Chapter 570 – Rafina’s Secret 1
Around the time when the Demon King finished his first conquest using force and returned to his nest and was having a good time.
On a hill a little away from Radia, an unknown object was moving in the direction of Radia.
A unique shape that feels grotesque, like a four-legged beast or a cart without wheels.
If it weren’t for the humans and elves riding on it, it was so monstrous that it would be impossible to even know what it would be riding on.
“I can see it now. Over there is Ladia, the city where the divine beast resides.”
The location of the hill where the walls of Ladia, wide enough to fit several mountains into the city, begin to blur.
The woman sitting in the seat in front of her pointed in front of her as if explaining to the elf next to her.
Although the hood he was wearing was dusty, he could see through the hood his clean skin and black hair.
It was Clarisse, who was once a candidate for a saint of the Goddess Church.
“It took less than a month to get here from the Kingdom of Beasts… That’s really fast, you golem. I don’t think they can be compared to monsters for wagons.”
Clarisse and Paul cross over to the kingdom of beasts and search for a strong elf who will accept their request.
It took years, but thanks to the investment of such a long time, I was able to hire Laplace, who had the ability to be one of the best among the elven warriors.
Clarice patted the back of the vehicle that Laplace was operating called a golem and looked up at Laplace beside her.
But Laplace, ever since he left the Kingdom of Beasts, has maintained an expressionless face.
“Ugh. If I talk to you, please answer me with something. The number of words you used to say is getting less and less as the days go by. Aren’t you too cold towards your employer?”
Clarisse turns her head away from Laplace, spouting words that seemed to be pouting, as if they had managed to get along while moving together.
Clarisse then looked behind herself and spoke her words to the brown-skinned elf next to her Paul.
“I think your master is too blunt, right? Raphina?”
“…”
A girl called Rafina, who was carrying a large load that did not suit her size, and looked at Clarice with an expressionless expression like Laplace.
At first glance, she looked like an elf girl with an unusual skin color, but, unbelievably, she too was said to be a golem created by Laplace.
Unlike other golems that Laplace used to use, including this mount, Rafina’s lifelike appearance was very lively.
I don’t know if she resembles her master or if it’s because she’s a golem, but her expression was more emotionless than Laplace’s, which didn’t match that kind of liveliness.
“…Ugh. You look cute when you smile You never show a smile on your face… Paul! Stop worrying! With Ladia in sight, she needs to get ready soon!”
Clarice let out a sigh of relief as if disappointed at Rafina’s expression of her lack of emotion.
She then shook Paul, who was crouching next to Rafina, as if looking for someone to talk to instead.
“…Uh, uh… Ladia… I’m scared… Uh…”
“Ha. Really… I thought I was a bit better now… I guess I’ll have to buy some sedatives when I get into Radia.”
After checking Paul’s condition and sighing again, Clarisse turned around and sat down on his own, crossing his legs.
“I heard that we chose to stay in Radia when we left the capital, so Clea and her divine beast must still be active in Radia. Paul’s a mess, and I’ve never been to Ladia, so maybe he’d better disguise himself and not have to hide…”
“…Ha. I’m embarrassed. I thought you were just exaggerating…”
Clarisse continued talking next to Laplace with arms folded as if planning the future.
However, Laplace, who was controlling the golem by her side, cut Clarisse off with a sudden sigh.
“…Yeah? What are you talking about? Mr. Laplace?”
She said, “While she was said to be a nun who was even a candidate for sainthood. Don’t you know yet? …But. I’m still a young human, and I feel something different… If you don’t have keen senses, you might not notice…”
Laplace staring at the blurry outskirts of Ladia, writing her impressions without looking at Clarisse.
Seeing that Laplace’s always expressionless expression became serious, Clarisse felt that something was out of the ordinary, and untied her legs that were entwined and shrank her body.
“…Sense? Heterogeneous, what the hell is that…”
“…Like the elven priests, the human priests are related to the goddess, so they must have a skill to detect evil, right? Close your eyes and take a good look at the city of Ladia.”
“Yeah? …Well. I know. Where…”
As if it were actions rather than words, Laplace pointed at Ladia instead of looking at Clarice.
Following the instructions of Laplace, who was accustomed to the lack of explanation while moving, Clarisse began to sense the location of Ladia while still sharpening her senses.
“Um… Where… Not as much as in the Kingdom of Numbers, but the aura of ESSER spread in the air… And, of the city where people are… Huh!? This, this…!!?”
Clarisse, who had been using her sensing skill with her eyes closed and tilting her head, looked at Laplace in amazement as if she felt something unpleasant.
“What, what is this energy!? How can you get this kind of energy in Ladia!?”
Surprised to the point that her complexion even changed, Clarice looked at Laplace as if asking what the hell this was.
Laplace shook his head without answering Clarisse, and stopped the golem while frowning in displeasure.
“Tesserda. It’s a little different from what we used to know, but…”
“Tessellano!? Isn’t that the evil energy that monsters possess!? Unless it’s a dungeon, they can’t be together like that!?”
“Didn’t I say that it was a little different? It is definitely a tesser, but it has a different temperament from the tesser flowing out of the dungeon.”
Laplace let go of the stopped golem’s control stick, glared at Ladia, who looked blurry, and touched his lips.
Laplace glared at Ladia with a serious expression, as if analyzing Ladia’s aura that she couldn’t understand.
Contrary to his appearance as he moved, Laplace began to express his impressions of what he felt, showing an expression of lack of composure.
