57 – Black Blood – 2
How the black blooded monsters appeared was a fact that had not yet been revealed.
As for the general monsters, the analysis was finished, and it reached the level where the location of their creation could be roughly identified using the term dungeon, but the black blooded monsters were different.
It was because there were too few specimens to appear, and it was not even certain that they would reappear.
The last time they appeared was 93 years ago, when Charlotte was shutting herself in the palace and conducting all sorts of biological experiments on me.
Suddenly, news came from the edge of the continent that a city had been massacred, and Charlotte, who was busy experimenting with all sorts of magic while handling my body, told the lords around the area to properly organize and send reinforcements.
And soon after, the news was delivered that the reinforcements were annihilated in an instant, and even the territories that sent the reinforcements were devastated.
Charlotte, coldly furious at the fact that her time with me was interrupted, descended in person and wiped out all the monsters around her.
The problem started after that.
All living things in the place where the monsters passed began to rot and become brittle, regardless of animals and plants.
The moment humans breathed in, their skin rotted away and they died instantly, and the plants turned black and turned into a heap of garbage.
Charlotte’s healing and recovery magic didn’t work either. Physical protective gear like a helmet was just a useless burden.
The magical protection through the magic barrier managed to prevent the strange phenomenon, but the speed at which the barrier was cut away was so fast that no one except Charlotte could handle it.
Immediately after the incident, I had no idea why the hell it was happening.
However, after Charlotte personally caught one of the monsters and went through all sorts of experiments, she found out that the blood of this monster has an extremely lethal effect on all living things, including humans.
That was the first appearance of the black blooded monster.
The air around them became poisonous just by the breathing of the black blood monsters, and just a few drops of blood were absorbed into the nearby soil, and the nearby large land turned into a barren land where not even a single blade of grass could grow.
Even the skin and the hair growing on it were extremely poisonous to humans. It was at the level where the flesh melted just by rubbing against the hair, creating an ooze.
The very act of living them was like a deadly creature to humans.
Of course, unlike normal monsters, I couldn’t even dream of using that corpse as material. Rather than that, it was a board that had to be seriously worried about whether or not the land would be polluted.
Moreover, even that was not enough, so he even strengthened the ordinary monsters around him. It gets bigger, stronger, faster, and even more ferocious.
Charlotte said that a monster that was 1m in size could grow to over 1.5m, so it was really absurd.
Blessings and miracles through divine power worked just fine, no different from ordinary monsters, but unfortunately, even their ability was beyond imagination.
Miracles performed with clumsy divine power penetrated while being hit, so many priests were sacrificed for nothing in the early days of the situation.
However, the most efficient countermeasure against monsters was divine power.
Magic was difficult to exert great efficiency unless it was used by a wizard who was at least a member of the Royal Wizards’ Order, and close combat was tantamount to suicide.
In the end, the only option left was divine power.
The fact that the time when the Holy Church gained power in earnest coincided with the appearance of black blooded monsters was absolutely not irrelevant.
As the monsters gained power, the need for priests to naturally demonstrate divine power rose rapidly, and the Sacred Church, which had the greatest power, produced numerous priests and increased its size, and the cycle was repeated.
Thanks to the Holy Church, which quickly emerged as the continent’s largest religion, and Charlotte, who began to use its power in earnest, all the black blooded monsters were annihilated.
However, once the land was turned into barren land, it did not come back, so the extreme method of destroying the crust itself and building it up again with magic had to be used for recovery.
Since then, black blood monsters have not appeared for nearly 100 years, and almost all awareness of the crisis has been dissipated. I said it just in case, but I didn’t know that Christine would actually find it again.
“……That’s about it.”
After the explanation, Serena, Charlotte, and Christine showed various reactions.
Serena looked like she had just heard an explanation, Charlotte showed displeasure as if she remembered the Holy Church, and Christine seemed happy just hearing my voice.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal for you guys. Their bodies are extremely poisonous, so they strengthen the monsters around them, so they’re far behind compared to the three of you. Since Charlotte was fine, Serena and you are probably the same. Christine, of course, doesn’t matter.”
Christine, in particular, was completely out of the picture.
If Charlotte or Serena can overwhelmingly defeat the black blood monsters, Christine reverses the position of the black blood monsters and humans, and her existence itself is a deadly creature to the monsters.
Before starting the explanation, I asked what he had done with the monster he had found, but as soon as he fell into the lake he had been soaking in, he floundered and melted without a shape.
For now, I decided not to ask why I was soaking in the lake.
Since the holy water created by Christine’s divine power had that much power, it wasn’t too difficult to imagine what the results would be if she directly exerted that power.
“So, do you have any more questions?”
“No, lord.”
“What about Christine?”
“Neither do I, my God.”
I didn’t even bother to ask Charlotte. After all, Charlotte knows what I know anyway, and maybe she knows more completely than I do.
After the explanation, I was suddenly tired. Because of his super regenerative ability, his body will never get tired no matter what he does, so this is a mental issue.
Whoa, he sighed and leaned against the backrest.
For reference, Charlotte is sitting on my left, Serena is sitting on my right, and Christine is kneeling at my feet.
I didn’t think it was something to talk about standing up, so I found a bench that was still in good shape and sat down, but those three took their own seats.
Serena and Charlotte, right after they came here, had a big fight, and since they sat like this as if they were competing with each other, let’s move on.
It was a good situation because I gave up a long time ago to understand.
“It’s tiring to have so many things happen at the same time. Did this have to be this big?”
At first, I thought I would just have to come up with a few excuses about dragons, but suddenly things got bigger and at some point it became like this.
It was to the point where I wondered if the backlash, which hadn’t happened in the past 8 years, had finally arrived.
“Do you regret it?”
“What?”
“Looking for the dragon. After all, that action has brought the situation to this point. I asked if you regret it.”
“I wouldn’t have done it if I was dead. I’ll say that because I’m alive.”
“Dead people don’t feel emotions, so that’s right. Do you want me to give you a compliment for the right words?”
“It’s okay. What are you trying to get praised for?”
“I’m sorry.”
Seeing that the host and guest were evangelized, the recipient refused and the giver expressed regret, the ulterior motive was obvious.
“That’s right, Serena. I think we should postpone leaving the Royal Knights for a while.”
“I see, lord.”
“Aren’t you asking why?”
“What are you going to do by questioning what your lord has commanded? I’m just following your lord’s orders.”
Serena’s power is essential to stop the black blood monsters with less damage.
So I tried to tell them that it was because the status of the royal knights, who can use even the lower ones, is much better than that of adventurers, but it was of no use.
“Also, Serena, I’m worried about having to keep you and Charlotte together.”
At least this time, since the two of them aren’t in the palace together, there’s a high chance that Serena will be wandering around the continent, so wouldn’t it be a little better?
It will probably take longer for me to return to the palace than it will take for this case to be resolved.
“Then wouldn’t it be something that could be solved if you were in the palace too?”
“I want to too.”
“That would mean you can’t.”
“I’ll have to check it with my own eyes.”
Then he pointed his finger at Christine.
I quickly withdrew my fingers away from Christine’s mouth, which was about to break open and bite my fingers, and I heard the sound of my teeth clashing in the air.
“Because if there are those involved, we have to deal with them.”
The other half of the reason why I care so much about black blooded monsters is that I had to see it with my own eyes.
This alone was a task that could not be entrusted to Serena, Charlotte, or Christine.
black magic.
That damn magic shouldn’t be known to anyone.
By any means.
