Chapter 149 – The Red Crystal and Another Uninvited Guest
-The Red Crystal is trying to test you.
A notification window with similar content to the notification window that appeared when I tried to absorb the purple crystal appeared.
Cynthia, who had a terrible experience during the Purple Crystal, reflexively gathered mana.
As much as he got stronger, he was thinking of conquering the Purple Crystal by force.
– The greedy one. Why do you want to absorb me?
Cynthia got away from the place where Aurene and Senna were, and prepared herself in the forest near Cynthia’s studio.
-You are dangerous.
A red crystal coming out of the subspace inventory on its own and emitting red light.
However, contrary to expectations, a polite voice resonated in Cynthia’s ears.
-You are a human who has already gained great power and is close to the status of a god… Is there any reason to covet more power?
A neutral voice that echoes like telepathy.
Cynthia thought for a moment before opening her mouth.
“Well, isn’t it better to be strong?
– You had your own convictions. A belief that protects the people. By the way… It has faded a lot. It’s the same as not having it.
Cynthia nodded her head.
“That’s right. At first it was justice… Or something like that. But after becoming a slime… I… Changed a lot. Like a monster, I recklessly violated these races and made them my slaves. Well… When I said it, I got chills too. But?”
-You do not know the power of the Elemental Crystal, the seven wills and the pillars of the world. It must not be absorbed by a being like you, created by the God of Creation and imbued with the attributes and power of creation. Are you thinking of turning everyone into slime slaves?
“No! Not at all. I only give slime punishment to those who attack me. After all, the races I made of slimes are very few. The same race must be alive somewhere. Isn’t it?”
-You are too extreme. I acknowledge the powerful power, but I have no intention of being absorbed by you. I didn’t choose you
“Yes. I respect your opinion… I’m sorry. I’m sure your strength is…”
“Cynthia-sama.”
It was then. In the secret forest, there was a person who broke the bush and appeared.
She is a woman who looks like a high school girl who is growing up.
An impressive player with long straight, sky-blue hair flowing in the breeze.
Cynthia immediately gathered her mana and tried to bind that woman… But somehow, thinking that she was a face she had seen many times, she looked at Shumi still.
A girl who made a request to herself on the black market. Cynthia realizes that she is very similar to Shumi.
“I heard. Information Guild… You said you became the guild master?”
Shmi looking at her Cynthia with her serious attitude and her hostile gaze.
It was her shumi side that opened her mouth first.
“Cynthia-sama. Elemental Crystals are very precious. They are devices that will decide the fate of human beings and stabilize the environment. Please… Make the right choice. If you are a righteous player, you must dedicate the Elemental Crystals to the place where we live. Do.”
“…”
Shumi thought she knew another use for the Elemental Crystal.
However, the two Elemental Crystals are in Cynthia’s body.
-I don’t know how humans… Knew our true nature. Yes. We are the key that exists to purify and stabilize the world. The creator god told us to follow those who lead us to where we need to be. You are… A human not suited to the task.
“…”
A spark flew in Cynthia’s head as her story suddenly took a difficult turn.
I had a feeling that if I ignored everything that Shumi and Red Crystal were saying and acted in my own way, I would become a high treason.
For now, calmly listen to Shumi’s words.
Also, since the Red Crystal doesn’t show a hostile attitude, it might be okay to talk calmly.
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Creator god. He was the first living being, an intelligent body, and the father who ruled over all life.
He created a sub-god to serve him with all his might, and after that, he created various races and nature, watched their growth from a distance, and rose to an absolute position to moderately intervene.
As he created life, seven attributes were naturally born, and the Creator focused on the natural birth of attributes.
Then, the creator god discovered the power of this attribute and the gap between the races caused by the attribute.
Some races developed civilization in an instant using the power of attributes, while some races could not handle attributes and continued to live like primitive people.
As time passed, the relationship between which race dominated and governed over which race was established.
