Chapter 937 – Naunet (4)
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《Naunet is the primordial chaos that gives birth to life.》
Mandisa sat in the dining room of a shabby, unoccupied inn.
《Even the sun god is an existence that is old enough to say that it originated from Naunet. It is older than natural phenomena such as storms, volcanoes, and waves, but it is a mass of chaos without self.”
“I knew it wasn’t a person. Therefore?”
《It is said to have disappeared, but in fact, it probably wasn’t. The effective territory of Avizu-Sorg is quite large. Someone somewhere must have picked up a piece of Naunet or resurrected it.”
《Hmm.》
What comes to mind is the lair of bandits.
It is unlikely that the thieves summoned themselves. Did you make a deal with a warlock, or did you accidentally touch an artifact containing a fragment of Naunet?
Now that the thieves have lost their memories, it is unknown.
《Why did you create human clones with absorbed memories?》
“Is it important enough to find out?”
It is a reaction as if dealing with a science maniac kid asking annoying questions.
Whatever the reason, it is an existence that causes chaos in the social network. Whether it’s defeating or subduing, quick action is needed, but he might not want to talk in detail.
But I giggled and spoke persistently.
《Because if you know the principle of action, you can predict it.》
I am the one with the creed that ordinary people do not understand the mindset of criminals.
But profiling and understanding were separate issues. If we know why we are doing that, wouldn’t it be easier for us to set a policy before taking action?
《There’s no way that Naunet, which is just a fragment of the original, is attacking humans for no reason. It must have been manipulated by someone, or it must be part of an instinct to regain power.”
《What about giving birth to cloned humans?》
《The life of the placenta is born from water. It’s nothing to be seen as strange. If you’re really curious, it’d be quicker to actually find him and check it out.”
《It’s simple ignorance, but it’s not a bad way.》
At times, what we knew was too little to discuss with tabletop discussions.
─Tok tok. Then Veronica touched my forearm.
I’d like to ask you to explain to me. She explained in a nutshell.
“… What kind of being is the cloned human being?”
Veronica asked that question, so I translated for her. I was a little concerned too.
《… It is a creature derived from memory. The structure is the same as the original. Bleeding, beating hearts, creatures of flesh and bone. Maybe even give birth to human children.”
“But Anaksunamun isn’t a real human being? Asked her wife.”
“Memories are ambiguous and ambiguous. Did you forget the woman you saw at this inn? According to the soldier who sent her back, that woman was not originally such a dissolute woman.”
I noticed what she wanted to say.
《Regardless of whether he actually existed or not, he was born only as an image in his memory?》
“I am not the only one who was suspicious of a woman named Anaksunamun. Mahal’s lord was already investigating through the Federation. It is said that countless humans had memories of a woman named Anaksunamun.”
《Someone seems to have absorbed their memories.》
I remembered the question I had asked the lord.
At that time, it was just a question asked by the lord and I, wondering if Naunet had ever had his memory sucked. If I forgot her stolen memories, I wouldn’t even be aware that I was stolen.
However, looking at it now, it seems that there were many people who would have their memories stolen even if they were not lords.
─Yes, yes.
Mandisa, which fills the stomach moderately with bread from an inexpensive inn without a taste head.
“That girl is similar to this. In the memory of the black magician being taken away by Naunet, the ‘childhood friend’ must have been left as an obscene woman who betrayed herself and lay down with a man.”
“So you were copied as an obscene woman just like the image in your memory?”
《The dead who have not left their names can only live in the memory of the living.》
I stroked my chin.
If Mandisa’s story is true, clones are created only with images in their memories, like that childhood friend.
‘The alliance members must have thought that Anaksunamun was a real person and went looking for him.’
The investigators they sent would have been sharing what Anaksunamun and her son Imhotep looked like, including montage and the like.
‘She should have known about her relationship with Tirsi.’
But what if the members of the Noble League or their subordinates were robbed of their appearance or memories of their actions by Naunet?
‘Sufficient replicas of parents and children that never existed can be made.’
