Chapter 167 – Sanctuary of Birth (1)
When I told them I was going into that vent, I could see the worry on everyone’s faces.
I understand everyone’s concerns.
I guess it can’t be helped because I’m afraid I might get hurt.
However, for me, there is no problem running away with just the 〈 Time Stop 〉 and 〈 Return 〉 skills.
There’s no need to worry.
These are my lovely characters who really worry a lot.
“Don’t worry too much. I won’t get hurt.”
“I’d like to believe so, but I can’t help but be worried, my lord.”
I spoke on behalf of everyone in Lien.
“It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re worried about. So I guess I’ll get something to get rid of that worry.”
I turned my head towards Freya.
“Freya, give me 〈 God’s Blessing 〉 and 〈 God’s Protection 〉.”
In the Kingdom of Frash, Freya clearly applied a buff to everyone, and a buff was applied to me as well.
It is said that its basic combat power is weaker than that of my characters, but if you have Freya’s buff, you will not lose even if you face most enemies.
If you receive 〈 God’s Power: Sanctuary 〉, your combat power will increase ridiculously, but since the range is limited and the duration is not long, 〈 God’s Blessing 〉 and 〈 God’s Protection 〉, which do not have a specified range and have a long duration, will be sufficient.
This alone increases combat power dramatically.
Upon hearing my words, Freyja’s body emitted a dazzling light, and the light permeated everyone here.
Perhaps they distributed the buff to everyone in addition to giving it to me.
I feel confident after receiving the buff once again.
This buff also applies to me.
Even in theory, the stat value increased by 〈 God’s Blessing 〉 is enormous.
I don’t know what my basic stats are right now, but the increased numbers will be so high that they can’t be compared to my basic stats.
I’ve never tested it, but this power overflowing from within my body speaks volumes.
When I received Freya’s buff, I saw a little bit of worry disappear from everyone’s faces.
It just disappeared a little.
I still feel like my worries haven’t gone away.
“Master, please take care of yourself.”
“We’ll be waiting here for you, so you better come quickly!”
“I really don’t want to let you go, but I can’t help it, Jinu.”
“God…There are only blessings in the path you walk…”
They all said something to me before leaving for a moment.
I could feel that each person’s heart was put into those words.
“Okay, if anything happens, I’ll leave it as a whisper right away. And if I have to run away, I’ll use skill 〈 Return 〉 to go to Britinya Kingdom. Even if it’s dangerous to me, it’s not dangerous to you… But just in case, you guys should be careful too. “
I spoke to everyone and moved towards the vent above my head.
It was a fairly narrow vent, but I had no problem crawling in by myself.
Before I entered the dark space with almost no light, she turned her head towards the women waiting for me once again.
Yuria was waving at me with a smile without a trace of worry on her face and Freyja was closing her eyes and putting her hands together in her prayers.
Lien bowed his head to me with a stern expression, and Renia was looking at me with a worried expression.
I waved lightly at them and entered the vent.
The inside of the vent I entered was not as dirty as I thought.
Although there was a lot of dust accumulated, it was tolerable to some extent.
I crawled forward slowly, being careful to make as little noise as possible.
As I slowly entered, I began to hear a sound from in front of the vent.
The sound was not loud so I couldn’t hear it clearly here.
I moved forward little by little to hear the sound, and soon I came to a place where there was a hole underneath between the vents.
I carefully approached the hole and peeked my face out to look down.
The sight that came before my eyes was a large number of people gathered in one place and standing still.
If you look closely, the people’s appearance was unusual.
One by one, it was a mixture of the demons I knew well and the humans… It was the fusion of the demons and humans that Boyd had shown so far.
The good news is that the demons that have fused with the people here are all low-level monsters.
Looking at the demons here, no matter how high their level is, they don’t seem to exceed level 40.
If you have received Freya’s buff, wouldn’t it be a problem if all those guys attack you?
But what are these people doing here?
I looked a little closer at the space below me.
Many people who have fused with demons just stand there without even making the slightest movement.
This is probably something that the person who brainwashed me manipulated into standing here.
But I still have no idea what on earth they are doing here.
Then, the voice I heard earlier came from below.
“Wow, I can’t believe there’s so much trash left to use for experiments. Are you glad you came here?”
In a large space, I noticed a person standing in a place where many instruments were gathered.
The voice I just heard seemed to have been spoken by that man.
Her long black hair was not properly groomed and was disheveled, and I thought she might have been here for a while.
The man is sitting in what appears to be a laboratory, looking at the people gathered in front of him and smiling unpleasantly.
“What other experiments should we do today with so many test subjects?”
The man came down from the laboratory and passed between his hands, touching the faces of those who stood still without any movement before him.
Is that the person who manages this place?
And what about the experiment I just mentioned…
Just by looking at it now, it doesn’t look like it’s very good at fighting, but I decided to watch a little longer.
Because right now, it’s more important to get as much information as possible rather than fighting the enemy.
It is more efficient to leave the battle to my characters who are better suited than me.
I have to get as much information as possible and decide what information my characters don’t know.
Through the Frash Kingdom, the Voids even brought Elion’s bugs, which my characters didn’t know about, into this world.
I couldn’t even imagine seeing synthetic monsters and my characters didn’t know anything about them.
If a completely different enemy appears, other than the demons we are familiar with so far, it may cause unexpected damage to us.
So, to prevent that from happening, I need to get as much information as possible and make an accurate decision.
In particular, Arceus is an entirely unknown enemy, so we don’t know what he will do when he battles us.
I focused as much as I could to see what that guy below was doing.
“Hmm… I’ve decided that today will be just you and me. Come here!”
The man below pointed to certain people and snapped his fingers, and those people slowly walked forward and went up to the center of the laboratory.
The two people who went up to the center of the laboratory faced each other and did not move.
The black-haired man followed him into the laboratory, and the two looked and raised their hands.
“Okay then, let’s begin!”
With those words, the man lightly slapped his palms and made a clapping sound with his hands.
“K…Kwaaaaa!”
“Kuaawaaaaa!”
At that moment, the two people who had not shown any movement began to howl loudly and began to attack each other.
That was a move not simply to measure each other’s strength, but to kill the opponent with all his might.
“Oh, good, good! This is how these guys fight.”
As the black-haired man watched the two people fused with Demons fighting, he took out his notebook and began to diligently write something down.
Looking at that figure, it looked as if it was recording how a person fused with a demon fights.
Why on earth are you doing this?
Completely unexpected events are unfolding before our eyes.
They brainwash people, capture them, fuse them with demons, and now make the two fight?
The man clearly called this an ‘experiment.’
For what purpose is this experiment?
An experiment is making a hypothesis and directly observing a phenomenon to prove it.
So what kind of hypothesis is being made to watch the fight between the two?
“K…Keuaa…”
Thud!
While I was thinking, one of the two bit the other’s neck, causing the other to fall to the floor helplessly.
“Oh… The demon called Ghoul won this time. Besides, I now know clearly how to attack… Well, good job, scum. Get out of here.”
The man below said, snapping his fingers as he looked to see who had knocked down his opponent.
Then, a tentacle stretched out from an angle I couldn’t see, picked up the person used in the experiment and the two dead people, and instantly dragged them in the direction they came from.
That… Is definitely a spider’s tentacle.
As I was looking through the small gap in the vent, I couldn’t completely see the space underneath, but it seemed like there was a spider at an angle I couldn’t see.
Or maybe there are people like the people below who have fused with Spider.
“Then shall we continue?”
The man below then repeated the same thing as before, selecting two people and having them fight each other.