“To think that Tesser, which should naturally annihilate in opposition to Esser, is united like that… What can I say… It feels like Tesser is imitating Esser… No, to be precise, he is mimicking Esser’s nature. Should I?”
“Three, my God… No matter how much, I, as a priest, couldn’t feel that…”
“It’s only natural that it’s maintained in harmony like a part of nature. Even I would have missed it if I was a little fussy… Seeing that it’s not even spreading around and clumped together like that, I don’t think an ordinary human being can detect that energy unless they enter the city.”
Laplace lowered his hand that was touching his lips, touched the steering wheel, and kept staring at Ladia.
Without even looking at Clarisse, whose complexion turned pale, Laplace continued her words as if explaining to her.
“What can I say about this… It feels like someone cleverly manipulated the nature of Teser, which humans can’t accept… But to think that he still retains such an unpleasant feeling. I can’t imagine what the impact you’ll be in the moment you step inside…”
“…But… I’m sure, I can feel the energy of a lot of humans… How can they…”
“I don’t think it will disintegrate the body like the Tesser we know, but… Well. Wouldn’t that Tasser, like the existing Tasser, amplify the primal desires of humans?”
A clever elf who was once called a sage and had spent hundreds of years, making a fairly accurate inference just by seeing Ladia from a distance.
Laplace was proud of himself, saying that if he had enough time, there was nothing he couldn’t do, but Laplace, who checked on Ladia now, couldn’t help but show a disgusted expression toward his employer, Clarice.
“Anger. Avarice. Jealousy. Sloth. Lust, etc… I don’t know which one will show up bigger, but I’d say it’s worse quality as it doesn’t seem life-threatening. If it had been Tesser, he would have died before his desire grew out of control.”
“…I can’t… Then, the humans in the city right now…”
“…Tsk. Perhaps, they have become violent people who do not even recognize their parents and children. Or let go of your mind and live by your instincts like a beast.”
Laplace sighed in displeasure and frowned as he tousled his gray hair.
Laplace sighed again, turned his head slightly, and looked at Paul crouching behind him.
“I was wondering what kind of nonsense they were talking about, the demon king, but… I have no choice but to admit it. If the city ends up like that, it’s reasonable to feel that the demon lord has appeared. It’s not already a city over there, it’s no different than a demon cave in the form of a city.”
Every time the crouching Paul hears the word demon king, he shudders and shakes his body.
After staring at Paul like that, Laplace glanced at Rafina next to Paul.
Clarisse spoke to Laplace, who seemed to be weighing something while looking at Rafina, with a slightly worried expression.
“…Is that divine beast… Perhaps?”
“…Probably that way. The concentration of energy in that tesser is too thick to be considered human work. Even if it’s a dungeon that only high-level warriors can’t survive, it won’t emit such a thick tesser.”
“That means… Clea, who followed that divine beast…”
“Perhaps he was not influenced by that divine beast? Hmm… Now that I’ve said that, I’m starting to think that maybe the true identity of that divine beast is a monster that’s adapted to this world… I once fought against a monster that didn’t disappear naturally, even though Esser was a kingdom of dark beasts. . Maybe it’s an evolved version of that monster…”
As if recalling an old memory, Laplace’s conversation with Clarisse gradually turned into self-talk.
Laplace, who had been muttering to himself for a while, stopped talking to himself as if he had made up his mind and looked at Clarisse standing next to him.
“The plan to enter the city is suspended. I don’t know, but a tesser like that is too dangerous for the two of you. Since he’s a cleric, he might be able to hold on for a while, but sooner or later he’ll be affected by that tesser.”
“So what? Are you going to wait until Clea and the monster get out of the city?”
“How do you watch the gates of that vast city? You don’t even know when the monster and the saint will appear.”
Laplace looked at Rafina in the back seat while laughing as if he was dumbfounded at Clarisse’s question.
Laplace sighed lightly, and with a hard expression, he began to give orders to Rafina.
“Separate the soul stone. Rafina. First of all, you should explore the city alone as a ‘doll’.”
“All right. Master.”
After nodding her head at Laplace’s command, Lafina sets her large load down on her back and lifts the robes and tops draped over her body to reveal her belly.
As her raphina caressed her own tender belly, her skinny tummy clicked away beneath her voluptuous breasts.
“Hick!? What, what…!?”
Whoever looked at it thought it was a human body. Clarisse looked at Rafina’s abdomen, which opened like a machine, while letting out a small scream.
He had heard that it was a golem, not a living elf… But the moment he saw Rafina’s ‘inside’, Clarisse could not help but be startled even though she knew Rafina’s true identity.
Something like human internal organs, but also like metal, the bizarre ‘inside’ of Rafina
She was surprised that even her intestines, which looked like her womb, had been recreated, but even more surprising was Rafina, who put her hand inside her own belly with her nonchalant expression, feeling no emotion from her. I had no choice but to
“Here you are. Master.”
After rummaging through her location, which is about the size of her own heart, Raphina takes out a jewel-like stone that glows blue from her and hands it to Laplace.
Laplace, who was handed the fist-sized stone, nodded her head with a strange expression and grabbed the jewel.
“…I’ll try to move to a place where the synchronization time interval is small while being as inconspicuous as possible. Get ready to sync up. ‘Doll’.”
“Yeah. Master.”
I think I left out something important. Still, the doll called Rafina behaves the same as before.
Grabbing the stone as if it were precious to him, Laplace turned his head away as if he had no interest in the doll.
Controlling the golem again, Laplace started to move the golem in a different direction.
While the beasts didn’t know, a camp of non-beasts settled a little away from Radia.
