Chapter 62 – Ah~ It’s Ruined~ (4)
Goddess Elia. She, who had always sat on the floor in her own room and offered her prayers to her luminous goddess, was now not in her own room, but in her Gordon’s room. While Gordon, the owner of the Ark, sparred with the hero for a while, he did it alone, and without the permission of the Ark.
“Hmm, looks like it’s not here…”
As a devout believer in Luminous, there was no way she would break into the room of a man outside her without permission, but she was looking around Gordon’s room, making an excuse to herself that this was inevitable. The reason she sneaked into Gordon’s room was because of an appointment with Ragnar, Baron Armageddon.
‘I don’t know exactly which of you are. But there will definitely be ‘it’ in the room of exactly one of you. You just have to tell me whose room it is in.’
Two promises made at the cost of life. One is not to speak out what he heard that day, and the other is his request… To find ‘it’ in someone’s room and let him know.
Of course, Elia also didn’t intend to just listen to him, who was a villain, at first. Seeing an opportunity, she was about to tell the warrior what she had been through, along with the pain in her chest and that eerie warning to ‘keep your promise’ rang in her ears, but only if there were more. Thinking that she might be being watched anytime, anywhere, she judged that no matter how hard she tried to keep her promise to him, she would not be able to see her in good shape. Did.
To find ‘it’ in someone’s room and let them know. But Elia honestly couldn’t understand his request. Because there is no way that there is no one who has ‘it’ among themselves, not other people.
Well, though, she might be rather fortunate if she thought that she could get out of a situation where her life was threatened by simply complying with his pointless request.
“It’s not in Gordon’s room. It wasn’t in Luke’s room either, so now all that’s left is Viola and Hawkna. Hawkna has been confined to her room lately and doesn’t come out often, so now all I can look at is Viola’s room.”
Elia sneaked out of Gordon’s room and quietly closed the door while observing the surroundings, and then she stopped her footsteps and headed for Viola’s room.
Before entering Gordon’s room, I saw Viola going upstairs to talk to the tower’s owner, Tabacona. Will go up from the 2nd floor to the 9th floor. Considering her low-quality physical strength as a wizard, Elia decided that Viola could not come back until she inspected her room and came out. Elia opened the door to Viola’s room and she stepped inside.
If Gordon’s room was quite clean and tidy for a man’s room, on the contrary, Viola’s room was too dirty for a woman’s room. From old books I don’t know where they came from, to various magic materials I don’t know where they were used, all sorts of messy things were scattered here and there, and the acrid smell of chemicals that they exhaled was not to be sniffed for long.
At the sour smell stinging her nose, Elia let out a sigh of her own. It was not the house they had bought, and it was not polite to make such a mess in the room that the owner of the tower, Mr. Tabacona, rented for a while, saying that it was okay to stay. I set out to find the ‘it’ in question.
In short, again there were no satisfactory results. While looking at the letters I don’t know what they mean, the shapes I’m curious about how to draw, the flasks filled with liquids that I shouldn’t drink, and the old books that give off a musty smell, I suddenly thought of cleaning up this mess. , She sneaked into someone else’s room without permission and didn’t have time to clean the dirty room, so after checking, she was about to leave Viola’s room.
“…That’s what I mean.”
If it wasn’t for the voice of the owner of the room coming from outside. At the sound of the viola’s voice coming from the corridor, Elia’s body stiffened. I hope she will come back already. But it is impossible to leave the room now. Especially when it comes to Viola, who has a strong attachment to her own things, it is certain that she will continue to ask why she came to her room.
And if you ever find out what happened to Rag or Armageddon…
She must never be found out about sneaking into this room. Chilling down her spine, Elia hurriedly looked for a place for herself to hide herself and tried to hide her body under her bed.
“…Ah.”
While living as a nun in the church before Luke was chosen as a warrior, her classmates sometimes looked at her with envy and jealousy, and Viola sometimes glared at her. If it weren’t for the two lumps.
The space under her bed was big enough for a skinny person, but Elia couldn’t get in because her breasts got caught. Why the hell is everyone so envious of her body part that only gets in the way… Viola’s voice draws closer again, and Elia gives up trying to crawl under her bed and gets up, standing right next to her door. Opened her closet and crumpled her body into it. Almost at the same time as she closed the door to her closet, the door to her room opened and Viola came inside.
