Watashi Ga Betsu No Sekai De Umarekawatta
17-8: The Holy Grail Under the Royal Capital
I handed Demon Sakuramochi to everyone, moved to the top of the underground cave, and made a passage that went straight to the underground cave with earth magic…
After descending this passage in an instant, I arrived at the cave…
It's a very large cave…
It has an elliptical shape with enough space that can accommodate the entire stadium inside…
And, the heartbreaking thing was how the ground was filled with several hundreds of mummified corpses…
Judging from the shabby clothes, they were the corpses of laborers, prostitutes, beggars, orphans, and beastkin people…
I understood that they were not killed as well as seeing the dust piling up on top of the corpse
I'll bury him properly after this incident is over…
There was a bonfire burning on the opposite side where I descended on the interior of this cave, and a golden cup on a purple pedestal…
It might be the Holy Grail…
Some men wearing purple robes around the Holy Grail shouted something…
Comparing it to the men, it seemed that the Holy Grail was about five meters wide…
Sometimes I feel an unpleasant wave of magic power from the Holy Grail…
I'm gonna stop this ritual before anything weird happens…
I jumped to the place where the men were performing their rituals…
"Who are you…!"
"Are you blocking the ritual…!"
"Pretend to be a stupid hero…!"
The man who shouted while removing bubbles from his mouth wore a purple coat that covered his head and had buffalo horns on it…
This man seemed to be the second son of the Nobles who protected the members from the Light of Liberty…
This noble's second son was the only one who did not participate in the ritual…
He can't chant……
"Sakura's colored allies…"
The second son of the Nobles will say something, but I did not wait until the end, prioritizing stopping their ritual…
I quickly attacked every member of the Light of Liberty with a 2-3 Short Stun…
White sparks flew when magic hit the bodies of the members, but they could not really stop it, and it managed to destroy them…
The members fell to the ground while vomiting blood…
Of course I didn't kill them…
Some relatively high-level people mixed between them, so I just shot them enough to make them faint…
"R-ritual…!"
The second son of the Nobles fell down and could not stand up when he saw the members suddenly fall unconscious…
This guy is the only one with low level 3, so I didn't shoot him with Short Stun…
He'll probably die if I do…
I hit him with my palm while holding back a little, fainting the second son of the Nobles and it turned out that they were already dying…
I can question the details later…
The Holy Grail is more important now…
I moved next to the Holy Grail…
The holy grail is filled with a transparent clear-colored liquid inside…
This clear-colored liquid was most likely a substance created from magic power…
Just getting closer to the Holy Grail, I could feel the pressure from the Magic Essence (Mana)…
It felt similar to the pressure coming from Excalibur when it was fully charged…
However, unlike with the holy sword, I felt a terrible fear, or rather something similar when you listened to a disagreement, such a feeling of rejection came from this Holy Grail…
Well, putting aside personal impressions, I should quickly do something to the Holy Grail…
First, I tried to put it in my storage as it is, but it was impossible…
It was unavoidable, so I thought of neutralizing it by draining its magic power…
I slowly touched the Holy Grail and drained its magic power……
There was some strange resistance…
It felt like the magic power being drained would be reabsorbed if it stopped focusing…
I drained the magic power as if forcibly pulling it…
I put the magic power drained into Durandal…
>Skill [Curse Resistance] Obtained
> Skill [Chaos Resistance] Obtained
Oh, it's been a long time since the last resistance skill I gained…
Now I should be fine even if chaos comes crawling in…
"You stupid hero…!"
"Cursed be the Holy Grail and reach demon lord hod…!"
"Be reborn as a messenger of the Evil God and be our brothers…!"
