The duo reached the castle, and a vampire welcomed them.Vampire: Welcome home, Monster Lord…
Alice: Yes, thanks for your work here.
Vampire: Tamamo wishes to provide a report. Please, proceed toward the hall…
Alice: Very well… Marco, you are still able to comprehend human language or you need to sleep?
Marco: I"m still ok… *Yawn*
Then Marco followed Alice down the hall, meeting with a group of kitsunes licking or sucking on CDs.
Marco: ...What the h.e.l.l? Am I already starting to hallucinate?
Alice: Urgh… Foxes! What horrors are you planning, all a.s.sembled together like this!?
Tamamo: After searching through that lab, we found even more… CDs… As Marco call them. There were so many, I had to a.s.semble most of the Kitsune race to help decode them.
Alice: d.a.m.n Kitsunes… Anyway, did you find anything out?
Tamamo: Our a.n.a.lysis on the Spirit"s Seal has advanced quite a ways. They set up four towers through the world, each with their own generator that focused on maintaining the seal. They are placed at the North and South poles, and on the two opposite extremes to the East and West.
The seal is focused through the four towers, and brings about the seal on a global scale.
Alice: Four towers… That sounds troublesome. That"s quite a lot of effort to neutralize Marco, if you add the collar he had before…
Tamamo: It seems like these studies were begun long before Marco was even born, with the exception of the collar, which was started some months ago, before he left the Illias Continent.
Marco: ...Can we use the Four Towers?
Tamamo: Hooh? Why do you think that?
Marco: When you reach a sword in the ground aimed to you, would you leave it there or pick it for you?
Tamamo: That"s a smart theory, and I can affirm that it"s possible. Since it"s already a device set to seal something on a global scale, then why not using them to interfere with the holy powers of the angels?
Alice: But does a powerful seal like that even exist? Something that can interfere directly with holy energy… It sounds like a G.o.d-like power.
Tamamo: I wouldn"t bring it up if I didn"t have something in mind, you idiot. There"s a seal that exists to interfere with holy energy. Have you heard of a place called the "Sealed Sinner"s Prison" on this continent?
Marco: Heinrich"s grave…
Tamamo: ...Hmm, so you"ve already visited it.
Marco: Woman, the only place I didn"t visit in this world is the Navel of the World.
Tamamo: Nice, there"s a seal there, keeping Heinrich"s soul trapped away. The seal Illias used is incredibly powerful. If we divert that, we should be able to interfere with their holy energy.
Alice: That"s a good idea, Tamamo! If we do that, then we can launch a worldwide counterattack!
Tamamo: Next, we need more information. In order to a.n.a.lyze the method, we will need to directly record some data onto these CDs. We need to go to the Sealed Sinner"s Prison and perform it on site. Since we would expect enemy interference, someone strong would need to do it…
Marco: Tomorrow, I"m dead tired…
Alice: Leave it to us.
Tamamo: ...Then we"ll entrust that to you. if you practice a little bit, you"ll easily be able to learn how to record data onto the CDs. I"ve already started keeping a diary on a black CD myself.
Alice: d.a.m.n fox… Anyway, we need to go to rest… Especially Marco…
Marco: You are G.o.dd.a.m.n right… *Yawn*
Alice: ...Now then, Tamamo. How about the Six Ancestors" Great Seal afflicted on me?
Tamamo: there"s very little information about that… We still don"t know how they developed it, or what equipment they"re using. We don"t even know how to detect where it came from. It"s like there"s no clues at all…
Marco: That"s not very little information, that"s nothing at all… "Where was the Drain Lab… I have it at the point of the tongue… Fa… Fe…"
Alice: Urgh… I want to return to my original body… *Sigh*
While she was getting stressed, a vampire came by.
Vampire: Monster Lord, the Queen Elf and Queen Fairy have arrived. Shall I keep them waiting?
Marco: "Fairy Island! It"s there!"
Alice: No, send them in. We just finished our discussion.
Vampire: Understood…
The Vampire opened the door, letting the two Queen-cla.s.s monsters through, they looked tired, but otherwise uninjured.
Queen Elf: It has been a while, Monster Lord. I hope your travels have treated you well…
Alice: ...There"s no need for the formal greetings. As a guess, did the forces of Heaven drive you away from your island?
Queen Elf: I"m ashamed to say, but we withdrew before they could attack. The majority of the Elves and Fairies have relocated temporarily to your Castle. The immense enemy forces made me wish to avoid useless sacrifices. Forgive me…
Alice: … There"s no need to apologize, withdrawing was the correct course of action. The Elves and Fairies may stay in the Castle for a while.
Queen Elf: Thank you dearly… I also have a report about the enemy"s movements. Humans that were captured during a.s.saults have been relocated to our island. They seem to be centralizing their prisoners of war there…
Tamamo"s ears perked up.
Tamamo: ...I couldn"t help but hear that. I believe there"s a place there called the Drain Laboratory. It"s a facility built under the ground on that island, where they drain men"s s.e.m.e.n… There were some records about it on the CDs…
Queen Elf: There was something like that under the ground of our island?!
Marco: "So tired..." The device to seal Alice is at the Forest of Spirits…
When Marco said that, everyone turned incredulously at him.
Marco: ...Terrain full of energy… Perfect for researching… Strange presence of chimeras… Possible place for a laboratory… Undine"s Spring is impossible for Erubetie… Gold Volcano is impossible for heat… Desert is impossible for giant worm monsters… Forest of Spirits is possible for the childish behavior of fairies…
*Thump*
Marco: Zzzzzz….
Tamamo: ...Oh my Dark G.o.d… That…
Alice: ...What happened?
Tamamo: ...I don"t know, Alice, please take him to the bed, he really needs a rest after saying so many useful things…
Alice: Yeah…
Alice lifted up Marco"s sleeping body and dragged him to the guest"s room to sleep.
Yao: That was incredible for an half-active man.
Tamamo: You have no idea… Thinking everything in less than 5 minutes before collapsing… Now we have more clues, let"s search the CDs to see if there is anything else strange.
Kitsunes: Yes!
[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
2nd. Kill Illias
3rd. Return to Lucifina"s grave
4th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and h.e.l.lgondo
5th. Make Alice happy
[EVENT QUEST]
1st. Kill Illias
2nd. Save as many people as possible: [27498/???]
3rd. Defeat or Kill Promestein
4th. Defeat or Kill Black Alice
5th. [Optional] Kill as many angels as possible: [33/???]