Chapter 811 – Day 93 – The Princess Sets Out to Find the Remains of a New Old God.
Although the princess had a pleasant and satisfying night, she could not stay at the academy forever.
“Princess? Asmo and her children have found meaningful information sooner than expected.”
“Hasn’t it only been half a day? They’ve already found it?”
The princess came out happily after taking a bath with Hedone and held the pure white paper handed to her by Ceres, who bowed to her with both hands.
“Isn’t this the paper used by ancient demons?”
“Oh my?”
“Anyway, that’s not the point…”
While naturally drying her body with Hedone, the princess looked closely at the contents written on the paper.
“It looks like they’re really investigating the facilities of the ancient demons faster than expected. Let’s see, okay. You’ve already found a place where the remains are?”
“That’s right. Asmo and her children’s exploration abilities were beyond my expectations.”
“Hmm, yes, that’s perfect. I’m a little worried that there hasn’t been any good news from Arisa yet… Huh?”
The princess, who had been carefully examining the paper, frowned when she saw the map showing the location of the remains.
“Wait, wait, are you really saying there are remains of the old gods here?”
“Yes, the chances of Asmo and her children making mistakes or misjudging are extremely low. Especially since they are using magic to record their locations.”
“There are the remains of an old god here…”
The princess looked at her paper for a while, her expression became serious, and Hedone, who was wearing nothing, hugged the princess from behind and looked at her paper over her shoulder.
“Oh my god…”
As soon as he saw the location on the map, Hedone couldn’t help but be surprised.
“It seems like the Pantheists didn’t really appear out of thin air for no reason?”
The princess could not deny Hedone’s words.
* * * *
“Buenos. It is a territory very close to Colonia.”
The princess had no choice but to get her own carriage from her academy. She was eager to continue using Ceres’ playground as her portal, but she had a fatal problem.
Last time, she wandered around the demon world smoothly without any incident, but in reality, Ceres was exiled from the demon world. A body that was even cursed by Eve Terra, who was called her mother.
Wandering around the demon world with Ceres was like taking a risky gamble that had a 50% chance of ruining all plans.
“Also, it has been known as a place infested with Pantheists for a very long time, right? I know that the pantheon in Colonia was also created by the people of Buenos.”
“Well, Buenos has been around for a very long time…”
The princess folded her arms and fell into deep thought.
“It was a land of nothing special.”
“Ha, haha… Ceres speaks for me when I say words that are truly difficult for a princess to say.”
Hedone thought for a moment and smiled.
“Is it because Buenos is a place with a lot of swamps, unlike Colonia, which is a wide plain?”
“That’s right. A long time ago, it was part of Colonia. But now it is called Buenos, and part of the swamp and dense forest have been cut off and called a fiefdom.”
“It is called the County of Buenos, but Buenos is a difficult place for people to live in, so much so that it can be compared to the village of Eze, to the extent that there is no proper distinction between baronies.”
The princess’s expression became more bitter as she remembered the village of Eze, where she suffered for a long time after losing her memory.
“It seems as if there are the remains of an old god in a place like that…”
“Buenos has long been abandoned by the people of the Church of Saints. It is not for nothing that it is called a cursed land.”
“Ah, I heard that story. High Priest Grace also wanted to help in some way, but he couldn’t do anything because he chased me out from the village entrance with a spear.”
The princess sighed and nodded her head.
“I think we’ll be treated the same way as everyone else, so let’s do it this way.”
The princess took her finger to the County of Buenos, a corner of Colonia ruled by Diana Redblood.
“Originally, this is the only road leading to the largest and only village in Buenos.”
“Other places are swamps or the trees are so dense that you could call them jungles.”
“Yes, if the Pantheists also guard the road, they can guard this swamp, right?”
Ceres and Hedone nodded at the princess’s words.
“Isn’t our goal neither to meet and spread Christianity with the pantheism nor to fight against them?”
“That’s right. To put it plainly, all we have to do is find the ancient demon’s facility, retrieve the remains, and send them to Arisa.”
“And the role of sending is…”
The princess pointed to the beads with strings piled up in the corner of the carriage.
