[Later]Marco was in front of the Grangold King, he was a boy around his 20", he had blue hair and a brown ring over his head, he was wearing white clothes with brown outlines, and had a white cape too.
Grangold King: I see, you were the traveler that defeated the Golem Girl! Able to defeat her… You"re amazing.
Then he let out an happy face that would made everyone slap him and said excitedly.
Grangold King: I want to hear stories of your adventures. Heart pounding, blood pumping stories of adventures and heroics!
Marco: *Sigh* Alright, do you have a chair?
Grangold King: Oh right!
Then he clapped two times and an Ant Girl with a chair came out, she put it in the middle of the room and Marco sat on it.
Marco: Ok, I will tell you about this story… At Grand Noah, the Queen"s Cup started, and I was one of the partic.i.p.ants…
Marco was talking about what happened on the Colosseum, all of his fights from the Dullahan to the Oni, obviously without telling him about Kyuba"s real ident.i.ty, as Alma Elma, and the Nine Tailed Gate.
*Ding*
*Special Quest[Successful]: Tell a story to the King of Grangold.*
It was going nicely, until an Ant Girl entered the Throne Room.
Ant Girl: EXCUSE ME, KING.
The Grangold King"s smile left from his face and said.
Grangold King: ...Do you need something? I"m with a guest at the moment, so I"d prefer it if you left…
Ant Girl: IT IS ABOUT THIS YEAR"S FLOOD CONTROL REPORT.
Grangold King: ...Ah, yeah. I"ll leave that all up to you.
Ant Girl: ALSO THE PROBLEM ABOUT THE DELAY IN GOODS IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
Grangold King: ...Ah, yeah. I leave that up to you, too. Please do whatever you think is best.
Ant Girl: ...CONFIRMED. EXCUSE ME.
Then the Ant Girl left the room, and the King said.
Grangold King: Ah, that was embarra.s.sing. In truth, I leave all of the government affairs to the Ant Girls. Thanks to them, I have all the free time I want. Hahaha.
Marco: I see… "How in G.o.d"s name is this city still alright!? Seriously, how many years was this guy here? 1? 2? 5? Or 10!?"
Grangold King: You saw it, didn"t you? The way humans and monsters live together here? Thanks to the monsters, no humans have to do any manual labor anymore. That"s why we"re known all over as the place where humans and monsters live together in peace!
After saying that, he started to laugh, Marco knew about what really happened, the king misunderstood everything about the nature of the Ant Girls, and tomorrow there will be a rebellion from the monsters. Now Marco just left from the castle with the King"s permission.
Outside, Marco found Alice, still carrying the usual amount of food…
They may change place.
Marco may change powers.
But it looks like Alice will be the same…
Marco: I think you seen how things are around…
Alice: Hmph… Yes, this isn"t coexistence at all… Ant Girls generally follow a leader and act as a group. But using them like this is abuse.
Then she turned around and watched an Ant Girl carrying some heavy boxes through the street as a few human citizens joke with each other as they watch.
At the other way there was another Mud Golem Girl carrying a bunch of bricks.
Alice: In addition, artificial monsters… The Magic Science used here has advanced quite far… But I can"t admire it.
Marco: Yeah, I think I will intervene here… But let"s wait tomorrow. Meanwhile, shall we take a look around the town?
*Ding*
*Special Quest: Fix the things at Grangold*
Alice nodded and followed Marco as they walked in the street, busy with working monsters.
They gathered many important informations that Marco already knew.
Gold Port is the place in Sentora where everyone hate monsters, and Illias Kreuz"s HQ is there.
At west there is the Succubus Village, unlike the name suggests, the place doesn"t have any Succubi living there, except for those hidden as humans… Soon the place, precisely 1 week it will be attacked from a group of Succubi due to an event that happens there every 100 years.
Aaaaand…
Marco: Jesus, Amira… How the f.u.c.k do you know where I go!?
Amira: It"s the power of love!
Marco: f.u.c.k love! That power is as much fake as the power of friendship!
Yeeeeah… Amira is back…
Amira: I am here to get any information you want!
Marco covered his face with one hand and sighed in exasperation.
Marco: For now I don"t need anything… I already have an idea about where Salamander and the remaining 3 orbs are…
Amira: Alright! If you want my help just ask and I"ll be behind you!
Marco: f.u.c.k no!
Then he walked away in annoyance, while Alice, with a curious face, followed him and left Amira alone…
Alice: How do you know about their locations?
Marco: First of all, like the other spirits, Salamander should be in a place where her element is more present, and the only place that has that characteristic is the d.a.m.n volcano at south-west from here, about the orbs, I can confirm the location of 2 orbs, but not the last one…
The fourth one is at the Kraken, the fifth one is probably at the sea queen of the north, and the last one could be in 3 places, the Navel of the World, which is an almost non-existent possibility, h.e.l.lgondo, and the sea.
We will think about the last orb when the time comes.
Alice shrugged and followed Marco to the Magic Laboratory. It looked like a cathedral, and there were many people repairing the Golem Girl that he broke, when an engineer stopped them.
Magic Engineer: Ara, here for an inspection? There are a lot of things I can"t show you, so I can"t particularly welcome you.
Marco: So this is the place where the Golem Girl was made…
Magic Engineer: Yes, this is where we refine our Magic Science. Grangold is the most advanced in all the world.
Marco: Yeah… The most advanced…
Alice knew what he was talking about since she saw him building something called "Engine" with just pieces of metal, and it made move a big ship at a speed it shouldn"t be possible under her standards! So she wasn"t really that impressed with the technology here.
