Chapter 389 – Administrators. Baron Simir Jack
In this world, a wizard is synonymous with a priest.
They are blessed by the gods and can use special powers.
If I recall how the priests and nuns of my world were so devout to an invisible and even questionable god, the wizards of this world are probably incomparably more devout.
You can tell just by looking at Natalie right now. How devoted are you to me?
“…”
I looked at Natalya and shut her mouth.
In any case, there is not one or two gods who can bestow power. Innumerable. In such a world, which idiot would believe in a pseudo-religion?
Trisian shook his head excitedly at my concern.
“Whether it’s a pseudonym or not, it’s a matter for you to decide for yourself. But, at least in the stories I know, I’ve never heard of a god being sacrificed in that way. If there is any doubt about God…”
After talking that far, Trisian glanced at me and Natalya.
“He who reaps death. Because he is the god who controls death. That suspicion is justified. It’s natalie what do you think about it?”
“This is ridiculously disrespectful! I, we Necromancers, have never assisted a god like that! I’ve never had a request like that before!”
At my question, Natalya shook her head violently.
“Yes.”
“Well, I’d like to see something called ‘God’s Gift’ for myself.”
At Trisian’s request, everyone rushed to Natalya’s room.
Women’s reactions to ‘God’s Gift’ are varied.
“…”
“Ugh, the smell.”
“It’s disgusting…”
“I don’t see any seams.”
Ron doesn’t care much. Germi, whose nose is sensitive, frowned at her and covered his nose with her forefinger and thumb.
Thermia stands next to Germi and doesn’t try to come closer, while Elena observes Natalya closely with an intrigued gaze.
Trissian also frowned somewhat in her disgust, but she approached the ‘God’s Gift’, perhaps to fill in the contents of the report to the lord, and she was examining it with Natalya and Elena.
I sneaked up and took a closer look at the ‘God’s Gift’.
The ‘God’s gift’, which sucked all the energy of death from me, was wrinkled like a used condom or a deflated balloon.
It would be accurate to say that it was a wrinkly lump of leather.
If that’s all, it wouldn’t be too bad, but the problem is the material of the leather.
Even the fact that it is human skin is rough, but it looks as if only the facial parts were gathered and fused together. Even the face of a child.
She lifted it up so that Natalya’s skeleton could examine it all over the place.
You can comfortably control it however you want, so it’s probably more convenient than using your own hands.
“It is terrible.”
It was Trisian’s first impression while looking at it.
“There’s not really any magical energy coming out of the hide itself.”
Natalya, who was looking around for the ‘God’s gift’ through the skeleton, tilted her head. Then she raised her index finger. A blue aura gathered in her white, straight fingers.
Carefully brought it to the ‘God’s Gift’.
“Hmm… ?!”
As if it had been cut with a sharp scalpel, the leather cracked open, revealing the interior. Seeing that, Natalya was a little taken aback.
Elena, who was watching from her side, began to write in her notebook, which she took out of her arms.
“The strength seems to be at the level of normal human skin?”
“This is strange… When alive… No, so when I was moving, I had a solid durability that would not scratch me even if I attacked with full force… ?”
“Hmm… It has solid durability, but you said it absorbed Miss Natalya’s steel skeleton like slime, right?”
“That’s right. Even so, the parts that did not come into contact with the steel skeleton remained solid.”
“But, judging from its current state, it’s just plain leather… ?”
Elena, who was having a dialogue with Natalya, looked at her notebook as if thinking about something about her, and she immediately opened her mouth with an ‘Ah!’ Sound.
“Did you say that all of your energy was absorbed by Hanseong?”
“That’s right.”
“How about the hypothesis that you need a death aura to maintain that trait?”
“Uhm… That sounds plausible.”
Natalya nodded her head at Elena’s hypothesis.
I looked at the two women who were burning their passion for learning over the unpleasant-looking lump of leather, then turned around.
Roin was still leaning against the wall as if he wasn’t interested, and Germi and Thermia were trembling at her as if they didn’t even want to get close to her.