The second son of the Nobles who saw me touch the Holy Grail laughed loudly while still humbling himself on the ground…
He's awake, yeah…
I seem to be holding myself back too much…
I am currently concentrating on draining the magic power of the Holy Grail rather than neutralizing the second son of the Nobles…
The magic power that I absorbed back when I only allocated the skill points earlier…
The magic power within the Holy Grail was very much as expected, there was still half of it even though Durandal was already full capacity…
While dumbfounded, I traded Durandal for a prototype holy sword made of legendary metal from my storage, and drained the Holy Grail's magic power into it…
"No way... "
"It takes several months to drain the magic power of the Royal Capital Source, you know…?"
"Only one person should not be able to do anything..."
The noble's second son who had laughed loudly until now turned into a half-smile, and furthermore he began to speak in delirium…
I've drained the Holy Grail's remaining magic power to about 1%…
I can only capture and bring them to the King after this is done…
It seems that our girls are fighting evenly with Demon Sakura Mochi, I want to quickly settle this and join them…
"The plan is to incubate His Majesty into a new king…"
"Damn you Pahlawaaaan…!!"
The second son of the Nobles repeatedly cursed me like he went crazy while glaring at me…
However, it seemed that he had actually done nothing…
When the magic power of the Holy Grail was left around 0.5%, the Holy Grail began to quiver strangely and make strange sounds…
Before I knew it, tar was like a pitch-black liquid gathered at the bottom of the Holy Grail…
It seems that this tar-like liquid is the reason why there is resistance when I drain the magic power of the Holy Grail…
The tar-like liquid at the bottom of the Holy Grail moved like an indeterminate life form…
"Tusk Fly Swarm Summon (Summon Moskoff)…"
One of the fallen members had finished chanting unnoticed, and called out a flock of flies the size of a fist…
"The Faith Death Soldiers (Animate Undead)…"
This time the other members used soul magic, turning the mummified corpse into an attacking undead…
The other members had also fired all kinds of elemental magic…
I might have made them light as normal humans…
I should prioritize throwing these people out for now…
I paused while trying to neutralize the Holy Grail, and faced the current situation…
I destroyed the magic that came to me with Break Magic at all times…
It seems that Break Magic worked for the undead made with soul magic, which was attacked by my Magic Break returning it to a corpse once again…
I burned the flying tusk, the fly swarm with the Fire Shot…
On the other hand, the members took a white rod-shaped object, lifted it into the air, and shouted suicidal things like they were praying…
"O Long Horn, eat our despair in exchange for tyrannical power…"
That Long Horn was supposed to be an item that could turn someone into a middle-class demon…
I remember the battle maniac boy who roamed with the third prince using it in the Capital of Duchy…
The members swung their arms to lift the Long Horns to their foreheads…
Like I'm gonna let you…
I used the Magic Hand to take the Long Horn out of the hands of the members and put it into my Storage…
Taking things from people who are recovering from a stun state is trivial…
I neutralized the members by using Remote Stun once more, and then tied them up with a magic sealing rope made from Thorn Foot ivie after completely snatching their equipment…
After I finished dealing with the members, I returned to the Holy Grail, and the pitch-black liquid that moved had turned into an oval-shaped crystal the size of a softball…
That item looks like it will curse you if you do as much touching it…
This is the Evil Thought Crystal (Evil Philosophy)…
Since the status of the Holy Grail is “chaos”, I am glad that it produced Nyarlathotep or something…
I was very lacking with the Evil God from the Demon Lord Dog Head before…
I want another favor for now…
Geometric purple lines of flashes sometimes appear and disappear on black sphere jets…
The colors and shapes were different, but it looked similar to the Crimson Treasure of Furu Empire…
I put Evil Philosophy into my storage…
I'm a little wary, but I'm not cursed or anything…
I wanted to let go if possible, but carelessly throwing it away could create unnecessary incidents, so I couldn't do it…
I might throw it into the sun or into nothingness…
Evil Philosophy seemed to act as a burden earlier because the Holy Grail could now be moved, so I stored it in my Storage…
It seems that he can gather and absorb magic power, so I will make use of it when I make the Moving Fortress and Flying Continent one day…
With this, the revived strength of Demon Sakura Mochi should have weakened…
Furthermore, if that person Mito can do something about magic circle in the sky of the Royal Capital, I should finish off Demon Sakura Mochi…
Lastly I have to be careful about whatever strange situation goes on behind the scenes I guess…
Looks like there's a perp, maybe I should check it out for a second…
I made the summoning magician of the highest level among the members to drink stinky salt, making him recover forcefully from the shock state…
"I will hear your purpose…"
"Our goal is just one…"
"Destroying Source through demon…"
The summoning magician strangely answered my question obediently…
So they are really just ideologists who have stuck to the idea of destruction…
"And then, we will one day release the same Demon God from the moon prison, destroy the ranks of the Gods and bring the world back into human hands…"
Wow…?