Alice: ...I"d like to ask a question. How do you issue orders to the Ant Girls?
Marco: "Nice, Alice, nice way to be subtle…"
Magic Engineer: That"s cla.s.sified, so I can"t say too much… But they basically recognize human orders as coming from the Queen Ant.
Alice: You can do that…? Anyway, where is their true leader, the Queen Ant, located at?
Marco: "Yeah, let"s ask about how to break the system to give commands to the Ant Girls, too, why not?"
Magic Engineer: Hehe, you want to know? The Queen Ant is in the bas.e.m.e.nt of the castle.
Alice: Is she sealed…? Can humans do such a thing?
Magic Engineer: How it was done is cla.s.sified. But since it was done, the Ant Girls have become quite useful.
Alice: Such absurdity… A Queen cla.s.s monster was sealed by normal human"s power…
Magic Engineer: I"m awfully curious… Are you perhaps a spy from another country? If so, you can"t duplicate it in other countries. Because it"s only possible using the cutting edge in Magic Science.
Marco started to laugh, unable to resist after hearing the arrogance of her words about their technology. The Magic Engineer was a bit annoyed and asked.
Magic Engineer: Something to say about it?
Marco: Yeah, sincerely, I"ve seen better.
Magic Engineer: Excuse me, but this is the most advanced city in the entire world! There is only the best!
Marco: Yeah, yeah, continue to believe that… Give me some pieces of metal, tools and your explosive dust.
Magic Engineer: What do you plan to do with that?
Marco: The proof that I can do better things even with this c.r.a.ppy magic.
*Ding*
*Special Quest: Surprise the people in the Magic Laboratory.*
Magic Engineer: Tsk… Guys, you heard him, give him the items he asked.
A few of men nodded and walked away to pick the things, while the Magic Engineer turned towards him with a smirk.
Magic Engineer: I want to really see what you plan to do… But I a.s.sure you that we can do everything you can do, and even better.
Marco: Yeah, whatever…
[Later]
*Ding*
*Special Quest[Successful]: Surprise the people in the Magic Laboratory.*
Marco finished to build the thing he wanted, and left the place with a dumbfounded group of workers, a frightened Magic Engineer, and a dead guy…
After that, he gone to ask about more informations, and got this.
In the Lady"s Village, the male part of the guests that came in the village disappears, but women don"t have any issue, leaving a Village populated only from women.
Ca.s.sandra, a woman that Alice surely knows, and secretly Marco, too, is the lord of the Lady"s Village. When Alice heard her name, she thought about telling Marco to not go, before sighing and remembering that he would go there anyways and he is strong enough to defend himself.
Right now they walked into a inn since it was getting dark out.
Marco: Still, there is something really wrong about this town…
Alice: About the slavery?
Marco: No, I have a bad feeling about what will happen tomorrow…
He was just bulls.h.i.tting, he already knew everything. Alice turned back in her monster form and talked.
Alice: But more importantly, how did Grangold seal her…? Even if every human soldier here attacked her at once, I doubt they could have sealed her…
Marco: They could have used the area around them, they could have made an alliance before betraying her, they could have used the Ant Girls as hostages, they could have hired someone strong to seal her, they could have built something to use against her.
There are many things that they could have used to seal her, who said that attacking her is the only metho-
Before he could finish talking, someone knocks at the door. Marco walked at the door while Alice took temporarily the form of an human, and opened it revealing an Automata Girl.
Automata Girl: Excuse me, I came to provide you some service.
Marco: Huh?
Automata Girl: I"m a monster created to satisfy the l.u.s.ts of men. I"ve been programmed with the finest of s.e.xual skills, and boast the highest quality s.e.xual organs in order to service guests. Which kind of service do you desire?
Marco: I already have a woman many times better than you to satisfy my l.u.s.t and need of company.
When he said that, Alice silently blushed, but the red on her face left some instants later.
Automata Girl: But the meaning of my existence… I must give guests service…
Marco: Get away.
Marco closed the door, but the Automata Girl didn"t seemed as if she wants to give up.
Automata Girl: I can"t, I need to give my service to the guests, I was created for this.
The door opened, filling the Automata Girl with non-existent hope, before...
*Bang*
The Automata Girl fell in the ground with an hole in her head…
This is what Marco created at the Magic Laboratory, a gun, and a pretty strong one too. He had 6 more bullets now, 1 used against the guy who wanted to test the gun"s firepower, and this Automata Girl.
Marco closed the door and sighed in exasperation.
Alice: ...So…
Marco: Who cares, she"s a robot… You know what is the best thing? If the people here had a small bit of brain, they could do a weapon like this gun, but instead: HeY, lEt"S mAkE a RoBoT mAdE oNlY fOr s.e.x.
Alice giggled at Marco"s words since they were the truth. When she finished, she smiled sweetly and told him.
Alice: ...Well, I admire you refusing that doll"s service… Even if with a bit of force… And as a reward… I"ll pleasure you with my mouth like I did near the Undine"s Spring.
Marco sighed, but he still smiled, then Alice"s tail wrapped around his body but he didn"t resisted. Alice quickly pulled down his pants and underwear, and leaned over his body.
[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Kick Gabriel"s a.s.s
2nd. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
3rd. Kill Illias
4th. Return to Lucifina"s grave
5th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and h.e.l.lgondo
6th. Turn back to Sabasa Kingdom
7th. Fix the things at Grangold