Fifth day of the fire month of Fyolnar.
In the upper floors of Volance palace, the joyful laughter of Violet could be heard in the morning.
“Bwahahahahaha”
“Sun….”
“I~I’m sorry.”
Yuusuke had a nosebleed and fainted due to Sun’s seduction which was then found out by Violet. Currently he had become a laughingstock due to that event.
As the dance festival and vacation was over, Sun and Yuusuke had arrived back at his mansion in Sanc Adiet yesterday night and had rea.s.sumed their corps duty today.
Earlier this morning, as they were reporting to the palace for work, they were pestered by Violet who wanted to hear the story about what happened during the duel. As it was the day for distributing the next set of divine arts rings, since Sun was the one watching the duel from the special seat, Yuusuke asked her to explain to Violet and went to the resting rooms of the palace corps to deliver the rings by himself.
When he saw Hivodir taking a break in the resting room, he wondered about Violet’s reaction to hearing about the dance festival, by the time he had returned, the story had progressed to the events that had happened in the evil G.o.d shrine.
“But, I~see. It wasn’t because Yuusuke was dull after all.”
Grasping the meaning behind the events, Violet rubbed her side.
“Rather than that, what about the previous topic?”
For the time being, Yuusuke was trying to put in the effort to change the topic. As it was for the modified beast research, Yuusuke proposal was to go on a trip to find information on the research organization in former Nossentes and Gazzetta.
“Ah~for that…. I have to consult with my father first, thus it will have to wait till tomorrow.”
“Okay, please go ahead with it.”
“As expected. What will Gazzetta do from now, it still isn’t clear...don’t look down on that man.”
Yuusuke’s proposal to directly go to Gazzetta caused Violet to frown, it seems that his proposal was in agreement with King Es...o...b..s’s decision to draw out information from Gazzetta. ~~ Yuusuke’s effort had seemingly paid off.
The Central tower, Patrucia Nost~~
“Inquires from Blue Garden?”
The letter was sent in the name of Queen Risha, within the letter, it wants to pursue on the crimes made by the ex-supreme officer on a pretext of magical beast research within the research organisation of the former Nossentes, to discover whether such a thing had existed.
Shinha presumed that the letter from Blue garden was in fact asked by Fonclanc’s side as he based off the recent incidents that had occurred near the borders of Trent Rietta and Fonclanc, thus Ayuukas nodded in agreement to his theory. And it seems that he was right.
In the end, Yuusuke’s trip to Gazzetta was being shelved and Fonclanc’s royal family adopted the plan to attempt to contact Gazzetta through Queen Risha.
The reason, to bet on the close personal relationship Queen Risha and King Shinha had shared.
“If they’re looking for information about the modified beast, please don’t use this kind of tactic…”
“Is it possible to be taught to other researchers?”
“No, the informations was being held back. However, it seem to have stirred up agitation instead.”
“Hoho, this kid Shin is also being troubled about it.”
The village seer Ayuukas. .h.i.t Shinha for the bad move he made, exposing his immature acts and making fun of him being like how he was during his youth days, being referred to as a kid, Shinha made an unpleasant face.
“....anyways, how long will you be staying here old lady. Quickly return to the village.”
“My house is here.”
Once upon a time, this village seer had been living in Patrucia Nost, as she said that she fluttered her hands in the air and went out for a stroll in the sky garden. Sending her off , Shinha wonders how many years have pa.s.sed for this old lady who treats all the people around her like kids.
“On the front it might seem like that, but it seems a little more convincing is needed...:”
Shinha was sighing as he was writing a reply letter.
“Risha-sama, we have received a letter from Gazzetta’s King……...”
“Letter?”
Rishause received Gazzetta’s response to the inquiry regarding the research inst.i.tution of the former Nossentes. The contents in the letter could have been summarised “We have some information, but prefered to not spread it around.”
Rather than a formal letter, it was delivered in the form of a personal letter from King Shinha, as it seems that the inquiry made by Risha this time was a request by King Es...o...b..s was found out.
“....? I wonder what does this means.”
A mysterious message was affixed at the corner of the letter, “to prepare for the return of the apocalypse.”
The contents of the letter were immediately reported to Fonclanc, the bureaucrats of Volance palace realised that Shinha knew about the modified beasts but was deciding to keep that information to himself, as they wondered whether Gazzetta was planning to use these modded beasts as weapons or not? This was the question on the minds of a great number of people.
