62 – Black Blood – 7
“…”
I narrowed my eyes and stared at the bottom of the lake near the location where the black blood monster had melted.
Maybe it was the middle of the night, so it wasn’t usually hard to distinguish things with my eyes.
I used my toes to scatter the stones on the floor, and for rocks so large that I couldn’t move with my own strength, I took Christine’s place and inspected each and every crevice.
I thought I would just get rid of it, but it was a minor problem that I smashed it to the level of powder.
Then, when he could no longer hold his breath, he growled and felt the sensation of water filling his lungs for a while, then raised his regenerative power to restore his body to its original state and started the search again.
If I were a normal person, I would probably have drowned hundreds of times here.
After wandering around the bottom of the lake for almost three or four hours, there was only one conclusion. The holy water contained here is much more powerful than I thought.
There wasn’t even a trace of anything wrong with the surroundings, let alone polluted. Seeing that even the creatures inside the lake were fine, it was as if nothing had actually happened.
Even Charlotte couldn’t find a way to restore the land contaminated with their blood, so she had to use the extreme method of literally plowing the ground.
‘If I do this, there won’t be any problems.’
I gave a thumbs up to Christine, who stopped right behind me. It was a signal to go up.
Christine nodded and came towards me, stepping on a rock that was tightly tied to my ankle with a rope, and lightly shattered it.
As the weight holding the body was removed, the body began to rise to the surface. Christine followed, walking up through the water.
It wasn’t just moving my legs to rise up, it was a steady step, like walking up a flight of stairs.
Finally, his head came out of the water, and the water that had filled his lungs was exhaled through his lips with a series of coughs.
Christine walked right in front of me as I was about to float on the surface, spitting back-flowing lake water down my throat.
Then he knelt down on the water, bowed his head, and opened his mouth.
“Tread on me, my God.”
“What?”
“I’m talking about this insignificant body. Even though it’s just a filthy body that can’t even be a rag to wipe off the body of a god, if this allows my god to stand higher than me, I’ll give it as much as I can.”
The ends of Christine’s black hair, which touched the water, became scattered and floated on the surface of the lake. So, step on your head and come up to the surface of the lake.
“It’s okay, just lift me up.”
“I understand.”
In response to the knife-like refusal, Christine carefully pulled me up. I felt a strange sensation under my feet.
As I stood on the water, Christine gently let go of my hand and bowed her head at me again.
“Why again this time?”
“For my god to be in a lower position than me, and for someone like me to look down on him, this absolutely should not have happened. I beg you, this sinner, to punish me by trampling on this sinful body that dared to look down on my god.”
Then he grabbed my foot and tried to put it on top of his head, so he backed away. Christine lifted her head, perhaps realizing the euphemism of the refusal.
He seemed to genuinely consider himself a sinner. A transparent liquid different from lake water flowed down her cheeks.
“God, please…”
“Wake up, Christine.”
Christine couldn’t move easily even after my horse fell, so I grabbed her hand and helped her up herself.
His body trembled as if he had been struck by lightning. Maybe it was because I was in the water just a moment ago, but it was even more colorful.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and her wet nun’s uniform clung to her body, revealing her large breasts and narrow waist. The wet hair sparsely clung to her cheeks and neck.
As she slowly ran the back of her hand through her hair, she spoke in the most calm voice possible.
“It’s okay because I don’t care. Let’s go back for now.”
“……Yes.”
Christine nodded slightly. All the way out of the lake, Christine and I didn’t say a word.
Only the occasional whimper and swallowing cry could be heard. I didn’t understand it at all by my standards, but what if Christine thought so?
It wasn’t long before the tactile feel of the shoe changed from liquid to solid. She roughly brushed off her hair and wringed out her clothes, which were soaked with water and heavy, at least with her hands.
Christine somehow seemed more limp than usual.
‘Should I really make my body conscious later?’
I don’t know if there’s a big rock or something around here.
No, it doesn’t matter if you say you’ll do the ritual anyway, I’ll find something suitable even if I overturn the nearby land.
Even then, out of the blue, he started throwing piles of dirt and rocks at me.
If it wasn’t for Serena next to me, I would have been stuck under it for about two days.
“Excuse me.”
Suddenly, a polite male voice was heard from far away. Someone neatly dressed was walking out from behind a tree.
It was the slave who identified himself as Alex, who guided Christine and me here.
“Why are you here?”
“There is nothing to be wary of. I am completely on your side.”
“Well. You know what we did?”
“Didn’t you readily hand over such a large amount of money? He can’t be a bad person.”
“Then why do you have that money?”
“It’s nothing,” said Alex, shrugging and putting his hand in his pocket.
Although there was some blood on the outside, it was the same bag of gold coins I had thrown to the remaining workers to share.
“They broke the contract. They’re all dead.”
“It was an unequal contract. Or did you cheat on something?”
“It’s a scam. Isn’t it the fault of those who signed the contract without looking into it properly?”
“It means you’re right about playing a joke on the contract.”
“Haha, I won’t deny it.”
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Judging by the fact that they died for breach of contract, even if the work had been completed, they would have been treated as silencers anyway.
It means that he had no intention of saving his life in the first place. The fat guy must have been pretty evil too.
“So, why did you appear out of nowhere? Your master died, and you got money.
“Because this isn’t enough.”
“Isn’t that enough? What are you going to do?”
That pocket alone would be equal to or more than the annual salary of quite a few workers.
“It will cost quite a bit just to remove the seal of obedience engraved on me. After that, since I have to start anew, the cost of moving away to a place where I don’t know my face will be considerable. Besides, I have to settle down in the place I ran away from, so this one Wouldn’t that be enough? That’s why I appeared before you again, to make a deal.”
