234 – Statue of Atonement
After returning from the Mirror Scroll Dungeon, I locked myself in my room for almost three days trying to sort out my complicated thoughts.
In the meantime, quite a few people have come and requested a visit, but all of them have politely declined. Not only the captains of the Silver Dawn Knights, Aurora was no exception.
He didn’t even respond to Caicilia’s orders.
It was a level of serious rudeness that wouldn’t be strange even if he was dragged out of the room right away and asked for a crime, but instead, Kai Kilia came to her doorstep and quietly went back.
I wonder how far my rumors spread. Even Minerva, who should be crazy about ancient scroll research, came to visit me for a while. It didn’t come all the way into the room, but only up to the door.
Except for Aurora, all of them are women with the ability to break through antiquely decorated doors hundreds of times over, but they seemed to be respecting my wishes.
Nevertheless, there was little effect. My head was still cluttered, and my thoughts were virtually unorganized.
A word that Nyx gave like a riddle at the very end and disappeared. A world much past than Bryan 3, and a world much past than that much past world.
Because it was clear that he meant Brightest Darkness 1 and 2. And, it was clear that they were asking who the main characters of Brunet 1 and Brunet 2 were.
Who was the main character of Brunet 1, who burned himself to restore the stability of the world or became chaos itself, and who was the main character of Brunet 2, who connected the world that was being destroyed or became a ruler himself?
‘…… Why did you have to tell me that? What do they have to do with me?’
ㅡ Smart.
As I was clutching my throbbing head at a situation that only became more complicated the more I thought about it, I heard someone knocking on the door.
“Who are you?”
“It’s me.”
It was Rize.
I glanced at the time. It was time for a slow shift. If it was Rize, it would be time for her shift to end soon, so she must have stopped by on her way back to her room.
“Why are you here?”
“Why did you come? My man has locked himself in the room and hasn’t come out for three days, so I’m worried, and this time I came to see if he could come in. If not, he’ll just go back. I have no intention of forcing you to open the door.”
There was a lot of worry in his voice. Guilt stabbed my heart, and it seemed like it was time to think about other ways, so I made a decision and opened my mouth.
“You can come in. It’s open.”
“Huh? Really? Aren’t you going to bite me later?”
As if she had been waiting for that, the door swung open. He was not wearing armor, but as usual, he was wearing a white sleeveless shirt and blue dolphin pants, the uniforms of the Knights of the Silver Dawn.
“…… What’s wrong with your expression? Are you okay?”
Lizee looked at me with a worried expression on her face and went inside. His ass, wrapped in his dolphin pants, sat lightly astride the edge of the bed.
Sweet droplets of sweat formed on the skin, and peach-colored skin that could be seen at first glance through the white sleeveless that clung to the body. As soon as I sat next to him, the scent of Rise wafted through the warmth I felt.
“Why don’t you say you want to touch my chest? As long as you keep doing that until now.”
As I smiled and joked to change the atmosphere, Rize pushed air into my cheeks, inflated them into pimples, and stabbed my cheek with her index finger.
“I know how to read the atmosphere, too, right? Delta, you locked yourself in your room for three days and didn’t come out, and when you came in with permission, you thought you would make such a strange joke?”
“Did you ever think of yourself as a weird joke?”
“… ….”
My fingers stabbed the ball with even greater force. I smiled and slightly pulled Rize’s wrist. Rize obediently followed my lead.
Even if I’m not obedient now, I’ll be able to win by force.
Leaning on the headboard of the bed, he spread his legs slightly and sat Rize between his thighs. Rize leaned her back on his chest, sitting between my legs. He wrapped his arms around his chest and hugged him.
Perhaps it was because of the sweat, my sleeveless shirt was slightly damp, but I didn’t mind. It didn’t smell at all, and even if it didn’t, there’s no way I wouldn’t be able to do something like this.
Lise stayed still in my arms. If I had been in this position normally, he would have gently rubbed his ass against my groin, or pulled my arm around his chest and made it soft.
“What happened? It’s the first time I’ve seen you look so serious.”
“…… Just. I had a lot to think about.”
“A little? I guess not a little bit. Look at this. You have half your face What on earth did you think, that a child who had been locked up in his room would look like this?”
Rize, who turned his body slightly to the side, looked up at me and carefully stroked my cheek. His fingers were placed near his cheekbones, then slowly moved down to his lower jaw.
“Sure. Why did it happen like this?”
At an answer that meant that I didn’t want to say it openly, a finger pricked my side.