They are not just ideologues seeking collapse, do they also intend to spread knowledge to the world…?
"With the same Demon God leading, humans and only humans will build a true world…"
"At the dawn of that day, our Light of Liberty will bring prosperity to the world as its leader…"
They dream of the impossible…
The idea is similar to that of a dictator who imagines world conquest with weapons of mass destruction…
Perhaps, the person who created the organization of these people was intent on fighting the Gods or rather their avatar that was knocking down civilization just like the Corpse did…
The name of the organization is Light of Liberty, I think it may have originally come up with a slightly nobler idea…
However, as a result of these long years, the original ideal seems to have become a mere shell of its past…
I interrupted the summoning magician who was still continuing his words, and changed his question…
"I'll listen to your chirping later…"
"Speak the things you planned to do in this Royal Capital…"
"Hmph, you are the overseer of a foolish God who cannot understand the ideal…"
The summoning magician kept his mouth shut as he spoke from before was a lie…
I want to do torture even though this won't take much time…
I brought in the Light of Liberty and the organizations connected to it…
Before I knew it, the members of the Light of Liberty who were in the Royal Capital were only the people here, and the high-level scouts who had infiltrated the royal palace…
I wonder if the other members have left from the Royal Capital, they have suddenly disappeared…
Or maybe, they had become demons using Short Horn or Long Horn just like these people tried to do before, come to think of it, there were some demons who were with Demon Sakura Mochi…
Then, the other members who became demons were annihilated by my magic, huh…
Well, with demons, there was no other choice but to exterminate them, so worrying was futile…
The purpose of the scouts who had infiltrated the royal palace did not seem to be the killing of important people…
He infiltrated the palace underground, either into the Forbidden Library or the Treasure Room…
All right, I'll use this information…
One second after the summoning witch shut her mouth, I stopped thinking and continued her question…
"It's fine if you refuse to speak, but the Mirage Polporo who infiltrated the royal palace has been captured underground, you know…?"
"Why do you know Sir Polporo…"
"Did the Earl betray us…?"
"Earl is our piece that we've been hiding for you, a rank bastard from the beginning…"
By the way, Polporo is the name of the lookout…
The second name seems to be Mirage…
"Then, Earl Bobi also instigated for the Orb to be brought to the royal palace…!"
Huh…?
That's the name that came up…?
I'm sure it's the name of the Nobles protecting them instead...
If I recall, he was the previous Earl of Bobi who collaborated with the Wings of Liberty who revived the Demon Lord Orc in the Capital of Duchy…
Perhaps, he was not only the previous Earl, but every generation was also behind the Wings of Liberty…
This guy might just mislead me, but I'll take note of it for a while…
More importantly, the Orbs…
I searched in my memory if there was an Orb that these people needed…
The Gift Orbs that Jeril and the others got were, Chant, Light Magic and Poison Resistance…
For us, we found Appraisal Items, Water Magic, and Paralyze Resistance…
No Orb should force them to create this much confusion…
Chant has a lot of value from my point of view, but I understand that my sense of value is unusual…
Let's try to push him for a second…
"So the goal is the Orb…"
"Kuh, if we can't get our Orb, we have no choice but to give up on hatching His Majesty..."