Then it is not strange that Anaksunamun exists.
There will be few contradictions or errors in their memories.
The ‘most reasonable possibility’ that the memory-deprived researcher thought would have become the memories of those two.
Unlike the black magician’s childhood friend, his background memory is recent, so there will be few contradictions in the time series.
‘It probably doesn’t matter too much whether the cloned person is a real person.’
Because the source of human clones is memories stolen from people.
To put it bluntly, if all the citizens of Abijou-Sorgue were lying and said, ‘Oh, the previous lord was a bitch who liked to wear women’s clothes,’ I would have thought that there was such a lord.
In fact, even if they were not, or even if they were human beings who never existed, the image of a group of people called ‘the transvestite gay lord of Abijou-Sogre’ is left in my memory.
‘He’s a human who only exists in people’s memories.’
It’s a philosophical thing. This is real sci-fi.
“This is all I can tell you.”
– Empty! Mandisa takes one shot of beer and puts it down.
Beer is cheaper than clean water in this country. Those who don’t drink may not be adventurous in this country.
“You understand now? That’s not human It’s just the offspring of a monster imitating a human.”
“That? Are you talking about Anaksunamun?”
“It means don’t interfere with killing. I’ll defeat it and use the artifact to find Naunet’s location.”
“What if I find out where it is?”
《… Get rid of it That’s why I came.”
When Mandisa said that, Veronica opened her mouth.
But when I shook her head, she closed her lips, and I spoke instead.
“It will probably be useless.”
“What.”
《The Authority that I saw through your shadow… Uhm, I found out with the superpowers of the master class, but I, Anaksunamun and his son, are just normal humans in terms of body and soul.”
《… I know that much. I should have already said it. The body is human itself. Anyway, the artifact I have is an object that can locate the parents on the corpse. It doesn’t matter who you are.”
What relic is that again? Oh, is it an artifact to find a den or parent monster when hunting monsters? It’s embarrassing that that applies to humans as well.
《If every drop of blood and every inch of flesh is completely human, should we treat them as human regardless of how they were born?》
She half-opened her eyes as if to control her emotions.
《Is the dignity of a fake human being born of lies worth that much?》
“Isn’t that a matter to think about after the Naunet?”
《… It sounds like you guys are going after Naunet as well.”
“Yes. I will.”
Asking a question, she turned her head. It was because she sensed a sign approaching us, and the person who actually walked toward us let out a resounding jade sound as usual.
“Right? Nord.”
《That’s correct. How did you know? Nefertiti.”
“Power of love. Love Power.”
Show me the finger V and smile slightly.
Aside from me, who was delighted that our fourth-dimensional girl’s expression had begun to grow, Mandisa was stunned as if she had seen the sun rise from the west.
《… Are you really Nefertiti?”
《Is it fake?》
《… I think it would be more persuasive to say that you really died during the subjugation of Immortalis, and that you here are fake. A lot has changed.”
“People change. Just like memories change.”
Behind Nefertiti, Tyrsi also showed her face. Waved her hand and asked.
“What about Anaksunamun?”
“You have calmed down now. By the way, things seem pretty complicated.”
“Not very much. It happens all the time.”
It’s enough to find, fight, and win.
I washed my hands and got up.
“Let’s call Loki.”
If it is the existence of the Age of Gods, the same would be true of the Ancients of Gods.
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“They must have gone to the Yatrau River.”
The Goddess Teultak, who had the expression that she was called after a rest and had gone on a good day, became serious as soon as she heard her explanation.
“If you want to restore your strength, you will. Naunet. It seems like yesterday that we laughed loudly about the time before we could die, but she came back as usual and really experienced all kinds of things.”
“Hey, the Yatrau River?! It’s too broad!”
Fran said with a smirk. It seemed that he had a desire to help find Naunet out of a sense of his own, and he seemed anxious to search the entire river that would be hundreds of kilometers long.
“What are you so surprised about? He said he was stealing her memories. But when I met you, I didn’t touch you. Putting that together and what I heard from the bird-headed gods of this continent in the past… “
Loki rubbed his temples and said.
