Chapter 408 – Clues
“Karen, you needn’t be afraid. They gave their bodies for our savior. They gladly accepted it.”
‘They? I didn’t see them as such people. What happened in the meantime?’
“Come on, Karen. It’s finally time to meet the savior. Stand in front of the altar.”
Karen moved in front of the altar.
“Karen, get on her knees.”
As Karen knelt down as instructed, she heard Cedric and her disciples chanting incantations behind her.
The blood that had been spread on the floor slowly rose up.
The blood floating in the air coalesces and takes on a human form.
Karen couldn’t help but stare at the mysterious sight she had never seen before.
She had never seen proper magic from Cedric before, but this made her feel something great.
The clumps of blood formed a distinct human shape, and a tall, robust, black-haired man stepped onto the altar.
‘He is the savior.’
“Oh oh…”
“Sir, it worked!!”
Cedric’s voice full of emotion and joy was heard from behind.
Karen had been with them for quite some time, but it was the first time she had ever seen her show her feelings like this.
The savior’s indifferent gaze turns to them.
“Here, I have prepared a pure virgin as a sacrifice.”
Cedric’s words trembled, perhaps because of the emotion.
A red sword was created in the savior’s hand.
‘Sacrifices…’
Karen felt a little uneasy.
The cold corpses strewn across the floor caught her eye.
‘No way…’
A small doubt welled up in her mind.
Should I run away or not? That moment when I was contemplating.
-Suddenly!
Single sword.
In the blink of an eye, Cedric was decapitated by the savior’s sword. And his disciples, Tommy and Thomas.
The bloody blacks that cut off their heads scattered and disappeared as if they had finished their work.
“Don’t you have any clothes to wear?”
The savior’s question relieved tension.
Doubt was groundless.
Cedric kept his promise.
A promise to meet the savior.
Karen felt sorry for her momentarily doubting Cedric.
Is it an illusion that the expression floating on Cedric’s head as he rolls on the floor looks a bit unfair?
His life is precious
Perhaps he too would have regretted it in the end.
I didn’t want you to do it this far…
Karen didn’t understand Cedric’s great kindness for sacrificing herself, but she was grateful.
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Karen woke up.
She dreamed of the past.
She suddenly felt her uneasiness and involuntarily looked around her.
She saw a dark-haired man sleeping next to her.
When she saw him, she was relieved.
‘Doran… Was he my father? Why did Cedric do me such a great favor? Why did he sacrifice himself and his disciples to send me a savior?’
I still don’t know.
Now it was pretty good.
Life with him now was extremely satisfying.
Karen said that being with Bark made her feel secure like she had never felt before.
She was sensitive to the gaze of others.
Contemptuous eyes like Doran and the villagers.
And Cedric’s unrecognizable, uneasy eyes were not felt by Bark.
As Cedric said, the savior felt a warmth that he had never felt before.
Even though she must have known that she was abandoned by the goddess.
‘Cedric. Thank you.’
She prayed for Cedric’s rest in her heart, hugged Bark tightly, and went back to sleep.
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When she logs out after spending quality time with Karen, she has a message from Chaos.
Although she accesses it through a virtual reality capsule, she doesn’t receive messages immediately when she is in Pantera.
This way she used to check messages after she logged out.
Of course, if she had any real urgency, she would tell them to come to the capsule and disconnect.
「Chaos: While the Master was playing games… No, trying to make contact with Goddess Terra, we made a really hard effort to find Helena. To the point where I wondered if the soles of my feet were worn out by about 0.1 mm. The point of this research is…”
The long message was needlessly appealing for a long time that he had suffered.
Looking at it, the main point seemed to be at the end.
She quickly posted the message up.
“…I have an important meeting, so I would appreciate it if you could come to my room.”
There is only one important meeting that Chaos speaks of.
It’s about Helena.
I got out of the virtual reality capsule and headed to Chaos’s hotel room.
Did you find any clues?
The search for Helena’s whereabouts was still sluggish.
It was difficult to find data about Helena online, as if they were controlling information.