But, what should they do about Gazzetta’s hostilities, thus a few split opinions occurred.
“Like I said we should organize a punitive force! Before it’s too late, we should strike Gazzetta before they build up their army!
“It would not be best to aggravate them, Gazzetta went to great lengths and pain to acquire that country, they would not want to see war and invasion before their very eyes.”
“Yea. The Artless were just reclaiming their land, why would you want us to send our divine arts people to go through all that trouble. When we already are putting all our efforts on improving this country.”
“Isn’t that too easy-going!”
The war faction wants the subjugation of Gazzetta as they believe that the mystery of the message was an advance notice of an attack on a Divine arts nations. The destruction of Nossentes was a disaster for the Divine Arts user society, and they are suggesting that these modded beasts might cause another major disaster.
Although the pacifist faction agrees on the interpretation of “Disaster”, they believe that Gazzetta is warning them through their “reply”, from now on to antic.i.p.ate the victims of these modded beast.
Without a doubt these divine arts researchers have created modded beasts that were a threat to divine arts users. Previously, the Blue Garden saboteurs have released the prototype beast into ranches owned by Fonclanc, and the irony that the event seems to have served as a warning.
Within the war faction, there were extremists who believe that these barbarian artless are without any upbringing and so they couldn’t possibly to show such humane actions. While the pacifist faction believe they have underestimated and criticised Gazzetta.
However, the artless having no culture and recognising that they know there is a lack of culture in the artless, Zeshald’s disciples had pointed it out and criticise.
As the debate of the mystery messages rages on within the bureaucrats, Zeshald had gotten hold of the contents of the message from Reifold’s intel network and it seems that he had a different interpretation.
“King Shinha….he seems to know quite a lot about the Evil G.o.d of disaster.”
「シンハ王……彼奴らは災厄の邪神について色々知っておるようじゃからのう」
Somewhere in Gazzetta within the village of the White clan, there was a consolidation of 3000 years of history records about the evil G.o.d.
Once, Shinha had mentioned to Yuusuke in front of the walls of Puala, Gazzetta’s opinion on the Evil G.o.d was that they were “prepared for the recurrence of the disaster”, thus Zeshald was wondering what he had meant. Was the history of Kalticio similar to the current situation?
“The recurrence of the disaster” one would normally point and think to be the evil G.o.d, or perhaps it indicates the modded beast. The former was a suggested motive to awaken Yuusuke as the evil G.o.d, thus all the more one should avoid letting Yuusuke go to Gazzetta.
The latter, during the reign of the past evil G.o.d who had descended, it implies the existences of such modded beast.
“The white clan, the era of the prospering Artless what kind of world was it….?”
Ninth day of the fire month of Fyolnar.
“As I thought it would be difficult.”
“Un...I believe the circ.u.mstances seems to be alright, but is it because we’re missing something?”
In the created cultivation facility located in the bas.e.m.e.nt of Yuusuke’s mansion. Razshia was currently in the middle of advancing the cultivation of the solar moss and it seems that she had reached the limit for the current step.
“The tree that the moss clings onto is the key, I will need to take a trip to Trent Rietta.”
“....could we get an excuse to go on a trip?”
「……旅行の口実にしてるんじゃないだろうな？」
“Surprise!”
“Haha well, let’s just ask Violet.”
Yuusuke and Razshia were being completely frank between themselves, as it was just their easy-going style.
As It was time for him to head to Sorzak’s shop, although Razshia should be considerate about Yuusuke’s appearance and humble herself when she talks to him whenever they are outside of the mansion, however, there doesn’t seem to be a gap between the inside and outside of her words, as she felt that Yuusuke reminded her of her dear family.
To Yuusuke, Sun and Violet are of a different importance from Razshia.
“Hmm, It’s okay if it’s Trent Rietta.”
“I see. Alright time to go prepare.”
The modded beast scandal in Trent Rietta is beginning to fade, thus the trip to Trent Rietta was easily given the OK.
For now, the Darkness G.o.d Corps will go the the production area for the solar moss, the sister city of Trent Rietta “Driardria”, the mission was to research on the tree that the solar moss cling onto. This time, other than the attendant, Sun, Razshia will be going too as the research a.s.sistant.