“Don’t groan alone. If you need anything, feel free to tell us. His Majesty the Emperor, His Holiness the Pope, the Lord, and the captain of the Knights of the Silver Dawn. They’re all Delta girls. If it’s within our capabilities, we can do anything you want.”
“Our Silver Dawn Knight Commanders?”
“No, the rest of the kids are coming soon. Really.”
Instead of answering, I tightened my arms around her chest. Rize became a little quiet.
“What you need…… I do.”
“Is there? Really? What?”
“Not right now. Probably, very later.”
Yes. Not right now. Because there was something else I had to do after that.
If I can’t come up with an answer even after thinking on my own, I can borrow the power of something else.
‘It must be around here.’
I looked around and stepped out. In the forest where the trees were seriously overgrown and it was even slightly dark even in broad daylight. It was a very inappropriate place to find something based on common sense.
First of all, it was true that no one was around here. It’s because there is nothing. I walked through the undergrowth, following trees that had grown in unnatural turns.
If it weren’t for the trees that grew bent like in the game, I would have been lost a lot. As always, it was fortunate that at least these things were the same as my memory.
‘I remember there were a few of them roaming around here… ….’
Why not? Just as I was about to think, I saw a wolf roaming in front of me.
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‘Anyway, thoughts are the equation.’
Inwardly, blaming myself, I tried to pull out the nightmare of losing my wings, but I hesitated for a moment.
It might be an opportunity to try out the dark magic you learned from Nix. I’d blown magic into the air a few times while half-fazed, but it hadn’t been put to the test.
Instead of pulling out the wingless nightmare, I gently squeezed his left hand. Mana began to gather in his left hand. Her blue color gradually changed to black.
The wolf turned around as if it noticed something strange. Just as he was about to howl to call his comrades, he swung his arm.
A pitch-black orb formed from his left hand attacked the wolf. It was one of the dark magics Nyx taught me, the Black Flame Ball. The jet-black orb hit the head directly.
ㅡQuaaang!
“…… Uh?”
It caused a grand explosion and sent the wolf flying backwards. He flew backwards for a long time without making a sound, hit a nearby tree, and fell face down. He was an instant death with nothing more to look at.
I was dumbfounded and looked down at my left hand that I had just cast black magic on. I wondered if that power was right. That guy isn’t a monster in the early stages.
Of course, 60 mana is a stat that is comparable to catching the final boss based on game standards, but if it is a stat that can cut that in one shot in a situation where the della mode is applied, that is—
‘… ….’
Again, I remembered Nyx’s words, which he described as the process of ‘recovering’ my original strength through stats and levels. And even the question of whether this world can be simply dismissed as a mode.
‘Let’s not complicate things. I’m going to ask that.’
After forcibly putting my thoughts away in a corner of my head, I carefully passed the wolf’s corpse, which had turned to black charcoal. I walked even deeper, following the strangely shaped trees.
After a while, the entrance to the cave appeared. At the end of this was what I was looking for. A place where no one can disturb you, and no one comes.
I stepped inside. The inside was empty. It was just like an ordinary cave, and there wasn’t even a single human skeleton that would normally be found in a place like this, let alone a torch.
‘I found it.’
At the end of such an empty cave, there was a small statue. Contrary to my memory, the woman’s face was quite pretty, but it was a good thing. Where has this happened once or twice?
A face that looks quite attractive even though it is a statue, and hair that comes down to the ankles. And the gender that you can tell that you are a woman even if you look at it. That was all the information available.
It was because the whole body was wrapped in fluffy things that looked like fur, so I couldn’t see anything from the neck down.
This is the so-called ‘Statue of Atonement’ in the game. If you became hostile with an NPC, you could pay experience points here and request atonement to end the hostility.
But I didn’t come here to make atonement.
‘This was the god of the Holy Land, maybe?’
A very faint pattern of Raphaella’s kingdom that can be found near the statue. The pattern itself was also so faint that some people thought that the modeling was created in a strange place due to a bug at first.
There was a lot of debate over whether this was the sun or the moon. In the original game, it wasn’t a perfect beauty like this, but a neutral appearance, so it was called a goddess statue, but there were many gender controversies.
So many users searched the map, wondering if they would know if they found another one, but in the end they couldn’t find it.
‘Before we begin… ….’
I approached the statue. There was no way to check this inside in the game. It wasn’t implemented in the first place.
I grabbed the hairy thing covering the surface. I don’t know what it is, but it was as soft as it looked on the outside. As it was, the torso of the statue was exposed.
And then I doubted my eyes.
“This is also a mode…… No, what is it?”
It was because the statue was dressed unusually.