Chapter 54 Remnants (6)
I was looking at Laurie inside the studio.
Originally, the workshop was not to weave, but to be saved as an image as my skill from the beginning.
Intruders who enter it are clearly visible.
‘Laurie can’t see the inside of the workshop.’
When I first entered the studio, the inside looked clean and well-done. I knew it was a place where no light could seep in, but the inside was bright nonetheless.
However, that is my point of view, and it seems that Laurie, an outsider, is not.
“The mana consumption is… … It’s not that different.”
The studio is a storage warehouse to the last. In order to move the objects in it, you also need that much mana.
Just because it’s in there from the beginning, it’s much faster than weaving in real life.
I can’t get out of the enemy, and I can play tricks on my opponents from a safe position, so it’s very evil.
… … It seems that this was not the original use.
“Then slowly.”
I opened the workshop door.
The door opened smoothly, without even the usual squeaking sound. Maybe the workshop is natural for that.
And in front of me who walked slowly,
“Uhhh… … .”
Somehow, there was Laurie repeating a thin breath.
Laurie is in a state where her limbs are immobilized because of the weapon I have fired. Most of the weapons were spears, and the arms and legs were caught on spears that were shot in three directions, making it impossible to move.
If I had to describe it, it would be like hanging a mannequin on a clothesline to dry it.
“Hmm, you have a bad face.”
When I opened my mouth, Laurie then raised her face in the direction I was in. Clearly, in Laurie’s eyes, this place looked too dark.
However, the eyes are still not dead. Although I couldn’t see exactly where I was, those eyes blazed with hostility toward Ogi and me.
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No matter what“Aren’t you hurt? I thought I was aiming well while avoiding it.”
“… … You’ve been vigilant, Frontier.”
Laurie mumbled something. Whatever it was, Laurie had a smile of conversion.
The moment I met Laurie’s eyes, her green eyes lit up. The pupil opened wide, revealing a unique pattern inside the pupil. Intense magical powers boiled from his eyes and rushed towards me.
“Frondier de Roach, this restraint now,”
“I’m sorry, but I didn’t.”
I cut off the confident Laurie. Laurie’s expression hardened as it was. The change in his expression was so intense that he even felt sorry for something.
Laurie’s main specialty is ‘hypnosis’. It’s a slightly different ability from the emotional change that Edwin suffered from Hephaestus, or Serp’s business card. In other words, it is the ability to make the opponent ‘drunk’.
It does not require special conditions like Hephaestus or Serp, but it is less compulsory.
Although Laurie’s hypnosis is still more powerful than the other normal ones, and it’s excellent enough to create a new personality when used as self-hypnosis.
“It doesn’t work well for someone you already know. There should have been a surprise attack, but that also failed.”
To Laurie, I would have thought this was just a surprise, but to me who already knew it, it was neither a surprise nor anything.
‘… … But I didn’t know it would work like this.’
I read the properties of hypnosis and was a little nervous. Just in case you didn’t know, I was wearing it. Even if it wasn’t strong, I thought I would get a shallow hypnosis, and I made up my mind to wake up right away.
But it didn’t work at all. If it had worked even a little, there would be no way Laurie would make such an expression.
‘Is this simply because Laurie’s hypnosis was weaker than expected?’
“… … Kill me, you idiot.”
Laurie relaxed her body as if she had given up. It seems that hypnosis was just the last corner to lean on.
I looked at Laurie’s body for a moment. Well, I still have minor cuts on my arms, legs, and sides.
This is not my fault. This is because Laurie moved freely when the weapons were fired. If I stayed still, I wouldn’t be hurt. It wasn’t because he was injured while avoiding it, but because he was arrested, there is no way to explain it other than that he moved his body in surprise.
“Aren’t you going to tell me yet?”
“I told you to kill me, yaah?!”
I knocked the entire workshop sideways. Literally, as if pushing a rectangular Lego to the side, he knocked it down like that. What used to be the floor became the wall, and the wall became the ceiling and floor. I saw Laurie floating in the air, bound and hanging on its side.
“Kill it, kill it, every time I do anything, even a song, I scream.”
“How, oh, oh, this… … .”
I meant to make fun of it, but Laurie didn’t get angry and muttered with a puzzled look. There seems to be no time to be angry. In Laurie’s eyes, it must have felt like heaven and earth were turned upside down.
‘Laurie was careless about me. I couldn’t have imagined what I would do when I was arrested like this.’
That is, quite some time.
Maybe that’s why Laurie’s mentality is shaking so much right now. It is caught by an unexpected person at an unexpected time and place, and there is no follow-up action.
“Actually, I have no intention of killing you.”
“… … ?”
Laurie frowned and looked at me. It was a face he wanted to say something nonsense.
But it’s not bullshit.
“I tried it before, you know, but you can’t get out of here. He is now arrested and unable to move. If you don’t agree to the deal, I’ll just get out of here.”
Of course, there is some pretentiousness here.
Weaving a workshop uses less mana compared to weaving other weapons, but there is a continuous consumption anyway. The weapons used to restrain Laurie now as well. So, after a long time, the workshop will disappear anyway, and Laurie’s restraints will be released.
However, the consumption amount belongs to the insignificant side in the present state of eating Dragon Heart.
In addition, mana is recharged by itself after time passes, and I am recharged much faster than others who have repeatedly exhausted mana.
If I don’t do anything else with mana, it will take at least a week for this workshop to disappear, given that my body recharges mana and currently consumes it.
‘You can’t kill Laurie in a week, but it’ll be enough to make you think that this workshop will last forever.’
He purposely put it in the workshop, restrained Laurie in a flashy way, and even knocked the studio aside.