“If you don’t want to see me, I’ll leave… ?”
“That would be better. I think my nose is crooked. Tell Natalya to ventilate.”
“It’s kind of creepy… I will go out too.”
Germi and Thermia said that and left Natalia’s room. I looked at the old man who was leaning against the wall next to the door. Roin opened his mouth wide and yawned as his eyes met.
“Huam… Anyway, the information I know and the information you know about Hanseong are the same, so I’ll go to my room and get some rest.”
“Huh.”
Now, only me, Natalya, Elena, and Trissian were left in the room.
Natalya and Elena are looking around the ‘God’s Gift’ and burning their unique passion for learning, while Trisian is one step away from them and is paying attention to the characteristics of the ‘God’s Gift’.
It seems that the search for the ‘God’s gift’ has ended.
“If we put together the following information and come to a conclusion…”
“For now, it’s concluded that this is just an unpleasant-looking hunk of human skin.”
Natalya shook her head at Elena’s sentence, which seemed to pass her sentence.
“The material is human leather that can be easily obtained anywhere… It has no magical value…”
“But Miss Natalya. Conversely, being able to create a monster with that level of power with people you can find anywhere is, in a way, a great thing. In fact, if it wasn’t for Hanseong’s authority, you couldn’t have stopped it, right?”
After hearing Elena’s story, it seems so.
Jiangshi was able to withstand the power of Natalya, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Drake, a special monster.
Considering that Natalya is one of the greatest geniuses and strongmen in this world, it must be a great skill for him to create such a monster from the corpses of people who could be found anywhere.
I don’t know why such a technology existed in a remote rural area like Ajio Village, but if it wasn’t for my power to absorb life force, I probably wouldn’t have been able to stop it.
“Anyway, this corpse has no value at this time. Hanseong?”
“Huh?”
“I don’t think I need to accept this lump of leather.”
“Okay.”
Saying so, Natalya, who classified ‘God’s Gift’ as worthless trash, next turned her attention to the amulet attached to ‘God’s Gift’.
Elena and Trisian looked at the amulet that Natalya had brought out with interest.
“This is the piece of paper that was attached to the forehead of ‘God’s Gift.'”
On yellow paper, things that look like Chinese characters are written in red. In the process of defeating the Jiangshi, the water from the riverside must have splashed on the amulet, so the amulet had letters smeared here and there and crumpled as if it were wet.
“Painting? Letter? What is this?”
“What is the material? Is the red one a little blood?”
“Probably runes, but… I’m not that major either…”
Natalya was speechless.
No matter how I looked at it, the number of strokes and shape seemed to be the Chinese characters I knew, rather than runes, but I kept my mouth shut because there was no way to explain it.
Elena took her talisman and touched it as if examining it.
“The material seems to be ordinary paper. Is the yellow dyed?”
“I think we need to focus on the red letters rather than the quality of the paper.”
This time, Trisian, who had been watching from a step behind, intervened. It doesn’t look like something repulsive like a ‘God’s gift’, so it looks comfortable to look at.
“Hmm… I can’t interpret the contents, so aside from that, what did you write in red? Given that it has to do with human sacrifice, is it likely blood?”
“I think so.”
Natalia and Elena are still inquisitive. Natalya originally seemed to be related to her main job as a necromancer, so even so, Elena was unexpected.
As I was enjoying watching it, Trisian, who was next to me, gently rowed the whale.
“Can I take that ‘God’s gift’ with me when I go out later? I think I should show it to the lord.”
“Yes, I’ll lend you a carriage and a porter, so take them with you when you go.”
“Today must be overtime.”
“Because of that ‘God’s gift’?”
“That’s true, but we should organize a unit and send it to Ajio Village to take care of local affairs. Half the town collapsed. And I think we need to thank and replace the local guards sent to other villages.”
“Things got bigger.”
At first, it must have been to interfere with the work of the magistrate, Baron Simir Jack. When I came to my senses, it turned out to be no ordinary thing.
Trisian also smiled wryly as if he had noticed that.
“Still, I might be glad I found it before it got out of hand.”
