Chapter 48 – 48 – What Is the Purpose?

“I was trying to use this to restore sexual function…”

Even though the weather had cleared up and the sky was visible, raindrops were still falling gently on the boat.

Eshen, with his wet eyebrows furrowed, stared into the succubus queen’s bead as she lay on her stomach and giggled.

And when I handed her the beads, she glanced sideways in my direction. The hair on her entire body stood up due to an unknown premonition.

“Unlimited···.”

“Why are you looking at me?”

“It’s nothing. I just saw it.”

“If you want me to believe you when I say ‘I just saw it,’ don’t lose your appetite.”

“Tch.”

Seeing him laughing and sticking out his tongue, it seemed like it was some kind of secret humor.

The attempt is admirable. However, the atmosphere was not light enough to be improved by a single word.

A group of bandaged sailors passing by flinched when they saw the seal in Eshen’s hand.

It must be the worst feeling for them. Bisserk’s incident alone must have been enough to make you have nightmares, but once again you had to overcome a desperate crisis because of the succubus.

When Mongma glanced at the sailors’ expressions and giggled, Eshen’s forehead crumpled like the edge of a newspaper.

“My arms are stretched out. Several people were injured.”

[Did I do it?]

A succubus who answers sleepily without even opening her eyes. In return for offending Eshen, the orb was immediately thrown high into the sky and spun around dozens of times. The Succubus Queen, who was centrifuged while taking a nap, screamed and swore all sorts of things.

Eshen rudely accepted Quinn’s falling temporary accommodation with her feet. And then she lightly kicked up again.

“If you’re that bored, I’ll play with you, bitch.”

[Damn it, won’t you get your smelly feet away? I’m dizzy-!]

Eschen leisurely lifted the heavy glass ball with both feet as if it were a soccer ball.

But I couldn’t play with it for long. Because someone who didn’t see what was going on stole the ball.

It was Nidroga wrapped in a blanket provided by the sailors. Instead of getting angry, Eshen just raised his eyebrows.

“Go Nidro? I told you to lie down and rest for a while.”

“I fell asleep because I heard the monster screaming. What if I wake up after being so careless?”

“What if it breaks? Can’t we just break this seal here?”

Eshen muttered angrily. Nidroga just chuckled.

“The monster will be released.”

“Let’s see where he gets released. Just kill him. Is there a need to take it to your hometown and deal with it?”

When Eshen stretched out his hand as if pawing at a cat and tried to snatch the glass ball, Nidrogar, whose complexion was still pale, threw it towards me.

“No.”

“What are you afraid of? I’m a bitch who can easily grab someone, but you, who’s name is a dragon, would be the size of a fist.”

“Imagine if you had a steak shoved down your throat until it was full of food, Eshen. Would you be able to fight like that?”

“What? Actually, I’m a huge loser compared to that fucking whore monster, but you’re telling me that I won because you came to me when I had an upset stomach?”

“It may not be an accurate analogy since they are monsters and not humans. But the population of Bisserk alone was around 63,000.”

“What? It’s a lot longer than I thought? Let’s say there are roughly 60,000 people. Let’s say there are 30,000 men among them. Excluding the elderly and children, let’s say there are over 10,000 adults with good energy…”

“Before we set sail, I heard from Hero Beurdin that there were a total of 10,000 and 6,200 people who turned into women. If you were to fight 16,200 men with your bare fists, would you be able to win, Eshen?”

“···What else can’t be defeated? If I break the noses of a hundred guys, they’ll get scared and run away.”

“If 10 people fight a tiger, are you guessing who will win? You idiot. Again, I don’t want to say a word out of pride. If I succeeded in absorbing that much energy, I would no longer be able to defeat it by beating it to death with my fists. “It doesn’t exist. It’s almost completely digested now, so you should never take it out.”

Nenya also walked out onto the deck and helped. At her side was the shaking Villena, holding her in her arms and supporting her.

“A long time ago, a time when a village of 500 people served as an economic hub, and when a thousand people showed up on the battlefield, they were called a great army.”

“When your mom was a thousand years old, when she was just a kid the size of you?”

“Maw Sea, Eshen. There was a succubus who took over the entire kingdom and drained the energy of as many as 110,000 people.”

[Oh, him? You were an industry legend. ‘Queen Lilith’.]

The sound of the dream horse in my hand boasting proudly, as if it was something he had done.

I got so annoyed that I put it in my backpack. Before Eshen gets annoyed too.

[A lot of life I did just before becoming the devil king of my time-]

“That bitch won’t even shut up. So what happened?”

“He took all of the strongest warriors of the time and marched to Donggui. He had about seventeen holy swords stuck in his body.”

“Wow. This is no joke.”

“The reason such disasters do not occur on days like these is because succubi are not only rare monsters in the first place, but also because ordinary succubi are caught and resolved before they cause such a mess.”

Nenya’s tone of voice seemed somewhat unclear.

It really is. Even if the city is in the corner of the map, its population is around 60,000. Since there is a port, it cannot be considered completely isolated.