This is a bluff aimed at Laurie’s psychology. A method of convincing Laurie to believe that this mysterious space is something that can be dealt with and will last forever.
“The next time I come back here is in a month.”
“Hey, a month… … ?”
“If you have nothing to say, think about it for a month. That would be enough time.”
“… … .”
Fortunately, Laurie did not ask for anything to drink or food for a month. If I had been that stupid, I would have been really tired.
“I don’t want you to think I’m lying. I’m tired of convincing him. It’s almost certain that you’re aiming for your father. Even if you don’t have to tell me everything, it’s enough for me to get you here.”
Whether Laurie is personally active, or who is above this guy.
Either way, the mere fact that Laurie is captured would be a small and large loss. If it’s a situation where Laurie is moving alone, well, this is the end of the situation.
If Laurier was aiming to kill Ampere, I would have given up. It is not possible for an individual or a single group to do such a thing.
Ampere doesn’t belong to the ‘Zodiac’, but that was just his choice. If you’re trying to kill Ampere, it’s enough to just laugh at her stupidity.
But Gregory and I also know that that’s not Laurie’s purpose.
“Then I will ask you one last time.”
“… … .”
“What is your purpose? Why did you attack me?”
I did not put any hostility or livelihood in this question.
It wasn’t really a threat. I told everything the truth. This question is the last, and if I don’t answer it, I will leave this place.
Like I said to Laurie, I’m not going to be away for a month, but holding it for a week would be quite beneficial.
“… … .”
A color of concern appeared in Laurie’s eyes, but her mouth did not open.
‘Hmm.’
My impressions were that. Laurie chose not to answer. It was entered into my head, and I just output it accordingly.
I turned back. proceeded towards the entrance.
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Now that I have Laurie locked in, I need to be prepared to prevent anyone from approaching Ampere or me. First, tell Gregory,“Come on, wait.”
When I opened the door halfway, I heard Laurie’s voice. I wondered if I wanted to until I opened the door. Did you say that you change your mind when you see the light leaking through the door in the darkness of nothing?
“I don’t know if I said a minute.”
“No, I will tell you. What was the purpose of the attack, and why?”
“I’ll tell you, you’d better just call the information before you say it.”
I opened the door wide. Laurie may be trying to pass the time. Maybe it’s because I requested support from a contact I don’t know, so it’s better to be quick.
I went out of the studio and checked the surroundings. Hmm, there is nothing that falls within the range of Menosorphos yet.
But nothing will change. If Laurie’s information doesn’t matter, I’ll just leave as it is.
“Yes, I have witnessed a monster worship from beyond the walls of Yeranhes!”
stand tall.
There I stopped.
It seems that Laurie has more useful information than I expected.
“I was sent to see if it was Ampere’s work, huh?”
I unlocked the workshop. Laurier, who was hanging from the wall, fell from the air along with his weapons.
With this, Laurie’s restraints were lifted, but I tend to make deals. Laurie must have known for sure that he wouldn’t be able to run away from me anyway. If you try to run away again, there will be no condition of ‘no injury’ next time.
“You mean monster worship? Humans are worshiping demons outside the barrier?”
Are you saying humans are still living somewhere outside where the monsters are infested? I asked, trembling at the possibility.
But Laurie’s answer was somewhat disappointing to me.
“No, the opposite.”
“the opposite?”
“When I say worshiping monsters, I don’t mean worshiping monsters. The demons were worshiping something.”
“… … this child.”
Dare to confuse people?
Laurie saw my expression and quickly waved her arms.
“Hey, I didn’t lie! I just said that because I was in a hurry to shorten it!”
“It’s a lie, who uses the word ‘monster worship’ like that.”
“… … That’s right. sorry.”
Laurie apologized as if she was sorry.
After being released from prison, Laurie became somewhat honest. That strangely stiff tone of voice is still there.
“What do the demons worship?”
“I do not know either.”
“If you answer that way one more time, you can make me really know nothing.”
“It was a huge chunk of ice! No, it was glacier! It was a huge glacier that soared like a mountain. Even the demons saw them tumble and squirm in the freezing cold ground. It looked like the inside of the glacier was filled with something black.”
… … it’s black No, it’s a fragment of Helheim.
The demons outside are worshiping the fragments of Helheim.
“How big was it?”
“Is that the glacier? it was awesome It really could be described as a mountain.”
Prison Warden Esther said it was ‘a great lake sleeping in a glacier’. It seems that was not an exaggeration.
“Why do they worship it?”
“I don’t know for sure, but from time to time something black inside the glacier came out and turned into something like a monster. It was exuding a vicious and sinister energy as if it was not of this world. At least it was a monster I had never seen. And whenever that monster comes into contact with another monster outside,”
“… … It means that the black color of that monster was buried by a monster outside.”
“okay. Those buried there grew stronger and more ferocious. The blackened part became very hard. I think the demons were fascinated by its strength.”
So when Laurie attacked me with a goblin, they had Helheim fragments on them.
… … no.
“No, it can’t be. The goblins I was dealing with were too weak to be outside. Even if it’s stained with that color. They were probably monsters that lived in hiding within the wall. How could you put that color on the goblins?”
Could it be that Laurie is lying to me even after coming to this situation?
After all, was it an easy idea to dig up someone’s information without getting hurt? From now on, Laurie’s body is just
“… … My hypnosis also worked for that black monster. I just brought one and buried it in a goblin.”
“… … her?”
Did that hypnosis also work for the monsters made out of Helheim’s fragments?
‘… … .’
After thinking for a moment, I said.
“That hypnosis is more amazing than I thought. I thought it was a remnant.”
“You’re weird because you don’t understand!!”
Laurie exclaimed.
It was the most feminine voice I had ever heard from her.
Lol, mental-polution resistance is too high