

If that happened, it would be natural for the paladins to go.

“By the way… Among the paladins who were hunting the cultists, there were members who had strange experiences.”
“A bizarre experience?”
“Yes.”

This must be what Cadia found odd. I quietly massaged Cadia’s breasts and listened intently to her explanation.

ㅡ Jujujujumul.

Is there anything better in the world than breasts that allow you to sleep as much as you want?

“Paladin? Wouldn’t you like to restrain yourself while talking?”
“Oh, why. Let me touch you.”
“…As expected, you like breasts.”

Cadia cleared her throat and continued her words.

“I have to tell you this first. Some of the Paladins who went hunting the heretics have suddenly gone missing.”
“What!”

Missing!
This is a big deal!

“But… It was discovered again shortly after.”

What?

“There were no fatalities. There were no injuries either. Those who were not missing immediately switched to a search operation after noticing that their brother was missing. Due to the search operation, a large number of hidden heretics were also destroyed.”
“Wait Cadia. I understand what you mean, but why did you suddenly disappear?”
“Wait, I’ll explain.”

It should be

“Once missing Paladins were found and rescued after at least half a day to a maximum of two days. The time seems to vary. It took that much time even though I immediately realized that one of my brothers had disappeared and launched a search operation. “

What is this.

Before my eyes disappeared
It didn’t come out even after searching, but it was found over time?

What a mystery

“As I said, the paladin who was found was unconscious, but there was no sign of any trauma.”
“No one died. No one was hurt.”

Cadia nodded her head.

It feels like it just suddenly disappeared in a flash and then appeared in a flash.

“But… All the Paladins who woke up were experiencing confusion in their memories. They couldn’t remember why they were missing at all. It seems that there are also people who suffer from mild confusion.”
“Huh.”
“I have received many reports like this. There are over twenty Paladins who have had such experiences.”

It’s definitely something unusual.

“It’s unique.”

It is unusual that the heretics were exterminated after being erected as a group and wandering around, but the paladins who went to investigate suddenly disappeared and were found unconscious?

Memories are also unclear. Most of all, it is said that it was abandoned and collapsed. Even in an area teeming with pagans.

“But why? Why didn’t you kill them? If you could do something like that, you could have killed the paladins?”

It’s not just one or two suspicious and strange things.

If the paladin died… Well, I think that’s enough. Because that bitch Lich knows how to use gate magic, and she can mass-produce Death Knights that boast a certain level of strength.

Enough of a paladin’s death if they’re engaged.

However, the paladins did not die. It was just left lying on the ground, and when I found it and asked about it, I lost half my memory and was talking gibberish.

Why didn’t he die?

I wonder if it’s common sense to kill immediately after losing consciousness. If I had been a pagan, of course I would have been. And what about 20 people experiencing that? It’s so suspicious that no one died during that time.

If you can make 20 people do that shit… No. If you had that ability, it would be easier to kill 20 people. Rather, it is more difficult to do this.

“…”

While thinking about it, Cadia said.

“Either it couldn’t be killed. There was a special reason for not killing it.”

Okay.

“It would be one of two things. And given the paladin’s condition, it doesn’t make sense that he couldn’t be killed. His memory is unclear and he was found collapsed. It’s easy to kill someone who is sleeping defenselessly.”

That’s right.

Think again.

No matter how strong the paladin is, it’s not to the point where he won’t die even though he’s fallen unconscious after being caught by something. Driving a knife through the neck of an immobile fellow is as easy as grabbing and killing a child.

“There’s no way the pagans who gave their lives easily didn’t think of it.”
“Then there’s a reason for that.”

Did you leave it that way on purpose?

Why?

It is incomprehensible that they were left unattended and not killed. If you incapacitate an enemy, of course you must kill it. Quite a lot of pagans also died, but if there was a loss of troops that much, the enemy’s power had to be cut to make up for it.

It’s not common sense.

Did you go back as a group? Or was it a pagan mage set up to test his magic his?

When you think about it this way, it makes sense.

In order to test the magic of something, he used a number of subordinate cultists as bait and sacrificed them.

But there’s no reason to make it so complicated.
Most of all, it stands out.

“Either kill it or leave it alone. The result of the investigation team coming will not change.”
“That’s why they think this saintess is unusual. Isn’t it too strange? If the paladin had died, they would have thought that a fight would have occurred. This is beyond common sense.”
“It’s not uncommon for cultists to defy common sense.”
“Still, this is unusual.”
“I agree.”

I had a brief discussion with Cadia. Cadia and I guessed similarly. Like a pagan wizard testing a new magic. Like trying to find out the level of our Paladins.

“What about mind magic?”
“Once the Paladins who have experienced such an experience and other Paladins in the field are also considering the possibility. I am being careful.”
“Hmm.”

Have you tried brainwashing paladins with mind magic?
There is a possibility.

Or the one who suddenly disappeared is also very suspicious. Death Knight. Did the Death Knight appear? The Death Knight I dealt with at that time was able to use some sort of barrier. Did that happen while escaping after being caught on something similar?

“This work is currently in progress. Thanks to that, the work in the area is being delayed. For now, we are monitoring the situation. So remember it.”

Okay.

Cadia told me to go investigate as she will let me know when more data is accumulated. So let’s do that, and next time Cadia speaks, let’s do some research slowly.

