Episode 21. Emperor’s Deal (1)
“Oh! Ohhh! Oh oh oh!!”
Tina couldn’t hide her excitement when she saw the ultramarine blue sea glistening in the moonlight. Stepping on her sandy beach, her vigor rose with momentum that pierced the sky.
“Oh! Sand! Soft!”
“Tina, you are noisy.”
“Ugh~!”
I inflate my cheeks as much as possible and pretend to be full. He blatantly sent me a signal asking me to comfort him right away.
“Me! It’s the first time I’ve seen the sea! You can get excited!”
…… Has he reached puberty? Talk back
“And master, why didn’t you stroke my hair before? Pet it right now!”
You want me to pet you when you’re already rubbing your head in my hands?
I looked at her gently and brushed her bangs. Her white skin was on top, and her cute face was completely exposed under the moonlight.
“You’re a fool, Tina.”
“Yes. I’m a lunatic. So please pet me quickly!”
“Yes.”
In the end, she pretended to lose her temper and stroked her profusely. It was a bonus to pinch her soft cheek.
“If you look at it still, it seems that Master only cares about Tina. First of all, I, too, am new to the sea.”
“…… Huh?”
What kind of appeal is that?
Iris quietly approached me and clung to me. Standing respectfully with her hands together, she rubbed her gray hair against my arm.
“I tend to be quiet so as not to bother Master. Somehow, like Tina, she’s active… That…… Ae, if you like aegyo…… Me too… ….”
“No. Tina is enough for a character like this.”
As for the troublemaker character, Tina is enough to make her head hurt. If the other warriors feed my child here, the mind and body might be exhausted from the stress of raising children.
“Ooh… …. I want to be silly too…….”
…… I guess so. Can’t we discriminate against just one guy?
Because they say discrimination can be distorted.
“I’ll give you time later. Do whatever you want then.”
I whispered in the ear of the whining Iris. Then her ears perked up and trembled. It seemed ticklish.
“…… Can I hug you?”
She lifts her tiptoe and whispers after me.
Ah……. Do you still have that left? How many left?
At first, she nodded.
“No count this time…… Are you okay?”
Aren’t you too shameless?
This time, he shook his head and expressed his affirmation.
Only then, Iris smiled broadly. Her tail flicks and hits her thighs. It seemed that she was completely relieved.
“…… So is Maria. Do it later.”
I hit the ball ahead of time.
Because it was obvious what Maria, who was watching quietly in front of me, was going to say.
“Did you tell me? Do I have to keep my promise?”
“Yes.”
After accepting the warriors’ flair, everyone started to move freely.
Now I was watching the waves from where the water of the sea came in.
“The water came all the way here.”
“No. Will more come?”
“It’s amazing.”
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Looking at the three warriors squatting and chatting, it seemed that somehow my heart was relaxed. Yes, you should take a break like this.
“Prause.”
As I was quietly watching the backs of the warriors, Ariel sneaked up to me.
“What is it?”
“Why did you come to the sea?”
“There is something to be found.”
“What is it?”
“A magic circle drawn by the Archmage himself.”
“A magic circle drawn by the Archmage himself?”
He was not the head of the Magic Guild with the current title of Archmage, but the Archmage who appeared shortly after the empire was formed.
The great wizard is very capricious, so he suddenly said he wanted to see the sea, so he threw away all his research and came here.
The landscape at that time must have changed a lot now, but a magic circle must have been drawn somewhere here. You just need to find it.
“Why are you looking for that?”
“I will combine the weapons made by the Spirit King here.”
“Combining weapons made by the Spirit King? Is that possible?”
“It is possible.”
If there is a magic circle I am looking for.
“For that I am thinking of calling Orient here—”
“Puha!”
Tina slams her head into the beach and quickly lifts it up.
“Whoa, voila!”
As I stare at Tina’s back in admiration with her eyes shining, she suddenly turns behind her and looks at me and waves her hand.
“Master! This is so salty! It looks like it was pickled in salt!”
“… It’s not eating.”
“Sometimes even a teacher sprinkles a lot of salt on what he eats~! It’s so salty, that!”
“That’s a mistake made by doing a lot of sheep. And if it’s salty, stop eating and talk.”
“But how do I make something delicious!”
I laughed when I saw her talking loudly. Ariel, who was listening to the story next to her, muttered while staring at the sea with melancholy eyes.
“Come to think of it…… She said that after Phasma retires, let’s go see the sea together…….”
“…… Is it.”
“I knew what the sea looked like, but Phasma had never been to it because he had been a knight all his life.”
“Yes, Phasma.”
[I see. Even so, looking at the sea makes me feel uneasy.]
“I can let you touch the sea if you want?”
[No. It sounds like you have work to do now. I hope you will give me some time later.]
I’m sure you’re not rejecting it completely.
I nodded. I’ve been alive so far thanks to Phasma, I wonder if that’s enough.