“I will be antic.i.p.ating on the creation of the Rin lamp.”
“If the cultivation succeed, we could replace the lighting of the palace with Rin lamps.”
“Ooh! I will be looking forward to it.”
Today, Violet was testing the motorized vehicle in the training ground, as she was smiling happily and looking forward to the souvenir she requested from Driardria.
In the seas of trees of Trent Rietta. Where the creeper vines and vegetations thrive, one white rock stands out. At one glance, it looks just like a normal rock in the seas of tree, and from this rock that is standing out an armed divine art user whose shadow could be seen in a defensive stance.
“Soon it should be time for the change in shift.”
“Ahh, finally I can eat some decent food.”
“I currently can’t hold it anymore….I would eat anything, even their meat..”
「俺は当分無理だ……肉とか絶対、吐いちまう」
“That kind of thing could get some use to you know, become accustomed to.”
A natural cave which was turned into a underground research facility with some work. In this place living things were being developed to become weapons, currently a special kind of drug is being researched.
In the beginning, it was a facility to clinically test new drugs on the human body, unintentionally they began to use the captured beasts for trials and to see if they were able to refine a new kind of drug, during these experiments, these drugs were administered to the magical beasts thus endowing them with some unique abilities.
The researchers who discovered this, more or less continued their experiments and research on it. They worked out a simple way to hypnotise the beast allowing them to give it simple commands. But as it was out of the facilities’ scope of research, they had to fund this research from their own pockets in order to continue.
There was a period of time where they were in need of money in order to continue funding their research, thus they approached an illegal merchant to sell their product, and they sold the beast soldier model secretly to the neighbouring country.
Due to the destruction of their original country, during the time of escape, they gathered every machine, funds, and research data they could get and went into confinement, they then began their everyday research with the aim of completing the “Magical beast soldiers”.
Without a place to return to as their homeland was destroyed and the inhumane research they have done, they themselves realised that they would not be recognized. In that case, in order for them to survive, they had decided to secure a place and food for themselves.
Powerful magical beast soldiers, modded beast reseach and development, these people who lost their country decided to gamble their faith on the “project”.
Being released from the tradition and formalities of reporting to the Divine council, in order to acquire more funds, they had heeded the illegal merchant’s advice to go under a new leader, thus removing any remaining ethics they had and immerse themselves into their research.
In a st.u.r.dy cell that rivals the room of magical beast research facility, in the corner where the eyes could make out, a grumbling and muttering of a member in charge of the a.s.sortment of drugs was being called out by his colleague.
“Oi, let’s go have some food.”
“This is…...ah….I will come immediately….the experimental specimen…..it’s brain is degenerating…..”
This researcher was tasked with the job of researching why there was an abnormality with wild reared modded beast.
20 days earlier in the scheduled reports, in a certain nest which was in range, something had attacked the modded beasts, during that time, the nest was set on fire, but for some reason they didn’t move away from it.
As a last resort, they sent an order to the modded beast using a “magical flute” to attack the adventurer group which had set fire to the nest, but they had the tables turn against them when the group had used a bow user which countered the divine art obstruction disorder.
Thus these countless days, he had been pulling an all nighter and answering in a muttering tone, seeing that, his colleague gave up and headed alone to the dining hall. Still tinkering with the modded drugs for use on the magical beast, he took no notice on the door shutting behind him.
“Ah”
To acquire such a poor quality container even though there were sufficient research funds, the container dropped and scattered onto the bed. Luckily, he was able to gather enough of the liquid drug’s contents avoid having to remake it . However, that was just the only lucky thing that happened.
“As long as there is still this, using water to dilute the solution would pose no problems” slowly losing his ability to think properly this researcher nodded his head to affirm himself, using a cloth he bent down and soaked up the liquid drug.
“....u…..uh……...fu…….fueee”
Being poisoned by the drug, he began having powerful illusions, bringing him into a state of excitement, which caused his built up stress to be release. Unable to control his pent up emotions, he opened one side of the drawer of the desk.
“uuuh…..open! Open up! uu…..i can’t stand this anymore!e!”
「ううう……開放だ！ 解放なんだ！ うう……嫌なんだよっ もう！」
His hazy sight fell upon the many cages that the capture wild beasts were contained in.
“Rele….ase….”
「かい……ほう……」