Chapter 376 – The Spirits of Paracelsus

“Brother. Do you know what a worm means when it gets hit by a stone?”

“Yes?”

“It’s called a crash.”

“?”

Why is Helena broken instead of the status window?

As soon as I woke up, I was dumbfounded for a while because I heard a sudden joke. Helena’s words weren’t over yet.

“When a bug hurts, it’s called tooth decay.”

“… Helena?”

“If a bug makes a castle, it is loyal.”

“Why are you like this?”

“Isn’t the god of insects a loyal subject?”

“Please stop…”

“Ah, being hit by an insect is called shock.”

“…”

Helena nodded her head with a very proud expression. Then she looked this way with her golden eyes twinkling.

It was as if my reaction was expected and there was nothing I could do about it.

However, as soon as my eyes met, I avoided looking away with a clumsy smile. Then he started muttering in a low voice.

“Lord! Didn’t you say this would work!”
“Isn’t it fun?! And Helena, you laughed too!”
“Then what do you do! Brother Yandel doesn’t look funny! Is it a joke you’ve actually played on other people?”
“Really! Everyone laughed like crazy?!”
“… Just in case, when, where, and to whom did you tell this joke?”
“300 years ago, in a hopeless situation surrounded on all sides, to the soldiers of the allied forces… ?”
“Then it’s an escapist laugh!”

She was Helena who achieved the contradictory feat of screaming silently, but as she developed a dragon heart, she heard it all in her more sensitive ears.

Indeed. Was it the Solari side that broke her? No, Helena also laughed, so maybe it’s both?

What… Strictly speaking, the gag code of the continent of Eurelia doesn’t fit me. Isn’t there a case like Karla’s Jokes or Empire Laughing Jokes before?

Still muttering, Tudak covered Helena’s cheeks with both hands.

“Hick!”

Startled, Helena turned her head toward mine and made me look her in the eyes.

“What is it? Why are you two talking? Please join me too.”

“That is…”

“In the first place, what was that gag from earlier?”

“That’s it…”

It was Helena who rolled her eyes here and there, but she sighed as if she had given up.

“Actually, you haven’t been sitting since yesterday when you declared that you would kill fake Karla’s sheep.”

“Yes?”

“I thought it would be okay when I woke up, but I was worried that it seemed to be the same, so I asked the Lord how to do it, and he told me to do it…”

“Huh.”

She patted Helena’s sullen cheek, trying to organize what she had just heard.

“Therefore. I tried my best because I looked weak, right?”

“Yes…”

But Helena still somber that she thought it hadn’t worked. Instead of removing her hand from her face, she patted her butt.

“What?!”

“Thank you. It wasn’t a very funny joke, but… But thanks to you, I feel so energetic.”

“… It seems to have energized me in a different way.”

“Anyway, isn’t it okay to be strong?”

Saying that slyly, Helena smiled and nodded her head.

“All right. If the brother is good, there will be no problem.”

“Then, let’s stop talking about this and check the armament again, shall we? This dungeon will become much easier if you prepare thoroughly.”

“Yes. I think it would be okay if we just wiped it out by force… Still, there is no need to worry about buying it.”

Helena, now back to her normal form, turned her back with her characteristic benevolent smile.

Helena took a few steps to the place where her luggage was, but suddenly stopped.

Out of nowhere, her divine powers surged, and her familiar lion ears and tail jumped! And she jumps out.

Her Solari, which came to the surface of hers, steps backwards in the same way as her back, and she sticks her hips out toward me.

She didn’t say a word, but I could tell from the moment I saw her tail wagging up toward the ceiling.

She wants her ass patted too, just like her Helena?

Maybe Helena’s love for spanking was all because of Solari. It’s a racial characteristic, but Solari has a habit of lifting her waist when excited so that her buttocks can hit well…

After all, that’s Helena’s body, right? Could it be that she was developed without her knowledge?

At that thought, I suddenly felt disgusted, so instead of patting him, I hit him a little harder.

Slap!

“Carleung… !”

For some reason, he seemed more happy.

… Well, it’s okay because I like it!

***

As soon as she finished her preparations, she teleported back to the vicinity of the great grove. But she doesn’t have to travel in her needhog this time.

A dungeon that doesn’t even have a name because it’s one of Alfheim’s top secrets. The location is not in the basement of Yggdrasil, but on the outskirts of the Great Forest.