Of course, it won’t work if you date her girlfriend later.
But isn’t Phasma watching her when she’s sleeping with her girlfriend? That might be a bit creepy…….
I turned her head and looked at Phasma floating in the air. He tilted his head as he made eye contact with me.
[Why is that?]
“…… No, nothing.”
If you do, make sure to leave it outside the black house.
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“Orient, then take good care of me.”
“You… Why are you sticking with Ariel? Are you still friends with Ariel? What are you?”
Orient hiding behind Ariel’s body points at me. At that, Ariel smiled and pulled her Orient away.
“Is Orient annoyed every time he sees Praus?”
“Yeah… You look so close to Ariel!”
“You think I am best friends with Orient?”
“Ehe, Ehehehehe… okay? Huhu, that’s right…….”
“I want you to do it in moderation and stop looking for a magic circle.”
The conversation seemed to be getting too long for no reason, so I cut it off moderately.
“Special because Ariel asked for it!”
“Ah, yes… ….”
Anyway, this guy is just as tired as Tina, unlike the image.
If the magic circle hadn’t been buried in the ground, she wouldn’t have summoned Orient.
As he sighs, Orient puts his palms together and starts muttering something. Then her body and her hair come to mind and something of her brushes against my skin in her.
She seemed to be Mana. The warriors, who each had a different story, looked back as if they had felt Orient’s mana.
I think it was about a minute. Her oriental hair was sunken.
“Follow me.”
Orient moved while saying that. The place where her feet stopped was on the sandy beach that protrudes exceptionally towards the sea. The height of the ground seemed higher than other places.
“Here. Where i stand It’s very weak here, but I can feel the mana. But it feels a bit strange. I have no idea what properties it is based on.”
“I see. Good job.”
If you don’t know what attribute it is, you’ve got it right.
“I found you, now break up with Ariel.”
“Orient, don’t talk like that to Prause… ….”
“I don’t really have any relationship with Ariel. Breaking up doesn’t make sense.”
“Prause, are you really going to say it without affection?”
Isn’t that true? Well, I think of it as a reliable comrade.
“You said you were friends in front of the crown prince.”
“…… So let’s be friends.”
“Ah~ It’s too moderate!”
“That’s right! Go away!”
“…… I wish you could shut up.”
“Oops! Ariel! Come on me! Shut up the Spirit King! This guy is no friend! Cut the kite right now!”
If you’re a spirit king, show a dignified figure like a spirit king.
The character collapses.
“…… Anyway, here?”
In the end, I decided to ignore Orient.
I took out four swords wrapped in blankets. After Tina and Iris obtained the final weapon, the time had come to use them again, which had been neglected.
Flower Sword – Flam to the north.
Sword Sword – Mare to the south.
Wind Sword – Aura to the east.
District Prosecutors – Terra to the west.
Four swords, each with a different appearance and color, were inserted into the sand in an east-west-north-north direction.
Originally, in the process of making Maria’s final weapon, she had to take the test of the spirit kings, but she was able to skip it thanks to the process of making a contract with the heroes and the spirit king.
“Maria, give me the jewel in your necklace.”
I received the ‘first steps of the Archmage’ from Maria.
If it is an artifact that contains the energy of the Archmage, it will definitely respond to the magic circle she created.
“But why are you sticking our sword here?”
“Look.”
This magic circle was the first multi-element fusion magic created by the first archmage. And in the present, it becomes the means of making Maria’s final weapon.
As soon as the jewel is placed in the center, the spirit king’s sword and jewel begin to resonate under the moonlight.
As time goes by, the swords lose their color. Then, the shape of the sword turns into powder and begins to gather toward the jewel.
As the shape of the sword completely disappeared and the vortex grew in the center, a light flashed strong enough to erase the darkness for an instant.
I closed my eyes until the light died down and then opened them again.
What I saw when I opened my eyes slowly was a turquoise wand that shimmered like an emerald. It was stuck in the place where the jewel had been a while ago.
Immediately, I grabbed the handle of the cane.
[You have acquired 「The Staff of the Beginning – Purgo」.
“Okay. All right.”
Maria’s ultimate weapon.
It was not enough to make her, who is currently in the 8th tier, able to use her 9th tier, but it was a weapon that allowed her to possess a much larger amount of mana than the one she had contracted with the Spirit King.
With this, the moment Maria attains her 9th hierarchy, she will have power beyond that of the Spirit King.
“This is…… ?”
“It is a staff made by the primordial spirit king.”
“The first spirit king…… ?”
The three spirit kings drew attention to me.
The story of the beginning pours out questions to me with a very serious face.
Ah, the spirit kings don’t know.
In the past, there was a being that was one level higher than the current Spirit King. People usually think of him as the World Tree, but in reality there was one more in between.
It was the first spirit created by the World Tree.
“The Spirit King before you were born… No, there was only one Spirit King in the beginning. And you are beings who were born as a result of being divided from the original spirit king.”