However, the new husband disappeared, the grown son was taken away, and even the grumpy philanderers who had been actively robbing married women and widows until yesterday suddenly disappeared from the tavern. It was only after the entire city fell into their hands that a request was sent to the Party League. ?

“Yes. Something seems very strange.”

Could it be that I couldn’t sleep because of the battle? Or was he scared and crying because he was afraid of losing his eyes? Bile I gritted my teeth and rubbed her red eyelids.

“Let’s not be irrational like Nidroga and think rationally.”

Neither of them. It seems like he was very worried about his friend. The gaunt Nidroga laughed as if he were embarrassed.

“I’m sorry. I thought I could finish it if I comforted you well.”

“Wow. Anyway, would it really be easy for no one to know until Bisserk gets to that point? Bisserk is a port city. Boat work is physical labor.”

“Right. But?”

“When the number of workers decreases one by one, shipments are cut off or fishing boats are unable to sail, it is not only the people of Bisserk who notice that the situation is strange. By interacting with Bisserk, you cannot help but realize that it is strange in other regions where merchant ships come and go. “A port is never an isolated space.”

“I see. That makes sense.”

“So, we can first think of two possibilities. Just as an ant licker appears in front of an anthill, a succubus powerful enough to suppress and isolate 60,000 people in a short period of time fell from the sky. Or, there is some kind of backer and information is silenced. “It’s controlled. Or maybe it’s both.”

“Are you befriending a monster?”

“Are there any religious buildings in Visserk?”

At Villena’s words, which diverted the focus of the conversation in the wrong direction, Eshen scratched her head as if wondering what she was talking about.

“A religious building? You mean a temple or a temple? But why is that suddenly happening?”

“Was there or wasn’t it?”

“What was it like? Right now, across from the building where we fought the bastards by the hair, there was a Mithraic bell tower standing there, I guess.”

“You didn’t see any other sects other than Mithras?”

“There was nothing like that-“

Eshen froze. And I, who had been so panicked in the first place that I didn’t even see that the Mithraic Church existed, froze.

There was no way that there was not a single priest in a city of 60,000 people who could feel the alien energy of monsters through the power of faith. It is natural that there are one or two strangers who infiltrate and become neighbors with the promise of spreading the blessed words of the god they serve.

Where have they all gone? Nya dropped her long ears to the side and her face turned cold.

“Eshen, where did you say the queen you caught that day was hiding?”

“Mithraist prayer house. These bastards. Can’t they do it all from beginning to end?”

“… Since there is no evidence, it is only a hypothesis, but let’s think about it. What if there were people who were closest to the scene and had the ability to prepare in advance, but were unable to stop it?”

“It’s only right that his name be on the list of prime suspects. We may be in bigger trouble than we think.”

“They knew in advance what kind of monster it was and came prepared.”

Next, as I continued speaking, the party members turned to me.

Even though I try to speak calmly, my lips keep shaking.

“If Villena says so, to clean up the mess-.”

“So you sent paladins to Visserk? You deliberately created a crisis and let Mitra solve it? You already guessed that before.”

“No. They sent assassins to this sea. They thought we realized that they probably intentionally left the succubus unattended. They didn’t want to leave any witnesses. This is a feat that only they are carrying out to secretly find out the identity of the monster. “It’s not just a fight. It’s an incident with a hidden story so serious that we can judge without hesitation whether the opponent is a dragon or a warrior.”

“It’s just as they said. That’s probably why they deliberately took a group of trashy sailors who would do anything for money, along with a strong and foolish Hero, and sent them to us with a suicidal plan. Even though he was a hero, he didn’t have any substance, so it didn’t even work. “

Tomko thrust his hooked nose between us. Eshen, who stood aside in horror with Villena, scratched her head as if something had occurred to her.

“Huh, man? Are you sure about that? Those Mithraic guys blocked our path in the city of the pantheon and made a fuss by talking loudly. They told us to hand over the monster seal and such. If we die within a few days, they will all be like bastards. “Don’t you think I may have instigated this?”

“If you’re drowned in a storm, who will notice you? Even if you get suspicious, just play it off and that’s it.”

“Ah.”

Eshen nodded and agreed, as if it made sense. And with his menacing eyes, he stared at the door of the underground cabin where Adamantone was trapped.

The captain walked slowly in front of me, put his wrinkled hand into the bag and took out the monster baton.

“It is clear that Mithraism tried to drown you and me, the witnesses of that day. I don’t know, but I guess the pressure felt by those on that brat Bjordin’s side was of the same kind. I knew right in time that that idiot was about to have his head blown off. “I can only hope to prepare and live.”

“Still, they are worried. At the port, my daughter and I both criticized that bearded man.”

“They tried to kill us. That’s clear. The question to ask is how important this seal is to them now. Do they want to keep it, or do they want to get rid of it?”

“That’s right.”

In the City of the Pantheon, they followed and harassed our party members so persistently, so why did they take a gamble that could have resulted in them disappearing into the sea?