By the way, she left the wagon dedicated to Helena’s holy woman in Yggdrasil, which she used to use until she first rode Needhog after entering the great forest.

It was because the Paladins of the Church of Light, who arrived late, decided to take them to Solaris after supporting the people and cleaning up the surroundings.

… And by then, my statue must have taken shape!

While I thought of the picture drawn by the circulating life, I trembled before I knew it.

Iris, who had approached her before she knew it, asked me.

“O master. I heard that there will be monsters and unstable spirits in this dungeon. So, I want to ask you one thing…”

“Huh? Maybe you want to make a contract with the spirit over there? Just in case, it’s not illegal since you didn’t summon it, but it’s not a proper spirit, so contracts are impossible?”

“It’s not like that! There is no reason for me to be interested in spirits in the first place!”

“No. I was caught trying to summon a spirit and became a slave.”

“That, that’s a false name! Anyway, it’s a false name!”

“Your brainwashing is perfect.”

“Urg! Profit… !”

Iris nodded her head in admiration, and swatted my forearm with an exasperation.

However, now that the slave imprint has disappeared, it is now possible to actually hit, not just pretend to hit like before.

Chow! Chow!

As evidence of that, every time Iris swung her arm, a crackling sound erupted. Although this was unexpected, the person who hit him had a more surprised expression.

“Ah… Uh, master? Are you sick a lot? I’m sorry. Stop because I can’t control this…”

Iris caressed my forearm with an expression like a child who had been in an accident. A mix of apologetic and bewildered, he lightly brushed the restless gray hair of Iris.

“It doesn’t hurt that much, so it’s okay. Originally, his pure physical ability was as strong as that of a fairly average knight, but after the creation of the Dragon Heart, he became stronger.”

“Really?”

“Huh. At the moment of being hit, the body arbitrarily concentrates mana and absorbs the shock.”

Refined aurora, but not as much as completed defense magic, just by concentrating mana strengthens the body.

Of course there are clear limits… At least it should be enough to block Iris’ bracken hand smash.

In fact, the area hit did not even turn red, let alone leave a handprint.

Seeing her white forearms as usual, Iris nodded her head in agreement.

“Good thing. But from now on, be a little more careful.”

“Yes, yes. But if it wasn’t a spirit contract, what were you trying to talk about?”

“Oh, no big deal. Do you remember that Elisha had an epiphany after seeing the magic her master used to defeat the ugly flourish?”

“Of course. No way… ?”

“It is. I also got my own realization and I was able to organize it now. So, there are a few things I want to try, so I was going to ask if you could leave the battle in the dungeon to me and Elisha.”

“There is nothing wrong with it. So basically, let’s go with you and Elisha fighting and me and the others assisting.”

“Thank you.”

Iris nodded her head and walked away to Elisha. After appreciating it for a while, she informed others of this.

Carla and Iona had the attitude that it didn’t matter at all, but Helena and Solari, who were slightly excited after defeating two demons this time, felt sorry for them. Of course, in the end, he nodded her head.

“Excuse me… Junior?”

“Yes?”

Faye, the key to clearing the dungeon this time, smiled hesitantly and held out her palms.

“Do I have to wait outside anyway? In the meantime, I want to do research, but I don’t have enough budget…”

“Oh, I forgot to tell you. This time, Fei-senpai has to go into the dungeon too.”

“… Eh?”

“Yes, this dungeon. Is it a battlefield that was sealed along with Paracelsus’ workshop?”

“What?! That’s the first I’ve heard of it! No, why is Paracelsus, the great alchemist, here in the first place?! It’s a place where crazy spirits and monsters fight!”

“It was the first time I said it, so of course.”

For reference, Alfheim speculates that the spirits and monsters fought during the Great War and were all trapped in the dungeon.

It is only natural that where the spirits are, there is a spirit stone that stores their power.

However, unlike monsters that are relatively intact after receiving the protection of evil spirits, the spirits that were left unattended and disconnected from the spirit world were broken and went mad… You will understand that much.

“Well, in reality, they are failures of artificial spirits created by Paracelsus in his later years.”

“Artificial Spirit… ? What else is that?!”

Faye jumps up in bewilderment.

It was such a violent jump that Fei’s large breasts swayed and hit her own face.

Slam!

“Whoa!”

Fei, who held her nose, continued to speak with tears in her eyes.

“Come on, explain… Do it right…”

“First, stop the nosebleed.”

Faye’s nosebleeds by self-paced milking…

Possible!