The creator god, who wanted harmony among all races, intervened in this matter.
First of all, it presented the development of civilization to humans who had no talent for dealing with attributes.
However, the intervention of the creator god caused another imbalance, and in particular, whenever humans achieved the development of civilization, they caused rapid depletion of nature.
A situation where the most vulnerable race rather tries to dominate all races.
As soon as the Creator intervened, other races were also in greater confusion…
The Creator finally admits his mistake. He divided the races and sent them to another dimension altogether.
In order for them to live peacefully, gods were placed for each tribe and intensive management was conducted.
But… Even if they let people of the same race live together, division and war continued in the end.
All races were like that. In the end, the exhausted creator god just decided to leave it all to fate and disappeared.
At the same time as entrusting all management to the lower gods, the creator god showed mercy to life for the last time.
In order to restore nature, which is being destroyed by the development of civilization, in order to balance it, a crystal containing the power of the attribute was created and spread widely.
“This is just a small part of the creator’s past we’ve discovered…”
Shumi gave a good summary of the information she knew and explained it with additional explanations for about 20 minutes.
“Daejeon. The reason why portals and dungeons suddenly appeared in human civilization one day. Since then, there is information that elemental crystals that had been hidden since then appeared one by one and inhabited natural objects or a heterogeneous race called monsters. The red that Cynthia-sama discovered now Crystal… It’s definitely something you obtained in this higher level dungeon, right?”
Shumi looked at Cynthia with a young face and sharp, intelligent, scholar-like eyes.
“Thanks to Cynthia-sama’s downfall of Mengsk, I was able to rise to this position. I wanted to become a player who helps people in need like Cynthia-sama… Fortunately, I have the ability of the wind attribute. The enormous wealth passed on to me I founded an information guild.”
Hearing her words, Cynthia was convinced that she was the girl who had commissioned him from her black market.
But while I couldn’t really see it, I suddenly grew up.
It’s enough to believe that she is Shumi’s older sister.
-Yeah… I’m sure you’re more trustworthy than you.
Red Crystal added a word.
“The world is still unfair… There are signs everywhere that something tremendous is about to happen. In particular, this higher level dungeon and other world dungeon are proof of that. There is no guarantee that something won’t happen after that. So, Cynthia-sama .I won’t ask why you conquered the higher dungeons alone, because you are a player too…”
Infinitely serious. I felt like I was seeing an apostle of justice that I see in movies and cartoons.
Shumi held out her hand towards Cynthia.
“Won’t you entrust me with the Red Crystal? I’m going to collect the 7 crystals… And seal them forever where the original crystals were. So that this world doesn’t collapse due to natural disasters. Otherwise, I have to research the elemental crystals in various ways. “
If you look at this far, Shumi is an apostle of justice, and if Cynthia doesn’t follow Shumi’s words, she’s a villain.
But in fact… Cynthia is already a slime god beyond the category of a player.
Passing the red crystal obediently to Shumi? No one knows if that’s true.
She didn’t even see what Shumi was doing with Cynthia’s eyes.
“I can’t believe you. And besides… I was accompanied by a large doll… And both I and the doll were wearing robes… How did you know where I was at once?”
At Cynthia’s question, Shumi didn’t say anything.
“I sent two people to investigate the existence behind me… Why did you step on my back so that it was visible… Didn’t they target me from the beginning? Location tracking, etc… You must have used various methods, right? Since it’s an information guild, secretly… Skillfully… What you said about justice…”
-Dangerous!
Suddenly, the Red Crystal sounded a warning.
But Cynthia already knew. She was talking about killing and pretending to be human, which was squeezing her from all sides.
Cynthia sees Shumi stepping back behind her with a slime blizzard ice dragon. She summoned her sire for short.
“Kuaaaaa!”
As soon as Cynthia put the red crystal into her space inventory, she shouted loudly and climbed on her back.
“Fly! And freeze everything until you die!”