It’s a bit like going out right after you’ve just come home.

I’m sure my girls won’t like it very much.

She could come and go in no time anyway, so she didn’t have to go with them. I don’t really like the fact that I can’t stick around. When you come home like this, you have to take it easy, touch it properly, and let it go so you can go to the next job.

That’s everyday

“Ah, by the way. The search for the God Fragment seems to be going really well.”
“I’ve already eaten two. That’s the source of this immense power.”
“Heh, really… It’s a reassuring power. But is there anything more?”
“Well. I’m not sure about that.”

Because all I know is the world tree.

Bastards like Andro and Oracle don’t know anything about them because they’re dog dicks.

*           *

After that day, I took a break at home and did the things I had been putting off until now.

“…World Tree, bitch?”

First of all, I tried to make a tangent through the world tree and the crystal, but this kid has no reaction. It’s not Gura, are you really going to stop seeing me now?

Why?

“This suspicious bastard.”

Of course, it could be that I have transcended the power of the World Tree, or that it is no longer able to influence me.

Or did you perhaps notice that I had uncovered the identities of the gods?

“Hmm.”

That doesn’t make much sense in that distant place. Finding out all about my condition and inner thoughts in the desert… Realistically, it doesn’t make sense. Anyway, the fact that the World Tree was still unresponsive like this further amplified the suspicious feelings he had been feeling.

“Okay. Let’s skip this.”

I was going to go to the Elven Forest, but I don’t think it’s going to happen because Shahran is quite uncomfortable with that bitch. I went there, but the world tree didn’t come up on my call again, and there was no way. But such a question arises. If the world tree is really the same kind as the gods, and you’re a bastard who makes soul-eating a business… Why did you tell me that you collect god fragments?

Well, there must be a lot of this and that.

“Father. Ask Risha-sama to come down.”
“Lisa?”

Then Ari came to call me and went right down to the basement.

“Are you here? Here. Take a look at this.”
“Uh.”

On Lisha’s workbench lay the huge crown she had taken from the otherworldly palace after killing the king the other day, and the core of the Titan Golem she had retrieved from the desert this time.

There were disassembled arm parts lying around it.

—Cheer.

But the core was shining, and the jewels in the crown were also shining.

“What is it? Lisha? Is this the crown responding to the nuclear?”
“You saw it. That’s it.”

What it means.

“To this core… The Crown is responding.”

There is only one.

“…As expected, the monsters in that alien palace must have been Titans.”

A palace that suddenly appeared from the other world.
It was the architecture of the Titans.

“If it wasn’t for that, there would be no way this core and the crown would react.”

It is certainly.

“That’s what the original woman thinks too.”

This is revealed here. One more evidence of Titan’s existence has been gathered. This begins to solidify my doubts about the gods.

“It seems that someone from the old Titan Empire… Ran away and manipulated the entire palace, and was sucked into the outer dimension, where he encountered and was absorbed by those terrible monsters.”
“That’s what I was just thinking about, hmm…”
“Doesn’t this add credence to the speculation that the time of the Titans was real and that humans invoked foreign powers?”

This is a reasonable conclusion.

“Yeah. Okay. Thanks Risha. I figured it out thanks to you.”
“It wasn’t that difficult.”

Lisa has a lot of work to do.

I stroked her hair and touched her ears her.

“Huhuhu, whenever I get a compliment, I feel really good.”
“What kind of compliments. Anything else you want?”
“That.”

Risha, who blushed as if she was ashamed, turned her body around, and—-the worst. She pretended to gently hit her own ass with her hand her.

This cute girl…!

Hehe, okay. I’ll do whatever you want.”
“…I’m looking forward to it.”

*          *

There were so many things to do today besides that.

“Kat-sama. It’s strange after all.”

As Hilde took the souls from her inventory and placed them on her table, she glared at them with her serious eyes, she said.

“These souls I put in my inventory. They just stay like this.”
“This is another question.”

Souls laid on the table in the form of spheres of smoke.

Normally, souls are invisible to the naked eye.

Well, evil spirits such as ghosts and races are visible, but normal souls are not visible. That will be too. I’ve killed quite a few guys so far, but I’ve never seen anything like a soul.

“Did the demon leave a form like this because of some kind of processing with its authority her?”
“Ummm… It could be.”

Ordinary souls cannot be seen with my own eyes. It looks like it can be seen in the eyes of a carset or something like that, but I can’t.

Monsters of the demon type were originally human souls. It’s easy to guess that for some reason… They gained a visible form and were able to interfere with the real world.

Actually it will

But what are these souls all about? Did the form remain with a similar feeling to those evil spirits? Did demonic powers fix this?

—Sue.

I tried to influence something by placing the soul on the palm of my hand and channeling my power into it. But it hasn’t worked so far, so what can it be? Everything the arch devils told me was useless. The only way to do this is to head to the ground.

“How can I manipulate this?”

I asked Andro about this too, but he was an asshole who didn’t know what he really needed. These pups are the problem. I always wondered and asked questions, but there was nothing Ji could do.

And Lisa didn’t know much about this either. She thought it would work because she had separated the spirit of Vigal in the past, but this gyrus had a completely different field.

I spent a long time fumbling with the soul sphere, testing its strength and examining it. However, it was not possible to obtain meaningful results today because it was not a day.

Frustrated, I went outside for a while.