“Huh, today I don’t have any other income.”
As soon as Viola entered her room, she threw herself onto her bed and began to mumble in her annoyed voice. It looks like something else isn’t working out. Of course, most of Viola’s problems are in her magical field, so it’s difficult for her as a cleric to solve them, because she doesn’t know anything about them.
“…Hmm. By the way, it looks like Tabacona didn’t really do anything. So, was yesterday just a coincidence? Or…”
What the hell are you talking about? It’s something that’s still hard to understand. It was then. Elia saw.
“Yeongcha. The staff is convenient at times like this.”
Viola thrusting her own staff into the space under her bed, dragging her something with it.
“Phew, I’m lucky today. I guess it was just a coincidence?”
And what she took out, though she really didn’t want to believe it, was exactly what Elia was looking for at the request of Ragnar, Baron Armageddon.
Calculated, she thinks that she is the one with the highest probability of having ‘it’, but she still thinks with common sense, so there is no way that a wizard called the hero’s companion has ‘it’, she said. Thought. And as if Viola had betrayed Elia’s faith, she took out the object she was looking for from the space under her bed and examined its condition.
That thing…
‘What the hell are you looking for?’
‘You’ve never seen it yourself, but you probably know.’
Totem.
A symbol and incantation used by nefarious sorcerers who worship an idol other than the Luminous Goddess, who disappeared long ago along with the Warlock, and borrow its power.
Besides, the thing that Viola treats like the most fragile and fragile thing in the world, that bone totem with a very ominous dark red pattern on it…
It was an object that symbolized worshiping the gods of the other world.
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I thought about it.
The saboteurs are the ones who replaced the villains she prepared with the exact same villains from the world they created, in order to ruin Luminus’ play. Those who created and destroyed at least one world in order to create clones of a few humans, threatening to sabotage a single god.
Will those guys be satisfied with just replacing the four villains with their own fakes? No, no. If I were them and decided to use that method to sabotage the Luminous Goddess, I would have replaced the villains as well as the other characters with fakes.
The strategy of lowering the warrior’s maximum growth rate by replacing the warrior’s enemies with fake words is a secret method that is unlikely to be discovered even if it fails, but it is not a strategy with a high success rate so that it can be pulled out at any time. Things in the world don’t go as planned, and even if the main enemy’s level is lowered, the hero may gain enough experience to reach his goal by working elsewhere. So, at any moment, he must have a secret dagger ready to kill the hero and ruin the play.
I determined that it was one of the hero’s companions. If they replace the hero’s comrades with the fakes they prepared, they will be able to indirectly intervene in the hero’s journey, and if everything is irreversible, they can manipulate the fakes as a last resort to kill the hero and ruin the play. . So who is the real fake?
First of all, the warrior Luke. The main character of the play, of course, is not fake. And Elias, the priestess who lived in the same village as Luke, is also a follower of Luminus, so there is little chance that it is fake. That’s why I asked Elia to check her companion’s luggage to see what I was looking for. The Hero and the Priestess use divine power, and divine power is the power given by Luminus. If you replace them with fake ones that directly receive and use the power of Luminous, there will be a high probability of being caught, so the probability of being replaced is very low.
Then there are three people left. Elf ranger Hawkna, sorceress Viola, mercenary warrior Gordon.
Except for Gordon here. The people that a hero can recruit as companions are called ‘heroes’, and Gordon has a very low combat power among these ‘heroes’. Of course, that patience, tenacity, and strong body can take quite a few attacks well, but in fact, there is one more outstanding teammate when it comes to tanking. If they were going to replace the hero’s companions with the fake ones they prepared, they would have replaced the strong guys who had a high probability of being chosen.
Hokna is also less likely. Of course, Hawkna’s stats are very high among all her recruitable colleagues, but in her case, the difficulty of recruiting her is too high in proportion to her ability, so it’s rather difficult to make her a colleague. If Hawke and I were to be eliminated from her options, then she would have only one thing left.
Wizard Viola.