“Didn’t Arisa tell you that you could use this magic tool?”
“Yes, Arisa, as expected of a genius wizard, is already using magic using portals.”
“Well, anyway, the important thing is that if you use this bead, you don’t have to carry the remains of the old god directly to Arisa.”
Nodding her head, the princess pointed with her finger to where it was obvious that her swamp would be full.
“In the end, it’s a matter of joining forces with people or walking through a swamp. What should you do?”
In fact, the answer was decided from the beginning.
There was no one in this carriage who did not know how vicious and violent the beings called Pantheists were.
* * *
“What idiot asked you to come this way!!!”
The princess, realizing the horror of the swampy area where she would be submerged even if she put her foot out just a little, grabbed her golden hair with both hands.
“It was me?! It was me! Damn it!!!”
The princess did her best to keep her head in check, but she had such tremendous power that she looked down on the knowledge and wisdom of the Buenos swamp people.
“The condition of the swamp is worse than we thought.”
“Ugh, this isn’t much of a swamp. She smells as disgusting as she did in Helheim…”
In her distress, Hedone took out from her pocket the mask Asmo had brought her from her basement and covered her mouth and nose.
“Ma, ma, do the Pantheists live in places like this because they like it?!”
The princess was dumbfounded and looked down at the ground and up at the sky.
“The ground is covered with swamps that look like they will sink forever if you take a wrong step! In the sky, you can’t see anything because of the trees growing so thick!”
As she screamed, the princess touched her sweat-covered armpits and the nape of her breasts with her hands.
“There! Why is the weather so hot?! Is this really part of Colonia?!”
“I think I know why this place was called the County of Buenos a long time ago and separated from the Dukedom of Colonia.”
“It’s a place separated so people can’t live in it?!”
The princess screamed and repeatedly put her feet out, panting, trying to find the little piece of clean land.
“Well, not like this… Not like this…!”
There is no answer if you continue to move cautiously like this in a situation where there is no time.
‘You still don’t know where the ancient demon facility is or where the entrance is?’
The princess screamed softly in her heart and had no choice but to make her decision.
“Ceres! This won’t work! Use your magic.”
“Yes? Princess, if you use magic, the Pantheists may notice.”
“But there’s nothing you can do about it! If you pass through this swamp quickly and don’t find the ancient demon’s facility and struggle, you might get caught by a passing Universalist!”
In the worst case, you may be attacked without finding anything. Since the princess’s logic was not wrong, Ceres was immediately convinced and held out her hand.
“We will freeze the swamp in the direction we need to go.”
“Yes! That would be good. First, let’s run in a straight line to the place Asmo showed!!”
The moment the princess smiled and shouted, Ceres used magic very quickly and froze the swamp in an instant.
“I’m worried that if I keep running forward like this, I might fall.”
“I will hold Hedone’s hand. It is okay for the princess to fall…”
“Isn’t that a bit strange?!”
Even as the princess said that, she was already excited and quickly ran in front of her along the swamp that Ceres had frozen.
Hedone, who couldn’t help but chuckle, carefully followed behind the princess, and the princess’s party continued her exploration by pounding through the swamp for nearly an hour.
“Ceres! Look over there!”
After running through the frozen swamp for a while, the princess found a perfect staircase leading down to the basement and pointed with excitement.
“Don’t you think this is the only way to go down to the ancient demon facility?”
“It certainly seems like the only way to go down to the basement is through the stairs.”
“It’s in a pretty good place.”
Hedone and Ceres were shocked, but it was just as the princess said.
Even though I looked everywhere, there was only a jungle full of heat and buzzing noises flying around.
Even if Ceres stopped using magic, it was a swampland that melted in an instant.
“Let’s go down these stairs. Isn’t it a simple matter to quickly transfer the remains of the old god to Arisa and then return to the carriage?”
You can receive Friday’s help as long as you find the ancient demon facility.
With that knowledge in hand, the princess began to carefully climb down her stairs with a bit of leisure, while Hedone moved while holding Ceres’ hand.
‘I wish things could go by so easily…’
Who are the Pantheists?
Ceres, who had lived a long life longer than the princess, knew very well.