Necessary for hatching…?
If I'm not mistaken it's a jargon about demon lords…
There was nothing like that among the six Orbs I had thought of before…
There might be another Orb in the Royal Capital…?
I'm looking for a Gift Orb…
There was…
The other four were in the Treasure Room under the ground of the royal capital…
I found Diamond Body, Meditation, Succession God
and Demon Summoning…
Demon Summoning was the most likely...
Succession God is a second possibility I guess...
I will ask the King to destroy the first...
I think the prophecy of the Parion temple [Catastrophe under the cherry trees] refers to this Orb...
"You watchdog, you can kill us..."
"There is no need to be glued to this ground now that our desire to hatch has collapsed..."
"Although this life ends because of our helplessness towards you, we will take our revenge on the next life after reincarnating into a demon...!!"
"Well, I'll look forward to the moment..."
The summoning magician shouted as he gritted his teeth with unrestrained fury...
The body of the summoning magician trembled like he had a seizure, the sound of his teeth shivering within the cave...
It was noisy, I think I'll make him faint and bring him to the royal palace...
His teeth are a bit rhythmic...
The shoulders of the summoning magician enlarged with a voice...
The status of the summoning magician had changed to Demonic Possession...
The tooth rhythm from before is a mantra, huh... ?
"BARROROW"
A demon with a cicada-like face appeared as if tears were coming out from the body of a summoning mage...
He used his body as a summoning fee, huh...
It may be a desperate counterattack, but you just die like a dead dog, you know...
I took the Holy Sword Durandal from the Storage, and cut off the demon cicada...
A trace of blue light left black dust in its place, I brought the members with Magic Hand and the shackles to the royal palace
"I've caught the culprit who called the greater demon, look... "
"Shifo same... !"
"L-then, who fought there... ?"
"They are our knights, you know..."
"I hand these people over to you, please take care of them... "
I handed over the members of the Light of Liberty and the second son of the Nobles to the Prime Minister and the palace knights, and went to the next location
After teleporting in front of the Forbidden Library, I retraced the path leading to the Treasure Room...
Arriving at the Treasure Room, the door had been left open, there were about 10 corpses of knights guarding the room...
Surprisingly the Summoning Demon Orb and the Succession God were untouched...
However, the scouts had escaped from the royal palace...
Did he escape after learning that the plan had failed... ?
Or did he mistake the other Orbs... ?
At present...
My Chant Orb has been stolen...
The other five Gift Orbs had also disappeared...
The scout had the Item Box skill, so he hid it in it....
I won't forgive him...
I closed the door of the Treasure Room, and informed the Prime Minister about the situation of the Treasure Room and the scouts...
Then I connected with the King with the Telephone, unilaterally telling him that I would guard the Summoning Demon Orb and the Succession God and then I placed two Orbs into my Storage...
Whether they will be destroyed or returned, putting them inside my Storage might be safer until this incident is over...
"Lina, can you hear me...?"
"Uy, uy, that's obvious..."
"How's it there...?"
"I've dealt with the Holy Grail underground..."
"Is it alright if I let you guys be the opponents of Demon Sakura Mochi for a while... ?"
"Mochiron(of course)... "
"Then, I'm counting on you to buy time...."
"Silverfuhn..."
"You really don't mind if we beat him, do you...?"
"Yes, if you can, just do it..."
"But, do not force yourself because it can be revived by yourself... "
"Kufuu, making my jokes ignored becomes a habit..."
Geez, he really is someone who can't feel the tension...
I tell everyone, “Be careful not to get hurt”, and then go to the park at the royal palace...
Alright, after capturing the thieves and taking the Orb, I will give the cruel last words to Demon Sakura Mochi, and go towards a happy new year...
With that determination in my feelings, I flew in the night as cherry blossom petals danced in the sky of the royal capital...