The succubus that absorbed the city-level energy could not be purified and eliminated with a single prayer. When several priests were clinging to each other and complaining, the priests of Mithras, who quickly got wind of the situation and chased after them, kicked down the door of someone else’s cathedral and started wreaking havoc.

Since this happened repeatedly throughout the day, it was natural for the sisters and the party members to become irritated.

Even though he sensed the negative energy so well, he was silent in Bisserk. The more I think about it, the more shameful it becomes.

“I don’t know what you were planning to use the monsters you raised with so much effort, but if you thought it was okay for them to be buried in the sea… Then maybe you don’t value them that much?”

“My thoughts are a little different. The hero they hired in a hurry was just an idiot, but they really wanted this item. Think about how motivated the scum down there are.”

I also looked into Adamantone’s eyes. When he put the Succubus Queen in his mouth, his eyeballs seemed to pop out of his head.

Like when I came across that rare hydra. That was the face I made whenever I was so consumed by greed that I couldn’t do anything about it.

The more I think about it, the more my headache hurts. Knowing even a little bit about the Succubus Queen’s inner story is dangerous. Just holding the Succubus Queen’s sealing ball is dangerous as you will be targeted by the world’s largest sect. It is also dangerous if it breaks accidentally.

“This gives me a headache.”

“My head hurts. That Mithraist is targeting the back of your head, but I’m just passing it off as a headache.”

Tomko took off his captain’s hat and scratched his long hair. And then he let out a sigh that somehow felt sad.

“Yes. If you have that much courage, you can at least tolerate it.”

“What do you mean…?”

“Nothing. By the way, Morgan said he saw you. Tell him he has something to say.”

The bold daughter, who had hired a man of Tomko’s age as a messenger, was at the mast’s watchtower, and nowhere else.

“Watchtower? Observatory? Guard post? What should we call it?”

“Call it whatever you want. That’s it.”

Morgan, who had her blue hair hidden under her hood, grumbled a little sulkily.

Now I think I know why she was looking down at me from the watchtower railing with a bright smile on her face. I guess he wanted to watch me climb up the high ladder while struggling.

But I had an artifact that allowed me to jump up cliffs in just 5 seconds. I asked as I rolled up the grappling hook and put it in my bag.

“You found me?”

“I was thinking about switching to your party for a while, but my father told me not to. That’s why.”

Morgan’s smiling face with her narrowed eyes is somehow unsettling. It felt like a predator in a slightly different sense than Eshen.

“You come to our party. There is an empty porter position.”

“···I already signed the contract.”

Now, it has become difficult to transfer, at least because of Eshen and her sisters.

To be honest, I don’t particularly like traveling by boat. People must live with their feet on the ground.

But Morgan lifted her head triumphantly.

“What are we going to do with our child?”

What?

The sight before my eyes becomes blurry. While I was mesmerized by her unexpected and shocking statement, Morgan raised the angle of her chin a little more confidently.

“Yes. I’m pregnant.”

“How?”

Perhaps wanting to show off her own seductive aura, Morgan took off her hood and shook off her hair.

Fresh, wet blue hair slapped my face. A messy production that barely avoided a failing grade thanks to its appearance.

“How could you not have done it? While the waves hit the boat so violently, and the pirate sword clashed so desperately with the pirate sword, sparks flying.”

“···While frying?”

As I asked calmly while wiping my rain-spattered face, Morgan subtly pulled his tight leather pants to the side.

“Throughout the battle, you fought with ‘yours’ inside this.”

What?

It wasn’t until I inquired a little more closely and made Morgan’s face blush that I realized what a misunderstanding he had made.

Since the other person was that naive, it seemed like the right thing to do as a human would be to be as considerate as possible. I put in a lot of effort.

In any case, contraception would have been ultimately resolved through the sister’s efforts. Otherwise, Sister Eschen and Monica wouldn’t have had children long ago. Besides, in the first place, I mean.

“You said you couldn’t cum?”

“If you put it that way, I mean, just a little bit of purification-“

“I couldn’t cum.”

“···That’s how it happened.”

Morgan scratched her head and told me to turn around. Soon there was a rustle of someone undoing her belt and checking something on her.

As soon as she turns back, what she sees is a bright red Morgan leaning against the railing with his gaze turned towards her.

I decided to pretend not to see it and understand. It is not easy for everything to be perfect from the first experience.

It would be difficult if a rumor spread that the hero’s child, and everyone thought he was male because he was a sailor dressed as a man, had a fling with a porter. What I said just now must have been a joke. A joke made with the intention of leaving it as a memory of the night.

If someone on our side had died, I wouldn’t have said something like that. So, even if you say something immature and pointless about being pregnant or something, you can accept it with a smile and say that you are happy and excited. Whatever it is, isn’t this really a good way to overcome a difficult point?

Was it because I thought that way and was relieved? The moment the question was asked in a voice that was openly crying, I felt even more chills down my spine.

“Was it that bad?”

“Yes?”