“Looks like they’re only targeting the memories of evil beings. Then, based on the Yatrau River, which is the closest to here, we can find a place like the lair of warlocks.”
“I heard from Mandisa that there was a case of disappearance.”
“People in this town say, ‘That’s for a warlock! Don’t drink humans!’ Like the ones you found, he must have passed out for a few days in an unknown place.”
“You mean you’ve been treated as missing because you don’t appear?”
“Depending on the place and time of fainting, he might have died.”
Right. Convincing me and Dana frowning.
“Are you only aiming for a character-breaker? What kind of habit is that? He said he was a good god in his lifetime?”
Dana asked as if it was difficult to understand. Loki tripped him in his wagon.
“Do you judge good and evil by the behavior of a mantis or a spider? Well… It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it was evil, since I didn’t mind it after recognizing evil deeds by human standards.”
“Is it okay to just see it as a monster and kill it? It is said to be a divine being with a long history.”
“Get it done, get it done.”
─Whoop whoop. Loki shook his hand irresponsibly.
“The fact that they only target evil beings must have been influenced by humans. If it’s fallen enough to be affected by humans, and if it’s a small fragment, it’s no longer a divine existence or anything. Like you said, it’s just a monster.”
“That’s cool.”
Well, even the gods used to go to war with each other, but there is no reason to show hypocritical sympathy to Naunet, who is not even a real god.
Naunet now is almost like a zombie.
Larry Lura twisted her head into a corner.
“I understand everything, but why did you make it absorb only the memories of evil beings? Because that imprisoned man with amnesia is reformed?”
“Could that be? If you aim for good people, you’ll be noticed right away. It must have been an attempt to absorb more sinister knowledge by attacking the warlocks first.”
Said Veronica, with her arms crossed and a pose that seemed to unintentionally show off her breasts.
Lalilura like a light bulb turned on above her head.
“Aha! No one will see a warlock die badly, and less likely to be found out! Did you intend to become stronger by absorbing knowledge like that?”
“Yes. Couldn’t that warlock who was said to be imprisoned in the dungeon use the thieves to find fragments of Naunet, or relics where the fragments were sealed?”
“Those who stole golem cartilage did a good job.”
Even my cartilage wasn’t there. It must have already been disposed of, but most likely the prison warlock bastard stole it. Warlocks use golems.
So, if you clear the warlock dungeon, you’ll find a treasure. Victims cry.
Now let’s come and go. Fuck my money.
“Isn’t that a good thing? It’s a shame because they’re idiots who don’t even know how to do it, it wouldn’t have been a normal disaster if a really evil warlock had succeeded in completely controlling it.”
“Uh? So, are you out of control now?”
“Nevertheless. Fran did you hear that too? Warlocks and thieves lost their memories. It was successful in giving it direction, but it means that it was not a powerful person to control the fragments of a divine being.”
“Under. It’s not like a trite old story about mishandling an artifact and causing a catastrophe.”
“Alibaba and the thief in the other world are all behind. Let me express my regrets.”
When I giggled, Dana smiled too.
“Anyway, I have reasons not to let it go. All the big guys said their heads were broken by your hand, but if a really talented warlock remains and controls that Naunet, it’ll be fucked up.”
“That’s right.”
A crime tool that can erase memories. There was nothing good about being in the hands of criminals. Warlocks are going to shit on this country again, so I can’t leave it alone.
‘Because it’s not good for me if the world becomes chaotic.’
It was the same with the Golem business established in this country, and the hit rate of Future Foresight.
Rumbling, rattling—!
So, we turned the running wagon.
The destination is the lower Yatrau River.
The target is an ancient slime that produces clones.
‘Let’s do it quickly and finish Loki’s surgery.’
Then there’s nothing left to do, just go home and that’s it.
On the way back, you’ll have to get a ship as there’s no warp device, but that’s good.
‘Lehu, the 7P orgy is not far away!’
I burned my will to fight without my wives’ knowledge.