A woman who is the most assertive among the warriors, has a strong personality, and takes the place of the indecisive hero to decide the direction the party should go before anyone else. The total of her stats is quite high among wizards, and the difficulty of recruiting is very easy. So, if the saboteurs planted a fake among the hero’s companions, it would be Viola with the highest probability. And the evidence to back it up is ‘totem’.
In the world created by Luminus, the moment he exerts his power as a god, he is quickly discovered. A ‘totem’ is the safest and easiest way to use power within her world while avoiding Luminous’ prying eyes. By carving her own pattern on her totem, she planted some of her power, and set the human spirit in contact with her totem to connect directly with her. It is similar to how I was invited to the space created by Nia last night. However, in the case of foreign media, the power is so strong that there is no need to detour through a medium such as a totem, and these hinders do not have the ability to do so, so there is a difference in using a totem.
In the world of other transcendental beings, an object that can exert its influence without being seen by the creator of that world.
Simply put, totem is a kind of vpn dedicated to transcendentalists.
Elia told me with her face that she didn’t know what it was.
“I found it. I hid it in the closet because Viola suddenly came back, but Viola took it… Out from under the bed. A token of idolatry, a totem, an object of disappeared shamans… Bone totems that are said to be made with ethical means… But, that’s clearly a symbol of heresy. Why would Viola, who is not a priest but a wizard, do that… Where on earth did she get such a thing? Clearly, shamans preceded warlocks. Everything is gone, so no one will know how to make them anymore…”
She must be quite embarrassed for her part. The comrades who were said to have lived without hiding from each other, the comrades who cried and laughed together and went on adventures together, perhaps even among heretics, fanatics who were allowed summary execution depending on the situation, or dangerous items carried without revealing it, but hiding it, I felt quite betrayed. Will be big
“As expected, Viola had it. The important thing now is not why she has it or where she got it. It is a matter of how she disposes of the item she has. Elia, how much do you know about totems?”
“…I don’t know anything other than what was written down. The only thing that was created by shamans who were defined as heretics was to worship an existence other than Luminus-sama as a god…”
“Hmm, yes…”
That totem must have been prepared by the saboteurs to hinder Luminus. If so, the totem will retain the power they contained. I don’t know if it was before, but if it’s now that I met a foreigner and got stronger… I think it’s possible to trace back the space where the owner is through the power remaining in the totem. It’s hard to explain exactly how. Just as people do breathing and moving their bodies naturally without thinking about it, I know that I can ‘do’ reverse estimation of disturbers through traces, but I can’t explain the process.
Anyway, once you get your hands on that totem, you can see the faces of the damned saboteurs who are trying to ruin the play that Goddess Luminous is preparing and I’m helping. But that’s not right now. There’s no guarantee yet that I’ll be able to definitively deal with at least one blocker, and it’s hard to imagine that they’ll work the way I want them to. The best I can think of right now… Is that the hero defeats Violence and grows.
No matter how much they are gods, this is the stage prepared by Luminous. On this stage where everything is set up in detail only for the hero to complete his journey, the protagonist, the hero, can equal or exceed even a god, if only a few conditions are met. Because this world is such a place. It’s a world prepared for the scenario of ‘a hero defeating evil and saving the world’.
So, no matter how frustrated and annoyed I am, I cannot abandon the warrior.
The four realizations Luke needs to complete as a true warrior.
The courage to stand tall and not to back down in the face of great fear.
An unshakable faith that entrusts itself to and relies on colleagues around it.
A love that never fades to protect everything you don’t want to lose.
And lastly, an unbreakable and noble will to move forward remembering those who were sacrificed.
The only realization that the hero has gained now is ‘faith’. For ‘courage’, in the moment of fear, one must move forward without withdrawing from oneself, and ‘love’ literally means that a hero loves someone, or sees the love of one of his comrades.
The problem is that Luke is a very indecisive and cautious warrior, so it’s not easy to realize ‘courage’, and because he doesn’t have any thoughts other than fulfilling his duty as a warrior, even though he was the bluest point in a four-person party until Gordon came in, no woman could be rational. I didn’t look at it, I just treated it like a business, and lastly, ‘will’… Let’s not talk.
“Haa, the front is blocked.”