We got a hint from Kaura’s words and changed the direction of our search.
He searched for demons who could be said to be historical authorities in this city, met them, and began investigating Helena’s information.
Of course, not me, but the Celestia guys.
As a result, I was able to learn something about the demons and Helena’s past activities to some extent.
That’s not what we wanted.
Where is Helena now?
I still had no idea about it.
However, the message from Chaos gave off the nuance of having caught something.
In Chaos’s hotel room, Celestia, Chaos, and Suni were already sitting on the sofa and talking.
“Did you wait?”
“Unho, you’re welcome. It looks like you’ve found a clue to Helena’s whereabouts.”
Celestia saw me and welcomed me.
And I was able to hear an unexpected story from them.
“The Helena Liberation Front? What else is that?”
“Simply put, it’s an organization that resists Hellion’s dictatorship and tries to recover Helena, the ideal leader of the past. Since it has such a goal, it’s highly likely that she knows where she is now trapped.”
“Was Helena such an ideal leader?”
“I don’t know. They probably didn’t live in that era either?”
The lifespan of demons was not as long as expected.
I thought it would be thousands of years, but they say it’s hard to exceed a thousand years. Of course, there were exceptionally powerful demons with long lifespans.
“Isn’t it a group of people who only look at Helena’s achievements and follow them? The past is bound to be glorified. At the time, she was called the goddess of magic engineering, so it’s good to instill illusions.”
“Or… Is it that Hellion is spreading a terrible tyranny right now?”
The lives of the demons I have lived and seen here seem to be enjoying a more advanced civilization and peace than any other world I have ever lived in.
“Well…I don’t think that’s the case? Master lived here and felt it too, right? A leader can’t satisfy everyone. It’s not strange that people who don’t like thousands of years of dictatorship come out. Right now, only the earth Even if you do, you don’t have a good perception of dictatorship, do you?”
When you say that, it seems like that…
Are all places where people live the same?
Sunni shrugged her shoulders.
“From what I’ve seen, I think Hellion is better than Earth’s leaders. Honestly, the level of information control on Helena is cute.”
Hellion is the ruler of the stars.
If he is the true ruler of the planet, he will be able to annihilate the demons.
If the current me would give me time, he would be confident.
There is no way that Hellion, who can say that I am the ruler of this planet, can do what is possible.
However, the demons didn’t seem to know about that fact. In Pantera, there is no religion like worshiping Terra as a god.
There is no such thing as great respect or following, let alone religion.
Rather, there is even a group that talks nonsense about driving out Hellions like the Helena Liberation Front.
To leave this alone
“…”
From the perspective of a ruler with great power.
The demons’ complaints might look cute.
It could be that Hellion is not having fun with ants that are too obedient.
Come to think of it, Terra didn’t seem to be very involved in the affairs of humans.
“The Helena Liberation Front. It’s a grandiose name, but it’s probably not such a great organization. There’s something similar on Earth, right? There are various environmental and human rights groups… You can think of it similarly.”
Hearing that sound, the group called the Helena Liberation Front suddenly looked shabby.
“It’s like a group that operates in the shadows as it openly expresses its opposition to Hellion.”
Chaos supplemented Suni’s explanation by the side.
“…Does such a group know about Helena’s location?”
“Since the history of that organization is about 300 years old… If you haven’t been playing around with your nose for a while, wouldn’t you surely know more information than we do?”
Come to think of it, what Chaos said made sense.
As much as I was putting up such a title, I would have investigated Helena… Even if I had played half of the years, it would have been 150 years.
When I thought about it that way, it seemed like it was okay.
Does it feel like you’ve taken a step towards finding Helena now?
“So, can I contact them?”
“I think so. But I think it will be a little difficult here.”
Celestia answered my question.
“What do you mean by hard here?”
“It seems that the area they are active in is the city of Zefia.”
“Zepiah?”
My questioning gaze turned to Suni.
“Probably the number of demons.”
“So…We have to go to that city?”
“Shouldn’t you be doing that?”