“What deal?”
“Information. What else could there be? My powers are insignificant compared to yours, and all that remains is the knowledge contained in my head.”
“Well. I don’t think there’s anything to offer you. One of the purposes we came here has just been accomplished. The other has nothing to do with you.”
“I’m sure you are. We’re going to tell you all about what we’ve done here and what we’ve done at Jupiter. If you want, we can hand over all the evidence of various corruption ledgers and crimes. It’s information big enough to put an end to the Jupiter Company for sure. Instead, you should definitely protect yourself.”
“I don’t really care about what you said afterward, and I don’t really want to know… but what I said earlier seems okay.
“Of course. How did you find this place, what did you do when you came here, why did you set up the magic barrier, and why did you set up the checkpoint?
Was there even a magic barrier?
I glanced at Christine, who stood slightly back from me and sat somewhat aloft. Since it was said to be a magic barrier, it was clear that it was scattered due to mana nullification.
And the fact that the mana nullification worked meant that the magic barrier was used to repel intruders in some way.
First of all, I didn’t want to know what kind of barrier it was, and I didn’t need to know. As long as Christine is by my side, I’ll be in the same situation no matter what kind of magic I bring, so why bother?
“That’s fine. You don’t need the other two, so come and explain what you did and why you set up the checkpoint.”
“Yes? But—”
“I’ll give you the same money as if you heard four.”
“Thank you for your generosity.”
Alex bowed his head deeply. Yes, it is much easier to deal with a person who is faithful to his desires than a half-heartedly nice person.
There is no need to get caught up in useless morality and altruism, and as long as the reward is given properly, the task is handled without fail.
To show he wasn’t lying, he took a bag of gold coins from his bag and set it down on the ground.
Alex looked at it as if he was trying to appreciate the amount in his pocket, then grinned at me and smiled servilely.
“So, why was the checkpoint erected? The road was cut off in the middle of the forest, and it was not even close to here.
This was the first question.
If you ask if the soldiers were really able to control the people entering the lake, the answer would be no. Among other things, the location of the checkpoint was really cryptic.
There was no stronghold at the end of the road, and it was cut off as if cut with a knife.
“My lord… Excuse me, not anymore. It was a trick that Andrei came up with. If you lure the soldiers into a bribe and put them in the same position, and use a magic barrier to hallucinate people passing by and make them repeat the same road again and again, the road will be better.” People who come aboard will be filtered out on their own. Oh, but the lord’s seal was real. It’s difficult to counterfeit it.”
“So the road was cut off in the middle?”
“Yes. It’s a barrier that makes you go back the way you came, so there’s no need to build more roads. Did you kill those soldiers by any chance?”
“No. I just gave money and moved on.”
“I’m sorry about that. They were scum that didn’t matter if they died on the spot. They were the ones who took a lot of things from the Jupiter Co. from before. If you guys had asked the secret about the lake, you would have revealed everything.”
I asked what was going on, and he replied that he had found a lake made of holy water, so it reminded me of the A-class adventurers chattering with each other.
As soon as you receive money, you want to become servile, but it’s not because the amount is large, it’s because you’re rotten from the beginning.
Anyway, the coachman and the adventurers told them to shut up no matter what they saw or heard while riding in the wagon at the time of the contract, so it wouldn’t matter.
The soldiers must have been able to crack down on the bribe at Jupiter Corporation.
“Okay, next. What did you do here?
“It’s just as you said. Before extracting the holy water from here, it was necessary to clean up the surroundings. It took quite a long time, and the full-fledged extraction work hasn’t started yet. Really, this is all, so I have nothing else to say. I’m sorry. do.”
“Didn’t you touch anything else?”
“Yes. The humans who worked here can be trusted as I have thoroughly controlled them. I swear I haven’t touched the lake yet.”
It seemed real that it didn’t work properly. Then, really, this place is over.
Now that I’ve confirmed there’s no remnant of the black blooded monster, I don’t have to worry about whether they stole holy water or what they did.
“I’m not asking you to make up things that don’t exist, so there’s no need to apologize. Here, I’ll give it to you as I said before, so take it.”
There was no particular income, but it was enough to satisfy a little curiosity.
“You don’t have to! I’ll pick it up.”
When I tried to pick up the bag that had fallen on the ground and hand it over, Alex shook his hand and said he didn’t have to do that, but since he had already picked it up, he just held out his hand.
Alex approached me with a shy expression. The white-gloved hand was about to take the pouch from me.
“Kuhup?!”
With the sound of flesh and bones being crushed at the same time, the hand that was about to grab the bag was torn violently and rolled on the floor.
Blood spurted vigorously from the cross section of the severed wrist, soaking the bag of gold coins.
“Quaaagh!”
Alex clutched his wrist, which had been ripped off the top of it, and rolled across the floor screaming. The white gloves that gripped my wrists turned red in an instant.
It was Christine.
Christine, who approached in an instant and tore off her wrists, stared at Alex rolling on the floor with furious eyes.
Between the clenched fists, the flesh that barely remained in shape was crushed and pushed outward.
“Christine, what did you just—”
“What kind of magic was it?”
Unexpected words came out of Christine’s mouth.
“What?”
In a fit of rage, Christine shook her hands, clearing away the utterly mangled bits of flesh and bone. Then, slowly, he began to move towards Alex, who was rolling on the floor.
Perhaps weighed down by the force, Alex forgot to scream and wriggled in tears.
“I asked my god, what magic were you trying to use?”
