The Voice On The Rival's Head

Chapter 33: Field Test (Part 1)

After greeting and chatting for a while with Caena Verite starting to go to where Mefras was, Caena said she was in the trial room to familiarize herself with her new body.

Verite went inside the room used not only to test Mefras' body but also to test Verite and Caena's ability in using Thaumaturgy.

That was why this space was spacious enough, to accommodate not only the Mefras but also the thaumaturgy magic used for it, in it, now this space had no contents in it to accommodate Mefras body and his movements but this space was usually filled with items related to the trials conducted such as the target board, which was used for the purpose,  water flush or even a lump of soil.

In this unfurnished white room stood a large figure that was clearly not a human being, with a height that reached three meters and a true bright red color attracted the attention of Mefras standing at the center of this test room.

He made all sorts of movements from twisting his hands to performing an inappropriate salto when seen by how large his body was, Mefras noticed Verite's arrival and began to turn towards her.

“Ah Verite, good morning.” Mefras came near Verite.

*Pov*mefras*

It had been three days since Verite had made his new body, Mefras still remembered the moment he transferred his consciousness from that small body to the large body he was wearing now.

Sitting quietly on a throne and clad in colorful cable wires Mefras feels he is seeing a science fiction series rather than one filled with swords and magic as he looks at his new body.

Unlike Mefras' complicated new body appearance, Mefras' transfer of consciousness proceeds in a simple way, as usual he returns to Verite's head and then Verite begins to insert consciousness into his new body.

After that for three days Mefras learned to use his new body, unlike the old body that he used this body has a variety of features and complex parts that Mefras can move so Mefras need more time to be able to move this body as usual without moving a joint that has nothing to do with the joint that he moves.

After three days passed he returned to the test room, on the way he greeted Caena who was checking up and maintenance equipment, Caena was a good boy, and he was a good boy, during this time of year he often saw her visiting Verite before Duke inaugurated her as Verite's assistant.

Caena also became her chatter companion during her stay in the lab these three days, he has spoken and played with Caena da Verite as a small construct so it is nothing new for Caena, during that time in addition to talking Mefras also invited Caena to play cards that he made himself.

Playing cards make him accustomed to moving his new finger, this finger is much different from his old finger that has a simple hinge and movement pattern, which is very simple, Mefras could count one finger himself made of more than ten moving parts.

Mefras would be puzzled by how his body could have structural integrity when he was made with a wide variety of small parts that would become damaged if only one of the parts was damaged but luckily Verite found the solution, a rare metal that not only has enough flexibility but also enough resilience to make a giant robot.

Surely the metal step was not cheap, and coupled with which stone Verite bought Verite spent all the money he could from that cooling machine to make the body of Mefras.

Mefras felt bad because if Verite used the money he could live comfortably into old age if Verite used it with heart, that was why Mefras wanted to help Verite in everything he could help because Verite could have ignored him but he took the risk and gave Mefras a second chance.

Now Mefras was standing in the middle of the test room to test his body's abilities again, he started by doing gymnastics movements then he ran around the room and in the end he tested his small join before trying to do a salto which surprised him he managed to do it.

  

If only he could eat and feel the sensation of skin touch, if this body could eat and feel touch more sensitive then this body would be perfect.

Mefras realized Verite had entered the trial room and completed her training.

“Good morning Verite.” Sapa Mefras, he moved to stroke the head of Verite who greeted him back.

“Good morning Mefras.” He said he didn't pay attention to the hand that was stroking his head.

“You're a little late today.” Mefras said that during these three days Verite came in the morning to check on Mefras' status.

“Iya,” Reply Verite. “I filled out the adventurer guild form before coming here.”

“Guild adventurer?” Mefras asked, “Are you going to go take the mission yourself?” Mefras already knew Verite often took adventurer guild missions to earn extra money, he seemed to have gotten used to doing risky work and it left Mefras not knowing what he should feel, he said, Mefras also felt uneasy if Verite left without someone accompanying her.

“Iya, I take light missions and you will come with me.” Say Verite.

“Huh, you want to do a trial huh?” Mefras asked.

Verite nodded, “Iya, I remember seeing your new body performance, I remember seeing if there were any problems we could find by doing this light mission.” Verite explained, it looks like he decided to do a field test.

“So what mission will we do?” Mefras asked, he knew the work of the adventurer guild, light work had various kinds of meanings from helping the local garden plant crops to exterminating the monsters that circled the city.

“We will go to the lotus village, people there need extra help in dealing with the monsters seen roaming.” Verite.

“Lotus village huh.. Looks like you also want to visit Datura.” Mefras said, the lotus village is the new name that Datura Village received when the asphalt road was completed, Duke Bloome himself who gave the name, it was, equating the village with lotus roots that spread and join like a road built and fused into a new trade route.

“Iya, I saw this mission available and thought hey I could visit Datura and test Mefras new body in one throw.” Verite replied, not rejecting Mefras' talk at all.

“Alright, when are we going?” Mefras asked.

“Now.” Verite answered.